The main reason drivers are paying more at the pump is because of the global energy crisis caused by the Iran War. The price of crude oil, which is the main ingredient in gasoline, has been climbing for most of the past two months because the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the world’s crude oil normally passes, has effectively been shut, and oil tankers have been stranded there unable to deliver crude.

Many drivers were hopeful in mid-April, amid signs that the conflict could be winding down, and gasoline prices fell daily for almost two weeks.

“After the announcement of the initial ceasefire, there was kind of optimism that this really could be the beginning of the end of the conflict,” said Rob Smith, director of global fuel retail at S&P Global Energy. “And so crude prices came down correspondingly, gasoline spot prices followed, and so on and ... the retailers lowered prices as well.”

But as the war continued, gasoline prices reversed course and began increasing again.

“There’s a fundamental shortfall that will exist globally or fundamental struggle to meet that demand that will drive up price,” Smith said. “No matter what a government says or what any market person thinks, there is a true kind of upward pressure that’s being exerted on prices every day the Strait of Hormuz is constrained. And it is still severely constrained.”

Who sets gasoline prices

Gas station owners set prices at the pump, but a lot of factors go into what they decide to charge.

The main ingredient in gasoline cost is the price of a barrel of crude oil. In the U.S., oil prices represented about 51% of the price of a gallon of gasoline in 2025, according to the Energy Information Administration.

That means when crude oil prices rise, gasoline prices generally follow. Less oil on the market means higher prices for oil and gasoline. And the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz triggered the largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets, according to the The International Energy Agency, pushing oil prices as high as $112 a barrel in early April.

Bob Kleinberg, adjunct senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, compared the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. with the price for a barrel of WTI, the U.S. benchmark oil, over the past few weeks, and said their price changes generally matched up.

“Not much of a mystery here,” Kleinberg said. “It's not exactly proportional but the shape of the curves follows the same pattern, and really with very little delay.”

Federal and state taxes contributed about 17% of the oil price, refining costs and profits contributed 14% and distribution and marketing contributed 17%, the EIA said. In some states, such as California, higher taxes and refining costs push the price of gasoline well above the national average.

What caused renewed march in gasoline prices

One event that could have changed the trajectory of gasoline prices occurred in April, when the U.S. blocked Iranian ports to stop the country from exporting oil.

“Iran had been moving an unusually high amount of oil to global markets, so that was helping moderate prices," said Jim Krane, energy research fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute. "The Trump administration decides they’re going to punish Iran, and try to put more pressure on Iran by blocking their exports, so of course that does put pressure on Iran, but also puts pressure on global oil prices and forces them up. That was probably a big factor.”

What refineries and traders are willing to pay for oil swings wildly after news breaks about attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf or diplomacy talks stalling. “The oil market is exquisitely sensitive to what’s coming out of the White House,” Kleinberg said.

Back in early March, at the beginning of the Iran war, the price of gasoline jumped 48 cents in a week. The highest weekly jump was in March 2022, when the price jumped 60 cents in a week after Russia invaded Ukraine, AAA said.

No quick fix

No one can predict how high gasoline prices will climb. A gallon of regular in the U.S. costs more now than it did in early May of 2022, and back then, the price kept climbing through Memorial Day, AAA said.

The longer the flow of oil is constrained through the Strait of Hormuz, the higher prices will go, and the longer it will take to get back to normal, Smith said.

“Even if there was a true and lasting resolution of the conflict, both sides agree to play nice and truly do commit to keeping Hormuz open, it will still take months to get back to what it was pre-war, if not even longer,” Smith said. “There will still be within the industry a risk premium associated with going through that region. Not that it was ever a perfectly safe journey, but the past few months have shown that it’ll be hard to convince shippers and insurance companies that the risk level will be similar to what it was in February. It’ll be a long time before anyone can be convinced of that.”

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This followed another round of vigorous debate.

During the discussion, a company representative told commissioners they have outgrown their existing space and need to accommodate for future growth.

After the vote, Kelly Tractor owner Chris Kelly told Local 10 News they have made a lot of effort “to give them what they want and hopefully we can get there.”

“Unfortunately, every environmental decision is temporary,” said Florida International University biologist and science director for the advocacy group Hold the Line Coalition Laura Reynolds. “And so a deferral is to survive another day, those wetlands are still there.”

According to Hold the Line, the project will remove, “247 acres of land available for agriculture,” located, “within the North Trail Basin and contains Wetlands of Regional Significance,” and within, “the core foraging area of the federally Threatened wood stork, within consultation area for the Endangered Florida bonneted bat as well as just east of the USFWS Florida Panther Focus Area.”

‘It protects us, the taxpayer’

Reynolds said this one item could have immense implications for the county’s residents from their drinking water to insurance rates.

“The UDB in place because it protects us, the taxpayer,” she said.

Reynolds explained the wetlands help mitigate against property-damaging flood risks.

“It allows the water to go somewhere,” she said. “If we don’t have those wetlands out there, where are we going to pump the water?”

She said the wetlands also clean the water that eventually makes its way to Biscayne Bay, a huge ecological benefit for marine life and preserving the water quality which underpins the county’s multi-million-dollar real estate, trade, and tourism economy.

A frustrated Commissioner J.C. Bermudez, sensing the item was on the cusp of another deferral, felt like the county was not telegraphing it is pro-business.

Setting a precedent: Is the future of UDB, wetlands on the line?

“We want jobs for Miami-Dade County and we’re glad the Kelly Tractor company has been here for 93 years,” said Reynolds. “But is it worth destroying these wetlands for this particular said purpose?”

For Reynolds, a key factor at the heart of this contentious public debate is the manner by which the company proposed its plans to the county.

Previously, Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins expressed concern about the process this application used to make its way to county hall, in the form of a text amendment, which has lower thresholds than the more rigorous application typically required to request building outside the UDB.

“We need to put a stop to this,” said Cohen Higgins. “And my concern regarding precedent is that if we continue to have applications that come in the form of text amendments, as opposed to applications to move the Urban Development Boundary, we’re going to get a plethora of them. And our Urban Development Boundary is going to cease to exist.”

“This would set precedent,” Reynolds said. “What it does is it makes the UDB irrelevant. Any private company could now come in with just a text amendment and rewrite the rules just for themselves. It would almost be like if House Bill 399 passed, and then there was no UDB.”

Added Kelly: “We’ve owned the land since 1984. We filed this application three years ago, we would have happily filed a UDB application back then. Hopefully we can get this approved because there’s been a lot of time and resources dedicated, it’s been three years, I would hate to have to start from scratch and wait until May of 2027 to file the UDB application. It’s just very duplicitous.”

Who worked with Kelly Tractor? Owner won’t say

At this hour it remains unclear who at the county advised a private company seeking to expand beyond the UDB to bypass the county’s routine oversight process.

Local 10 News asked the company’s owner for the name and title of the county employee who advised them to approach their expansion plans in a text amendment form.

Kelly declined to provide a specific name.

“Honestly, I don’t want to ruin anyone’s career,” he said. “I’m not here to throw shade on anyone, I don’t want to ruin a public servant’s career, but I was in a couple meetings and they were multiple county planning staff that pretty much, my interpretation is, they were fine with it.”

Some of the commissioners did express support for the company in terms of honoring the money it already invested in pursuing this path.

Local 10 News has reached out to each commissioner’s office, the mayor’s office, and the Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources asking them on how they verified the company’s claim that a planning official suggested this course of action.

“We have land inside the urban development boundary for industrial uses like the one they’re proposing,” argued Reynolds. “So if they went through the process in the normal way, we would not have a need to push into wetlands.”

Reynolds said advocates for the environment and the county’s master plan would like to see the commissioners “protect the wetlands” and require that every private company follow the same rules, “and make it clear that if you’re going to try to move the UDB, you need to follow the rules that we have had since the early ‘80s on the books in Miami-Dade County.”

The new date for a vote is set for June 2.

Cole Tomas Allen initially was charged in a complaint with attempting to assassinate the president and two additional firearms counts. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted of the attempted assassination charge alone.

Allen's indictment by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., includes the same three counts but also adds a charge of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

A Secret Service officer was shot once in a bullet-resistant vest during the April 25 attack at at the Washington Hilton, which disrupted and ultimately prompted an early end to one of the highest-profile annual events in the nation’s capital. Allen was armed with guns and knives when he ran through a security checkpoint and pointed his weapon at the officer, who fired five times without hitting anybody, authorities said.

The addition of the assault charge confirms that authorities believe Allen fired the shot that struck the officer. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche indicated last week that investigators wanted to review more ballistics evidence before making that determination.

Allen's attorneys have questioned the strength of the government's theory that their client intended to kill the president or fired a shot that struck the officer.

“In sum,” they wrote, “the government’s entire argument about the nature and circumstances of the offense is based upon inferences drawn about Mr. Allen’s intent that raise more questions than answers.”

Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was injured but was not shot. He was placed on suicide watch after his arrest, but jail officials removed him from that status over the weekend. Allen's attorneys complained that he had been unnecessarily confined in a padded room with constant lighting, repeatedly strip searched and placed in restraints outside his cell.

Those results for 2025 were released Tuesday by Lifeway Research, the denomination's research affiliate.

Membership fell by 3% to 12.3 million, continuing a nearly two-decade decline. At the same time, weekly worship attendance was up by nearly 4% to 4.5 million.

The number of baptisms increased 5% to 263,075. It was the second consecutive year in which the number of baptisms exceeded those before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The denomination often uses as baptism as a key spiritual vital sign, a measure of how many people are being brought into the faith.

“We are grateful Southern Baptists continue to show growth in key metrics like baptisms, worship attendance and Bible study participation,” Jeff Iorg, president of the SBC Executive Committee, said in a statement.

Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research, attributed the membership dip in part to church closures and to congregations cleaning up their membership rolls.

The SBC numbers are based on self-reporting by congregations. Most members are in the denomination's traditional base of the South, where it was founded by a pro-slavery faction before the Civil War, though it has since developed a presence throughout North America.

The numbers are closely watched by scholars because the SBC has long represented the single largest body of evangelical Christians and keeps meticulous records.

The SBC remains by far the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. in part because many other large denominations have been declining even more. The ranks of nondenominational churches — many of them with evangelical beliefs and independent governance similar to Baptists — have been growing. So have the ranks of the “ nones,” people with no religious affiliation, although that decades-long growth has stalled in recent years, according to a survey released last year by the Pew Research Center.

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La empresa con sede en Dania Beach presentó un aviso oficial de despidos ante FloridaCommerce , la principal agencia estatal encargada de la fuerza laboral.

Incluía recortes en los aeropuertos internacionales de Miami y Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood. Sandra González, una ex auxiliar de vuelo, dijo estar devastada.

Para algunos empleados, la búsqueda de empleo estuvo marcada por la tristeza en los eventos de FloridaCommerce que se llevaron a cabo el lunes y el martes en el CareerSource Broward South Center, ubicado en 7550 Davie Road en Hollywood.

“No vendimos boletos intencionadamente pensando que no íbamos a estar aquí”, declaró Dave Davis, director ejecutivo de Spirit Airlines, al Wall Street Journal el lunes. “Pensábamos que íbamos a obtener la liquidez que necesitábamos”, dijo Pool.

Spirit Airlines sufrió pérdidas superiores a los 2,500 millones de dólares desde 2020 y se declaró en bancarrota en 2024 y 2025 antes de que fracasara una propuesta de rescate gubernamental de última hora por valor de 500 millones de dólares. Los vuelos de Spirit Airlines fueron suspendidos a las 3 de la madrugada del sábado. El secretario de Transporte, Sean Duffy, anunció el cierre de la aerolínea horas después.

“Tenemos 18,000 personas que viven en este país que son personas estupendas y excelentes empleados”, dijo el presidente Donald Trump sobre los empleados de Spirit Airlines el 23 de abril en la Casa Blanca.

El seguro médico de los empleados de Spirit Airlines finalizó el sábado. American Airlines y JetBlue Airways ofrecieron ayuda a los pilotos y auxiliares de vuelo de Spirit Airlines que quedaron varados durante el fin de semana.

Trump y Duffy criticaron al gobierno del expresidente Joe Biden por bloquear la venta de Spirit Airlines a JetBlue por 3,800 millones de dólares en 2024. El lunes, en el aeropuerto de Fort Lauderdale (FLL), JetBlue anunció 11 ubicaciones adicionales.

En Hollywood, Gonzalez y Pool estuvieron entre los ex empleados de Spirit Airlines que participaron en los eventos de FloridaCommerce el lunes y martes en el centro CareerSource Broward en 7550 Davie Road.

“Este curso ha sido realmente bueno. Ha sido interesante descubrir cuántas cosas han cambiado, y creo que venir aquí nos va a ayudar”, dijo Pool.

Gonzalez dijo que está buscando un trabajo en la industria.

“De cara al futuro, es difícil verme haciendo algo diferente”, dijo Gonzalez sobre su esperanza de continuar trabajando como asistente de vuelo.

Registros relacionados

Enlace relacionado : Spirit Airlines lanza una página sobre su reestructuración.

Historias relacionadas

• Mientras aún visten los uniformes de Spirit Airlines, los solicitantes de empleo comienzan a pedir ayuda.
• Ex empleados desempleados de Spirit Airlines marchan en Dania Beach.
• Spirit Airlines pide a los pasajeros que no acudan al aeropuerto, o de lo contrario, no se realizarán cambios de reserva.

Recursos

• Departamento de Trabajo: Los servicios de respuesta rápida incluyen orientación sobre la cobertura de continuación de COBRA.
• American Airlines lanza la página de empleo “Supporting Spirit”.
• United Airlines lanza un programa para dar prioridad a los exempleados de Spirit Airlines en sus contrataciones. Aquí está la página de empleo >
• Southwest Airlines estaba reclutando en esta página .
• Página de empleos de JetBlue
• JetBlue anunció una extensión del “acuerdo de asientos auxiliares durante las próximas dos semanas, sujeto a la disponibilidad de espacio y limitado a los asientos de cabina” para aquellos que quedaron varados mientras trabajaban para Spirit Airlines, y también anunció “entrevistas de empleo preferenciales”.
• Delta publica un comunicado de ayuda
• Para obtener más información sobre la ayuda que ofrece la Asociación de Auxiliares de Vuelo , llame al 1-800-385-3920.
• CareerSource Broward ofrece servicios como colocación laboral y orientación profesional en tres centros ubicados en 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard y 7550 Davie Road Extension en Hollywood.
• CareerOneStop tiene una base de datos de centros de empleo.
• Para presentar una solicitud de beneficios por desempleo en Florida, llame al 1-800-204-2418 o visite esta página .
• Encuentra tu banco de alimentos local en esta página de Feeding America.

Registros carcelarios muestran que Nazia Badal, de 44 años, de Arlington, Texas, fue detenida alrededor de las 9:20 p.m. del jueves por alguaciles federales y el Departamento de Policía de Miramar.

Las autoridades dijeron que tenía una orden activa del condado Broward por dos cargos de homicidio por DUI y permanece detenida sin derecho a fianza.

Los cargos se derivan de un choque del 16 de junio de 2013 cerca de la cuadra 2300 de Red Road en Miramar que mató a un hombre identificado por sus familiares como Jose Francisco Zamora.

Un informe de arresto indica que Badal, quien trabajaba como mesera en Tootsie’s Cabaret en el momento del choque, conducía con un nivel de alcohol en sangre de 0.15%, casi el doble del límite legal, y aproximadamente 15 mph por encima del límite de velocidad al momento del choque, que ocurrió cerca de la intersección de Red Road y Renaissance Boulevard.

“En el momento del choque, la acusada tenía una concentración ilegal de alcohol en sangre que afectaba sus facultades normales y su capacidad para operar un vehículo de manera segura”, escribió un agente en su informe de arresto de 2013.

Los investigadores dijeron que el choque resultó en “múltiples lesiones por fuerza contundente” a Zamora, causando su muerte.

El informe indica que un testigo dijo a la policía que Badal conducía de manera errática antes de chocar contra el vehículo de Zamora en lo que fue descrito como una “explosión”.

El testigo dijo que el vehículo de Badal se detuvo con daños severos, mientras que el auto de Zamora quedó reducido a “metal retorcido”, dejándolo atrapado en el interior, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que Badal tenía un “fuerte olor a bebida alcohólica”, que se intensificaba cuando hablaba, y que sus ojos parecían “vidriosos y rojos”.

Según el informe, cuando las autoridades le dijeron a Badal que había una investigación criminal en curso, ella respondió, “¿por qué?, nadie murió”, y “¿quién va a pagar por mi carro?”

La policía también escribió que Badal “parecía estar ajena a la gravedad del choque y no mostró absolutamente ninguna preocupación por el otro conductor, solo por su vehículo”.

Un informe toxicológico reveló que Zamora no tenía drogas ni alcohol en su sistema en el momento del choque.

La sobrina de la víctima dijo a Local 10 News que el caso en gran medida no había recibido cobertura desde el choque fatal.

Registros carcelarios muestran que Badal fue arrestada inicialmente en 2014 y luego liberada bajo fianza. Las autoridades dijeron que no compareció ante el tribunal en 2017, lo que llevó a una orden de arresto pendiente en su contra.

Los registros muestran que Badal, originaria de Trinidad y Tobago, ha sido puesta bajo retención migratoria y permanece detenida sin derecho a fianza en el centro de detención Paul Rein.

Los registros judiciales muestran que tiene programada una audiencia para el martes.

On May 9, the National Association of Letter Carriers is hosting its “Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.”

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The campaign happens every year on the second Saturday in May and asks homeowners to leave a bag of non-perishable grocery items near their mailbox. The letter carriers pick up the items and deliver them to local food pantries.

According to Feeding America, in Florida, more than three million people are facing hunger, and of them, just under 807,000 are children.

Local 10 has reported on the plight of hunger in our communities and hosts annual campaigns, such as The Local 10 Day of Giving, to raise awareness, funds and replenish the shelves of pantries across Monroe, Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Manna-Share-A-Meal, a nonprofit that has operated a food pantry in Davie for more than 35 years, tells Local 10 they’re seeing more elderly and working families frequenting their weekly food distributions.

They are feeding between 40 to 60 families every Saturday, and the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is an essential source of food for them.

“This is always such an important event for our community, and with the continued need we’re seeing right now, we’d love to get the word out to bring more awareness and participation,” said Lorinda Diaz, Manna-Share-A-Meal volunteer.

This Saturday will mark the 34th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. It’s the nation’s largest one-day food drive, held across more than 10,000 U.S. cities.

Since 1993, the campaign has collected more than 1.9 billion pounds of food to fight food insecurity.

A few minutes cleaning out your cupboard or picking up an extra item on your grocery run can make all the difference for someone in need.

Click here for more information about the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

Se prevé que una tormenta de nieve tardía recorra las Montañas Rocosas y las Grandes Llanuras, y provoque lluvia que se convertiría en nieve en el área de Denver para la noche del martes, con una posibilidad de hasta 20 centímetros (8 pulgadas), según pronósticos. En las elevaciones más altas podrían caer hasta 30 centímetros (un pie), de acuerdo con el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

Podría ser la mayor nevada de la temporada en Denver.

“Acabamos de tener el invierno más seco registrado”, señaló Kenley Bonner, meteorólogo de la oficina del servicio meteorológico en Denver. “Al principio de la temporada, bromeábamos diciendo que el invierno no llegaría sino hasta la primavera, y eso fue exactamente lo que ocurrió”.

Gran nevada y un rápido descenso de la temperatura

Se espera que la nieve continúe hasta el miércoles, seguida de un desplome de las temperaturas y una helada generalizada durante la noche, indicó el servicio meteorológico.

Toda esa nieve pesada y húmeda podría quebrar ramas de árboles y provocar cortes de electricidad, advirtió Bonner. Las empresas de servicios públicos se están preparando, y Xcel Energy puso a 165 empleados en alerta en todo el estado.

¿Nieve en mayo?

El pronóstico es inusual, pero no desconocido.

Por lo general, Denver registra su última nevada alrededor del 28 de abril, aunque llegan a ocurrir tormentas en mayo. La “ciudad de una milla de altura” registró 1,2 centímetros (media pulgada) de nieve el 21 de mayo de 2022, mientras que la cercana Boulder recibió 11,4 centímetros (4,5 pulgadas).

Históricamente, Denver ha tenido al menos cinco tormentas de mayo con acumulaciones de nieve superiores a 25 centímetros (10 pulgadas). La mayor de ellas, ocurrida en 1893, dejó 39,3 centímetros (15,5 pulgadas). La nevada más reciente de dos dígitos en la ciudad fue del 25 al 26 de mayo de 1950, con 27 centímetros (10,7 pulgadas).

Una ligera nevada, ocurrida el 2 de junio de 1951, fue la fecha más tardía del año en la que nevó.

La tormenta es bienvenida durante una sequía, pero no es una solución

Abril fue más cálido de lo habitual y con pocas precipitaciones: el mes pasado, a Denver le faltaron 2,5 centímetros (una pulgada) de lluvia y 7 centímetros (2,8 pulgadas) de nieve en comparación con lo normal.

Pero una sola tormenta no resolverá los problemas de agua del Oeste.

En un informe del Centro Nacional de Mitigación de la Sequía se indica que las precipitaciones recientes ayudaron a aumentar la humedad de la capa superficial del suelo y redujeron las necesidades de riego, pero no han cambiado un panorama hídrico “mayormente desalentador” de cara al verano.

También habrá tormentas en otros lugares

El tiempo inestable no se limita a las Rocosas.

Según el Centro de Predicción de Tormentas, se esperan tormentas eléctricas desde el noreste de Texas hasta el oeste de Tennessee, y Arkansas enfrenta el mayor riesgo de granizo de gran tamaño, vientos dañinos y posibles tornados. Fuertes tormentas aisladas también podrían alcanzar partes del Noreste.

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The wood planks were scattered along the Turnpike’s northbound lanes near Sample Road.

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El 9 de mayo, la Asociación Nacional de Carteros organiza su campaña “Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive”.

La campaña se realiza cada año el segundo sábado de mayo y pide a los residentes que dejen una bolsa con alimentos no perecederos cerca de su buzón. Los carteros recogen los artículos y los entregan a despensas de alimentos locales.

Según Feeding America, en Florida, más de tres millones de personas enfrentan hambre, y de ellos, poco menos de 807,000 son niños.

Local 10 ha informado sobre la situación del hambre en nuestras comunidades y organiza campañas anuales, como el Local 10 Day of Giving, para crear conciencia, recaudar fondos y reabastecer las despensas en los condados Monroe, Miami-Dade y Broward.

Manna-Share-A-Meal, una organización sin fines de lucro que ha operado una despensa de alimentos en Davie por más de 35 años, dijo a Local 10 que están viendo a más adultos mayores y familias trabajadoras acudir a sus distribuciones semanales de alimentos.

Atienden entre 40 y 60 familias cada sábado, y la campaña Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive es una fuente esencial de alimentos para ellos.

“Este siempre es un evento muy importante para nuestra comunidad, y con la necesidad continua que estamos viendo ahora, nos gustaría darlo a conocer para generar más conciencia y participación”, dijo Lorinda Diaz, voluntaria de Manna-Share-A-Meal.

Este sábado marcará la edición número 34 de la campaña Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Es la mayor colecta de alimentos de un solo día en la nación, realizada en más de 10,000 ciudades de Estados Unidos.

Desde 1993, la campaña ha recolectado más de 1.9 mil millones de libras de alimentos para combatir la inseguridad alimentaria.

Unos minutos limpiando su despensa o agregando un artículo extra en su compra pueden marcar la diferencia para alguien necesitado.

Haga clic aquí para más información sobre la campaña Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

Esto ocurrió tras otra ronda de intenso debate.

Durante la discusión, un representante de la empresa dijo a los comisionados que han superado su espacio actual y necesitan acomodar el crecimiento futuro.

Después de la votación, el propietario de Kelly Tractor, Chris Kelly, dijo a Local 10 News que han hecho mucho esfuerzo “para darles lo que quieren y con suerte podemos lograrlo”.

“Desafortunadamente, cada decisión ambiental es temporal”, dijo Laura Reynolds, bióloga de la Universidad Internacional de Florida y directora científica del grupo defensor Hold the Line Coalition. “Así que un aplazamiento es sobrevivir un día más, esos humedales siguen ahí”.

Según Hold the Line, el proyecto eliminará “247 acres de tierra disponible para agricultura”, ubicados “dentro de la cuenca North Trail y contiene humedales de importancia regional”, y dentro del “área central de alimentación de la cigüeña de madera, especie amenazada a nivel federal, dentro del área de consulta para el murciélago bonneted de Florida en peligro, así como justo al este del área de enfoque de la pantera de Florida del USFWS”.

“Nos protege a nosotros, los contribuyentes”

Reynolds dijo que este tema podría tener enormes implicaciones para los residentes del condado, desde el agua potable hasta las tarifas de seguros.

“El UDB está en su lugar porque nos protege a nosotros, los contribuyentes”, dijo.

Reynolds explicó que los humedales ayudan a mitigar los riesgos de inundaciones que dañan propiedades.

“Permite que el agua tenga a dónde ir”, dijo. “Si no tenemos esos humedales, ¿a dónde vamos a bombear el agua?”

Dijo que los humedales también limpian el agua que eventualmente llega a la Bahía de Biscayne, un beneficio ecológico clave para la vida marina y para preservar la calidad del agua que sustenta la economía multimillonaria del condado en bienes raíces, comercio y turismo.

Un frustrado comisionado J.C. Bermudez, al percibir que el tema estaba cerca de otro aplazamiento, consideró que el condado no está proyectando ser proempresa.

Sentando precedente: ¿Está en juego el futuro del UDB y los humedales?“

Queremos empleos para el condado Miami-Dade y nos alegra que la empresa Kelly Tractor haya estado aquí por 93 años”, dijo Reynolds. “Pero, ¿vale la pena destruir estos humedales para este propósito en particular?”

Para Reynolds, un factor clave en el centro de este debate público es la forma en que la empresa presentó sus planes al condado.

Previamente, la comisionada Danielle Cohen Higgins expresó preocupación por el proceso mediante el cual esta solicitud llegó al condado, en forma de una enmienda de texto, que tiene umbrales más bajos que la solicitud más rigurosa requerida normalmente para construir fuera del UDB.

“Necesitamos ponerle fin a esto”, dijo Cohen Higgins. “Y mi preocupación sobre el precedente es que si seguimos teniendo solicitudes en forma de enmiendas de texto, en lugar de solicitudes para mover el Límite de Desarrollo Urbano, vamos a tener una gran cantidad de ellas. Y nuestro Límite de Desarrollo Urbano va a dejar de existir”.

“Esto sentaría un precedente”, dijo Reynolds. “Lo que hace es que vuelve irrelevante el UDB. Cualquier empresa privada podría venir ahora con solo una enmienda de texto y reescribir las reglas solo para sí misma. Sería casi como si se aprobara la ley HB 399 y no hubiera UDB”.

Agregó Kelly: “Hemos sido dueños del terreno desde 1984. Presentamos esta solicitud hace tres años, habríamos presentado con gusto una solicitud del UDB en ese entonces. Esperamos poder obtener la aprobación porque se han dedicado muchos recursos y tiempo, han sido tres años, odiaría tener que empezar desde cero y esperar hasta mayo de 2027 para presentar la solicitud del UDB. Es simplemente muy duplicado”.

¿Quién trabajó con Kelly Tractor? El propietario no lo dice

Hasta el momento no está claro quién en el condado asesoró a la empresa privada para evitar el proceso de supervisión habitual.

Local 10 News preguntó al propietario de la empresa el nombre y cargo del empleado del condado que le sugirió presentar sus planes mediante una enmienda de texto.

Kelly se negó a proporcionar un nombre específico.

“Honestamente, no quiero arruinar la carrera de nadie”, dijo. “No estoy aquí para culpar a nadie, no quiero arruinar la carrera de un servidor público, pero estuve en un par de reuniones y había varios empleados de planificación del condado que, según mi interpretación, estaban de acuerdo con eso”.

Algunos comisionados sí expresaron apoyo a la empresa en términos de reconocer el dinero que ya invirtió en este proceso.

Local 10 News contactó a cada oficina de comisionados, a la oficina de la alcaldesa y al Departamento de Recursos Regulatorios y Económicos para preguntar cómo verificaron la afirmación de la empresa de que un funcionario de planificación sugirió este curso de acción.

“Tenemos terrenos dentro del Límite de Desarrollo Urbano para usos industriales como el que proponen”, argumentó Reynolds. “Así que si hubieran seguido el proceso normal, no tendríamos necesidad de avanzar hacia los humedales”.

Reynolds dijo que los defensores del medio ambiente y del plan maestro del condado quieren que los comisionados “protejan los humedales” y exijan que cada empresa privada siga las mismas reglas, “y dejar claro que si vas a intentar mover el UDB, necesitas seguir las reglas que hemos tenido desde principios de los años 80 en los libros en el condado Miami-Dade”.

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Sandra Gonzalez and Denise Pool were both dealing with the devastation of sudden job loss on Tuesday at the CareerSource Broward South Center.

“It’s super emotional to be here, seeing all of my co-workers that we have been together for so long, and now we are together at the unemployment office,” Pool said.

The failed ultra-low-cost airline filed the layoff notices on Monday with the FloridaCommerce, the state’s lead agency for workforce.

Records show the notice included 2,529 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 551 at the Spirit Support Center in Dania Beach, and 181 at Miami International Airport.

The others were 796 at the Orlando International Airport, and 796 at the MCO Infight & Operations Center in Orlando.

“We didn’t intentionally sell any tickets, thinking we weren’t going to be here. We thought we were going to get the liquidity we needed,” Dave Davis, the Spirit Airlines chief executive officer, told The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

Spirit Airlines had suffered more than $2.5 billion in losses since 2020, and filed for bankruptcy in 2024 and 2025 before a last-minute $500 million government bailout proposal failed.

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

Without creditors’ agreement on the bailout, Spirit Airlines flights were grounded by 3 a.m. on Saturday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the airline’s shutdown hours later.

Spirit Airlines employees’ health insurance ended on Saturday. American Airlines and JetBlue Airways offered to help Spirit Airlines pilots and flight attendants who were stranded over the weekend.

Trump and Duffy criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking the $3.8 billion sale of Spirit Airlines to JetBlue in 2024. At FLL, on Monday, JetBlue announced 11 additional locations.

In Hollywood, Gonzalez and Pool were among the former Spirit Airlines employees who participated in the FloridaCommerce’s events on Monday and Tuesday at the CareerSource Broward center at 7550 Davie Road.

“I am a primary caretaker for my mother, who has dementia, and I have no idea how I am going to help her now,” Pool said.

For the CareerSourceBroward’s calendar of events, visit this page.

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

Helpful link: Spirit Airlines launches restructuring page

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Upcoming job fairs

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

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

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

Resources

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

Nurse's brother Steve Nurse, 62, died unexpectedly last Wednesday. Nick Nurse left the team following Philadelphia's 137-98 loss to open the second round against the Knicks on Monday for the service on Tuesday in Ankeny, Iowa.

Nurse is expected to rejoin the Sixers for Game 2 on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.

“I'd like to pass my condolences along to Nick Nurse and his family, his brother's family and all their friends," Knicks coach Mike Brown said at the team's training center in suburban Greenburgh. “Life is precious and you don't wish that upon anybody, so I'd like to pass along my condolences to him and his family while they're going through these times.”

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According to the Marlins, the club designated veteran right-hander Chris Paddack for assignment Tuesday afternoon ahead of a three-game series against the Baltimore Orioles at loanDepot park.

In a corresponding roster move, the team recalled right-handed pitcher William Kempner, who will wear No. 71, from Triple-A Jacksonville to add depth to the bullpen.

The move comes two days after Paddack surrendered six runs in a rocky first inning, including a three-run homer by Bryson Stott of the Philadelphia Phillies.

After Sunday’s game, Marlins manager Clayton McCullough told reporters that, barring something unforeseen, Paddack would make his next scheduled start, which was set for Friday in the series opener against the Washington Nationals at loanDepot park.

Drafted in the eighth round of the 2015 MLB Draft by the Marlins, Paddack signed a one-year, $4 million deal in February that included up to $500,000 in performance bonuses.

His tenure in Miami, unfortunately, was one to forget.

The 30-year-old went 0–5 with a 7.63 ERA, the worst among Marlins starters. He logged 30 2/3 innings, allowing 41 hits, 26 earned runs, six home runs and 10 walks over 585 pitches.

Miami fell to 0-6 in Paddack’s first six starts this season, marking just the fourth time in franchise history a newcomer has done so, according to MLB.com Marlins beat writer Christina De Nicola.

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Jail records show Nazia Badal, 44, of Arlington, Texas, was taken into custody around 9:20 p.m. on Thursday by U.S. Marshals and the Miramar Police Department.

Authorities said she had an active Broward County warrant on two counts of DUI manslaughter and is being held without bond.

The charges stem from a June 16, 2013, crash near the 2300 block of Red Road in Miramar that killed a man identified by loved ones as Jose Francisco Zamora.

An arrest report states that Badal, who worked as a waitress at Tootsie’s Cabaret at the time of the crash, was driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.15% — nearly twice the legal limit — and about 15 mph over the speed limit at the time of the crash, which occurred near the intersection of Red Road and Renaissance Boulevard.

“At the time of the crash, the defendant had an unlawful blood alcohol concentration that impaired her normal faculties and ability to safely operate a motor vehicle,” an officer wrote in her 2013 arrest report.

Investigators said the crash resulted in “multiple blunt force injuries” to Zamora, causing his death.

The report states that a witness told police that Badal had been driving erratically before slamming into Zamora’s vehicle in what was described as an “explosion.”

The witness said Badal’s vehicle came to a stop with severe damage, while Zamora’s car was reduced to “mangled metal,” leaving him trapped inside, according to the report.

Investigators said Badal had a “strong odor of an alcoholic beverage,” which became more pronounced when she spoke, and that her eyes appeared “glassy and red.”

According to the report, when authorities told Badal a criminal investigation was underway, she responded, “for what, nobody died,” and “who’s going to pay for my car?”

Police also wrote that Badal “seemed to be oblivious to the seriousness of the crash and showed absolutely no concern for the other driver, only for her vehicle.”

A toxicology report revealed that Zamora had no drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the crash.

The victim’s niece told Local 10 News that the case had largely gone unpublicized since the fatal crash. A sign placed at the location where Zamora was killed memorializes his life.

The pain is still fresh for Nancy Olivera, Zamora’s other niece, who told Local 10 he was like a father to her.

“He was always thinking about everybody else — always happiness,” she said. “He walked me down the aisle. He was everything to us, so we still miss him a lot. It’s like it was yesterday.”

Family members told Local 10 that Zamora had just dropped off his sister when he was fatally struck.

Jail records show Badal was initially arrested in 2014 and later released on bond. Authorities said she failed to appear in court in 2017 and was later found in the United Kingdom, leading to an outstanding warrant for her arrest.

Records show Badal, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, has been placed on an immigration hold and is being held without bond at the Paul Rein Detention Facility.

Badal appeared in court Tuesday wearing a light blue jail jumpsuit and shackles — an image Zamora’s family said they never expected to see. They now say they are looking forward to facing her in court.

“I want her to know how much he was loved, how much he was missed, the damage that she has done, because he was just a blessing,” said Olivera.

The family will have that opportunity soon. Badal’s hearing was postponed to the end of the month. She remains charged with DUI manslaughter.

The Pittsburgh Pirates, where Skinner began his career and helped the franchise stun the New York Yankees in the 1960 World Series, said Tuesday they were informed of Skinner's death from his wife, Joan. He died in San Diego. A cause was not provided.

“Bob was an important part of one of the most beloved teams in our storied history and helped deliver a moment that will forever be woven into the fabric of our city,” Pirates chairman Bob Nutting said in a statement. “Bob was a talented player, a proud Pirate and a respected member of the baseball community.”

Skinner, a 6-foot-4 left-handed-hitting outfielder who threw right-handed and was known as “Sleepy” for his laid-back demeanor, spent 12 seasons in the majors with Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis.

A career .277 hitter, Skinner was named to the National League All-Star team in 1958 and twice in 1960, during the brief period when Major League Baseball held two All-Star games a season. Skinner spent eight-plus seasons with Pittsburgh from 1954-63 before being traded to Cincinnati and then the Cardinals, where he was part of the 1964 team that won the World Series.

Skinner retired at the end of the 1966 season before going into coaching and managing. He went 93–123 during a short managerial run with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1968-69 and a one-game interim stint with his hometown San Diego Padres in 1977.

A respected coach who worked with six different organizations in various capacities, Skinner returned to Pittsburgh in 1979 as the club's hitting coach, winning a third ring as part of the “We Are Family" Pirates that beat Baltimore in the 1979 World Series.

Skinner's best season may have been 1960, when he drove in a career-high 86 runs while hitting in the middle of a Pirates lineup that reached the World Series. He started in Game 1 against the New York Yankees but injured his thumb while sliding into a base, forcing him to sit out until Game 7. He went 0 for 2 with a walk in Game 7, scoring on Rocky Nelson's second-inning homer and later laying down a sacrifice bunt that advanced two runners during an eighth-inning rally that put Pittsburgh in front.

Skinner was born on Oct. 3, 1931, in La Jolla, California. A standout at San Diego Junior College, he signed a contract with Pittsburgh in the early 1950s and eventually made his debut in 1954 after spending two years in the military during the Korean War.

Skinner is survived by Joan, sons Mark, Craig, Drew and Joel, along with eight grandchildren.

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The liquidation marks a dramatic turn for Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy protection in August 2025 hoping to escape financial ruin. The airline's parent company was attempting to restructure the business for the second time since November 2024 when it abruptly stopped operating flights over the weekend.

Since the going-out-of-business announcement early Saturday, lawyers filed a series of court motions laying out a rapid wind-down plan centered on selling off every possible Spirit asset, from airplanes and engines to spare parts — and limiting additional payroll, leasing and other costs.

The shutdown itself was tightly choreographed. The company, Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc., said it made its announcement in the middle of the night to ensure the jetliners making their final runs for the airline were safely on the ground and their crews accounted for.

Three days later, the sense of urgency carried into U.S. Bankruptcy Court, where the company's lawyers were asking a judge to move quicky. They asked for expedited approval of the proposed wind-down plan, arguing that speed would benefit Spirit's creditors and customers.

“Any delay will cause chaos, confusion and cost the estate significant time and money,” one motion stated, noting the airline was “not generating any revenue.”

Spirit attorney Marshall Huebner said during a Tuesday court hearing that rising jet fuel costs since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran “engulfed Spirit entirely.”

The airline's fuel expenses grew by oughly $100 million “in March and April alone,” and rapidly drained Spirit’s liquidity and derailed its restructuring efforts," Huebner said.

He apologized directly to Spirit’s employees and customers, especially passengers who he said may now be completely “priced out” of certain routes without the ultra low-cost carrier.

Huebner described a swift effort by other airlines and other segments of the aviation industry to assist Spirit's employees and customers once the airline's end looked inevitable.

“The entire industry sprang into action to get our people home,” Huebner said. Spirit employed about 17,000 people and carried about 50,000 passengers on its final day of operations. The final flight, which traveled from Detroit to Dallas, landed after midnight Saturday.

With its planes grounded, Spirit said it planned to keep a skeleton crew of about 150 employees initially, eventually shrinking to roughly 40. The group, largely made up of veteran staff and executives, including some “senior management employees,” will be responsible for securing aircraft, coordinating logistics and overseeing the liquidation process.

The company also was seeking Judge Sean Lane's approval to provide retention incentives to keep those workers in place through the liquidation.

In the last two weeks, Spirit was in discussions with the Trump administration about a hoped-for rescue deal that fell through, eliminating what the company described as its last viable path forward. Of the potential bailout, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday, “We oftentimes don’t have half a billion dollars laying around.”

Duffy said other U.S. airlines, including United, Delta, JetBlue and Southwest, were offering $200 one-way fares for a limited time to travelers holding Spirit confirmation numbers and proof of purchase.

Airlines also stepped in to assist stranded Spirit crew members, he said, with some offering a preferential hiring process for former Spirit employees looking for work.

“Everyone who attended the Met Gala this year really leaned into fashion is art, using your body as a canvas, and that really came across in some of the best-dressed looks of the night,” said Kevin Huynh, fashion director of InStyle.

Fashionable A-listers gave into the theme and had fun with it. First-time Met Gala attendees included actors Chase Infiniti and Hudson Williams, as well as Olympian Alysa Liu, all of whom commanded the carpet in dramatic ensembles. Infiniti, for example, donned an enchanting Thom Browne sequined gown using trompe l’oeil to depict the female form.

Meanwhile, Met Gala mega stars and repeat attendees rose to the occasion: Vogue red-carpet correspondent Emma Chamberlain playfully dressed in a dramatic long-sleeved gown that appeared dipped in a rainbow of color from indigo to the brightest yellow-gold. And after 10 years of skipping the Gala, Beyoncé arrived to reclaim her throne, wearing a glittering crown and radiant Olivier Rousteing silver gown designed in the shape of a skeleton.

Artistic masters or novices

Maybe it was the theme or something in the air, but Met Gala guests ran with the dress code, embracing color, sculpture and a plethora of artistic references from Gustav Klimt and John Singer Sargent to the Winged Goddess of Samothrace.

Madonna even delivered performance art on the carpet, arriving with seven women carrying her cape, which was attached to her pirate-ship headpiece in reference to a painting by Leonora Carrington.

“The Met Gala has finally settled the question of ‘Is fashion art?’” said Nancy Hall-Duncan, an art historian and author of “Art X Fashion: Fashion Inspired by Art. “It is, according to the Met Gala, Anna Wintour and Andrew Bolton.”

For Lynette Nylander, executive digital director of Harper’s Bazaar, there were wins from Infiniti to Cardi B, though some guests steered more toward costume than couture. Heidi Klum, for example, arrived in full costume as a statue.

“It was the kind of loudest Met Gala that we’ve seen in a while, probably since the ‘Camp’ theme,” Nylander said. “It felt very ostentatious."

Pops of color in a sea of black

Despite all the artistic opportunities to draw from, some celebrities chose sophisticated all-black looks instead of color. Zoë Kravitz and Connor Storrie both wore black custom Yves Saint Laurent.

Yet the examples in solid black only amplified the more colorful ensembles, like Chamberlain's hand-painted Mugler dress with cascading fringe sleeves and a spiral deep rainbow train.

“It looked like an artist’s palette and it’s just stunning, colorful and interesting,” Hall-Duncan said. “This isn’t addressing a specific painting. It’s addressing the whole concept of color in artistic work.”

Trompe l’oeil

Artistic illusions of the body stood out throughout the night, with celebrities playing with the dress code and the “Costume Art” exhibit inside the Metropolitan Museum, which examines the dressed body and thematic body types.

Naomi Osaka wowed in a white Robert Wun overcoat featuring tiny slits that allowed a glimpse of her sparkling red dress underneath. In a dazzling red carpet moment, Osaka removed the overcoat to reveal a two-toned red gown with the human anatomy beaded into the dress. Nylander said designer Wun was one of several independent designers who dominated the carpet, dressing stars including the tennis pro and singer Lisa.

Actor Jeremy Pope was on theme for the menswear look of the night. Pope sported a Vivienne Westwood corseted jacket filled in with pearls in the shape of a chest.

And fashion darling Colman Domingo is never one to disappoint with his menswear attire.

“He was wearing a Valentino look that was color blocked in these beautiful tulle squares that were really reminiscent of Pablo Picasso’s harlequin paintings,” Huynh said. "I thought that was such a clever way to tap into the artistic side of things, whereas Hudson Williams, hot off all the ‘Heated Rivalry’ madness, wore a matador-inspired look that really harkened back to Cristóbal Balenciaga's Spanish roots.”

Athleticism on display

Several Olympians hit gold twice for taking risks with their looks. Bubbles filled the carpet as Olympian free style skier Eileen Gu walked up the steps in her mini Iris van Herpen dress covered with bubbles. Lindsey Vonn made a surprise appearance following multiple surgeries after a fracture took her out of the Winter Olympics.

Other athletes on the carpet included NFL players Joe Burrow and Justin Jefferson.

NFL Fashion Editor Kyle Smith, who dressed Burrow in a custom navy Bode look, said the Met Gala allows athletes to shine off the field.

“It’s this opportunity to express yourself and when you put on your uniform and your helmet, you’re part of a team and you’re working toward this really big shared goal,” he said. “But when you’re dressing for the tunnel or any red carpet event, it’s an opportunity to express themselves and show their identity.”

Fashion as protest?

The night's fashion put a spotlight on some underlying politics: Billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos sponsored the gala and exhibit and served as honorary chairs, prompting some protests and a few absences.

Their involvement added another layer of interest in some of the fashion choices of the night. Actor Sarah Paulson arrived in a Matières Fécales gray tulle gown from their collection titled “The One Percent," which she accessorized with a $1 bill mask covering her eyes.

La norma y sus reglamentaciones aparecieron en la Gaceta Oficial y deben entrar en vigor en 180 días, dijo el primer coronel Mario Méndez Mayedo, jefe de la dirección de extranjería del Ministerio del Interior, en una conferencia.

Sin embargo, Méndez aclaró que se pondrá en vigor de inmediato una legislación específica que permitirá gestionar en los consulados una categoría migratoria llamada “inversor y de negocios” que permitirá a muchos cubanos de larga residencia en el extranjero o que fueron considerados emigrados o exiliados poder invertir en la isla y participar en empresas con respaldo jurídico.

La migración fue un tema que estuvo en el centro de debate político en la isla y su comunidad en el extranjero, pues aplicaba un estatus de “emigrados” a personas que salían del país –-luego el rango fue flexibilizado —limitándole muchos derechos ciudadanos como por ejemplo tener titularidad de viviendas.

La nueva ley, aunque fue aprobada en general por el Parlamento cubano en 2024, no había sido publicada en la Gaceta Oficial ni reglamentada, por lo que su vigencia estaba paralizada, y llega en momentos que la isla enfrenta fuertes desafíos internos y externos.

Por un lado un proceso migratorio masivo de cerca de un millón de personas derivado de la crisis económica que sufre la nación caribeña en los últimos cinco años y que según los expertos incluso redujo la población en la isla. Por otro lado, el país se enfrenta a una fuerte tensión con Estados Unidos, cuyo presidente Donald Trump amenazó con tomarla por la fuerza si no se produce un cambio de gobierno y de modelo político. El mandatario impuso un cerco energético que tiene a la nación caribeña al borde de una crisis humanitaria.

La nueva ley de extranjería remplazará a una norma de 1976 y sus posteriores actualizaciones.

Una de las medidas más esperadas por los cubanos era la eliminación, que finalmente se produjo en esta norma, del límite de 24 meses afuera del país, antes de perder los derechos y ser considerado emigrado.

El segmento temporal había sido eliminado durante la pandemia de la COVID-19 que impedía muchos viajes de ciudadanos de regreso y por ende cumplir con la ley y luego no se volvió a aplicar. Ahora se eliminó por completo el requisito.

La permanencia de un ciudadano cubano por largo tiempo en el extranjero no constituye motivo para, por ejemplo, perder propiedades, su patrimonio o una casa, como sí sucedía en décadas anteriores bajo la antigua ley.

En este sentido, la nueva norma reconoce la posibilidad de los isleños a tener varias nacionalidades y sus pasaportes, aunque se indicó que al interior de la isla las personas tendrán un criterio de “ciudadanía efectiva” o sea serán considerados cubanos sin importar si tienen documentos de otro país.

Igualmente, la norma permitirá que extranjeros establecidos en el país por larga data puedan tramitar su nacionalidad como cubanos, algo que no estaba contemplado en las regulaciones actuales que solo les daban categoría de residente permanentes.

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John Andrew Spillman, 33, of Marble Falls, Texas, is accused of indecent exposure.

According to an arrest report, MDSO deputies responded to the DoubleTree hotel, located at 711 NW 72nd Ave., just after midnight in reference to a naked man in the hallway on one of the floors of the hotel.

When deputies arrived in the hallway, they saw Spillman masturbating, authorities said.

According to the report, Spillman was taken into custody before the victim exited her room and told deputies that she was downstairs in the hotel lobby before Spillman followed her upstairs.

She said she immediately entered her room when she got to her floor and then saw Spillman masturbating next to her room.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service confirmed to Local 10 News that Spillman is a Secret Service officer based in Washington, D.C., but he was working in Miami at the time of his arrest “as part of a detail that provided exterior security screening for an event.”

His assignment had concluded the day prior and he was off-duty at the time of his arrest, officials said.

According to the spokesperson, after his arrest, Spillman was immediately placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the criminal case and an internal review.

Secret Service Chief of Police Richard MacAuley released a statement to Local 10 News which read:

“We are aware of the arrest of an off-duty Secret Service officer by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. The alleged conduct is unacceptable and stands in stark contrast to the professionalism and integrity that I demand of our personnel. This agency takes these matters with the utmost seriousness; consequently, the individual has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of this criminal matter and a complete and thorough internal investigation.”

El martes, Daniel López, quien estaba en libertad bajo fianza en el caso penal pendiente en el condado Miami-Dade, dijo que fue arrestado y “despedido” de su trabajo.

“Creo que me tendieron una trampa, mucha gente trabajando allí”, dijo López.

El jueves, un administrador de la propiedad en Bijou Bay Harbor, en 9521 East Bay Harbor Drive, reportó haber encontrado “una caja fuerte que había sido forzada”, según un informe policial.

Pertenecía al propietario del apartamento, quien vive fuera de Estados Unidos, según la policía.

El viernes, un detective encontró un video de vigilancia que muestra a Lopez saliendo del elevador y dirigiéndose hacia el apartamento, según la policía.

López le dijo al detective que estaba trabajando en la recepción durante la noche cuando alguien llamó pidiendo ayuda, por lo que “sacó las llaves de la unidad de la caja de llaves segura del edificio”, según la policía.

López “no pudo explicar lo que vio o hizo al entrar, no pudo indicar quién era la persona que llamó ni proporcionar un número de teléfono, ni notificó a sus supervisores ni a nadie más”, según el informe policial.

Los oficiales arrestaron a Lopez el viernes en el Departamento de Policía de Bay Harbor Islands, y fue ingresado en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center cerca de Doral.

“Hasta que tenga a mi abogado, tengo que hablar”, dijo Lopez, quien enfrenta un cargo de delito grave de segundo grado por robo de una vivienda desocupada.

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On Tuesday, Daniel Lopez, who was out on bond in the pending criminal case in Miami-Dade County, said he was arrested and “thrown out” of his job.

“I believe I was set up ... a lot of people working over there,” Lopez said.

On Thursday, a property manager at Bijou Bay Harbor, at 9521 East Bay Harbor Drive, reported finding “a safe that had been forced,” according to a police report.

It belonged to the owner of the apartment, who lives outside of the U.S., according to police.

On Friday, a detective found surveillance video showing Lopez walking out of the elevator and toward the apartment, according to police.

Lopez told the detective that he was working the front desk overnight when someone called for help, so he “signed out the unit keys from the building’s secured key box,” according to police.

Lopez “was not able to explain what he saw or did when entering ... could not advise who this caller was or provide a phone number ... did not notify his supervisors or anyone else,” according to the police report.

Police officers arrested Lopez on Friday at the Bay Harbor Islands Police Department, and corrections booked him at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral.

“Until I get my lawyer, you know, I’ve got to speak out,” said Lopez, who is facing a second-degree felony charge of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling.

Related story: Police: Video shows valet turned burglar in Bay Harbor Islands

A late snowstorm is set to sweep over the Rocky Mountains and High Plains, bringing rain that's expected to turn to snow in the Denver area by Tuesday night, with up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) possible. Higher elevations might see as much as a foot (30 centimeters), the National Weather Service says.

It could be Denver's biggest snowfall of the season.

“We just had our driest winter on record,” Kenley Bonner, a meteorologist in the weather service’s Denver office, said. “We were kind of joking earlier in the season that winter’s not going to come until spring, and it did exactly that.”

Big snow and a fast drop in temperature

The snow is expected to continue into Wednesday, followed by plunging temperatures and a widespread freeze overnight, the weather service said.

All that heavy, wet snow could snap tree branches and knock out power, Bonner said. Utilities are preparing, with Xcel Energy putting 165 employees on standby across the state.

Wait, snow in May?

The forecast is unusual, but not unheard of.

Denver typically sees its last snowfall around April 28, although May storms do happen. The “Mile High City” recorded half an inch of snow (1.2 centimeters) on May 21, 2022, while nearby Boulder got 4.5 inches (11.4 centimeters).

Historically, Denver has seen at least five May storms with snowfall over 10 inches (25 centimeters). The biggest, in 1893, dropped 15.5 inches (39.3 centimeters). The city's most recent double-digit snow was May 25-26, 1950, with 10.7 inches (27 centimeters).

A light dusting on June 2, 1951, was the latest time in the year it snowed.

The storm is welcome during a drought, but not a fix

April was warmer than usual and short on precipitation, with Denver missing an inch of rain (2.5 centimeters) and 2.8 inches of snow (7 centimeters) last month compared to normal.

But one storm won't solve the West's water problems.

A report from the National Drought Mitigation Center said recent precipitation helped boost topsoil moisture and reduced irrigation demands, but hasn't changed a “mostly bleak” water outlook heading into the summer.

Storms elsewhere, too

The unsettled weather isn’t limited to the Rockies.

Thunderstorms are expected from northeast Texas into western Tennessee, with Arkansas facing the greatest risk of large hail, damaging winds and possible tornadoes, according to the Storm Prediction Center. Isolated strong storms could also reach parts of the Northeast.

It was not a random act of violence and the attacker knew the victims, Carrollton Police Chief Roberto Arredondo said.

"It was a known business relationship. We are still working through trying to identify his causes,” Arredondo said.

After a short chase on foot, the 69-year-old suspect, Seung Han Ho, was arrested about 4 miles (6 kilometers) away at a grocery store, police said. It was not immediately known if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.

Police were at a nearby apartment complex where Ho was listed as having recently lived. Neighbors said they didn’t recognize the name.

Three people were injured in the shooting but are in stable condition, Arredondo said. Shortly after the shooting, officers with their guns drawn walked past doors at K Towne Plaza in an area of Carrollton known as Koreatown. Agents from the FBI were among law enforcement collecting evidence in the parking lot.

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

“We’re shocked,” said John Jun, who’s active in the Korean American community. “We’re not immune to something like this happening, but we are very generally a peaceful community that works hard.”

In the last 20 years, it has grown into a thriving Koreatown for the metro Dallas area, thanks to Korean investors. It’s anchored by big-box businesses like H Mart as well as dozens of restaurants serving everything from Korean fried chicken to shaved ice desserts.

The city is also home to multiple Korean churches from Baptist to Presbyterian.

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And the big surprise was Dustin Johnson, who was extended one of the special invitations to the PGA Championship next week despite his eligibility running out last year.

“Very excited,” Johnson said from LIV Golf Virginia, “I want to play in all the majors. I feel like my game is still good enough to compete with everyone and still can win. The PGA was nice enough to give me an invitation. So yeah, I'm very, very happy and thankful for that.”

The PGA of America held back two spots in case the winners of two PGA Tour events, the Truist Championship and the Myrtle Beach Classic, are not already eligible.

Scottie Scheffler is the defending champion at the second major of the year, which returns to Aronimink for the first time since Gary Player won in 1972.

Johnson is among 30 players who competed at Aronimink when it hosted the BMW Championship in 2018, when Keegan Bradley defeated Justin Rose in a playoff that didn't finish until Monday because of so much rain.

The PGA Championship committee is the least transparent in filling the field for its major, with 33 players receiving special invitations.

Most of them came from the top 100 in the world ranking. The PGA Championship strives to have the top 100 and often will go a few places outside the top 100 to make sure no one sneaks in in the final week before the major.

It gave invitations to Andy Sullivan of England (102), Angel Ayora of Spain (103), Keith Mitchell (104), Chandler Blanchet (106) and Billy Horschel (107).

It also has a category of its PGA points list — based on official PGA Tour money earned in the last 12 months — to fill the field beyond the top 70.

Sudarshan Yellamaraju of Canada is the leading player not eligible at No. 80. He becomes the first alternate, with a reasonable chance of getting in because only four players at the Truist Championship — Yellamaraju is one of them — are not yet in the PGA.

The alternates all came from the PGA points list.

Woods not playing was expected. He was arrested Feb. 27 on suspicion of DUI and received permission from a Florida judge to seek treatment outside the country. Woods has not played in a major since the 2024 British Open.

Mickelson has not said publicly what he's dealing with at home. His only LIV Golf event was in South Africa in March. He did not play in the Masters.

The PGA of America also awarded a spot to Ian Holt, a two-time winner this year on the Korn Ferry Tour who leads the points list, and Kota Kaneko of Japan from the Federation Ranking of tours around the world. The PGA Championship takes players from the leading three tours. Kaneko on the Japan Golf Tour was fourth.

Johnson, a former No. 1 player in the world with two majors, has been eligible for every major since the 2009 Masters. He did not play in three of them because of injury or because of taking time away from the game (2014 PGA Championship).

His 10-year exemption from winning the U.S. Open expires after this year. He is not eligible for the British Open, which historically does not offer special exemptions.

Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald of Team Europe received an invitation, which has become a PGA Championship tradition. U.S. captain Jim Furyk is not playing. Vijay Singh, a two-time PGA champion, and 2025 Senior PGA champion Angel Cabrera chose not to play.

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An interim report by a Virginia engineering firm says the toxic metals, along with PCBs, pesticides, petroleum byproducts and other chemicals were detected at levels above laboratory reporting limits in soil at the East Potomac Golf Links, a historic golf course that President Donald Trump plans to renovate.

The park service began dumping debris from the East Wing onto the golf course in October, and more than 30,000 cubic yards (810,000 cubic feet) of excavated soil had been transported to the site as of last month, the report by Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. said. The report was requested by the park service.

The nonprofit DC Preservation League has sued the Trump administration, arguing that the dumping was unlawful and possibly hazardous. The group also is challenging the Republican administration’s takeover of the golf course, about 2 miles (3 kilometers) southeast of the White House, and others in the city.

The suit is one of several legal battles challenging Trump’s extraordinary efforts to put his mark on public spaces in the nation’s capital, including renaming and shuttering the Kennedy Center and building a 250-foot-tall (76-meter-tall) triumphal arch near the Lincoln Memorial.

At the end of last year, a separate group of preservationists filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the administration from demolishing the East Wing so it could build a ballroom, a project slated to cost $400 million.

A spokesperson for the Interior Department, which oversees the park service, said in an email Tuesday that the soil removed from the White House “was tested multiple times by multiple parties, and this project passed all standards set by law.”

While the agency does not comment on litigation, "this thorough process was followed to ensure the transfer was safe for the public,'' the email said.

The Preservation League's executive director, Rebecca Miller, said Tuesday that experts were still analyzing the engineering report. The group also is concerned about whether the Trump administration is complying with federal laws including the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, she said.

Debris from the East Wing demolition is so prevalent that it causes golfers to detour around piles of it, Miller said. “If you Google you’ll see lots of photos of golfers walking past it,” she said in an interview.

The Trump administration's plans to renovate the 105-year-old course to make it a professional-level course would permanently alter its historic character and layout, Miller said.

A federal judge told the government on Monday not to cut down more than 10 trees without first providing notice amid the legal dispute.

U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes said during a remote hearing that she wasn’t going to issue a temporary restraining order just yet, but she indicated she would take a harsh view of any major alterations made without prior notice.

Democracy Forward, a national legal organization that is co-representing the Preservation League, said in a press release that "further scrutiny will be required related to potential toxins that were dumped at East Potomac Park by the administration as part of the destruction of the East Wing of the White House.”

Test results released by the government “suggest the Defendants dumped a cocktail of contaminants — and despite indications of the refuse’s contents, they continued dumping it,” the group said.

Kevin Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks for the park service, said during Monday's court hearing there was no immediate plan to begin tree removal but added that a safety assessment was underway.

Trump, an avid golfer, also plans on renovating a military golf course just outside Washington that has been used by past presidents going back decades.

In its statement, the Interior Department said it is “committed to continuing the relationships we have built with the local golf communities to ensure these courses are safe, beautiful, open, affordable, enjoyable, accessible, and world-class for people living in and visiting the greatest capital city in the world.”

In an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, Trump said the first American-born pontiff is helping Iran and also making the world less safe with his comments about the importance of not treating immigrants with disrespect.

“The pope would rather talk about the fact that it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said in the interview on Monday. “And I don’t think that’s very good. I think he’s endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people.”

The pope, however, has not said Iran should obtain nuclear weapons. He’s called for more peace talks, and criticized war with Iran generally and Trump’s specific threats of mass civilian strikes. The pope also has emphasized that he’s reflecting biblical and church teachings, not speaking as a political rival to Trump.

Leo responded to Trump's latest criticism by calling out the U.S. president's misrepresentation of his views. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, the pope said the Catholic Church “for years has spoken out against all nuclear weapons, so there is no doubt there.”

He also doubled down on his insistence that his call for peace and dialogue in the U.S-Israeli war in Iran is biblically inspired.

“The mission of the church is to preach the Gospel, to preach peace. If someone wants to criticize me for announcing the Gospel, let him do it with the truth,” Leo said.

For his part, Rubio downplayed the rift between Trump and Pope Leo over Iran, saying that Trump's recent criticisms were rooted in his opposition to Iran potentially obtaining a nuclear weapon, which he said could be used against millions of Catholics and other Christians. Rubio said the whole world should be opposed to that.

Trump "doesn’t understand why anybody leave aside the pope, the president and I, for that matter, think most people cannot understand why anyone would think that it’s a good idea for Iran to ever have a nuclear weapon,” Rubio told reporters at the White House.

Still, Trump’s latest comments may make Rubio’s task more difficult when he sees the pontiff on Thursday. Rubio has often been called on to tone down or explain Trump’s harsh rhetoric as it relates to Europe, NATO and the Middle East, but the president’s dispute with the pope has domestic political implications in the U.S. with midterm congressional elections approaching.

The State Department said on Monday that Rubio, a practicing Catholic who after this trip will have visited Italy or the Vatican at least three times in the past year, would travel to Rome and Vatican City on Thursday and Friday.

Trump lashed out at Leo on social media last month, saying the pope was soft on crime and terrorism for comments about the administration’s immigration policies and deportations as well as the Iran war. Leo then said God doesn’t listen to the prayers of those who wage war.

Later, Trump posted a social media image likening himself to Jesus Christ, which he then deleted after backlash. He has refused to apologize to Leo and has sought to explain away the social media post by saying he thought the image was of him as a doctor.

The tension has spilled over into Italian politics, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a long-time Trump ally, taking exception to Trump’s comments about the pope.

Trump in return criticized her as his ire against NATO allies expands over what he sees as a lack of support for the Iran war — most recently with the Pentagon planning to pull thousands of troops out of Germany in the coming months.

In response to Trump's latest comments criticizing the pope, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in a social media post that they were “neither acceptable nor helpful to the cause of peace.”

“I reaffirm my support for every action and word of Pope Leo; his words are a testament to dialogue, the value of human life, and freedom. This is a vision shared by our government, which is committed through diplomacy to ensuring stability and peace in all areas where conflicts exist,” Tajani wrote.

Rubio is expected to meet with Meloni and Tajani on Friday.

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Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, wearing an orange jail uniform, did not speak as his attorney entered the pleas during his arraignment in state court. The 20-year-old also faces federal charges.

Moreno-Gama, of Spring, Texas, hurled the flammable bomb at Altman’s home last month, setting an exterior gate alight before fleeing on foot, authorities allege. Less than an hour later, he went to OpenAI’s headquarters about 3 miles (5 kilometers) away and threatened to burn down the building, they say.

Diamond Ward, the public defender representing Moreno-Gama, said after the hearing that her client was experiencing a mental health crisis and had been excessively charged.

“Daniel is a kind, hard-working person who has been publicly advocating for peaceful measures to address the danger of AI on humanity,” she said.

She attributed Moreno-Gama's actions to “a mental health crisis and not any desire to harm" and suggested prosecutors were trying to curry favor with Altman and were ignoring evidence of her client's mental health issues.

During the hearing, Ward requested a mental health evaluation for Moreno-Gama. The judge granted the request and scheduled another hearing for later this month to discuss the results.

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said last month that Moreno-Gama carried out a “targeted attack on Mr. Altman” and that prosecutors had evidence to substantiate the charges.

Moreno-Gama’s parents said in a statement shortly after the attack that he has never harmed anyone and recently began having mental health issues.

Authorities said Moreno-Gama, who works part-time at a pizzeria and is attending community college, expressed hatred of artificial intelligence in his writings, describing it as a danger to humanity and warning of “impending extinction,” according to court filings.

Officials haven't said whether Altman was home at the time of the attack.

The state charges, which also include attempted arson and attempted criminal threats, carry penalties ranging from 19 years to life in prison.

Federal prosecutors charged Moreno-Gama with possession of an unregistered firearm, and damage and destruction of property by means of explosives. Those charges carry respective maximum prison sentences of 10 years and 20 years.

Moreno-Gama made an initial appearance in federal court on Friday.

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This story was updated to correct the spelling of Moreno-Gama’s last name.

Meloni shared the photo in question on Facebook. She included with it an apparent post from someone named Roberto who apparently had himself shared it on social media with the commentary that Meloni should be “ashamed” of herself.

Meloni warned against sharing such images on social media without verifying them.

“Deepfakes are a dangerous tool because they can deceive, manipulate and target anyone. I can defend myself. Many others cannot,” she warned in her Facebook post.

It wasn't immediately clear if Meloni would report the incident to law enforcement, as she was urged to do by people commenting on her post. She acknowledged though that the photo manipulation “actually made me look a lot better.”

“But the fact remains that, in order to attack and fabricate lies, people will now use absolutely anything,” she wrote.

It’s not the first time that the likeness of Meloni, Italy’s first female premier, has made waves. In February, a minor church-state scandal erupted after a cherub bearing a striking appearance to Meloni appeared in a Roman church.

Then, Meloni made light of the manipulation.

“No, I definitely don’t look like an angel,” Meloni wrote on social media with a laughing/crying emoji alongside a photo of the work.

The class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, accuses the tech giant of copyright infringement and opens up a new front in the ongoing battle between the book community and developers of AI.

The plaintiffs allege that Zuckerberg and Meta “followed their well-known motto ‘move fast and break things’" by illegally drawing upon a massive trove of books and journal articles for Llama.

“Defendants reproduced and distributed millions of copyrighted works without permission, without providing any compensation to authors or publishers, and with full knowledge that their conduct violated copyright law,” the complaint reads in part. “Zuckerberg himself personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement."

Authors published by the five companies suing — Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan and McGraw Hill — include Turow, James Patterson, Donna Tartt, former President Joe Biden and at least two of the Pulitzer Prize winners announced Monday, Yiyun Li and Amanda Vaill.

In a statement Monday, Meta vowed to “fight this lawsuit aggressively.”

“AI is powering transformative innovations, productivity and creativity for individuals and companies, and courts have rightly found that training AI on copyrighted material can qualify as fair use," the statement reads in part.

Over the past few years, numerous authors have pursued legal action involving AI. In 2025, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action suit initiated by thriller novelist Andrea Bartz and nonfiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson. A final approval hearing is scheduled for next week.

The award is tied to the Presidential Fitness Test, which was a public-school fixture for decades but was phased out under President Barack Obama in favor of a program that minimized competition and focused on long-term health. Trump signed an order last summer to reestablish the fitness test, which was created in the 1950s.

“We’re bringing it back,” Trump said at an Oval Office ceremony alongside children and professional athletes. “My administration is working very hard to defend America’s cherished athletic traditions and pass our values of excellence and competitiveness to the next generation.”

The earlier exam tested students on a battery of exercises, including a 1-mile run and sit-ups. Those scoring above the 85th percentile for their gender in each component of the test received the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, though details of the revived test have yet to be released.

Trump unveiled the award at his desk while flanked by Cabinet members including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Housing Secretary Scott Turner. They were joined by children who said they played sports including football, volleyball, hockey and golf.

The test is being made mandatory for students at 161 schools located on U.S. military installations, Hegseth said in the Oval Office. He encouraged other schools across the country to follow.

“We need young, strong, healthy Americans, whether you serve in the military or any other aspect of your life,” Hegseth said. “The idea that competition is bad is the beginning of decline of a nation.”

Trump, an avid golfer and sports enthusiast, emphasized the importance of balancing both physical and mental fitness, saying that it's “all about the mind” at top levels of competition. He praised the athletes at the White House event while joking about his own fitness regimen.

“I work out so much, like about one minute a day, max — if I’m lucky,” Trump said.

Trump said he would be signing the first copy of the new award on Tuesday. After the Oval Office event, the kids were invited to the South Lawn to play sports to a soundtrack of songs like “YMCA” and “Eye of the Tiger." Trump joined outside as the kids putted at a green, kicked soccer balls and threw a baseball with pitcher Noah Syndergaard.

The president connected the initiative to Kennedy's “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. Speaking alongside Trump, Kennedy said it was “very unfortunate” that Obama discontinued the test and cited increased obesity among American children.

“We need to teach people how to win and how to lose and how to process victory and defeat,” Kennedy said.

Wild coach John Hynes announced the goaltender swap several hours before puck drop. Gustavsson hasn't played since allowing five goals at St. Louis on April 13. He went 28-15-6 with a 2.69 goals-against average during the regular season.

Wallstedt surrendered 14 goals in six games during a first-round series win over Dallas. He struggled in Game 1 against the high-scoring Avalanche in allowing eight goals on 42 shots. Wallstedt and Gustavsson split time throughout the season.

“We have confidence in both of our goalies. They’re both excellent,” Hynes said. “They both played really good hockey. We believe either one of them can win us a game. It’s a good opportunity to get Gus in the net. He’s hungry to get in.”

Gustavsson has played in 11 postseason games for the Wild, posting a 4-6 mark with a 2.54 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage. The 27-year-old Gustavsson stayed sharp waiting for his turn, Hynes said, and has been "very supportive" of the decision to go with Wallstedt.

“But the thing I liked about it, too, was that he didn’t just concede it, either,” Hynes said. "He wants to play. He wants to get in the net. He was working for it. He’s making sure that he was prepared to do it.

"It could be a little bit of a negative response, but his was, ‘I understand the decision.’ As it went on, he wanted to get into the net. But his attitude toward the team and toward Wally was top shelf.”

The Wild remain without forward Joel Eriksson Ek and defenseman Jonas Brodin because of lower-body injuries. Hynes said there could be more tweaks to the lineup, but those will be game-time decisions based on health.

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Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami, el robo ocurrió la noche del 11 de abril en los condominios Paraiso Bayviews, ubicados en 501 NE 31st St.

La policía dijo que la víctima conoció a Nicole Cano, de 30 años, en Instagram y ella lo invitó a su condominio a “tomar unos tragos”.

Según el informe, la víctima llegó al edificio de gran altura poco después de las 8 p.m. y estaba admirando la vista desde el balcón cuando dos mujeres desconocidas salieron de una habitación.

La policía dijo que las tres mujeres le exigieron dinero a la víctima y él comenzó a gritarles de inmediato que no tenía dinero con él.

Según el informe, la víctima intentó salir del condominio, momento en el que se produjo un breve forcejeo y las mujeres le dijeron que “iba a pagar”.

La policía dijo que una cadena de oro de la víctima fue arrancada de su cuello durante el forcejeo, pero logró conservarla, aunque un colgante de cruz de oro valorado en $300 USD fue robado antes de que la víctima pudiera huir del condominio y pedir ayuda a gritos.

La víctima luego identificó a Cano ante los detectives en una rueda fotográfica.

Cano fue detenida el lunes y aceptó proporcionar una declaración a los detectives, según el informe.

La policía dijo que ella admitió haber iniciado el encuentro con la víctima, pero negó las otras acusaciones en su contra.

Cano fue arrestada por cargos de robo por la fuerza y privación ilegal de la libertad.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, permanecía detenida en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Los registros carcelarios en línea indicaban que su fianza total estaba “por determinar”.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the robbery occurred the night of April 11 at the Paraiso Bayviews condos, located at 501 NE 31^st St.

Police said the victim met Nicole Cano, 30, on Instagram and she invited him to her condo to “have drinks.”

According to the report, the victim got to the high-rise building shortly after 8 p.m. and was admiring the view from the balcony when two unknown women exited a bedroom.

Police said all three women demanded money from the victim and he immediately began shouting at them that he didn’t have any money on him.

According to the report, the victim tried leaving the condo, at which time a brief struggle ensued and the women told him he was “going to pay.”

Police said the victim’s gold chain was pulled from his neck during the struggle, but he was able to hold onto it, although a $300 gold cross pendant was taken before the victim was able to flee the condo and scream for help.

The victim later identified Cano to detectives in a photo lineup.

Cano was taken into custody Monday and agreed to provide detectives with a statement, according to the report.

Police said she admitted to initiating a meeting with the victim, but denied the other accusations against her.

Cano was arrested on charges of strongarm robbery and false imprisonment.

As of Monday afternoon, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed her total bond as “to be set.”

Dean DelleChiaie, 35, of Nashua, was expected to make an initial court appearance Tuesday on a charge of interstate communication of a threat against the president. According to federal prosecutors, he sent a message April 21 using his personal email account in which he identified himself and said he was going to “neutralize/kill” the president.

That came nearly three months after police and U.S. Secret Service officers questioned DelleChiaie about searches made on his computer at the FAA, where he was employed as a contractor involved in mechanical engineering.

According to court documents, DelleChiaie used his work computer in January to search for information about how to get a gun into a federal facility, the percentage of the population that wants the president dead, the location of the vice president’s home and the names of his children. He later asked the FAA’s information technology department to delete his search history, but the department instead reported the request to authorities, and DelleChiaie was suspended.

When interviewed at his home Feb. 3, DelleChiaie admitted to making the searches and was remorseful, Secret Service Special Agent Nathaneal Gamble wrote. He also told investigators he owned three guns, was depressed and that while he was upset with the Trump administration, he had no interest in assassinations.

DelleChiaie, whose attorney did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment, was arrested Monday, just over a week after a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives. Cole Tomas Allen has been charged in that incident, in which a Secret Service officer who was wearing body armor was shot but not seriously injured.

La policía detuvo a Michael Alvarez, maestro en First United Methodist Christian School, ubicada en 622 N. Krome Ave., por un cargo de agresión el lunes.

Los investigadores dijeron que Alvarez, de 34 años, llevó al menor al pasillo y le colocó cinta de pintor sobre los labios después de que se riera en clase durante una lectura de la Biblia.

Los padres del menor dijeron que el joven de 13 años nunca le dio permiso a Alvarez para ponerle cinta en la boca.

Hasta la tarde del martes, aún no había pagado fianza para salir del Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

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Police took Michael Alvarez, a teacher at First United Methodist Christian School, located at 622 N. Krome Ave., into custody on a battery charge on Monday.

Investigators said Alvarez, 34, took the boy into the hallway and put painter’s tape over his lips after he laughed in class during a Bible reading.

The boy’s parents said the 13-year-old never gave Alvarez permission to put tape over his mouth.

As of Tuesday afternoon, he had yet to bond out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

MLB announced a three-game ban for Devenski early Tuesday, then said the suspension was reduced to two games later in the day after negotiations with the players' association. Devenski will begin serving the suspension Tuesday night when the Pirates open a road series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Devenski’s fine was not disclosed.

Devenski intentionally threw at Stewart in the top of the seventh inning of Pittsburgh’s 17-7 win at PNC Park on Saturday. He was ejected following the incident.

Pirates manager Don Kelly was also suspended for one game and received an undisclosed fine, MLB senior vice president for on-field operations Michael Hill announced. Kelly was also set to serve his suspension on Tuesday night.

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It’s not the first time Nathaniel Sanders II has been in the news. In March, the 31-year-old was accused of causing damage to a South Beach smoke shop and was arrested on a criminal mischief charge.

He now faces much more serious allegations: charges of threats against the president and interstate threatening communications.

In a federal criminal complaint, filed on Friday and later made public, investigators said they first began monitoring Sanders on Jan. 28 after he made a post to social media platform X stating, “Imma bomb the f---ing White House you f---ing pedophile.”

Authorities said on Instagram, he posted a serious of videos “complaining and speaking angrily about his hatred” for Trump, Rubio and Bondi.

In an April 10 video, authorities said Sanders posted a video to Instagram saying, “Your fake husband gotta be the biggest pedophile in the f---ing world bro. I don’t know what to do Melania, like, all I got is a gun. It’s the only thing I can use now is a gun.”

Two minutes later, they said he posted a threat against Rubio, mixing English and Spanish.

“One thing about it Marco, b---, yo no tengo miedo de nadie (I’m not scared of anyone) because we all f---ing bleed b----,” agents said he posted. “Like a lot of people be forgetting they bleed just like everybody else. Like when I get my hands on him, I’m gonna hurt him. Simple as that.”

Authorities said a week later, he posted a video calling Trump a “fata-- orange pedophile a-- pervert” and said “imma stomp your f---ing head in imma step on your throat and I’m going to kill you in the worst f---ing way.”

Two days later, on April 19, authorities said Sanders then posted another video making threats against Bondi and the officials in general.

“Pam, when I see you b----, imma put my foot in your f---ing c---, you stupid h--, and imma wear you like a boot,” he said, according to the complaint. “You pedophile a-- b----. Imma kill all y’all pedophiles. I don’t give a f--- y’all. B----, keep playing with me h--. Imma kill you.”

Authorities said he continued to post videos threatening Trump.

Agents said they later went to Sanders’ home, which was listed in a recent local arrest report as an apartment near 15th Terrace and West Avenue on South Beach, to question him about the posts.

Authorities said he called Trump and the other officials “pedophiles” and then “terminated the encounter.”

Records show Sanders was being held in the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami as of Tuesday.

No es la primera vez que Nathaniel Sanders II aparece en las noticias. En marzo, el hombre de 31 años fue acusado de causar daños a una tienda de humo en South Beach y fue arrestado por un cargo de daño criminal.

Ahora enfrenta acusaciones mucho más graves: cargos por amenazas contra el presidente y comunicaciones interestatales amenazantes.

En una denuncia penal federal, presentada el viernes y luego hecha pública, los investigadores dijeron que comenzaron a monitorear a Sanders el 28 de enero después de que hiciera una publicación en la red social X diciendo: “Voy a bombardear la maldita Casa Blanca, maldito pedófilo”.

Las autoridades dijeron que en Instagram publicó una serie de videos “quejándose y hablando con enojo sobre su odio” hacia Trump, Rubio y Bondi.

En un video del 10 de abril, las autoridades dijeron que Sanders publicó: “Tu falso esposo tiene que ser el pedófilo más grande del maldito mundo, bro. No sé qué hacer, Melania, lo único que tengo es un arma. Lo único que puedo usar ahora es un arma”.

Dos minutos después, dijeron que publicó una amenaza contra Rubio, mezclando inglés y español.

“Una cosa sobre eso, Marco, yo no tengo miedo de nadie porque todos sangramos igual”, dijeron los agentes que publicó. “Mucha gente olvida que sangra igual que los demás. Cuando lo tenga en mis manos, le voy a hacer daño. Así de simple”.

Las autoridades dijeron que una semana después publicó un video llamando a Trump “pervertido pedófilo naranja” y dijo: “te voy a aplastar la cabeza, te voy a pisar la garganta y te voy a matar de la peor maldita manera”.

Dos días después, el 19 de abril, las autoridades dijeron que Sanders publicó otro video haciendo amenazas contra Bondi y los funcionarios en general.

“Pam, cuando te vea, te voy a pisar… Te voy a matar a todos ustedes pedófilos. No me importa… Te voy a matar”, dijo, según la denuncia.

Las autoridades dijeron que continuó publicando videos amenazando a Trump.

Los agentes dijeron que luego fueron a la casa de Sanders, que según un informe de arresto reciente es un apartamento cerca de 15th Terrace y West Avenue en South Beach, para interrogarlo sobre las publicaciones.

Las autoridades dijeron que llamó a Trump y a los otros funcionarios “pedófilos” y luego “dio por terminado el encuentro”.

Los registros muestran que Sanders permanecía detenido en el Centro de Detención Federal en el centro de Miami hasta el martes.

Tarija, Oruro y Potosí, al sur; Cochabamba, en el centro, y Beni, La Paz y su vecina de El Alto, al norte, amanecieron sin autobuses del transporte público.

La policía reportó por la mañana al menos 70 puntos de bloqueo que afectaban los accesos entre el oriente y occidente.

El paro se da en medio de una escalada de conflictos contra Paz, cuyo gobierno intenta dialogar con los diferentes sectores.

En La Paz el centro estaba paralizado nuevamente en exigencia de gasolina de mejor calidad, por lo que la mayoría de las unidades educativas optaron por dar clases virtuales.

En Santa Cruz, el motor económico del país, los conductores no acataron el paro, pero en ciudades vecinas sí se registraron bloqueos, en su mayoría de motocicletas que se usan de taxi.

“Estamos cansados de las promesas del gobierno en papeles. La gasolina continúa mala”, dijo el secretario general de la Confederación de Choferes de Bolivia, Víctor Tarqui.

Desde comienzos de año los transportistas denuncian que la mala calidad de la gasolina ha dañado sus vehículos. El gobierno sostuvo que se trató de un sabotaje y ha ofrecido un resarcimiento que no termina de convencer a los transportistas.

A las protestas se sumó una marcha de trabajadores de la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) por aumentos salariales y en rechazo a una eventual privatización de empresas públicas.

La dirigencia de la COB era cercana a los gobiernos de los progresistas Luis Arce (2020-2025) y Evo Morales (2006-2019).

Paz ha pedido un diálogo con todos los sectores y ha logrado desactivar algunos conflictos.

Funcionarios de Hialeah Fire Rescue dijeron que las unidades respondieron a un incendio poco después de las 11 a.m. en una casa en la cuadra 5300 de West 14th Avenue, cerca de West 60th Street.

Las unidades indicaron que al llegar encontraron un incendio activo y humo saliendo de la vivienda.

Durante una búsqueda primaria, los bomberos dijeron que localizaron a la anciana en el interior, donde sufría de inhalación de humo y fue declarada alerta de trauma antes de ser trasladada en helicóptero al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital para evaluación y tratamiento.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena alrededor de las 12:20 p.m., y el incendio parecía estar extinguido. También se vio un vehículo de prevención de incendios de HFR fuera de la vivienda.

Funcionarios de bomberos dijeron que la causa del incendio está siendo investigada por la Oficina del Jefe de Bomberos del Estado de Florida.

No se dieron a conocer de inmediato más detalles sobre el incendio o la víctima.

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Hialeah Fire Rescue officials said crews responded to a fire just after 11 a.m. at a home in the 5300 block of West 14th Avenue, near West 60th Street.

Crews said they arrived to find an active fire and smoke coming from the home.

During a primary search, firefighters said they located the senior inside, where she was suffering from smoke inhalation and was declared a trauma alert before being airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center for evaluation and treatment.

Sky 10 flew over the scene around 12:20 p.m., and the fire appeared to be extinguished. An HFR fire prevention car was also seen outside the home.

Fire rescue officials said the cause of the fire is being investigated by the Florida State Fire Marshal’s Office.

No other details about the fire or victim were immediately released.

Tensions were evident as Ukrainian artists stood by a truck that had brought a statue of an origami deer from the war-ravaged eastern front to the Biennale's storied Giardini, or gardens. Just meters (yards) away, a handful of participants in the Russian Pavilion danced to house music played by an Argentine DJ.

At the same time, a group of Palestinians marched through the Giardini wearing the names of artists who have been killed in Gaza. More protests were expected as the preview week continued.

The developments have put pressure on the Biennale’s structure — with 100 national pavilions showing alongside a curated exhibition featuring 110 artists and artist groups — and raised old questions: Is the representation of nations outmoded in a globalized system where artists often operate internationally, and does it give states an undue platform for propaganda?

Divisions shake the Biennale

Marie Helene Pereira, one of the five curators of the main exhibition “In Minor Keys,” said she believes the turmoil surrounding the Biennale shows that "the existence of the nation state within the space of the exhibition’’ is now contested.

“We can see how much that can bring tension, especially in the midst of the political chaos we find our selves,” Pereira said.

Pereira, one of five curators who have taken up the mantle of Koyo Kouoh who died a year ago as she was preparing the exhibition, said that it was “important to be able to rethink structure, rethink institutions, in a way that allows for them to cater more to artists and artmaking.”

That didn’t mean that art should be devoid of politics, she added.

Ahead of its resignation, the jury had said it would not award prizes to countries whose leaders were under investigation by the International Court of Justice, which singled out Russia and Israel.

Some participants welcomed the resignation. Israeli artist Belu-Simion Fainaru said he thought it was “a fair one.”

“I should be treated as an equal artist, and I should not be discriminated because of my race, that I am a Jew, and not because of my nationality or passport. I have to be seen as I am. I am an artist that wants to show my art, and I have the right to be evaluated,” he said standing in front of his installation rooted in the Kabbalah.

The Biennale, he said, should be “a place where you can feel safe to create and do whatever you believe in.”

Giardini on the front lines

Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadryova created “The Origami Deer” to take the place of a nuclear-capable Soviet fighter jet that had long stood in a park in Pokrovsk, in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

Curators of the Ukrainian Pavilion — its third since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion — evacuated the statue from the park in 2024, with the front line just 5 kilometers (3 miles) away.

Co-curator Ksenia Malykh fiercely opposed the Biennale’s decision to allow Russia to open its pavilion, calling it “a false attempt to stay neutral.”

“You can’t stay neutral in these times. You can’t be neutral when people are dying every day because of Russians,’’ Malykh said.

“Nobody is talking about their art,” she added. “They are only talking about the statement that they are here, and I am absolutely sure this was their goal.”

The Russian Pavilion will only be open to visitors during previews that run through Friday and will not be open to the public after the Biennale opens for its 6 ½-month run on Saturday. The pavilion has organized a series of performers for this week, and had an open bar upstairs near a flowering tree.

Curators were not available for interviews.

Russia’s opening cost the Venice Biennale 2 million euros ($2.3 million) in EU funding over three years. The Biennale has defended the decision, saying that any country with relations with Italy was free to open a pavilion, a position that has put it at odds with the government in Rome.

Still, the official catalog had a place-saving entry where the Russian text should have been, noting that Russia’s participation was “under review” at the time of publication.

No jury, no Golden Lions

Without a jury of peers, there will be no Golden Lion for best national pavilion or best participant in the main curated exhibition — a highly prestigious prize has led some to liken the Biennale to the Olympics of art.

Instead, visitors to both the Giardini and Arsenale sites will choose two winners, for best national participant and best main show participant, to be awarded Nov. 22, the closing day of the Biennale.

The Ukrainian artist Malykh said that lack of professionally awarded prizes damaged the Biennale.

“It’s an important moment. If the prize is given by the public... It’s not a professional institution after that,” Malykh said.

The draft Security Council resolution, co-sponsored by the United States and Gulf nations and obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, also demands that Iran “immediately participate in and enable” United Nations efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor in the strait to enable the delivery of vital aid, fertilizer and other goods.

It is the latest diplomatic effort by the U.S. and its Gulf allies after a watered-down resolution aimed at opening the strait was vetoed by China and Russia hours before Washington and Tehran announced a temporary ceasefire in early April.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday accused Iran of continuing “to hold the world’s economy hostage” by trying to close the strait, threatening to attack ships, laying sea mines, and attempting to charge tolls “for the world’s most important waterway.”

“The United States looks forward to this resolution being voted on in the coming days and to receiving support from Security Council members and a broad base of co-sponsors,” he said in a statement.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz told reporters Monday he believes the new, narrow proposal will gain the necessary support it needs to pass the 15-member council, without triggering opposition or a veto from Iran’s allies.

The U.S. and Gulf nations proposed the new draft as the Trump administration tries to restore freedom of navigation in the strait, which carried about 20% of the world’s crude oil before the U.S. and Israel began the war on Feb. 28. A shaky ceasefire remains in effect.

The proposed resolution, which was drafted under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter and thus could be enforced militarily, threatens “effective measures that are commensurate with the gravity of the situation, including sanctions” if Iran doesn’t comply. The earlier resolution removed a Chapter 7 reference but was still vetoed.

The new draft resolution reaffirms the right of all countries to defend their vessels from attacks and provocations, and orders all other countries not to assist Iran in closing the strait or levying tolls.

The draft also “welcomes ongoing efforts to deconflict and coordinate safe and secure transit passage through the Strait of Hormuz, expresses support for ongoing efforts to seek a durable peace in the region, and encourages member states in the region to strengthen dialogue and consultations in this regard.”

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Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report.

In Ohio Democratic former Sen. Sherrod Brown is running to reclaim his old job. Vivek Ramaswamy, a tech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate, faces auto-racing engineer and internet personality Casey Putsch for the Republican nomination for governor.

In Indiana President Donald Trump’s push to gerrymander districts across the country hit a snag last year in Indiana when half of the state’s Republican senators sided with Democrats to defeat the plan. Now the president has endorsed primary challengers against seven of those state senators,

Here is the latest:

Trump goes after Indiana Republicans who voted against redistricting

In a social media post while voters were headed to the polls, Trump said Republican state senators who voted against redistricting “couldn’t care less about our Country, or about keeping the Majority in Congress.”

Trump described the senators who crossed him as RINOs, which means “Republican in name only.” And he hailed “Great Patriots” that he’s endorsed to oust them.

Big spending in Indiana state Senate primary

Groups allied to defeat Indiana state Sen. Spencer Deery will have spent $2 million in ads attacking him by the time polls close. That’s more than any other district where incumbents are trying to fend off Trump-backed challengers.

Deery is completing his first term and was the first Republican senator to publicly oppose redistricting.

Paula Copenhaver is challenging him. She’s a close ally of Republican Lieutenant Gov. Micah Beckwith and is Fountain County GOP chair in rural, western Indiana. Deery beat Copenhaver in a four-way Republican primary for the seat four years ago.

The super PAC run by Indiana U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, Hoosier Leadership PAC, will have spent more than $1.1 million on ads attacking Deery through Election Day, according to the ad-tracking service AdImpact. Gov. Mike Braun’s American Leadership PAC will have spent more than $900,000 doing the same, according to the group.

Deery is on track to have spent more than $745,000 on this year’s primary, far more than last time.

YouTube provocateur Casey Putsch hopes he’s a spoiler in Ohio governor contest

An engineer and vehicle designer who calls himself “The Car Guy,” Putsch is making a long-shot bid for Ohio governor against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.

After the last-minute disqualification of another candidate’s ticket, the 44-year-old from northwest Ohio ended up as Ramaswamy’s only primary opponent.

Putsch has attracted fans and critics with his provocative YouTube videos, which often — subtly or overtly — take aim at Ramaswamy’s Indian heritage or Hindu faith.

On the campaign trail, he’s also been critical of President Donald Trump, energy guzzling data centers and national Republicans’ support for Israel and handling of the Epstein files.

How Indiana Gov. Mike Braun is helping Trump go after Republicans

Trump is throwing his name behind Republican challengers to GOP senators who opposed redistricting. But Braun is carrying out much of the work.

After Trump’s pledge last year to rally against GOP senators who blocked the effort and are seeking reelection, Braun picked the candidates.

Frustrated by Rodrick Bray, the Senate GOP leader who opposed redistricting, Braun recruited the seven Republicans challengers on the pledge that they oppose Bray for leader.

In his break with party orthodoxy, Braun has also committed $3 million to advertising from his American Leadership PAC attacking those incumbents on the wishes of the president, according statistics collected by the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.

That includes almost $900,000 alone in ads attacking Republican state Sen. Spencer Deery of West Lafayette, the first Republican senator to oppose redistricting and a protege of former GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is an opponent of the redistricting measure.

What happened after Indiana said no to redistricting

The Republican-controlled Indiana Senate in December rejected the measure that would have shaded all nine of the states congressional districts as favorable to the party, and halted progress on the party’s effort nationally.

The move defied months of urging by the White House led by Vice President JD Vance, who traveled twice to Indianapolis and hosted many in the caucus in Washington, where Trump phoned in to address the group.

While Indiana was considering the measure, voters in Democratic-leaning California approved Proposition 50, which allowed the state Legislature to bypass the independent commission to redraw districts for the next three biennial elections.

Republicans think they could win up to nine more seats under revised districts in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. But Democrats think they could win as many as 10 additional seats under new districts in California, Utah and Virginia, though legal challenges remain in both Missouri and Virginia.

Trump’s involvement turned off some voters in Indiana

Emily Bohall Board, 37, an occupational therapist in Columbus, Indiana, said she had never voted in a Republican primary before Tuesday. But the issue of redistricting compelled her to cast a ballot for Sen. Greg Walker.

“Greg Walker is the only option not supported by Donald Trump, and I have been very upset about everything Trump has done,” Board said.

Madison Long, 28, an attorney, who also voted for Walker, criticized Michelle Davis, Walker’s opponent, for her ties to Trump.

“She doesn’t have any promises of her own or any agenda of her own. Her goal is to just follow Trump,” Long said. “I find that extremely concerning given the nature of the nationwide politics.”

What's at stake in the Michigan special election

The race will determine whether Democrats maintain a majority in the state Senate for the final months of the year.

Democrats currently control the state Senate 19-18. If Democrat Chedrick Greene wins, Democrats keep their majority.

If Republican Jason Tunney wins, the Senate would be tied, making it tougher for Democrats to advance Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s agenda. While Democratic Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II would serve as the tie-breaking vote, Republicans could effectively block any measure from passing by not having all members vote.

There’s another reason people are watching the race: The swing district in a battleground state could give clues to what will happen in November’s midterms..

Vice President JD Vance casts ballot

Vance backed Vivek Ramaswamy for governor and Jon Husted for Senate. Husted was appointed to fill Vance’s seat after he became vice president.

“Well, I think Jon’s going to do a great job. He’s a good guy, and he’s been good for Ohio,” Vance said.

Vance was with his son Vivek, who filled out a paper ballot for children.

“He voted for the Easter bunny over the tooth fairy,” the vice president said.

Sherrod Brown attempts a comeback

The Democrat is fighting to get back to the U.S. Senate.

The former three-term U.S. senator, long one of Ohio’s most electable Democrats, briefly left politics after losing a reelection bid to Republican Bernie Moreno in 2024.

Brown, 73, faces first-time Democratic candidate Ron Kincaid in his quest to unseat Husted this fall. Husted was appointed to the chamber in January 2025 to fill a seat formerly held by Vice President JD Vance.

Before entering the Senate in 2007 after a surprise victory over now Gov. Mike DeWine, then the incumbent, Brown was a seven-term U.S. representative and a two-term secretary of state. Prior to that, he was the youngest person elected to the Ohio House, where he served eight years.

Brown is married to Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz and has two grown children. The couple lives in suburban Columbus.

Everton said Merseyside Police arrested a 71-year-old man on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offense after supporters and Hill Dickinson Stadium staff reported the incident at the game Monday.

“Racism and discrimination in all forms are completely unacceptable,” Everton said in a statement.

Man City said it welcomed “the swift action taken by Everton and the police to identify the individual responsible.”

Semenyo was targeted in a similar incident at a previous Premier League game in the city of Liverpool, while playing for Bournemouth in the season opener.

The Ghana international, who is Black, alleged he was racially abused by a Liverpool fan while preparing to take a throw-in during Bournemouth’s 4-2 loss at Anfield in August.

That game was paused for the man to be ejected from the stadium. He is due in court later this year.

Man City also condemned online racist abuse targeted at its defender Marc Guéhi after the 3-3 draw Monday evening.

“We will continue to offer our full support to both Antoine and Marc and never accept discrimination of any kind in our game,” the club said.

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The artwork itself faced an unknown future in 1942, when it was acquired in Paris for Adolf Hitler, one of countless works swept up in the Nazi plunder of European Jews.

On Tuesday, it went on permanent display in a new room at the city's Musée d’Orsay as part of France’s long-delayed reckoning with Nazi-era looting. The gallery is the first in the museum's history given over to the orphaned masterpieces of the Nazi era.

It is also the first such display in France where the paintings are hung so visitors can read the backs. The stamps, labels and inventory marks map how each piece of art moved from private homes into Nazi hands.

The painting by Belgian artist Alfred Stevens was originally earmarked for the Führer’s planned museum in Linz, Austria. But by 1943, it was reassigned to Hitler’s mountain home in the Bavaria region of Germany. The museum was never built following Germany's defeat.

Allied recovery teams — the Monuments Men made famous by the 2014 George Clooney film — finally found the painting after the war.

No heir came forward, and no one knows who owned it before 1942.

A collection of unclaimed art

The 1891 Stevens painting is not unique. It is one of 2,200 such artistic orphans in France — known as MNR, short for Musées Nationaux Récupération, or National Museums Recovery. These artworks were retrieved from Germany and Austria after 1945 and entrusted to French national museums in the early 1950s.

They were never claimed. The state does not own them but holds them in trust for heirs who may yet appear. The Musée d’Orsay holds 225 such pieces.

Marie Duboisse, a retired schoolteacher from Lyon, paused Tuesday in front of the Stevens painting.

“I have seen those three letters — M, N, R — at the Louvre. I never knew what they meant. I thought it was a donor,” she said.

Last month, the museum launched its first research unit dedicated to tracing the orphans’ rightful heirs, file by file. The effort involves six Franco-German researchers led by Ines Rotermund-Reynard, the Orsay’s head of provenance research.

The new gallery displays 13 such works.

France’s long-delayed reckoning

France is reckoning, in plain sight, with one of the longest silences in its postwar memory: the looted, sold and lost art of the Nazi era — and the French hands that helped move it.

Starting in the late 1960s, documentaries and historians began naming what France had done under the Vichy government that cooperated with the Nazis, including helping to send 80,000 Jews from France to their deaths and presiding over a Paris art market that grew rich on the property of the dead.

In July 1995, President Jacques Chirac stood at the site of the Vél d’Hiv roundup — the 1942 mass arrest in Paris of Jews who were then deported to Nazi camps — and said, for the first time, that the French state itself bore responsibility. In 1997, France launched a national inquiry into the plundering of artwork from Jews.

About 100,000 cultural objects were declared looted from France during the war. Some 60,000 were recovered. About 45,000 went home.

Roughly 15,000 had no identified owner. The 2,200 MNR artworks were chosen from that remainder.

For four decades, they were largely a dormant file. Between 1954 and 1993, France returned only four.

Chirac’s mea culpa, and the country’s slow reckoning with its own role, changed that.

The Orsay has returned 15 since 1994.

The market that fed the plunder

The most recent pieces of art to be returned — by Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir, given to the heirs of Grégoire Schusterman — went home in 2024.

Inside the new gallery, the histories hang on the wall.

There is a piece by Edgar Degas, a copy he made of a Berlin ballroom scene around 1879. The Jewish collector Fernand Ochsé bought it in 1919. Ochsé was deported to Auschwitz and killed.

There is another Renoir, a portrait of the writer Alphonse Daudet’s wife, sold to a Cologne museum in November 1941. No record names the seller.

There is also a painting by Paul Cézanne that was dismissed as a fake by a Louvre curator in the 1950s. Recent study suggests it may be real.

Daniel Lévy, a software engineer visiting from Strasbourg, stood at the Cézanne, looking at its back.

“You walk past these labels your whole life and you do not read them. Now I will read them," he said. "My grandmother lost some of her family in the camps. Some of these paintings were probably hanging in homes like hers.”

Paris was Western Europe's richest art hub in the early 20th century.

The Hôtel Drouot, the city’s main auction house, reopened in autumn 1940 and ran briskly through the Nazi occupation.

French dealers were among the conduits. German museums sent buyers, and Hitler’s agents took the best.

“The most important art market in Europe was concentrated in Paris,” Rotermund-Reynard said. “The moment the Nazis arrived in occupied territory, they had enormous buying power. They threw themselves at the market.”

Germans were eager buyers

Almost every museum in Nazi Germany, Rotermund-Reynard said, sent buyers to Paris to expand its collections. Those buyers drew on a market thick with looted and forced-sale property.

“Hitler himself wanted to build the world’s largest museum, in Linz, the city in Austria where he grew up,” she said.

Hermann Göring, Hitler’s deputy, traveled 21 times to Paris during the occupation to help himself to works taken from Jewish collectors.

“There was an enormous thirst,” Rotermund-Reynard said, “both for the possessions of Jewish collectors, and for acquisitions to expand the German museums.”

For Rotermund-Reynard, the works cannot be separated from the genocide.

“All of this is part of the history of the Shoah,” she said, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. “When you try to understand this drive to take from Jewish families, it is part of the terrifying Nazi ideology to erase Jewish life.”

Antisemitic acts in France — home to Europe’s largest Jewish community — hit 1,320 in 2025, according to the French Interior Ministry. Those near-record levels followed a sharp surge after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.

The gallery was not built to fight antisemitism, said François Blanchetière, the Orsay’s chief sculpture curator and co-curator of the gallery. But the consequences of the Holocaust must be repaired, he said.

“There is no statute of limitations on these crimes," he said.

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A previous version of this story had the wrong first name for Degas.

The GOP bill released late Monday would designate the money for the U.S. Secret Service for “security adjustments and upgrades” related to the ballroom project, which Trump and Republicans have been pushing since Cole Tomas Allen allegedly stormed the April 25 media dinner at the Washington Hilton with guns and knives. The legislation says the money would support enhancements to the ballroom project, “including above-ground and below-ground security features,” but also specifies that the money may not be used for non-security elements.

White House spokesperson Davis Ingle praised Republicans for including the money for the “long overdue” project, saying it would “provide the United States Secret Service with the resources they need to fully and completely harden the White House complex, in addition to the many other critical missions for the USSS.”

The money is part of a larger bill to pay for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, as Democrats have been blocking funds for both agencies since mid-February. Congress passed bipartisan legislation to fund the rest of the Homeland Security Department on April 30 after a record-long shutdown, but Republicans are using a partisan budget maneuver to push through the ICE and Border Patrol dollars on their own. The House has not released its bill yet, but the Senate is expected to start voting on its version of the legislation next week.

It is unclear exactly how the $1 billion would be used, and the amount far exceeds the proposed $400 million for construction of the ballroom. The White House has said in court documents that the East Wing project would be “heavily fortified,” including bomb shelters, military installations and a medical facility underneath the ballroom. Trump has said it should include bulletproof glass and be able to repel drone attacks.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued to block construction of the project, but a federal appeals court said last month that it can continue in the meantime.

The White House has said that private money would pay for the construction but public money would be used for security measures. Some Republicans have suggested that public money pay for all of it, arguing the security breach at the dinner shows the president needs a secure place to host events.

“It would be insane” to hold the dinner at a hotel again, said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who introduced a bill to pay for the ballroom’s construction with Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala.

Democrats have said they will oppose any efforts to pay for the ballroom.

“While Americans are struggling to make ends meet as a result of President Trump’s failed policies, Republicans are focused on providing tens of billions of dollars for the President’s vanity ballroom project and cruel mass deportation campaign,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the U.S. Secret Service.

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Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the contract hasn’t been finalized.

Fowler, 31, played for the Dallas Cowboys last year and had three sacks in 17 games, starting in 11 of those.

Fowler should help Seattle replace edge rusher Boye Mafe, who signed a three-year, $60 million deal with the Cincinnati Bengals in free agency. Mafe had 20 sacks in four seasons for Seattle.

Fowler was the No. 3 pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2015 NFL draft. He has racked up 58.5 sacks across 10 seasons. In addition to the Jaguars and two stints with the Cowboys, Fowler has played for the Los Angeles Rams, Atlanta Falcons and Washington Commanders.

In 2024 with Washington, Fowler recorded 10.5 sacks, his second-most in a single season. He had 11.5 with the Rams in 2019.

Seahawks president of football operations John Schneider said shortly after the team decided not to select an edge rusher in this year’s draft that they would consider adding a player in free agency. Fowler fits the bill of what Seattle was looking for at edge rusher, and joins an inexperienced group that includes linebackers Jared Ivey, Jamie Sheriff, Connor O’Toole and Jalan Gaines.

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Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton took questions Tuesday at LIV Golf Virginia after LIV CEO Scott O'Neil spoke to reporters about his efforts to court investors for a league that is losing its chief financial backer, Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, at the end of the season.

Both players declined to speculate on their future and noted that they remain under contract with LIV for years to come.

“As of right now I have several years on my contract left, and I’m pretty sure they did a pretty good job when they drafted that, so I don’t see many ways out,” Rahm said.

Asked whether Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund had committed to honoring contracts beyond 2026, O'Neil said, “I don’t even know how to think about answering.”

The Saudis have spent $5 billion on LIV Golf over five years without achieving profitability, including $1 billion on player contracts. Players compete for $30 million purses at each event on the LIV schedule, an amount that could be reduced next year without Saudi funding.

The PGA Tour does not allow players to compete on both circuits. However, LIV players have been welcomed back to the European tour after paying fines for playing in conflicting events.

Rahm refused to pay the fines and the resulting standoff put at risk his participation in next year's Ryder Cup at Adare Manor in Ireland.

“There is no longer a standoff. We were able to reach an agreement. There were some concessions on both sides, and I offered some, they extended an olive branch,” Rahm said. “So that will not be a stress anymore.”

Rahm said he plans to play European tour events this fall, including the Spanish Open, unless family considerations get in the way. He and wife Kelley are expecting their fourth child.

The two-time major champion has played only six European tour events since joining LIV in late 2023. LIV has no events on its schedule between the U.S. Open and the British Open, and Rahm's settlement would allow him to play the Scottish Open, which is co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour, the week before the year's final major.

Speaking in Spanish at the end of his availability, Rahm said he knew there was risk in coming to LIV and compared his situation to a soccer team knowing its coach was leaving at the end of the season.

“You know you have to play, but there is ambiguity because maybe you are not going to follow the same system,” Rahm said before making a reference to PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan, known as “His Excellency,” who has stepped down as LIV's chairman.

“It was a surprise for everyone. We didn't expect it, after the support that His Excellency has given us.”

O'Neil makes a pitch for LIV's value

O'Neil took questions from a LIV media official for 28 minutes inside the tennis building at Trump National Golf Club outside Washington before answering reporters' questions for 17 minutes.

Behind him was a screen with the names of six sponsors, four of which are owned or backed by the PIF: Maaden, Riyadh Air, Roshn Group and Aramco.

O'Neil mentioned sponsorships, ticket sales, television contracts and the league's global footprint as reasons for optimism that it could secure funding. The league plans to take its 13 franchises to market, and O'Neil said those teams would be offered to potential buyers with players in place.

“The way the process will typically work — I may be getting ahead of myself — is that we're going to create a business plan, we're going to lock arms with the players, we will go to market and raise money on a top level, and then we will get investors in teams in that order,” O'Neil said. “The players on the team should be locked in.”

Rahm acknowledged that players might have to accept less money to keep the league going.

“I do believe that for the business plan to change, whatever they're coming up with, there will need to be some concessions on (players') part, yeah,” he said.

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They also released a new single, titled “In The Stars.”

To celebrate, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood attended an album announcement event inside the converted Williamsburgh Savings Bank in Brooklyn. Conan O’Brien hosted the event, with celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Lindsey Vonn in the audience. “I think this is the one, after years of toiling in obscurity,” he joked, “This is their time.”

The Stones' last album was 2023's “Hackney Diamonds.” It was their first album of original material in 18 years — since 2005’s “A Bigger Bang.” It was also their first full-length release since the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. He appeared posthumously on two of that album's 12 tracks.

“Foreign Tongues” will be released July 10.

According to press materials for “Foreign Tongues,” it will also include a special appearance from Watts from one of his final recording sessions before his death, as well as contributions from Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, the Cure’s Robert Smith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith.

“I love doing these recording sessions in London at Metropolis. It was a very intense few weeks recording ‘Foreign Tongues,’” Mick Jagger said in a statement. “We had 14 great tracks and we went as fast as we could. I like the room there as it’s not too big so you can feel the passion in the room from everyone.”

The Stones also worked closely with Oscar-winning pop producer Andrew Watt (known for his work with Post Malone and Justin Bieber, and the Stones' “Hackney Diamonds,” to name a few).

A taste of 'Foreign Tongues'

Speculation surrounding a new Stones album has been going around for weeks. First, posters appeared around London with the band name “The Cockroaches,” a pseudonym the Stones' have used in the past, along with a QR code. The code led to ‘thecockroaches.com’ and a sign-up page. Once a user had signed up, they received a confirmation message from Universal Music — the Stones' label. Representatives did not provide The Associated Press with comment or confirmation at the time.

Eventually it led to a white label, vinyl-only release of the track “Rough and Twisted” using The Cockroaches name — the first true tease of “Foreign Tongues” decipherable only by their most dedicated fans.

Then, in the week leading up to their announcement, billboards with the band's iconic mouth and tongue logo began appearing in major cities around the world with the words “Foreign Tongues” in various languages: “Fremmede Sprog,” “Vreemde Tongen,” “Dayuhang Dila,” “외국어,” and “Langues Étrangères” among them. Around the same time, the Rolling Stones' official website was updated to feature video clips stylized to look like surveillance footage of them in the studio.

On Sunday, the band shared a slide puzzle graphic fans believed to be the album artwork, depicting a cartoonish collage of the members' faces. (They were correct; it was the official album cover.) There was also a short video clip, just 10-seconds long, that appeared to tease a new song.

The Stones' ‘Tonight Show’ takeover

“The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” will host the surviving members of the Stones across three nights this month, NBC announced Tuesday.

Jagger will appear on Wednesday's show and Fallon will host Richards on Thursday. Wood will appear on May 13.

No additional details on whether the band will perform together on the show were immediately released.

The June 5 event put on by Heritage Auctions will benefit the Matthew Perry Foundation, which works to destigmatize addiction and aid in recovery from substance abuse.

“Matthew believed addiction should be met with compassion and science, not stigma and silence,” the foundation’s CEO Lisa Kasteler Calio said in a statement. “This auction fuels the Foundation’s work to expand access to evidence-based care and confront stigma. It is one more way we ensure that no one has to fight this disease alone.”

Items from Matthew Perry's collection that will be sold

— A collection of 26 of Perry’s “Friends” scripts from key episodes, including “The One With Ross’s Tan,” “The One Where Joey Speaks French” and the two-part series finale.

— Scripts from the pilot and part one of the series finale signed by Perry and co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer, donated by Warner Bros., which produced the series.

— A 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award, which Perry won for best performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.

— Perry's personal replica of the yellow peephole frame from Monica and Rachel's apartment on “Friends.”

— Perry's “Friends” photo album, titled “The One With the Last Supper.”

— Works of art by Banksy and Mel Bochner that Perry owned.

About the Matthew Perry charity auction

The auction site opened Tuesday. Items will be on display from May 18 to May 29 in Beverly Hills before the June 5 auction that will be held at Heritage Auctions’ Dallas showroom and online.

Net proceeds will go to initiatives supported by the foundation. They include the Matthew Perry Fellowship in Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, grants to organizations that work directly with recovering addicts, and Healing Appalachia, a recovery-focused sober music festival.

Perry played Chandler Bing for a decade from 1994 to 2004 on NBC’s culture-changing sitcom “Friends.” It made him one of the biggest television stars of his generation.

Perry was found dead in the hot tub of his Hollywood home at age 54 on Oct. 28, 2023. The medical examiner determined that the acute effects of the anesthetic ketamine were the primary cause.

Five people have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the investigation of his death, including two doctors and an admitted drug dealer. His personal assistant and a friend who acted as a middleman are still to be sentenced later this month.

Según la policía, el hecho ocurrió aproximadamente a las 6:20 p.m. del domingo en el área de Northwest 187th Street y 44th Avenue.

La policía indicó que la víctima se había citado con un adolescente para venderle un reloj, pero el joven sacó un arma y trató de arrebatárselo.

Según la policía, la víctima empujó entonces al sospechoso y disparó un tiro, alcanzando al adolescente en la mano.

El personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondió al lugar y trasladó al sospechoso en helicóptero al HCA Florida Aventura Hospital en estado estable.

La identidad del sospechoso aún no ha sido divulgada.

On Tuesday, burglars shattered the windows of six cars at the Pembroke Villas Apartments near Southwest 52nd Avenue.

A witness “observed an unidentified male wearing a ski mask and dressed entirely in black clothing, who concealed himself beneath a yellow cab parked,” a police officer wrote in a statement to Local 10 News.

In February, police officers responded to the Pembroke Villas Apartments after a victim saw one of two burglars rummaging through his parked Chevrolet Suburban.

Police officers asked anyone with information about the vehicle burglaries to call 954-374-8639 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 to remain anonymous.

Related story: After a rash of burglaries, Pembroke Park police officers ask public to avoid leaving valuables in cars

The men were described as people contracted to clean up after baseball games. They didn't work directly for the MLB team.

“This could have happened anywhere, but what happened tonight was a dispute between two people. Unfortunately, it happened at a treasured St. Louis staple,” said Mitch McCoy, spokesperson for St. Louis police.

The Cardinals said it was an “isolated altercation.”

Police were summoned around 3 a.m. Monday. The victim was a 27-year-old man. The suspect, a 65-year-old man, was interviewed by investigators.

The Cardinals earlier played the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday. The fatality had no impact on the Monday game against Milwaukee.

Macron was joined by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on drums and celebrated jazz musician Vahagn Hayrapetyan on piano on Monday night in Yerevan. In addition to “La Bohème,” which was recorded by Armenian-French musician Charles Aznavour in 1965, Macron also sang “Les Feuilles Mortes" by Yves Montand.

The event at Armenia’s presidential residence on Monday night was held in Macron's honor. The French leader was in town for a state visit that coincided with a gathering of the European Political Community and a historic European Union summit.

Pashinyan, who took office in 2018, more regularly flexes his musical prowess as part of his musical group Varchaband. It held its debut concert in Yerevan at the end of January.

The Armenian leader is also well known for posting videos of himself listening to music on Instagram, with his musical taste seemingly spanning from Taylor Swift to Travis Scott and A$AP Rocky.

El personal de Miami Fire Rescue declaró muerto a Jaheim Pierre, de 23 años, en un apartamento el sábado por la tarde, en 5329 NW 17 Ave., según los registros.

Tras el tiroteo, Antwan Carter se dirigió a un oficial de policía y dijo: “Fui yo; tengo el arma”, según un informe policial.

Carter entregó una pistola Glock 43 de 9mm que llevaba en el bolsillo derecho, de acuerdo con el informe.

Una mujer con los pies y la ropa “cubiertos de sangre” se acercó a un oficial y dijo que el tirador era su novio de cuatro años y que los dos heridos eran sus hermanos, según el informe policial.

La mujer dijo que sus hermanos estaban preocupados por ella como posible víctima de violencia doméstica, que se presentaron en su apartamento, y que se produjo una discusión y una pelea, según la policía.

Carter dijo que salió del apartamento, regresó y disparó contra ambos hermanos, según la policía. El personal de rescate encontró a Gianni Pierre, de 28 años, sangrando junto a un sofá, y a Jaheim Pierre, de 23 años, sangrando dentro de un clóset.

El personal de rescate trasladó de urgencia a Gianni Pierre al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde un médico lo declaró muerto.

Carter enfrenta dos cargos de asesinato en primer grado.

Según el informe, Jennifer Frost, de 44 años, de Collins, Iowa, estuvo acompañada por su abogado el lunes cuando se entregó en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Frost enfrenta un cargo de agresión agravada tras el incidente del 19 de marzo a bordo del barco Sunrise de Carnival.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, la víctima y su familia estaban en el crucero cuando ella se encontró con Frost dentro del restaurante Lido Market.

La víctima dijo a los agentes que estaba haciendo fila con un grupo de amigos y familiares cuando fueron abordados por Frost, quien parecía estar intoxicada e intentó meterse en su conversación, fingiendo reír como si fuera parte de su grupo.

La víctima dijo que trató de ignorar a Frost porque se sentía “muy incómoda”, y Frost finalmente se alejó.

Según el informe, Frost luego se acercó repentinamente a la víctima en el otro lado del restaurante después de que la víctima tomó helado y la golpeó en la cara, causando que la nariz de la víctima sangrara abundantemente.

Frost luego huyó del área, pero varios testigos la siguieron mientras otros contactaron a la seguridad del barco, dijeron las autoridades.

Los agentes dijeron que el equipo de seguridad del barco detuvo a Frost, y fue captada en video de cámara corporal admitiendo haber golpeado a la víctima en la cara y expresando satisfacción con sus acciones.

Las autoridades dijeron que el video de vigilancia del crucero también captó el ataque.

Según el informe, aunque Frost fue inicialmente detenida en el barco, de alguna manera pudo desembarcar en PortMiami sin tener contacto con las autoridades.

Los agentes dijeron que Frost viajó de regreso a Iowa, pero luego contrató a un abogado y aceptó regresar a Miami para entregarse, señala el informe.

Hasta la mañana de este martes, Frost permanecía en TGK. Los registros carcelarios en línea indicaban que su fianza estaba “por determinar”.

The Real Madrid and France forward is sidelined by a left hamstring issue which is casting doubt about his availability for Sunday's clasico in Barcelona, the biggest match in Spanish soccer.

During his time off, Mbappé reportedly traveled to Italy with actress Ester Expósito last weekend, prompting criticism in Spanish media that he may not be taking his rehabilitation seriously. Madrid fans also questioned why the league's best striker was on holiday ahead of the clasico.

Mbappé denied any wrongdoing through a statement from his representatives sent to The Associated Press.

“Part of the criticism is based on an overinterpretation of elements related to a recovery period strictly supervised by the club, without reflecting the reality of Kylian’s commitment and the work he puts in every day for the team,” the statement read.

Unhappy Real Madrid supporters believe Mbappé is saving himself for the World Cup that begins in five weeks.

He also drew criticism earlier this season when he couldn't play because of a knee ailment.

Madrid has little to play for in the final stretch of the season. It has been eliminated in the Champions League and the Copa del Rey, and is virtually out of contention in La Liga as it trails Barcelona by 11 points with four rounds remaining. Barcelona could clinch on Sunday.

Madrid has yet to say whether Mbappé will be fit and available for the clasico. Spanish media say Mbappé went to Madrid’s training center on a day off to continue his recovery.

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According to the report, Jennifer Frost, 44, of Collins, Iowa, was accompanied by her attorney Monday as she surrendered at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Frost faces an aggravated battery charge following the March 19 incident onboard Carnival’s Sunrise ship.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the victim and her family were onboard the cruise when she encountered Frost inside the Lido Market restaurant.

The victim told deputies that she was standing in line with a group of friends and family members when they were approached by Frost, who appeared to be intoxicated and tried to insert herself in their conversation, pretending to laugh as if she was part of their group.

The victim said she tried to ignore Frost as she felt “very uncomfortable,” and Frost eventually walked away.

According to the report, Frost then suddenly approached the victim on the other side of the restaurant after the victim got ice cream and punched her in the face, causing the victim’s nose to bleed heavily.

Frost then fled the area but several witnessed followed her while others contacted ship security, authorities said.

Deputies said the ship’s security team detained Frost, and she was captured on body-cam footage admitting to punching the victim in the face and expressing satisfaction with her actions.

Authorities said surveillance video from the cruise ship also captured the attack.

According to the report, while Frost was initially detained on the ship, she somehow was able to disembark the ship at PortMiami without making contact with law enforcement.

Deputies said Frost traveled back home to Iowa, but later hired an attorney and agreed to travel back to Miami to surrender herself, the report stated.

As of Tuesday morning, Frost remained at TGK. Online jail records listed her bond as “to be set.”

The analysis obtained by The Associated Press includes the first economy-wide projections behind a policy at the core of Trump’s pitch to voters going into November’s midterm elections for control of the House and Senate. Democratic lawmakers have been doubtful about the savings claimed by Trump and these new numbers are likely to trigger additional questions about the data.

Cost-of-living issues are at the forefront of voters’ concerns and higher energy prices tied to the Iran war have deepened the public’s anxiety. Trump has tried in part to address affordability concerns by focusing on his efforts to cut deals with companies so that the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. would no longer be dramatically higher than in other affluent nations.

“Now you have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world,” Trump said at a Friday rally before a crowd of seniors in Florida. “And that alone should win us the midterms.”

The analysis was done by administration officials for the White House Council of Economic Advisers. They also estimated that federal and state governments could save a combined $64.3 billion on Medicaid during the next decade because of what Trump calls his “most favored nation” policy on drug prices.

Few of the details of the deals struck by the Trump administration and 17 leading pharmaceutical companies have been made public, making it hard to independently verify the projected savings. The White House analysis sought to estimate the prospective savings as more medications come onto the market and fall under Trump’s framework — with one model in the report tallying the possible savings at $733 billion over a decade.

Trump and his Department of Health and Human Services have touted his drug-pricing deals as transformative and urged Congress to codify their principles into law. Democratic lawmakers have challenged the administration’s claims of savings. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and 17 Senate Democrats in April proposed a measure requiring the administration to disclose the terms of the agreements signed by pharmaceutical companies.

“If these deals are so great, why is the Trump administration afraid of showing them to the public?” Wyden said when announcing the measure. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his team would share details that didn’t include proprietary information or trade secrets.

The White House said it has not shared the text of the agreements because they include highly sensitive data that could move financial markets.

The potential savings estimated by the Trump administration would be substantial as Americans spent $467 billion on prescription drugs in 2024, according to the most recent government data available. The analysis is premised on the idea that foreign countries would also pay more for their prescription drugs, which would diversify drugmakers’ sources of revenue and preserve their ability to innovate with new treatments.

Outside economists have caveated that any savings might not flow directly to patients, many of whom already pay discounted prices for their drugs through their insurance coverage.

The Congressional Budget Office in October 2024 estimated that a plan similar to what Trump ended up adopting could reduce prescription drug prices by more than 5%, though the decrease “would probably diminish over time as manufacturers adjusted to the new policy by altering prices or distribution of drugs in other countries.”

The scope of the savings claimed by the Trump administration are likely to intensify the scrutiny by Democrats, who counter that any price reductions would be offset by higher costs for prescription drugs not covered by the “most favored nation” framework. One of their main critiques is that pharmaceutical companies have increased their profit margins while working with the administration.

In April, staff working for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released an analysis that looked at 15 of the companies that have agreed to this drug-pricing plan and found that their combined profits jumped 66% over the past year to $177 billion. The report noted that the tax cuts Trump signed into law last year “exempted or delayed many of the most expensive drugs” from price negotiations with Medicare.

The Trump administration has countered that they consider Sanders’ critique to be flawed, saying that it’s based on the list prices for pharmaceutical drugs instead of the actual price that patients pay.

Employers posted 6.87 million jobs in March, compared to 6.92 million in February, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

The job market has been up and down so far this year after a dismal 2025. And the Iran war, which began Feb. 28, has clouded the outlook for the economy and hiring.

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed that layoffs rose in March. But hiring improved: Employers added 5.55 million gross jobs, most since February 2024. More Americans also quit their jobs — a sign of confidence in their prospects.

Job openings have come down more or less steadily since peaking at a record 12.3 million in March 2022 as the U.S. economy bounded back from COVID-19 lockdowns. High interest rates, a response to an outburst of inflation in 2021-2022; uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s policies; and, potentially, the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence have discouraged robust hiring.

Last year, employers added fewer than 10,000 jobs a month, weakest hiring outside a recession since 2002. So far in 2026, job creation has bounced around — strong in January (160,000 new jobs) and March (178,000) but weak in February when employers slashed 133,000 jobs.

The Labor Department issues its job report for April on Friday. According to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet, it is expected to show that companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a steady 57,000 net jobs last month and that the unemployment rate remained at a low 4.3%.

Partly because of Trump's immigration crackdown, fewer people are competing for work. That means the economy doesn't need as many new jobs to keep the unemployment rate from rising. A year ago, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis estimated that the "break-even'' rate of monthly hiring was 153,000. In an update published in March, St. Louis Fed economist Alexander Bick calculated that it could be as low as 15,000 jobs a month.

Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote in a commentary that Tuesday's JOLTS report showed a “steady labor market.'' But he cautioned that ”this picture of the labor market will change as the economy adjusts to $100+ a barrel oil, higher inflation, possibly tighter monetary conditions and global recession starting in Asia,'' which is dependent on disrupted supplies of oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf.

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It will take place on Saturday and Sunday along the coast in Fort Lauderdale Beach.

The headliners are the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

They arrived on Monday ahead of the annual spectacular show in the sky.

Local 10’s Jason Carter caught up with the Thunderbirds and his report can be seen at the top of this page.

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Hernandez said she joined the airline when she was 19 years old. A few years ago, she suffered a traumatic brain injury during a car crash, and she credits the company for helping her to recover.

“We have become like family. I am going to miss it so much,” Hernandez said. “I am really sad about it.”

After a $500 million government bailout proposal failed, Spirit Airlines flights were grounded by 3 a.m. on Saturday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the airline’s shutdown hours later.

“We are looking for help,” Bryce said. “I really love the job, and I enjoy doing it ... We went to work one day, and then we were out of work the next.”

CareerSource Broward offers services such as job placement and career coaching at three centers at 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard, and 7550 Davie Road Extension in Hollywood.

Related link: Association of Flight Attendants offers help

Without much warning, Spirit Airlines employees’ health insurance was cut off on Saturday. A few dozen employees marched on Monday morning outside of the airline’s headquarters in Dania Beach.

There had been hope of a government bailout. On April 23, at the White House, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if his administration had plans to buy “a stake” in Spirit Airlines. Trump said it was under consideration.

“We have 18,000 people that live in this country that are great people and great employees,” Trump said. “We are thinking about doing it ... I’d love to be able to save those jobs. I’d love to be able to save an airline.”

Related document: Airlines For America plan

Dave Davis, the Spirit Airlines chief executive officer, told The Wall Street Journal that the Iran war’s surging energy prices caused the plan to fail.

“We didn’t intentionally sell any tickets thinking we weren’t going to be here,” Davis told The WSJ. “We thought we were going to get the liquidity we needed.”

American Airlines and JetBlue Airways were working to help Spirit Airlines pilots and flight attendants who may have been stranded during the shutdown.

Related link: Spirit Airlines launches restructuring page

“There’s a demand for aviation workers. So, even American and United have drafted or crafted microsites for Spirit employees to potentially jump the line, jump the queue, and get preferential treatment in the application process for the many airlines that are now hiring, whether it’s pilots, flight attendants, baggage workers or even those who have worked in the call centers. You can go to the individual websites to see what’s offered by each of the individual airlines,” Duffy said.

Trump and Duffy criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking the $3.8 billion sale of Spirit Airlines to JetBlue in 2024, which they say could have prevented the failure.

Related stories

• Jobless former Spirit Airlines employees march in Dania Beach
• Spirit Airlines asks guests not to go to the airport, or expect rebookings

Resources

• American Airlines launches “Supporting Spirit” career page
• United Airlines launches program to prioritize former Spirit Airlines employees when hiring. Here is the career page >
• Southwest Airlines was recruiting on this page.
• JetBlue announced an extension of the “jumpseat agreement for the next two weeks, subject to space availability and limited to cabin seating” for those who were stranded while working for Spirit Airlines, and also announced “preferential employment interviews.”
• For more information about help from the Association of Flight Attendants, call 1-800-385-3920
• Career Source Broward runs three career centers with services to help job seekers. The centers also use the Employ Florida resources.
• To file an unemployment benefits claim in Florida, call 1-800-204-2418 or visit this page.
• Find your local food bank, on this Feeding America page

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Se llevará a cabo el sábado y domingo a lo largo de la costa en Fort Lauderdale Beach.

Los protagonistas principales son los Thunderbirds de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos.

Llegaron el lunes antes del espectáculo aéreo anual.

Jason Carter de Local 10 conversó con los Thunderbirds y su reportaje se puede ver en la parte superior de esta página.

A study released Tuesday by the nongovernmental organization Amazon Conservation, in partnership with Brazilian nonprofit Instituto Socioambiental, found illegal mining sites drove clear-cutting inside three conservation areas in the Xingu region, one of the world’s largest expanses of protected forest, spanning the states of Para and Mato Grosso. The analysis combined satellite imagery with ground research.

The Terra do Meio Ecological Station recorded its first cases of illegal mining in September 2024. By the end of 2025, mining-related deforestation there had spread to 30 hectares (74 acres). At the Altamira National Forest, illegal mining accumulated 832 hectares (2,056 acres) of deforestation between 2016 and September 2025. A new mining front that opened in 2024 expanded to 36 hectares (89 acres) by October 2025, accounting for nearly half the mining-related deforestation recorded in the unit during that year.

Satellite monitoring also detected a clandestine airstrip used by illegal miners at the Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve last year. Illegal mining in the reserve grew from 2 hectares (5 acres) to at least 26.8 hectares (66 acres) in 2025.

Most deforestation from mining is illegal, group says

In 2023, Amazon Conservation teamed up with Earth Genome and the Pulitzer Center to develop the Amazon Mining Watch, a platform that uses satellite imagery to track mining across the Amazon since 2018. About 496,000 hectares (1,225,640 acres) of rainforest have been cleared for mining since then, including approximately 223,000 hectares (551,045 acres) in the Brazilian Amazon. Amazon Conservation estimates that 80% of mining-related deforestation in Brazil carries a high risk of taking place illegally.

Mining remains a relatively small driver of deforestation in Brazil, where forest loss is largely linked to agribusiness expansion. In 2025, for example, some 579,600 hectares (1,432 acres) of the Brazilian Amazon were cleared, according to official data. About 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) were related to mining, according to the Mining Watch.

“What makes mining particularly problematic is that it targets protected areas and Indigenous territories,” said Matt Finer, director of Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon program.

Protecting Indigenous territories is widely seen as an effective way to curb deforestation in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a key regulator of global climate. Researchers warn that continued forest loss could accelerate global warming.

Enforcement is often a ‘cat-and-mouse’ game

In 2023, Brazilian authorities launched a major crackdown on illegal gold mining in the Yanomami Indigenous territory in Roraima state, along the border with Venezuela, after a surge led to a humanitarian and health crisis. Annual growth in newly mined areas there fell sharply after that year, according to Amazon Conservation data. Although mining has not been fully eliminated, nearly all deforestation inside the Yanomami territory — about 5,500 hectares (13,590 acres) — had taken place by 2023.

Still, localized enforcement has not curbed illegal mining across the Amazon. When authorities destroy dredges and equipment in one region, miners often relocate or resume operations once officials leave. Federal prosecutor André Luiz Porreca, who investigates illegal mining in the western Brazilian Amazon, described enforcement as a “cat-and-mouse game.”

“Last year, I took part in an operation that destroyed more than 500 dredges on an Indigenous land,” Porreca said. “The following week, Indigenous people showed me photos proving the miners had already returned.”

Porreca said illegal gold mining is financed by Brazil’s largest criminal organizations, including the Red Command and the First Capital Command, or PCC, which operate in about a third of the cities in the Brazilian Amazon. “They have the money to bankroll these operations. Some dredges cost as much as 15 million reais."

While enforcement eased pressure in Yanomami territory, illegal mining has intensified elsewhere, particularly across Indigenous lands in the Xingu River basin. The most critical situation is on the Kayapo Indigenous land, where roughly 7,940 hectares (19,620 acres) of rainforest have been cleared by illegal mining, the largest such area in the Brazilian Amazon.

Gold has driven mercury contamination

Record-breaking gold prices, driven largely by investor demand for safe assets amid rising global risks, have provided a strong incentive for illegal mining.

“It’s basic market logic. With more buyers, there are more people exploiting gold,” Porreca said. He said Brazil’s mineral export control system remains weak, allowing laundering schemes that give illicit gold the appearance of legality.

Environmental damage extends beyond deforestation. Illegal mining operations dump mercury into rivers, contaminating waterways and accumulating in fish consumed by riverine and Indigenous communities.

In April, Porreca submitted a report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights describing widespread mercury contamination in the Amazon. The report cited a study by Fiocruz, a state-run research institution, which found that 21.3% of fish sold in public markets across the Amazon exceeded mercury limits set by the World Health Organization. Children ages 2 to 4 were consuming mercury at levels up to 31 times higher than the recommended maximum.

Mining an increasing concern among environmentalists and Indigenous

Under Brazilian law, mining is prohibited on Indigenous lands. The Ministry of Indigenous peoples said in a statement that combating illegal mining on Indigenous lands is a priority of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration. The ministry said mining invasions are sustained by criminal networks and confronting them requires dismantling those economic and logistics chains.

The Ministry of Environment said mercury contamination from illegal gold mining remains a persistent problem in the Amazon, adding that it is expanding scientific monitoring while supporting enforcement efforts.

Brazil’s Federal Police did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.

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Hernández contó que se unió a la aerolínea cuando tenía 19 años. Hace unos años, sufrió una lesión cerebral traumática en un accidente automovilístico y le agradece a la compañía por haberla ayudado en su recuperación.

“Nos hemos convertido en una familia. Lo voy a extrañar muchísimo”, dijo Hernández. “Estoy muy triste por esto”.

Tras el fracaso de una propuesta de rescate gubernamental de 500 millones de dólares, los vuelos de Spirit Airlines fueron suspendidos a las 3 de la madrugada del sábado. El secretario de Transporte, Sean Duffy, anunció el cierre de la aerolínea horas después.

“Estamos buscando ayuda”, dijo Bryce. “Me encanta mi trabajo y lo disfruto mucho... Un día tuvimos trabajo y al día siguiente nos quedamos sin él”.

CareerSource Broward ofrece servicios como colocación laboral y orientación profesional en tres centros ubicados en 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard y 7550 Davie Road Extension en Hollywood.

Enlace relacionado: La Asociación de Auxiliares de Vuelo ofrece ayuda.

Sin previo aviso, el sábado se suspendió el seguro médico de los empleados de Spirit Airlines. El lunes por la mañana, varias decenas de empleados se manifestaron frente a la sede de la aerolínea en Dania Beach .

Existía la esperanza de un rescate gubernamental. El 23 de abril , en la Casa Blanca, un periodista preguntó al presidente Donald Trump si su administración tenía planes de comprar una participación en Spirit Airlines. Trump respondió que la opción estaba en consideración.

“Tenemos 18.000 personas que viven en este país que son gente estupenda y excelentes empleados”, dijo Trump. “Estamos pensando en hacerlo... Me encantaría poder salvar esos empleos. Me encantaría poder salvar una aerolínea”.

Documento relacionado : Plan de aerolíneas para Estados Unidos

Dave Davis, director ejecutivo de Spirit Airlines, declaró a The Wall Street Journal que el aumento vertiginoso de los precios de la energía debido a la guerra con Irán provocó el fracaso del plan.

“No vendimos entradas intencionadamente pensando que no íbamos a estar aquí”, declaró Davis a The WSJ . “Pensábamos que íbamos a conseguir la liquidez que necesitábamos”.

American Airlines y JetBlue Airways estaban trabajando para ayudar a los pilotos y auxiliares de vuelo de Spirit Airlines que pudieran haber quedado varados durante el cierre.

Enlace relacionado : Spirit Airlines lanza una página sobre su reestructuración.

“Hay demanda de trabajadores de aviación. Por eso, incluso American y United han creado micrositios para que los empleados de Spirit puedan saltarse la fila y obtener un trato preferencial en el proceso de solicitud de empleo en las numerosas aerolíneas que están contratando, ya sean pilotos, auxiliares de vuelo, personal de equipaje o incluso personas que hayan trabajado en centros de atención telefónica. Pueden visitar los sitios web de cada aerolínea para ver las ofertas disponibles”, dijo Duffy.

Trump y Duffy criticaron al gobierno del expresidente Joe Biden por bloquear la venta de Spirit Airlines a JetBlue por 3.800 millones de dólares en 2024, lo que, según ellos, podría haber evitado el fracaso.

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• Ex empleados desempleados de Spirit Airlines marchan en Dania Beach.
• Spirit Airlines pide a los pasajeros que no acudan al aeropuerto, o de lo contrario, no se realizarán cambios de reserva.

Recursos

• American Airlines lanza la página de empleo “Supporting Spirit”.
• United Airlines lanza un programa para dar prioridad a los exempleados de Spirit Airlines en sus contrataciones. Aquí está la página de empleo >
• Southwest Airlines estaba reclutando en esta página .
• JetBlue anunció una extensión del “acuerdo de asientos auxiliares durante las próximas dos semanas, sujeto a la disponibilidad de espacio y limitado a los asientos de cabina” para aquellos que quedaron varados mientras trabajaban para Spirit Airlines, y también anunció “entrevistas de empleo preferenciales”.
• Para obtener más información sobre la ayuda que ofrece la Asociación de Auxiliares de Vuelo , llame al 1-800-385-3920.
• Career Source Broward gestiona tres centros de empleo con servicios para ayudar a quienes buscan trabajo. Los centros también utilizan los recursos de Employ Florida .
• Para presentar una solicitud de beneficios por desempleo en Florida, llame al 1-800-204-2418 o visite esta página .
• Encuentra tu banco de alimentos local en esta página de Feeding America.

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The analysis obtained by The Associated Press includes the first economy-wide projections behind a policy at the core of Trump's pitch to voters going into November’s midterm elections for control of the House and Senate. Democratic lawmakers have been doubtful about the savings claimed by Trump and these new numbers are likely to trigger additional questions about the data.

Cost-of-living issues are at the forefront of voters' concerns and higher energy prices tied to the Iran war have deepened the public's anxiety. Trump has tried in part to address affordability concerns by focusing on his efforts to cut deals with companies so that the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. would no longer be dramatically higher than in other affluent nations.

“Now you have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world,” Trump said at a Friday rally before a crowd of seniors in Florida. “And that alone should win us the midterms.”

The analysis was done by administration officials for the White House Council of Economic Advisers. They also estimated that federal and state governments could save a combined $64.3 billion on Medicaid during the next decade because of what Trump calls his “most favored nation” policy on drug prices.

Few of the details of the deals struck by the Trump administration and 17 leading pharmaceutical companies have been made public, making it hard to independently verify the projected savings. The White House analysis sought to estimate the prospective savings as more medications come onto the market and fall under Trump's framework — with one model in the report tallying the possible savings at $733 billion over a decade.

Trump and his Department of Health and Human Services have touted his drug-pricing deals as transformative and urged Congress to codify their principles into law. Democratic lawmakers have challenged the administration's claims of savings. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and 17 Senate Democrats in April proposed a measure requiring the administration to disclose the terms of the agreements signed by pharmaceutical companies.

“If these deals are so great, why is the Trump administration afraid of showing them to the public?” Wyden said when announcing the measure. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his team would share details that didn’t include proprietary information or trade secrets.

The potential savings estimated by the Trump administration would be substantial as Americans spent $467 billion on prescription drugs in 2024, according to the most recent government data available. The analysis is premised on the idea that foreign countries would also pay more for their prescription drugs, which would diversify drugmakers' sources of revenue and preserve their ability to innovate with new treatments.

The Congressional Budget Office in October 2024 estimated that a plan similar to what Trump ended up adopting could reduce prescription drug prices by more than 5%, though the decrease “would probably diminish over time as manufacturers adjusted to the new policy by altering prices or distribution of drugs in other countries.”

The scope of the savings claimed by the Trump administration are likely to intensify the scrutiny by Democrats, who counter that any price reductions would be offset by higher costs for prescription drugs not covered by the “most favored nation” framework. One of their main critiques is that pharmaceutical companies have increased their profit margins while working with the administration.

In April, staff working for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., released an analysis that looked at 15 of the companies that have agreed to this drug-pricing plan and found that their combined profits jumped 66% over the past year to $177 billion. The report noted that the tax cuts Trump signed into law last year “exempted or delayed many of the most expensive drugs” from price negotiations with Medicare.

The Trump administration has countered that they consider Sanders' critique to be flawed, saying that it's based on the list prices for pharmaceutical drugs instead the actual price that patients pay.

The 33-year-old German man was arrested on Monday afternoon in the car that authorities say he had driven several hundred meters through a street in a busy central shopping area. Two people — a 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man, both of them German — were killed. Six other people were injured, two of them seriously.

The suspect is under investigation on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Authorities believe that it was a deliberate rampage, but were still investigating his motive on Tuesday.

Police and prosecutors said in a statement that there was no evidence at present of a political or religious motive. They said he had come to authorities' attention this year because of threats and “defamatory offenses.”

They said that police were deployed on April 17 because of a phone call from the suspect, following which he was admitted to a specialist hospital with his consent because of his “psychological condition.” He was treated there until Wednesday last week. He had no previous convictions and there were no other pending cases, the statement said.

The social affairs ministry in Saxony state said that the man had posed no danger to himself or others while being treated, and there had been no medical reason to prevent him from leaving, German news agency dpa reported.

Lawyers for the county filed a motion on Monday night to quash a grand jury subpoena that asks for the names and personal contact information of county employees and volunteer poll workers. This latest action comes after the FBI in January went to a Fulton County elections warehouse and seized ballots and other documents from the 2020 election, which Georgia’s certified totals showed Trump lost in the state to Biden by 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million cast. Trump, a Republican, still insists the election was stolen from him even though judges and his own attorney general concluded otherwise.

Monday's court filing says the subpoena is meant to “target, harass and punish the President's perceived political opponents.” The request is “grossly overbroad and untethered to any reasonable need,” the county's lawyers argue. It “cannot yield any evidence that could result in a criminal prosecution," they wrote, arguing that the statute of limitations on any federal crime related to the 2020 election has already expired.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday.

County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts, in an emailed statement, called the subpoena “yet another act of outrageous federal overreach designed to intimidate and chill participation in elections.”

“Let me be crystal clear. Fulton County will not be intimidated,” said Pitts, a Democrat who’s running for reelection.

Since the 2020 election, Trump “has obsessively propagated the debunked conspiracy theory that Fulton County ‘stole’ the 2020 election from him,” the county’s lawyers wrote. “And he has made it clear that he seeks retribution against those who refuse to indulge his baseless claims.”

Trump has already targeted individual poll workers like Ruby Freeman, who was attacked by him and his supporters after the election. Freeman, who's Black, has said she was forced to flee her home after false claims of election fraud against her led to racist threats and strangers showing up at her home.

The grand jury subpoena, dated April 17, was served on the county's director of elections on April 20, the county's court filing says. It seeks the “name, position/function, residential and email addresses, and personal telephone number(s)” for thousands of election workers “ranging from county employees who assisted on election day, to bus drivers who operated a mobile voting location, to volunteers and temporary poll workers,” the filing says.

The subpoena “is a chilling escalation in the campaign to terrorize Fulton County election workers," the county's lawyers wrote, adding that threats arising from the current political environment have caused election workers to “fear for their physical safety.” That and other stresses “including the likelihood of being scapegoated by public officials” are causing election workers to leave their jobs “in unprecedented numbers,” they wrote.

The county's lawyers note that the subpoena directs the county to provide the records not to the grand jury but to an out-of-state Justice Department lawyer or to the FBI agent who wrote the affidavit used for the seizure of the county's 2020 ballots in January.

The January seizure of the ballots and other records from Fulton County was one in a string of moves by Trump's administration to obtain past election records from critical swing states. The FBI in March used a subpoena to get records related to an audit of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County in Arizona. And the Justice Department in April demanded that Michigan’s Wayne County turn over its ballots from the 2024 election, which Trump won against Biden's vice president, Kamala Harris.

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

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Miami Fire Rescue personnel declared Jaheim Pierre, 23, dead at an apartment on Saturday afternoon, at 5329 NW 17 Ave., records show.

After the shooting, Antwan Carter turned to a police officer and said, “I am the one; I have the firearm,” according to a police report.

Carter surrendered a 9mm, Glock 43, firearm from his right pocket, according to the police report.

A woman with her feet and clothing ”covered in blood” approached a police officer and said the shooter was her boyfriend of four years, and the two shot were her brothers, according to a police report.

The woman said her brothers had been concerned about her being the victim of domestic violence, showed up at her apartment, and there was an argument and a fight, according to police.

Carter said he left the apartment, returned, and shot both brothers, according to police. Fire rescue personnel found Gianni Pierre, 28, bleeding next to a couch, and Jaheim Pierre, 23, bleeding in the closet

Fire rescue personnel rushed Gianni Pierre, 28, to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where a doctor pronounced him dead.

Carter faced two counts of first-degree murder.

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On Monday, the Homestead Police Department announced the arrest of Michael Alvarez, a teacher at First United Methodist Christian School, located at 622 N. Krome Avenue.

According to authorities, officers responded to the school Monday after receiving reports of a battery.

Officers met with the parents of a student who said their child’s mouth had been taped shut by a teacher following a disagreement, authorities said.

Following an investigation by Homestead police detectives, Alvarez was arrested and is facing a charge of simple battery.

He was taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained as of Monday night on a $1,000 bond.

El lunes, el Departamento de Policía de Homestead anunció el arresto de Michael Alvarez, maestro en First United Methodist Christian School, ubicada en 622 N. Krome Avenue.

Según las autoridades, los agentes acudieron a la escuela el lunes tras recibir reportes de una agresión.

Los agentes se reunieron con los padres de un estudiante, quienes dijeron que la boca de su hijo fue sellada con cinta por un maestro tras un desacuerdo, indicaron las autoridades.

Tras una investigación de detectives de la Policía de Homestead, Alvarez fue arrestado y enfrenta un cargo de agresión simple.

Fue llevado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, donde permanecía hasta la noche del lunes con una fianza de $1,000 USD.

Ese hallazgo surge tras una confrontación captada en video dentro de un parque público, que ahora está generando preguntas más amplias sobre cómo se ejerce la autoridad policial en público sin un requisito claro de identificación.

El video, que ha atraído atención nacional, muestra al investigador de Local 10 News Jeff Weinsier intentando cuestionar a la alcaldesa de Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava, durante un evento público cuando un hombre vestido de civil interviene, le ordena retroceder y hace contacto físico.

Weinsier intentaba cuestionar a la alcaldesa sobre millones de dólares de los contribuyentes gastados en autobuses de tránsito eléctricos que luego fueron retirados de servicio. Local 10 News contactó a Levine Cava múltiples veces solicitando una entrevista, pero su equipo de comunicaciones declinó.

“No me empujes… no me empujes”, se escucha decir a Weinsier en el video.

El hombre, que no estaba visiblemente identificado como agente del orden, responde: “Necesitas retroceder”, y luego preguntó: “¿Quieres ir a la cárcel?”

El encuentro llevó a Local 10 News a preguntar a la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade qué políticas o procedimientos requieren que un agente de civil se identifique antes de emitir órdenes o usar la fuerza.

La Oficina del Sheriff confirmó que no tiene una política, procedimiento o protocolo operativo estándar específico que regule esa situación.

El agente involucrado fue identificado posteriormente como Lester Aguilar, quien forma parte del equipo de seguridad de la alcaldesa en un rol especializado de sargento de armas. En una respuesta por escrito, la Oficina del Sheriff dijo que el agente estaba “operando en una capacidad de protección especializada” y que quienes están asignados a ese rol “a menudo deben operar de manera discreta que no lo identifique de forma prominente como agente del orden”. La agencia dijo que ese enfoque “es intencional y necesario” en entornos públicos dinámicos.

A pesar de esa explicación, el agente sigue siendo un oficial juramentado con autoridad para detener o arrestar. La Oficina del Sheriff no señaló ninguna política escrita que describa cuándo o cómo esa autoridad debe ser claramente identificada ante el público.

Local 10 News compartió el video y los hallazgos con Andrew Scott, doctor en justicia penal, ex jefe de policía y consultor nacional en prácticas policiales.

“El agente debió haberse identificado de inmediato”, dijo Scott.

Scott señaló que la falta de identificación puede crear rápidamente conflictos innecesarios.

“No tiene sentido que este conflicto innecesario haya ocurrido… particularmente cuando el agente no se identifica”, dijo.

Advirtió que situaciones como esta pueden escalar.

“Podrías terminar siendo empujado… puesto en esposas o peor”, dijo.

Scott indicó que el problema no es solo lo que ocurrió en este caso, sino la ausencia de reglas claras que lo regulen.

“Si esas acciones… no estaban sustentadas por una política escrita… eso sí crea un problema”, dijo.

Dijo que le sorprendía que esa guía no exista.

“Me sorprende… que no esté específicamente delineado en la política”, dijo. “Se requiere que los agentes del orden se identifiquen… particularmente si no llevan uniforme evidente”.

Scott también dijo que no vio nada inapropiado en la conducta de Weinsier.

“Lo único que hiciste fue hacerle preguntas”, dijo. “No vi nada de tu parte que creara un problema o una amenaza”.

Añadió que el agente no estaba operando de manera encubierta.

“No estaba profundamente encubierto”, dijo Scott. “Solo estaba trabajando en un equipo de seguridad y debió haberse identificado”.

Scott dijo que la situación resalta una brecha que podría abordarse con una guía escrita clara.

“Todo esto podría haberse evitado si hubiera protocolos adecuados”, dijo. “Lo veo como una solución sencilla… solo hay que ajustar la política”.

Agregó: “Tiene sentido aclarar las cosas por escrito y capacitar a sus miembros”.

También señaló que las expectativas deben definirse claramente sobre cómo los equipos de seguridad interactúan con los medios.

“Debe haber algo claro… para entender cuáles son las acciones y qué es apropiado”, dijo.

Tras el informe original, otra periodista dijo a Local 10 News que experimentó una situación similar con un agente de civil, lo que genera preocupaciones más amplias sobre cómo el público puede saber cuándo alguien que da órdenes es un agente del orden.

Local 10 News solicitó una entrevista con la sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz para discutir si deberían implementarse políticas más claras. La solicitud fue rechazada. La Oficina del Sheriff dijo que la sheriff no estaba disponible y añadió que continúa revisando sus prácticas y permanece abierta a considerar mejoras cuando sea apropiado.

Local 10 News también contactó a la Asociación Benevolente de la Policía de Miami-Dade, que representa a los agentes. El sindicato declinó participar.

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That finding comes after a confrontation captured on video inside a public park, which is now raising broader questions about how law enforcement authority is exercised in public without a clear requirement for identification.

The video, which has drawn national attention, shows Local 10 News investigator Jeff Weinsier attempting to question Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava during a public event when a man in plain clothes steps in, orders him back and makes physical contact.

Weinsier was trying to question the mayor about millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on electric transit buses that were later taken out of service. Local 10 News reached out to Levine Cava multiple times requesting an interview, but her communications staff declined.

“Don’t push me… don’t push me,” Weinsier is heard saying in the video.

The man, who was not visibly identified as law enforcement, responds, “You need to back away,” and later asked, “You want to go to jail?”

The encounter prompted Local 10 News to ask the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office what policies or procedures require a plainclothes deputy to identify themselves before issuing commands or using force.

The Sheriff’s Office confirmed it does not have a specific policy, procedure or standard operating protocol that governs that situation.

The deputy involved was later identified as Lester Aguilar, who is part of the mayor’s security detail in a specialized Sergeant-at-Arms role. In a written response, the Sheriff’s Office said the deputy was “operating in a specialized protective capacity” and that those assigned to that role “must often operate in a low-profile manner that does not prominently identify him as law enforcement.” The agency said that approach “is intentional and necessary” in dynamic public settings.

Despite that explanation, the deputy is still a sworn law enforcement officer with the authority to detain or arrest. The Sheriff’s Office did not point to any written policy outlining when or how that authority must be clearly identified to the public.

Local 10 News shared the video and findings with Andrew Scott, a doctor of criminal justice, former police chief and national consultant on police practices.

“The officer should have immediately identified himself,” Scott said.

Scott said the lack of identification can quickly create unnecessary conflict.

“It doesn’t make sense that this unnecessary conflict occurred… particularly when the officer doesn’t identify himself,” he said.

He warned that situations like this can escalate.

“You could wind up being pushed down… placed in handcuffs or worse,” he said.

Scott said the issue is not only what happened in this case but the absence of clear rules governing it.

“If those actions… were not predicated by a written policy… that does create a problem,” he said.

He said he was surprised such guidance does not already exist.

“I’m surprised… it’s not specifically delineated in policy,” he said. “Law enforcement officers are required to identify themselves… particularly if they’re not in obvious police garb.”

Scott also said he saw nothing inappropriate in Weinsier’s conduct.

“The only thing you did was ask her questions,” he said. “I didn’t see anything on your part that created an issue or a threat.”

He added that the deputy was not operating in a covert or undercover capacity.

“He was not in deep undercover,” Scott said. “He was just working in security detail and should have been identified.”

Scott said the situation highlights a gap that could be addressed with clear written guidance.

“This whole thing could have been avoided if there were appropriate protocols,” he said. “I see it as an easy fix… you just augment the policy.”

He added, “It makes sense to clarify things in writing and to train its members.”

He also said expectations should be clearly defined for how security details interact with the media.

“There needs to be something clear… to understand what the actions are and what’s appropriate,” he said.

Following the original report, another journalist told Local 10 News she experienced a similar situation involving a plainclothes officer, raising broader concerns about how members of the public are expected to know when someone giving orders is law enforcement.

Local 10 News requested an interview with Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz to discuss whether clearer policies should be implemented. The request was declined. The Sheriff’s Office said the sheriff was not available and added it continues to review its practices and remains open to considering enhancements where appropriate.

Local 10 News also contacted the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association, which represents deputies. The union declined to participate.

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According to Hollywood Fire Rescue officials, the fire was reported at 3:36 a.m. at a home in the 6700 block of Harding Street.

Firefighters said the home was vacant at the time and no injuries were reported.

Steven Llerena, who lives next door, told Local 10 News that he and his family did whatever they could to stop the flames from reaching their home.

“It was crazy because I walked outside and the fire wasn’t that big yet, but something exploded and it started getting bigger and bigger, and then me and my dad were trying to wet the whole backyard, everything, to make sure that our house didn’t catch fire,” he said.

His mother, Daire Llerena, got emotional once everything was settled and they were alright on the other side.

“Everything is past now and I suppose I feel better because I see my house and it’s safe – it’s amazing, it’s a miracle,” she said.

Según funcionarios de Hollywood Fire Rescue, el incendio fue reportado a las 3:36 a.m. en una casa en la cuadra 6700 de Harding Street.

Los bomberos dijeron que la vivienda estaba vacía en ese momento y no se reportaron heridos.

Steven Llerena, quien vive al lado, dijo a Local 10 News que él y su familia hicieron todo lo posible para evitar que las llamas alcanzaran su casa.

“Fue una locura porque salí y el fuego aún no era tan grande, pero algo explotó y comenzó a crecer y crecer, y luego mi papá y yo estábamos tratando de mojar todo el patio trasero, todo, para asegurarnos de que nuestra casa no se incendiara”, dijo.

Su madre, Daire Llerena, se mostró emocionada una vez que todo se calmó y estaban a salvo.

“Todo ya pasó y supongo que me siento mejor porque veo mi casa y está segura, es increíble, es un milagro”, dijo.

Charles, who had 4,262 rebounds in her career, also finished as the league's No. 2 all-time scorer behind Diana Taurasi. The 15-year veteran scored 8,396 points in the regular season.

“Today, I officially announce my retirement from basketball. Fifteen years at the professional level and a lifetime of love for this game," Charles wrote in her post. "I’ve experienced the highest highs and the lowest lows, and I’m thankful for all of it. Through it all, I learned how to show up. When doubt got loud and narratives were written about me, I kept showing up. That’s the New Yorker in me, where resilience is built, not talked about.”

Charles was the No. 1 pick by the Connecticut Sun in 2010 after helping the UConn Huskies win consecutive NCAA championships in 2009 and 2010. She was the AP Player of the Year in 2010.

She played with the Sun until 2013 before a blockbuster trade sent her home to New York.

“She is undeniably one of the most impactful players to ever wear a Liberty uniform and one of the most accomplished athletes our league has ever seen,” Liberty CEO Keia Clarke said. “Her excellence on the court, her leadership in the locker room and her unwavering commitment to pouring so much into the New York community, the city that raised her will endure for generations.”

Charles starred in her hometown through the 2019 season. She sat out the WNBA bubble season the next year before playing in Washington, Phoenix, Seattle and Atlanta. Charles came back to Connecticut last season and started 42 games while averaging 16.3 points and 5.8 rebounds.

“Tina Charles has been one of the most prolific scorers and rebounder our league has ever seen and her impact in the community has been just as powerful as her impact on the floor,” Atlanta Dream GM Dan Padover said. “Tina had a historic career and was a cornerstone player during an important time of our league's growth.”

The 37-year-old center helped the U.S. win three Olympic gold medals as well as three World Cup championships. She earned WNBA MVP honors in 2012 and was the league's top scorer in two seasons. The one thing Charles never had a chance to do was play in a WNBA Finals.

“This game gave me everything, and I’ll miss it deeply,” Charles said. “But my mom always taught me, don’t stop at what you’ve done, keep going toward what you still see. And I still see so much. There are still dreams in my heart waiting to be lived, and I can’t wait to share that journey with you all.”

Besides her impact on the court, Charles has left a lasting one off of it, helping to save countless lives for more than a decade with her charity — Hopey's Heart Foundation. She's donated 500 AEDs (automated external defibrillators) through the organization that started in 2013 and is named in honor of her aunt.

It's dedicated to curbing deaths in the United States from sudden cardiac arrest. The organization works to ensure schools and public places have lifesaving equipment such as defibrillators on hand.

Charles said that before she started the foundation she didn’t realize how common and deadly sudden cardiac arrest could be until she read about Wes Leonard, a high school basketball player who suffered a heart attack and died after basketball practice in 2011.

And when her aunt died a few years later from organ failure, Charles committed herself to helping to solve the problem.

In 2017, when Charles was playing for the New York Liberty, she was surprised by the team by a man who was saved by one of the AEDs that the star had donated.

“Beyond her extraordinary accomplishments, Tina has represented the very best of the WNBA throughout her career," WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement. "Through her leadership and dedication to giving back — including her work with her Hopey’s Heart Foundation — she has made a meaningful impact far beyond the game, earning the Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award twice.

"Her legacy will be defined not only by her excellence on the court, but by the standard she set as a leader, a teammate, and a champion for the communities she touched.”

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John Andrew Spillman está acusado de exposición indecente.

Según un informe de arresto, agentes de MDSO respondieron al hotel DoubleTree, ubicado en 711 NW 72nd Ave., poco después de la medianoche en referencia a un hombre desnudo en el pasillo de uno de los pisos del hotel.

Cuando los agentes llegaron al pasillo, vieron a Spillman masturbándose, dijeron las autoridades.

Según el informe, Spillman fue detenido antes de que la víctima saliera de su habitación y le dijera a los agentes que ella estaba abajo en el lobby del hotel antes de que Spillman la siguiera.

Ella dijo que entró de inmediato a su habitación cuando llegó a su piso y luego vio a Spillman masturbándose junto a su habitación.

Un portavoz del Servicio Secreto de Estados Unidos confirmó a Local 10 News que Spillman es un agente del Servicio Secreto con base en Washington, D.C., pero que estaba trabajando en Miami al momento de su arresto “como parte de un operativo que brindaba seguridad exterior para un evento”.

Su asignación había concluido el día anterior y estaba fuera de servicio al momento de su arresto, dijeron las autoridades.

Según el portavoz, después de su arresto, Spillman fue puesto de inmediato en licencia administrativa, en espera del resultado del caso penal y de una revisión interna.

El jefe de policía del Servicio Secreto, Richard MacAuley, emitió un comunicado a Local 10 News que decía:

“Estamos al tanto del arresto de un agente del Servicio Secreto fuera de servicio por parte de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade. La conducta alegada es inaceptable y contrasta marcadamente con el profesionalismo e integridad que exijo de nuestro personal. Esta agencia toma estos asuntos con la mayor seriedad; en consecuencia, el individuo ha sido puesto en licencia administrativa en espera de los resultados de este asunto penal y de una investigación interna completa y exhaustiva.”

Hedman, in a statement released by the Lightning, did not provide specifics about what he has been dealing with. He didn't play in Tampa Bay's final 22 games of the season, including the seven playoff matchups in a first-round loss to the Montreal Canadiens.

Hedman, 35, had been around the team in recent weeks, even taking part in some skates. But the defenseman's last game was in mid-March.

“Over the past couple of months, I made the decision to step away and focus on my mental health,” Hedman said. "It was not an easy decision, but it was the right one.

“I’ve always believed that being a leader means doing what’s best for the team. In this case, it also meant doing what was necessary to take care of myself, so I can be the best player, teammate, husband and father I expect to be.”

Hedman missed significant time earlier in the season with an elbow injury that required surgery in December. He returned before the Olympics and played for Sweden until tweaking something in pregame warmups before the quarterfinal against the U.S., which kept him from participating.

He told reporters at Tampa Bay's exit-interview day that he leaned on best friend and former Lightning captain Steven Stamkos, as well as Ottawa goaltender Linus Ullmark, who also spent time away from the Senators to address his mental health.

Hedman — the No. 2 pick in the 2009 draft — has been with the Lightning for all 17 of his NHL seasons, helping the franchise win back-to-back Stanley Cup titles in 2020 and 2021. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in the 2020 pandemic “bubble.”

He played in only 33 games this season, by far the fewest of his career, because of the injury and this subsequent absence.

Hedman thanked his teammates, the Lightning organization, his family and his therapist for their support and said he’s “in a much better place today.”

“This is something that exists in our game more than people see,” Hedman said. “If this moment helps make it easier for others to take care of themselves when they need to, that matters.”

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Kimes, whose hiring was announced Tuesday, becomes the first celebrity host for the bee since LeVar Burton in 2022. That was the year Scripps took over the broadcast from ESPN, its longtime TV home, and began airing it on ION and Bounce, both of which are owned by the Cincinnati-based media company.

Scripps has also brought in a new production team for the broadcast, led by Michael Davies — currently the executive producer of “Jeopardy!” — as it seeks to reverse a decline in ratings.

This year's bee runs from May 26-28 at a new venue, Constitution Hall in downtown Washington, with 247 spellers competing for a trophy and more than $50,000 in cash and prizes.

“My goal in this is to give it the big-game feel,” Kimes told The Associated Press in an interview ahead of the announcement. “Any event that requires skill and knowledge and preparation can have that feel if it's presented with enough care and pride on television.”

Davies, whose credits also include “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” “Reading Rainbow” and “Good Morning Football,” shares Kimes' appreciation for the bee, and he told AP his goal is to “make it bigger and make it more famous.”

“We really need to focus the entire broadcast and everything we're doing around the stakes of the competition and the incredible winning moment, the winning word that happens at the end of the final,” he said.

A Yale-educated journalist, the 40-year-old Kimes is known for using extensive research and study of game video to explain the strengths and weaknesses of NFL players and coaches. She said her preparation for the bee has been similar.

“It honestly does feel a little bit like watching game tape because I really think these kids are elite competitors, not just in terms of being the best of the best, but you can see all of the work that they so clearly put in,” Kimes said. “The way they get to the right answer is fascinating to me and the more you watch, the more you see the way their brains work. I see a lot of similarities to what I do with football, and I'm so pumped to be a part of this.”

Although she never competed on the national stage, Kimes has a history in spelling, winning bees at the school level in the second, third and fifth grades.

Spellers qualify for the National Spelling Bee by winning regional bees around the country and are eligible to compete through the eighth grade. Even the most gifted kids, many of whom study and train year-round under the tutelage of paid coaches, often get only one or two chances to win the most prestigious spelling competition in the English language before they age out.

Over the last few years, Scripps has relied mostly on former spellers as on-air hosts and commentators. Longtime analyst Paul Loeffler, a sports broadcaster, former speller and the brother of bee executive director Corrie Loeffler, will return in that role.

While Scripps touted bigger potential audiences from its move to ION, which is available in more households than ESPN, ratings have been stagnant and dipped slightly over the past two years, according to Nielsen data. The combined audience for the primetime finals on ION and Bounce was 609,000 in 2022, 641,000 in 2023, 461,000 in 2024 and 488,000 last year.

The bee drew over 1 million viewers on ESPN in 2012. The finals of the last three pre-pandemic bees on ESPN had viewership of 606,000 (2017), 550,000 (2018) and 559,000 (2019).

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What was once considered a pastime passed down through generations is now having a distinctly modern revival, fueled by social media, celebrity fascination and a booming local appetite for in-person connection.

Mahjong clubs are popping up across South Florida and Mahjong Club Miami is hosting packed lessons weekly and social play events.

The club started with something much smaller: a small group of friends playing for fun. The group of five met weekly, rotating home to home for intimate Mahjong meetups until word spread too far.

“People wanted to come play with us at our house,” said co-founder Gabriela Leon. “So it started to become bigger and bigger and bigger until one day we were like, ‘No wait, we cannot invite more people here. We cannot.’”

Leon said her own curiosity about mahjong was sparked years ago by a memorable pop culture moment - the dramatic closing scene of the 2018 film “Crazy Rich Asians,” in which the game takes center stage.

She learned to play, taught her friends, and before long, the small home gatherings turned into something much larger.

By way of word-of-mouth and social media, the friends became instructors, attracting newcomers from across South Florida who wanted to learn the game and join the growing community surrounding it.

“We’re not on our phones,” Leon said. “We’re just connecting with the people we are with, so it’s about community.”

We attended the Mahjong Club Miami event at Ironside Cafe Bistro, which has become a major south Florida hub for social gatherings of all kinds — from chess clubs and game nights to public market socials. You can check them out on Instagram by clicking here.

Mahjong blends memory, strategy and speed — often described by enthusiasts as a mix of chess, poker, dominoes and rummy.

But for many players, the draw goes beyond the tiles.

As mahjong clubs, themed events and beginner lessons continue multiplying nationwide, the game has become both social outlet and status symbol — equal parts tradition, competition and conversation starter.

In South Florida, that means one thing is clear: The oldest game in the room may just be the newest obsession.

To submit an idea for What Connects Us, email whatconnectsus@wplg.com.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the forces prefer a peaceful effort to “guide” the more than 22,500 mariners stuck on more than 1,550 vessels out of the Persian Gulf, but are ready if needs change. “This is a temporary mission for us,” Hegseth said. “We expect the world to step up.”

It is unclear what will follow. The U.S. Central Command said Iran earlier launched multiple cruise missiles, drones and small boats at civilian ships under the U.S. military’s protection, and that U.S. helicopters sank six small boats involved in the attacks. It denied Iranian reports that American vessels had been struck. Caine and Hegseth said the ceasefire is not over. Shortly thereafter, the United Arab Emirates said it was defending against more Iranian strikes.

Trump Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome and Vatican City this week in a bid to ease rising tensions between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, Trump has lashed out at the pope again, misrepresenting the pontiff’s laments about the Iran war and accusing him of “endangering a lot of Catholics.”

Here is the latest:

Rubio says war with Iran is over, but also says peace is still elusive

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the major U.S. military operation against Iran is over but is stopping short of saying the conflict is over or cannot be restarted.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Rubio said that “Operation Epic Fury” — the attack the U.S. and Israel mounted on Iran on Feb. 28 — “is concluded” because the objectives of the mission were all successfully concluded.

“We’re not cheering for an additional situation to occur,” he said. “We would prefer the path of peace.”

In order for that to happen, Rubio said Iran must agree to Trump’s demands on its nuclear program and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Rubio says he hopes Chinese officials talk to Iran about the strait during foreign minister’s visit

As Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi prepares to visit China on Wednesday, Rubio says that he hopes Tehran’s allies in Beijing reiterate the need for Iran to release its chokehold on the critical waterway as the fragile ceasefire continues.

“I hope the Chinese tell him what he needs to be told,” Rubio said in response to a reporter’s question about the upcoming visit. “And that is that what you are doing in the strait is causing you to be globally isolated. You’re the bad guy in this.”

The secretary went on to argue that China, more than the U.S., is suffering for Iran’s actions in the strait, saying that the world power is an export-driven economy that depends on shipments going through Hormuz.

“It is in China’s interest that Iran stop closing the strait,” he added.

Rubio opens briefing with statement on Iran, then mixes it up

Not being as familiar with who is in the White House press corps, Rubio said to one reporter, “I wish I knew your name” and asked if they could put on name tags to help him out. He pointed at reporters instead of calling on them by name.

Rubio at another point said the White House press office had given him a seating chart to help him but joked that some outlets has been marked with a red X. The comment prompted laughter from the packed room of journalists.

He answered questions with his typical rapid-fire delivery and alternated between laughter and more sober comments.

As he answered a question about Iran, Rubio prefaced his response with, “I can’t tell you what to write.” That amounted to a change from Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who regularly tell the press corps what they should write about.

Rubio says many countries want to help open US open Hormuz but some lack the capabilities to do so

Asked what the global appetite is for the U.S. effort to reopen the strait, Rubio says the issue has not been a lack of interest but that not many are able to provide the assets and resources needed.

“The capabilities is the issue. A lot of countries would love to do something about it. But they don’t have a navy, right? Or they can’t get there in time ...” he said.

He said the onus is on the U.S.

“The primary responsibility for this Project Freedom is on the United States, because we’re the only country that can project power in that part of the world,” he said. “This is a favor to the world because it’s their ships that are stranded.”

Rubio downplays rift between Trump and Pope Leo ahead of visit to Vatican

Rubo is downplaying the rift between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV over Iran ahead of a key visit the top U.S. diplomat will make to Vatican City this week.

Rubio told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that Trump’s recent criticism of the first American pontiff was rooted in his opposition to Iran potentially obtaining a nuclear weapon, which could be used against millions of Catholics and other Christians around the world.

Trump “doesn’t understand why anybody leave aside the Pope, the president and I, for that matter, think most people cannot understand why anyone would think that it’s a good idea for Iran to ever have a nuclear weapon,” Rubio said.

Rubio says Iran claims of not wanting a nuke are not backed up by actions

Rubio says Iranian claims of not wanting to develop nuclear weapons are belied by their actions.

Rubio said Tuesday that Iran must make a choice between war and peace but that peace will require a convincing demonstration that the Iranian government won’t attempt to pursue atomic arms.

Rubio told reporters at the White House that Iran’s development of advanced centrifuge technology, its enrichment of uranium and construction of underground bunkers made clear the government was not serious about its no-nukes pledge.

‘We’re not attacking them’: Rubio echoes US message that Strait of Hormuz operation is defensive only

Rubio on Tuesday reiterated that U.S. efforts to reopen the strait is not an offensive operation despite clashes with Iran in the last several days.

“There’s no shooting unless we’re shot at first, OK? We’re not attacking them. We’re not,” Rubio told reporters. “If they pose a threat to our forces, we’ll shoot down drones, we’ll shoot down missiles. But it’s defensive in nature.”

So far, only two merchant ships are known to have passed through the new U.S.-guarded route, with hundreds more bottled up in the Persian Gulf. Shippers are still wary, and it’s unclear whether U.S. military action can reassure them without reigniting the conflict that began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28.

US coming to aid of civilian sailors ‘left for dead,’ Rubio says

Rubio said about 23,000 civilian sailors are stranded in the Persian Gulf and “left for dead” as Iran chokes the Strait of Hormuz.

Speaking at a White House press briefing on Tuesday, he said the U.S. military effort to guide ships through the strait aims to help those sailors.

“They’re sitting ducks, they’re isolated, they’re starving, they’re vulnerable,” Rubio said. “At least 10 sailors have already died as a result.”

He the sailors come from 87 countries and are innocent bystanders.

“It’s criminal for sure, but it’s desperate and destructive to block the Strait of Hormuz,” he said.

Pope Leo calls out Trump’s misrepresentation of his views on Iran and nuclear weapons

Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Leo said the Catholic Church “for years has spoken out against all nuclear weapons, so there is no doubt there.”

Trump again accused Leo in an interview Tuesday of being “OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” Leo has said no such thing and Catholic Church teaching says the mere possession of nuclear weapons is “immoral.”

Leo doubled down on his insistence that his call for peace and dialogue in the U.S-Israeli war in Iran is Biblically inspired.

“I’ve spoken from the first moment of being elected, and we’re near the anniversary: I said ‘Peace be with you,’” Leo said as he left his country house in Castel Gandolfo.

“The mission of the church is to preach the Gospel, to preach peace. If someone wants to criticize me for announcing the Gospel, let him do it with the truth,” Leo said. “And so I hope simply to be listened to about the value of the Word of God.”

Italy defends Pope Leo XIV against Trump criticism

Italy is again defending Pope Leo XIV and his call for peace and dialogue in the Iran war against President Donald Trump’s latest criticism.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in a social media post Thursday that

President Donald Trump’s attacks “are neither acceptable nor helpful to the cause of peace.”

“I reaffirm my support for every action and word of Pope Leo; his words are a testament to dialogue, the value of human life, and freedom. This is a vision shared by our government, which is committed through diplomacy to ensuring stability and peace in all areas where conflicts exist,” Tajani wrote.

Trump on Tuesday renewed his criticism of Leo’s peace message over the Iran war and warned Leo was “endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people.”

Trump’s criticism, in an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, came even as his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, prepares to visit Italy and the Vatican ostensibly to ease tensions with Washington.

Rubio is due to meet with Leo on Thursday and is due to see Tajani and Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday.

Trump offers an optimistic take on China’s position on Iran

The president in an exchange with reporters said that China hasn’t “challenged” him as he continues to press Iran even as Beijing has repeatedly criticized the U.S. and Israel military action against Iran.

“You know, in all fairness, he gets, like, 60% of his oil from (the Strait of) Hormuz,” Trump said of President Xi Jinping.

China, in fact, imported about half of its crude oil and almost one-third of its liquefied natural gas from the Middle East, according to China’s General Administration of Customs.

Trump offered a more measured take than Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who a day earlier said the administration wants to see Beijing “step up” and pressure Iran to open the strait. Bessent in an interview with Fox News said Iran would be high on Trump’s agenda when he travels to Beijing next week for a summit with Xi.

Pakistan military urges restraint as US-Iran tensions rise

Pakistan’s top military leadership on Tuesday urged restraint to help ease rising tensions between the United States and Iran.

The call came during a Corps Commanders Conference chaired by army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir.

Munir since last month has been in contact between the U.S. and Iranian officials as part of Pakistan’s efforts to end the conflict.

In a statement, the military said participants reviewed the evolving security environment amid Pakistan’s outreach to Washington and Tehran, adding that lasting peace depends on collective restraint, responsibility and respect for sovereignty.

French president says Trump’s tariff threats are wasting time

Europe and the United States have more important things to do, Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, after Trump announced higher duties on European vehicles.

Trump said on Friday that he would increase the tariffs charged on cars and trucks from the European Union this week to 25%, a move that could further harm the global economy as it reels from war in the Middle East. EU and U.S. trade officials were due to meet in Paris on Tuesday to discuss the issue.

“Especially in the geopolitical period we are experiencing, allies like the United States of America and the European Union have much better things to do than to stir up threats of destabilization,” Macron told reporters in Armenia, adding that he hopes “reason will prevail soon.”

JD Vance woos Republican voters, including farmers who want the war to end

Vice President JD Vance heads to Iowa on Tuesday, his first visit since taking office to the state where Republicans in less than two years will cast the initial votes to pick their party’s next presidential nominee.

Seen as one of the GOP’s strongest potential candidates for president in 2028, Vance stopped first in Cincinnati to vote in the primary, saying he picked Vivek Ramaswamy for governor. He’s also holding a fundraiser in Oklahoma City as finance chair of the Republican National Committee.

Higher prices for gas and fertilizer and Trump’s tariffs have been hitting voters hard, and Vance’s political prospects are complicated by the war in Iran. Vance has seemed a reluctant defender of the 9-week-old war, for which Trump has struggled to find an off-ramp.

Iowa’s farmers have steadfastly supported the president, but they’ve been looking for assurances that the troubles won’t last.

Rubio to brief at White House with press secretary on maternity leave

The secretary of state is putting on yet another Trump administration hat — White House spokesperson.

Rubio is scheduled to fill in Tuesday for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is on leave awaiting the birth of her second child. His briefing is scheduled for 3 p.m. EDT.

The nation’s top diplomat already doubles as Trump’s national security adviser and for a while was the acting archivist of the United States and the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

His last formal briefing for reporters was at the State Department briefing room in December.

Scuttlebutt around the White House has been that Rubio will be among a handful of high-level administration officials leading the press briefings while Leavitt is away.

Proposed UN resolution demands Iran halt attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz and stop `illegal tolls’

The proposed Security Council resolution, co-sponsored by the United States and Gulf nations, threatens Iran with sanctions or other measures if it doesn’t restore freedom of navigation and immediately disclose where sea mines have been placed in and around the vital waterway.

The draft, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, also demands that Iran “immediately participate in and enable the United Nations efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor in the strait” to enable vital aid, fertilizer and other goods to transit.

The proposed resolution was drafted under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which can be enforced militarily. It threatens “effective measures that are commensurate with the gravity of the situation, including sanctions” if Iran doesn’t comply.

A previous resolution aimed at opening the Strait of Hormuz, where about 20% of the world’s crude oil had transited, was vetoed by Russia and China.

Oracle is one of 8 firms providing AI capabilities to the US military

Software behemoth Oracle really is among the tech firms providing artificial intelligence capabilities to the U.S. military over classified computer networks.

The Defense Department has been ramping up its use of AI to fight wars and to more efficiently perform other operations. The Pentagon announced Friday that it’s contracting with seven companies to use their infrastructure. Oracle was not initially on the list. The others are Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX.

Oracle, now based in Texas, said the military’s use of its AI over classified systems will “enhance situational awareness and strengthen warfighter decision-making in complex operations.”

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to an email seeking clarity on why Oracle was left off Friday’s news release announcing the contracts. The news release was later updated to include Oracle.

Former military officers say reopening the strait remains a daunting task

Former military officers who have served on the Strait of Hormuz have said opening it would be dangerous and highly challenging, even with military escorts, which the U.S. isn’t providing now.

There’s little room to maneuver in the narrow waterway, and Iran can reach all of the strait and its approaches with anti-ship cruise missiles. It also can target vessels with longer-range missiles, drones, fast attack craft and naval mines.

Experts say reducing the threat would involve targeting offensive installations on the ground inside Iran and having constant surveillance and patrols.

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Insurance broker says it’s too early to know how US military effort will affect shipping through the strait

Marcus Baker, global head of marine, cargo and logistics for insurance broker and risk adviser Marsh Risk, said it would take a few days to see how the insurance market reacts.

“We just have to see what happens, whether the Iranians keep the peace, whether the Americans keep the peace, and exactly what that’s going mean for shipping,” he said.

“There’s rhetoric from both sides on this, and we’ve just got to be mindful of that,” he added. But he said “anything that starts to increase certainty around safety has got to be a good thing.”

One of the world’s largest container shipping companies says Hormuz transits not yet possible

“At this point in time our risk assessment remains unchanged,” the Hamburg, Germany-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd AG said in a statement. “Transits through the Strait of Hormuz are for the moment not possible for our ships.”

With another boat strike, death toll in Latin American waters reaches 188

The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September.

Despite the Iran war, the strikes have ramped up again in recent weeks to stop what the administration calls “narcoterrorism” in the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.

In the latest attack Monday, U.S. Southern Command repeated previous statements by saying it had targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. It posted a video on X showing a boat moving along the water before a massive explosion engulfs the vessel in flames.

UAE is under Iranian attack again, defense ministry says

The United Arab Emirates is “actively engaging” with missile and drone attack from Iran, the country’s defense ministry said on X Tuesday evening.

It said sounds heard in parts of the Gulf federation are related to the interception of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.

US job openings were unchanged at 6.9 million in March but hiring improved

U.S. job openings were essentially unchanged at 6.9 million, another sign the American labor remained sluggish even before the full impact of the Iran war hit the economy.

The job market has been up and down so far this year after a dismal 2025. And the Iran war has clouded the outlook for the economy and hiring.

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed that layoffs rose in March. But hiring improved, and more people quit their jobs — a sign of confidence in the economy.

Trump’s drugmaker deals may save economy $529B over 10 years, White House says

White House economists estimate the deals with pharmaceutical companies to drop some U.S. prescription drug prices to what they charge in other countries could save $529 billion over the next 10 years.

The analysis obtained by The Associated Press includes the first economy-wide projections behind a policy at the core of Trump’s pitch to voters going into November’s elections for control of the House and Senate. Democratic lawmakers have doubted Trump’s claims, and these new numbers are likely to trigger additional questions about the data.

Cost-of-living issues are at the forefront of voters’ concerns and higher energy prices tied to the Iran war have deepened the public’s anxiety. Few of the details of the deals struck by the Trump administration and 17 leading pharmaceutical companies have been made public, making it hard to independently verify the projected savings.

Death toll in Lebanon reaches 2,702 since Israel-Hezbollah war began

The Health Ministry in Beirut said Tuesday that 8,311 people were wounded during the same period.

The latest Israel-Hezbollah war started on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel following the U.S. and Israel’s attacks on Iran.

A ceasefire has been in place since April 17 but both Israel and Hezbollah have been carrying out daily attacks since then.

Sabalenka and fellow No. 1 Jannik Sinner were among leading players — most of them ranked in the top 10 — who issued a statement on Monday expressing “deep disappointment” over the French Open prize money.

“Without us there wouldn’t be a tournament and there wouldn’t be that entertainment. I feel like definitely we deserve to be paid more percentage,” Sabalenka, a four-time Grand Slam champion, said on Tuesday at the Italian Open.

“I think at some point we will boycott it. I feel like that’s going to be the only way to fight for our rights,” Sabalenka added on her 28th birthday.

The players are also seeking better representation, health options and pensions from the four Grand Slam tournaments: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open.

French Open organizers announced last month they were increasing overall prize money by about 10% for an overall pot of 61.7 million euros ($72.1 million), with the total amount up 5.3 million euros from last year. But the players’ statement said “the underlying figures tell a very different story,” claiming they will receive a smaller share of tournament revenues.

The players claim their share of Roland Garros revenue has declined from 15.5% in 2024 to 14.9% projected in 2026.

Gauff, the defending French Open champion, cited a landmark new WNBA collective bargaining agreement reached in March as an example of the benefit of working together.

“From the things I’ve seen with other sports, usually to make massive progress and things like this, it takes a union,” Gauff said. “We have to become unionized in some way. ... We definitely can move more as a collective."

Regarding a boycott, Gauff said, “If everyone were to move as one and collaborate, yeah, I can 100% see that.” But she added she hasn't heard of any discussions about a walkout.

“I definitely think there’s a consensus around that this needs to be addressed for all players of all levels, especially the lower-ranked players, too,” Gauff added. "I want to leave the sport better than I found it. If I can say I played my part when I retire, that’s something I can be proud of.”

Rybakina, a two-time Grand Slam champion who won the Australian Open this year, would follow the other players.

“If the majority say we are boycotting, we are not playing, then of course I’m up for it,” Rybakina said. “It’s not only on the Grand Slams and it’s not only about raising the prize money. A lot of people are not aware that there is taxes which are big. You even make more prize money, but you giving it all to the taxes.”

Paolini, the Italian who reached the final of the French Open and Wimbledon in 2024, also believed in a boycott option.

“If we’re all in agreement and I think we are — the men and the women are united right now — it’s something we could do,” Paolini said.

Paolini added that the WTA and ATP Tours — which organize all of the other tournaments — have done more than the Grand Slams to provide players with benefits, such as maternity leave, and retirement plans.

“There’s a lot of things that the Slams are not doing,” Paolini said, “that the WTA and I think the ATP are doing.”

Iga Swiatek, a four-time French Open champion, said “the most important thing is to have proper communication and discussions with the governing bodies so we have some space to talk and maybe negotiate.

“Hopefully before Roland Garros there’s going to be opportunity to have these type of meetings and we’ll see how they go,” Swiatek added. “But boycotting the tournament, it’s a bit extreme kind of situation.”

The players' statement said Roland Garros generated 395 million euros in revenue in 2025, a 14% year-on-year increase, yet prize money rose by just 5.4%, reducing players’ share of revenue to 14.3%.

“With estimated revenues of over 400 million euros for this year’s tournament, prize money as a percentage of revenue will likely still be less than 15%, far short of the 22% that players have requested to bring the Grand Slams into line with the ATP and WTA Combined 1000 events,” the players said.

French Open organizers did not respond to a request for comment after the players issued their statement.

The Australian Open this year increased the players’ compensation by 16%, and the U.S. Open prize money last year went up by 20%.

The French Open starts on May 24 and the singles champions will each receive 2.8 million euros and the runners-up 1.4 million euros. Semifinalists earn 750,000 euros and first round losers get 87,000 euros.

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The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 188 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Despite the Iran war, the series of strikes have ramped up again in recent weeks, showing that the administration’s aggressive measures to stop what it calls “narcoterrorism” in the Western Hemisphere are not letting up. The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.

The attacks began as the U.S. built up its largest military presence in the region in generations and came months ahead of the raid in January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.

In the latest attack Monday, U.S. Southern Command repeated previous statements by saying it had targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. It posted a video on X showing a boat moving along the water before a massive explosion engulfs the vessel in flames.

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and fatal overdoses claiming American lives. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing “narcoterrorists.”

Critics, meanwhile, have questioned the overall legality of the boat strikes.

Giuliani, 81, remains in critical but stable condition at a Florida hospital and is being monitored as a precautionary measure, spokesperson Ted Goodman said.

Goodman said Giuliani’s condition was exacerbated by restrictive airway disease attributed to his exposure to dust and toxins from the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.

Giuliani’s hospitalization, near Palm Beach, Florida, came after he was heard coughing Friday on his nightly online talk show and hoarsely told viewers that his voice was “a little under the weather.”

“This condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition,” Goodman said in a statement.

He described Giuliani as “the ultimate fighter” and said, “he is winning this battle.”

Giuliani’s family and primary medical provider are by his side, Goodman added. He said the former mayor’s family thanked well-wishers for an “outpouring of love and support.”

Among them: President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and two of Giuliani’s successors, former Mayor Eric Adams and current Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

“The mayor believes in the power of prayer, and we are feeling that strength today,” Goodman said.

Giuliani’s eight years as mayor of the nation’s largest city was punctuated by the 9/11 attack just months before he left office. He was celebrated as “America’s mayor” for his leadership, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

Giuliani, a Republican, later unsuccessfully ran for president and was an adviser to Trump, spearheading his efforts to stay in office after his 2020 election loss.

Last year, Trump said he was awarding Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Giuliani coughed as he began his nightly online show “America’s Mayor Live” on Friday. As he spoke, he sounded more raspy than usual. Before launching into a commentary on the Iran war, he remarked: “My voice is a little under the weather, so I won’t be able to speak as loudly as I usually do, but I’ll get closer to the microphone.”

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Giuliani “a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”

“What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!" Trump wrote Sunday. “They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!”

As Trump’s personal attorney and adviser, Giuliani became a vocal proponent of the president’s allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits claiming fraud, and numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error.

Two former Georgia election workers later won a $148 million defamation judgment against Giuliani. As they sought to collect the judgment, the former federal prosecutor was found in contempt of court and faced a trial this winter over the ownership of some of his assets.

Giuliani ultimately struck a deal that let him keep his homes and various belongings, including prized World Series rings, in exchange for unspecified compensation and a promise to stop speaking ill of the ex-election workers.

Giuliani was previously hospitalized last September after suffering a fractured vertebra and other injuries in a car crash in New Hampshire.

A native New Yorker, Giuliani was elected mayor in 1993 after serving as one of the nation’s highest-profile federal prosecutors, taking on mobsters and crooked Wall Street traders.

He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 but abandoned his race against Hillary Rodham Clinton after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

In 2007, Giuliani ran for president. Buoyed by his post-9/11 popularity, he started as the front-runner for the Republican nomination. But that was short-lived. He withdrew from the race after struggling in the primaries amid GOP concerns about his past support for abortion rights, gay rights and gun control, and questions about his personal life and business ties to the Middle East.

He toyed with running for other offices before pivoting to political commentary.

In 2016, Trump leaned on Giuliani’s political acumen and loyalty and put him to work as a surrogate leading attacks on Clinton, his Democratic rival. After Trump won, Giuliani continued as his attack dog, even traveling to Ukraine to seek damaging information about Biden’s son Hunter.

The comments by Zambia’s foreign affairs minister, Mulambo Haimbe, on Monday brought into the open simmering tensions over President Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy, which is reshaping aid to Africa into transactional agreements.

Some African leaders and health experts have criticized the new U.S. stance and its demands for sensitive health data in exchange for badly needed support for health systems strained by the Trump administration's dismantling of foreign aid. Some say they would not receive access to health innovations like vaccines in return.

The U.S. is also seeking to challenge China, a dominant player in Zambia and much of Africa, whose minerals are critical to the green energy transition, including inputs for solar panels, electric vehicle batteries and energy storage systems.

Zambia says talks stalled over data-sharing demands

In a statement, Haimbe described the accusations of Zambian graft and negotiation inertia by outgoing U.S. ambassador Michael Gonzales as “mischievous” and “deeply regrettable, undiplomatic and inconsistent with the spirit of mutual respect.”

Haimbe also accused the U.S. of tying access to critical minerals to the conclusion of the health deal, which Gonzales earlier dismissed as “alarmist allegations” that he called “disgusting” and “absolutely and patently false.”

Negotiations have continued for months to conclude the deal, one of dozens the Trump administration is pursuing in some of the world's most aid-dependent countries.

Gonzales in late April said Zambian leaders had “abdicated their responsibilities, letting the United States pay for healthcare while officials diverted government funds to their own pockets.” He said Zambian authorities had “ignored” U.S. overtures to conclude a new deal.

But Haimbe said negotiations had stalled over “unacceptable” data-sharing demands “in violation of our citizens’ right to privacy” and “the insistence on preferential treatment of U.S companies over Zambia’s critical minerals.”

Zambia "takes the view, first and foremost, that Zambians must have a say on how her critical minerals are used, and second that no one strategic partner is to be treated preferentially to others,” he said.

The U.S. Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

US says its approach aims to reduce donor dependency

The U.S. approach replaces decades of engagement anchored in the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.

In their place, U.S. officials are negotiating country-by-country agreements that recast aid as a transaction, tying funding to conditions including commercial provisions, domestic financing commitments, disease surveillance, pathogen sharing and even religion.

Since late last year, the U.S has signed agreements with about 30 countries, many in Africa. Washington says the approach is meant to reduce donor dependency, promote local ownership and safeguard American interests, including against an aggressive China that dominates trade in Africa but contributes less aid.

There has been pushback.

Ghana last week said it had rejected a proposed deal over provisions granting broad access to sensitive health data without safeguards. Zimbabwe walked away from a $367 million package over similar concerns. In Kenya, a $2.5 billion agreement signed in December has been put on hold after a court challenge arguing it violates data protection laws.

In Lesotho, draft U.S. proposals sought 25 years of access to health data and biological samples before local officials secured a shorter five-year deal.

Health experts say data would largely flow one way

Critics say the data-sharing demands tilt toward U.S. interests and warn the information-sharing would largely go in just one direction: toward Washington.

The new agreements aim to ensure the flow of disease surveillance data and biological samples, but through bilateral channels, after the U.S withdrew from the World Health Organization in January, said Asia Russell, executive director of advocacy group Health GAP.

Countries currently report disease outbreaks primarily through the WHO, which coordinates responses and is negotiating new frameworks on pathogen-sharing and equitable access to vaccines.

The U.S, now outside those talks, is pursuing direct access instead.

“They (the U.S.) want to understand what’s actually happening,” said Jen Kates, a senior vice president at the Washington-based non-profit KFF. “But they are trying to do it in a very different way.”

Health advocates say this risks creating a parallel global health system. In Zimbabwe, a government spokesperson in February said the government terminated negotiations because the U.S. was not offering a “corresponding guarantee of access to any medical innovations — such as vaccines, diagnostics, or treatments — that might result from that shared data.”

“That raises serious concerns about who benefits,” said Atilla Kisla of the Southern Africa Litigation Center.

Advocates point to the harsh experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, when African countries contributed data and samples but were largely last in line for vaccines.

Experts warn against health as a ‘bargaining chip’

The agreements with the U.S. are drawing criticism for closed-door negotiations and limited public scrutiny.

“Secrecy is at the center of this. That puts accountability for results at risk,” said Health GAP's Russell. “It’s impossible to evaluate these deals properly without seeing the full terms. Part of what made PEPFAR successful was transparency. Now that’s been taken away.”

The deals also come with tighter financial conditions. Many include reduced funding compared to previous levels of U.S. assistance, while requiring countries to increase domestic health spending, with aid at risk if targets are not met.

“These are going to be very heavy lifts,” said KFF’s Kates. “Countries are already under strain.”

Critics say some agreements also advance U.S. commercial and political interests, blurring the line between aid and transactional diplomacy.

“When health becomes a bargaining chip, everyone becomes less safe,” Russell warned.

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Keketso Phakela in Maseru, Lesotho, contributed to this report.

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“In a very classist country, Oprah's club was one of the very first things that said books are for everyone. It was a powerful thing,” the 49-year-old author told The Associated Press during a recent interview at a hotel lounge in downtown Manhattan.

Stuart has since ascended high into a culture he once thought wanted no part of him. Best known for “Shuggie Bain,” he's a bestseller, winner of the Booker Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize and he has seen his novels translated into dozens of languages. A few months ago, he found himself in unexpected conversation with the celebrity who had helped inspire him to read: Stuart was the recipient of what people refer to as “the call,” when Winfrey notifies an author that she has chosen their work for her club.

On Tuesday, Winfrey announced the selection of Stuart's “John of John.” Published this week, it's his third novel, and returns to the country and themes of “Shuggie Bain” and its successor, “Young Mungo.” The setting is an isolated community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, where art school student John-Calum “Cal” MacLeod returns from Edinburgh to live with his troubled father and beloved, but ailing grandmother. He re-encounters the conflicts that helped convince him he needed to leave: Catholics vs. Protestants, parents vs. children, traditional gender roles vs. the forbidden and sometimes dangerous love between men.

“I felt transported,” Winfrey said in a statement Tuesday. “I could feel every aspect of this remote community where tradition and judgment quietly shaped everyone’s life. Douglas Stuart brilliantly weaved a layered, compelling and yet so intimate a story of identity, what it means to belong, and the courage to claim your own truth.”

Stuart's book club interview can be seen on The Oprah Podcast and other podcast outlets.

A sense of perspective

A longtime New Yorker, Stuart knows he's upholding a tradition of artists who leave their place of birth, but revisit it in their minds long after. Like Cal, he is an art school graduate who needed more space than his hometown could offer. But Stuart has otherwise proved more fortunate. While Cal struggles to support himself, Stuart had a long and successful career in design before finding even greater success as a novelist. He draws upon firsthand memories in “John of John” but also upon the perspective gained from setting abroad.

“I love the Salman Rushdie quote that you cannot see a painting until you’re outside the frame,” he said. “Leaving filled me with a huge homesickness, but it also gave me the ability to see things from a distance. I was able to understand that I wasn't the only person with pain in my life. All the people around me were also carrying pain.

Stuart, born in 1976, was raised by a single mother who died from alcoholism and poverty when he was 16, a tragedy revisited in “Shuggie Bain.” Discouraged by teachers to pursue a literary career, he attended the Scottish College of Textiles (now Heriot-Watt University) and received a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in London. He moved to New York in his mid-20s and within a few years had risen to senior director of design at Banana Republic. He was a great success to those who knew him, but not to himself. By age 30, he was quietly carving out a new path.

A fateful party

Like so many of his peers, he became a writer because he had to. His week was mostly filled by his job at Banana Republic, but the story which became “Shuggie Bain” so compelled him that for a decade, he devoted much of his free time to it, recalling the “joy” of having even moments to think and reflect. He had no real publishing connections, but he did have the luck of a well-placed neighbor — Tina Pohlman, an industry veteran who has worked as an editor, agent and consultant. She and Stuart lived in the same building in Greenwich Village and met during a holiday party. Both remember Stuart telling her that he had written a book and was hoping she would look at it, the kind of request Pohlman rarely wanted to hear.

“I was immediately filled with dread,” Pohlman says. “Anytime that anyone at a party tells you they have a novel, it's tricky. You have to be polite. I told him I would look at it, but that it will take a long time. I guess I was trying to make it as difficult for him as possible.”

But Pohlman decided to give the manuscript a quick look, loved it from the opening page and helped Stuart find an agent. After dozens of publishers turned him down, some, apparently believing that the public wasn't ready for the occasional passage of local dialect, Grove Atlantic vice president-deputy publisher Peter Blackstock signed it up. “Maybe because I’m from England, or maybe it’s also because I'm gay, it resonated with me,” Blackstock told the AP.

“Shuggie Bain” was released on the eve of the pandemic in 2020 and steadily gained attention even as bookstores worldwide were shut down. By the fall, his novel was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Booker, an unusual achievement for a debut novel. It has since sold more than a million copies worldwide and helped convince Stuart that he could no longer regard himself as an outsider,

Stuart's imagination often resides in Scotland, but he calls himself an American and feels very much a part of his adopted country, living in the Greenwich Village with his husband, Michael Cary. While long past the illusion that the U.S. has been spared the class system of the United Kingdom, he still finds a spirit of optimism and possibility.

“I love the feeling that success is not being something to be ashamed of,” he says. “I love that I got to start over here. Nobody knew who I was. Nobody knew where I came from. I got to completely reinvent myself.”

When it comes to humans, kids and adults go crazy watching the jets and the military formations, but it’s our pets that are driven crazy by the extra loud and scary sounds.

One of those pets is 6-year-old Bentley.

“He’s just the sweetest thing,” said owner Genine Blue. “He’s always been a really good dog, very personable, loves people.”

But the 70-pound goldendoodle does not like loud noises.

“Thunder, lightning, anything loud, car backfires, fireworks, any of that, he started like getting scared, shaking, you know hiding,” said Blue.

The Blue family lives in a high-rise on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.

The whole family loves time outside on the balcony, which has a stunning view.

“Last year, we ended up going away for the weekend and taking him with us because we didn’t want to have to deal with all the planes from the air show,” said Blue.

Dr. Sagen Woolery, the medical director at Blue Pearl Pet Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, has seen a huge increase in pet medical issues due to fireworks and sonic booms.

“The issue is not necessarily the sound itself, it’s the fear and the panic that the sound puts into animals, both pets and wildlife,” she said. “The most common things that were seeing here in the emergency room are things like animals that have been hit by a car because they panicked and they ran into traffic, we’re seeing animals that have some cardiac problems, we’re seeing animals go into seizures.”

And if the air show is loud for you, imagine how your dog feels.

A pup’s hearing is four times more sensitive than a human’s, and let’s not forget, there are usually a few days of the pilot’s practicing and then a few more days of the show event itself.

Pet anxiety can go as high as those planes.

“That stress is cumulative, so a one-time firework is going to be stressful for an animal, but five days of fireworks or sonic booms is exceedingly stressful, particularly in geriatric animals too,” said Woolery.

Some helpful tips to help keep your furry friends safe in these situations is to give your pet added comfort by swaddling them in a tight sweater or a T-shirt, which gives added security. Soft music always helps too.

And when those noises get way too loud, your best bet is to put your pets in a dark, quiet, windowless room, and if all else fails, call your vet for a prescription.

“While this is really fun for all of us to see and witness and we all enjoy celebrating, it’s not fun for animals,” said Woolery. “They don’t understand and it’s not an enjoyable experience for them.”

They came by bus to Loxahatchee’s Big Dog Ranch Rescue to start a new journey with a new purpose.

“In total, over 1,500 dogs have been rescued, and they’re all finding themselves to new rescues and shelters,” said Big Dog Ranch Rescue VP of Development Evan Nader.

In a violent clash in Wisconsin earlier this spring, animal welfare activists from across the country made their way to Ridglan Farms.

The beagle breeding and research facility was facing charges of felony animal mistreatment and gave up its state breeding license to avoid prosecution.

Local 10 News spoke to one activist from Miami in April who traveled to Wisconsin with the mission of saving the dogs.

“We looked at it as doing what needed to be done to save dogs that are criminally abused,” said Ella Magers.

Since March, protesters were tear gassed, pepper sprayed and arrested by Wisconsin law enforcement while trying to get the dogs out.

Big Dog Ranch Rescue and the Center for a Humane Economy negotiated a confidential agreement to buy the 1,500 dogs from Ridglan Farms.

“Every day at Big Dog Ranch Rescue, we conduct life-saving work,” said Nader. “We are America’s largest cage-free, no-kill rescue. But I think this rescue mission is probably one of our most special, one of the biggest in American history as well.”

The first 200 dogs were taken from the facility last Friday and more are scheduled to come to Big Dog Ranch Rescue and to other rescues soon.

“If you’re interested in adopting, you can go to our website, BDRR.org,” said Nader. “They’re about two to three weeks before they’re available for adoption.”

Wu Yize beat Shaun Murphy 18-17 in a dramatic world championship final on Monday to follow in the footsteps of compatriot Zhao Xintong, who became Asia’s first ever world champion 12 months ago.

Britain has long been snooker’s traditional stronghold but China — where there are around 300,000 recognized snooker clubs — is the growing force in the game, providing 11 of the 32 players in the main draw of the worlds over the last two weeks and five in the top 16 of the world ranking.

Snooker failed in bids to get onto the Olympic program for the first time for the Games in 2021 and 2024, and could launch another attempt ahead of the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane.

Jason Ferguson, chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, said the IOC “definitely has got eyes on our sport” and the recent successes of Chinese players at the Crucible Theatre can only help.

“It's vitally important,” Ferguson told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “China is a very important country to the IOC — it has been a host of the Games on many occasions and they are heavily invested in sports, in IOC terms.

“So the fact that China is a key market for snooker is a really important part about any Olympic bid.”

The growth of snooker in other markets — notably in eastern Europe, with Poland having its first player competing in the world championship in Antoni Kowalski this year — is highlighted by the fact there are almost 100 countries with some kind of national infrastructure for the sport, Ferguson noted.

“When we started this idea of going to the Olympics, we only had a handful of countries playing,” he said.

“But we are ready (to be in the Olympics). And that’s an exciting proposition.”

Ferguson said the WPBSA was working on making its final applications to get snooker into the Paralympics, too. Snooker was on that program from 1960-88.

The IOC will likely finalize its program of sports to be added to the 2032 Olympics and Paralympics by next spring, around the time of the next world snooker championship. Strong support from Brisbane officials should be crucial to any sport’s ambitions to get Olympic status.

Australian snooker player Neil Robertson was the world champion in 2010 and is the current world No. 2.

Wu's rapid rise after relocating to Britain

At age 22, Wu became the second youngest player to win snooker's biggest prize and did so in a flamboyant style that has marked him out for many, including the great Ronnie O'Sullivan, as a likely world champion.

Six years ago, Wu relocated to Britain from his hometown of Lanzhou to pursue his dream of becoming a professional. He came across with his father — his mother stayed in China — and they shared a small, windowless flat that was in such “poor condition,” Wu said, that it might have given him acne because of the poor air quality.

“If you really love snooker," he said, "it is the path you have to go through and fight through.”

His victory at the Crucible Theatre was something of a surprise, as Wu had never won a match at the worlds before this year.

Like Zhao, Wu — the new world No. 4 — wants his journey to be an inspiration for all Chinese players back home.

“I hope younger players can stay true to their passion, be a bit braver, and go after their dreams," he said.

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The Boater Safety and Bay Education Taskforce on Monday wrapped up a lengthy look at some of the issues that contribute to fatal boating accidents in the county.

“We need safety education, rules and regulation regarding our waterways,” said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. “And the goal of this taskforce has been to not see so many tragedies that we’ve seen just in the last couple of years.”

Lucy Fernandez was a victim in one of those incidents on Labor Day weekend in 2022.

Her father, Andy Fernandez, now chairs the taskforce along with a number of other county leaders.

The group highlighted a need for increased boater education, better legislation and waterway management to focus on.

“What we’re trying to do is expand boater education requirements, to see how we could expand it here at the local level where more boat operators are required to obtain more boater education requirements,” said Fernandez. “We want to help obtain more funding for law enforcement.”

A final report stated “a persistent and alarming trend is the lack of formal training among vessel operators.”

As a result, the taskforce is now pushing mandatory training for operators and passengers and increased accountability through law enforcement efforts to deter unsafe and impaired boating.

In addition, they are pushing for new legislation to close regulatory gaps for long-term improvements and a sharp improvement in waterway management to shore up navigational guides and traffic patterns.

“Some of those signs are old, they’re faded,” said DERM Director Loren Parra. “We can’t ask people to follow the rules if they can’t see them, so we want to make sure we’re doing that, of course working with all of our different municipalities to strengthen all of our marine patrol.”

The information has officially been submitted to the county, and the next steps will be for county leaders to work to implement the recommendations as policy.

Three passengers have died and at least four people have been sick in what health officials say is an outbreak of hantavirus, which usually spreads by inhaling contaminated rodent droppings. The World Health Organization said passengers are isolating in their cabins.

The company that operates the vessel — currently anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Verde — said it plans to move to Spain’s Canary Islands once three people have been medically evacuated and put on specially equipped planes to the Netherlands. Earlier Tuesday, Spanish officials said that they were monitoring the situation and hadn't made a decision.

The MV Hondius, a Dutch ship on a weekslong polar cruise, departed April 1 from Argentina for Antarctica and several isolated islands in the South Atlantic.

“Our days have been close to normal, just waiting for authorities to find a solution,” passenger Qasem Elhato, 31 — who sent AP the video footage — said via WhatsApp. “But morale on the ship is high and we’re keeping ourselves busy with reading, watching movies, having hot drinks and that kind of things.”

Helene Goessaert, another passenger, told Belgian broadcaster VRT that everyone on board is “in the same boat, literally.”

“You don’t embark on a trip with the idea that one of your fellow passengers won’t make it,” she said.

“We receive information at regular intervals. It is accurate. For the rest, it is a waiting game,” she added. “Today we received fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. That was very important to us.”

Evacuation plans are still unclear

Authorities in Cape Verde have said they sent teams of doctors, surgeons, nurses and laboratory specialists to the Hondius. They were seen in Elhato's video footage — wearing white overalls, boots and face masks as they disembarked to a smaller vessel.

Officials in Cape Verde’s capital of Praia, a city of less than 200,000 people, said they have stepped up safety protocols, particularly near the port, as a precautionary measure against the rodent-borne illness — which doesn't usually spread person to person, though health authorities say it might be possible.

Elhato said passengers were wearing masks and social distancing — practices that became hallmarks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ship operator Oceanwide Expeditions said it had implemented its highest level of response, with isolation measures, hygiene protocols and medical monitoring.

Oceanwide Expeditions said Tuesday evening that two specialized aircraft were flying to Cape Verde to evacuate two people who need urgent medical care and one person who was traveling with a German woman who died on board Saturday. They were to be taken to the Netherlands, though exactly when that would happen was not immediately clear.

Once the medical evacuation happens, the ship plans to sail to the Canary Islands, either Gran Canaria or Tenerife, a voyage of some three days, the company said in its statement, adding that “discussions are ongoing with relevant authorities.”

Spanish health officials had said in an earlier statement that they were monitoring and that "the most appropriate port of call will be decided. Until then, the Ministry of Health will not adopt any decision, as we have informed the World Health Organization.”

WHO notes 7 cases in all in its latest update

WHO said Tuesday that it's looking at seven cases in all — three people who have died, one critically ill passenger who was previously taken off the ship, and three on board reporting mild symptoms.

Two of the cases — a woman who died and the evacuated man — tested positive for hantavirus.

A Dutch man was the first death, on April 11. His body was taken off the vessel nearly two weeks later, on the British territory of St. Helena, some 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers) off the African coast, according to South Africa’s Department of Health.

His wife traveled by plane from St. Helena to South Africa; she collapsed at a Johannesburg airport and died at a hospital on April 26, according to WHO and the South African Department of Health.

The ship sailed on to Ascension Island, an isolated Atlantic outpost about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) to the north, where a sick British man was taken off the ship and evacuated first to Ascension Island and then to South Africa by plane. He is in intensive care in a South African hospital, according to WHO.

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness, said the organization is investigating possible human-to-human transmission on the ship, and that officials suspect the first infected person likely contracted the virus before boarding. She said officials have been told there are no rats on board.

Officials in Argentina — where hantavirus led to 28 deaths nationwide last year, according to the health ministry — said they confirmed no passengers had symptoms when the Hondius departed. Symptoms can appear up to eight weeks after exposure, officials have said.

In South Africa, authorities said they have started contact tracing — another practice used extensively in the coronavirus pandemic. But officials have emphasized that the chance of a major public health threat is low.

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An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to the passenger who died on board Saturday as a German man; it has been corrected to reflect that a German woman died.

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Asadu reported from Abuja, Nigeria; Risemberg from Dakar, Senegal. AP journalists Suman Naishadham in Madrid; Mogomotsi Magome in Johannesburg, South Africa; Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands; and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed.

Gates and a lock on the front of the former temple in the Whitechapel area of east London had minor damage, but no one was injured, Metropolitan Police said.

The incident is the latest since four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity were torched in March. Since then, a synagogue was firebombed and other Jewish sites have been targeted in attempted arson. Last week, two Jewish men were stabbed in what police have called an act of terror.

“It is part of a pattern of rising antisemitism that has left our Jewish communities feeling frightened, angry and asking whether this country, their home, is safe for them,” Starmer told community leaders. “These disgusting attacks are being made against British Jews. But, make no mistake, this crisis — it is a crisis for all of us.”

The number of antisemitic incidents reported across the U.K. has soared since the attack by Hamas-led militants on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in Gaza, according to the Community Security Trust charity. The group recorded 3,700 incidents in 2025, up from 1,662 in 2022.

Hate-crime prosecutions will be fast-tracked to deal with the spike in antisemitic incidents, Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson said.

The attacks have occurred since the Feb. 28 start of the Iran war and police are looking into whether they are the work of Iranian proxies.

A pro-Iran group calling itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia — or Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right — has claimed responsibility for several of the attacks. It has also acknowledged being behind incidents in recent months at places of worship, business and financial institutions across Europe, all of which appear to be linked to Jewish or Israeli interests.

“One of the lines of inquiry is whether a foreign state has been behind some of these incidents,” Starmer said. “Our message to Iran, or to any other country that might seek to foment violence, hatred or division in society, is that it will not be tolerated.”

Starmer promised to take action to tackle antisemitism, including requiring universities to publish the scale of the problem and take steps to stop it. Arts funding will be withdrawn from anyone promoting antisemitism.

Britain raised its terror threat level from substantial to severe — the second-highest on a five-point scale — after the stabbings. The rating means intelligence agencies consider an attack highly likely in the next six months.

The change was not solely due to the knife attacks but also “from Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorist threat from individuals and small groups based in the U.K,” the government said.

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According to an arrest report from MDSO, Brian Pfeiffer, 50, and his wife, who have one child in common, were involved in a verbal dispute overnight inside their home when Pfeiffer became enraged.

Noon report:

Deputies said he grabbed his wife’s wrist, “forcibly ripped” her cellphone from her hand, and then continued to argue with her before placing her phone on the kitchen counter and leaving their home.

According to the report, Pfeiffer returned home during the investigation and was detained.

He was transported to the MDSO Robbery Bureau for a formal interview, where he denied any wrongdoing and “provided a self-serving statement,” the report stated.

Pfeiffer was arrested on a strongarm robbery charge.

MDSO confirmed Pfeiffer is a lieutenant with the agency, who was hired in May 1999.

He is currently relieved of duty with pay.

Pfeiffer was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center late Tuesday afternoon after posting bond.

“I am disappointed to learn that two of my deputies were arrested in separate domestic related incidents. Our deputies are held to the highest standards, and I expect more responsible behavior!” Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said in a statement. “Domestic violence has no place in our community, and seeking help is a sign of strength. Help is available, you are not alone!”

The four-time Pro Bowl wideout pleaded not guilty in February to a felony strangulation charge and a misdemeanor assault and battery charge stemming from the alleged dispute.

The case centered on a Dec. 2 encounter at Diggs’ home in Dedham, where Jamila Adams, a former live-in personal chef who is known as Mila, testified he slapped and choked her during an argument.

Diggs’ attorneys said the alleged assault never happened and questioned Adams’ credibility and whether the dispute was about money, relationship tensions — including a disagreement over a planned trip to Miami — or an alleged assault.

They pointed to financial demands she made and testimony from friends and employees who said she did not appear injured in the days after the encounter, while prosecutors argued the case rests on her account of what happened inside the home.

Defense attorney Andrew Kettlewell told jurors during closing arguments that prosecutors had not presented “a single shred of credible evidence” that an assault occurred.

Assistant District Attorney Drew Virtue urged jurors to weigh Adams’ testimony carefully and not to disregard it because she was not “a perfect witness.”

An attorney for Diggs, who was released by the Patriots in March, said he “categorically denies these allegations,” calling them unsubstantiated and motivated by a financial dispute.

Diggs signed a three-year, $69 million contract with New England last year and was a key target for quarterback Drake Maye during the Patriots’ AFC East title run. Before joining the Patriots, Diggs was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 2015 and played for the Buffalo Bills before a brief stint with the Houston Texans in 2024.

Diggs’ 1,000-yard season marked the seventh of his career. It helped complete a successful career revival after a season-ending knee injury derailed what turned out to be a one-year stay with the Houston Texans in 2024.

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BOSTON (AP) — A jury is deliberating in the assault trial of former New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs, after both sides wrapped up witness testimony on the second day of the trial.

The case centers on a Dec. 2 encounter at Diggs’ home in Dedham, where Jamila Adams, a former live-in personal chef who is known as Mila, testified he slapped and choked her during an argument. Diggs has pleaded not guilty to a felony strangulation charge and a misdemeanor assault and battery charge, and his attorneys say the alleged assault never happened.

The case has also turned on questions about Adams’ credibility and whether the dispute was about money or an alleged assault. Defense attorneys pointed to financial demands she made and testimony from friends and employees who said she did not appear injured in the days after the encounter, while prosecutors argued the case rests on her account of what happened inside the home.

Defense attorney Andrew Kettlewell told jurors during closing arguments that prosecutors had not presented “a single shred of credible evidence” that an assault occurred.

“There was no assault, no strangulation, no incident at all on that day or any other day,” he said.

Assistant District Attorney Drew Virtue urged jurors to weigh Adams’ testimony carefully and not to disregard it because she was not “a perfect witness.”

“She was argumentative, avoidant, difficult. But does that mean you should throw away everything she said? No,” he said, adding that jurors should give her testimony “the attention, the scrutiny, the weight it deserves.”

Adams declined to answer questions Tuesday about financial demands made on her behalf during cross-examination, as defense attorneys pressed her over claims she was owed money and inconsistencies in what she said she was paid.

Money vs. motive

Earlier in the trial, Adams became emotional on the stand while describing an alleged encounter with Diggs on in which she said he entered her room following an argument over text.

Adams, who said she lived in the NFL star’s home and prepared all of his meals, testified that Diggs “smacked me with an open hand” before wrapping his arm around her neck and choking her, leaving her struggling to breathe. She described what she called a “complicated” relationship, saying it had previously been sexual but was not at the time of the alleged assault.

Adams said she met Diggs in 2022 on Instagram and that the two became friends — at times “friends with benefits,” as one of his attorneys described it — before she was later hired to live in his home and prepare his meals during the football season.

Defense attorneys pressed Adams about money she said she was owed after working as a live-in chef. She testified she was paid about $2,000 a week and believed she had not been fully compensated after being sent home. They pointed to a $19,000 demand and said the amount increased over time, with her attorney later seeking $5.5 million.

When asked about the $5.5 million claim, Adams said, “I can’t speak on that,” and at other points told jurors, “I don’t understand the question” and “I don’t know how to answer the question.”

At one point, Adams said Diggs had offered her $100,000 to recant her statement to the police, but that remark was struck from the record after the judge called the attorneys to a sidebar.

At times during her second day on the stand, Adams was instructed by the judge to answer questions directly and not include additional details beyond what was asked. Portions of her responses were struck from the record as nonresponsive, with jurors told to disregard them.

“This is not an opportunity for you to interject your own narrative and evade answering questions,” Judge Jeanmarie Carroll told her at one point, warning that continued nonresponsive answers could result in her testimony being stricken.

Witnesses describe accuser’s appearance after alleged attack

Kenneth Ellis, the Dedham police officer who took Adams’ initial report, testified that she arrived at the station visibly upset, telling jurors she “sat down on the bench and she was crying.” He said Adams initially asked to speak with a female officer before later agreeing to give a statement and identifying Diggs as the person involved.

Under cross-examination, Ellis said he did not observe visible injuries, collect photographs or speak with other witnesses, and that his investigation relied largely on Adams’ account and text messages she provided.

Defense attorneys also sought to challenge Adams’ account through testimony from people in Diggs’ orbit and evidence they said reflected her demeanor in the days after the alleged incident.

His chief of staff, massage therapist, a nurse who provided IV treatments and his hairstylist all testified that they saw her around the time of the attack and that she said nothing about being assaulted.

His hairstylist, Xia Charles, testified that she spent time with Adams in New York in the days after the alleged incident and did not notice any injuries. She said Adams appeared normal and that she did not see marks on her neck or elsewhere.

Defense attorneys also showed jurors cellphone videos of Adams socializing, including clips of her in a car listening to music and dancing, which they suggested showed her demeanor in the days following the incident.

Jeanelle Sales, Diggs’ chief of staff, who also goes by “Sunni,” testified she saw Adams at the home on the day she alleged she was assaulted and did not see visible marks, redness or swelling on her neck or face. She said Adams appeared to be in normal spirits.

“She was walking around looking for a piece of paper and a pen to write a card — I guess, write a note to him for his birthday gift,” Sales said.

Prosecutors pushed back on that testimony, suggesting the witnesses’ livelihoods were tied to Diggs and that they had a financial interest in the outcome of the case.