There are plenty of historic examples. In 1077, the apologetic “Walk to Canossa” followed the power struggle between Pope Gregory VII and Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.

“I remember at the beginning of the Iraq War, Pope John Paul II was very vocal in his opposition against the Iraq War,” Wenski said on Monday in Miami Shores. “And I think, President Bush at that time certainly didn’t agree with him, but he didn’t rant about it.”

On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV criticized the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the war in Iran, which continued into the seventh week. The head of the Catholic Church said, “Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!”

TRUMP’S ‘RANT’

On Sunday, Trump took to Truth Social to write that Pope Leo was “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.” Trump wrote, “I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon” and “I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do.”

Trump also wrote that the pontiff was elected “because he was an American,” so “If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican,” and added, “Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church!”

Wenski said Pope Leo is likely unbothered by Trump’s post.

“You don’t become a Pope without having developed a thick skin over the years, and certainly he will continue to witness the gospel to proclaim The Good News of Jesus Christ,” Wenski said.

TRUMP AND POPE ON MONDAY

Trump told reporters at the White House that he was not going to apologize for the post on Truth Social.

“He was very much against what I’m doing with regard to Iran, and you cannot have a nuclear Iran. Pope Leo would not be happy with the end result,” Trump said.

On Monday, the pope talked to reporters about Trump’s post on Truth Social.

“I will continue to speak out strongly against war, seeking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateralism among states to find solutions to problems,” the pope told reporters.

THE CONTROVERSIAL IMAGE

Trump faced criticism for sharing a graphic on Truth Social that depicted him as a Christ-like savior.

“It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “And I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”

The White House removed the image on Monday.

Wenski said that while Trump is a Christian, he may not have intended for the photo to offend fellow Christians.

“I don’t think he has much foundation in theology or anything like that to really understand all the nuances and the complexities of religious beliefs and religious feelings,” Wenski said.

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Infante, 53, then allegedly told his Miami Southridge Senior High School student that one heart represented her and the other represented him, according to a schools’ police arrest report.

“If only I was 30 years younger,” Infante told the student on another occasion, according to the police arrest report.

Infante was on house arrest with total lockdown on Monday after police officers arrested him on Friday, and he appeared in bond court on Saturday, according to Miami-Dade County court records.

Miami-Dade Schools Police assigned a detective to investigate the “student-teacher relationship” on Feb. 23, and the student described how Infante’s behavior escalated from August to November.

According to the arrest report, Infante’s behavior included holding “her hand longer than usual,” giving her “side hugs that made her feel uncomfortable,” and taking her phone on Oct. 28 to type a note with his personal phone number that said, “Call Rudy.”

Infante would allegedly say, “you are so beautiful,” “I have been thinking about you,” and “I can’t wait to be with you,” and he would “touch her shoulder, back, or arm” and place “his hand on her buttocks.”

The teen told the detective Infante described the boundary crossing as “done out of love and endearment,” and “she stopped asking” him to stop “because she felt he would not listen to her,” according to police.

“Infante grabbed her by the waist while seated in a chair and pulled her toward him, causing her to sit sideways on his lap. While she was seated on his lap, [he] rubbed her back ... leaned forward and kissed her on the chest area between her breasts ... she felt afraid,” the teen said, according to the arrest report.

The student said she was afraid to reject Infante, who is 6 feet tall and weighs about 225 pounds, because he “is physically larger than her,” according to the police arrest report.

The teacher’s case was assigned to the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Sexual Crimes and Child Abuse unit, according to court records.

Infante faced five charges: Four counts of battery and one count of offenses against students by authority figures. His bond was $14,000.

Infante appeared in bond court on Saturday. A judge ordered him to stay away from the teenage girl and all schools and ordered house arrest with total lockdown.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools released a statement on Sunday, reporting that the school district had initiated employment termination proceedings against Infante.

“This type of behavior will not be tolerated as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees,” a M-DCPS spokesperson wrote without providing specifics.

Miami Southridge Senior High School, at 19355 SW 114 Ave., in the South Miami Heights area, had listed Infante on the faculty directory as a Fine Arts teacher.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Zachary James was set to preside over the case.

Local 10 News Assignment Editors Sofia Mendez and Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

Read the arrest report’s narrative:

Watch Saturday’s bond court hearing

Releated report: Miami-Dade schools’ teacher faces prosecution by state attorney’s sexual crimes and child abuse unit

Read M-DCPS complete statement:

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is disturbed by the allegations made against this individual.

Upon learning about this suspected behavior, Miami-Dade Schools Police immediately began their investigation and subsequently made an arrest.

This type of behavior will not be tolerated as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees.

The District has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with M-DCPS.

The Florida Forest Service responded to the wildfire burning in Naples.

As of late Monday afternoon, officials said the fire was 15% contained.

Footage captured from I-75 traffic cameras showed thick clouds of smoke billowing from the area.

This comes as Naples is under extreme drought conditions.

Officials are taking caution as windy conditions could cause the flames to spread.

Evacuation orders have been issued for some residents in the area.

Tuesday will feature sunshine, scattered clouds and that familiar, east breeze. Plan for winds sustained 10 to15 mph with gusts 20 to 25 mph. Temperatures will be seasonable with lows forecast near 70°F, highs in the low 80s.

But three months later, the entire Harris family was absolutely devastated when their brand new family member took a terrible turn.

“He was drooling at the mouth, bubbling at the mouth, it was just heartbreaking, it was horrifying,” said Scott Harris.

The family’s Siberian husky named Bodhi had gotten into a case of rat poison.

They immediately called poison control.

“We explained to the woman what had happened and she said, ‘yeah that’s a 15-pack package,’” said Harris. “So I had found three of the disks, thrown them away, apparently he had eaten 12.”

One disk has enough toxin to kill a 25-pound puppy like Bodhi.

“This is bromethalin, there’s no cure for it,” said Harris. “It’s a poison that creates inflammation in the brain and the brain swells neurological damage that it creates, and she said there’s no cure.”

Unlike rodenticide that does have a cure, this dose of deadly toxins is expected to be terminal.

“It’s absolute death,” said Harris. “This dog is exhibiting the symptoms, he has so much poison in his system, there’s no way, anything we do now is just going to be torturing him.”

After following their veterinarian’s orders, they fed bodhi more than 100 active charcoal tablets, but the poison was still causing seizures and symptoms of neurological damage.

So they made the painful decision to euthanize their four month old puppy.

“I was convinced that this was just a downhill slope and anything we did beyond euthanizing was just inhumane, was going to be torturing the poor puppy,” said Harris.

But behind the scenes, a rescue group was ready to take a chance on the beautiful blue-eyed baby.

Rebecca Landerman with Rescue Dog Network thought there was a fighting chance, so she lined up a foster family.

“The first night he came he was definitely not great,” said foster parent Martine Lebel. “He was not doing well, he had a hard time keeping his eyes open, he just kept falling on the side.”

Bodhi was sent to the ICU for 36 hours to receive fluids and a drug to reduce the swelling of his brain.

And then he had an unbelievable bounce back.

Bodhi was happy, healthy and healed!

“As a dog owner, to have your dog brought back from the dead, because they thought their dog was dead,” said Landerman.

That led to an emotional family reunion.

Nobody could comprehend how the dog that had eaten enough poison to kill a human somehow had survived.

“I still don’t know what to think,” said Harris. “I’m ready to change his name to Ghost, and the crazy thing is it all happened around Easter, so we’re like this dog is being reborn.”

Timothy Hudson was initially charged in February and subsequently indicted on March 10. But the breadth of the case was not known until a seal was lifted Friday, weeks after U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami said he would be prosecuted as an adult at the request of the government.

Anna Kepner had been traveling on the Carnival Horizon ship in November with her family. Before the ship was scheduled to return to Florida, her body was found concealed under a bed in a room she was sharing with two other teens, including the younger stepbrother.

The cause of Kepner’s Nov. 6 death was determined to be mechanical asphyxia, which is when an object or physical force stops someone from breathing.

Kepner’s father, Christopher Kepner, released a statement, saying the family was placing “trust in the justice system to pursue the truth with care and integrity.”

“At the same time, we are deeply troubled that, despite the seriousness of the charges, he has not been taken into custody. ... The situation is deeply painful and complex for the entire family,” Kepner said.

Email and voicemail messages seeking comment from Hudson’s attorneys about the charges were not immediately returned Monday. Hudson has remained free in the care of an uncle since his arrest in February.

“Our hearts go out to the victim’s family during this unimaginable loss,” U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones said in a written statement. “A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging serious offenses that allegedly occurred aboard a vessel in international waters.”

Kepner was a high school cheerleader at Temple Christian School in Titusville, Florida, some 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of Orlando. At her memorial service in November, family members encouraged people to wear bright colors instead of the traditional black “in honor of Anna’s bright and beautiful soul.”

Teens are rarely prosecuted in federal court. Hudson pleaded not guilty when he was initially charged in February, though the proceedings were not public because of his age and neither were court documents. He was seen at the courthouse wearing a ball cap and a hoodie pulled tightly around his face.

A judge on Feb. 6 said Hudson must wear an electronic tether while living with an uncle. The order was changed to allow him to join his father for a few days last week at a landscaping business, newly unsealed court records show.

Prosecutors objected to Hudson’s release, citing dangerousness, and asked a judge Monday to revisit that order now that he has been charged as an adult. Defense lawyers will have a week to respond.

“He committed these crimes against a victim with whom he had no apparent relational strife, and whom he was being raised to view as a sibling,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alejandra López said in a court filing.

Cell phone video obtained by Local 10 News shows the panic and chaos after the shooting around 1:30 a.m. Sunday outside the Five Stars Banquet Hall in Sunrise.

Friends of the victim identified him as Kendrick English.

Delarno Barrett said he’s known English for years, and is heartbroken over his death.

“It’s unreal, I can’t believe (it), I’m dazed right now,” Barrett said.

According to Sunrise police, a birthday party was being held at the banquet hall along Oakland Park Boulevard. English, who is a quadriplegic, was trying to get inside he was met at the door by 26-year-old Francisco Navarro Sanchez, who was working as a security guard.

An arrest form says English was denied entry and there was a verbal argument.

English left and returned for a second time, at which point investigators said English swore at him and Sanchez pulled out a gun and fired multiple rounds.

Witnesses said five shots were fired, according to authorities.

English died at an area hospital.

“He’s defenseless, he can’t harm no body,” said Barrett.

Sanchez went before a Broward County judge on Monday facing a murder charge.

English went through so much in life after overcoming odds following a football accident as a teenager.

Local 10 News first met English in 1995 following the accident that left him paralyzed. He played for Stranahan High School.

We caught up with him nine years later when he received a specially equipped van so that he could drive.

“I’ve been looking forward to having my own independence and being able to go from point A to point B alone,” he said at the time.

Those that knew and loved English are trying to make sense of this awful tragedy.

“How can we explain this? It hurts.”

Sanchez remains behind bars at the Broward Main Jail after being denied bond.

The suspect was identified by BSO as Tamica Brown, 43, who faces charges of criminal use of personal identification information and trafficking in counterfeit credit cards.

“SNAP is a federally funded program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through its Food and Nutrition Service,” BSO spokeswoman Claudinne Caro said in a news release. “Eligible recipients access their funds through electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards, which works similarly to a debit or credit card. Recipients access their benefits using the EBT card and a unique Personal Identification Number (PIN).”

According to BSO, the investigation began on July 20, 2025, when deputies in Cooper City were called to a Walmart at 4700 S. Flamingo Road where a victim reported that someone had used their EBT card without their consent.

Detectives said they eventually identified about 200 victims who suffered a combined loss of more than $120,000.

A single mother of three children, who was forced to go without groceries, and a 95-year-old woman were among the victims, Caro said.

Caro confirmed that 30 victims have been interviewed by detectives so far.

“The eight-month-long investigation revealed Brown, 43, operated an organized fraud scheme where she unlawfully obtained EBT card numbers belonging to SNAP recipients, associated PINs, and account balances from multiple sources,” Caro said. “Evidence indicated that these card numbers were stolen by unknown means and transmitted to Brown electronically by way of phones.”

According to BSO, Brown used the stolen card numbers and PINs to make unauthorized purchases, including for “high-demand” energy drinks, such as Red Bull and Celsius.

Investigators said she then resold the products to corner stores and convenience stores.

According to Caro, the victims discovered their benefits had already been depleted when they tried to make purchases of their own with their EBT cards.

Brown was arrested last Tuesday by Pembroke Pines police, who took her into custody on BSO’s warrant.

As of Monday afternoon, she was being held at the Paul Rein Detention Facility on a $300,000 bond.

According to Officer Mike Vega, the police department received a ShotSpotter alert near the main stage of the event on Northeast 62^nd Street off Second Avenue shortly before 11:30 p.m., toward the end of the event.

He said three people who had been shot were located. Each was transported by Miami Fire Rescue to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

According to authorities, one victim died at the hospital and the two others are stable.

The deceased victim has been identified by officials as Kitchner Cyrille, 23.

“I just don’t understand how it happened,” said event host Supa Cindy. “There was so much police presence out there and everyone felt safe, on a good vibe having fun, there were officers everywhere.”

Cellphone video shows the aftermath of the shooting. Clothing and shoes were scattered across the pavement and one of the victims was seen on the ground being treated by paramedics.

“Well, it was two gunshots,” one witness said. “I didn’t see anything.”

The witness was near the area where the shooting took place and said she heard the deadly shots.

She described the chaotic moments that followed.

“When I turned around, I saw a young guy laying (on the ground) -- was just unresponsive. He wasn’t responsive,” she said. “People were just running all over, I fell down on people. People just trying to recover from the whole incident. That was it -- it was a pause, and then it was another two or three shots.”

Authorities said Monday they have a person of interest in the shooting, but no other details were made available.

“No matter how much planning you have, it is incredibly hard to dissuade someone who has a target in mind,” said Miami Police Chief Manny Morales. “It appears to be a crime of opportunity targeted specifically to the victim. It had no connection to the festival whatsoever.”

Officials with the district said that the lockdown at Parkway Middle School, located at 3600 NW Fifth Court in Lauderhill, was the result of a weapon on campus.

Police said it appears to be the result of an accidental activation of a safety alert.

Some of the confusion can possibly be blamed on the type of weapon. Students told Local 10 News that it involved a BB gun.

Some students initially thought it was a drill.

“It was on lockdown for like the whole first period,” one student said.

But the seriousness of the situation became evident as the day went on.

Broward County Public Schools confirmed that a tip from a student and parent led to a potentially dangerous discovery.

Intern Principal Ackimo Charles said in a message to parents, in part, “We received information from a student and parent about a possible weapon on campus. We immediately placed our school on Lockdown and notified our School Resource Officer and security team, who safely handled the situation and confiscated the weapon.”

“He told me he was going to bring it to school, but I told him not to do it, but he still went ahead,” another student said. “And one of my other friends told him not to do it.”

After police got involved, the lockdown was lifted and school operations continued as normal.

Charles praised the student and parent who actually stepped in to say something, saying that the idea of “see something, say something” worked in this particular situation.

Farmers' costs, such as equipment, have crept up over time while soybean prices have stayed low. Tariffs levied by the Trump administration last year and the monthslong trade war with China only made things worse, soybean producers say. Then the Iran war bottled up shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, restricting global fertilizer supplies and sending fuel and fertilizer prices soaring. A ceasefire deal announced April 7 raised hope that bottlenecks in the strait would abate, but the future of the agreement was uncertain and experts say it will take time for global supply chains to recover.

The AP and Lee Enterprises interviewed experts and soybean farmers across multiple Midwest states.

Here are key takeaways from the report:

Rising costs, low soybean prices have hurt farmers' margins

Soybeans, which are used for livestock feed, food and biofuels, are among the top U.S. agricultural exports. But soybean prices have been persistently low in recent years. The global market has been awash in soybeans, driven in part by Brazil, which surpassed the U.S. as the world’s largest soybean producer years ago.

“If we look at global soybean production over the past several years, it continues to set record, after record, after record,” said Chad Hart, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University. “There’s been just large supplies globally, and that has led to depressed prices.”

Meanwhile, Midwest soybean farmers’ costs have risen. Overall farm production expenses, including seed and pesticide, have increased over time, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Operating costs for soybean production have stayed elevated since 2020 and are projected to increase again in 2026, according to the agency.

The cost of land also is a major issue for farmers, experts say. Midwest crop land values have increased. And most regional farmers rent some of their land, according to Joana Colussi, research assistant professor in the department of agricultural economics at Purdue University.

The U.S.-China trade war in 2025 has lasting impacts

Sweeping tariffs levied by President Donald Trump in April 2025 exacerbated a trade war with China, the top buyer of U.S. soybeans. China responded with retaliatory tariffs and effectively boycotted U.S. soybeans, cutting off a major export market for Midwest farmers and driving the price of soybeans even lower. The U.S. and China eventually reached a deal in late 2025. Beijing committed to buying 12 million metric tons of soybeans by January and at least 25 million metric tons annually for the next three years. China has since met its initial soybean purchase goal and the Trump administration also rolled out a $12 billion temporary aid package in December to boost farmers affected by the trade war.

But the damage is already done, experts and farmers say. While China’s renewed purchases and the federal payments are helping, it’s not enough to recover farmers’ losses. Even after federal assistance, farmers still lost almost $75 per harvested acre of soybeans in the 2025 crop, according to the American Soybean Association. And the trade war further pushed China toward competing soybean exporters, such as Brazil — accelerating a trend of declining U.S. soybean exports to China.

Joseph Glauber, former chief economist at the Department of Agriculture between 2008 and 2014, said global competitors to U.S. soybean farmers gained from the trade war. The U.S. is not as dominant in the global soybean export market as it used to be, Glauber added.

The Iran war further drove up costs for farmers

After the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, a severe slowdown in shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz sent the price of oil soaring. The shipping disruption also largely stopped the export of nitrogen fertilizers manufactured in the Persian Gulf and limited access to key fertilizer ingredients. The price of urea, the most widely traded nitrogen fertilizer, skyrocketed.

Soybeans don’t require nitrogen fertilizer, but it’s vital for corn and most soybean farmers also grow corn. About half the global supply of urea comes from the Middle East, and Qatar and Saudi Arabia are two of the top sources of U.S. fertilizer imports, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire last week that included reopening the strait of Hormuz, but traffic remained slowed amid disagreements over Israeli attacks in Lebanon, and the price of urea remains elevated.

Many Midwest farmers bought their fertilizer well in advance of the spring planting season. But some farmers who didn’t buy early face elevated prices.

The war also caused gasoline and diesel prices to surge, causing further headaches for farmers. Oil prices dropped following the ceasefire announcement, but the war and the closure of the strait will have lasting impacts on farmers, said Seth Goldstein, a senior equity analyst at Morningstar, an investment research company. Facilities in the Middle East that are critical for exporting chemicals, oil and other commodities were damaged or destroyed during the war and it will take time for supply chains to recover, he said.

A March 19 court filing states that Glidden, 52, and Hochstein, 43, are each facing one count of interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications.

A description of the charges states that between March 12 and March 31, 2023, the two “unlawfully and intentionally” intercepted, tried to intercept, or tried to have someone else intercept “oral statements by Leonard Hochstein and those Leonard Hochstein spoke with.”

Records show Glidden was taken into custody Saturday. He no longer appeared in the online jail database on Monday.

Leonard “Lenny” Hochstein, a prominent plastic surgeon in South Florida, is Lisa Hochstein’s ex-husband. They share two children.

According to a Page Six article from May 2023, Lenny Hochstein accused his ex-wife of planting a “listening device” on his car in an attempt to “monitor” his calls.

Lisa Hochstein denied the claims to Page Six.

Attorney Jayne Weintraub, Hochstein’s defense counsel, and attorneys Howard Srebnick and Frank Gaviria, Glidden’s defense counsel, released a joint statement to Local 10 News on Monday afternoon saying, “This matter is part of a contentious divorce proceeding and does not belong in criminal court.”

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, meanwhile, told Local 10 News the warrant is currently under seal.

Regan Prater also pleaded guilty to attempting to aid a foreign terrorist organization for efforts to provide the militant group Hezbollah “a list of personally identifiable information for individuals purportedly affiliated with the government of Israel,” according to a criminal information filed in February.

Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 9 in Knoxville.

A public defender representing Prater did not immediately respond to an email and phone message requesting comment.

Prater was arrested last April in connection with the arson at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market. The arrest came more than six years after the March 2019 blaze, which caused more than $1.2 million in damage, prosecutors say.

An affidavit filed in federal court in East Tennessee last year said Prater’s posts in several group chats affiliated with white supremacist organizations connected him to the crime. In one private message, a witness who sent screenshots to the FBI asked a person authorities believe was Prater whether he set the fire.

“I’m not admitting anything,” the person using the screen name ‘Rooster’ wrote. But he later went on to describe exactly how the fire was set with “a sparkler bomb and some Napalm.”

A white-power symbol was spray-painted on the pavement near the site of the fire. The affidavit describes it as a “triple cross” and says it was also found on one of the firearms used by a shooter who killed 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15, 2019, about two weeks before the Highlander fire.

Prater was initially charged in 2025 with one count of arson. On Monday, the previous indictment was dismissed in favor of the criminal information filed in February which included the charge related to the Lebanese group Hezbollah. In a plea agreement filed the following day in February, the government agreed that a sentence of no more than 20 years was appropriate.

Prater was previously sentenced to five years in federal prison for setting a fire in June 2019 at an adult video and novelty store in East Tennessee. He pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay $106,000 in restitution in that case. At the scene of that fire, investigators found a cellphone they later determined belonged to Prater. The phone included a short video showing a person inside the store lighting an accelerant, according to the affidavit.

Highlander is known as a place where civil rights figures including Rosa Parks and John Lewis received training. Parks attended a workshop there on integration in 1955, about six months before she famously refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She always credited Highlander with helping her become a more determined activist.

Parks returned to Highlander two years later with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for the school’s 25th anniversary celebration, where King gave a keynote address on achieving freedom and equality through nonviolence.

The blaze at Highlander broke out in the early morning of March 29, 2019. No one was injured, but decades’ worth of irreplaceable documents were lost. They included artifacts, speeches and other materials from different eras, including from the Civil Rights Movement.

Nov. 6, 2025:

Anna Kepner, a high school cheerleader from Titusville, Florida, dies from mechanical asphyxia aboard the Carnival Horizon in international waters. She was on the cruise with her family.

Nov. 7-8, 2025:

Kepner’s body is discovered by a housekeeper, concealed under a bed in the cabin she was sharing with two other teens, including her stepbrother, Timothy Hudson.

Mid-November, 2025:

Kepner’s death draws international attention, sparking intense speculation after a court filing in a dissolution of marriage case involving Hudson’s mother said the FBI is investigating and a minor child may be implicated.

Nov. 20, 2025:

The Associated Press reports that Hudson is identified as a suspect in her death according to court documents filed by his parents in an ongoing custody dispute. He is identified only as “T.H.” in the court documents.

Feb. 2, 2026:

Hudson is charged as a juvenile with murder and sexual abuse in federal court, but the court file is sealed because of his age.

Feb. 3:

Hudson is arrested and pleads not guilty to the charges. The hearing is not open to the public.

Feb. 6:

U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres says Hudson can remain free pending trial, but he must live with an uncle and be electronically monitored.

Feb. 24:

Assistant U.S. Attorney Alejandra L. Lopez requests that Hudson be prosecuted as an adult, and Hudson’s defense attorneys do not object.

March 10:

Federal prosecuting attorneys file a superseding indictment but asks the court to keep it sealed.

April 10:

The entire court file is unsealed.

April 13:

The U.S. Department of Justice announces that murder and sexual abuse charges have been brought against Hudson in connection with Kepner’s death.

But according to one of the team’s front-office executives, he is going about his job as usual preparing for next week’s NFL draft despite recent scrutiny regarding the nature of his relationship with a reporter.

“Very involved. Business as usual,” Patriots vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf said when asked how much Vrabel had been involved with the team's draft process. “I’d say he’s been in there with us this round probably a little more than he was in there last year. ... He’s been in there. He’s been contributing. He’s watched a ton of the players.”

It was the first time a member of the team's front office has spoken to reporters since the New York Post published photos of Vrabel and NFL reporter Dianna Russini of The Athletic at an Arizona hotel that have raised questions about the nature of their relationship.

Vrabel spoke with reporters in a news conference setting before last year’s draft but opted not to on Monday. Though reporters did bump into Vrabel, who briefly greeted them, during a tour of the team’s new facility after Wolf's news conference had concluded.

According to the Post, the photos were taken in Arizona two weeks before the start of NFL owners meetings in Phoenix that began on March 29.

Vrabel and Russini, who are both married, released statements to the Post after the publication of the story downplaying what the photos depict.

Russini said they “don’t represent the group of six people who were hanging out during the day.”

Vrabel told the newspaper: “Those photos show a completely innocent interaction and any suggestion otherwise is laughable."

The New York Times, which owns The Athletic, reported Saturday that the digital outlet is investigating the conduct of Russini.

That decision came after the outlet’s executive editor, Steven Ginsberg, previously told the Post that the photos “lacked essential context” and lauded her work with The Athletic.

Vrabel, who won three Super Bowls as a player with New England, is preparing for his second season as coach of the Patriots. He coached the team to a 14-3 finish last season, which ended with a Super Bowl loss to Seattle.

The Patriots hold the 31st overall pick in next week’s draft and 11 picks in total.

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Hialeah police arrested Tanaijah Leanna Mason, 18, of West Park, for crimes that occurred back in March.

According to police, Mason was with two other women on March 5 inside the Sedanos supermarket located at 3950 W 12th Ave. when they took approximately $1,500-worth of baby formula without paying.

Authorities said on the same day, Mason tried stealing another $1,500-worth of formula from a Publix in Hialeah, but when the women were stopped, they took off.

Four days later, police in North Miami Beach said a group of four women pulled off a similar crime at a Target located at 14705 Biscayne Boulevard.

On Friday, police said Mason was discovered to already be in custody “for arrests matching this exact same MO throughout Miami-Dade County” and that “similar cases involving the same group of females has also been reported in Broward County,” according to an arrest form.

An additional case out of Miramar is under investigation, but police cannot confirm if the crimes were committed by the same group.

Sharon Simmons, dressed in a "DoorDash Grandma” T-shirt, walked up to the Oval Office’s exterior door and knocked as media cameras rolled. Trump popped out and said, “Hello. Nice to see you,” before proclaiming, “Look at this!” and then, glancing toward a pack of nearby reporters, offering, “This doesn’t look staged, does it?”

It was, of course. Making it onto the White House grounds alone requires obtaining prior permission and passing through security, while accessing the Oval Office — not to mention getting so close to the president — would have been impossible without additional screenings and background checks.

Still, the White House has attempted to call more attention to a piece of the Trump-backed tax and spend package approved last summer that allows Americans to temporarily deduct some federal taxes from income earned on tips. It lets certain workers deduct up to $25,000, but phases out for those with higher incomes.

Officials are intensifying the publicity effort ahead of Tax Day on Wednesday — even as the issue has been overshadowed for weeks by the war in Iran that has raised gas prices and spooked financial markets, and more immediately by Trump’s feud with Pope Leo XIV.

McDonald’s is a longtime favorite of the president — and fare he's used to political ends before.

He famously ordered it, along with vast piles of other fast food, to serve the visiting NCAA football champion Clemson Tigers in 2019 during his first term, when a government shutdown had reduced White House kitchen staff. Trump also staged one of the most memorable stops of his successful 2024 reelection campaign by visiting a Pennsylvania McDonald’s restaurant, where he worked the fry station and took reporters’ questions from the drive-thru window.

On Monday, Simmons, who DoorDash said was from Arkansas, recounted how the tax changes had helped her receive $11,000 that she wouldn’t have otherwise gotten, which she said was especially crucial as her husband battled cancer. Trump also mentioned the $11,000, but that figure was difficult to verify without Simmons' tax statement, which wasn't provided to reporters.

Trump then asked, “Would you like to do a little news conference with me?" and had her stand awkwardly beside him as he took questions about his threats to blockade the Strait of Hormuz and his refusal to apologize to Pope Leo.

The president eventually asked Simmons: “I think you voted for me. Do you think?” To which she responded, “Um, maybe.” Undaunted, Trump continued: “I heard you're a great supporter. We appreciate it.”

When a reporter later asked if the White House was a good tipper, Simmons hesitated: “Um ... potentially.”

“Wait,” Trump crowed, reaching into his pocket for a $100 bill and handing it to Simmons with a grin. She took the money, laughed and finished, “Yes, very," as the president patted her on the back and beamed.

Trump also invited Simmons and her husband to a UFC bout he's helping to stage on the White House lawn to mark his 80th birthday in June. And he turned to Simmons again to press her on if she believes “men should play in women's sports” — a frequent topic of his as he blasts Democrats for being too supportive of transgender rights.

“I really don’t have an opinion on that,” Simmons replied, prompting Trump to push, “I’ll bet you do.”

“No, no," she insisted. “I’m here about no tax on tips.”

The White House later said that Trump personally delivered the food — consisting of cheeseburgers and fries — to West Wing staff.

It didn't say if he got a tip for doing so.

Cichowski, 46, a 2021 Palm Coast mayoral candidate, injured his 82-year-old father and his 76-year-old mother on Friday at their home in Palm Coast, according to a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s arrest report.

Cichowski struck his father on the head with a firearm that he also pointed at his mouth, ear, and groin, while he “threatened to shoot and kill him,” according to the deputy’s arrest report.

His mother — who was bedridden — reported Chichowski snatched her cellphone and struck her in the head with it, and she suffered “a clear injury,” according to the deputy’s arrest report.

During the attack, Chichowski told them that if they called 911, he would kill them and law enforcement, according to the deputy’s arrest report.

Chichowski faced six charges: Two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of battery on a person over 65, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and tampering or depriving a witness with the use of 911.

After so many seasons in which James valiantly carried otherwise ordinary teams to extraordinary achievements, the greatest scorer in NBA history was not even the Los Angeles Lakers' focal point this year. Down the stretch of his first full season alongside Luka Doncic, the 41-year-old James became a supporting player of sorts while Doncic drove the Lakers’ offense and rising star Austin Reaves thrived.

This dynamic worked superbly while the Lakers made a 16-2 surge through March, winning the Pacific Division and prompting many to wonder if they could even conjure a challenge to Oklahoma City or San Antonio this spring.

And then Doncic (hamstring) and Reaves (oblique) both went down in the Lakers' first game of April with significant injuries likely to sideline them for several weeks.

Just like that, James is alone in the spotlight once again this month, the Lakers' faint postseason hopes resting on a 23-year NBA veteran who has already done it all.

When Los Angeles hosts the Houston Rockets in its playoff opener Saturday night, James will attempt yet another improbable feat in a career full of them: Keeping the Lakers alive long enough for Doncic and Reaves to return.

“I’ve had to tap back into a role that I’ve been accustomed to in the past, but obviously wasn’t what it was this year,” James said. “Circumstances have put me back in here, and I’m just trying to feed off my teammates (while my) teammates feed off of me. Trying to make things happen for us to continue to stay afloat.”

Indeed, this would be a daunting challenge for almost any player except James. After he racked up 26 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds while the Lakers beat Golden State last week, he was asked what his team needs from him without its two top scorers.

“Everything,” James said. “So nothing changes for me. Just back to the old ways."

James has spent the majority of his basketball life lifting up the players around him. Even after he left Cleveland the first time to relieve that burden by forming the Miami Heat's super-team, he went home again after four years and spent four more seasons carrying the Cavaliers to four straight NBA Finals against Golden State — most famously stretching the 2015 series to six games without Kyrie Irving or Kevin Love, followed by leading Cleveland's epic rally from a 3-1 series deficit to win the 2016 title.

Here in the present, the Lakers realize their promising season has probably been sabotaged by unlucky injuries. Doncic, who led the NBA in scoring, has traveled to Spain in hopes of finding some medical way to get back on the court sooner, while Reaves is almost certainly out for at least the first round.

But with James in their lineup, Lakers coach JJ Redick will always feel they've got a chance.

“We’re going to need him to facilitate, and we’re going to need him to score,” Redick said. “We’re going to need him to defend and rebound. I think he recognizes the task at hand, and he’s very locked in. He’s played great.”

All three of the Lakers' stars have had injury problems this season, and they only got extensive playing time together recently. James missed training camp and the first 14 games of the regular season last fall after developing sciatica, yet he has played in 60 of the ensuing 68 games for Los Angeles, including five back-to-back sets.

“He had not a good season, not a great — he had a remarkable season, all things considered,” Redick said. “You take away the fact that he’s in his 23rd year, and he’s 41 years old, he had a remarkable season. The fact that those things are real, and they’re very real in terms of the day-to-day management, it’s unbelievable what he did this year.”

James' numbers reflect only slight concessions to his age and his lessened workload behind Doncic and Reaves: His 20.9 points per game were his fewest since his rookie year in 2003-04, while his 33.2 minutes per game were his lowest ever.

Yet when he's in the spotlight, James still delivers with remarkable frequency. He finished the regular season by averaging 24.0 points, 9.7 assists, 6.0 rebounds and 3.0 steals in three Lakers victories to secure homecourt advantage in the first round.

James was named the Western Conference’s player of the week Monday for the 70th time — more than any other two players in NBA history combined.

“Just trying to squeeze as much of the juice as I can, until it’s as dry as it can be for me,” James said. “I’ve been given an opportunity to play the game that I love, and tried to do it at a high level, and I’ve tried to commit to it, and the game has given back to me.”

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The reality TV star and entrepreneur has signed on to help produce the play “The Fear of 13,” about the true story of Nick Yarris, a man who spent more than two decades on death row for a murder he insists he did not commit.

“My commitment to criminal justice reform has always been about more than just policy — it’s about people. I’ve learned that sometimes the most effective way to change minds is through a powerful story. 'The Fear of 13' is that story,” she said in a statement.

Kardashian has in the past few years used her spotlight to shine a light on the wrongfully convicted. She has gone to the White House during President Donald Trump's first term and during President Joe Biden's term to lobby for criminal justice reform and the president's clemency powers.

Kardashian lobbied Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who spent more than 20 years in prison for drug offenses. Johnson was released in June 2018 and later, in August 2020, received a full pardon from Trump and had her rights restored.

“The Fear of 13,” written by Lindsey Ferrentino, stars Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, and is directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer. Opening night is set for Wednesday.

Led by the antiwar group Jewish Voice for Peace, the crowd of hundreds initially attempted to stage a sit-in inside the Manhattan offices of the two Democratic lawmakers they accused of abetting Israel’s intensifying attacks in Lebanon and the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

After demonstrators were blocked by security from entering the building, they stopped traffic outside, chanting “fund people, not bombs” as they were arrested and loaded onto three buses.

Among the 90 people taken into custody were whistleblower Chelsea Manning, actor Hari Nef and New York City Council Member Alexa Avilés, according to a JVP spokesperson.

The demonstration focused on a set of resolutions introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders that could block the sale of more than $600 million in bombs to Israel.

Similar measures previously introduced by Sanders, an independent from Vermont, have failed. But the most recent effort this past summer drew support from more than half of Senate Democrats amid widespread hunger and suffering in Gaza. Schumer and Gillibrand were not among them.

Protesters on Monday said Israel’s air and ground offensive in southern Lebanon, along with the larger U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, added to the urgency of the vote, which is expected later this week.

“This is the moment when Schumer and Gillibrand must listen to their constituents,” said Sonya Meyerson-Knox, the communications director with Jewish Voice for Peace. “The majority of Americans and New Yorkers want a resolution to what the Israeli government is doing.”

Inquiries to Schumer and Gillibrand were not immediately returned.

Camp Mystic director Edward Eastland testified in a court hearing about preserving damaged areas of the camp's grounds as evidence in several lawsuits filed by families of the victims of the July 4th disaster on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

A judge last month ordered the camp to preserve those areas, and camp operators have appealed. The groups were back in court Monday for further testimony about the camp and what happened there before and during the flood.

This week's hearing, which could produce the most extensive public comment from the all-girls Christian camp's operators, comes amid their application for a state license to reopen Camp Mystic this summer on a part of campus that did not flood.

Camp director says staff had signed up for an emergency warning system

Camp director Edward Eastland testified for several hours Monday in a courtroom packed with the families of the girls who were killed.

Eastland said he and other staff were signed up for an emergency warning system on their phones and used other weather apps. But he said he did not see flood watch social media posts by the National Weather Service and the Texas Department of Emergency Management on July 2 and 3rd.

Eastland said he wasn't following those agencies on social media and thought the local “CodeRED” mobile phone alert system and phone weather apps staff had at the time “was enough.”

A July 3 National Weather Service alert asked area broadcasters to note that locally heavy rainfall could cause flash flooding in rivers, creeks, streams and low-lying areas, all features of the Camp Mystic property.

Eastland said that his father, camp co-owner Richard Eastland, typically monitored weather issues. Edward Eastland said he did not believe camp staff held a meeting about the alerts and warnings that day.

The storms would hit overnight, killing 25 campers, two teenage counselors and Richard Eastland.

“We did not expect what was going to happen,” Edward Eastland said.

“You were warned,” said Brad Beckworth, an attorney representing families who have sued Camp Mystic.

Eastland says campus loudspeakers were not used to issue a weather warning

Eastland was pressed on the limited information campers and the cabin counselors would have had because cellphones were not allowed in the cabins, and only some staff carried walkie-talkies for communication.

The courtroom heard part of a video of “Taps” played over loudspeakers when the campers went to bed at 10 p.m. July 3. Those loudspeakers were not used to issue a weather warning, Eastland said.

Eastland said he went to bed about 11 p.m. Eastland said he never got a National Weather Service flash flood warning at 1:14 a.m. and that he slept through a CodeRED alert text at the same time that was specific for his area. The alert warned of a flood event that could last several hours.

His father called him on a walkie-talkie shortly before 2 a.m. to tell him about hard rain falling and the need to move canoes and water equipment off the river front. They did not move to evacuate cabins at the point.

“It was not reasonable to do that at that time,” Eastland said. “The water wasn’t out of the Guadalupe River. It was pouring down rain and lighting and the cabins were safe at that time.”

Richard Eastland made the call to evacuate cabins about 3 a.m., Edward Eastland said.

Eastland said he never got a National Weather Service flash flood warning at 1:14 a.m. and that he slept through a CodeRED alert text at the same time that was specific for his area. The alert warned of a flood event that could last several hours.

Lawyers for the families pressed Eastland on a signed statement from a counselor who woke up during the storm and said she could see girls running for shelter.

“The water was rising faster than anything I have ever witnessed,” the counselor wrote.

Flooding killed at least 136 people along the Guadalupe River

All told, the destructive flooding killed at least 136 people along a several-mile stretch of the river, raising questions about how things went so terribly wrong.

Families of several of the girls who died have sued the camp’s operators, arguing that camp officials failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached.

The camp's efforts to reopen have outraged the families of the girls and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who has said the license should be denied while state lawmakers and agencies investigate. Camp operators have said nearly 900 campers have signed up to return.

Texas health regulators said last week they are investigating hundreds of complaints filed against the camp owners. The Texas Rangers are also helping look into allegations of neglect, according to the Texas Department of Safety, although the scope of the state’s elite investigations unit was not immediately clear.

But the numbers also say as the NBA postseason begins not to count out the Celtics, who are just two years removed from winning their record 18th championship.

OKC is a +120 favorite at BetMGM Sportsbook to become the first team since Golden State in 2018 to repeat as champion. San Antonio, which defeated the Thunder four out of five times in the regular season, is next at +450. Boston lurks close behind at +550.

Every other team carries odds of 10-1 or longer.

“The West team is going to be favored in the final unless there's a real shocker,” said Bruce Marshall, handicapper for WagerTalk/Gold Sheet. “We're assuming it's Oklahoma or San Antonio. Either of those two would be favored. Boston would have the best chance, I think, in the East, followed by the Knicks and then Detroit.”

David Lieberman, pro basketball lead at Caesars Sportsbook, expressed caution about assuming favorites would wind up in the NBA Finals.

“It should be pretty wide open this year, and I can see any of the top 3-5 seeds making a run in each conference," Lieberman said. "I expect several long, competitive series all the way through.”

Key Eastern players return

Jayson Tatum's earlier-than-expected return from an Achilles tendon tear sustained in last year's playoffs has made bettors believers of the Celtics. Boston was listed at 10-1 before his comeback, and 8.7% of the bets and 8.2% of the money at BetMGM are on the Celtics. That's behind only the Pistons in the Eastern Conference (10.2% of bets, 9.7% of the handle).

There is plenty of reason for optimism in Detroit with Cade Cunningham back after missing about three weeks because of a collapsed lung.

Even though the West is better and deeper, many bettors see value in the numbers in the East.

“The Detroit Pistons have been getting bet all year, and now with Cade Cunningham back and healthy, bets are coming in on them again," Lieberman said. "The top five seeds in the East have been pretty popular bets of late, so I think there is some belief in those teams outside of the Celtics.”

Lakers likely to be one and done

There was plenty of chatter about keeping an eye on the Lakers as a potential sleeper team in the West before Luka Doncic (hamstring) and Austin Reaves (oblique) went down with injuries this month.

The BetMGM betting numbers reflect the low expectations for the Lakers. Los Angeles is listed at 125-1 to emerge from the West and 250-1 to win it all.

The fourth-seeded Lakers open the playoffs against No. 5 Houston. The Rockets are 8-1 favorites to win the series even without home-court advantage.

“The moment Luka got hurt, the chances of the Lakers making a deep run ended,” Marshall said. “Houston has been playing better, so I think that Lakers (have a) short stay. It's too bad because it was looking like they might be menacing for a while when all the hands were on deck.”

Home teams favored in play-in games

If the odds are correct, the four play-in tournament games Tuesday and Wednesday should come down to the final minutes.

Charlotte and the Los Angeles Clippers, each at 5 1/2 points, are the largest favorites at BetMGM.

The Hornets play Miami, with the winner facing Orlando or Philadelphia and an eventual matchup with top-seeded Detroit on the line. The 76ers are 1 1/2-point favorites over the Magic, with the winner of that game playing the Celtics.

In the West, the Clippers meet the Warriors for the right to play Portland or Phoenix and eventually advancing to play the Thunder. The Suns are 3 1/2-point favorites over the Trail Blazers, with the winner meeting the Spurs.

No tanking at this time of year

Marshall agreed with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver that tanking is a major problem for the league.

Whether some teams aren't giving it their all won't be a factor in the betting in the playoffs, unlike during the regular season.

“Actually, I kind of enjoyed it when you got these teams that weren't trying because you could try to go against them, although the oddsmakers were really making us pay with a lot of these numbers,” Marshall said. “It's really a disease in the NBA and they're trying to address, but it gets worse every year with the tanking stuff. As soon as a team sees they're out of the playoff picture, they try not to win.”

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Knox is taking on “Wheels of Grit,” a 2,000-mile cycling journey up the East Coast.

“They’re incredible people who have done amazing things for their country,” Knox said.

“I kind of just get in the mindset of this is all I have to do today, this is it, so just think about it one minute at a time,” she added.

A few years ago, Knox, who lives in Washington, D.C., suffered a serious accident on her bicycle. Spending months in outpatient recovery at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, she saw the challenges disabled veterans face up close.

She’s a Coast Guard veteran herself.

“I just felt inspired by the people I met and their determination to embrace life and do the best with what they’ve got now,” Knox said.

Her sendoff was in Key West on Thursday alongside two American Legion posts.

By Saturday, she made it to downtown Miami. On Sunday, she reached Fort Lauderdale.

“Part of my journey is to hit American Legions and VFW posts at the end of every ride each day,” she said.

The goal is to finish the journey in southern Maine.

She expects the trip to take 42 days, riding more than 60 miles a day.

No matter the distance or how long it takes, Knox hopes this helps people believe they can go after their goals.

“I really hope to inspire people who watch this stuff to think about something that feels impossible to them,” she said.

She has already raised more than $8,000 for the Wounded Warrior Project and another $2,000 for Achilles International, which helps people with disabilities.

For more information on her journey, visit her Instagram page.

Courtney Williams, 40, who is charged with four counts of communicating and disclosing national defense information about a “special military unit” at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, after working for it as a civilian, appeared in federal court in Raleigh.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Meyers agreed to release Williams, who was arrested last week and wore a striped jumpsuit in court, under home detention and location monitoring. She's barred from having contact with the media or using social media, Meyers said.

Williams' attorney, Christian Dysart, declined to comment after the hearing, which came more than a week after a criminal complaint was filed in her case.

The complaint was unsealed last week on the same day a grand jury indicted Williams and the U.S. Justice Department announced her arrest. An FBI official said then her alleged disclosures put “our nation, our warfighters, and our allies at risk.” Each count is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, the government says, along with monetary penalties.

Court documents say Williams, who was hired as a defense contractor in 2010 and became a Department of Defense employee months later, worked for a “special military unit” at Fort Bragg until 2016 and held a top-secret security clearance.

Although the reporter and unit are not named in the court filings, dates and details match an article and book about the Army’s secretive Delta Force written by Seth Harp.

Williams, who lives about 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Fort Bragg, was the focus of a 2025 Politico article with the headline: “My Life Became a Living Hell: One Woman’s Career in Delta Force, the Army’s Most Elite Unit.” The article, which describes Williams as serving previously in the Army as an interrogator and Arabic linguist, coincided with the release of Harp’s book, “The Fort Bragg Cartel,” which alleges sexual harassment and discrimination.

The indictment alleges that between 2022 and 2025, Williams was in contact with the author, resulting in more than 10 hours of phone calls and exchanging hundreds of text messages.

The indictment alleges in part that Williams unlawfully disclosed a “cover alias identity issued and owned” by the unit; tactics and techniques the unit used to “execute covert missions without being detected”; and “true names of individuals” assigned to the unit, and “their capture during a sensitive military mission in a foreign country.”

Harp said last week in a written statement that Williams is a “courageous whistleblower” on discrimination and harassment within Delta Force and contends former unit members reveal incidentally on podcasts and YouTube shows unit details that the government now labels a crime by Williams.

“I am confident that the DOJ’s slapdash indictment, full of misleadingly juxtaposed quotations taken out of context, will fall apart upon careful scrutiny,” Harp wrote.

An FBI agent's affidavit said that Williams had signed nondisclosure documents regarding classified materials while working for the unit and as she left her job.

The affidavit says Williams messaged the journalist on or about the article's release expressing concern about “the amount of classified information being disclosed.” And in another alleged exchange, she told her mother she may get arrested “for disclosing classified information.”

Investigators said the crash happened just before 9 p.m. in the area of Southwest 192nd Avenue and 349th Street.

Police said Rodrigo Rivas, 19, hit the motorcyclist and took off. Medics took the victim to Jackson South Medical Center.

Investigators said Florida City police put out a be-on-the-lookout notice for the a suspect’s vehicle and a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detective later saw a Chevrolet Malibu “traveling on a rim,” then found the sedan pulled over on Southwest 195th Avenue and 340th Street.

A Florida Highway Patrol arrest report states that Rivas flagged the detective down, “confessed that he was involved in a car crash” and said “he thought he hit someone and did not know what to do.”

The MDSO detective, troopers said, “inspected the vehicle for damage and observed front right-side damage, along with what appeared to be evidence of blood and tissue, which was consistent with a car collision.”

A state trooper took Rivas into custody just after midnight on Saturday on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash causing serious bodily injury.

The FHP arrest report lists no indication of drug or alcohol use.

Additional details about the motorcyclist weren’t immediately available on Monday.

Rivas no longer appeared in Miami-Dade jail records as of Monday afternoon.

The investigation, according to a statement by the committee, centered on “allegations that he may have engaged in sexual misconduct, including towards an employee working under his supervision.”

On Sunday, Swalwell, 45, the House manager in President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, announced he was suspending his run to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

“To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past,” Swalwell wrote.

On Friday, Swalwell shared a video.

“I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s,” Swalwell wrote on X.

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Leo says he is sharing a Gospel message and not directly attacking Trump or anyone else with his appeals for peace and criticism of attitudes fueling the war.

Criticism of Trump came from Archbishop Paul Coakley, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and from Minnesota-based Bishop Robert Barron, who only a few days ago was applauding Trump as an Easter guest at the White House. Barron called the president’s remarks “entirely inappropriate and disrespectful” and urged him to apologize.

The dismay extended into an even more solid base of Trump support – conservative Christian evangelicals. Many were appalled that Trump followed his Truth Social attack on Leo by posting an image depicting himself as a Christ-like savior.

“TAKE THIS DOWN, MR. PRESIDENT,” posted David Brody, a prominent Trump-supporting commentator with the Christian Broadcasting Network. “You’re not God. None of us are. This goes too far. It crosses the line.”

By midday Monday, the image had been taken down from Truth Social. And speaking at the White House, the president claimed that he never intended to liken himself to Jesus when he posted the picture.

“How did they come up with that?" he asked. “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better. I make people a lot better."

Trump: No apology needed

On his clash with the pope, Trump was equally defiant: “There’s nothing to apologize for. He’s wrong.”

The president's feud with American religious communities comes just six months before voting begins in this fall's midterms as Trump grapples with low approval ratings and dissension from his MAGA base over the war with Iran. But few groups of voters have been more loyal to Trump — and important to his political success — than those on the religious right.

For now, some Trump allies are optimistic that the dispute will soon be forgotten.

“There is a deep reservoir of appreciation for the president and his faith-based policies that transcends and eclipses any disagreement over a social media post,” Ralph Reed, who sits on the president’s faith advisory board, told The Associated Press.

Through American history, numerous U.S. presidents have had policy differences with various popes. But experts on the Vatican and religious history could recall no exchange comparable to the back-and-forth between Trump and Leo over the pope’s condemnation of America's role in the Iran war.

“This is unprecedented criticism of a Pope from a US president,” David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, said via email.

“As to whether it will have a big effect on how US Catholic voters regard Trump, that is an open question,” Campbell added. “Given that attitudes toward the president are driven largely by people’s party preference — which is hard to move -- it probably will not have a huge impact on Catholics’ attitudes toward Trump.”

David Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture, noted that many lay Catholics have been standing by Trump in recent weeks and have been critical of their bishops who critique the president.

“If this attack on the pope does not shift that dynamic in a marked way it will truly be a watershed moment ... with American Catholics choosing a Catholic-baiting president over their own pope,” Gibson said.

Looking far back into world history, Trump’s attempt to “strong-arm Pope Leo” isn’t anything new, said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of American Studies and History at Notre Dame.

“Emperors, monarchs, and despots have long threatened popes in an effort to force them to bend to their will,” she said via email. “In an American context, however, Trump’s invective does represent a historic reversal.”

“For most of this country’s history, Americans viewed the pope as war-mongering, money-grubbing, anti-democratic menace who had designs on the White House,” she added. “Today, the menace is in the White House, and the pope is the one defending the ideals of liberty and human dignity.”

At a prayer service Saturday, the pontiff denounced the “ delusion of omnipotence ” that he said was fueling the war with Iran. Without citing Trump or the U.S. specifically, the pope said: “Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!”

On Monday, he was specific in responding to the president’s criticisms, saying “I have no fear of the Trump administration.”

Questions arise about Catholic convert JD Vance

There was no immediate comment about the pope-Trump rift from Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert who occasionally has sparred with Catholic leaders over their criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Catholics Vote Common Good, a nonprofit group that generally supports progressive causes, urged Vance to speak out on the rift.

“At a moment when the Holy Father is being attacked and the dignity of the Church is being undermined, silence is not neutrality. It is complicity,” said Denise Murphy McGraw, the organization’s national co-chair.

Some vocal evangelical supporters of Trump criticized the meme depicting him as healer apparently resembling Jesus, even while maintaining support for Trump himself.

“It isn’t hard to condemn this outright,” said Willy Rice, a candidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of Calvary Church in Clearwater, Florida.

“Many Christians appreciate the President’s administration and have supported him in meaningful ways, but this is wrong,” Rice posted on X.

Also weighing in was Doug Wilson, co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a staunchly conservative Calvinist denomination with an outsized influence in the current administration. Its churches’ members include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“I was very grateful to see how many conservative Christians immediately denounced the blasphemous Jesus/Trump image,” Wilson posted on X.

Megan Basham, a conservative evangelical commentator, posted that she agreed with Trump’s criticisms of Leo as “Weak on crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.” But she assailed his meme as “OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy” and urged Trump to “ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.”

A look at the numbers for religious blocs as election nears

Such public dissension against Trump from evangelical leaders is rare.

In 2024, white evangelical Protestants were a significant component of Trump’s winning coalition, according to AP VoteCast. About one-third of Trump voters, 34%, identified as white evangelical or born-again Christians, compared with only 8 percent of Harris voters. White evangelicals made up about 2 in 10 voters that year, and the vast majority, 79%, voted for Trump.

A February AP-NORC poll found that about two-thirds of white born again Protestants approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, while about one-third disapprove.

Catholics were much unhappier with Trump’s performance in that poll. Only about 4 in 10 approved of his handling of the presidency, similar to Americans overall.

William Barbieri, a Catholic University ethics professor, said Trump’s remarks seemed aimed more at his political base than at Leo himself.

“Pope Leo’s response has been calm and measured, in a way that creates a contrast unflattering to the President,” Barbieri said via email.

“He is opposing resorts to lethal force ... and expressing solidarity with suffering people in many countries,” said Barbieri, contrasting the start of Leo’s pastoral journey to Africa this week with Trump’s appearance at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event on the weekend.

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This story has been corrected to attribute a quote to David Gibson of Fordham University, not to David Campbell of Notre Dame.

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Crary reported from New York and Smith from Pittsburgh. Associated Press writer Amelia Thomson DeVeaux in Washington contributed.

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He never anticipated the long journey back would take a detour because of a bout with shingles.

On Monday, one day after the Pacers completed a 19-win season without their two-time All-Star ever suiting up, Haliburton told reporters that while he's ready to return from the injury, it's the illness that he will contend with this offseason. It has caused him to gain weight, lose part of his right eyebrow and forced him to wear eyeglasses to avoid scratching his swollen eye.

“First of all, I'd tell anybody over 50 years old to get the shot," Haliburton said. "It's been miserable. I have good days and bad days, but for the most part it's been bad days. I've been taking unbelievable amounts of medication to try to get rid of it. It hasn't worked. It's not been fun and hopefully it goes away soon. It's hard to really tell with nerve pain, but I've been dealing now with nerve pain for two months and in the world of nerve pain, that's not very long. Hopefully, it goes away soon.”

Anyone who’s had chickenpox harbors that virus for the rest of their life. It hides in nerves and can break out when the immune system weakens from illness or age, causing painful, blister-like sores typically on one side of the body that last for weeks.

About 1 in 3 Americans will get shingles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While most recover, it sometimes causes severe complications. If it infects an eye it can cause vision loss. Up to 20% of shingles patients suffer excruciating nerve pain months or even years after the rash itself is gone.

While team officials wasted no time announcing last July the former Iowa State point guard would not play this season, Haliburton said his recovery was essentially tracking that of Boston Celtics All-Star Jayson Tatum, who tore his Achilles tendon last May, until the shingles diagnosis. Haliburton was injured in June, during Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

Tatum recently returned to game action and appears to be getting stronger by the day for the Eastern Conference's No. 2 seed.

Haliburton and his teammates, meanwhile, are heading home for a crucial summer that could determine whether the Pacers can continue to be a title contender when Haliburton returns.

The good news from Haliburton is that he has no doubts about his lower right leg being healthy. Instead, he's just trying to get over this illness that delayed his return to five-on-five workouts until last week.

“I'm out of shape like crazy, like I never have been before,” Haliburton said. "I've changed my medication a bunch of times. I've gotten a Botox injection I thought would help, it hasn't really helped. I've done everything, it just hasn't worked yet. But I'm confident it goes away soon."

Most people figured losing Haliburton for an entire season would derail the title hopes of last year's Eastern Conference champs. Still, as training camp opened, team officials bristled at the thought of describing this as a “gap season,” awaiting Haliburton's return.

An early season rash of injuries to additional starters and key rotational players, coupled with a 1-13 start, quickly changed the equation and not to everyone's satisfaction.

“It was tough, just tough mentally going through that,” four-time All-Star Pascal Siakam said Sunday. “It was hard trying to get through it, find positive things, trying to continue to improve, trying to find ways to win games. It was pretty bad. It sucked.”

Haliburton felt similarly, yet at the urging of coach Rick Carlisle, continued to attend team meetings, film sessions and workouts. In the locker room, he helped counsel teammates about their injury battles while encouraging younger players to make improvements.

“Once I get off that (medication) and start running a little more, I have no worries,” Haliburton said. “I've got a long summer ahead of me — we're only in April and the season doesn't start till October. So I don't really have any concerns. I can't wait till I get out there and play and compete with my guys.”

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An IV stand on wheels is set up behind him. On the floor, a clear bag holds dialysis fluid.

“Hey, don’t mind that,” he says to a visitor, as he nods toward the tubing and bag at his feet.

This has been Pimental’s reality for nearly a year now. He’s been a Type 1 diabetic for about 30 years, and last spring his health took a serious turn — his kidneys began failing and, probably for a variety of reasons, his blood pressure was soaring. He’s been on a transplant list for months, awaiting both a new kidney and pancreas.

The call might come this week. It might come next year. Nobody knows.

“We’ve all just kind of wanted to rally around him,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. ”We support him as much as possible, but also we let him know, one, we love him, and two, we really appreciate everything that he does and that he’s still able to do it, despite everything.”

April is National Donate Life Month, and it hits particularly close to home for the Heat. Alonzo Mourning, one of Miami’s all-time great players, a Hall of Famer and the team’s vice president for player programs, needed a life-saving kidney transplant in 2003. He’s been an invaluable resource for Pimental throughout this process.

“That’s a big thing, having Zo around me all the time,” Pimental said. “He’s been through this and just to have him come in and walk me through some steps I didn’t understand and then just be there if I have a question, it means something. Sometimes he walks in and he’s like, ‘Man, you look good today. You good? You feeling good? You look good.’ That means a lot, because he knows what I’m going through.”

Pimental — one of the league’s longest-tenured equipment managers — wasn’t on the plane that carried the Heat to the play-in tournament on Monday. He hasn’t been able to fly with the team this season, which is the biggest change to the way he’s handled the job that he’s had in Miami for 15 years.

He gives himself dialysis twice a day and relies on the help of other Heat staffers and people he oversees probably more than ever before — along with constant comic relief from former Heat players Kyle Lowry and Kevin Love, who check in on Pimental all the time — but he’s still finding a way to make it work.

“It’s meant a lot because he’s meant so much to us, as a mentor, as someone we look up to, as someone who has put so many years into this league,” said locker room manager Marvin Ulysse, who reports directly to Pimental. “I felt like it was our duty to get him through this journey. He’s a big brother to us. We’re like his human dialysis in a way.”

Pimental hasn’t missed a beat, even though he can’t travel. When problems pop up, he handles them from home. He still works long days — but has also appreciated being around his wife and children more than he has in the past.

That said, there are scary times. He often wakes up in the middle of the night and grabs at his phone, fearful that he’s missed the call telling him that organs are awaiting him. The unknown is stressful. He’s worried about what’ll happen to his kids if something happens to him.

Each day, he said, brings hope.

“Dialysis is working, I’m still here,” Pimental said. “Just like somebody said to me awhile back, you’ve got to learn how to string as many good days together as you can so when that one bad day comes, you can handle it. And that, I think, is what we’re doing right now. The Heat have been very, very supportive throughout this whole thing. But to be honest, the only motivation I need is my wife and my kids. To be here for them, that’s the only motivation I ever needed.”

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Pete Thamel is reporting that the team has given a multi-year extension to both offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson and defensive coordinator Corey Hetherman.

Both men worked together to help lead the Canes to the National Championship game last season.

Hetherman inherited the 70th-scoring defense in the country and turned it into the nation’s No. 5 scoring defense.

As for Dawson, he just finished his third year at Miami.

In back-to-back seasons, Dawson developed transfer quarterbacks Cam Ward and Carson Beck into future NFL picks.

According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the incident happened shortly before 4:30 p.m. Friday at 700 NE 26^th Terrace.

Police said the video shows the dog’s owner, Nicholas Jabbour, yanking the dog’s leash aggressively to the point where all four of the dog’s legs were lifted off the ground.

After lifting the dog up to his waist level, he then slammed the dog on the floor, police said.

According to the report, Jabbour slammed his dog to the floor twice before exiting the elevator.

The report states that a security guard at the building told officers that Jabbour abused his dog after the dog peed in the elevator, which he is required to clean up.

The security guard also said that there have been prior incidents involving Jabbour and his dog, including a time when the dog urinated in the hallway and inside the elevator.

Jabbour was arrested on a charge of animal cruelty with intent to injure or kill.

Police confirmed that Miami-Dade Animal Services was notified, but it’s unclear whether Jabbour still has possession of the dog.

Jabbour was no longer appearing in the online jail database on Monday afternoon.

Krofft's death, which came three years after the death of Marty Krofft, was announced on Instagram by his friend and business partner Kelly Killian. Additional details were not immediately available.

“The last six years of my life were devoted to him, and his to me,” Killian wrote. “In that time, he taught me more than I could ever put into words — about the art of Hollywood, the magic of the stage, and the depth and complexity of human nature. I wish so very much that I had more time with him.”

The Kroffts popularized cultural figures ranging from the inept Weenie the Genie to siblings Donny and Marie Osmond.

TV fans of a certain age would long remember “H.R. Pufnstuf,” the live-action puppet series with its cheerful theme song, the dragon who gave the show its name — and served as Mayor of Living Island — and such memorable, supporting characters as the larcenous witch Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo, and her patented Vroom Broom. “H.R. Pufnstuf” only aired for 17 episodes, in 1969, but lived on for decades in reruns and syndication. It ranked 27th in a 2007 TV Guide poll of all-time cult favorites.

Other Krofft productions included “Land of the Lost,” “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl” and “Pryor’s Place,” featuring comedian Richard Pryor. Their children's shows were so far-flung at times that critics suspected the Kroffts were under the influence of drugs — allegations the brothers rejected — but they also oversaw such wholesome programming as the “Donny & Marie,” the Osmonds' 1970s variety show.

The Kroffts received a Daytime Emmy for lifetime achievement in 2018, and a Hollywood Walk of Fame star two years later.

The weekend storm came just weeks after a March heat wave melted much of California's snow, forcing many ski resorts to close. More snow was possible Monday.

On April 1, the Sierra snowpack, which provides one-third of California’s water, stood at just 18% of average, a reading in the mountains near Lake Tahoe found. It was the second-lowest mark for that date on record.

The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab reported 42.5 inches (53.5 cm) between Friday and Sunday, which “has been great to create a late-season snowpack. ”

“Unfortunately, record warm temps this winter means that we’re still well below average for the water year,” the lab said on social media.

Interstate 80 in Northern California was shut down Sunday because of blizzard conditions, and chain controls were in place early Monday for the important route between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe.

The storm also brought strong winds, heavy rain and hail to many areas. A tornado touched down Sunday near Sacramento, but no damage was reported, the National Weather Service said.

Mammoth Mountain said 11 lifts were running Monday. Skies were clearing but another couple of inches (5 centimeters) of snow was possible, the resort said in its daily report.

“While fresh snow may look inviting, hazards like dirt, rocks, and bushes remain just below the surface. Ski and ride with caution and avoid venturing off trail,” the report said.

Snow was vanishing across much of the U.S. West after a warm winter with poor skiing conditions gave way to early spring record heat. This month, Colorado reported its worst snowpack since statewide recordkeeping began in 1941.

Officials warned the measurements are a clear sign that water shortages could worsen the ongoing significant drought, barring an unexpected deluge.

Cities in the region are imposing water-use restrictions, and ranchers are wondering how they will feed and water their cattle. The threat of devastating wildfires looms.

The decision caps a swift political fall for the seven-term lawmaker, who had been seen as a frontrunner in California’s gubernatorial race before dropping out Sunday as the allegations surfaced, claims he has continued to deny.

The San Francisco Chronicle, followed by CNN, first reported allegations that Swalwell had sexually assaulted a woman twice, including when she worked for him. CNN also reported that three other women alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by Swalwell — including sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos.

“I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past,” Swalwell said on social media. “I will fight the serious false allegation made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make.”

The House Ethics Committee had begun an investigation into whether Swalwell engaged in sexual misconduct toward an employee working under his supervision, the panel announced Monday. Other lawmakers were pushing for a quick vote to expel him from Congress.

Several Democrats had quickly called on Swalwell to resign in the days after the allegations came to light, including prominent allies such as Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego. California Sen. Adam Schiff, who withdrew his endorsement for Swalwell's gubernatorial bid, told reporters Monday that “the whole thing is just shocking and deeply upsetting.”

“I think he made the right decision to resign,” Schiff said.

Swalwell wrote in the statement posted to social media that he was “aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote” and that it was “wrong” without due process.

“But it's also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress,” Swalwell wrote. He did not provide a timeframe, saying only that he would work with his staff in the coming days to ensure their work can continue.

Swalwell, an Iowa native, was elected in 2012 and represents a House district east of San Francisco. He launched a presidential run in April 2019 but shuttered it a few months later after failing to catch on with voters.

Swalwell was one of Donald Trump’s top Democratic antagonists in Congress, serving as a prominent member of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees during the president’s first term and as one of several Democratic prosecutors for Trump’s second impeachment after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

He was removed from the intel committee by then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in 2023 based on his contact with a suspected Chinese spy, Christine Fang.

Fang was reported to have come into contact with Swalwell’s campaign as he was first running for Congress in 2012 and participated in fundraising for his 2014 campaign.

Federal investigators alerted Swalwell to their concerns and briefed Congress about Fang in 2015, at which point Swalwell says he cut off contact with her. He was not accused of wrongdoing and a House Ethics Committee investigation that was opened in 2021 closed two years later without any action.

Swalwell’s planned departure from the House will trigger a special election in his district, located outside San Francisco, which he won by over 30 percentage points in 2024. In California, the governor is responsible for calling a special election, which he must do “within 14 calendar days of the occurrence of the vacancy,” according to state election law.

The future of the House Ethics probe is uncertain, as the panel often ends its investigations when lawmakers resign. The Ethics Committee said the mere fact that it is investigating the allegations against Swalwell, and publicly disclosing its review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.

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Wafiq Safa, a high-ranking member of Hezbollah's political council, spoke on the eve of the talks expected in Washington between Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the U.S. It will be the first time in decades that envoys from Lebanon and Israel, which do not have diplomatic relations, meet face-to-face in direct talks.

“As for the outcomes of this negotiation between Lebanon and the Israeli enemy, we are not interested in or concerned with them at all," Safa told The Associated Press.

"We are not bound by what they agree to,” he added in a rare interview with international media. He spoke next to a cemetery as an Israeli drone buzzed overhead.

Historic negotiations at a sensitive time

Lebanese officials are looking to broker a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war in the U.S. talks.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, has said the goal is Hezbollah's disarmament and a potential peace agreement between Lebanon and Israel. Shosh Bedrosian, a spokesperson for Netanyahu said Monday that there will be no ceasefire with Hezbollah.

Separately, in U.S.-Iran peace talks held last weekend in Pakistan, Iran has sought to include Lebanon in any ceasefire deal of its own with the U.S. Israel and the U.S. have insisted Lebanon would not be a part of it.

Hours after Tehran and Washington announced a truce last Wednesday, Israel launched more than 100 strikes across Lebanon, including in densely packed residential and commercial areas of central Beirut.

And though the U.S.-Iran talks broke up without an agreement, Safa said Hezbollah has been informed that Iran “was able to obtain a cessation of attacks" in the entire administrative region of Beirut, Lebanon's caital, including Beirut's southern suburbs — a Hezbollah-strong area known as Dahiyeh.

Israeli strikes on Beirut and its southern suburbs have halted since Wednesday but intense fighting has continued in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah's entry into the war

Israel and Hezbollah have fought multiple wars since the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group was formed in the 1980s as a guerrilla force fighting against Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon at the time.

The latest round began on March 2, two days after Israel and the U.S. launched a war on Iran. Hezbollah entered the fray, firing missiles across the border into Israel. Israel responded with aerial bombardment and a ground invasion.

Since then, the war has displaced more than 1 million people in Lebanon and killed more than 2,000, including more than 500 women, children and medical workers. Many Lebanese have blamed Hezbollah for pulling Lebanon into the war, accusing it of acting on behalf of its patron, Iran.

Safa said Hezbollah's actions were preemptive because its leaders believed “Israel was preparing for a second battle with Lebanon” with the aim of destroying Hezbollah.

It was “an appropriate moment for Hezbollah ... to rebuild a new equation” and restore deterrence against Israel, he said, denying any prior deals with Tehran that Hezbollah would enter the war if Iran was attacked.

After a U.S.-brokered ceasefire halted the last Israel-Hezbollah war in November 2024, Israel continued to carry out near-daily strike in Lebanon that it said aimed to stop the group from rebuilding. Hezbollah wants to avoid a return to that status quo, Safa said.

‘Black Wednesday’

Israel has claimed that its strikes on Lebanon last Wednesday killed more than 250 Hezbollah militants. More than 100 women and children were among the over 350 people killed, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.

That would mean that, according to Israel’s assertion, every adult male killed that day was a Hezbollah member.

“None of our officials or cadres was killed in Beirut," Safa said. ”Those who died in Beirut are 100% civilians." He did not deny that members of the group were killed outside of the Lebanese capital.

Israel claimed to have killed Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem's secretary who was also his nephew, Ali Yusuf Harshi, as well as some high-level commanders.

Safa said Kassem’s secretary was not killed, although “maybe a relative of his was.”

He also confirmed for the first time that he was wounded during the earlier, 2024 Israel-Hezbollah war, after being targeted by two Israeli strikes in Beirut, "but God granted me survival.”

Souring relations with the government

Relations between the Lebanese government and Hezbollah — which is not just a militant group but also a political party with a parliamentary bloc — have grown increasingly tense.

The government last year approved a plan to remove all weapons that are not property of the state — its security forces or military — and later said it had largely completed the task south of the Litani River, where Hezbollah militants are now fighting with Israeli forces.

After March 2, the government went further, declaring Hezbollah's armed wing illegal.

Safa said Hezbollah is currently not directly speaking with President Joseph Aoun or Prime Minister Nawaf Salam but that all its communications are going through Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, the head of the Hezbollah-allied Amal party.

Safa said that if there is a ceasefire and a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, Hezbollah — which calls itself a “resistance” movement against archenemy Israel — is ready to negotiate with the Lebanese government about the fate of its weapons.

“The issue of resistance weapons is a Lebanese matter that has nothing to do with Israel or the United States,” he said.

Los trabajadores del Parque Industrial Metropolitano, de propiedad estatal y conocido informalmente como Sonapi, se reunieron fuera de sus puertas en Puerto Príncipe y gritaron: “¡Cuando tenemos hambre, no jugamos!”

Los empleados señalaron que no han recibido un aumento salarial desde 2023 y que ya les resulta imposible costear bienes básicos, dado que el gobierno de Haití incrementó los precios del diésel un 37% y los de la gasolina un 29% a principios de este mes.

“Un galón de gasolina cuesta más que nuestro salario mínimo”, afirmó Marc Jean Jean-Pierre, un padre de dos hijos de 47 años.

Jean-Pierre trabaja en una fábrica que confecciona jeans y gana 685 gourdes haitianos (5,23 dólares) al día, cuando un galón de gasolina cuesta 850 gourdes (6,49 dólares).

“Se puede ver lo que estamos pasando”, expresó.

Jean-Pierre solía tomar transporte público para ir al trabajo, pero ahora camina durante una hora para ahorrar dinero, ya que el pasaje de ida y vuelta aumentó 100 gourdes (76 centavos).

“Estaremos en la calle hasta que el gobierno escuche nuestra voz”, advirtió.

A la protesta del lunes se sumó Maxime Excellence, un conserje de fábrica de 49 años, quien se mostró preocupado, entre otras cosas, por el aumento de los precios del transporte.

“Además de eso, tengo que comer. No puedo pasarme todo el día sin comer”, comentó. “Dios sabe qué voy a tener que comer cuando llegue a casa”.

Excellence sostuvo que las exigencias de los trabajadores son justas.

“Apenas logramos llegar a fin de mes con lo que tenemos para vivir”, manifestó.

Indicó que seguirá protestando hasta que se cumplan sus demandas y que recurrirá a la violencia de ser necesario.

James Cardichon, un trabajador de fábrica de 37 años que confecciona camisetas, compartió esa postura.

“Necesitamos una revolución para que entiendan”, sostuvo, y añadió que también deben mejorar las condiciones en la fábrica. “Estamos dejando nuestro sudor”.

Señaló que los trabajadores buscan un mejor salario para que sus hijos no tengan que vivir los mismos problemas.

“Estamos cansados”, dijo. “Nuestro país está infestado de pandillas. El autobús cobra más porque tienen que pagarles a las pandillas para poder pasar, y al final nosotros pagamos por todo”.

Cardichon también expresó su molestia por las promesas constantes de funcionarios del gobierno de mejorar la situación del país.

“Estamos cansados de promesas”, declaró. “Queremos que actúen, y rápido”.

Algunos haitianos que se unieron a la protesta no trabajan en el parque industrial, pero querían expresar su frustración por las crisis en espiral de Haití, con el aumento de la violencia de las pandillas y el agravamiento de la pobreza.

Garry Jean Paul, de 35 años, quien vende teléfonos celulares en la calle, dijo que el alza de los precios del petróleo está empeorando la situación del país.

“Algunos días gano un par de cientos de gourdes; otros días tengo que volver a casa sin nada”, relató. “Las familias están haciendo cosas que no deberían estar haciendo. Están mendigando”.

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The attention is less than comfortable for the grandson of Joe Gibbs, a Hall of Fame legend as a championship team owner in NASCAR and a Super Bowl-winning coach in the NFL.

“Yeah, I feel like I could be a lot bigger in the community than what I am,” Ty Gibbs said about his place in NASCAR after his first career victory Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway. “I just enjoy privacy. I don’t really want to show off a lot, too. I just enjoy training on my bike, getting strong, working hard during the week. I’m not here to be a moving billboard. I don’t really care. I don’t have any social media on my phone at the moment. I just really enjoy racing and focusing on myself.”

The focus at Bristol was squarely on the 23-year-old after he deftly fended off NASCAR champions Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson on a two-lap overtime restart. The relief of finally breaking through in his 131st Cup start was evident. Gibbs celebrated by playfully crashing his grandfather’s national TV interview and handing the checkered flag to his mother, Heather, before giving her a ride to victory lane in the No. 54 Toyota.

“It’s just a thrill to see this happen because I don’t know how to explain it,” said Joe Gibbs, who has half of his eight grandchildren working at Joe Gibbs Racing, the team he founded 35 years ago. “It’s just a special feeling for all of us. I called my wife, and she’s crying. The whole family is crying. We love this. We really appreciate what today meant to us and the family.”

The narrative was positive for the Gibbs organization, which has been ensnared in some unflattering headlines after suing former competition director Chris Gabehart for breach of contract.

In a court filing, Gabehart said he expressed “serious concerns” about team management after he felt pressured to help Ty Gibbs (and was moved to the No. 54 pit box to call strategy). Gabehart said Gibbs “was not held to the same meeting attendance standards as others on the team.”

After the Bristol win, Gibbs made multiple references to “people saying false things” (without naming Gabehart) and steadfastly reaffirmed his work ethic.

”I’ve stayed after it the whole time,” Gibbs said. “Obviously, people are going to say false things about how I wasn’t present in meetings. I’ve been the same the whole time, just to clarify that.”

But others have noticed a change in his demeanor. To defuse the driver’s frustration during races, crew chief Tyler Allen said “a huge focus” entering 2026 was on keeping it fun because a “loose, fun Ty is a fast Ty.”

During a stretch of four consecutive finishes of sixth or better before Bristol, Gibbs impressed his teammates by speaking up in debriefs with helpful advice.

“He’s been in a good mood,” JGR driver Christopher Bell said. “He’s happy. Ty is killing it. It’s fun to see his confidence is literally radiating from him. He’s really switched on right now. He’s taken a huge step, and he’s a joy to be around right now.”

Gibbs, who was involved in a run-in last year with teammate Denny Hamlin, was a little defensive about whether he had changed that much.

“I’ve always had fun,” he said. “I think that’s taken out of turn. I truly enjoy the position I’m in. Obviously, being around such a great group of people is so much fun. These guys love racing as much as I do, or even more, and I know I love it a lot.”

Joe Gibbs hopes more people see that side of his grandson.

“He’s really, really got a good sense of humor,” Gibbs said. “We laugh all the time. I think the farther we go in this sport, hopefully, his personality and everything come out, the kind of kid he is. When I’m around him, he’s fun.”

Pit crew woes

Bristol runner-up Blaney’s pit crew ranked 32nd of 37 teams in Sunday’s race, raising questions about how long Team Penske can stay patient with a group that has squandered more than 80 positions on pit stops over the past seven races.

“We’ve got to get better for sure,” said Blaney, who lost seven spots on two mediocre pit stops midrace at Bristol. “If we’re going to keep competing and get cars that can win, we’ve got to clean that up.”

Hendrick struggles

A Martinsville Speedway win didn’t provide much momentum for Chase Elliott, who finished 22nd after starting 18th. Teammates William Byron (30th) and Alex Bowman (37th) also struggled for Hendrick Motorsports, which has 13 top 10s among its four drivers through eight races.

Hendrick vice chairman Jeff Gordon addressed the slow start before Sunday's race. “We’re being challenged right now, not that I don’t like it, but also I love it because I know what we’re capable of, and I love watching us do the climb,” Gordon said. “It teaches us things about ourselves, and I think it only makes us stronger.”

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Dans pulled out Friday, the last day to remove his name from ballots before the state's primary on June 9.

Trump — who long ago endorsed Graham, among his top congressional allies — reacted to the announcement with a social media post suggesting that Tucker Carlson's endorsement of Dans had been the "KISS OF DEATH” for his campaign.

Trump and Carlson have been feuding over the Iran war, which the former Fox News star called “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Dans denied his decision to withdraw had anything to do with Carlson.

Dans said he was endorsing another Republican in the contest, appliance business owner Mark Lynch. In another social media post, Trump said Lynch “would be a DISASTER for the Republican Party” if elected.

Dans rose to prominence as one of the people behind Project 2025, which was a blueprint for conservative governance if Trump won his comeback campaign. He said he was pleased with some of Trump's progress after taking office — including federal workforce reductions and cuts to federal programs — but there was “more work to do” in the Senate.

“What we’ve done with Project 2025 is really change the game in terms of closing the door on the progressive era,” Dans told The Associated Press last year. ”If you look at where the chokepoint is, it’s the United States Senate. That’s the headwaters of the swamp.”

Dans, an attorney who worked in the first Trump administration as White House liaison to the office of personnel management, often commuted on weekdays to Washington as he organized Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The nearly 1,000-page policy blueprint included chapters written by leading conservative thinkers.

Challenging the long-serving Graham, who has routinely batted back contenders over the years, is something of a political long shot. A half-dozen other Republican candidates remain in the race, and Graham's campaign said Monday it had more than $11.6 million cash on hand, raising nearly $1.4 million in the first quarter of this year.

Trump early on gave his endorsement of Graham, a political confidant and regular golfing partner of the president, despite their on-again-off-again relationship. Graham, in announcing he would seek a fifth term in the Senate, also secured the state’s leading Republicans, Sen. Tim Scott and Gov. Henry McMaster, to chair his 2026 run.

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La sospechosa fue identificada por el BSO como Tamica Brown, de 43 años, quien enfrenta cargos de uso criminal de información de identificación personal y tráfico de tarjetas de crédito falsificadas.

“SNAP es un programa financiado por el gobierno federal y administrado por el Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos (USDA) a través de su Servicio de Alimentación y Nutrición”, dijo la portavoz del BSO Claudinne Caro en un comunicado de prensa. “Los beneficiarios elegibles acceden a sus fondos a través de tarjetas de transferencia electrónica de beneficios (EBT), que funcionan de manera similar a una tarjeta de débito o crédito. Los beneficiarios acceden a sus beneficios usando la tarjeta EBT y un Número de Identificación Personal (PIN) único”.

Según el BSO, la investigación comenzó el 20 de julio de 2025, cuando agentes en Cooper City fueron llamados a un Walmart en 4700 S. Flamingo Road, donde una víctima reportó que alguien había usado su tarjeta EBT sin su consentimiento.

Los detectives dijeron que eventualmente identificaron a unas 200 víctimas que sufrieron una pérdida combinada de más de $120,000.

Una madre soltera de tres hijos que se vio obligada a quedarse sin comestibles y una mujer de 95 años estuvieron entre las víctimas, dijo Caro.

Caro confirmó que hasta ahora los detectives han entrevistado a 30 víctimas.

“La investigación de ocho meses reveló que Brown, de 43 años, operó un esquema de fraude organizado en el que obtuvo ilegalmente números de tarjetas EBT pertenecientes a beneficiarios de SNAP, los PIN asociados y los saldos de las cuentas de múltiples fuentes”, dijo Caro. “La evidencia indicó que estos números de tarjetas fueron robados por medios desconocidos y transmitidos a Brown electrónicamente a través de teléfonos”.

Según el BSO, Brown usó los números de tarjetas y PIN robados para hacer compras no autorizadas, incluyendo bebidas energéticas de “alta demanda” como Red Bull y Celsius.

Los investigadores dijeron que luego revendía los productos a bodegas y tiendas de conveniencia.

Según Caro, las víctimas descubrieron que sus beneficios ya habían sido agotados cuando intentaron hacer sus propias compras con sus tarjetas EBT.

Brown fue arrestada el martes pasado por la policía de Pembroke Pines, que la detuvo con una orden de arresto del BSO.

Hasta el lunes por la tarde, estaba detenida en el Centro de Detención Paul Rein con una fianza de $300,000.

The 30th annual Florida Tour de Force charity bicycle ride began Monday morning in North Miami Beach. The five-day, 270-mile journey will end in Daytona Beach.

Two fallen South Florida officers killed in the line of duty in 2025 were among those honored: Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Deputy Devin Jaramillo, shot and killed by a suspect, and Miami Beach Police Department Sgt. David Cajuso, killed in a motorcycle crash.

MBPD Officer Rick Lonergan was riding in Cajuso’s honor.

“He gave so much to the department and the city and the citizens of Miami Beach. The only right thing to do is to come out and honor him on a day like today,” Lonergan said. “He was a great guy. Funny guy. I enjoyed working with him.”

Law enforcement will escort the riders up the Atlantic coast with stops planned every 12 to 15 miles, making the ride accessible for seasoned cyclists and those riding for a cause.

“It’s an awesome feeling,” North Miami Beach police Chief Juan Pinillos said.

Every dollar raised goes directly to the families of the fallen heroes.

Francisco Navarro, quien trabajaba como guardia de seguridad, le disparó mortalmente a un usuario de silla de ruedas que los invitados querían dejar entrar pero que no estaba en la lista, según el informe de arresto policial.

Durante una discusión, la víctima insultó a Navarro, de 26 años, con una palabrota, tras lo cual él sacó una Glock 19 de su funda, disparó varias veces y huyó, según el informe de arresto.

De acuerdo con el informe, Navarro, quien vive en el condado de Miami-Dade, le disparó a la víctima seis veces: una en el cuello, dos en el abdomen, dos en el hombro izquierdo y una en el antebrazo.

Durante la investigación, los detectives en el salón de banquetes en el 6072 de West Oakland Park Boulevard llamaron a Navarro, quien regresó para entregarse a la policía, según el informe policial.

El lunes por la tarde, Navarro, nacido en La Habana, Cuba, enfrentó un cargo de asesinato en primer grado en el condado de Broward, según registros judiciales.

Un juez de fianzas le negó la libertad bajo fianza, por lo que permaneció en la Cárcel Principal del condado de Broward en Fort Lauderdale, según registros de reclusos.

La jueza del Circuito del condado de Broward, Francis I. Viamontes, estaba programada para presidir el caso.

Workers at the state-owned Metropolitan Industrial Park, informally known as Sonapi, gathered outside its gates in Port-au-Prince and shouted, “When we are hungry, we don’t mess around!”

Employees noted that they haven’t had a raise since 2023, and that they can no longer afford basic goods given that Haiti’s government increased diesel prices by 37% and gasoline prices by 29% earlier this month.

“A gallon of gas is higher than our minimum daily wage,” said Marc Jean Jean-Pierre, a 47-year-old father of two children.

He works at a factory making jeans, earning 685 Haitian gourdes ($5.23) a day, while a gallon of gasoline costs 850 gourdes ($6.49).

“You can see what we’re going through,” he said.

Jean-Pierre used to take public transportation to get to work, but now he walks for an hour to save money since the round-trip fare has increased by 100 gourdes (76 cents).

“We will be in the street until the government hears our voice,” he said.

Joining Monday’s protest was Maxime Excellence, a 49-year-old factory janitor, who worried about rising transportation prices, among other things.

“On top of it, I have to eat. I can’t spent the whole day not eating,” he said. “God knows what I’m going to have to eat when I get home.”

Excellence said the workers’ demands are fair.

“We can barely make ends meet with what we’re living on," he said.

He said that he would continue to protest until their demands are met and would resort to violence if necessary.

James Cardichon, a 37-year-old factor worker who makes T-shirts, echoed those sentiments.

“We need a revolution for them to understand,” he said, adding that the factory conditions also need to improve. “We are leaving our sweat behind.”

He said that workers are seeking a better salary so their children don’t have to experience the same problems.

“We are tired,” he said. “Our country is infested by gangs. The bus charges more because they have to pay the gangs to get through, and we end up paying for everything.”

Cardichon also said he was upset about the ongoing promises by government officials to improve the country’s situation.

“We are tired of promises,” he said. “We want them to take action, and quickly.”

Some Haitians who joined the protest don’t work at the industrial park but wanted to express their frustration at Haiti’s spiraling crises, with gang violence surging and poverty deepening.

Garry Jean Paul, 35, who sells cellphones on the street, said that rising oil prices are worsening the country’s situation.

“Some days I make a couple hundred of gourdes, some days I have to go home with nothing,” he said. “Families are doing things they are not supposed to be doing. They are begging.”

Se trata de una medida que se ha discutido por años en el país y que ha generado rechazo especialmente en la comunidad de Puerto Triunfo, donde se ubica la Hacienda Nápoles que perteneció a Escobar y que atrae a cientos de turistas que acuden a ver los hipopótamos. El narcotraficante falleció en 1993 abatido por la policía colombiana.

La ministra de Ambiente, Irene Vélez, firmó un documento oficial que contiene lineamientos para la coordinación institucional en el manejo y control de los hipopótamos. En rueda de prensa explicó que las medidas serían implementadas en el segundo semestre del año, cuando ya estará en funciones un nuevo presidente que asumirá el 7 de agosto.

El ministerio indicó en el documento que la caza será una medida de última instancia que “solo procederá cuando las alternativas no letales no resulten” viables.

La senadora animalista Andrea Padilla rechazó en la red social X la decisión gubernamental al considerar que se trata de una “matanza de criaturas saludables” que son “víctimas" de la “negligencia” estatal. Instó a que se contemplen otros métodos que no impliquen el sacrificio.

Los tipos de eutanasia

El plan contempla la eutanasia química con una inyección y la física, que se realizará con disparo de rifle por un tirador certificado, según el ministerio.

Para la eutanasia química los que la ejecuten deberán atraer a cada hipopótamo con alimentos hacia un corral. Una vez allí el animal recibirá un dardo que lo inmovilizará y luego el medicamento que le provocará la muerte.

Mientras que para la eutanasia física, el protocolo indica el uso de rifles de caza de largo alcance y potencia —la piel de los hipopótamos es gruesa y difícil de penetrar— con el fin de provocar el “menor sufrimiento al individuo”.

El proyectil deberá ser apuntado “directamente a la cabeza del animal”, buscando que penetre el cráneo, lo que “causará el daño suficiente en la masa cerebral" para insensibilizarlo de inmediato y generar “la conmoción irreversible y la muerte”, acotó el protocolo.

Para la disposición final de cadáveres indicó que preferiblemente se realice un enterramiento disponiendo de una fosa con una pendiente de hasta cuatro metros de profundidad. Como alternativa contempló la cremación.

Otras opciones de control

También se continuará intentando el traslado de animales a varios países que los acepten para cuidarlos en zoológicos y santuarios, un plan gestionado desde 2023 que no ha tenido ninguna respuesta positiva, según detalló el ministerio.

Ese mismo año, el país también inició decenas de esterilizaciones, un procedimiento costoso de cerca de 9.800 dólares por hipopótamo que representa riesgos como la muerte o la reacción alérgica a la anestesia; mientras, contemplaba el traslado y la eutanasia, a la que le hacía falta el protocolo.

Vélez advirtió que, de no tomar medidas, en 2030 Colombia tendría una población de 500 hipopótamos, afectando los ecosistemas y especies nativas como el manatí y la tortuga de río. El país sudamericano declaró esos mamíferos herbívoros una especie exótica invasora.

Los hipopótamos, territoriales y de hasta tres toneladas, no tienen un depredador natural en Colombia y están cada vez más dispersos por el caudaloso río Magdalena en estado salvaje. Las autoridades temen que se extiendan hacia otras zonas del país.

Algunas veces han salido del agua y caminado por las calles del pueblo de Puerto Triunfo o por las carreteras, como ocurrió a finales de marzo, según videos divulgados por la comunidad en redes sociales.

El ministerio asignará hasta 1,7 millones de dólares para el plan de control. Vélez calculó que con el presupuesto disponible sería aplicada la eutanasia a por lo menos 80 hipopótamos.

Aún está en la memoria colectiva el caso de “Pepe”, un hipopótamo que, tras escapar de la Hacienda Nápoles, fue perseguido por francotiradores de una fundación ambiental privada y cazado a tiros en 2009, lo que provocó reclamos de ambientalistas.

Francisco Navarro, who was working security, fatally shot a wheelchair user, who guests wanted to allow inside, but was not on the guest list, according to a police arrest report.

During an argument, the victim used an expletive to insult Navarro, 26, who then pulled out a Glock 19 from his holster, fired several times, and fled, according to the police arrest report.

According to the police arrest report, Navarro, who lives in Miami-Dade County, shot the victim six times: Once in the neck, twice in the abdomen, twice in the left shoulder, and once in the forearm.

During the investigation, detectives at the banquet hall at 6072 West Oakland Park Boulevard, called Navarro, who then returned to surrender to police, according to the police report.

On Monday afternoon, Navarro, who was born in Havana, Cuba, faced a first-degree murder charge in Broward County, according to court records.

A bond court judge denied him bail, so he remained at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, according to inmate records.

Broward County Circuit Judge Francis I. Viamontes was set to preside over the case.

Location

The fire was reported at a home in the 2500 block of Northeast Third Avenue.

The back of the home was apparently fully engulfed in flames.

The damage is so bad, you can barely step into Joel Elusma’s backyard.

“I’m looking for somebody to fix it,” he told Local 10 News.

Elusma said he is looking at all his options after the back of the home he lives in caught fire Sunday night.

He believes the water heater exploded.

One witness told Local 10 News that she was watching TV when she saw a red flame outside her window.

She then told her grandmother, who immediately called 911.

“I was worried about him because I didn’t know if he was in the house or not,” a neighbor named Mark said.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue officials confirmed that no one was injured in the fire.

The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

The American Red Cross offered to assist Elusma, who lives alone, however he has opted to sleep in his car in the driveway out of fear that someone will steal his belongings.

Se espera que el supertifón Sinlaku toque tierra el martes en las Islas Marianas del Norte y azote con vientos destructivos, lluvias intensas generalizadas e inundaciones, informó el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional el lunes.

Los cortes de electricidad en las islas podrían prolongarse, advirtieron los meteorólogos.

Guam, un territorio de Estados Unidos con instalaciones militares estadounidenses y unos 170.000 habitantes, también podría registrar vientos dañinos y está bajo una advertencia de tormenta tropical. La Guardia Costera de Estados Unidos emitió advertencias de inundaciones y vientos fuertes durante el fin de semana.

El tifón tropical —el más fuerte del planeta hasta ahora este año— generaba vientos sostenidos de 278 km/h (173 mph) el lunes, cuando se acercaba a las islas de Rota, Tinian y Saipan, según el Centro Conjunto de Alerta de Tifones.

Aunque se prevé que se debilite ligeramente en los próximos días, Sinlaku se espera que pase cerca de las islas como un tifón de categoría 4 o 5.

En las tres islas viven unas 50.000 personas, la mayoría en Saipan, conocida por sus relajados complejos turísticos, el esnórquel y el golf, además de ser la capital de las Islas Marianas del Norte.

Saipan fue escenario de una de las batallas más sangrientas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el Pacífico, en la que murieron más de 50.000 soldados japoneses y estadounidenses, así como civiles locales.

En Guam, donde el tifón Mawar dejó sin electricidad a los habitantes de la isla durante días en 2023, funcionarios militares de Estados Unidos advirtieron al personal que se preparara para la tormenta y se refugiara en el lugar. Los militares controlan aproximadamente un tercio de las tierras de la isla, un centro crucial para las fuerzas estadounidenses en el Pacífico.

El presidente Donald Trump aprobó el sábado declaraciones de emergencia por desastre para Guam y las Islas Marianas del Norte, lo que permite ayuda adicional para los servicios de emergencia.

Un supertifón es el nombre que se da a los ciclones tropicales más fuertes que se forman en el noroeste del océano Pacífico, donde suelen originarse las tormentas más intensas del planeta.

Supervisados por el Centro Conjunto de Alerta de Tifones en Guam, los supertifones equivalen a huracanes de categoría 4 o 5 en el Atlántico, con vientos de al menos 240 km/h (150 mph). Se han identificado más de 300 supertifones desde que el centro de alerta empezó a usar ese nombre hace casi 80 años.

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Video from Sky 10, taken just after 12:30 p.m., shows the small plane on its nose along the runway.

First responders said the plane’s nose gear collapsed on takeoff. No one was hurt.

Aside from collapsed gear, the Cessna R182 looked to be intact.

The government revealed the decision in court papers as it agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by advocacy and historic preservation groups who had sought to block the Feb. 9 removal. A judge approved the deal.

The Interior Department and National Park Service “have confirmed their intention to maintain a Pride flag at Stonewall,” lawyers for the government and the groups wrote in a joint court filing.

The flag — one of several Pride banners at the 7.7-acre (3.1-hectare) park — won’t be removed, except for “maintenance or other practical purposes,” the filing said.

Under the agreement, within a week, the park service will hang three flags on its flagpole at the monument. The Pride flag will be positioned below the U.S. flag, in accordance with U.S. flag code, and above the park service flag. Each will measure 3 feet by 5 feet (0.9 meters by 1.5 meters).

The site also features a large Pride flag on a city-controlled flagpole and smaller flags on a fence surrounding the monument, which is across the street from the Stonewall Inn, the gay bar where a 1969 police raid sparked an uprising and helped catalyze the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Those flags weren't removed.

“We fought the Trump administration and won,” said Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal wrote on X. The Democrat helped organize a protest Pride flag raising after the government-authorized banner was removed.

“We as an LGBTQ community celebrate the legal climb-down by the gutless Trump Administration on their contemptuous attempt to erase queer people from American history at Stonewall,” Hoylman-Sigal, the first openly gay person elected to his job, wrote.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, called the Trump administration’s reversal “a victory for the LGBTQ+ community and for our entire city” and “a reminder that New Yorkers won’t let our history be rewritten.”

The Gilbert Baker Foundation, which honors the Pride flag creator who died in 2017, was among the organizations that sued over the removal.

“Stonewall is sacred ground in the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation, and this resolution helps ensure that the Rainbow Flag will continue to fly there, where it belongs,” foundation President Charley Beal said.

The Pride flag had become a flashpoint for arguments over Republican President Donald Trump ’s approach to Stonewall and various other historical properties.

After a yearslong campaign by activists who wanted the flag symbolizing LGBTQ+ pride to be flown daily inside the park service-run site, the banner was formally installed in 2022 during Democrat Joe Biden ’s tenure.

At the time, park service officials called it a sign of the government’s commitment to “telling the complex and diverse histories of all Americans.”

When it removed the flag in February, the park service said it was complying with federal guidance on flag displays. A Jan. 21 memo largely restricted the agency to displaying U.S., Interior Department and POW/MIA flags, with exemptions that include providing “historical context.”

The park service insisted the monument “remains committed to preserving and interpreting the history and significance of this site” through exhibits and programs. But LGBTQ+ activists saw the flag’s removal as a targeted affront meant to diminish a site that is all about their fight for rights and visibility.

Activists Michael Petrelis and Steven Love Menendez, who fought to have the park service fly the Pride flag, said they were pleased with Monday's agreement. But, they said, they were dismayed that other symbols, such as the even more inclusive Progress Pride flag, were left out.

“I look forward to the day when the flag display can restored to its original intent that allows all iterations of LGBTQ+ flags to fly,” Menendez said. “Until then at least we have the original rainbow flag flying to serve as a beacon of light.”

Democratic President Barack Obama created the Stonewall monument in 2016.

After Trump returned to office last year, he took aim at diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and many references to transgender people were excised from the Stonewall monument’s website and materials.

Trump’s administration similarly has put national parks, museums and landmarks under a messaging microscope, aiming to remove or alter materials that it says are “divisive or partisan” or “inappropriately disparage Americans.”

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Anthony Izaguirre contributed to this report.

The Oscar-winning actor and co-host of “The View” has launched the imprint WhoopInk, a partnership with Blackstone Publishing that will focus on bringing “fresh, diverse new talent to the marketplace” and on works spanning across genres. According to Blackstone, Goldberg will be “intimately involved” with the imprint, on everything from cover design to promotion.

At least one WhoopInk author already is well known to Goldberg — Rick Bleiweiss, a Blackstone executive who signed up Goldberg's “Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me” for the publisher. Goldberg plans to publish the next novel in Bleiweiss' “Pignon Scorbion & the Barbershop Detectives” mystery series and to release some of her own books, including a collaboration with longtime business partner Tom Leonardis and a follow-up to “Bits and Pieces,” a bestselling memoir that comes out in paperback this week.

“I am personally looking forward to finding new authors, working with established authors, and bringing influential voices into this curated imprint,” Goldberg said in a statement Monday.

Numerous other celebrities have overseen their own imprints in recent years, including Sarah Jessica Parker,John Legend and Questlove. Reese Witherspoon, Dakota Johnson and Dua Lipa are among the public figures who have formed their own book clubs.

Greier se preocuparía menos si la granja solar que quería en su terreno se hubiera concretado. Pero funcionarios locales la bloquearon en 2023 en virtud de una ley estatal de Ohio, y Greier —ante una pesada deuda médica— tuvo que vender parte de su tierra para mantenerse a flote. El acuerdo que se frustró le habría aportado unos 540.000 dólares en pagos de arrendamiento cada año.

“Fue nuestra salvación”, manifestó. “No era ese panorama aterrador que a todo el mundo le gusta pintar sobre la energía solar y la pérdida de tierras agrícolas”.

La oposición local a la energía solar ha sido durante mucho tiempo un obstáculo para los desarrolladores de energía verde. Pero algunas comunidades están trabajando para revertir las restricciones locales, citando los beneficios fiscales y los empleos que aportan los proyectos, así como los pagos de arrendamiento de las empresas energéticas, que pueden proporcionar ingresos estables a los agricultores en una industria volátil.

Cuando una empresa solar se le acercó con la intención de construir paneles en parte de su terreno, Greier, de 42 años y agricultor de sexta generación, dudó. Pero, ante 1 millón de dólares en deuda médica tras una larga batalla con el COVID y complicaciones relacionadas, vio una oportunidad para salvar su granja.

Algunos en la comunidad lo vieron de otra manera.

Greier contó que él y su familia fueron marginados mientras el debate sobre el proyecto se desarrollaba en reuniones públicas. Su salud mental se desplomó. Y el proyecto finalmente fue bloqueado en virtud de una ley estatal que permite a los condados impedir la construcción de parques eólicos y solares en terrenos que consideren “restringidos”.

“Yo era el que iba a perder la granja de sexta generación. Yo era el que no podía mantener a mi familia”, expresó.

Un momento difícil para las energías renovables

La hostilidad del presidente Donald Trump hacia la energía verde ha golpeado a la industria al eliminar subsidios, préstamos e incentivos fiscales. Pero incluso antes de su regreso a la Casa Blanca, las prohibiciones locales a la energía renovable se estaban volviendo más comunes. Un estudio de 2025 de la Universidad de Columbia encontró que, de 2023 a 2024, hubo un aumento del 16% en las leyes locales en 44 estados que restringieron este tipo de proyectos.

“Muchas comunidades quieren descarbonizar y probablemente, en teoría, apoyan la energía renovable”, dijo Juniper Katz, profesora adjunta de la Universidad de Massachusetts que se centra en política ambiental. Pero, añadió, “cuando se trata de tu comunidad y tu patio trasero, equilibrar estos procesos para que la gente sienta que ha tenido voz sin crear tantos puntos de veto que no se pueda hacer nada, creo que ahí está el truco. Y no es fácil”.

Funcionarios del condado Dearborn, Indiana, pausaron el desarrollo solar durante un año en febrero tras la preocupación de residentes por la cercanía de paneles solares a viviendas y el posible impacto ambiental de los materiales de los paneles.

Bobby Rauen, que vive cerca de parte de un proyecto solar propuesto de 1.200 acres (486 hectáreas) en ese condado, está entre los residentes que solicitaron la pausa. Señaló que espera que los funcionarios aprovechen este tiempo para crear mejores protecciones para quienes viven cerca de posibles proyectos solares. También indicó que le preocupaba que las tierras agrícolas no vuelvan a producir si los paneles solares se retiran eventualmente.

Después de que funcionarios del condado Mahoning, Ohio, detuvieran el proyecto planificado por Greier —de 675 acres (273 hectáreas) y 150 megavatios—, él decidió ayudar a otros que querían energía solar en sus tierras, al afirmar que “no quería ser una víctima”. Como miembro de Renewable Energy Farmers of America, Greier, que principalmente cultiva maíz y soja, ha compartido su experiencia con legisladores, grupos de defensa y en comunidades que debaten el desarrollo de energía verde.

Recientemente habló con funcionarios gubernamentales en una reunión pública en el condado Richland, Ohio, a unos 161 kilómetros (100 millas) de su casa. Allí, defensores lograron incluir en la boleta un referendo este mayo para revertir la prohibición del condado sobre proyectos eólicos y solares.

Morgan Carroll, residente del condado de toda la vida, ha estado trabajando desde el verano pasado para reunir apoyo para eliminar la prohibición. Aunque no es agricultora ni propietaria de tierras, Carroll dijo que respalda los empleos y los ingresos fiscales que estos proyectos pueden aportar y cree que la prohibición les quita la decisión a los residentes, y que algún día podría afectar a sus dos hijos pequeños.

“Quiero que estén en un condado que pueda ofrecer empleos, que pueda ofrecerles una buena escuela”, dijo. “No quiero tener que mudarme”.

La política federal influye en las leyes locales

Los republicanos del Congreso y el gobierno de Trump adelantaron los plazos para que los proyectos solares a escala de servicios públicos pudieran calificar para incentivos fiscales tras la aprobación de una gran ley de exenciones tributarias y recortes de gasto en julio pasado. Ahora, los proyectos solares a escala de servicios públicos deben estar en funcionamiento para finales de 2027 para calificar.

El año pasado, Lita Leavell y su esposo, Joe, que operan una granja ganadera de 1.000 acres (405 hectáreas) en Lancaster, Kentucky, esperaban albergar un proyecto solar a escala de servicios públicos en aproximadamente la mitad de su terreno, lo que les habría aportado un estimado de 60.000 dólares al año. Al igual que Greier, los pagos de arrendamiento habrían garantizado que la tierra pudiera permanecer en su familia.

Pero después de que se aprobara en 2023 una ordenanza del condado Garrard que restringía el desarrollo solar, la empresa energética con la que trabajaba Leavell decidió poner fin al proyecto.

Parte del razonamiento de su condado para la ordenanza fue la oposición del gobierno federal a la energía solar y el deseo del gobierno de Trump de detener proyectos a escala de servicios públicos en tierras agrícolas, dijeron líderes del condado durante una reunión en agosto de 2025. Leavell, quien dijo ser republicana, cuestionó por qué la falta de apoyo federal a proyectos de energía verde debería afectar su capacidad de impulsar estos proyectos en su propia tierra. Ella y un grupo de otros seis propietarios de tierras están demandando para anular la ordenanza.

“Lo que supongo que me desconcertó tanto es que hay muchas cosas peores que podrían estar al lado tuyo”, comentó.

Una cuestión de derechos de propiedad

Carroll, que ayudó a reunir firmas para el referendo en el condado de Richland, Ohio, descubrió que cuando el debate sobre los proyectos solares se planteaba como una cuestión de derechos de propiedad, la gente en la comunidad era más receptiva.

Greier también se centra en los derechos de propiedad cuando habla del tema. Su granja es su plan de jubilación y, según dijo, debería tener el derecho de usarla para mantener a su familia.

“Hay familias que dependen de esto y lo están buscando”, afirmó. “Y se les ha quitado esta oportunidad”.

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Speaking in an interview on NBC News’ Meet the Press program, the president said an invasion of Cuba would be costly and affect regional security. But should it happen, Díaz-Canel said, Cubans would defend themselves.

“If the time comes, I don’t think there would be any justification for the United States to launch a military aggression against Cuba, or for the U.S. to undertake a surgical operation or the kidnapping of a president,” Díaz-Canel said, speaking through a translator.

He added: “If that happens, there will be fighting, and there will be a struggle, and we will defend ourselves, and if we need to die, we’ll die, because as our national anthem says, ‘Dying for the homeland is to live’.”

His comments come as tensions between Cuba and the U.S. remain high despite both sides acknowledging talks, although no details have been shared.

Díaz-Canel has accused the U.S. government of implementing a “hostile policy” against Cuba and said it has “no moral to demand anything from Cuba.” He noted that Cuba is interested in engaging in dialogue and discussing any topic without conditions, “not demanding changes from our political system as we are not demanding change from the American system, about which we have a number of doubts.”

Cuba blames a U.S. energy blockade for its deepening woes, with a lack of petroleum affecting the island’s health system, public transportation and the production of goods and services.

Cuba produces only 40% of the fuel it consumes, and it stopped receiving key oil shipments from Venezuela after the U.S. military attacked the South American country in early January, seized President Nicolás Maduro and took him to New York to face drug trafficking charges. Then, with cooperation from ruling party leaders, the Trump administration began implementing a phased plan to end Venezuela’s entrenched crisis.

The arrival of a Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of crude oil in Cuba in March marked the island’s first oil shipment in three months. Russia has promised to send a second tanker.

Despite threatening tariffs in January on countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, the Trump administration allowed the tanker to proceed.

“Cuba’s finished,” President Donald Trump said at the time. “They have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership and whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter.”

Díaz-Canel said his government takes Trump’s words as a warning.

“You hear that Cuba is next, that Cuba is going to be next, that there are, there’s a way out, that they’re going to take over Cuba,” he said. “So, from the position of responsibility within the leadership of the country, that is a warning. And we need to responsibly protect our people, protect our project and protect our country.”

The analysis, part of the Economic Report of the President, outlines both a political risk and a messaging opportunity for President Donald Trump, whose public approval has slumped because of concerns about his tariffs, the Iran war and his unfulfilled promises to slash inflation and unleash stronger growth.

Trump signed two executive orders in March directing federal agencies to reduce housing regulatory burdens and make it easier for smaller banks to provide mortgages but he’s been slow to take other steps that would show that high housing costs are a top priority for his administration.

The White House has been trying to focus on housing and other affordability issues for months to get ready for what’s expected to be a challenging midterm season for Republicans, but it has been thrown off course by a series of global issues. In January, a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that had been billed as focusing on housing turned into a showdown for Trump over control of Greenland.

Meanwhile, the Iran war has driven up the cost of buying homes, with average rates for 30-year mortgages jumping from just under 6% to 6.37%.

Trump also has argued in favor of keeping home prices high to protect values for existing owners. “I don’t want to drive housing prices down,” Trump told his Cabinet earlier this year. “I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes, and they can be assured that’s what’s going to happen.”

The report lays out a blueprint on housing

The housing chapter of the annual economic report, obtained by The Associated Press before its release, lays out a blueprint for how more home construction would help the middle class and the overall economy, setting up an argument that Trump could make to voters.

Put together by staff at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, it finds there would be 10 million more houses in the country if “homebuilding and the growth of the single-family housing stock had continued at their historical pace instead of falling dramatically” after the 2008 global financial crisis. That crisis was caused largely by a wave of defaults in the housing market, where prices had been fueled by problematic lending practices.

The analysis notes that home prices have risen 82% since 2000, while incomes are up just 12% — a mismatch that had been masked for a period by historically low mortgage rates. But when rates jumped with inflation in the aftermath of the pandemic, monthly mortgage costs also rose for buyers and affording a home, a signifier of middle class status, became a top concern for voters under 40.

The White House maintains that the executive orders in March, in addition to the plans to purchase mortgage-backed securities, show that the president is focused on housing issues.

The report says that various regulations on home construction, which it calls “the bureaucrat tax,” add more than $100,000 in costs to building. That cost includes changing the building codes over the past decade, compliance costs and zoning approval fees, among other expenses.

By the report’s estimates, a reduction in those regulatory costs could help spur construction of as many as 13.2 million homes. That could add on average 1.3 percentage points to annual economic growth over the next decade and support 2 million manufacturing and construction jobs, it argues.

Trump could decide to make federal funding to state and local governments contingent on reducing some of the regulations, according to an administration official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the report before its release.

The report also attacks the green energy housing standards introduced during the Biden administration as a factor in increasing construction costs. Those steps gave preferences for more efficient air conditioning units and water heaters as well as higher standards for the related duct work.

But getting rid of some of those requirements could increase other costs for homeowners over the long run, such as utility bills.

The report relies on a 2021 analysis by National Association of Home Builders that says the standards could add up to $31,000 to the price of a new home, while it could take as many as 90 years for a homebuyer “to realize a payback on the added cost of the home.”

It is not clear how much savings would occur from rolling back Biden-era housing standards because of existing legal challenges regarding their enforcement and different practices by states. In March, a federal judge in Texas agreed with 15 states led by Republicans that said the standards for federally backed housing were unlawful.

Johnny George Mays, de 48 años y residente de Cutler Bay, enfrenta ahora un cargo de asesinato en primer grado tras ser arrestado el jueves y comparecer ante un juez el lunes por la mañana.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Hialeah, el tiroteo mortal ocurrió poco después de las 6:45 a.m. del 28 de marzo afuera de una vivienda en la cuadra 600 de West 15th Street.

Los investigadores dijeron que un video de vigilancia mostró a Mays “apostado aproximadamente a una cuadra de distancia” durante una hora y nueve minutos, “esperando a que la víctima saliera de su residencia”.

La policía dijo que cuando la víctima salió de su casa, Mays se acercó en su vehículo, se bajó y “corrió hacia la víctima con los brazos levantados en posición de disparo”, disparándole varias veces en la entrada antes de volver al asiento del conductor y huir.

El informe no identifica a la víctima ni menciona un presunto móvil. Local 10 News contactó al HPD en busca de información adicional.

La policía dijo que pudo identificar el vehículo de escape y contactó al dueño, quien dijo que Mays lo había usado desde finales de 2025. Los investigadores dijeron que finalmente pudieron vincular el crimen con Mays.

Un informe de arresto indica que los agentes encontraron a Mays cerca de su casa en la urbanización cerrada Cutler Cay el jueves y lo detuvieron. Las autoridades dijeron que invocó su derecho a un abogado y no habló con los investigadores.

Los registros muestran que no fue ingresado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight hasta el sábado. Al parecer estuvo hospitalizado en ese período intermedio; aparece en su foto de arresto vistiendo una bata médica y su información en el registro carcelario hace referencia al Pabellón D del Jackson Memorial Hospital, una unidad de confinamiento para reclusos.

Además del asesinato en primer grado, Mays también enfrenta un cargo de exconvicto en posesión de un arma de fuego. Un juez ordenó que permanezca detenido sin fianza el lunes por la mañana.

Hasta el lunes por la mañana, Mays permanecía recluido en el TGK, según los registros.

Ocurrió en la intersección de West 68th Street y 17th Court.

Un video del helicóptero Sky 10, tomado poco antes de las 10:45 a.m., muestra la motocicleta y escombros en la calzada junto a un sedán Nissan blanco y el cuerpo del motociclista, cubierto con una lona.

Las autoridades aún no habían divulgado el nombre de la víctima ni si habían determinado quién tuvo la culpa en el accidente.

Los carriles en dirección oeste de West 68th Street permanecían bloqueados hasta el lunes por la mañana.

The analysis, part of the Economic Report of the President, outlines both a political risk and a messaging opportunity for President Donald Trump, whose public approval has slumped because of concerns about his tariffs, the Iran war and his unfulfilled promises to slash inflation and unleash stronger growth.

Trump signed two executive orders in March directing federal agencies to reduce housing regulatory burdens and make it easier for smaller banks to provide mortgages but he's been slow to take other steps that would show that high housing costs are a top priority for his administration.

The White House has been trying to focus on housing and other affordability issues for months to get ready for what's expected to be a challenging midterm season for Republicans, but it has been thrown off course by a series of global issues. In January, a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that had been billed as focusing on housing turned into a showdown for Trump over control of Greenland.

Meanwhile, the Iran war has driven up the cost of buying homes, with average rates for 30-year mortgages jumping from just under 6% to 6.37%.

Trump also has argued in favor of keeping home prices high to protect values for existing owners. “I don’t want to drive housing prices down," Trump told his Cabinet earlier this year. “I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes, and they can be assured that’s what’s going to happen.”

The report lays out a blueprint on housing

The housing chapter of the annual economic report, obtained by The Associated Press before its release, lays out a blueprint for how more home construction would help the middle class and the overall economy, setting up an argument that Trump could make to voters.

Put together by staff at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, it finds there would be 10 million more houses in the country if “homebuilding and the growth of the single-family housing stock had continued at their historical pace instead of falling dramatically” after the 2008 global financial crisis. That crisis was caused largely by a wave of defaults in the housing market, where prices had been fueled by problematic lending practices.

The analysis notes that home prices have risen 82% since 2000, while incomes are up just 12% — a mismatch that had been masked for a period by historically low mortgage rates. But when rates jumped with inflation in the aftermath of the pandemic, monthly mortgage costs also rose for buyers and affording a home, a signifier of middle class status, became a top concern for voters under 40.

The White House maintains that the executive orders in March, in addition to the plans to purchase mortgage-backed securities, show that the president is focused on housing issues.

The report says that various regulations on home construction, which it calls “the bureaucrat tax,” add more than $100,000 in costs to building. That cost includes changing the building codes over the past decade, compliance costs and zoning approval fees, among other expenses.

By the report's estimates, a reduction in those regulatory costs could help spur construction of as many as 13.2 million homes. That could add on average 1.3 percentage points to annual economic growth over the next decade and support 2 million manufacturing and construction jobs, it argues.

Trump could decide to make federal funding to state and local governments contingent on reducing some of the regulations, according to an administration official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the report before its release.

The report also attacks the green energy housing standards introduced during the Biden administration as a factor in increasing construction costs. Those steps gave preferences for more efficient air conditioning units and water heaters as well as higher standards for the related duct work.

But getting rid of some of those requirements could increase other costs for homeowners over the long run, such as utility bills.

The report relies on a 2021 analysis by National Association of Home Builders that says the standards could add up to $31,000 to the price of a new home, while it could take as many as 90 years for a homebuyer “to realize a payback on the added cost of the home.”

It is not clear how much savings would occur from rolling back Biden-era housing standards because of existing legal challenges regarding their enforcement and different practices by states. In March, a federal judge in Texas agreed with 15 states led by Republicans that said the standards for federally backed housing were unlawful.

There was no stage, no spotlight — just Yellow Springs, where he’s lived for decades, a place he spent summers as a child while his father worked as dean of students at nearby Antioch College.

It’s in places like this, away from the glare, where Chappelle finds clarity and continues to sharpen a comedic voice that has sparked debate, drawn criticism and, through it all, refused to bend.

“I’ve had a lot of support from my people,” said Chappelle, an Emmy and Grammy winner. “That’s what’s sustained me.”

He sat down with The Associated Press before walking through the town, where he'd recently participated in the ribbon-cutting for a restored 19th-century schoolhouse that now houses a public radio station and will serve as office space for his company, Pilot Boy Productions.

Enduring the backlash over his jokes

Chappelle said he didn’t initially expect his voice to carry the weight it does today.

“Sometimes people will attach things to your voice that don’t necessarily have anything to do with you,” he said. “Your responsibility is to be true to yourself and your work.”

That voice has become one of the most scrutinized in comedy, particularly after criticism of jokes about transgender people in his Netflix specials. The backlash surrounding “The Closer” in 2021 drew protests and internal pushback at Netflix, turning his work into a flashpoint in broader debates over comedy, culture and free speech.

Chappelle said he has never set out to provoke controversy, describing his work as an extension of the same stand-up he has always done. He said the reaction often felt disconnected from the audiences who continue to show up.

“The media used to talk (expletive) about jokes that I did … and none of that stuff swayed my audience,” he said. “So I feel like I need to be true to something.”

Chappelle said being in Yellow Springs allows him a different perspective without the pressures of the entertainment industry.

“One of the best sovereignties that a person can enjoy is the sovereignty of their mind,” he said. “Just the idea of knowing where you land and the rest of the world begins.”

Reconsidering ‘Chappelle’s Show'

For many fans, Chappelle’s voice is still tied to “Chappelle’s Show,” the Comedy Central series that premiered in 2003 and quickly became a cultural force with its sharp satire on race, politics and pop culture.

The show ran for two full seasons with an abbreviated third season released in 2006 after Chappelle walked away during production. It was a decision he later attributed to burnout and concerns about the show's direction.

Now, Chappelle says he’s at least open to the idea of revisiting it.

“If you’d asked me that question a year ago, I’d have told you absolutely not,” he said. “But in the last few weeks … I’m considering it.”

Chappelle acknowledged the comedy landscape has shifted, with digital platforms and social media creating new pathways for humor and a new generation of creators shaping the conversation in real time.

Finding perspective on criticism

As he walked through town, Chappelle framed criticism less as a verdict than something to endure. He pointed to “The Muhammad Ali Reader,” a collection that documents the intense criticism the late boxing legend faced during his career.

“It’s every negative thing they said about him,” he said. “And history proved him to be absolutely right. ... As bad as that weather was, there’s another side to it."

Chappelle framed the tension around his work in a broader cultural context.

“Black life in America, there’s always an ‘or else’ to all of it,” he said. “Don’t say this or else; don’t do that or else. And then there’s those few brave people who say, ‘Or else what?’”

Watching comedy’s next chapter

Even as he reflects on his own career, Chappelle said he’s paying close attention to the next generation of comedians. He pointed to Druski as part of a new wave showing how audiences engage with comedy.

“I love what he does,” Chappelle said before drawing a distinction between digital success and stand-up. That freedom to fail, he suggested, is essential to the development as a comedian — which can be harder to find in today's fast-moving digital landscape.

“One of the worst things that can happen to a comedian is becoming successful before they get good,” Chappelle said. “Because you miss the part where you get to explore and make mistakes.”

Still performing, still reflecting

Chappelle remains active onstage, including upcoming performances tied to the Netflix Is a Joke Fest in Los Angeles in May.

Back home, he continues to perform at his own comedy club — which used to be a firehouse — in Yellow Springs, where he has hosted surprise sets and brought in high-profile guests, including Travis Scott, Lizzo, Wyclef Jean, Marsha Ambrosius, Clipse, 50 Cent and Christopher Cross.

The village has also drawn attention beyond its size. Over the weekend, Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, interviewed Chappelle for their podcast at the radio station.

After decades in comedy, he said he doesn’t spend much time thinking about his legacy, though the idea occasionally comes up in conversation with peers like Chris Rock.

“I’ll be like, ‘They’re gonna write books about us,’” he said. “And those guys will laugh. But they might … or they might not.”

Asked whether he feels he’s living out his purpose, Chappelle paused.

“Man, I’m a lucky guy in that respect,” he said. “I don’t know if I’m doing that on purpose, but I dreamt of being a famous comedian. Took me 40 years, but I did it. … This is better than I dreamt of.”

Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and Sheriff Bob Fletcher said at a news conference they are pursuing information from the Department of Homeland Security that they need for their investigation into the arrest of ChongLy “Scott” Thao, 56, on Jan. 18. Ramsey County includes the state capital of St. Paul.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers bashed open the front door of Thao’s St. Paul home at gunpoint — without a warrant as far as Choi and Fletcher have been able to determine — then led him outside in just his underwear and a blanket in freezing conditions.

“There are many facts we don’t know yet, but there’s one that we do know. And that is that Mr. Thao is and has been an American citizen. There’s not a dispute over that," Fletcher said. “There’s no dispute that he was taken out of his house, forcibly taken out of his home and driven around.”

The sheriff continued: "Is that good law enforcement, to take an American citizen out of their home and drive them around aimlessly, trying to determine what they can tell them?”

DHS, which oversees ICE, has refused so far to cooperate with Ramsey County, or with other state and local investigations into the killings by federal officers of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

“ICE does not ‘kidnap’ people," the agency said in a statement that called Ramsey County's announcement “nothing but a political stunt to demonize ICE law enforcement.”

Choi said they’re trying to determine whether any crimes were committed that they could prosecute under state or federal law. He also said St. Paul police were investigating another case related to the immigration crackdown for potential violations, but he declined to provide details.

“This is not about any type of predetermined agenda other than to seek the truth and to investigate the facts,” Choi said.

Agents who arrested Thao eventually realized he was a longtime U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Thao said in an interview with The Associated Press in January. They returned him to his home after a couple of hours.

Homeland Security later said ICE officers had been seeking two convicted sex offenders. But Thao told the AP he had never seen the two men before and that they did not live with him. The Minnesota Department of Corrections later said one of the two wanted men was still in prison.

The ICE statement did not address the county’s request for evidence, but it asserted that investigators “concluded sexual predator targets had ties to the property” — something that Thao and his family denied.

Videos captured the scene, which included people blowing whistles and horns, and neighbors screaming at more than a dozen gun-toting agents to leave Thao’s family alone.

Thao declined to comment on the announcement Monday.

The director of the trial division in the County Attorney's Office, Hao Nguyen, said they wrote to DHS, ICE and local federal prosecutors March 20 outlining the evidence they're seeking.

“We know there are reports, there’s just no way that there aren’t," Nguyen said. "We want also to know who was working that day, who was working that month. Where did they report to? Who did they report to? We also want to understand what recordings might be out there in terms of digital recordings, witness interviews, video recordings.”

They set a deadline of April 30, after which they could sue or convene a grand jury, Choi said.

The state and the chief prosecutor in neighboring Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, sued the Trump administration last month to gain access to evidence they say they need to independently investigate three shootings by federal officers in Minneapolis, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. It happened during the surge of around 3,000 federal law enforcement officers into Minnesota.

Choi urged members of the public who might have evidence about Thao's case or other potential violations to come forward. Minnesota and Hennepin County have made similar appeals.

The Trump administration has suggested Minnesota officials lack jurisdiction to investigate federal law enforcement actions. But Fletcher said he believes they do.

“There is no such thing as absolute immunity for federal agents," the sheriff said. "There’s qualified immunity for all law enforcement in a lot of different capacities. But seizing a person out of their home who’s an American citizen, they’re not immune from that.”

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Karnowski reported from Minneapolis. Associated Press reporter Jack Brook contributed to this story from New Orleans.

Over the past few weeks, a few water utilities have said their supply had been disrupted, according to the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies. Fluoride is used in water systems as a public health measure to prevent tooth decay.

Here's what to know.

What's driving the fluoride shortage?

Israel is one of the world’s top exporters of fluorosilicic acid, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA data also shows the U.S. is among the world’s top five importers of the product.

At least one Israeli supplier has been facing workforce challenges because many employees have been called into active military service, said Dan Hartnett, chief policy officer for the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies.

“That has led to decreased production, and supply shortages for the U.S. market," he said.

Not every water system is affected

The number of water utilities affected so far is small, but the shortage is affecting hundreds of thousands of people. As the conflict continues, "there will likely be additional stressors placed on the supply chain, leading to shortages in additional communities,” Hartnett said.

The country's eighth largest water and wastewater utility, WSSC Water in Maryland, is among those facing a shortage. On April 7, utility officials said they were lowering the level of fluoride in the water to 0.4 milligrams per liter, down from the recommended 0.7 milligrams per liter.

Chuck Brown, spokesperson for the utility serving 1.9 million customers, said officials did not know how long the shortage would last, "but we feel confident that we’ll be able to stretch that out for a couple more months.”

In Pennsylvania, the borough of Lititz told its water customers it had to halt fluoridation for a couple weeks last month because of supply issues.

What dentists say you should do

Water utilities add fluoride voluntarily to improve communities' oral health, so lower levels have no effect on drinking water safety.

A few months' drop in fluoride levels is probably not a cause for concern for most people, said Dr. Scott Tomar, an American Dental Association community water fluoridation expert.

Research from places that stopped fluoridating their water — Calgary, Canada; Juneau, Alaska; and Israel — has found that lower levels can have an impact over the span of years.

“Based on the best available information we have, below about 0.5 milligrams per liter, you’re probably not going to see effective preventive exposure,” he said.

Tomar said younger children would be the first to experience tooth decay, because the fluoride strengthens enamel as their teeth are developing and once they've grown in.

He recommends people in shortage areas brush twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste and keep up with their routine dental appointments. If people are concerned they aren't getting enough fluoride, they should talk to their dentist before taking a fluoride supplement or other treatment.

What else should I know about fluoride in the water?

Research shows water fluoridation is beneficial even when it is also available through toothpaste and other means. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population gets fluoridated drinking water, according to CDC data.

The addition of low levels of fluoride to drinking water was long considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century. The American Dental Association credits it with reducing tooth decay by more than 25% in children and adults.

However, misinformation about fluoride's safety has proliferated. Last year, Utah became the first state to ban public water fluoridation. And Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly sown doubt about its safety and restricted the use of fluoride for dental health.

“The levels we use in the United States is perfectly safe," Tomar said. "Despite a lot of the misinformation, there are no adverse health effects associated with the levels we use in our drinking water.”

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Whoever Dallas chooses at No. 1 will see a huge salary bump her first year thanks to the new collective bargaining agreement that was ratified last month. That's nearly seven-times what last season's No. 1 pick Paige Bueckers made. The No. 2 and No. 3 picks will get $466,913 and $436,016, respectively.

Second- and third-round picks will make $270,000 — which is more than the previous maximum salary in the old CBA.

The Wings could take guard Azzi Fudd from UConn, Spanish forward Awa Fam Thiam or UCLA center Lauren Betts on Monday night to complement a talented roster led by Bueckers.

Bueckers and Fudd were teammates at UConn and helped the Huskies win the national championship in 2025. Fam Thiem, who is 19, is a talented Spanish player currently playing in her country's domestic league.

Betts is one of six UCLA players in the draft. The 6-foot-7 center helped the Bruins win their first national championship eight days ago. UCLA has a chance to break UConn's record of having four players drafted in the first round, a mark the Huskies set in 2002. They also could top Tennessee (2008), Notre Dame (2019) and South Carolina (2023), which all had five players drafted in total.

Minnesota picks second with Seattle, Washington and Chicago rounding out the top five. Expansion teams Toronto and Portland pick next. The Tempo chose to have the higher pick in the college draft after winning a coin toss, giving the Fire the top choice in the expansion draft earlier this month.

Golden State is next with Washington owning the ninth and 11th picks. Indiana chooses between them. Connecticut, Atlanta, Seattle and the Sun close out the first round.

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How soon Milwaukee gets back to the playoffs could depend on an offseason that’s shaping up to be among the most critical in franchise history due to Giannis Antetokounmpo’s uncertain future.

Has the two-time MVP played his last game in a Bucks uniform?

“I don’t know,” Antetokounmpo said Sunday after a 126-106 loss at Philadelphia that capped the Bucks’ 32-50 season. “It’s not up to me. We’ll see.”

Antetokounmpo, 31, has spent his entire 13-year career in Milwaukee, which selected the 6-foot-11 forward with the 15th pick in the 2013 draft. Antetokounmpo led the Bucks to their first title in half a century in 2021, and he owns franchise career records in virtually every major statistical category.

He’s eligible to become a free agent after next season if he doesn’t sign a four-year, $275 million contract extension in October. Or the Bucks could trade him beforehand if they don’t believe he will sign that extension. That uncertainty helps explain why Antetokounmpo was the center of attention at this season's trade deadline though the Bucks ultimately kept him.

Antetokounmpo was asked Sunday whether he’d sign an extension.

“It’s something I have to sit down with my family and see what’s best for me, what’s best for my family,” he replied.

Doc Rivers, who announced Monday that he's stepping down as the Bucks' coach, said he just wants a positive resolution for both parties.

“Giannis and this franchise won a title together, and to me, that should never be lost, no matter how this ends up,” Rivers said. “As I said, Giannis is a fantastic person. I’ve been lucky to coach a lot of stars, and he’s right at the top as far as just good people. I want good people to be taken care of.”

Late-season dispute hinders relationship

This crossroads arrives at a time when the relationship between Antetokounmpo and the front office is at its most fragile.

Antetokounmpo’s final game of the season came March 15 when an awkward fall on a dunk caused him to leave a victory over the Indiana Pacers. He averaged 27.6 points, 9.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists in a career-low 36 games.

He wanted to play the last couple of weeks and believed he was healthy enough to do so. Team officials continued to hold him out while saying he had a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise. The NBA is investigating the situation.

If the Bucks do lose Antetokounmpo, they could face a long rebuild because of their lack of draft assets.

The Bucks will have a lottery pick this year either in their own spot or in New Orleans’ spot — they’ll pick in the less favorable of those two positions. But they don’t have first-round selections in 2027 or 2029. They’ve agreed to pick swaps that could negatively impact their draft position in 2028 and 2030.

Since winning their 2021 title, the Bucks have made just two first-round picks: MarJon Beauchamp in 2022 and AJ Johnson in 2024. Neither remains with the team.

Antetokounmpo has said repeatedly he likes playing in Milwaukee but wants to be part of a franchise committed to competing for championships. The Bucks haven’t won a playoff series since 2022 and just produced their first losing season since 2015-16.

“We’re the furthest away we’ve been,” Antetokounmpo said. “I didn’t think we were going to be in this position last year, so I don’t know what position we will be in next year.”

Misfortune leads to Bucks' slide

Bad luck has played a role in Milwaukee’s downturn.

Khris Middleton had a knee injury that prevented the three-time All-Star from playing in Milwaukee’s 2022 Eastern Conference semifinal loss to Boston. The Bucks had the NBA’s best record in 2022-23, but a back bruise caused Antetokounmpo to miss 2 ½ playoff games as Miami stunned Milwaukee in the first round.

Antetokounmpo missed the entire 2024 first-round playoff loss to Indiana with a calf strain. Damian Lillard tore his Achilles tendon in Game 4 of another first-round defeat against Indiana last year.

Milwaukee’s injuries this season weren’t limited to Antetokounmpo. Kevin Porter Jr., the Bucks’ second-leading scorer, played in only 36 games.

The Bucks often weren't even competitive this season as they missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

Milwaukee dropped 20 games by at least 20 points. According to Sportradar, they never before had more than 14 losses of at least 20 points in a single season.

The Bucks had 14 losses of at least 25 points — twice the previous franchise single-season high. They had eight defeats of at least 30 points, which also doubled the previous franchise record.

“Obviously when you have injuries to two of your top ball handlers like Giannis and KPJ, it kind of hurt us a lot,” forward Bobby Portis said. “And then all the outside noise as well kind of just took away from the team. Years before, things that were said or things we had internally that were about the team didn’t really get out to the media. There were a lot more dark clouds than in previous years.”

Bucks general manager Jon Horst has taken big swings plenty of times before that helped convince Antetokounmpo to stay.

Antetokounmpo signed an extension in 2021 after Horst added Jrue Holiday. Antetokounmpo signed another extension after the 2023 acquisition of Lillard.

After Lillard tore his Achilles, the Bucks took another gamble by waiving him and stretching out the remaining $113 million on his contract over the next five years. That gave them enough short-term cap flexibility to sign former Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner.

Horst now faces his biggest challenge yet as he tries to put together a roster strong enough to have Antetokounmpo believing he can contend for a title without changing teams.

“Money doesn’t mean nothing to me,” Antetokounmpo said. “Zero. Absolutely zero. What means something to me, it’s winning.”

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AP Sports Writer Dan Gelston in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

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Super Typhoon Sinlaku is on track to barrel over the Northern Mariana Islands late Tuesday local time with widespread rain and flooding along with destructive winds that could cause lengthy power outages, the National Weather Service said.

Guam, a U.S. territory with several American military installations and about 170,000 residents, isn't expected to take a direct hit but still could see damaging winds.

The tropical typhoon — the strongest on Earth so far this year — was producing sustained winds of 173 mph (278 kph) on Monday as it neared the islands of Rota, Tinian and Saipan, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

While it’s expected to weaken slightly over the next few days, Sinlaku should cross by the islands as a Category 4 or 5 typhoon.

The typhoon has stayed mostly on a track that puts it going over or just skirting along Tinian and Saipan, said Joshua Schank, a lead meteorologist in Guam for the weather service.

About 50,000 people live on the three islands, with most on Saipan, known for its laid-back resorts, snorkeling and golf as well as the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Saipan was the site of one of World War II’s bloodiest battles in the Pacific, in which more than 50,000 Japanese and American soldiers and local civilians died.

In Guam, where Typhoon Mawar knocked out power for days in 2023, U.S. military officials warned personnel to prepare for the storm and shelter in place. The military controls about one-third of the land on the island, a critical hub for U.S. forces in the Pacific.

The island already was being hit by heavy rains and wind gusts up to 60 mph (96 kph) very early Tuesday, Schank said. Most businesses were closed and residents were told to stay home, he said.

President Donald Trump on Saturday approved emergency disaster declarations for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, allowing for additional help with emergency services.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it is coordinating support across multiple agencies, dispatching almost 100 FEMA staff as well as personnel from the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

“We are ready to respond to this event,” Robert Fenton, a FEMA regional administrator, said from Guam on Sunday. The agency began preparing supplies and staff late last week, he said.

FEMA’s response comes amid the record-long Department of Homeland Security Shutdown, but the agency’s emergency response functions continue during a funding impasse. Over 10,000 disaster personnel are still paid and FEMA’s disaster relief fund — which the agency said had about $3.6 billion around the end of March — can be spent until it runs out.

A super typhoon is a name given to the strongest tropical cyclones that brew in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, where Earth’s most intense storms usually form.

Monitored by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Guam, super typhoons are the equivalent of Category 4 or 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic, with winds of at least 150 mph (240 kph). There have been more than 300 super typhoons identified since the warning center started using that name nearly 80 years ago.

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Associated Press reporter Gabriela Aoun Angueira in San Diego contributed.

Johnny George Mays, 48, of Cutler Bay, is now facing a first-degree murder charge after being arrested on Thursday and appearing before a judge on Monday morning.

According to the Hialeah Police Department, the deadly shooting happened just after 6:45 a.m. on March 28 outside of a home in the 600 block of West 15th Street.

Investigators said surveillance video showed Mays “staging approximately a block away” for an hour and nine minutes, “waiting for the victim to exit his residence.”

Police said when the victim exited his home, Mays drove up in his getaway vehicle, got out and “(ran) towards the victim with his arms raised in a shooting stance,” shooting him multiple times in his driveway before getting back in the driver’s seat and fleeing.

The report doesn’t identify the victim or state a suspected motive. Local 10 News has contacted HPD seeking additional information.

Police said they were able to identify the getaway vehicle and contacted the owner, who said Mays had used it since late 2025. Investigators said they were eventually able to pin the crime on Mays.

An arrest report states that officers found Mays near his home in the gated Cutler Cay subdivision on Thursday and took him into custody. Authorities said he invoked his right to an attorney and did not speak with investigators.

Records show he wasn’t booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center until Saturday. It appears he had been hospitalized in the interim period; he’s pictured in his booking photo wearing a medical gown and his jail roster information references Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ward D, a lockdown unit for inmates.

Besides first-degree murder, Mays also faces a charge of felon in possession of a firearm. A judge ordered him held without bond Monday morning.

As of Monday morning, Mays remained locked up at TGK, records show.

En declaraciones a la radio Forever de Guayaquil el mandatario ecuatoriano dijo que “estamos siempre abiertos a trabajar con Colombia, son nuestros hermanos, están al lado y siempre hemos tenido buena relación”

Agregó que “esperemos que después de las elecciones nos podamos sentar y darle una solución a largo plazo a este problema que tenemos en la frontera” en referencia a la contienda presidencial en ese país previstas para fines de mayo.

Acerca de una eventual salida inmediata respondió que “no tengo gran esperanza de que Petro cambie ni que haga lo que debería hacer, proteger su frontera sur”.

La relación binacional se ha deteriorado desde enero, cuando Ecuador fijó una tasa del 30% a todos los productos colombianos que desde marzo subió al 50% y en mayo llegará al 100%.

Para justificar la medida Ecuador adujo que Colombia no custodia su frontera, donde de ese lado hay una importante presencia de grupos armados vinculados con la minería ilegal, el tráfico de personas y el narcotráfico, y que su balanza comercial era negativa y cercana a los 1.000 millones de dólares anuales.

El Ministerio de Comercio colombiano respondió que aumentaría el arancel a las importaciones provenientes de Ecuador del 30% al 100%, pero esa propuesta debe pasar a un comité para su aprobación. Petro dijo que excluirá de esta decisión a los productos ecuatorianos que su país necesita.

Ambos países han retirado sus respectivos embajadores en Quito y Bogotá como muestra del deterioro de sus relaciones diplomáticas.

Esta tensión genera graves afectaciones a los sectores productivos de ambos países, especialmente en la zona fronteriza, donde hasta hace unos meses el comercio y el transporte de mercancías eran incesantes.

La Comunidad Andina de Naciones, ha exhortado a Noboa y Petro a retomar el diálogo directo y adelantó la posibilidad de que la banca multilateral apoye con fondos para incrementar “las capacidades de ambos países en las zonas de frontera”.

There were allegations that $10 million from a $67 million Medicaid settlement with Centene Corporation were improperly diverted to the Hope Florida Foundation, a charity associated with Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis.

“I don’t think anybody cares about this topic any more than the liberal media,” Uthmeier said during a news conference.

Michael Barfield, the executive director of the Florida Center for Government Accountability, strongly disagreed.

“We think this is the most consequential issue in Florida for decades, in terms of the missing $10 million and how it was spent for political purposes,” Barfield told Local 10 News This Week In South Florida’s Glenna Milberg on Sunday.

Barfield said “sourced material” showed there was a grand jury investigation as the nonprofit organization’s investigators were “dancing in the dark” amid the alleged secrecy.

“The attorney general and the governor refuse to answer the question about whether they are attempting to block it,” Barfield told Milberg. “I would also point out that when we moved to intervene into the proceedings that have been sealed, if there were no proceedings, I doubt the judge would have allowed us to intervene in nonexistent proceedings.”

There were questions about the $10 million directed to political committees that opposed a 2024 recreational marijuana amendment.

Uthmeier served as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ chief of staff before he replaced Ashley Moody, who replaced Marco Rubio as U.S. senator.

The Florida attorney general post will be up for election on Nov. 3.

Uthmeier has been campaigning to run in the Republican primary election on Aug. 18 to run against Steven Leskovich, a longtime attorney.

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The teacher’s case was assigned to the Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Sexual Crimes and Child Abuse unit, according to court records.

Infante, 53, was on house arrest after a judge ordered him to stay away from all schools and from a teenage girl, according to court records.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools released a statement about the case on Sunday, reporting that the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department investigated him.

M-DCPS also reported that the school district had initiated employment termination proceedings against Infante.

Miami Southridge Senior High School, at 19355 SW 114 Ave., in the South Miami Heights area, listed Infante on the faculty directory as a Fine Arts teacher.

M-DSPD officers arrested Infante on Friday, and he appeared before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Michael G. Barket on Saturday in bond court.

The prosecution requested a total lockdown on house arrest, and the defense asked for leniency. Barket sided with the prosecution and addressed the defense: “If the court doesn’t protect our most vulnerable, who will?”

Infante faced five charges: Four counts of battery and one count of offenses against students by authority figures. Barket set Infante’s bond at $14,000 and ordered the total lockdown.

“This type of behavior will not be tolerated as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees,” a M-DCPS spokesperson wrote without providing specifics.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Zachary James was set to preside over the case.

Local 10 News Assignment Editors Sofia Mendez and Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

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Read M-DCPS complete statement:

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is disturbed by the allegations made against this individual.

Upon learning about this suspected behavior, Miami-Dade Schools Police immediately began their investigation and subsequently made an arrest.

This type of behavior will not be tolerated as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees.

The District has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with M-DCPS.

Location

It happened at the intersection of West 68th Street and 17th Court.

Video from Sky 10, taken just before 10:45 a.m., shows the motorcycle and debris in the roadway next to a white Nissan sedan and the motorcyclist’s body, covered by a tarp.

Authorities had not yet released the name of the victim or said whether they’ve determined fault in the crash.

The westbound lanes of West 68th Street remained blocked as of late Monday morning.

Elite company, indeed.

If joining the first group wasn't difficult enough for McIlroy — 11 years of trying to get the final leg of the Grand Slam — then winning his second Masters green jacket was a clear reminder of how hard it was to get there.

“I thought it was so difficult to win last year because of trying to win the Masters and the Grand Slam,” McIlroy said. “And then this year I realized it’s just really difficult to win the Masters.”

So where does he go from here?

McIlroy went into a funk last year after fulfilling a lifelong dream. He became irritated by endless questions about what would motivate him, which mountain was next to scale, when all he wanted to do was soak it all in. He finally got back on track at the Irish Open.

That doesn't sound like it will be a problem this time around.

“I felt like the Grand Slam was the destination, and I realized it wasn't,” McIlroy said after ending another wild Sunday afternoon at Augusta National with a one-shot win over Scottie Scheffler.

“I just won my sixth major, and I feel like I'm in a really good spot with my game and my body,” he said. “I don't want to put a number on it, but I feel like this win is just ... I don't want to say a stop on the journey, it's just part of the journey.”

Trying to put a number on how many majors he will win began long before he won his first Masters, much less the second one. McIlroy won his first major in the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional by shattering the 72-hole scoring record at 268.

That prompted Padraig Harrington to say, “If you're going to talk about someone challenging Jack's record, there's your man.”

Nicklaus has the gold standard of 18 majors. Woods is next at 15. McIlroy is at six, tied with Nick Faldo, Lee Trevino and Phil Mickelson.

Fred Couples piled on this week when he said on Thursday, “By the way, Rory may never lose this thing again after last year.” And the following day Couples added, “I mean, he really could win five more of these.”

Easy, right?

“Yeah, I don't make it easy," McIlroy said. “I used to make it easy back in my early 20s when I was winning these things by eight shots."

He still holds the PGA Championship record for margin of victory when he won at Kiawah Island by eight shots in 2012, the year after his eight-shot victory at Congressional.

“No, it’s just hard. It’s hard to win golf tournaments, especially around here,” he said. “You’ve had maybe a couple of runaway winners over the years, but it always seems to be a very tight finish at this golf course."

It wasn't easy a year ago when he lost a Sunday lead once on the front nine and twice on the back nine before beating Justin Rose in a playoff. And it didn't look that way this time when he lost a six-shot lead on Saturday, and then twice found himself two shots behind different players, Cameron Young on the front nine and Justin Rose on the back.

Scottie Scheffler was in range and had to settle for making 11 straight pars. Young had birdie putts on eight straight holes on the back nine and converted none of them.

And then McIlroy was a whisker away from trouble over the final hour — the wedge that barely cleared the false front on the 15th, a sporty up-and-down from off the 17th green that gave him a two-shot cushion going to the last hole, and a drive so far right McIlroy wasn't sure where it was when he walked off the tee.

It ended with more joy than relief, a big difference from a year ago. The only tears came when he spoke to his parents, who were not at Augusta a year ago and had to be persuaded to come this year because they didn't want to jinx him.

With a bogey on the last hole he could afford, it ended with a one-shot advantage over Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world. This was the first time since the 2002 U.S. Open the top two players in the world — Woods and Phil Mickelson at Bethpage Black — were the top two at a major.

McIlroy and Scheffler have combined to win four of the last five majors. Scheffler is a U.S. Open short of joining the career Grand Slam club, and his position at No. 1 in the world is not threatened even after McIlroy's latest Masters title.

“I’ve competed against him for a long time, and you don’t win the amount of tournaments that he’s won out here without being pretty resilient,” Scheffler said.

McIlroy is the first player since Adam Scott in 2013 to have taken three weeks off before winning the Masters. There's a sense that will be part of his plan going forward when possible. He felt like more than an honorary member as many trips as he took to Augusta in the last few weeks.

“I think it's a good blueprint,” McIlroy said. "I’m not going to take three weeks off before every major. ... When I've talked to Jack Nicklaus over the years how he prepared for majors, and he would go the week before, and he would simulate a tournament.

“I think that’s certainly a good way to prepare going into the next majors.”

The next one starts May 15, another stop in the journey without needing to set a target for how many.

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According to police, a Nissan sedan was seen being used by the suspect while committing multiple lawn equipment thefts in the city last year.

“Through the use of technology, SCU (Street Crime Unit) detectives were able to locate the vehicle as it entered West Park and began canvassing homes,” the police department said in a social media post. “HPD deployed a drone and watched from above as the suspect got out of the vehicle, grabbed multiple pieces of lawn equipment, and drove off.”

Police said they continued watching the vehicle until the Broward Sheriff’s Office Burglary Apprehension Team and the BSO Aviation Unit responded to the area to assist them.

A Plantation police officer assigned to BSO’s BAT “grappled the vehicle” and the suspect was taken into custody, authorities said.

“The use of technology, combined with the coordinated efforts with neighboring law enforcement agencies, led to the successful arrest and a criminal off the streets,” HPD said in their social media post. “We are extremely proud of our SCU detectives who were dedicated to this investigation.”

The suspect’s identity was not immediately released Monday. Local 10 News has requested the suspect’s arrest report and mugshot.

A large swath of the movie industry, including Denis Villeneuve, Kristen Stewart, J.J. Abrams and Joaquin Phoenix came out forcefully against the $111 billion deal that would consolidate two legacy studios into one, arguing that it further reduce jobs and movies in an already downsized Hollywood.

“The result will be fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher costs, and less choice for audiences in the United States and around the world,” reads the letter, posted on BlocktheMerger.com. “Alarmingly, this merger would reduce the number of major U.S. film studios to just four.”

In late February, David Ellison's Paramount Skydance reached a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in one of the largest media mergers ever. The deal awaits a shareholder vote later this month and government regulatory approval. Paramount's victory came after months of negotiations and a rival bid by Netflix that ultimately fell short.

The deal was only the latest massive merger to rock Hollywood. In 2019, 20th Century Fox was acquired by The Walt Disney Co. for $71.3 billion.

Ellison, chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has pledged to keep Paramount and Warner Bros. as stand-alone movie studio operations, and vowed to release a combined 30 movies a year in theaters. Paramount has acknowledged the merger will also lead to significant cuts due to duplication.

In response to the open letter, Paramount issued a statement Monday arguing that the merger will give creators “more avenues for their work, not fewer.”

“This transaction uniquely brings together complementary strengths to create a company that can greenlight more projects, back bold ideas, support talent across multiple stages of their careers, and bring stories to audiences at a truly global scale,” the studio said.

But many in the film industry believe a merger will mean extensive job losses and a consolidation of power.

“We are deeply concerned by indications of support for this merger that prioritize the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good,” read the letter. “The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised.”

A coalition of advocacy groups organized the letter, including the Committee for the First Amendment — a free speech group led by Jane Fonda — as well as the Democracy Defenders Fund and the Future Film Coalition. Other signatories include: Ben Stiller, Don Cheadle, Javier Bardem, Lily Gladstone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tiffany Haddish and Ted Danson.

On Monday, one signee, Damon Lindelof, detailed his decision on Instagram. Lindelof, the creator of “Watchmen” and the co-creator of “Lost,” has an overall deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.

“Hollywood mergers mean fewer movies and fewer TV shows and that means fewer jobs,” wrote Lindelof. “When two storied backlots are owned by the same company, the outcome is intuitive — one becomes a Ghost Town. I’m scared. But I’m not a ghost. And a fight is already lost if it’s never fought.”

Representatives for Warner Bros. didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter.

Annual domestic box-office grosses are still down about 20% from pre-pandemic levels, competition from streaming has only intensified and there are very real worries about what consolidation might mean for the release schedule as Warner Bros. stares down new ownership under Paramount.

It’s under these precarious conditions that Hollywood executives and movie theater owners are gathering this week in Las Vegas for CinemaCon, the annual exhibition and trade show made famous — or at least slightly less obscure — by Seth Rogen's show “The Studio” and his “old school Hollywood buffet.” Real-life Hollywood executives have bigger concerns than throwing a party, however.

A critical time for movie theaters

As “F1” and “Top Gun: Maverick” producer Jerry Bruckheimer said last week in a statement: “We are at a defining point in the future of this industry.”

Bruckheimer, “Oppenheimer” producer Emma Thomas and “Sinners” director Ryan Coogler are teaming up to do something about it. Just last week, Cinema United, the trade organization representing some 60,000 movie screens in the U.S. and abroad, announced that Bruckheimer would be chairing their newly established filmmaker leadership council, with Thomas as vice chair and Coogler as one of its inaugural members.

Other members include Brad Bird, Celine Song and Jason Reitman, who will advise on issues facing theatrical moviegoing, including windows, referring to the number of days films play exclusively in movie theaters before being available to buy or rent at home, and consolidation.

“Our industry is strongest when it works together to promote the singular experience of seeing a movie on the big screen,” Cinema United president and CEO Michael O’Leary said in a statement. “The importance of having Jerry and Emma at the helm of this initiative, at such a critical time for our industry, cannot be overstated.”

The Paramount and Warner Bros. elephant in the room

Much of the public and private handwringing will revolve around Paramount’s pending acquisition of Warner Bros. Both studios will be hyping their upcoming slates to theater owners, in separate presentations: Warner Bros. is planned for Tuesday and Paramount is on Thursday. The question is how much, if at all, executives from either company will address the elephant in the room from the stage as former 20th Century Fox Chair and CEO Stacey Snider did in 2018 with the Disney acquisition looming.

While Paramount Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison has said that he would like to grow the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. slate to more than 30 movies a year, there are lingering concerns from organizations such as Cinema United.

Historically, fewer standalone studios have meant fewer movies made for theaters, and between the pandemic, the strikes, the ramping up of streaming services and general financial instability, the release schedule has taken the hit. In 2019, there were 112 wide releases, or films released in over 2,000 theaters. This year, for the first time since the pandemic, that number is up to 115, according to Comscore.

On Monday morning, more than a thousand Hollywood professionals, including Denis Villeneuve, Kristen Stewart, J.J. Abrams and Joaquin Phoenix came out against the merger in an open letter arguing that it would only further reduce jobs.

The show must go on, with stars and footage to help

Doom and gloom is hardly ever the prevailing mood at CinemaCon, however. The studios wouldn’t shell out big bucks to bring out their stars and footage if there weren’t some optimism and excitement about what’s to come.

The audience-driven studio Angel announced five new movies from the Colosseum stage Monday: A Cold War drama starring Jeff Daniels as President Ronald Reagan, an Owen Wilson and Alan Ritchson action movie and a remake of the John Wayne movie “Angel and the Badman” starring Tommy Lee Jones, among the titles. The studio behind the box office hit “Sound of Freedom” plans to release 10 films in theaters this year.

Universal’s president of domestic distribution Jim Orr said he thinks the mood going into the conference is “very optimistic.”

“The first part of the year we’ve seen some extraordinary titles and great business, including our own ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie,’” Orr said. “I think it should be quite the celebration in Vegas this year.”

This summer has Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a Steven Spielberg sci-fi spectacle, a Star Wars movie, the live-action “Moana,” a fifth Toy Story and a new “Spider-Man.” And later this year there’s a new Marvel movie, “Avengers: Doomsday” and the third “Dune,” both coming out on the same day, December 18. Could Dunesday be the new Barbenheimer?

There have also been bright spots for movie theaters recently, including increased audience interest in premium large formats, like IMAX and 70 mm, and a PG-rating box office boom suggesting that families and younger audiences haven’t entirely abandoned the big screen for the small one.

The recent success of films like “Project Hail Mary,” “Hoppers” and “Wuthering Heights” also show that it’s not just franchises that are bringing people to the theaters — although it’s wrong to underestimate the importance of tentpoles like “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”

“At least from the box-office perspective, we are going in on a very positive note,” said Paul Dergarabedian, who heads marketplace trends for Comscore.

Plus, those inside the industry are often quick to remind that the business has survived its share of existential crises, whether it’s streaming, piracy, VHS or television.

Thomas, who is producing “The Odyssey,” emphasized the “profound cultural value in gathering together with a group of strangers and connecting while experiencing something special on the big screen,” in her statement about partnering with the movie theater trade organization.

“That is what this is about: making sure that cinemas of all sizes, around the world, can continue to present our stories in the best possible setting, so movie fans of all ages can enjoy them as they were intended to be seen,” Thomas said.

Existing home sales fell 3.6% last month from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.98 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Monday.

Sales also fell 1% compared with March last year, weighed down by declines in the Northeast and Midwest. The latest sales figure fell short of the roughly 4.06 million pace economists were expecting, according to FactSet.

“Lower consumer confidence and softer job growth continue to hold back buyers,” Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, said in a statement.

A measure of Americans’ short-term expectations for their income, business conditions and the job market fell 1.7 points to 70.9, remaining well below 80, a marker that can signal a recession ahead. It’s the 14th consecutive month that reading has come in under 80.

Sales have been hovering close to a 4-million annual pace now going back to 2023. That’s well short of the 5.2-million annual pace that’s historically been the norm.

Despite the pullback in sales, home prices continued to rise last month. The national median sales price increased 1.4% in March from a year earlier to $408,800, an all-time high for any March on data going back to 1999, NAR said. Home prices have risen on an annual basis for 33 months in a row.

The U.S. housing market has been in a slump dating back to 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes remained stuck last year at 30-year lows. They have remained sluggish so far this year, declining in January and February versus a year earlier.

The pace of home price growth has slowed or fallen in many metro areas and there are more homes on the market than a year ago, largely because they're taking longer to sell.

And until recently, mortgage rates were easing, lowering borrowing costs for homebuyers. Homes purchased last month likely went under contract in January and February, when the average rate on a 30-year mortgage ranged from 5.98% — its lowest level in three and a half years — to 6.16%, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac.

Mortgage rates started ticking higher in March as the war with Iran sent energy prices surging, heightening worries about higher inflation. That’s pushed up the yield on U.S. 10-year Treasury bonds, which lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage was at 6.37% last week, according to Freddie Mac. That's still down compared to a year ago.

Still, the rise in mortgage rates led Yun to lower his 2026 existing U.S. home sales forecast. He now projects sales will rise 4% this year, down from his previous forecast of a 14% increase.

The latest home sales snapshot and uncertainty over the trajectory of mortgage rates is clouding the outlook for the spring homebuying season.

A sharp run-up in home prices, especially in the early years of this decade, and a chronic shortage of homes nationally worsened by years of below-average home construction have kept many aspiring homeowners priced out of the market, especially first-time buyers who don’t have equity from an existing home to put toward a new home purchase. Fewer first-time buyers bought homes in March than in February, NAR said.

Those who can afford to buy are benefiting from more properties on the market, although home inventory levels remain well below historical norms.

There were 1.36 million unsold homes at the end of March, up 3% from February and up 2.3% from March last year, NAR said. That’s still well short of the roughly 2 million homes for sale that was typical before the COVID-19 pandemic.

March’s month-end inventory translates to a 4.1-month supply at the current sales pace. Traditionally, a 5- to 6-month supply is considered a balanced market between buyers and sellers.

A dearth of homes for sale in the Northeast is driving competition among buyers, with some homes drawing multiple offers — something relatively rare these days elsewhere in the country, Yun said.

That helped push the region’s median home sales price nearly 6% higher in March from a year earlier, even as sales slowed to their slowest pace on record.

“We simply don’t have enough supply in the marketplace,” Yun said.

Adrian Fulford, a retired judge who led a nine-week inquiry, issued a 763-page report that cataloged the many times parents or authorities could have intervened in Axel Rudakubana's life to ultimately prevent him from carrying out killings that he said were unprecedented in the U.K. for their “extreme and very particular depravity.”

“One of the most striking conclusions from this inquiry’s extensive investigation is the sheer number of missed opportunities over many years to intervene meaningfully, which directly contributed to the failure to avert this disaster,” Fulford said. “The consequences were catastrophic.”

Rudakubana, who was 17 when he carried the attack in northwestern England, is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 52 years for killing Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Bebe King, 6, and wounding eight children and two adults.

The attack in the town of Southport triggered days of disorder after far-right activists seized on incorrect reports that the attacker was a Muslim migrant who had recently arrived in the U.K. Rudakubana was born in Wales to Rwandan Christian parents.

The report made 67 recommendations to prevent future atrocities and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised changes to correct the “systematic failures that led to this terrible event.”

“The report today is truly harrowing and profoundly disturbing,” Starmer said. “While nothing will ever bring these three little girls back, I’m determined to make the fundamental changes needed to keep the public safe.”

Police, social workers and educators were well aware of problems with Rudakubana.

He was convicted in 2019 at age 13 of assaulting another child at school with a hockey stick and placed under supervision of a local service for youth offenders. He was referred to the government’s anti-extremism program, Prevent, three times between 2019 and 2021 for expressing interest in school shootings, the 2017 London Bridge attack, the Irish Republican Army and the Middle East. Each time, the case was closed because he wasn't considered susceptible to becoming a terrorist.

During that same period, local police were called to his home five times over unspecified concerns about his behavior. He was given mental health and educational support, but later appeared to have stopped engaging with social workers. He was expelled after taking a knife to school and hardly ever attended a subsequent school.

“Far too often, AR’s ‘case’ was passed from one public sector agency to another in an inappropriate merry-go-round of referrals, assessments, case-closures and ‘hand-offs,’” said Fulford, who only used the killer's initials.

Fulford highlighted an incident in March 2022 when Rudakubana was caught on a bus with a knife and told police that he wanted to stab someone and admitted trying to make poison.

Taken together, they should have sparked an arrest that would likely have led to a search of his house that would have discovered he had bought seeds to make the biological toxin ricin and downloaded terrorist material on his computer, Fulford said.

Rudakubana wasn't arrested and was released to his parents, who feared him and repeatedly failed to report the various knives he had purchased, his troubling behavior and threats he had made.

While Fulford outlined several failings by Rudakubana's parents that could have prevented the tragedy, he said they shouldn't be vilified for what had become a challenging situation.

“Their life at home must have become little short of a nightmare given, to use the words of his own father, AR had turned into a ‘monster,’” Fulford said.

Following the Southport attack, police searched Rudakubana's home and discovered the ricin hidden under his bed and a downloaded document, which was described as an al-Qaida training manual.

Police concluded that his crimes shouldn't be classed as terrorism, because he had no discernible political or religious cause or motivation.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said that new legislation would be introduced to address violent plots that aren't considered terrorism.

“Unlike terrorist attacks, if you are planning an attack without an underlying ideology, there is no crime on the statute book,” Mahmood said.

State records show multiple violations at both locations, including evidence of live rodents and conditions that could lead to contamination.

Below is a list of places inspected and some of their violations.

No establishments in Miami-Dade or Broward were ordered shut last week.

Both places mentioned below were allowed to re-open following an ordered cleanup and then a re-inspection.

**PARTY CAKE BAKERY

103200 OVERSEAS HIGHWAY

KEY LARGO

ORDERED SHUT 4/8

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 12 rodent droppings on top of dishwasher machine located next to cook line. Observed approximately 5 rodent droppings under dishwasher machine. Also observed approximately 8 rodent droppings by back door next to oven at kitchen area.”

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

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed prepared ham and cheese sandwiches, Spanish omelet ,egg sandwich, pork sandwiches ham and cheese croissant and mini ham and cheese sandwiches not time marked at front counter, employee discarded during inspection.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale. Observed prepared ham and cheese sandwiches, Spanish omelet ,egg sandwich, pork sandwiches ham and cheese croissant and mini ham and cheese sandwiches not time marked at front counter, employee discarded during inspection.”

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

**MEAT EATERY AND TAPROOM

88005 OVERSEAS HIGHWAY

ISLAMORADA

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 4/8

9 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed 2 rodent droppings in handwashing sink in the back prep/storage room. Observed 3 rodent dropping on the top of the dish machine in the back storage/ prep room.”

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed approximately 7 live roaches on the dry food storage shelving in the back room.”

“Tracking powder pesticide used inside establishment.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Slicer blade is soiled.”

“Required employee training expired for some employees.”

“Operating with an expired Division of Hotels and Restaurants license. Repeat Violation."

“I have truly loved my time in Milwaukee,” Rivers said Monday in a statement released by the team. “Coming back to where I got my start, to a city that has always embraced me, has been a privilege. I am disappointed that things did not turn out the way any of us hoped, but I am deeply grateful for this experience, the relationships built, and unwavering support from our fans and the community. Milwaukee will always mean a lot to me, and this chapter will hold a special place in my heart.”

The announcement comes a day after the Bucks ended a 32-50 season that snapped their run of nine straight playoff appearances. The news release announcing Rivers’ departure as coach didn’t indicate whether he might have any role with the team moving forward.

“It has been an honor to have Doc as our coach and as a leader in our organization and community,” Bucks owners Wes Edens, Jimmy Haslam, Dee Haslam and Jamie Dinan said in a statement. “In addition to his impact on the court, we’re thankful for Doc’s class and professionalism during his tenure in Milwaukee.”

Rivers went 97-103 in 2 1/2 seasons with the Bucks. He owns a 1,194-866 overall record and overtook George Karl for sixth place on the career wins list among NBA coaches this season. The Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame announced this month that Rivers would be part of its newest induction class.

The 64-year-old had left little doubt about his future as the season wound down.

“I have seven grandkids now and they’re all 8 years and under,” Rivers said about his future before an April 7 loss at Brooklyn. “And it kills me every time I miss grandparents’ day with each one of them in school. And it’s probably time to go see them more. So, I’ll let you figure out the rest.”

Rivers’ exit comes amid questions surrounding the future of two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, who led Milwaukee to its first title in half a century in 2021 and has set Bucks career records in virtually every major statistical category.

Antetokounmpo’s status dominated league discussions as the trade deadline approached, but he wasn’t dealt. He since has been in a disagreement with team management over his injury status.

The last game Antetokounmpo played was on March 15. He said in the closing weeks of the season that he was healthy and wanted to play, while the Bucks continued to rule him out because of a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise. The NBA is investigating the matter.

Antetokounmpo had two extended absences because of right calf strains and ended up playing in just 36 games. Kevin Porter Jr., the Bucks’ second-leading scorer, appeared in just 38.

“It’s hard,” Rivers said Sunday. “I don’t remember guys being out like this, but it makes sense. I haven’t had a lot of this. It’s no fun. Losing, I don’t give a crap what the reasons are, I’m just too competitive. It’s just no fun not winning. It just isn’t.”

Rivers won a championship with Boston

Rivers won a title with Boston in 2008 and led the Celtics to Game 7 of the NBA Finals two years later, but his teams haven't advanced beyond the regional semifinals since. He owns a career playoff record of 114-112.

This marks the first full season in which Rivers has coached and posted a losing record since 2006-07, when he went 24-58 with Boston.

Rivers came to Milwaukee after head coaching stints with the Orlando Magic, Boston, Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers. He was working as a broadcaster for ESPN and ABC before the Bucks hired him.

He took over midway through the 2023-24 season after the firing of first-year head coach Adrian Griffin. The move represented a homecoming of sorts for Rivers, who played at Marquette before his 13-year NBA playing career. His No. 31 college jersey hangs from the rafters at Fiserv Forum, the arena that both the Bucks and Marquette call home.

But the Bucks never managed to establish any momentum during Rivers' tenure, with injuries playing a major role.

Bucks struggled with injuries

Milwaukee went 17-19 under Rivers during that 2023-24 season to finish a 49-33 season. They lost to Indiana 4-2 in the opening round of the playoffs, with Antetokounmpo missing the entire series because of a calf strain.

Last season, three-time All-Star Khris Middleton didn’t start playing until early December after offseason surgery to each of his ankles, and he got sent to Washington at the trade deadline. Damian Lillard missed Milwaukee’s final 14 regular-season games because of deep vein thrombosis in his right calf, returned for Game 2 of the Bucks’ first-round playoff series loss to Indiana but tore his Achilles tendon two games later.

With Lillard unable to play this season, the Bucks waived him and agreed to pay his remaining salary over the next five seasons. That opened up cap space for the Bucks to sign former Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner.

Milwaukee won four of its first five games but struggled the rest of the way while playing much of the season without its superstar.

“I personally have enjoyed the challenge,” Rivers said after Sunday’s game. “It didn’t go the way I wanted it to go, obviously. I always say I could do a better job. We could have had better health. We could have had all kinds of things. But I’m not a big guy in looking back. All you can do is look forward.”

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AP Pro Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami and AP Sports Writer Dan Gelston in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

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Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, is accused of benefiting from access to multimillion-pound U.K. homes that were paid for and refurnished by energy firms seeking government contracts in Nigeria.

Prosecutors allege that she benefited from private jets, a chauffeur-driven car and shopping trips including 2 million pounds ($2.7 million) spent at Harrods, a famed London department store. They also allege that she received 100,000 pounds ($135,000) in cash while she was Nigerian minister of petroleum resources from April 2010 to May 2015.

Giving evidence at Southwark Crown Court in London, Alison-Madueke said “I did not abuse my office during that period.” She denies five counts of accepting bribes and a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery.

Olatimbo Ayinde, 54, an owner of Nigerian oil companies, denies two charges of bribery. Alison-Madueke’s brother, former archbishop Doye Agama, 69, denies conspiracy to commit bribery.

“I can state categorically at no time did I ask for, take or seek a bribe or bribes of any sort from any of these persons," Alison-Madueke said.

The former minister had oversight of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. and its subsidiaries, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Co. and the Pipelines Product Marketing Co.

Alison-Madueke told the court that the logistics and financial dealings of her work trips were handled by the Nigerian National Petroleum Co., and insisted that a string of services arranged for her were subsequently reimbursed.

Alison-Madueke was the first female president of the oil alliance OPEC. As a minister, she had pledged to transform the oil sector but was accused by authorities of looting millions of dollars in public funds alongside her associates.

Nigeria’s anti–graft agency previously secured court orders seizing houses, cars and jewelry in Nigeria said to be proceeds of corruption connected to the former minister and her associates.

Authorities say that many such assets were domiciled in the United States and the United Kingdom.

She has spent much of her time in the U.K. since leaving office.

According to online jail records, Angel Mario Vicens, 43, was arrested last Friday on charges of attempted murder and carrying a concealed firearm at specific locations.

Pembroke Park police said the shooting occurred March 16 at Thirsty’s Liquor Bar, located at 4426 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd.

According to police, when officers arrived, they found the victim outside the bar, suffering from several gunshot wounds.

“Indications were that the incident began with an argument inside the bar; the shooter then pulled out a gun and fired multiple times, hitting the victim, and then fled the scene,” PPPD said in a news release.

Police said the victim was transported to a hospital to be treated for his injuries.

Vicens was arrested Friday with assistance from the Broward Sheriff’s Office VIPER Unit, authorities said.

“During the operation, a BSO VIPER Unit detective observed a firearm in plain view inside the defendant’s vehicle,” the news release stated.

According to police, Vicens agreed to speak with detectives and confessed to his involvement in the shooting along with recovering the gun used in the incident.

As of Monday morning, Vicens was being held at the Broward County Main Jail without bond.

It’s unclear what the men were arguing about prior to the shooting.

U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was published with the intent to be malicious, but gave the president a chance to file an amended complaint.

In a social media post several hours after the ruling, Trump said the decision “is not a termination” but rather a “suggested re-filing” of his “powerful case,” which Trump said would be done “on or before April 27th.”

Trump filed the lawsuit in July, following up on a promise to sue the paper almost immediately after it put a new spotlight on his well-documented relationship with Epstein by publishing an article that described a sexually suggestive letter that the newspaper said bore Trump’s signature and was included in a 2003 album compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday.

The letter was subsequently released publicly by Congress, which subpoenaed the records from Epstein’s estate. Trump denied writing it, calling the story “false, malicious, and defamatory.”

Attorneys for the newspaper and Murdoch had asked Gayles to rule that the article’s statements were true and therefore couldn’t be defamatory, but the judge wrote that “whether President Trump was the author of the Letter or Epstein’s friend are questions of fact that cannot be determined at this stage of the litigation,” Gayles wrote.

The ruling marks yet another blow in the Trump administration’s efforts to manage fallout over its release of the Epstein files and the president’s attempts to use the legal system to chill reporting he finds critical of him.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Dow Jones, which publishes the Journal, said the organization was “pleased” with the judge's decision, adding, "We stand behind the reliability, rigor and accuracy of The Wall Street Journal’s reporting.”

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Greier would be worrying less if the solar farm he wanted on his land had come to pass. But local officials blocked it in 2023 under an Ohio state law, and Greier — facing a heavy medical debt — had to sell part of his land to stay afloat. The deal that was killed would have brought him about $540,000 in lease payments every year.

“It was our saving grace,” he said. “It wasn’t a scary picture that everybody likes to paint about solar and the loss of farmland.”

Local opposition to solar has long been an obstacle for green energy developers. But some communities are working to reverse local restrictions, citing the tax benefits and jobs the projects bring and the lease payments from energy companies that can provide stable income to farmers in a volatile industry.

When a solar company approached him wanting to build panels on part of his land, Greier, 42, and a sixth-generation farmer, hesitated. But facing $1 million in medical debt from a long battle with COVID and related complications, he saw a chance to save his farm.

Some in the community thought differently.

Greier said he and his family were ostracized as debate over the project played out in public meetings. His mental health plummeted. And the project was eventually blocked under a state law that allows counties to block construction of wind and solar farms on land they deem “restricted.”

“I was the one that was going to lose the sixth-generation farm. I was the one that couldn’t provide for my family,” he said.

A tough time for renewables

President Donald Trump's hostility to green energy has battered the industry by wiping away subsidies, loans and tax incentives. But even before his return to the White House, local bans on renewable energy were becoming more common. A 2025 study from Columbia University found that from 2023 to 2024, there was a 16% increase in local laws across 44 states that restricted such projects.

“Many communities want to decarbonize and probably theoretically support renewable energy,” said Juniper Katz, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts who focuses on environmental policy. But, she added, “When it’s your community and your backyard, balancing these processes so people feel like they’ve had a say without creating so many veto points that nothing can get done, I think is the trick. And it’s not easy to do.”

In February, Dearborn County, Indiana, officials paused solar development for a year after concern from residents over the proximity of solar panels near homes and potential environmental impact of panel materials.

Bobby Rauen, who lives near part of a proposed 1,200-acre (486-hectare) solar project in that county, is among residents who petitioned for the pause. He said he hopes officials use this time to create better protections for residents living near potential solar projects. He said he was also concerned that farmland may not go back into production if solar panels are eventually removed.

After officials in Mahoning County, Ohio, halted Greier's planned 675-acre (273-hectare), 150-megawatt project, he decided to help others who wanted solar on their land, saying he “didn’t want to be a victim.” As a member of the Renewable Energy Farmers of America, Greier, who primarily farms corn and soybeans, has shared his experience with lawmakers, advocacy groups and in communities debating green energy development.

He recently spoke to government officials at a public meeting in Richland County, Ohio, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) from his home. Advocates there got a referendum on the ballot this May to reverse the county’s ban on wind and solar projects.

Morgan Carroll, a lifelong county resident, has been working since last summer to rally support to drop the ban. Though she is not a farmer or landowner, Carroll said she supports the jobs and tax revenue these projects can bring and thinks the ban takes the decision away from residents — and may someday affect her two young children.

“I want them to be in a county that can provide jobs, can provide a good school for them,” she said. “I don’t want to have to move.”

Federal policy influencing local laws

Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration moved up deadlines for utility-scale solar projects to qualify for tax incentives after the passage of a big tax breaks and spending cuts bill last July. Now, utility-scale solar projects have to be in service by the end of 2027 to qualify.

Last year, Lita Leavell and her husband, Joe, who operate a 1,000-acre (405-hectare) cattle farm in Lancaster, Kentucky, had hoped to host a utility-scale solar project on about half their land that would have brought them an estimated $60,000 per year. Like Greier, the lease payments would have ensured the land could stay in their family.

But after a Garrard County ordinance was passed in 2023 restricting the development of solar, the energy company Leavell was working with decided to end the project.

Part of her county's rationale for the ordinance was the federal government's opposition to solar energy and the Trump administration's desire to stop utility-scale projects on farmland, county leaders said during an August 2025 meeting. Leavell, who said she is a Republican, questioned why lack of federal support for green energy projects should affect her ability to pursue these projects on her own land. She and a group of six other landowners are suing to overturn the ordinance.

“The thing I guess that perplexed me so much is that there’s so many more worse things that could be next to you,” she said.

A property rights issue

Carroll, who helped gather signatures for the referendum in Richland County, Ohio, found that when the debate over solar projects was framed as a property rights issue, people in the community were more receptive.

Greier also focuses on property rights when speaking on the issue. His farm is his retirement plan, and he should have the right to use it to support his family, he said.

“There’s families that are relying on this and looking for this,” he said. “And it’s been taken away, this opportunity.”

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El 6 de abril de 2024, Onyxia Delinois, de 26 años, trotaba adelante de un grupo de corredores cerca de Miramar Parkway y Southwest 184th Avenue cuando fue atropellada por un conductor que nunca se detuvo.

El choque le causó una lesión craneal grave y requirió cuidados las 24 horas del día.

Su esposo, Roosevelt Delinois, quien era su cuidador principal, pide a cualquier persona que haya visto algo que se presente para que su esposa pueda obtener justicia.

La policía continúa investigando pero no tiene una descripción del vehículo. Hay una recompensa de $15,000 por información que lleve a un arresto.

Según el oficial Mike Vega, el departamento de policía recibió una alerta de ShotSpotter cerca del escenario principal del evento en Northeast 62nd Street y Second Avenue poco antes de las 11:30 p.m.

Dijo que fueron localizadas tres personas baleadas. Cada una fue transportada por Miami Fire Rescue al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Según las autoridades, una víctima murió en el hospital y las otras dos se encuentran estables.

La policía no divulgó de inmediato otros detalles sobre el tiroteo.

Según Gerdy St. Louis, portavoz del Departamento del Sheriff del condado de Broward, los agentes respondieron a la cuadra 4100 de Northwest 21st Avenue poco antes de las 5:15 p.m. tras recibir una llamada sobre un intento de secuestro.

Cuando los agentes llegaron, se reunieron con el tutor del niño, quien afirmó que un hombre había intentado llevarse al menor, dijeron las autoridades.

Según St. Louis, el niño les dijo a los detectives que un hombre vestido completamente de negro y montando una bicicleta morada intentó llevárselo después de taparle la boca con la mano.

“Basándose en el relato inicial del menor sobre el incidente, su comportamiento y el nivel de detalles que proporcionó, los agentes encontraron los señalamientos del niño como creíbles”, escribió St. Louis en un comunicado de prensa. “Se peinó el área y se distribuyó una alerta de búsqueda a las agencias cercanas. Los medios de comunicación también fueron contactados de inmediato dada la gravedad del delito”.

Sin embargo, St. Louis dijo que los detectives descubrieron posteriormente que el intento de secuestro no ocurrió, sino que un hombre en el área había asustado al niño, “lo que puede haberlo llevado a esconderse y fabricar el incidente”.

No está claro por qué el niño se asustó del hombre.

St. Louis dijo que los detectives continúan investigando el incidente.

“Los detectives quieren recordarle al público la seriedad de hacer un reporte falso”, escribió en el comunicado. “Hacerlo no solo es ilegal, sino que desperdicia recursos valiosos y los desvía de emergencias legítimas. Se insta a los padres a hablar con sus hijos sobre la seriedad de hacer un reporte falso y el impacto negativo que puede tener en la comunidad”.

Según la policía de Homestead, el apuñalamiento fue reportado poco después de las 3:30 p.m. en la cuadra 1200 de Southwest Fourth Street.

La policía dijo que la víctima fue transportada en helicóptero al Jackson South Medical Center para recibir tratamiento por múltiples laceraciones.

Según las autoridades, el sospechoso, Artemio Salas, dio una “confesión completa”.

Fue arrestado por cargo de agresión grave.

Hasta el lunes por la mañana, Salas estaba detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Los registros carcelarios en línea indicaban su fianza como “por determinar”.

Local 10 News solicitó una copia del informe de arresto de Salas.

The decision by governing body World Aquatics marks a major shift in how a key sport treats Russia ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and prompted condemnation by Ukraine.

World Aquatics said on Monday it will remove restrictions which required Russian and Belarusian athletes to be vetted and to compete as neutrals.

It excluded Russia and Belarus from its events like the world championships after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, then allowed limited participation as neutrals a year later, and further eased the rules since.

“Senior athletes with Belarusian or Russian sport nationality will be permitted to compete in World Aquatics events in the same way as their counterparts representing other sport nationalities, with their respective uniforms, flags and anthems,” World Aquatics said in a statement. It had previously relaxed the rules for junior athletes.

World Aquatics President Husain Al Musallam added: “We are determined to ensure that pools and open water remain places where athletes from all nations can come together in peaceful competition.”

Ukraine condemns decision

World Aquatics isn't the first sports body to reinstate Russia in full — judo did it in November and taekwondo in January — but it's by far the biggest.

Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyaryov thanked Al Musallam “for his firm position on this issue” and said they'd discussed the issue together in January.

“It is very important that international sporting dialogue is bearing fruit and enables the orderly restoration of sporting ties,” Degtyaryov, who also heads the Russian Olympic Committee, wrote on the social media app Max.

Ukraine Minister of Youth and Sports Matvii Bidnyi condemned the decision.

“Sport should unite around fair rules and respect for life. Returning the flag to a country that disregards and systematically destroys these rules is a wake-up call for the entire sports community,” Bidnyi said. “Today, our athletes are training under fire, and against this background any talk of 'neutrality' or the return of the aggressor’s paraphernalia looks shameful and divorced from reality.”

Ukraine has previously objected to efforts to allow Russian athletes to return to competition. Last month it led boycotts of the Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies after Russians were allowed to compete under their national flag.

Ukraine's men's water polo team forfeited a scheduled World Cup game Monday against a team of Russians in Malta. The Russians were handed a 5-0 win by default because Ukraine “voluntarily chose not to start," World Aquatics said.

Ukrainian media reported the boycott was a protest against the involvement of the Russian team, which was officially labeled as “Neutral Athletes B,” in any capacity, rather than Monday's announcement from World Aquatics.

Russians face ‘background checks’

World Aquatics says Russian and Belarusian athletes will have to undergo four anti-doping tests and background checks before competing after Monday's decision. It wasn't immediately clear what would be checked.

Its decision applies only to its own events like the world championships but could add momentum within the Olympic world for a full return of Russian athletes ahead of the 2028 LA Games.

There was no immediate response to a request for comment from the International Olympic Committee.

In December, the IOC recommended removing restrictions on Russian and Belarusian athletes for international youth events and letting them compete under national flags. The IOC still kept its neutral requirements for senior competitions and Russians and Belarusians were officially referred to as Individual Neutral Athletes at the Winter Olympics in February.

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Vasilisa Stepanenko in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.

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Según Hollywood Fire Rescue, el incidente ocurrió cerca de Charleston Street.

Las autoridades dijeron que un salvavidas realizó RCP al hombre después de sacarlo del agua.

Posteriormente fue transportado a un hospital para recibir tratamiento adicional.

No se ha divulgado ninguna otra información.

El tiroteo fue reportado alrededor de la 1:30 a.m. del domingo afuera del Five Stars Banquet Hall en Sunrise. Un sospechoso identificado como Francisco Sánchez fue arrestado, según el Departamento de Policía de Sunrise.

Testigos dijeron que alrededor de 150 invitados celebraban adentro del salón de banquetes en el 6072 de W. Oakland Park Blvd. cuando una persona que usaba silla de ruedas fue baleada afuera.

Eril Jerome, quien celebraba el cumpleaños de su suegro con familiares en el salón, dijo que escucharon aproximadamente cuatro disparos.

Por un tiempo, Jerome y otros invitados no pudieron salir porque sus autos estaban estacionados dentro de la escena del crimen.

La plaza comercial ha reabierto desde entonces.

La identidad de la víctima aún no ha sido divulgada.

Fujimori encabezaba la votación con 16,96%, según el conteo preliminar de la Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE), pero ese respaldo es insuficiente para asegurarle una victoria en primera vuelta para la que la ley exige el 50% más uno del total de los votos válidos.

Esta es la cuarta vez que busca la presidencia la candidata de Fuerza Popular e hija del fallecido expresidente Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).

López Aliaga, candidato del partido Renovación Popular y exalcalde de Lima, se ubicaba en segundo lugar con 14,53% de apoyo tras una campaña marcada por la alta dispersión del voto entre los 35 postulantes a la presidencia.

En tercer lugar —y a menos de dos puntos porcentuales de López Aliaga— se ubicaba el candidato Jorge Nieto Montesinos con 12,80% de los votos y con chances matemáticas de ingresar a una segunda vuelta prevista para el 7 de junio.

La ONPE mantuvo la publicación del conteo de votos de los comicios del domingo pese que hasta las 18.00 local (2300 GMT) del lunes 52.561 personas podrán votar en Lima.

El domingo varios centros de votación abrieron sus puertas con retraso porque no había llegado el material electoral. En el caso de la capital, el Tribunal Electoral ordenó que continúe la votación el lunes en 13 colegios públicos que no abrieron la víspera porque no habían recibido las papeletas.

El lunes cientos de peruanos realizaban filas en esas escuelas públicas del sur de Lima.

Iris Valle, de 56 años, dijo a la AP que pese a sufrir de un problema en la rodilla llegó a votar a la escuela Alfonso Ugarte del distrito capitalino de San Juan de Miraflores. La mujer añadió que temía que le hagan un descuento en su trabajo por no asistir temprano a laborar.

Centenares de personas como Valle realizaban filas disgustadas porque algunas mesas electorales no habían abierto para sufragar pasadas las 7 de la mañana.

Según sondeos privados previos, ninguno de los postulantes llegaba a las elecciones con alta intención de voto.

Varias encuestas daban a Fujimori el primer lugar con una intención promedio del 15%. La dirigente política ha prometido combatir la delincuencia con las Fuerzas Armadas y construir nuevas cárceles. Detrás de ella se ubicaban cinco postulantes separados por pocos puntos porcentuales entre sí.

Perú celebró los comicios en medio de una crisis política que ha provocado el desfile de ocho presidentes y tres Congresos en una década y un incremento de la delincuencia que los ciudadanos identifican como su mayor preocupación.

Los electores se quejan además del aumento del costo de vida y de la persistente corrupción.

En el último quinquenio las denuncias por extorsión —un delito que ha provocado protestas y paralizaciones frecuentes del transporte público— se han quintuplicado, mientras que los asesinatos se han duplicado, de acuerdo con datos oficiales.

Elecciones legislativas

En estos comicios los peruanos también escogieron a los integrantes de un Congreso que volvió a ser bicameral luego de más de 30 años que contempla un poderoso Senado que no puede ser disuelto y que tiene garantizados amplios poderes durante su mandato de cinco años.

De acuerdo con el Tribunal Electoral más de 6.000 candidatos se postularon para cubrir las vacantes de 130 diputados y otros 3.000 para 60 curules en el Senado.

El nuevo Senado no podrá ser disuelto y tendrá potestad para remover a un presidente.

Destituir al mandatario será más fácil: antes se requerían 87 votos de 130 parlamentarios del Congreso unicameral y ahora el Senado necesitará 40 votos del total de 60 senadores.

Pese a que en 2018 el retorno a un Parlamento bicameral fue rechazado por un 80% de la población en un referendo, los legisladores del Congreso unicameral reformaron la Constitución en 2024 para crear un Senado con amplios poderes.

El Senado también podrá revisar y modificar los proyectos de ley que llegan de la Cámara de Diputados.

En diálogo con periodistas Keiko Fujimori dijo el lunes que su partido tendrá un espíritu de diálogo en el próximo Congreso bicameral que empezará su mandato el 28 de julio.

“Corresponde seguir dialogando, queda mucho espacio por convencer y ese será mi objetivo, poder hacer que los ciudadanos vuelvan a confiar en sus autoridades”, indicó Fujimori, de 50 años.

But no birthday cake, because sugar isn't healthy for the aging primate.

Fatou, a western lowland gorilla, arrived in what was then West Berlin in 1959. She was believed to be about 2 years old at the time, though her exact birth date isn't known — April 13 is her designated birthday. Gorillas can live for around 35-40 years in the wild and longer in captivity.

Fatou became the zoo’s oldest resident in 2024, following the death of Ingo the flamingo. The bird was believed to be at least 75 and had lived at the zoo since 1955.

Fatou was likely born in the wild in western Africa, but the story goes that a French sailor took her out of Africa and bartered her to cover his bar tab in Marseille, France, according to the Guinness World Records. A French animal trader then reportedly sold her to the zoo.

These days, Fatou lives in an enclosure of her own and prefers to keep her distance from the zoo’s other gorillas in her old age. She's lost her teeth and she suffers from a touch of arthritis and hearing loss.

But Christian Aust, the Berlin Zoo's primate supervisor, said that she's friendly with the zookeepers, if still a bit stubborn.

At 69 years old, she's earned it. Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Fatou.

More than 100 robots were showcased at two exhibitions starting Monday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The X2 Ultra robot from China’s prominent humanoid robot manufacturer AGIBOT Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co. was among them.

When asked about its hobbies, the robot's list went from doing sports and dancing to studying technology and listening to music. Describing the people in front of it is no challenge either: "a woman holding a phone, a woman holding a bag and a phone, a man holding a camera,” it said at one point.

Calvin Chiu, the chief operating officer of Novautek Autonomous Driving, AGIBOT's agent in Hong Kong, said that the robot can provide emotional satisfaction to humans through conversations and serve as a teacher to older adults and children. Different robots can be programmed with different personalities, too.

“It would be like a friend,” Chiu said.

Chinese manufacturers among leading players

In China, technology has evolved into an area of competition with the U.S., with national security implications. Beijing’s latest five-year plan vows to “target the frontiers of science and technology.” Speeding up the development of products like humanoid robots and their applications is part of the 2026-2030 plan for the world’s second-largest economy.

Official data showed China had more than 140 humanoid-robot manufacturers and more than 330 models in 2025.

London-based technology research and advisory group Omdia recently ranked three of them — AGIBOT, Unitree Robotics and UBTech Robotics Corp. — as the only first-tier vendors in its global assessment in terms of shipment numbers. They all shipped more than 1,000 units of general-purpose embodied intelligent robots last year, with the first two companies shipping more than 5,000 units, the report said.

In February, humanoid robots were among the highlights of the CCTV Spring Festival gala in China, a television show celebrating the Lunar New Year. A martial arts performance by children and robots stole the spotlight.

Diverse applications and manufacturing advantages

Some Chinese exhibitors flexed their advances at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on Monday, showing robotic capabilities that ranged from talking to humans, punching and sand painting to doing backflips and catching suspects with nets during security patrol demonstrations.

Robert Chan, global strategy officer at EngineAI, based in Shenzhen, brought its PM01 robot to showcase its mobility, including doing a front flip. His company plans to launch two factories in China for mass production this year.

He said that China enjoys advantages in certain areas, such as low-cost engineering. He also pointed to the pattern of sharing know-how between companies, unlike in the United States and Europe, where companies typically shield their own technology.

Human-looking robots

Chan foresaw that the next stage of robotics would move toward robots featuring bodies looking like people, with more emotional exchanges and facial expressions, or even looking like they can breathe. That is about plugging the gap in robots' interactions with humans, he said.

“The warmth and emotion exchange with the human being. Besides, helping humans to make the decision and helping humans to complete their task,” he said.

One company in the exhibition appears to be moving toward that direction.

From a distance, three women appear to be greeting guests at an exhibition booth at one corner. Up close, they turn out to be humanoid robots that could be the future of customer service and museum tour guides.

Wang Zuhua, business director at Shenzhen DX Intech Technology Co., said that the company sold more than 400 robots designed with female features and soft synthetic faces. Some are already working in museums and government venues on the mainland, where they can lead guests to washrooms and offices or provide venue tours, he said.

Malaysian visitor Russel Lupang was amazed by their appearances and movements.

“It’s beautiful, but not real feeling,” he said.

The section of roof at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s garage fell Wednesday, triggering a collapse across all seven levels, Mayor Cherelle Parker told reporters last week. Crews initially rescued three workers injured in the collapse and they were taken to hospitals, where one died, officials said. The other two workers were treated and released. By Thursday, officials said search dogs hadn’t found any signs of life at the collapse site.

Crews worked through the weekend to take apart the unstable building to make the search possible and recovery operations began Sunday night, officials said. The workers were found and recovered early Monday.

“They have recovered both individuals with the utmost dignity and compassion and respect for their families and loved ones,” Parker said. The Department of Public Health and the Medical Examiner’s office will identify them.

The mayor also announced that she would order the city solicitor and law department to investigate the collapse.

According to Broward Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Gerdy St. Louis, deputies responded to the 4100 block of Northwest 21st Avenue just before 5:15 p.m. after receiving a call about an attempted kidnapping.

When deputies arrived, they met with the boy’s guardian, who claimed that a man tried to abduct the boy, authorities said.

According to St. Louis, the boy told detectives that a man who was dressed in all black and was riding a purple bike tried to take him after placing a hand around his mouth.

“Based on the juvenile’s initial account of the incident, his demeanor, and the level of details he provided, deputies found the child’s claims to be credible,” St. Louis wrote in a news release. “The area was canvased, and a BOLO (Be-On-the-Look-Out) was distributed to surrounding agencies. Media was also immediately contacted given the serious nature of the crime.”

But St. Louis said detectives later discovered that an attempted kidnapping did not occur, but a man in the area had frightened the boy, “which may have caused him to hide and fabricate the incident.”

It’s unclear why the child became frightened by the man.

St. Louis said detectives are continuing to investigate the incident.

“Detectives want to remind the public of the seriousness of making a false report,” she wrote in the news release. “Doing so is not only illegal, but it wastes valuable resources and diverts them from legitimate emergencies. Parents are urged to speak to their children about the seriousness of making a false report and the negative impact it can have on the community.”

As of Monday, she was 16 days old after being born here in the mud, said her mother, Haifa Kenjo.

Kenjo, 34, was nine months pregnant when Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh sent her, her husband and their 2-year-old son, Khalid, running for their lives in sandals and pajamas. They had no time to bring anything as explosions shook the house, they said — not clothes, not cash.

They took refuge in a donated tent near downtown Beirut and secured the tarp with rocks as the wind threatened to rip it from the ground.

Of the more than 1 million people uprooted in Lebanon by this latest war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah, 13,500 are pregnant and more than 1,500 are expected to deliver in the next month, the United Nations’ sexual and reproductive health agency said this week, warning that many struggle to access adequate maternal care.

When life had been normal, Kenjo pictured giving birth at Beirut's main public hospital, where she delivered Khalid. She is originally from Syria, and although she has spent almost half her life in the Lebanese capital and married a Lebanese man, she must pay to access the country’s public hospitals, where Lebanese mothers can give birth for free.

When her water broke and she went into labor on March 28, she called an ambulance and her husband scraped together the $40 admission fee. But the $500 they needed to deliver Shiman at the hospital was buried in the ruins of their home, razed the week before in an Israeli airstrike.

They returned to the tent, called a midwife and prayed.

Umm Ali, the midwife, said she did her best, but the tent was filthy. The rain seeped inside. They washed tiny Shiman with bottled water.

Kenjo had no milk in her breasts to give her child. Infant formula costs more than her husband makes in a day installing water tanks.

She knows her baby is hungry. Volunteers passing out food in the displacement camp gave her just enough formula for the next few days.

Shiman doesn’t cry like a normal infant. She coughs. Her skin is cold and clammy, pockmarked with insect bites.

“She is so precious,” Kenjo said, stroking her baby girl. “But for her we have nothing. We have less than zero.”

Naim Kassem made the remarks in a televised address on the eve of the scheduled meeting between Lebanon and Israel's ambassadors to the U.S., as both sides set a framework for negotiations.

The latest round of fighting was sparked by Hezbollah firing rockets into northern Israel on March 2, after the U.S. and Israel attacked the militant group's patron, Iran.

At least 2,055 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, the Health Ministry said, among them 252 women, 165 children and 87 medical workers, while 6,588 others were wounded. More than 1 million people are displaced.

The Lebanese government, which says is committed to disarming Hezbollah, called for direct talks early on in the war, but to no avail. Last week, Israel announced their approval of talks, but both sides don't appear to be on the same page.

Lebanon hopes for a ceasefire as a prerequisite, similar to Iran and U.S. talks brokered by Pakistan. However, Israel has framed the talks as peace negotiations with Hezbollah's disarmament as a priority item, with no mention of a ceasefire or a withdrawal of its forces from southern Lebanon.

“We refuse negotiations with the Israeli entity. These negotiations are pointless,” Kassem said in a televised address, calling it a “free concession” to Israel and the United States. “The opportunity is still there. We call for a historic and heroic position to cancel these negotiations.”

Kassem called for a return to the ceasefire that halted the last Israel-Hezbollah war in 2024. Talks were done indirectly through a mechanism with the United States, France and the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon mediating.

The Hezbollah leader slammed Lebanon's president, prime minister and Cabinet for criminalizing the group's military activities and their ongoing diplomatic approach with Israel, saying that "it did not take us any step forward." He also criticized the government for a decision to banish Iran's ambassador from the country and criminalize the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's presence.

“We will let the front line speak,” Kassem said.

Strategic border town

Fierce fighting rocked the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil on Monday, as Israeli troops appeared to encircle the area while Hezbollah militants launched rockets and artillery in an effort to push them back.

The clashes in the hilly town that overlooks the U.N.-mandated Blue Line dividing the two countries just over 2 miles (3 kilometers) away have intensified over the past week, after Iran and the United States agreed to a temporary truce. On Tuesday, Lebanon and Israel's ambassadors to the U.S. are set to meet in Washington for an in-person meeting in a bid to kick off a landmark series of direct negotiations.

Israel has scaled back its attacks in Lebanon, especially in Beirut, after a series of deadly strikes without warning hit the heart of the capital in some of its busiest residential and commercial areas, killing more than 350 people.

At the same time, Israel appears to have stepped up strikes and a ground invasion in southern Lebanon, where it intends to create a security zone along the Litani River, almost 20 miles (around 30 kilometers) from the border. Bint Jbeil is among dozens of towns and villages south of the river that Israel called to evacuate early on in the war.

Hezbollah political official Wafic Safa told The Associated Press Monday that in the town of Bint Jbeil “there are bloody battles that are still being fought until now” and confirmed that a large number of the group’s fighters were besieged there.

“So far, this battle has not ended,” he said. “Of course, there are martyrs for us. This is very normal. There are certainly losses to the Israeli enemy.”

Israel's military said that its troops surrounded Hezbollah infrastructure and started ground operations in Bint Jbeil and surrounding areas, killing more than 100 Hezbollah fighters. Hezbollah didn't immediately announce any fatalities among its ranks, and Israel didn't comment on its military casualties.

On Sunday, Hezbollah said that it carried out at least five attacks on Israeli troops in the town and outskirts with rockets, artillery and drones. According to the group’s statements, Israeli troops were positioned near a school, a hospital and juncture that surrounds the heart of Bint Jbeil. That day, Israel said that its troops attacked Hezbollah forces conducting surveillance from the Bint Jbeil Government Hospital and found a cache of machine guns and rockets.

When Israel occupied southern Lebanon until its withdrawal in 2000, it had relied on Bint Jbeil and other elevated locations for strategic vantage points. A major turning point was Hezbollah retaking the town, and the victory speech by then leader Hassan Nasrallah in a stadium there. The Israeli military on Monday shared a satellite photo showing the stadium apparently destroyed in a strike.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a Cabinet meeting Monday that the military was expanding beyond the five hilltops it controlled in southern Lebanon since the ceasefire with Hezbollah in 2024, toward a “solid, deeper security zone." He said that it was in order to protect northern Israel.

Lebanese Red Cross volunteer buried

Elsewhere, a Lebanese Red Cross volunteer killed in an Israeli strike Sunday while on a mission in the southern village of Beit Yahoun was laid to rest in Choueifat, just south of Beirut.

Hassan Badawi, 31, and a colleague were going to a house that was struck by Israel a short drive from where they were stationed, his colleagues said at the funeral. Their trip was coordinated with the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, which liaises with the Israeli army, and they received the go-ahead, according to his colleagues. They drove in ambulances clearly marked with the Red Cross emblem, flashed their emergency lights and wore helmets and flak jackets, they said.

"That is the only protection we have,” said Ahmad Assi, 29, another friend of Badawi and fellow paramedic.

Badawi often relayed the horrors that he witnessed to friends and family while on duty.

“He said they were bombing everywhere, that he felt stuck, like he had to stay because there were too many wounded people that needed his help,” said Mohammed Cheito, one of Badawi’s friends from Lebanese University, where they studied engineering together a decade ago.

On Monday, an Israeli strike near the entrance to Red Cross offices in the coastal city of Tyre killed a wounded person who was being transported, damaging several Red Cross vehicles. A person familiar with the matter, but who wasn't authorized to disclose the information, said on condition of anonymity that the strike targeted a man on a motorcycle transporting the wounded. It's unclear who either people were.

The International Committee of the Red Cross urged for the protection of humanitarian and medical workers in a statement on Monday.

“Saving lives must never cost a life,” said Agnès Dhur, head of the ICRC delegation in Lebanon. “They must be allowed to reach and help the wounded and return unharmed.”

The Israeli military didn't immediately respond to The Associated Press when asked for comment.

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Abby Sewell in Beirut, Isabel DeBre in Choueifat, Lebanon, and Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.

According to Hollywood Fire Rescue, the incident happened near Charleston Street.

Officials said a lifeguard performed CPR on the man after he was pulled from the water.

He was then transported to a hospital for further treatment.

A witness told Local 10 News the victim was floating in the water.

“He was not breathing on his own,” the witness said. “He didn’t have a pulse for a couple minutes. Thankfully, with the help of the wonderful lifeguards and ALS team that came within a minute and a half, they ran through the procedure, got his heart started, got him breathing on his own, cleared his mouth of water and salt. Within five minutes, they got control of his breathing and saved his life. It was phenomenal to watch.”

No other information has been released.

The shooting was reported at about 1:30 a.m. on Sunday outside the Five Stars Banquet Hall in Sunrise. A suspect, identified as Francisco Sanchez, was arrested, according to the Sunrise Police Department.

Witnesses said about 150 guests were celebrating inside the banquet hall at 6072 W. Oakland Park Blvd. when a person who was using a wheelchair was shot outside.

Eril Jerome, who was celebrating his father-in-law’s birthday with family at the banquet hall, said they heard about four shots fired.

For a while, Jerome and other party guests couldn’t leave because their cars were parked within the crime scene.

The shopping plaza has since reopened.

The victim’s identity has not yet been released.

Location

According to Homestead police, the stabbing was reported shortly after 3:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of Southwest Fourth Street.

Police said the victim was airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center for treatment to multiple lacerations.

According to authorities, the suspect, Artemio Salas, provided a “full confession.”

He was arrested on a felony battery charge.

As of Monday morning, Salas was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed his bond as “to be set.”

Local 10 News has requested a copy of Salas’ arrest report.

Wearing formal office wear, reading glasses and leather shoes, the 68-year-old leader said he did the impromptu workout to ease any worry about his health at a time when people were already beset with problems sparked by the war in the Middle East.

“I challenge anyone who are saying that I am sick, that they come and exercise with me,” Marcos told reporters. “You come to the gym with me. Let’s see who can lift the weights better.”

“Those people who tell you that I’m sick, that I’m paralyzed, they’re all liars,” Marcos said.

Rumors about the president’s deteriorating health and even death have swirled on social media after he briefly vanished from public view in January then later acknowledged in a video message that he was taken to a hospital for an abdominal ailment that he ascribed to stress and age.

Marcos then laughed off rumors of his demise and said he had been diagnosed with diverticulitis. The condition involves inflammation of small pouches in the digestive tract, usually in the colon, that causes pain, fever, nausea or constipation.

His last hospital checkup a couple of months ago showed he had been cured of that ailment, Marcos said, and added that he was back on normal diet and was regularly exercising.

When asked if he was taking any maintenance medicine, Marcos said he was taking medication for gout and for high blood pressure.

Since taking office in mid-2022, Marcos has grappled with multiple complex problems and political dilemmas.

Those include an increasingly hostile territorial dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea, devastating earthquakes, typhoons and flooding, economic difficulties, tumultuous relations with his vice president and a corruption scandal involving powerful legislators and allies that has sparked public outrage.

His biggest takeaways from a victory over Carlos Alcaraz in the Monte Carlo Masters final, though, were finally winning a big clay-court title and doing it by beating his biggest rival on his most challenging surface.

“It means a lot to me, because it means I’m progressing,” Sinner said.

For Sinner, it was a first step toward achieving his main goal for 2026: winning the French Open to complete a career Grand Slam. That’s an achievement that Alcaraz completed when he won the Australian Open in January — making him at 22 the youngest man to have held aloft all four major trophies.

“Winning a big tournament on clay was one of our goals for this year so there’s no better way to start,” said Simone Vagnozzi, who coaches the 24-year-old Sinner alongside Darren Cahill.

Sunday’s meeting was the first on clay between the top two men’s tennis players since Alcaraz saved three match points and came back to beat Sinner in a fifth-set tiebreaker in last year’s French Open final.

“I’m not surprised,” Alcaraz said. “We’ve already seen his level on this surface and he’s improving a lot year after year. He can win any tournament on any surface. He understands the game very well on clay.”

No. 1 ranking could change weekly

While Alcaraz claimed this year’s first major in Australia, Sinner has now followed up his “Sunshine Double” of hard-court titles in Indian Wells, California, and Miami with another Masters series trophy. Sinner is on a 17-match winning streak during which he has dropped only one set — in the third round in Monte Carlo against Tomas Machac.

In the new rankings released Monday, Sinner moved 110 points ahead of Alcaraz, who had been No. 1 since November.

“It’s nice, obviously. I would be a liar to say anything else,” Sinner said. “But it doesn’t change my thought process. I’m playing to win tournaments and Carlos and I are very close, so the rankings can change from one week to the next.

“There are two big Slams coming up, Paris and London. Let’s see where we are after those tournaments,” Sinner added. “Right now, I’m focusing more on those than on the ranking. But waking up again as No. 1 is pretty nice.”

In a measure of how far ahead of the rest of the field Sinner and Alcaraz are, third-ranked Alexander Zverev trails Sinner by a whopping 7,795 points.

Alcaraz heads to Barcelona

When will Sinner and Alcaraz meet again? Well, the next Masters Series event is the Madrid Open starting next week but Sinner is not committing to that tournament.

“Now it’s important to rest,” Sinner said. “So now I’ll take two or three days without even thinking about tennis and then we’ll decide whether or not to play Madrid.”

The Madrid Open and the Italian Open are the only Masters titles that Sinner hasn’t won and he is making the Rome tournament in May another of his priorities after losing before his home fans to Alcaraz in the Foro Italico final, too, last year upon his return from a three-month doping ban.

Alcaraz’s plan is to get back on court on home Spanish soil at this week’s Barcelona Open — where he can reclaim the No. 1 ranking if he wins the title since Sinner is not entered.

“The goal is to play the entire clay-court calendar. That was the plan last year, too, but unfortunately it wasn’t possible,” Alcaraz said, referring to how he had to withdraw from Madrid in 2025 due to muscle injuries.

“This year I’m going to listen to my body much more, so of that means that I need to skip a tournament then that’s what I’ll do. But if I feel OK, I’ll play everything.”

Sinner's return position

While tactics were difficult to execute on a windy day in Monaco, Sinner found a solution to apply pressure on Alcaraz’s serve by stepping into the court often.

“Cahill and I are trying to make Jannik more self-reliant,” Vagnozzi said. “He’s getting better at understanding when to try drop shots — which he’s also started hitting with his backhand by taking a hand off the racket. And then for the return of serve he’s mixing up his position more, which doesn’t provide any reference points to the opponents.”

Now Sinner is entering his 67th career week at No. 1 — one more week than Alcaraz's total of 66.

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