Late last month, the National Science Foundation — which operates a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring system — posted on its website that it would be removing a number of systems. But now the administration is backtracking after fierce bipartisan backlash.

The system provides critical data on the world’s oceans. Equipment anchored to the sea floor and underwater gliders collect real-time data, allowing scientists to monitor ocean health — including shifts in ocean chemistry and changes to the powerful currents that drive global weather and climate.

The initiative was slated to operate for three decades, but on May 21, the National Science Foundation — which runs the system through federal funding — announced it would be removing equipment from a number of sites, including ones off the coasts of Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland.

The move sparked fierce bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley called out the decision, saying “dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative is supreme stupidity, costing taxpayers millions of dollars and destroying a vital source of climate data.”

On Wednesday, Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined Merkley to pass bipartisan legislation to block the use of federal funds to dismantle the system until the NSF conducts a “thorough review and assessment” of the network with input from scientists and coastal communities.

The foundation responded Thursday, saying it “remains committed to ocean sciences, to responsible stewardship of its research infrastructure and to supporting the stakeholders that depend on it.”

Experts had feared the United States was taking its eyes off the oceans at a time when climate change is fueling devastating storms — and following an alarming study into a so-called “cold blob” or “warming hole” in the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, which has cooled by nearly 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since 1900.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, known as AMOC, works like a conveyor belt — pulling warm water from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere, where it cools, sinks and flows back south. Research suggests the critical system of ocean currents is weakening as human-driven global warming causes ice to melt and sends a surge of freshwater into the ocean, disrupting the currents’ delicate balance of heat and salinity.

Some scientists are now warning that AMOC is heading toward a breaking point that could occur as early as this century. If it were to collapse, it would be a global catastrophe — causing sea levels to rise on the East Coast of the United States, plunging Europe into a deep freeze and shifting the monsoon in Africa, leading to prolonged droughts.

The Trump administration has not commented on the bipartisan legislation or explained why it decided to cut funding in the first place.

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The reforms include unprecedented free-market measures aimed at opening up the struggling island’s economy as pressure from the U.S. and the European Union heightens.

“We are at a moment when what we have is not working, and if new measures come, even if they are capitalist, but the population can improve, eat better and stay afloat, then the measures are welcome,” state sector worker Omara Oliva said.

Havana resident Olian Valdes said, “First: let’s see if they are implemented. Second: let’s see if it is a principle, but they have something behind it, as usual when they say it is blue and then they tell you ‘No, it is Prussian blue,’ so that has to be seen.

“In my opinion, the ordinary Cuban doesn’t care whether they do it or not, because they have nowhere to invest, nothing to do, and they will benefit the minimum, because more resources may enter the country, but the prices with the salary are going to be the same.”

The announcement comes after months of increasing pressure from the U.S. and high-level talks between the two countries that have included Raúl Castro’s grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, who told an international audience that the country poses no threat to the U.S.

The U.S. has levied numerous sanctions against Cuba and has indicted Raúl Castro in connection with the 1996 downing of two civilian planes operated by Miami exiles.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the emergency plan and the policy document prepared by the Communist Party’s Central Committee were shaped by the experiences of China and Vietnam, two communist countries that have introduced market-oriented economic reforms while maintaining one-party rule.

Count Local 10 Cuba analyst Andy Gomez among the skeptics of the recent move.

“This is like reshuffling the chairs on the Titanic after hitting the iceberg,” he said. “These reforms are probably 60 years too late.”

Gomez said in his view, the communist island doesn’t have the infrastructure in place to actually execute on the more than 175 reform proposals that would ― for the first time since 1959 ― privatize large sectors of its socialist economy.

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That includes opening the door to private banks to private real estate development.

“I don’t see in any of the stuff that I have read in the reforms that they introduced (Thursday) that gives the foreign investor the confidence of investigating Cuba, making sure that their money is safe,” he said. “So we have to wait and see.”

It all comes as the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for human rights sanctions in a move Gomez said “further isolates Cuba.”

“The humanitarian emergency is not the product of any external embargo,” the resolution states, “But the direct consequences of the regime’s own model and failures.

Embodied, it goes on to say, by GAESA — a Cuban military conglomerate the resolution describes as corrupt.

“The only step that they can take is to take some of the money that GAESA, the military economic conglomerate, has assets and begin to implement them and help the Cuban people,” Gomez said. “I don’t think they will.”

He added, “People need to understand (that) this is no longer a Marxist ideology. This is a mafia. This is a group of people that have taken the monies that they have made through GAESA. And we see it from their kids and grandkids living all over the world like millionaires.”

As for when political change may come to the island, Gomez said “it’s going to take time.”

“Here we are in the United States celebrating this year 250 years of democracy,” he said. “And I would say that our civil society in the United States right now has some serious cracks in the system.”

That, he said, underscores the idea that building an open, plural democracy in the country is far from a quick endeavor.

Associated Press reporter Andrea Rodriguez contributed to this report.

Vendors set up across the park, offering handmade jewelry and bold statement pieces crafted with African fabrics and beads -- items that carry meaning beyond their appearance.

“We want to be able to find something that says this is from home,” said vendor Ruky Afanu. “You’re not from Ghana or anywhere from Africa but you can use these things to say this is us. This is a part of our representation.”

The holiday commemorates the day the last enslaved African Americans in Texas learned they were free -- more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. And while people gathered from different backgrounds, organizers say that’s part of the power of the day.

“I think we are all one people,” Afanu said. “Our great grandfathers, ancestors are from Africa. We are one people.”

Juneteenth is celebrated one day a year, but a group of young ambassadors from different Miami neighborhoods are on a mission to keep that conversation going the other 364 days.

Constance Robinson, founder of the South Florida Miss Juneteenth pageant, said she created it after realizing how many people were unfamiliar with the holiday.

“I created a pageant that had a base in our city so they can spread the freedoms that we share,” Robinson said.

South Florida’s reigning Miss Juneteenth, Ciara Johnson, said visibility is key to keeping the history alive.

“It’s not talked about enough,” Johnson said. “The more they see us, the more it gets talked about.”

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Authorities said it happened just before 11 a.m. Thursday in the 3900 block of Northwest South River Drive.

Police said the video shows Andre Christian Lopez, 31, stopping his vehicle and pulling his girlfriend back inside as she tried to escape.

They said she eventually managed to break free, but Lopez chased after her and began kicking her in the head, pushing her to the ground and later bashing her head against the SUV as he forced her back inside. Police said she was able to successfully escape again a few minutes later.

Authorities said a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy eventually found Lopez in the 1700 block of Northwest 81st Street, in the unincorporated West Little River area, and took him into custody.

In an interview with Miami Springs police, he admitted to beating his girlfriend, calling it a “regular occurrence,” according to an MSPD report.

Police said Lopez’s girlfriend was uncooperative and told officers she didn’t want anyone to get in trouble.

Jail records show Lopez, facing charges of kidnapping and battery, was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Friday afternoon.

Las autoridades informaron que ocurrió poco antes de las 11 a.m. del jueves en la cuadra 3900 de Northwest South River Drive.

La policía indicó que el video muestra a Andre Christian Lopez, de 31 años, deteniendo su vehículo y obligando a su novia a regresar al interior mientras ella intentaba escapar.

Según las autoridades, ella logró liberarse inicialmente, pero Lopez la persiguió y comenzó a patearla en la cabeza, la empujó al suelo y posteriormente le golpeó la cabeza contra la SUV mientras la obligaba a volver al vehículo. La policía dijo que ella logró escapar nuevamente unos minutos después.

Las autoridades informaron que un agente de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade finalmente localizó a Lopez en la cuadra 1700 de Northwest 81st Street, en el área no incorporada de West Little River, y lo arrestó.

Durante una entrevista con la Policía de Miami Springs, admitió haber golpeado a su novia y calificó el hecho como algo “habitual”, según un informe del MSPD.

La policía indicó que la novia de Lopez no cooperó con la investigación y les dijo a los agentes que no quería que nadie se metiera en problemas.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Lopez, quien enfrenta cargos de secuestro y agresión, permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight hasta la tarde del viernes.

Sgt. David Hunsberger, a spokesperson for the Florida City Police Department, said the teen was shot in the leg in the 1700 block of Northwest Third Terrace.

Hunsberger said medics airlifted the boy to Jackson South Medical Center and described his condition as “stable.”

He said detectives “are on scene and are actively working on this incident.”

Police did not release any details about possible suspects.

Uno de los incendios forestales, denominado “Quarry 2”, al este de Krome Avenue, ha sido el más extenso, consumiendo más de 17,000 acres hasta el viernes.

Esto provocó varios cierres de carreteras en Miami-Dade.

Las autoridades continuaron cerrando Krome Avenue entre Okeechobee Road y Southwest Eighth Street.

Además, el viernes, las autoridades cerraron los carriles en dirección sur de la autopista Florida’s Turnpike desde Okeechobee Road hasta Northwest 41st Street.

Los agentes de la Patrulla de Carreteras también cerraron Southwest Eighth Street, conocida como Tamiami Trail, desde Krome Avenue hasta State Road 29 en el condado Collier.

Las cenizas de los tres incendios forestales se desplazaron por millas durante la semana.

Patrick Mahoney, del Servicio Forestal de Florida, dijo que el clima no ha ayudado.

“El calor y el viento han sido un problema, pero también la sequía”, dijo. “Quiero decir, todavía está muy seco por aquí”.

Las malas condiciones llevaron a equipos de varias agencias a trabajar día y noche para evitar que el incendio se siguiera propagando desde el aire. Helicópteros arrojaron cubos de agua sobre el incendio.

“Nuestros bomberos están haciendo un gran trabajo”, dijo Mahoney. “Para esto entrenamos. Esto es lo que hacemos”.

El jueves, un bombero del Servicio Forestal de Florida fue trasladado de urgencia a un hospital del área tras sufrir un episodio relacionado con el calor, pero se espera que se recupere.

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Many of the hardest hit areas saw rainfall rates top 3 inches an hour, an incredible rate that triggered rapid water rises, spawning numerous flash flood emergencies yesterday, with floodwaters overrunning roads and pouring into homes, launching dozens of high-water rescues along parts of the Gulf Coast.

The New Orleans National Weather Service Office, which covers southeastern Louisiana and coastal Mississippi, issued 18 flash flood warnings on Thursday across their parish and county warning area, the second most issued of any calendar day for the office going back nearly 40 years, and second only to Aug. 12, 2016, during one of Louisiana’s worst floods in recent memory.

According to the Associated Press, nearly 200 homes were flooded in rural Avoyelles Parish in east-central Louisiana, about 30 miles southeast of Alexandria. A privately-owned rain gauge at nearby Plaucheville, Louisiana – part of the Citizen Weather Observing Program (CWOP) volunteer-based weather observing network – reported a whopping 23.35 inches of rain in 24 hours, with nearly all of it falling in a 6-hour period between 6 AM and noon local on Thursday. If verified by the National Weather Service, this would set a record for the most rainfall in a 24-hour period ever observed in the state of Louisiana, according to records maintained by NOAA (the current 24-hour rainfall record for Louisiana is 22 inches in Hackberry, Louisiana, from Aug. 28-29, 1962).

Over a foot of rain was also recorded on Thursday just inland of Gulfport-Biloxi along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Meanwhile, 4.49 inches of rain fell to the east at Mobile Regional Airport, nearly doubling the previous record for the day set in 2004, though higher totals nearing double-digits were reported along I-65 just north of Mobile near Saraland.

Nearly 100 reports of damage from high winds associated with Arthur’s remnants were confirmed across the southeast U.S., with the bulk of wind damage focused over western and central Georgia. A few tornadoes across southern Louisiana and Mississippi have also been confirmed so far from Thursday.

Flooding lingers in post-Arthur’s wake

Moderate to major river flooding will persist along the I-10 corridor across the central Gulf Coast in the wake of Thursday’s intense rainfall.

Although rainfall totals will be generally lower today than Thursday, due to saturated soils and the possibility of locally high rainfall rates from slow-moving storms, a moderate risk (threat level 3 of 4) remains for parts of the central Gulf Coast through Saturday morning, which could lead to additional scattered flash flooding.

Arthur’s remnants bailing into the western Atlantic, re-development unlikely

The remnant low-pressure that was once Tropical Storm Arthur was being swept eastward through the Carolinas Friday morning ahead of an advancing cold front.

The low-pressure system will swing off the Carolina coast by Friday afternoon and head quickly into the western Atlantic. While models show an outside shot at re-development over the open Atlantic into early Saturday, any re-development will come primarily from non-tropical processes, and its proximity to frontal boundaries will keep the low-pressure area either non-tropical or subtropical at best.

Regardless of re-development, the low-pressure area will get whisked out to sea over the weekend and poses no additional threat to land.

Otherwise, tropical development isn’t expected across the rest of the Atlantic basin through next week.

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One of the wildfires, dubbed “Quarry 2,” east of Krome Avenue, has been the most widespread, burning more than 17,000 acres as of Friday. It was 80% contained as of Friday afternoon.

It led to several road closures in Miami-Dade.

Officials continued to close Krome Avenue between Okeechobee Road and Southwest Eighth Street.

Additionally, on Friday, officials closed the southbound lanes of Florida’s Turnpike from Okeechobee Road to Northwest 41st Street.

State troopers also closed Southwest Eighth Street, also known as the Tamiami Trail, from Krome Avenue to State Road 29 in Collier County.

Ash from three brush fires drifted for miles during the week.

Patrick Mahoney, with the Florida Forest Service, said the weather hasn’t helped.

“Heat and wind has been an issue, but also the drought,” he said. “I mean, it’s still very dry through here.”

Bad conditions led to crews across several agencies working around the clock to stop the blaze from spreading from above. Helicopters dumped buckets of water on the inferno.

“Our firefighters are doing a great job,” Mahoney said. “This is what we train for. This is what we do.”

On Thursday, a firefighter with the FFS was rushed to an area hospital after a heat-related episode, but he’s expected to be OK.

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BSO officials told Local 10 News that 911 dispatchers received a call at approximately 10:08 a.m. reporting a possible drowning involving a boy in a pool at a home near the 1600 block of Southwest 63rd Terrace.

Authorities said BSO deputies and North Lauderdale Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene and transported the boy to Broward Health Coral Springs, where he was later pronounced dead.

Authorities have not released the boy’s identity.

“I’m so sorry for your loss. I have experienced something like this. My younger sibling passed away due to drowning, so I understand what you’re going through,” a neighbor said in a message to the family while speaking to Local 10’s Rosh Lowe.

Sky 10 flew over the scene just before 11 a.m., as Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and fire rescue crews were outside the home. Crime scene tape could be seen around the pool area as authorities continued to investigate.

Investigators said BSO Homicide Unit detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.

BSO officials said adults should closely and constantly supervise children around water, avoid distractions while monitoring them, keep small children within arm’s reach and use safety barriers such as fencing, locks, alarms or sensors to prevent access to pool areas.

Officials also recommend teaching children how to swim or float on their backs, keeping rescue equipment and a phone nearby, and learning CPR.

Broward County offers water safety information and swim lessons through its Water Smart Broward program.

No other details about the incident were immediately released.

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According to investigators, Mary Ann Dubatowka. was last seen at approximately 10 p.m. Tuesday near the 400 block of Tilford West in Deerfield Beach.

Authorities said Dubatowka was last seen wearing a white nightgown.

They said Dubatowka is approximately 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighs about 150 pounds, and has blonde hair and blue eyes.

According to her family, Dubatowka experiences mental illness.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is urged to contact BSO Missing Persons Detective Leonard Charla at 954-321-4274 or the BSO non-emergency number at 954-764-4357.

Según los investigadores, Mary Ann Dubatowka fue vista por última vez aproximadamente a las 10 p.m. del martes cerca de la cuadra 400 de Tilford West en Deerfield Beach.

Las autoridades dijeron que Dubatowka fue vista por última vez usando un camisón blanco.

Indicaron que Dubatowka mide aproximadamente 5 pies y 9 pulgadas de estatura, pesa alrededor de 150 libras y tiene cabello rubio y ojos azules.

Según su familia, Dubatowka padece una enfermedad mental.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero debe comunicarse con el detective Leonard Charla, de la Unidad de Personas Desaparecidas de la BSO, al 954-321-4274 o con la línea de no emergencias de la BSO al 954-764-4357.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el primer ataque ocurrió poco antes de las 8:45 p.m. cerca de Southwest 67th Avenue y 40th Street.

Los agentes informaron que un hombre fue golpeado, apuñalado y despojado de su vehículo durante un robo armado de vehículo.

Personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue trasladó a la víctima a un hospital local en estado crítico.

Según el detective Angel Rodriguez, el sospechoso huyó del lugar en el vehículo de la víctima, pero la violencia no terminó allí.

Poco tiempo después, los agentes respondieron a otros dos robos armados y robos de vehículos. El primero fue reportado cerca de Southwest 137th Avenue y 56th Street, seguido por otro en una gasolinera cerca de Southwest 157th Avenue y 88th Street.

Las víctimas de esos incidentes fueron hospitalizadas, pero se encuentran en condición estable, dijo Rodriguez.

Mientras los agentes buscaban a los responsables, localizaron uno de los vehículos robados en el área de Southwest 152nd Avenue y 72nd Street y observaron a una persona que coincidía con la descripción del sospechoso huyendo del lugar, dijo Rodriguez.

Según Rodriguez, el sospechoso fue puesto bajo custodia después de que los agentes lo persiguieran a pie.

Los detectives de robos ahora trabajan para determinar si el sospechoso es responsable de los tres incidentes o si participaron sospechosos adicionales en la violenta ola de delitos.

La investigación continúa en curso. La identidad del sospechoso aún no ha sido divulgada.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), Amir Ayesh fue arrestado después de que dos víctimas distintas fueran rociadas con un líquido desconocido el 9 de mayo por Ayesh, quien pasaba junto a ellas en un vehículo negro.

Los detectives dijeron que los dos incidentes ocurrieron con apenas minutos de diferencia en el área de Northeast 10th Avenue y 171st Street.

Las autoridades indicaron que detectives de la Oficina de Seguridad Nacional pudieron vincular a Ayesh con ambos incidentes mediante videos de vigilancia que lo mostraban utilizando una pistola de agua para rociar a las víctimas desde su automóvil.

Según la detective Samantha Choon, una orden de arresto fue firmada el 11 de junio, acusando a Ayesh de dos cargos de agresión con prejuicio, “un agravante de delito grave según la ley de Florida”.

Indicó que Ayesh fue detenido el jueves en Plantation con la asistencia del Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida y el Departamento de Policía de Plantation.

Fue trasladado a la cárcel principal del condado Broward y eventualmente será transferido al condado Miami-Dade.

“La MDSO sigue comprometida con la investigación de delitos que tengan como objetivo a personas por su raza, religión, etnia u otras características protegidas”, escribió Choon en un correo electrónico enviado a Local 10 News.

El arresto de Ayesh se produce meses después de que otros dos hombres fueran arrestados por acusaciones similares.

En ese caso, la Policía de Miami Beach dijo que Michael Dean Emerson, de 19 años y residente de Coral Springs, y Dominic Angelo Martinez, de 18 años y residente de Tamarac, utilizaron una pistola de agua para rociar a un hombre judío en Mid-Beach en enero.

La policía indicó que el dúo eligió a la víctima debido a su fe.

Cualquier persona con información adicional relacionada con la investigación más reciente puede llamar a Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-TIPS.

Sky 10 sobrevoló el área de Southwest 256th Street y 202th Avenue alrededor de las 10:15 a.m., donde una lona amarilla cubría lo que parecía ser un cuerpo afuera de una vivienda en la zona rural.

Varios agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade fueron observados en el lugar.

Las autoridades no divulgaron de inmediato detalles sobre lo ocurrido, pero Local 10 News tiene un equipo en camino al lugar para obtener más información.

Vea Local 10 News o actualice esta página para conocer las últimas novedades.

About a dozen people deported from the U.S. arrived in Sierra Leone Thursday, the second deportation flight to the country after nine West African migrants landed there last month, Erica Reilly, an attorney representing one of the migrants, said Friday.

Sierra Leone is one of at least nine other African nations that the U.S. has struck third-country deportation deals with. Authorities have said they are only taking in citizens of West African countries. Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have also reached similar agreements with the U.S.

A briefing pamphlet that lawyers said was distributed to the migrants upon their arrival in the capital, Freetown, reads that the government and contractors are working to “return you home as quickly and safely as possible.”

The pamphlet, a copy of which was seen by the AP, was distributed by Kenvah Solutions, ⁠a private contractor that the Sierra Leone government said it hired to handle the deportees' accommodation, food, healthcare and transfer.

The pamphlet describes Sierra Leone as a “temporary transit location,” stating that “no long-term settlement is provided for or permitted.”

Kenvah Solutions and the Sierra Leonean authorities did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Under a series of often-secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to nearly two dozen countries that are not their own, advocates say, all part of the broad U.S. crackdown on immigration. Immigration lawyers said the Trump administration uses deportations to third countries as a legal loophole to indirectly force asylum seekers back to their home countries.

Sierra Leone’s foreign minister, Timothy Kabba, said last month that the government’s agreement with the Trump administration is supported by a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. government.

The program is capped at 25 deportees per month and 300 per year, according to the ministry. It did not specify the duration of the arrangement.

Reilly, the attorney representing a Nigerian man among those deported Thursday, said the migrants had legal protections from U.S. courts to not be deported to their home countries after judges ruled they faced credible fears of persecution. Now they are left with little ability to prevent being sent there.

“They’re put in a position where they just don’t have a say at all,” Reilly said.

Earlier this month, rights lawyers filed a case against Equatorial Guinea before Africa’s top human rights body, accusing the central African nation of forcing deportees from the United States back to their home countries in violation of their rights.

“The U.S. government knows exactly what’s going to happen in the vast majority of these situations,” Reilly said. “Our government is just saying, ‘What happens to them after they leave the United States is not our problem.’”

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On his Truth Social platform, Trump praised both Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson, writing: “Both have had amazing careers, and have been with me from the beginning. They are MAGA and America First all the way!”

The move represents a hedging of Trump's bets in a primary season where he has seen some of his endorsed candidates fall short, rare defeats that have stirred doubts about his clout as he approaches the back half of his second term.

Trump previously gave Evette his “Complete and Total Endorsement." He also said “A BIG added plus” for her campaign is that Henry McMaster Jr. — the son of the current governor, a close ally — may be Evette’s running mate. But the 38-year-old lawyer later said he would not be considered for the post.

On social media Friday, Evette posted: “I was proud to come in first as President @realDonaldTrump's endorsed candidate for Governor on June 9th. Looking forward to doing it again on June 23rd.”

Wilson said in a social media post Friday, “I am honored to have the endorsement of President Donald J. Trump.” Swiftly thereafter, Wilson issued a news release which in part enumerated the legal briefs he's filed in support of Trump's policies on issues including restricting birthright citizenship, on which the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet ruled.

Moments after Trump's double-endorsement post, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said on social media that he was backing Wilson, who he predicted “will lead with humility, courage, and an optimistic vision for our state.”

A person familiar with Scott’s thinking but not authorized to discuss it publicly told The Associated Press that the senator had been making calls for Wilson, helping fundraise and encouraging Trump to back his candidacy.

Evette has called Trump’s endorsement a “golden ticket” for Republicans seeking office in South Carolina, but the results have been a mixed bag in other races for governor. The Republican president’s choices in Iowa and Georgia lost this month.

Has Trump double-barreled a primary endorsement before?

Just before a 2022 U.S. Senate primary in Missouri between former Gov. Eric Greitens and Attorney General Eric Schmitt, Trump just endorsed “ERIC," presumably meaning either candidate, both of whom claimed the endorsement. Schmitt won the nomination and the office.

Arizona's primary is not until next month but Trump has been endorsing Republican candidates for governor for the past two years. In late 2024, Trump said that he was endorsing housing developer Karrin Taylor Robson. His choice angered some of his biggest allies in the state, who are suspicious of Robson's long-standing ties to the party's business establishment. Then in April 2025, Trump said he was backing U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs — in addition to Robson.

How are Trump-endorsed governor candidates doing this year?

It has been a bit of a jumble when it comes to Trump's 2026 primary picks so far.

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, in Ohio, and U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, in Alabama, secured backing from Trump early in their campaigns for governor, and they went on to dominate their primaries. Like Evette, former state Sen. Mike Mazzei got Trump's backing in his bid for Oklahoma governor in a crowded field without a clear front-runner, and advanced to an Aug. 25 runoff.

But Trump's chosen gubernatorial candidates have failed in other contests. Aided by more than $100 million — mostly from his personal fortune — billionaire healthcare tycoon Rick Jackson battled his way to the Republican nomination in Georgia over Trump's pick, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.

U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, endorsed by Trump the same day as Evette, failed in his Iowa governor bid, losing to businessman Zach Lahn.

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Las reformas incluyen medidas de libre mercado sin precedentes destinadas a abrir la economía de la isla, que atraviesa dificultades, mientras aumenta la presión de Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea.

“Estamos en un momento en que lo que tenemos no está funcionando y, si llegan nuevas medidas, aunque sean capitalistas, pero la población puede mejorar, comer mejor y mantenerse a flote, entonces las medidas son bienvenidas”, dijo la trabajadora del sector estatal Omara Oliva.

La residente de La Habana Olian Valdés dijo: “Primero: veamos si se implementan. Segundo: veamos si es un principio, pero tienen algo detrás, como siempre cuando dicen que es azul y luego te dicen: ‘No, es azul de Prusia’, así que eso está por verse.

“En mi opinión, al cubano común no le importa si lo hacen o no, porque no tiene dónde invertir, no tiene nada que hacer y se beneficiará mínimamente, porque pueden entrar más recursos al país, pero los precios con el salario seguirán siendo los mismos”.

El anuncio llega después de meses de creciente presión por parte de Estados Unidos y de conversaciones de alto nivel entre ambos países que han incluido al nieto de Raúl Castro, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, quien dijo ante una audiencia internacional que el país no representa una amenaza para Estados Unidos.

Estados Unidos ha impuesto numerosas sanciones contra Cuba y ha acusado a Raúl Castro en relación con el derribo en 1996 de dos aviones civiles operados por exiliados de Miami.

El presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel dijo que el plan de emergencia y el documento de política preparado por el Comité Central del Partido Comunista fueron moldeados por las experiencias de China y Vietnam, dos países comunistas que han introducido reformas económicas orientadas al mercado mientras mantienen el sistema de partido único.

Entre los escépticos de esta reciente medida se encuentra el analista de Cuba de Local 10, Andy Gómez.

“Esto es como reorganizar las sillas del Titanic después de chocar contra el iceberg”, dijo. “Estas reformas probablemente llegan 60 años demasiado tarde”.

Gómez dijo que, en su opinión, la isla comunista no cuenta con la infraestructura necesaria para ejecutar realmente las más de 175 propuestas de reforma que, por primera vez desde 1959, privatizarían grandes sectores de su economía socialista.

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Eso incluye abrir la puerta a bancos privados y al desarrollo inmobiliario privado.

“No veo en nada de lo que he leído sobre las reformas que introdujeron el jueves algo que le dé al inversionista extranjero la confianza para investigar Cuba y asegurarse de que su dinero está seguro”, dijo. “Así que tenemos que esperar y ver”.

Todo esto ocurre mientras el Parlamento Europeo aprobó una resolución que pide sanciones por derechos humanos, una medida que, según Gómez, “aísla aún más a Cuba”.

“La emergencia humanitaria no es producto de ningún embargo externo”, señala la resolución, “sino consecuencia directa del propio modelo y de los fracasos del régimen”.

La resolución agrega que esto está representado por GAESA, un conglomerado militar cubano que describe como corrupto.

“El único paso que pueden dar es tomar parte del dinero que tiene en activos GAESA, el conglomerado económico militar, comenzar a utilizarlo y ayudar al pueblo cubano”, dijo Gómez. “No creo que lo hagan”.

Añadió: “La gente necesita entender que esto ya no es una ideología marxista. Esto es una mafia. Es un grupo de personas que ha tomado el dinero que ha generado a través de GAESA. Y lo vemos en sus hijos y nietos viviendo por todo el mundo como millonarios”.

Sobre cuándo podría llegar un cambio político a la isla, Gómez dijo que “va a tomar tiempo”.

“Aquí, en Estados Unidos, estamos celebrando este año 250 años de democracia”, dijo. “Y yo diría que nuestra sociedad civil en Estados Unidos ahora mismo tiene algunas grietas serias en el sistema”.

Eso, dijo, subraya la idea de que construir una democracia abierta y plural en el país está lejos de ser una tarea rápida.

La periodista de Associated Press Andrea Rodríguez contribuyó a este informe.

And then it all changed in a New York minute.

Four holes later, he was 11 shots behind and scrambling just to make it to the weekend at Shinnecock Hills.

“Just rocks,” Johnson said.

It was a little more than pebbles in the sand that caused this stunning meltdown in the second round, but it left him a little dazed and more than a little frustrated.

His mishaps started on the 11th when a gust knocked down his tee shot and it wound up in the right bunker. The next shot came out soft, rolled back down the false front into another bunker, and he failed to get up-and-down, making double bogey.

“Where I was standing it felt firm, but it came out soft,” he said of the first sand shot. “These bunkers are very difficult — or at least I'm having a hard time with it.”

Two soft bogeys followed, one of them on the 13th hole when he had a lob wedge from a 117 yards that went so far it landed on the slope at the back of the green. His pitch went past the pin and off the green and he had to scramble from there.

But the real damage came on the 15th from the right rough, and a shot that wound up in the right bunker guarding the green. He thought that would be fine, an easy place to make par, until it was anything but that.

His first shot took a hard turn to the left, went down the false front and into the left bunker. The next shot stayed in the bunker. The third one was a rocket that sailed over the green and caused two volunteers sitting next to the grandstand to scramble for cover.

“Three in a row with rocks,” Johnson said. “I hit a rock coming out and it shot it straight left. The next one hit a rock and it came out soft. And the third one hit rock and went into the ball.”

When he chipped cautiously to avoid going back into the bunker, he had a 25-foot putt that nervously ran 3 1/2 by the hole. He made that for 8.

The upside is he should be safe for the weekend, his third straight cut he made in the majors. But he couldn't help but wonder where he could have been except for the rocks.

“It's the ones you can't see," Johnson said. “Obviously, the big ones on top you can move them. I could see them but there we in the sand, and it's one of those things whether you can move them. If I move them it would improve my lie.”

At least he bounced back by hammering a drive — his ball speed has measured as high as 194 mph this week — and a 7-wood to 25 feet on the 615-yard 16th hole for a two-putt birdie. He finished with a pair of pars for a 77 and was at 3-over 143.

Most frustrating is Johnson, who is in the last year of his U.S. Open exemption from winning in 2016 at Oakmont, felt like he was on the right track. He made a rash decision to change back to the old loft on his irons before the LIV event in South Korea, finished fourth and then tied for fifth in Spain.

And here he was, chasing Wyndham Clark until he was hanging on by the seat of his pants. He lost an opportunity, but not all hope.

“The swing is good. I feel good,” Johnson said. “On this golf course, you're never really out of it. A couple of good days, I can get back in the mix.”

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Sky 10 was above the area of Southwest 256^th Street and 202th Avenue around 10:15 a.m. as a yellow tarp covered what appeared to be a body outside a home in the rural area.

Multiple Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies were spotted at the scene.

A spokesperson for MDSO told Local 10 News that first responders went to the area just after 8:30 a.m. and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel pronounced both victims dead at the scene.

Authorities said a man was detained for questioning, but the investigation remains ongoing.

MDSO homicide detectives have assumed the investigation.

No other details were immediately released.

Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

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The suspect, Alejandro Martinez, 33, has since been arrested, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office confirmed Friday.

According to MDSO, the first attack happened shortly before 8:45 p.m. Thursday near Southwest 67th Avenue and 40th Street.

Deputies said a man was beaten, stabbed and robbed of his vehicle during an armed carjacking.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel transported the victim to a local hospital in critical condition.

According to Detective Angel Rodriguez, Martinez fled the scene in the victim’s vehicle, but the violence did not end there.

A short time later, deputies responded to two additional armed robberies and carjackings. The first was reported near Southwest 137th Avenue and 56th Street, followed by another at a gas station near Southwest 157th Avenue and 88th Street.

Surveillance video obtained from a nearby 7-Eleven at Miller Drive and Southwest 137th Avenue shows one of the victims stumbling into the store while holding his neck and suffering from visible injuries to his arm. Other people inside the store appeared to come to the man’s aid.

Omar Orozco, who was working behind the counter at the time, told Local 10 News that the victim in that case told him he had been robbed.

“What the guy said who was bleeding said that it happened in the parking lot. He took his phone and his wallet,” Orozco said.

The victims in those incidents were hospitalized, but are in stable condition, Rodriguez said.

As deputies searched for the suspect, they located one of the stolen vehicles in the area of Southwest 152^nd Avenue and 72^nd Street and spotted a person matching the description of the suspect running away from it, Rodriguez said.

According to Rodriguez, Martinez was taken into custody after deputies chased him on foot.

“After interviewing the subject, detectives learned in addition to the armed robberies/carjackings, the individual was also involved in two additional incidents (Midwest and Hammocks Districts) where he beat the victims, causing them to be transported by MDFR to area hospitals (unknown conditions),” Rodriguez said.

Jail records show Martinez is facing a slew of charges that include attempted felony murder, armed robbery with carjacking, armed robbery with a weapon, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon/

As of Friday, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”

The investigation remains ongoing.

It came after a heavy exchange of fire killed 47 people in Lebanon and four Israeli soldiers.

Hezbollah and Israel went to war shortly after the outbreak of the wider conflict, with Hezbollah firing rockets and drones at civilian communities in northern Israel and Israel seizing large swaths of southern Lebanon.

The interim agreement to end the Iran war has already reopened the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran effectively closed, cutting the global economy off from significant supplies of oil and natural gas. The deal would also relaunch talks on Iran’s nuclear program, the core issue over which Israel and the U.S. began the war on Feb. 28.

But the accord already faces threats, chiefly from Lebanon, with the fighting there leading to a delay in the start of talks planned for Friday in Switzerland. The agreement calls for a halt to military operations in Lebanon and for its sovereignty to be respected. Neither Israel nor Hezbollah is a party to the deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep Israeli forces in southern Lebanon until the threat is eliminated. Hezbollah has refused to halt its attacks unless Israel commits to withdrawing from Lebanon, which Iran says is also a condition of the deal.

Firing goes on along Lebanese border

Hours after officials told news organizations about the truce, Israeli artillery fire could still be heard from northern Israel along the Lebanese border, and a large explosion was seen erupting inside Lebanon, according to an AP journalist in northern Israel.

Word of the attempt to halt the fighting came from two regional officials and a U.S. official. The effort was mediated by Qatar, the U.S. and Iran, the regional officials said. The three officials were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah was supposed to end at 4 p.m. local time, according to a second U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly and also spoke on condition of anonymity.

A Hezbollah official said an agreement to stop fighting could be announced soon, but he stopped short of confirming it was in place. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Netanyahu’s office did not immediately comment. However, Netanyahu posted Friday on X that, on his orders, the Israeli army had “struck powerfully” 150 Hezbollah targets, killing dozens of militants.

Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said the military has not received different instructions from the government. He said Israeli forces were operating in a “forward defense zone” and would continue doing so.

The Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, posted on X that Israel “remains firmly committed to an immediate ceasefire” if Hezbollah honors the agreement and ceases hostilities.

Iranian and U.S. officials cancel travel to Switzerland

Iranian officials did not travel as planned to Switzerland, insisting that the fighting in Lebanon must stop before the talks can take place, according to the two regional officials, an Iranian official and a fourth person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive conversations behind the scenes. U.S. Vice President JD Vance also postponed his trip.

The future talks are supposed to bring about a permanent end to the conflict.

On Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said consultations through mediators were ongoing regarding the next phase of negotiations to draft a final agreement.

Because the initial deal was signed digitally earlier this week, the talks in Switzerland were not urgent, and plans were underway to hold a meeting in the coming days, he said.

Fighting forces families to flee from villages

The Israeli military said four soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed in an attack on a tank in a village near the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh. An explosive drone attack wounded another five, military officials added.

Israel then launched multiple strikes against “Hezbollah infrastructure sites” in Nabatiyeh and other areas, according to a military statement, which accused the militant group of “blatant ceasefire violations.”

Later, the military said it also struck targets in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, with Lebanese media saying the village of Douris was hit.

“Israel will not tolerate attacks on our soldiers or on our territory, and it will exact a very heavy price from Hezbollah for these attacks,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

Hezbollah acknowledged targeting Israeli tanks and said its attacks were in response to what it called Israel’s own violation of the ceasefire. It said the attacks came after Israeli forces attempted to reach the northern side of Ali al-Taher hilltop, a strategic point that overlooks Nabatiyeh and that Israeli troops have been trying to capture.

In southern Lebanon, many were forced to flee their villages.

“The situation is lawless, we couldn’t stay,” said Mustafa Zain, who was with his six daughters in a pickup truck.

Israel’s actions have created a rift between Israel and the U.S., with Trump becoming increasingly critical of his close ally Netanyahu, who is also facing increasing criticism at home.

Much still needs to be resolved

The discussions in Switzerland were expected to focus on Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran maintains it is peaceful, though it has highly enriched uranium that could be used to build multiple atomic bombs, should it choose to do so, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Those talks are expected to be difficult. The 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump scrapped during his first term, took more than 18 months to negotiate.

The interim deal gives negotiators 60 days to come up with a nuclear agreement, but that can be extended. It outlines lucrative incentives if Iran does reach a new agreement, including the eventual lifting of all international sanctions and a $300 billion fund for postwar reconstruction.

Already Iran has won some concessions. Following the signing of the interim deal, the U.S. lifted its blockade of Iran’s ports and is allowing it to sell its oil freely. The deal also calls for Iran’s assets to be unfrozen — though it’s not clear how quickly.

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Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Madhani reported from Zurich. Associated Press journalists David Rising in Bangkok, Abby Sewell and Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Samy Magdy in Cairo, Malak Harb in Tyre, Lebanon, Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Areej Hazboun in Jerusalem contributed to this story.

So how does it work, with 48 teams criss-crossing 16 cities across three countries? Iran has been forced to comply with what White House FIFA task force head Andrew Giuliani said were previously mandated rules stemming from the war, but those restrictions also align with FIFA guidelines for general team travel.

Team Melli made the 127-mile (204-kilometer) charter flight from Tijuana International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport the day before its opening 2-2 draw against New Zealand on Monday, a typically short trip that team captain Mehdi Taremi said instead took five hours, including security and immigration checks.

Iran returned to Mexico right after the match, which ended about 8 p.m. Pacific. The team had hoped to stave off travel for a day after the game.

The team's request to travel to LA two days before Sunday's match against Belgium was also denied, the federation said late Thursday, adding that it will lodge a complaint with FIFA. In a statement, the federation noted Sunday's earlier kickoff — noon Pacific — and said it believes “such restrictions are inconsistent with the principle of providing equal conditions for all participating teams and may negatively affect teams’ preparation processes.”

“We are the only team that are participating in the World Cup that we are at the host cities just 24 hours and it is not fair,” Iran soccer secretary-general Hedayat Mombeini said through a translator Friday. “All these limitations on us, it has negative effects on our physical and mental things on our players.”

But the Iran team’s travel schedule itself is not unusual for short distances in this tournament. And FIFA's 2026 World Cup regulations state in Article 18.3 that “each team shall travel from its team base camp to the match venue one day before matchday (MD‑1) and in exceptional cases on MD‑2, and shall return to their team base camp after the match (on MD/MD+1).”

The restrictions on the Iran team have not been lifted despite an interim agreement to end the war. Some team officials and support staff have been unable to secure visas to the U.S., and player Mehdi Torabi had to visit the U.S. consulate in Tijuana to get a new visa after the first match.

Many teams have been arriving in host cities the day before their matches. For Friday's group-stage match against Australia, the U.S. made the roughly 980-mile (1,580-kilometer) flight from their base in Orange County, California, to Seattle on Thursday. The team intended to return to its hotel in Laguna Niguel after the match.

Some CONCACAF teams preferred to arrive on the day before games for World Cup qualifiers at Mexico City, where sports performance experts advise players won't have time to acclimatize to the altitude so should get there as close to kickoff as possible.

Bosnia-Herzegovina has the longest group stage travel, at 5,878 miles (9,460 kilometers) in total. The Dragons had a roughly 1,660-mile (2,670-kilometer) flight each way from Salt Lake City to Toronto, 590 miles (950 kilometers) to Los Angeles and 690 miles (1,110 kilometers) to Seattle.

Bosnia's travel is far shorter than the 9,000-mile (14,484-kilometer) trek for the U.S. at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the longest among the 32 nations. The Americans went from their base camp in Sao Paulo to Natal, a distance of 1,436 miles (2,311 kilometers), three days before their opener against Ghana. They made the 1,832-mile (2,948-kilometer) trip to Manaus two days before of their game against Portugal and the 1,321-mile (2,126-kilometer) journey to Recife two days in front of their match against Germany.

Four years ago in Qatar, all stadiums were within 31 miles (50 kilometers) of downtown Qatar, enabling for teams to stay in one hotel throughout the tournament.

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A deep U.S. roster earned a knockout berth after only two matches for the first time. The last time the Americans served as World Cup hosts in 1994, they advanced by being one of the best third-place teams. They then lost to eventual champion Brazil in their next match, which was in the round of 16.

Pulisic, who plays for AC Milan and has 33 goals in 87 international appearances, missed Friday’s match because of a calf injury.

“C.P. is a fantastic player — the quality and the leadership that he gives us,” said Folarin Balogun, who scored two goals in the 4-1 victory over Paraguay on June 12. “We didn’t have him today, but I think you saw we’re still capable to go out there and get a result and put up a performance.”

Alex Freeman, the youngest player on the team at 21 and son of Super Bowl champion Antonio Freeman, gave the Americans a 2-0 lead in the 43rd minute off a set piece. Freeman headed in a deflected shot by Sergiño Dest for his first career World Cup goal. The goal was confirmed after a video review.

The U.S. took a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute after a run down the left sideline by Balogun.

He directed a centering pass towards striker Ricardo Pepi, who started in place of Pulisic. The ball never reached Pepi, deflecting off Australia defender Cameron Burgess and into the Socceroos’ net for an own-goal.

“I want to be dangerous, I want to create opportunities,” Balogun said. “It might not always be myself that scores, but if I can force an error that gives us the lead, then for me it's like a goal as well. It was a special start to the game to give us the momentum.”

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His family confirmed his death in a statement to People, saying he “passed away peacefully today surrounded by his family.” No location or cause of death was provided.

Burrows spent his career behind the camera specializing in situation comedies. Few viewers recognized him or knew his name, other than to see it flash quickly on the screen in the opening credits. But they knew his work.

Burrows got his start in television relatively late at age 35 in 1974, directing episodes of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show,” and “Laverne & Shirley.”

He co-created “Cheers,” directing 243 of the 273 episodes, as well as all 246 episodes of “Will and Grace.”

He also helmed multiple episodes of such hits as “Frasier,” “Friends” and “Mike & Molly,” and the pilots of “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory.”

“When I direct a television show, I try to reach that sweet spot where the best script meets the best performance and the best chemistry between performers,” Burrows wrote in his 2022 memoir “Directed by James Burrows." ”Hitting that exact moment, where these factors land in combination, results in the sweetest and most enduring laugh.”

His family said, "Burrows understood that great comedy was never simply about laughter. It was about humanity, connection, and truth. That understanding became the foundation of a career that forever changed television.

"But beyond his remarkable achievements, Burrows will be remembered for something even greater: his kindness, generosity, and unwavering belief in the people around him. He possessed a rare ability to make everyone better and was known for remembering every person he met by name, making colleagues at every level feel seen, valued, and appreciated,” the family statement said.

The majority of Burrows' shows aired on NBC, whose “Must See TV” slogan promoted its Thursday night lineup in the early 1990s that included “Friends” and “Frasier.”

“Jimmy Burrows was the man behind the curtain. He knew how to make us laugh, what buttons to push and was the absolute master of getting the most out of every joke,” NBC said in a statement. "His loss to the television comedy world is immeasurable. Every time you have a smile on your face watching ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ ’Taxi, ‘Cheers,’ ‘Will & Grace,’ ‘Friends’ and countless others, think of Jimmy and know he made all our lives funnier.”

Born James Edward Burrows on Dec. 30, 1940, in Los Angeles, he moved to New York when he was 5 years old. He spent five years in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus until his voice started to change. He attended LaGuardia High School of Music & Art.

His father was writer, director and producer Abe Burrows, whose Broadway hits included “Guys and Dolls” and “Can-Can.” The elder Burrows also mentored Larry Gelbart, future creator and producer of the TV show “M(asterisk)A(asterisk)S(asterisk)H.”

The younger Burrows spent hours of his youth in theaters and studios watching his father work, dining with him at such famed New York haunts as Sardi’s and Gallagher’s and meeting celebrities who attended his father’s New Year’s Eve parties.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, Burrows attended the graduate program of the Yale School of Drama, where his classmates included actor-comedian Robert Klein, playwright John Guare and film director John Badham.

At Yale, he was required to take directing classes and he got hooked.

Burrows’ first sitcom experience was as Burl Ives’ dialogue coach on “O.K. Crackerby!” which was directed by his father and ran for one season on ABC in 1965.

From there, he was an assistant on “The Patty Duke Show.” He moved back to New York and worked for Broadway producers Lee Guber, Frank Ford and Shelly Gross. He first met actor Moore while working on the Broadway production of “Holly Golightly,” an adaptation of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” that was directed by his father.

Burrows eventually worked as a stage manager for various road productions, where he met such actors as Hugh O’Brien, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Julie Harris.

By 1974, after working in dinner theater and summer stock, he turned on his television and saw Moore’s eponymous TV show. He wrote her a letter asking if there was any opening “small or smaller” at her production company that he could fill, according to his memoir.

Moore’s husband and business partner, Grant Tinker, invited Burrows to Los Angeles to direct an episode of the comedy. He apprenticed for MTM Enterprises, which had four sitcoms on the air at the same time.

Burrows cited his theater background for learning how to give actors direction and block out scenes. He’s credited for being one of the first sitcom directors to increase the typical multi-camera television shoot from three to four cameras.

The common thread between Burrows’ shows were the bonds between friends and unrelated families, whether it was the motley crew of regulars meeting at the bar in “Cheers” or the drivers working toward a better life in “Taxi” or the 20-somethings sharing the same apartment building in “Friends.”

“The best sitcoms transcend the screen and reach out and grab the audience by the throat and by the heart,” Burrows wrote in his memoir.

He relished discovering new acting talent while directing more than 75 pilots that were picked up as series.

“Having directed over a thousand shows means that almost any night you can turn on your television or go online and find a show that I directed. I’m very proud of that,” he wrote in his memoir.

In 2019, Burrows was an executive producer on live productions of “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” with famous actors re-creating episodes of those 1970s comedies.

“Jimmy was the greatest comedic television director in the history of the medium,” his agent Rick Rosen said in a statement. “He directed the most iconic, defining shows of generations. Always a gentleman, it was an absolute honor to represent him.”

Burrows was married in 1997 to Debbie Easton, whom he met when she worked as a hairstylist on “Frasier.” Daughters Kat Schatzow, Ellie Gluck and Maggie Burrows, who followed her father into directing, are from his first marriage to Linda Solomon, who died in 2004. His stepdaughter Paris is from his wife’s previous marriage. He has a sister, Laurie Burrows Grad, and seven grandchildren.

The outbreak has claimed more than 200 lives out of 894 confirmed cases since May 15, with up to 35,000 contacts, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The number of cases is believed to be higher because the outbreak was confirmed weeks late.

Africa CDC Director-General Dr. Jean Kaseya told The Associated Press in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, that the current outbreak — the worst ever at this stage — is yet another reminder for Africa to invest more in its health sector to reduce its reliance on foreign partners.

“If this outbreak was in Europe, the United States or other continents, they would already have developed a vaccine and medicine,” Kaseya said.

“We don’t want to be a continent begging every day. We want to be a continent of people who know what they are doing and who are respected because they are doing the right thing,” he added.

Response efforts have been challenged by the lack of approved vaccines or treatments for the Bundibugyo virus. The more common Zaire virus, for which there is a vaccine, was responsible for most of Congo’s past 16 outbreaks of the disease.

At the epicenter in Congo's eastern Ituri province where burials have become routine, including of babies. Health workers labor with little rest as they battle attacks from angry residents and widespread skepticism.

Vaccines have long been a problem for African countries

Consecutive health shocks, including COVID-19, have triggered efforts to boost local vaccine manufacturing in Africa, although not much has been achieved yet.

The continent, whose population is projected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050, produces less than 1% of its vaccine needs and 3% of medicine that is brought in from abroad, making millions of people vulnerable to epidemics.

While efforts are in place to speed up the development of vaccines and diagnostics, Kaseya said he is unsure a vaccine will be available by the end of the year.

The Africa CDC head added that the peak of the Ebola outbreak is still to come because of slow progress in identifying and monitoring contacts.

Officials are yet to identify the outbreak's patient zero and still need to trace more than 35,000 people who have come in contact with infected individuals, he added.

"This is why we are accelerating our fundraising to put on the ground so many teams to look for any contact, direct or indirect, and to start following them,” Kaseya said.

As part of the plan to push African states to financially support the agency’s efforts, Kaseya said South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to fly to Ituri Province in Congo and to Uganda next week in support of the mobilization of funds.

A newly established African Epidemic Fund has received pledges totaling about $80 million from African governments, while a broader donor conference held this week generated pledges of about $910 million, he said.

“We need to take care of ourselves," Kaseya said. "We need to say, ‘It’s time for us to really think strongly about how we can manufacture medicines and vaccines to meet our own needs.'"

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Musambi reported from Nairobi, Kenya. AP writer Chinedu Asadu in Abuja, Nigeria contributed.

“I knew there was going to be a tsunami of Tartan Army (Scotland fans),” said Jason Waddleton, a Scotland native and owner of The Haven, a Scottish restaurant and bar in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood since 2010.

He was right.

First, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey agreed to temporarily extend bar and restaurant hours during the World Cup. Next came thousands of Scots — one estimate is as high as 50,000 — descending on the Boston area, including nearby Providence, Rhode Island, which has become a home base for many of them over the past few weeks.

Then it was the Tartan Army marching through Boston’s streets following the country’s opening win over Haiti last week — taking over the city’s famed Fenway Park alongside Red Sox Nation after the team dubbed it “Scottish Heritage Celebration Night.”

And the taps have been running nonstop.

World Cup fans in Boston, especially the Scots, have put a serious strain on the beer supply in a city that is accustomed to big drinking holidays in St. Patrick's Day and the Fourth of July.

The Haven, which has long served Scotland's top-selling beer, Tennent's Lager, has gone from four kegs a week to ordering 50 just for this week. Other bars have sold out of Tennent's and have tripled their orders to make sure it doesn't happen again. Sam Adams said its Boston taproom ran out of their famed Samuel Adams Boston Lager last weekend after Scottish fans descended on the city.

“We’ve basically blown through our own allocation. We still have it and we’ll get more in on Monday,” Waddleton said.

The celebratory atmosphere intensified Friday as Scotland prepared to play its second World Cup match of the tournament outside Boston.

“They know how to party, how to make friends and influence people,” Waddleton said of the Scots.

Scots fill pubs in the Boston area, challenging beer reserves

One of the most sought-after beverages in Boston pubs over the last week is Tennent's Lager.

Once only available at The Haven, before the tournament started Tennent’s made deals and distributed kegs of its product to 80 bars in Boston and surrounding areas.

Samantha Crawford, the international marketing manager for Tennent’s, said they started preparing to distribute their product to the U.S. as soon as Scotland qualified for the the World Cup in November. They've also sent supplies to Miami bars ahead of Scotland's match against Brazil next week.

“It’s been a long time in the making. The next day we got to work,” she said of the preparations to make sure the beer is stocked in the U.S. She said the beer is ingrained in the sports culture in Scotland.

Many area bars and restaurants have been caught by surprise

Mivan Spencer, owner of Caffe Dello Sport in Boston’s North End, said he is used to handling large crowds for major soccer tournaments, but has been surprised by the amount of business he’s seen during the World Cup.

“After the first weekend of matches I definitely ran out of almost everything,” Spencer said. “Luckily I have a couple other restaurants I borrowed product from to get me through.”

The first thing he sold out of was Tennent’s, before quickly selling out of Peroni.

Spencer said he’s since tripled his usual alcohol order for this week, saying it’s so “I don’t run out of a single thing.”

Over at High Street Place, a food hall in downtown Boston, beverage supplies that were expected to last a week were consumed in four days, said Lauren Johnson, a senior marketplace manager at the venue.

“Fortunately, we have great partners, and our distributors were able to pivot quickly and increase subsequent orders to keep pace with demand seamlessly,” she said.

Tapping in — and out — of iconic Boston beer Sam Adams

Sam Adams said its Boston taproom ran out of their famed Samuel Adams Boston Lager last weekend. From Thursday to Sunday, the Boston-based brewer said the Tartan Army drank four times as much Boston Lager as the establishment typically sells during a four-day holiday stretch like the Fourth of July.

To date, Sam Adams has sold more than 4,000 pints of Boston Lager, resulting in about 90 empty kegs, said Devon Sage, a Sam Adams spokesperson.

“We’ve had to schedule four ‘emergency deliveries’ to the Taproom,” Sage wrote in an email.

Soccer diplomacy comes to Massachusetts because of the World Cup

Politicians in Massachusetts have also joined in on the soccer craze.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has been a fixture at Boston’s fan festival and made appearances at several watch parties. Gov. Healey declared June 18 “World Cup Fans Appreciation Day” and was spotted at The Haven behind the bar pouring drinks for patrons.

It brought a smile to Waddleton’s face, though he said the governor may need to work on her bartending skills a little.

“Maura Healey needs to learn how to pour a pint before getting that Sunday shift she asked for," Waddleton said. “But we can work on that.”

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Many of the provisions were already on hold because of an earlier, preliminary court ruling. But it is resulting in one major change: The state's Planned Parenthood affiliates say the new ruling means they're going to start prescribing abortion pills to patients there for the first time since 2018.

The ruling is a clear legal victory for abortion rights advocates, but it's not the final word. An appeal and another ballot measure are on tap.

A 72-hour waiting period is one of the provisions the judge nixed

Jackson County Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang's ruling Thursday came months after she held a 10-day trial on the issue earlier this year.

She ruled on whether 40 different state laws conflicted with the 2024 amendment. In most cases, she sided with abortion rights groups — and against the state government, which was arguing that the laws should be enforced.

She overturned a number of provisions including a requirement that women seeking an abortion see a doctor in person twice at least 72 hours apart, and another requirement that the initial dose of abortion pills, which are the most common way abortions are obtained, be taken in the presence of the prescribing doctor.

But she didn't throw out a requirement that patients see a doctor in-person to confirm gestational age and rule out an ectopic pregnancy.

Missouri has a history of abortion restrictions

Missouri was the first state to enforce a ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade.

Even before the ban went into effect, other laws already on the books meant that abortion was not readily available for many women in the state.

In 2024, the state's voters made it the first to adopt a constitutional amendment to undo a ban, allowing abortion until fetal viability, which is generally considered to be somewhere past 21 weeks into a pregnancy, though there’s no fixed time frame. The two Planned Parenthood affiliates that operate in the state sued to undo abortion restrictions immediately after voters approved that state constitutional amendment.

Abortion pill access is expected to expand

After this week's ruling, Planned Parenthood said it would offer appointments starting next week for medication abortion.

“For too long, politicians forced patients to leave the state for an evidence-based and trusted form of abortion care,” Emily Wales, president and CEO of Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains said in a statement. “Now, that care is coming home and with it, we move closer to fulfilling the promise of reproductive freedom Missourians demanded.”

The ruling also affirmed that the clinics could continue to offer abortion procedures.

Two different surveys of providers conducted for groups that support abortion rights — the Guttmacher Institute and the Society of Family Planning — estimated that in the second half of 2025, somewhere around 300 abortions each month were provided in Missouri. Those were from providers in other states that prescribe and send abortion pills to women in states with abortion bans or restrictions. Those providers are in states with laws that week to protect prescribers from legal action in states with bans — another issue that's being contested in court.

Guttmacher found that in 2024, Missouri women traveled to bordering Illinois and Kansas for about 12,000 abortions.

The ruling won't be the final word

Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said she will appeal this week's ruling.

“This is exactly the Pandora’s box we warned of, and the women of Missouri will pay the price,” Hanaway said in a statement.

Abortion will also be on the ballot again in November, when voters are being asked to approve a measure that would undo the 2024 amendment.

Some cities recycle. Some don’t. And as landfills near capacity, officials say solutions need to be found quickly.

Broward County believes it has one.

The county’s Solid Waste Authority has unveiled a master plan aimed at tackling Broward’s growing trash problem, but its future depends on whether enough cities choose to embrace it.

Broward County generates about 20,000 pounds of waste every minute, or roughly 5 million tons a year, and officials say the situation is reaching a critical point.

“We’re at a critical juncture right now,” said Mike Ryan, mayor of Sunrise and chairman of the Broward Solid Waste Authority.

“We’re running out of landfill capacity and we’re running out of the ability to burn our way out of this,” Ryan said.

The crisis prompted action in 2023 when Broward County and 28 cities joined forces to create the Solid Waste Authority, launching an effort to reduce waste, boost recycling and divert more trash from landfills.

“When we realized what a crisis we are facing, both economically and environmentally, the cities came back together to try to figure out can we fix this fragmented system and work better together than separately?” Ryan said.

The result is a master plan that would guide Broward County’s waste management strategy for the next four decades.

“The master plan recognizes that we have to do better at diverting our trash from the landfill and waste energy. We have to do better at recycling and repurposing, and ultimately we have to do better at controlling our economic destiny,” Ryan said.

At the heart of the plan is a push to reduce waste and dramatically expand recycling efforts.

“The state goal is 75% to 70%. Right now, if we’re getting credit for what we’ve burned, we’re at 39%. If you don’t have the credit for what we’ve burned, we’re below 30%,” Ryan said.

Ryan warned that as landfill capacity shrinks and disposal options become more limited, the cost of handling Broward’s waste could eventually become unsustainable for residents and businesses.

“The brilliance of this plan is that when we combine our tonnage, and we work together, we can get the best pricing,” Ryan said. “But we can also extract the value that is in trash. And trash is a series of commodity streams.”

The Solid Waste Authority says the plan is already proving its value through partnerships with the Florida Panthers and City Furniture. Now it needs buy-in from Broward cities.

So far, the response has been unanimous. All 15 municipalities that had voted approved the plan, as did Broward County.

“So our work right now is to convince the rest of the cities not only is this a good plan to tackle recycling, but that it’s necessary to protect our residents and our businesses from skyrocketing trash costs that are going to come,” Ryan said.

The authority is also taking its message into Broward classrooms, encouraging students to become ambassadors for the effort.

“I’m here to encourage my peers and also the students in Broward County to sort of stand up and also use their voice,” said Fort Lauderdale High School student Mikyle Sukoo.

“If we do not start recycling, if we do not start advocating for ourselves, that we are going to grow in a deep, deep hole,” Sukoo said.

Students like Sukoo are attending city commission meetings and urging officials to consider their future when voting on the master plan.

“If the commissioners see the urgency in the students, you know, that the students advocating for this and fighting for this, they’re going to want to say yes. They’re gonna lean toward yes more,” Sukoo said.

The master plan requires approval from 80% of the population in the 28 cities that are participating. The deadline is Aug. 14.

If that threshold is not reached, the Solid Waste Authority and its master plan will be dissolved.

“Our hope is that the cities recognize not only is this good for the environment, but it’s good economics,” Ryan said.

“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make the right decision.”

Wednesday night, Coral Springs voted unanimously to approve the master plan, bringing the total number of participating cities to 16.

Pembroke Pines, Pompano Beach and Hallandale Beach are the only Broward cities not part of the Solid Waste Authority. If the plan passes, they can join at any time.

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The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin’s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bolder look, with the underbelly of the plane painted navy blue with a red stripe above it. The plane's left side, where the president boards, features the presidential seal, while the tail of the aircraft has a massive American flag on it.

“This plane was transformed into a flying White House at a level of luxury that nobody has ever seen before,” Trump said from inside the massive Joint Base Andrews hangar, as a couple hundred assembled Air Force personnel looked on. He spoke after stepping off the new plane in a dramatic flourish, as his signature tune “God Bless the USA” played.

He confirmed that he would be taking the new jet to the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, next month and indicated he would be returning to China “at some point,” presumably a reference to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that China is hosting in November. His return from the Group of 7 summit in France this week was the last planned trip aboard the old Air Force One, he said.

“Now, when we land at airports in London and in Germany and different places, nobody tops this one, and that’s the way we have to have it for our country,” Trump said, noting that the colors and the design were to “my taste, I will say."

He added that the new Air Force One will do a flyover during the July 4 celebrations next month.

The gift from Qatar is serving as a “bridge” aircraft to carry the president until the new planes ordered directly from Boeing arrive. That is currently slated for 2028.

The administration formally accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar last year to be used as the presidential airplane, despite questions about the ethics and legality of accepting such an expensive gift from a foreign government. Trump has insisted in the past that he would not fly around in the Qatari jet once he leaves office and said it would instead be donated to a future presidential library.

Trump on Friday said the U.S. was in a “little bit of a logjam” as they awaited the delivery of the new jets directly from Boeing, which had originally been scheduled for 2024 but have been delayed. He recalled asking the emir of Qatar for use of one of their planes.

"See, a normal president wouldn’t do this. A normal president wants to stay away from aircraft," Trump said Friday. “But our country has to be represented properly.”

The Air Force said in a news release Friday that any plane deemed Air Force One “must meet rigorous security requirements” and that the Qatari plane “was modified under a disciplined engineering approach that prioritized these exact core capabilities above all else.” The Air Force also said “much of the previous head of state interior layout” of the plane was kept intact.

The Air Force has said in the past that security modifications to the jet would cost less than $400 million.

Trump's efforts to reimagine the presidential airplane date back to his first administration, when he directed that an incoming fleet of new jets would adopt a color scheme that was nearly identical to that of his personal airplane. Then-President Joe Biden reversed the decision in March 2023 as an Air Force review suggested that the darker colors could increase costs and delay delivery of the new jets, but once Trump returned to office, he returned to his desired colors for the plane.

Other government jets that carry other top administration officials will also use the similar red, white and navy color scheme, the Air Force said earlier this year.

An Air Force spokesperson, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive plans, told The Associated Press that the two current planes, known as VC-25As, will not be retiring. Instead, they will remain in the fleet until the new Boeing planes, referred to as VC-25Bs, come into service, the spokesperson said.

It is unclear how the older jets will be used but the spokesperson said that both the Qatari jet as well as the VC-25As will be available for use and “the Presidential Airlift Group will select the appropriate aircraft for each mission based on operational requirements.”

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This story has been updated to correct the name of the air base to Joint Base Andrews, not Andrews Air Force Base, its former name.

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Kim reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report from Washington.

Such is life in a world teeming with cell phone cameras and viral video. Such is life in professional golf, a sport built on managing failure and harnessing emotions — and where success one week, or one year, doesn’t always carry over to the next.

Clark’s spot at the top of the U.S. Open leaderboard after his second round at Shinnecock on Friday brought up expected reminders of his emotion-filled journey through a sport — a life, really — that Clark himself acknowledged nobody truly conquers.

“I was on top of the world in my game, at least when I won the U.S. Open, and then had some good years,” the 32-year-old said. “Then, next thing you know, I’m apologizing for breaking a locker."

Much as tennis great John McEnroe will always have “You cannot be serious!” alongside the seven grand slam singles titles he won in another of sports' biggest pressure cookers, Clark will always have the broken locker at Oakmont. He will always have the underhanded fling of the driver that smashed an advertising board and snapped off the clubhead at the PGA Championship, a few months before the locker debacle.

Because of that, he’ll probably also always have his share of detractors and critics — people watching for some brilliance on the golf course, but also waiting for the next big blowup.

“I’m fierce, competitive, love the game, respect the game, and I just had a bad moment,” Clark said. “Hopefully I can win those people back.”

His breakthrough three years ago at LA Country Club was tinged with tears and stories of the personal growth Clark had to make to reach that point.

Much of it had to do with the emotional residue left from his mom’s death in 2013 — a family tragedy that he conceded had left him spiraling.

“I didn’t show any emotion off the course," Clark explained after his victory that day. “But when I was on the golf course, I couldn’t have been angrier.”

The easy way for the armchair psychologists (and sports pundits) to explain things after that win was to conclude that Clark’s victory proved he had harnessed the emotion, turned the page and beaten back all the demons.

It’s never that simple.

“For any of us, this is a process,” Clark’s sports psychologist, Julie Elion, wrote in her new book ’Mastering Your Mental Game.” “Golfers don’t reach the top and then stay there forever.”

Clark followed the U.S. Open win with 18 months of good golf, including a win at Pebble Beach. Last year was something different — he only had two top-10 finishes, did not make the FedEx Cup playoffs and was nowhere to be seen at the Ryder Cup.

“Mastering our mental game in golf or reaching a state of growth or self-improvement in life isn’t always a permanent condition,” Elion wrote. “It takes more work over more years, and there are frequently hills and valleys.”

At Shinnecock, Clark held a four-shot lead after his second round. Heading into the weekend, he finds himself back on the rise again. He recently took to social media to tell the world he had a new girlfriend, Emily Tanner, who held hands with him as they exited the 18th green after Friday’s round of 1-under 69.

Four weeks ago, Clark won the Byron Nelson for his first victory in 28 months.

“I kind of looked at it objectively and took a bird’s-eye view on it and said, ‘OK, I’m not hitting it good off the tee, I’m not putting as good as I was,’” he explained about his turnaround. “And I said, ‘All right, I’ve got to attack that.’”

He hired a swing coach, Pat Coyner at Cherry Hills, near where Clark grew up outside of Denver.

He's been hitting his driver straighter of late. His iron game has improved dramatically (up 110 spots in the analytic-driven stat: strokes gained on approach shots). He found a new putter, which has helped him dial in dramatically over the past four weeks, during which he also finished third at the Memorial and played in the final group last Sunday at the Canadian Open.

Never more did it look in sync than Friday on No. 18, where he sank a 33-footer to finish the day in red numbers.

Now, a chance for another breakthrough at the U.S. Open. With a win, he would celebrate again. But he knows as well as anyone that it wouldn't mean all the problems — or the work, both on and off the course — are behind him.

“I just think with the mental game there’s ebbs and flows,” Clark said. “If you think of it as climbing Everest, sometimes you go up, sometimes you have to go down to go back up. I think that’s kind of what happens both on the golf course and off the golf course. Right now I’m trending back up, which is nice.”

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The Wilton Manors Stonewall Pride — the biggest party in South Florida celebrating love, diversity, equality and inclusion — is happening this weekend, despite fears it may not even happen.

“It has been daunting,” said Stonewall Pride producer Jameer Baptiste.

Legislation passed by the state of Florida earlier this year bars local governments from spending money on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives or events like Pride. It doesn’t go into effect until Jan. 1, 2027.

Soon after the bill passed, many sponsors pulled out.

“There have been people that have backed out — businesses, companies,” Baptiste said. “You’ve been a sponsor with us over five years, over a decade, and now you’re pulling out — is it truly because your budget has shrunk or is it because of what’s going on politically?”

The city of Wilton Manors, where most of its elected officials are members of the LGBTQ+ community, stepped in to provide safety.

Last year, a man was detained after police said he tried entering the parade with a weapon, which is not allowed. It was the first time metal detectors were used and they went off, helping police make the arrest. Organizers say they’re spending more on security this year than ever before.

Still, the spirit of the event is very much alive.

“It’s really reinvigorating our community to come together and show our strength and resilience,” Baptiste said. “So while you’re out having fun out there, remember that hard work, sweat and tears went into making this possible — that your light isn’t dimmed.”

The Saturday event features a glow night parade, entertainment and food.

“Everybody come out — make sure if you’re an ally, support, come out,” Baptiste said. “It’s all about that resilience and the definition of unity, community and belonging.”

Las autoridades de la BSO informaron a Local 10 News que los operadores del 911 recibieron una llamada aproximadamente a las 10:08 a.m. reportando un posible ahogamiento de un niño en una piscina de una vivienda cerca de la cuadra 1600 de Southwest 63rd Terrace.

Las autoridades dijeron que agentes de la BSO y equipos de North Lauderdale Fire Rescue respondieron al lugar y trasladaron al niño a Broward Health Coral Springs, donde posteriormente fue declarado muerto.

Las autoridades no han divulgado la identidad del niño.

“Lamento mucho su pérdida. He pasado por algo similar. Mi hermano menor falleció por ahogamiento, así que entiendo por lo que están pasando”, dijo un vecino a Rosh Lowe, de Local 10.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena poco antes de las 11 a.m., mientras agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward y equipos de rescate permanecían afuera de la vivienda. Se podía observar cinta de escena del crimen alrededor del área de la piscina mientras las autoridades continuaban investigando.

Los investigadores dijeron que detectives de la Unidad de Homicidios de la BSO investigan las circunstancias que rodean el incidente.

Funcionarios de la BSO indicaron que los adultos deben supervisar de cerca y de manera constante a los niños cerca del agua, evitar distracciones mientras los vigilan, mantener a los niños pequeños al alcance de la mano y utilizar medidas de seguridad como cercas, cerraduras, alarmas o sensores para impedir el acceso a las áreas de piscina.

Las autoridades también recomiendan enseñar a los niños a nadar o flotar boca arriba, mantener equipo de rescate y un teléfono cerca, y aprender reanimación cardiopulmonar (RCP).

El condado Broward ofrece información sobre seguridad acuática y clases de natación a través de su programa Water Smart Broward.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles sobre el incidente.

“Hey, buddy,” North Carolina's Forbes said, beaming and extending his hand to the Oklahoma coach.

“You thought we were going to fight?” Johnson said, turning to reporters.

The college baseball lifers have known each other for decades, since they spent long days and nights scouting the same talent showcases and engaging in recruiting battles during long runs as assistants.

“I always thought if we met up together," Forbes told Johnson, “we'd be hunting.”

Oh, they're hunting together all right.

North Carolina will be looking for its first national title in baseball and Oklahoma for its third when the schools square off in Game 1 of the best-of-three series at Charles Schwab Field on Saturday. The start of the game was moved up five hours to 3 p.m. EDT because of a forecast calling for storms at night.

The Tar Heels and Sooners have taken different routes to reach the same destination.

North Carolina (53-12-1) has lost consecutive games just once, in early March, and has been ranked no lower than No. 4 by D1Baseball.com the last two months.

Oklahoma (41-22) was ranked as high as No. 8 and then lost six of nine series in Southeastern Conference play. The Sooners finished 11th in the SEC and were unranked when they entered the national tournament off losses in seven of nine games.

“I think the SEC just offers a great preparation, period, for this type of tournament,” OU's Trey Gambill said. “There’s no breaks. Just like in this tournament, you’re not playing any bad teams. You’re not playing any mediocre teams. You’re playing the best of the best. So the SEC just prepared us for always being ready to put our best out there.”

Both teams went 3-0 in CWS bracket play. The Tar Heels have won five straight, and the Sooners are on a season-best eight-game streak.

The Game 1 pitching matchup pits North Carolina ace Jason DeCaro (11-2) against 6-foot-6, 237-pound left-hander Cord Rager (6-3), one of three freshman starters for the Sooners. DeCaro went 6 2/3 innings and struck out nine in Carolina's 6-2 win over Mississippi last Friday. Rager walked none and struck out eight in seven innings of a 9-0 win over Alabama last Saturday.

SEC streak on line

Oklahoma will be going for the Southeastern Conference's seventh straight national title and 18th overall, which would tie the Pac-12 for most.

The SEC is assured of having the champion, runner-up or both for the 20th time since 2000. The Sooners are the 10th different SEC team to reach the finals over that span.

ACC's first finals since 2015

North Carolina is the first Atlantic Coast Conference team to make the CWS finals since Virginia in 2015.

The Tar Heels are trying to become the third ACC program to win a national title in baseball. Wake Forest won the first in 1955 and Virginia the second in 2015.

North Carolina (2006-07, 2026) and Virginia (2014-15) are the only ACC programs to play in the finals since the best-of-three format started in 2003.

Power surge

DeCaro will face a Sooners team that's averaging 10.4 runs per game with 22 homers during their eight-game win streak. They've gone deep eight times in the CWS, including five in an 11-4 win over Georgia on Wednesday. OU has 45 homers in its 20 games since May 1 after hitting 46 homers in its first 43.

“What Jason’s going to do is what he’s been doing,” Forbes said. “We don’t care what the offense has been, what they’re doing, how hot they are. He’s going to go right after them with his stuff. You start being tentative, you start getting negative counts, then that offense gets even better.”

Call him K-den

North Carolina is 28-0 when Caden Glauber pitches. The freshman leads the Tar Heels with 106 strikeouts and 13.76 per nine innings, and he has allowed one run in 5 1/3 innings over three CWS games.

Another freshman reliever, lefty Jackson Rose, pitched 4 1/3 innings of shutout relief in a 12-7 win over West Virginia and has a 2.15 ERA over 50 2/3 innings this season.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Amir Ayesh was arrested after two separate victims were sprayed with an unknown liquid on May 9 by Ayesh, who was passing by them in a black vehicle.

Detectives said the two incidents occurred within just minutes of each other in the area of Northeast 10th Avenue and 171st Street.

Authorities said Homeland Security Bureau detectives were able to link Ayesh to both incidents through surveillance video that showed him using a water gun to spray the victims from his car.

According to Detective Samantha Choon, an arrest warrant was signed on June 11, charging Ayesh with two counts of battery with prejudice, “a felony enhancement under Florida law.”

She said Ayesh was taken into custody Thursday in Plantation with assistance by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Plantation Police Department.

He was transported to the Broward County Main Jail and will eventually be transferred to Miami-Dade County.

“MDSO remains committed to investigating crimes that target individuals based on their race, religion, ethnicity, or other protected characteristics,” Choon said in an email to Local 10 News.

Ayesh’s arrest comes months after two other men were arrested for similar accusations.

In that case, Miami Beach police said Michael Dean Emerson, 19, of Coral Springs, and Dominic Angelo Martinez, 18, of Tamarac, used a water gun to spray a Jewish man on Mid-Beach in January.

Police said the duo targeted the victim because of his faith.

Anyone with additional information related to the latest investigation is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich found that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever privacy rights Biden had, but she effectively put her ruling on hold for up to three weeks so Biden could appeal.

The recordings were obtained by special counsel Robert Hur in the course of his investigation into whether Biden improperly retained classified documents while a senator and vice president. Republicans in Congress demanded them after Hur declined to file charges against the then-president.

Biden's Democratic administration refused to turn over the recordings and transcripts from 2016 and 2017, leading congressional Republicans to hold his attorney general, Merrick Garland, in contempt.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department authorized the release of the materials. That led Biden last month to sue to seek to block the release to a staffer at the conservative Heritage Foundation who had formally requested the records.

Biden objected to the release as an invasion of privacy, saying the recordings included him discussing sensitive personal matters such as the death of his older son, Beau Biden. But Friedrich found that the administration redacted that material.

The judge wrote that the materials “contain no mention of highly sensitive topics like illness or death, nor do they mention any non-public persons, including members of Biden's family.”

Representatives for Biden did not immediately comment but asked Friedrich to bar release of the material while they appeal her decision. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Friedrich was nominated by Trump, a Republican, in 2017.

Hur’s yearlong investigation led to a 345-page report that questioned the effects of Biden’s age and his mental competence but recommended no criminal charges against the then-81-year-old. Hur said he found insufficient evidence to prosecute a case in court successfully.

The transcripts of five hours of Biden interviews with federal prosecutors was released that same year. While Biden was adamant that he treated classified information seriously, the transcript shows that he was at times fuzzy about dates and details and he said he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some of the sensitive documents he handled.

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This week, we have two.

Royal Palm Grill & Deli in Homestead has been inspected 14 times since July 2023, six of those required a follow-up, and records show Royal was ordered shut in 2024 for a roach issue.

Recently, 35 violations.

Over in Miami Beach, Coyote Taqueria on Collins Avenue also makes the list.

Records show since November 2023, Coyote has been inspected 7 times and “met inspection standards” for all of them until now.

31 violations on a recent inspection.

Thirty or more violations is not bad luck, it’s a choice, and it’s unacceptable. You have to do better.

**ROYAL PALM GRILL & DELI

806 N. KROME AVE.

HOMESTEAD

INSPECTION DATE 5/28

35 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 10/24 (ROACH ISSUE)

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Repeat Violation.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed at cook line.”

“Ceiling tile missing. Observed ceiling tile missing above prep table with prep sink.”

“Clean equipment/dishware/utensils stored next to handwash/food preparation sink exposed to splash. Observed bread toaster stored next to handwash sink at front counter exposes to splash.”

“Clean utensils stored between equipment and wall. Observed knives stored under slicer in the kitchen with old food debris under.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on floor across prep sink. Observed 1 dead roach on floor in front of reach in cooler at dry goods storage area.”

“Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Observed employee Red Bull stored on white cutting board across the cook line in the back kitchen.”

“Employee with no beard guard/restraint while engaging in food preparation.”

“Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. Observed plastic containers stacked together not properly air dried under prep table with prep sink.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed in the back kitchen.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor under cooking equipment and cold holding coolers soiled.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed 1 case of oil stored on floor under the handwash sink near the dishwasher.”

“Ice buildup in reach-in freezer and/or walk-in freezer. Observed at reach in freezer near walk in cooler. Observed at reach in freezer near restroom. Repeat Violation.”

“In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses. Observed at oven door in the back kitchen.”

“In-use wet wiping cloth/towel used under cutting board.”

“Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris. Observed interior of microwave soiled with old food debris.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed interior hood filters soiled with accumulated dust.”

“Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers. Observed employee open water bottle stored at reach in cooler near walk in cooler. Repeat Violation.”

“Single-service articles improperly stored. Observed box of cups stored on floor at dry goods storage area.”

“Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. Observed at cook line. Repeat Violation.”

“Wet wiping cloths used for occasional spills on equipment food- and nonfood-contact surfaces not clean. Observed at cook line.”

“Wiping cloth sanitizing solution stored on the floor. Observed under prep table across the triple sink.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee charged customer and then proceeded to scoop ice. No handwash.”

“Employee cracked raw shell eggs and then handled ready-to-eat food and/or clean equipment or utensils without washing hands.”

“Employee rubbed hands together for less than 10-15 seconds while washing hands.”

“Employee washed hands with cold water.”

“Employee washed hands with no soap.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 7+ live flies landing on unwashed tomatoes at dry goods storage area. Observed approximately 10+ live flies flying and landing on unwashed onions at dry goods storage area.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed diced tomatoes (46F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across oven. As per operator for more than 6 hours. Observed rice (47F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across oven. As per operator for more than 24 hours.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed diced tomatoes (46F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across oven. As per operator for more than 6 hours. Observed rice (47F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across oven.”

“Wiping cloth sanitizer solution exceeds the maximum concentration allowed. Observed Sanitizer Bucket (Chlorine 200+ppm).”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed baking sheets used to bake corn bread heavily soiled with old grease.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed handwashing sink used to store clear cup at front counter.”

“No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Observed no paper towels at handwash sink near the dishwasher.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Observed noodle soup at reach in cooler near walk in cooler not date marked. As per kitchen manager for less than 7 days.”

**COYOTE TAQUERIA

1351 COLLINS AVE.

MIAMI BEACH

INSPECTION DATE 5/27

31 VIOLATIONS

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed ceiling vents soiled.”

“Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Observed pan not inverted at cook line.”

“Cold holding equipment not maintained in good repair. Do not store time/temperature control for safety food in this unit until the unit is repaired. Observed RIC at cook line and WIC at 50F.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Repeat Violation.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Repeat Violation.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed raw chicken container on floor inside WIC.”

“In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed at cook line.”

“No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Observed at bar area.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed gaskets inside RIC soiled. Repeat Violation.”

“Standing water in bottom of reach-in-cooler.”

“Straws provided for customer self-service not individually wrapped or in an approved dispenser.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Repeat Violation.”

“Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.”

“Air gap between water supply inlet and flood rim of equipment/sink is less than one inch. Observed at 3 compartment sink.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked chicken (46F - Cold Holding); cheese (46F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler by cook line HWS. As per chef from previous day. Observed cooked beef (50F - Cold Holding); cooked chicken (52F - Cold Holding); raw chicken (52F - Cold Holding); pico de gallo (50F - Cold Holding) inside WIC as per chef from previous day.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked chicken (46F - Cold Holding); cheese (46F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler by cook line HWS. As per chef from previous day. Observed cooked beef (50F - Cold Holding); cooked chicken (52F - Cold Holding); raw chicken (52F - Cold Holding); pico de gallo (50F - Cold Holding) inside WIC as per chef from previous day.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed black beans (119F - Hot Holding); cheese sauce (126F - Hot Holding); cooked corn (120F - Hot Holding) at steam table, as per chef from an hour prior.”

“Employee has not received adequate training related to their assigned duties as evidenced by the inability to answer basic food safety questions. Observed employee unaware of minimum cold holding temperature.”

“Equipment drain line draining into handwash sink. Observed at bar area.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed can opener blade soiled. Observed slicer soiled. Repeat Violation.”

“Handwash sink removed from food preparation/dishwashing area. Must be reinstalled in the same location where removed. Observed HWS removed at end of cook line.”

“No chemical test kit provided when using sanitizer at three-compartment ware washing machine or wiping cloths.”

“No currently certified food service manager on duty with four or more employees engaged in food preparation/handling. Repeat Violation.”

“No plan review submitted and approved - renovations were made or are in progress.”

“Observed mop sink removed and replaced with oven.”

“No proof provided that food employees are informed of their responsibility to report to the person in charge information about their health and activities related to foodborne illnesses. Observed employees Franco Peladez , Amanda Diaz hired 3 months prior.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. Observed at bar area.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Observed cooked beans, cooked chicken, cooked pork inside WIC with no date marked, as per employee from previous day. Repeat Violation.”

“Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Observed cleaning spray at bar area unlabeled.”

En el Palacio Nacional de la Cultura, junto a familiares de desaparecidos y sillas vacías con algunos nombres de esas personas, Arévalo anunció el inicio del mecanismo como una “herramienta para dar respuesta a la pregunta de dónde están”.

El anuncio tiene lugar después que el gobierno informara el miércoles que impulsa un plan de reparación y dignificación de las víctimas y el mecanismo de búsqueda de los desaparecidos durante el conflicto a casi tres décadas de la firma de los acuerdos de paz.

“Con este instrumento estamos haciendo lo necesario para garantizar el derecho a la verdad, la memoria y la reparación integral... para que se cumplan garantías de no repetición”, destacó el presidente y reiteró que es para atender la deuda histórica de Guatemala con las víctimas del conflicto y sus familias. Además, para "atender a víctimas de desaparición en contextos actuales”, agregó.

Elvyn Díaz, comisionado presidencial por la Paz y los Derechos Humanos, dijo que el mecanismo forma parte de un Plan de resarcimiento y dignificación de víctimas del conflicto armado.

Entre 1960 y 1996 Guatemala vivió un conflicto armado entre el ejército y grupos guerrilleros que, según comisiones de la verdad, se saldó con la muerte de por lo menos 200.000 personas y otros 45.000 desaparecidos. Este año se cumplen 30 años de la firma de los acuerdos que pusieron fin a la guerra.

Por años ningún gobierno buscó a los desaparecidos a pesar de la exigencia de familiares que se organizaron y formaron varias agrupaciones y fundaciones. Mientras tanto, una propuesta de ley para la búsqueda de los desaparecidos ha permanecido durante diez años en el Congreso sin discutirse.

Paulo Estrada, de la organización de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidas, resaltó que esta es la primera vez que un gobierno voltea su mirada a los desaparecidos. “Hoy puedo decir que por décadas de preguntar dónde están nuestros desaparecidos, por fin vemos una luz”, señaló.

Estrada aseguró que aún hoy buscar a los desaparecidos genera hostigamiento, intimidación y amenazas y que esperaba que se les permita tener acceso a archivos militares y lugares como zonas, brigadas, destacamentos y recintos militares para las tareas de localización. Tras búsquedas particulares cientos de cuerpos han sido encontrados en lugares donde el ejército acampó durante esa época.

Con un clavel rojo en la mano, Rosalina Tuyuc, líder histórica y fundadora de la Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala (Conavigua), dijo que esperaba que el mecanismo dé frutos. “Todas las familias que estamos aquí siempre seguimos la esperanza de encontrarlos. Nos alegra que aunque sea 30 años después el Ejecutivo decida crear este mecanismo", manifestó.

Maco Garavito, de la organización Liga de Higiene Mental, consideró que la creación del mecanismo servirá para sanar heridas de la guerra.

Fredy Peccerelli, director de la Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG) — reconocida internacionalmente por su labor de exhumación en zonas de conflictos armados como Siria, Libia, Myanmar, Colombia y México —, refirió que junto a familiares de víctimas ha encontrado a más de 4.000 desaparecidos y exhumado unos 9.000 cuerpos durante décadas de trabajo en esos sitios.

The 40-year-old was named player of the match in Cape Verde’s goalless draw on Monday, a display that brought him international attention and a surge in popularity on social media.

Among the fans cheering him on in the U.S. are his father, Jose Pedro Dias, and brother, Delmiro Évora Nascimento, who also is a soccer player. Vozinha’s mother, who had initially faced difficulties obtaining a visa, is also expected to arrive in the United States ahead of Sunday’s game.

Speaking before Thursday’s training session at Cape Verde’s training base in Tampa, Vozinha said having his family nearby was one of the most meaningful aspects of his World Cup experience.

“They always support me in everything I do, so having my mother here is something special. My father is here too, and my brother as well, so I’m very happy,” he said.

Vozinha’s full name is Josimar José Évora Dias. His father said he was named after Josimar, a defender in Brazil’s squad in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

“I watched the matches and fell in love with the Brazilian national team,” Dias said. “I really enjoyed it and there were a few players who stood out; one of them was Josimar, a right-back, who scored two goals and really made his mark at that World Cup.”

Like other fans cheering on the team at its training base in Tampa, Dias was beaming with pride over Cape Verde’s successful start to its first ever World Cup.

“As a father, I feel immense pride. All Cape Verdeans right now feel proud to be Cape Verdean and of Cape Verde’s current performance; it’s something we could never have imagined would be possible,” he said.

Vozinha’s brother agreed.

“I’ve no words to describe this moment,” he said. “We just have to live it because it’s a once-in-a-lifetime moment for a professional footballer – to be at the World Cup, to play against Spain, to put in the performance he did.”

RVs full of Cape Verde fans, dressed in the blue of the nation’s flag and adorned with matching beach hats and flags as capes, arrived in the small parking lot outside the training ground in Tampa.

One of them, Benjamin Ferrera, called the draw with Spain “unbelievable.”

“I don’t have words for it, because nobody expected it. We are just 500,000 people on small islands. To be on this type of stage with the world watching us is just magnificent,” he said.

Ferrera was born in Cape Verde but now lives in Massachusetts, which hosts the largest portion of the Cape Verdean diaspora in the United States and is sometimes called Cape Verde’s 11th island.

He is also part of the security team at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, one of the host venues at this year’s tournament.

“We’re all about joy,” Ferrera said. “When I grew up, I always heard that Cape Verde doesn’t have football, that we would never make a World Cup. Today I’m proud to say we’re here and we are going to make history.”

The archipelago nation off the west coast of Africa was the only one of the four debutants at the tournament to avoid defeat in its first game. If you ask Andreia Levy, an organizer for the Cape Verde supporters’ group, 12 Sharks, it was fate.

“Of course, I trusted the guys,” she said. “We knew that it was possible to do something here.”

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Zach Pascuzzi is a student in the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.

En su primera entrevista desde que comenzaron las conversaciones entre Estados Unidos y Cuba a principios del año, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, quien se reunió en privado con el secretario de Estado estadounidense Marco Rubio en San Cristóbal en febrero, subrayó al medio emiratí The National News que su país estaba dispuesto a sostener conversaciones “cordiales”.

“Cuba no representa la más mínima amenaza a los intereses y la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos… Seguimos ofreciendo esa relación civilizada, esa relación de respeto e igualdad”, expresó Rodríguez Castro en una entrevista publicada el jueves.

Sin tener cargo gubernamental en la isla, Rodríguez Castro —jefe de la custodia de su abuelo— se desempeñó como negociador en los últimos meses.

Desde enero, Cuba se encuentra bajo un cerco energético y financiero de Estados Unidos que ha agravado la crisis que padece desde hace cinco años y que ha tenido un fuerte impacto en la vida diaria, con apagones de hasta 20 horas y limitaciones en los servicios de salud, el transporte, la industria y la educación.

El presidente Donald Trump ha reconocido que su política de máxima presión busca un cambio de sistema político y económico en Cuba.

Aunque el mandatario cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel advirtió que la isla podría encarar aperturas económicas, no abandonará su modelo socialista.

Rodríguez Castro aseguró que para Cuba “es difícil sostener cualquier tipo de conversación, negociación, diálogo en un ambiente tan hostil”.

Plan aperturista requiere fin de sanciones

En tanto, expertos dijeron el viernes que las medidas de libre mercado aprobadas por el Parlamento cubano son positivas, aunque consideran que su implementación podría atravesar muchas dificultades y algunas requieren la eliminación de sanciones estadounidenses.

“Elementos que durante décadas fueron enumerados como pilares de la economía revolucionaria, como el monopolio estatal del comercio exterior y la centralización de las fuerzas productivas, han sido desmantelados”, dijo a The Associated Press el politólogo y abogado cubanoamericano Luis Carlos Battista.

La víspera la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular aprobó un paquete de 176 medidas que incluyen desde más espacio para las empresas privadas y la posibilidad de importar y exportar sin intermediación estatal hasta permisos para que cadenas de comida rápida se instalen en la isla.

Sin embargo, Battista indicó que existen “numerosas dificultades” para su implementación, entre ellas la burocracia “lenta e ineficiente” y la desconfianza de los potenciales empresarios e inversores.

Por su parte, el investigador asociado del Instituto Quincy en Washington, Lee Schlenker, sostuvo que “habrá que ver cómo se desarrollan realmente, cómo se implementan y aplican; si se politizarán, si se aplicarán de forma selectiva o si, verdaderamente, todos los actores económicos serán tratados bajo las mismas condiciones”.

Ambos resaltaron además que si no se levantan las sanciones impuestas por Washington a Cuba —como las que castigan financieramente a los socios del conglomerado estatal GAESA — muchas de las medidas serán inaplicables.

“Sólo tendrán un efecto real si se complementan con el levantamiento gradual de las prohibiciones y sanciones estadounidenses”, indicó Schlenker.

Paolo Spadoni, profesor asociado en el Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de Augusta University, en Georgia, advirtió que el éxito de la reforma dependerá de la agilidad para aplicarla por parte de las autoridades isleñas.

“Si los líderes cubanos tienen esperanza de sobrevivir a esta crisis sin precedentes y a la presión estadounidense tienen que moverse rápido con la implementación de la reforma y el logro de resultados tangibles”, comentó a AP.

Expectativas mixtas

Los cubanos recibieron con sensaciones ambiguas la reforma.

Para Adolfo Sánchez, un empleado de un negocio privado de 63 años, “creo que con esas medidas va a haber una mejoría... en este momento tan difícil que estamos viviendo".

“Si tengo 30 horas sin corriente, ¿cómo voy a ver los anuncios en la televisión? Me voy para el trabajo a oscuras y regreso a la casa a oscuras”, se quejó Juana Pérez, una vendedora de artículos para el hogar de 54 años. “Esto va a seguir peor y peor cada día”, dijo con pesimismo.

Carrying a cross, people stood at a distance as the small coffin was lowered into the ground by masked and gloved health workers, and a Catholic priest prayed over her body.

“It’s a feeling of sadness because we have lost one of our own, a daughter of the church," said Father Innocent Ndogo.

“As we have always said, the Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.”

Ituri, the region at the center of the current outbreak, has reported more than 90% of the cases. The response has been complicated by residents clashing with healthcare professionals over disrupted burials and the response to the outbreak, which has been militarized at times.

The impersonal nature of safe burial practices and the severity of the epidemic were evident on Friday as only healthcare workers in protective gear were allowed to handle the coffin and the burial.

Bundibugyo, the type of Ebola in this outbreak, has no approved treatment or vaccine, and even some health workers have said they don’t have the masks, gloves and other gear to protect themselves.

During a visit to Bunia on Friday, Congolese Health Minister Roger Kamba said that there were now 933 confirmed cases and 245 deaths from the current outbreak. Kamba also stated that all health centers will be free in Ituri and that healthcare workers bonuses will be doubled.

There are 35,000 suspected potential contacts, Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

Despite the rapid spread of the current outbreak, it is still not nearly as deadly as a 2014 outbreak of Ebola that killed more than 11,000.

With no approved vaccines or treatments, the Bundibugyo strain was not tested for in the early days. This lack of testing is one of the reasons the outbreak has spread to such an extent. The more common Zaire virus, for which there is a vaccine, was responsible for most of Congo’s past 16 outbreaks of the disease.

Alex Lock, a communications officer at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, asked people to resist feeling indifferent.

"She was a baby. She had her whole life ahead of her. Unfortunately, she was taken by the disease, a disease that, as you know, is transmitted from one person to another," Lock said.

Although the outbreak is concentrated in Ituri, cases have also been recorded in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces and have spread across the border to Uganda, where 19 confirmed cases have been reported and two people have died.

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The dogs were removed from Ridglan Farms, a Wisconsin facility that bred beagles for research, before arriving at Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Loxahatchee.

Now, the beagles are headed to a rescue partner in New York — with help from Pilots to the Rescue.

“Seeing those videos it’s heartbreaking that they’re all in cramped quarters and being tortured,” said Michael Schneider, CEO of Pilots to the Rescue.

The organization previously helped transport some of the dogs from Wisconsin to West Palm Beach and is now helping move them to their next destination.

“This is our second transport. So the first transport we did in our main rescue plane, from Wisconsin, so we were at ground zero,” Schneider said.

Schneider said getting the dogs to their next stop quickly helps reduce stress, especially after what they experienced.

“Because these beagles have been mistreated and they’re a little skittish, the faster we can get them from point A to point B, the less stress on the animals,” he said.

Schneider told Local 10’s Isabella Martin that the flight is being made possible through donated support, including a board member providing flight skills and contributing to the costs, while Boeing is sponsoring some of the flight hours.

As the plane prepares for takeoff, the 15 beagles are leaving their past behind with every mile — and for the people who helped rescue them, every hour in the air is worth it.

Los perros fueron retirados de Ridglan Farms, una instalación de Wisconsin que criaba beagles para investigación, antes de llegar a Big Dog Ranch Rescue en Loxahatchee.

Ahora, los beagles se dirigen a una organización de rescate asociada en Nueva York, con la ayuda de Pilots to the Rescue.

“Ver esos videos es desgarrador. Están todos en espacios reducidos y siendo torturados”, dijo Michael Schneider, director ejecutivo de Pilots to the Rescue.

La organización ayudó anteriormente a transportar algunos de los perros desde Wisconsin hasta West Palm Beach y ahora está colaborando para llevarlos a su próximo destino.

“Este es nuestro segundo traslado. El primero lo hicimos en nuestro principal avión de rescate desde Wisconsin, así que estuvimos en el punto de origen”, dijo Schneider.

Schneider señaló que llevar a los perros rápidamente a su siguiente parada ayuda a reducir el estrés, especialmente después de lo que han vivido.

“Debido a que estos beagles han sido maltratados y están un poco asustadizos, cuanto más rápido podamos llevarlos del punto A al punto B, menos estrés sufrirán los animales”, dijo.

Schneider dijo a Isabella Martin, de Local 10, que el vuelo es posible gracias a apoyo donado, incluido un miembro de la junta directiva que aporta sus habilidades de vuelo y contribuye a los costos, mientras que Boeing patrocina parte de las horas de vuelo.

Mientras el avión se prepara para despegar, los 15 beagles dejan atrás su pasado con cada milla recorrida y, para las personas que ayudaron a rescatarlos, cada hora en el aire vale la pena.

Both trains were traveling south to London St. Pancras station when they collided outside the town of Bedford around 5:15 p.m., according to information on rail tracking websites. Emergency services deployed a number of resources to the scene including an air ambulance and hazardous incident team from the East of England Ambulance Service.

“We know that a number of people have been injured and one person has very sadly died,’’ police said in a statement. “A major incident has been declared, and officers are continuing to respond at the scene alongside colleagues from Bedfordshire Police and the local Fire and Rescue and Ambulance Services.''

The East of England Ambulance Service later said that 11 people had very serious injuries, 22 were seriously injured and 56 had minor injuries.

Peter Knapp, a train passenger, said he was in the rear train when the collision occurred without any warning.

“There was a moment of being flung into the chair in front, and then I saw smoke," Knapp said. “People were crying, screaming. People were so scared and confused.”

“I got up and I saw a lot of people who were unable to speak, had broken legs," he added. "And then I managed to get out of the train and because I’m quite thin I was able to squeeze out through the gap in the doors.”

Photos and videos posted on social media showed dozens of people, some with bandages but many who appeared uninjured, standing and sitting among emergency vehicles parked on a road that runs parallel to the train tracks.

The RMT union, which represents many railway workers, said it was monitoring the situation and expressed its concern over reports of “serious injuries” sustained by both train staff and passengers.

East Midlands Railway said in a statement that the 4:40 p.m. train from Corby to St. Pancras had been involved in the collision with the 3:50 p.m. train from Nottingham to the same station. The company said it had cancelled all trains to and from St. Pancras for the rest of Friday and it was unable to confirm the schedule for Saturday.

The Dallas Wings rookie joins No. 3 pick Awa Fam as part of the new 5-on-5 league that will play all over the world from November to April.

So far about a dozen players have said they’ll be playing in Project B, headlined by Nneka Ogwumike, Alyssa Thomas, Jonquel Jones, Jewell Loyd and Kelsey Mitchell. Many young players from around the world are expected to play in the league as well.

Project B will feature six teams with 11 players and compete in seven two-week tournaments across the globe in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Valencia, Spain, and Tokyo have already been announced as two of the cities that will host the new league. Tokyo will have games from March 25-April 4.

Host Broadcast Services, the broadcaster of the FIFA World Cup, will be the league’s production partner. They plan to stream all games.

Project B will have 66 players divided into six teams. According to the organization, women’s players will receive larger salaries than those currently offered by the WNBA. Fudd is making $500,000 as the No. 1 pick. The former UConn star had an NIL deal with Unrivaled, but that was only for college.

Fudd is averaging 12.7 points while shooting 50.7% from the field.

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Polling currently has Donalds as the front-runner for the Republican nomination and the congressman, who represents the Fort Myers and Naples areas, has been endorsed by President Donald Trump.

In a one-on-one interview with Local 10 News, he spoke about whether he’d be on the debate stage with the other Republicans seeking the office.

“If the race was close and we were battling it out, we’d be debating right now,” Donalds said.

It certainly isn’t happening at the “Sunshine State Showdown” being put on by the Republican Party of Florida.

The party says candidates must meet three benchmarks to qualify for an official gubernatorial debate: at least 10% in the polls, $10 million raised and 10,000 donors.

Right now, only Donalds meets all three requirements.

“Campaigns, like everything else in life, (are) a competition,” Donalds said. “It’s not a charity. You don’t just get to show up because you have a title or because you think you’re owed anything.”

In the past, Donalds has used the phrase “participation trophy” surrounding the topic -- something one of his competitors, Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, fought against this week, talking about his service as a Green Beret.

“That ‘participation trophy’ line is a bit of a slap in the face,” he said. “This is my ‘participation trophy.’”

Even Gov. Ron DeSantis says his party’s debate guidelines might be too stringent.

“I wouldn’t have qualified when I ran in ‘18 for what they were trying to do,” he said.

But Donalds is holding firm.

“The dynamics are totally different and I respect the governor and all that he’s done, but this is not 2018,” he said, having said earlier that “it’s not about ‘who does it hurt?’, it’s about who’s taking their message to the people of Florida.”

The Sunshine State showdown is still holding congressional debates and will have forums for all of the gubernatorial candidates to speak individually, but there is no formal debate for them.

That’s set for June 27 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Local 10 Digital Journalist Chris Gothner contributed to this report.

Las encuestas actualmente muestran a Donalds como el favorito para la nominación republicana y el congresista, que representa las áreas de Fort Myers y Naples, ha sido respaldado por el presidente Donald Trump.

En una entrevista individual con Local 10 News, habló sobre si estará en el escenario de debate con los otros republicanos que buscan el cargo.

“Si la contienda estuviera reñida y estuviéramos compitiendo de cerca, estaríamos debatiendo ahora mismo”, dijo Donalds.

Ciertamente eso no está ocurriendo en el “Sunshine State Showdown” organizado por el Partido Republicano de Florida.

El partido dice que los candidatos deben cumplir tres criterios para calificar a un debate oficial para gobernador: al menos 10% en las encuestas, haber recaudado $10,000,000 USD y contar con 10,000 donantes.

En este momento, solo Donalds cumple con los tres requisitos.

“Las campañas, como todo lo demás en la vida, son una competencia”, dijo Donalds. “No es una organización benéfica. No puedes simplemente presentarte porque tienes un cargo o porque crees que se te debe algo”.

En el pasado, Donalds ha utilizado la frase “trofeo de participación” sobre este tema, algo contra lo que uno de sus competidores, el vicegobernador Jay Collins, se manifestó esta semana al hablar de su servicio como Green Beret.

“Esa frase de ‘trofeo de participación’ es un poco una falta de respeto”, dijo. “Este es mi ‘trofeo de participación’”.

Incluso el gobernador Ron DeSantis dice que las reglas de debate de su partido podrían ser demasiado estrictas.

“Yo no habría calificado cuando me postulé en 2018 con lo que estaban tratando de hacer”, dijo.

Pero Donalds se mantiene firme.

“La dinámica es totalmente diferente y respeto al gobernador y todo lo que ha hecho, pero esto no es 2018”, dijo, después de haber afirmado anteriormente que “no se trata de ‘¿a quién perjudica?’, sino de quién está llevando su mensaje a la gente de Florida”.

El Sunshine State Showdown todavía realizará debates para el Congreso y tendrá foros para que todos los candidatos a gobernador hablen individualmente, pero no habrá un debate formal entre ellos.

Eso está programado para el 27 de junio en el Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

El periodista digital de Local 10 Chris Gothner contribuyó a este informe.

United States coach Mauricio Pochettino made the announcement during an interview with Fox about 90 minutes before the kickoff at Lumen Field in Seattle. On Thursday, Pochettino said Pulisic is in a “much better” spot than he was last Friday, and that he would be available for the Americans' next game against Turkey if he could not play against Australia.

“Today, he was training in the morning in the camp and I’ve seen the feelings are good,” Pochettino told Fox on Friday. “I hope as soon as possible he can be ready to be selected again and to be part of the team. Now, we need to be focused on our team and the players that are going to play."

The move is a setback for a U.S. team that defeated Paraguay 4-1 in its opener on June 12 and with a win would clinch advancement to the round of 32.

Pulisic left the game at halftime after helping create the opening goal by splitting a pair of defenders before passing to Weston McKennie, then setting up Folarin Balogun for the second goal.

Pochettino said the 27-year-old attacker was kicked in the back of his left calf during a training session ahead of the game and felt tightness during the match. Pulisic trained on his own in the leadup to the game against Australia.

Pulisic has 33 goals in 87 international appearances.

Pepi was the only addition to the U.S. starting lineup. Pochettino decided to insert the 23-year-old striker, who was one of the final cuts from the 2022 World Cup roster, over a few other accomplished players.

Brenden Aaronson, a winger who had four goals and five assists for Leeds last season, and Tim Weah, a Marseille forward who can impact a game with his speed on either wing, both remain on the bench.

Gio Reyna, who scored the Americans’ final goal against Paraguay and has provided moments of dynamic playmaking from the wing, will be a reserve once again.

With Pepi in for Pulisic, the U.S. hopes to reward its supporters and justify the wave of momentum that is building around the team.

“What excites me is that the entire world, the entire nation is behind us,” midfielder Cristian Roldan said. “I think that they enjoyed watching us play, and at the end of the day what we want to do is inspire and motivate the next generation. ... We have to build off it, and that’s the truth. We can’t just talk about it: We have to show out against Australia.”

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Investigators with the Miami Police Department said Dhir Patel would visit the store “to sell items” in exchange for money.

It happened at Savonches, a retailer that, according to its website, sells “rare luxury clothing, bags, accessories, jewelry, watches and more.” It’s located at 78 NW 37th St.

An MPD arrest report states that Patel, of Boynton Beach, “would walk throughout the store selecting merchandise” during his visits and detectives said “CCTV footage reportedly shows the subject concealing clothing items inside a bag he brought with him.”

Police said the thefts happened during a period from March 30 to last Monday. All told, investigators said he stole about $41,550 worth of designer goods.

“We originally started at $41,000 since we’ve calculated it up, it’s about $55-to-60,000 now,“ owner Louis Negrich later told Local 10 News.”

MPD officers said they arrested Patel on a grand theft charge on Saturday after he came back to the store to sell more items. Authorities said he made a confession, which was redacted from the publicly-released report.

“Just don’t steal,” Negrich said. “It’s just as simple as that. It’s just, everything comes back to bite you.”

Court records show Patel posted a $5,000 bond and was released from jail.

In a statement on Friday, Patel’s attorney’s, Amelia Ravelo and Richard Cooper, said that their “client maintains his innocence and will vigorously defend against these allegations.”

“These charges don’t tell a complete account of what actually happened here. More evidence will come to light in due time,” they said. “We ask the public not to rush to judgment while the facts are reviewed through the legal process.”

The Obamas, joined by former “Reading Rainbow” host LeVar Burton, also read “Where the Wild Things Are" to 25 school children at the Chicago Public Library branch inside the center. When the former president read Maurice Sendak's line about being “king of all the wild things,” Michelle Obama interjected with, “Although there were no kings,” to applause.

Later, awed guests shook hands with the Obamas against the backdrop of a colorful, 38-foot-tall painting depicting a map of Chicago stretching to the ceiling, inspired by Carl Sandburg’s 1914 poem about the city: “stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.”

“It was perfect. It was great,” said 18-year-old Houefa Agassounon from Chicago after the surprise visit from the Obamas. “I was literally crying. I asked for a hug and everything.”

She wrote a letter to the Obama Foundation last year, asking if she could be there when it opened. She said meeting the Obamas was a bonus.

“This is just the greatest thing of my 18 years of life,” she said.

The Juneteenth opening followed a star-studded dedication ceremony where the Obamas gave rousing speeches to an audience including three former presidents, their former first ladies, and a host of politicians, A-list celebrities, musicians, athletes and others. Thousands more joined the livestream from a nearby park.

A weekend of events is planned for the sprawling campus on Chicago's South Side near where the Obamas lived and began his political career. It is adjacent to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in the lakefront park, and not far from the University of Chicago.

Tickets for the general public are sold out through the end of November. But those lucky enough to score them for the first day got the unexpected thrill of meeting the Obamas themselves.

The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.

The tower’s design is meant to depict four hands coming together in solidarity. Wrapped around one side are 5-foot tall concrete capital letters, an excerpt of Obama’s 2015 speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. It begins, “You are America.”

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Davie Fire Rescue officials said crews responded to a minor crash involving a vehicle towing a petting zoo trailer.

They said a man was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following the crash.

Officials also confirmed that the animals inside the trailer — including goats, ducks and chickens — were not injured but needed a safe place to wait while crews helped the owner transfer them into a replacement trailer.

Davie firefighters said they assisted with moving the animals and helped keep them calm and secure until the traveling petting zoo was back on the road.

They said all the animals safely made it into the new trailer following the crash.

No other details about the crash were immediately released.

Funcionarios de Davie Fire Rescue informaron que las unidades respondieron a un accidente menor que involucró un vehículo que remolcaba un tráiler de zoológico interactivo.

Indicaron que un hombre fue trasladado a un hospital cercano con lesiones que no ponen en peligro su vida tras el accidente.

Las autoridades también confirmaron que los animales dentro del tráiler, incluidos cabras, patos y gallinas, no resultaron heridos, pero necesitaban un lugar seguro donde esperar mientras las unidades ayudaban al propietario a trasladarlos a un tráiler de reemplazo.

Los bomberos de Davie señalaron que ayudaron a mover a los animales y a mantenerlos tranquilos y seguros hasta que el zoológico interactivo itinerante pudo volver a la carretera.

Indicaron que todos los animales fueron trasladados de manera segura al nuevo tráiler después del accidente.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles sobre el accidente.

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Today, the 41-year-old South Florida resident is a licensed psychotherapist, nonprofit founder, wife and mother of three adult children. She is also a foster parent who has opened her home to children in need, helping provide the stability and love she once longed for herself.

But Rodriguez’s journey to success began with trauma, loss and uncertainty.

“Family for me started with my biological family,” Rodriguez said. “However, that was disrupted and I was placed in care and moved from foster home to foster home.”

As a child, Rodriguez was sexually assaulted. Her mother struggled with substance abuse, and Rodriguez eventually went to live with her grandmother. Instead of finding the safety she needed, she faced additional hardship.

“Unfortunately, my grandmother struggled with alcohol abuse and her abuse of alcohol caused her to physically abuse me for many years,” Rodriguez said.

Eventually, Rodriguez found her way to Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services, a turning point she credits with changing the course of her life.

“When I walked through these doors as a teenager, I didn’t know how impactful it would be,” she said.

After time at Miami Bridge, Rodriguez was placed with a foster mother she still calls “Mom” today.

“Miami Bridge was the last group home and my last stop was my foster mother who I call mom now,” she said.

For the first time, Rodriguez experienced what it felt like to be valued, protected and supported.

Another major turning point came when she became a mother herself at just 17 years old.

“I have a whole human to be in charge of and I want to do something for her,” Rodriguez recalled.

Determined to build a better future, Rodriguez graduated from high school and enrolled in college with the support of her foster mother and case manager.

A psychology course sparked a passion that would shape the rest of her life.

“I took this one psychology course and this is what I want to do,” she said.

To help support herself and her daughter, Rodriguez modeled while attending school. She earned a bachelor’s degree, followed by a master’s degree in mental health. She later completed a doctorate and continues pursuing advanced education.

“I got my doctorate, and I’m on my third doctorate and I’m running my own practice with therapy,” she said.

Today, Rodriguez owns a therapy practice and leads Sadie’s Daughter, a nonprofit organization named in honor of her late mother. The organization advocates for children and young adults in foster care, providing resources, mentorship and support.

“I feel like anyone can be a Sadie’s Daughter or a Sadie’s child or Sadie’s kid,” Rodriguez said.

The nonprofit has already helped hundreds of young people, and Rodriguez hopes its reach continues to grow.

“There have been hundreds of kids served and I hope the numbers continue to grow as the years go by,” she said.

Her commitment to foster children extends beyond her professional work. Nearly four years ago, Rodriguez and her family became foster parents.

“We have been fostering for almost four years now,” she said.

During that time, 14 children have come through their home.

“And we have had 14 children come through our doors, (who) we have raised and brought up as our own,” Rodriguez said.

For Rodriguez, the most important lesson she hopes to pass on is one she learned through her own experiences.

“What is the greatest gift you have and can give to your children? Empathy,” she said.

Those words now define the mission of a woman who once knew neither empathy nor empowerment, but who has dedicated her life to helping others heal.

Her message to children facing difficult circumstances is simple:

“You woke up this morning. You’re here. Your story doesn’t stop here,” she said.

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Las autoridades federales ordenaron el año pasado la retirada de los rebaños de un territorio indígena protegido en la isla fluvial más grande del mundo, la isla de Bananal. Argumentaron que la tierra estaba reservada para los pueblos indígenas y la conservación, y que los rebaños que ganaderos externos mantenían en la zona eran ilegales y contribuían a la degradación del hábitat.

Para cumplir la orden, los vaqueros arrearon más de 100.000 reses fuera de la isla cuando los ríos estaban lo suficientemente bajos. Pero la retirada ha creado nuevos problemas para los residentes indígenas, que habían llegado a depender del dinero que ganaban al arrendar la tierra a los ganaderos.

Los hechos subrayan el desafío de equilibrar la conservación, los intereses indígenas y la presión del agronegocio, uno de los sectores más poderosos de Brasil, que es el mayor productor de carne de res del mundo. Esta industria representa cerca del 20% de la producción global y el 6% del producto interno bruto del país.

La protección de los territorios indígenas es considerada ampliamente como una de las formas más eficaces de frenar la deforestación en la Amazonía, la selva tropical más grande del mundo y un regulador clave del clima global.

Brasil ha avanzado en la reducción de la deforestación, pero la ganadería sigue siendo su principal motor. Los ganaderos talan grandes extensiones de bosque para que el ganado pueda pastar.

El estado de Tocantins, donde se encuentra la isla de Bananal, fue uno de los estados con mayores niveles de deforestación en Brasil en 2025, según MapBiomas, una organización sin fines de lucro que monitorea el uso del suelo. La biodiversidad está amenazada debido a que los árboles que absorben la contaminación son reemplazados por ganado que emite metano, un gas de efecto invernadero que contribuye al calentamiento global.

El ganado produjo beneficios y conflictos en la isla

La ley brasileña prohíbe la actividad comercial en tierras indígenas. La cría de ganado solo se permite para subsistencia.

Sin embargo, en la práctica, varias partes de la isla de Bananal se arrendaron durante décadas. Bajo el sistema informal, los ganaderos pagaban a los líderes de las aldeas una cuota mensual de unos 15 reales (3 dólares) por cabeza, muy por debajo de los aproximadamente 60 reales (12 dólares) que se cobraban fuera de la isla.

Cuando había más de 100.000 cabezas de ganado en la isla, los ingresos mensuales por arrendamiento podían alcanzar 1,5 millones de reales (290.000 dólares). Los pagos iban a los caciques indígenas, quienes entregaban parte del dinero a asociaciones locales.

“Con los años, el ganado ha cubierto muchos de los gastos de nuestra comunidad”, afirmó Cleiton Javae, cacique de la aldea Txuiri, mencionando escuelas, medicinas, transporte y festividades tradicionales.

Pero algunos residentes sostienen que el dinero se concentró entre los líderes y no benefició a los cerca de 5.000 habitantes de más de 40 aldeas.

“La ley exige consulta y beneficios compartidos”, señaló Leandro Milhomem, jefe del IBAMA, la agencia ambiental de Brasil, en Tocantins. “En cambio, algunos caciques tenían importantes recursos mientras, en la misma comunidad, los niños morían de desnutrición”.

Residentes indígenas dijeron a la AP que los vaqueros también cercaron partes de la isla y restringieron el acceso a zonas de cultivo que estaban destinadas al uso comunitario.

Los líderes que respaldaban acuerdos con ganaderos dicen que esos incidentes fueron aislados y sostienen que se ha culpado a la cría de ganado por fallas más amplias de política pública. Aun así, reconocen que el sistema se salió de control debido a que los ganaderos llevaron mucho más ganado del declarado.

“La situación se volvió insostenible, y retirar el ganado fue la única alternativa”, afirmó Javae.

Los residentes indígenas dicen que son dueños del ganado que queda en la isla. Pero las autoridades ambientales incautaron en marzo 550 cabezas de ganado y emitieron 21 actas de infracción, según documentos revisados por The Associated Press. En una de ellas se menciona a un vaquero que dijo que un cacique indígena le pidió que afirmara falsamente que el rebaño era de propiedad indígena para evitar sanciones.

La ganadería provocó acidificación del suelo y avivó incendios forestales

La isla de Bananal se ubica entre los ríos Javae y Araguaia, en la confluencia de los principales estados productores de soya y ganado de Brasil: Tocantins, Mato Grosso y Pará.

Cuando los colonizadores europeos llegaron a la zona a fines del siglo XVIII, encontraron la isla habitada por pueblos indígenas y cubierta de bananales silvestres que inspiraron su nombre: Ilha do Bananal, en portugués.

La región permaneció prácticamente ignorada por los colonos y el gobierno brasileño hasta la década de 1950, cuando fue designada como área protegida. Al mismo tiempo, las autoridades comenzaron a promover la ganadería no indígena mediante acuerdos de arrendamiento con comunidades locales.

La ganadería ofreció a las aldeas una posible fuente de ingresos, pero también alimentó la desigualdad y los problemas ambientales.

La ganadería provocó acidificación del suelo y avivó incendios forestales, según la agencia ambiental de Brasil; en diversas investigaciones se encontró que los incendios a menudo se iniciaban cerca de áreas de pastoreo. Los ganaderos han usado durante mucho tiempo el fuego para gestionar la tierra y renovar los pastizales.

En la isla viven tres grupos indígenas: los javae, los karaja y los ava-canoeiro. Durante mucho tiempo, los javae han mantenido estrechos vínculos con ganaderos no indígenas. Muchos forasteros se casaron con mujeres indígenas y se asentaron en la isla. A través de esas relaciones, los ganaderos obtuvieron acceso para desarrollar una actividad económica dentro de un territorio legalmente protegido.

Las culturas tradicionales de la isla y las prácticas no indígenas se aprecian en los contrastes. Casas de ladrillo se alzan junto a estructuras de madera y palma techadas con paja. En la aldea Txuiri, los niños juegan con arcos y flechas cerca de una iglesia protestante. En otra aldea, Boa Esperanca, Lucirene Javae, la más anciana de la comunidad, se preparaba un día reciente para asar tortugas para el almuerzo mientras veía videos de cocina en YouTube.

Los pueblos indígenas de Brasil replantean modelos económicos

Los javae trabajan con The Nature Conservancy, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la conservación de tierras, para desarrollar un plan de gestión territorial en la isla que tenga en cuenta sus necesidades sociales, ambientales y económicas, junto con vías para satisfacerlas.

Líderes javae y otros representantes indígenas visitaron en mayo al pueblo macuxi en Roraima, un estado del norte de la Amazonía considerado un modelo de uso de la agricultura para generar ingresos y fortalecer los derechos territoriales.

En la década de 1980, líderes macuxi comenzaron a criar ganado para ayudar a recuperar territorio bajo presión de agricultores, mineros y acaparadores de tierras. El área fue demarcada oficialmente como territorio indígena apenas en 2005.

Hoy, los macuxi poseen colectivamente unas 45.000 cabezas de ganado, de acuerdo con Ivo Aureliano Macuxi, defensor de los derechos indígenas y miembro del Consejo Indígena de Roraima.

Las experiencias de los macuxi y de los pueblos de la isla de Bananal reflejan un debate más amplio entre grupos indígenas en Brasil sobre cómo equilibrar la actividad económica con la protección de sus derechos y del medio ambiente, afirmó.

Ese debate también ha avanzado en la minería. El juez del Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil, Flávio Dino, dictaminó en febrero que el pueblo Cinta Larga, que vive en una región que abarca los estados amazónicos de Mato Grosso y Rondonia, tiene derecho a extraer minerales dentro de su propio territorio.

Aureliano sostuvo que las comunidades indígenas necesitan marcos legales que respalden sus territorios y respeten la diversidad de los 391 pueblos indígenas de Brasil.

“No se puede aplicar un único modelo como plantilla para otras tierras indígenas”, afirmó, sino que hay que adaptar los planes a “cada región, cada territorio, cada pueblo”.

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Hoy, esta residente del sur de Florida de 41 años es psicoterapeuta licenciada, fundadora de una organización sin fines de lucro, esposa y madre de tres hijos adultos. También es madre de crianza y ha abierto las puertas de su hogar a menores necesitados, ayudándolos a encontrar la estabilidad y el amor que ella misma anheló durante su infancia.

Pero el camino de Rodriguez hacia el éxito comenzó con trauma, pérdida e incertidumbre.

“La familia para mí comenzó con mi familia biológica”, dijo Rodriguez. “Sin embargo, eso se interrumpió y fui colocada bajo cuidado y trasladada de un hogar de crianza a otro”.

Cuando era niña, Rodriguez fue víctima de agresión sexual. Su madre tenía problemas de abuso de sustancias y, finalmente, Rodriguez fue a vivir con su abuela. En lugar de encontrar la seguridad que necesitaba, enfrentó nuevas dificultades.

“Desafortunadamente, mi abuela tenía problemas de abuso de alcohol y su consumo de alcohol provocó que me maltratara físicamente durante muchos años”, dijo Rodriguez.

Con el tiempo, Rodriguez llegó a Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services, un punto de inflexión que, según ella, cambió el rumbo de su vida.

“Cuando crucé estas puertas siendo adolescente, no sabía cuán impactante sería”, dijo.

Después de pasar por Miami Bridge, Rodriguez fue colocada con una madre de crianza a quien todavía llama “mamá”.

“Miami Bridge fue el último hogar grupal y mi última parada fue mi madre de crianza, a quien ahora llamo mamá”, dijo.

Por primera vez, Rodriguez experimentó lo que significaba sentirse valorada, protegida y apoyada.

Otro momento decisivo llegó cuando ella misma se convirtió en madre a los 17 años.

“Tengo a un ser humano completo a mi cargo y quiero hacer algo por ella”, recordó Rodriguez.

Decidida a construir un mejor futuro, se graduó de la escuela secundaria e ingresó a la universidad con el apoyo de su madre de crianza y de su administradora de caso.

Un curso de psicología despertó una pasión que definiría el resto de su vida.

“Tomé un curso de psicología y supe que esto era lo que quería hacer”, dijo.

Para mantenerse a sí misma y a su hija, Rodriguez trabajó como modelo mientras estudiaba. Obtuvo una licenciatura, seguida de una maestría en salud mental. Más adelante completó un doctorado y continúa cursando estudios avanzados.

“Obtuve mi doctorado, estoy en mi tercer doctorado y dirijo mi propia práctica de terapia”, dijo.

Hoy, Rodriguez es propietaria de una práctica de terapia y dirige Sadie’s Daughter, una organización sin fines de lucro nombrada en honor a su difunta madre. La organización defiende los derechos de niños y jóvenes adultos en el sistema de cuidado de crianza, brindando recursos, mentoría y apoyo.

“Siento que cualquiera puede ser una hija de Sadie, un hijo de Sadie o un niño de Sadie”, dijo Rodriguez.

La organización ya ha ayudado a cientos de jóvenes y Rodriguez espera que su alcance siga creciendo.

“Ha habido cientos de niños beneficiados y espero que esas cifras sigan creciendo con el paso de los años”, dijo.

Su compromiso con los menores en cuidado de crianza va más allá de su trabajo profesional. Hace casi cuatro años, Rodriguez y su familia se convirtieron en padres de crianza.

“Hemos sido padres de crianza durante casi cuatro años”, dijo.

Durante ese tiempo, 14 menores han pasado por su hogar.

“Y hemos tenido 14 menores que han pasado por nuestra casa, a quienes hemos criado y cuidado como si fueran nuestros propios hijos”, dijo Rodriguez.

Para Rodriguez, la lección más importante que espera transmitir es una que aprendió a través de sus propias experiencias.

“¿Cuál es el mayor regalo que tienes y que puedes darles a tus hijos? Empatía”, dijo.

Esas palabras ahora definen la misión de una mujer que alguna vez no conoció ni la empatía ni el empoderamiento, pero que ha dedicado su vida a ayudar a otros a sanar.

Su mensaje para los menores que enfrentan circunstancias difíciles es simple:

“Te despertaste esta mañana. Estás aquí. Tu historia no termina aquí”, dijo.

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On Friday, the Oscar-winning actor posted an Instagram video in which she grins as she reveals a baby bump and hurries off camera. The 43-year-old Hathaway captioned the video “Baby, I'm yours” and for the soundtrack used the Barbara Lewis hit of the same name.

When asked for confirmation, a Hathaway spokesman responded, “I think the video is pretty obvious.”

Hathaway and husband Adam Shulman are already the parents of Jonathan Shulman and Jack Shulman. Friday's news arrives at an especially busy time for the actor, whose films this year include “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” “Mother Mary” and “The Odyssey.”

Funcionarios de Lauderhill Fire Rescue informaron que las unidades acudieron al incendio y señalaron que la familia no pudo permanecer en la vivienda, ubicada en la cuadra 2000 de Northwest 43rd Terrace, después del incidente.

Las autoridades indicaron que el menor fue transportado por una unidad de soporte vital básico para ser evaluado. No han divulgado el género ni la identidad del menor.

Los investigadores señalaron que el incendio se originó por una olla dejada sin supervisión sobre la estufa.

Indicaron que la madre y dos menores fueron desplazados por el incendio, y que se contactó a la Cruz Roja Estadounidense para ayudar a la familia con alojamiento temporal y servicios de apoyo.

Hasta el momento no se han reportado otras lesiones.

Take Folarin Balogun who scored twice in the United States’ opening win over Paraguay. He chose to play for the U.S. where he was born instead of England where he grew up or Nigeria where his parents came from.

Or Yasin Ayari, who picked Sweden over his father’s native Tunisia, a decision that came into focus as Sweden defeated the North African team 5-1 with two goals from Ayari.

And there’s Ayyoub Bouaddi, an 18-year-old standout who switched national teams from France to Morocco just weeks before the tournament kicked off.

The World Cup in the U.S., Mexico and Canada is the biggest melting pot in the tournament’s history. Decades of migration are reflected in the rosters of major European teams like France, England and Germany. Meanwhile, many teams in Africa and the Caribbean rely heavily on their diaspora, made easier by a relaxation of FIFA’s eligibility rules.

Dozens, if not hundreds, of players at this World Cup are playing for a country other than the one in which they were born. Many with mixed backgrounds switched allegiances when turning senior, following their heart – or their ambition.

Players from France are everywhere

Nearly 100 players at this World Cup were born in France, but only 23 of them play for the French national team. The others – France-born players with family ties worldwide – make up significant parts of the squads of Algeria, Cape Verde, Congo, Ghana, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Tunisia.

Bouaddi, one of the top performers in Morocco’s 1-1 draw with Brazil, was born in France and nurtured at top-tier club Lille. He played for France at the youth level and was captain of France’s under-21 team as recently as March, but switched to Morocco, where his family came from, just in time for the World Cup.

"I’m very proud of my decision and very happy to represent my country, Morocco,” he said before the tournament. “My family is happy and I hope great things will come in the upcoming competitions.”

Moroccan soccer federation president Faouzi Lekjaa personally visited Bouaddi at his home and met with the president of Lille to outline the North African kingdom’s soccer ambitions and the professional environment it offers, according to Moroccan state television.

Morocco, which in 2022 became the first African country to reach the World Cup semifinals, relies heavily on players from its diaspora in Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. It has 19 foreign-born players in its 26-man squad.

Defender Achraf Hakimi was born in Madrid and Real Madrid forward Brahim Diaz played one game for Spain before his FIFA switch to Morocco was processed in 2024.

A complex choice for the children of immigrants

Some of the biggest profiles of soccer had to make a choice. Kylian Mbappé was eligible to play for Cameroon or Algeria because of his family background but chose France where he was born and raised. Spain’s Lamine Yamal could have played for Morocco, his father’s homeland.

Brothers Désiré and Guéla Doué took separate paths. Both were born in France but Désiré plays for France while Guéla chose to represent Ivory Coast, where their father is from.

They’re not the only brothers who have ended up on separate World Cup teams. John Souttar represents Scotland while his brother Harry plays for Australia. Nico and Iñaki Williams were born in Spain to Ghanaian parents and while Nico chose to play for Spain, Iñaki picked Ghana.

Tunisia tried to recruit Ayari, the Sweden midfielder who plays for Brighton in the Premier League, for its national team based on his father’s Tunisian background. However, his father, Azzouz Ayari, pushed back. He told Swedish media that he felt his son should represent the country in which he was born and raised.

“I am an immigrant, but my children, no. Yasin is a Swede, with Tunisian background,” Azzouz Ayari told newspaper Aftonbladet. “I want him to play for Sweden because I want him to feel that he is giving back to the country that really took care of him.”

Sweden fans won’t argue with that decision. Ayari scored twice in the team’s opener against Tunisia but muted his celebrations out of respect for his father’s home country.

Birthright citizen Balogun chose the US over England

Balogun’s two goals in the 4-1 win against Paraguay made him – and his background – more widely known to the American public. He played for England at youth level, except for a brief stint with the U.S. under-18 team, but switched to represent the United States in 2023.

That was possible because of birthright citizenship rules in the U.S. – Balogun was born in New York, while his Nigerian parents were visiting.

Balogun has cited the passion of U.S. soccer fans that he experienced while visiting a training camp in Florida in March 2023 as part of the reason why he decided to represent the United States. When they found out he was in Florida, many fans urged him to play for the U.S. national team. He also met with U.S. team officials.

“I’ve always said the fans gave me so much motivation and showed me so much support. The most important thing has always been to be able to repay that,” Balogun said after the Paraguay game last week. “I just want to continue to show the fans I made the right decision."

Whether he could have gotten a place in the highly competitive England squad is unclear. At the time, then-England coach Gareth Southgate said they were monitoring his progress but couldn't promise anything.

FIFA sets the rules

Switching nationalities is nothing new in soccer. Some of the sport’s biggest stars represented multiple countries, including Ferenc Puskás, who was the leader of Hungary’s “Mighty Magyars” in the 1950s but played for Spain at the 1962 World Cup.

That Spain squad also included Puskás’s Real Madrid teammate Alfredo Di Stéfano, whose international career started with his native Argentina.

In modern soccer, FIFA intervened in 2004 amid concern Brazilian players were being naturalized with a passport too easily by other countries, including Qatar.

A “clear connection” with the country was insisted on, which could be two years of residence or a grandparent born there.

FIFA’s then-president Sepp Blatter later aimed to “stop this farce” warning that at a 32-team World Cup “you will have 16 full of Brazilian players.”

The residence demand on players aged 18 or over became five years in 2008, and a proposal at the 2011 FIFA Congress by the United Arab Emirates to cut it to three was rejected.

Dual- or multiple-national players have been “cap-tied” by FIFA to any team they represented in a senior competitive game. Those who played only in friendlies or at youth level could apply to switch.

FIFA eased its rules in 2020 to allow more eligibility changes, but players are locked to a nation if they play at a finals tournament of the World Cup or continental championship.

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AP reporter Akram Oubachir in Casablanca, Morocco, contributed to this report.

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Lauderhill Fire Rescue officials said crews responded to the fire and confirmed the family living in the home, located in the 2000 block of Northwest 43rd Terrace, was unable to remain there following the incident.

Officials said the child was transported by a basic life support unit for evaluation. Authorities have not released the child’s gender or identity.

Investigators said the blaze originated from a pot left unattended on the stove.

They said after the mother and two children were displaced by the fire, the American Red Cross was contacted to assist the victims with temporary housing and support services.

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U.S. vs. Australia, a Group D match, is at 3 p.m.

Scotland vs. Morocco, a Group C match, is at 6 p.m.

Brazil vs. Haiti, a Group C match, is at 8:30 p.m.

Turkey vs. Paraguay, a Group D match, is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Groups’ stage progress

Group A: Mexico reaches Round of 32

Group B: Canada and Switzerland tie for 1st place

Group K: Colombia gets 3 points

Group J: Austria and Argentina each get 3 points

Group I: France and Norway each get 3 points

Group H: Every team sits at 1 point

Group G: Every team sits at 1 point

Group F: Sweden gets 3 points

Group E: Germany and Ivory Coast each get 3 points

Tournament’s schedule

June 20: There are three matches: The Group F, Netherlands vs. Sweden, game is at 1 p.m. The Group E, Germany vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Curaçao, game is at 8 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach fan party: Doors open at 6 p.m. on June 20 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for an event for Uruguayan fans co-hosted by the Consulate General of Uruguay.

June 21: There are five matches: The Group F, Tunisia vs. Japan, game is at midnight. The Group H, Spain vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Iran, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Egypt, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 22: There are four matches: The Group J, Argentina vs. Austria, game is at 1 p.m. The Group I, France vs. Iraq, game is at 5 p.m. The Group I, Norway vs. Senegal, game is at 8 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Algeria, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 8 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 11 a.m. on June 22 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 1 p.m. Argentina vs. Austria match.

June 23: There are four matches: The Group K, Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Ghana, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Panama vs. Croatia, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Congo, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 24: There are six matches: The Group B, Switzerland vs. Canada, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Bosnia vs. Qatar, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Morocco vs. Haiti, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Brazil, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A, South Africa vs. South Korea, game is at 9 p.m. The Group A, Czech Republic vs. Mexico, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 4 p.m. on June 24 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 6 p.m. Scotland vs. Brazil match.

June 25: There are six matches: The Group E, Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Germany, game is at 4 p.m. The Group F, Tunisia vs. Netherlands, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Japan vs. Sweden, game is at 7 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. U.S., game is at 10 p.m. The Group D, Paraguay vs. Australia, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 26: There are six matcuphes: The Group I, Norway vs. France, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Senegal vs. Iraq, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at 8 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Spain, game is at 8 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Belgium, game is at 11 p.m. The Group G, Egypt vs. Iran, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 27: There are six matches: The Group L, Panama vs. England, game is at 5 p.m. The Group L, Croatia vs. Ghana, game is at 5 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Portugal, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group K, Congo vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group J, Algeria vs. Austria, game is at 10 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Argentina, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 7:30 p.m. on June 27. Parking is free. Broward County is offering free Express bus transportation from the arena to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens, to FIFA World Cup ticket holders.

Round of 32 begins

June 28: There is a match at 3 p.m.

Miami watch party: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 29: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 30: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 1: There are three matches at noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 2: There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 3: There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Round of 16 begins

July 4: There are two matches at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 5: There are two matches at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens for the last day from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 6: There are two matches at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 7: There are two matches at Noon and 4 p.m.

Quarterfinals begin

July 9: There is a quarter-final match at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarter-final match at 3 p.m.

July 11: There are two quarter-final matches at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 5 p.m. on July 11. Parking is free.

Semifinals begin

July 14: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 14 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

July 15: There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 15 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

Finals begin

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 18 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 5 p.m. bronze final.

Sunrise ride to stadium: The Amerant Bank Arena has free parking for FIFA World Cup ticket holders who ride Broward County’s free Express bus transportation to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens.

July 19: The final match is at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 1 p.m. on July 19 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 3 p.m. final.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders for the final on July 19. Parking is free.

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El partido entre Estados Unidos y Australia, correspondiente al Grupo D , se jugará a las 3 de la tarde.

El partido entre Escocia y Marruecos, correspondiente al Grupo C , se disputará a las 18:00 horas.

Brasil contra Haití, partido del Grupo C , se juega a las 20:30.

El partido entre Turquía y Paraguay, correspondiente al Grupo D , se jugará a las 23:00.

Fiestas para ver el evento en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra desde las 14:00 hasta la medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Progreso de la etapa de los grupos

Grupo A: México llega a dieciseisavos de final

Grupo B: Canadá y Suiza empatan en el primer lugar.

Grupo K : Colombia consigue 3 puntos.

Grupo J : Austria y Argentina obtienen 3 puntos cada una.

Grupo I : Francia y Noruega obtienen 3 puntos cada una.

Grupo H: Cada equipo tiene 1 punto

Grupo G: Todos los equipos tienen 1 punto.

Grupo F : Suecia consigue 3 puntos

Grupo E : Alemania y Costa de Marfil obtienen 3 puntos cada una.

Calendario del torneo

20 de junio : Hay tres partidos: Grupo F , Países Bajos vs. Suecia, partido a la 1 pm. Grupo E , Alemania vs. Costa de Marfil, partido a las 4 pm. Grupo E , Ecuador vs. Curazao, partido a las 8 pm.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta las 11 de la noche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para aficionados en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 18:00 horas del 20 de junio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para un evento para aficionados uruguayos organizado conjuntamente por el Consulado General de Uruguay.

21 de junio : Hay cinco partidos: Grupo F , Túnez vs. Japón, el partido es a medianoche. Grupo H , España vs. Arabia Saudí, el partido es al mediodía. Grupo G , Bélgica vs. Irán, el partido es a las 15:00. Grupo H , Uruguay vs. Cabo Verde, el partido es a las 18:00. Grupo G , Nueva Zelanda vs. Egipto, el partido es a las 21:00.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 11:00 a 21:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

22 de junio : Hay cuatro partidos: Grupo J , Argentina vs. Austria, partido a la 1 pm. Grupo I , Francia vs. Irak, partido a las 5 pm. Grupo I , Noruega vs. Senegal, partido a las 8 pm. Grupo J , Jordania vs. Argelia, partido a las 11 pm.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas de 12:00 a 20:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 11 de la mañana del 22 de junio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido entre Argentina y Austria que comienza a la 1 de la tarde.

23 de junio : Hay cuatro partidos: Grupo K , Portugal vs. Uzbekistán, partido a la 1 pm. Grupo L , Inglaterra vs. Ghana, partido a las 4 pm. Grupo L , Panamá vs. Croacia, partido a las 7 pm. Grupo K , Colombia vs. Congo, partido a las 10 pm.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la 1 de la madrugada en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

24 de junio : Seis partidos: Grupo B , Suiza vs. Canadá, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo B , Bosnia vs. Qatar, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo C , Marruecos vs. Haití, partido a las 18:00 h. Grupo C , Escocia vs. Brasil, partido a las 18:00 h. Grupo A , Sudáfrica vs. Corea del Sur, partido a las 21:00 h. Grupo A , República Checa vs. México, partido a las 21:00 h.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 14:00 a 21:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 4 pm del 24 de junio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido entre Escocia y Brasil que comienza a las 6 pm.

25 de junio : Seis partidos: Grupo E , Curazao vs. Costa de Marfil, partido a las 16:00 h. Grupo E , Ecuador vs. Alemania, partido a las 16:00 h. Grupo F , Túnez vs. Países Bajos, partido a las 19:00 h. Grupo F , Japón vs. Suecia, partido a las 19:00 h. Grupo D , Turquía vs. Estados Unidos, partido a las 22:00 h. Grupo D , Paraguay vs. Australia, partido a las 22:00 h.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre de 15:00 a 01:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

26 de junio : Hay seis partidos: Grupo I , Noruega vs. Francia, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo I , Senegal vs. Irak, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo H , Cabo Verde vs. Arabia Saudita, partido a las 20:00 h. Grupo H , Uruguay vs. España, partido a las 20:00 h. Grupo G , Nueva Zelanda vs. Bélgica, partido a las 23:00 h. Grupo G , Egipto vs. Irán, partido a las 23:00 h.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 14:00 a 23:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

27 de junio : Seis partidos: Grupo L , Panamá vs. Inglaterra, partido a las 17:00 h. Grupo L , Croacia vs. Ghana, partido a las 17:00 h. Grupo K , Colombia vs. Portugal, partido a las 19:30 h. Grupo K , Congo vs. Uzbekistán, partido a las 19:30 h. Grupo J , Argelia vs. Austria, partido a las 22:00 h. Grupo J , Jordania vs. Argentina, partido a las 22:00 h.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 16:00 a 01:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para ver el partido al amanecer : El Amerant Bank Arena, un recinto cubierto, organiza una fiesta gratuita para quienes tengan entrada a las 19:30 h del 27 de junio. El estacionamiento es gratuito. El condado de Broward ofrece transporte gratuito en autobús exprés desde el estadio hasta el Miami Stadium, también conocido como Hard Rock, en Miami Gardens, para los poseedores de entradas para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA.

Comienza la ronda de 32.

28 de junio : Hay un partido a las 15:00.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 13:00 a 22:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

29 de junio : Hay tres partidos a la 1 pm, 4:30 pm y 9 pm.

Fiestas para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

30 de junio : Hay tres partidos a la 1 pm, a las 5 pm y a las 9 pm.

Fiestas para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

1 de julio : Hay tres partidos a las 12:00, a las 16:00 y a las 21:00.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 11:00 a 23:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

2 de julio : Hay tres partidos a las 15:00, 19:00 y 23:00.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 14:00 a 22:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

3 de julio : Hay tres partidos a las 14:00, 18:00 y 21:30.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 13:00 a 21:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Comienza la ronda de octavos de final.

4 de julio: Hay dos partidos a la 1 pm y a las 5 pm.

Fiestas para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

5 de julio : Hay dos partidos a las 16:00 y a las 20:00.

Fiestas para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas el último día de 15:00 a 23:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

6 de julio : Hay dos partidos a las 15:00 y a las 20:00.

7 de julio : Hay dos partidos a las 12:00 y a las 16:00.

Comienzan los cuartos de final

9 de julio : Hay un partido de cuartos de final a las 16:00.

10 de julio : Hay un partido de cuartos de final a las 15:00.

11 de julio : Hay dos partidos de cuartos de final a las 17:00 y a las 21:00.

Fiesta para ver el partido al amanecer : El Amerant Bank Arena, un recinto cubierto, organiza una fiesta gratuita para ver el partido a las 17:00 horas del 11 de julio para quienes tengan entrada . El aparcamiento es gratuito.

Comienzan las semifinales

14 de julio : El festival de aficionados ha finalizado. Hay un partido de semifinales a las 15:00.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 3 pm el 14 de julio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido de semifinales.

15 de julio : Hay un partido de semifinales a las 15:00.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 3 pm del 15 de julio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido de semifinales.

Comienzan las finales

18 de julio : El partido por el tercer puesto se jugará a las 17:00.

Fiesta para ver la final en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 3 pm del 18 de julio en The Sandbowl, detrás de The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para la final de bronce de las 5 pm.

Viaje al amanecer al estadio : El Amerant Bank Arena ofrece estacionamiento gratuito para los poseedores de entradas para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA que utilicen el servicio de autobús exprés gratuito del condado de Broward para llegar al Miami Stadium, también conocido como Hard Rock, en Miami Gardens.

19 de julio : El partido final es a las 15:00.

Fiesta para ver la final en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a la 1 pm del 19 de julio en The Sandbowl, detrás de The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para la final que comienza a las 3 pm.

Fiesta para ver el partido al amanecer : El Amerant Bank Arena, un recinto cubierto, organiza una fiesta gratuita para ver la final el 19 de julio para los poseedores de entradas . El estacionamiento es gratuito.

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• Un guardia de seguridad fue acusado de robar un uniforme de árbitro de la FIFA de un hotel en Miami Beach.

Seguimiento de los grupos de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA

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• Grupo B
• Grupo C
• Grupo D
• Grupo E
• Grupo F
• Grupo G
• Grupo H
• Grupo I
• Grupo J
• Grupo K
• Grupo L

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Muchas de las zonas más afectadas registraron precipitaciones superiores a las 3 pulgadas por hora, un ritmo increíble que provocó crecidas repentinas del agua, generando numerosas emergencias por inundaciones repentinas ayer, con las aguas desbordando carreteras e inundando viviendas, lo que dio lugar a decenas de rescates por inundaciones a lo largo de algunas zonas de la costa del Golfo.

La oficina del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional de Nueva Orleans, que abarca el sureste de Luisiana y la costa de Misisipi, emitió 18 alertas de inundaciones repentinas el jueves en toda su área de alerta parroquial y condal, la segunda mayor cantidad emitida en un solo día en los últimos casi 40 años, y solo superada por la del 12 de agosto de 2016, durante una de las peores inundaciones que ha sufrido Luisiana en la memoria reciente.

Según Associated Press , cerca de 200 viviendas resultaron inundadas en la zona rural de la parroquia de Avoyelles, en el centro-este de Luisiana, a unos 48 kilómetros al sureste de Alexandria. Un pluviómetro privado ubicado en la cercana Plaucheville, Luisiana , que forma parte de la red de observación meteorológica voluntaria del Programa Ciudadano de Observación Meteorológica (CWOP, por sus siglas en inglés), registró la asombrosa cantidad de 59 centímetros de lluvia en 24 horas, casi toda concentrada en un período de 6 horas, entre las 6:00 y las 12:00 del mediodía del jueves. De confirmarse por el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, esto establecería un récord de la mayor cantidad de lluvia registrada en un período de 24 horas en el estado de Luisiana, según los registros de la NOAA (el récord actual de lluvia en 24 horas en Luisiana es de 56 centímetros, registrado en Hackberry, Luisiana, entre el 28 y el 29 de agosto de 1962).

El jueves también se registraron más de 30 centímetros de lluvia tierra adentro de Gulfport-Biloxi, en la costa del Golfo de Misisipi. Mientras tanto, al este, en el Aeropuerto Regional de Mobile, cayeron 11,4 centímetros de lluvia, casi duplicando el récord anterior para ese día, establecido en 2004, aunque se reportaron cantidades mayores, cercanas a los dos dígitos, a lo largo de la I-65, justo al norte de Mobile, cerca de Saraland .

Se confirmaron cerca de 100 reportes de daños causados ​​por los fuertes vientos asociados a los remanentes de Arthur en el sureste de Estados Unidos, concentrándose la mayor parte de los daños en el oeste y centro de Georgia. También se han confirmado algunos tornados en el sur de Luisiana y Misisipi desde el jueves.

Las inundaciones persisten tras el paso del huracán Arthur.

Las inundaciones fluviales, de moderadas a graves, persistirán a lo largo del corredor de la I-10 en la costa central del Golfo de México tras las intensas lluvias del jueves.

Aunque las precipitaciones acumuladas hoy serán generalmente menores que las del jueves, debido a la saturación del suelo y a la posibilidad de lluvias localmente intensas provocadas por tormentas de movimiento lento, persiste un riesgo moderado (nivel de amenaza 3 de 4) en algunas zonas de la costa central del Golfo hasta el sábado por la mañana, lo que podría provocar inundaciones repentinas dispersas adicionales.

Los restos del Arthur se hunden en el Atlántico occidental, su reconstrucción es improbable.

Los restos de la baja presión que una vez fue la tormenta tropical Arthur estaban siendo arrastrados hacia el este a través de las Carolinas el viernes por la mañana, por delante de un frente frío que avanzaba.

El sistema de baja presión se alejará de la costa de Carolina el viernes por la tarde y se dirigirá rápidamente hacia el Atlántico occidental. Si bien los modelos indican una remota posibilidad de que se reactive sobre el Atlántico abierto hasta la madrugada del sábado, cualquier reactivación se deberá principalmente a procesos no tropicales, y su proximidad a los frentes hará que la zona de baja presión se mantenga, en el mejor de los casos, como no tropical o subtropical.

Independientemente de la reurbanización, la zona de baja presión se desplazará rápidamente hacia el mar durante el fin de semana y no representa ninguna amenaza adicional para tierra firme.

Por lo demás, no se prevé el desarrollo de ciclones tropicales en el resto de la cuenca del Atlántico durante la próxima semana.

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Besides three state voyeurism charges stemming from a June 7 arrest by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Matthew Stilwell is now facing three federal charges related to the attempted production, transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material.

Authorities said it all began with a May 31 incident on Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas where Stilwell, of Pawnee, Illinois, attempted to take a photo under the dress of a 13-year-old girl whom he knew while the two were in a gift shop.

According to a federal criminal complaint, Stilwell told Royal Caribbean security that he had photos of eight to nine other children on his cellphone, including “nude photos of minors on the device that were AI generated.”

Later, after the ship returned to South Florida on June 7, federal customs officers and Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the phone, according to the complaint.

They said they found the photos of the victim that prompted the original arrest, as well as AI-generated photos depicting the same victim nude.

Authorities said that Stilwell “admitted to using AI websites to create pornographic images of minors” and said most were “not girls he knew,” adding that he “took photos of several 17-year-old girls on Instagram and used AI to remove their clothing.”

Stilwell remained in the custody of the Broward Sheriff’s Office as of Friday and was being being held in the agency’s Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach.

Stilwell’s online federal court file does not list any upcoming hearings as of Friday morning; besides the complaint, the rest was listed as “sealed.”

His state voyeurism case also doesn’t have any upcoming hearings listed in Broward online court records.

Además de tres cargos estatales por voyeurismo derivados de un arresto realizado el 7 de junio por la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, Matthew Stilwell ahora enfrenta tres cargos federales relacionados con el intento de producción, transporte y posesión de material de abuso sexual infantil.

Las autoridades indicaron que todo comenzó con un incidente ocurrido el 31 de mayo a bordo del Allure of the Seas de Royal Caribbean, donde Stilwell, de Pawnee, Illinois, intentó tomar una foto por debajo del vestido de una niña de 13 años a quien conocía mientras ambos se encontraban en una tienda de regalos.

Según una denuncia penal federal, Stilwell le dijo al personal de seguridad de Royal Caribbean que tenía fotos de otros ocho o nueve menores en su teléfono celular, incluidas “fotos desnudas de menores en el dispositivo que fueron generadas por IA”.

Posteriormente, después de que el barco regresó al sur de Florida el 7 de junio, agentes federales de aduanas y agentes de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional registraron el teléfono, según la denuncia.

Indicaron que encontraron las fotos de la víctima que motivaron el arresto original, así como imágenes generadas por IA que mostraban a la misma víctima desnuda.

Las autoridades señalaron que Stilwell “admitió haber utilizado sitios web de IA para crear imágenes pornográficas de menores” y dijo que la mayoría “no eran niñas que conocía”, agregando que “tomó fotos de varias jóvenes de 17 años en Instagram y utilizó IA para quitarles la ropa”.

Hasta el viernes, Stilwell permanecía bajo custodia de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward y estaba recluido en el Centro de Detención Paul Rein de la agencia en Pompano Beach.

El expediente federal en línea de Stilwell no muestra audiencias programadas hasta la mañana del viernes; además de la denuncia, el resto del expediente figuraba como “sellado”.

Su caso estatal por voyeurismo tampoco tiene audiencias programadas, según los registros judiciales en línea del condado Broward.

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Austin Quenten Mitchell-Alfred faces charges including vehicular homicide, reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, reckless driving causing physical injuries, reckless driving causing property damage, two counts of unlawful speeding and one count of disobeying a red light, according to jail records.

The crash occurred Nov. 25, 2025, at the intersection of State Road 7 and Washington Street in Hollywood.

According to an arrest report from the Hollywood Police Department, officers arrived to find a blue 2025 Cadillac Lyriq driven by Mitchell-Alfred with heavy front-end damage.

Police said the SUV was partially on a sidewalk and in the northbound bus lane. A Mercury Grand Marquis involved in the crash also sustained heavy front-end damage.

Investigators confirmed that a scooter rider was killed in the collision. The victim’s identity was not released in the report.

Police said the rider was struck while crossing the roadway. They said the impact caused the scooter to gouge the pavement before the rider was thrown onto the roadway.

When officers interviewed Mitchell-Alfred, he told them he was traveling northbound on State Road 7 at “45-50 mph, maybe 55 mph” as he approached Washington Street. He said he changed lanes as he neared the intersection and the traffic signal turned yellow.

According to the report, Mitchell-Alfred told investigators, “I’m already speeding, well not speeding, I’m already going fast,” before the crash occurred. He also told officers he collided with the Mercury Grand Marquis, causing him to swerve before striking the scooter rider, police said.

Investigators said data recovered from Mitchell-Alfred’s Cadillac showed the vehicle reached a top speed of 85 mph before he applied the brakes. The report states the SUV was traveling 75 mph at the time of impact with the victim.

Police concluded Mitchell-Alfred “operated the 2025 Cadillac Lyriq in a reckless manner without regard for traffic control devices, other vehicles on the road or persons on the roadway.”

Investigators said the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office determined the scooter rider died from blunt force injuries.

They said the driver of the Mercury Grand Marquis suffered serious injuries, including broken bones, lacerations, contusions and abrasions, and continues to undergo therapy. Police also confirmed that a passenger in Mitchell-Alfred’s Cadillac suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

As of Friday, he was being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.

Austin Quenten Mitchell-Alfred enfrenta cargos que incluyen homicidio vehicular, conducción temeraria causando lesiones corporales graves, conducción temeraria causando lesiones físicas, conducción temeraria causando daños a la propiedad, dos cargos por exceso de velocidad ilegal y un cargo por no obedecer una luz roja, según los registros carcelarios.

El accidente ocurrió el 25 de noviembre de 2025 en la intersección de State Road 7 y Washington Street en Hollywood.

Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Hollywood, los agentes llegaron al lugar y encontraron un Cadillac Lyriq azul modelo 2025 conducido por Mitchell-Alfred con graves daños en la parte frontal.

La Policía indicó que la SUV estaba parcialmente sobre una acera y en el carril de autobuses en dirección norte. Un Mercury Grand Marquis involucrado en el accidente también sufrió graves daños frontales.

Los investigadores confirmaron que un conductor de scooter murió en la colisión. La identidad de la víctima no fue divulgada en el informe.

La Policía indicó que el conductor del scooter fue impactado mientras cruzaba la vía. Señalaron que el impacto provocó que el scooter dejara marcas profundas en el pavimento antes de que el conductor fuera lanzado a la carretera.

Cuando los agentes entrevistaron a Mitchell-Alfred, este les dijo que circulaba hacia el norte por State Road 7 a “45-50 mph, quizás 55 mph” mientras se acercaba a Washington Street. Dijo que cambió de carril al aproximarse a la intersección y que la luz del semáforo se puso amarilla.

Según el informe, Mitchell-Alfred dijo a los investigadores: “Ya voy rápido, bueno, no excediendo la velocidad, ya voy rápido”, antes de que ocurriera el accidente. También dijo a los agentes que chocó contra el Mercury Grand Marquis, lo que lo hizo desviarse antes de impactar al conductor del scooter, indicó la Policía.

Los investigadores señalaron que los datos recuperados del Cadillac de Mitchell-Alfred mostraron que el vehículo alcanzó una velocidad máxima de 85 mph antes de que aplicara los frenos. El informe establece que la SUV viajaba a 75 mph al momento del impacto con la víctima.

La Policía concluyó que Mitchell-Alfred “operó el Cadillac Lyriq 2025 de manera temeraria sin considerar los dispositivos de control de tránsito, otros vehículos en la vía o las personas en la carretera”.

Los investigadores indicaron que la Oficina del Médico Forense de Broward determinó que el conductor del scooter murió a causa de lesiones por trauma contundente.

Añadieron que el conductor del Mercury Grand Marquis sufrió lesiones graves, incluidas fracturas, laceraciones, contusiones y abrasiones, y continúa recibiendo terapia. La Policía también confirmó que un pasajero del Cadillac de Mitchell-Alfred sufrió lesiones que no ponen en peligro su vida.

Hasta el viernes, permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en la cárcel principal del condado Broward.

The contract is worth $68 million, according to a person familiar with the deal. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because financial terms were not disclosed.

Raddysh will count $8.5 million against the salary cap through the 2033-34 season. He had never made more than a million dollars a year until now.

The 30-year-old late bloomer cashed in on a breakout season in which he set career highs with 22 goals, 48 assists and 70 points in 73 games. That's the same amount of points he put up in the previous two seasons combined since becoming a full-time NHL player as recently as 2023.

Raddysh provides an immediate upgrade for the Leafs, who have a new coach in Jim Hiller and a new front office led by general manager John Chayka and franchise legend adviser Mats Sundin. Getting Raddysh's rights from the Lightning for a fifth-round pick before he could hit the open market is Chayka's second trade after clearing cap space earlier this week by sending goaltender Joseph Woll and defenseman Simon Benoit to Philadelphia.

“We are thrilled to add a defenseman of Darren’s caliber to our organization,” Chayka said. “Darren has emerged as one of the NHL’s premier two-way defensemen, combining elite puck-moving ability with poise, competitiveness and strong play in all three zones. He strengthens our blue line in every situation and is exactly the type of player we want helping lead this team.”

Raddysh was undrafted despite helping the Erie Otters win the Ontario Hockey League at the junior level in 2016-17. He signed with Chicago, got traded to the New York Rangers and inked a free agent deal in 2021 with the Lightning.

He spent a vast majority of that time in the minors and was an All-Star in the American Hockey League before earning a job with Tampa Bay. He thrived this past season while the team dealt with injuries all over and led all players in the league at the position with 10 power-play goals.

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The next matches

JUNE 23: DAY 2

Portugal vs. Uzbekistan is at 1 p.m.

Colombia vs. Congo is at 10 p.m.

JUNE 27: DAY 3

Congo vs. Uzbekistan is at 7:30 p.m.

Group stage progress

JUNE 17: DAY 1

Colombia gets 3 points

• Game analysis: Luis Díaz sparks Colombia to a 3-1 win over Uzbekistan in its World Cup opener
• FIFA game video: Luis Diaz scores
• FIFA game video: Jaminton Campaz scores

Portugal and Congo each get 1 point

• Game analysis: Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal held to a 1-1 draw by Congo at the World Cup
• Pre-game coverage: Ronaldo looks to make history by scoring in 6th World Cup

Track the groups

• Group A
• Group B
• Group C
• Group D
• Group E
• Group F
• Group G
• Group H
• Group I
• Group J
• Group L

Next matches

JUNE 24: DAY 4

Bosnia and Herzegovina play against Qatar at 9 a.m. at the Seattle Stadium.

Switzerland plays against Canada at 9 a.m. at BC Place Vancouver.

Group stage matches

JUNE 18: DAY 3

Canada gets 3 more points

• Game analysis: Jonathan David’s hat trick propels Canada to its first World Cup win, 6-0 over Qatar
• FIFA game video: David scores 1st goal
• FIFA game video: Nathan Saliba‘s free kick

Switzerland gets 3 more points

• Game analysis: Switzerland coach uses hydration break to spark late goal barrage in 4-1 World Cup win over Bosnia
• FIFA game video: Switzerland’s Johan Manzambi scores
• FIFA game video: Switzerland’s Rubén Vargas scores

JUNE 13: DAY 2

Qatar and Switzerland each get 1 point

• Game analysis: Boualem Khoukhi’s goal on header in stoppage time earns Qatar a 1-1 World Cup draw with Switzerland
• FIFA game video: Switzerland’s Breel Embolo scores 17th-minute penalty kick
• FIFA game video: Khoukhi’s equalizer

JUNE 12: DAY 1

Canada and Bosnia each get 1 point

• FIFA game video: Canadian Cyle Larin scores goal
• FIFA game video: Bosnian Jovo Lukić scores goal
• FIFA post-match video: Interviews with players in French, English, and Bosnian
• Canada is ready to become a soccer nation as it hosts World Cup opener against Bosnia-Herzegovina
• A Bosnian song about disillusionment with the American Dream becomes a World Cup banger

Track the groups

• Group A
• Group C
• Group D
• Group E
• Group F
• Group G
• Group H
• Group I
• Group J
• Group K
• Group L

Expect scattered storms for Father’s Day weekend, but there will be plenty of dry time. The heat wave continues through all of next week with a heat index of 105°-110° each afternoon.

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Both sides made arguments Thursday about key phrases, down to individual words, they want the jury to have in front of them when they head into deliberations following next Monday’s closing arguments.

The voice of defendant George Pino joined the courtroom by Zoom on Thursday to address a critical question — whether he wanted a lesser included offense presented to the jury for consideration.

“The misdemeanor you were previously charged with,” defense attorney Howard Srebnick began. “Do you continue to decline the lesser included offense instruction?”

“Yes, I do,” Pino replied.

The hearing centered on preparing jury instructions in the manslaughter and vessel homicide case against the 55-year-old real estate mogul, in connection with the 2022 boating crash that killed 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez.

“It is the state’s burden to prove ― not us,” Srebnick said.

“This instruction comes straight from statute,” prosecutor Laura Adams said.

Arguments also touched on causation.

“The changing course did not cause her death,” Srebnick said.

“I can’t charge the water for causing her death,” Adams responded.

The judge pushed back, asking: “If there was no change of course there would be no allision?” ― to which she received confirmation.

Jury instructions serve as a road map for the jurors once they head into deliberations and the words in those instructions, the judge said, should focus them on clear statements of the law to guide their deliberations as they weigh the evidence presented at trial.

But what words are a pathway to clarifying a legal concept — as opposed to being confusing or even misleading — can be up for interpretation, which is why the state and defense spent the afternoon litigating specific phrasing.

“What are the acts…” Srebnick began at one point.

“I am not saying that,” Adams shot back.

The defendant was not in the courtroom. His attorney noted: “This is the crux of the case” and “a fundamental part of the proceeding,” adding, “I am sure he would rely on us without a doubt.”

Thursday’s hearing was crucial. The judge said she will check in with Pino on Monday morning ahead of the start of closing arguments.

Ambas partes presentaron argumentos el jueves sobre frases clave, incluso palabras individuales, que quieren que el jurado tenga frente a sí cuando pase a deliberar tras los alegatos finales del próximo lunes.

La voz del acusado George Pino se unió a la sala del tribunal por Zoom el jueves para abordar una pregunta crucial: si quería que se presentara al jurado un delito menor incluido para su consideración.

“El delito menor del que fue acusado anteriormente”, comenzó el abogado defensor Howard Srebnick. “¿Continúa rechazando la instrucción sobre el delito menor incluido?”

“Sí, la rechazo”, respondió Pino.

La audiencia se centró en preparar las instrucciones al jurado en el caso de homicidio involuntario y homicidio por embarcación contra el magnate inmobiliario de 55 años, en relación con el accidente marítimo de 2022 que causó la muerte de Lucy Fernandez, de 17 años.

“Es responsabilidad del estado probarlo, no nuestra”, dijo Srebnick.

“Esta instrucción proviene directamente del estatuto”, dijo la fiscal Laura Adams.

Los argumentos también abordaron la causalidad.

“El cambio de rumbo no causó su muerte”, dijo Srebnick.

“No puedo acusar al agua de causar su muerte”, respondió Adams.

La jueza cuestionó esa postura al preguntar: “¿Si no hubiera habido un cambio de rumbo no habría habido colisión?”, a lo que recibió una respuesta afirmativa.

Las instrucciones al jurado sirven como una guía para los jurados una vez que comienzan sus deliberaciones y, según la jueza, las palabras de esas instrucciones deben enfocarlos en declaraciones claras de la ley para orientar sus deliberaciones mientras evalúan la evidencia presentada durante el juicio.

Pero qué palabras ayudan a aclarar un concepto legal, en lugar de resultar confusas o incluso engañosas, puede estar sujeto a interpretación, razón por la cual la fiscalía y la defensa pasaron la tarde litigando sobre redacciones específicas.

“¿Cuáles son los actos…”, comenzó Srebnick en un momento.

“No estoy diciendo eso”, respondió Adams.

El acusado no estuvo presente en la sala del tribunal. Su abogado señaló: “Este es el núcleo del caso” y “una parte fundamental del proceso”, y agregó: “Estoy seguro de que confiaría en nosotros sin ninguna duda”.

La audiencia del jueves fue crucial. La jueza dijo que hablará con Pino el lunes por la mañana antes del inicio de los alegatos finales.

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Shon Sentelle Filsaime, 46, of Lauderdale Lakes; and Rashaad Aaria Sattar, 29, of Sunrise, face charges of burglary, grand theft and fraudulently trying to use another person’s ID without consent. Filsaime also faces a charge of driving with a suspended license.

According to Davie police, after being notified about the mail thefts, detectives spotted a black BMW the suspects were in heading to commercial mailbox clusters before the suspects opened them with U.S. Postal Service “arrow keys,” which are master keys used to open multiple mail receptacles.

Police said detectives followed the suspects with help from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and Broward Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit before they pulled the BMW over in Fort Lauderdale.

Filsaime and Sattar were both taken into custody after the traffic stop, and detectives said they found almost 400 pieces of mail with them, some of which contained debit and credit cards, U.S. Treasury checks and other banking documents.

Two USPS master keys were also recovered, authorities said.

According to police, both suspects have “extensive criminal histories, with one currently out on bond for a previous unrelated offense.”

Police remind the public to remain “vigilant and report suspicious persons or vehicles around your mailbox.”

“This will help to prevent this type of activity which has become increasingly popular,” the police department stated in a news release.

As of Friday morning, Filsaime and Sattar were both being held at the Broward County Main Jail. Online jail records show their bonds had not yet been set, pending a court hearing.

Shon Sentelle Filsaime, de 46 años, de Lauderdale Lakes, y Rashaad Aaria Sattar, de 29 años, de Sunrise, enfrentan cargos de robo a una propiedad, hurto mayor e intento fraudulento de utilizar la identificación de otra persona sin consentimiento. Filsaime también enfrenta un cargo por conducir con una licencia suspendida.

Según la Policía de Davie, después de ser notificados sobre los robos de correspondencia, los detectives observaron un BMW negro en el que viajaban los sospechosos dirigiéndose a grupos de buzones comerciales antes de que los sospechosos los abrieran con “arrow keys” del Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos (USPS), que son llaves maestras utilizadas para abrir múltiples receptáculos de correo.

La Policía indicó que los detectives siguieron a los sospechosos con la ayuda del Departamento de Policía de Fort Lauderdale y la Unidad de Aviación de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward antes de detener el BMW en Fort Lauderdale.

Filsaime y Sattar fueron puestos bajo custodia tras la parada de tránsito, y los detectives dijeron que encontraron con ellos casi 400 piezas de correspondencia, algunas de las cuales contenían tarjetas de débito y crédito, cheques del Tesoro de Estados Unidos y otros documentos bancarios.

Las autoridades también recuperaron dos llaves maestras del USPS.

Según la Policía, ambos sospechosos tienen “amplios antecedentes criminales, y uno de ellos actualmente está en libertad bajo fianza por un delito previo no relacionado”.

La Policía recuerda al público que permanezca “vigilante y reporte a personas o vehículos sospechosos cerca de su buzón”.

“Esto ayudará a prevenir este tipo de actividad que se ha vuelto cada vez más popular”, indicó el departamento de Policía en un comunicado de prensa.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Filsaime y Sattar permanecían detenidos en la cárcel principal del condado Broward. Los registros carcelarios en línea muestran que sus fianzas aún no habían sido fijadas, a la espera de una audiencia judicial.

Perhaps as spectacular as his meltdown was the recovery.

About a half-hour after being informed of the penalty, Niemann birdied five of the first six holes of his second round and shot 65 to easily get inside the cut line. He would be the first player in 97 years to make 10 or worse on a hole and still make the cut.

“All the frustration that came inside me and had my club in my hand, and I couldn’t resist to throw it away,” Niemann said. “There was no people, obviously. No one there. I’m not proud of it, but yeah, sometimes all the expectation of trying to play well and things doesn’t go your way, you get frustrated. And that was me there.”

And then the USGA made him an example, skipping the warning and going straight to a two-shot penalty — the third step is disqualification — for what it cited as serious misconduct.

The USGA cited Rule 1.2b on “Code of Conduct.” Among incidents that fall under this category are unacceptable language and abuse of clubs or the course.

While the rule has always been in place, the USGA and all the other golf organizations have met in recent years to develop consistent guidelines for a conduct policy, applied separately by each of the organizations at their tournaments.

The Masters used it for the first time in April when Sergio Garcia was issued a warning after a bad drive on the par-5 second hole in the final round. He slammed his club into the turf twice and swung his club at a table holding a green cooler. That left the head of his driver dangling from the shaft.

The PGA Championship also posted the policy in the locker room at Aronimink last month.

The frustration for Niemann was evident. He was at even par in the first round late Thursday afternoon when he hit two tee shots out of play down the right side of the sixth fairway. The fifth shot wasn't much better, in the clumpy grass short of the fairway.

Niemann said he saw ants near his bad lie in the sandy oil and asked if they were fire ants, which could be considered a dangerous situation making him entitled to a drop. That was rejected. He hacked it out to the fairway, and then his sand wedge came up just short of the green.

That's when the 27-year-old from Chile heaved his club.

The USGA policy for serious misconduct says if a player’s behavior (or that of his caddie) is “so far removed from what is expected in the spirit of the game of golf,” officials can assess a two-shot penalty or disqualify the player while considering “the frequency, impact, intent and severity of the misconduct.”

Niemann was informed of the penalty after he signed his card, and the two shots gave him a 78.

He had 37 minutes before his next tee time.

“I’m not someone that likes to be in that behavior. I’m the first one to judge myself when I don’t behave on the golf course. Yeah, that was a misbehave from my part,” Niemann said. “I felt a little bit extra penalized with the two-shot penalty, but I think it is what it is.”

He said he argued the penalty to no avail. Ultimately, it's a judgment call among the committee.

“It is what it is. I think I'm going to learn from it,” Niemann said. “It definitely helped me a little bit to have a better round today.”

The incident happened on Niemann's final hole Thursday evening of fog-delayed opening round. While video has not surfaced of the club throw, The Athletic spoke to a marshal on the sixth hole who said Niemann kicked the flag marking where his ball was in the rough, kicked the grass and reported that “it was a pretty impressive throw, actually.”

Tempers have long been part of golf, a most frustrating game. Rory McIlroy once heaved a 3-iron into the lake at Doral and last year flung an iron after a poor shot. Henrik Stenson and Erik van Rooyen are among those who have taken out their frustrations on tee markers.

Those typically result in fines by the tours.

But there has been a concerted effort in recent years to be more uniform with a conduct policy, and it has come into play twice in three majors this year.

Niemann, who left for LIV Golf after the 2022 season, won in South Korea last month for his eighth career victory in the rival league that began with Saudi Arabia funding but now faces an uncertain future with the Public Investment Fund no longer supporting it.

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Online jail records show Gentle Edwards was transferred from juvenile detention to the Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach on Thursday.

He is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

According to Hollywood police, Robin Bouza Jr., 17, was shot by Edwards shortly before 9:30 p.m. on April 22 in the 7300 block of Farragut Street.

Police said Bouza was pronounced dead at the scene.

Edwards surrendered to authorities at the Hollywood Police Department on May 28.

A motive for the shooting has not been released by investigators.

Los registros carcelarios en línea muestran que Gentle Edwards fue transferido de un centro de detención juvenil al Centro de Detención Paul Rein en Pompano Beach el jueves.

Enfrenta cargos de asesinato en primer grado y agresión agravada con un arma mortal.

Según la Policía de Hollywood, Robin Bouza Jr., de 17 años, recibió un disparo de Edwards poco antes de las 9:30 p.m. del 22 de abril en la cuadra 7300 de Farragut Street.

La Policía indicó que Bouza fue declarado muerto en el lugar.

Edwards se entregó a las autoridades en el Departamento de Policía de Hollywood el 28 de mayo.

Los investigadores no han divulgado el motivo de la balacera.

The three other teams in Group A competing to move forward are South Africa (61), South Korea (22), and the Czech Republic (41).

Next matches

June 24: Day 3 of Group A matches

The Czech Republic plays against Mexico at 9 p.m. on June 24 in Mexico City.

South Africa plays against South Korea at 9 p.m. on June 24 in Monterrey.

Group stage matches

JUNE 18: DAY 2

Mexico gets 3 more points

• Game analysis: Mexico becomes first country to reach knockout stage of World Cup, beating South Korea 1-0
• FIFA game video: Mexico’s Luis Romo scores
• FIFA game video: Edson Álvarez’s save

South Africa and Czech Republic each get 1 point

• Game analysis: South Africa keeps its World Cup hopes alive with a 1-1 draw against the Czech Republic

JUNE 11: DAY 1

Mexico’s “El Tri” wins 2-0 against South Africa

• After-game analysis of the opening match
• 3 red cards mar opening World Cup match between Mexico and South Africa
• Get a feel for celebrations in Wynwood and in South Beach
• FIFA game video: Goal by Julián Quiñones
• FIFA game video: Goal by Raúl Jiménez
• FIFA video: Game highlights
• FIFA post-match video: Interviews of Mexican players in Spanish and South African players in English
• FIFA post-match video: Interview of Mexico’s Coach Javier Aguirre in Spanish

South Korea wins 2-1 against Czech Republic

• After-game analysis of opening match
• FIFA Video: Goal by Oh Hyeon-gyu
• FIFA Video: Goal by Hwang In-beom

Track the groups

• Group B
• Group C
• Group D
• Group E
• Group F
• Group G
• Group H
• Group I
• Group J
• Group K
• Group L

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the shooting was reported just after 10:15 p.m. near a corner store in the area of Northeast 117^th Street and Second Avenue.

Detective Angel Rodriguez said deputies arrived at the scene and found the victim sitting in her vehicle with an apparent gunshot wound to her leg.

A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crew responded to the scene and transported her to a local hospital in stable condition.

Rodriguez said detectives have determined that the victim was sitting in her car when shots were fired between several male suspects.

The victim’s car was struck by at least one of the rounds, and the bullet struck her in the leg, he said.

Rodriguez said they do not have any other information about the men who were shooting at each other.

Anyone with information about their identities is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, la balacera fue reportada poco después de las 10:15 p.m. cerca de una tienda de la esquina en el área de Northeast 117th Street y Second Avenue.

El detective Angel Rodriguez dijo que los agentes llegaron al lugar y encontraron a la víctima sentada en su vehículo con una aparente herida de bala en una pierna.

Un equipo de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondió al lugar y la trasladó a un hospital local en condición estable.

Rodriguez dijo que los detectives han determinado que la víctima estaba sentada en su vehículo cuando varios sospechosos hombres intercambiaron disparos.

El vehículo de la víctima fue impactado por al menos uno de los proyectiles, y la bala la alcanzó en una pierna, dijo.

Rodriguez indicó que no tienen más información sobre los hombres que se disparaban entre sí.

Cualquier persona con información sobre sus identidades debe llamar a Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

It marks a major triumph for a team that failed to get out of the group stage in 2022 and now has won twice on home soil in front of jubilant crowds. Mexico players celebrated at midfield and waved to the fans who cheered and sang from the packed stands at Estadio Akron.

As soon as the final whistle blew, the mariachis began to sing at the Ángel of Independence in Mexico City while thousands of people walked in from all directions. Some streets in Guadalajara were filled with drivers honking horns and fans chanting and waving Mexican flags.

Luis Romo scored in the 50th minute after South Korea goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu collided with defender Lee Gi-hyuk and dropped the ball inside the area. Romo easily found the open net after picking up the loose ball.

The South Koreans nearly equalized in the 87th minute when Mexico goalkeeper Raúl Rangel stopped a header from close range by Cho Gue-sung, then made an even better save of Yang Hyun-jun’s attempt on the rebound, extending his right arm to keep the ball from crossing the line.

“It was very quick, it was pure reaction,” Rangel said. “I couldn’t really tell you what I saw, because I remember the moment of impact with my teammate and me having the ball.”

Mexico clinches Group A

Mexico won Group A with six points in two matches, three more than South Korea and five more than the Czech Republic and South Africa, who drew 1-1 earlier Thursday in Atlanta.

The top two teams from each group move on to the knockout stage, along with the best eight third-place teams. A round of 32 is being played for the first time at the World Cup after the tournament was expanded to 48 teams.

“We’ve been doing very well,” Mexico coach Javier Aguirre said. “It wasn’t a great match, but I think that our opponent didn’t let us do too much. But we still were able to score, on that mistake, in addition to another two or three opportunities.”

Aguirre said it felt good for the players to guarantee their spot in the next round back in Mexico City.

“It relieves some of the pressure,” he said. “But not for me, for the players. They are euphoric, they are very happy.”

Mexico opened with a 2-0 win over South Africa, while South Korea rallied for a 2-1 victory over the Czechs.

Mexico closes group play on Wednesday against the Czech Republic in Mexico City, while South Korea takes on South Africa in Monterrey.

Mexico had never won a World Cup game on home soil outside Mexico City. Before 2026, all but one of its nine World Cup matches at home, spanning the 1970 and 1986 tournaments, had been played at Estadio Azteca, with five wins and three draws. When it played in Toluca in 1970, it lost 4-1 to Italy in the quarterfinals.

Thursday’s match got off to a lackluster start, with neither team creating significant scoring opportunities and both squads getting loudly booed after the halftime whistle.

Mexico, ranked 13th, was eliminated in the group stage four years ago in Qatar. That followed seven straight eliminations in the round of the 16.

South Korea star Son Heung-min had another disappointing game and was substituted out in the 57th.

Plaudits for Son

The 33-year-old Son is looking to become South Korea’s top goal scorer at the World Cup and the Asian player with the most goals in the tournament. The former Tottenham star, currently with Los Angeles FC, entered with three goals over three prior World Cups.

Kim kept Mexico from adding to the lead by coming up with a tough save off a close-range shot by Raúl Jiménez in the 75th.

The South Koreans pressed through the end but could not equalize.

South Korea, ranked 22nd, is making its 11th straight World Cup appearance and 12th overall, the most of any Asian country. Its best result was a fourth-place finish at the tournament it co-hosted with Japan in 2002. Since then, the South Koreans have never gone beyond the round of 16.

“The mistake that we made was unfortunate,” coach Hong Myung-bo said.

This time there were not many empty seats in Guadalajara, contrary to what happened in the earlier match between South Korea and the Czech Republic. FIFA had blamed fans standing in the concourses for the empty seats. Thursday’s crowd was announced at 45,522 for the 45,664-capacity stadium, which was hosting the national team for the first time.

Celebrations and protest

Fan zones across Mexico were packed ahead of the game. In the biggest one, in Mexico City’s Zócalo, chants of support for the national team, shouting “Olé!” with every pass, mingled with a homophobic chant — a one-word slur that literally means male prostitute in Spanish — that has previously led to sanctions against Mexico and could spur new punishments by FIFA.

There were peaceful protests in Guadalajara organized by the families of Mexico’s 130,000 missing people.

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Jonathan David scored three goals and Canada won its first World Cup match while all but securing a spot in the knockout round with a 6-0 victory over Qatar on Thursday.

Qatar was reduced to nine players because of red cards in the chaotic match. Assim Madibo was handed a red early in the second half after a tackle on Ismaël Koné, who was stretchered off with a broken left leg. Homan Ahmed was sent off in the first half for a challenge on Tajon Buchanan.

With the outburst of scoring, Canada tripled its overall World Cup goal total. Cyle Larin scored in the Canadians’ opening draw against Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Alphonso Davies scored four years ago in a loss to Croatia in Qatar, where Canada also got on the board with an own goal by Morocco. The Canadians were shut out three times in the 1986 World Cup.

“No one will forget this, and no Canadian will forget this day,” said coach Jesse Marsch, who held up six fingers as he walked off the field. “It’s an incredibly seminal moment for everyone to understand that there’s talent in this country, that there’s mentality, that there’s desire, that there’s a lot of things that make this country special.”

And the supporters who packed BC Place were ecstatic.

“We’re soaking up history right here,” fan Matthias Kempe said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was among the 52,497 fans in attendance after missing the game in Toronto last week because of the G7 summit in France. He sat with FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

“It was amazing. After every goal it got louder and louder,” David said. “It gave us motivation to get the next goal and the next goal.”

Canada’s triumph was marred by its anguish over Koné’s injury. Teammates surrounded him in concern after he was tackled from behind and crumpled to the pitch with his lower left leg bent at a gruesome-looking angle. Madibo was clearly distraught before he was ejected.

Koné was taken to a hospital, were he was preparing for surgery. His family was with him, said Marsch, who confirmed the player’s leg was broken.

Larin scored his second goal of the tournament on a rebound in the 16th minute. Qatar goalkeeper Mahmoud Abunada punched away David’s volley but it fell to Larin, who pointed to his ears in celebration as the red-clad crowd roared.

David doubled the lead with a right-footed volley in the 29th, for his first goal in the run of play in more than a year.

Ahmed was sent off with a red card in the 33rd. The official initially pointed to the penalty spot, but after video review Canada was given a free kick just outside the box and the initial yellow card handed to Ahmed was changed to red.

Canada made it 3-0 in first-half stoppage time when David scored in a scramble in front of the net off a shot that caromed off the crossbar. Qatari players stood with their hands on their hips in frustration while Canada celebrated.

Nathan Saliba, who came in as a substitute for Koné, scored on a free kick in the 64th to make it 4-0. Mohamed Manai deflected a shot past his goalkeeper for an own goal in the 75th.

David completed the hat trick in stoppage time, joining Argentina’s Lionel Messi as the only players with three goals in a match in this World Cup.

“It was a very tough match for many reasons. The players did their best. It was very difficult to face this match with two players less with this environment,” Qatar coach Julen Lopetegui said.

Qatar scored a stoppage-time goal to earn a surprising 1-1 draw with Group B favorite Switzerland in its opener. The Persian Gulf country is still looking for its first World Cup win after losing all of its group matches four years ago as the host.

Switzerland defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina 4-1 earlier in the day in Group B.

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Switzerland used the break to seize it.

Coach Murat Yakin said he timed a triple substitution of speedy players for the second-half pause Thursday, betting that plucky Bosnia-Herzegovina couldn’t handle an abrupt change of pace in what had been a nervy, scoreless match.

Johan Manzambi and Rubén Vargas made their coach look awfully clever while they led a spectacular barrage of goals that put the Swiss in control of the game and atop their group.

Manzambi scored his first World Cup goal on an outstanding volley in the 74th minute, and Switzerland erupted late for a 4-1 victory over Bosnia.

Despite controlling possession deep into the second half, Switzerland couldn’t break through against the Dragons until Yakin used the FIFA-mandated pause to turbo-charge its attack with the 20-year-old Manzambi and the dynamic Vargas. Both substitutes immediately altered the tempo, and both played roles in multiple goals while Bosnia went down to 10 men.

“It was very important that after the second hydration break, we would change a few things, because then the opponent can’t react immediately,” Yakin said through an interpreter. “Maybe that was the edge we had. We brought in very fast players, and our opponent couldn’t run (with them), and it opened up gaps on the edge. That was my strategy. I waited until the break.”

Vargas scored in the 84th minute shortly after Tarik Muharemovic was sent off for a dangerous tackle. Manzambi scored again in the 90th on a pass from Vargas, and captain Granit Xhaka converted from the penalty spot with the final kick of the game in stoppage time.

Switzerland opened the World Cup with a disappointing 1-1 draw with Qatar last week, stoking concern about the team’s mental state. The Swiss then struggled to get loose from the Dragons, who were unbeaten in their last nine competitive matches.

Backed by tens of thousands of raucous fans in the Los Angeles area, Bosnia capably hung with Switzerland into the second half — until the hydration break led to a moment of brilliance from Manzambi, a 20-year-old Geneva native who plays for German club Freiburg.

“This is probably the best moment of my career so far,” Manzambi said. “We knew we didn’t start the match in the best way, but we had to be patient. We know we’re a good team, and we showed it.”

Three minutes after Manzambi replaced standout winger Dan Ndoye, he jumped and connected perfectly on Amar Memic’s attempted clearing header. The volley set off a wild celebration in the nervous Swiss sections of SoFi Stadium.

“He’s a boy who learned how to play football on the streets, but on defense he also has a lot of discipline,” Yakin said. “He still needs to learn how to be more structured, but we are making progress. We try to give him a lot of freedom to play, and he handles it very well.”

Substitute Ermin Mahmic scored in second-half injury time for Bosnia, which still has a legitimate chance of reaching the knockout stage of only its second World Cup. Mahmic’s vicious goal in traffic salvaged some good feeling before a decisive showdown with Qatar next week.

“Maybe our start wasn’t that good, but from (first) cooling break until the goal, we were the better team,” Bosnia coach Sergej Barbarez said. “We had two or three excellent chances which should have ended in a goal. ... This is the first match we’ve lost in a while, and it is hurtful. It’s quite painful, but we know that if we win the next game, we have an excellent chance of going forward in the tournament.”

Four minutes after Muharemovic was sent off for taking down striker Breel Embolo one step outside the penalty area, Embolo got the ball from Manzambi and slipped a pass across the front to Vargas for a no-doubt goal.

Xhaka then found Vargas in deep for another pass to Manzambi, who finished with aplomb.

Captain Edin Dzeko started and played 63 minutes for Bosnia, becoming the fourth outfield player to start at a World Cup in his 40s — a group joined by Luka Modric and Cristiano Ronaldo on Wednesday. Barbarez said Dzeko didn’t play in the World Cup opener last week because he wasn’t fully fit.

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Trump’s overnight social media post Wednesday that he was delaying Jay Clayton’s nomination to become national intelligence director, just hours before the U.S. attorney's confirmation hearing, further strained relations between the Senate and White House that have been worsening for weeks. Later that day, some Republican senators who have been hesitant to challenge the president directly on the Iran war were blunt in their criticism of his deal to end it.

“This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades,” Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said in a post on X.

The open tensions are an almost complete reversal from a year ago when Senate Republicans worked closely with Trump on a complicated effort to push through his massive package of spending and tax cuts.

At the time, criticism of the president was almost nonexistent among Republicans on Capitol Hill, and they planned to highlight passage of that bill in the midterms. But as the November election draws closer and Republicans are trying to defend their majorities, Trump is instead needling Congress with his demands and reversals, driving several Republican senators to disparage his actions publicly for the first time.

“I think somebody’s not dialing the president into the complexities of what he’s done here,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said Wednesday after Clayton’s confirmation was postponed. “I mean, my God.”

The slow unraveling of what once seemed like an airtight alliance between the executive and legislative branches in a Republican-led Washington extends to their policy priorities.

Trump appears to have lost interest in most of the GOP agenda and has become almost singularly focused on his voting legislation to require proof of citizenship, which has almost no chance of passing. At the same time, he has asked members of Congress to fund parts of his White House ballroom project, allow a temporary intelligence director that none of them like and cede their powers on the Iran war.

The growing rift has brought much of the Senate’s business to a halt and put Republicans who are up for reelection this year on the defensive. It has also put pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who has been up-front with Trump about what he can and cannot do in the Senate.

Trump pressures Thune on voting bill

Trump has pressured Thune relentlessly to scrap the filibuster and pass the strict proof-of-citizenship legislation, called the SAVE America Act. Thune, R-S.D., has told Trump publicly and privately that the votes are not there for either step. Still, Trump has kept up the push.

In a social media post Thursday, Trump said he would be “the last Republican president” if the voting bill does not pass.

“Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and the Republican Senate, must not let this ‘carnage’ happen,” Trump said. “They will go down on the wrong side of History, as will all Republicans who just stood by and watched.”

Nonetheless, Trump has yet to go after the well-liked Republican leader on a personal basis, as he often did with Thune's predecessor, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.. Trump once called McConnell a “ dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack.”

Trump and Thune talk frequently, even as Thune is sometimes giving the president news he does not want to hear. As Trump pushed for the voting bill, Thune scheduled weeks of floor time to consider it, an effort to make clear that the Senate was supportive, even if the votes are lacking.

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, one of the president’s closest allies in the Senate, said he has never heard Trump say anything negative about Thune.

“It’s a difficult position,” Schmitt said of Thune’s role in the Senate. “I think they have a good working relationship.”

One of Thune's closest allies, Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, said the even-keeled leader is the “right person at the right time.”

“In the Capitol today, he is the stable force,” Rounds said. “In Washington, D.C., today, he is the stable force.”

No signs of revolt among Senate GOP

There were no signs of a revolt within the GOP conference, for now, despite Trump's pressure.

Thune “has managed it better than anyone else could manage it,” said Cassidy, who has become a more frequent Trump critic since a primary loss to a Trump-backed challenger.

Criticism of Trump has at times surfaced even among his closest Senate allies, especially with his proposed $1.776 billion settlement fund for his political allies and his pick for acting intelligence director, Bill Pulte, who has no known intelligence experience.

But the rift with Trump has also stoked some new internal tensions.

Several Republican senators criticized Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who has waged an online campaign to eliminate the filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act, in a private conference lunch this week for stoking dissension within the party in an election year.

Unbowed, Lee has kept up his social media campaign, including a post Friday on X in which he said that giving up because Republicans lack the votes is a “recipe for failure.”

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, one of those who spoke out at the meeting, replied that it is Lee’s job to find the votes, “if you can.”

“Can’t just complain about others,” Cornyn posted. “Prove us wrong.”

Trump's dwindling number of allies

Some Senate Republicans have made clear they have no plans to separate themselves from Trump.

As several of his colleagues criticized Trump’s agreement with Iran this week, first-term Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, aggressively defended it on social media.

“Let’s get the Nobel Peace Prize ready!” Moreno posted on X.

But Trump has far fewer of those Senate allies than he did when they narrowly passed the tax and spending cuts legislation a year ago. That is in part because he has picked off some of the most loyal Republican votes himself.

Both Cassidy and Cornyn lost in primaries last month after Trump endorsed their opponents. Tillis announced he was not running for reelection last year after Trump repeatedly criticized him on social media.

Now all three have become frequent critics.

Shortly after his election loss, Cornyn posted on social media a fable about a frog and a scorpion. The scorpion asks the frog to carry it across a river, according to the fable, and then stings the frog in the middle of the river, “dooming them both.”

“The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence,” Cornyn’s post read. “To which the scorpion replies: ‘I am sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s my character.’”

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As thousands poured into Atlanta Stadium on Monday to see Spain face Cape Verde in what turned out to be a remarkable scoreless draw, Ramroop stood outside, increasingly stressed as she went back and forth for hours between StubHub representatives on the phone and FIFA representatives in the ticket booth. Each blamed the other.

No one could figure out why the tickets Ramroop bought months ago on StubHub for $485 apiece couldn’t be transferred from the original seller to the FIFA ticketing app. StubHub offered her a refund and, as Ramroop heard the crowd roar for the start of the match, she knew she had no choice but to give up and take the offer.

“I didn’t want a refund, I didn’t want my money back,” Ramroop said. “I wanted to go to the game.”

The World Cup has delivered thrills on the pitch, but fans have flooded social media with complaints about tickets that never arrived, orders that were canceled at the last minute and hours they spent trying to sort out problems between FIFA’s ticketing system and outside resale platforms. The vast majority seem to be about industry titan StubHub, but people who bought through competitors such as SeatGeek and Vivid Seats have also reported issues. Interviews with fans and industry experts show that some cases stem from technical glitches in the transfer process, while others could involve sellers who never had tickets to deliver in the first place, though StubHub denies such sales happen on its platform.

A grandmother’s disappointment

FIFA has urged fans to buy resale tickets through its own marketplace, where it slaps a 30% surcharge on every resold ticket — 15% each from the buyer and seller. But many fans bought through other resale sites, either out of habit or because those sites have lower prices or are easier to navigate.

Ramroop didn’t realize she was taking a risk when she bought through StubHub, which she had used in the past without issues.

As she and her grandson Elijah Gomes took the long, lonely train ride back to the Atlanta suburbs, Elijah followed the score on his phone. The match had ended scoreless, and he tried to cheer up his devastated grandmother by telling her they hadn’t missed much after all (Cape Verdeans would beg to differ ).

“He’s telling me, ‘Grandma, it’s OK, Grandma.’ And he’s trying to console me,” Ramroop said the next day.

She was hardly alone. An Associated Press journalist witnessed more than a dozen frustrated fans at the match who said they were stuck in similar situations.

StubHub blamed FIFA for the transfer problems that buyers like Ramroop have experienced. In a statement, it said FIFA has “poor technology infrastructure,” enacted last-minute transfer restrictions and didn’t launch its new ticketing app until a few weeks before the tournament. The company also called out organizers that “take anti-competitive actions” that limit where fans can buy and sell tickets.

Asked about the technical issues, FIFA on Wednesday reiterated that sales through its official site are guaranteed to go through.

An industry’s longstanding problem

Industry observers say the problems appear to stem from more than one cause. For some, it may indeed be technical glitches — an issue that StubHub says is “very, very rare” and one that it is hard at work to solve. For others, they say it’s likely a more longstanding scourge: speculative sellers.

Scott Friedman, an industry veteran and co-founder of a consultancy called the Ticket Talk Network, said some sellers list tickets before they actually have them, betting that prices will fall closer to the event so they can buy the tickets at a better price later. But because World Cup ticket prices have surged since the tournament began, those sellers have been forced to either buy expensive tickets to fulfill their orders or cancel and accept penalties from resale platforms. StubHub’s penalties are typically 200% of the ticket price, Friedman said.

“This is not new at all,” said Friedman, pointing to other high-profile events where frustrated fans were left empty-handed, including Taylor Swift’s Eras tour. “This has been going on, but it’s making global news because it’s the World Cup.”

StubHub says it requires sellers to prove they have tickets before they list them.

But regardless of the reason for the canceled sales, Friedman said “StubHub should fill every single order to make sure fans get in the biggest global sporting event that happens every four years.”

That’s what many fans say they expected when they purchased through StubHub.

StubHub’s FanProtect Guarantee promises replacement tickets or a refund if tickets fail to arrive. But the policy repeatedly says those remedies are provided at StubHub’s “sole discretion,” meaning the company can choose a refund instead of securing replacement seats.

“That is pretty explicit language,” said Michael McCann, a sports law expert at the University of New Hampshire. McCann noted that a buyer could try to challenge the language under state consumer protection laws, but it would be an uphill battle.

A father’s regrets

Pape Ndaw is crestfallen that the high school graduation gift he got for his son — tickets for them to see the Netherlands and Japan near their home city of Dallas — never arrived.

He bought the tickets for about $550 apiece in December. Then, two days before the June 14 match, he received an email from StubHub telling him, “The seller can’t deliver your original tickets.”

Ndaw accepted store credit rather than a refund, thinking he would use the funds to quickly get replacements, only to then realize that the cheapest last-minute tickets were going for more than $1,500 each. Not only were they not going to get to go to the game, but Ndaw said StubHub rejected his belated request for a refund instead of store credit.

Breaking the news to his soccer-obsessed son was brutal, Ndaw said.

“It was a disastrous thing,” he said. “He had told all his friends that he was going to that game. He literally cried. I mean, he is a 17-year-old kid, but he cried.”

A family’s attempt to make the best of it

Others fared somewhat better.

Patrick O’Neil of Pittsboro, North Carolina, traveled to Atlanta with his wife, son and relatives after purchasing five tickets through StubHub for the Spain-Cape Verde match. Two tickets transferred successfully, but three never arrived.

O’Neil’s 15-year-old son and his uncle ended up using the two tickets, while O’Neil, his wife and another relative watched from a nearby bar.

After local media caught wind of their ordeal, O’Neil said StubHub contacted the family and offered tickets to another game. Since the family had already bought tickets to one, though, he and his wife asked the company to instead give the seats to local nonprofit Soccer in the Streets so they could go to people who otherwise might not be able to attend a match.

“StubHub is not evil, but they’re part of the whole system that makes it really hard for just normal kids and people who might want to see a match get to go,” O’Neil said.

On Thursday, a StubHub representative confirmed to the AP that the company would honor the O’Neils’ request and send tickets to the nonprofit.

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El senador Cepeda promete profundizar la agenda del actual gobierno progresista de Gustavo Petro, su aliado político y quien no se puede reelegir, para continuar con el “cambio” en favor de los más vulnerables alegando que la oposición no le permitió ejecutar todos sus proyectos durante su mandato. También ha anticipado que continuará buscando salidas negociadas al conflicto armado interno.

Mientras De la Espriella, apoyado por el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, promete un giro total respecto de la actual administración. El abogado centra su programa en una estrategia de mano dura contra el narcotráfico y los grupos armados ilegales con los que aún lidia Colombia, pese a que hace una década firmó un histórico acuerdo de paz con la guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC).

A continuación las propuestas clave de ambos candidatos.

Seguridad y diálogos de paz

Cepeda, quien ha sido facilitador en varios diálogos de paz con armados, no descarta continuar con los diálogos pese a que la política de Petro ha sido cuestionada por no lograr su objetivo de desarmar a los ilegales. Sin embargo, ha dicho que lo haría con condiciones, como el respeto de la población civil, y que no permitirá que los diálogos sean utilizados por los ilegales para su fortalecimiento militar —una de las principales críticas a Petro— asegurando que fortalecerá a la fuerza pública en capacidad e inteligencia.

De la Espriella, por su parte, acabaría de tajo con los esfuerzos de diálogo y se dedicaría a combatirlos con “la fuerza de las armas”, aumentando la capacidad militar con tecnología. Ha prometido construir “mega cárceles”, inspiradas en las del presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele, con quien simpatiza.

Narcotráfico

Así como Petro, Cepeda insiste en que la “guerra contra las drogas fracasó” bajo el modelo prohibicionista, por lo que plantea promover ante el Congreso regulaciones para el cannabis, la amapola y la hoja de coca, “superando enfoques que las han equiparado" con la cocaína y la heroína. También continuaría priorizando que las familias con cultivos ilícitos transiten voluntariamente hacia economías legales, evitando una vía punitiva en su contra.

De la Espriella asegura que no va a permitir que salga más cocaína de Colombia y quiere fumigar con herbicidas biológicos los plantíos de hoja de coca. Además, adhiere a la política antidrogas de Trump, incluyendo los bombardeos a embarcaciones que presuntamente trafican drogas. “Lancha que salga cargada de droga voy a dar la orden de que la hundan con la gente que vaya adentro”, dijo De la Espriella a The Associated Press.

Economía

El próximo gobierno encontrará problemas fiscales. En 2025 el déficit primario —el desequilibrio entre ingresos y gastos—- fue de 3,5% del Producto Interno Bruto, el más alto de los últimos 30 años a excepción de periodos de crisis como la pandemia, según el Comité Autónomo de la Regla Fiscal, un organismo técnico adscrito al Ministerio de Hacienda.

De la Espriella busca un ajuste fiscal que reduzca el tamaño del Estado hasta en una cuarta parte y promete construir una “patria milagro” haciendo crecer la economía al 7% en su eventual gobierno. En 2025 el PIB creció 2,6%. Su propuesta se centra en disminuir las cargas tributarias a las empresas y simplificar las regulaciones para estimular la inversión y la economía. Está a favor de avanzar en el fracking, una técnica de extracción de petróleo y gas de rocas profundas muy criticada por ambientalistas.

Cepeda buscará disminuir las brechas de desigualdad con programas sociales en un país en el que la pobreza alcanza al 28% de la población, según el último dato oficial disponible para 2025, el más bajo desde 2012.

Culpa al modelo neoliberal de profundizar las desigualdades por lo que buscaría superarlo dejando atrás el extractivismo —una política de transición energética iniciada por Petro—, la precarización laboral y la concentración de riqueza. Asegura que, a través de un acuerdo con sectores sociales y económicos, revisará el sistema tributario para aumentar impuestos a los grandes patrimonios. Petro intentó sumar impuestos, pero el Congreso rechazó dos de sus reformas fiscales.

Relaciones internacionales

Petro ha tenido una relación tensa con el gobierno estadounidense desde la vuelta al poder de Trump por diferencias en temas de migración, seguridad regional y lucha antinarcóticos. Cepeda ha dicho que mantendrá las relaciones con Estados Unidos, el principal socio comercial de Colombia, mientras defiende la soberanía y prioriza la cooperación con África y Asia.

De la Espriella, con nacionalidad estadounidense y miembro del Partido Republicano, promete afianzar las relaciones bilaterales con Estados Unidos, especialmente luego de que Trump le diera su apoyo político. El candidato asegura que “comparten valores fundamentales de libertad, democracia y respeto por la ley” y trabajar por “la prosperidad de nuestro continente”.

Cepeda cuestionó la captura de Nicolás Maduro en un operativo estadounidense y ha defendido mantener las relaciones bilaterales con Venezuela, mientras que De la Espriella celebró la operación militar y ha dicho que su relación con Venezuela se canalizará a través del gobierno estadounidense.

The Bank King Card debit card will be offered beginning Friday in honor of Juneteenth by Redemption Bank, which will make a donation from every account opened to nonprofits that will steer the funding to needy families.

“Bank King Card represents a new regenerative banking model that starts with investing in mothers who are a few hopeful dollars away from breaking out of poverty, and opening up America’s vaults of opportunity that have been closed to too many for too long,” Redemption Holding Co. chair and Chief Executive Ashley Bell said.

A 2026 report by the Urban Institute and the Jeremiah Program says households led by single mothers experience widespread economic and caregiving hardship.

Redemption Bank, based in Holladay, Utah, says it intends to make fixed-amount donations based on new Bank King Card account openings. The amount will be determined annually by the bank’s board of directors and will not be based on the amount of card purchases, according to Redemption Bank.

Nonprofits that provide direct-cash services would apply for grants through a foundation developed to make sure the money gets to those who need it most.

“What we’ve seen is these guaranteed income programs have been a jolt out of poverty for women around the country, including many women of color,” Bell said.

Every dollar helps

Money given directly to needy mothers and children is overwhelmingly spent to cover necessary goods or services, according to Chastity Lord, president and chief executive of the Jeremiah Program, which works to improve economic mobility for single mothers.

But it also does so much more, she said.

“It provides dignity,” Lord continued. “It ensures summer learning, not leaving kids at home. It increases nutrition. It allows the mom to make powerful decisions that benefit their children and their families instead of making decisions to just get by.”

A pilot program through the Ohio Mother's Trust funneled $500 each month for a year to 32 single mothers in the Columbus, Ohio, area.

For Juanita Amakor of Columbus, the cash she received through the Ohio Mother's Trust allowed her to catch up on bills and pay rent.

“It's the breathing room it gives you, knowing there is something extra coming in. It relieves a lot of anxiety,” said Amakor, 36, who has a 7-year-old daughter. “This help goes a long way, even if it was for something as little as being able to take my child to the grocery store, to the clothing store.”

In Michigan, Rx Kids gives women a one-time allocation of $1,500 during pregnancy, followed by $500 per month throughout the child’s first months. The $1,500 can be used on food, prenatal care, rent, cribs or other needs. The $500 monthly stipend can be spent on formula, diapers or childcare.

Kinea Wright and her family received funding through the Rx Kids program in Flint. It helped with some bills, diapers for her newborn daughter and other needs, especially after her husband was injured in a forklift accident.

“Initially, (the money) was put up for a rainy day,” said Wright, 46. “I didn't know the rainy day would come sooner than we thought. It was a blessing in disguise.”

Juneteenth connection

A year ago, Redemption Holding Co. completed its acquisition of Utah-based Holladay Bank & Trust, making it the first time a bank has been owned by a Black-led investment group in the Western U.S.

At the time, Redemption Bank had roughly $65 million in assets. It primarily focuses on commercial lending and small business loans. Bernice A. King, the youngest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is a co-founder and senior vice president of the bank.

“Economic opportunity must be practical, accessible and rooted in the needs of families,” King said. “Bank King Card is an innovative way to support that work. It creates a practical opportunity for people to align their financial choices with their values while supporting mothers, children and families working toward long-term stability.”

A Bank King Card credit card is expected to be introduced later with interest rates capped at 12%.

The announcement of the Bank King Card coincides with Juneteenth, which also is the one-year anniversary of Redemption's acquisition of Holladay Bank & Trust.

Juneteenth — which combines “June” and “nineteenth” — represents the date in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed. It came two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday.

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The National Assembly of the Cuban government approved 176 new economic measures Thursday to help jumpstart their moribund economy. Similar economic reforms were introduced when Raul Castro took over power from his brother, Fidel, but they failed because the government’s infrastructure could not implement them. Are these measures in time to save Cuba from a total economic disaster? Many economists even inside the island have come out and said that they are a bit too late.

On Thursday, the European Parliament approved a resolution sanctioning Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and the leaders of the Cuban economic military conglomerate, GAESA. Finally, it suspended the existing agreement between the EU and Cuba.

June 17 update: Can President Trump afford another conflict?

Now that the U.S. and Iran have reached an agreement to stop the war, can President Donald Trump politically afford another conflict? This time it will be with Cuba -- a nation that will offer little military resistance to the U.S., but can also be a political trap for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s future run for the U.S. presidency.

June 11 update: Rubio announces sanctioning of CUPET:

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Thursday afternoon the sanctioning of Cuba’s oil and gas company, Union Cuba Petroleo (CUPET). This company had been confiscated from American owners at the start of the revolution.

This is a sign that Cuba’s government has not shown any willingness to negotiate with the U.S. This action further chokes the regime who is running out of options as the socio-economic problems get worse each day that passes.

June 10 update: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visits Guantanamo Bay for operational briefings

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on Wednesday to receive updates and operational briefings on the base’s mission, according to the Pentagon.

According to Reuters, Hegseth flew into the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, marking the latest visit by a senior American official to the communist-led island as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to increase pressure on the Cuban government.

His trip comes less than two weeks after General Francis Donovan, the top U.S. military commander for Latin America, visited Guantanamo Bay and held discussions with a senior Cuban military official near the base’s perimeter.

Hegseth is the third high-ranking U.S. official to visit Cuba in recent months, highlighting Washington’s continued focus on the island amid ongoing tensions between the two countries.

June 8 update: What will be brought up during any future negotiations?

One of the issues that will certainly come up during any future negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba will be the 5,913 American companies, as well as Cuban-American properties, that were confiscated by the Cuban Revolution in the early 1960’s.

According to Mauricio Tamargo, former chairman of the Foreign Claims Office in the U.S. Department of Justice, the estimated values of these properties are in the billions.

June 3 update: Raúl Castro turns 95

Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, turns 95 years old Wednesday under the shadow of a criminal indictment from the U.S. and an uncertain future for Cuba with the legacy of his brother, Fidel Castro, on his shoulders.

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June 1 update: Looking to the future: Should Cuban Americans invest in Cuba?

A few months ago, Cuba’s Vice Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, who is the grand-nephew of Raúl Castro, invited Cuban Americans in exile to invest in Cuba.

In 2019, the Cuban government amended their constitution to allow foreign investment. However, they did not change their laws to protect the investments.

Therefore, the risks to invest in Cuba remain greater than the opportunities.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

With so much chaos around him, Clark played a steady hand — a far cry from where he was at the U.S. Open last year when he missed the cut and smashed up a locker at storied Oakmont.

His last act was a 35-foot putt down the slope on the 18th green that dropped for a 1-under 69. That put him at 7-under 133, one shot better than Phil Mickelson and Shigeki Maruyama at the halfway point in 2004 at Shinnecock Hills.

And he thinks he could be better.

“I really felt like I could be in double digits (under par),” Clark said. “But you know, the great thing about that is I didn’t feel like I had my best, and I still am leading as of right now. Hopefully, I can bring my A-game on the weekend.”

Xander Schauffele, with the best U.S. Open record of anyone without a U.S. Open title over the last 10 years, had a 66 to finish at 137 along with Matt Fitzpatrick, a former U.S. Open champion who birdied two of his last three holes to salvage a 70.

The most remarkable day belonged to Joaquin Niemann. He made a 9 on No. 6 — his 15th and final hole of the fog-delayed first round that was halted by darkness — only for it to become an 11 when the USGA penalized two shots for bad behavior.

Niemann hit two drives that were lost, chopped his way up the fairway and finally lost it by heaving his club. The majors are cracking down on behavior this year — the Masters was the first to use the policy this year — and the USGA deemed it serious enough to skip the warning and go straight to the harsh two-shot penalty.

Niemann headed out for his second round, made five birdies in six holes and shot 65 to easily get inside the cut line. It was the first time in 97 years at the U.S. Open someone made 10 or worse in a U.S. Open and still make the cut.

“All the frustration that came inside me and had my club in my hand, and I couldn’t resist to throw it away,” Niemann said. “There was no people, obviously. No one there. I’m not proud of it, but yeah, sometimes all the expectation of trying to play well and things doesn’t go your way, you get frustrated. And that was me there.”

Dustin Johnson managed to keep his head during a meltdown on the back nine. Johnson, in his final year of U.S. Open exemptions from winning at Oakmont in 2016, was one shot behind Clark as they headed to the tee at the par-3 11th. He was 11 shots behind when they reached the 16th.

Johnson went from one bunker to the next for a double bogey on the 11th. And then on the 15th, he went from the front right bunker to the front left bunker, left it in that bunker, blasted it over the green, chipped on and took two putts for a quadruple-bogey 8.

He attributed it to rocks in the sand. But he made birdie on the 16th and was likely to make the cut.

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy took their turns in the afternoon. The wind wasn't as strong as Thursday, and while the course was still relatively soft by U.S. Open standards — greens were being sprayed in the early morning — the sun was out and the afternoon figured to be a strong test.

It was a long day for Clark and the other finishers because they had to return at 6:35 a.m. to resume the first round — 10 hours after they walked off the course.

Clark finished with two pars for a 64, the lowest start ever for a U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, and had a two-shot lead. He doubled that, and then waited to see if anyone could make a run at him.

He was on a heater coming into Shinnecock Hills, winning The CJ Cup Byron Nelson with a 60 in the final round, contending in the Memorial and the Canadian Open the last two weeks. Frustration peaked a year ago at Oakmont and in the months that followed. Now, he appears to be more comfortable with each day.

Schauffele has seven top 10s in his nine U.S. Open appearances, a Californian who keeps his cool even amid a tough test.

“It’s a brutal week,” Schauffele said. “Everyone watching at home wants to see guys shooting in the 80s and doing crazy things. I get it. You know, it’s once a year you get to see some carnage, and it’s at a U.S. Open. Try to embrace it as much as you can.”

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The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Confederate territory on Jan. 1, 1863, but the news didn’t get to Galveston, Texas, until June 19, 1865.

Juneteenth, which commemorates the day, has been an official federal holiday since 2021, and North Miami has been celebrating it every year with a free festival.

“Juneteenth is not just for African Americans,” said Vincent Spence, who helps organize the festival. “Juneteenth is more about like that road that has been paved for us.”

Spence, who co-founded Our Living Legends, a North Miami-based organization, was looking forward to the 5th annual festival at Griffing Park.

“Juneteenth is a powerful reminder of the resilience, strength, and contributions of generations who paved the way for future opportunities,” Councilwoman Mary Estimé-Irvin said in a statement.

A stage for live music, a kid zone, and a network of tents were near food trucks that were open for business on Thursday at 12220 Griffing Boulevard.

For more information about the community event, visit this page.

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Dr. Andrew Sorial, a psychiatrist whose former office is in Boca Raton, was trusted to listen to people hurting in their mind. Now the state says he had an obsession with women’s breasts.

The alleged victim who asked to go by Donna, which is not her real name, asked Local 10 News to protect her identity.

“I had some mental health issues that I needed help with,” Donna said.

Local 10 News obtained the official notice from the state Department of Health.

The Health Department says that during telehealth sessions, Sorial would ask women to undress in good lighting and put on a sports bra.

The state says Sorial asked one patient to lower her waistband so he could view her midsection and pelvic area. Donna says he asked her to put on skimpy clothing. She refused.

The Department of Health paperwork says Sorial had an obsession with women’s breasts and gave an instruction for patient “L.P.” to squeeze her breasts together and turn in different directions.

Donna told Local 10 News she had to switch to all-women doctors and said Sorial should never see another patient again.

“I would tell him he is evil and vile and he deserves to go to jail for what he did,” she said.

At least one lawsuit has been filed. Attorney Adam Horowitz represents Donna, and says he’ll be filing a lawsuit as well.

“When he made these demands on them — take their clothes off, take pictures — some thought they had to comply, or lose the benefits of his treatments,” Horowitz said.

Donna had a message for any potential victims out there.

“Come forward, say something. It’s not your fault. Not your fault. I can see this is tough. It affected my whole life,” she said.

Local 10 News reached out to Sorial to get his side of the story, but didn’t receive a response.

Local 10 News also confirmed he surrendered his license in Massachusetts.

As of Thursday, no criminal charges have been filed against him.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani abruptly cancelled a planned trip to the United States this weekend, calling Trump’s claims “serious and offensive” toward Meloni and all of Italy. The Foreign Ministry later announced that the business and scientific forum Tajani was to attend in Miami had also been called off.

Meloni for her part posted a video calling Trump’s claims “completely fabricated" and expressing astonishment that he would invent such things about an ally.

“Italy and I do not beg,” she said pointedly.

Trump had made the comments in an interview broadcast Friday on the La7 network. The La7 correspondent had asked Trump about Ukraine, but Trump raised Meloni and the conversation turned to their meeting during the just-concluded G7 meeting in Evian-les-Bains, France. Meloni and Trump were filmed speaking at several moments, including alone on a small sofa.

According to La7, Trump said Meloni had “begged” him for a photo-op. Trump said he wasn’t obliged to do it but that he felt sorry for her and agreed, La7 said. The broadcaster put a dubbed version of the conversation online, not the original English audio.

Meloni is astonished and defiant

Trump's posturing underscored how his alliance with Meloni — long seen as one of his closest friends in Europe — has frayed over his war in Iran, his tariffs against Europe and his complaints when anyone disagrees with him.

He turned on Meloni in April after she refused to support his war in Iran and stood up for Pope Leo XIV when Trump lashed out at the pontiff.

But Meloni's strong response on Friday suggested she no longer fears Trump's verbal attacks — attacks that could actually play in her favor in a country where public opinion of the American president has chilled, said Lorenzo Castellani, a political scientist at Rome's Luiss Guido Carli University.

“In some ways this was a favor to Giorgia Meloni, in the sense that she was accused until a few months ago of being a sort of Trump's vassal in Europe,” he said.

In her video, Meloni said she was responding to Trump’s claims because “certain things deserve an immediate response."

“Donald Trump’s statements are completely fabricated. I am frankly stunned,” she said. “I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves this way toward his own allies. After all, this isn’t the first time this has happened.”

It was an apparent reference to an interview Trump gave to Italian daily Corriere della Sera in April in which he criticized Meloni's refusal to back the U.S.-Israel war in Iran. Meloni didn't respond publicly at the time. By Friday, it appeared she had had enough of his boasts and broadsides.

“I can only say that it’s a shame he doesn’t show the same resolve toward the enemies of the West, toward the enemies of the United States — toward leaders with whom he, on the other hand, is much more accommodating," Meloni said Friday. "But there’s one thing he must remember: Italy and I do not beg.”

The White House did not return an immediate request for comment on Meloni’s remarks.

Meloni had initially sought to build on longstanding strong U.S.-Italian ties when Trump began his second mandate, and had positioned herself as a “bridge” between Washington and the European Union. She was the lone EU head of state to attend his inauguration.

But relations have frayed over the U.S. war in Iran, which Meloni has said was illegal, and Trump’s position on Ukraine, which Italy strongly supports. Trump's tariffs and strong U.S. support of Israel over its war in Gaza have been other points of contention.

Italian officials close ranks around Meloni

By Friday afternoon, solidarity for Meloni had poured in from across the government and political spectrum, and included a call from President Sergio Mattarella, Italy’s respected head of state.

“Whoever attacks @GiorgiaMeloni attacks all of us,” posted Transport Minister Matteo Salvini.

Justice Minister Carlo Nordio referenced the sacrifice of American troops in World War II in underlining the harm to U.S.-Italy relations caused by Trump.

“The thousands of crosses marking the graves of American soldiers who died to free us from Nazi-Fascist dictatorship did not deserve such a painful blow to our fraternal ties,” Nordio said on X.

Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said he didn't believe Meloni would ever beg someone for a photo, “not even under threat.”

A ‘fantastic’ friendship frays

Meloni and Trump had gotten off to a strong start, and the two leaders are ideologically aligned on many issues. As the head of a far-right party, Meloni backs curbing migration and promoting traditional values.

Weeks before Trump’s 2025 inauguration, Meloni met Trump at his Mar-a-Lago retreat, a visit that she said went “beyond expectations.” It was, she said at the time, “an opportunity to confirm a relationship that promises to be very solid.’’

In the months after, Trump had praised her repeatedly, as “fantastic,” “incredible,” beautiful and a friend.

But stark differences emerged over Ukraine. More recently, Meloni sharply warned against U.S. threats to take Greenland by force, saying she didn’t believe Washington would go so far and that regardless Italy would never support such a move.

Meloni also received support from an unlikely ally in Europe: Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who was on Friday asked about the back and forth on the sidelines of a European Council meeting.

“About Meloni, first and foremost, all my solidarity," he told reporters. “Secondly, I not only say this publicly in a response to your question, but also in private during the European Council meeting I offered her all my solidarity against this attack that is not political or personal … I really don´t know how to qualify it.”

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Associated Press writer Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, Spain, contributed to this report.

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A student and an instructor departed from the North Perry Airport and crashed at about 11:30 a.m. on May 29, outside of the South Florida State Hospital, at 800 East Cypress Drive, records show.

“I was in shock, but I ran toward the plane, and I pulled two girls out,” Nathan Gansert told a first responder, according to the video.

Vanessa Ledo, the instructor, and Earlene E. Clarke Thomas, the student, survived with back injuries, according to police.

After the crash, Pembroke Pines Mayor Angelo Castillo said engine failure was likely the cause of the crash. The Federal Aviation Administration had yet to announce the findings of the investigation.

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Known as a longtime hub for the LGBTQ+ community, Wilton Manors is once again transforming into a vibrant destination filled with music, entertainment, advocacy and celebration.

Organizers expect approximately 50,000 people to gather along Wilton Drive for this year’s event, which promises to be bigger and brighter than ever. Community leaders, businesses and partners have spent months preparing for the festivities, all centered around a message of inclusion, equality and pride.

While the event is known for its festive atmosphere, organizers emphasize that Stonewall Pride is about much more than entertainment. The celebration honors the historic Stonewall Riots of 1969, widely recognized as the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.

“Well, it means so many different things, right? It’s honoring and celebrating our victories, but also coalescing together to realize we are a community that needs to work toward full equality,” one organizer, Jameer Baptiste, said.

The celebration begins at 3 p.m. Saturday when Wilton Drive closes to traffic and the street festival officially opens. Safety remains a priority, with metal detectors stationed at all festival entrances.

Once inside, attendees can enjoy performances and entertainment across seven stages. The festival is surrounded by LGBTQ+-owned and LGBTQ+-friendly bars, nightclubs and restaurants, while a marketplace featuring a variety of vendors stretches along the drive.

The evening culminates with the popular Glow Night Parade at 8 p.m. Participants and spectators alike are encouraged to light up the night with glow sticks, glow-in-the-dark paint and illuminated costumes as the parade makes its way through the heart of Wilton Manors.

Organizers say the event welcomes everyone, regardless of background, and serves as an opportunity for allies, friends and family members to celebrate alongside the LGBTQ+ community.

“Although this is a celebration, it also means that we’re having fun and enjoying ourselves, but we’re recognizing that we need our partners and our loved ones and our family to come along with us,” Baptiste said. “That’s why it’s open to everyone to come and enjoy and feel and experience what it means to be around like-minded individuals that love and welcome each other wholeheartedly.”

Local 10 News will provide special coverage of the festivities during “Celebrating Pride,” airing Saturday at 8 p.m. from the heart of Wilton Manors.

“The fact that this holiday has been preserved for thousands of years shows how much we value our traditional customs,” said Meng Dongmei, a retired resident of Beijing’s Tongzhou district.

Meng said her family observes the holiday through a variety of traditional customs. They prepare zongzi, the sticky rice dumplings associated with the festival, and children wear five-colored bracelets believed to ward off evil.

“We also learned online about a traditional recipe using mugwort leaves, red dates, brown sugar and ginger to boil eggs,” Meng said. “We heard that it could help ward off illness and keep people healthy throughout the year, so we hope that through this festival our family will enjoy good health.”

Thousands to gather for boat races

Beijing’s 2026 celebrations will continue through the weekend at the capital’s Grand Canal.

The three-day event features men’s, women’s and mixed dragon boat races over distances of 100, 200 and 500 meters. Teams from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Guangdong will compete throughout the holiday weekend.

More than 1,000 athletes and 200,000 spectators are expected to gather for the event, organizers said in a press release.

“The competition helped strengthen our team spirit,” said Li Maoshan, a participant in Friday’s races. “It also gave us an opportunity to demonstrate the spirit of perseverance and hard work.”

Beyond the races

Among the cultural features during Beijing’s Dragon Boat Festival were demonstrations of Wing Chun martial arts, a market featuring traditional handicrafts and a performance in which dancers mimic the movements of a lion.

Activities were intended to highlight cultural exchanges between northern and southern China, officials said.

Friday’s lion dance was presented by a group of performers from Guangdong province in southern China. “Wherever there is a festive occasion, you’ll find dragon and lion dances,” said He Weihong, founder of the group. “Dragon boat racing and dragon-and-lion dancing are inseparable, as they are both part of our intangible cultural heritage.”

Ancient customs on health and protection

The festival’s roots run deeper than sporting competitions. It is widely associated with the ancient poet Qu Yuan, who according to legend drowned himself more than 2,000 years ago.

Tradition holds that people raced out in boats to search for him and threw rice into the river so fish would not eat his body. That story is often linked to both today’s dragon boat races and the zongzi still prepared by families across China.

“The Dragon Boat Festival is probably the richest and most diverse of all traditional Chinese festivals,” said Tsinghua University history professor Liu Xiaofeng. “Across different regions, people developed a wide variety of traditions based on ideas connected to the summer solstice and the balance of yin and yang.”

The holiday falls in the fifth month of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, around the time of the summer solstice. Ancient Chinese viewed this as a period when insects, poisonous creatures and disease became more prevalent, giving rise to a wide range of customs aimed at preserving health and warding off misfortune.

“At its core, the Dragon Boat Festival is about disease prevention, warding off evil and maintaining health,” Liu said.

Some people wear sachets containing medicinal herbs during the festival. Others fumigate their homes with smoke, a practice intended to prevent disease by driving out things considered harmful.

“Chinese people have traditionally placed a special emphasis on happiness, well-being and living in peace and safety,” Liu said. “Nearly all of China’s major festivals are connected in some way to these aspirations.”

Evolving traditions

Participants in Hong Kong’s dragon boat races on Friday wore costumes including a cartoon version of Chinese Taoist deity Ne Zha.

Guided by the thunderous beat of their drummers, crews pulled their paddles through the water in unison, each boat surging toward the finish line as spectators cheered them on. Others watched the races at home as they enjoyed zongzi with their families.

“Today more than 64% of China’s population lives in urban areas and people’s lifestyles have been transformed,” Liu said. “In a large city, it’s difficult to celebrate the festival the way people once did in rural communities. Festivals evolve along with the times.”

Bao Nari, a Beijing resident who spent years away from home while she studied in Japan, said that while boat races were not part of her childhood celebrations, other long-standing Dragon Boat Festival traditions like wearing five-colored bracelets were passed down through her family.

“After coming back, I’m impressed by how much cultural development has progressed here,” Bao said. “This cultural heritage has become deeply rooted in our hearts and it inspires our generation to be more confident.”

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Manchester City, in its first season in 10 years without Pep Guardiola as manager, will host Bournemouth in its opener, and Manchester United will visit promoted Hull. Liverpool plays at Newcastle.

The season's fixtures were released by the league on Friday.

Chelsea and new coach Xabi Alonso visit Fulham in a west London derby on Aug. 24 that concludes the opening round of fixtures.

After facing Coventry, Mikel Arteta's team visits Aston Villa and then hosts Chelsea as it looks to repeat as champion after winning its first league title in 22 years last season.

Andoni Iraola, Liverpool's new manager, will get his first taste of the Merseyside derby on Nov. 28 at Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium.

Man United's second game of the season is also against a promoted team — Ipswich — this one at Old Trafford with coach Michael Carrick starting a two-year contract.

The first Manchester derby is scheduled for Sept. 12 at Old Trafford. United visits Anfield on Nov. 21.

The season starts one week later than the 2025-26 campaign, to allow for player recovery following the World Cup.

The final round will be played on Sunday, May 30 — six days before the Champions League final on June 5 in Madrid.

Frank Lampard, the Chelsea great who coaches Coventry, welcomes his old team to Coventry Building Society Arena on Boxing Day, Dec. 26.

Ipswich opens its campaign at home against Sunderland. Ipswich is looking for a new coach after Kieran McKenna stepped down just over a week ago despite leading the club to promotion.

Man City is also without a manager but is reportedly eying Enzo Maresca, the former Chelsea coach who was assistant to Guardiola at City in its treble-winning season of 2022-23.

The season's curtain-raising Community Shield between league champion Arsenal and FA Cup winner Man City will be on Aug. 16 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

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The poll points to just how unpopular the war, which began Feb. 28, has been with Americans even as the Republican president turned abruptly from threatening Iran to reopening negotiations. Support for his handling of the war remains lopsidedly partisan. About two-thirds, 65%, of U.S. adults disapprove of how Trump is handling issues with Iran. But while the vast majority of Democrats and independents view Trump’s actions negatively, only 28% of Republicans are unhappy.

Americans’ views on how the president is handling Iran are roughly in line with his overall job approval, which stands at 37%, unchanged from an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in May.

The new survey was conducted June 11-17, just after Trump called off threats to escalate the war with Iran. The poll was fielded as Trump announced a deal with Iran and authorized an end to the U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, concluding just before the deal was signed Wednesday.

Approval of Trump’s actions on Iran has been low over the past few months. But in interviews, some Republicans also weren’t pleased with the outcome of this week’s agreement, which gives Iran an immediate benefit, allowing it to sell its oil freely again.

The deal also reopens the strait without tolls for two months, restarts talks between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program and calls for Tehran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

David Farrington, a 79-year-old Republican-leaning independent in Fort Worth, Texas, “doesn’t have any love lost” for Iran, but he’s frustrated the agreement focused on the strait and didn’t deliver more on the country’s nuclear weapons program.

“Any agreement regarding the strait is hardly what I would consider a recognizable concession on the part of Iran,” Farrington said. “So, I consider that some fluff that attempts to make this agreement look better when it’s not.”

Trump’s approval on Iran remains flat

Only about one-third of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling Iran in the new poll, in line with May.

Donald McBride, a 28-year-old independent in Plano, Texas, is frustrated that Trump has not maintained his campaign promise to keep America out of foreign wars. McBride voted for Trump but he opposed going to war with Iran.

“I would like the war to end,” he said. “The original objective of the war was to end the Iranian regime, and that’s just not possible. I don’t really know why we’d continue fighting.”

The poll suggests most Americans want action in Iran to wrap up. Even with an agreement on the horizon, 53% of U.S. adults said American military action against Iran had “gone too far,” only a slight decline from 59% in March.

About 4 in 10 Republicans, though, said in the latest poll that action has been “about right,” and 37% said it had not gone far enough.

Joan Jones, a 64-year-old independent in northwest Florida, believes the United States’ actions in Iran have been necessary to address the threat Iran posed.

“Those attacks are ultimately to protect us from nuclear attacks,” Jones said. “I think we have to go through that … and eliminate that worry so we don’t have that hovering over us.”

Few approve of Trump’s approach on Israel

About one-third, 34%, of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling Israel.

Tensions have been rising between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump as the president criticizes recent Israeli attacks in Lebanon, which jeopardized negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

James Huffman, a 69-year-old Republican in Medway, Ohio, thinks Trump is taking the wrong strategy when it comes to Netanyahu.

“Netanyahu is not going to do everything Trump wants. He’s going to do what he wants,” Huffman said. “I just don’t think it’s effective.”

Only about one-third approve on the economy

About one-third of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s approach to the economy. That’s in line with last month, and continues a challenging stretch for Trump on the issue.

Jones, the Florida independent, is more optimistic than most. She said she can hardly leave the house some hours without getting stuck in the traffic of tourists headed to the beach on vacation. She also spots lines around the block for Starbucks, McDonalds and Chick-fil-A in her community — all signs to her that the economy is doing well overall.

“I think President Trump’s policies are contributing to a better economy,” Jones said.

Other Republicans are more skeptical, a troubling sign for a president who prides himself on his business acumen. Only 69% of Republicans approve of how he’s handling the economy, slightly lower than the 78% who approve of how he’s handling the presidency overall.

Patricia Bailey, a 42-year-old Republican in Parkersburg, West Virginia, sees an economy where prices have gotten out of control. “I just said the other night, ordering pizza is for rich people,” she said. Bailey voted for Trump but added, “He’s kind of let me down a little bit.”

Even if high prices preceded Trump, Bailey doesn’t think he’s lived up to his pledge to improve the economy.

“I think he got so distracted with the war that he forgot some old promises,” she said.

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The AP-NORC poll of 3,040 adults was conducted June 11-17 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.

The defender, who is currently playing with Morocco at the World Cup after winning the Champions League for a second straight year with PSG, had appealed a February decision by an investigative judge. That ruling followed recommendations from public prosecutors that Hakimi should face trial.

The decision was released just hours before Morocco takes on Scotland in their Group C match. Morocco drew 1-1 with Brazil in its opening game.

Hakimi, one of the best right backs in the world, denies any wrongdoing. He faced preliminary charges of rape in March 2023 after a 24-year-old woman said she was raped by Hakimi at his home in a Paris suburb.

The Versailles appeals court said in a press statement that it ordered that Hakimi be formally charged with rape. The court said that the investigations conducted during the inquiry and the judicial investigation led the investigating chamber to conclude that there is sufficient evidence against the player to stand trial.

Rachel-Flore Pardo, the lawyer representing the plaintiff, said that after more than three years of legal proceedings, “and after being defamed and dragged through the mud by Achraf Hakimi’s defense,” the court's decision “brings my client a sense of relief and hope."

“Relief that she has been heard by the justice system and will have her case heard at trial,” Pardo said in a statement to The Associate Press. "Hope that this trial will help other women and further weaken the fortress of denial and impunity surrounding sexual violence, including within the world of men’s football.”

Hakimi claimed in a message posted on X on Friday that his case would have been dismissed if he had not been famous, and that he sometimes feels he has become “an easy target.”

“Justice looked me in the eye and told me: ‘If you were not famous, there would never have been a case,’" Hakimi wrote. “I chose to remain silent for years. I believed that staying dignified, being patient, and trusting the justice system would allow the right decisions to be made.”

He added that the case has been detrimental not only to him, but also to his family, “and above all, to the truth.”

“I have been waiting for this trial since the first day. And I am now waiting for it impatiently,” he added. “Finally, I will be able to speak.”

A date for the trial has yet to be announced.

“The multitude of exculpatory elements uncovered during the investigation and judicial inquiry would, in any other case, have led to the dismissal of the proceedings," Hakimi’s lawyer, Fanny Colin, told the AP.

“Achraf Hakimi’s defense regrets that no consequences were drawn from the contradictions and false statements made by the complainant, her concealment of information from the judicial authorities, her obstruction of the search for the truth, and the psychological assessments noting both her ambivalence and her lack of clarity regarding the events she reported.”

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