La policía de Lauderhill informó que el incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 11:15 a.m. en la cuadra 5300 de Northwest 19th Street.

Según los investigadores, un agente fue alertado por una persona que dijo que un hombre intentó atacarlo armado con un cuchillo.

La policía dijo que los agentes localizaron rápidamente a una persona que coincidía con la descripción del sospechoso, pero este huyó a pie hacia un vecindario residencial cerca de la cuadra 1700 de Northwest 55th Avenue.

Los agentes informaron que establecieron rápidamente un perímetro y comenzaron a buscar en el área.

La policía dijo que posteriormente recibió una llamada al 911 de un transeúnte que reportó que un hombre estaba tendido en el suelo con aparentes heridas de arma blanca.

La policía indicó que, mientras recorrían el área, encontraron a un segundo hombre con aparentes heridas de arma blanca.

Informaron que una de las víctimas fue trasladada a un hospital local, donde posteriormente fue declarada muerta. La segunda víctima fue declarada muerta en el lugar.

Un hombre identificado como Nelson dijo a Roy Ramos, de Local 10, que una de las víctimas mortales era su vecino, quien utilizaba una silla de ruedas.

“Era un hombre muy, muy bueno”, dijo Nelson. “Este hombre era realmente una buena persona. No le hacía daño a nadie. Tenía una sola pierna y era una persona con discapacidad”.

Los investigadores dijeron que la búsqueda continuó con la ayuda de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward y del Departamento de Policía de Sunrise. La policía de Lauderhill informó que unidades K-9 finalmente localizaron al sospechoso, quien fue puesto bajo custodia sin más incidentes.

La hermana de una de las víctimas dijo a Ramos que cree que su hermano no conocía a la persona que lo atacó.

Por el momento, las autoridades no han divulgado más detalles sobre las víctimas ni sobre el sospechoso.

Cualquier persona con información debe comunicarse con el Departamento de Policía de Lauderhill al 954-497-4700 o con Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

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Lauderhill police said the incident happened around 11:15 a.m. in the 5300 block of Northwest 19th Street.

According to investigators, an officer was alerted by an individual who said a man attempted to attack him while armed with a knife.

Police said officers quickly located a person matching the suspect’s description, but the suspect fled on foot into a residential neighborhood near the 1700 block of Northwest 55th Avenue.

Officers said they quickly established a perimeter and began searching the area.

Police said they later received a 911 call from a passerby who reported that a man was lying on the ground after suffering from apparent stab wounds.

Police said while canvassing the area, they found a second man with apparent stab wounds.

They said one victim was taken to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The second victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.

A man named Nelson told Local 10’s Roy Ramos that one of the victims killed was his neighbor, who used a wheelchair.

“He was a good, good man,” said Nelson. “This man is a really nice man. He doesn’t give any trouble to nobody. He has one foot (and) he is a handicap.

Investigators said the search continued with assistance from the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Sunrise Police Department. Lauderhill police said K-9 units eventually located the suspect, who was taken into custody without further incident.

The sister of one of the victims told Ramos she believes her brother did not know his attacker.

No other details about the victims or suspect were immediately released.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Lauderhill Police Department at 954-497-4700 or Broward Crime Stoppers at-954-493-8477.

Weston resident Jose Infante said the smell from the smoke was strong and lingered for several days.

“It was a thick smell -- very pronounced like burning oil and it lingered for about two or three days,” Infante said.

Infante said he takes regular walks but decided not to on Tuesday because of the smoky conditions.

“I usually walk every day and I didn’t go out. It was just too thick,” he said.

Other residents shared different levels of concern, noting that brush fires and their impact on air quality are not uncommon in western Broward communities.

Weston resident Leslie Armstrong said smoky conditions can sometimes happen in the area but usually improve.

“The morning sometimes is a little smoky, but it goes away by the afternoon,” Armstrong said.

Another resident said the smoke can be more concerning for those with health issues.

“People (can) have breathing conditions or asthma like my wife does so she’s very reluctant to go outside. I don’t have asthma. I go out, but I don’t stay outside and sit around the pool,” the resident said.

While the fire showed little visible activity Tuesday, officials stressed it remains an active wildfire.

Dr. Rohan Dang of Optimize Medical Primary Care in Coral Springs said the effects of wildfire smoke on health are not always immediately noticeable.

“There’s actually longer-term issues or more serious issues you can get from the Smoke because of the particulate matter that you breath in,” Dang said.

He said people with conditions including asthma, COPD and sleep apnea, as well as those with heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, may face a higher risk from exposure to wildfire smoke.

Dang said the best way to reduce exposure is to limit time outdoors.

“The key is really the simple thing – stay inside,” he added.

Dang also recommended keeping air conditioning systems set to recirculate instead of bringing outside air indoors, using air filters and keeping medications updated and on hand.

He said people should avoid unnecessary outdoor activities while smoke continues to impact air quality.

“If you have optional things that you could be doing outdoors, whether it’s sports or activities or things like that, now is not the time,” Dang said.

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The shooting happened near the McDonald’s at Stirling Road and the Davie Road Extension after deputies attempted to arrest the suspect, who authorities said was armed and fled from deputies.

That suspect has since been identified as Napolian Marquez Powell, 27, of Lauderhill.

Witnesses described hearing a rapid barrage of gunfire during the confrontation.

“They keep telling him to put his hands up – ‘Let me see your hands,’” witness Gregory Jackson said. “I guess the guy didn’t reply. Next thing I know, I hear almost 30 shots coming from the guns. I dropped my phone and ran.”

Jackson said he scrambled for cover as the shooting unfolded.

“Once I heard those gunshots, man, I went for cover,” he said. “I went to take cover up under my car, got skinned up in the process.”

On Tuesday, investigators returned to the scene, focusing their attention on the bushes and the fast food restaurant’s drive-thru as they searched for additional evidence.

“It was a crazy, horrific sight that I seen yesterday,” Jackson said. “I’ve never seen nothing like it.”

According to Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, deputies initially encountered Powell in the parking lot of a Wawa across the street while attempting to serve an active arrest warrant. He said the suspect ran from deputies while holding a gun.

Deputies pursued the man for roughly 100 feet before tackling him in an effort to take him into custody, Tony said.

According to the sheriff, Powell was wanted for fleeing and eluding police and detectives believed DNA evidence may connect him to other crimes. He did not provide details about those investigations.

The sheriff also said investigators had intelligence indicating Powell previously told others that if law enforcement attempted to arrest him, he intended to force a “suicide by police” confrontation.

It’s unclear whether the suspect fired his own gun during the confrontation.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.

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According to Reuters, Venezuelan authorities said more than 1,700 people have been killed and at least 5,000 others injured following the devastating earthquakes.

Global Empowerment Mission, which has been collecting donations at its warehouse in Doral, released new photos showing pallets of relief supplies arriving at a warehouse the organization secured in Caracas.

Global Empowerment Mission officials told Local 10 they are no longer in need of bottled water donations because they have received an ample supply. Instead, the organization is asking people to make monetary donations, which will allow relief teams to purchase and distribute the supplies most urgently needed on the ground.

Read the drop off time, location, and items needed below.

Meanwhile, members of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Florida Task Force 1 remained on the ground in Venezuela, working alongside international crews in one of the hardest-hit areas, Playa Grande in La Guaira state.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Florida Task Force 1 (#FLTF1) is on the ground in Playa Grande, La Guaira, Venezuela, standing alongside a community forever changed by the devastating earthquakes.

The mission is complex but clear. It's driven by the possibility that a life can still be… pic.twitter.com/u8NxodanHd

— Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (@MiamiDadeFire) June 28, 2026

Search teams continued using specially trained canines to detect the scent of people trapped beneath the rubble.

Amid the widespread destruction, rescuers celebrated a rare moment of hope after emergency crews from Jordan pulled a 3-year-old child alive from beneath a collapsed building six days after the disaster.

That child was rushed for medical treatment as rescuers cheered.

Questions also continued to mount over the collapse of a hotel that was housing more than 100 recently deported people from the United States.

A repatriation flight carrying about 146 people arrived in Venezuela on June 24, just hours before the earthquakes struck. Officials said many of the deportees were taken to the hotel, which later collapsed, leaving families searching for answers about their loved ones.

“They are not giving us answers about where she is. If at a hospital or at the morgue,” said Luis Armando Dasilva, whose sister, Amanda Donizete, he said worked as a waitress in Georgia.

Families say they have received conflicting information about how many people survived the collapse.

“Please act quickly. We want our relatives to be found, however they are,” Dasilva said.

The World Health Organization said Venezuela’s health care system remains under significant strain because of damaged hospitals and staffing shortages.

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas also released a photo of the USS Fort Lauderdale, which U.S. Southern Command said is berthed at the Port of La Guaira.

The ship is providing additional medical capabilities and serving as a communications hub to support relief operations.

As international rescue efforts continue, organizations in South Florida are working to get more food, water and other essential supplies into the hands of earthquake survivors in Venezuela.

Click here to view the drop-off locations across South Florida that are collecting goods and supplies for earthquake victims.

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El tiroteo tuvo lugar cerca del McDonald’s situado en la esquina de Stirling Road y Davie Road Extension, después de que los agentes intentaran detener al sospechoso, quien, según las autoridades, iba armado y huyó de ellos.

Los testigos dicen haber escuchado una rápida ráfaga de disparos durante el enfrentamiento.

«No paraban de decirle que levantara las manos: “Déjame ver tus manos”», explicó el testigo Gregory Jackson. “Supongo que el tipo no respondió. Lo siguiente que recuerdo es que oí casi 30 disparos. Se me cayó el móvil y eché a correr”.

Jackson contó que corrió a ponerse a cubierto mientras se desarrollaba el tiroteo.

“En cuanto oí esos disparos, tío, me puse a cubierto”, dijo. “Fui a ponerme a cubierto debajo de mi coche y, al hacerlo, me hice unos rasguños”.

El martes, los investigadores regresaron al lugar de los hechos y centraron su atención en los arbustos y en el servicio de drive-thru del restaurante de comida rápida mientras buscaban pruebas adicionales.

“Fue una escena de locos, horrible, la que vi ayer#, dijo Jackson. ”Nunca había visto nada igual".

Según el sheriff de Broward, Gregory Tony, los agentes se encontraron inicialmente con el sospechoso en el aparcamiento de un Wawa al otro lado de la calle mientras intentaban ejecutar una orden de detención vigente. Explicó que el sospechoso huyó de los agentes mientras empuñaba un arma.

Los agentes persiguieron al hombre durante unos 100 pies antes de derribarlo en un intento por detenerlo, explicó Tony.

Según el sheriff, el sospechoso era buscado por huir para evadir a la policía y los detectives creían que evidencia de ADN podría vincularlo con otros delitos. No ofreció detalles sobre esas investigaciones.

El sheriff también dijo que los investigadores contaban con información de inteligencia que indicaba que el sospechoso había dicho anteriormente a otras personas que, si las autoridades intentaban arrestarlo, pretendía provocar una confrontación de “suicidio por policía”.

No está claro si el sospechoso disparó su propia arma durante el enfrentamiento.

El Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida (FDLE) investiga la balacera. Las autoridades aún no han revelado la identidad del sospechoso.

With vastly different backgrounds and policy experience, they have moved along separate paths to stake out territory: Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants with a long history in the Senate and major interest in Latin America, and Vance, a child of the Midwest and Marine Corps veteran who served in the Senate for only two years before being tapped as Trump's 2024 running mate, with a message of opposing foreign wars.

While deferential to each other — and with the White House and State Department denying any suggestion of a rift — Vance and Rubio appear the most divergent on the Middle East.

In discussing Iran, Vance has several times been critical of Israel and its actions in Lebanon, saying Trump has been frustrated by Israeli actions against the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah that have angered Iran and made negotiations with Tehran more difficult.

Rubio, meanwhile, has remained supportive of Israel or held his tongue, particularly over the situation in Lebanon — an issue he has taken the lead on and resulted in a preliminary framework agreement last week.

Vance takes the lead on Iran negotiations and Rubio on Lebanon

"The talk about differences is not idle speculation," said Dan Fried, a former assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Poland who is now with the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank. “There is definitely something to it.”

The White House fired back at any suggestions of a rift.

“Why is the legacy media obsessed with driving a wedge between Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio that does not exist? There is one camp — President Trump’s camp — and the entire administration is fully behind the president’s efforts to ensure Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said.

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott added that "Rubio and the entire administration is 100% in lockstep behind President Trump.”

Yet, according to Trump administration officials familiar with the matter, Rubio was so skeptical of obtaining an acceptable deal with Iran that he declined to head the U.S. delegation to the first ceasefire negotiations in April in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Vance, however, seeing an opportunity to burnish his foreign policy credentials, jumped on it, asking Trump twice to take the lead before Trump agreed, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations.

Vance did lead the U.S. delegation to the inconclusive meeting in Pakistan, then again this month to talks in Switzerland, which followed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. The truce agreed to in that document is very fragile, tested by repeated exchanges of fire between the sides in recent days.

“It’s rather unusual for the VP to be given the lead role in a negotiation, but it’s quite possible that Rubio is happy to let him. It’s a pig in a poke. It’s a loser job,” said Ian Kelly, a retired career diplomat and ambassador during the first Trump administration.

He added that both men seem to “have equal ambitions to replace” Trump, but that the president’s semi-joking comments this month that he would blame Vance if the Iran talks do not succeed appeared to suggest that he was being “set up for failure.”

Vance and Rubio deny any division between them

Vance has talked up the chances of success for a broad agreement with Iran, albeit with caveats, while Rubio, although publicly supportive, has repeatedly taken a more agnostic line while denying any division.

“We’re all focused on the jobs in front of us. I think the president loves to stir the pot a little bit and loves the entertainment of it,” Vance said.

“I love Marco,” he said. “I think he’s a great secretary of state. He’s become a very, very dear friend. I think both of us are very much focused on accomplishing the American people’s business right now.”

Rubio also has rejected that there is any schism.

“When it comes to foreign policy and national security, we have no drama. We have no games,” Rubio told reporters last week during a trip to Bahrain, the last of a three-nation tour of the Arab Gulf countries that have been most directly affected by the Iran war.

“We have a group of people that work very well together and closely to execute on the president’s directives, which is why I think we’ve had good outcomes and good achievements, and we’re going to continue to have good outcomes and good achievements,” Rubio said. “Everyone has an important role to play, and everyone is playing that role and doing it in a collaborative process.”

That has not stopped Trump from fanning the flames of potential rivalry, repeatedly asking crowds of supporters who they would prefer to succeed him and suggesting at one point they might be an unbeatable ticket.

There is little doubt that the men do not share the same worldview, however.

“Rubio speaks within the rubric of the Ronald Reagan construct of the free world and its importance,” Fried said. “Vance is not interested in the free-world construct. He speaks in the language of not wanting to fight what he believes are abstractions.”

Fried said it is impossible to predict how that would translate into policy but warned that “we’re headed toward a bad place in Iran, which is giving up any support for Iranian civil society and not being terribly good at containing Iran.”

“Instead, we seem to be allowing ourselves to be backed into a ‘sphere of influence’ situation where Iran is weaker but ends up better off than before. I can’t imagine Rubio agreeing to that,” Fried said.

Aides to Rubio point out that he has said several times he would defer to the vice president should Vance choose to run for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination.

At the same time, Rubio has used his dual perch as Trump's top diplomat and national security adviser to make over the National Security Council, installing several close allies in top White House positions in recent weeks.

Those include his former State Department counselor, Mike Needham, who is now deputy national security adviser. Also, Jeremy Lewin, who oversaw the dismantlement of the U.S. Agency for International Development for Rubio and took charge of foreign assistance last year, is soon to join the NSC as a deputy for the Western Hemisphere. The head of NSC communications, Dylan Johnson, also serves as assistant secretary of state for public affairs.

Según Reuters, las autoridades venezolanas informaron que más de 1,700 personas han muerto y al menos otras 5,000 resultaron heridas tras los devastadores terremotos.

Global Empowerment Mission, que ha estado recolectando donaciones en su almacén de Doral, publicó nuevas fotografías que muestran palés con suministros de ayuda llegando a un almacén que la organización habilitó en Caracas.

Funcionarios de Global Empowerment Mission dijeron a Local 10 que ya no necesitan donaciones de agua embotellada porque han recibido un suministro suficiente. En su lugar, la organización está solicitando donaciones monetarias, lo que permitirá a los equipos de ayuda comprar y distribuir los suministros más urgentes directamente en las zonas afectadas.

Mientras tanto, integrantes de la Florida Task Force 1 de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue permanecían en Venezuela, trabajando junto a equipos internacionales en una de las zonas más afectadas, Playa Grande, en el estado La Guaira.

La Florida Task Force 1 (#FLTF1) de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue se encuentra en Playa Grande, La Guaira, Venezuela, junto a una comunidad marcada para siempre por los devastadores terremotos.

La misión es compleja, pero clara. Está impulsada por la posibilidad de que aún se pueda salvar una vida.pic.twitter.com/u8NxodanHd

Los equipos de búsqueda continuaban utilizando perros especialmente entrenados para detectar el olor de personas atrapadas bajo los escombros.

En medio de la destrucción generalizada, los rescatistas celebraron un inusual momento de esperanza después de que equipos de emergencia de Jordania rescataran con vida a un niño de 3 años de entre los escombros de un edificio colapsado, seis días después del desastre.

El menor fue trasladado de inmediato para recibir atención médica mientras los rescatistas celebraban el rescate.

También seguían aumentando las dudas sobre el colapso de un hotel donde se alojaban más de 100 personas deportadas recientemente desde Estados Unidos.

Un vuelo de repatriación con unas 146 personas llegó a Venezuela el 24 de junio, apenas unas horas antes de que ocurrieran los terremotos. Las autoridades informaron que muchos de los deportados fueron llevados al hotel, que posteriormente colapsó, dejando a las familias buscando respuestas sobre el paradero de sus seres queridos.

“No nos están dando respuestas sobre dónde está ella, si en un hospital o en la morgue”, dijo Luis Armando Dasilva, cuya hermana, Amanda Donizete, según indicó, trabajaba como mesera en Georgia.

Las familias aseguran que han recibido información contradictoria sobre cuántas personas sobrevivieron al colapso.

“Por favor, actúen rápido. Queremos que encuentren a nuestros familiares, como sea que estén”, dijo Dasilva.

La Organización Mundial de la Salud informó que el sistema de salud de Venezuela continúa bajo una presión significativa debido a los daños en hospitales y la escasez de personal.

La Embajada de Estados Unidos en Caracas también publicó una fotografía del USS Fort Lauderdale, que, según el Comando Sur de Estados Unidos, permanece atracado en el puerto de La Guaira.

El buque está proporcionando capacidades médicas adicionales y funciona como centro de comunicaciones para apoyar las operaciones de ayuda.

Mientras continúan las labores internacionales de rescate, organizaciones del sur de Florida trabajan para hacer llegar más alimentos, agua y otros suministros esenciales a los sobrevivientes de los terremotos en Venezuela.

Haga clic aquí para ver los centros de entrega en todo el sur de Florida que están recolectando bienes y suministros para las víctimas del terremoto.

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The court's two Black justices notably had very different views on U.S. citizenship in the context of Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Tuesday's decision rejects an order President Donald Trump issued at the start of his second term, declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The majority, composed of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, determined that birth on U.S. soil plus being subject to U.S. law is enough for citizenship.

Several dissenters, including Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, say birth alone is not enough — the child's parents must have a deeper political allegiance or relationship to the U.S.

Jackson’s direct disagreement with Thomas' dissent highlights a major rift between the legal minds. Here are the justices in their own words:

Chief Justice John Roberts

Much of Roberts' opinion was a history lesson on English common law, in which he concluded that birthright citizenship has always depended primarily on birthplace — not on parents’ immigration status or domicile.

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court, citing congressional debate over the amendment, “We keep that promise today.”

“We break no new ground today,” Roberts said on the bench as he read the court's majority opinion.

Justice Clarence Thomas

Thomas, who wrote the main dissent, disagreed with the majority's opinion and argued that American-born children are not automatically American citizens.

The basis of his argument, among other things, is that the court ignored evidence from Reconstruction debates that suggested citizenship depended on a deeper relationship to the country. After the Civil War, the U.S. underwent a series of political and constitutional battles over how to define the civil rights and citizenship status of formerly enslaved Black Americans.

“The Citizenship Clause was enacted for people who were born in this country and called it home. It was enacted for freed slaves such as Dred Scott, who had ‘a domicile’ here and therefore were entitled to sue as citizens,” Thomas wrote in his dissent, concluding that Reconstruction was a targeted remedy for freed slaves to restore citizenship to a wrongfully excluded group.

“In my view, the Citizenship Order is not facially unconstitutional,” Thomas wrote, referring to Trump's executive order. “The Order is consistent with the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause, at least insofar as it applies to children born to parents, here lawfully or unlawfully, who are not domiciled in the United States.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson agreed with the opinion in full, but wrote to respond to Clarence Thomas' dissent, arguing that Thomas fundamentally misunderstands what the Reconstruction Amendments — the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments — are trying to accomplish.

“Despite his longstanding endorsement of a ‘colorblind’ Constitution, Justice Thomas, now surprisingly suggests that the Citizenship Clause was a race-conscious remedial measure, relating only to ‘freed slaves such as Dred Scott’ — but that narrow vision of the Fourteenth Amendment bears little relationship to the history of its ratification.”

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anti-caste, anti-subordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”

“The Court’s conception of a color-blind Constitution and the Government’s (and principal dissent’s) cramped, group-specific reading of the Citizenship Clause are two sides of the same coin, stemming from a basic misunderstanding of the relevant history.”

The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs" between June 2022 and March 2025. In particular, their investigation found that the companies coordinated on what bids they would submit to Urner Barry Publications, a company that runs an index key to determining how much grocery stores, restaurants and others pay for billions of eggs each year.

In turn, that meant “higher prices for eggs sold to consumers,” alleged the complaint, which was filed in Iowa on Monday, the day the settlement terms were announced.

“When powerful corporations collude behind the scenes to raise prices, working families suffer the costs,” New York Attorney General Letitia James, who helped lead the investigation, said in a statement. “These egg producers manipulated the market to squeeze even more profit out of consumers and businesses."

None of the companies admitted wrongdoing under the settlements. But to settle the states' claims, Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman's will collectively be on the hook for $3.3 million and 53 million eggs, James and others said. Those eggs would be donated by the companies and make their ways to food banks and nonprofits. The money will be distributed to the states.

The Justice Department and the states also outlined actions the companies will need to take, including adopting antitrust compliance programs and banning communicating with competitors on pricing and bidding strategies.

The settlements would still need court approval. The Justice Department's Omeed A. Assefi said Tuesday that the proposed settlements “resolve years of conduct that dragged on Americans’ finances and their everyday lives.”

Average U.S. egg prices soared to a record high of about $6.23 per dozen in March 2025, amid a bird flu epidemic that forced farmers to slaughter millions of egg-laying chickens. Egg producers blamed price spike on the outbreak, but critics accused big companies of taking advantage of their market dominance and the government began its investigation.

Monday’s complaint notes that price quotations “dropped significantly” after Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman’s learned of the Justice Department’s investigation and were instructed to preserve documents in March 2025. Consumer egg prices also later tumbled — to under $2.20 per dozen as of May 2026 — as replenished flocks caught up despite the ongoing outbreak.

Cal-Maine maintained Monday that allegations of price manipulation were “baseless” and that it believes its conduct has been legal. It also noted that while it was part of a cooperative with the other egg producers, it left the group in May 2024.

Still, Cal-Maine CEO Sherman Miller said the company's settlement agreement “enables us to move forward so we can devote our full attention to what matters most: delivering affordable, high-quality eggs and egg-based prepared foods to consumers nationwide.”

Miller added the period the Justice Department reviewed “was a particularly challenging time” — noting that, beyond avian flu, the COVID-19 pandemic, weather and other market conditions have contributed to temporary supply shocks and high prices in recent years. He said Cal-Maine “took numerous steps to protect and grow its hen flock” in that time.

Versova echoed a similar sentiment, particularly pointing to the toll the bird flu has had on its farmers, who it noted “don’t set the wholesale price of eggs.” Instead, Versova said the price of most of its eggs depends on cost fluctuations of grain used in hen feeds.

Meanwhile, Hickman's owner Mantiqueira USA, which acquired the egg producer in November, said the “conduct referenced in the complaint predates our acquisition," noting that it is committed to complying with the law.

Some advocacy groups say the proposed settlements aren't enough.

“Consumers paid record prices while dominant egg producers reported extraordinary profits, yet the result is another settlement that corporations can treat as the cost of doing business rather than meaningful accountability,” said Angela Huffman, president of Farm Action.

Cal-Maine — the only of the three companies that is public and reports quarterly financials — reported a profit of $1.22 billion for the 2025 fiscal year. Under its settlement agreement with the states, the company would pay $1.5 million and donate 30 million eggs.

Meanwhile, per court documents, Versova would provide 20 million eggs and $800,000, and Hickman's would be on the hook for 3.25 million eggs and $1 million.

In addition to New York, these states were party to the settlement agreements: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Then the reality quickly set in that they would soon be back in the spotlight themselves, with a round of 32 match against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday that will go a long way to determining how successful this World Cup will be.

“In the moment you’re a fan, and then afterward you realize that this is also the same tournament that we’re playing. I think it’s a weird dynamic,” U.S. defender Chris Richards said Tuesday before the team's final practice ahead of the knockout round. “But we saw an upset yesterday, so it’s making sure that we don’t allow that to happen to us.”

After starting the tournament with convincing wins over Paraguay and Australia that clinched the top spot in the group before a meaningless loss to Turkey last week, the Americans enter this knockout round as the favorites to advance for a change against a Bosnian team that has never made it past the group stage before this year.

US has only one World Cup knockout round win ever

But history is against the team as the U.S. men have had little success in the past in the knockout round of the World Cup or against European opposition.

While the Americans made it to the semifinals at the inaugural tournament in 1930 by winning their group, their only win ever in a knockout round came in 2002 when they beat rival Mexico 2-0 in South Korea before losing to Germany in the quarterfinals.

In the eight other tournaments since the U.S. returned to the World Cup in 1990 for the first time in 40 years, the U.S. lost its first knockout game — the round of 16 instead of the round of 32 — four times, failed to make it out of the group three times and failed even to qualify in 2018.

Christian Pulisic said the approach doesn't change in this round and that mood around the team remains light even with the high stakes in this part of the tournament. Pulisic said he's healthy and ready to start after missing one game with a calf injury and playing the last game as a second-half substitute.

“You just want to extend it as long as you can, because some of the best memories I have in my life was last World Cup in Qatar,” Pulisic said. “Now being here, it’s just special to be here. You just don’t want it to end. So there’s definitely a lot of enthusiasm within the team.”

US has struggled against European teams

The U.S. lost its knockout game four years ago to the Netherlands 3-1. That came after a 2-1 loss to Belgium in 2014 and is part of a long run of futility against European teams.

The U.S. is 1-13-7 against European teams at the World Cup since 1990, with the only win coming in 2002 in the opener against Portugal. The Americans are winless in their last 13 matches against European squads at the tournament since then.

While Bosnia, 61st in the FIFA rankings, lacks the pedigree of many of those past European opponents, the Americans know this matchup won't be easy. The Bosnians secured a spot in the World Cup for the second time ever by winning penalty shootouts against Wales and four-time World Cup champion Italy in the European playoffs and then advanced out of the group thanks to a draw in Toronto against host Canada and a 3-1 win over Qatar.

“Every team brings different challenges,” Richards said. “Ultimately the Bosnia team, they were good defensively and good going forward. It’s making sure that we take care of business on both ends. They have a very experienced attack so it’s making sure we do our best in the back to take that away from them.”

With a victory on Wednesday, the U.S. team would advance to the round of 16 next Monday in Seattle against the winner of Wednesday's game between Belgium and Senegal.

It only gets tougher after that with powerhouses like Spain still alive in their half of the bracket, but the results so far in this tournament with teams like Germany and the Netherlands getting knocked out early show what's possible.

“It’s our chance to go farther in this tournament,” Richards said. “We’ve seen two big boys fall. So it’s just a matter of us getting through this game and putting in a good performance and hopefully we continue that. It’ll start to open up. So it is very exciting for us.”

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The defense attorney for Duane “Keffe D” Davis tried to bar the 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend” from being used in trial, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 10, as well as statements Davis had made to police in 2008 and 2009.

Davis, 63, faces one charge of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang in the drive-by shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas.

Shakur was in a black BMW on Sept. 7, 1996, in Las Vegas with Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight when a white Cadillac pulled up beside them at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip, and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later, while Knight survived with minor injuries.

Shakur’s death is considered one of the most notorious unsolved murders in the United States. The case had gone cold until Davis began making public statements about it, including in a book he co-wrote in which he said he was in the Cadillac and provided the weapon used to shoot Shakur. The book revived detectives’ investigation, and Davis was arrested in September 2023. Davis pleaded not guilty.

The state’s case hinges on the book Davis co-authored about his time in the gang South Side Compton Crips and statements he made in YouTube interviews.

Michael Sanft, his attorney, argued that the book was fictionalized to make a profit, and that it was unclear which parts — if any — Davis actually wrote. He also argued that statements Davis made to police in 2008 and 2009 should not be used in trial because Davis thought he had immunity due to a proffer agreement that allowed him to speak to detectives without being prosecuted.

Judge Carli Kierny determined that Davis adopted the statements in the book as his own, regardless if he wrote the whole book. She said he made multiple statements describing the book as the “real truth.” She also found the statements he made to law enforcement to be voluntary, but expressed concern that Davis was told in 2008 that he would not be prosecuted for what he said in the interview.

Marc DiGiacomo, chief deputy district attorney in Clark County, said those interviews were no longer considered inadmissible when Davis chose to write and speak about the events. The state has the right to prove that what Davis wrote is true by using those interviews, he said.

“Had he decided to never write the book, he would not, probably, have ever been prosecuted for the crime,” DiGiacomo said.

By a 6-3 vote, the court struck down Trump’s order. A bare majority of five justices, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that the long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, makes a citizen of anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions,

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court, citing congressional debate over the amendment, “We keep that promise today.”

A sixth justice, Brett Kavanaugh, disagreed about the constitutional ruling, but pointed to a federal law that he said broadly conveys birthright citizenship.

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have upheld Trump’s proposed restrictions.

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a 91-page dissent, more than three times as long as Roberts’ opinion. “In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support.”

The Republican president’s restrictions had been blocked by several lower courts and had not taken effect anywhere in the U.S.

Trump said the decision was “too bad for our Country” and wrongly suggested that Congress could “easily” address it with legislation. The majority decision rests on constitutional grounds. It would take an amendment to overcome the decision.

During arguments in April, both conservative and liberal justices questioned the order’s legality in a momentous case that was magnified by Trump’s unprecedented attendance in the courtroom.

The case framed another test of Trump’s assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court with a conservative majority and a robust view of presidential power that has largely ruled in his favor. In the notable exceptions when the court has not, Trump has responded with starkly personal criticisms of the justices.

The justices ruled on Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions.

The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed on the first day of his second term, is part of his administration’s broad immigration crackdown.

Birthright citizenship was the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.

Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.

He also seemed to recognize the court was likely to rule against him on birthright citizenship, too, using his Truth Social platform to criticize “dumb judges and justices” and wealthy pregnant women from China and elsewhere who come to the U.S. to give birth so their newborns will have American citizenship.

Trump’s order would have upended widely held views that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on everyone born in the U.S., excluding only the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.

The amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” it reads.

In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down Trump’s executive order as illegal. The decisions have invoked the high court’s 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.

Roberts, joined by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the three liberal justices, said the amendment’s language, the historical context and the 1898 case make clear that children born to parents illegally or temporarily in the U.S. “are citizens at birth.”

But there was only a bare majority of five justices on the constitutional question.

Kavanaugh sided with the majority because of a federal law that makes those children citizens. But he joined the dissenters in finding that Trump’s order does not violate the Constitution. His view would enable a future Congress to change the law to restrict birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration had argued that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.

More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would have been affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.

While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright citizenship restrictions also would have applied to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.

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But he also emerged from the term with even greater power.

His immigration crackdown was largely upheld, his call to redistrict for partisan advantage marched ahead and his ability to control federal regulatory agencies expanded dramatically when the court overturned a 90-year-old precedent. The court's conservative majority also seemed willing to look past Trump’s invocation of racial tropes and boundary-pushing moves as it handed down decisions in line with its own conception of a powerful presidency.

The conservative majority seems fully behind the unitary executive theory

The court's ruling Monday gave the president effective control over independent regulatory agencies by allowing him to fire their leaders at will.

Several federal laws, some more than 100 years old, sought to protect agency independence by requiring the president to identify a cause, like negligence, before firing the leaders. The court struck down those provisions as unconstitutional limits on presidential power.

The decision could give the president the ability to reshape agencies Congress created to operate independently of the executive branch. It also could be a threat to the federal workforce, well below top executives, that has been covered by the civil service system, if future decisions allow the president to fire lower-level workers.

One agency that still appears beyond Trump's reach is the Federal Reserve. Though many experts have said there is no principled distinction, the court ruled Monday that the Fed's leadership can't be fired at will. It said Cook can remain in her job while she challenges efforts to oust her over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she denies.

The Voting Rights Act has been hollowed out

It was the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement: the 1965 federal law that finally opened the ballot box to Black Americans and other minorities and eventually led to the election of thousands of Black officeholders across the country.

But since 2013, the court has systematically and severely cut back on the ability of minority voters to invoke the law's protections to challenge election changes, saying the need for those protections had largely passed.

In April, the court made it much harder for minority voters to challenge electoral districts that result in reduced opportunity to elect candidates of their choosing, unless they can effectively prove intentional racial discrimination.

The decision meshed with Trump's call for Republicans to redraw as many districts as possible to try to hold on to their slim majority in the House.

Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee eliminated largely Black districts in response to the decision, including an Alabama district that was created in response to a Supreme Court ruling three years ago.

The immigration crackdown has been at the center of Trump's agenda

The Trump administration notched a series of wins on immigration this term: The justices allowed the Department of Homeland Security to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians and to employ a restrictive policy limiting the number of people seeking asylum each day at the southern border.

They also allowed border officers wider latitude in cases of green-card holders accused of crimes, in a case that started during the Obama administration.

In the birthright citizenship case, Trump pushed for limits no president had sought before, and certainly not through an executive order that would bypass Congress. In the end, six justices ruled he had gone too far.

But four justices adopted the administration's reading of the 14th Amendment that it would permit denying citizenship to children born to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.

Trump's crude racial and religious stereotypes get a pass from the court

Conservative justices have repeatedly discounted or taken the best possible view of Trump’s words and actions. Critics call it sanewashing.

In last week's decision stripping protections from Haitian migrants, Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan sparred over the role of race in Trump's statements depicting Haitians as “poisoning our blood” and amplifying false rumors of them eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio, among other graphic comments.

“None of the cited statements by either the President or the Secretary was overtly racial,” Alito wrote, contending they could have neutral explanations.

Kagan countered: “The statements fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the President’s resolve to remove Haitians from this country.”

The findings echo the 2018 travel ban case where Chief Justice John Roberts said Trump's comments about Muslims were beside the point in the court's review of a “Presidential directive, neutral on its face, addressing a matter within the core of executive responsibility.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor saw things differently. “The full record paints a far more harrowing picture, from which a reasonable observer would readily conclude that the Proclamation was motivated by hostility and animus toward the Muslim faith,” she wrote.

The court also looked past the allegations against Trump when it ruled for him in the 2024 case that helped him avoid prosecution. Two of Trump's appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, had little interest in discussing Trump's effort to undo the 2020 election results and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol that followed. “We’re writing a rule for the ages," Gorsuch said. Kavanaugh added later: “I’m not focused on the here and now of this case. I’m very concerned about the future."

The court rejected Trump's global tariffs

A six-justice majority of three liberal and three conservative justices ruled in February that an emergency powers law doesn’t let Trump bypass Congress. No president had ever tried the tactic before.

Trump responded to the loss by sharpy criticizing the justices who ruled against him, referring to those he nominated as an “embarrassment to their families.”

Meanwhile, he has continued threatening tariffs under other authorities. And new tariffs he imposed in response to the high-court ruling remain in effect even as they, too, have been challenged.

Gun rights get a modest boost

The justices backed Second Amendment rights in a pair of rulings. One found that people can't be barred from owning firearms just because they regularly use marijuana. While the federal ban wasn't often enforced in broad terms, the court's decision recognized that cannabis is now used by millions of people and said it can't automatically be considered dangerous.

Another decision struck down a Hawaii law that had required people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels. A handful of other states have similar laws, some of which have already been blocked in court.

They're the latest in a line of gun cases to reach the court since the justices expanded Second Amendment rights in a landmark 2022 decision.

And a major new case on gun rights is looming. The court also announced Tuesday it will decide whether state and local bans on semiautomatic rifles commonly known as assault weapons violate the Second Amendment.

“You can’t spend quality time or go out with your family, give attention to your children, visit relatives, or have a day like going to a restaurant to have lunch together," said Alexandre Garrido, 49, who has been a bus driver for 20 years.

A proposal to limit the working week to five days is currently in the hands of the Senate after approval from a lower house in May, and is backed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as part of his reelection bid in October.

Currently, many Brazilians work five eight-hour days and another four hours on a sixth day. Others have two days off but still work a total of 44 hours per week. The constitutional amendment seeks to establish a 40-hour weekly limit without reducing pay.

If approved, it would transform the lives of millions of mostly poor Brazilians and likely give a boost to Lula’s campaign. Other Latin American countries have made similar reforms, while Argentina has moved in the opposite direction.

“Those who support working six days a week are in favor of modern slavery,” said Rick Azevedo, a city councilor in Rio who attended the protest Tuesday and who founded the movement Life Beyond Work, one of the driving forces behind the measure.

In addition to the bus drivers' strike called by a local union, which emphasizes increased pay as their main demand, Azevedo's movement also organized protests across Brazil on Tuesday.

Lower income workers most affected

About 14 million Brazilians work six days a week, including 26-year-old Fernanda Sousa. Every day except Tuesdays, she makes her way down the sprawling Rocinha favela at around 5:30 a.m., drops off her 6-year-old son at his godmother's, and takes the metro to the wealthy neighborhood of Gavea to serve Brazilian cheese bread and other snacks in a bistro.

“Going to work on a Sunday when everyone is with their families breaks my heart,” Sousa said, as she made her way home on a recent Friday night, her son in tow. She said she also struggles to balance employment and housework — a predicament shared by many women around the world but accentuated by the longer workweek.

Different studies in Brazil show workers of lower income and in lower-skilled jobs are more often bound to the grueling 44-hour schedule.

Matheus Paulo Costa da Silva, 28, works as a home furnishings store supervisor in Rio. He recently tried to attend an evening IT course, but fatigue stopped him.

“I can’t see my family, I can’t go to the gym, I can’t study. I live to work,” said da Silva.

Businesses are reluctant

Lawmaker Erika Hilton, who led the way for Brazil's lower house to approve the amendment in May, said even some of her conservative adversaries now support the changes, though other opponents seek to kill the move in the Senate.

“Ending the six-day workweek allows us to care for workers who are under attack since Brazil’s slavery days,” said Hilton, in a reference to a period of almost 400 years that ended in 1888.

Workers should be able to travel, go to the beach, attend church or spend time with their friends in their spare time, she added.

Brazil's businesses, however, are sounding the alarm. The country’s National Confederation of Industry argues the annual labor costs could jump by up to 267 billion reais ($52 billion), an increase of up to 7%, if the current workweek is reduced. That alone could slow the South American nation's economy by 0.7%, the confederation says.

Experts say small businesses could be hit hardest. Sebrae, an institution that supports them, says they make up about 97% of enterprises in Brazil, providing half of the country's formal jobs.

Marcelo Pierini, the 52-year-old owner of a pie restaurant in downtown Sao Paulo, is already worried. He employs five people, closes only on Sundays, and has thin profit margins.

“This change could mean one of two things: closing on Mondays and losing some profit or sharing my bill with the customers,” Pierini said. “It is hard. I want some rest too, but I can't afford it.”

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La junta propone pagar en efectivo y ofrecer la emisión de nuevos bonos a los tenedores que no han llegado a un acuerdo y que reclaman unos 8.500 millones de dólares.

El plan ofrece 1.400 millones de dólares más de lo ofrecido previamente.

La Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico ha intentado reestructurar su deuda durante casi una década, después de que el territorio de Estados Unidos anunció en 2015 que no podía pagar su deuda de más de 70.000 millones de dólares. Eso llevó al Congreso estadounidense a crear la junta federal en 2016. Un año después, el gobierno de Puerto Rico se acogió a la mayor quiebra municipal en la historia del país.

Desde entonces, la junta y los acreedores de la compañía eléctrica están enfrentados por la compensación, y han fracasado múltiples intentos de mediación.

Robert F. Mujica Jr., director general de la junta, afirmó que “Puerto Rico debe poder cerrar este último capítulo de su crisis fiscal y avanzar”.

Subrayó que reestructurar la deuda de la compañía “es esencial para la recuperación de Puerto Rico — para contar con electricidad confiable y asequible, y con la nueva inversión que sus residentes y empresas merecen”.

La junta reconoció que aún no ha identificado la fuente para financiar el acuerdo propuesto.

A algunos les preocupa que los fondos puedan provenir de un aumento en las facturas de electricidad, que ya se encuentran entre las más altas de cualquier jurisdicción de Estados Unidos, mientras persisten los apagones crónicos.

La junta señaló que los acuerdos previos alcanzados con varios acreedores y algunos tenedores de bonos en el caso de la compañía eléctrica siguen vigentes.

La junta indicó que, en general, ha completado 12 reestructuraciones de deuda para el gobierno de Puerto Rico, eliminando más de 55.000 millones de dólares en pagos de deuda a lo largo de 40 años.

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The Inter Miami CF Foundation, in partnership with the city of Doral and Global Empowerment Mission, is collecting essential relief supplies for victims through a donation drive at Nu Stadium on Wednesday.

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Event organizers say the drive-through event will run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. People donating are asked to stay in their vehicles and allow volunteers to unload supplies.

Several public figures are expected to support the effort, including Jess Judith, Lele Pons, Jay Wheeler, Zhamira Zambrano, Mau Montaner and Ricky Montaner.

Donations can be dropped off at Nu Stadium, located at 1000 Stadium Drive in Miami. Attendees should follow signs to the Inter Miami CF Team Store.

Organizers are asking for essential items including canned food, bottled water, hygiene products, baby supplies, pet supplies and new emergency items such as blankets, tents, sleeping bags, flashlights, batteries and first aid kits.

Additional donation opportunities will be available through Friday at Inter Miami locations in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

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The Miami Marlins are also joining relief efforts during their July 7-9 homestand against the Seattle Mariners at loanDepot park.

Fans will have several ways to help, including donating requested relief items at collection boxes located at the Home Plate Entrance.

The Marlins are also offering fans a chance to purchase $5 tickets through Marlins.com/WeLoveVenezuela by bringing a requested donation item to the game. For every qualifying ticket purchased, the team will make a $5 donation to the We Love Venezuela Foundation.

The Marlins’ 50/50 Raffle proceeds from all three games will also benefit the foundation.

The organization has committed $100,000 to Global Empowerment Mission, with corporate partners including loanDepot, Goya Foods, neaū water and Kellanova also contributing monetary and in-kind donations.

Both teams are encouraging South Florida residents to come together and support relief efforts for those affected by the earthquakes.

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The Miami Dolphins Foundation also donated $100,000 to assist with relief efforts following the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela.

Uno de los bomberos fallecidos trabajaba para el Servicio de Incendios Forestales de Estados Unidos, creado este año sin la habitual aprobación del Congreso al reasignar personal de cuatro agencias del Departamento del Interior. Las víctimas eran miembros de un equipo de élite, especializado en el uso de helicópteros, que quedó atrapado el sábado en un incendio forestal de rápido crecimiento cerca de la frontera con Utah mientras combatían el fuego desde tierra.

Las autoridades señalan que los fallecidos formaban parte de un grupo de cinco bomberos que intentaron protegerse desplegando refugios de emergencia tipo tienda de campaña cuando las llamas sobrepasaron su posición. Dos sobrevivientes fueron hospitalizados con lesiones por quemaduras.

La consolidación de miles de efectivos en el servicio de incendios ha sembrado confusión entre algunos bomberos sobre quiénes son sus jefes y cuáles deberían ser sus responsabilidades, según exfuncionarios del gobierno.

Y el énfasis del gobierno en la “supresión total” de nuevos incendios marca un giro brusco respecto de una tendencia de décadas hacia aceptar las llamas como una herramienta para quemar vegetación vieja y crecimiento acumulado que actúa como combustible y reducir el riesgo de incendios catastróficos avivados por el calentamiento del planeta.

Los cambios benefician a las empresas privadas de aviación contra incendios, que son clave para atacar los siniestros con rapidez.

Las autoridades federales no han divulgado detalles sobre las circunstancias previas a las muertes ocurridas el fin de semana, como el objetivo de los bomberos en el lugar donde fueron superados por el fuego.

“La cuestión es: ¿por qué estaban atacando ese incendio en primer lugar?, preguntó Timothy Ingalsbee, exbombero federal y cofundador del grupo de defensa Firefighters United For Safety, Ethics and Ecology. “¿Qué era lo que realmente estaba en riesgo? Si era un montón de arbustos en cimas remotas, ¿cuál era el riesgo real que justificaba poner a esos bomberos en peligro?”

98% de los incendios se extinguen

Los incendios forestales iniciaron durante la última semana en todo el Oeste tras meses de clima seco y una falta récord de nieve en algunos lugares.

Al actuar bajo una orden del secretario del Interior, Doug Burgum, el Servicio de Incendios Forestales utilizará la supresión total “para cada incendio forestal bajo su gestión”, indicaron autoridades federales en un comunicado enviado a The Associated Press.

“Cualquier incendio forestal que represente una amenaza para la vida, la propiedad, la infraestructura o el medio ambiente debe extinguirse lo más rápido posible”, se indica en el comunicado. “Nuestros experimentados responsables de manejo de incendios conservan la autoridad para seleccionar las tácticas más seguras y eficaces según las condiciones en el terreno”.

Pero los críticos sostienen que el gobierno intenta arreglar algo que no está roto: las cuatro agencias de las que se extrajo a los bomberos —la Oficina de Administración de Tierras, el Servicio Federal de Pesca y Vida Silvestre, la Oficina de Asuntos Indígenas y el Servicio de Parques Nacionales— logran extinguir el 98% de los incendios que atienden, según sus antecedentes.

La nueva agencia y la política no eliminarán los incendios forestales catastróficos que ocurren debido a bosques densos a los que la gente se muda cada vez más y al clima extremo causado por el cambio climático, señaló Steve Ellis, quien se jubiló como subdirector de la Oficina de Administración de Tierras y preside la Asociación Nacional de Jubilados del Servicio Forestal. Los administradores de tierras deben ser parte de la solución, agregó.

“Separar la gestión forestal y a los gestores forestales de la supresión de incendios hará que el combate de incendios sea menos seguro y pondrá a las comunidades en mayor riesgo”, advirtió.

Los otros dos bomberos forestales muertos en Colorado trabajaban para el Servicio Forestal del Departamento de Agricultura, que atiende la mayoría de los incendios forestales en Estados Unidos y que también opera bajo una política de supresión total. Trump había querido que la nueva agencia incluyera a los bomberos del Servicio Forestal, pero el Congreso bloqueó esa parte del plan.

Las empresas de aviación contra incendios impulsaron la consolidación

En el gobierno de Trump, las autoridades federales han incorporado aeronaves con mayor rapidez una vez que se inician los incendios, indicó Austin Moeller, analista aeroespacial sénior del grupo Canaccord Genuity, una firma de inversión.

“Cualquiera que tenga un avión cisterna se beneficia de esta actividad de contratación más agresiva”, explicó Moeller.

Uno de los beneficiarios principales es Bridger Aerospace, una empresa con sede en Montana fundada por el senador de Estados Unidos Tim Sheehy. Antes de su elección en 2024, Sheehy contrató cabilderos en un intento fallido de persuadir a la Asamblea Legislativa de Montana para crear un servicio estatal de incendios análogo al que acaba de crearse a nivel federal. Un mes después de asumir el cargo federal, propuso un proyecto de ley para convertir en norma la consolidación de los bomberos federales en una sola agencia.

Sheehy se apartó de su empresa durante la campaña de 2024 y colocó sus activos de Bridger en un fideicomiso confidencial, señaló el portavoz de Sheehy, Tate Mitchell.

Mitchell afirmó que Trump estuvo detrás de la idea de crear una nueva agencia de incendios, pero que Sheehy la respalda.

“Una de las principales prioridades del senador Sheehy en el Senado es usar su experiencia para detener los incendios catastróficos que destruyen comunidades estadounidenses y no se disculpará por ello”, sostuvo Mitchell.

Bridger se describe como una de las principales empresas de combate aéreo de incendios del país. Su director general, Sam Davis, ha dicho que la flota de aviones Super Scooper de la compañía, sus aeronaves de vigilancia y su tecnología de observación de incendios la colocan en una posición “única” para responder al renovado énfasis en atacar los incendios para sofocarlos.

La nueva política de supresión total se remonta a décadas atrás

Las aeronaves ayudarán a la nueva política de supresión total del gobierno, que evoca una norma de 1935 conocida como la regla de las 10 a. m. porque exigía a las agencias que apagaran los nuevos incendios antes de las 10 de la mañana del día siguiente.

Michael Dudley, exdirector de incendios, aviación y gestión aérea del Servicio Forestal, señaló que esa política antigua es la razón por la que los bosques hoy están demasiado densos.

Los incendios forestales cumplen una función: eliminan material pequeño y muerto. Pero, según explicó, las autoridades se volvieron tan eficaces apagando incendios que los bosques siguieron creciendo y se acumuló más combustible; por eso, cuando ahora se produce un incendio, es fácil que se salga de control.

Científicos que estudian los incendios forestales afirman que intentar detener todos los incendios es irrealista, ya que algunos de los siniestros más destructivos de los últimos años han eludido los esfuerzos por apagarlos. Algunos incendios simplemente crecen demasiado rápido, están demasiado lejos, o son resultado de múltiples focos de ignición, lo que los hace imposibles de detener.

“La narrativa de que si simplemente nos esforzamos más vamos a hacer que estos incendios desaparezcan no es cierta”, señaló David Calkin, exinvestigador del Servicio Forestal sobre incendios forestales. “La paradoja del fuego no se puede vencer: cuanto más haces que el fuego desaparezca, más combustible se acumula. Cuanto más combustible se acumula, más difícil es hacer que los incendios desaparezcan”.

La nueva agencia necesita ajustes, dicen bomberos

Los bomberos de la agencia consolidada trabajan bajo el recién nombrado jefe del Servicio de Incendios Forestales, Brian Fennessy, quien se desempeñó como jefe de la Autoridad de Bomberos del Condado de Orange, en California, desde 2018.

“Hay un nivel de confusión mientras todos intentan ordenar responsabilidades y quién está al mando y a quién le reportas”, señaló Dudley.

Un portavoz del Departamento del Interior indicó que Fennessy era muy respetado y contaba con décadas de experiencia, incluida la gestión de algunos de los desafíos de incendios más complejos del país en el densamente poblado sur de California.

Luke Mayfield, fundador del grupo Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, dijo que, en su opinión, la consolidación servirá mejor a los bomberos, pero que aún queda un importante trabajo para que la nueva agencia funcione plenamente.

“Todos eran conscientes del potencial de combustible y de las condiciones de incendio que enfrentamos esta temporada”, expresó Mayfield. “Esas condiciones están apareciendo y han producido muertes de bomberos, con condiciones meteorológicas que no van a ceder en el futuro cercano”.

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Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020, was recently appointed to helm a new scientific advisory council tasked with investigating the origins of mysterious orbs and other objects reported by military personnel in recent years. It's part of President Donald Trump's push to declassify more information about the issue.

Loeb's team will report to a new White House panel focused on UFOs, now often referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

“It’s like a detective story,” Loeb said in an interview. “It’s a lot of fun, as long as you don’t pay too much attention to the critics.”

For the last decade, Loeb has been scanning the skies and seas for evidence of intelligent alien life. He began the quest in 2017 as scientists puzzled over an interstellar object soaring by Earth. While others proposed it was a comet or ice chunk, Loeb said it could be a thin “light sail” detached from an alien spacecraft.

His theories have won praise in UFO circles but often put him in conflict with academic peers. Other astronomers accuse him of making exotic claims with little evidence. Some chafe at his habit of skipping the peer review process and bringing claims directly to the public.

Steve Desch, an Arizona State University astrophysicist who has challenged some of Loeb's theories, said Loeb uses flawed methods to reach wild conclusions about alien life — all while shunning a more established branch of science searching for life beyond Earth.

Loeb's role on the White House panel casts doubt on the entire endeavor, Desch said.

“I don’t know what’s going to come of this, but we’re not going to get any closer to answering these questions with him in charge,” Desch said.

The team includes scientists, UFO activists and a billionaire

Loeb brushes his critics aside, saying they lack the imagination to consider new ideas. He's promising a grounded approach to his work for the White House. As he analyzes UAP, he's starting with the assumption that they're the work of humans, he said, approaching it from a national security perspective.

Nonetheless, he envisions an outcome where his work could lead to something bigger. If the government invests in better data collection on UAPs, Loeb said, it could settle the alien debate once and for all.

His hand-picked team includes more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists. Among them is Timothy Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by “nonhuman intelligence,” claiming the United States has recovered crashed aircraft. Also on the team is Ben Lamm, a billionaire working to revive extinct species.

After its first meeting last month, the team sent a request to the Pentagon asking for more than 50 videos, images and other documents related to known UAP incidents. Loeb's group meets behind closed doors, but he has vowed to brief the public and create a website to share findings.

“At a time when science is not so much celebrated, this is an opportunity to actually do good for all sides involved,” Loeb said.

New UAP board created in response to Trump's order for transparency

Earlier this year, Trump directed his administration to provide more transparency on questions of UFOs and alien life. So far, the Pentagon has released three batches of files ranging from decades-old FBI reports to more recent military videos showing orbs darting or soaring through the sky.

Trump's directive led to the creation of a UAP Governance Board overseen by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The board met for the first time in June, and is supported by Loeb's team and several other advisory groups, the office said.

It comes as a bipartisan group in Congress pushes the White House to go further, with some Republicans amplifying claims the U.S. is hiding evidence of alien encounters. The White House has encouraged anyone with information to come forward. A Pentagon office that investigates UAP says it has seen no evidence of alien life.

Loeb said he doesn't buy into cover-up theories. “My impression is the government is baffled by not being able to infer the nature of some of these objects,” he said.

Before looking for aliens, Loeb studied black holes and galaxies

Before he became known for his alien theories, Loeb was a respected cosmologist who authored hundreds of papers, specializing in black holes and the birth of galaxies. He served as chair of Harvard's astronomy department for nearly a decade.

Loeb's career took a turn with his “light sail” theory in 2017, which he presented in a paper and later a book. He went on to found the Galileo Project at Harvard, with a stated mission to search for artifacts from alien civilizations.

His team drew attention in 2023 when they used magnets to retrieve hundreds of small spheres from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, near the possible site of a 2014 meteor crash. After analyzing the metallic “spherules,” Loeb suggested they came from a distant planet or, alternately, from alien technology.

Other scholars challenged the claim, saying it was probably volcanic rock or coal ash.

Sean Kirkpatrick, a physicist who previously investigated UAP at the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, said Loeb is “not viewed favorably” in the scientific community and lacks national security experience. He said the makeup of Loeb's team suggests the White House is more interested in fringe theories than hard science.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the criticism.

Loeb, meanwhile, said he aims to follow the science without distraction. “Let’s keep our eyes on the orbs,” he said, “not the social media.”

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It happened Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Walmart located at 7900 W. McNabb Rd. in North Lauderdale.

According to officials, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and North Lauderdale Fire Rescue crews responded after receiving reports of a shooting.

Upon arrival, deputies said they found a man who had been shot, and that man was rushed by paramedics to a nearby hospital with injuries considered life-threatening.

Authorities said that one person was detained following the shooting, but no arrests have been made.

Detectives from BSO’s Violent Crimes Unit are investigating the circumstances that led up to the shooting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Watching off the southeast to start July

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

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

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

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

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

Interestingly, a similar setup (old front with an embedded MCS) is what spawned Hurricane Arthur in 2014, a similarly slow-starting season as 2026.

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

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

Editor’s note: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that it’s been the least active start to the Atlantic hurricane season since 2014. Through June 26 (the original publication date), the Atlantic hurricane season had recorded its least active start since 2019.

El incidente ocurrió la tarde del martes en el estacionamiento del Walmart ubicado en el 7900 de West McNabb Road, en North Lauderdale.

Según las autoridades, agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO) y equipos de North Lauderdale Fire Rescue respondieron tras recibir reportes de una balacera.

Al llegar al lugar, los agentes encontraron a un hombre que había recibido un disparo. Paramédicos lo trasladaron de urgencia a un hospital cercano con heridas consideradas de riesgo para su vida.

Las autoridades informaron que una persona fue retenida tras la balacera, pero hasta el momento no se han realizado arrestos.

Detectives de la Unidad de Crímenes Violentos de la BSO investigan las circunstancias que llevaron a la balacera.

El presidente uruguayo Yamandú Orsi remarcó la intención de que el bloque sea “más moderno, más dinámico" y orientado a generar resultados “concretos” para la ciudadanía, al recibir la presidencia durante el próximo semestre de manos de su colega paraguayo Santiago Peña, anfitrión de la Cumbre del Mercosur que se celebró en la localidad de Luque, en las afueras de Asunción.

Al encuentro asistieron además los mandatarios de Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz; de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; de Chile, José Antonio Kast, y de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa. El argentino Javier Milei no participó y estuvo representado por su canciller.

Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay fueron los miembros fundadores del Mercosur en 1991, mientras Bolivia es miembro desde 2024 y cuenta con un plazo de cuatro años para adoptar la normativa del bloque. Chile y Ecuador son Estados asociados.

En la cumbre estuvieron además otros Estados asociados —como Panamá— y Trinidad y Tobago, aspirante a ese estatus que permite una mayor cooperación económica, entre otras ventajas.

Orsi señaló que los acuerdos comerciales adquieren verdadero sentido cuando se traducen en crecimiento económico, inversiones y empleo. Señaló además que los objetivos del Mercosur serán la integración fronteriza y la seguridad regional.

En una declaración difundida al término del encuentro, Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay resaltaron el lanzamiento de las negociaciones para un acuerdo entre el Mercosur y Japón, que se encuentra entre los 10 principales socios comerciales del bloque. El intercambio comercial entre ambas partes fue de 13.700 millones de dólares en 2025.

El pacto permitirá una zona de libre comercio de aproximadamente 400 millones de personas, así como ampliar el acceso a los mercados de bienes agrícolas y no agrícolas, la cooperación y las inversiones recíprocas, señalaron.

Mercosur negocia además acuerdos de libre comercio con Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Canadá, así como uno de preferencias arancelarias con Vietnam.

A principios de año el Mercosur concretó con la Unión Europea un acuerdo comercial que entró en vigor de forma provisional en mayo, creando la zona de libre comercio más grande del mundo.

Located in the state of Nuevo León, Monterrey is the only Mexican host city not to feature the country's national team — but this hasn’t stopped swaths of fans from wearing dark green and enjoying the World Cup spectacle in their hometown.

“It’s a good deal for the country and also for the city,” said Manuel Pérez, a resident of Monterrey who attended the round of 32 game between Netherlands and Morocco on Monday. “We are all together in this special moment."

No matter who is playing at Estadio BBVA, Mexican fans control the atmosphere through their various chants.

“It’s part of a culture, and we support each and every team that comes here,” said Sebastian Roa, a fan who traveled from Guadalajara.

During the match between the Netherlands and Morocco, Mexican fans could be heard throughout the stadium chanting “no era penal” (it wasn't a penalty) and “Mexico.”

The phrase “no era penal” was coined at the 2014 World Cup, during Mexico’s round of 16 match against the Netherlands.

In that game, the Netherlands earned a penalty in stoppage time when the referee deemed that Dutch winger Arjen Robben was clipped in the box by Mexico’s Rafael Márquez. The penalty was converted by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, eliminating Mexico. However, many Mexican fans are convinced that Robben dived and a penalty should not have been awarded.

Within the first 10 minutes of the match on Monday, which was also the anniversary of that game, the Mexican fans reminded the world of their 12-year grudge against the Oranje.

Morocco coach impressed by Monterrey fans

While local fans in the United States and Canada have also attended other nations’ matches, the Mexican fans have taken complete initiative in showcasing their country.

Their dedication toward the sport has not gone unnoticed by visiting teams.

“I’ve always said that the 1986 (World Cup in Mexico) made me fall in love with the sport,” Morocco head coach Mohamed Ouahbi said. “I want to say that hopefully at the next World Cup — when it’s played in Morocco — I think (the Moroccan people) want to have Mexican fans and make them feel at home.”

The 2030 World Cup will be co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

In addition to the round of 32, Monterrey featured five teams in the three group stage games it hosted: Sweden, Tunisia, Japan, South Korea and South Africa.

While some sets of fans were larger than others, like Japan and South Korea, there was never a game that lacked Mexican green in the crowd.

“We love watching every game,” Roa said. “Even if it’s (other teams) like Cabo Verde or Uzbekistan, you’re gonna see us.”

In Guadalajara, South Korea’s opening day win against Czech Republic was headlined by empty seats, which FIFA blamed on several fans watching the game from the stadium concourses. But Monterrey’s Estadio BBVA featured sell-out crowds of 51,243 fans in three of its four matches.

“I didn’t go to (a game in Guadalajara) because the prices were crazy high,” Roa said. “But I managed to get a ticket here.

Mexico became the first nation to host three World Cups: 1970, 1986 and 2026. But for many locals it’s the first time they’ve seen the tournament in-person.

“It’s a special moment to come to the World Cup and enjoy the match,” said Alejandro Cuellar, who attended Sweden vs. Tunisia with his brother. “We don’t know when it’s going to be here again.”

The craving for international soccer in Monterrey is not reserved only for the World Cup.

A state of the art stadium

Monterrey has drawn high attendance numbers in other international matches. Estadio BBVA held over 49,000 spectators in the inter-confederation playoff between Iraq and Bolivia.

Estadio BBVA, which was built in 2015, is considered to be one of the most modern in Mexico. Those sitting in the northwestern section of the stadium get a perfect view of a nearby mountain called “El Cerro de la Silla,” which is one of the biggest attractions for foreigners visiting the stadium.

“We already know the type of stadium that we have,” Pérez said. “It’s so beautiful to know that many people are (starting to know) this big stadium worldwide.”

Estadio BBVA regularly hosts Liga MX games as the home ground for Rayados. But the atmosphere at the World Cup is completely different.

“It’s another whole new level because here you have international people,” Roa said. “It’s pretty exciting for all of us Mexicans, because we breathe soccer and we love partying. So it’s two things combined that we just love.” __

Maya Koluder-Ramirez and Ethan Wilcox are students in the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.

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Two months, and only one major, are all that remain for the PGA Tour in 2026 to find some definition. There have been good tournaments, great finishes, redemptions and breakthroughs, and Scottie Scheffler as steady as he has always been.

It's just that no one has stood out this year.

Rory McIlroy became only the fourth back-to-back Masters champion, and the first since Tiger Woods in 2002. It was an example of how much freedom he felt from finally having the green jacket and the career Grand Slam. But that's his only win this year, and except for a late rally at Riviera, he really hasn't come close.

The eight signature events were won by eight players, no different from last year when seven players won the seven $20 million tournaments. But a year ago, all seven winners were among the top 25 in the world when they won. This year that applied to only three winners — Collin Morikawa (19) at Pebble Beach, Matt Fitzpatrick (7) at Hilton Head and Cameron Young (4) at Doral.

It also is not unusual to start a season with three different major champions — that's been the case each of the past 11 years. But it's the first time since 2010 that two of the three major champions were not among the top 30 when they won.

Aaron Rai was at No. 44 when he captured his first major at the PGA Championship, and Wyndham Clark was at No. 34 when he won at Shinnecock Hills for his second U.S. Open title.

(This requires an asterisk because Brooks Koepka was No. 44 when he won the 2023 PGA Championship. He was No. 19 when he left for LIV, and his two wins came with no ranking points).

There were two multiple winners of individual tournaments last year at this point — Scheffler and McIlroy. There are four this year with Clark, Young, Fitzpatrick and Chris Gotterup.

The last two months, highlighted by the final major at the British Open and three FedEx Cup playoff events, should go a long way toward shaping the season. Scheffler and Xander Schauffele won the British Open each of the past two years, and it was their second major of the season.

Even in a game that moves slowly, outlooks can change quickly.

Scheffler looks about the same minus the trophies

Scheffler began his year with a four-shot victory in The American Express. Thirteen tournaments later, he still only has one victory.

He still leads the PGA Tour in overall strokes gained and tee-to-green, though his numbers are down from a year ago. Scheffler has nine finishes in the top 5 in his 14 starts. His playoff loss to Viktor Hovland at The Travelers Championship was his fourth runner-up of the year.

Take only the money from those four runner-up finishes — $8.9 million — and that would rank him at No. 4 on the PGA Tour money list. He hasn't been as sharp at times. He had a bad habit of giving the field too much of a head start. But he doesn't appear to be going anywhere.

The other Fitzpatrick seizes on the opportunity

Fitzpatrick leads the PGA Tour in victories this season with three because one of them was Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where he teamed with younger brother Alex to win. That gave Alex Fitzpatrick a two-year exemption, seen at the time as one of the great gifts ever from big brother.

Instead of flying to Turkey for the next European tour event, Alex Fitzpatrick headed to Doral for a signature event. And he got in the next one, and the one after that. He went from that supposed “gift card” to registering four top 10s in the signature events against the strongest fields.

His world ranking has gone from No. 140 to No. 62. More importantly, he is at No. 17 in the FedEx Cup and a lock for all the big stuff next year — and all the majors if he reaches the Tour Championship.

Clark has to be the front-runner for player of the year

Clark is dangerous when he gets on a heater, and he's on a heater.

He won his first U.S. Open in 2023 a little over a month after dusting the field at Quail Hollow. He shot 60 to win at Pebble Beach in 2024, then was runner-up two straight weeks to Scheffler at Bay Hill and The Players Championship the following month.

Clark had another closing 60 to win at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, followed that with contending late Sunday afternoon in the Memorial and early Sunday afternoon in the Canadian Open, and then he stood down a hostile gallery at Shinnecock to win the U.S. Open. And then running on fumes, he got within two shots of the lead late Sunday at the Travelers and tied for fifth.

How long will it last? Two more months and it might be enough to end Scheffler's four-year run as PGA Tour player of the year.

But that depends on Scheffler.

He is the defending champion at the British Open, and a victory by him or a half-dozen others could be what it takes to bring some clarity to the season.

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Hardest hit would be Asian economies that depend on crude oil, fuel and natural gas from the Persian Gulf, supplies that have been largely choked off by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the risk of Iranian attack. And poorer countries where people spend more of their incomes on fuel and food would also be severely affected, the OECD said.

But the consequences of sharply higher energy prices and inflation would be felt around the world. Global growth would slump to levels not seen except for major setbacks like the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis and recession of the late 2000s. Under the OECD’s prolonged disruption scenario, global growth slows from 3.4% last year to 2.1% this year and 1.8% in 2027, potentially pushing some economies into or close to recession.

Under a different OECD scenario for a time-limited disruption, in which energy production and shipments from the Gulf start to return to pre-war levels in the middle of this year, growth would slow to 2.8% this year and rebound to 3.1% next year.

“The global economy entered 2026 with robust momentum, but the outlook has weakened significantly since the start of the conflict in the Middle East, with effects likely to be felt for some time,” OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said. “The longer the disruptions last, the larger the economic and social costs become.”

Cormann warned that government spending aimed at relieving energy costs needed to be aimed at those most in need and temporary, to avoid running up excess government debt and preserving incentives to save energy.

Despite repeated outbreaks of violence, a declared ceasefire in the war between the US and Iran remains officially in place. The ongoing risk to shipping however means that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled to a trickle, down more than 90% compared to before the war. That has disrupted about a fifth of the world’s supplies of crude oil and fuel products as well as of natural gas.

The OECD report follows a UN study warning that higher energy prices will impact almost billion people in poorer countries and small island states that depend on imported fuel, forcing tradeoffs between covering energy bills and investing in essential public services. More than 30% of people in those countries already live below the extreme poverty line, defined as living on $3 or less a day.

The OECD is an international intergovernmental organization and policy forum of 38 democracies with market-based economies, headquartered in Paris.

La escena policial estaba ubicada frente a A World of Discovery Academy, en el 7025 de Northwest Fourth Street, en Plantation.

Según la policía, los primeros en responder llegaron tras recibir reportes de un niño fallecido dentro de un vehículo.

Al llegar, equipos del Departamento de Bomberos de Plantation localizaron el vehículo y declararon al niño sin vida, dijeron autoridades.

Según los investigadores, al padre del niño le informaron que su hijo había sido marcado como ausente y que nunca había sido dejado en la guardería.

La policía indicó que el padre abrió la parte trasera de su SUV y encontró a su hijo en el interior.

Leslie Novoa, propietaria de A World of Discovery Academy, dijo a Jeff Derderian, de Local 10, que el niño provenía de “una familia muy amorosa”.

“Es una situación devastadora para la familia. Supongo que para los padres que traen a sus hijos a esta escuela, cuando llegaron y vieron todo esto, a los agentes, debió ser realmente preocupante”, dijo Viviana Alarcón, quien trabaja cerca del lugar.

Una madre cuyos hijos también asisten a la guardería y que pidió no ser identificada dijo a Jeff Derderian, de Local 10, que el niño y su familia están en sus oraciones.

“Lamento mucho lo ocurrido y no puedo imaginar esa pérdida. Es devastador”, dijo la madre. “Nunca quieres perder a un hijo, y sé que será muy difícil aceptar algo así”.

Las autoridades no han confirmado información adicional, incluidas las circunstancias que llevaron a la muerte del menor ni si alguien enfrentará cargos.

“Nunca había escuchado nada malo sobre esa escuela”, dijo Alarcón. “La verdad es que tiene una buena reputación”.

He noted that the newly unveiled reforms were neither mentioned nor discussed in earlier talks between the two nations.

“The recently announced (measures) are a matter of total and absolute sovereignty,” Rodriguez said. “We have neither listened to nor are we interested in the U.S. government’s opinion on them.”

But he said it was striking that they “were met with a new package of unilateral coercive measures ... against Cuba.”

Earlier this month, the U.S. slapped new sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel and other officials, as well as on companies key to the island’s crumbling economy.

Some of the sanctions were announced after Cuba’s Communist Party and the National Assembly of People’s Power approved 176 economic measures representing the biggest economic shift since the revolution. They align with some of the demands made by the United States, which is pressuring for a change in Cuba’s political and economic model.

The reforms include more space for private businesses, free hiring of personnel and authorization for private banks and investment by Cubans abroad.

Rodriguez added that while the conduct of U.S. government officials was “generally respectful” during earlier talks, he said it is accompanied by “constant aggressive statements against Cuba, threats of military aggression, and the imposition of additional coercive measures.”

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rodríguez made the statements during a press conference in which he announced a July 7 debate at the U.N. General Assembly on the energy embargo imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump in late January.

“The blockade and the policy of aggression and hostility of the United States government against Cuba are a threat to the existence and well-being of the Cuban people, and to the exercise of their human rights,” Rodríguez said.

He also denied that Cuba is a threat to the U.S., which he called “a major military and nuclear power.”

The oil blockade has further paralyzed Cuba’s economy, leading to prolonged blackouts, fuel rationing, internet outages, and the suspension of public transportation and flight cancellations. Basic services such as garbage collection and water delivery have been suspended, and workdays have been reduced.

The article was written by NPR’s veteran Supreme Court reporter, Nina Totenberg, who planned to address the issue on air later in the day, the news organization said.

An editor's note posted by some NPR affiliates said: “Earlier today, we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Neither Alito nor the court’s public information office has announced his retirement, and we have retracted the story.”

Later, a statement from Editor-in-Chief Tommy Evans said NPR regretted the error and the confusion it may have caused.

“Due to a misunderstanding, NPR’s Supreme Court and Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg incorrectly reported that Justice Samuel Alito had retired. Neither Justice Alito nor the Supreme Court Public Information Office has announced his retirement,” Evans said.

“As soon as the error was realized, the story was retracted and removed from NPR’s website and an on-air correction was broadcast. We regret the error and any confusion this may have caused,” Evans said.

He added that Totenberg would address the issue on Tuesday’s edition of “All Things Considered,” and that she had reached out to Alito to apologize.

NPR had pulled the story after the Supreme Court’s public information office denied the report earlier Tuesday.

On a busy day for the court. Chief Justice John Roberts had announced the retirement of several court employees, as he customarily does after the court’s final opinions are out. But Alito's name was not among them.

Speculation had swirled about the justice’s future plans earlier this year, but Fox News and CBS reported this spring that he planned to remain on the bench.

Alito has been on the court since 2006, when he replaced Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He was nominated by President George W. Bush, a Republican.

Three defenders converged on Patrick Berg as he moved into the penalty area with the ball. He kicked it over to a wide-open Haaland, who scored his fifth goal in three games at this year's tournament.

Antonio Nusa scored in the first half with a curling kick for Norway, which is in its fourth World Cup and will next play five-time champion Brazil in the round of 16 on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

The match comes 28 years after what many considered the greatest win ever for the Norwegians against Brazil.

Norway is playing in its first World Cup since that 1998 appearance, when the team got to the knockout round only after scoring goals in the 83rd and 89th minutes for an incredible 2-1 comeback win over then-reigning World Cup champion Brazil in the group finale.

Amad Diallo, who had kept Norway from taking a two-goal lead earlier in the second half, evened the match for Ivory Coast with a left-footed kick in the 74th minute.

After Haaland’s goal, his Norway-record 60th in 53 matches, Ivory Coast kept pressing and had a chance to equalize with a direct free kick by Diallo in the sixth minute of stoppage time. Orjan Nyland made a leaping stop, the last of his four saves, when he deflected the ball away as he extended his left hand across his body.

Haaland, who won the Golden Boot in the Premier League last season with 27 goals for Manchester City, has scored in 13 straight competitive international games — a total of 25 goals in that span.

The Elephants, ranked 31st by FIFA, had never before won twice in the same World Cup. This was the fourth World Cup appearance for the West African nation, the same as Norway.

Nusa scored his first World Cup goal in the 39th minute when he took a few strides past the left corner of the area and sent a right-footed kick between two defenders toward the far post.

Ivory Coast goalkeeper Yahia Fofana made a diving attempt at the ball that was just beyond his extended reach, and he was still in air when he turned his head back to see the ball curl into the net. It was Nusa’s ninth international in 28 games for Norway.

Diallo evened the score at 1-1 after a give-and-go with Nicolas Pepe, who scored both Ivory Coast goals in its previous game and was stopped by Nyland in the 55th minute. Diallo found space in the area for his left-footed blast.

That came only about eight minutes after Torbjorn Heggen had a shot for Norway that was deflected away by Diallo, who was right next to his keeper.

Ivory Coast had one more good scoring chance before halftime after Nusa drew a yellow card in stoppage time. Pepe took the free kick but the ensuing header inside went left of the post.

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See more of AP’s World Cup coverage here

On Tuesday, Florida acquired goaltender Jacob Markstrom and forward Angus Crookshank from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forwards Evan Rodrigues, Jesper Boqvist and Ben Steeves.

“Jacob is an established veteran leader in this league who possesses size and a relentless drive to win,” Panthers President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Zito said in a statement Tuesday. “We are excited for him to compete alongside our established group and return to South Florida.

“We also want to extend our sincere gratitude to Evan and Jesper for their contributions to our organization,” Zito added.

Markstrom, 36, appeared in 44 games for the Devils in 2025-26, posting a 23-19-1 record and one shutout.

Markstrom was originally selected by Florida in the second round (No. 31 overall) of the 2008 NHL Draft.

Late Monday, the Panthers acquired goaltender Akira Schmid from the Vegas Golden Knights, likely as the replacement for Daniil Tarasov, who appeared in 33 games for Florida last season.

Tuesday’s trade could mark the end of Sergei Bobrovsky’s remarkable run in South Florida.

Both Bobrovsky and Tarasov are unrestricted free agents and are expected to hit the open market Wednesday.

The Panthers signed Bobrovsky as an unrestricted free agent from the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2019, and his seven-year tenure included back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the only titles in franchise history.

This is a developing story; stay tuned for updates.

INTER MIAMI

La Fundación Inter Miami CF, en alianza con la ciudad de Doral y Global Empowerment Mission, está recolectando suministros esenciales para las víctimas mediante una campaña de donaciones en Nu Stadium este miércoles.

Los organizadores informaron que el evento tipo “drive-through” se realizará de 9 a.m. a 7 p.m. Se pide a las personas que hagan donaciones permanecer dentro de sus vehículos mientras los voluntarios descargan los suministros.

Se espera la participación de varias figuras públicas para apoyar la iniciativa, entre ellas Jess Judith, Lele Pons, Jay Wheeler, Zhamira Zambrano, Mau Montaner y Ricky Montaner.

Las donaciones pueden entregarse en Nu Stadium, ubicado en el 1000 de Stadium Drive, en Miami. Los asistentes deben seguir las señales hacia la tienda oficial del Inter Miami CF.

Los organizadores solicitan artículos esenciales como alimentos enlatados, agua embotellada, productos de higiene, artículos para bebés, suministros para mascotas y artículos nuevos para emergencias como mantas, tiendas de campaña, sacos de dormir, linternas, baterías y botiquines de primeros auxilios.

También habrá oportunidades adicionales para donar hasta el viernes en las sedes del Inter Miami en Miami y Fort Lauderdale.

MIAMI MARLINS

Los Miami Marlins también se unen a los esfuerzos de ayuda durante su serie en casa del 7 al 9 de julio contra los Seattle Mariners en el loanDepot park.

Los aficionados tendrán varias formas de ayudar, incluida la entrega de los artículos solicitados en cajas de recolección ubicadas en la entrada Home Plate.

Los Marlins también ofrecerán a los aficionados la oportunidad de comprar boletos de $5 USD a través de Marlins.com/WeLoveVenezuela al llevar uno de los artículos solicitados al partido. Por cada boleto elegible comprado, el equipo donará $5 USD a la Fundación We Love Venezuela.

Lo recaudado en la rifa 50/50 durante los tres partidos también beneficiará a la fundación.

La organización ha comprometido $100,000 USD para Global Empowerment Mission. Además, socios corporativos como loanDepot, Goya Foods, neaū water y Kellanova también contribuirán con donaciones en efectivo y en especie.

Ambos equipos están animando a los residentes del sur de Florida a unirse y apoyar los esfuerzos de ayuda para las personas afectadas por los terremotos.

Haga clic aquí para ver los centros de entrega en todo el sur de Florida que están recolectando bienes y suministros para las víctimas del terremoto.

MIAMI DOLPHINS

La Fundación Miami Dolphins también donó $100,000 USD para apoyar los esfuerzos de ayuda tras los mortales terremotos en Venezuela.

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Sheinbaum ratificó en su habitual conferencia diaria que México, al igual que Canadá, insistirá en la ampliación por otros 16 años del T-MEC –vigente desde el 1 de julio de 2020—.

La revisión se dará en medio de un clima de tensión generado por los aranceles que impuso el presidente Donald Trump a varios países, entre ellos a sus socios, desde el inicio de su segundo mandato en 2025.

México ha logrado sortear buena parte de los gravámenes que Washington implementó, pero los productos mexicanos que no están cubiertos por el T-MEC, así como los camiones medianos y pesados, enfrentan un impuesto de 25%. También está vigente un gravamen de 50% al acero y el aluminio y una cuota compensatoria del 17% al tomate mexicano.

“Estamos tranquilos en el sentido de que hemos hecho todo lo que tenemos que hacer”, dijo la mandataria y agregó que, independiente de la decisión que tome la administración Trump, “eso no quiere decir que se acabe el tratado mañana”.

En el caso de que Estados Unidos decida no extender el T-MEC vendrá un proceso de “revisión formal” que podría implicar “algunas adecuaciones”, explicó Sheinbaum, y aclaró que de darse grandes cambios en el tratado deberá pasar por los Congresos de los tres socios.

Alterno al proceso de revisión del tratado, México y Estados Unidos tendrá el 20 de julio en la capital mexicana la tercera ronda de diálogos bilaterales en materia comercial que se iniciaron en mayo.

Durante las dos primeras las partes abordaron asuntos relativos a las reglas de origen, la seguridad económica, la agricultura y la industria automotriz.

Sobre las conversaciones bilaterales, Sheinbaum manifestó que su administración está trabajando para que Washington “disminuya de manera importante” los aranceles impuestos a los productos mexicanos y continúe el T-MEC.

¿Cómo llega México a la revisión?

Además de las tensiones en materia comercial, México ha enfrentado en los últimos meses fuertes presiones y reclamos de parte de Estados Unidos en asuntos de seguridad y migración que también han perturbado las relaciones.

Las fricciones se crisparon tras la muerte de dos agentes de la CIA en abril en un accidente automovilístico en el estado fronterizo de Chihuahua luego del desmantelamiento de un laboratorio de droga. En esa oportunidad México reclamó a Washington que no había sido informado de la presencia en el país de los dos agentes estadounidenses ni de sus actividades.

Las tensiones se elevaron tras anunciarse a fines de ese mismo mes que la fiscalía de Nueva York había acusado de narcotráfico al gobernador oficialista del estado de Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha, y a otros nueve funcionarios activos y retirados, y solicitó su detención preventiva con fines de extradición.

Ante ese contexto Ildefonso Guajardo, exsecretario mexicano de Economía y quien participó en las negociaciones con Estados Unidos que llevaron al T-MEC, afirmó que México llega al proceso de revisión en un “grado alto de vulnerabilidad” y en medio de una “incertidumbre creciente” que ha impactado los compromisos de inversión en América del Norte.

Guajardo manifestó dudas de que se llegue al fin del tratado trilateral, pero “el problema es con qué calidad de T-MEC nos vamos a quedar”.

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It took place at Bayfront Park during the match between Brazil and Japan.

The Round of 32 knockout stage game was a great one.

It remained tied until the final moments, when Brazil pulled out a thrilling 2-1 victory.

Local 10 News’ Liane Morejon was there for all the fun, and her report can be seen at the top of this page.

Las negociaciones "no muestran progreso”, aseguró Rodríguez al anunciar el martes en rueda de prensa la realización de un debate en la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas sobre el cerco energético impuesto por la administración del presidente Donald Trump en enero contra la isla.

El bloqueo petrolero ha ocasionado un fuerte impacto en la isla y su economía se encuentra semiparalizada con largos apagones, combustibles racionalizados, cortes de internet y suspensión del transporte público o cancelación de vuelos. Servicios básicos como la recogida de basura o la entrega de agua no pueden ser satisfechos, mientras que las jornadas laborales fueron recortadas.

Ambos gobiernos reconocieron que negociaban y se hicieron públicas visitas de delegaciones estadounidenses a la isla y hasta un encuentro entre el equipo del secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, con el nieto del retirado líder Raúl Castro en San Cristóbal y Nieves en febrero. No trascendieron detalles o una hoja de ruta.

“La conducta de las delegaciones del gobierno de los Estados Unidos que generalmente es respetuosa en esas conversaciones, está acompañada de constantes declaraciones agresivas contra Cuba, de amenazas de agresión militar, de la aplicación de medidas coercitivas adicionales”, indicó Rodríguez.

A mediados de junio, el Partido Comunista de Cuba y la Asamblea del Poder Popular, el Parlamento, aprobaron un paquete de medidas económicas de apertura al mercado y la iniciativa privada inusitadas para el sistema socialista local, aunque en sintonía con algunas de las exigencias realizadas por Estados Unidos que aspira a un cambio de modelo en la nación caribeña.

El esquema político de partido único no fue considerado en el plan impulsado por las autoridades.

“Las transformaciones recientemente anunciadas son total y absolutamente soberanas, ni hemos escuchado ni nos interesa la opinión del gobierno de los Estados Unidos sobre ellas”, señaló Rodríguez. Agregó que llamaba la atención de que hayan sido respondidas con un nuevo paquete de medidas coercitivas unilaterales contra la isla.

El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos no respondió de inmediato a una solicitud de comentarios por parte de The Associated Press.

Poco después de la aprobación, Estados Unidos emitió un anuncio de s anciones contra firmas cubanas que se sumaron a las preexistentes del último año. Trump y su secretario Rubio dijeron que el gobierno cubano era inepto, su modelo ineficiente y la isla un peligro para sus seguridad nacional.

Rodríguez informó, además, que la isla había pedido una sesión a la Asamblea General de la ONU para denunciar el cerco energético de Estados Unidos contra la nación caribeña que agudizó una severa crisis y semiparalizó la economía.

La sesión en la ONU se realizará el 7 de julio y según el canciller, Estados Unidos buscó boicotearla.

“Cuba no es ni puede ser una amenaza a la seguridad nacional de los Estados Unidos, que es una gran potencia militar y nuclear”, expresó el jefe de la diplomacia cubana. “Cuba no es una amenaza, el bloqueo sí. El bloqueo y la política de agresión y hostilidad el gobierno de los Estados Unidos contra cuba es una amenaza para la existencia y el bienestar del pueblo cubano, para el ejercicio de sus derechos humanos”, acotó.

One of the killed firefighters worked for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, created this year without customary congressional approval by drawing personnel from four agencies within the Interior Department. The victims were part of an elite, helicopter-based crew that got trapped Saturday in a fast-growing wildfire near the Utah border as they attacked the blaze on the ground.

Authorities say they were among five firefighters who tried to shield themselves by deploying tentlike emergency shelters as flames overran their position. Two survivors were hospitalized with burn injuries.

The consolidation of thousands of personnel into the fire service has sown confusion among some firefighters about who their bosses are and what their responsibilities should be, according to former government officials.

And the administration’s focus on “full suppression” of new fires marks a sharp reversal from a decades-long trend toward embracing flames as a tool — to burn off old vegetation and growth that acts like fuel and lessen the risk of catastrophic blazes being stoked by a warming planet.

The changes benefit private fire aviation companies that are key to hitting blazes fast.

Federal officials have not released details on the circumstances preceding the weekend deaths, including the firefighters’ objective at the site where they were overrun.

“The question is, why were they attacking that fire in the first place?” asked Timothy Ingalsbee, a former federal firefighter and cofounder of the advocacy group Firefighters United For Safety, Ethics and Ecology. “What was actually at risk? If it was a bunch of shrubs on remote mountaintops, what was the real risk that justified putting those firefighters at risk?”

98% of fires are extinguished

Wildfires ignited over the past week all across the West following months of dry weather and a record lack of snow in some places.

Acting under an order from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the Wildland Fire Service will use full suppression “for every wildfire under its management,” federal officials said in a statement to The Associated Press.

“Any wildfire that represents a threat to life, property, infrastructure or the environment should be extinguished as quickly as possible,” the statement said. “Our experienced fire managers retain the authority to select the safest and most effective tactics based on conditions on the ground.”

But critics say the administration is trying to fix something that isn’t broken: The four agencies the firefighters were drawn from — the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs and National Park Service — have a record of extinguishing 98% of the fires they handle.

The new agency and policy won’t eliminate catastrophic wildfires that occur due to dense forests where people are increasingly moving and extreme weather caused by climate change, said Steve Ellis, who retired as a Bureau of Land Management deputy director. Land managers must be a part of the solution, he said.

“Severing forest management and forest managers from fire suppression will make firefighting less safe and put communities at greater risk,” Ellis said.

The two other wildland firefighters killed in Colorado worked for the Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service, which handles most U.S. wildfires and is also operating under a full suppression policy. Trump had wanted the new agency to include Forest Service firefighters, but Congress blocked that part of the plan.

Fire aviation companies pushed for the consolidation

Under Trump, federal officials have been bringing in aircraft more quickly once fires ignite, said Austin Moeller, senior aerospace analyst for Canaccord Genuity group, an investment firm.

“Anyone that has an air tanker benefits from this more aggressive contracting activity,” Moeller said.

A chief beneficiary is Bridger Aerospace, a Montana-based company founded by U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy. Before his 2024 election, Sheehy hired lobbyists in a failed attempt to persuade the Montana Legislature to create a statewide fire service analogous to the one just created at the federal level. Within a month of taking federal office, he sponsored a bill to codify the consolidation of federal firefighters into one agency.

Sheehy stepped away from his company during the 2024 campaign and put his Bridger assets into a blind trust, said Sheehy spokesman Tate Mitchell.

Mitchell said Trump was behind the idea to create a new fire agency, but Sheehy supports it.

“One of Senator Sheehy’s top priorities in the Senate is using his experience to stop the catastrophic fires destroying American communities and he won’t apologize for it,” Mitchell said.

Bridger describes itself as one of the nation's leading aerial firefighting companies. CEO Sam Davis has said the company's fleet of Super Scooper aircraft, its surveillance aircraft and its fire observation technology make it “uniquely positioned” to respond to the renewed emphasis on attacking fires to put them out.

New full suppression policy dates back decades

The aircraft will help the administration's new full suppression policy, which harkens back to a 1935 policy known as the 10 a.m. rule because it required agencies to put out new fires by 10 a.m. the following day.

Michael Dudley, a retired director of fire, aviation and air management at the Forest Service, said that old policy is why forests today are overgrown.

Wildfires serve a purpose — they clear out the small and dead material. But officials became so good at putting out fires that the forests kept growing and more fuels built up, so when a fire hits now, it's easy for it to get out of control, he said.

Scientists who study wildfires say trying to stop all fires is unrealistic since some of the most destructive blazes in recent years have evaded efforts to put them out. Some fires simply grow too fast, are too remote, or result from multiple ignitions that makes them impossible to stop.

“The narrative that if we just try harder, we’re gonna make these fires go away isn’t true,” said former Forest Service wildfire researcher David Calkin. “The fire paradox is not beatable: The more you make fire go away, the more fuel accumulates. The more fuel accumulates, the harder it is to make fires go away.”

Firefighters: New agency needs work

Firefighters in the consolidated agency are working under newly appointed Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy, who had served as chief of California's Orange County Fire Authority since 2018.

“There’s a level of confusion as everyone’s trying to sort out responsibilities and who’s in charge and who do you report to,” Dudley said.

An Interior spokesperson said Fennessy was highly respected with decades of experience, including managing some of the nation's most complex fire challenges in densely-populated southern California.

Luke Mayfield, a founder of the group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, said he believes the consolidation will better serve firefighters, but significant work remains to get the new agency fully running.

“Everyone was aware of the potential fuel and fire conditions we face this fire season,” Mayfield said. “Those conditions are surfacing and have resulted in firefighter fatalities with weather conditions that won’t let up in the near future.”

El evento se realizó en Bayfront Park durante el partido entre Brasil y Japón.

El partido de eliminación directa de la ronda de 32 fue un gran encuentro.

Se mantuvo empatado hasta los momentos finales, cuando Brasil logró una emocionante victoria por 2-1.

Liane Morejon, de Local 10 News, estuvo allí para toda la diversión, y su reportaje puede verse en la parte superior de esta página.

“Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” the l atest book on the Trump presidency, written by political journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, has sold more than 300,000 copies in its opening week, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.

They’re the kind of sales that numerous works about Trump reached during his first term, but had been rare during his second term. Publishers had speculated that the public had tired of Trump books, believing there was little left to know.

The total figures include preorders, print book sales, ebooks, and e-audiobooks and orders that have yet to be fulfilled because of demand, the publishing house said. Simon & Schuster said the book is into its third hard copy printing, with 200,000 copies on order, after it sold out quickly in bookstores and on Amazon. It's the best first-week clip of any hardcover nonfiction book in 2026.

The book covers the first 14 months of Trump's second presidency and takes readers inside the West Wing, White House residence and Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, aboard Air Force One and on foreign trips with the president.

Trump, who has a long history with Haberman from her days covering him as a New York City business and society figure, has trashed the book as “mostly made up.” Haberman and Swan are now New York Times reporters.

Their manuscript depicts meticulous details of Trump's military decisions, how he's wielded the power of the Justice Department against his political opponents, his conversations with other power players, and the time and attention he's devoted to remaking the aesthetics and structure of the White House.

The book spells out a thesis that Trump himself believes: Had he not lost the 2020 election, he would not be as powerful in his second term as he is now — emboldening him to trample norms, dismantle established institutions and push the limits of presidential power.

Haberman and Swan have been featured regularly across news talk shows promoting the book and sharing details of their reporting, including a sit-down with Trump in which he boasted about being compared to some of history's great villains.

Sean Manning, vice president and publisher at Simon & Schuster, said the book “has entered the national conversation” and will hold up as “a work of historic importance.”

Minetree, said “Elle” executive producer Lauren Neustadter, “actually recreated her own version of the Harvard admission video featured in the 2001 movie that starred Reese Witherspoon, "and she hit it out of the park.”

The preparation to play Elle in the series debuting on Wednesday, didn't stop there. Minetree says she watched “Legally Blonde” about “200 times at this point,” studying Witherspoon's performance, but steering clear of an outright impression of the Oscar winner.

“Reese brought her essence to the character,” Minetree said. “And that is something that no one could ever replicate. It would be a disservice if I tried to do that, so I tried to bring the parts of myself that I thought were reflected in Elle."

A fish out of water

In “Legally Blonde,” we met Elle as a sorority girl who applies to Harvard Law School, gets accepted, and is a star in her class.

“When I read the script it reminded me a lot of old Goldie Hawn movies, or ‘Working Girl,’ Witherspoon told The AP in 2001. “You think this girl is certainly not very smart because of the way she speaks and the way she looks, and then she just turns the tables on everybody and becomes smarter than everyone, and I just love that.”

Like the film, “Elle” underscores that people don’t have to sacrifice their true selves in order to achieve success.

How we meet Minetree's Elle is at her blowout 16th birthday party, shortly before her parents (played by Tom Everett Scott and June Diane Raphael) break the news that they're all moving to Seattle.

The students at her new school are less than friendly and shun Elle's sunny disposition and pink attire. This is Seattle in 1995 and both grunge music and its culture are everything. Even the cheerleaders wear flannel. It takes time for the student's to warm up to their new classmate, whose ice breaker is “I like iced coffee, the month of July and when people dress kind of tennis-y even if they don't play tennis.”

“Such an integral part of the ‘Legally Blonde' IP is not judging a book by its cover," said Chandler Kinney, who plays Kimberly, one of Elle's schoolmates who is particularly judgy — at first.

The lasting influence of ‘Legally Blonde’

The time seemed right to explore more of Elle's story when Witherspoon noticed the pressures young women feel to live up to unrealistic standards curated online. Studies have linked social media to mental health issues among teens.

Witherspoon “really saw what was happening to young women," said Neustadter of Witherspoon's desire to explore the character as a young woman. "She felt like this was the right moment to give Elle to the next generation.”

"Elle reminds us that we should feel good about being ourselves, feel proud of who we are and to be kind and good to others. It feels like a good reminder for this moment in time.”

Telling an origin story of this character just makes sense, Raphael said. We've seen prequels about all kinds of male characters — but “we rarely get to do that with the iconic female characters that we love," she said.

A surprise cast member

— James Van Der Beek

Viewers will recognize a familiar face in the first season of “Elle.” James Van Der Beek, who died in February after a diagnosis of bowel cancer, plays Dean Wilson, superintendent of Elle's new school and a mayoral candidate.

Raphael had the most scenes with Van Der Beek and says it was an honor to share scenes with him.

”It’s so special to me," she said. "His work on the show is so lovely, and he is such a lovely person. I’d never met him before, and I was so excited to work with him. I was really blown away by his charm and his charisma and mainly his ease."

More ‘Elle’ is coming

Season 2 of “Elle” wrapped filming earlier this month, and Minetree is happy viewers won't have to wait long to see a continuation to the story.

“Honestly, Season 2, it’s so good," Minetree said. “Season 1 is amazing, but season 2 might be better.”

There are also plans to make a third “Legally Blonde” film starring Witherspoon.

“Absolutely, we’re on it,” Neustadter said. "Don’t you worry. We’re in the kitchen we’re cooking something up.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The National Weather Service was blunt: Conditions were “dangerous” as the heat index, a combination of air temperature and humidity, exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) in some areas. It warned about a risk for heat-related illnesses, especially among people without air conditioning.

Detroit's air temperature was in the high 90s, the Weather Service said, and could even reach 100 at some point through Thursday. The city said a dozen recreation centers were open, some until 11 p.m., for people to cool off. Big chunks of Michigan, as well as Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and much of Iowa, were under an extreme heat warning.

The Northeast, including New York City and Boston, will next feel major heat through the Fourth of July holiday. Norristown, Pennsylvania, 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Philadelphia, canceled a Saturday parade because of the weather.

Philadelphia declared a heat emergency, Wednesday through Saturday, and said 50 cooling centers will operate with extended hours. The city said visitors will find misting tents, water refill stations and medical stations at the free World Cup fan festival at East Fairmount Park.

When the heat's on, people adjust

The Chicago History Museum offered free admission to state residents who wanted a cool space Tuesday. Roads in a few places in Illinois buckled under the heat. When the surface has no room to expand in the heat, it can rise and crack.

At 9:15 a.m., window washer Stephen Mason, 72, was wiping mayflies off glass at a Detroit convenience store. He got an early start to avoid the worst conditions of the day, but it was already 85 (29.4 C).

“It's the only way to beat it. But it's already starting to cook out here,” Mason said.

Adam Schubatis, 36, a runner who was shirtless in Detroit's Indian Village neighborhood, said he was cutting his route to 6 miles (9.6 kilometers).

“I know where all the drinking fountains are,” he said. “My wife thought I was crazy. She offered to pick me up if I got tired or if there was anything I was doing that wasn't safe.”

A dog's day can be ‘miserable’

In Milwaukee, more than 100 firefighters spent hours controlling a fire at a school in the extreme heat. Fire Chief Aaron Lipski said crews were rotating and shedding their thick coats while they rehydrated.

Overnight low temperatures were in the 70s (21-26.7 C) in many places, which doesn't give the body a chance to cool down naturally, said Dr. Kisha Davis, health officer for Montgomery County, Maryland.

“The heat stress will compound day after day,” said Davis, who added that alcohol and soda, popular holiday drinks, are dehydrating.

In Jackson, Mississippi, where the afternoon heat index exceeded 100 F (37.7 C), massive fans tried to keep about 100 dogs cool at an old mattress warehouse that serves as a shelter for Community Animal Rescue and Adoption.

“It’s miserable. … We try to keep everybody hydrated back there. Dogs and people,” said kennel manager Raquel Burney.

Cooling it forward

George Liller, 64, was a hero in Grosse Pointe Park, a Detroit suburb. He added air conditioning to his home, so he offered a window unit for free on Facebook — extension cord and remote control included.

“It was probably on my porch maybe 15 minutes,” Liller said. “That air conditioner was given to me. I thought, ‘Somebody needs it.’ I know how it feels to be in an old house when it’s this hot.”

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The board is proposing paying cash and offering the issuance of new bonds to bondholders that have not settled and are seeking some $8.5 billion in claims.

The proposed settlement represents $1.4 billion more than previously offered.

Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority has been trying to restructure its debt for roughly a decade, after the U.S. territory announced in 2015 that it was unable to pay its more than $70 billion debt load. That prompted U.S. Congress to create the federal board in 2016. A year later, Puerto Rico’s government filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Since then, the board and bondholders of the power company's debt have been at odds over compensation, with multiple mediation attempts failing.

“Puerto Rico must be able to close this last chapter of its fiscal crisis and move forward,” said Robert F. Mujica Jr., the board’s executive director.

He stressed that restructuring the company’s debt “is essential to Puerto Rico’s recovery — to the reliable, affordable electricity and the new investment its residents and businesses deserve.”

The board said it has not yet identified the source to finance the proposed settlement.

Some worry that the source of funds could come from an increase in power bills, which already are among the highest in any U.S. jurisdiction as chronic outages persist.

The board noted that previous agreements reached with several creditors and some bondholders in the power company’s case remain in place.

The board said that overall, it has completed 12 debt restructurings for Puerto Rico’s government, eliminating more than $55 billion in debt payments over 40 years.

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Back-to-back earthquakes in Venezuela have killed nearly 1,500 people and left thousands injured.

Cars lined up early Tuesday as people dropped off supplies, with some traveling hundreds of miles to contribute.

Justo Piaero drove from Raleigh, North Carolina, making the two-day trip to be the first person in line.

As a Venezuelan, Piaero said seeing videos from his home country has been devastating, and he wanted to find a way to help.

“It’s a trip that I never like to do, but it’s something we have to do. We have to help the people in need, and this is total disaster in my country,” Piaero said.

The effort in Doral brought together volunteers and donors who said they were moved to help in any way they could.

Rosalina Castro, a volunteer, said she felt she needed to do something after seeing the suffering.

“I’m heartbroken still I felt the need to come out and do something at least something so small is coming to move pallets and water,” Castro said.

Volunteers spent hours moving boxes and supplies through the South Florida heat, saying the work was powered by a desire to support people in need.

For donor Cristy Paulick, seeing the community come together was emotional.

“It’s heartbreaking, it breaks my heart, but I’m happy to see everybody coming together to do this it’s heartfelt and heartwarming as well,” Paulick said.

Organizers said the donations represent more than just supplies — they represent hope for people affected by the crisis.

Click here for more information on multiple drop-off locations across South Florida collecting goods and supplies for victims.

Dos terremotos consecutivos en Venezuela han dejado casi 1,500 muertos y miles de heridos.

Autos hicieron fila temprano el martes mientras la gente entregaba suministros, con algunos viajando cientos de millas para contribuir.

Justo Piaero manejó desde Raleigh, Carolina del Norte, haciendo un viaje de dos días para ser la primera persona en la fila.

Como venezolano, Piaero dijo que ver videos de su país de origen ha sido devastador y que quería encontrar una forma de ayudar.

“Es un viaje que nunca me gusta hacer, pero es algo que tenemos que hacer. Tenemos que ayudar a las personas necesitadas, y esto es un desastre total en mi país”, dijo Piaero.

El esfuerzo en Doral reunió a voluntarios y donantes que dijeron sentirse conmovidos para ayudar en todo lo que pudieran.

Rosalina Castro, una voluntaria, dijo que sintió que tenía que hacer algo después de ver el sufrimiento.

“Todavía estoy con el corazón roto, sentí la necesidad de venir y hacer algo, aunque sea algo tan pequeño como mover pallets y agua”, dijo Castro.

Los voluntarios pasaron horas moviendo cajas y suministros bajo el calor del sur de Florida, diciendo que el trabajo estaba impulsado por el deseo de apoyar a personas necesitadas.

Para la donante Cristy Paulick, ver a la comunidad unirse fue emocional.

“Es desgarrador, me rompe el corazón, pero estoy feliz de ver a todos uniéndose para hacer esto, es conmovedor y también reconfortante”, dijo Paulick.

Los organizadores dijeron que las donaciones representan más que solo suministros: representan esperanza para las personas afectadas por la crisis.

Haz clic aquí para más información sobre múltiples puntos de entrega en el sur de Florida que están recolectando bienes y suministros para las víctimas.

Shelton was eliminated 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (8), 6-2, 7-6 (9) on Tuesday, losing in the first round at the grass-court Grand Slam for the first time in his young career.

The 23-year-old Shelton led 8-5 in the deciding 10-point tiebreaker against his 140th-ranked opponent and had match point at 9-8 but made an unforced error and then lost the next two points.

“I thought I put myself in a great position to win at the end. He came up with the goods,” said Shelton, who reached the quarterfinals last year at the All England Club.

The left-handed American said he “wasn’t getting many free points.”

“The way that he was playing, hitting the ball, it definitely forced my hand. He’s playing aggressive,” Shelton said. "He wasn’t really making any mistakes. Towards the end, any ball I left semi-hanging, he was ripping a winner, especially in that last game before the tiebreak.

“In the tiebreak,” he continued, “I was trying to get to the net as much as I could, try to really rush him and not allow him to swing away from the baseline.”

The 25-year-old Virtanen came through the qualifying tournament and earned the biggest win of his career in eliminating Shelton, who is ranked No. 5.

“I had a great month. I played a lot of grass matches,” Virtanen said in his on-court interview after 4 hours, 21 minutes on No. 2 Court.

He reached the second round in his Wimbledon debut in 2024 and missed last year's tournament.

Shelton said he'll try not to dwell on the defeat.

“I’m usually the type of person that gets back on the court or in the gym the next day. This is definitely one of the toughest losses of my career, coming here at Wimbledon. First time I’ve lost in the first round here,” he said. “I didn’t even think I played a poor match today. Things just didn’t go my way. ... I’ll be right back on the practice courts in a couple days.”

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His name is Gadi Eisenkot. On Tuesday in Israel, his centrist political party “Yashar!” or “Straight!” formally launched its election season campaign.

“This time it’s on us,” said Eisenkot at the launch event Tuesday. “Will we turn a blind eye to the disaster that has befallen us? Will we accept the continued division and rush to the next disaster? Or will we heal and rebuild?”

His rise from the highest ranks of the military could sharpen scrutiny of Netanyahu and his stewardship of Israel through multiple wars. Like nearly all of the prime minister’s rivals, Eisenkot has broadly supported Israeli military operations in places such as Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. He did not mention any of those conflicts in his speech Tuesday.

But he has also accused Netanyahu of strategic failure in the wake of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and said his vision of a more isolated Israel is a threat to the future of the state.

In recent days Netanyahu, who leads Israel’s right-wing Likud Party, has fired back, saying if he had listened to Eisenkot, who was opposed to certain operations in Gaza, then “all of Hamas” would still be in control in the territory.

As a political newcomer, however, Eisenkot “looks like a front-runner because he’s everything Netanyahu is not,” said Gideon Rahat, senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute think tank in Jerusalem.

“He’s not polarizing, he’s not a populist like Netanyahu, and he will try to unify the country,” Rahat said.

An anti-Netanyahu biography

A 66-year-old son of Jewish Moroccan immigrants, Eisenkot stands in stark contrast to Netanyahu, a U.S.-educated elite who is on trial for corruption. He comes from a working-class family. His English is unpolished. He spent four decades in Israel’s military.

He has also never campaigned on having ties to U.S. President Donald Trump. And his 25-year-old son, Gal Meir Eisenkot, was killed in combat in Gaza, while Netanyahu’s son, a podcaster, lived part-time in Florida.

Losing a son — as well as two nephews — to the war has raised Eisenkot’s profile among Israelis and given him credibility as someone who, having paid the ultimate price, won’t needlessly sacrifice soldiers.

“People trust him to be a real person and a patriot. They expect him to take care of the country and not himself,” said Rahat, who is a professor at Hebrew University.

His platform includes a pledge to strengthen Israel’s national security, including through regional cooperation, although he has said that he supports Jewish settlements that are “in line with Israel’s interests” in the occupied West Bank. He said Tuesday he would focus on establishing a state commission of inquiry to investigate the failures leading to the Oct. 7 attack, rebuild the north and south of the country and invest in education and healthcare.

He has also adopted the slogan “Service for All,” a nod to mandating military service for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox communities. For Israelis who have grown tired of war or sending their loved ones off to fight, such arguments may resonate.

“He presents as an everyman, a reflection of the ordinary Israeli,” Joshua Leifer, a columnist for Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, wrote. He is “a kind of antipolitician,” he said.

In 2024, Eisenkot resigned from Netanyahu’s war Cabinet, citing what he said was the prime minister’s lack of strategy as Israel prosecuted its war in Gaza. He sent a blistering letter to fellow Cabinet members warning that they were mistaking incremental battlefield gains for decisions that could actually neutralize Hamas and make Israel more secure.

But his qualms weren’t with the level of destruction in Gaza or the high civilian toll, both of which drew global outrage. And while at times he has emphasized diplomacy as a way to address Israel’s security challenges, Eisenkot is also credited with formulating Israel’s so‑called “Dahiyeh Doctrine,” named after the area in Beirut’s southern suburbs where the Hezbollah militant group has a stronghold.

He elaborated on the doctrine in a 2008 interview with the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, after serving as a top military official during Israel’s war with Lebanon in 2006.

“What happened in the Dahiyeh quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which shots will be fired in the direction of Israel,” he said. “We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases.”

Despite anti-Netanyahu sentiment, challengers face difficult path to unseating him

In Israel’s fractured multi-party system, prime ministers rarely finish their four-year terms. Coalitions collapse and new alliances are formed. Because of that — and despite Netanyahu’s unpopularity — it would still be difficult for any of the prime minister’s challengers to form a coalition broad enough to unseat him.

If Eisenkot’s party wins more seats than Netanyahu’s, it will still need to form alliances with enough other parties to constitute a majority. Eisenkot has said he will not compromise on legislation mandating military service for the ultra-Orthodox, who also wield political power.

He will also need to decide whether to include Arab-led parties to get over the threshold — something Netanyahu and his far-right allies have already used as an attack line.

The players return to a homeland still in the grips of an unresolved conflict with Israel and the United States. But their fans say they should be proud.

“I think even though they lost, it gave people a sense of hope,” said Mohammad Modarres, 38, who traveled from San Diego to bid the team farewell.

Heartbreak over missed chances

After its three group stage matches ended in draws, Iran's World Cup future depended on either Algeria or Austria winning their match on Saturday.

Watching from the lobby of their Tijuana hotel, the team erupted in celebration when Algeria took the lead in stoppage time.

“I've never seen a room explode like that,” said Kimia Ranjbar, 25, a lifelong fan of Team Melli who had driven down from the Los Angeles area. But minutes later, Austria tied the game again, leaving the lobby in dismayed silence.

It was the last of many disappointments throughout the tournament, including when a late goal by Shoja Khalilzadeh gave Iran the lead in its last match, against Egypt, before being ruled offside.

Facing challenging circumstances

Distractions abounded off the pitch before and during the tournament, beginning with questions over whether Team Melli would even be allowed to play in light of Iran's war with the U.S. and Israel. What followed was Iran's denied request to move its matches to Mexico, a relocation of its base camp from Arizona, and the U.S.'s refusal to grant visas to key members of the Iranian team's staff. The U.S. also rejected Iran's request to travel to the U.S. two days before its Los Angeles matches, though it relaxed some restrictions for Iran's last match.

During a World Cup security briefing Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters that the U.S. had made several accommodations for Iran's travel and repeated assertions that many of the people Iran originally requested to travel with the team to the U.S. were associated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

“I'm just glad they're done and they're not coming back," Mullin said, adding that he “might have sung a song or two or maybe even danced a happy dance.”

FIFA did not respond to request for comment.

In a statement to The Associated Press on Monday, the Iranian team said Mullin's remarks showed a lack of commitment to international law and the basic standards expected to host a global tournament.

“The fact that he openly celebrates Iran’s elimination says far more about him than it does about our team. It reflects a level of pettiness that cannot even tolerate the presence of a football team competing on the world’s biggest stage,” said the team, which declined requests to interview players and staff.

Before decamping Tuesday, the team thanked Mexico and Tijuana for their “kindness” but questioned its treatment at the tournament by the U.S.

“What we experienced was a series of decisions, logistical arrangements, and circumstances that undermined the sense of fairness — an impression only reinforced by the events of the final matchday of our group,” the team said in a statement.

Members of the Iranian diaspora were also divided about whether supporting the team showed tacit backing for Iran's theocratic government, which many of them oppose. Some wanted to keep politics and sports separate.

“You don't see someone screaming at (U.S. soccer star) Christian Pulisic for something Trump does,” Modarres said.

Though the team spoke out against its travel restrictions, it avoided commenting directly on the war. But it didn't shy away from spotlighting the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school at the start of the conflict.

Players wore pins with the number “168” when they first landed in Mexico, referencing the number of people, mostly children, killed in the attack, which was likely launched by the U.S. They left a note in the locker room at Los Angeles Stadium, calling for peace “among all nations” and with the hashtags #168 and #minab, the school’s name.

Sherry Ghaemi, an Iranian living in Los Angeles, called their stand for the young victims “honorable.”

New friendships are forged

Amid the strife, players tried to focus on the sport. There were high notes, like when goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand made seven saves to hold Belgium to a scoreless draw, and when Ramin Rezaeian scored off the outside of his boot to equalize against New Zealand.

“They’re going home not as losers, they’re going home as winners," said Ghaemi. “We’re proud of them.”

Meeting some of the players was a thrill for Siavash Khosrowshahi, a 32-year-old Iranian American who drove from Los Angeles to Tijuana on Sunday, the day after the team was eliminated.

“It’s been really tough and stressful,” Khosrowshahi said of the months since the U.S. and Israel started the war. There were times during the conflict when he couldn't reach his parents in Tehran — but not Sunday, when he called his mother from the hotel and surprised her by putting Beiranvand on the phone.

“It’s a source of happiness for her,” he said.

Iranians and Mexicans also deepened a bond, as Tijuana embraced the team throughout its visit.

“Irán, hermano, ya eres Mexicano!" fans chanted in Spanish whenever they saw Team Melli: “Iran, brother, now you are Mexican!”

“Iran is taking home the best of our country, and this city, which is the way in which outsiders are received,” said Arely Ramírez, a Tijuana resident who turned up at the team's hotel Sunday hoping to meet some of the players.

The feeling was mutual.

“We’re leaving Tijuana today, but our heart and soul stay here,” head coach Amir Ghalenoei said Tuesday through an interpreter before the Iranian team left for the airport.

On Monday, many players still looked solemn as they passed their last hours in Mexico. A few signed final autographs and stood for photos with fans, their smiles more muted than the week before.

Despite the disappointment, some supporters were already looking ahead. “This whole year has been bad events, bad luck after bad luck” for Iranians, said Ranjbar. But the AFC Asian Cup is six months away, a new chance for Team Melli, she said. “I'll be watching them play for that.”

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According to arrest reports, officers identified the suspects as Terrance Beron Sills, 19, Jayden Cereus, 18, both of Fort Lauderdale, and Kevin Peeples, 18, of Miami.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jail records show Sills, Cereus and Peeples each face one count of possession of burglary tools and one count of loitering or prowling. They are not facing burglary charges at this time.

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

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

The Panthers sent Evan Rodrigues, Jesper Boqvist and the rights to pending restricted free agent Ben Steeves to the Devils for Markstrom and winger Angus Crookshank. Florida got goalie Akira Schmid from Vegas on Monday night for a 2028 third-round pick.

“Jacob is an established veteran leader in this league who possesses size and a relentless drive to win,” Panthers general manager Bill Zito said. “We are excited for him to compete alongside our established group and return to South Florida.”

Markstrom at 36 returns to Florida, where he started his NHL career a decade and a half ago. He was one of the top prospects at the position after getting taken with the 34th pick in the 2008 draft and played his first 43 games in the league with the Panthers during their down years, long before becoming a contender again.

Bobrovsky, 37, backstopped Florida to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2024 and ’25 and another trip to the final in ’23. He is expected to be among the top players available when free agency opens Wednesday.

Markstrom is beginning a two-year contract at an annual salary cap hit of $6 million. That was signed in late October by former Devils GM Tom Fitzgerald, who left the organization in April. Moving on from him is the first big roster shakeup for successor Sunny Mehta. New Jersey now has Jake Allen in net and will likely go shopping for his tandem mate in free agency.

Rodrigues, who turns 33 on July 28, gives the Devils another top-nine forward. The Panthers shed his salary of just over $3 million after getting Brady Tkachuk from Ottawa to play with brother Matthew.

In other moves around the NHL:

— The St. Louis Blues put winger Jonathan Drouin on unconditional waivers to buy out the final season of his contract. They got Drouin at the trade deadline from the New York Islanders as part of the return for Brayden Schenn.

— Utah signed goalie Sebastian Cossa to a two-year, $4 million contract after trading a first-round pick to Detroit for his rights.

— Fresh off winning the Cup, Carolina reacquired defenseman Kyle Masters' rights from Anaheim for forward Noah Philp. The Hurricanes sent Masters to the Ducks on Saturday along with a sixth-round pick for the rights to pending free agent John Carlson.

— Vegas, which lost to Carolina in the final, made a one-for-one defenseman swap with Pittsburgh, sending Kaedan Korczak to the Penguins for Parker Wotherspoon. Pittsburgh is retaining half of Wotherspoon's $1 million salary in a cap-saving deal for the Golden Knights.

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In a letter sent to New York officials, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Thomas March Bell accused the state of not securing enough criminal indictments and convictions and said millions of dollars in funding would be suspended through at least Sept. 30.

The move is the second suspension of a state Medicaid fraud unit this year by the Republican Trump administration, and part of a barrage of anti-fraud actions it has aggressively promoted in the healthcare sector. They have included the creation of a new task force, targeted investigations, funding deferrals and demands for revalidation of healthcare providers that have touched all states but focused largely on Democratic ones.

The pulled funding also comes after the administration admitted a glaring error in figures meant to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program earlier this year, a mistake critics said revealed a Trumpian tendency to attack first and verify the facts later.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, immediately vowed to fight Tuesday's funding freeze.

“During my time as Attorney General, my office has recovered over $627 million for Medicaid and was recognized by this very administration for leading the nation in anti-fraud efforts,” she wrote. “We are considering all legal options to stop this outrageous action.”

Letter accuses New York of low performance

Bell's letter to James and New York MFCU Director Amy Held argues that the unit is moving too slowly on cases and amassing too few indictments and convictions for wrongdoing in the Medicaid system. It notes that compared to four similarly-sized units in other states, it secured the lowest number of criminal fraud convictions between 2023 and 2025.

The letter acknowledges that one reason the state has fewer criminal convictions than other states is that it made a deliberate choice to focus on “high impact, complex fraud cases” rather than smaller-scale individual cases, but says that tradeoff didn't produce sufficient results.

“Enough is enough,” Bell wrote. “The New York MFCU has failed to comply with the terms and conditions of its MFCU grant award.”

Bell said in the letter that the funding suspension could be lifted before Sept. 30 if New York takes corrective action, “showing it has remediated concerns that formed the basis for this suspension.” He said if the state doesn’t fix the problems, the freeze will continue.

New York officials dispute the Trump administration's claims

New York's attorney general's office said in a statement that it has “long been recognized as a national leader in effectively investigating and prosecuting Medicaid fraud schemes,” including by the HHS inspector general's office. A 2025 report from the office notes that New York is one of four states that made up half the total civil recoveries in that year.

A spokesperson for the attorney general’s office said most of the unit’s criminal convictions focus on company owners, executives and corporations that would return large amounts to Medicaid.

“Under the leadership of Governor Kathy Hochul, New York State has taken concrete steps to root out waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid," said New York health department spokesperson Cadence Acquaviva. “We look forward to the day when these disingenuous attacks end.”

The funding cutoff follows a similar move in Hawaii. In early June, Bell told Hawaii officials that Medicaid fraud funding would be cut off there, saying that it had a three-year stretch without a Medicaid fraud indictment or conviction.

Joan Alker, executive director and co-founder of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, said there's an irony in the federal government cutting off money intended for prosecuting fraud when its stated goal is to do just that.

“If you want to fight fraud, don't take away money from states' fraud control units,” she said. “I chalk this up to more political theater to distract voters from historic Medicaid cuts before the midterms.”

The Department of Justice named the MFCUs in both Hawaii and New York as prosecutorial partners in a news release about a national Medicaid fraud takedown last week.

Move follows months of federal warnings and deferrals

For months, the Trump administration has contended that states — especially some Democratic-led ones — have been lax about fraud in social safety-net programs, including Medicaid.

It has demanded at least five states, four of them governed by Democrats, share information about how they identify, prevent and address Medicaid fraud.

The federal government has also withheld some Medicaid funding from Minnesota and California over fraud concerns. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat who was Kamala Harris’ 2024 running mate, accused Trump of making cuts because of retribution.

The fraud-busting efforts have also targeted Medicare programs. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced a six-month moratorium on new enrollments for providers of hospice and home care nationally.

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Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on two Mexican men and nine companies involved in transportation, financial services and real estate, accused of being tied to a cartel-linked fuel theft ring intended to evade Mexican taxes while generating tens of millions of dollars annually for the cartel.

Additionally, Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network arm issued an alert to financial institutions that point out red flags of fuel smuggling from the U.S. into Mexico in schemes involving Mexican tax evasion.

“Today’s action highlights the extent to which Mexico’s cartels are expanding beyond traditional drug trafficking to generate revenue for their criminal organizations, which continue to traffic deadly drugs that kill Americans,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a statement.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has acknowledged the New Generation Cartel’s presence in 21 of Mexico’s 32 states, surpassing the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, which is estimated to operate in 19 states. Last year, President Donald Trump designated the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and five other Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

Mexican authorities have in recent years seized million gallons of stolen diesel, gasoline and petroleum distillates from states bordering Texas. Organized crime taps pipelines and diverts fuel to service stations forced to buy from cartels or sell it directly in the streets.

U.S. authorities have even accused the Jalisco New Generation cartel of operating its own service stations.

The four-time MVP rolled her ankle in the fourth quarter of the Aces' win over the Chicago Sky on Sunday. She came back into the game after a quick trip to the locker room.

“It’s when you get off the court that you realize you probably tweaked it a little worse than you originally thought," Aces coach Becky Hammon said at shootaround Tuesday.

Hammon said that it's just a tweak and that Wilson should need “a few days to move.”

Wilson, who leads the league in scoring at 25.7 points a game, has been remarkably durable in her career. She's now only missed seven games since the 2020 season.

Besides her scoring, defense and rebounding are two areas that Hammon said the Aces will need to focus on against the Liberty, who beat Las Vegas on the road last week.

“Everybody's got to be that much better," Aces guard Chelsea Gray said. “It’s no secret, she’s a big, huge part of our team. She's the best player in the world. Let’s, let’s lock in for this one game and do what we have to do.”

The Aces are no stranger to having to play the Liberty short-handed in big games. Gray and Kiah Stokes were hurt in the 2023 WNBA Finals and the Aces beat New York without them.

“Focusing on ourselves, that’s really the thing,” said New York star Breanna Stewart. “This is one game, winner takes all and you never know what’s going to happen in one game. We need to make sure that we’re our best tonight.”

New York will be missing Satou Sabally, who is in concussion protocol after unintentionally getting hit in the face by an elbow against the Aces.

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The ruling from U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante found that the request to provide the state’s voter registration list did not comply with a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 pertaining to federal election records. His ruling, issued Monday, also found that the Justice Department failed to allege any violation under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which established standards for states’ voting systems and voter registration lists.

That prevents "allowing the Attorney General unrestricted access to New Hampshire’s (voter list) to conduct a line-by-line audit to assess a ‘possible’ violation of a federal statute,” wrote LaPlante, an appointee of former President George W. Bush.

New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan, a Republican, welcomed the ruling.

“I am committed to protecting the private information of New Hampshire voters to the fullest extent required by law," he said in a statement.

The dismissal in New Hampshire brings to 10 the number of states where the Justice Department has lost similar cases. The department has sued to force release of detailed state voter data — which includes dates of birth, addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers — in 30 states and the District of Columbia.

In addition to New Hampshire, judges have rejected those attempts in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. In Georgia, a judge dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit because it had been filed in the wrong city, prompting the government to refile elsewhere.

In explaining their push for the records, federal officials have said they need the voter data to ensure that states are complying with federal election laws related to maintaining voter registration lists, even though states already have detailed processes to do that. In the case out of Rhode Island, a Justice Department attorney acknowledged that the department was seeking unredacted voter roll information so it could be shared with the Department of Homeland Security to check citizenship status.

Democratic and some Republican officials have objected to the Justice Department requests for detailed voter data and said such a demand violates state and federal privacy laws.

At least 13 states have either provided or promised to provide their voter registration lists to the department, according to the Brennan Center for Justice and Associated Press reporting: Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.

“I have this file on my phone of Indian dishes or weird words.” Coffin says. “People come up to me and say, ‘You should say that!’ and I write it down.”

“The hardest thing,” adds Coffin, “is just to find the melody.”

It’s been 16 years since Coffin co-directed Illumination's “Despicable Me.” He has made three more movies in the franchise, directing “Despicable Me 2,” “Despicable Me 3” and “Minions.” But the Minions, like Coffin’s personal version of Frankenstein’s monster, have often remained a deviling, even mystifying force to him.

Coffin, a French Indonesian animator who lives in Paris, where Illumination productions are based, has struggled with both the dictates of Hollywood franchise-building and the strange narrative conundrums of movies based around a supervillain and gibberish-speaking henchmen.

“That’s why I kind of disappeared from the series,” Coffin said in a recent interview from Paris. “I mean, the first one was really good. A bad guy becoming a good guy after contact with three little girls, I could see it. The second one was a little bit more shady because it was like: That guy who’s no longer a bad guy falls in love and there’s a marriage at the end. That’s literally how Chris (Meledandri) pitched it to me. My French sensibility threw up a little bit.”

If you can’t tell, Coffin — the still-mischievous 59-year-old son of a French diplomat and an Indonesian novelist — is unusually candid about the franchise he helped create. Even movies that he directed, he’s highly critical of.

The previous “Minions” spinoff, 2022’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” Coffin won’t even talk about because, he says, “I don’t necessarily like it and it’s strange to me.” “Despicable Me 3,” the 2017 sequel was the last movie Coffin directed, but he says he didn't even want to make it. Afterward, Coffin told Meledandri, the Illumination chief executive, that he was done.

“I told him: I got to move on. I did my trilogy, my prequel — I’m good. I can help with the voices, no problem. But I want to move on,” Coffin says. “I worked on separate things, but I always get pulled back by the Minions.”

The Minions have a way of manipulating their bosses, Coffin included. After walking away from them, he's back for “Minions & Monsters,” the third standalone feature for the “Banana!”-shouting little guys.

“All the other ones I had doubts about. I was guided into a direction that I did not necessarily like or understand,” says Coffin of the previous sequels. “But the things were a huge success. I was humbled. OK, there has to be something I don’t understand.

“This one is horrible because I’m thinking I really like it,” Coffin says, laughing. “And I’m thinking, man, maybe I just killed the franchise.”

Making the Minions main characters

On the contrary, “Minions & Monsters,” which opens in theaters Wednesday, may be the best “Minions” movie yet. In it, the Minions turn filmmakers. Alongside Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, they try to make a monster movie in 1920s Hollywood.

The premise, suggested by Meledandri, was too enticing for Coffin to turn down. He even wanted to write the script, which he did with cowriter Brian Lynch. “Minions & Monsters” makes the yellow troublemakers something more than chaos-inducing sidekicks. They’re silent film stars who for the first time feel like actual protagonists.

“This movie has so much for people who were kids when they first encountered the Minions,” says Meledandri. “More than any previous Minion movie, it incorporates all of that wonderful silliness of the Minions but it's also a terrific story.”

Even after seven films and more than $5 billion in box office, the Minions are still revealing themselves to Coffin. They were, in the first place, a product of evolution. For “Despicable Me,” they were first designed like hulking thugs, then more like robots, then more like mole men. Coffin, Chris Renaud and art director Eric Guillon kept refining. Add in some goggles, overalls and names like Stuart and Kevin and, bingo: movie history.

How to speak Minionese

Yet given that the Minions are impossible to understood, except for a word or two, they make for tricky protagonists. Hand them over to a new boss, and you risk making the Minions second bananas again. At the same time, long sections of uninterrupted Minionese can grow tiresome without some human interpreter.

“If it’s too long and annoying to the ear, we just kill it,” Coffin says. “All of these movies, we do until we find the little formula.”

Even just writing for the Minions isn’t a clear process. Coffin, who voices all the Minions, is accustomed to improvising their dialogue back and forth. (For the first “Minions” movie, he'd begin his mornings with two hours alone with a microphone before commuting to the studio.) Putting pen to paper came less naturally.

“Brian didn’t know how to write them,” Coffin says. “He tried writing gibberish. I told him, ‘Don’t write gibberish. I don’t understand what they’re saying. Let’s write them in English.’ It took us a while to establish that dumb thing.”

Coffin can sound almost parental about the Minions. The characters he gave voice to aren’t just in the movies. They're like mascots for Illumination, generated billions in merchandising. Not every treatment nails their singular nature.

“I don’t want to criticize what the others have done with the Minions, but when someone else does something with the Minions, I feel that they’re considering them creatures,” Coffin says. “But they’re not creatures. They’re creatures with a spirit, with a personality.”

Even he’s still figuring them out. In writing “Minions & Monsters,” Coffin wanted to think about the origins of friendships. He began surveying people about how they met their best friends. Many of the replies inevitably went back to when someone was 8 or 10 years old.

“That made it very clear to us: The Minions are kids,” Coffins says. “I discovered that on this movie. It dawned on me. They’re irresponsible, they don’t listen, they make a mess, they don’t listen to authority. From that moment onward, it was very easy.”

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The police scene was located outside A World of Discovery Academy, at 7025 Northwest Fourth Street in Plantation.

According to Plantation police, first responders arrived after receiving reports about a deceased child inside a vehicle.

Upon arrival, Plantation Fire Department crews located the vehicle and pronounced the boy dead at the scene, authorities said.

According to investigators, the boy’s father was told that his son was marked absent and had never been dropped off at the daycare.

Police say the father then opened the back of his SUV and discovered his son inside.

Leslie Novoa, the owner of A World of Discovery Academy, told Local 10’s Jeff Derderian that the boy comes from “a very loving family.”

“It’s a devastating situation for the family. I guess for the parents who have their kids come to this school -- when they came and saw all of this, the officers, that would be really, like, concerning,” Viviana Alarcon, who works nearby, said.

A mother whose children are also enrolled at the daycare, and who asked not to be identified, told Derderian that the boy and his family are in her prayers.

“I’m sorry and can’t imagine the loss. It’s devastating,” the mother said. “You never want to lose a child, and I know it’ll be hard to come to terms with that.”

Authorities have not confirmed any additional information, including the circumstances that led to the child’s death or whether anyone would be facing charges.

“I never heard anything bad about that school,” Alarcon said. “It honestly has a good reputation.”

A mere 16 years after his first famed “decision” — the one that saw him leave Cleveland for Miami — James is getting ready to change uniforms once again. He has told the Lakers that his eight-year run with them is over and that he'll play a record-extending 24th NBA season elsewhere.

James has made clear many times in recent years that more championships are his motivation, which means it's almost certain he'll pick a team that he believes can contend for an NBA title in 2027. Golden State is believed to be on his list, though there are certainly some who will wonder if reunions with Cleveland and Miami are possible. Or, perhaps, a new landing spot awaits such as San Antonio, where he could partner with 7-foot-4 global megastar Victor Wembanyama.

“I’ve done it all. I’ve seen it all,” James said when the Lakers' season ended in May — after what was his last game with the franchise. “Just being able to compete and trying to win championships, I think that’s a motivating factor.”

The first half of his decision is complete: He's back for at least one more year, which means his family agreed to that part of the plan — James had said his wife Savannah and 12-year-old daughter Zhuri would have big says in whether or not he continued to play.

His next decision — where to play — is among the biggest dominoes that will fall during the NBA's offseason player movement window, alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo being traded by Milwaukee to Miami.

The Lakers released a statement Tuesday thanking James for his eight seasons with the club.

“LeBron James is one of the greatest athletes in history,” said Jeanie Buss, part of the Lakers’ ownership group. “We will always be thankful for his eight years with the Lakers, including the title he led us to in 2020 under the toughest imaginable circumstances, and the countless records he broke in purple and gold. We wish him all the best in the future, both on the court and off. He will always be a cherished part of the Lakers family.”

ESPN, citing James’ longtime agent and Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul, first reported James’ plans.

What happens now

James can begin talking officially to new clubs after 6 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, when the league’s free agent period opens. He will not be able to sign with a new team until the league’s offseason moratorium is lifted on July 6.

The momentum toward Golden State seemed to pick up when longtime Warriors forward Draymond Green did not exercise his $27.6 million option for this coming season earlier this week in large part to allow his team flexibility to make other roster moves. It doesn't mean Green won't be back in Golden State — all indications are that he will — but it gives the team options.

“Personally, I’m always willing to work with the team on whatever is best, especially at this point in my career,” Green said on the latest episode of his podcast, which was released Tuesday. “So my decision to opt out was for a few reasons. As you all know, I’ve always taken the approach of working with the organization. I’ve been in one place for 14 years. It’s more of a family to me than anything.”

Golden State is a franchise James faced four times with Cleveland in the NBA Finals. He also has close relationships with Green, Stephen Curry and Warriors coach Steve Kerr; Curry was his teammate and Kerr was his coach for USA Basketball's run to the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Games.

James spent eight seasons with the Lakers, the longest he spent in one stint with one NBA team and led them to the 2020 NBA championship. He became the NBA’s all-time points leader while wearing a Lakers uniform and surpassed a slew of other records while in purple and gold.

He spent the first seven years of his career in Cleveland, then left for four years in Miami where he won the first two of his four championships. That was followed by another four-year stint with the Cavaliers (so he had 11 years there total), and in 2018 he joined the Lakers.

A career like none other

James is the NBA’s oldest active player; he turns 42 in December. He was the first player in league history to log 23 seasons; he’ll add at least one more to that this season. He also became the first player in the league to have a son as a teammate, with Bronny James playing alongside him with the Lakers.

The list of James’ accolades to this point are beyond comparison.

He’s a 22-time All-Star, a 21-time All-NBA selection, a four-time Most Valuable Player, a four-time NBA Finals MVP, a three-time All-Star Game MVP, and was part of the NBA’s 75th anniversary team. He’s coming off a season where he averaged 20.9 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 7.2 assists per game, and for his career, he’s averaged 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 7.4 assists in more than 1,600 games.

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The Atlantic Fire, which began Sunday as a fire covering just a few hundred acres, rapidly expanded across the Everglades west of the Sawgrass Expressway near Atlantic Boulevard.

While the fire showed little visible activity Tuesday, officials stressed that it remains an active wildfire.

Aerial images from Sky 10 showed a large swath of charred landscape where the fire has burned through the Everglades.

The Florida Forest Service described current conditions as “low fire activity,” but warned that the blaze could become more active as temperatures rise throughout the day.

Firefighters remained at the scene Tuesday, closely monitoring the fire’s behavior as heat and drier conditions could cause flames to intensify and produce large plumes of smoke.

One of the biggest concerns earlier in the firefighting effort was the fire’s proximity to the Sawgrass Expressway. Crews conducted strategic prescribed burns, also known as back burns, to remove vegetation that could have fueled the fire’s spread toward the highway. Those efforts helped protect the roadway from the advancing flames.

Officials said moisture in the soil has helped limit fire activity, but that moisture is expected to evaporate as the day warms, increasing the potential for the fire to flare up again.

The Florida Forest Service said the Atlantic Fire is now 50% contained.

Investigators have also determined the fire was sparked by lightning.

El incendio Atlantic Fire, que comenzó el domingo como un fuego que cubría solo unos pocos cientos de acres, se expandió rápidamente por los Everglades al oeste de la Sawgrass Expressway cerca de Atlantic Boulevard.

Aunque el incendio mostró poca actividad visible el martes, las autoridades enfatizaron que sigue siendo un incendio forestal activo.

Imágenes aéreas de Sky 10 mostraron una gran franja de paisaje carbonizado donde el fuego ha quemado los Everglades.

El Servicio Forestal de Florida describió las condiciones actuales como “baja actividad de fuego”, pero advirtió que el incendio podría volverse más activo a medida que las temperaturas aumenten durante el día.

Los bomberos permanecieron en la escena el martes, monitoreando de cerca el comportamiento del fuego, ya que el calor y las condiciones más secas podrían hacer que las llamas se intensifiquen y produzcan grandes columnas de humo.

Una de las mayores preocupaciones al inicio del esfuerzo de extinción fue la proximidad del fuego a la Sawgrass Expressway. Las cuadrillas realizaron quemas controladas estratégicas, también conocidas como “back burns”, para eliminar vegetación que pudiera haber alimentado la propagación del fuego hacia la autopista. Esos esfuerzos ayudaron a proteger la vía de las llamas en avance.

Los funcionarios dijeron que la humedad en el suelo ha ayudado a limitar la actividad del fuego, pero se espera que esa humedad se evapore a medida que avanza el día, aumentando el potencial de que el incendio se reactive.

El Servicio Forestal de Florida dijo que el incendio Atlantic Fire ahora está 50% contenido.

Los investigadores también determinaron que el incendio fue provocado por un rayo.

El progresista Cepeda, quien ejercerá la oposición desde una banca en el Senado tras perder en el balotaje presidencial, explicó en una declaración a la prensa que la desobediencia “implica no reconocer la autoridad de alguien que no responde a la defensa de la soberanía nacional”.

Cepeda, aliado político del presidente saliente Gustavo Petro, instó a sus más de 12 millones de electores a que también entren en desobediencia en caso de que De la Espriella no ceda ante las condiciones, lo que implicaría que desconozcan “cualquier orden” dada por el presidente electo.

De la Espriella, de 47 años, nació en la capital de Colombia y en su edad adulta recibió la ciudadanía estadounidense. Según dijo en la campaña a The Associated Press también es miembro del Partido Republicano.

Los cuestionamientos sobre su doble nacionalidad han orbitado su campaña, tanto por las críticas de Cepeda y Petro, quienes cuestionan su lealtad a Colombia, como por un grupo de juristas que antes del balotaje advirtieron que sus obligaciones como presidente colombiano entrarían en “radical contradicción” con las adquiridas en Estados Unidos como ciudadano.

El abogado y empresario De la Espriella ha dicho que su compromiso es con Colombia y que la Constitución no impide tener otras nacionalidades, sino que exige haber nacido en Colombia y tener más de 30 años de edad para ejercer como presidente.

Cepeda también cuestionó el apoyo político que De la Espriella recibió del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump durante la campaña, al considerarlo una “abierta interferencia” al proceso electoral en Colombia.

A su juicio, De la Espriella no debería posesionarse como presidente hasta que renuncie a su ciudadanía estadounidense y aclare otros temas relacionados con Estados Unidos, a riesgo de que su posesión quede “viciada por ser ilegal e ilegítima”.

La sombra de Saab

Cepeda pidió que De la Espriella aclare si fue o es “colaborador o miembro de agencias de seguridad" de Estados Unidos, argumentando que en su ejercicio como abogado contribuyó a los acercamientos con las autoridades de ese país y Alex Saab, un aliado cercano del derrocado presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro que enfrenta problemas con la justicia estadounidense.

De la Espriella dijo en campaña a la AP que lo dejó de representar hace aproximadamente siete años. Explicó entonces que sus "contactos con las fiscalías, con los agentes de la DEA, de la CIA, del FBI, siempre fue por los temas de Saab, pero para que él negociara, cosa que no quiso hacer".

Cepeda también pidió a De la Espriella que cese “toda persecución contra el presidente Petro y desistir de cualquier intento de extraditarlo”.

De la Espriella dijo a AP que estaría dispuesto a enviar en extradición a Petro en caso de que fuera requerido por Estados Unidos y avancen investigaciones en etapas iniciales que cursan en ese país.

En los últimos meses fiscales en Brooklyn y Manhattan han estado interrogando a narcotraficantes sobre sus vínculos con Petro y, en particular, sobre acusaciones de que representantes del presidente colombiano solicitaron sobornos para bloquear su extradición a Estados Unidos, según una persona con conocimiento de la investigación que no estaba autorizada a hablar sobre la investigación en curso y habló en marzo con AP bajo condición de anonimato.

It’s the latest legal case targeting an African country over a deal it signed with the Trump administration to accept deportees who aren’t its own citizens.

The lawsuit was filed at a regional court, the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States. The coalition includes the Global Strategic Litigation Council, a network of lawyers and advocates.

It’s the first case ever brought under a 1979 regional treaty that guarantees free movement across West Africa.

The case represents 27 people among the at least 60 the U.S. has deported to Ghana since September 2025 as part of an agreement between the governments. Ghana agreed to take in deportees, hold them and arrange their onward removal, despite most of them having received orders of protection by U.S. judges against being deported to their home countries, according to a statement by the coalition.

According to Tuesday’s statement, most of the 27 people were flown from Ghana to their home countries within hours or days of arriving, despite telling Ghanaian authorities about their U.S. protections. Some described being shackled during the flight from the U.S. Once in Ghana, they said they were held under armed guard in military camps, hotels and airport holding cells, often in poor conditions.

The coalition accuses Ghana of violating non-refoulement, which is the international legal principle barring countries from sending people to places where they face persecution or torture.

A spokesperson for Ghana's government did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Ghana is one of at least nine African nations to strike third-country deportation deals with the U.S.

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

Medical evaluations cited in the new lawsuit found signs of post-traumatic stress and severe depression in several of the 27 people involved.

The lawsuit asks the regional court to stop further transfers, force Ghana to release the deal’s terms, award damages and bar the country from making similar agreements in the future.

Earlier this month, rights lawyers filed a case against Equatorial Guinea, another African country that signed a deal with the U.S., before Africa’s top human rights body, accusing the country of forcing deportees from the U.S. back to their home countries in violation of their rights.

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Accused of killing her uncle, former Surfside Commission candidate Shannon Gallagher, 56, went before a judge while working to get her criminal charges dropped.

She’s accused of homicide in the death of 74-year-old Thomas Burke, who was found shot in the head in Fort Lauderdale back in March 2022.

Court documents show the victim signed a last will and testament just days before he died, leaving everything to Gallagher, who was his caretaker at the time.

Gallagher maintains her uncle’s death was by suicide.

Gallagher is a California licensed attorney, though not a criminal defense attorney, and is a well-known resident of Surfside.

She argued that Fort Lauderdale police investigators did not preserve the most important evidence in the case, which is home surveillance video showing her terminally-ill uncle’s final hours.

It’s unclear when the judge will rule on her request.

Acusada de matar a su tío, la ex candidata a la Comisión de Surfside, Shannon Gallagher, de 56 años, se presentó ante el juez mientras busca que se desestimen los cargos criminales en su contra.

Se le acusa de homicidio por la muerte de Thomas Burke, de 74 años, quien fue encontrado con un disparo en la cabeza en Fort Lauderdale en marzo de 2022.

Documentos judiciales muestran que la víctima firmó un testamento pocos días antes de morir, dejando todo a Gallagher, quien era su cuidadora en ese momento.

Gallagher sostiene que la muerte de su tío fue un suicidio.

Gallagher es una abogada con licencia en California, aunque no es abogada penalista, y es una residente conocida de Surfside.

Argumentó que los investigadores de la policía de Fort Lauderdale no preservaron la evidencia más importante del caso, que es el video de vigilancia del hogar que muestra las últimas horas de su tío enfermo terminal.

No está claro cuándo el juez emitirá una decisión sobre su solicitud.

The justices said Tuesday they will hear appeals challenging bans on the AR-15 and similar semiautomatic firearms in Connecticut and the Chicago area.

Similar laws are in place in about a dozen states, covering major cities like New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004, but Democrats have supported renewing it in response to a series of mass shootings. States have also continued to pass their own laws, including recent measures in Virginia and Rhode Island.

It is the latest high-profile dispute over guns to reach the court since its conservative majority handed down a landmark ruling in 2022 that expanded Second Amendment rights and spawned challenges to firearm laws around the country.

Arguments are expected to be heard in the fall.

The Connecticut law was passed after a mass shooter used an AR-15 to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. The state says the guns are a preferred weapon of mass shooters, and they can be banned because they are similar to military-grade weapons.

“These laws are critical public safety measures, and they are consistent with the Second Amendment," said Janet Carter, managing director of Second Amendment litigation at the gun-control group Everytown Law.

Gun rights groups, on the other hand, argue it’s unconstitutional to ban semiautomatic rifles, which are legally owned by millions of Americans.

“The Second Amendment protects arms in common use for lawful purposes, and it’s hard to argue that a type of rifle that potentially outnumbers Ford F-150 trucks in America doesn’t meet that standard,” said Adam Kraut, executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation.

Four conservative justices on the nine-member court, enough to grant review of a case, had signaled that it was only a matter of time before the court took up the issue.

The ban in Cook County, Illinois, was first passed in 1993. Lower courts have upheld both laws.

“If the Second Amendment does not protect the most popular rifles in the country, it is hard to see how it protects any firearms at all,” aside from handguns kept in the home, the challengers wrote.

Attorneys for Cook County, on the other hand, say the measure does pass constitutional muster. "The trauma that assault weapon massacres have inflicted on the public at large has been staggering,” they wrote.

The Supreme Court backed Second Amendment rights in two cases this term, striking down gun carry restrictions in Hawaii and a broad federal ban on gun ownership by marijuana users. They've previously upheld some restrictions, though, including a law barring people under domestic-violence restraining orders from having guns.

Also Tuesday, the court rebuffed a series of cases over restrictions on guns for young adults under age 21, declining to hear an issue that's sharply divided lower courts in recent years.

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Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary announced Tuesday that Nico has been released from Broward County Animal Care into the care of the sanctuary, its veterinary team and a dedicated foster family.

Officials said the transfer followed discussions between Broward County Animal Care, Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary and the Miami Coalition Against Breed Specific Legislation.

According to the sanctuary, Nico will continue receiving comprehensive veterinary evaluations and treatment that began while he was in Broward County Animal Care’s custody.

“Today is a victory for the voiceless,” Sandy Vogel, board president of Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary, said in a statement. “After a lifetime marked by neglect, suffering and cruelty, he deserves every opportunity to receive comfort, dignity and love.”

Vogel said the organization’s veterinary team and foster family will evaluate Nico’s condition and provide the care needed to determine the best path forward.

“We do not know what the future holds, but we do know this: Nico will never again be alone or without people fighting for him,” Vogel said.

Broward County Animal Care Director Doug Brightwell said the agency was pleased to reach an agreement that puts Nico in a specialized rescue environment.

“After careful review and productive discussions with Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary, we are pleased to have reached a resolution that allows Nico to receive continued evaluation, veterinary care and placement in a specialized rescue environment,” Brightwell said in a statement.

Nico’s case drew widespread attention after Pembroke Pines police confirmed the arrest of 60-year-old Humberto Exposito on animal cruelty charges.

According to police, surveillance video showed Exposito throwing the elderly German shepherd several feet from the back of a box truck last Wednesday while making a delivery to a Sedano’s Supermarket in the 10300 block of Pines Boulevard.

Investigators said Exposito completed the delivery and left the dog behind without food, water or shelter.

A Broward County Animal Care spokesperson said Nico was malnourished, had matted fur and suffered from several serious medical conditions, including advanced hip dysplasia and cancer. The dog was also unable to walk when they found him.

Jail records show Exposito faces charges of aggravated animal cruelty, animal abandonment and confining an animal without sufficient air exchange.

He has since been released from jail after posting a $12,000 bond.

As a condition of his release, a judge ordered that he not own or possess any animals.

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Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary anunció el martes que Nico fue liberado de Broward County Animal Care y puesto bajo el cuidado del santuario, su equipo veterinario y una familia de acogida dedicada.

Las autoridades dijeron que la transferencia se realizó tras conversaciones entre Broward County Animal Care, Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary y la Miami Coalition Against Breed Specific Legislation.

Según el santuario, Nico continuará recibiendo evaluaciones veterinarias integrales y tratamiento que comenzó mientras estaba bajo la custodia de Broward County Animal Care.

“Hoy es una victoria para los que no tienen voz”, dijo en un comunicado Sandy Vogel, presidenta de la junta directiva de Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary. “Después de una vida marcada por la negligencia, el sufrimiento y la crueldad, merece cada oportunidad de recibir comodidad, dignidad y amor”.

Vogel dijo que el equipo veterinario de la organización y la familia de acogida evaluarán la condición de Nico y proporcionarán la atención necesaria para determinar el mejor camino a seguir.

“No sabemos qué depara el futuro, pero sí sabemos esto: Nico nunca volverá a estar solo ni sin personas que lo defiendan”, dijo Vogel.

El director de Broward County Animal Care, Doug Brightwell, dijo que la agencia estaba satisfecha de haber alcanzado un acuerdo que coloca a Nico en un entorno de rescate especializado.

“Después de una revisión cuidadosa y conversaciones productivas con Healy Pack Senior GSD Sanctuary, nos complace haber llegado a una resolución que permite que Nico reciba evaluación continua, atención veterinaria y colocación en un entorno de rescate especializado”, dijo Brightwell en un comunicado.

El caso de Nico atrajo amplia atención después de que la policía de Pembroke Pines confirmara el arresto de Humberto Exposito, de 60 años, por cargos de maltrato animal.

Según la policía, un video de vigilancia mostró a Exposito lanzando al pastor alemán anciano varios pies desde la parte trasera de un camión de caja mientras realizaba una entrega en un supermercado Sedano’s en el bloque 10300 de Pines Boulevard.

Los investigadores dijeron que Exposito completó la entrega y dejó al perro atrás sin comida, agua ni refugio.

Un portavoz de Broward County Animal Care dijo que Nico estaba desnutrido, tenía el pelaje enmarañado y sufría varias condiciones médicas graves, incluyendo displasia avanzada de cadera y cáncer. El perro tampoco podía caminar cuando lo encontraron.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Exposito enfrenta cargos de maltrato animal agravado, abandono de animal y confinamiento de un animal sin suficiente ventilación de aire.

Desde entonces ha sido liberado de la cárcel tras pagar una fianza de $12,000 USD.

Como condición de su liberación, un juez ordenó que no pueda tener ni poseer animales.

Las donaciones para el cuidado de Nico pueden realizarse haciendo clic aquí.

Varios caballos deambulaban sin supervisión por las afueras de la capital, Podgorica, sin refugio, agua ni comida. Con temperaturas que alcanzaban casi los 40 grados Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), los activistas expresaron temor por la salud de los animales.

“Esto está a solo 4 kilómetros (2,4 millas) del centro de la ciudad", expresó Marta Darmanovic, una activista de protección animal. "No está en medio de la nada”.

En toda Europa, el calor extremo ha batido récords de temperatura, ha sobrecargado los hospitales y ha dejado a la gente luchando por refrescarse. En Francia, las temperaturas de esta semana han sido más altas que las de la histórica ola de calor de 2003, a la que se atribuyeron 15.000 muertes, muchas de ellas de personas mayores.

Hungría rompió un récord nacional de calor que databa de 2007 cuando las temperaturas alcanzaron los 42 °C (107,6 °F) el martes, según cifras preliminares del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

En la capital de Montenegro, el área abierta donde se han reunido los caballos está cerca de un vertedero ilegal y de varios asentamientos improvisados. No estaba claro cómo llegaron allí los animales o si pertenecían a alguien.

“Es simplemente increíble que un país no tenga un refugio para animales grandes, para caballos confiscados, ganado confiscado, ganado extraviado y animales silvestres", declaró Darmanovic. "Montenegro ha legalizado de hecho el maltrato animal porque no ha proporcionado ni siquiera la infraestructura mínima necesaria para que se hagan cumplir las normas”.

La nación adriática de 620.000 habitantes intenta incorporarse a la Unión Europea para 2028. Los países candidatos a la UE deben contar con leyes que regulen el bienestar animal para poder ingresar.

Branko Kovacevic, jefe de la Administración de Inspección Municipal de Podgorica, indicó que las autoridades de la ciudad han establecido refugios para perros y gatos y que su organismo ahora intenta abordar el tema de los animales grandes dentro de las normas vigentes.

“Siguen apareciendo caballos y algunos otros animales domésticos abandonados", explicó Kovacevic. "En la medida en que la ley lo permita, nos ocuparemos del problema”.

Kovacevic argumentó que “lamentablemente, nadie es responsable” de proporcionar agua o comida a los animales.

Aunque Montenegro y el resto de los Balcanes están más acostumbrados al calor veraniego que países como Gran Bretaña o Francia, las autoridades han aconsejado a la población permanecer en interiores y beber mucha agua. Las temperaturas en la región están previstas a bajar más tarde el martes y el miércoles.

En la ciudad croata oriental de Osijek, a los animales del zoológico local les estaban sirviendo helado hecho de fruta y carne. Un empleado del zoológico contó a HRT que los monos eligen quedarse en interiores y descansar.

“Les gustan las sandías frías, los melones y las uvas", comentó el empleado, Zeljko Busljeta. "También reciben limonada y té frío”.

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

Scorching temperatures, especially combined with high humidity, pose risks particularly for children, older people and those with certain health conditions. Anyone can suffer from heat-related illness.

Climate change is also exacerbating heat waves and heat stress.

So here are some tips to stay safe:

When heat becomes dangerous

Dangers posed by hot weather depend on more than the temperature. The most detailed measurement is called the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT), which includes temperature, humidity, cloud cover and wind. The heat index, which measures temperature and humidity, is less descriptive but easier to find on weather apps. Both explain why a shaded soccer field on a 90 degree F day (32 degree C) in arid Phoenix may be less risky than an exposed park on an 80 degree F (27 degree C) day in soupy Little Rock.

Just based on heat index, NOAA has a chart that calculates how dangerous prolonged exposure can be. For example, a day in which temperatures reach 96 degree F (36 degrees C) and 45% humidity would fall into the “danger” category for prolonged exposure or strenuous activity.

The WBGT threshold isn't exact, but recent research suggests that even some young, healthy people can't endure hours of exposure to high heat and humidity.

How to cool down

Overnight temperatures can be a particularly dangerous part of a heat wave, said Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University.

“Your body needs a reprieve,” she said. “You don't get that overnight, we start the next day at a deficit.” Heat can worsen labor productivity and lead to more visits to the emergency room.

“When we have overnight temperatures that don't drop below 75 degrees" F (24 degrees C), she said, “you start to see some pretty extraordinary outcomes with respect to heat illness and heat stroke, and even mortality.”

Ward said air conditioning can help, but she acknowledged that not everyone has access.

If you can't afford to cool the whole house, Ward said, create a “cool corner" and sleep there, so your body is prepared to tackle the next day.

Evaporative or “swamp” coolers can help in dry heat, but they increase humidity and can make it more difficult to cool down. In humid places, just use a fan.

If you don't have air conditioning, find public places that do, including movie theaters, malls and libraries. Some communities set up cooling centers.

Depending on where you live, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program can help you buy a window air conditioning unit, according to the National Council on Aging. Some local nonprofits and civic organizations can also help.

Know your rights if you work outside

Knowing what workplace protections you have is important. Some states have them, including Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota and Maryland, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Other states don't have any.

If your state has work rules, try to learn them — though there are still challenges to ensuring regulations are actually enforced, said Bharat Venkat, director of the University of California, Los Angeles Heat Lab.

He notes that sometimes shaded areas are too far away for workers to take breaks without losing wages, or that management can make it impossible for workers to advocate for themselves. “Most workers don’t actually have control over their time or control over where they work," Venkat said.

Within those constraints, finding ways to stay hydrated and lower your body temperature are important. You can do this by drinking lots of fluids, wetting clothing or putting cold water or a cold rag on your hands, feet, armpits and neck. A portable handheld fan or a cooling vest can also help.

If you're exercising, avoid the hottest times of day and bring more water than you think you need.

Knowing heat illness symptoms

Heat illness symptoms can vary by person, Venkat said. Medications or existing health conditions can also make it harder to regulate body temperature or notice you're getting too hot.

Early trouble signs include heavy sweating, muscle cramps and headache. That's when you stop what you're doing and cool yourself off, for example by splashing yourself with cold water or finding an air-conditioned space.

As heat exhaustion sets in, new symptoms arrive, including faster heart rate and dizziness. Next comes heat stroke, which can include confusion, slurred words and fainting. Ward said that's when to call 911.

“Don’t be embarrassed to call 911 or go to urgent care when you think you might have overdone it in the heat,” he said.

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But after sunset, Local 10 News documented something shoppers, employees and even the city’s mayor said they had no idea was happening.

Over several nights, Local 10 observed multiple people released from prison remaining overnight at or near the shopping center. Several individuals currently under Florida Department of Corrections supervision independently told Local 10 they are required to report to the area each evening and remain there overnight.

Some said they sleep in their vehicles. Others said they simply find a place to sit until morning.

The area offers no overnight restroom facilities, no shelter from the weather and no place to charge court-ordered electronic monitoring devices.

Local 10 approached numerous shoppers and employees. None agreed to be identified on camera. Several said they were surprised to learn what had been taking place after dark.

One shopper said public safety was the first concern that came to mind. Another said the public deserved to know what was happening.

Many of the individuals remaining overnight also declined interviews, saying they feared speaking publicly could affect their supervision. One man agreed to speak only if Local 10 concealed his identity.

Asked whether he was one of the people spending the night there, he replied, “Yes.”

When asked whether he had to remain there from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m., he answered, “Yeah. Twelve hours.”

He also said probation officers had conducted a compliance check at the shopping center earlier that day.

A second recently released offender, who is required to register as a sex offender, shared FDOC paperwork that he said was provided to him after his release from prison.

According to the offender, he did not have an approved place to live when he was released. He said he could not move in with relatives because residency restrictions prohibited him from living at that location.

He told Local 10 a probation officer gave him paperwork and instructed him where to report.

The Department document reviewed by Local 10 states the offender was “approved to reside” in the 2400 block of North Federal Highway.

The 2400 block of North Federal Highway is River Market.

The offender said he believed he was being sent to a shelter or halfway house. Instead, he said, he arrived at a shopping center.

Asked where he used the restroom during the night, he replied, “There wasn’t no bathroom.”

A family member told Local 10 that the family believed the state would provide some type of transitional housing. Instead, the family said they discovered the address on the paperwork corresponded to a shopping center, not a shelter or residential facility.

The family member said a probation officer told the offender to find a place behind one of the stores and remain there overnight. The family member also said questions about access to restrooms, shelter from rain and charging a court-ordered electronic monitoring device were never adequately answered.

The offender told Local 10 he would rather return to prison than spend another night there.

Local 10 also searched the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s public sex offender and predator registry.

That search identified approximately 180 transient registered sex offenders and sexual predators listing addresses between the 2400 and 2800 blocks of North Federal Highway and within approximately a 1-mile radius of River Market. The records span multiple years and identify numerous unrelated transient offenders reporting addresses along the same commercial corridor.

The FDOC declined Local 10’s request for an on-camera interview.

In a written statement, the Department said it “did not designate a business property as an offender’s residential address.”

The Department said offenders are responsible for identifying and reporting their residence to both the FDOC and the local sheriff’s office, while the Department verifies that a reported address complies with Florida law and local ordinances.

The Department also stated that offenders without traditional housing sometimes choose to stay in wooded areas, undeveloped land or other open spaces. Regarding the offender whose paperwork Local 10 reviewed, the Department said he “did not have a traditional housing structure” at the time of his release and has since relocated to what it described as a traditional residence.

Those statements differ from what Local 10 documented during its investigation.

Multiple individuals independently told Local 10 they were instructed to report to the River Market area and remain there overnight.

Local 10 also reviewed Department paperwork stating one offender was approved to reside in the 2400 block of North Federal Highway.

One individual also told Local 10 that probation officers had recently conducted a compliance check at the shopping center.

Because of those differences, Local 10 repeatedly asked the Department to explain how its written statement should be reconciled with the accounts provided by multiple individuals, the Department paperwork reviewed by Local 10, and the concentration of transient offenders reporting addresses along the same stretch of North Federal Highway.

Despite multiple follow-up requests seeking clarification before publication, the Department did not provide additional responses.

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said he first learned about the situation only after Local 10 began asking questions.

“We’re absolutely surprised by this,” Trantalis said. “I just learned about this last week. This is the first time I’ve heard about it.”

The mayor said the situation was “not an appropriate solution” for people attempting to reintegrate into society after prison. He said the city manager immediately directed Fort Lauderdale police to begin looking into the matter.

After Local 10’s inquiries, the city of Fort Lauderdale said police are now in discussions with the FDOC regarding concerns raised by the investigation.

The city also said it is not aware of any circumstances in which the FDOC has directed offenders to reside in specific locations within Fort Lauderdale.

Local 10 also repeatedly contacted EDENS, the company that owns River Market, asking whether it knew individuals under FDOC supervision were reportedly spending nights on or around the property and whether anyone from the state had ever notified the company the property was being used in that manner.

After multiple emails and phone calls, a representative working with EDENS returned one of Local 10’s calls and asked about the investigation.

After Local 10 explained the reporting and outlined its questions, no additional response was provided before publication despite further follow-up attempts.

The investigation leaves several questions unanswered.

If offenders independently identify and report where they will live, as the Department states, how does the Department explain multiple individuals independently telling Local 10 they were instructed to report to the same commercial area each night?

How does the Department reconcile its written statement with Department paperwork stating one offender was approved to reside in the 2400 block of North Federal Highway?

And how did approximately 180 transient registered offenders and predators come to list addresses between the 2400 and 2800 blocks of North Federal Highway and within approximately a one-mile radius of River Market?

Those questions remain unanswered.

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According to two arrest reports from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, 25-year-old Josmanny Alexis Valdez was arrested Monday in connection with separate burglary investigations at Kendall Dodge, located at 13355 SW 137th Ave.

Authorities said the first investigation began after deputies responded to the dealership on May 15 following reports of multiple vehicle burglaries.

According to an arrest report, the dealership’s service manager discovered that infotainment systems had been stolen from Dodge Ram trucks parked in a fenced used-car lot where customers’ vehicles were being stored while awaiting service.

Investigators said Valdez and a second suspect, 25-year-old Celestino Ayala Jr., “cut an opening in the chain-link fence” before entering the lot and targeting Dodge Ram trucks from model years 2019 through 2026.

According to the report, the pair removed the infotainment systems from the unoccupied trucks and “cut the wiring harness” connecting the display screen to each vehicle, “leaving the vehicle permanently damaged.”

The report states that 18 Dodge Ram infotainment systems were stolen from vehicles belonging to 14 different victims. Investigators estimated each infotainment system was worth about $5,314, while the damage to each vehicle was approximately worth $1,087.

Detectives later searched Facebook Marketplace and found multiple Dodge Ram infotainment systems listed for sale, according to the report.

Investigators said the listings appeared on profiles under the names “Gio Valdez,” “Josmanny Valdes” and “Laylowjr Ayala,” all of which contained the same photographs.

The report states detectives were able to confirm that one of the systems advertised online had been stolen during one of the Kendall Dodge burglaries.

According to the report, detectives then conducted a “buy/bust operation” on May 28 after an undercover detective arranged to purchase two of the stolen infotainment systems for $500.

Investigators said surveillance teams watched as the suspects removed the systems from a blue Ford van before driving to Dolphin Mall to complete the transaction.

They said a subsequent search warrant executed on the van uncovered additional Dodge display screens and radio modules that were confirmed stolen from the dealership.

The arrest report also states that investigators gathered surveillance and other evidence showing the suspects “were in the area of the Dodge dealership throughout multiple dates.”

In the first case, Valdez faces five counts each of burglary of an occupied conveyance, grand theft of more than $3,000 while acting with others and criminal mischief causing more than $1,000 in damage, along with one count of burglary of an occupied structure, according to jail records.

A second arrest report filed in the investigation links Valdez to additional burglaries involving vehicles owned by Rocco’s Custom and Kendall Dodge.

According to that report, investigators again allege Valdez and Ayala entered the dealership’s fenced lot by cutting through the chain-link fence before removing infotainment systems from Dodge Ram trucks.

Detectives said the second case stemmed from the same broader investigation that included the Facebook Marketplace listings, undercover operation and recovery of stolen property.

In the second case, Valdez is facing two counts each of burglary of an unoccupied conveyance, grand theft of more than $3,000 while acting with others and criminal mischief, jail records show.

As of Tuesday, Valdez was being held on a $168,000 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Court records also show that several of his felony cases carry a Nebbia hold, meaning he must prove any money used to post bond came from a legitimate source before he can be released from custody.

Authorities said Ayala remains at large.

Anyone with information about the case or Ayala’s whereabouts is urged to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

Durante el día, River Market es uno de los destinos comerciales más concurridos de Fort Lauderdale. Familias comen en restaurantes al aire libre. Clientes compran en Whole Foods, Sephora, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lululemon y otros comercios a lo largo de North Federal Highway entre las avenidas Sunrise y Oakland Park.

Pero después del atardecer, Local 10 News documentó algo de lo que compradores, empleados e incluso el alcalde de la ciudad dijeron no tener conocimiento.

Durante varias noches, Local 10 observó a múltiples personas liberadas de prisión permaneciendo durante la noche en el centro comercial o sus alrededores. Varias personas actualmente bajo supervisión del Departamento de Correcciones de Florida dijeron de forma independiente a Local 10 que están obligadas a reportarse al área cada noche y permanecer allí hasta la mañana.

Algunos dijeron que duermen en sus vehículos. Otros dijeron que simplemente encuentran un lugar donde sentarse hasta el amanecer.

El área no ofrece instalaciones de baños durante la noche, ni refugio contra el clima, ni un lugar para cargar dispositivos de monitoreo electrónico ordenados por la corte.

Local 10 se acercó a numerosos compradores y empleados. Ninguno aceptó ser identificado en cámara. Varios dijeron que se sorprendieron al enterarse de lo que había estado ocurriendo después del anochecer.

Un comprador dijo que la seguridad pública fue la primera preocupación que le vino a la mente. Otro dijo que el público merecía saber lo que estaba ocurriendo.

Muchas de las personas que permanecen durante la noche también rechazaron entrevistas, diciendo que temían que hablar públicamente pudiera afectar su supervisión. Un hombre aceptó hablar solo si Local 10 ocultaba su identidad.

Al ser preguntado si era una de las personas que pasaban la noche allí, respondió: “Sí”.

Cuando se le preguntó si tenía que permanecer allí de 7 p.m. a 7 a.m., contestó: “Sí. Doce horas”.

También dijo que oficiales de libertad condicional habían realizado una verificación de cumplimiento en el centro comercial ese mismo día.

Un segundo delincuente recientemente liberado, quien está obligado a registrarse como delincuente sexual, compartió documentos del FDOC que dijo le fueron entregados tras su liberación de prisión.

Según el delincuente, no tenía un lugar aprobado para vivir cuando fue liberado. Dijo que no podía mudarse con familiares porque las restricciones de residencia le prohibían vivir en esa ubicación.

Le dijo a Local 10 que un oficial de libertad condicional le entregó documentos y le indicó dónde debía presentarse.

El documento del Departamento revisado por Local 10 establece que el delincuente estaba “aprobado para residir” en el bloque 2400 de North Federal Highway.

El bloque 2400 de North Federal Highway es River Market.

El delincuente dijo que creyó que lo estaban enviando a un refugio o casa de transición. En cambio, dijo, llegó a un centro comercial.

Al ser preguntado dónde usaba el baño durante la noche, respondió: “No había baño”.

Un familiar le dijo a Local 10 que la familia creía que el estado proporcionaría algún tipo de vivienda de transición. En cambio, la familia dijo que descubrieron que la dirección en los documentos correspondía a un centro comercial, no a un refugio ni a una instalación residencial.

El familiar dijo que un oficial de libertad condicional le dijo al delincuente que encontrara un lugar detrás de una de las tiendas y permaneciera allí durante la noche. El familiar también dijo que las preguntas sobre acceso a baños, refugio contra la lluvia y carga de un dispositivo de monitoreo electrónico ordenado por la corte nunca fueron respondidas de manera adecuada.

El delincuente le dijo a Local 10 que preferiría regresar a prisión antes que pasar otra noche allí.

Local 10 también buscó en el registro público de delincuentes sexuales y depredadores sexuales del Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida.

Esa búsqueda identificó aproximadamente 180 delincuentes sexuales registrados transitorios y depredadores sexuales que listan direcciones entre los bloques 2400 y 2800 de North Federal Highway y dentro de un radio aproximado de una milla de River Market. Los registros abarcan varios años e identifican a numerosos delincuentes transitorios no relacionados que reportan direcciones a lo largo del mismo corredor comercial.

El FDOC rechazó la solicitud de Local 10 de una entrevista en cámara.

En una declaración por escrito, el Departamento dijo que “no designó la propiedad de un negocio como la dirección residencial de un delincuente”.

El Departamento dijo que los delincuentes son responsables de identificar y reportar su residencia tanto al FDOC como a la oficina del sheriff local, mientras que el Departamento verifica que una dirección reportada cumpla con la ley de Florida y las ordenanzas locales.

El Departamento también indicó que los delincuentes sin vivienda tradicional a veces eligen permanecer en áreas boscosas, terrenos sin desarrollar u otros espacios abiertos. En cuanto al delincuente cuyos documentos revisó Local 10, el Departamento dijo que él “no tenía una estructura de vivienda tradicional” en el momento de su liberación y que desde entonces se ha mudado a lo que describió como una residencia tradicional.

Esas declaraciones difieren de lo que Local 10 documentó durante su investigación.

Varias personas dijeron de forma independiente a Local 10 que se les indicó que se presentaran en el área de River Market y permanecieran allí durante la noche.

Local 10 también revisó documentos del Departamento que establecían que un delincuente estaba aprobado para residir en el bloque 2400 de North Federal Highway.

Una persona también le dijo a Local 10 que oficiales de libertad condicional habían realizado recientemente una verificación de cumplimiento en el centro comercial.

Debido a esas diferencias, Local 10 solicitó repetidamente al Departamento que explicara cómo su declaración escrita debía reconciliarse con los relatos proporcionados por múltiples individuos, los documentos del Departamento revisados por Local 10 y la concentración de delincuentes transitorios que reportan direcciones a lo largo del mismo tramo de North Federal Highway.

A pesar de múltiples solicitudes de seguimiento para aclaración antes de la publicación, el Departamento no proporcionó respuestas adicionales.

El alcalde de Fort Lauderdale, Dean Trantalis, dijo que se enteró de la situación solo después de que Local 10 comenzó a hacer preguntas.

“Estamos absolutamente sorprendidos por esto”, dijo Trantalis. “Me enteré de esto la semana pasada. Es la primera vez que escucho sobre esto”.

El alcalde dijo que la situación no era “una solución apropiada” para personas que intentan reintegrarse a la sociedad después de la prisión. Dijo que el administrador de la ciudad ordenó de inmediato a la policía de Fort Lauderdale que comenzara a investigar el asunto.

Tras las consultas de Local 10, la ciudad de Fort Lauderdale dijo que la policía ahora está en conversaciones con el FDOC respecto a las preocupaciones planteadas por la investigación.

La ciudad también dijo que no tiene conocimiento de circunstancias en las que el FDOC haya ordenado a delincuentes residir en ubicaciones específicas dentro de Fort Lauderdale.

Local 10 también contactó repetidamente a EDENS, la empresa propietaria de River Market, preguntando si sabía que personas bajo supervisión del FDOC estaban supuestamente pasando la noche en o alrededor de la propiedad y si alguien del estado había notificado a la empresa que la propiedad estaba siendo utilizada de esa manera.

Después de múltiples correos electrónicos y llamadas telefónicas, un representante que trabaja con EDENS devolvió una de las llamadas de Local 10 y preguntó sobre la investigación.

Después de que Local 10 explicó el reportaje y planteó sus preguntas, no se proporcionó ninguna respuesta adicional antes de la publicación a pesar de nuevos intentos de seguimiento.

La investigación deja varias preguntas sin respuesta.

Si los delincuentes identifican y reportan de forma independiente dónde van a vivir, como afirma el Departamento, ¿cómo explica el Departamento que múltiples individuos hayan dicho de forma independiente a Local 10 que se les indicó presentarse en la misma área comercial cada noche?

¿Cómo concilia el Departamento su declaración escrita con los documentos del Departamento que establecen que un delincuente estaba aprobado para residir en el bloque 2400 de North Federal Highway?

¿Y cómo llegaron aproximadamente 180 delincuentes sexuales registrados transitorios y depredadores a listar direcciones entre los bloques 2400 y 2800 de North Federal Highway y dentro de un radio aproximado de una milla de River Market?

Esas preguntas siguen sin respuesta.

Lively's lawyers disclosed the amount, covering nearly $7.5 million in attorney’s fees from two law firms that represented her and about $500,000 in other expenses, in a court filing Tuesday.

Lively and Baldoni settled last month just before a trial was to start in federal court in Manhattan on Lively’s claims that he engineered an effort to damage her public reputation and credibility after she accused him of sexually harassing her while shooting the movie.

Baldoni, who directed the dark romantic drama and starred in it with Lively, denied her claims.

Lively received no money in the settlement, but a judge subsequently ruled that she is entitled to recover some legal costs she incurred after Baldoni filed a countersuit against her. The judge must still approve the amount she is seeking.

One of Lively’s lawyers, Michael Gottlieb, wrote in a court declaration that he charged her an average hourly rate of $2,187 — a discount from his usual $2,795 per hour. He said he billed 224 hours for work on her defense to Baldoni’s countersuit, totaling $457,000 in fees.

Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios LLC, “employed scorched-earth litigation tactics designed to drain Lively’s resources,” her lawyers wrote in their filing.

“They could have ended it (and offered to reimburse Lively) at any time. Having refused to do so, they should be ordered to reimburse Lively for all of the costs, attorney’s fees, and expenses they improperly forced her to incur,” they wrote.

A message seeking comment was left for Baldoni’s lawyer.

Lively, 38, sued Baldoni, 42, and Wayfarer Studios in December 2024, accusing them of conspiring with publicists to preemptively destroy her reputation after she privately accused him of sexual harassment on the “It Ends With Us" set.

Weeks later, Baldoni sued Lively, accusing her, her husband — “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds — and their publicist of defamation and extortion.

Baldoni denied harassing her or orchestrating a smear campaign. He claimed the complaints about his behavior were made up by Lively as part of an effort to seize creative control of the movie.

Judge Lewis J. Liman threw out Baldoni’s countersuit last year and then dismissed Lively’s sexual harassment claims, saying she could not bring them because she was an independent contractor rather than an employee on the movie set.

In allowing Lively to recover legal costs, the judge cited a California law designed to protect survivors of sexual harassment and discrimination from retaliatory lawsuits meant to intimidate and silence victims.

Liman said the law requires that the plaintiff must pay the defendant’s legal fees and costs if a defamation claim made in response to a lawsuit is dismissed, even if the facts of the case have not been developed through the gathering of evidence.

Liman said an exception would be if Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, could prove malice fueled Lively’s claims, but that they had produced no evidence to show that.

In their court filing, Lively's lawyers said $4.5 million should be paid to Gottlieb’s firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and about $3 million should go to the firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

The judge rejected Lively's claims to triple any damages and pursue punitive damages as well under the California law, saying that they did not fall within “carefully crafted federal procedural rules designed to protect the rights of the parties.”

“It Ends With Us,” an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel about a relationship devolving into domestic violence, was released in August 2024 and exceeded box office expectations.

Lively appeared in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and the TV series “Gossip Girl” from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including “The Town” and “The Shallows.”

Baldoni starred in the TV comedy “Jane the Virgin,” directed the 2019 film “Five Feet Apart” and wrote “Man Enough,” a book challenging traditional notions of masculinity.

Un incendio fue reportado a las 9:43 a.m. en una vivienda de un solo piso en el área de Northwest 67th Court y Second Street, según el teniente Pete Sanchez, de Miami Fire-Rescue.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena poco después de las 10:15 a.m. Aparentemente había daños por humo en una eficiencia ubicada en la parte trasera de la vivienda.

Sanchez confirmó que el incendio comenzó en el exterior y se extendió a la propiedad.

Dijo que los bomberos extinguieron rápidamente las llamas y revisaron la vivienda para verificar si aún había alguien en el interior.

“El incendio estuvo contenido principalmente en la pared exterior de la vivienda, pero parte del fuego se extendió al techo y al baño”, dijo Sanchez en un correo electrónico enviado a Local 10 News.

No se reportaron personas heridas, pero Sanchez indicó que una familia de cuatro personas, dos adultos y dos niños, fue desplazada.

La Cruz Roja Estadounidense les está brindando asistencia.

La policía de Miami confirmó que West Flagler Street fue cerrada temporalmente entre las avenidas 67 y 68 debido al incendio.

Sanchez dijo que la Unidad de Investigación de Incendios de Miami determinará el origen y la causa del incendio.

Eight other children were injured and being treated at a hospital, senior police official Faisal Kamran said, adding that the owner of the tutoring center and another person have been arrested.

Kamran said rescuers were searching through the rubble after receiving reports that more children could be trapped beneath the debris. He said the tutoring center was housed in an aging building and that the roof of an unfinished second floor apparently collapsed because of poor construction quality.

Building collapses are common in Pakistan, where construction standards are often poorly enforced. Many structures are built with substandard materials, and safety regulations are frequently ignored to reduce costs.

Witnesses said ambulances and rescue workers rushed to the scene after the roof collapsed. Residents also joined the search, using shovels and their bare hands to remove rubble in an effort to reach children trapped beneath the debris.

Hours later, as the bodies of the children were being handed over to their families, scenes of anguish unfolded outside hospitals and in the neighborhood on the outskirts of Lahore where the private tutoring center was located in a house. Parents wept over the loss of their children, while mothers and other female relatives cried and beat their chests in grief.

Most of the victims lived nearby, and funeral prayers were expected later Tuesday.

Grief was mixed with anger as residents demanded stern punishment for the owner of the tutoring center, blaming him for operating classes in what they described as an aging and unsafe building. Dozens of mourners were seen gathering outside the victims’ homes to offer condolences.

“We don’t know whose home to visit first to offer condolences for the loss of their children,” resident Zafar Iqbal said as he moved from one bereaved family’s home to another nearby street.

Lahore is the capital of Pakistan's most populous Punjab province, where many parents send their children to private tutoring centers in the afternoon and evening.

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed grief over the collapse of the roof of an evening school building in Lahore. In separate statements, they offered condolences to the families of the victims, prayed for the speedy recovery of those injured, and said effective safety measures were needed to prevent similar tragedies.

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Associated Press writer K.M. Chaudhry in Lahore contributed to this story.

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According to an arrest report from the Hialeah Police Department, the fraudulent purchases were reported to authorities Monday by the owner of Samurai Fireworks, located at 2122 W. 62^nd St.

Police said the owner told police that on June 2, the suspect, identified as Santiago Alejandro Prieto-Mendoza, of Miami, picked up multiple orders of fireworks that were later revealed to have been purchased with fraudulent credit cards.

The owner said the business was notified about the fraud by their payment processor after Prieto-Mendoza had already picked up the fireworks, worth a total of $2,277.60.

According to the report, Prieto-Mendoza returned to the business Monday after placing three new orders, which the payment processor also flagged as fraudulent.

Police said a store employee recognized Prieto-Mendoza as the person who picked up the previous packages on June 2 and immediately notified his supervisors that Prieto-Mendoza was trying to retrieve additional merchandise from the store.

Police were then called and Prieto-Mendoza was taken into custody on a charge of organized scheme to defraud.

According to the report, he made some kind of admission to detectives after his arrest, however his exact statement was redacted from the publicly released report.

As of Tuesday morning, Prieto-Mendoza was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.

Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Hialeah, las compras fraudulentas fueron reportadas a las autoridades el lunes por el propietario de Samurai Fireworks, ubicado en 2122 W. 62nd St.

La policía dijo que el propietario informó a la policía que el 2 de junio el sospechoso, identificado como Santiago Alejandro Prieto-Mendoza, de Miami, recogió múltiples pedidos de fuegos artificiales que luego se reveló que habían sido comprados con tarjetas de crédito fraudulentas.

El propietario dijo que el negocio fue notificado sobre el fraude por su procesador de pagos después de que Prieto-Mendoza ya había recogido los fuegos artificiales, con un valor total de $2,277.60 USD.

Según el informe, Prieto-Mendoza regresó al negocio el lunes después de realizar tres nuevos pedidos, los cuales también fueron señalados como fraudulentos por el procesador de pagos.

La policía dijo que un empleado de la tienda reconoció a Prieto-Mendoza como la persona que recogió los paquetes anteriores el 2 de junio e inmediatamente notificó a sus supervisores que Prieto-Mendoza estaba tratando de retirar mercancía adicional de la tienda.

Luego se llamó a la policía y Prieto-Mendoza fue puesto bajo custodia bajo un cargo de esquema organizado para defraudar.

Según el informe, hizo algún tipo de admisión a los detectives después de su arresto; sin embargo, su declaración exacta fue redactada del informe publicado.

As of Tuesday morning, Prieto-Mendoza estaba siendo retenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una fianza de $2,500 USD.

The parliament published a letter urging the International Olympic Committee to recognize the semi-autonomous territories as “independent National Olympic Committees and to participate in the Olympic Games under their own flags.”

The revival of a longstanding Olympic proposal previously made 20 years ago comes weeks after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen formed a new coalition government. She has pledged support for Greenland against U.S. President Donald Trump’s wish to acquire the island.

The IOC recognizes 206 national Olympic bodies, which is 13 more than the United Nations has member states, and is unlikely to support Denmark’s request.

The Olympic body's policy since 1996 has been to recognize only independent states, such as Kosovo in 2014 and South Sudan the next year. The Olympic Charter defines “country” as “an independent state recognized by the international community.”

Two biathletes from Greenland competed for Denmark at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February.

The Faroe Islands has competed in qualifying games for international soccer tournaments since the 1992 European Championship and 1994 World Cup.

The Danish parliament said its presidium’s June 18 letter to the IOC would “reflect a clear and current political commitment by Denmark to support enhanced and more equal international participation for both the Faroe Islands and Greenland.”

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Mientras tanto, el gobierno informó que el número de rescates oficiales ha caído drásticamente en los últimos tres días, de 5.380 personas salvadas en los primeros dos días después de los sismos a apenas cuatro personas halladas con vida el lunes por las autoridades. El principal periodo para encontrar sobrevivientes de terremotos suele ser de 48 a 72 horas, pero es posible sobrevivir más tiempo, dependiendo de factores como la temperatura y el acceso a agua o alimentos.

El único sobreviviente rescatado hasta la tarde del martes fue un niño pequeño que quedó atrapado durante seis días bajo un edificio derrumbado, dijo Jorge Rodríguez, presidente de la Asamblea Nacional.

Esas cifras no incluyen los numerosos rescates realizados en todo el país por grupos de voluntarios que, frustrados con la lenta respuesta del gobierno, se dispusieron a salvar a sus seres queridos atrapados días antes de la llegada de equipos internacionales expertos.

El gobierno sitúa el número de muertos en más de 1.900. Expertos dicen que el número real podría ser mayor, ya que cada día se sacan más cuerpos de entre los escombros y las morgues tienen dificultades para manejar la afluencia.

Entre los sobrevivientes ya se desarrolla una crisis humanitaria. Agencias de las Naciones Unidas manifestaron su preocupación por los efectos en la salud de los miles de personas desplazadas que han dormido durante días a la intemperie o en refugios abarrotados e insalubres.

Un sistema de salud en crisis

El sistema de salud venezolano, de por sí estresado por décadas de falta de inversión y años de crisis económica, está “ahora bajo una presión extrema, con instalaciones que operan más allá de su capacidad ante el aumento de los casos de traumatismos”, afirmó el portavoz de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), Christian Lindmeier, en una rueda de prensa en Ginebra.

Funcionarios venezolanos afirman que más de 15.800 personas se han visto afectadas por los terremotos —una cifra que refleja el número oficial de desplazados—, señaló el martes la portavoz de la agencia de la ONU para los refugiados, Carlotta Wolf. Los venezolanos que quedaron sin hogar de forma repentina ahora duermen en autos, parques y otros lugares.

Wolf indicó que esa cifra seguirá aumentando. Muchas de las personas desplazadas en La Guaira, el estado más afectado, sufren una escasez generalizada de alimentos, agregó.

Sin acceso a baños, duchas o jabón, los venezolanos desplazados también se han vuelto cada vez más vulnerables a brotes de enfermedades prevenibles como el sarampión, dadas las bajas tasas de vacunación de la población, dijo Lindmeier, y añadió que las condiciones son propicias para que se propaguen infecciones transmitidas por el agua como el dengue, la fiebre amarilla y la malaria.

Según el gobierno, los sismos de la semana pasada dañaron o pusieron en riesgo a 38 hospitales en todo el país. La OMS dijo que hasta ahora ha evaluado 21 de esas instalaciones, tres de las cuales ya no están en funcionamiento. Otras seis han sufrido daños y el resto ahora se está viendo sobrepasado por la afluencia de heridos.

Muchos médicos especialistas están desaparecidos entre las ruinas, incluidos funcionarios a cargo de la atención de maternidad en La Guaira, indicó la OMS, lo que agrava los desafíos para la atención de salud en un país del que 8 millones de personas, entre ellos, muchos médicos y enfermeras, han huido en los últimos años.

“Los hallazgos revelan un caos en la prestación de servicios y el flujo de pacientes, procesos marcados por el hacinamiento, el creciente retraso de cirugías... y una ruptura de las medidas de bioseguridad”, dijo Lindmeier.

El martes se notó una mayor presencia de organizaciones no gubernamentales en La Guaira y comunidades adyacentes, con carpas de la Cruz Roja, el Programa Mundial de Alimentos y otras organizaciones instaladas en aceras, malecones e instalaciones deportivas. La gente hizo fila durante todo el día bajo el sol abrasador para recibir artículos de aseo gratuitos, alimentos, medicamentos y mascarillas.

Una lucha por comprender el verdadero saldo

Ante un gobierno hermético sobre el número de víctimas y sobrevivientes y que no ofrece un recuento oficial de personas desaparecidas, los venezolanos comunes tienen dificultades para encontrar a sus familiares. Muchos han recurrido a grupos de WhatsApp y a bases de datos digitales no gubernamentales para reportar la desaparición de sus seres queridos. En una de esas listas se registran al menos 43.220 personas desaparecidas.

En su actualización diaria televisada sobre víctimas, Jorge Rodríguez, hermano de la presidenta interina Delcy Rodríguez, dijo que el balance oficial hasta el martes era de 1.943 muertos y 10.571 heridos, e instó al público a compartir únicamente información del gobierno.

Pero sus cifras dejaron a miles de venezolanos sin contabilizar. Dijo que el gobierno estimaba que había alrededor de 30.000 personas en las zonas más afectadas del estado La Guaira en el momento del terremoto, y que unas 20.000 de ellas lograron escapar del área o fueron rescatadas posteriormente.

La NASA calcula que unas 59.000 construcciones resultaron dañadas o destruidas por los terremotos, lo que situaría el número de personas afectadas por los sismos en cientos de miles. La agencia de la ONU para la infancia, UNICEF, informó el martes que 680.000 niños necesitan asistencia humanitaria en todo el país.

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DeBre informó desde Buenos Aires, Argentina. Los periodistas de The Associated Press Regina Garcia Cano y Jorge Rueda en Caracas, Venezuela, y Dánica Coto en San Juan, Puerto Rico, contribuyeron a este despacho.

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

Según la BSO, un sospechoso que era buscado por los agentes fue visto cargando gasolina en la estación Wawa ubicada en el 6350 de Stirling Road.

Cuando las autoridades rodearon al sospechoso, informaron que se produjo un forcejeo entre él y los agentes del orden que se acercaban.

El sheriff de Broward, Gregory Tony, dijo que el sospechoso estaba armado y recibió la orden de entregar su arma, pero al no hacerlo, se produjo un intercambio de disparos.

Tony dijo que el sospechoso era buscado por huir para evadir a las autoridades e indicó que los agentes tenían evidencia de ADN que lo vinculaba con otros delitos, aunque no dio más detalles sobre esos presuntos crímenes.

Tampoco dijo si fue un agente de la BSO o el agente de la Policía de Plantation quien hirió de muerte al sospechoso.

Se espera que el Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida (FDLE) asuma la investigación, como es habitual en los casos de balaceras en las que participan agentes.

Entre ellos se encuentra Conch Heaven, en el noroeste de Miami-Dade, donde los inspectores reportaron cucarachas vivas, decenas de moscas y acumulación de una sustancia similar al moho dentro de una máquina de hielo.

También está The Villa Caribbean Shoppes, en Miami Gardens, que fue citado por una cucaracha viva, numerosas moscas y más de 100 moscas muertas dentro de un dispositivo de control de insectos.

Chong’s Chinese Restaurant, en Miami, donde los inspectores encontraron alimentos almacenados a temperaturas inadecuadas que fueron ordenados a desechar debido a problemas de refrigeración.

Beijing Garden, en Miami, donde los inspectores documentaron aguas residuales sin tratar que se devolvían hacia la cocina, una mosca muerta sobre alimentos y otros problemas de saneamiento.

P.F. Chang’s, en Fort Lauderdale, donde encontraron cucarachas vivas en la cocina.

Lona Cocina Tequileria, en Fort Lauderdale, donde los inspectores reportaron cucarachas vivas detrás y dentro de equipos de cocina.

Todos los restaurantes pudieron reabrir después de realizar la limpieza ordenada y aprobar una nueva inspección estatal.

**CONCH HEAVEN

11275 NW 27TH AVE.

NOROESTE DE MIAMI-DADE (WESTVIEW)

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA QUEJA

ORDEN DE CIERRE: 19 DE JUNIO

14 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Se detectó actividad de cucarachas, evidenciada por la presencia de cucarachas vivas. Se observaron cuatro cucarachas vivas debajo de la mesa de preparación en el área de la cocina. Se observaron dos cucarachas vivas en el piso junto al fregadero de tres compartimentos. Se observaron 12 cucarachas vivas debajo de una caja junto a un estante con ollas y sartenes limpias en el área de la cocina.”

“Se encontraron insectos voladores vivos de pequeño tamaño. Se observaron aproximadamente 20 moscas vivas en el área de almacenamiento seco junto al cuarto frío.”

“Acumulación de una sustancia negra/verde similar al moho en el interior de la máquina o depósito de hielo. Violación reincidente.”

“Techo, plafones o rejillas de ventilación sucios con acumulación de residuos de alimentos, grasa, polvo o una sustancia similar al moho. Se observó grasa en las rejillas del aire acondicionado.”

**THE VILLA CARIBBEAN SHOPPES

19501 NW 2ND AVE.

MIAMI GARDENS

ORDEN DE CIERRE: 24 DE JUNIO

22 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

TAMBIÉN FUE CERRADO EL 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 (PROBLEMAS DE MOSCAS Y CUCARACHAS)

“Se detectó actividad de cucarachas, evidenciada por la presencia de una cucaracha viva. Se observó una cucaracha viva sobre un congelador vertical en el área de la cocina.”

“Acumulación de aves, insectos, roedores u otras plagas muertas o atrapadas en dispositivos de control. Se observaron más de 100 moscas muertas en un exterminador de insectos ubicado sobre un congelador vertical dentro del área de la cocina.”

“Se encontraron insectos voladores vivos de pequeño tamaño. Se observaron 11 moscas vivas en la pared y sobre la mesa de preparación donde se elaboran jugos. Se observaron 10 moscas vivas en el área de la cocina donde se preparaban cebollas, posándose sobre cajas de alimentos y una mesa. Se observaron 10 moscas vivas dentro de un recipiente donde se utilizaron limones para jugo, sobre una mesa en la cocina.”

“Dispositivo de control de insectos instalado sobre el área de preparación de alimentos. Se observó un exterminador de insectos sobre un congelador vertical.”

“Áreas del piso cubiertas con agua estancada. Se observó en el cuarto frío y en la cocina. Violación reincidente.”

**CHONG’S CHINESE RESTAURANT

1164 WEST FLAGLER ST.

MIAMI

ORDEN DE CIERRE: 23 DE JUNIO

25 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Cucarachas muertas en el establecimiento. Se observaron tres cucarachas muertas: una en el piso de la cocina y dos dentro de gabinetes de almacenamiento junto al área del baño. Violación reincidente.”

“Paredes sucias con acumulación de grasa, residuos de alimentos o polvo. Se observaron paredes con acumulación de grasa en toda el área de la cocina.”

“Se emitió una orden de suspensión de venta para alimentos que requieren control de tiempo y temperatura por abuso de temperatura. Se observaron empanadillas (44 °F - conservación en frío), brotes (58 °F - conservación en frío), camarones (73 °F - conservación en frío), brotes (68 °F - conservación en frío), huevos con cáscara (72 °F - conservación en frío), pollo (57 °F - conservación en frío), carne de res (63 °F - conservación en frío), carne de cerdo (58 °F - conservación en frío), fideos (55 °F - conservación en frío), camarones (55 °F - conservación en frío), repollo (62 °F - conservación en frío), pasta (56 °F - conservación en frío), camarones (57 °F - conservación en frío), brotes (59 °F - conservación en frío) y jamón (46 °F - conservación en frío). Todos los alimentos estaban almacenados en refrigeradores de la línea de cocción y en el cuarto frío. Según un empleado, los alimentos habían permanecido fuera de temperatura por más de cuatro horas.”

“Cantidad o capacidad inadecuada de unidades de refrigeración para mantener el control de tiempo y temperatura de los alimentos de forma segura. Se observó que los refrigeradores de la línea de cocción y el cuarto frío no funcionaban correctamente.”

**BEIJING GARDEN

832 WEST FLAGLER ST.

MIAMI

ORDEN DE CIERRE: 23 DE JUNIO

27 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Se emitió una orden de suspensión de venta debido a que los alimentos no estaban en condiciones aptas para el consumo. Se observó una mosca muerta sobre costillas de cerdo en el área de preparación.”

“Olores desagradables en el área del comedor.”

“Aguas residuales sin tratar se devolvían a través de los desagües del piso. Se observó debajo del fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina.”

“Aguas residuales sin tratar sobre el piso del establecimiento. Se observó que el agua sucia no drenaba y había una gran cantidad de agua sucia acumulada en el piso.”

“Eliminación inadecuada de aguas residuales en los desagües del piso de la cocina y/o área de preparación de alimentos.”

“Techo, plafones o rejillas de ventilación sucios con acumulación de residuos de alimentos, grasa, polvo o una sustancia similar al moho. Se observaron plafones sucios en el comedor y en toda la cocina. Violación reincidente.”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con residuos de alimentos, una sustancia similar al moho o baba. Se observaron estantes con residuos de alimentos y grasa en el área de la cocina. Violación reincidente.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso. Se observó un balde plástico con sal almacenado en el piso de la cocina. Violación reincidente.”

“Alimentos que requieren control de tiempo y temperatura para su seguridad, distintos de carne entera asada, mantenidos calientes a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. Se observó arroz (71 °F - conservación en caliente) en el área de preparación de la cocina. Según el operador, llevaba menos de una hora. Violación reincidente.”

**P.F. CHANG’S

THE GALLERIA

2418 EAST SUNRISE BLVD.

FORT LAUDERDALE

ORDEN DE CIERRE: 23 DE JUNIO

5 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Se detectó actividad de cucarachas, evidenciada por la presencia de cucarachas vivas. Se encontraron aproximadamente cinco cucarachas vivas debajo del lavavajillas en el área de lavado de platos y una cucaracha viva sobre una tubería de agua junto a la freidora en la línea de cocción. Esa cucaracha fue exterminada y el área fue limpiada y desinfectada.”

“Piso sucio o con acumulación de residuos. Debajo del lavavajillas y la estación del fregadero de tres compartimentos había acumulación de residuos de alimentos entre la pared y el equipo.”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con residuos de alimentos, una sustancia similar al moho o baba. En el bar, la boquilla de la primera pistola dispensadora de refrescos estaba sucia.”

“Áreas del piso cubiertas con agua estancada. En la línea de cocción, debajo de la estación de wok y debajo del fregadero de tres compartimentos. El agua fue retirada.”

**LONA COCINA TEQUILERIA

WESTIN FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH RESORT

321 NORTH FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH BLVD.

FORT LAUDERDALE

ORDEN DE CIERRE: 22 DE JUNIO

4 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Se detectó actividad de cucarachas, evidenciada por la presencia de cucarachas vivas. Se encontraron tres cucarachas vivas detrás del horno doble apilado en la cocina de preparación. Se encontraron aproximadamente 15 cucarachas vivas dentro de un horno fuera de servicio que se utilizaba para almacenar toallas y bandejas adicionales en la línea de cocción.”

“Piso sucio o con acumulación de residuos de alimentos detrás de los equipos de cocina del área de preparación.”

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its cosmic survey, meant to capture swathes of the sky in more depth and detail. Perched on a Chilean mountaintop, the telescope will point its eye at the southern sky for the next 10 years, taking hundreds of images per night.

Researchers hope Rubin's observations will help them take a better census of the universe, mapping billions of stars in the Milky Way and billions more galaxies beyond it. It takes pictures quickly and will grab images of the same areas of sky multiple times, allowing scientists to glimpse fainter objects that previously eluded detection.

“We’re going to see large numbers of scientists across the world working with this data set, studying the universe in a way that they haven’t been able to before,” said Phil Marshall, the observatory's deputy director of operations.

Rubin released its first images last year, including colorful shots of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas located thousands of light-years from Earth. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).

Since then, researchers have tuned up the equipment so it's ready to take pictures at the depth and accuracy required for the decade-long survey. The images may help scientists discern how galaxies form and cluster over billions of years, and how the universe came to be.

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy, the observatory is named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who offered the first tantalizing evidence that a mysterious material called dark matter might be lurking in the universe. Researchers hope the effort may yield clues about dark matter as well as an equally puzzling force known as dark energy.

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Según dos informes de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), Josmanny Alexis Valdez, de 25 años, fue arrestado el lunes en relación con investigaciones separadas por robos en Kendall Dodge, ubicado en el 13355 de Southwest 137th Ave.

Las autoridades informaron que la primera investigación comenzó después de que agentes respondieran al concesionario el 15 de mayo tras recibir reportes de múltiples robos de vehículos.

Según un informe de arresto, el gerente de servicio del concesionario descubrió que habían robado sistemas de infoentretenimiento de camionetas Dodge Ram estacionadas en un lote cercado de vehículos usados donde se almacenaban automóviles de clientes mientras esperaban servicio.

Los investigadores dijeron que Valdez y un segundo sospechoso, Celestino Ayala Jr., de 25 años, “cortaron una abertura en la cerca de malla metálica” antes de ingresar al lote y seleccionar camionetas Dodge Ram de los modelos 2019 al 2026.

Según el informe, ambos retiraron los sistemas de infoentretenimiento de las camionetas desocupadas y “cortaron el arnés de cableado” que conecta la pantalla con cada vehículo, “dejando el vehículo con daños permanentes”.

El informe indica que fueron robados 18 sistemas de infoentretenimiento de camionetas Dodge Ram pertenecientes a 14 víctimas diferentes. Los investigadores estimaron que cada sistema tenía un valor aproximado de $5,314 USD, mientras que los daños a cada vehículo ascendían a unos $1,087 USD.

Posteriormente, los detectives revisaron Facebook Marketplace y encontraron varios sistemas de infoentretenimiento para Dodge Ram publicados a la venta, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que los anuncios aparecían en perfiles con los nombres “Gio Valdez”, “Josmanny Valdes” y “Laylowjr Ayala”, todos con las mismas fotografías.

El informe señala que los detectives pudieron confirmar que uno de los sistemas anunciados en internet había sido robado durante uno de los robos en Kendall Dodge.

Según el informe, los detectives realizaron una “operación de compra y arresto” el 28 de mayo después de que un detective encubierto acordara comprar dos de los sistemas robados por $500 USD.

Los investigadores dijeron que equipos de vigilancia observaron cómo los sospechosos sacaban los sistemas de una camioneta Ford azul antes de conducir hasta Dolphin Mall para completar la transacción.

Indicaron que una orden de registro ejecutada posteriormente en la camioneta permitió encontrar pantallas y módulos de radio adicionales de Dodge que fueron confirmados como robados del concesionario.

El informe de arresto también señala que los investigadores reunieron videos de vigilancia y otras pruebas que demostraban que los sospechosos “estuvieron en el área del concesionario Dodge en múltiples fechas”.

En el primer caso, Valdez enfrenta cinco cargos por robo en vehículo ocupado, cinco cargos por hurto mayor de más de $3,000 USD actuando junto a otras personas y cinco cargos por daños criminales que superan los $1,000 USD, además de un cargo por robo en una estructura ocupada, según los registros de la cárcel.

Un segundo informe de arresto presentado en la investigación vincula a Valdez con robos adicionales de vehículos pertenecientes a Rocco’s Custom y Kendall Dodge.

Según ese informe, los investigadores nuevamente alegan que Valdez y Ayala ingresaron al lote cercado del concesionario tras cortar la cerca de malla metálica y luego retiraron sistemas de infoentretenimiento de camionetas Dodge Ram.

Los detectives dijeron que el segundo caso surgió de la misma investigación más amplia que incluyó las publicaciones en Facebook Marketplace, la operación encubierta y la recuperación de la propiedad robada.

En el segundo caso, Valdez enfrenta dos cargos por robo en vehículo desocupado, dos cargos por hurto mayor de más de $3,000 USD actuando junto a otras personas y dos cargos por daños criminales, según los registros de la cárcel.

Hasta el martes, Valdez permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $168,000 USD. Los registros judiciales también muestran que varios de sus casos por delitos graves tienen una retención Nebbia, lo que significa que deberá demostrar que el dinero utilizado para pagar la fianza proviene de una fuente legítima antes de poder ser liberado.

Las autoridades informaron que Ayala continúa prófugo.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso o el paradero de Ayala debe comunicarse con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

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According to City of Miami Fire-Rescue Lt. Pete Sanchez, the fire was reported at 9:43 a.m. at a single-story home in the area of Northwest 67^th Court and Second Street.

Sky 10 was above the scene just after 10:15 a.m. It appeared that there was smoke damage to an efficiency in the rear of the home.

Sanchez confirmed that the fire started outside and extended to the property.

He said firefighters quickly extinguished the flames and searched the home for anyone who might have still been inside.

“The fire was mainly contained to the exterior wall of the home, but some fire extended into the ceiling and bathroom,” Sanchez said in an email to Local 10 News.

No injuries were reported, but Sanchez said a family of four -- two adults and two children -- have been displaced.

The American Red Cross is assisting them.

Miami police confirmed that West Flagler Street was temporarily shut down between 67^th and 68^th avenues due to the fire.

Sanchez said the Miami Fire Investigation Unit will determine the origin and cause of the fire.

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Among them were Conch Heaven in northwest Miami-Dade, where inspectors reported live roaches, dozens of flies and mold-like buildup inside an ice machine.

The Villa Caribbean Shoppes in Miami Gardens, cited for a live roach, numerous flies and more than 100 dead flies inside an insect control device.

Chong’s Chinese Restaurant in Miami, where inspectors found temperature-abused food that was ordered thrown away after refrigeration problems.

Beijing Garden in Miami, where inspectors documented raw sewage backing up into the kitchen, a dead fly on food and other sanitation issues.

P.F. Chang’s in Fort Lauderdale, where live roaches were found in the kitchen.

Lona Cocina Tequileria in Fort Lauderdale, where inspectors reported live roaches behind and inside kitchen equipment.

All of the restaurants were allowed to re-open following an ordered cleanup and a successful re-inspection by state inspectors.

**CONCH HEAVEN

11275 NW 27TH AVE

NW MIAMI-DADE (WESTVIEW)

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 6/19

14 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 4 live roaches under the preparation table in kitchen area. Observed 2 live roaches on the floor by triple sink. 12 live roaches under a box by shelf with clean pots and pans in kitchen area.”

“Live, small flying insects found observed approximately 20 live flies in dry storage area by walk in cooler.”

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

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

**THE VILLA

CARIBBEAN SHOPPES

19501 NW 2ND AVE.

MIAMI GARDENS

ORDERED SHUT 6/24

22 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 10/13/25 (FLY AND ROACH ISSUE)

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 1 live roach on top of reach in freezer in kitchen area.”

“Accumulation of dead or trapped birds, insects, rodents, or other pests, in control devices. Observed 100+ dead flies in bug zapper on top of reach in freezer inside if kitchen area.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 11 live flies on wall and prep table where juice are made. Observed 10 live flies in kitchen area where onions are being prepared, landing on cases of food and table. Observed 10 live flies inside of pot where limes were used for juice on table in kitchen area.”

“Insect control device installed over food preparation area. Observed zapper on top of reach in freezer.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed in walk in and kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

**CHONG’S CHINESE RESTAURANT

1164 WEST FLAGLER ST.

MIAMI

ORDERED SHUT 6/23

25 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 3 dead roaches. One in the floor of the kitchen and 2 inside storage cabinets by the bathroom area. Repeat Violation.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed wall soiled with accumulated grease throughout the kitchen area.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed dumplings (44 F - Cold Holding); sprouts (58 F - Cold Holding) shrimp (73 F - Cold Holding); sprouts (68 F - Cold Holding); shell eggs (72 F - Cold Holding); chicken (57 F - Cold Holding); beef (63 F - Cold Holding); pork (58 F - Cold Holding); noodles (55 F - Cold Holding); shrimp (55 F - Cold Holding); cabbage (62 F - Cold Holding) pasta (56 F - Cold Holding); shrimp (57 F - Cold Holding); sprouts (59 F - Cold Holding); ham (46 F - Cold Holding) . All foods were stored inside reach in coolers at the cook line and inside the walk in cooler. As per employee foods have been out of temperature for more than 4 hours.”

“Inadequate number/capacity of cold holding units to maintain time/temperature control for safety food at proper temperatures. Observed both reach in coolers at the cook line and the walk in cooler are not working properly.”

**BEIJING GARDEN

832 WEST FLAGLER ST.

MIAMI

ORDERED SHUT 6/23

27 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Observed a dead fly on pork ribs in preparation area.”

“Objectionable odors in dining area.”

“Sewage/wastewater backing up through floor drains. Observed under the 3 compartment sink/kitchen area.”

“Raw sewage on ground of establishment. Observed dirty water is not draining away and there is a huge amount of dirty water on the floor.”

“Improper sewage disposal at floor drains in kitchen and/or food preparation area.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed ceiling tiles at dining area and all around kitchen soiled. Repeat Violation.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed shelves soiled with food debris and grease at kitchen area. Repeat Violation.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed plastic bucket with salt stored on the floor in the kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed rice (71 F - Hot Holding) on preparation area in the kitchen. As per operator less than 1 hour. Repeat Violation.”

**P.F. CHANG’S

THE GALLERIA

2418 EAST SUNRISE BLVD.

FORT LAUDERDALE

ORDERED SHUT 6/23

5 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Approximately 5 live roaches found under the dish machine in the dish area 1 live roach found on a water line next to the fryer on the cook line. The one roach was exterminated and the area cleaned and sanitized.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Under the dishwasher/triple sink station table, food debris is built up between the wall and equipment.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. At the bar, the first soda gun nozzle was soiled.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. At the cook line under the wok station and under the triple sink. The water was removed.”

**LONA COCINA TEQUILERIA

WESTIN FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH RESORT

321 NORTH FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH BLVD.

FORT LAUDERDALE

ORDERED SHUT 6/22

4 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 3 live roaches found behind the double stacked oven in the prep kitchen. Approximately 15 live roaches found inside of a nonfunctioning oven used to store towels and extra pans on the cook line.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of food debris behind the prep area cooking equipment.”

Meanwhile, the number of official rescues has dropped dramatically in the last three days, the government said, from 5,380 people saved in the first two days after the quakes to just four people found alive Monday by authorities. The prime window for finding earthquake survivors is typically 48 to 72 hours, but it is possible to survive longer depending on factors such as temperature and access to water or food.

The sole survivor rescued by Tuesday afternoon was a toddler who had been trapped for six days under a collapsed building, said Jorge Rodríguez, the president of the National Assembly.

Those numbers do not include the many rescues carried out across the country by volunteer groups that, frustrated with the government's sluggish response, scrambled to save their trapped loved ones days before the arrival of expert international teams.

The government puts the death toll at over 1,900. Experts say that is a significant undercount as more bodies are hauled from the rubble every day and morgues struggle to handle the influx.

Among the living, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. United Nations agencies expressed concern about the health effects of thousands of displaced people sleeping for days in the open or in crowded, unsanitary shelters.

A healthcare system in crisis

The Venezuelan healthcare system, strained by decades of underinvestment and years of economic crisis is “under extreme pressure now, with facilities operating beyond the capacity of the surge of the trauma cases,” said World Health Organization spokesperson Christian Lindmeier at a media briefing in Geneva.

Venezuelan officials say that more than 15,800 people have been affected by the earthquakes — a figure that reflects the official number of displaced people, U.N. refugee agency spokesperson Carlotta Wolf said Tuesday. Newly homeless Venezuelans are sleeping in cars, parks and elsewhere.

Wolf said that number would continue to rise. Many of those displaced in the hardest-hit state of La Guaira, just outside the capital of Caracas along the coast, are suffering from widespread food shortages, she said.

Without access to toilets, showers or soap, displaced Venezuelans have also become increasingly vulnerable to the outbreak of preventable diseases like measles, given the population’s low vaccination rates, Lindmeier said, adding that conditions are ripe for waterborne infections such as dengue, yellow fever and malaria to spread.

According to the government, last week's earthquakes damaged or otherwise compromised 38 hospitals nationwide. WHO said it so far has evaluated 21 of those facilities, three of which are no longer operating. Another six have sustained damage and the rest are now buckling under the influx of injuries.

Many specialist doctors are missing in the ruins, including officials in charge of maternity care in La Guaira, WHO said, compounding the challenges to health care in a country that 8 million people, including many doctors and nurses, have fled in recent years.

“Findings reveal chaotic service delivery and patient flow, marked by overcrowding, growing surgical backlogs ... and a breakdown in biosafety measures,” Lindmeier said.

An increased presence of nongovernmental organizations was noticeable Tuesday in La Guaira and adjacent communities, with tents from the Red Cross, the World Food Program and other organizations set up on sidewalks, waterfront esplanades and athletic facilities. People lined up throughout the day under the blistering sun to receive free toiletries, food, medications and face masks.

A struggle to grasp the true toll

With the government tight-lipped about victims and survivors and offering no official count of missing people, ordinary Venezuelans are struggling to find relatives. Many have turned to WhatsApp groups and nongovernmental digital databases to report their loved ones as missing. One such registry listed at least 43,220 people as missing.

In his daily televised casualty update, Jorge Rodríguez, brother of interim President Delcy Rodríguez, said that the official toll stood at 1,943 people killed and 10,571 injured as of Tuesday, urging the public to share only government information.

But his numbers left thousands of Venezuelans unaccounted for. He said the government estimated there were around 30,000 people in the hardest-hit parts of La Guaira state at the time of the earthquake, and that around 20,000 of them managed to escape the area or were later rescued.

NASA estimates that nearly 59,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed by the earthquakes, which would put the number of people affected by the quakes in the hundreds of thousands. The U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF, on Tuesday said 680,000 children are in need of humanitarian assistance nationwide.

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DeBre reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Associated Press writers Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda in Caracas, Venezuela, and Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed to this report.

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Police say Pearce, 22, repeatedly resisted their orders before taking off, allegedly leading officers on a chase that ended when he crashed his vehicle.

Pearce was arrested in February following a domestic dispute with WNBA star Rickea Jackson, according to authorities.

He was charged with three felonies -- aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, fleeing and eluding police and resisting an officer with violence. A fourth charge of stalking was brought as a misdemeanor and an additional charge of aggravated battery of an officer was dropped.

According to Doral police, Jackson told authorities she attempted to drive away from Pearce on Feb. 7, and was driving toward the Doral police station to seek help when Pearce “intentionally collided into the rear of her vehicle with his SUV” before police arrived.

Pearce allegedly refused an initial order from police to “get on the floor,” according to details of the arrest in an affidavit. The police report said Pearce then drove away and hit a police officer’s left knee with his vehicle “intentionally in an attempt to evade arrest.”

According to police, Pearce wrecked his vehicle and then ran off before being apprehended following a “short struggle.”

Jackson, 24, is two years into her WNBA career. She has said she and Pearce began dating when they were at the University of Tennessee together.

Pearce was the No. 26 pick in the NFL draft last year. He had 10 1/2 sacks and his 45 quarterback pressures set a Falcons rookie record.

Pearce has since agreed to enter a six-month intervention program to avoid taking the case to trial.

La policía señala que Pearce desobedeció repetidamente sus órdenes antes de huir, lo que supuestamente desencadenó una persecución que terminó cuando estrelló su vehículo.

Pearce fue arrestado en febrero tras una disputa doméstica con la estrella de la WNBA Rickea Jackson, según las autoridades.

Fue acusado de tres delitos graves: agresión agravada con un arma mortal, huir para evadir a la Policía y resistirse con violencia a un agente. Un cuarto cargo, por acoso, fue presentado como delito menor y un cargo adicional por agresión agravada contra un agente fue retirado.

Según la Policía de Doral, Jackson dijo a las autoridades que intentó alejarse de Pearce el 7 de febrero y que conducía hacia la estación de Policía de Doral para buscar ayuda cuando Pearce “colisionó intencionalmente la parte trasera de su vehículo con su SUV” antes de que llegaran los agentes.

Según los detalles del arresto incluidos en una declaración jurada, Pearce presuntamente se negó a una orden inicial de la Policía para “tirarse al suelo”. El informe policial indica que luego huyó en su vehículo y golpeó intencionalmente la rodilla izquierda de un agente “en un intento de evadir el arresto”.

Según la Policía, Pearce chocó su vehículo y luego huyó a pie antes de ser detenido tras un “breve forcejeo”.

Jackson, de 24 años, cursa su segunda temporada en la WNBA. Ha dicho que ella y Pearce comenzaron a salir cuando ambos estudiaban en la Universidad de Tennessee.

Pearce fue la selección número 26 del Draft de la NFL el año pasado. Registró 10.5 capturas de mariscal de campo y sus 45 presiones al quarterback establecieron un récord para un novato de los Falcons.

Pearce ha aceptado desde entonces ingresar a un programa de intervención de seis meses para evitar que el caso llegue a juicio.

Prodded by a Republican-led lawsuit that includes Vice President JD Vance, the court's six conservative justices were again in the majority of the latest decision that upended congressionally enacted limits on raising and spending money to influence elections. The court’s 2010 Citizens United decision opened the door to unlimited independent spending in federal elections.

The limits on party spending stem from a desire to prevent large donors from skirting caps on individual contributions to a candidate by directing unlimited sums to the party, with the understanding that the money will be spent on behalf of the candidate.

The Supreme Court had previously upheld the limits, in 2001.

But Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the court, said that decision was wrong and should be overruled. “In short, constitutional text, history and precedent establish that the political-party coordinated-expenditure limits violate the First Amendment,” Kavanaugh wrote.

Justice Elena Kagan's dissent for the three liberal justices said the court “ushers in untold harm” by enabling parties to funnel large contributions to individual candidates, far in excess of what donors can give those candidates directly.

National parties now will be able to make direct contributions to candidates’ campaigns,

The decision is likely to give Republicans at least a short-term boost because they maintain a sizable cash advantage over Democrats.

The Republican National Committee and its Senate and House campaign fundraising arms have dwarfed Democrats’ in the months before congressional elections where the GOP is defending narrow majorities in both houses.

At the end of May, the RNC reported having more than $125 million to spend, its highest-ever cash on hand total, according to its most recent Federal Election Commission filing in May. Meanwhile, the National Republican Senatorial Committee had more than $48 million on hand in its most recent report and the National Republican Congressional Committee had more than $81 million.

In the same period, the Democratic National Committee had $14.4 million on hand, while the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had roughly $37 million and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, roughly $73 million.

The Republican committees for House and Senate candidates filed the lawsuit in Ohio in 2022, joined by Vance, then a senator from Ohio, and then-Rep. Steve Chabot.

After President Donald Trump took office for his second term, the Federal Election Commission dropped its defense of the law and joined with Republicans in urging that it be overturned.

Democrats had called on the court to uphold the law, even though there is wide agreement that the spending limits have hurt political parties in an era of unlimited spending by other organizations.

Last year, the coordinated party spending for Senate races ranged from $127,200 in several states with small populations to nearly $4 million in California, the most populous state. For House races, the limits were $127,200 in states with only one representative and $63,600 everywhere else.

Entrenched divisions between liberal and conservative justices over campaign finance restrictions were on display when the court heard arguments in December.

“Every time we interfere with the congressional design, we make matters worse,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a dissenter in Citizens United and the court’s other campaign money cases.

By contrast, Justice Samuel Alito, a member of the Citizens United majority, described the decision as “much maligned, I think unfairly maligned.” The effect of the decision was to ”level the playing field,” Alito said, by expanding the right to spend freely that had previously belonged only to media companies.

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While the National Hurricane Center was maintaining 10% development odds as of Tuesday morning, most of our reliable forecast guidance – including Google’s DeepMind machine learning-based 1,000-member ensemble system – have dropped the chances of development entirely.

As we’ve discussed in previous newsletters, the low-pressure area is embedded within a front, which is also a natural zone for wind shear, an impediment for tropical development. Additionally, abundant dry air surrounding the low-pressure system isn’t allowing for sustained thunderstorm activity that might otherwise eat away at the nearby wind shear.

The development zone is straddling an area of warmer waters, but cooler waters lurking to its northeast are counteracting the warmer Gulf Stream waters to its west.

In general, the environment is not conducive to the low-pressure system fending off the hostile influence of the non-tropical air in the frontal zone, and overall conditions this week won’t support development.

The low-pressure system will get trapped under the high-pressure heat dome centered over the Ohio Valley this week, which will nudge it slowly back toward the southeastern U.S. and in the direction of coastal Georgia and South Carolina from late Thursday into Saturday.

At that point, however, the combination of increasing wind shear and very dry continental air will wash out the system, and it won’t pose any significant issues for the July 4^th holiday.

Elsewhere, the Atlantic should stay dormant for at least the first half of July.

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose 0.6 point to 91.2 in June, a figure that is still below its year-ago reading of 95.2. Consumer attitudes worsened after the Iran war caused oil and gas prices to spike, accelerating inflation and causing Americans' inflation-adjusted incomes to decline. Before the pandemic, the index regularly topped 120.

The report suggests that consumer confidence is recovering only slowly from the hit caused by the Iran war. Even so, Americans have continued to spend despite their dour outlook, which has kept the economy growing even as inflation accelerated. Measures of consumer sentiment have been less predictive of how Americans actually shop since the pandemic.

“Consumer confidence inched up in June as falling oil prices in recent weeks provided some relief to consumer inflation fears,” Dana Peterson, the Conference Board's chief economists said in a statement. “Consumer appraisals of current business conditions were slightly more positive compared to last month. However, perceptions of the current labor market softened measurably."

Earlier this month, a government report showed that consumers stepped up their spending in May despite higher gas prices. Analysts expect the steady consumer outlays kept the economy growing at about a 2.5% annual rate in the April-June quarter.

Falling gas prices may also help boost Americans' outlook in the coming months. On average nationwide, gas prices spiked above $4.50 after the U.S.-Iran conflict began Feb. 28. They have since fallen back to $3.85 a gallon, according to AAA.

The survey also found that consumers had a dimmer view of hiring and the job market this month. The proportion of Americans who said jobs are “hard to get” rose to 22.5% from 19.8% the previous month, a noticeable increase.

But on Wednesday the government released a report showing that the number of open jobs remained at a solid 7.6 million in May, indicating that companies are showing more interest in recruiting workers.

The Labor Department will release its monthly jobs report for June on Thursday, and economists forecast it will show that employers added 100,000 jobs, a solid gain. The unemployment rate is expected to stay at a low 4.3%, according to data provider FactSet.

Aunque el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC) mantenía una probabilidad de desarrollo del 10% hasta la mañana del martes, la mayoría de nuestros modelos de pronóstico confiables, incluido el sistema de conjunto de 1,000 miembros basado en aprendizaje automático de DeepMind de Google, han reducido por completo las probabilidades de desarrollo.

Como hemos explicado en boletines anteriores, el área de baja presión está incrustada dentro de un frente, que también es una zona natural de cizalladura del viento, un factor que dificulta el desarrollo tropical. Además, la abundante masa de aire seco que rodea al sistema de baja presión impide que se mantenga una actividad de tormentas eléctricas que, de otro modo, podría debilitar la cizalladura del viento cercana.

La zona con potencial de desarrollo se encuentra sobre un área de aguas más cálidas, pero las aguas más frías ubicadas al noreste están contrarrestando las aguas más cálidas de la Corriente del Golfo que se encuentran al oeste.

En términos generales, el ambiente no es favorable para que el sistema de baja presión pueda resistir la influencia adversa del aire no tropical presente en la zona frontal, y las condiciones durante esta semana no favorecerán su desarrollo.

El sistema de baja presión quedará atrapado bajo el domo de alta presión que provoca calor intenso y que está centrado sobre el valle de Ohio esta semana, lo que lo empujará lentamente de regreso hacia el sureste de Estados Unidos y en dirección a las costas de Georgia y Carolina del Sur entre finales del jueves y el sábado.

Para ese momento, sin embargo, la combinación de una cizalladura del viento cada vez mayor y aire continental muy seco debilitará el sistema, por lo que no representará problemas importantes para el feriado del 4 de julio.

En otras partes, el Atlántico debería permanecer inactivo al menos durante la primera mitad de julio.

Forecasters had expected employers to post just 7 million openings in May.

The job market is sturdy but not exactly booming. Layoffs rose in May, and the number of people quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in their prospects — ticked up only slightly. That's according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday.

Employers are advertising openings, but they aren't actually doing much hiring. Gross hiring — before counting people who lost or quit their jobs — dipped to 5.17 million in May from 5.26 million in April. When the job market was booming from mid-2021 to mid-2023 after COVID-19 lockdowns, gross monthly hiring regularly topped 6 million.

“The hiring switch needs to fully turn on for the labor market to feel alive again,” ZipRecruiter economist Nicole Bachaud said in a commentary.

After the United States and Israel attacked Feb. 28, Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas passes. Energy prices soared, squeezing Americans already frustrated by the high cost of living.

But the American job market has chugged along, continuing to rebound from a miserable 2025. In the first five months of the year, U.S. employers have added an average of nearly 114,000 net jobs a month. That is up from just 9,700 a month in 2025, the weakest hiring outside a recession since 2002.

High interest rates and President Donald Trump's unpredictable economic policies discouraged employers from making hiring decisions last year. Trump's tax cuts and the fact that the United States is an energy producer have limited the economic damage from the war this year.

When the Labor Department releases its jobs report for June on Thursday, it is expected to show that companies, nonprofits and government agencies added another 100,000 jobs and that unemployment stayed at a low 4.3%.

Because of baby boomer retirements and Trump's immigration crackdown, fewer people are competing for work, and the United States doesn't need as many jobs as it used to keep the unemployment rate stable. Economists say the so-called "break-even'' rate of hiring could be as low as zero jobs a month, down from perhaps 150,000 a year or so ago.

The court’s six-justice conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year, ruled that state bans in Idaho and West Virginia don’t violate the Constitution. The court unanimously agreed that barring transgender girls and women also doesn't run afoul of the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the court that, “states may maintain women's and girls' sports for biological females" to address safety and competitive fairness concerns. “The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women’s and girls’ sports throughout America."

More than two dozen other Republican-led states have adopted bans on female transgender athletes, and the decision seems certain to extend to them as well.

Left unresolved by the outcome are lawsuits challenging state laws and regulations in Connecticut, California and elsewhere that permit transgender athletes to compete consistent with their gender identity.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, saying from the bench that the majority opinion was wrong to reject an equal-protection claim from 16-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson.

With the science still evolving, transgender students shouldn't automatically be shut out of team sports, she said. “We just simply do not know scientifically that transgender students pose dangers,” she said, reading from a dissent joined by her liberal colleagues.

Pepper-Jackson, a high school sophomore in Bridgeport, West Virginia, has been taking puberty-blocking medication, has publicly identified as a girl since age 8 and has been issued a West Virginia birth certificate recognizing her as female. She is the only transgender person who has sought to compete in girls sports in West Virginia.

Pepper-Jackson has progressed from a back-of-the-pack cross-country runner in middle school to statewide champion in the shot put. She beat the second-place finisher by two feet in last month's West Virginia championship meet.

In the Idaho case, Lindsay Hecox sued over the state’s first-in-the-nation ban for the chance to try out for the women’s track and cross-country teams at Boise State University in Idaho. She didn’t make either squad because “she was too slow,” her lawyer, Kathleen Hartnett, told the court during arguments in January, but she competed in club-level soccer and running.

Prominent women in sports have weighed in on both sides. Tennis champion Martina Navratilova, swimmers Summer Sanders and Donna de Varona and beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings are supporting the state bans. Soccer stars Megan Rapinoe and Becky Sauerbrunn and basketball players Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart back the transgender athletes.

Kavanaugh, who has coached girls' basketball, underlined the importance of women's sports and athletes' dedication. “No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified,” he wrote.

In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled LGBTQ people are protected by a landmark federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in the workplace, finding that “sex plays an unmistakable role” in employers’ decisions to punish transgender people for traits and behavior they otherwise tolerate.

But last year, the six conservative justices on the nine-member court declined to apply the same sort of analysis when they upheld state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The states supporting the prohibitions on transgender athletes argued there is no reason to extend the ruling barring workplace discrimination to Title IX.

Idaho’s law, state Solicitor General Alan Hurst said, is “necessary for fair competition because, where sports are concerned, men and women are obviously not the same.”

Republican President Donald Trump applauded Tuesday's decision, calling it a “BIG WIN” in a social-media post.

Lawyers for Pepper-Jackson argued that such distinctions generally make sense but that their client has none of those advantages because of the unique circumstances of her early transition. In Hecox’s case, her lawyers wanted the court to dismiss the case because she had forsworn trying to play on women’s teams.

NCAA president Charlie Baker told Congress in 2024 that he was aware of only 10 transgender athletes out of more than half a million students on college teams. But despite the small numbers, the issue has taken on outsize importance.

Baker’s NCAA and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committees banned transgender women from women’s sports after President Donald Trump, a Republican, signed an executive order aimed at barring their participation.

The public generally is supportive of the limits. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in October 2025 found that about 6 in 10 U.S. adults “strongly” or “somewhat” favored requiring transgender children and teenagers to compete only on sports teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth, not the gender they identify with, while about 2 in 10 were “strongly” or “somewhat” opposed and about one-quarter did not have an opinion.

About 2.1 million adults, or 0.8%, and 724,000 people ages 13 to 17, or 3.3%, identify as transgender in the U.S., according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

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Hasta ahora los sismos de 7,2 y 7,5 de magnitud han dejado al menos 1.719 muertos y más de 5.000 heridos. Más de 50.000 personas son buscadas por sus familiares.

Aquí los últimos acontecimientos sobre Venezuela:

Mayor presencia de organizaciones no gubernamentales en La Guaira

El martes, se observó una mayor presencia de organizaciones no gubernamentales en La Guaira y comunidades aledañas. Varias organizaciones, como la Cruz Roja y el Programa Mundial de Alimentos, instalaron carpas en aceras, paseos marítimos e instalaciones deportivas.

Durante todo el día, bajo el intenso sol, la gente hizo fila para recibir artículos de higiene personal, alimentos, medicamentos y mascarillas gratuitas.

Presidente de Asamblea Nacional informa nueva cifra de muertos

Al menos 1.943 personas murieron y otras 10.571 resultaron heridas en los dos devastadores sismos de la semana pasada, informó en rueda de prensa Jorge Rodríguez, presidente de la Asamblea Nacional venezolana.

Indicó que las autoridades estiman que unas 30.000 personas se encontraban en las ciudades de Caraballeda y Catia La Mar —las más afectadas en el estado de La Guaira— cuando ocurrieron los sismos, cifra que incluye a residentes y turistas. De ellas entre 13.400 y 13.500 personas lograron escapar por sus propios medios, señaló Jorge Rodríguez, y otras 6.461 fueron resctadas por equipos de salvamento.

Rescatan con vida a niño de tres años

La presidenta interina Delcy Rodríguez informa que equipos de rescate provenientes de Jordania rescataron a un niño de 3 años que había permanecido atrapado bajo los escombros durante seis días en La Guaira.

Indica que más de 3.300 rescatistas han llegado a Venezuela, junto con 140 perros y 700.000 toneladas de ayuda humanitaria.

Rodríguez señala que más de 75.000 familias resultaron afectadas por los sismos.

Mandatarios del bloque Mercosur guardan un minuto de silencio

Los mandatarios y otros funcionarios presentes en la Cumbre de Mercosur que se desarrolla en la ciudad paraguaya de Luque guardaron un minuto de silencio por los más de 1.700 fallecidos y los miles de heridos y desaparecidos a causa de los sismos en Venezuela.

El homenaje respondió a un pedido del presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, quien comenzó su discurso en el encuentro regional expresando su “solidaridad con el pueblo y el gobierno de Venezuela ante las pérdidas incalculables ocasionadas por los terremotos de la semana pasada”.

Otros asistentes a la cumbre son los presidentes de Paraguay, Santiago Peña; Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi; Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz; Chile, Jose Antonio Kast, y Ecuador, Daniel Noboa. El mandatario argentino Javier Milei no participa y está representando por su canciller.

Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay son miembros fundadores del Mercosur, mientras Bolivia es socio pleno desde 2024 y Chile y Ecuador son Estados asociados. Venezuela se encuentra suspendida desde 2017 en todos sus derechos y obligaciones como Estado parte del bloque.

Argentina prepara más ayuda

El vocero presidencial de Argentina, Adrián Ravier, informó que seis ciudadanos de su país han fallecido a causa de los sismos y ocho han sido reportados como desaparecidos. En tanto, otro nacional está hospitalizado.

Agregó en una rueda de prensa que el gobierno del presidente Javier Milei reforzará la asistencia a los venezolanos con el envío de un avión Hércules en el que viajarán 38 efectivos militares con agua, un generador eléctrico, equipo sanitario, tiendas, cocina de campaña, material de comunicaciones y dos perros de búsqueda con sus guías.

Ravier destacó las labores de Bart, un perro rescatista de la Armada Argentina que logró localizar a dos niños con vida atrapados bajo los escombros en el estado de La Guaira. Además el pastor Belga Malinois recuperó seis cuerpos.

Médico destaca ayuda de amas de casa

El doctor Ángel Ramírez declaró a la cadena de televisión estatal que el hospital donde trabaja se ha beneficiado de la ayuda de amas de casa que han llevado comida y de empresarios que han donado equipamiento.

“Sin ellos, no hubiéramos podido lograr nada”, afirmó Ramírez, quien trabaja en el Hospital Dr. Domingo Luciani de Caracas.

Comentó a Venezolana de Televisión que el hospital ha atendido a más de 250 pacientes y realizado más de 100 cirugías.

“Nadie está cobrando nada”, recalcó, enfatizando que toda la atención médica es gratuita.

Unicef envía ayuda humanitaria

Un cargamento de 47 toneladas métricas con suministros de salud, agua y educación procedente de las reservas de la Unión Europea llegará a Venezuela y se espera más ayuda en los próximos días, anuncia Unicef.

El cargamento incluye kits de emergencia para atención médica urgente, suministros para partos seguros, cuidado del recién nacido y prevención y tratamiento de enfermedades; suministros para la purificación y almacenamiento de agua y tiendas de campaña, entre otros elementos.

“Las familias de los estados afectados necesitan urgentemente agua potable y acceso a atención médica. Muchas duermen a la intemperie, temerosas de las réplicas. Estos suministros nos ayudarán a brindar a los niños y a las familias lo que más necesitan ahora: atención médica, agua potable y espacios seguros”, declaró Roberto Benes, director regional de Unicef para América Latina y el Caribe.

Unicef estima que 680.000 niños necesitan asistencia humanitaria en los estados afectados por los terremotos.

España eleva a 19 los fallecidos de ese país en los sismos

El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de España eleva a 19 el número de españoles fallecidos en los terremotos, además de 131 desaparecidos y 12 localizados bajo los escombros. Asimismo, anuncia que un hospital de campaña de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo partirá el miércoles de Madrid con destino a Venezuela.

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According to BSO, a suspect that deputies had been seeking was observed pumping gas at the Wawa, located at 6350 Stirling Road.

As authorities converged on the suspect, they said a fight broke out between him and the approaching law enforcement officers.

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said the suspect was armed and was told to give up his gun, but when that didn’t happen, it led to a shooting that killed the suspect.

Tony said the “suspect might have gotten a shot off,” prior to being killed, but that would be determined in the investigation.

Tony said the suspect was wanted for fleeing and eluding, and indicated that deputies had DNA evidence linking the suspect to additional crimes, although he didn’t release further details about those alleged crimes.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is expected to take over the investigation, as is customary with deputy-involved shootings.

Tuesday is a transition day into a wetter weather pattern. Expect a few inland thunderstorms developing this afternoon. Some storms in the Everglades may try to push back to the coast closer to sunset.

Thunderstorms on Wednesday will be more numerous and centered over more populated areas. It’s a return to our usual rainy season pattern that will last into the 4^th of July weekend. Fort Lauderdale has only picked up 1″ of rain so far in the month of June, which is more than 8″ below average. South Florida is slowly slipping back into a drought, so a return to thunderstorms is a beneficial weather pattern.

Protocols designed to protect tennis from doping are in the spotlight as players open up about their experiences navigating the system in the aftermath of a four-year ban handed to 2023 Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova — not for testing positive but for refusing to take a test.

Players are required to provide a 60-minute time slot each day to be available for testing, plus the International Tennis Integrity Agency says that if a doping control officer "locates and notifies a player outside of that hour, they must complete the test.”

Naturally, there's a need for communication between players and testers.

“I’m not going to lie, some of them can be pushy, make you feel like you’re doing something wrong,” Gauff, the No. 7 seed, said after her first-round victory at Wimbledon.

“One time she came outside my time slot. But the way she was speaking to me on the phone, it literally made me cry afterwards," the 22-year-old American said. "I found out I was in the right, and I didn’t have to do anything.”

Ahead of her first-round match Tuesday, Ajla Tomljanovic described her close calls.

“I’m very scared of the system because it feels broken," she said. "I’ve had a few experiences of my own where it was about technicalities and when I speak to people in charge they’re not helpful — I don’t want to say they don’t care — but they weren’t very helpful at all to explain things or just show some sort of compassion when I was nowhere near missing a test or testing positive.”

The Australian player said she was seeking help about how the app works.

“I was new to the whole system. And I was at two fails for a month and I knew if I get a third one accidentally I would be out for at least two, three years,” she said. “It’s in a way, I won’t say no fault of my own but it’s not to the degree of being banned and smearing your name. In that sense, I think there’s so much to improve on.”

Williams, who makes her Wimbledon return on Tuesday, said the testing system was “a big reason why I didn’t want to come back either, because it’s just so hard."

The Vondrousova case

The 27-year-old Czech player, who became Wimbledon’s first unseeded female champion when she beat Ons Jabeur in the 2023 final, refused to take a test in early December 2025 after a doping control officer rang her apartment's intercom at 8 p.m.

This month, following a hearing by an independent tribunal, Vondrousova received the maximum four-year ban for a first offense.

ITIA published a video explainer of the case, saying Vondrousova on the night in question challenged the timing of the test because it was outside her designated time slot.

The agency noted: “If a Doping Control Officer, or DCO, locates and notifies a player outside of that hour, they must complete the test.”

Vondrousova had described the tester as “aggressive” and said the frequent ringing of the intercom “triggered a state of distress," the ITIA video says.

The tribunal's June 22 decision confirmed that Vondrousova refused the test and that the evidence “provided no compelling justification for doing so.”

The ITIA added that under World Anti-Doping Agency rules, “test refusals can be sanctioned as severely as positive tests." One rationale is an athlete who is doping could simply refuse a test and seek a lighter punishment.

Last year, the ITIA said it conducted over 8,000 tests both in and out of competition “and received a handful of complaints. We take all feedback on board and encourage players to share their views with us.” Other organizations, such as the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, also conduct player testing.

On possible changes to the system, the ITIA noted that tennis follows WADA rules and processes, which "will be refreshed in 2027. As part of this process, WADA consults with athletes from across global sport.”

“We understand the system can seem challenging," the ITIA said, “but it is there to protect players, not to trip them up. If players are ever unsure about a test, have questions, or would like to provide feedback on their experience, we want to hear about it.”

Some players say a 4-year ban is harsh

Jessica Pegula, the No. 4 seed, said she didn't know the full details of Vondrousova's case but that “I feel, like, for Marketa.”

“For something like that, for four years, you’re ruining someone’s career over something that could have really just been a complete misunderstanding, and I just don’t think that’s fair. I think the sentencing is so harsh," Pegula said.

“I don’t quite understand the difference between that and then obviously what happened with (Jannik) Sinner and Iga (Swiatek),” she said. “They justified what the rules were and why it was the way it was.”

Top-ranked Sinner, the defending men's champion at Wimbledon, accepted a three-month ban in a settlement with WADA in early 2025 following his two positive doping tests from the prior year. WADA had challenged ITIA's decision not to suspend Sinner for what it judged was accidental contamination — entering his system through a massage — by a banned anabolic steroid.

Swiatek, Wimbledon's defending women's champion, accepted a one-month suspension in 2024 after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, a heart medication. The ITIA accepted her explanation that the result was unintentional and caused by the contamination of a nonprescription medication, melatonin, that Swiatek was taking for issues with jet lag.

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The decision announced over the weekend came as the outbreak of a type of Ebola with no approved treatment or vaccine continues to grow, with 1,307 people infected and 377 dead across three provinces in eastern Congo. It could be the worst Ebola outbreak yet.

Congo’s ministry of interior on Saturday said gatherings and demonstrations were forbidden in the provinces of Kinshasa, Tshopo, Haut-Uele and Bas-Uele as fears grow about the outbreak spilling into new areas. None of the provinces have any confirmed cases.

Separately, the mayor of ​Goma, eastern Congo’s largest city and now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group, also banned public gatherings and demonstrations, including celebrations linked to sport events, on Monday. Congo is in its first World Cup in over half a century.

Congo’s political opposition has denounced the ban as unconstitutional. Prince Epenge, the spokesperson for the Lamuka coalition, has said the ban aims to prevent a planned demonstration in the capital, Kinshasa, early next month. The protest is against proposed constitutional changes that would allow Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi to run for a third term.

Civil society organizations also condemned the ban in a statement on Monday, citing freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

In a televised address on Monday evening, Tshisekedi announced a $319 million response plan to the Ebola outbreak, and called on people to respect health guidelines, report suspected cases and not give in to misinformation. He did not directly address the bans.

“Ebola is neither a rumor nor a source of shame,” Tshisekedi said. “It is a health emergency that demands responsibility, solidarity, and truth.”

Health workers have reported some skepticism and attacks over Ebola from residents in the affected areas of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces.

Cases also have been confirmed in neighboring Uganda, as well as one in France in a doctor who returned from Congo.

The United Nations ​warned in a report on Tuesday that if the virus spreads into other neighboring countries including Rwanda and Angola, it could cost Africa up to $3.6 billion and result in 328,000 job losses.

More than a month into the outbreak, officials believe it continues to outpace response efforts and no one knows its true scale. They are yet to identify patient zero and struggle to trace contact cases.

The World Health Organization has warned that violence from rebels in eastern Congo is complicating the response to the outbreak. In Ituri, attacks by the Islamic State group-backed Allied Democratic Force have cut off access to many villages and forced people to flee their homes, adding to already overcrowded camps of people displaced by years of conflict.

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Pronczuk reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writer Janvier Barhahiga in Bukavu, Congo, contributed to this report.

A new AP-NORC poll shows Republicans and older, white adults are especially likely to say they fly the American flag, while younger Democrats and Black adults are more likely to say they don’t fly it, reflecting deeply divided views on what patriotism means.

And on this final day of a Supreme Court term centering on Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power, the justices have upheld the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump's effort to deny the right to the children of noncitizen parents. Follow live updates on the rulings.

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Court will consider striking down assault weapons bans in Connecticut and the Chicago area

A Supreme Court that has expanded gun rights will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the Second Amendment.

The justices said Tuesday they will take up appeals asking the court to strike down bans on the AR-15 and similar semiautomatic firearms in the Chicago area and Connecticut.

Similar laws are in place in about a dozen states, covering major cities like New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004, but Democrats have supported renewing it in response to a series of mass shootings and states have continued to pass their own laws.

The case is expected to be heard in the fall.

Republican Tom Kean Jr. said he was treated for depression during absence from Congress

New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. revealed Tuesday that he spent months away from Congress being treated for depression.

“It is physical, it is emotional, and until you experience it yourself, it is difficult to fully understand how powerful this illness can be,” he said on the House floor.

Kean, whose battleground district includes Trump’s Bedminster golf club, missed more than 100 votes in Congress this year. His reappearance comes after he won an uncontested primary on June 2.

“Today I stand before you healthier, stronger and excited to return to the work that I love,” Kean said.

Kean’s office has said he’s still running for reelection against Democratic nominee Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot. Democrats have targeted the district as a prime pick-up opportunity.

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Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits

The Court ’s ruling released Tuesday upholds a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.

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US job monthly openings hold at a surprising 7.6 million despite Iran war shock

May’s job openings were surprisingly strong in the data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing American labor market resilience to the war’s economic shock. Forecasters had expected employers to post just 7 million openings in May.

Rebounding from a miserable 2025, U.S. employers have added nearly 114,000 net jobs a month on average this year, up from just 9,700 in 2025, the weakest outside a recession since 2002.

Because of baby boomer retirements and Trump’s immigration crackdown, fewer people are competing for work, and the United States doesn’t need as many jobs as it used to keep the unemployment rate stable. Economists say the so-called “break-even’’ rate of hiring could be as low as zero jobs a month, down from perhaps 150,000 a year or so ago.

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Supreme Court backs state laws banning transgender girls from sports

The Court ’s conservative majority added to its repeated rulings against transgender Americans by deciding that bans in Idaho and West Virginia don’t violate the Constitution or the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education.

The ruling seems certain to extend to the dozens of other Republican-led states that have banned female transgender athletes. Left unresolved are lawsuits challenging state laws and regulations in Connecticut, California and elsewhere that permit transgender athletes to compete consistent with their gender identity.

About 2.1 million adults, or 0.8%, and 724,000 people ages 13 to 17, or 3.3%, identify as transgender in the U.S., according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

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US envoys arrive in Qatar for meetings on Iran, with tensions high over Hormuz

Trump’s special Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner plan meetings with mediators about the implementation of an initial deal to end the war in Iran, following more crossfire in the Persian Gulf.

They won’t directly negotiate with Iranian diplomats, instead using mediators as go-betweens, said Majed al-Ansari, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry.

Iran was also sending a delegation to Qatar, but has no plans to meet with the American side at any level, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said. His statement left open the possibility of messages being passed through the Qataris.

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Who flies the American flag for holidays — and who never flies one, according to an AP-NORC poll

American views of “Old Glory” are divided by politics, age and race, according to a new survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration.

Whether people see it as a unifying or divisive symbol tracks with other deep divisions among Americans, who see their country’s history and accomplishments very differently. About 7 in 10 Republicans and about 6 in 10 Americans ages 60 and older fly the flag at least during holidays. About 6 in 10 Democrats and independents, on the other hand, say they “never” fly the U.S. flag. That includes the vast majority, 75%, of Democrats under 45.

Only about 3 in 10 Black adults say they ever display the American flag, compared with about half of white and Hispanic adults.

The survey of 2,596 adults was conducted April 16-20.

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What the Supreme Court’s Cook ruling means for Federal Reserve independence

The Supreme Court on Monday said the Federal Reserve, unlike any other agency in Washington, has a measure of independence from the presidency and day-to-day politics. But the court didn’t define to what extent.

The case is the latest round in an unprecedented fight between the Fed and Trump. More political interference at the Fed could upend financial markets around the world, which closely follow its interest rate moves.

Trump has repeatedly demanded that the central bank cut its key interest rate to lower borrowing costs for homeowners, businesses, and even the government itself. Trump sought to fire a Fed governor, Lisa Cook, last August after accusing her of mortgage fraud — a charge she denies.

In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the president cannot fire the seven members of the Fed’s board of governors without a clear cause. The decision endorses the Fed’s independent structure even as the court eliminated such protections for leaders of other agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission, whom the president can fire at-will.

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Trump nominates acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling as permanent chief

Trump said Monday he will nominate Keith Sonderling to be the secretary of labor, elevating him from the agency’s acting director two months after Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid abuse-of-power allegations.

Sonderling, a lawyer who has held a variety of acting positions and leadership roles across Trump’s government, was previously the deputy labor secretary and a Republican member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

“Throughout his career, Keith has proven his dedication to delivering strong results for the Hardworking People of our Country, and I know he will do an incredible job in his new role,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post announcing Sonderling’s nomination.

Sonderling’s nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.

During Trump’s second term, in addition to his Labor Department post, Sonderling has been the acting director of U.S. Office of Government Ethics and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, one of several agencies Trump targeted for closure in an executive order last year.

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The Supreme Court it issue momentous rulings on Trump’s power

The Supreme Court is wrapping up a term that has focused on Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power.

Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship, fire the heads of most independent agencies at will and remove a sitting Federal Reserve governor are among the remaining eight cases the justices are expected to decide this week, beginning Monday.

The court also is weighing, in cases from West Virginia and Idaho, whether to uphold laws in roughly half the states that prohibit transgender girls and women from playing on their public school and college sports.

Two election-related cases remain, over state laws that allow a grace period for the receipt of mailed ballots, provided they are sent by Election Day, and limits on political party spending in support of candidates for Congress and president.

Also outstanding is a dispute over geofence warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes. Critics say the practice is a fishing expedition that violates civil liberties.

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Foundation President Dame Louise Richardson said the awards, launched in 2005, have never been meant to be political. Earlier this month, the foundation changed its name from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to emphasize its nonprofit status and connection to famed industrialist Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant.

“We’re not articulating it in response to this moment,” Richardson told The Associated Press. “But it seems especially important at this moment that we celebrate immigrants and their contributions and also that we present a view of immigrants different from the ones so often portrayed in the media.”

The immigration debate continues at the highest levels of power, as President Donald Trump’s administration executes his agenda to increase immigration enforcement and reduce the numbers of legal immigrants and asylum seekers in the country. On the other side, Pope Leo XIV said, “Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,” as he visited a once-notorious epicenter of the European migration debate in Spain earlier this month.

Richardson — a naturalized American citizen, born in Ireland — said the entire issue has “become so fraught, especially with the movement against legal immigration and, in particular, the visas for highly skilled people.”

“That just strikes me as an act of self-harm on a national level,” she added, “because so many of these people are the engines of the economy.”

CEO Iman Abuzeid wants to inspire other immigrants

Honoree Dr. Iman Abuzeid, co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence-driven healthcare career platform Incredible Health, sees the award as recognition not just for her accomplishments, but for everyone who helped her along the way.

“And if my story makes it feel like it’s more possible for someone else, then that’s probably the part that I care about the most,” added the native of Sudan, who now lives in San Francisco.

Abuzeid said she specifically chose to emigrate to the United States after living in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and completing medical school in England.

“It is the best country for what I’m trying to do,” she said. “I think if you’re ambitious and you’re willing to work hard and you’ve got some skills, it is probably the best country in the world for you.”

Being an immigrant, Abuzeid said, has given her the drive to take on risk and bet on her own abilities. It has also influenced her to build Incredible Health in a way that balances the needs of employers looking to hire health care workers with the career needs of the workers, about 20% of whom are immigrants.

“I think being from Sudan does make me a little bit more attuned to topics like bias and diversity,” she said. “Because we’re operating a marketplace at scale, we can see these patterns in our data where workers of certain last names were seeing bias against them. … So when we removed that, we were able to improve that part of the marketplace.”

Conductor Cristian Măcelaru sees immigration as ‘opportunity’

Honoree Cristian Măcelaru, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, said immigration offers both the immigrant and their new home country a chance to improve their lives.

“This is an opportunity we should hold dear,” the native of Romania said. “It really makes for a unique kind of country.”

It also creates a unique artistic point of view, said Măcelaru, who moved to Michigan to study music at Interlochen Arts Academy when he was 16.

“I’ve met so many incredible people that were supportive of my arrival to the United States and embracing of who I was,” he said. “But, at the same time, there is that nostalgia for what you’ve left behind that accompanies you on a daily basis. … The immigrant experience never leaves you.”

Măcelaru, who conducted the Orchestre National de France during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony viewed by more than a billion people in 2024, said culture becomes stronger when it appreciates the strengths of others.

“I think all of us actually love the cultures of different places,” said Măcelaru, who makes a point of diversifying the music presented by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. “It doesn’t matter where we are on the planet, you end up loving music that is from a different place. You end up loving food that is from a different country.”

Harvard's Gregory Nagy ‘awestruck’ by influx of new cultures

Honoree Gregory Nagy, Harvard University’s Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and a professor of Comparative Literature, takes it a step further.

“To have an influx of new cultures and new ways of looking at things — that variety is the human fabric,” said the native of Hungary who emigrated with his family as a boy following World War II. They first went to Canada, and then to the United States when his father was invited to become a professor of classical piano at Indiana University. “I’m just awestruck by how important the melting pot is.”

Nagy, who prides himself on being “a friendly Midwesterner” after spending his formative years in Bloomington, Indiana, uses the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s thoughts on repetition — how a person changes an idea even if they only repeat it — to back up that belief.

But he also supports it with his ongoing teaching. Nagy’s class on “The Ancient Greek Hero,” which he has taught for more than 50 years and is currently the longest-running class at Harvard, continues to change with the times, while remaining true to its subject matter.

He has studied how “The Oath of the Ephebes,” from more than 2,400 years ago, connects the importance of environmentalism to being a good citizen. He says the ancient Greek idea of heroism is closer to modern comic book heroes than to the idealized, perfect versions many Americans hold dear.

That evolution is driven by young people, as reflected in the election of Péter Magyar as prime minister of Nagy’s beloved Hungary in April, the social changes that followed, and the new perspectives brought by immigration, Nagy said.

“I was very fortunate to become an immigrant,” he said. “And I was lucky enough to achieve puberty in Indiana, so that Americanizes you very well.”

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The team made the announcement on the X social media platform. Arnold had two years left on his four-year rookie contract, worth $14.3 million.

The team did not give a reason, but the announcement came the same day that a Florida judge set Arnold’s bail at $1 million. Prosecutors say the three victims, including a man who worked as a driver for Arnold, were robbed while being held at gunpoint in a Tampa apartment in February.

Prosecutors had wanted Arnold held without bond on the eight felony charges he faces. But Chief Circuit Court Judge Christopher Sabella granted bond to him.

The judge did not require Arnold to wear an ankle monitor because it would have prevented him from taking the field for games and training. The judge also said Arnold already has a “paparazzi monitor,” referring to the photographers who have been watching his movements.

“If he shows up on a beach in Tahiti, he’ll be on social media,” Sabella said at the end of the bond hearing in Tampa.

Sabella said that although the charges are serious — each could bring a life sentence if Arnold is convicted — prosecutors are “not there yet” in having a strong case for Arnold’s guilt.

The judge did order Arnold to remain at his home in Tallahassee except for when he’s playing, training and traveling with the Lions. He also said Arnold cannot have any contact with other people tied to the case and must surrender his passport within 48 hours.

Arnold, 23, was a first-round pick in the 2024 draft after playing at the University of Alabama. He had 31 tackles and an interception last season as part of the Lions’ defense.

According to prosecutors, the victims were abducted three days after cash and luxury items, including Rolex watches and Louis Vuitton bags, were reported stolen from Arnold at an Airbnb rental in the Tampa area. Prosecutors allege that six of Arnold’s associates actually carried out the crimes, holding, beating and pistol-whipping the victims, and that Arnold wasn’t there at the time.

None of Arnold’s co-defendants had bond set for them. Two female co-defendants have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with authorities. Their statements tie Arnold, who was not at the apartment, to the crimes, according to prosecutors.

Prosecutors argue that Arnold is as responsible for the crimes as his co-defendants because he told his associates that he thought he knew who had stolen from him and said he wanted to confront them, setting events in motion.

“Our office remains committed to seeking justice for the three victims in the case who were beaten, robbed, and held against their will,” said Erin Maloney, a spokesperson for the state attorney’s office.

But Harvey Steinberg, an attorney for Arnold, argued in court Monday that prosecutors are “not even close” to showing that Arnold that he knew or directed what his associates would do.

Denise White, the CEO of EAG Sports Management, which represents Arnold, said before the Lions announced they were releasing Arnold that the judge’s ruling “confirms that there is very little evidence to even suggest any criminal involvement by Mr. Arnold.”

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This story was updated to correct that among the charges Arnold faces are four robbery-related counts, not four assault counts.

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