Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, needed surgery for a broken leg after being hit by a car Saturday, said Cesar Espinosa, executive director of FIEL Houston, an immigrant rights organization that is helping the man's family.

The encounter has set off new criticism over immigration enforcement in Houston, where local prosecutors have also investigated a July fatal shooting by a federal immigration officer.

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, a Democrat, expressed concern over surveillance footage that shows Parra Hernandez and another person jumping out of a white truck and running as a dark SUV pursues them. A vehicle strikes Parra Hernandez, who is seen on the ground seconds later.

“In a case like this, the most obvious criminal charge is aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,” Teare told FOX 26 Houston. “Meaning the car was used as a deadly weapon. And it certainly is what appears to have happened based on the surveillance footage.”

Tim Oberle, a spokesperson for ICE in Houston, said in a statement sent to The Texas Tribune on Saturday that “As ICE officers attempted to apprehend the illegal aliens, Miguel Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck.”

Spokespersons for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday.

Parra Hernandez has been in the U.S. for 34 years and was on his way to work when the encounter began, according to Espinosa. Espinosa declined to share Parra Hernandez’s status.

He said he saw two ICE agents in Parra Hernandez's room while visiting him at the hospital.

“He already had a surgery for the injury under his knee and now we’re waiting for swelling to go down in his ankle to be able to have a reconstructive surgery on his ankle,” Espinosa said.

Teare said ICE and DHS have not cooperated with his office during its investigation.

In July, Teare said DHS also ignored his request for information after an ICE officer fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. The shooting was one of at least 10 deaths involving encounters with immigration officers since the start of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung attended the memorial services at Le Thi Rieng Park, where the remains were recovered from mass graves after over three months of excavations. They were laid to rest at Ho Chi Minh City Martyrs’ Cemetery in the city previously known as Saigon.

Generations in Vietnam have spent decades searching for loved ones who never returned from war, hoping to recover their remains, give them a proper burial and finally find some measure of closure.

Hundreds were buried in mass graves after bloody fighting

The Tet Offensive began on Jan. 31, 1968, when North Vietnamese communist forces launched coordinated surprise attacks across South Vietnam during the Lunar New Year holiday, known in Vietnam as Tet. One of the largest campaigns of the Vietnam War, it sparked fierce fighting and heavy casualties, including in the southern capital Saigon, where communist fighters attacked the U.S. Embassy, military installations and government buildings.

Although the communist forces suffered a military defeat, the offensive shocked Washington, undermined U.S. public support for the war, and became a turning point in the conflict. “The resultant conflict has changed the pattern of the war,” The Associated Press reported in February 1968.

The South Vietnamese government collected the bodies of communist fighters and civilians and buried them in mass graves during and after the fighting, according to Vietnamese government news.

The remains at Le Thi Rieng Park, which was previously the site of Do Thanh Cemetery, were discovered during excavations that began on June 23 at the park. Over weeks, excavators painstakingly unearthed bones and fragments, along with weapons, ammunition, military hammocks and personal belongings, said the Vietnamese government’s official news portal.

They discovered a wallet containing a faded military document bearing the name Huynh Van Quen, which helped authorities identify one of the dead as a soldier from the 1st Long An Battalion, a communist unit that fought a fierce seven-day battle at Saigon’s Y-shaped Bridge.

Among the mourners was Vo Huy Thinh, 70, who remembered watching bodies being buried there when he was 12. “The memory of that burial pit has stayed with me,” he told Vietnamese state media.

An AP photograph helped uncover the graves

For years, architect Nguyen Xuan Thang pored over photographs from the Vietnam War, searching for clues to the location of the burial site.

A breakthrough came when he found a color photograph taken by an AP photographer on Feb. 12, 1968, with a caption describing three large burial trenches that each contained about 300 bodies, he told state media.

The photograph shows two men carrying a body as two others look on. Three boys stand nearby, one of them wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt and looking directly at the camera. A water tower is visible in the background, providing a crucial clue to the site’s location. The image was shot by a French photographer credited as Gautron.

Thang told state media that he spent months riding his motorbike through Ho Chi Minh City, comparing old military maps with present-day landmarks, including the water tower. His research was part of a nearly eight-year effort, from November 2018 to May 2026, involving his team and the military, which helped authorities narrow their search to the park.

Investigators worked with researchers, historians, journalists and witnesses to piece together the location of the mass graves. They examined other wartime photographs, satellite images, military maps and archival records from Vietnam and abroad, comparing them with field surveys and accounts from people who witnessed the burials, said the Vietnamese government’s official news portal.

The long effort to identify Vietnam’s war dead

The recovery is part of a nationwide 500-day campaign running through July 2027 to locate the remains of about 7,000 war dead and identify them.

More than half a century after the war ended in 1975, many Vietnamese families are still searching for relatives who never returned home. The remains of about 175,000 Vietnamese soldiers have yet to be recovered, while hundreds of thousands more lie in graves without confirmed identities, according to government figures.

Of the 731 sets of remains recovered in Ho Chi Minh City, 307 were found with personal belongings, according to state media. Most have not yet been identified.

“Due to the harsh conditions of war and the passage of time, we have been unable to identify the names, ages, or hometowns of the majority of the martyrs in this group,” said Nguyen Manh Cuong, who heads the city's war dead identification efforts.

Samples have been sent to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology in Hanoi for DNA testing and comparison with samples from relatives.

Similar memorial and burial ceremonies will be held Thursday in three other parts of Vietnam, with the remains of what are believed to be 93 people to be buried in Tuyen Quang province. Another 65 will be buried in Hai Phong and 120 in Can Tho.

Consumer prices are forecast to have risen 3.6% in September compared with a year earlier, up from 3.4% in August, according to a survey of economists by data provider FactSet. The Labor Department will issue the report Wednesday morning.

On a monthly basis, prices are expected to have risen 0.6% from August to September, FactSet said, up from 0.4% the previous month and the biggest jump since April.

The figures will likely underscore the lingering impact of the Iran war on gas prices and the stubborn persistence of inflation, which has fallen sharply from a 9.1% peak in 2022 but has ticked higher since the war began in late February. Elevated inflation has posed political problems for Republicans in Congress and is a challenge for the Federal Reserve, which is required by Congress to seek stable prices.

Ongoing inflation has taken a toll on Trump’s standing with U.S. voters. A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 17% of U.S. adults approve of his handling of the cost of living issue. And only 26% approve of his handling of the economy overall, a new low.

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices likely rose 2.5% in September from a year ago, up slightly from 2.4% in August. That is closer to the Fed's 2% inflation target, but it has been stuck at mostly that level since January of this year — just before the Iran war. Core prices are forecast to have risen just 0.2% from August to September.

Federal Reserve officials are watching inflation data closely to determine whether they need to raise their short-term interest rate further, and by how much.

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh said last month that inflation isn't moving quickly enough back to the central bank's target, causing the Fed to hike rates for the first time in three years, to about 3.9%.

“The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long,” Warsh said at a news conference last month. Inflation reports over the summer “do not tell me that underlying trends have meaningfully improved,” he added.

Yet some key Fed officials have suggested the central bank can wait before increasing rates again. The Fed has a policy meeting Oct. 27-28 but most Wall Street investors expect it to hold rates then, and potentially implement another hike in December. Fed officials have penciled in just one more rate hike this year.

By raising borrowing costs, the Fed hopes to slow spending and growth and cool price increases. Yet much of the current inflation comes from supply shocks, such as the Iran war's disruption to oil and gas supplies, and higher interest rates can't address those bottlenecks.

Warsh has said his goal is to keep the gas price spike from seeping into more areas of the economy. It's already pushed up the price of air fares about 23% from a year ago. Gas prices jumped about 9% from August to September, a big increase that will drive much of the overall jump in inflation. Rising gas costs are a highly visible sign of inflation and often drive down measures of consumer sentiment about the economy.

Prices at the pump have ticked lower in recent weeks, though they remain higher than a month ago. Gas prices averaged $4.34 a gallon nationwide Tuesday, up a few cents from a month earlier.

Those costs raise shipping and other expenses for many large and small businesses, some of which are forced to pass the cost to consumers. Last week, PepsiCo said that it will raise prices for its snack foods, including Doritos, Ruffles, Sun Chips, and some sodas to offset higher costs for fuel, aluminum, and food ingredients.

The artificial intelligence buildout has also sharply elevated the cost of semiconductors, computer equipment, and electrical components, which have been passed into costs for consumer electronics such as gaming devices, laptops, and smartphones.

On September 1, Nintendo increased the price for its Switch 2 gaming system by 11% to $499.99. And Apple's newest iPhone, the iPhone 17, cost about 10% more than its previous upgrade, though some of that likely reflects greater capabilities.

After a lifetime of dreaming in Jane Austen — reading every novel and watching every adaptation she could get her hands on — she’d been cast as Elinor, the elder, more sensible Dashwood sister, in “Sense and Sensibility” (in theaters Friday).

If it wasn’t an inevitability that she, as one of the bright young talents of her generation, would eventually get to be in an Austen adaptation, it might seem that way in retrospect. For English actors of a certain age, starring in one is almost a rite of passage. Ang Lee's 1995 version would earn Kate Winslet her first Oscar nomination and Emma Thompson her first screenwriting win. And this one was going to be special, having the distinction of being the first major “Sense and Sensibility” to be directed by a woman, Georgia Oakley.

And though it was also an inevitability that there would be a slew of handsome men in the mix, including George MacKay, Frank Dillane and Herbert Nordrum (it is the law in Austen adaptation-land, isn’t it?), the relationship between the sisters was, Edgar-Jones said, “kind of everything.” And the search for the more outwardly romantic Dashwood was ongoing.

Casting Marianne Dashwood

“The film, as I saw it, would kind of live or die by the relationship between those two actors,” said Oakley, who studied Austen in school. “It was quite a pressurized situation trying to find sisters that, to me, were believably sisters.”

One of the names in the mix was Esmé Creed-Miles, who might not have come into the audition process with a deep Austen reverence, but who had something even better going for her. She and Edgar-Jones didn’t just know one another: They had spent a formative summer in Yorkshire together as teenagers making an indie film called “Pond Life” and watching “Love Island” together at night.

“So much of sisterhood is a shared history, a shared context, a knowledge of one another and so sort of acting across from Esmé, having such an image of her 17-year-old face, really helped,” Edgar-Jones said. “We just slotted straight into the roles.”

At their chemistry read, everyone in the room could feel an immediate intimacy as they dove into some challenging scenes, like one where the ever-reserved Elinor finally reveals to Marianne that she too is heartbroken over a man. The exercise even helped Edgar-Jones understand her Elinor a little better.

“Daisy feels like family to me,” said Creed-Miles. “We felt so almost spiritually, eerily connected to these women.”

It wasn’t just the dramatic moments that were revealing, either. That day of the chemistry reads, Creed-Miles had a bit of a break while Edgar-Jones read with someone else and, Oakley said, “helped herself to Daisy’s lunch.”

“I can’t really explain it, but it immediately felt very Elinor and Marianne,” Oakley said. “They were both really funny and kind of goofy with each other and, straight off the bat, they were just like making fun of each other and they just had a very sisterly dynamic.”

Creed-Miles, whose parents are actors Samantha Morton and Charlie Creed-Miles, has been acting on and off for most of her life, starting with a role at age 6 playing a Shirley Temple impersonator in a Harmony Korine movie. She also starred in the Amazon Prime series “Hanna” but has kind of resisted committing to being a career actor.

“It’s not that I don’t like acting or don’t want to act or don’t think it’s important and special, it’s just that there’s lots of other things that I’m also really interested in,” Creed-Miles said.

Those other pursuits include photography (her photos from the set were featured in “Vogue”), music (she’s in the alternative rock band Cusk) and filmmaking (she's directed a short). She was interested in “Sense and Sensibility” partly for the chance to work with an up-and-coming filmmaker like Oakley, as a fan of her debut film “Blue Jean,” about a closeted gym teacher in England in the late 1980s.

“I had always loved this Jane Austen,” Oakley said. “She doesn’t announce that she’s writing a political manifesto, but she at the same time is like unpacking some really kind of knotty and subversive themes in this book.”

Giving the film a messier, more undone aesthetic

To tell this story about a family of four women (Caitríona Balfe plays their mother; Bodhi Rae Breathnach plays the youngest sister) who have suddenly lost their fortune and now have to survive on their own, Oakley leaned into an earthier and slightly more undone aesthetic than is often depicted in Regency-era films. She showed the cast Andrea Arnold’s “Wuthering Heights” and Kelly Reichardt’s “Meek’s Cutoff” and made playlists full of violin music. The dresses she referenced had raspberry stains and soil on them.

“I was keen to kind of make a film where the characters didn’t feel at arm’s length. That they felt like human beings that we can kind of reach out and touch through the screen. And so this idea of everything being a little bit more undone kind of came in through that,” Oakley said. “This is actually a family who are going through something difficult and who aren’t constantly thinking about how they’re going to be perceived and how they are presenting themselves because they’re not always in the presence of visitors.”

Edgar-Jones said the prospect was exciting to her as she’d never seen an Austen adaptation done this way before.

“We were not trying to rebel against or go against the grain of Regency-era hair and makeup,” Creed-Miles added. “We were actually finding pockets of nuance to how these women express themselves in their interior lives that hasn’t actually been seen before in film.”

She also found herself developing a deeper relationship with Austen than she’d come in with.

“I think what’s nice about the fact that me and Daisy both had these different relationships to Austen before is that it kind of speaks to, I think, the success of the film and that it really is a movie for everyone, not just Austen fans, but also people that maybe haven’t read her books before,” Creed-Miles said. “It might introduce them and introduce a new generation to her characters.”

The suspect faces charges of causing an explosion, damaging property, disrupting public service and being an “accomplice to war crimes” by attacking civilian infrastructure, according to prosecutors.

According to German privacy rules, the suspect will be identified in court only as Serhii K., although he was publicly named as Serhii Kuznietsov in extradition proceedings in Italy.

While international observers initially blamed Moscow, investigators have increasingly examined suggestions that Ukrainian state security agencies may have been involved — even though Ukraine counts Germany as one of its closest allies.

The trial of the suspect, who is believed to be the alleged ringleader of the attack, is being held under strict security measures at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg.

According to the charges, the defendant was allegedly involved in causing the Sept. 26, 2022, explosions that damaged pipelines built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.

At the time, European countries were moving to wean themselves off Russian energy sources, following the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Prosecutors say the aim of the plot was to permanently disrupt gas deliveries and prevent Russia from using the revenues to finance its military operations.

The defendant and others allegedly used a yacht that departed from the German port of Rostock. It had been rented from a German company using forged IDs and with the help of intermediaries.

The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was Russia’s main natural gas supply route to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies in August 2022. They also damaged Nord Stream 2, which never entered service because Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The suspect allegedly organized and carried out the detonation of at least four bombs between 14 and 27 kilograms (around 31 to 62 pounds) at a depth of 70 to 80 meters (230 feet to 263 feet) near the Danish island of Bornholm.

He was detained in 2025 in an Italian village, where officers raided a bungalow where he was staying with his family. Police said he surrendered without resistance. He was extradited to Germany in November.

A second suspect was arrested on a European warrant in the northern Croatian town of Pula in August. He has applied for asylum in Croatia to fight his extradition to Germany.

The pipelines were long a target of criticism by the U.S. and some of its allies, which warned that they increased dependence on Russian gas.

Russia has claimed that U.S. and British intelligence agencies were involved in staging the explosions and has also accused NATO of involvement in the attack, while several Western countries initially blamed Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied allegations that his country was involved in the pipeline blasts.

The German government has so far refrained from comment on the upcoming trial, pointing out that no verdict has yet been reached and the case is in the hands of the independent judiciary.

So far, 16 court dates have been scheduled through Dec. 17. Additional dates are also planned for January and February 2027. It is not yet known when the verdict will be announced.

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is in line to become House speaker if the party wins power, said the Democrats will be united “right out of the gate” on reinstating Affordable Care Act tax breaks, reversing Republican Medicaid cuts, holding votes against the Iran war and undoing President Donald Trump’s tariff regime.

They expect to launch the agenda in the first 100 hours, once the new Congress is seated in January.

“Fighting for an affordable America — that's what unites Democrats all across the country,” Jeffries said recently at the party campaign headquarters in Washington.

“That’s our commitment to the American people, because the cost of living is way too high and far too many people who are working hard, playing by the rules, can’t thrive and can barely survive — and are drowning — in the Trump economy."

It’s a hyper-focused agenda tapping into the voter sentiment that is driving much of the midterm election as Americans wrestle with affordability concerns and inflationary costs from the Iran war and other policies.

The undertaking will also test the ability of the sprawling House Democrats to work together and avoid the chaotic divisions and disruptions that have hobbled Republicans under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership.

Democrats have been out of power in the House since 2023. If Jeffries takes the helm, he would be the first Democratic speaker since Nancy Pelosi, leading a new generation of lawmakers that includes a handful of far-left candidates who are aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America.

“The antidote to that is getting things done,” said Illinois Rep. Nikki Budzinski, who is poised to become chair of the New Democrat Coalition, the largest caucus within the House Democrats. She said the party is determined to show the American people that “Democrats know how to govern."

A Freedom Caucus of the far-left?

Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, the chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said he is often asked if Democrats will be confronting their own version of the Freedom Caucus, referring to the far-right Republicans who often grind the House agenda to a halt.

“It doesn’t work that way," Casar told The Associated Press in an interview. “The Freedom Caucus breaks things. But if you're a progressive, you want to pass things.”

Leader Jeffries, Casar and other Democrats have been in touch with the progressive candidates, many of whom are backed by the DSA as the party focuses on shared priorities.

“This notion that because we'll have new members somehow we're going to be disjointed — not so,” said Louisiana Rep. Troy Carter, who hopes to become chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. "All those banking on that, save the popcorn for another day."

The Republicans, who are confronting an increasingly difficult election-year climate to hold onto their majority, portray Democrats as beholden to a far-left socialist agenda.

If Republicans retain power, Johnson has said they would press on with what they have already accomplished alongside Trump, which has been an agenda focused on cutting taxes and federal spending.

“What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already," Johnson said on CNBC's Squawk Box, “and that is putting the conditions in place for a strong America again.”

Fix healthcare, stop the war, end the tariffs – and investigate Trump

Months ago, Jeffries launched five working groups to tackle the affordability agenda focused on healthcare, housing, groceries and goods, gas and utilities, and care-giving.

Each group is headed by a progressive and a centrist Democrat — the healthcare working group, for example, is run by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama — with the goal of striking common ground on draft policies that all House Democrats can support.

At the same time, Jeffries has tasked the ranking Democrats on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees with preparing investigations. They are focused on Trump, his family and his administration, as part of a sweeping anti-corruption agenda. Impeachment, Jeffries has said, is neither on nor off the table.

“We need to lower the cost of groceries and gas. Two, we need to make healthcare affordable for every single American. Three, we’re going to hold the crooks accountable who’ve visited unprecedented corruption on the American people,” Jeffries said. “Beginning on day one.”

Democrats plan to vote quickly to reinstate the health care tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, which expired in 2025, leaving millions of Americans confronting higher health insurance costs.

Proposals are also ready to reverse the Medicaid cuts that Republicans put in place as part of their “One Big Beautiful Bill” of tax breaks and program cuts, including new work requirements for recipients.

There are measures to reverse Trump's tariffs as Congress works to claw back power from the White House.

And Democrats, who have forced multiple votes on ending the Iran conflict, plan to pressure the Trump administration to end the military action by pushing forward more war powers resolutions.

Much of the House Democrats' agenda, if they regain power, would depend on the size of the majority. Details also depend on the Senate, and whether it flips to Democrats.

“We cannot simply go back to the status quo,” said Usamah Andrabi, a spokesman for Justice Democrats, an outside group that supports the far-left progressives.

And Trump, at the White House, has ultimate say, with veto power at the stroke of a pen.

“We’re going to do a lot and we’re going to be very busy,” Carter said. "We will not be able to fix everything overnight.”

But problems that have simmered for decades — water quality and cancer rates — have been forced to the forefront of state politics this year. They are the focus of debate questions, roundtable events and campaign advertisements for candidates from both parties, up and down the ballot.

The issue has historically been politically taboo to avoid pointing fingers at the powerful agricultural industry in Iowa, one of the country’s top producers of corn, soybeans and hogs. Chemical fertilizers and animal waste contain nitrates and phosphorus that can get washed with rain or snowmelt into the state’s web of rivers.

The problem has long caused tension between Iowa’s more liberal urban centers, which rely on rivers and lakes for drinking water, and mostly conservative stewards of its rich farmland. Farmers are increasingly participating in practices to prevent runoff, although critics say the lack of regulation forces downstream Iowans to pay for the pollution.

The spotlight has grown — and the political calculus has shifted — after back-to-back years of restrictions on water use in the Des Moines area coupled with a burgeoning “Make America Healthy Again” movement in Iowa's small town and rural communities.

Cancer rates are a growing problem in Iowa

Iowa has the second highest rate of newly diagnosed cancers in the country. Specific diagnoses, like prostate, breast and lung cancer, are increasing in Iowa faster than in the U.S. overall. It's affecting urban and rural parts of the state.

New state-funded research at the University of Iowa shows most — but not all — of Iowa’s above-normal rates for five cancers can be explained by demographic and behavioral factors, such as smoking and binge drinking. Researchers next assess environmental factors, including nitrate levels.

“The real issue is the water and the nitrates,” said Democrat Josh Turek, who is running for U.S. Senate, as he talked with cancer patients last week. “Every Iowan deserves when they turn on the tap to ensure that their water is clean and not giving them cancer.”

Some studies have found a link between nitrates in drinking water and certain diseases, but it remains an area of debate. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not currently classify nitrates as a cancer risk. The agency initiated a plan to review that assessment in 2017, but it's been stalled, revived and stalled again under different White House administrations.

The Republican congresswoman running against Turek, Ashley Hinson, recently gathered farmers, researchers and local officials to discuss Iowa’s water problems. She said there is an ongoing need for investments in infrastructure, water quality monitoring and conservation programs but also said that Iowans can feel safe because tap water meets federal regulations.

“We all know that we have some challenges here in Iowa," she said. “I don't think water quality is a partisan issue."

Farm runoff is a key contributor to river pollution — and political tensions

It’s been more than a decade since the Des Moines area’s water utility, fed up with paying roughly $16,000 per day to remove nitrates from water, sued counties further upstream to get them to help cover the cost. The complaint was ultimately dismissed, and Iowa’s Republican leaders celebrated the ruling.

Last year, Central Iowa Water Works issued its first-ever ban on lawn watering to reduce demand on its nitrate removal facilities, and state politicians rejected any suggestion of a “blame game” that would implicate farmers. Iowa had been investing nearly $100 million annually in its nutrient reduction strategy in recent years.

In May, though, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and lawmakers committed an additional $320 million for water infrastructure, conservation initiative incentives and other projects, including millions to Central Iowa Water Works to update equipment.

“Water quality isn't a farm issue. It isn't a city issue, and it isn't a political issue,” Reynolds said. “But it absolutely is non-negotiable.”

Still, criticism of slow progress has continued, including from candidates running to replace Reynolds.

Governor candidates make the issue central

Republican Zach Lahn and Democrat Rob Sand both emphasize that the state needs to better prioritize the water problem, though neither have called for mandating farming conservation practices that reduce runoff.

Lahn, who was endorsed early in his primary by political committee MAHA Action, has diverged from many of his Republican peers in directly linking polluted water and agrochemicals to Iowa’s cancer crisis.

At Lahn's agriculture-focused town hall in northeast Iowa in August, one attendee raised the issue.

“Right now the farmers, I would say, are really getting blamed for the high cancer rate in Iowa,” she said. “Even our daughter calls from Des Moines and says: ‘Should we be drinking this water?’”

Lahn said he knows certain agrochemicals are important “tools in the tool chest.”

“We’re not here to ban products," he said, "but we do have to address the water quality issue.”

Federal regulations say drinking water is safe with a maximum nitrate level of 10 milligrams per liter. That threshold was set to prevent what’s known as blue baby syndrome, a condition when an infant’s blood doesn’t have enough oxygen, but more scientific studies are now analyzing the relationship between nitrate-laden water below that threshold and certain cancers.

Lahn said he tested the nitrate levels from his well water and creek in rural east-central Iowa, finding both well above the federal limit.

Central Iowa Water Works ran its nitrate removal treatment for a record 193 days straight earlier this year, and the treated water's nitrate levels hovered around eight to nine milligrams per liter in the heart of summer.

Sand usually references water early in his stump speech, naming one reason he initially registered as a Democrat is the party’s advocacy for clean water because he likes to fish. He said Tuesday after meeting with cancer survivors and parents of children with cancer that he's seen the topic rise in the public consciousness over the past few years.

“I hear from people regularly who are so concerned about it that they wonder whether or not they want to be in Iowa," Sand said.

Iowa’s race for agriculture secretary illustrates the tension

Twenty years ago, research scientist Chris Jones said he’d give his boss at Des Moines' water utility updates on the rivers' nitrate levels.

“He’d say to me, ‘Where’s the outrage?’” Jones recalled. “Now, the outrage has arrived.”

Jones, who later worked on water quality monitors at the University of Iowa, says it’s a huge failure of the state for Iowans to lose faith in drinking water.

Jones is a Democrat running in the election to be Iowa’s secretary of agriculture, trying to unseat incumbent Republican Mike Naig.

Chief among their differences is whether conservation solutions should be mandatory. In a debate, Naig said Jones is an outlier in demanding farmers be required to adopt conservation practices. Iowa’s agricultural industry resists mandates, in part because not all farmers own the land they farm and some conservation efforts might lead to profit loss, at least initially.

Naig, who previously worked for chemical manufacturer Monsanto, highlighted the records that his department has set under Reynolds’ leadership and said conservation work is being scaled up to accelerate progress.

“It’s been a hot topic on the campaign trail,” Naig said, but “we have to have a long view of these things, and we’re making progress.”

But just because we might all have the same impulse, we all don’t have the same reach and impact. Exhibit A: a dispute between singer Kelly Clarkson and a small store in Brooklyn that's brought out angry fans and heated commentary.

The conflict from over the weekend, involving a high-priced mechanical bird, is raising more issues than just the quality of customer service. It's also a case study in power dynamics, and the differential that exists between someone with a high profile and those without.

It started Saturday when Clarkson went to Art of Play, a store in Brooklyn that offers items like books, games and playing cards and also hosts magic shows. But the interaction turned negative, she said in a social media post, when she “was looked at as if I couldn’t afford it” and went on to say the store had “just lost a huge sale.” She named the store and gave it a thumbs down.

A back-and-forth ensued, with the store making its own posts saying initially that the item wasn't for sale and then adding that they had tried to find her an alternative. Clarkson said that wasn't true.

Since Clarkson's initial post, there's been a barrage of commentary online — and, the store owners say, in the real world. There have been hateful messages and reviews, and even someone showing up at the store, said Adam Rubin, one of the partners.

“I don’t understand why these people are willing to debase themselves on behalf of a celebrity they never met,” he said. Representatives for Clarkson did not respond to repeated attempts to get comment.

The power of celebrity is potent

Celebrities have power in different ways. They can influence what people feel as well as impact what they think or believe, said Alfred Archer, assistant professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, who has done research around the ethics and politics of fame.

In a situation like Clarkson's, the influence is heavily weighted in the celebrity's favor as a result, he said. That doesn't mean celebrities should be censored or barred from speaking, but they should be cognizant of that reality in determining what they say and how they say it.

“You can’t hold the celebrity responsible for everything that their followers do, of course,” Archer said, but those who have influence should remember that their words can resonate widely and “be careful about what they put on social media and what they communicate in public for that reason.”

That power can also have positive ripples — like when Ms. Rachel, the children's educator and YouTube star, asked people on social media for Black-owned businesses to support. She gave recognition to small businesses like a coffee shop in New Jersey, leading to a huge jump in sales and popularity.

“I think really the responsibility here is to use this power in a responsible way,” Archer said. “And of course, what that looks like in any individual case is going to be a decision for a particular celebrity to make. But they do have to think about it a bit more carefully than an ordinary member of the public does.”

Social media changed the equation

While everyday people have always been fascinated by the famous, the explosion of social media and the glut of information — and the way we follow our family and friends right along with our favorite stars — means there's more of a likelihood that people can develop parasocial, or one-sided, unreciprocated relationships with celebrities. That can lead to the kind of harsh messages and bad reviews that the Brooklyn store says it has experienced.

That aspect of modern life is baffling to Franchesca Ramsey, a writer, podcaster, and content creator.

“I think social media itself has heightened people’s ability to feel a connection to a celebrity or a public person that they don’t know,” she said.

“Back in my day, you liked a musician, you put up a poster on the wall. You read the magazine articles about them. You maybe went to their concert. You watched their music videos. But beyond that, it didn’t feel like a two-way relationship. It felt like I’m the fan and this is the person that I really enjoy,” she said.

“Social media has ... kind of created this false sense of reality where, I really think even the act of watching someone’s content on your phone and it looks like they’re talking directly to you," she said.

Asked what advice he would give another small-business owner facing this kind of situation, Rubin didn't have any. “This is not something that a small business owner has the capability to deal with,” he said. “This is something that happens on a level of fame and celebrity that I don’t have access to, (that) most normal people don’t have access to.”

Watching the crowd of reporters from his plumbing supply store next door to Art of Play, Daniel Graffeo couldn't believe the uproar was still going on several days after the initial encounter, but wasn't totally surprised. “Nowadays everybody's looking for something, you know, publicity,” he said.

He hoped it would never find him. “I would not want to be in that situation.”

Even so, deaths on roller coasters are still extremely rare, and Georgia officials have said little about what happened Monday when Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, was thrown from his seat while riding the Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia before striking other patrons and then landing below the ride.

Goliath uses a sheer drop from 200 feet (61 meters) to reach top speeds of 70 mph (112 kph) and focuses on velocity and downhill plunges rather than turning riders upside down through loops or corkscrews. It has operated at the park for two decades.

Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar coasters across North America following the death, saying it was doing so out of an abundance of caution.

Ride manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard said it is “actively investigating the incident and will not comment further until we have a better understanding of what happened.”

The US has a patchwork of rules regarding rides

In the U.S., roller coasters and other rides at major amusement parks such as Six Flags are not regulated by the federal government. That responsibility falls to states.

Some say this has led to an inconsistent patchwork of rules where some states have strict regulations and others have little to no oversight.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts has repeatedly introduced legislation to close what he calls a “loophole” in federal law that allows U.S. safety officials to regulate mobile rides, but prevents the Consumer Product Safety Commission from overseeing stationary rides like those at major amusement parks.

Brian Avery, a University of Florida professor and amusement ride safety expert, agrees that more federal regulations are needed.

“Who’s watching those in these organizations to ensure that they are adequately trained, that they are compliant, that they are monitoring these rides to the level in which the standards have established?” Avery said.

Georgia’s Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, which oversees annual ride inspections in the state, is “conducting an in‑depth and comprehensive review” of what happened Monday at Six Flags, said Garrison Bennett, a spokesperson.

Amusement park industry has set its own safety standards

Amusement park operators worldwide generally adhere to what are known as ASTM standards set by industry experts, which cover everything from ride design and construction to how much acceleration and force each rider is allowed to experience.

The industry has multiple layers of inspection, said Dennis Speigel, a theme park consultant and past president of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, a trade group. Park operators are under pressure from insurance carriers that could face a hefty payout if something goes wrong.

“With the checks and balances that are put in place, theme parks are really one of the safest places to be on the planet,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday.

The trade group said the chance of being seriously injured on a U.S. amusement park ride is 1 in 15.5 million rides taken.

Martin Lewinson, a roller coaster expert and a professor at Farmingdale State College, said it was difficult to imagine there being a mechanical malfunction on a roller coaster such as Goliath because of its design.

The ride features a pull-down lap restraint, called a “clamshell,” that works with a ratchet mechanism that makes clicking sounds as you press it down over your hips. These have multiple disks to ensure redundancy if one fails, Lewinson said.

“They’re dependable. They’re not so technically advanced that theme parks have difficulty with operations,” Lewinson said.

The operator then has a safety system that displays a green “go” light for every seat on the train before it can be dispatched. The train should theoretically not be allowed to proceed unless all restraints are locked, Lewinson said.

But few things are 100% safe.

In 2022, a 14-year-old Missouri boy fell to his death from an Orlando amusement park ride when the harness didn't lock properly due to his size. In 2013, a 52-year-old Dallas woman was killed when she slipped out of her seat on the Texas Giant ride at Six Flags Over Texas. Six Flags has since added redesigned restraint-bar pads, seat belts and a coaster seat at the ride’s entrance so guests can check before they get on whether they fit safely into the cars.

Nick Mendenhall, who has been on the Goliath more than a dozen times in recent weeks, said he saw Six Flags staff check the restraints each time he rode it.

“There are two employees, one on either side of the train, and with their hands they push down and they make sure it locks every time. I’ve never seen them not do it,” Mendenhall said.

States handle oversight in different ways

In California, the state Department of Industrial Relations approves new rides and rides that have been modified. State officials either directly inspect them and how they are being operated each year or rely on an annual inspection by the owner, according to the department's website.

Florida’s largest theme parks, on the other hand, are exempt from state safety inspections, unlike smaller venues and fairs. Instead, the largest theme parks like Walt Disney World and Universal conduct their own inspections and have their own protocols, but they must report to the state any injury or death. Texas, similarly, relies on inspections carried out by private inspectors hired by park operators or their insurance companies.

Arizona, where Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Phoenix is located, does not have a state-level agency that regulates amusement park rides or conducts safety inspections at all. The law requires an annual private inspection, with enforcement largely by local government.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.6% to 68,193.13. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.7% to 8,723.40. South Korea's Kospi rose 2.0%, recouping some of the losses from recent volatile trading. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.1% to 24,377.61, while the Shanghai Composite was virtually unchanged at 3,801.13.

Wall Street indexes finished little changed near their records Tuesday. The first big batch of summertime profit reports from U.S. companies made waves on Wall Street after topping analysts’ expectations, but many canceled each other out.

The S&P 500 edged down by less than 0.1% and pulled a bit further from its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 180 points, or 0.3%, while the Nasdaq composite dipped 0.2%.

Goldman Sachs jumped more than 4% at the start of trading after the bank delivered a profit for July through September that blew past analysts’ expectations. But its stock quickly erased all of it and then flipped between gains and losses before finishing with a dip of 0.2%.

Expectations are high for profits across all kinds of U.S. companies. Analysts are forecasting overall growth of nearly 30% for companies in the S&P 500 during the summer from a year earlier, according to FactSet.

And companies need to hit those high numbers to justify the record-setting runs for their stock prices despite the many worries on Wall Street about high inflation, increased pressure from the bond market and the conflicts in the Middle East.

Worries have been high for a while about whether chip stock prices have shot too high in the frenzy around AI technology.

China’s memory chipmaker CXMT, which is making advances that could challenge industry heavyweights, rose about 1.0% in early Wednesday trading in Asia. In South Korea, Samsung Electronics Co. stocks were also rising, but SK Hynix fell.

All told, the S&P 500 edged down by 1.79 points to 7,805.45. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 180.45 to 51,670.10, and the Nasdaq composite fell 41.52 to 27,204.38.

In the bond market, Treasury yields eased after oil prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slipped to 5.21% from 5.24% late Friday. Trading in the U.S. bond market was closed Monday for a holiday.

Yields sank following a 0.9% dip for the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil to $105.69. Oil prices have been yo-yoing because of uncertainty about when conflicts in the Middle East will allow the global energy industry to return to normal.

In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude rose 0.89% to $94.88 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, edged up 0.81% to $106.55 a barrel.

In currency trading, the U.S. dollar inched down to 158.24 Japanese yen from 158.32 yen. The euro cost $1.1210, up from $1.1203.

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As recently as 2024, the nonprofit consultant that works to strengthen public radio stations reported $3.42 million in revenue, according to tax filings. Public Media CEO Tim Isgitt said he was proud of his “small, but mighty team” and the impact that they had on the sector.

Then came the federal funding cuts.

One day in June 2025, Isgitt told a roomful of funders that federal cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting could create a “doom loop” with catastrophic effects on the entire public radio sector, requiring them all to act immediately.

The next day, the House of Representatives voted to rescind all of CPB’s funding, about $1.1 billion that stations were already promised. Within weeks, the Senate followed suit.

“It felt just like a wave that washed over us all of a sudden,” Isgitt told The Associated Press.

Isgitt and Public Media were quickly pressed into service. His idea to help was suddenly in demand.

“PMC had never been a grantmaking organization before, but everybody was saying, ‘You’ve got to do this,’” he said. “So we sort of turned ourselves inside out, hired some staff and became a grantmaking organization.”

The Public Media Bridge Fund is born to keep radio stations alive

By August 2025, Public Media had organized a fundraising bonanza. It created the Public Media Bridge Fund to raise and quickly donate $100 million to stabilize public radio stations that depended on CPB funding for more than 30% of their annual budgets and were in danger of closing after the federal cuts.

The fund launched with $27 million, including an initial $10 million donation from the Knight Foundation and support from Pivotal and the Ford, MacArthur, Robert Wood Johnson and Schmidt Family foundations. By December, it had distributed all $27 million to stabilize endangered stations. Stations with support from other sources, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs for tribal stations and the state of New Mexico for stations there, did not receive funding.

“That was a good thing,” Isgitt said, “because we committed every dime that we had.”

The Public Media Bridge Fund has raised about $87 million and stabilized 186 public radio stations that serve about 30 million people in the United States. The Knight Foundation’s additional $10 million donation, announced Tuesday, is part of PMC’s new $38 million fundraising effort to help stations become more financially sustainable without federal funding.

Knight Foundation President and CEO Maribel Perez Wadsworth said she was impressed with how quickly and effectively Public Media deployed funds last year.

“Now, it is really turning all of its attention to sustainability and the things that are critical to sustainability,” said Perez Wadsworth, adding that PMC’s focus on fostering collaboration between local news organizations can “drive the kind of business model change that will hopefully support sustainability in the long run.”

Helping public radio stations become economically sustainable - without federal funding

The bridge fund will still support stations with unstable budgets; the fund is now also looking at projects with broader impact, Isgitt said.

“Our attention now is more on the nationwide system and how it can sort of re-engineer itself to work more efficiently,” he said.

Judy Diaz, general manager of Delmarva Public Radio, said its stations relied on CPB for about 33% of their funding. The public radio network is a collaboration of three Maryland nonprofit stations owned by Salisbury University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Cost-cutting and increased donations allowed Delmarva Public Radio to use part of its Public Media Bridge Fund grant to modernize equipment and purchase new marketing database software. It also established a content-sharing agreement with Baltimore Public Media.

The changes tripled the number of donors and listeners in the station’s marketing database and increased membership revenue by 20% over last year's already unusually strong donations as supporters responded to the federal cuts, Diaz said.

“I can now see a clear path for the foreseeable future,” she added. “We didn’t have that before.”

Ashley Alvarado, president and CEO of Texas Public Radio, said Public Media and its bridge fund are helping her organization navigate a combination with the nonprofit newsroom San Antonio Report. The two nonprofits decided in July to join forces, believing they would be stronger financially together.

“What we found is that the strengths and weaknesses of each organization would really benefit from that combination,” Alvarado said.

It’s the kind of transformation Public Media hopes to bring to all its stations: improving financial stability while better serving communities. “Media and technologies are evolving quickly,” Isgitt said. “If these community organizations want to remain relevant, they have to evolve too.”

Knight’s Perez Wadsworth said the Public Media Bridge Fund was intended as a stopgap to keep public stations operating while they developed financial plans without federal support. However, she also knows philanthropy cannot replace large federal grants for long.

She hopes Congress will see the importance of public radio stations — for emergency broadcasts, for providing news and community information, and for fostering connection and civic participation.

“It is my belief, maybe because I’m a hard-wired optimist, that after stepping back from the brink and seeing the absolute need and critical nature of these stations, we will see some level of funding again, even at the federal level,” Perez Wadsworth said. "I think we will see a path to a thoughtful recalibration of what funding these stations looks like.”

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Fourteen minutes and just three questioners later, she was done. In the aftermath, it was clear that the former Newsmax commentator accomplished at least one thing: She put the “brief” back in briefing.

In her debut Tuesday, Zacharia looked downward and often read directly from a script. She paused and grinned when she uttered the words “Department of War.” She stumbled on a question about her background and mixed up the words “husband” and “president.” The few questions she took were nonconfrontational and from media outlets that have been sympathetic to Trump. In short: She made no memorable impression — or at least, to hear some tell it, not the one she likely wanted.

This would not be an easy job under any circumstances. Trump most frequently serves as his own spokesman. And his antagonism toward the media has created a new layer of tension. Zacharia is finding out on day one that she, too, will be under constant watch. Some — including a few of those who have stood in her shoes — didn’t think it went all that well.

In fractured times, in a national media scrum unimaginable just a few decades ago, what is the proper way to approach a job like this? How do you speak effectively when your boss speaks for himself so often that he commandeers the news cycle multiple times a day — and sometimes late into the night — with remarks provocative, unexpected and sometimes incendiary?

For one, you realize for whom you work: not your audience of millions but your audience of one, and the absolute need for his approval.

“I get to do what I was doing on the outside already, which was hoping to amplify, multiply and expand upon President Trump’s incredible agenda for the American people,” Zacharia said. Nowhere did she mention the task of disseminating accurate information to Americans.

The press secretary role has been many things

Over the nearly 10 decades since former journalist George E. Akerson made his and the office's debut as Herbert Hoover's press secretary in 1929, the job has served many purposes: deliverer of information, amplifier of policy, jouster with journalists, protector of the presidential reputation and, sometimes, overlord of obfuscation.

Under Trump and his second-term press secretary so far — Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in August — the job has been primarily one of acting as the immovable object against an irresistible, and in Trump's eyes sometimes treasonous, force.

Leavitt got to know this terrain well in her 17-month tenure. She took a smiling but combative stance against a press that was increasingly coming under Trump's criticism for coverage — and was named in at least one lawsuit about White House media access. She was not shy about interdicting what she considered media bias. "What a stupid question," she said to one reporter at a briefing last year.

Trump, outside the White House shortly after the briefing, praised Zacharia's debut as “excellent.” She was standing behind him at the time.

Other early reviews were more critical. MS NOW quoted one unnamed White House official as saying of the performance: “She needs to get much better fast, otherwise she’ll break Scaramucci’s record.” Anthony Scaramucci, an early White House communications director for first-term Trump, lasted 11 days in 2017. Said Scaramucci on X Tuesday afternoon: “I hope she makes it.”

Joe Biden's former press secretary, Jen Psaki, now the host of a show on MS NOW, put it more succinctly, posting on X: “Well that briefing was basically an SNL skit….except it wasnt.”

Talking up Trump but taking few questions

While Zacharia's performance — and of course, that's what every briefing is — may have been bumpy to some, it was also mostly content-free except for news she broke about the White House asking U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to quit, which she immediately did.

Predictably, also like Leavitt before her, Zacharia spent a great part of her opening monologue praising Trump and giving an “up 'til now”-style update on his second term's priorities and accomplishments so far. Talking points included a “booming economy,” “his historic boom in energy production” and “a great relationship with Venezuela.”

She was also fond of superlatives, a trait that likely will resonate with a president whose remarks are often equally if not more expansive: “President Trump is working to secure the Western Hemisphere for centuries to come.”

When it came to questions, though, she was downright parsimonious. She allowed three questioners, then answered an additional one as she prepared to depart. The three called on during the briefing were Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail, all of which have been friendly to Trump in varying degrees during periods of his two terms. And she said she would continue Leavitt's policy of bringing “new media” in — which has often meant outlets more sympathetic to Trump.

“We love new media and we want to be able to embrace it,” she said. Currently, three major outlets — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — are fighting to regain White House access after Trump banished them last month, saying he didn't like their coverage and calling it “fake news.”

How will Zacharia fare in coming days and weeks and, if it lasts, months? That, like so much else, depends on one thing: Donald Trump.

The late U.S. Sen. Howard Baker once famously said that, when being asked difficult things, handle it something like this: If you don't like the question being asked, just answer a different question. On Tuesday, a half-century later, Katie Zacharia found a different way in — pick three nonconfrontational questioners, then defer to your boss and say: The End.

Hill, who has played for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins, was found liable for two counts of battery — one stemming from an incident in January 2024, and another from April 2025. The jury awarded Vaccaro $500,000 in compensatory damages but did not award her punitive damages.

The jury found Hill, 32, not liable for eight other counts that included battery, assault and continuing domestic violence.

The trial involved allegations of abuse made by Vaccaro, 30, who on the stand described instances in which Hill allegedly pulled her hair and “treated me like I was, just, a man.” Hill took the stand last week and mostly denied what he called “false allegations” made by his estranged wife, while saying in one instance he shoved Vaccaro and “created a hole in the wall."

Hill, wearing a dark polo shirt on Tuesday, embraced one of his attorneys and shook hands with others following the verdict before leaving the courtroom by himself.

It wasn't immediately clear what the verdict means for Hill's return to the NFL. He is still working his way back from a dislocated knee and torn ligaments suffered in September 2025 while he was with the Dolphins, but his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, has indicated that he could be ready to play by November.

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The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday that both sides will hold a ceremony for the launch of the New Yalu River Bridge. The four-lane, 3-kilometer (1.8-mile) bridge will connect the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong to the North Korean city of Sinuiju.

The bridge initially was expected to enter use in 2014 after China apparently completed construction of access roads, customs facilities and other related infrastructure on its side. But the date passed with no sign of an opening and without North Korea doing corresponding works on its side.

At that time, it prompted an unusually sharp report in the Global Times, a newspaper affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, which quoted Dandong residents expressing frustration over delays in what they had hoped would be an economic boon for their border city.

A lack of substantial work on the North Korean side prompted speculation that North Korea was wary of an increase in economic dependence or was unhappy with China voting for United Nations resolutions toughening international sanctions on the North over its nuclear program. Some observers said North Korea and China also differed over the location of the bridge.

The new link is expected to lessen the burden on an existing yet aging bridge on the Dandong-Sinuiju route, which handles more than 70% of official trade between the two countries. The old bridge built in 1937 carries a railway line as well as cars and trucks, but vehicle traffic can move only one way at a time.

The South Korean government said last year there were at least 17 active road and rail links across the porous North Korea-China border stretching more than 1,400 kilometers (870 miles).

The new bridge’s opening will likely boost bilateral trade and enhance logistical efficiency gradually. But in the short term, trade won't likely result in a sharp increase in Chinese exports to North Korea as Beijing would take Pyongyang's interests into consideration to some extent, according to a recent report by Gyubeom Kim, an expert at Seoul’s state-run Institute for National Security Strategy.

North Korea’s export of processed goods, food products, cosmetics and alcoholic beverages to China could increase, Kim said.

Bridge could affect relations with China and Russia

The bridge’s opening comes about a month after North Korea and Russia opened a 1-kilometer (0.6-mile) road bridge over the Tumen River as part of their efforts to cement relations.

Experts say Chinese officials likely felt uneasy about the opening of the North Korea-Russia bridge, which the Russian government said would allow daily passage of up to 300 vehicles through a newly built border crossing point.

The North Korea-China bridge is much bigger and likely capable of carrying round-the-clock, two-way traffic including containers and heavy cargo trucks, according to Jeong Eun-i, an analyst from South Korea’s Institute for National Unification.

China has long been North Korea's biggest trading partner and economic pipeline. But in past years, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has prioritized Moscow, sending thousands of troops and conventional weapons to support Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, apparently in exchange for military and economic assistance.

Kim has recently drawn closer to China with the apparent intent to improve the economy and build a front against the United States. China, for its part, wants to restore its unique influence over North Korea. Last year, about 98% of North Korea’s external trade was with China.

The bridge’s opening has been anticipated since Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to Pyongyang in June for a meeting with Kim. During their summit, Xi expressed Beijing’s willingness to expand bilateral cooperation in trade, agriculture, construction and technology, while Kim described ties with China as a top strategic priority.

“Nosotros tenemos un plan y creo que beneficiaría más o menos a un 50% de los presos que hay en El Salvador, que han colaborado con pandillas, con una liberación anticipada”, dijo el mandatario en conferencia de prensa.

“Hay mucha gente que sí, ha cometido delitos, pero su delito fue colaborar con las pandillas. Merecen estar en la cárcel, pero venimos de un país donde colaborar con las pandillas no era tan inusual y si nosotros nos pusiéramos a capturar todos los que colaboraron con las pandillas tuviéramos que arrestar al 20% de la población”, explicó.

Sin entrar en detalles, el mandatario señaló que planean aplicar ese criterio para definir condenas anticipadas con monitoreo, lo que podría beneficiar a la mitad de los detenidos durante la vigencia del régimen de excepción.

A su vez, Bukele también arremetió contra organismos y organizaciones nacionales e internacionales que han denunciado supuestas violaciones a los derechos humanos durante la aplicación del régimen de excepción, el cual ha permanecido vigente desde marzo de 2022.

“Cuando aquí mataban a 30 personas diarias, nadie decía nada, nadie se pronunció, no hubo una organización de derechos humanos o una organización que dijera ‘miren, en El Salvador hay que hacer algo, están matando gente inocente, están matando gente honrada, están violando niñas, están cortando cabezas de gente por no pagar la extorsión’”.

Afirmó que estas organizaciones, incluida la OEA, aplaudieron cuando se suscribieron pactos con las principales pandillas del país durante el primer gobierno del exguerrillero Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) (2009-2014), durante los cuales las pandillas se repartieron territorios para mantener sus actividades ilícitas.

“No hubo ni una condena en el mundo, al contrario, hubo aplauso. fue puesto como un ejemplo de lo que se debía hacer en los demás países. Pero es que no le alcanzaban las manos para aplaudir”, dijo.

Pero criticaron “cuando nosotros hicimos lo contrario y dijimos que no vamos a negociar con los grupos terroristas, sino que lo vamos a poner en la cárcel”.

En respuesta a las críticas de organismos defensores de los derechos humanos respecto al régimen de excepción, Bukele comparó la medida —que forma parte de sus estrategias de seguridad— con un tratamiento médico intensivo.

“Nosotros aplicamos la quimioterapia llamada régimen de excepción, entonces funcionó y ahora el cáncer está en remisión. No hay homicidios, no hay asaltos, no hay robos, no hay violaciones", afirmó.

Defendió la necesidad de mantener el régimen de excepción “porque todavía existen células cancerígenas. Todos los días atrapamos a pandilleros escondidos, entonces si nosotros retiramos la quimioterapia, el cáncer va a regresar”.

Sin embargo, Bukele expresó su deseo de suspender la medida en el futuro. “A mí me encantaría quitarlo y lo vamos a hacer en algún momento, por supuesto”.

Luego de que el país registró 62 asesinatos a manos de las pandillas en un solo día, el Congreso salvadoreño aprobó el 27 de marzo de 2022 un estado de excepción a solicitud de Bukele para combatir a las pandillas. Ese año cerró con 495 asesinatos.

Las pandillas operaban en el 90% del territorio, recaudaban casi 2.000 millones de dólares en extorsiones y asesinaban a los que no pagaban, según las autoridades.

El estado de excepción suspendió derechos fundamentales, incluido el de ser informado de los motivos de la detención y el de tener acceso a un abogado. Además, las fuerzas de seguridad pueden intervenir las telecomunicaciones sin orden judicial, y la detención sin audiencia se prolonga de 72 horas a 15 días.

Desde que entró en vigor la medida, las autoridades han reportado la captura de 93.162 personas acusadas de pertenecer o tener vínculos con las pandillas. Bukele ha dicho que 8.000 personas que eran inocentes han sido liberadas.

Sin embargo, organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos aseguran que han registrado más de 6.000 denuncias durante el régimen de excepción y documentado la muerte de al menos 575 personas bajo custodia de las autoridades.

El Salvador registró 6.656 asesinatos y una tasa de homicidios de 103 por cada 100.000 habitantes en 2015. Ese año fue uno de los más violentos en la historia de la nación y el más violento desde el fin de la guerra civil. El Salvador cerró 2025 con apenas 82 casos de homicidio, un mínimo histórico.

Con pancartas de “Yo apoyo al IMSS” o “Médicos: salario justo, retiro digno”, empleados, estudiantes y jubilados de la institución marcharon por las calles del centro de la capital mexicana como parte de una ola de protestas que comenzó la semana pasada y se extendió a varios estados del país, entre ellos Campeche, Oaxaca y Querétaro.

“Estamos protestando porque no tenemos suficiente personal en las unidades”, dijo Ingrid Jiménez, una enfermera que se unió a la marcha. “Eso se deriva en sobrecarga para los que estamos laborando, además de que no tenemos insumos, no hay material”.

Los trabajadores afirman que la escasez dificulta una atención médica oportuna, además de que algunos exigen el restablecimiento de un sistema de pensiones ya eliminado y aumentos salariales superiores a los que ofrece el gobierno.

México tiene un sistema de salud pública muy fragmentado y desarticulado —varias entidades nacionales que dan servicio a poblaciones distintas, además de los servicios estatales— y en medio siempre ha habido un sistema de compra y distribución de medicamentos marcado por la corrupción, coinciden los expertos.

El modelo de compra cambió en 2019 con el expresidente Andrés López Obrador. La Secretaría de Hacienda lo centralizó y se separó el proceso de distribución, el cual era coordinado previamente por las farmacéuticas, y quedó en manos del Estado, en un intento por combatir la corrupción. Pero el resultado fueron altos índices de desabasto de medicinas, los cuales mejoraron en los próximos años, aunque sin llegar a solucionarse por completo.

La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum ha insistido recientemente en que su gobierno ha hecho avances, pero reconoció que todavía quedan temas pendientes, como la contratación de más médicos especialistas, el aumento de los salarios de médicos residentes, y mejorar la distribución de medicamentos.

In a victory for media organizations at a time when tension between the White House and journalists is high, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that CNN, MS NOW and Politico are likely to succeed in their constitutional free speech and due process claims.

“Still,” he added in his late-night order, “no one should interpret the Court’s decision to suggest that President Trump’s concerns about accuracy and fairness in the media’s reporting are unfounded, or that the government is powerless when its true aim is to protect national security when classified information is unlawfully disclosed.”

But Kelly agreed with the plaintiffs that the national security arguments came after the fact and were unsupported by the administration.

The judge also wrote that without a preliminary injunction the outlets “are likely to suffer irreparable harm, and that the balance of the equities and the public interest tip in their favor.”

An email to the Justice Department, which is arguing the case on behalf of the administration, was not immediately returned. The White House also did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.

Theodore Boutrous Jr., attorney for the three media organizations, hailed the judge's ruling.

“When the President issued his ‘ban on the free press,’ he blatantly and explicitly violated due process and the First Amendment,” Boutrous said in a statement. “The harm this ban did to our clients, the First Amendment, and the public as a whole is profound. The Court was right to enjoin the White House from enforcing this ‘unconstitutional ban on the free press’ for the foreseeable future.”

Judge says no warning given before banishment

Kelly, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, previously ordered the White House to restore the reporters’ “hard pass” press credentials while he weighed their claims. With that temporary order expiring Tuesday, the judge issued a preliminary injunction that preserves the status quo indefinitely while the case is pending.

Kelly said that, “to put it mildly,” the White House didn’t give the plaintiffs any warning that they were in danger of losing their hard passes before Trump’s Sept. 18 social media post about their bans.

The judge also said the impact of the White House ban goes far beyond a single reporter's ability to do their job.

“The ban threatens to cut off all Plaintiffs’ access to the White House press area—a space open to many of their competitors—thereby restricting their ability to observe happenings there firsthand, immediately report on those activities, and try to engage with government officials,” the judge wrote.

Hard passes give journalists who regularly cover the White House longer term access to its campus without having to get permission ahead of time.

The government asked Kelly to suspend his own decision pending an appeal, but the judge said it didn’t justify that request. Kelly said the bans impacted a total of 78 reporters at the three news organizations.

Earlier judicial action against White House had

been only temporary

Trump provided no notice before announcing the bans in a Sept. 18 social media post, which criticized their reporting as “fake news.” Kelly temporarily blocked the bans on Sept. 24 at the request of the news outlets, which jointly filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C.

Attorneys for the outlets have described Trump’s move as “unprecedented and blatantly unconstitutional” under the First and Fifth amendments. They argued that it’s illegal for Trump to punish the journalists because he doesn’t like the content of their reporting.

“The ban also inflicts an injury on all news media organizations — which now risk a similar fate if they engage in fact-based, independent reporting the President deems insufficiently favorable,” plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote.

Government lawyers argued that access to the White House is a privilege — not a right — and said the president can impose the bans to protect national security and to stem the spread of misinformation.

“The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President,” Justice Department attorneys wrote. “Presidents have had a relationship with the press since the beginning. They have long decided which journalists should receive privileged access, which has varied substantially from administration to administration.”

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Associated Press reporter Rebecca Boone contributed.

The exports data, which was better than what economists had expected, accelerated from the 25% growth in August. High-tech goods such as semiconductors and autos have helped fuel its rising shipments overseas.

September's export growth pace was the fastest since February, according to FactSet data.

Imports climbed 31% in September year-on-year, also accelerating from August’s 28.2% rise. Still, China recorded a $133.5 billion trade surplus last month, widening from $119.1 billion in August.

For the first nine months, China’s trade surplus reached $938 billion, with expectations growing that it could surpass last year’s full-year $1.2 trillion record.

Strong exports have helped drive China’s overall economic growth this year, at a time when domestic consumption and investment remained sluggish, weighed on by a yearslong real estate sector downturn.

However, China’s export resilience is now faced with mounting challenges, said Ecaterina Bigos, a senior market strategist at BNP Paribas Asset Management.

“While U.S.-China trade tensions have eased somewhat, the EU’s push to rebalance directly targets high-value exports,” she said.

The U.S. has launched an ongoing probe against China and other trading partners this year on their excess industrial capacity, although Washington and Beijing last month reached an agreement to extend their trade truce and cut tariffs on $60 billion worth of goods.

The 27-nation EU has particularly been struggling to rebalance a trade deficit exceeding $1.1 billion a day with China. EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič, following his visit to Beijing where he met his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao last week, said a deal has been reached with Beijing, including halving Chinese hybrid car imports into the EU over the next few years.

Many of China’s trading partners are facing weak growth prospects and are fearful of their manufacturing industries being overrun by exports from China, said Eswar Prasad, a professor of economics and trade policy at Cornell University.

Policymakers have also pointed to a weakened yuan, China’s currency, versus the U.S. dollar and other currencies contributing to Chinese exports being cheaper overseas when compared with goods from other countries, adding to trade imbalances.

China has said it has “no need or intent” to gain competitive advantages through currency devaluation and that its trade growth has been driven by its industrial competitiveness in the global market.

Between January and September, China’s semiconductor exports soared 108.1% year-on-year in terms of value, customs data showed. Its exports of automatic data processing equipment and parts jumped 54.6%, while auto exports rose 54.3%, driven by an increased global demand for Chinese electric vehicles and hybrids.

China’s trade surplus and its high-tech export model depend on open markets, Bigos said, and while diversifying its exports into markets such as Southeast Asia and Latin America can help, it cannot fully substitute for Western demand.

The country’s reliance on high-tech exports, meanwhile, could face challenges as some U.S. technology industry leaders called for a global slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence over safety reasons.

“A slowdown in the global AI investment cycle could pose a greater threat to China’s export growth than trade restrictions imposed by other countries,” said Max Zenglein, Asia Pacific senior economist at The Conference Board.

Chinese leaders have set an annual economic expansion target of 4.5%-5% for 2026. It is set to release its July-September quarterly economic growth figures next week.

This week, the International Monetary Fund lowered its forecast for China’s 2026 economic growth to 4.5%, down 0.1 percentage point from its previous projection, as it warned that the country's robust exports were unable to fully offset domestic weaknesses.

While Chinese officials have highlighted the need to bolster domestic demand, analysts believe that has yet to become a priority for this year even after authorities recently rolled out new measures to help lift its economy, including subsidies for homebuyers’ mortgage interest payments.

Peralta threw six innings of four-hit ball, Liam Hicks lined a two-run single after José Ramírez's fielding error and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 Tuesday night to even the AL Championship Series at 1-1.

Game 3 of the best-of-seven series is Thursday night in Cleveland.

Peralta threw the hardest pitch of his big league career at 99.4 mph and relied on his four-seam fastball on 71 of 99 pitches — his 71.7% usage was his highest since June 11, 2019.

“It’s no secret that I trust in my fastball a lot and it’s my best pitch,” Peralta said.

Peralta's 96.9 mph average fastball velocity was 2.6 mph above his season average.

“It plays a big role, the adrenaline,” Peralta said. “And also I define myself as a competitor, and I like these kind of games. I’ve always said in the past, that I enjoyed this as a Dominican pitcher. I grew up watching the games in D.R., and that’s the game that you see. And I got used to that because I grew up watching it. And I feel that I have that in me, in myself. And that’s the way that I feel when I am on the mound in these kind of games.”

Peralta pumped a fist and screamed joyfully walking off the mound in the sixth after fanning Petey Halpin swinging at a 3-2 changeup.

“I just enjoyed the moment because it was a really good at-bat,” Peralta said. “It wasn’t an easy game since the first pitch that I threw until the last one. It was a lot of competition between me and the hitters. ... I think that was why I was fired up like that.”

Ramírez, whose two-run homer in Game 5 of their AL Division Series against Chicago helped the Guardians become the 11th team to overcome an 0-2 deficit in a best-of-five series, misplayed a grounder in the fourth inning that led to three unearned runs against rookie lefty Parker Messick.

Junior Caminero walked to start that inning and Victor Mesa Jr. grounded into a forceout originally ruled a double play. The Rays challenged the calls at both first and second and Mesa was ruled safe when a video review overturned the out decision by first base umpire Mark Ripperger.

After Jonny DeLuca struck out, Chandler Simpson beat out a high chopper to shortstop, and the Mesa reached third standing up when Ramírez failed to cover the bag.

Ben Williamson followed with a grounder that scooted underneath Ramírez’s glove and between his legs after the ball hit the edge where the artificial turf met the infield dirt. The third baseman played back rather than charging.

“It's a little bit faster here this type of surface,” Ramirez said through a translator. “It's frustrating. I feel bad.”

Williamson reached second and Simpson went to third. Hicks drove the next pitch to right-center for a 3-0 lead, electrifying the towel-waving, cowbell-ringing crowd of 32,125 fans at Tropicana Field.

Peralta and three relievers didn’t need any more support.

“I think the velocity really stood out,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said of Peralta.

Kevin Kelly got two outs in the seventh, retiring Ramírez on a fly ball to center with two runners on.

Lefty Ian Seymour replaced him and Chase DeLauter lined an RBI double to the right-field corner.

Seymour struck out Jo Adell swinging at a changeup, leaving runners at second and third. Seymour pitched a 1-2-3 eighth and Bryan Baker finished with a perfect ninth for his fourth postseason save.

Acquired by the Rays from the Mets at the trade deadline, Peralta turned around his season in Tampa Bay going 5-2 with a 3.25 ERA in 10 starts after posting a 4.99 ERA for New York.

He pitched his latest gem in front of Mets owner Steve Cohen, who was in attendance.

“We have a good relationship,” Peralta said of Cohen. “I think he’s awesome. And I’m happy that he was here watching, not watching me, watching the Rays.”

Messick, who grew up going to Rays games at the Trop, took the loss after giving up six hits and the three unearned runs in five innings.

Cleveland had won four straight in the postseason for the first time since winning their first six playoff games in 2016 on the way to a World Series berth.

The 98-win Rays swept the New York Yankees before a 7-3 loss in Game 1 on Monday.

That was their first loss in two weeks. Now, they're back on the winning track and need three more in a series that's reduced to a best of five to advance to their third World Series.

Liam's lineup drop

After batting cleanup in the first two games against the Yankees and sixth in Game 3 of that series, Hicks wasn't in the lineup against lefty Foster Griffin on Monday and batted eighth against Messick.

He doesn't care where he hits.

“This lineup is so good, you can hit anywhere in the lineup, and you’re not getting offended,” Hicks said. “There’s going to be opportunities.”

No hit for you

Caminero leaped to his left to snag Steven Kwan's hard liner to third in the fifth and then wagged a finger toward the batter. Caminero, who played all 162 games in the regular season and hit 42 home runs, was in the lineup after a collision with DeLuca on a foul ball in the ninth inning Monday night.

Up Next

Rays RHP Griffin Jax (8-10, 3.52 ERA) starts Thursday night. He struck out four and gave up one run in two innings of relief against the Yankees. RHP Gavin Williams (14-8, 3.76) is expected to start for the Guardians. Williams started Games 2 and 5 against the White Sox and tossed an inning in relief in Game 4. He had 24 strikeouts in 11 2/3 innings, allowing two runs and six hits.

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Tuesday’s verdict was mostly favorable for Hill, with jurors siding against him on just two of 11 claims.

The jury, which was made up of three men and three women, ruled in favor of his ex-wife, Keeta Vaccaro, on two claims of battery.

One additional count was voluntarily dismissed by Vaccaro’s side before jury deliberations began.

Jurors ultimately awarded Vaccaro $500,000 in compensatory damages, but no punitive damages.

Her attorneys argued during closing statements that as much as $1 million per count should be awarded.

Moments after the verdict was announced, Hill’s attorneys said they’re pleased with the outcome.

“We’ve always felt from the beginning that this was a money grab and I think that the jury validated that today,” said attorney Michael Gottlieb.

Vaccaro’s attorneys pointed out that the jury still ruled in her favor on two of the battery allegations.

“The jury deliberated for three and a half hours, and they determined that Mr. Hill committed domestic violence against his wife,” said attorney Evan Marks. “He bettered his wife and they awarded compensatory damages.”

The verdict brings the high profile civil trial to a close after several days of testimony over the couple’s marriage and allegations of repeated abuse.

According to authorities, deputies with the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office and Florida Highway Patrol troopers located a black Chevrolet pickup truck on Tuesday afternoon being driven by the suspect in a strongarm robbery.

This all began Monday night in Lake Worth, when authorities said the suspect ordered pizza.

“He says to the pizza guy, ‘I only got a $100, do you have change for that?’ When the guy took out the change, that’s when he grabbed him and they wrestled for the money, he took it away from him,” said PBSO Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. “It’s called a strong-armed robbery.”

The delivery driver was able to give a description of the suspect’s vehicle and tag number, and deputies were able to locate that car Tuesday morning.

“They attempted a traffic stop and that’s when the guy took off,” said Bradshaw. “It went down I-95 and FHP got involved.”

Troopers said a chase ensued, which ended when the driver in the truck crashed in an unincorporated area of Palm Beach County along Jog Road between Woolbright Road and Grand Isle Drive.

That led to a standoff between the man behind the wheel of the truck and first responders.

According to PBSO, deputies attempted to bring the suspect into custody using non-lethal tactics, but ultimately the suspect was fatally shot at the scene while holding an item in his hand.

“During this whole time, he was yelling at the officers, ‘You’re gonna have to kill me,’” said Bradshaw. “But they did try less-than-lethal (measures) three times, but it had no effect on him at all.”

Following the standoff, authorities said the suspect received life-saving treatment from first responders.

He did not have a weapon under the towel or shirt that he was holding in his hand, according to officials.

Authorities said the suspect, who has not been publicly identified, had a lengthy criminal history that included carjacking, assault, drug possession and sales, kidnapping, trespassing, disorderly conduct and hit-and-run with severe damage.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.

An initial report from the Florida Highway Patrol indicated the suspect was driving a stolen vehicle. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office has since corrected to say the suspect was driving his own vehicle. This story and headline have been edited to reflect the new information.

“Los óculos son pequeñas hendiduras en las fachadas que dejan entrar la luz y creo que, en este momento, lo que más necesita Cuba es esa luz y compartirla entre todos”, dijo el padre Yosvany Carvajal, párroco de la Catedral y rector del Centro Cultural Padre Félix Varela, en declaraciones a The Associated Press,

El vitral –el óculo— de casi tres metros de altura, se encuentra ubicado sobre la puerta principal del templo del siglo XVIII y es el primer paso en un proceso de restauración necesario para evitar el deterioro adicional de la ornamentación. La obra lleva el nombre de “Madonna Luminosa” y fue creada por el artista cubano Aluan Argüelles.

La obra muestra a la virgen en tonos amarillos y azules con un singular movimiento en el diseño de su manto que destaca la iluminación

El vitral iluminado permanecerá en la fachada del templo por lo menos hasta el primer trimestre del próximo año, explicó el padre Carvajal. La Catedral festejará su aniversario 250 en 2027 y para entonces se tiene previsto que ya esté colocada la obra original restaurada.

Cuba atraviesa una complicada situación económica y social a partir del cerco energético y financiero impuesto por Estados Unidos en enero pasado como herramienta de presión para un cambio en el modelo de gobierno de la isla, agudizando la crisis al dejar al país prácticamente paralizado en todos sus sectores.

Apagones de más de 30 horas, carestía, desabasto de productos básicos y medicinas, recortes de horario en los centros de trabajo y jornadas perdidas son algunas de las consecuencias que el cerco ha provocado entre la población.

El proyecto de restauración de la Catedral de La Habana fue financiado a través de una recaudación de fondos realizada por la ONG Cuba Foundation, con sede en Nueva York.

“Nos enfocamos en apoyar al sector privado en Cuba, obviamente pasando por las regulaciones norteamericanas y de Cuba”, explicó el fundador de Cuba Foundation, Gustavo Arnavat, a la AP. Añadió que para él era una prioridad restaurar el óculo antes de que se perdiera del todo.

En el marco de las peores sanciones impuesta a la isla en décadas, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump ordenó a finales de septiembre restricciones adicionales para los viajes desde Estados Unidos a la isla, en particular en lo referente a permisos académicos o intercambios, además de limitar las cuentas bancarias de empresarios isleños en Estados Unidos.

Arnavat aclaró que las sanciones no alcanzan a esta iniciativa, aunque reconoció que las medidas de este tipo suelen entorpecer los acercamientos binacionales.

“Las políticas del presidente Trump desde su primer mandato, que no cambiaron mucho durante Biden, han causado mucho ruido en los Estados Unidos. Entonces hay gente que es muy cautelosa, no sabe y tiene la impresión de que no se puede venir a Cuba… y claro no se puede venir como turista, pero se puede venir a apoyar al pueblo cubano”, sostuvo Arnavat.

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Carter Verhaeghe scored twice and Sam Reinhart added two goals and an assist, extending his point streak against Columbus to a franchise-record 12 games.

Matthew Tkachuk assisted on all three of his brother’s goals and had an assist on Verhaeghe’s goal in the second for the first four-assist period in Panthers history. He extended his points streak to six games.

Brady Tkachuk became the ninth Panthers player with three goals in a period. He also had four points in the second as the brothers became the third and fourth Florida players with a four-point period.

Seth Jones contributed four assists, and Akira Schmid stopped 24 shots a night after replacing Jacob Markstrom following the first period of the Panthers’ loss at Buffalo.

Kent Johnson, Denton Mateychuk and Cole Sillinger scored for Columbus, and Damon Severson had two assists. The Blue Jackets lost for the third time in four games and have allowed seven power-play goals in 18 opportunities.

Cam Talbot stopped 17 shots before being replaced after allowing his sixth goal at 3:28 of the third period. Jet Greaves made four saves in relief.

Columbus took a 1-0 lead on Johnson’s unassisted goal at 14:11 of the first period, but Florida took control from there.

Brady Tkachuk took advantage of a turnover by Carson Soucy in the Florida zone and pulled the Panthers even at 2:27 of the second with his first goal of the season. He added a power-play goal 3 1/2 minutes later and completed his fourth career hat trick, and second against Columbus, with another power-play goal at 10:30.

Mathieu Olivier was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct for slashing Uvis Balinskis at 13:44 of the second, leaving Columbus short-handed for five minutes. Verhaeghe scored on the ensuing power play.

Reinhart’s power-play goal 1:20 into the third gave him a Panthers-record 86 career power-play goals.

Columbus made it 6-3 with third-period goals from Mateychuk and Sillinger 22 seconds apart. Reinhart had an empty-netter.

Florida improved to 11-2-0 against Columbus since the start of the 2022-23 season.

Up next

Panthers: Host Vancouver on Thursday.

Blue Jackets: Host the New York Rangers on Saturday.

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HIs recovery has been nothing short of remarkable.

“Getting struck by lightning was probably about one of the last things I would have thought that happened,” said Rick Stanczyk.

Stanczyk, who comes from a family of fishing guides, and whose family owns the iconic Bud N’ Mary’s Marina in Islamorada, was scheduled to take three people out for a day of tarpon fishing on August 20th.

There were storms in the area, said friend and client Mark Fravel, but nowhere near where they were.

“We actually did see some lightning strikes, but it was so far away, you just saw the flash,” Fravel said.

The calm would soon change

Fravel heard what sounded like a loud crack.

“It was a crack so loud that it felt like it lifted the boat up in the air,” he said.

Stanczyk said not only does he not remember anything about that moment, but he doesn’t remember anything about that entire day. But he surmises that because he was holding on a metal steering wheel at the helm of his Contender center console boat, the lightning electrified him.

“I was holding the wheel and so it got me and everyone else on the boat was fine,” he said.

Fravel believes the lightning struck the water first, “chased up the engine and through the steering column,” he recalled.

Stanczyk, 44 and a father of two, collapsed.

His Contender was dead in the water.

Fravel and another onboard began CPR, while calling 911.

In minutes, Islamorada Fire Rescue paramedics raced to Bud N’ Mary’s and got onboard another boat captain’s vessel.

“It was dark and rainy,” recalled paramedic Steven Mejia. “We went onboard a vessel to reach where the patient was. If they weren’t there to initiate CPR - who knows what the outcome would have been.”

Stanczyk was flown to the hospital where he spent several days in a medically induced coma.

He recalls his wife telling him what happened as he slowly regained consciousness.

“‘Stay calm, Rick, you’re in the hospital,’” he said she told him. “‘You’re okay, but you were struck by lightning.’ And I was like, ‘What?’”

Florida is known as the lightning capital of the world.

Lightning activity in the state was reported to be nearly 28 percent above the 10-year average, according to the National Lightning Safety Council.

And even higher late this summer.

Meteorologist Chris Vagasky provided Local 10 with data that showed that lightning activity in August was 58% above average, and 108% above average in September.

Scientists are still working to find out why.

Now, Stanczyk is back on the water and says he’s cleared all medical tests - and is feeling strong.

In an abundance of precaution, he uses a rubber sleeve that covers the metal steering wheel of the boat he’s using. The Contender is still in the shop.

“As the captain of the boat, you always kind of think of yourself as the one who’s gonna be in charge,” he said. “(I’m) a little more grateful for being here and realizing you’re never really guaranteed tomorrow So you’ve got to enjoy the day.”

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The vote gives the county the authority to take any necessary legal action to go inside the Broward Sheriff’s Office headquarters and examine the sheriff’s budget to see how he is spending taxpayer dollars.

“Everything stops if they just open their books and say, ‘Here’s what we’re spending our money on.’ It’s that simple, folks,” Broward Mayor Mark Bogen said.

The emergency meeting was led by Bogen on Tuesday morning.

The vote gives the county attorney the authority to sue the sheriff if negotiations go nowhere.

The board wants a closer look at the sheriff’s $870 million budget and exactly how the agency is spending taxpayer dollars.

The mayor says the county has a legal right to see the budget.

“We have a sheriff who refuses to disclose things, fights our requests, locks his doors, hides in his office making videos,” Bogen said.

On Monday, the mayor and commissioners were blocked from going inside BSO’s officer the to see its training facility, which the county auditor says cost more than twice what was expected, ballooning from $34 million to $73 million, which was already shown in audit in 2024.

“We sent many emails to the command staff saying we would like to view the gym and they don’t respond,” Bogen said. “They don’t respond.”

Right afterward, during a news conference, Tony claimed it was a distraction as statewide prosecutors sent subpoenas to all commissioners last month while investigating the county’s study about possibly removing BSO from both Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades.

“It has been nothing more than a disguise to distract from what is actually taking place: an unprecedented criminal investigation,” Tony told reporters.

Tony went a step further on Tuesday, showing Local 10 News reporter Janine Stanwood the training facility.

“So this is a little uncommon, Janine, for me to show anyone what our toilets look like,” Tony said.

One commissioner claimed the facility has “gilded toilets.”

“And there you are, no gold,” Tony told Stanwood.

He showed Local 10 News the facility’s cold plunge, gym and sauna, as well as two massage tables for physical therapy.

All of it, Tony said, is “getting our people back into the field faster.”

Tony responded to criticism about placing his name on the logos on curtains and other places within the facility.

He said commissioners have turned it into “some scandalous approach about branding.”

Stanwood asked, “People might look at those weight plates and they say, ‘Why do you need to put Broward County Sheriff?’”

“Pride,” Tony, who said the branding was a nominal cost, said. “Organizational pride. Keep fighting. Let’s go.”

He said of commissioners’ request to tour the facility, “Over the span of two years since we’ve opened, there has been not one formal email request from any of those commissioners.”

Stanwood asked Tony, “So why not just say to the county ‘Here, look at the books. You don’t have to put in a FOIA because the taxpayers should be able to see what’s going on?’”

Costs, he said, are “already in the books. It’s in their audit report. I have tried everything possible to negotiate in good faith, present data and factual figures and it has fallen on deaf ears.”

“But why won’t you go to a commission meeting?” Stanwood asked.

“Because attending commission meetings, at this point in time, has become nothing more than theater,” Tony responded.

Tony has claimed the battle is a distraction as statewide prosecutors sent subpoenas to all commissioners last month while investigating the county’s study about possibly removing BSO from both Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades.

“It has been nothing more than a disguise to distract from what is actually taking place: an unprecedented criminal investigation,” Tony told reporters at a news conference on Monday.

He later called Tuesday’s vote an “assault” on his independence as a constitutional officer.

Local 10 News has reached out to state investigators.

During Tuesday’s commission meeting, Bogen said he has not heard of any criminal probe and asked the county attorney to confirm that.

“Counsel, are you aware of any of us or any of the staff here (who are) under a criminal investigation?” Bogen said.

“Um, mayor, I’m not aware of any criminal investigation,” the county attorney replied.

Commissioner Lamar Fisher is also proposing taking the 911 system away from the sheriff.

There is a meeting next Tuesday when that proposal will come up.

If approved, he says the transition will happen immediately.

But mainland U.S. hurricane strikes tend to have harder bookends that fall within the prescribed June to November season. The earliest official mainland U.S. hurricane landfall from the National Hurricane Center’s historical database – coined HURDAT 2, which extends back to 1851 – was Hurricane Alma that struck the Florida Big Bend on June 9^th, 1966. The latest landfalling mainland U.S. hurricane was Hurricane Kate on November 21^st, 1985, that struck the Florida Panhandle.

While other out-of-season U.S. hurricanes have been documented – such as the retroactively named Hurricane Amanda uncovered by researchers in 2013 that struck the Florida Panhandle on May 28^th, 1863 – no mainland U.S. hurricane landfalls outside of the June to November hurricane season are officially listed in NHC’s historical HURDAT 2 record.

When do we typically see the last mainland U.S. landfall?

As we’ve written about in previous newsletters, the last U.S. hurricane landfall often precedes or even helps to usher in the start of South Florida’s dry season, which typically arrives around the middle of October.

Examining all hurricane landfalls in the satellite record (since 1966), 90% of seasons see their last hurricane landfall by around the middle of October (October 18^th). For named storms, which include both tropical storms and hurricanes, we’re usually done with mainland U.S. hits by the end of October.

That of course doesn’t mean we haven’t seen or can’t see November threats from tropical storms and hurricanes. They’re just far less common than any other month of the season and about a once-every -decade-or-less event (as we discussed in yesterday’s newsletter, November U.S. hurricanes are about a once-in-50-year event).

So let’s get through the next few weeks and then we can rest a little easier knowing the threats from hurricane season are mostly in the rearview mirror.

No development expected deep into October

Our longer-range computer models don’t show any viable candidates over the next week or two across the Atlantic basin.

Each week is especially meaningful this time of year and gets us closer to November when U.S. landfalls become the exception, rather than the norm.

Carter Verhaeghe scored twice and Sam Reinhart added two goals and an assist, extending his point streak against Columbus to a franchise-record 12 games.

Matthew Tkachuk assisted on all three of his brother's goals and had an assist on Verhaeghe's goal in the second for the first four-assist period in Panthers history. He extended his points streak to six games.

Brady Tkachuk became the ninth Panthers player with three goals in a period. He also had four points in the second as the brothers became the third and fourth Florida players with a four-point period.

Seth Jones contributed four assists, and Akira Schmid stopped 24 shots a night after replacing Jacob Markstrom following the first period of the Panthers’ loss at Buffalo.

Kent Johnson, Denton Mateychuk and Cole Sillinger scored for Columbus, and Damon Severson had two assists. The Blue Jackets lost for the third time in four games and have allowed seven power-play goals in 18 opportunities.

Cam Talbot stopped 17 shots before being replaced after allowing his sixth goal at 3:28 of the third period. Jet Greaves made four saves in relief.

Columbus took a 1-0 lead on Johnson's unassisted goal at 14:11 of the first period, but Florida took control from there.

Brady Tkachuk took advantage of a turnover by Carson Soucy in the Florida zone and pulled the Panthers even at 2:27 of the second with his first goal of the season. He added a power-play goal 3 1/2 minutes later and completed his fourth career hat trick, and second against Columbus, with another power-play goal at 10:30.

Mathieu Olivier was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct for slashing Uvis Balinskis at 13:44 of the second, leaving Columbus short-handed for five minutes. Verhaeghe scored on the ensuing power play.

Reinhart’s power-play goal 1:20 into the third gave him a Panthers-record 86 career power-play goals.

Columbus made it 6-3 with third-period goals from Mateychuk and Sillinger 22 seconds apart. Reinhart had an empty-netter.

Florida improved to 11-2-0 against Columbus since the start of the 2022-23 season.

Up next

Panthers: Host Vancouver on Thursday.

Blue Jackets: Host the New York Rangers on Saturday.

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El decreto firmado modifica una norma de 2021 que daba prioridad al diálogo y la mediación como forma de intervención en las protestas, mientras que dejaba como último recurso la intervención de los agentes antidisturbios para controlar actos de violencia.

La nueva norma permite la intervención policial sin agotar necesariamente el diálogo e indica que puede retomarse después del empleo de la fuerza, siempre que las “acciones violentas” hayan cesado y “se adopten medidas orientadas a garantizar los derechos de quienes manifiestan pacíficamente” y de quienes no participan.

“Frente a actos de violencia, la obligación de privilegiar el diálogo y la mediación constituye una regla de preferencia... y no un requisito previo que condicione, suspenda o posponga las actuaciones de intervención dirigidas individualmente contra quienes ejecuten actos de violencia”, indica el decreto publicado por la Presidencia.

Los actos de violencia son entendidos en la norma como las agresiones contra personas, lanzamiento de objetos, retención de personas, ataques contra infraestructura pública o privada y uso de menores de edad o mujeres embarazadas.

El gobierno argumenta que con las modificaciones en el protocolo busca garantizar los derechos de quienes participan en la protesta y de quienes no lo hacen, por lo que introducen “corredores solidarios” que estarían destinados al tránsito de ambulancias, organismos de socorro y personas gestantes, mayores o menores de edad.

El decreto entra en vigencia justo antes de que los sectores opositores, liderados por el expresidente Gustavo Petro (2022-2026), salgan a las calles el miércoles para manifestarse contra las políticas de De la Espriella, que consideran pueden ser regresivas en temas sociales, especialmente para los trabajadores.

Reaviva miedo al uso excesivo de la fuerza

El protocolo del uso de la fuerza del 2021 se dio en cumplimiento de una sentencia de la Corte Suprema de Justicia que encontró excesos de la fuerza pública en una protesta de 2019.

La modificación del protocolo genera especial preocupación en los movimientos sociales y sectores de izquierda que recuerdan la violencia registrada en las multitudinarias protestas de 2021 contra el gobierno, en las que hubo al menos 46 víctimas fatales, en muchos de los cuales miembros de la fuerza pública serían los presuntos perpetradores, según la ONU.

“El temor que tenemos es sencillamente que se repita y, de hecho, que se empeore lo que Colombia ya ha vivido”, aseguró a The Associated Press la congresista Jennifer Pedraza, crítica del gobierno de De la Espriella.

Para Pedraza, el gobierno pretende disuadir a la ciudadanía de protestar por sus derechos al estigmatizar a quienes lo hacen y también tener “una justificación en la opinión pública de los posibles excesos de la fuerza pública” que se puedan dar en su gobierno.

“En vez de atender las causas de la ciudadanía... la propuesta del gobierno es represión y justificación a partir de esta modificación regresiva del decreto”, cuestionó Pedraza.

The panel is part of a portable solar kit given to the Rohingya refugee family as humanitarian aid six years ago. It's been the family's primary source of electricity, making daily life so much easier in the camp for the displaced in Teknaf, Bangladesh.

"We can now charge our phones, cook with light, children can study at night and use fans during the hot season,” said Saber, 35.

From the flood zones of Nepal to refugee camps in Africa, experts say that solar energy is increasingly becoming part of disaster relief as technology improves, costs fall and humanitarian organizations recognize that having access to electricity is a fundamental need.

Renewable energy solutions are needed more than ever, they say, as climate change drives and intensifies extreme weather while wars, sanctions and political upheavals keep fossil fuel prices volatile.

Solar energy kits are portable, rechargeable and grid-independent

When disasters strike and humanitarian needs surge, solar kits can become an invaluable resource, says Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen, a research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, an independent research and policy institute specializing in sustainable development.

These solar kits — all-in-one, compact units that use solar panels and are not reliant on utility companies — are easy to move and recharge, according to Rosenberg-Jansen.

“In emergency situations, solar kits can be deployed immediately,” she said, adding that they are particularly useful in situations with rapidly rising floodwaters, changing front lines in a conflict, or for moving around in areas where damaged roads make it difficult to travel.

In terms of function, the kits can be "anything from solar lanterns to solar home systems, solar torches, solar heating pads, to electric cook stoves that use solar as their energy source,” she said.

Lower costs of solar energy helped its role in disaster relief

Rosenberg-Jansen also pointed out that solar panels are not prone to price shocks like fossil fuels, which can be difficult and costly to transport to a disaster zone.

Only a few decades ago, solar energy was a luxury, she added, but as technology evolved, mindsets and the price tag changed. Now it's more affordable, thanks to the scaling up of mass manufacturing and technology advancement.

It's also so much easier to use, said Yuriy Boyechko, CEO of Hope For Ukraine, a nonprofit based in the United States that provides solar kits to families living in war-torn Ukraine.

“We have grandmas and grandpas who are around 75-80 years old ... receiving kits,” said Boyechko. “It’s just a matter of plug (in) and play.”

Solar panels are becoming more common now.

On the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan's economic hub, a tuberculosis clinic run by Doctors Without Borders uses solar energy. In South Sudan's Renk county, the U.N. migration agency installed solar-powered water filtration systems for families displaced by the war in neighboring Sudan.

And after Nepal's massive floods in August that killed 1,455 people and left 5,285 missing — including hundreds of foreign nationals — solar kits were distributed by local and international organizations, including Australia-based charity SolarBuddy.

Funding issues and bureaucracy are still an obstacle in disaster relief

Mark Gibson from Global Platform for Action, or GPA, which promotes affordable, reliable and clean energy access, said that integrating solar energy hasn't come without difficulties.

Aid agencies have had time-tested systems in place, which often include diesel generators as part of long-term leases and agreements. Switching to solar means having to trust new systems and setting up new distribution chains, sometimes in risky environments.

Recent slashes in international donor funding have also undermined — or completely erased — new practices that were starting to take root, said Aimee Jenks, a program leader at GPA.

“Much of the technical expertise in the humanitarian sector on energy has been cut,” she said. “That’s now retracting a lot of progress.”

And while the cost of solar energy has decreased, it's still prohibitive for many.

Boyechko, of Hope For Ukraine, said that by the end of 2026, his nonprofit will have distributed over 3,200 kits.

“But it took us two years to get to that number, because of funding needs,” he said. ”We have a waiting list of about 20,000 families. We just cannot keep up with demand.”

While no energy source is perfect, the move towards renewable energies is likely to decrease reliance on polluting fossil fuels.

For Saber, whose family is among more than 1 million refugees from Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic and religious minority now living in Bangladesh, the kit means keeping the lights on.

“It’s improved my family’s life,” he said.

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Freelancer photographer Ayub Khan Dkl in Teknaf, Bangaldesh, contributed to this report.

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Manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday that Ohtani will bat anywhere from second to sixth with the two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers losing the first two games of the best-of-seven series.

“He was very convicted that he is onto something mechanically (with his swing),” Roberts said. “He was adamant that he can help us. He’s well enough to help us win a baseball game, so that’s all I needed to hear.”

Ohtani is hitting .150 (3 for 20) over six postseason games. He has seven strikeouts, three walks and one stolen base with no home runs, no RBIs and an OPS of .411.

He hasn’t homered since Aug. 18 at Colorado.

Ohtani admitted before the NLDS against Atlanta that he’s not 100% healthy from right biceps and left knee issues that bothered him the last the last few months of the regular season. He has appeared visibly uncomfortable at the plate while flailing at pitches.

“The symptoms have subdued a lot,” Ohtani said Tuesday through a translator while making an unscheduled appearance in the off-day interview room. “The symptoms shouldn’t be the reason why I can’t hit, and even if the injuries happen by accident, I take full responsibility.”

Roberts spoke to Ohtani before the team worked out at Dodger Stadium, where Ohtani took on-field batting practice, something he rarely does during the regular season.

Roberts said their conversation wasn’t about benching the Japanese superstar, but rather offering him time off similar to Freddie Freeman during the postseason in 2024. Freeman had a sprained ankle and bone bruise, and took three days off spanning the NL Division Series and NLCS before earning World Series MVP honors.

“Over the course of this long season, there’s only really a short period of time when my mechanics is completely in sync,” Ohtani said. “So it’s just really kind of just going back and forth, finding the right parts of the swing and managing just the different parts of the swing. It’s a constant, ongoing process that’s headed in the right direction.”

Ohtani led the Dodgers to a four-game NLCS sweep of Milwaukee last year, when the Brewers hit a measly .118 against LA's pitching.

He was 5 for 14 (.357) with three home runs, four walks and five strikeouts as NLCS MVP — all three homers came in a memorable Game 4 clinch in which he also struck out 10 as a pitcher. He had a 1.643 OPS and 1.143 slugging percentage.

“We remember vividly at this time last year that he maybe had the best baseball game ever played the day he pitched against us and hit a home run every time up, it seemed like,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. “You can’t forget that, his capabilities. But you still have to go at him.”

Ohtani is known for hitting homers but the offensively starved Dodgers would take any kind of production from him at this point.

“In this big moment, we’re listening to Shohei, and we’re going to support the crap out of him and believe in him," Roberts said, "and that’s it.”

Snell looking to rebound for Dodgers in Game 3

Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell starts for Los Angeles against Robert Gasser of the Brewers in a matchup of left-handers on Wednesday.

The Dodgers will be looking to get considerably more innings out of Snell than in his last start on Oct. 4.

He lasted 3 2/3 innings, giving up one run, three hits, walking five and striking out five, in a 3-2 loss in Game 2 of the NLDS against Atlanta. He didn't speak to media afterward and has kept a low profile since then.

“Just a lot of time talking to myself, figuring out where I need to get to, where I’m at,” he said. “Watching two games against Milwaukee, just kind of game planning, seeing what I can expose, what they’re doing really well. Just trying to figure them out.”

Mitchell back home

Brewers center fielder Garrett Mitchell grew up in Orange County as a Los Angeles Angels fan. His family had season tickets in left field. He went to high school with the son of Angels star Garret Anderson.

“Got to have some good conversations with him, take some blasts into the past and talk about memories,” Mitchell said. “I was a shortstop when I was a kid, too. So I enjoyed watching David Eckstein and Adam Kennedy, and I also have a personal relationship with Adam Kennedy as well.”

Mitchell said the way the Angels played reminds him of how the Brewers approach games.

“Guys who maybe aren’t the greatest or the best on the field but know what they’ve got to do and know their roles and grind and compete to the best of their abilities,” he said. “That’s what it takes, it’s a team effort.” ___

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It was the first penalty handed down as part of an investigation that revealed a sprawling network of professional gamblers and college basketball players who, prosecutors say, profited off fixed games.

Prosecutors said Jalen Smith, 30, played a “central role” in helping fix games in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 NCAA Division I basketball seasons, placing bets and recruiting players with the promise of a big payment for purposefully underperforming during a game, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said on Tuesday. Bettors would then wager against the players’ teams in those games, defrauding sportsbooks and other gamblers, authorities said. Smith pleaded guilty earlier this year to bribery and wire fraud charges.

The sentencing comes at the start of the 2026-27 NCAA basketball season, when bettors will wager billions of dollars both legally and illegally on games nationwide. In the meantime, law enforcement, regulators and sports leagues have struggled to keep up with gambling's growing popularity in collegiate and professional sports alike.

“Today’s sentencing sends a clear message: Those who exploit professional and collegiate athletes for personal gain will be held accountable,” said Wayne A. Jacobs, special agent in charge of the FBI's Philadelphia office. “This conduct does more than harm individual athletes. It undermines the integrity of sports and the trust placed in fair competition.”

Smith's attorney, Rocco Cipparone, said his client took full responsibility for crimes at the sentencing hearing and apologized to those impacted. Cipparone also noted that the federal judge seemed to take Smith's apology as sincere, sentencing him to less time than what prosecutors recommended.

The point-shaving scheme Smith was involved in is said to have involved nearly 30 NCAA basketball games, and included schools like DePaul University, State University of New York at Buffalo and Tulane University, among others.

Prosecutors accused Smith and at least 26 other named defendants of wagering millions of dollars and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to players in bribes. Payments to players typically ranged from $10,000 to $30,000 per game, according to an indictment.

Smith and others strategically targeted players considered “underdogs” in games, encouraging them to underperform in order to guarantee certain spreads. Those players were prime targets, prosecutors said, because they were offered money that exceeded potential income from legitimate sponsorships.

Smith, of Charlotte, North Carolina, trained and developed local basketball players for professional scouting combines and used those connections with players when he became part of the scheme, according to prosecutors.

The point-shaving scheme resulted in more than $3 million in fraudulent wagers. Smith, who also pleaded guilty to a separate felony gun possession charge, will have to pay $1.1 million in restitution, which prosecutors said is the cost incurred by gambling platforms as a result of the scheme.

Besides the fixers who recruited players and placed bets, the charges targeted over a dozen former college basketball players and four other players who were active with their college teams last season.

The NFL announced the suspension Tuesday for Jackson, who is slated to miss Los Angeles' games against Arizona and Las Vegas. Jackson will appeal the league's ruling, Rams coach Sean McVay said.

“Have to make better decisions than that,” McVay said. “I spoke with him. We’ll keep that in-house. ... I want to understand the totality of the situation. I’m not condoning by any means, but I want to gather all the information.”

David Quessenberry will be the Rams' starting left tackle during Jackson's absence, McVay said. The 36-year-old veteran has played only 128 offensive snaps over the previous two seasons, and he hasn't started an NFL game since 2023.

Jackson struck Chubb after the two exchanged words following the Bills' 37-34 overtime victory over the Rams at SoFi Stadium. In a press release, the league called Jackson’s blow “an act of unsportsmanlike conduct.”

Jackson was doing a jersey swap with another Bills player when Chubb had words with him and walked away. Jackson followed and confronted Chubb before throwing a strike that knocked Chubb's hat off his head.

Teammates quickly separated the two, but Jackson was already in trouble yet again.

Jackson was arrested on June 9 on suspicion of felony domestic violence after a confrontation with a woman at his home in the San Fernando Valley. His case was assigned for a prefiling diversion that likely allows him to avoid criminal charges, but the NFL has yet to announce a decision on possible league discipline for that incident.

He was sued in 2025 by a woman who alleged he recorded sexual acts with her on his phone without her consent. The incident, which wasn’t publicly revealed until the lawsuit was filed, led to Jackson being suspended for the first two games of the 2024 season for an undisclosed violation of the NFL’s personal conduct policy.

Jackson, a Canadian-American dual citizen, is one of the Rams’ longest-tenured players. He won a Super Bowl ring as a backup lineman in February 2022.

The former undrafted free agent out of Iowa is in his fourth season as the Rams’ starting left tackle and the protector of Matthew Stafford’s blind side. The Rams re-signed Jackson to a three-year, $57 million deal in February 2025.

Jackson's absence is potentially serious for the Rams because they don't have a trusted backup at the most important position on their offensive line.

Despite being the Rams' putative backup to both tackle positions, Quessenberry only took 10 offensive snaps for the Rams last year — and none yet this year. When Jackson missed one game last season, the Rams played relatively new signee DJ Humphries instead of Quessenberry, who was a full-time NFL starter for just one season with Tennessee in 2021.

Rookie Keagen Trost, another potential backup tackle, has been on injured reserve all season with a hamstring problem. McVay said the Rams are hopeful Trost will be in game shape soon.

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In an affidavit opposing the temporary order becoming permanent, Bryan Seaver said text messages Nozell cited as evidence against him were a “private conversation between two friends who were both frustrated, grieving and discussing strategy." The text messages were sent shortly before and after Parton's Aug. 25 death.

Seaver said he never sent threatening messages to any of Parton’s businesses or business partners or their employees.

The filings represent Seaver’s first public defense of himself since a serious rift opened up in the country music legend’s circle and spilled into public view shortly after her death, with Nozell and Seaver on opposing sides.

Seaver's court filing says Nozell did not react with alarm to his text messages at the time and that he agreed with or reacted positively to some of them. Seaver says Nozell encouraged him to publicly tout the military and arms aspect of his security company, Squadron Augmented Protection Services, as a smart business-promotion move, then turned around and used them as evidence of Seaver's capacity for dangerous violence.

She's Alive, an entity run by Nozell and founded to manage and protect Parton’s estate, terminated Seaver and SAPS in early September, and the following week petitioned for the restraining order against him, arguing that his“terrorizing conduct made their continued retention untenable.”

In granting the temporary restraining order, Chancellor I’Ashea L. Myles, cited Seaver's “claimed access to weapons, experience with violence, and intention to retaliate.”

The two sides will make their cases to Myles at a hearing on Oct. 20. Emails seeking comment were sent to lawyers for She's Alive and Nozell.

Seaver said he was blindsided by the order, which was granted while he was doing contract security work in Haiti.

Seaver and SAPS must refrain from entering any She’s Alive property or talking with or being within 1,000 feet (about 300 meters) of She’s Alive employees and business partners. The order is also meant to keep Seaver from interfering with its business relationships.

Seaver argued in his response that the order is so broad, and Parton's business reach so great, that much of Nashville and even his own relatives are off limits to him.

In one message written Sept. 1 that was cited by She's Alive, Seaver said: “I’m going to set up a podcast dedicated to ruining Dolly’s brand partnerships and telling the violations these people have done on us. It’s going to be great. Or f——— pay me.”

Seaver said his anger and the demand were only over more than $250,000 that his company was owed for completed work by Herschend Family Entertainment, which operates Parton’s amusement park Dollywood and her Songteller Hotel, which opened after her death.

Seaver acknowledged being overly crude and profane in his messages to Nozell. He said allegations that he had “menaced and intimidated” HFE employees were simply false.

He included as an exhibit a 2024 letter from Parton praising him and his company. Parton had handpicked Seaver to announce her death once she succumbed to cancer.

Parton was a widely beloved country music giant, philanthropist and cultural icon who wrote hundreds of songs, including classics such as “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors” and “I Will Always Love You.” Her music earned a total of more than 100 million worldwide sales and more than 1 billion online streams.

Jordahl was 30 when she started working for the city. Her last post was as the coordinator of the Urban Area Security Initiative special projects with the department’s division of emergency management.

Jordahl, a University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center patient, died on March 4, 2020. She was 48. Her husband, Joseph R. Fernandez, then Broward’s fire chief and now Key Biscayne’s fire chief, survived her.

Joseph “Jo” Zahralban, then Miami Fire Chief, honored her nearly two decades of service during Breast Cancer Awareness Month for years after the debut of the 2021 rescue truck decorated by Brazilian-American artist Romero Britto.

Chief Robert Hevia continued the tradition. On Tuesday, the pink rescue truck rolled into the WPLG-Local 10 News studios in Hallandale Beach with Jordahl’s message about being proactive with self-exams and mammograms.

“We are honoring her and everyone else who has lost their lives to breast cancer,” Lt. Pete Sanchez said.

The truck also included a sign: “Driving Hope In The Breast Cancer Fight.”

The tribute in memory of Jordahl hits home for the Local 10 newsroom’s family. Local 10 News reporter Janine Stanwood and Local10.com digital journalist Andrea Torres have both shared about their experience with the disease.

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Local 10 News health specialist Kristi Krueger is featuring patients and their doctors during her weekly episodes of Proactively Pink.

Related Proactively Pink stories

• Watch the episode with Nell Trimble, a registered nurse diagnosed with lobular breast cancer
• Watch the episode with Amanda Marchant, a mother of four diagnosed after her first mammogram at 40

Some of Stanwood’s stories

• ‘The power of women’: Janine Stanwood on marking Breast Cancer Awareness with Artfull Angels
• Local 10’s Janine Stanwood shares her breast cancer survival story

Los manifestantes también reclamaron pensiones dignas al asegurar que llevan más de cuatro años sin incrementos del salario mínimo, base para calcular ese pago.

La marcha que tenía como destino el palacio presidencial de Miraflores fue bloqueada por agentes de la Policía Nacional, que se habían apostado desde temprano en las calles y avenidas del centro de Caracas. Los manifestantes apenas pudieron acercarse a unos 500 metros de la casa de gobierno. No se registraron choques entre manifestantes y policías.

“El salario mínimo es inexistente en Venezuela, desde el 2022 se redujo prácticamente a cero”, dijo a la prensa Luis Crespo, representante de la Asociación de Profesores de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, la mayor y más antigua del país.

El salario mínimo mensual de 130 bolívares (0,14 dólares) no ha aumentado desde 2022, lo que lo sitúa muy por debajo del umbral de pobreza extrema de 3 dólares al día establecido por las Naciones Unidas. En 2022, 30 bolívares era equivalente a 30 dólares.

La mayoría de los 3,5 millones de trabajadores del sector público subsisten con aproximadamente 240 dólares al mes, casi en su totalidad bonos. De acuerdo con el Centro de Documentación y Análisis Social (CENDAS) de la Federación Venezolana de Maestros, una familia compuesta por cinco personas necesita unos 755,36 dólares para cubrir su gasto mensual en alimentos.

Un empleado promedio del sector privado, en tanto, ganaba a mediados de año unos 283 dólares, según cifras de Fedecámaras, el principal gremio empresarial del país. Los precios en Venezuela se fijan de acuerdo con su costo en dólares.

Los manifestantes entregaron un documento donde exigen que los beneficios, incluido el bono de fin de año y vacaciones, sean calculados en base al llamado “ingreso mínimo integral”, un mecanismo de compensación para los trabajadores por sus servicios, introducido por el ahora depuesto presidente Nicolás Maduro y que está constituido por la suma del salario mínimo y bonos que no tienen incidencia en otros beneficios laborales.

La presidenta en funciones ha prometido a los trabajadores un ajuste de sus ingresos antes de fin de año, pero no ha revelado un monto ni ha dicho si contempla un incremento del salario mínimo.

Como ha sido habitual en Venezuela en las últimas dos décadas de gobiernos autoproclamados socialistas, el martes también hubo una marcha organizada por el gobernante Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela que se desarrolló cerca de la protesta de los trabajadores. No se registraron incidentes entre los manifestantes.

La jueza del Tribunal de Distrito de EE.UU. Jacqueline Becerra condenó a Yusiel Lopez Insua a 18 meses de prisión. Lopez Insua se declaró culpable de homicidio involuntario marítimo como parte de un acuerdo con la fiscalía en julio.

Lopez Insua era el capitán de un remolcador de 25 pies que empujaba una barcaza de 108 pies. El 28 de julio de 2025, la barcaza chocó contra un velero y causó la muerte de Mila Yankelevich, de 7 años; Arielle Buchman, de 10, y Erin Ko, de 13.

Los fiscales acusaron a Lopez Insua de usar su teléfono para hacer compras en línea mientras trabajaba y lo imputaron en marzo. Habían recomendado una pena de 12 meses y un día de prisión, seguida de seis meses de arresto domiciliario.

Lopez Insua “no designó a un vigía y estuvo usando el celular mientras la embarcación navegaba. Admitió que su incumplimiento criminal de las normas básicas de seguridad marítima causó este choque mortal”. Así lo dijo el fiscal federal del Distrito Sur de Florida, Jason A. Reding Quiñones, en un comunicado en julio.

En el velero también iban un monitor de campamento de 19 años de la Miami Youth Sailing Foundation y dos niñas del campamento, que sobrevivieron. El choque hundió el velero bajo el casco de la barcaza. Una de las niñas que sobrevivió fue hospitalizada.

El Servicio de Investigaciones de la Guardia Costera de EE.UU. trabajó en el caso. El abogado Walter A. Reynoso representó a Lopez Insua. La jueza Becerra le ordenó entregarse en un plazo de 60 días.

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A recent American Heart Association report warned that one-third of U.S. Hispanic adults report no moderate or vigorous physical activity.

That is the highest rate among all U.S. racial and ethnic groups. Clara Assael was born in Venezuela and lives in Broward County. She plans to be the exception.

“Exercise for me it’s more than the way I look. Exercise for me is about my health and a quality of life. I want to have a strong heart. I want to have energy. And most of all, I want to continue doing the things I love the most as I get older,” said Assael, an exercise trainer.

Dr. Sandra Chaparro, the director of advanced heart failure at the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, said the main risk factors are obesity, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, lack of exercise, and lack of sleep.

“In the Hispanic culture, usually we tend to have poor diets, poor access to healthcare, and poor management of the risk factors,” Chaparro said. “All those things contribute to earlier presentation of cardiovascular disease.

Other findings in the American Heart Association report included that 44% of Hispanic adults have high blood pressure. The highest prevalence is among Puerto Ricans and Cubans.

Exercise is just one part of the puzzle. Chaparro said 80% of heart disease risk factors are all about life-style choices. The only things that can’t change are family history and age. Assael encourages everyone to exercise.

“Exercise gives you so much energy,” Assael said. It releases your endorphins. It changes mood. It helps you with stress."

More facts from the American Heart Association:

• Hispanic people represent nearly 1 in 5 of the U.S. population and are the nation’s largest ethnic minority group, yet many continue to face barriers to achieving heart health and accessing high quality healthcare
• Nearly 46% of Hispanic adults have obesity, with the highest rates reported among Puerto Rican and Dominican heritage groups.
• Hispanic adults are diagnosed with heart failure about 8 to 9 years younger than white adults.
• Hispanic adults, on average, experience a first stroke about 6 to 8 years younger — 67 years old compared to 73 to 75 years old among white adults.
• Type 2 diabetes affects 15.5% of Hispanic adults, nearly twice the prevalence among white adults. Prevalence is highest among Mexican and Puerto Rican individuals.
• Dietary quality remains a challenge. Fewer than 2% of Hispanic adults meet recommended sodium intake goals, and fewer than 10% meet recommendations for healthy fats. Increased intake of ultraprocessed foods and sugar sweetened beverages is more commonly observed among U.S.-born Hispanic adults.
• Approximately one-third of Hispanic adults report getting less than seven hours of sleep per night, a factor linked to obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. Short sleep duration was most prevalent among individuals of Puerto Rican background.
• About 41% of all Hispanic adults and 66% of older Hispanic adults have low or limited health literacy compared with 9% of white adults. This significantly impacts how they understand medical information and work within healthcare systems to get care.
• Approximately 20% of Hispanic adults remained uninsured in 2023, compared with 6.4% of white adults and 9.8% of Black adults. This creates significant challenges for prevention and treatment.
• Cardiovascular risk factors are highly prevalent among Hispanic adults and often emerge at younger ages and occur more frequently among Hispanic adults compared with white adults.
• Hispanic people remain underrepresented overall in the research that guides prevention and treatment strategies. More detailed data collection and reporting across Hispanic heritage backgrounds will be essential to better understand community-specific risks, strengths and healthcare needs

U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Becerra sentenced Yusiel Lopez Insua to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a charge of seaman’s manslaughter as part of a plea agreement in July.

Yusiel Lopez Insua was the captain of a 25-foot tugboat that was pushing a 108-foot barge that struck a sailboat on July 28, 2025, and killed 7-year-old Mila Yankelevich, 10-year-old Arielle Buchman, and 13-year-old Erin Ko.

Prosecutors, who accused Lopez Insua of using his phone to shop online while working and charged him in March, had recommended 12 months and one day in prison, followed by six months of house arrest.

Lopez Insua ”failed to assign a lookout and engaged in cellphone activity while underway. He admitted that his criminal failure to follow basic maritime safety rules caused this deadly collision,” U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement in July.

A 19-year-old Miami Youth Sailing Foundation camp counselor and two campers who were in the sailboat survived the crash, which submerged the sailboat beneath the barge’s hull. One of the girls who survived was hospitalized.

During the sentencing hearing, Becerra compared Lopez Insua’s negligence to driving down Interstate 95 with a blindfold on.

The U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service worked on the case. Attorney Walter A. Reynoso represented Lopez Insua, whom Becerra ordered to surrender in 60 days.

“He is sick with grief and will hold his intense guilt and remorse for the rest of his life,” Reynoso said after the sentencing hearing.

Alberto Sierra’s mother took the stand.

Through a Spanish-language interpreter, Mercedes Pedraza shared with the jury what her son told her after his arrest in the 2012 triple homicide.

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“Mommy, everything is going to be OK. Don’t worry,” Pedraza recalled her son saying. “I gave him a kiss and that was it.”

Sierra, 42, has already confessed to brutally killing Gladys Machado, 29, and her two little girls, 6-year-old Julia Padrino and 3-year-old Daniela Padrino.

Asked whether she would be there for Alberto if he were sentenced to life in prison without parole, Pedraza said, “Sure, but he is my son, and I am not justifying what he did. I am not making up any excuses, but he is my son.”

His defense team, seeking a life sentence, wants the jury to consider aspects of its client’s background, including his struggles with Type 1 diabetes.

“Yes, I do remember he had another hospitalization regarding diabetes,” Pedraza said.

The defense also wants jurors to consider what it says was a life-changing car accident when Sierra was a minor that affected his brain.

“He was more uneasy than he used to be,” Pedraza said.

On cross-examination, lead prosecutor Abbe Rifkin pointed out that Sierra learned English after the accident.

The state, which is seeking the death penalty, raised other points on cross-examination that it wants the jury to consider.

After questioning, Pedraza testified that her son hadn’t done well in school prior to the accident.

Pedraza also testified that she knew her son smoked marijuana.

Sierra teared up as his mother said she could not excuse his actions but that he was her son, showing the most emotion he has displayed in the courtroom to date.

Un informe reciente de la Asociación Americana del Corazón advirtió que un tercio de los adultos hispanos en EE.UU. no hace ninguna actividad física moderada ni intensa.

Es la tasa más alta entre todos los grupos raciales y étnicos del país. Clara Assael nació en Venezuela y vive en el condado de Broward. Ella quiere ser la excepción.

“Para mí, el ejercicio es más que verme bien. Es mi salud y mi calidad de vida. Quiero tener un corazón fuerte, quiero tener energía y, sobre todo, quiero seguir haciendo lo que más me gusta a medida que envejezco”, dijo Assael, que es entrenadora física.

La Dra. Sandra Chaparro, directora de insuficiencia cardíaca avanzada del Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, dijo que los principales factores de riesgo son la obesidad, la hipertensión, la diabetes, el tabaquismo, la falta de ejercicio y la falta de sueño.

“En la cultura hispana, por lo general, tenemos una mala alimentación, poco acceso a la atención médica y un mal control de los factores de riesgo”, dijo Chaparro. “Todo eso hace que las enfermedades cardiovasculares aparezcan más temprano”.

Según el informe de la Asociación Americana del Corazón, el 44% de los adultos hispanos tiene la presión arterial alta. La mayor prevalencia se da entre los puertorriqueños y los cubanos.

El ejercicio es solo una pieza del rompecabezas. Según Chaparro, el 80% de los factores de riesgo de enfermedades del corazón dependen del estilo de vida. Lo único que no se puede cambiar son los antecedentes familiares y la edad. Assael anima a todo el mundo a hacer ejercicio.

“El ejercicio te da muchísima energía”, dijo Assael. “Libera endorfinas, te cambia el ánimo y te ayuda con el estrés”.

Otros datos de la Asociación Americana del Corazón:

• Los hispanos representan casi 1 de cada 5 habitantes de EE.UU. y son la minoría étnica más grande del país. Aun así, muchos siguen enfrentando obstáculos para tener una buena salud cardiovascular y acceder a atención médica de calidad.
• Casi el 46% de los adultos hispanos tiene obesidad. Las tasas más altas se registran entre las personas de origen puertorriqueño y dominicano.
• A los adultos hispanos se les diagnostica insuficiencia cardíaca entre 8 y 9 años antes que a los adultos blancos.
• En promedio, los adultos hispanos sufren su primer derrame cerebral entre 6 y 8 años antes: a los 67 años, frente a los 73 a 75 años en los adultos blancos.
• La diabetes tipo 2 afecta al 15.5% de los adultos hispanos, casi el doble que entre los adultos blancos. La prevalencia es mayor entre las personas de origen mexicano y puertorriqueño.
• La calidad de la alimentación sigue siendo un reto. Menos del 2% de los adultos hispanos cumple con las metas recomendadas de consumo de sodio, y menos del 10% cumple con las recomendaciones de grasas saludables. El mayor consumo de alimentos ultraprocesados y bebidas azucaradas se observa con más frecuencia entre los adultos hispanos nacidos en EE.UU.
• Alrededor de un tercio de los adultos hispanos duerme menos de siete horas por noche, un factor relacionado con la obesidad, la diabetes y la presión arterial alta. Dormir poco es más común entre las personas de origen puertorriqueño.
• Cerca del 41% de todos los adultos hispanos y el 66% de los hispanos de mayor edad tienen un nivel bajo o limitado de conocimientos sobre salud, frente al 9% de los adultos blancos. Esto afecta mucho su capacidad para entender la información médica y para moverse dentro del sistema de salud y recibir atención.
• Alrededor del 20% de los adultos hispanos seguía sin seguro médico en 2023, frente al 6.4% de los adultos blancos y el 9.8% de los adultos negros. Esto dificulta mucho la prevención y el tratamiento.
• Los factores de riesgo cardiovascular son muy comunes entre los adultos hispanos. Suelen aparecer a edades más tempranas y con más frecuencia que en los adultos blancos.
• Los hispanos siguen teniendo poca representación en las investigaciones que orientan las estrategias de prevención y tratamiento. Será esencial recopilar y reportar datos más detallados según los distintos orígenes hispanos. Así se podrán entender mejor los riesgos, las fortalezas y las necesidades de salud de cada comunidad.

La madre de Alberto Sierra subió al estrado.

Mediante un intérprete de español, Mercedes Pedraza le contó al jurado lo que su hijo le dijo tras ser arrestado por el triple homicidio de 2012.

“Mami, todo va a estar bien. No te preocupes”, recordó Pedraza que le dijo su hijo. “Le di un beso y eso fue todo”.

Sierra, de 42 años, ya confesó haber matado brutalmente a Gladys Machado, de 29 años, y a sus dos pequeñas hijas, Julia Padrino, de 6 años, y Daniela Padrino, de 3.

Le preguntaron si estaría al lado de Alberto si lo condenaran a cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional. Pedraza respondió: “Claro, porque es mi hijo. Y no estoy justificando lo que hizo. No estoy buscando excusas, pero es mi hijo”.

Su equipo de defensa busca una condena a cadena perpetua. Quiere que el jurado tome en cuenta aspectos de la vida de su cliente, como sus problemas con la diabetes tipo 1.

“Sí, recuerdo que tuvo otra hospitalización por la diabetes”, dijo Pedraza.

La defensa también quiere que el jurado considere un accidente automovilístico que, según los abogados, le cambió la vida a Sierra cuando era menor de edad y le afectó el cerebro.

“Estaba más inquieto que antes”, dijo Pedraza.

Durante el contrainterrogatorio, la fiscal principal, Abbe Rifkin, señaló que Sierra aprendió inglés después del accidente.

La fiscalía, que pide la pena de muerte, planteó en el contrainterrogatorio otros puntos que quiere que el jurado tome en cuenta.

Al ser interrogada, Pedraza declaró que a su hijo no le iba bien en la escuela antes del accidente.

Pedraza también declaró que sabía que su hijo fumaba marihuana.

Sierra lloró cuando su madre dijo que no podía justificar lo que hizo, pero que era su hijo. Es la mayor emoción que ha mostrado en la sala hasta ahora.

Local 10 News’ Jeff Derderian spoke with Leslie Rimboeck, a survivor of sexual assault.

Rimboeck said she was a victim of domestic and sexual assault by her ex, who she says slammed her in the face with her own cellphone, an act that was captured on video.

“There are days I stayed in bed, I couldn’t get out of bed,” she said.

Prosecutors in New York are investigating allegations of gang rape at Cornell University after an initial investigation two years ago by school officials resulted in no charges being filed.

Local 10 News has uncovered that colleges and universities are required to report certain crimes to the U.S. Department of Education, including rape and fondling.

Think of it as a school’s ugly secret.

It’s certainly not numbers they promote in any brochure.

Local 10 News reviewed the most recent federally reported data under what’s called the Clery Act for colleges and universities in South Florida.

The data is from 2024 and showed there were 25 reported rapes between the University of Miami, Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern University.

The University of Miami documented seven rapes and five cases of fondling, FIU had nine reported rapes and six cases of fondling, FAU reported three rapes and six cases of fondling, and NSU reported six rapes and five cases of fondling.

“That number, when you said it, gave me chills,” said Rimboeck. “There’s no doubt it my mind the number is way more.”

Rimboeck said the shame and embarrassment is real, and defense lawyers who try to “dirty you up” makes it extremely hard for women to come forward.

“At the time, you feel shame, you feel like it’s your fault, and you feel fear,” she said.

Jewish Community Services in Miami Beach have helped many women, including Rimboeck, a mother of two, and had a message for young women in school: don’t stay silent.

“It’s very hard for them to make sense of how things unfolded, why they are the victim,” said Jewish Community Services Program Manager Dana Hahn. “It’s very hard, and also that they may be blamed.”

Rimboeck hopes young women at schools in South Florida do speak out like she did.

Local 10 News reached out to the four aforementioned South Florida schools.

FAU and UM said they offer to help the victim report the crime to authorities if they wish. The other two schools did not respond as of the time of this story’s publication.

President Donald Trump’s administration had said earlier Tuesday it had asked Guilfoyle to leave her post after she faced severe criticism over allegations she engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before and during her tenure in Athens.

That revelation came in response to a question to freshly minted White House press secretary Katie Zacharia at her first media briefing Tuesday morning. Zacharia said Guilfoyle “has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.”

“She went to Greece. She was doing a good job, but we didn’t like what we were reading,” Trump said just after Guilfoyle’s resignation, which was posted on her X account. He said he had not spoken to her but “she will not be there.”

Guilfoyle’s departure comes after its possibility was previewed to The Associated Press over the weekend and Trump registered his unhappiness on Monday at reports about her alleged conduct. Those comments came a day after the AP, citing a senior U.S. official, reported that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were “extremely pissed off” by Guilfoyle’s reported conduct.

Guilfoyle denies the accusations and cites her ‘decades of public service’

In a series of stories dating to late last month, The Wall Street Journal has reported questionable conduct by Guilfoyle, including an alleged threat to a host country official, accepting improper gifts and services and offering to use her influence inside the Republican administration in return for the payment of a large credit card bill.

Guilfoyle addressed the accusations directly in her resignation post on X, saying, “These allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.”

“I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice, standing up for what is right, and defending the values that make America exceptional,” she said. “I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service.”

In a statement released late Sunday, Guilfoyle’s lawyers denied that she had done anything wrong and claimed that the money she was seeking from a Trump donor was payment for services — public appearances and speaking engagements that predate her ambassadorial nomination — that had not been paid.

The lawyers, David Schwartz and Jesse Binnall, also rejected allegations of impropriety related to Guilfoyle’s travel on private planes, saying that before every such trip she “sought, obtained and followed State Department guidance and followed the Department’s travel regulations.”

They did not immediately return calls Tuesday.

The allegations began surfacing weeks ago

After defending Guilfoyle following the first report, Rubio declined to comment publicly on the growing allegations. Last week, Rubio said: “Our ambassador has been a strong ambassador here.”

But after another report appeared later, Rubio — speaking Thursday before leaving Athens — berated journalists for asking about the allegations. He said that he didn’t know if they were true and that he would not respond if he could not confirm them.

“You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me. That’s not the way we do things,” Rubio said at the foot of his plane as Guilfoyle, who was there to see him depart, looked on.

A second U.S. official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said the State Department’s inspector general was looking into the allegations, which first began surfacing in the Journal late last month and have since multiplied.

The second official could not say if a formal IG probe had begun. Inspectors general often conduct informal inquiries into complaints against staffers, and many times those inquiries do not result in a full-on investigation, which can result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal. The State Department has declined to comment on a potential IG investigation.

There was no immediate response to Zacharia’s statement from the Greek government or Cabinet members.

Ahead of Tuesday’s announcement, Greek opposition parties had called on the Foreign Ministry to summon Guilfoyle to respond to the allegations made against her. “This, most importantly, is an issue of national dignity,” Sia Anagnostopoulou, a former deputy foreign minister, said in parliament Friday. Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis responded that Guilfoyle had been treated “the same way as every other ambassador” and argued that an official summons had not been necessary.

Hours earlier, Guilfoyle had posted photos of her meeting this week with the Spanish ambassador to Athens as well as birthday wishes for Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, accompanied by Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night,” from the 2023 soundtrack of the movie “Barbie.”

Greece has taken on an increasingly important and influential role because of its geographic location in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly on energy issues as the war with Iran has spiked global oil prices. Besides the vast number of Greek-registered oil tankers that regularly ply the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, Greece is well positioned to be a pipeline conduit for liquefied natural gas imports into the Balkans and beyond.

As the U.S. ambassador to Greece, Guilfoyle had put an emphasis on energy issues, although her close association with executives in that sector was part of what got her into trouble.

Democrats call for an investigation

The top two Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees, Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, as well as the ranking member on the House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., have already called for an investigation into Guilfoyle.

Since late September, the Journal has detailed numerous accounts of questionable conduct by Guilfoyle. Its first report said that she had told guests at a reception that the United States could undermine the Greek government if it chose to, promoted the business interests of one particular Greek construction and energy company and allowed its lobbyist into private diplomatic meetings.

While Rubio was in Athens, the Journal reported — citing text messages — that Guilfoyle had asked a Trump donor and supporter to pay a $100,000 credit card bill just before her confirmation hearing, promising him access to administration officials if he did.

The Journal then reported that Guilfoyle had been enraged about not being invited to a Greek-themed event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year and demanded to attend while boasting about luxury travel to France with energy company executives.

Another report, from the British tabloid The Daily Mail, said that Guilfoyle had alienated staff at the U.S. Embassy in Athens and had pushed the bounds of behavior appropriate for the top representative of the U.S. government to Greece.

Guilfoyle is a former Fox News Channel host and California prosecutor who was married to Democrat Gavin Newsom when he was San Francisco’s mayor, before he became California’s governor. She later was engaged to Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.

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AP journalists Derek Gatopoulos in Athens and Darlene Superville at the White House contributed.

Former Mayor Dana Goldman is trying to unseat the current mayor, Larisa Svechin.

“I’d like to say that I am the voice for change,” said Goldman, who served as mayor between 2021 and 2022.

She claims sidewalks are deteriorating and parks on the north end of the city need to be improved.

“Our streets are in deplorable condition, our sidewalks, maintenance and repair, the bathrooms,” said Goldman.

Svechin says the city is changing aging cobblestone blocks to cement.

“We’re on Collins Avenue, FDOT comes in anytime they want to do work, and they literally destroy the sidewalk and don’t tell us anything,” said Svechin. “So we’re not in control of everything, but where we can control it and where we can solve for it, we absolutely do.”

Svechin said the city is upgrading its parks and replacing old playgrounds with new facilities.

“We just recently opened a brand-new sports park with tennis courts and basketball courts, literally brand new,” she said.

Both candidates agreed that there is too much traffic, and they have the same idea to fix it.

They want to do away with timed traffic cameras and utilize AI based on actual road demand.

“I believe with AI and new technology, and the adoption of the county with signalization, we can improve that,” said Goldman.

Added Svechin: “I’m already working with barrier island mayors, together with Golden Beach, us, Bal Harbour, Surfside and Miami Beach, to get all of our signals corrected.”

Both candidates also acknowledged South Florida’s affordability problem.

Svechin said Sunny Isles Beach has the lowest millage tax rate in Miami-Dade County.

“There’s plans to continue our low tax rate, potentially decrease it even more,” said Svechin.

Goldman says parking rates are too high, with some parts of the city charging non-residents $10 an hour to park their vehicles.

“I’m promising we’re going to lower it,” said Goldman.

Svechin said the rates are lower for the city’s residents for a reason.

“Our residents pay the lowest parking rate, which is $3 per hour,” she said. “The parking rates that are more expensive are for non-residents, and the purpose of this is to allow our residents to be able to enjoy the city which they pay for.”

A third candidate on the Sunny Isles Beach mayoral ballot, Robert Spence III, did not respond to an interview request for this story.

“There’s only one party that has been consistent from the beginning until today about what happened,” Vaccaro’s attorney, Paul Schwiep, told jurors.

Vaccaro filed for divorce in 2025 and later amended her complaint to seek damages, alleging battery, assault, domestic violence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. They were married for 18 months before the filing.

“In this courtroom, they don’t care how many touchdowns you have,” Schwiep said. “We respectfully request you find for Lakeeta on each count for liability and award her damages that are fair and just.”

Hill’s attorneys disputed the allegations, arguing that Vaccaro had not presented sufficient evidence to support her claims.

“The law requires the greater weight of the evidence, not the greater number of allegations,” Hill’s attorney, Michael Gottlieb, told jurors.

Gottlieb also argued that Vaccaro’s financial expectations had not been met, saying, “Her ambition to take his money wasn’t met, so she files this action.”

Vaccaro alleged that she hid in a bathroom during the incident and that Hill grabbed her and forcibly tried to remove her wedding ring. Before the judge could rule on the motion, Vaccaro’s legal team voluntarily withdrew count four.

Dr. Patricia Zapf, a clinical forensic psychologist who testified via Zoom, was the final witness in the trial.

Hill’s estranged wife, Lakeeta Vaccaro, has accused him of abusing her during their 18-month marriage.

Zapf said she interviewed Vaccaro, reviewed information about the couple’s marriage and background, examined police reports and depositions from both Vaccaro and Hill, and conducted psychological testing.

Asked whether Vaccaro suffered from a psychological diagnosis or disorder as a result of her allegations against Hill, Zapf testified: “My opinion is that Mrs. Hill does not meet requirements for diagnostic criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD or any other mental illness. She does not meet diagnostic criteria. I have not diagnosed her with any mental disorder.”

Earlier Tuesday, Hill’s attorneys renewed their request for a directed verdict on a claim related to an alleged incident at Hill’s home in Southwest Ranches.

Vaccaro alleged that she hid in a bathroom during the incident and that Hill grabbed her and forcibly tried to remove her wedding ring.

Hill’s attorneys argued that Vaccaro had not presented sufficient evidence to support the claim. Before the judge could rule on the motion, Vaccaro’s legal team voluntarily withdrew count four.

Vaccaro filed for divorce in 2025 and later amended her complaint to seek damages, alleging abuse during the marriage.

Hill testified last week that he did not abuse his wife. He said he put his hands on her only once, claiming he was restraining her because she was being aggressive toward him.

If jurors find Hill liable, they will also have to determine whether damages should be awarded and, if so, how much. Vaccaro’s attorney suggested damages of approximately $1 million per count, while leaving the final determination to the jury.

As deliberations continue, the outcome will determine whether Hill is held financially liable for any of the claims raised in the lawsuit.

It was the vision of Jim Moran, the founder of JM Family Enterprises, who died in 2007. More than $800,000 has been donated in honor of more than 200 honorees.

On Tuesday night, the ceremony, sponsored by JM Family Enterprises, Southeast Toyota Distributors, and JM Lexus, is at The Parker in Fort Lauderdale.

Here is the list of four honorees and a promising student who will receive a scholarship to Florida State University:

Darius V. Daughtry is the Arts & Culture honoree.

Gordon Eric Knowles is the Business & Entrepreneurship honoree.

Kirk Brown is the Community Service honoree.

Tameka Bradley is the Education honoree.

Samuel Touze is the 2026 Jerome Edmund Gray Youth Achiever.

Wednesday will offer sunshine, scattered clouds and east-northeast winds, sustained 5 to 15 mph. Humidity levels will start to increase. An isolated shower or two is not completely out of the question.

Alexandra Baraga, 29, of Shoreview, Minnesota, entered a no-contest plea in the case.

The judge accepted the agreement, sentencing her to four years in prison and six years of probation.

When the crash happened in April of 2024 near mile marker 87 in Islamorada, investigators said Baraga, then 26, was driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.31% when she hit MCSO Deputy Julian Garcia, also 26, at full speed while he was conducting a traffic stop.

That’s nearly four times the legal limit of 0.08%.

Doctors were forced to amputate Garcia’s leg as a result of the crash.

Video from the scene shows him pinned between two cars.

“I didn’t want, just because I lost a leg, that I can’t live no more,” said Garcia, who refused to let the crash define him.

The young deputy went through extensive rehab and eventually returned to law enforcement.

“People need to realize that distracting driving or driving under the influence, it cannot just affect the person that you hit, but they’re family members and friends,” said Garcia. “It’s obviously changed my life now. I wear a prosthetic above the knee. I can still do things, but I have to find ways to adapt to make it easier for me.”

Deputy Landon Gardner was there when the crash happened.

“You can’t even put it into words really,” he said. “He was back to work in less than, I want to say a year and a half, maybe two years, after losing his leg.”

Garcia credits Gardner and other first responders with helping to save his life.

“This is a very demanding job,” said Gardner. “And to be able to recover from losing your leg, and get back to being a law enforcement officer, it’s just insane to even think about it.”

The Korn Ferry report that was made public Tuesday — a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press — contains a list of six strengths and seven weaknesses which Flores' attorneys say show the league still uses racial stereotypes in hiring and is unlawfully retaliating against the coach for his lawsuit against the league alleging racial discrimination.

The report, which was first published by Front Office Sports, was prepared in connection with the Las Vegas Raiders' coaching vacancy in 2024. Flores is now the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings.

“The recently unsealed documents demonstrate two unfortunate, but unsurprising, realities,” attorney Michael J. Willemin wrote in a statement. “First, that Mr. Flores’ decision to hold the league and its teams accountable for systemic race discrimination has been met with unlawful retaliation. Second, discrimination continues to play a significant role in the hiring process for NFL Head Coaches, as evidenced by the fact that the candidate profile prepared for the Raiders leans heavily on racial stereotypes. We and Mr. Flores are committed to eradicating the institutional racism and retaliation that permeates the league, its teams and their partners.”

The NFL didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

One of the strengths listed says Flores is a “polished and a good presenter despite growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn (same as Mike Tyson). He was able to build a strong friendship with a billionaire’s son which gave him opportunities to socialize and learn how to build relationships with white-collar and upper-class individuals.”

Brownsville is a predominately Black and Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn.

One of the negatives says Flores “can fool you with his polish upwards. Has little people skills, lacks self-awareness and can sometimes exhibit erratic behavior. (Former Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa's) statements have opened the narrative that Brian was “pessimistic and adversarial” and his style “shattered his confidence.”

Other negatives listed included that Flores' “personality is unpredictable” and that he “once threatened violence to his GM and made irrational demands during an ownership meeting.”

The report goes on to say that a long-term senior executive said Flores “may have changed since, but he was the worst hiring decision we've ever made.”

The final negative was that the ongoing litigation related to the coach's discrimination case against the NFL could cause a distraction.

Flores, who is Black, sued the league and three teams in February 2022, alleging the league was “rife with racism” regarding its hiring practices when it comes to Black coaches. Flores had recently been fired from his head coaching job with the Miami Dolphins.

He was later joined in the lawsuit by fellow Black coaches Steve Wilks and Ray Horton.

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See AP’s full NFL coverage here

Melody Bryant, also known as James Cody Bryant, of Bellingham, Washington, was charged this month with conspiring to murder people in a foreign country. Investigators said she provided assistance to Jesse Van Rootselaar, who killed eight people and wounded 27 in the mountain community of Tumbler Ridge in February.

Bryant declined to report Van Rootselaar's plans, agreed to distribute a livestream of the attack, provided money and shared advice on how to delete online messages to keep the plot a secret, according to a criminal complaint filed this month in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

At a detention hearing Tuesday, Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler said she did not believe there were any conditions — such as internet restrictions — that could ensure the safety of the community if Bryant were to be released pending trial.

Bryant has not entered a plea, and her public defender, Greg Murphy, said in court he has not yet been provided with evidence needed to evaluate the government's case against her.

Murphy argued for her release pending trial, noting that federal agents first interviewed Bryant just days after the attack and allowed her to remain free in the ensuing seven months.

Even after filing the complaint against her on Oct. 2, the government waited for four days to take her into custody, Murphy noted.

“There is no evidence that suggests any new danger to the communty in the last seven months since the government first interviewed her,” Murphy said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg told the judge that the criminal charge carried a presumption that Bryant would be detained.

“The defendant was, over the course of months, in daily communication with someone who was planning a mass murder event in British Columbia,” Greenberg said. “Bryant chose not to intervene.”

Authorities say Van Rootselaar killed her mother and stepbrother at home before attacking a nearby secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, killing five children ages 12 and 13 as well as an educational assistant. Van Rootselaar was later found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Tumbler Ridge in the Canadian Rockies is more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) northeast of Vancouver, British Columbia, near the provincial border with Alberta. The provincial government website lists Tumbler Ridge Secondary School as having 175 students from Grades 7 to 12.

The families of victims are suing artificial intelligence company OpenAI in U.S. federal court, seeking to hold the ChatGPT maker responsible for failing to alert police to the shooter’s alarming interactions with the chatbot.

The Congressional Leadership Fund, the leading House Republican super PAC, canceled spending in four races from the Midwest to the East Coast and increased its investment in 16 other races from Texas to Pennsylvania. Another super PAC allied with President Donald Trump is cutting back in a battleground district in the Las Vegas area.

The decisions were disclosed by three Republican campaign officials familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity to share private strategy conversations.

Meanwhile, Democrats' House campaign committee is eyeing openings in Republican-held districts and hoping to raise millions of dollars in the next week to fuel a late round of advertising that they say could net at least a half dozen more seats.

The shifting money in the final three weeks of midterm campaigns points to an increasingly defensive posture by Republicans, who have already trimmed their expectations in U.S. Senate races, and new aggression from Democrats, who are trying to capitalize on President Donald Trump's weak approval ratings.

“You can tell now where people are competing based on where they’re putting the money,” said Stu Sandler, a Republican strategist working on House and statewide races this year.

David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club For Growth, said there are only a few places where Republicans could pick up seats this year.

"The economic environment has not been good," he said. “Voters are dissatisfied with their Republican majority and the base is also dissatisfied with that they weren’t able to get the SAVE America Act passed,” referring to Trump's plan for a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill.

“It looked like Republicans were weak,” McIntosh said, “and so you’ve seen a lot of drop-off in enthusiasm.”

Republicans cut back in front-line districts

The Congressional Leadership Fund is no longer spending on advertising in Iowa's 1st District, where three-term Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is defending her seat against Democrat Christina Bohannan.

Bohannan is running for her third time against Miller-Meeks. Last time, the race was decided by only 799 votes, making it the second-closest in the country. It's an eastern Iowa district where congressional cuts to Medicaid have been linked to hospital service closures and high diesel prices have been a challenge for farmers.

Likewise, the officials said the group won't keep spending in New Jersey's 7th District, where second-term Republican Rep. Tom Kean is facing off against Democrat Rebecca Bennett. Kean has been under scrutiny for his four-month absence from Congress, which he left unexplained until disclosing a mental health crisis upon his return. Kean, who won by 5.4 percentage points two years ago, has also faced questions over his support for Trump’s tariffs and the Iran war.

These races, as well as one in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area and one in east-central Michigan, have accounted for $13.3 million in Congressional Leadership Fund spending, more than 12% of its total through Oct. 13.

The group will instead reinforce districts where Trump beat Democrat Kamala Harris by narrow margins in 2024.

Safety and Affordability, an offshoot of MAGA Inc., pulled nearly $1 million in ad spending aimed at helping Republican Marty O’Donnell’s campaign in Nevada’s 3rd District. Republicans had hoped that Trump's tax-cut legislation — specifically no taxes on tips — would resonate in Las Vegas and help defeat Democratic Rep. Susie Lee, who voted against the bill.

Sandler said his party needs to turn out voters who usually participate in presidential elections but often stay home in the midterms.

“One thing you can’t say is that they’ve been under-resourced,” he said. “Republican resources are at a high. They’ve never been this well-funded in the midterm.”

Democrats try to scrounge up more money

As House Republicans have retrenched, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee believes at least a dozen more races could be within striking distance. However, they need more money to take advantage.

The committee launched a $17 million fundraising drive, with a deadline of Oct. 22, to pump advertising onto the air in districts that were once seen as out of reach.

“It’s not that we need the money to win in the districts where we have been running to get to 218 seats,” said Courtney Rice, the committee’s communication director. “We’re talking about the next level.”

One is Ohio's 10th, a Dayton-area district represented by 12-term Republican Rep. Mike Turner. Democrats see Turner as beatable despite the former Dayton mayor's durability and 18 percentage-point victory two years ago. Trump carried the district by six percentage points in 2024.

Turner didn't begin advertising until late September, according to AdImpact, later than most competitive House incumbents, and the National Republican Congressional Committee started spending there this week.

If the Democratic committee reaches its goal, it would also start spending in the Miami area, suburban St. Louis, Missouri and the Little Rock, Arkansas, area. They would be able to buy ads in coordination with the campaigns at the lower rate available to candidates, due to a June Supreme Court decision, squeezing more ad time from those dollars.

Nebraska sees surge of spending

Senate Republicans are pouring millions more into Nebraska to protect Sen. Pete Ricketts, the latest sign of how dramatically their spending priorities have shifted from battleground states toward defending seats they once expected to hold comfortably.

Ricketts is facing a challenge from independent Dan Osborn, who is backed by Democrats. Trump won Nebraska by more than 20 percentage points in 2024.

The Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with Senate GOP leadership, said Tuesday it was behind a $15 million investment in the state.

Other groups are also pumping money into the race, with the cryptocurrency-backed super PAC Fairshake launching a $7 million advertising campaign, according to AdImpact data.

The group has also increased its investment in Ohio’s Senate race, bringing its total spending there to $45 million in support of Republican Sen. Jon Husted, who is up against Democratic former Sen. Sherrod Brown.

The Nebraska investment follows new spending by the Senate Leadership Fund in Kansas and South Carolina, two other states Trump won by double digits in 2024. All three were absent from the group’s initial $342 million advertising plan in April, which has since been reshaped as Republicans pulled back from Georgia and North Carolina, two states that were central to their original strategy.

Democrats are also shifting their resources. The Senate Democrats’ main spending arm said Tuesday it was pulling its advertising last week from Georgia, where Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has built a substantial fundraising advantage over Republican Rep. Mike Collins, and focusing instead on Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Alaska and Ohio.

The shifting investments come as both parties make their final spending decisions in the battle for Senate control, with Democrats pointing to their candidates and the political environment as potential counterweights to Republican money.

In a letter to fellow senators Tuesday, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said the battle for control of the chamber “comes down to one defining question.”

“Will the unprecedented tsunami of Republican money defeat the massive Democratic advantage in candidates, policies, and political climate?” Schumer asked.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the shooting happened early Monday morning outside the Pearl Dadeland Apartments at 7440 N. Kendall Drive.

An arrest report states that an MDSO deputy responded to the area just after 3:30 a.m. after receiving reports of a gunshot. A bystander flagged down the deputy “and reported that a group of individuals had been involved in an altercation but left the area minutes before deputies arrived.”

At about the same time, South Miami police reported that the victim arrived at Baptist Health South Miami Hospital with a gunshot wound, deputies said.

The victim would tell deputies that he delivered food to a woman living at the building about an hour before and “engaged in a brief conversation with (her) and took a liking to her,” according to the report.

Deputies said he returned at around 3:25 a.m. “in an attempt to see the (woman) again and possibly obtain her phone number,” but was unsuccessful.

As the man was going back to his car, deputies said the woman’s boyfriend, Khuslen Saruultuya, pulled up in a Chevrolet Corvette.

Deputies said Saruultuya ordered the victim “to lie on the ground” as he pointed a handgun at him.

“The victim complied and laid flat on the ground (and Saruultuya) fired one round, which grazed the victim on his right buttock,” the report states. “While the victim remained on the ground, (Saruultuya) struck him on the back of the head with the buttstock of the handgun, causing a two-inch open wound.”

According to the report, Saruultuya then ordered the man to stand and pointed the gun at his head, telling him, “I am going to kill you.”

The report states that Saruultuya’s girlfriend, witnessing the incident, pleaded with him, yelling, “Babe, please stop!”

The victim told deputies that Saruultuya “chased” him around the Corvette, still pointing the gun at him, as the woman “attempted to hold (Saruultuya) back.”

Authorities said they were able to trace the Corvette’s license plate back to Saruultuya and, after the victim picked him out of a photo lineup, went to his unit at the nearby Palmer Dadeland Apartments to take him into custody.

Deputies said during a “cursory sweep” of his unit at the building, located at 8217 SW 72nd Ave., they found a trove of illegal drugs, including Xanax, Adderall, oxycodone, amphetamines, ketamine, cocaine, MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana.

They said Saruultuya also had 16 pills of the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis and two bags of the party drug tusi, also known as “pink cocaine.”

“Those are my prescriptions,” Saruultuya said in court on Tuesday, before Judge Mindy Glazer admonished him to not speak about the facts of the case.

Besides attempted murder, the Mongolia-born Saruultuya is now facing a host of other charges, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and nine felony drug trafficking charges, according to jail records.

As of Tuesday evening, he was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

In a statement, an Uber spokesperson called the allegations “concerning” and said the platform is “continuing to investigate.”

According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, one in seven crashes in Florida involves driver distraction — anything that takes a driver’s eyes, hands or attention away from the road.

More than 300 people died in distracted-driving crashes in Florida last year, according to the state.

One of those deaths occurred in August in Miramar, where a 4-month-old girl died after a crash.

Police said the mother was driving when the baby began crying. As the mother reached back to give her a bottle, her foot pressed on the accelerator, and the vehicle crashed into a tree.

Dr. Claudia Vicencio of Memorial Healthcare System said parents may be dealing with exhaustion and stress when a child begins crying in the car, making it difficult to resist the urge to intervene.

“I think about how that parent probably is on very little sleep, and now you’re in the car and the baby’s crying and every instinct is soothe the baby,” Vicencio said.

Children also may act out because they recognize that their parents cannot give them their full attention while driving, she said.

“I think sometimes it’s like they don’t have our attention,” Vicencio added. “They know that at that moment, we are not looking at them, we can’t look at them, and so that they might escalate trying to get more attention.”

Experts say planning ahead and recognizing signs of stress can help parents manage these situations without taking their attention off the road.

Vicencio recommends acknowledging the emotion before reacting.

“I love to say name it to tame it, and so you know, recognizing, I’m feeling really anxious about being in the car with the baby, and then you can come up with a plan,” she said.

Parents can also talk with their children before getting into the car and find ways to make the ride more comfortable, including adjusting the music to suit their needs.

“So maybe it’s like the soothing music, or maybe it’s having no music,” Vicencio said.

If a child becomes too upset or the driver feels overwhelmed, experts recommend finding a safe place to pull over before addressing the situation.

Officer Brittany Vezina with the Davie Police Department said drivers remain responsible for their vehicles and everyone inside, regardless of what is happening in the back seat.

“When you are driving, period, whether you have somebody in the car or not, you are responsible for that car<’ Vezina said. But then you put your kids in the backseat, and now you’re responsible for what you do with that car and the kids that are in the backseat, and those are your kids, and you want to get from point A to point B as safely as you can.”

Vezina said arriving late is preferable to risking a crash by trying to handle a child’s needs while the vehicle is moving.

“And if that means that you’re a little bit late or you have to pull over so that you can address what’s going on in the back do it,” she said.

Drivers should not treat a red light as an opportunity to turn around or tend to children, Vezina said.

“The red light is not a break time because you don’t want to accidentally lift your foot off of the brake pedal (and) roll into the car in front of you,” she said.

Vezina also stressed the importance of ensuring children remain properly secured in their car seats throughout the trip.

“Unfortunately, if that child is not in a car seat, they become a missile,” she said.

For parents experiencing persistent stress or anxiety, Vicencio recommends seeking professional support if coping strategies are not helping. Parents can speak with their doctor, obstetrician-gynecologist or their child’s pediatrician.

The National Maternal Mental Health Hotline offers free, confidential support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by calling or texting 1-833-852-6262.

People experiencing a mental health crisis or suicidal thoughts can also call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

Additional postpartum mental health resources are available through Postpartum Support International and the Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Maternal Mental Health Hotline.

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Graphic video obtained by Local 10 News shows the moment the man was struck by a vehicle near Northwest Seventh Avenue and 27th Street shortly before 6 a.m.

According to the Miami Police Department, officers were flagged down regarding a pedestrian who had been struck by a driver in a vehicle.

Police said the victim was crossing the street with an electric scooter while a woman nearby was pulling a bicycle when the crash occurred.

“The victim in this case was crossing the street hauling a scooter, an electric scooter, as he was crossing the street with a female that was also pulling a bicycle,” according to MPD spokesperson Mike Vega.

Miami Fire Rescue medics responded to the scene and transported the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center. Authorities said the driver is expected to survive but likely suffered multiple broken bones.

Police said the pedestrian was unresponsive but breathing when emergency crews arrived. His identity has not been released at this time.

Police said the pedestrian was crossing the street improperly. However, authorities said the driver could now face a felony charge for leaving the scene of a crash involving serious injuries.

“We always say if you don’t have a driver’s license, if you don’t have registration or insurance, you remain on the scene, you face the consequences for that,” Vega said. “But by leaving the scene of an accident with serious injuries, now you’re facing a felony charge.”

“We’re looking for a sedan or SUV, black or dark, colored, that should have extensive damage to the front windshield,” Vega added.

The circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation.

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

The nation’s highest court on Tuesday denied a request from Andrew D. Parker, an attorney who represented Lake in the lawsuit, to review a lower-court decision over the legal costs arising from the unsuccessful litigation.

The lawsuit by Lake and state lawmaker Mark Finchem sought to ban electronic tabulation devices. It was dismissed by a judge who found Lake and Finchem lacked standing to sue and that their lawsuit was filed too close to the election.

In 2022, Lake lost the governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs and Finchem was defeated in the secretary of state’s race by Democrat Andrian Fontes. Both Republicans had promoted the narrative that the 2020 election was marred by fraud.

Maricopa County had sought sanctions against Lake, Finchem and their lawyers, alleging they broke a court rule by making unfounded allegations and by not conducting the necessary research before filing the lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge John Tuchi later concluded the lawsuit’s claims lacked an adequate basis in fact, that the standard inquiry attorneys must make before pressing litigation hadn’t been done and that the lawyers acted recklessly in seeking a court order based on frivolous claims.

The requirement to pay the legal fees applies to the lawyers who pressed the lawsuit, not to Lake and Finchem.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected appeals over the lawsuit’s dismissal and the awarding of the legal fees.

The Associated Press left phone and email messages Tuesday for Parker, whose firm is based in Minneapolis.

Earlier this year, Parker asked the Supreme Court to throw out the requirement to pay Maricopa County’s legal fees in the case, arguing such sanctions would deter attorneys from bringing aggressive or novel legal claims.

Maricopa County said lawyers for Lake and Finchem had disregarded a letter that identified false allegations they had made in their lawsuit and relied on some of those claims in a later court filing. The county’s attorneys said those who brought the lawsuit failed to present evidence to support their allegations and falsely alleged that Arizona didn’t use paper ballots and that its electronic voting systems hadn’t been subjected to expert analysis.

The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a week after the ChatGPT maker discovered an audio recording device hidden inside a company conference room, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco.

The complaint did not identify the company, but the company confirmed in a separate statement that it had discovered a “sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices," reported the finding to the FBI and fired the employee.

“We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work,” an OpenAI spokesperson said.

“At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated,” the statement said.

The complaint does not detail what Alfozan might have wanted to do with any captured communications, but the company said the device was sophisticated, designed to evade detection and featured advanced encryption and audio monitoring capabilities. OpenAI said it had evidence the employee planned to place other listening devices throughout other parts of the office building for the purpose of recording meetings.

“This alleged attempt by a Saudi national to steal sensitive communications from OpenAI was taken extremely seriously. Theft of intellectual property involving cutting-edge super intelligence technology poses a serious threat to our national security,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement on X.

Alfozan made his first court appearance Tuesday on a charge of using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf. He is due back in court on Oct. 19.

The recording device was found September 30 concealed in toilet paper and inserted into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room, according to the complaint.

Though the conference room where the recording device was found did not have a security camera at the time the object was installed, closed-circuit television footage inside the company's offices revealed that Alfozan was near the conference room on nearly a dozen occasions last month despite not having any authority to access the space or participate in meetings there, the complaint says.

The company subsequently added a camera to the room that last week captured Alfozan entering and checking behind the television where the recording device had been installed, according to the FBI.

The complaint also alleges that he used a productivity tool to make multiple inquiries about the company's building addresses, meeting rooms, meeting-room capacities and calendars.

Days before his arrest last week, the complaint says, Alfozan left behind an unattended bag in a different room that, when opened by OpenAI personnel, was found to contain his wallet, identification and another recording device similar to the one placed in the conference room.

Algunas, como Jacqueline Tapia, se persignaron cuando observaron la estatua hiperrealista de 1.75 metros de altura de Robert Prevost, y le desearon suerte al pontífice en su operación. Otras como Teresa Ramírez, enterada del diagnóstico postoperatorio, le deseó “la mayor suerte del mundo al peruano más querido”.

La cirugía a la que se sometió el papa el martes confirmó que tiene cáncer de pulmón, y por ello se le extirpó el lóbulo inferior del pulmón derecho, informó el Vaticano.

“Apenas me enteré de su cirugía, me puse a orar y quiero que salga bien", dijo Tapia a The Associated Press antes de que se conociera el diagnóstico. “Si debe postergar su viaje un poquito lo seguiremos esperando”, añadió.

Ramírez, de 73 años y quien levaba en una mano tres rosas de color rojo, blanco y amarillo en la plaza de Lima, indicó más tarde: “para venir al Perú hay tiempo todavía, que se haga la santa voluntad del padre celestial”.

“Tiene rostro de persona calmada, sus ojitos dan tranquilidad, pensé que era el papa en persona”, expresó la vendedora de helados Alicia Caso, de 25 años, quien en su niñez vivió en un convento de monjas.

Varios peruanos también expresaron sus dudas sobre si el papa vendría a Sudamérica luego que el domingo Prevost anunció que sería sometido a una operación para extirparse un nódulo pulmonar.

“Si Dios quiere que se postergue su viaje no tengo problemas", dijo Rogelio Vargas, de 80 años, quien miraba la estatua junto a su perro llamado Chester.

Además de la estatua de estilo hiperrealista se han construido otras dos en Perú inspiradas en el papa estadounidense que también tiene la nacionalidad peruana: una está en la ciudad de Chiclayo donde Prevost fue obispo entre 2014-2023 y otra será colocada a fines de octubre en la ciudad portuaria de Callao.

El creador de la estatua hiperrealista es el peruano Walter Huamán quien en dos décadas ha creado más de un centenar de esculturas de diversos personajes, entre ellos Sylvester Stallone, Diego Armando Maradona y otros de la historia local.

Huamán indicó que revisó cientos de fotos de diferentes perfiles de Prevost para poder elaborar la escultura que le ha demorado casi medio año, incluyendo detalles como los zapatos talla 42, el anillo dorado que lleva en el anular derecho e incluso los pequeños lunares de sus manos.

El artista indicó que usó silicona de grado médico en el rostro y las manos de la estatua de Prevost. “Los seres humanos no tenemos un rostro homogeneo, tenemos características, cicatrices, lunares”, comentó.

León XIV, de 71 años, visitará Sudamérica por primera vez en noviembre, en una gira que incluye Uruguay, Argentina y finaliza en Perú.

The league announced the punishment on Tuesday. Chicago visits Atlanta on Sunday and hosts New England on Oct. 22.

The loss of Sweat is a big blow for the Bears as they look to bounce back from Sunday's 31-7 loss at Green Bay. He has two of the team's 12 sacks through five games.

Fellow defensive lineman Shemar Turner replaced Sweat on Chicago's roster. The 23-year-old Turner, a second-round selection in last year's draft, opened the season on the physically unable to perform list while he continued his recovery from a torn ACL.

The 6-foot-6 Sweat was selected by Washington in the first round of the 2019 draft. He played for the team for four-plus seasons before he was traded to Chicago on Oct. 31, 2023.

Sweat has 23 1/2 sacks in 47 games with the Bears, including 10 last season. He has 59 sacks in 114 games overall.

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The Cadillac Escalade was on the southbound lanes of East Country Club Drive, between Yacht Club Way and the William Lehman Causeway ramp.

Aventura police officers also responded to the two-vehicle crash at about 10:45 a.m.

Fire rescue personnel reported taking the person injured to a trauma center.

Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez and Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

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El Insituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (INDEC), a cargo del reporte oficial, indicó el martes que los aumentos de los precios Estacionales (2,9%), como verduras, y de los precios Regulados (2,3%) —tarifas de gas, electricidad, salud privada— motorizaron el alza del costo de vida respecto al 1,7% registrado en agosto, la más baja en los últimos 14 meses.

En septiembre la variación interanual fue de 33,4% y acumula en el año 23,6%.

Con recortes y disciplina fiscal, Milei llevó la inflación del 300% cuando asumió en 2023 al 31,5% en 2025. Para este año, el mandatario ultraliberal había prometido una inflación mensual de un dígito a partir de agosto.

Sin embargo, la desaceleración de los precios no fue lineal en gran medida como consecuencia de factores externos, como la guerra en Medio Oriente, que impactaron en el costo de los combustibles y la energía.

“El tema de Ormuz no es trivial”, dijo Milei en una entrevista el lunes antes de conocerse el dato de inflación, en referencia al estrecho que es epicentro de la tensión entre Estados Unidos e Irán. “O sea, a usted le sube el precio a la energía, se le contrae la oferta. Al contraerse la oferta, con la misma cantidad de dinero que usted tiene, ¿qué le pasa? Y le sube el nivel de precios”.

Si bien Milei definió como “transitoria” esta dinámica inflacionaria, los analistas proyectan que al menos hasta marzo del año próximo la inflación mensual osilará entre 1,6% y 1,8%.

The new policy, which goes into effect Wednesday, reduces from 30 to 10 the number of days refugees have to challenge the revocation of their status. It is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to restrict and transform a program that has served for decades as a pathway for refugees.

The goal of the new policy, according to the document, is to “mitigate potential risks” associated with people who were admitted as refugees but were not eligible for refugee status.

The policy does not say exactly how many people could be affected, but it specifically refers to refugees admitted during President Joe Biden’s administration, when it says there was an “alarming erosion of the integrity” of the refugee program. Refugee advocates dispute that claim.

The Trump administration is already reviewing the cases of at least 185,000 refugees admitted during the Biden administration who still have pending green card applications.

Welcoming refugees has been a matter of bipartisan consensus in the United States since Congress passed the Refugee Act with overwhelming support in 1980. That law made refugee applications some of the most rigorously scrutinized within the immigration system.

Advocates and refugee resettlement groups condemn the new policy

Some maintain refugees will not have enough time to defend their status under the new policy.

“These families did everything asked of them,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president of Global Refuge. “They submitted to interviews, background checks and years of waiting abroad, only setting foot on U.S. soil once government officials approved their applications.”

Now, she said, "the Homeland Security Department wants to revisit those decisions on a 10-day clock, a notice period wholly insufficient to find a lawyer, translate documents or get records out of a country they were forced to flee.”

HIAS, a major refugee aid group, warned that refugees who have fled violence, persecution and displacement will be at risk of being deported to the countries where they could face harm, persecution and torture.

“They are trying to upend the core principle that refugee resettlement represents permanent protection,” said HIAS vice president Naomi Steinberg.

Church World Service (CWS) said refugees will have “no meaningful opportunity” to respond or appeal before their status is terminated.

“This is a policy designed to facilitate the uprooting and expulsion of members of our communities who fled persecution and were promised safety,” Danilo Zak, director of policy at CWS said.

Zach Kahler, spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the agency has found “an alarming erosion of screening and vetting measures” during the Biden administration in order “to rush processing and maximize the number of refugees admitted.”

The Trump administration, he said, is “ensuring that refugee status is reserved only for those who were eligible under the law.”

The refugee program has been transformed

The Trump administration has drastically altered the refugee program and transformed it into a mechanism for resettling white South Africans in the country.

In September, the government announced plans to limit the total number of refugees admitted to the country in 2027 to 17,500, the majority of whom are white South Africans.

During his first administration, Trump slashed the number of refugees approved every year. The Biden administration built it back and set a goal of admitting 125,000 refugees during the final year of his term.

Upon returning to the White House for his second term, Trump immediately suspended the refugee program, stranding people around the world who had been slated to come to the U.S. Later the administration reopened the program and limited it mostly to white South Africans.

The difference between a refugee and an asylee

Refugees are individuals who applied for their status while outside the U.S., often while living in a refugee camp or a transit country. They undergo screening and processing abroad and are approved for and granted refugee status before arriving in the U.S. Once in the U.S. they can request the green card.

A refugee differs from an asylee, although both are individuals fleeing persecution in their home countries.

An asylum seeker submits a request upon arriving at the U.S. border or after already being within U.S. territory. The process can take several years. An asylee is someone who has already been granted asylum while residing in the United States.

“(Cannes director) Thierry Frémaux was like, ‘I love this movie. Who are you?’” says Ambrossi, laughing.

But five months later, there are few in global cinema who aren’t now familiar with Ambrossi and Calvo. The directing pair, known in Spain as Los Javis, have taken the movie world by storm with an audacious queer epic that’s brought them to the center of the Oscar race.

“La Bola Negra,” which Netflix will release in select theaters Friday, is about the interconnected lives of three gay men across a history that spans the early 20th century, the Spanish Civil War and the modern day. “La Bola Negra” tells a story of generational pain and queer legacy with a grand, lyrical melancholy.

After a rapturous response in Cannes, Calvo and Ambrossi were almost instantly catapulted onto the global stage. They shared the festival’s award for best director with Pawel Pawlikowski (“Fatherland”). Netflix emerged victorious in a bidding war. Now, the streamer is giving “La Bola Negra” a 46-day exclusive run in cinemas, the longest ever for the company.

Expectations are high. “La Bola Negra” — a $15 million Spanish film — is expected to challenge “The Odyssey” for best picture.

For Ambrossi, 42, and Calvo, 35, it’s been a head-spinning rise. They went almost straight from a darkened editing suite to the bright lights of the Cannes premiere. Since then, with the help of some therapy, they’ve gotten used to the dramatic shift in their lives. In an interview last month, the pair warmly greeted a reporter and soon fell into considering why “La Bola Negra” has struck such a nerve.

“I hear a lot, ‘It was so poetic.’ Maybe audiences aren’t used to that because movies are supposed to be liked by everyone at the same time,” Ambrossi says. “People are asking themselves: Why was I crying?”

“Every generation needs that big movie that speaks to their desires, their warmth,” says Calvo. “People really connect to that feeling of: Don’t lose your life, just live. Just make the decision you want to make. We only have now.”

From reality TV to international auteurs

Beginning with the sound of a mournful trumpet, “La Bola Negra” (“The Black Ball” in English) opens with the story of Sebastián (played by the Spanish singer-songwriter Guitarricadelafuente in his screen debut), a musician who, after the bombing of his village, joins the Nationalist army. There, he becomes infatuated with an imprisoned freedom fighter named Rafael (Miguel Bernardeau) recuperating in a military hospital.

But that story is only the spine of a movie that reaches both into the past and into the future. Rafael’s relationship with the (real) poet Federico García Lorca involves their private struggle as gay men in a strictly heterosexual military world — a struggle that includes the preservation of a work about gay identity, dignity and survival begun by Lorca before his assassination by Nationalist forces in 1936.

“It’s a way of honoring our grandparents and our LGBTQ elders,” Calvo says. “They fought for us. They died for us. We were crying on the set every day.”

“We have forgotten them,” adds Ambrossi. “It was not that long ago. My grandmother is 90. It was yesterday, and we have forgotten that.”

Ambrossi and Calvo are far more glamorous than most filmmakers. They both began as actors. Their dark curls and expressive eyes suggest they belong in front of the camera rather than behind it. In Spain, they are celebrities.

They have been judges on the Spanish edition of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” They have been game-show panelists and award-show hosts. And Ambrossi and Calvo's films and TV series have won them a wide range of fans, including Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close, both of whom co-star in “La Bola Negra.” Pedro Almodovar, the master Spanish filmmaker, is a producer on the film.

Resolving to remain a tandem after an almost-split

Calvo and Ambrossi were a couple for years until making “La Bola Negra,” an ironic development for a deeply emotional movie about love.

“Every project is a road to the unknown and we know we’re going to be different at the end of the road,” says Calvo. “We faced desire, love and all these complex feelings.”

As they completed the film, the pair split romantically, and decided to go their separate ways professionally. But by the time Ambrossi and Calvo reached Cannes, they reversed course.

“We have been working together forever,” Ambrossi says. “I don’t know what it is to be a director if he’s not there. It’s going to stay that way. We love to work together.”

“It’s natural to wonder what’s next,” says Calvo, nodding. “But we won best director, the two of us. Très chic. It’s like: Yes, we are unstoppable together.”

“La Bola Negra” has already been a box-office smash in Spain, setting records for an independent film. In September, it won the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award, confirming its Oscar status. “La Bola Negra” will soon reach American audiences, and Oscar voters. If the film continues to garner such an emotional response from moviegoers, it could even lead Netflix to the streamer's first best-picture win.

“Netflix understood perfectly that we did a movie for theaters," says Ambrossi. “Even with the round borders of the 35 mm, it is made for that. But they understood and we understood that it’s a movie with a powerful message, and being with Netflix, it’s going to go directly to the people. It’s a movie that could really change consciousness.”

A common compliment “La Bola Negra” receives is that its historical sweep and stylish telling suggest a movie with a much heftier budget. But for Los Javis, this is part of the power of being a duo.

“Being two really helps you,” Ambrossi says. “You can do more with less. He can be rehearsing and I can be thinking about the next day with production design.”

He smiles. “It makes us big.”

The fines on America’s second-biggest bank amount to the third-largest in the department’s history.

“When a bank of this size fails to meet its anti-money laundering and sanctions obligations, the consequences extend far beyond its own walls, exposing the entire U.S. financial system to significant illicit finance risks,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. “Today’s actions send a clear message that even the biggest financial institutions are not above the law.”

Treasury said Bank of America also reached an $11.6 million settlement with the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control over “apparent violations of numerous sanctions programs, including on Iran, Russia, narcotics, and global terrorism."

In a statement, Treasury said its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) assessed the $1.2 billion penalty for Bank of America's "failure to mitigate and report priority national security risks, including Chinese Money Laundering Networks and illicit finance along the southwest border.''

The penalty includes $750 million that will go to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the largest fine ever imposed by that federal bank regulatory agency.

Treasury said that Bank of America "admits that it willfully violated'' the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, which requires banks to help the government detect and prevent money laundering.

“Financial crime compliance is serious, and we are responsible for getting it right,’’ Bank of America said in a statement. “We worked with regulators to reach these penalty resolutions stemming from violations cited in the previously reported 2024 (Comptroller of the Currency) Consent Order and FinCEN’s investigation.

“ We have invested billions of dollars in technology and dedicated thousands of employees to combat financial crime, and our team is far along with and committed to completing the work required to address the issues raised by our regulators.’’

The latest action is the third-largest penalty ever issued by the Treasury Department, behind a roughly $4 billion settlement in 2023 with Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and an approximately $3 billion settlement with Canada-based TD Bank the following year. Both those historic actions happened as part of the Biden administration’s focus on anti-money laundering and efforts to promote compliance with the then-emerging virtual currency industry.

Months later, Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, was sentenced to four months in prison over charges that he looking the other way as criminals used his platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.

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Amiri reported from New York.

AP Business Writer Alex Veiga in Los Angeles contributed to this story.

HBO announced Tuesday that creator and star Lena Dunham and nearly all of the core cast will return for a limited five-episode run a decade after its finale.

Dunham, now 40, will again play her aspiring writer and sort-of alter-ego Hannah, along with Allison Williams as Marnie, Jemima Kirke as Jessa, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna and Andrew Rannells as Elijah.

Judd Apatow will return as executive producer. The announcement makes no mention of Adam Driver returning.

The show will begin production in 2027, 10 years after the finale of the series that ran for six seasons from 2012-2017 and was nominated for 19 Emmys, winning two.

“We always said we would only return to GIRLS if there was a specific story we were burning to tell,” Dunham said in a statement. “I’ve missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day. Then, right around my fortieth birthday, they started talking to me in the shower. And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it’s pretty hard to get them to stop.”

The revival is among the first production announcements made by HBO since its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery was taken over by Skydance-owned Paramount.

The show was both a touchstone and a lightning rod for its depiction of a group of millennial young women in New York, with its vocal haters often louder than its many devotees. Affection for it has seen a major surge in the decade since, especially among younger viewers, who see it as aspirational as well as endlessly quotable and meme-able.

In one of its most repeated lines, Hannah, while asking her parents to keep supporting her, tells them “I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice of a generation.”

Dunham has kept making film and television, directing the 2022 movie “Catherine Called Birdy” and co-creating the TV series “Camping” and “Too Much,” but none of it has had nearly the cultural impact of “Girls.” Her screen appearances have been mostly limited to small guest roles.

Williams has had several memorable movie roles especially in horror films including “Get Out” and two “M3GAN” movies.

But while the show was all about the lives of young women, the biggest star it spawned was Driver, who went on to star in a “Star Wars” trilogy and has been nominated for two Oscars.

Simon was a Category 1 storm before strengthening Tuesday night and was nearly a major hurricane again, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. Off Mexico’s Pacific coast, Simon was bringing heavy rain to Nayarit and Sinaloa states, where authorities remained on alert for rising rivers and flooding. Over the weekend, the hurricane brought heavy rain to the southern state of Guerrero, killing one person.

But the worst damage was reported farther north, in the coastal city of Ensenada, Baja California, where flooding caused by Rachel’s remnants killed at least five people.

The victims included a 13-year-old girl whose body was found Sunday, two women ages 30 and 35 and a 4-year-old boy whose bodies were recovered Monday, and an unidentified person found near a stream Tuesday, the state prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press.

Five others remained missing in Baja California, including three in Ensenada and a father and son who went fishing Saturday in San Felipe, on the Gulf of California, and never returned.

About 300 military personnel, police and rescue workers searched along Ensenada’s El Pipila stream Tuesday, while the Mexican Navy continued looking for the missing fishermen, state civil protection authorities said.

Floodwaters swept away vehicles, damaged homes and cut off access to some communities.

Johana Nuriulu, a resident of Ensenada’s Buena Vista community, said the flooding began overnight, shortly after heavy rain knocked out electricity.

“We heard a loud noise that sounded like ocean waves, but very intense,” she said. When she stepped outside, she discovered a nearby stream had overflowed.

“The water was sweeping everything away; it took a cabin ... animals, everything.”

Elsewhere near Ensenada, Mexican soldiers used helicopters to rescue 32 people, including 13 minors, from Rancho Genesis, a camp for orphans staffed by missionaries.

The army said 22 of those rescued were foreign nationals. Baja California Security Secretary Gen. Laureano Carrillo said they included Americans and Germans.

Hurricane Simon moves along Pacific coast

Simon was moving parallel to Mexico’s Pacific coast Tuesday, threatening more rainfall in Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa.

The hurricane was about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph (175 kph), according to the hurricane center. The storm may strengthen overnight, but forecasts show gradual weakening Wednesday.

In southern Guerrero state, Simon’s heavy rains toppled trees and utility poles, blocked roads and flooded homes in coastal communities, including the resort city of Acapulco, Gov. Evelyn Salgado said.

A 71-year-old person died when a wall collapsed in Chilpancingo, the state capital, she said.

Authorities also took preventive measures in the port city of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, ahead of the storm, national Civil Protection Coordinator Laura Velázquez said Monday.

Meanwhile, conditions were improving in the tourist destination of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, where residents began resuming normal activities as the rain subsided.

State authorities ordered schools to reopen Tuesday, while operations at Puerto Vallarta’s airport gradually resumed.

Tropical Storm Trudy was forecast to rapidly intensify into a hurricane Wednesday and a major hurricane by Friday in the Pacific Ocean, the hurricane center in Miami said Tuesday night. The storm was about 440 miles (705 km) south-southeast of Acapulco, Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph).

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Silva Rey reported from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Associated Press writer Fabiola Sánchez contributed from Mexico City.

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Simón continuaba el martes desplazándose lentamente por el Pacífico mexicano como huracán categoría 1 provocando lluvias en los estados de Nayarit y Sinaloa, donde las autoridades mexicanas se mantienen en alerta ante el riesgo de la crecida de ríos e inundaciones. El fin de semana, el huracán ocasionó intensas precipitaciones en el estado sureño de Guerrero, donde falleció una persona.

Pero fue más al norte, en la ciudad costera de Ensenada, estado de Baja California, donde los remanentes de la tormenta Rachel ocasionaron más daños por la crecida de ríos e inundaciones.

Al menos cinco personas murieron: una niña de 13 años cuyo cuerpo se encontró el domingo; dos mujeres de 35 y 30 años y un niño de 4 años cuyos cadáveres fueron hallados el lunes, y otro cuerpo fue localizado el martes cerca de un arroyo, pero aún se desconoce su identidad, indicó a The Associated Press la fiscalía estatal.

Muerte y desolación dejó Rachel a su paso

El martes seguían desaparecidas cinco personas en Baja California, tres de ellas en Ensenada y dos más en San Felipe, una localidad en el lado del mar de Cortés de donde un padre y un hijo salieron a pescar el sábado y no volvieron.

A inicios de la jornada unos 300 elementos de las fuerzas militares, policiales y de los cuerpos de rescate iniciaron una operación de búsqueda a lo largo del arroyo El Pípila de Ensenada para tratar de localizar a las personas que permanecen desaparecidas en esa región, informó Protección Civil estatal. Asimismo, la Armada mexicana mantiene la búsqueda de las dos personas que desaparecieron en la comunidad de San Felipe.

Las inundaciones arrastraron vehículos, causaron daños en viviendas y dejaron áreas incomunicadas.

Johana Nuriulu, una vecina de la comunidad Buena Vista, en Ensenada, dijo que las inundaciones comenzaron por la noche, poco después de que el aguacero cortara la electricidad. “Escuchamos un fuerte ruido que se escuchaba como olas del mar pero bien fuerte”.

Nuriulu contó que salió a la calle y descubrió que un arroyo cercano se había desbordado. “El agua se estaba llevando todo, se llevó una cabaña... animales, todo”.

En otra zona cercana a Ensenada, el Ejército mexicano utilizó helicópteros para rescatar a 32 personas, 13 de ellas menores, de un lugar conocido como Rancho Génesis. El lugar, según su página web, es un campamento para huérfanos donde trabajan misioneros.

Según el comunicado del Ejército, 22 de los rescatados eran extranjeros. El secretario de Seguridad de Baja California, el general Laureano Carrillo, dijo que había alemanes y estadounidenses.

El avance del huracán Simón

El huracán Simón avanzaba el martes en paralelo a la costa del Pacífico mexicano frente a los estados de Jalisco, Nayarit y Sinaloa.

Para el martes el centro de huracán se localizaba 180 kilómetros (90 millas) al oeste de Cabo Corrientes, en el estado occidental de Jalisco, con vientos sostenidos de 150 kilómetros por hora (90 millas por hora) y desplazándose hacia el oeste 4 kilómetros por hora (2 millas por hora), según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos en Miami (NHC, por sus siglas en inglés).

El huracán derribó árboles y postes eléctricos, bloqueó carreteras e inundó viviendas en las localidades costeras del estado de Guerrero, incluido el importante puerto marítimo de Acapulco, según dijo la gobernadora, Evelyn Salgado, en una rueda de prensa. Una persona de 71 años falleció tras el derrumbe de un muro en Chilpancingo, la capital del estado, agregó Salgado.

Las autoridades iniciaron operaciones preventivas ante el avance del huracán, especialmente en la ciudad portuaria de Mazatlán, en Sinaloa, indicó el lunes la coordinadora nacional de Protección Civil, Laura Velázquez, en la conferencia presidencial matutina.

El cese de las lluvias en la ciudad turística de Puerto Vallarta, en Jalisco, llevó a sus habitantes a retomar progresivamente las actividades normales. Las autoridades estatales ordenaron el martes la reapertura de las escuelas de Jalisco y la reanudación progresiva de operaciones en el aeropuerto de Puerto Vallarta.

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Silva Rey reportó desde Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. La periodista de The Associated Press, Fabiola Sánchez, contribuyó a este reporte desde la Ciudad de México.

Jail records show Giovanny Alonso is facing one count of second-degree grand theft involving property valued at more than $20,000 but less than $100,000.

Investigators say Alonso had worked as a site supervisor for a Miami-Dade County roofing company since 2011. Company owners told investigators the business exclusively performs roofing work and does not provide window installation, stucco or painting services.

Investigators allege that in May 2022, Alonso placed an unauthorized order totaling $15,437 with ABC Supply, a company vendor, for hurricane-impact doors and windows intended for his personal residence.

The materials were delivered to Alonso’s home in June 2023, where he allegedly directed employees to unload them “and place them in his backyard without the owners’ knowledge or approval,” according to his arrest report.

In October 2023, Alonso also allegedly instructed office staff by email to obtain a City of Hialeah building permit for the replacement of doors and windows at his residence, the report states. The permit was paid for by the company and listed Alonso as both the property owner and job qualifier, according to investigators.

Investigators said they also identified $16,000 in payments made to JRG Painting between Feb. 9 and March 15, 2024. The invoices referenced stucco repairs, but company ownership told investigators the payments were fraudulent and unrelated to any authorized project, his arrest report states.

According to the report, Alonso classified the purchases and payments as expenses tied to an existing condominium roofing contract in Broward County, even though they were unrelated to that job or any other legitimate company project.

During Alonso’s separation from the company, ownership also discovered an additional $2,210 in unauthorized charges from Baro II Hardware for a barbecue grill, a griddle and a residential pressure washer, investigators said.

They said the total unauthorized spending identified in the investigation was approximately $33,647.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Alonso was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was set at $7,500.

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Nixon, who is campaigning for the U.S. Senate, is scheduled to host a “community conversation” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday in Sweetwater.

Nixon, 42, who defeated Alexander Vindman in the Democratic primary, is challenging the Republican incumbent, Sen. Ashley Moody, in the general election on Nov. 3.

The event’s guests at Mi Pueblo, a Colombian restaurant at 10910 West Flagler St., include Evelyn DeJesus, of the American Federation of Teachers; Karla Hernandez Mats, the former president of United Teachers of Dade; and immigration advocates Cristina Jimenez and Greisa Martinez.

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Police in the western city of Cologne responded after the incident overnight Saturday to Sunday in which the robot's suspected 16-year-old owner and a 19-year-old companion were said to have filmed the alleged assault.

They were said to have streamed the incident and commentated on it online.

Cologne police spokesman Christoph Bermel said the two male teenagers have not been charged but are considered suspects, and investigators were examining whether the robot's movements were preprogrammed or controlled in real time.

Police were unfamiliar with this type of incident, he said.

“We have not been aware of this phenomenon so far," Bermel told The Associated Press, saying it was "new territory for us.”

Emergency teams that were dispatched to the scene near a fast-food restaurant found the robot in the trunk of a vehicle, Cologne police said in a statement on Monday. The robot and the two young men's mobile phones were confiscated.

North Rhine Westphalia Police Cologne, on Facebook, posted an image of the red-and-gold robot lying on the ground.

The robot, said to be 120 cm (about 3 ft 11 inches) tall, was dressed in a white tank top, black sweatpants and wearing a gold chain and sunglasses. It also had what appears to be a fake mustache.

Videos circulated on the internet show two young men escorting the robot toward a group of women, bumping into one and hugging others, on a lively nighttime street.

One of the men repeatedly shouts at the robot and pulls it backward after it makes sexual gestures, prompting laughter among people in the area.

On the police's Facebook account on Tuesday, officers criticized inappropriate comments and warned that sharing or joking about such incidents can worsen the impact on any victim.

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According to an arrest report from the Hialeah Police Department, Joe Luis Suarez-Pozo, 51, of Miami, was taken into custody Monday following an investigation into the woman’s allegations.

Police said the investigation began July 2, when the woman reported the alleged assault to detectives at a Hialeah police substation.

According to the report, the woman told investigators that her daughter had previously arranged an Uber ride to Boca Raton so she could care for her granddaughter.

Suarez-Pozo was the driver assigned to the trip, authorities said.

According to the report, the two struck up a conversation during the ride and exchanged phone numbers so the woman could contact him for future transportation needs.

Several days later, Suarez-Pozo allegedly called the woman and told her he was near her home and asked whether she wanted to go out for coffee.

The woman agreed because she had previously spoken with him and believed he was a “good person,” according to the report.

Woman says driver assaulted her inside vehicle

According to the report, instead of taking the woman for coffee, Suarez-Pozo drove to Victor Wilde Park in Hialeah, where he parked the vehicle.

The woman told investigators that while she was sitting in the front passenger seat, Suarez-Pozo suddenly climbed on top of her and began touching and kissing her face, mouth and neck.

She said she pushed him away and questioned his actions.

According to the arrest report, Suarez-Pozo then grabbed the woman’s hand and forced her to touch his genitals.

Frightened, the woman got out of the vehicle in an attempt to escape, police said.

However, she told investigators that Suarez-Pozo followed her, confronted her outside the car and forced her into the back seat.

The woman alleged that he then raped her before driving her back home.

Suspect arrested months after alleged assault

On Monday, officers with the Hialeah Police Department’s Community Response Team located Suarez-Pozo along East 53rd Street in Hialeah.

He was taken into custody and transported to police headquarters for questioning.

According to the arrest report, investigators interviewed Suarez-Pozo after advising him of his Miranda rights.

Police said his statements corroborated the woman’s account, leading to his arrest.

Suarez-Pozo was subsequently transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center where he was booked on a sexual battery charge.

As of Tuesday morning, he remained at TGK. Online jail records listed his bond as “to bet set.”

An Uber spokesperson released a statement to Local 10 News Tuesday, saying Suarez-Pozo has been removed from the platform.

“While this did not occur on an Uber trip, we are sickened by this report and have banned the driver from the platform,” the statement read. “Uber is deeply committed to safety, and we stand ready to assist law enforcement with their investigation however we can.”

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Surveillance video shows the white BMW used to kidnap the Facebook Marketplace buyer on Oct. 9 in Doral, according to Doral Police Chief Matthew Castillo.

The victim reported he had purchased an iPhone from the seller on Sept. 18, so he had agreed to meet again to buy more phones with $4,000 in cash, according to police.

“The passenger in the rear seat pointed a firearm at our victim and told him to come inside the car,” Castillo said, also adding that Doral residents can meet at the police station’s lobby for exchanges.

Detectives identified the driver and passenger of the BMW as Lazaro Núñez, also known as Lazaro Nunez-Martinez, and Darian Morejon, also known as Darian Morejon-Rodriguez.

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“He tried to escape the vehicle twice and was actually strangled,” Castillo said about the victim.

The victim reported throwing a bag with the $4,000 in cash out the window at Northwest 78th Avenue and 66th Street and fleeing while his kidnappers prioritized grabbing the cash, according to police.

“Our victim was trying to keep up ways to survive,” Castillo said.

Nunez-Martinez, 31, of Miami Gardens, sent a message to the victim, according to police.

“Don’t you dare do anything because we will look for you, we know where you live,” Nunez-Martinez wrote, according to the police report. “We will close the business here, and we will forget everything.”

Miami-Dade corrections booked Nunez-Martinez on Oct. 11 at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Nunez-Martinez faced five charges: Armed robbery, attempted armed kidnapping with aggravated battery, third-degree armed grand theft, tampering with a witness or victim, and battery. A judge denied him bond and ordered him to stay away from the victim.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Tanya Brinkley was set to preside over Nunez-Martinez’s case.

Detectives arrested Morejon-Rodriguez, 39, during a traffic stop on Monday in Hallandale Beach, according to police.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Morejon-Rodriguez early Tuesday morning at TGKCC, where he remained on a hold by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Miami-Dade inmate records. A bond court judge also ordered him to stay away from the victim.

Morejon-Rodriguez faced four felony charges: Armed robbery, attempted armed kidnapping with aggravated battery, third-degree armed grand theft, and tampering with a witness or victim.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carlos Gamez was set to preside over Morejon-Rodriguez’s case.

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Officials said a good Samaritan spotted the man and reported the sighting over a Marine emergency radio channel used by boaters to call for help.

They said Marine units from Miami and Fort Lauderdale responded alongside the Coast Guard. Crews located the man, provided emergency assistance and arranged for a medical evaluation.

Authorities said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics evaluated and medically cleared the man before he was transferred to the USCG cutter Melvin Bell for further processing.

Coast Guard officials have not disclosed the man’s age or identity.

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According to deputies, Prince-Charm Allison was last seen Oct. 4 in the 1300 block of Northeast 110^th Terrace. He was wearing a blue shirt and red shorts.

Deputies described Allison as a Black male, who is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.

Authorities said the teen has not made contact with family or friends since his disappearance and may be in need of services.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Deputy A. Madrigal at 305-715-3300 or email u307222@mdpd.net. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

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The announcement follows a series of shootings and growing concerns about large gatherings, fights and other incidents that city leaders say are putting businesses, residents and visitors at risk.

“Himmarshee is open for business, but it is not and never will be open for lawlessness,” Fort Lauderdale Police Chief William Schultz said during a news conference Tuesday morning.

The entertainment district, located west of Las Olas Boulevard near Southwest Second Avenue and Southwest Second Street, is known for its bars, restaurants and nightlife.

But city officials say the area has experienced an increase in public safety problems, particularly during late-night hours.

Police promise increased enforcement

Schultz said visitors can expect a significant increase in law enforcement activity during the district’s busiest hours.

“You will see a dramatic surge in police presence during peak nighttime hours,” Schultz said, adding that officers will conduct targeted enforcement operations.

Fort Lauderdale police will be joined by the Florida Highway Patrol and the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco.

Light towers and barricades will also be part of the city’s strategy to improve safety in the district.

One of the biggest concerns is underage drinking.

“We are aware that groups of high school students and other underage individuals throughout Broward County are coming into this district,” Schultz said.

Police plan to send notices to school district administrators and bar owners, seeking their cooperation in addressing the problem.

Schultz also warned businesses that officers will be monitoring how carefully they check customers’ identification.

“We are watching to ensure continual and proper checking of every patron’s ID upon entering your establishment,” he said.

Fire rescue reports increase in overnight calls

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Chief Stephen Gollan said his department has also experienced an increase in emergency calls in the entertainment district between midnight and 4 a.m.

According to Gollan, many of those calls involve people who have passed out.

“Majority of those are pass outs,” Gollan said, adding that approximately 30% of the calls involve people between 18 and 24 years old.

The increase in emergency responses is among the concerns prompting city leaders to take additional action.

Recent shootings raise concerns

The crackdown comes after several shootings in and around the entertainment district.

On Sept. 6, Fort Lauderdale police were responding to a fight near Southwest Second Street and Southwest Third Avenue around 3:30 a.m. when officers heard gunfire.

Police detained several people and recovered a firearm.

Although no shooting victim was initially found at the scene, a man later arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound that was not considered life-threatening.

Witnesses described the panic as crowds ran for safety.

“It happened so quick…everyone started running,” a witness said.

The incident followed a deadly shooting in early July inside the Governmental Center parking garage near Southwest Second Street and Southwest First Avenue.

A 43-year-old man was shot around 4:30 a.m. and later died at a hospital.

Police recovered a gun and detained a person of interest.

In December 2025, five people were injured in a mass shooting outside Dicey Riley’s Irish Pub around 2 a.m.

Witnesses described hearing multiple gunshots before crowds began fleeing the area.

All five victims were transported to a hospital.

City considering tougher penalties for alcohol violations

Fort Lauderdale commissioners have already taken steps to address problems in the nightlife district.

In February, the commission approved an ordinance prohibiting open containers and outdoor alcohol sales in the entertainment district.

Some business owners opposed the restrictions, arguing that they would negatively affect the area’s nightlife atmosphere.

Now, city leaders are considering additional measures.

The city commission is expected to review proposed ordinance changes next week that would increase fines for alcohol-related violations and establish new requirements for businesses operating at night.

Mayor says public safety must come first

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis emphasized that city leaders want the Himmarshee district to remain a thriving destination for residents and visitors.

However, he said its success depends on maintaining a safe environment.

“Himmarshee is an important part of Fort Lauderdale -- we believe in its future and want it to succeed,” Trantalis said. “It must be built on public safety.”

City officials say the increased enforcement efforts are intended to address the district’s ongoing problems while allowing businesses to continue operating.

The proposed ordinance changes are expected to be discussed by city commissioners next week.

The Rams are also signing former New Orleans kicker Blake Grupe off the New York Jets' practice squad.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the Rams' special teams shakeup hadn't yet been publicly announced.

Mevis missed an early 50-yard field-goal attempt against the Bills, and his 48-yard attempt in overtime was blocked by Greg Rousseau. His four missed field-goal attempts through five games are the most in the NFL this season.

Head coach Sean McVay said afterward that the Rams' placekicking unit “cost us the game tonight.” The Rams (2-3) have been plagued by poor special teams play since the start of last season, and McVay vowed to make a thorough review of everything in that area of the game.

The Rams signed Mevis midway through last season to replace Joshua Karty, and the bulky newcomer dubbed “The Thiccer Kicker” made 12 of his 13 field-goal attempts in his first NFL season before going 6 for 6 in the playoffs. His only miss was costly, however, coming in a one-point overtime loss to eventual Super Bowl champion Seattle.

Mevis is just 5 for 9 on field goals this season, although he has yet to miss an extra-point attempt in his career.

Grupe is a four-year NFL veteran who spent his first 2 1/2 seasons as the New Orleans Saints' kicker before getting released last November during a rough season. He signed with the Indianapolis Colts and finished strong, making all 11 of his field-goal attempts.

Grupe lost a training camp competition in Indianapolis to Spencer Shrader this summer.

Grupe will be the Rams' fifth kicker in four seasons since the departure of Matt Gay, the kicker for their Super Bowl-winning team in the 2021 season.

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Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” scores the trailer, which was also released online. A few hours earlier, Gerwig unveiled the trailer and behind-the-scenes footage on an IMAX screen at the AMC Lincoln Center in New York, where she spoke with Stephen Colbert about her “Barbie” follow-up.

Netflix, in a dramatic reversal for the company, is giving “Narnia” a wide theatrical release beginning Feb. 12. The film will land on the streaming service on April 2. Gerwig said she wrote her first draft in 2020 and 2021 after approaching Netflix chief executive Ted Sarandos at a cocktail party.

“I told Ted I only know how to make movies for the big screen,” Gerwig said. “He said, ‘Make the movie for the biggest screen you can imagine.’”

With a $280 million budget, “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” is one of Netflix’s most ambitious films. It's also a novel way into the “Narnia” series, starting not with the first book, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” but the sixth.

“The Magician’s Nephew,” published in 1955, is a prequel. It follows two children in 1900 London who, through a magic ring, are transported into another world and witness Narnia's creation by the lion Aslan. That entryway to Narnia thrilled Gerwig, who noted Lewis urged readers to tackle “The Magician’s Nephew” first. The trailer features the line: “Have you ever seen a world born?”

“Movies this size are usually about destruction,” said Gerwig.

The trailer only hints at the film’s already debated portrayal of Aslan, a thick-maned representation of Jesus in Lewis’ Christian fable. Voiced by Meryl Streep, the character appears as a cosmic outline and roars but doesn’t speak.

Some conservative pundits have criticized casting Streep as Aslan, a male character in the books. Gerwig didn’t address Streep's casting in her remarks, though she thanked Lewis’ family and estate for their public support of the film.

Newcomers David McKenna and Beatrice Campbell star in the film, with an ensemble made up of Daniel Craig, Emma Mackey, Ciarán Hinds and Carey Mulligan. The film was initially slated to open in November, but Netflix pushed it into 2027, Gerwig said, to give it a global theatrical release.

Gerwig described the story as a spiritual quest, which made the choice of “Stairway to Heaven” fitting to her. She met with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page to secure the song’s seldom-given rights permission.

“They did it because they saw the heart in the story," Gerwig said. “And they, too, love C.S. Lewis.”

The three previous “Narnia” movies were all produced by Walden Media, a family-values-oriented entertainment company owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz. In 2018, Netflix acquired the global rights to the “Chronicles of Narnia” book series.

Gerwig, 43, was raised as a Unitarian Universalist in Sacramento, California, and attended an all-girls Catholic high school — an upbringing she dramatized in her solo-directing debut, “Lady Bird.” Faith, Gerwig said, “has been a thread through all of my films.”

“For me, film and faith have always gone hand in hand,” she said, calling both communal experiences.

Gerwig described reading Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia” books as a foundational experience to her youth. The only comparable experience, she said, was reading Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” which Gerwig adapted in her 2019 film.

“I would not be who I am without these books,” said Gerwig. “They created me.”

It comes after Sam Reinhart scored two goals in the Panthers’ 5-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres.

Columbus had a 40-30-12 record overall and a 20-13-8 record at home last season. The Blue Jackets averaged 2.4 power-play chances per game last season, and converted on 19.0% (38 total power-play goals).

Florida has a 2-2-2 record overall and a 2-1-2 record on the road. The Panthers lead the league with 34 total penalties (averaging 5.7 per game).

The teams meet Tuesday for the first time this season.

Injury report:

Blue Jackets: Caleb MacDonald: out (lower-body), Dante Fabbro: out (upper-body), Isac Lundestrom: out (achilles), Ivan Provorov: out (lower-body).

Panthers: Jonah Gadjovich: out (upper-body), Brad Marchand: out (leg), Aleksander Barkov: out (lower body).

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“When the rules change, fairness has to remain part of the equation,” DeWine said in a statement. “We want Ohio’s student-athletes to have the same opportunity as student-athletes in other states.”

Under the order, public and private universities in Ohio can allow athletes to play even though the NCAA's new guidance excludes those who have already played four seasons.

There was no immediate response from the NCAA or any of the eight Division I programs in Ohio, which includes No. 4 Ohio State of the Big Ten, Cincinnati of the Big 12 and six schools in the Mid-American Conference.

“It’s important we do not deprive our current student-athletes of the same opportunities enjoyed by their peers," said Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel, a former coach who won national championships at both Ohio State and FCS-level Youngstown State.

The executive order is reminiscent of a decision by California to clear the way for name, image and likeness compensation by passing a state law that was quickly emulated by other states. The NCAA was essentially forced to allow NIL payments for thousands of athletes.

The NCAA eligibility rule is being challenged in multiple courtrooms across the country, with plaintiffs saying it is both unfair to the class of 2022 and deprives them of the chance to earn money off their celebrity through NIL deals and share in revenue now flowing from schools to their athletes under the House settlement.

The Ohio order came on the same day that the attorney representing athletes in a key eligibility case took a series of questions from federal judges who sounded skeptical about the players' ability to pinpoint the depth of the economic harm they have suffered from the change.

A lower-court judge in the case, Wisne vs. NCAA, initially ruled in favor of the players, granting all NCAA athletes who graduated high school in 2022 a fifth year of eligibility for this school year.

An appeals court blocked that ruling and its full hearing came in front of a three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, which did not immediately rule. All three asked multiple questions to plaintiff attorney Robert Shelquist over the plaintiffs' attempts to define the market for the players.

That definition would be key to determining how the players are being harmed by being declared ineligible. It's the benchmark the judges said was key to winning an antitrust lawsuit such as this.

“It doesn't seem there's been a definition of the market from a huge, huge division — golf, everything,” said U.S. Circuit Judge Paul Kelly, a nod to the wide difference in earning power between, say, a college football player and golfer. “And you're lumping them all together and you never looked at commonality and interchangeability of the various buyers."

Shelquist argued an analysis presented by the plaintiffs that was prepared by University of Mississippi legal scholar William Berry III provided a framework of what the market for the players would look like if they were deemed eligible.

Arguing for the NCAA, attorney Rakesh Kilaru argued the plaintiffs' analysis takes all the players and “lumps all of those individuals together in a way that does not make economic sense.”

If the judges rule in favor of the NCAA, it would set what could be an important precedent but would not necessarily end the legal wrangling.

After they blocked the initial ruling, cases in state courts across the country went on — most notably one in Louisiana that led LSU to look into bringing on two football players who had spent time this summer in NFL training camps. More recently, the NCAA has won cases in Kentucky, Ohio and Arizona.

With the Ohio executive order, more litigation seems likely.

The judges also asked both attorneys if they should delay their decision to see whether Congress passes the Protect College Sports Act, a bill that made it through the Senate last month that would limit these sorts of lawsuits in the future.

The bill would not preempt active lawsuits, and both attorneys urged the court not to wait, with Shelquist reminding the judges of the narrow window for this group of players who left high school in 2022, with this school year's football season halfway over and basketball season about to begin.

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It comes after jurors heard from Hill himself last week, speaking on his divorce and battery case.

Hill’s attorney called multiple witnesses meant to cast doubt on claims of abuse by his estranged wife, Lakeeta Vaccaro, who says he was abusive to her over the course of their 18-month marriage.

One witness was a Sunny Isles Beach police officer who said he was called out to an incident at the couple’s condo.

Vaccaro’s mother called 911 after she said things became physical between Hill and her daughter.

Vaccaro filed for divorce the next day. Hill was not arrested.

Another witness on Monday testified to being with the Davie Police Department in January of 2024 when she was called to Hill’s home in Southwest Ranches.

About a week earlier, the home caught fire.

The former officer testified about being called to the home for a domestic violence incident, but said there were no signs of violence in the home, or on Vaccaro.

Another officer, this one with the Orlando Police Department, said he responded to a call for help at a hotel. He said the couple argued over a post-nuptial agreement and as part of their investigation, Vaccaro was photographed.

Court will resume on Tuesday, which is expected to be the final day of the trial.

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According to an FHP arrest report, the driver was identified as Brendley Jerome, 21, of Miami Gardens, who was taken into custody following the crash that sent him and two passengers to the hospital.

The incident began around 4:13 a.m. Monday, Oct. 12, when a trooper spotted a silver BMW traveling at a high rate of speed on the Palmetto Expressway, just east of Northwest 57th Avenue, authorities said.

The trooper reported the BMW was traveling at approximately 120 mph before he activated his emergency lights and siren to initiate a traffic stop.

Instead of pulling over, Jerome accelerated to more than 130 mph and began making evasive maneuvers, according to the report.

The trooper then notified dispatchers that he was initiating a pursuit, the report stated.

According to the arrest report, Jerome continued driving at excessive speeds, weaving across traffic lanes and nearly colliding with a semi-truck as he approached Northwest 154th Street.

Investigators said Jerome attempted to take the Northwest 154th Street exit from the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway, but lost control while navigating a curve.

The BMW veered off the roadway and rolled over into a ditch along the exit ramp.

The trooper reported slowing down before driving his marked patrol vehicle into the ditch and “intentionally” making contact with the BMW.

After the crash, authorities said the trooper approached the BMW with his department-issued gun and ordered the occupants out of the vehicle.

According to the report, one passenger climbed out through a rear passenger-side window, while Jerome exited through the vehicle’s rear windshield.

The trooper ordered both individuals to lie on the ground before handcuffing Jerome, the report stated.

Additional troopers arrived and helped remove a second passenger through a rear passenger-side window.

Fire rescue crews transported all three occupants to Palmetto General Hospital.

FHP previously confirmed that the three occupants suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening. The trooper was not injured.

According to the arrest report, Jerome was medically cleared at the hospital before being transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

He faces charges of fleeing and eluding a police officer at a high speed and excessive speeding.

As of Tuesday morning, Jerome remained held at TGK. Online jail records listed his total bond as “to be set.”

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At Miami Crab & Seafood Bakery, inspectors documented rodent droppings in several storage areas, including where single-service items, flour, sugar and seasonings were stored, and found rodent bait on the floor outside a covered, tamper-resistant bait station.

At Keke’s Breakfast Cafe in Parkland, inspectors observed approximately 45 small flying insects landing on clean utensils, equipment, walls and soda boxes near the dishwashing area.

Meanwhile, at Miami Shores Golf Club, inspectors found rodent droppings on top of clean dishes and mahi-mahi, and salmon held at 53 and 58 degrees, respectively.

China Spring III in Coral Springs also had rodent droppings in the kitchen and a dead roach in the food preparation area. All four establishments were ordered shut following inspections. Below is a list of violations and some of the most concerning findings.

**MIAMI SHORES GOLF CLUB

10000 BISCAYNE BLVD.

MIAMI SHORES

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 10/9

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 20+ rodent droppings in dry storage area on floor and on top of clean dishes. Observed approximately 5 rodent droppings on floor near single service article storage area. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on floor inside managers office.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed one dead roach inside empty plastic bin at the warehouse washing area.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Observed white cutting board in back food prep area with cut marks and no longer cleanable.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed reach in cooler door handle soiled with food debris at the cook line.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed mahi mahi (53F - Cold Holding); salmon (58F - Cold Holding) inside reach in cooler drawers at the cook line. As per operator, product has been there for about 2 Hours. Product was placed inside walk in cooler for rapid cooling. Observed cole slaw (54F - Cold Holding) inside plastic bin on prep table.”

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

**MIAMI CRAB & SEAFOOD/ BAKERY

20723 NW 2ND AVE

MIAMI GARDENS

ORDERED SHUT 10/12

8 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed 75+ rodent droppings on the floor of the kitchen storage room where single service items are stored, 10+ rodent droppings on the shelves where employee store personal items, 5+ rodent droppings on the floor behind the front counter reach in cooler, 7+ rodent droppings on the floor in the back storage room where flour, sugar and seasonings are stored in.”

“Rodent bait not contained in a covered, tamper-resistant bait station. Observed bitten rodent bait on the floor in the kitchen storage room.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed microwave and oven door handle soiled.”

“Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris.”

**KEKE’S BREAKFAST CAFE

7609 STATE ROAD 7

PARKLAND

ORDERED SHUT 10/12

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. At dishwashing area, approximately 45 small flying insects, landing on clean utensils equipment, walls and boxes of soda. At dining room- bar counter area -approximately 3 small flying insects landing on walls.”

“Raw fruits/vegetables not washed prior to preparation. At cookline area- in use unwashed strawberries constantly one of actively being cut and portioned.”

“Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. -Observed Employee pick up soiled equipment from floor. Employee proceeds to clean grill then handle ham from the flip top cooler and engaged in food preparation without changing their gloves or washing their hands.”

“Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. At Expo station -Employee touched her face and then proceeded to handle clean equipment and bottles of hot sauce without washing their hands -educated operator employee washed their hands.”

“Employee rubbed hands together for less than 10-15 seconds while washing hands. At expo station- Employee handled dirty dishes than Proceeded to wash their hands for approximately eight seconds then engage in handling clean utensils, and equipment.”

“Employee dried hands on clothes/apron/soiled towel after washing. At cook line area, employee handled, soiled wiping cloth, and then proceeded to prepare food for order without washing their hands -educated operator-employee wash their hands properly.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. -Observed in flip top cooler cooked peppers (45F - Cold Holding). Per operator not prepared or portioned today. Per operator out of temperature due to service for approximately 15min. Operator placed in freezer to quick chill.”

**CHINA SPRING III

8100 WILES ROAD

CORAL SPRINGS

ORDERED SHUT 10/8

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. At kitchen / cook line area- approximately 20 rodent droppings on the floor - underneath prep tables, containers of food and reach in coolers. At dry storage shelf near cook line - approximately 4 rodent droppings on can of sauce.”

“Dead roaches on premises. At kitchen prep area- 1 dead roach on the floor - operator removed. At bathroom- 1 dead roach on the floor.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. At reach in cooler raw shell eggs stored over cooked chicken- operator removed and stored properly.”

“Throughout establishment- Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust.”

“Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. At dishwashing/prep area -employee handled dirty dishes, then proceeded to handle clean dishes and engage in handling food without washing their hands-educated operator-employee wash their hands.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Repeat Violation.”

“Required employee training expired for all employees.”

Video from Sky 10 showed police on a portion of the river’s North Fork, near the Salvation Army building at 1801 W. Broward Blvd., where a dive team retrieved the person’s body near the mangroves.

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A spokesperson for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department said its homicide detectives are “conducting a death investigation.”

Authorities have not released additional details, including whether they suspected foul play.

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No one was injured, and only one truck responded at about 1 p.m. to the runway at 2020 Executive Airport Way, according to the Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel.

The Cessna Skycatcher with tail number N6106F had a nose gear issue, according to FLFR personnel. Records show the C162 is registered under Boca Pilot Flight Training LLC.

The Cessna Skycatcher departed at 10:50 a.m. from FXE and returned to FXE for landing at 12:14 p.m., according to FlightAware.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

Según las autoridades, un buen samaritano vio al hombre y avisó por un canal de radio marítimo de emergencia que usan los navegantes para pedir ayuda.

Las autoridades dijeron que unidades marítimas de Miami y Fort Lauderdale acudieron junto a la Guardia Costera. Los equipos localizaron al hombre, le dieron asistencia de emergencia y coordinaron una evaluación médica.

Según las autoridades, paramédicos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue lo evaluaron y le dieron el alta médica. Después fue trasladado al buque Melvin Bell de la Guardia Costera para continuar con los trámites.

La Guardia Costera no ha revelado la edad ni la identidad del hombre.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Miami, poco antes de las 6 a.m. alguien les hizo señas a unos agentes cerca de la avenida 7 y la calle 27 del noroeste. Les avisó de un peatón que había sido atropellado por un vehículo.

Los paramédicos de Miami Fire Rescue acudieron al lugar y trasladaron a la víctima al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital.

La policía dijo que el peatón no respondía, pero respiraba cuando llegaron los equipos de emergencia.

Las autoridades no han revelado la identidad de la víctima ni más detalles sobre el vehículo involucrado.

Las circunstancias del accidente siguen bajo investigación.

Cualquier persona con información puede comunicarse con el Departamento de Policía de Miami o con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

Los hechos ocurrieron el viernes. Un video muestra un BMW blanco frente a un complejo de apartamentos en Doral.

Según la policía, la víctima ya le había comprado un iPhone por Facebook Marketplace a un hombre, y la transacción había salido bien. Ese mismo vendedor lo contactó para ofrecerle más teléfonos, y la víctima aceptó.

Ese sospechoso fue identificado después como Lazaro Nunez-Martinez, de 31 años y residente de Miami Gardens.

El encuentro fue frente al edificio de apartamentos de la víctima. Según la policía, cuando la víctima abrió la puerta del pasajero del vehículo de Nunez-Martinez, alguien que estaba acostado en el asiento trasero se levantó de repente y le apuntó con un arma.

“El pasajero del asiento trasero le apuntó con un arma de fuego a nuestra víctima y le dijo que se subiera al carro”, dijo el jefe de la policía de Doral, Matthew Castillo.

Ese sospechoso fue identificado después como Darian Ernesto Morejon Rodriguez, de 39 años.

Según la policía, Nunez-Martinez arrancó con la víctima en el asiento del pasajero, amenazada con el arma, a pesar de que intentó escapar varias veces.

“Trató de escaparse del vehículo dos veces y llegaron a ahorcarlo”, dijo Castillo.

Finalmente, el vehículo empezó a bajar la velocidad en la zona de la calle 66 y la avenida 78 del noroeste. Entonces la víctima tomó los $4,000 en efectivo que había llevado para la compra y los lanzó fuera del carro, según la policía. Morejon Rodriguez se bajó para recoger el dinero.

Según las autoridades, la víctima aprovechó ese momento para salir del vehículo a empujones.

“Nuestra víctima buscaba la manera de sobrevivir, y una de ellas fue tirar el dinero por la ventana, y eso hizo”, dijo Castillo.

Según la policía, después de escapar, la víctima recibió un mensaje de texto amenazante de Nunez-Martinez: “Ni se te ocurra hacer nada porque te vamos a buscar, sabemos dónde vives. Cerramos el negocio aquí y nos olvidamos de todo”.

Unas horas después de la primera comparecencia de Nunez-Martinez ante el tribunal, los agentes arrestaron a Morejon Rodriguez. Fue el lunes, durante una parada de tránsito en Hallandale Beach.

Nunez-Martinez enfrenta cargos por delitos graves de secuestro con arma de fuego, robo con arma de fuego o arma mortal y hurto mayor de tercer grado. También se le acusa de manipulación de una víctima o testigo y de agresión.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, Nunez-Martinez permanecía en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, con la fianza “por determinar”. Morejon Rodriguez fue trasladado al condado de Miami-Dade el martes por la mañana, donde le espera una audiencia de fianza.

Según el personal de Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, nadie resultó herido. Solo un camión de bomberos acudió alrededor de la 1 p.m. a la pista, en el 2020 Executive Airport Way.

Según los bomberos, la Cessna Skycatcher, con matrícula N6106F, tuvo un problema con el tren de aterrizaje delantero. Los registros muestran que está a nombre de Boca Pilot Flight Training LLC.

Carson Merlo, editor de asignaciones de Local 10 News, colaboró en este reporte.

Imágenes de Sky 10 mostraron a la policía en un tramo del brazo norte del río, cerca del edificio del Ejército de Salvación, en el 1801 W. Broward Blvd. Allí, un equipo de buzos recuperó el cuerpo cerca de los manglares.

Un portavoz del Departamento de Policía de Fort Lauderdale dijo que sus detectives de homicidios “están llevando a cabo una investigación sobre la muerte”.

Las autoridades no han dado más detalles, ni han dicho si sospechan que se trate de un crimen.

Bedard had a successful season debut Tuesday night, helping Chicago to a 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. The 21-year-old center recorded a primary assist in the first period and showed promising chemistry while playing alongside Patrick Kane and Roman Kantserov.

It was Bedard's first game since he had surgery on his left shoulder on July 8.

“Just to be back out there ... it’s what I live for,” he said. “And it was just so much fun.”

Chicago was outscored 26-12 while dropping five of its first six games without Bedard, who had a team-high 45 assists and 75 points last season. The Blackhawks managed a total of three goals in their previous two games before the victory over the Penguins.

Bedard got hurt while skating with a group of NHL players in Western Canada this summer. After the operation, the team said he would be sidelined for approximately four months.

“You never really know how things are going to go,” he said. “I put a lot of time and effort into the rehab process to try and maybe come back a little earlier than I guess originally expected, but at the end of the day it’s just when they felt comfortable. So it was safe for me to get back out there."

Bedard skated for more than 21 minutes and had three shots on goal. He was 6 for 14 on face-offs.

“Overall, like to miss what he’s missed and to be able to come out and play that well is pretty impressive,” coach Jeff Blashill said.

It was Bedard's first game since he became the second-youngest captain in the history of the Original Six franchise on Sept. 15. The No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft agreed to a $75 million, five-year contract in July.

Bedard played with Kane and Kantserov on the team's top line and power-play unit, and it looks as if the trio could be a dangerous combination for Chicago. Nick Lardis was assigned to Rockford of the AHL to make room for Bedard on the roster.

Chicago and Pittsburgh were tied at 1 when Bedard made a nice touch pass to Kantserov, who beat Sergei Murashov on the goaltender's stick side for a power-play goal with 2:10 left in the first.

Bedard had a prime scoring opportunity with about nine minutes remaining in the opening period, but he was turned away by Murashov.

“He was great,” Kane said. “It looked like he was skating well. It looked like he was making plays. Had some really good chances, some nice passes. I thought it was a great night for him.”

Bedard made his NHL debut against Sidney Crosby and the Penguins in 2023. He was heralded as the new face of the Blackhawks, and he won the Calder Trophy as the league’s rookie of the year.

He missed 12 games last season after he hurt his right shoulder on Dec. 12. He wasn't allowed to take faceoffs after he returned, but he has no restrictions this year.

“It’s nice. I mean, you want to just play your full game,” Bedard said. “So just get back out there and you want to play as free as you can. It’s nice that we had two practices for me to get into and feel some bumps and get into battles and stuff where it’s not as controlled.”

While Bedard returned, Frank Nazar missed the matchup with the Penguins. The 22-year-old forward finished his two-game suspension for an illegal check on New York Islanders forward Bo Horvat on Thursday night.

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The Health Ministry reported 9,066 confirmed cases and 4,381 deaths, with the death toll approaching half the number of confirmed cases.

The rising death toll has alarmed health workers and authorities, with a large share of recorded deaths occurring outside treatment centers. The latest report recorded 88 new cases and warned that “community transmission remains a concern."

The outbreak has created new hot spots as it spreads to more communities, with 65 health zones across seven provinces now affected.

Officials say the confirmed cases account for only a third of all cases, with many going undetected. The outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo virus, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.

Efforts to contain the virus have been impaired by several factors, including fighting between government forces and rebel groups, which has created one of the world's direst humanitarian crises, widespread disregard for health precautions, intense population movements and shortages of medical supplies and treatment centers.

The outbreak has surpassed Congo's 16 previous outbreaks in scale and is on track to top the 2014-2016 West Africa regional outbreak that killed 11,000 people.

“I feel that the government is overwhelmed by events. But there is nothing else to say. The government needs to fully shoulder its responsibilities to ensure the effectiveness of the response against Ebola,” said Samuel Buju, a resident of Bunia, the provincial capital of Ituri, one of the outbreak's hot spots.

Last week, Kenya became the second country after Uganda to report an Ebola case imported from Congo, deepening concerns about the virus spreading across borders.

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The measures announced Tuesday by Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff include a suspension of all parties and social events at Interfraternity Council houses through the end of the 2026-27 academic year and a new “zero tolerance” policy that would immediately suspend chapters for violations.

“These measures will provide time for a thorough review of fraternity life at Cornell to determine whether and how it can safely continue,” Kotlikoff wrote in a letter to the campus community.

Cornell has more than 20 active Interfraternity Council fraternities. The council did not immediately respond to an email request for comment. It’s unclear whether the restrictions extend to off-campus parties.

It’s not the first time Cornell has cracked down on fraternity parties. The university temporarily suspended them in 2022 after reports of a sexual assault and students being drugged at fraternity-affiliated housing.

Cornell also tightened fraternity safety rules in 2019 after freshman Antonio Tsialas was found dead in a gorge following an alleged hazing incident. A year earlier, a fraternity was placed on probation over a contest in which members competed to have sex with women they considered overweight.

Cornell plans alternatives to fraternity parties

Cornell said it will solicit input about “the development of safe social alternatives” to Greek life party culture and direct university resources toward those alternatives.

Kotlikoff also committed to adding a case manager to the school’s Office of Civil Rights to help those who report sexual misconduct on the Cornell campus navigate the process, and to working with New York State Police to allow its criminal investigators — who are independent of Cornell — to investigate allegations.

Crimes reported on Cornell’s campus are generally investigated by campus police, a department that has full law enforcement powers but is controlled by the university.

The campus police force operates independently from municipal police in Ithaca, New York, where the university is located. Its officers investigated the 2024 gang rape allegations and presented their initial findings to the Tompkins County district attorney, who declined to prosecute within weeks of the woman making her first report to police.

New York’s governor removed the district attorney from the case this month after a public outcry over the lack of charges.

The investigation is now being led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, while Cornell has hired former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates to conduct an independent review of the university’s response.

A state police spokesperson declined to comment.

A gang rape allegation sparks scrutiny of Cornell’s response

In a lawsuit filed in September, the woman alleged that she was drugged and sexually assaulted by multiple fraternity members after attending a party at the Chi Phi house in October 2024.

She said she was pressured to use drugs and that other men entered the room while she was incapacitated. She also alleges that Snapchat messages describing her as sexually available to anyone at the house circulated among fraternity members without her knowledge.

Cornell closed the fraternity chapter and disciplined several students following an internal investigation, but no criminal charges have been filed. The seven men accused in the woman’s lawsuit have all denied her allegations, either saying that the sexual activity was consensual or that they weren’t involved.

Andrew Miltenberg, a lawyer for one of the men accused in the woman’s lawsuit, criticized the restrictions announced Tuesday as a sweeping response to problems that extend beyond fraternities, arguing that universities promote Greek social life but distance themselves from it when controversies arise.

“Greek life has become the convenient target,” he said in an emailed statement. He warned that parties could simply move off campus, where there would be less oversight. “Changing the address doesn’t change the behavior.”

Cornell faces broader pressure for reform

Kotlikoff’s announcement came a day before Cornell’s Faculty Senate was to take up a proposed resolution expressing no confidence in the administration’s ability to effectively address sexual assault on campus.

Paul Ortiz, a Cornell labor history professor who is the lead sponsor of the resolution, said Tuesday that he welcomed the new measures but regretted that it took student protests, media coverage and the suffering of people like the woman suing the university over an alleged gang rape to prompt action.

“That the administration is only acting the day before they might be held accountable in the faculty senate is deeply troubling,” Ortiz said in an email to The Associated Press, adding that he believes the no-confidence resolution is “more important than ever.”

“The key point to understand is that scores of students, staff, faculty and alumni have approached the sponsors of the resolution to emphasize to us that the Jane Doe case is but the tip of the iceberg,” he continued. “Students and alumni have shared experiences of being raped at Cornell.”

“These women testify that they were frightened to report assaults because they felt that Cornell has at times treated rape as more of a ‘PR problem’ than a heinous crime,” Ortiz said.

In his Tuesday letter, Kotlikoff acknowledged that sexual violence extends beyond fraternities, saying Cornell must also confront a campus culture of excessive drinking and drug use and expand education about students’ responsibility to intervene when others are at risk.

Cornell also plans to add victim advocates and expand sexual violence prevention programs, he said, calling the actions “first steps toward systemic change on our campus.”

“We will take all necessary steps to address the conditions that led to Jane Doe’s experiences, and those of other survivors,” he said.

Authorities have not released information about how 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem was thrown from Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday. Several people also were injured.

Here's a look at other fatalities and injuries on U.S. roller coasters:

Six Flags Magic Mountain

The park in Southern California announced last month that it was retiring its famous X2 roller coaster following lawsuits alleging riders suffered serious brain injuries. The park settled one wrongful-death lawsuit with the family of a 22-year-old rider who was rushed to a hospital with severe brain bleeding in 2022. He died a day later. The medical examiner’s office determined he died from “blunt head trauma.” Six Flags Entertainment Corp. said the ride had consistently passed safety tests.

Epic Universe

A medical examiner concluded last year that a man who was unresponsive after riding a roller coaster at the Universal Orlando Resort park died from blunt impact injuries. Joshua Stephany, the medical examiner for the Orlando area, ruled the death an accident. The man in his 30s was found unresponsive after riding Stardust Racers.

Texas Giant

In 2013, a woman riding a roller coaster in Texas died after she was thrown from her seat, fell 75 feet (23 meters) and struck a metal beam. Witnesses said the woman expressed concern about the Texas Giant roller coaster’s safety bar not completely engaging as the ride was starting.

Darien Lake

A U.S. Army veteran who lost both legs in Iraq was killed in 2011 after he was thrown from a roller coaster at Darien Lake Theme Park & Resort in upstate New York. Investigators said operators did not follow rules posted at the ride’s entrance, which require that riders have both legs.

Dixie Landin'

A 21-year-old rider fell to her death from a roller coaster at the amusement park in Louisiana in 2010. A state investigation could not determine a cause.

Disneyland

In 2003, a locomotive broke loose from a train on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster in California, killing a man and injuring multiple other riders. The car derailed after a guide wheel fell off. State investigators found the wheel was not tightened according to Disney’s standards and a safety wire was not installed.

La decisión se da pocos días después de violentos enfrentamientos en una cárcel del estado norteño de Sinaloa en los que murieron 12 personas, entre ellas un niño de un año que estaba de visita en el penal.

“No podemos permitir la sobrepoblación”, afirmó Sheinbaum en su habitual conferencia diaria al reconocer que los 70.000 nuevos detenidos apresados durante los primeros dos años de su mandato han complicado los problemas de violencia y hacinamiento en las 278 cárceles mexicanas. Hasta febrero México tenía una población carcelaria de 261.388 presos.

De acuerdo con el diagnóstico de 2025 de la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México, que se difundió el mes pasado, hay sobrepoblación en 129 prisiones y hacinamiento en otras 124. La investigación encontró que la población penitenciaria creció 39,15% mientras que la infraestructura carcelaria sólo aumentó 5,89%.

Entre los estados que presentan la situación más crítica de hacinamiento están el Estado de México, Chiapas, Durango, Morelos, Nayarit, Quintana Roo, Sonora y Veracruz. Las nuevas prisiones se construirán en Sinaloa, Nayarit, Sonora, México, Veracruz y Chiapas.

La mandataria dijo que el gobierno federal apoyará financieramente a esos estados en la construcción de los nuevos centros penitenciarios. Las obras concluirán en 2028.

El secretario de Seguridad federal, Omar García Harfuch, detalló que los nuevos centros tendrán “infraestructura de alta seguridad, tecnología de vigilancia y monitoreo, sistemas de inspección y bloqueo de señales, así como módulos diferenciados para una adecuada clasificación de las personas”.

El hacinamiento, generado en parte por la prisión preventiva —que mantiene encerrados a miles de presos sin sentencia— sumado al escaso personal de custodia han favorecido la corrupción y la violencia al interior de los centros penitenciarios, según analistas.

Reyes issued the order one day after a tense three-hour hearing in which she harshly criticized the government for having deceived her with its actions over the holiday weekend.

At the Monday hearing, Reyes ordered a 24-hour pause that could be extended to 14 days if necessary. It was limited to one day while the government tried to find a key Trump administration official to discuss why a massive tree-cutting at the park needed to occur over the holiday weekend, with little notification to plaintiffs in a lawsuit trying to halt renovation plans or the judge.

The judge also ordered during that period the government “must provide the court and plaintiffs three business days’ written advance notice prior to making any irreparable modification to any permanent form or feature of the East Potomac Golf Course.”

The DC Preservation League and two local golfers are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The co-counsel in the case, Democracy Forward, thanked Reyes for stepping in and halting what the group called the “mad rush” to turn the public recreation space into a high-end golf course. “We are pleased that the court intervened and will prevent additional work while we seek more lasting relief,” the group said in a statement.

The Monday hearing and Tuesday order were prompted by the National Park Service ordering the cutting of hundreds of trees at the golf course after filing the court notification only minutes before the close of business on Oct. 9 on a holiday weekend, giving the plaintiffs little time to respond. At least 400 trees were cut down over the weekend with plans for several hundred more.

In explaining her order, Reyes said the court, based on limited information so far, concluded that government officials raced to undertake a tree management plan at the park “because President Trump demands haste on his redesign, and not because of some newfound zeal to implement a small part” of a 2019 National Park Service Cultural Landscape Report that suggested work was needed at the district's public golf courses.

The historic park, especially the golf course, caught the eye of Trump, who wants to turn it into a world-class golf venue. It’s part of his grand vision for Washington, D.C., where he has multiple projects underway, including a $400 million White House ballroom and the soon-to-begin construction of his triumphal arch. He began talking about the city's public courses in late 2025.

“When completed, this Course will have the ability to host Major Golf Tournaments, including The U.S. Open, The Ryder Cup, The PGA Championship, and other top PGA Tour events,” Trump posted on social media in June.

The course has been the subject of multiple emergency hearings, including one in May in which Reyes was out of the country, because of concerns from the plaintiffs that the administration would move ahead with work despite the pending lawsuit. In each instance Reyes declined issuing temporary stop orders out of trust for the government's attorney in the case.

“Every single time I have given the government the benefit of the doubt and every single time I made absolutely clear that I want notice,” Reyes said at Monday's hearing. “What has happened has cost the government all credibility with me.”

In a memo obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, the league reversed its Sept. 16 ruling making Harris ineligible to be signed during the 2026 season, saying the defensive tackle did not participate in an official practice or game with LSU, clearing the way for him to be signed by an NFL team.

“The NFL interviewed Mr. Harris and sought independent verification of his activities after the start of NFL training camps and agrees with the NFLPA’s contention that ‘plays college football’ means, at a minimum, participation in a practice (or game) for the applicable college football team,” the memo said.

Harris and Ole Miss tight end Dae’Quan Wright had tryouts in the NFL this summer after going undrafted. They then tried joining their former coach Lane Kiffin at LSU and sued for the right to regain their college eligibility.

After the Southeastern Conference passed a rule barring pros from heading back to college to play and a Louisiana court put that restriction on hold, LSU left both players off its roster as it opened its season.

Wright also was barred from signing with an NFL team in the league’s Sept. 16 decision, and his status apparently remains unchanged.

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En Keke’s Breakfast Cafe, en Parkland, había unos 45 insectos voladores posándose sobre utensilios limpios cerca del área de lavado. En Miami Shores Golf Club, la inspección se hizo tras una queja. En China Spring III, en Coral Springs, hubo excrementos de roedor en la cocina y una cucaracha muerta en el área de preparación.

Según un informe de arresto de la FHP, el conductor fue identificado como Brendley Jerome, de 21 años y residente de Miami Gardens. Fue detenido tras el choque, que lo mandó al hospital junto a dos pasajeros.

Según las autoridades, todo comenzó alrededor de las 4:13 a.m. del lunes 12 de octubre. Un agente vio un BMW plateado que iba a alta velocidad por el Palmetto Expressway, justo al este de la avenida 57 del noroeste.

El agente informó que el BMW iba a unas 120 millas por hora. Entonces encendió las luces de emergencia y la sirena para detenerlo.

En lugar de detenerse, Jerome aceleró a más de 130 millas por hora y empezó a hacer maniobras evasivas, según el informe.

Según el informe, el agente avisó entonces a la central que iniciaba una persecución.

Jerome siguió manejando a velocidades excesivas y zigzagueando entre los carriles, según el informe de arresto. Al acercarse a la calle 154 del noroeste, estuvo a punto de chocar con un tráiler.

Según los investigadores, Jerome intentó tomar la salida de la calle 154 del noroeste desde los carriles en dirección sur del Palmetto Expressway. Pero perdió el control en una curva.

El BMW se salió de la vía y se volcó en una zanja junto a la rampa de salida.

El agente informó que redujo la velocidad, entró con su patrulla a la zanja y chocó “intencionalmente” contra el BMW.

Según las autoridades, tras el choque el agente se acercó al BMW con su arma de reglamento y les ordenó a los ocupantes que salieran del vehículo.

Según el informe, uno de los pasajeros salió por la ventanilla trasera del lado del pasajero. Jerome salió por el cristal trasero del vehículo.

El agente les ordenó a ambos que se acostaran en el suelo y luego esposó a Jerome, según el informe.

Llegaron más agentes, que ayudaron a sacar a un segundo pasajero por la ventanilla trasera del lado del pasajero.

Los equipos de rescate llevaron a los tres ocupantes al Palmetto General Hospital.

La FHP ya había confirmado que los tres ocupantes sufrieron heridas que no ponían en riesgo su vida. El agente no resultó herido.

Según el informe de arresto, los médicos dieron de alta a Jerome en el hospital. Después lo trasladaron al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Enfrenta cargos por huir y evadir a un agente de policía a alta velocidad y por exceso de velocidad.

Hasta la mañana del martes, Jerome seguía detenido en el TGK. Según los registros de la cárcel, su fianza total figuraba como “por determinar”.

The high court, granting a request by President Donald Trump's administration, will hear arguments on whether Izuchukwu Ozurumba's cooking job for leaders of the Unknown Gunmen qualifies as providing “material support” for a terrorist group.

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to review a decision by the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate Ozurumba's removal order. The Republican administration says the 4th Circuit decision conflicts with rulings by at least three other circuits and, if upheld, will hamper the government's ability to deport immigrants with terrorism ties in many other cases.

“Providing meals to a terrorist organization's members is no less a material form of support than providing gasoline for its vehicles,” they wrote.

Ozurumba testified that he didn’t know the true purpose of the camp until after he started working there. The Unknown Gunmen is believed to be a group of separatists operating in southern Nigeria. Ozurumba's lawyers say the group's leaders forced him to work without pay and repeatedly threatened him after he escaped from the camp.

His attorneys further argued that there is no circuit split for the Supreme Court to resolve. “No federal court has adopted the government's rule, under which any interaction with a terrorist organization, no matter how attenuated or inconsequential, qualifies as ‘material’ support,” they wrote.

Ozurumba fled the camp near his home in Lagos, Nigeria, and traveled to Venezuela before entering the U.S. illegally in July 2023 and surrendered to Border Patrol. Several months later, an immigration judge ordered Ozurumba to be deported to Nigeria.

A divided 4th Circuit panel decided that Ozurumba's work at the camp didn't constitute material support of terrorism. The majority opinion says it appears that he was “simply a captive laborer” whose work had nothing to do with terrorist activities.

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Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el tiroteo ocurrió en la madrugada del lunes frente a los Pearl Dadeland Apartments, en el 7440 N. Kendall Drive.

Según un informe de arresto, un agente de la Oficina del Sheriff acudió a la zona poco después de las 3:30 a.m. por reportes de un disparo. Un testigo le hizo señas al agente “y le contó que un grupo de personas se había peleado, pero que se fueron minutos antes de que llegaran los agentes”.

Casi al mismo tiempo, la policía de South Miami informó que la víctima había llegado al Baptist Health South Miami Hospital con una herida de bala, según los agentes.

Según el informe, la víctima les contó a los agentes que una hora antes le había llevado comida a una mujer que vive en el edificio. Dijo que “conversó brevemente con (ella) y le gustó”.

Los agentes dijeron que el hombre regresó alrededor de las 3:25 a.m. “para intentar ver otra vez a (la mujer) y quizás conseguir su número de teléfono”, pero no lo logró.

Según los agentes, cuando el hombre volvía a su carro, llegó en un Chevrolet Corvette el novio de la mujer, Khuslen Saruultuya.

Los agentes dijeron que Saruultuya le apuntó con una pistola y le ordenó “acostarse en el suelo”.

“La víctima obedeció y se acostó boca abajo en el suelo, y (Saruultuya) hizo un disparo que le rozó la nalga derecha”, señala el informe. “Mientras la víctima seguía en el suelo, (Saruultuya) lo golpeó en la parte de atrás de la cabeza con la culata de la pistola y le causó una herida abierta de dos pulgadas”.

Según el informe, Saruultuya le ordenó luego que se levantara, le apuntó a la cabeza y le dijo: “Te voy a matar”.

El informe indica que la novia de Saruultuya, que presenció lo ocurrido, le suplicaba a gritos: “¡Mi amor, por favor, para!”.

La víctima les contó a los agentes que Saruultuya lo “persiguió” alrededor del Corvette sin dejar de apuntarle. Mientras tanto, la mujer “intentaba sujetar (a Saruultuya)”.

Según las autoridades, la placa del Corvette los llevó hasta Saruultuya. La víctima lo identificó en una rueda de reconocimiento fotográfico. Luego, los agentes fueron a su apartamento en los cercanos Palmer Dadeland Apartments para arrestarlo.

Los agentes dijeron que hicieron una “revisión rápida” de su apartamento, en el edificio ubicado en el 8217 SW 72nd Ave. Allí encontraron un arsenal de drogas ilegales, entre ellas Xanax, Adderall, oxicodona, anfetaminas, ketamina, cocaína, MDMA, hongos de psilocibina y marihuana.

Según los agentes, Saruultuya también tenía 16 pastillas de Cialis, un medicamento para la disfunción eréctil. Además, guardaba dos bolsas de tusi, una droga de fiesta también conocida como “cocaína rosada”.

Según los registros de la cárcel, Saruultuya, nacido en Mongolia, enfrenta además del intento de asesinato varios otros cargos. Entre ellos están agresión agravada con arma mortal y nueve cargos por tráfico de drogas, todos delitos graves.

Hasta la mañana del martes, permanecía en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con la fianza “por determinar”.

The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought in 2024 that accused the healthcare giant of providing massive amounts of opioids and other controlled substances “to fuel its own profits at the expense of public health and safety.”

It’s the latest effort by the federal government to hold accountable companies that officials have alleged helped fuel the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis.

“Today’s settlement is a significant milestone in the Justice Department’s efforts to combat the opioid epidemic by cracking down on pharmacies who unlawfully fulfill prescriptions for controlled substances," Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in an emailed statement.

CVS said in a statement that its pharmacists were trained “in the safe and appropriate use of all medications” and that it had implemented “best-in-class” programs to help them “make the best decisions on behalf of patients.”

The company said it strongly disagreed with the claims made in the lawsuit and that the settlement admits no wrongdoing.

The company said in 2024 that pharmacists were being held to “vague, undefined, and ever-changing standards of practice” when it comes to filling prescription opioids.

The lawsuit filed under President Joe Biden's administration accused CVS of violating the Controlled Substances Act by filling illegitimate prescriptions for high doses of potent opioids that “fed dependence and addiction.” The Justice Department alleged it dispensed large quantities of opioids based on prescriptions from known “pill mills," or providers that hand out prescriptions for drugs without a legitimate medical purpose.

It alleged that poor staffing levels coupled with performance metrics and incentive compensation policies implemented by the company led to pharmacists racing to fill prescriptions without confirming they were legitimate. The prescriptions were often billed to and reimbursed by Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs, the lawsuit says.

Under the settlement, CVS must also "implement additional safeguards to ensure that prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances are dispensed only when medically appropriate,” Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Division, said in a statement.

Over the last decade, drugmakers, wholesalers, pharmacies and other companies have agreed to settlements with governments in the U.S. totaling over $50 billion. Most of the money is intended to go to address the crisis, which has been linked to more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. some years, though the numbers have fallen sharply recently.

Most of the settlements -- and dollars -- have been with state and local governments, but the U.S. has reached several deals, including in the last two years with the pharmacies Walgreens and Walmart.

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Associated Press reporter Geoff Mulvihill contributed to this report from Philadelphia.