U.S. futures edged higher after the U.S. Treasury Department said it would at least double the size of planned purchases of longer-term government debt.

That could ease pressure on share prices emanating from the bond market since the purchases would push bond prices higher, helping to bring down yields.

The Kospi surged 6.1% to 6,858.91 after sinking 5.8% on Wednesday on renewed selling of shares related to artificial intelligence.

Samsung Electronics jumped 9.7%, while memory chipmaker SK Hynix surged 14.1% after the company announced a significant share buyback plan.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 1.3% to 66,178.26, reversing declines earlier in the week. Japan reported it logged a trade deficit for a third straight month in July, as both imports and exports hit record highs.

Shares of OpenAI investor SoftBank Group, a Japanese multinational investment holding firm, added 3.8%.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 1.1% to 25,786.32, while the Shanghai Composite index rose 0.3% to 3,905.23.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.3% to 9,066.40.

Taiwan’s Taiex was nearly unchanged and India’s Sensex climbed 0.7%.

Yields on U.S. government bonds fell after the U.S. Treasury Department’s announcement on its expanded plans in government debt buybacks. Bond yields fall when bond prices rise in an inverse relation.

The move appeared to mollify investors worried over rising yields. On Wednesday, the benchmark S&P 500 climbed 0.2% for its first gain in four days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.2% and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite also rose 0.2%.

Yields have risen in recent months over growing concerns about inflation stemming from the monthslong war in Iran and ballooning government debt, among other factors.

The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury fell to nearly 4.64% from 4.71% on Tuesday, although it’s still well above its levels from before the start of the war in Iran. The 30-year Treasury yield fell to 5.18% on Thursday, from 5.28% on Tuesday.

In Asia, bond yields also eased after the U.S. Treasury’s announcement. Japan’s 10-year government bond yield fell to around 2.83% from more than 2.89% on Wednesday. It had been trading near 30-year highs.

Oil prices rose slightly early Thursday as there was little progress made in U.S.-Iran negotiations over the war. Brent crude, the international standard, gained 0.3% to $91.90 a barrel. It was trading at roughly $72 per barrel before the war.

U.S. benchmark crude edged 0.2% higher to $84.57 a barrel.

The U.S. dollar rose to 158.60 Japanese yen from 158.16 yen. The euro was trading at $1.1676, down from $1.1677.

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AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed to this report.

At least 33 people were wounded in the attack, according to Ukraine's Emergency Service. The air raid alert remained active into the early morning hours Thursday.

The strikes hit 12 locations across Kyiv’s Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging residential buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution. Emergency crews pulled people trapped under the rubble.

Russia has intensified ballistic missile attacks on the capital to constrain Kyiv's air defense stocks. Kyiv has limited systems capable of intercepting ballistic threats, while supplies of missiles for its U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems remain chronically constrained.

U.S. President Donald Trump had authorized Ukraine to obtain licenses to produce Patriot air-defense systems, but later reversed that decision.

Ukraine, meanwhile, has intensified its own campaign of long-range strikes against weapons depots, military facilities and other strategic targets deep inside Russian territory, seeking to degrade Moscow’s ability to sustain its attacks on Ukrainian cities.

In Solomianskyi district, the top two floors of a 9-story residential building were destroyed and fires broke out on other floors. People were also trapped in two residential buildings and a school shelter.

On the hillsides of Hautvillers, teams of grape pickers start work at 6:30 a.m. among rows of vines that were recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015.

For Alexandre Gobillard, production director at the Gobillard & Fils Champagne house, beginning the harvest in mid-August was once almost unthinkable.

“It’s historic in Champagne,” he said. “I’ve been working at the estate for 30 years, and when I started, my father used to tell me: ‘On Aug. 15, go on vacation.’ Today, it’s Aug. 18 and we’re in full harvest. We’ve never seen anything like it.”

At 50, Gobillard represents the fourth generation to work the family vineyards. Gobillard & Fils grows 40 hectares (about 100 acres) of vines and produces about 1.5 million bottles a year.

A changing climate brings an earlier harvest

Champagne’s official harvest opened between Aug. 12 and Aug. 17 this year, depending on the area and grape variety — roughly a month earlier than what was once common in the region.

A late-March frost hit vines after mild temperatures triggered early budburst, reducing the potential crop. It was followed by four heat waves, which never happened before, Gobillard said.

Sun-scorched grapes turned partially brown, something Gobillard said he had rarely seen. He explained that losing roughly 10% of the grapes would mean a loss in volume rather than affect the quality of the wine.

Earlier harvests have become increasingly common in Champagne and other French wine regions as temperatures rise. In neighboring Italy, extreme heat has also prompted sparkling-wine producers to harvest sooner and pick grapes at night.

David Chatillon, president of the Union of Champagne Houses, acknowledged weather conditions this year will lead to a clear decrease in yields.

“But it’s not just because of the drought,” he said. “We lost 43% of the potential production to the spring frosts, and the drought has clearly made the problem of lower yields even worse.”

Chatillon said climate change has been a focus of the industry for the past 25 years, prompting investment in research and innovation to adapt to evolving conditions, including developing grape varieties that are more disease-resistant and ripen later.

Heat speeds grape ripening

Gobillard has seen the shift unfold across generations of his family.

“My grandfather’s generation harvested 100 days after flowering, my father’s 90 days, and today we’re down to 80,” he said. “We’re going to have to change our habits.”

This summer’s record temperatures compressed the ripening period even further. In June, temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of Champagne.

“The vine needs water to live,” Gobillard said. “The water was drawn out of the grapes to keep the vine alive, and as a result we had a much higher concentration of sugar. That’s why it happened so much faster.”

As his daughter operated the wine press, Gobillard watched the year's first juice flow with a mix of excitement and anxiety.

He quickly took a sample to measure its sugar level — a key indicator of potential alcohol content and of whether the grapes have been picked at the right moment. “Champagne shouldn’t be too alcoholic. ... We’re looking for delicacy," he said.

An early harvest tests Champagne’s traditions

The early harvest also poses logistical challenges in a region where grapes are traditionally picked by hand, with some workers still on summer vacation and others facing transportation delays.

Gobillard hopes to complete the harvest at the estate in about nine days, a job requiring around 120 workers recruited mostly from across France and Poland.

“It really changes how we look at Champagne’s traditional methods,” said Geoffrey Bonnet-Gobillard, 30, commercial director of the family Champagne house. “Hand harvesting comes with a lot of constraints — housing people, feeding them, recruiting them. It’s very difficult, especially with early harvests in August.”

Those pressures could eventually force producers to reconsider some long-established practices as agricultural machinery becomes more sophisticated, he said.

The house sells most of its Champagne in European markets, including Britain, Belgium, Italy and Spain, as well as in West Africa, with smaller volumes going to the United States and Asia, Bonnet-Gobillard said.

High stakes for a global industry

According to Comité Champagne’s 2026 industry report, 266.1 million bottles of Champagne were shipped in France and abroad last year, generating 5.7 billion euros ($6.6 billion) in sales. Exports accounted for 56.5% of shipments. Champagne represented about 8% of global sparkling wine consumption by volume but 31% by value.

The sector supports around 30,000 direct jobs and requires roughly 100,000 seasonal workers for the harvest, according to Comité Champagne.

Despite this year’s difficult conditions, Gobillard said the grapes he inspected were encouraging.

“I’m very happy with what I’m seeing,” he said. “We were worried that the drought would leave us with very light bunches, but in these plots we’re really pleased. The quantity should be sufficient and the quality will be there.”

But there is little time to spare. “It’s time to cut them. We’re going to have to move quickly,” he said.

Hundreds of emails exchanged between U.S. immigration officials, which were obtained by the National Iranian American Council and made public Tuesday, offer the most transparent play by play yet of how the two countries worked together to arrange for more than 100 Iranians to be flown back to Iran on three separate immigration flights in September and December 2025 and January 2026.

The emails show that Iranian officials had some influence over which Iranian immigrants in the U.S. were sent back to their home country, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials apparently heeded some last-minute changes to deportation lists at the request of Iran.

“Per request from the Iran Embassy I added a few cases," one unnamed ICE official wrote in late August, a month before the first deportation flight in September. Just over a week later, someone with the same job title moved to make another, unspecified change to the deportation list after they said they met with the “Director at the Iranian Embassy.”

“Iran has requested that I amend the previous manifest and expedite the removal process,” the official wrote.

In a Sept. 26 email, just three days before the deportation flight left U.S. soil, an ICE official said in an email that the Iranian Embassy was still making requests for three additional Iranians on the flight. It's not clear who ended up on the flight, which ended up being much smaller than initially planned. Iranian officials were still making requests the day the flight departed, although one official wrote that those requests were denied.

Coordination of the flights remained a high priority even as ICE officials acknowledged internally that Iranians were fleeing Iran amid the deadly 12-day war with the U.S. and Israel in June 2025, emails show. The flights departed just months after the U.S. and Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Iran.

The new emails highlight a clear departure from a decades-long practice by the U.S. of welcoming Iranian dissidents, exiles and others since the 1979 Islamic Revolution forced a large number of Iranians to flee.

The deportation of Iranians to a country whose government has a pattern of violent persecution against women, religious minorities and political dissidents has drawn significant criticism from human rights activists.

The Department of Homeland Security did not offer comment in response to an emailed request sent Tuesday afternoon.

Some deportees were handpicked by Iranian officials, emails show

Iranian officials acknowledged in September 2025 that as many as 400 Iranians could be returned under an agreement with the Trump administration. They said most of the Iranians had crossed into the U.S. from Mexico illegally, while some faced other immigration issues.

It is not clear from the emails how frequently U.S. immigration officials had direct contact with the Iranian government. Sometimes messages were conveyed through Qatari officials, who helped charter the deportation flights through Doha, but other times officials reference regular meetings with the “Iranian delegation," the “Director at the Iranian Embassy” and other unnamed Iranian officials.

It is not clear whether the people Iran put on the list had volunteered to repatriate or if they were forced. Previous reporting from The New York Times revealed that asylum-seekers were among those deported to Iran, while others said they were deported against their will.

At least one person was deported who wasn't supposed to be, emails showed.

“An Iranian not included on the final manifest we sent to the Qatari MOI was boarded on the flight,” an unnamed U.S. official wrote.

In response, another unnamed U.S. official wrote, “I have no idea how the case/person got through on the plane.”

US prioritized deportation efforts during war

Emails suggest that pressure to carry out the Iranian deportations came from the highest levels of the Trump administration, even when U.S. and Israel were exchanging strikes with Iran in a 12-day conflict between June 13 and June 24, 2025.

Just days after Trump's June 16 warning on social media that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” the former acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, called the repatriation of Iranian immigrants a “priority" in an email sent to the agency’s head of removal operations Marcos Charles and a number of unnamed staff.

Shortly after Lyon's email, Charles forwarded the message to a group of officials whose names are redacted. An unnamed ICE official responded, warning that “removal will prove difficult” amid the ongoing conflict because Iran wasn't issuing the travel documents for Iranians eligible for deportation. On top of that, the Iranian airspace was closed to all flights during the bombings and Iranians were fleeing the country.

Charles was unfazed, telling staff in a subsequent email to make a plan to deport 58 Iranians with final removal orders in ICE custody at the time.

“We need a plan forward ASAP,” Charles wrote. Another official, who name was redacted, urged colleagues to “identify a solution for this White House priority.”

Jamal Abdi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, said the emails undermine Trump’s assertions that the U.S. is at war with Iran to save ordinary Iranians from a repressive regime.

“It demonstrates that the top priority here was to kick out as many people as possible by whatever means necessary,” Abdi said.

Iranian officials had access to immigration detainees

On several occasions, the emails show ICE officials arranging for Iranian officials to meet for unspecified reasons with people detained in the U.S., echoing testimony from Iranian asylum-seekers in an unrelated lawsuit filed by an unaffiliated Iranian interest group in July.

Eleven Iranians in immigration detention said they were forced to meet with Iranian government officials while in ICE detention. Those Iranian authorities knew intimate details about their asylum claims, according to the sworn declarations filed in a Washington, D.C., court in July.

The lawsuit alleges that U.S. immigration agencies have been illegally sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum-seekers with the Iranian government.

The U.S. government is allowed to work with government officials of foreign countries to coordinate deportation logistics. However, federal regulations passed in the late 1990s prohibit the government from sharing information that could reveal that the person getting deported applied for asylum.

DHS vehemently disputed the lawsuit's allegations.

“These allegations that ICE shared asylum application records with the Iranian government are FALSE,” DHS said in a statement in July.

In a legal victory for Anthony, the judge who presided over his trial was removed from the case Wednesday. Judge Michael Chitty was then assigned to consider the motion from Anthony's attorneys asking for a retrial in killing of Austin Metcalf.

Anthony, now 19, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in the case. He attended Wednesday's hearing wearing a green prison jumpsuit. His parents and Metcalf's also attending the hearing.

Anthony's attorneys had asked for state District Judge John Roach to be removed in part because of a TV interview in which Roach said jurors “got it right” when they delivered a guilty verdict.

In seeking a new trial, Anthony’s attorneys have argued that the June proceedings were marred by strict courtroom rules and improper jury instructions. They have also said Anthony’s decision to not testify came after a dispute with prosecutors over an agreement to focus the trial on the events leading up to the stabbing.

Jurors in the trial had rejected Anthony’s claims he acted in self-defense during a confrontation with Metcalf in the stadium bleachers last year. Students who took the stand described a heated exchange over Anthony’s refusal on a rainy spring day to leave a tent that belonged to Metcalf’s team.

The case attracted national attention in part because of a flood of social media posts that amplified the killing in racial terms. Anthony is Black; Metcalf was white. Lawyers on both sides, however, told jurors the tragedy had nothing to do with race.

During the recusal hearing Wednesday, Anthony's legal team focused on comments Roach made to a Dallas TV station after the trial had ended. In the interview, which was played as the hearing began, Roach was asked if the jury got “it right.”

“Yeah, they did,” Roach said, adding: “Whatever they say, they got it right.”

During the interview, Roach also defended his courtroom rules and spoke about the onslaught of online postings about the case.

As national attention on the killing intensified last year, the families of both Metcalf and Anthony said they had been targets of harassment.

Several schools were competing at the track event when Anthony sat under the Memorial High School tent that was perched in the bleachers. Metcalf and others had repeatedly told Anthony to leave, witnesses testified, leading to an escalating confrontation.

Prosecutors said Anthony provoked Metcalf, and witnesses testified that Anthony was the aggressor.

Anthony at one point reached inside a bag and replied: “Touch me and see what happens,” according to a police report.

Metcalf pushed Anthony, according to witnesses, who said Anthony then pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest.

CK Hutchison said in the statement that it had begun new arbitration proceedings against Panama and alleged that the Central American country had breached an investment protection treaty through “sovereign acts that targeted a decades-old ports concession” in a “state attack campaign” on the company’s assets in the Central American country.

Panama’s government in February seized the Balboa and Cristobal ports, located on each end of the Panama Canal, after its Supreme Court that a concession held by CK Hutchison’s subsidiary to run the two ports was unconstitutional.

The two ports at each end of the Panama Canal became part of U.S.-China tensions since Donald Trump’s return to the White House last year after he alleged China of “running” the canal.

The Panama Canal is managed and owned by Panama. But CK Hutchison’s subsidiary Panama Ports Company had run the two ports on the canal from 1997 and had renewed its concession for 25 years in 2021.

Beijing and Hong Kong had hit back at Panama over its takeover of the ports.

CK Hutchison, controlled by the family of Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing, last year announced an initial $23 billion deal to sell its global ports business, including the two Panama ports, to a consortium involving U.S. investment firm BlackRock. But the deal had made little progress under geopolitical tensions and legal challenges among China, the U.S. and Panama.

In March, Panama Ports Company had separately sought at least $2 billion in compensation from Panama over its takeover of the ports which it said was unlawful under international arbitration proceedings. CK Hutchison said the actions were making progress.

CK Hutchison added that Thursday's new proceedings were focused on its treaty rights, which were distinct from Panama Ports Company’s contract rights in the earlier arbitration proceedings.

In April, the subsidiary also launched arbitration proceedings against Danish shipping and logistics group Maersk after it took over some of its port operations in Panama. Maersk said at the time that it did not believe it was liable for the claims.

“The world needs more heroes,” he told the roundtable. “And it’s not about creating more heroes because they already live among us. It’s about being able to really value their expertise, their experiences.”

The Duke of Sussex, who served 10 years in the British Army, hinted that he’d soon launch a “commercial” solution that “really values those who served rather than expect them to volunteer.”

He held the discussion with veterans, defense officials, military spouses and nonprofit leaders at a hotel ballroom in Washington, D.C. The conversation — which was organized by The Independence Fund, a nonprofit that helps critically wounded service members — lasted more than 80 minutes.

Veterans’ services and mental health have become cornerstones of Harry and his wife Meghan’s philanthropy through their Archewell Foundation. The Duke of Sussex founded the Invictus Games, a Paralympic-style international competition for wounded service members, in 2014. His advocacy also includes visits with wounded military personnel, like last year’s stop at a Ukrainian clinic that rehabilitates victims of war.

Harry’s British military service included two tours in Afghanistan. He has credited his experience witnessing fellow soldiers’ battlefield injuries with inspiring him to help injured veterans lead healthy lives. In a 2023 Netflix series, he spoke openly about lacking the necessary emotional support upon his return from combat.

Harry told the roundtable that it has been refreshing to hear the latest generation of veterans express an interest in “purpose" and “service after service” —- no matter their branch or country of service. He extolled their communication skills, moral leadership and ability to work in high stress environments.

But, he said in an interview with The Associated Press, that those skills are “not being transitioned over within the civilian world."

In between jokes about each other’s hair and their alma maters, wounded veterans emphasized the importance of exercise in their rehabilitation. Garrett J. Carnes, a retired marine corporal who lost both legs, said inactivity is difficult when they’ve spent so long priding themselves on their physical fitness. “I give all glory to Jesus Christ,” he said, “but man I am so thankful that he invented Jiu-Jitsu.”

Others highlighted the need to improve the quality of veterans’ health centers in smaller towns and bolster mental health services at overworked Veterans Affairs offices.

Jason Wheeler, a U.S. Navy and Army veteran, said it's “not right” that he was unable to get his military benefits to cover a recent surgery. Sitting in a wheelchair, he teared up as he recalled the “humiliating” time he had to crawl off a commercial airplane with his service dog.

He was told he would never walk again, he said, but has since walked over 1,000 feet.

“I will not stop the fight. I will not quit,” he said. “We don’t have it in us.”

Harry’s earlier stops Wednesday included Arlington National Cemetery, where he laid a wreath, and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He did not mention reports of his decision to return to the United Kingdom for an extended stay with Meghan and their children. He declined to comment when asked to discuss the move.

Sarah Verardo, the CEO of The Independence Fund, noted Harry’s impact on the patients at Walter Reed. A few veterans who told Harry they were too injured to participate in his Invictus Games left their interactions standing “taller and stronger” after he told them there’s “no such thing,” according to Verardo.

Jane Horton, a senior defense adviser in the Trump administration and Gold Star wife, appreciated that Harry is using his platform to unite veterans.

“To see someone that has turned pain into purpose in such a beautiful way such as Prince Harry — not only turn pain into purpose, but pain into service — resonated with the whole community and means a lot to us all,” she told AP.

In an interview with AP, Harry spoke more broadly about the need to elevate “moral leadership.” He expressed concern that a “very, very small group of people are making decisions that are impacting the entire world” around politics and technology.

“What we need,” he said, “is the younger generation coming into leadership who perhaps see the world slightly differently. And I think a little less testosterone might do as well.”

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Is it time for something similar around the foul poles?

The Baltimore Orioles certainly felt aggrieved Wednesday night against the New York Yankees after Pete Alonso's deep fly to left field in the seventh inning was ruled foul — and the call was upheld on a review.

The play occurred with the game tied at 3. New York then scored twice in top of the eighth and went on to win 5-3.

“I think a simple fix is like football, you have the pylon camera with the plane, where it shoots right across the goal line,” Alonso said. “And I feel like, for us, we could easily have a laser or a camera that shoots straight up.”

Manager Craig Albernaz shared Alonso's frustration.

“On the dugout iPads there’s ball-tracking data with the field that the players see, so it’s really tough to have that (call) come back as ‘stands’ and have that visual in the dugout as well. It’s 2026,” Albernaz said. “There are teams using AI on the iPads and other sports use ball-tracking data for challengeable calls. Don’t understand why we don’t do it.”

At least one replay seemed to show the ball on the fair side of the pole, but it wasn’t clear what angle that shot was from.

“What I was told is in order to overturn a call, you need to have two camera angles to confirm it,” Alonso said. “But the best view, the only view that shows the ball fair or foul is the one down the line, but no other camera angle is available. So video room rules it foul, umpire obviously called it foul initially. It is what it is.”

It might have been easier for the umpire — and the replay room — to make the call if Alonso's hit hadn't been so high. It appeared to tower above the foul pole at one point.

“That we don’t have the technology in place to actually say, ‘Hey, this was fair or foul,’ is literally crazy in 2026. It’s crazy,” said Chris Bassitt, Baltimore's starting pitcher Wednesday.

Bassitt then blamed financial considerations for why such technology isn't used.

“Because it would cost money,” he said. “That’s it. I mean, that’s literally it.”

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A person familiar with the trade said Wednesday night that Watson, a restricted free agent who spent his first four NBA seasons with the Nuggets, will sign a four-year contract with the Cavaliers worth $88 million that includes a player option and trade kicker.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade had not been announced.

Cleveland will send to Denver an unprotected 2031 first-round pick and a 2032 second-round selection from the Sacramento Kings that it got after making a trade in June’s NBA draft. The Nuggets will also acquire Julian Reese from Washington.

The Cavaliers are getting a 2027 second-round pick from the Clippers, but that will be sent to the Wizards.

The 23-year-old Watson started a career-high 40 games last season and averaged career bests in points (14.6), rebounds (4.9) and assists (2.1). He gives the Cavaliers the wing player they were looking for after LeBron James signed with Philadelphia instead of returning to Cleveland for a third stint.

Besides Watson, the Cavaliers were also looking at free agents DeMar DeRozan and Jonathan Kuminga.

Strus and Dean Wade were the primary starters at small forward last season. Wade signed with Philadelphia during free agency.

Strus missed the first 67 games last season due to a broken left foot, but had some big baskets and steals during the playoffs as Cleveland reached the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2018. The Cavaliers were swept in that series by the New York Knicks.

Cleveland laid the groundwork for a move last week when it traded Dennis Schroder to Charlotte for Tre Mann to gain salary cap space. Mann's time in Cleveland won't last long; he's headed to Washington for Cam Whitmore.

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La figura legal, vigente por 30 días, le permitirá establecer impuestos temporales sin el aval del Congreso, con la intención de recaudar fondos para una costosa etapa de atención y reconstrucción. De la Espriella ha calculado las pérdidas por el sismo en aproximadamente 9,5 millones de dólares.

El mandatario, que se encuentra en sus primeros días en el cargo, explicó a la prensa desde Bogotá que el mecanismo excepcional es “fundamental”, ya que el país “enfrenta hoy una realidad fiscal extraordinariamente difícil, la más compleja de toda nuestra vida republicana”, por lo que no puede atender los efectos del terremoto con el presupuesto disponible.

El político conservador ha reprochado a su antecesor Gustavo Petro, opositor suyo, de dejarle vacías las arcas del Estado y un elevado déficit fiscal, por lo que prometió que su gobierno será austero y vigilará la transparencia de las obras de reconstrucción.

“La deuda bruta supera el 60% del producto interno bruto y el déficit fiscal continúa ejerciendo una enorme presión sobre las finanzas de la nación. Y en medio de esa realidad apocalíptica sobreviene una tragedia que exige recursos inmediatos”, recalcó De la Espriella.

En el terremoto —el de mayor magnitud en Colombia en lo que va del siglo— murieron al menos 314 personas, más de 4.400 resultaron heridas y 262 continúan desaparecidas, detalló De la Espriella en el balance de víctimas el miércoles.

“Los mayores esfuerzos del gobierno están direccionados a rescatar, ojalá Dios quiera, a estas 262 personas con vida”, manifestó el mandatario, pese a que han pasado 10 días desde el terremoto.

Los daños en infraestructura incluyen más de 30.600 viviendas destruidas y otras 136.900 averiadas, así como cientos de colegios, centros médicos y vías afectadas.

El decreto de emergencia económica fue firmado por el presidente y todos sus ministros, y posteriormente será revisado por la Corte Constitucional. En adelante, De la Espriella podrá expedir otros decretos con medidas específicas para atender la emergencia.

Críticas de la oposición

Petro reapareció el miércoles en la escena política para ejercer el derecho a réplica de la oposición a lo dicho el lunes por De la Espriella en una alocución, y para cuestionar el manejo gubernamental de la emergencia.

“Las 100 primeras horas son fundamentales en una emergencia para preservar la vida. La incapacidad de empalme del gobierno entrante que generó Abelardo convirtió esas horas en un desastre”, expresó Petro, en referencia a una supuesta falta de coordinación en el interior del gobierno por falta de información.

Tras ganar las elecciones, De la Espriella suspendió el “empalme” —como se conoce a la transición de gobierno en la que el gobierno saliente traspasa información al entrante— luego de que Petro desconociera su victoria en las urnas.

Petro también acusó a De la Espriella de “parcializar ayuda” por supuestas preferencias ideológicas, lo que habría cobrado “centenares de vidas”. Y reprochó que se aceptara a los rescatistas de Israel, por considerar que su presencia es “inteligencia militar” en Colombia, pero “sin experiencia en sacar sobrevivientes de edificios derruidos”.

El excandidato presidencial Iván Cepeda, que finalizó segundo en los recientes comicios, pidió que la ayuda para los damnificados llegue “sin discriminación” y que la declaratoria de emergencia económica no signifique un deterioro de “los derechos de las poblaciones más vulnerables”.

Witnesses and police said a suspect stabbed the teenager near the North Miami Library, located at 835 NE 132nd St. It’s located across the street from North Miami Senior High School.

Those witnesses said the two teenagers were fighting in the parking lot when one teen pulled out a knife and stabbed the other in the arm.

Witnesses said the two teenagers knew each other.

Authorities said the boy was taken “to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.”

Police taped off the library parking lot as they investigated.

North Miami police said their investigation remained “ongoing” Wednesday evening.

Despite their investigation, the teenager behind the stabbing has yet to be caught.

Commander Thomas Rigo had finished work July 3 but stayed a little longer while patrolling the Intracoastal.

Then he heard a mother screaming from the shore.

Rigo looked over and saw Noah’s mother jumping into a pool after finding her daughter unresponsive.

“I look to my left. I see her jumping in the pool all dressed up, and she pulls this lifeless baby,” Rigo said.

Noah had drowned in the pool, and her mother desperately needed help.

Rigo ran over and put his CPR training to work. He is certified as a CPR instructor in Bay Harbor Islands.

“I didn’t even realize what was going on in the moment. It just all like happened so quickly, but after, you know, he saved her life and, and we got to know what happened, we were just even more shocked at finding out the details that he happened to be on a boat at the right time,” Noah’s mother, Tiffany, said.

Then came the moment Noah’s family knew she was going to be OK.

“All I heard was her say, Mama, and I like, I knew like she was going to be OK,” Tiffany said.

Rigo was later honored with a lifesaving award.

“You saved our little girl and honestly there’s no other way that we could thank you besides constantly saying thank you,” Tiffany said.

The family says Rigo told them they would be part of each other’s lives because he saved Noah’s life.

Noah’s brother also made the moment even more special, hugging his sister and telling her to thank the commander.

“He saved you,” he told her.

The family and Rigo say they will be tied together forever after the lifesaving rescue.

Stung from a recent bleaching event, another rescue team took to the water to save endangered nurseries.

The Coral Restoration Foundation, the world’s largest coral restoration organization, is trying to save its work from dangerous ocean heat.

“We have already asked permission from the regulators to move about 3,500 corals from our different nurseries to Elbow nurseries, seeking better conditions there. That’s happening. We’re just waiting for the green light to do it,” said Phanor Montoya, restoration program manager for the Coral Restoration Foundation.

A rescue operation ready for the call.

And this week, they got it.

Montoya said the goal was to move corals farther north, where conditions could be more suitable.

“What we needed to do today was move corals from our nurseries in the south, which is Tavernier, and move it further north, where we expect the temperatures and the conditions to be more suitable for corals during this summer,” Montoya said.

A summer like no other, fueled by man-made climate change, with the world’s oceans reaching their hottest ever recorded temperatures in July, beating the record set in 2023 — a year that saw devastating bleaching for corals in the Keys.

Those lessons spurred the Coral Restoration Foundation to act.

“The first thing that we learned from 2023 is that redundancy is key. And that’s precisely what we did today. Build a redundant gene bank,” Montoya said.

A couple dozen divers from the rescue team quickly moved 1,000 corals from different species — 130 genotypes, with five copies of each — from their Tavernier nursery north to near Elbow Reef.

“Elbow Reef is known for high water flow and is known for having some of the last elkhorn corals that survived the 2023 bleaching event. So we want to take advantage of whatever environmental conditions that location has that has provided a better outcome for the corals,” Montoya said.

The Coral Restoration Foundation isn’t alone conducting these rescue operations.

Last month, the University of Miami did the same, moving corals from its ocean nurseries to its Key Biscayne hatchery on shore.

“They’re so important and they’re so critically endangered, that we decided that the moment temperatures got above a threshold, a bleaching high temperature threshold, we would act,” said Diego Lirman, an associate professor of marine biology at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School.

But Montoya and his team are keeping their corals in the ocean — just a little farther north — limiting the stress from the relocation.

It’s also a chance to observe how these corals do in the Elbow nursery and compare how they do with their genetic equals in Tavernier.

“That’s the opportunity that this new elbow nursery brings to us to better understand how environmental conditions play in coral health condition,” Montoya said.

For now, the ocean temperatures in the Keys have held steady, slightly below the bleaching threshold in the Coral Restoration Foundation’s nurseries.

“It’s a proactive measure. It wasn’t actually triggered because we saw something happening on a reef or in our nursery. We just wanted to do it before, you know, the storm comes,” Montoya said.

“We learn from the past, that not all eggs should be in the same basket,” Montoya said.

Montoya added that the relocated corals will stay in the Elbow nursery and not be moved back later, ensuring genetic redundancy.

For now, they have only moved corals from their Tavernier nursery while they monitor the ocean temperatures.

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We’ve seen it play out in New York, the Midwest, and now in one of the biggest races in Florida.

In a major upset victory in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, state lawmaker Angie Nixon took home a convincing win against the presumed favorite, retired Lt. Col. Alex Vindman.

“The hardworking, everyday people of Florida sent a shock wave to Washington,” Nixon said. “We went up against the political establishment, against millions of dollars, out of sight spending. We were outspent 15-to-1 and we won!”

Nixon is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and is the latest addition to a growing tide of more left-leaning candidates winning Democratic across the country.

The newcomer progressives have notched other wins in house and senate primaries in New York, Colorado and Michigan.

Nixon’s Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, is wasting no time jumping on the attack, warning the Democratic-socialist ideology is a threat to the country.

“Angie Nixon, who will be my opponent in November, and her comrades want to destroy this country and everything that it is built on,” said Moody.

The DSA platform, which included recent celebrations of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, is also facing resistance from establishment-backed Democrats.

South Florida Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who herself is up for re-election, says she disagrees with Nixon on multiple issues, but admits that her primary win is impressive and says Democrats need to rally around tackling high prices to win back control of congress.

“I reject the DSA, I reject the fringe left socialism they are promoting,” said Wasserman Schultz. “Members of congress I the house and senate that fight to make their lives more affordable, housing, groceries, gas, utilities, healthcare.”

Lo hemos visto desarrollarse en Nueva York, el Medio Oeste y ahora en una de las contiendas más importantes de Florida.

En una importante victoria sorpresiva en las primarias demócratas para el Senado de Florida, la legisladora estatal Angie Nixon obtuvo un triunfo contundente frente a la favorita, la teniente coronel retirada Alex Vindman.

“Los trabajadores y la gente común de Florida enviaron una onda de choque a Washington”, dijo Nixon. “Nos enfrentamos al establecimiento político, a millones de dólares y a gastos fuera de la vista. Gastaron 15 a 1 más que nosotros y ganamos”.

Nixon es miembro de Socialistas Democráticos de Estados Unidos y es la incorporación más reciente a una creciente ola de candidatos de tendencia más izquierdista que están ganando primarias demócratas en todo el país.

Los nuevos progresistas han conseguido otras victorias en primarias para la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado en Nueva York, Colorado y Michigan.

La oponente republicana de Nixon, la senadora federal Ashley Moody, no pierde tiempo para lanzar ataques, advirtiendo que la ideología demócrata socialista es una amenaza para el país.

“Angie Nixon, quien será mi oponente en noviembre, y sus camaradas quieren destruir este país y todo aquello sobre lo que está construido”, dijo Moody.

La plataforma de DSA, que incluyó recientes celebraciones del ex dictador cubano Fidel Castro, también enfrenta resistencia de los demócratas respaldados por el establecimiento.

La congresista demócrata del sur de Florida Debbie Wasserman Schultz, quien también busca la reelección, dice que discrepa con Nixon en múltiples temas, pero admite que su victoria en las primarias es impresionante y afirma que los demócratas necesitan unirse en torno a la lucha contra los altos precios para recuperar el control del Congreso.

“Rechazo a DSA, rechazo el socialismo de extrema izquierda que están promoviendo”, dijo Wasserman Schultz. “Miembros del Congreso en la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado que luchan para hacer que sus vidas sean más asequibles, vivienda, alimentos, gasolina, servicios públicos, atención médica”.

Testigos relataron que un sospechoso apuñaló a un adolescente cerca de la biblioteca de North Miami, ubicada en el 835 de NE 132nd St., frente a la escuela secundaria North Miami Senior High School.

Según los testigos, dos adolescentes se estaban peleando en el estacionamiento cuando uno de ellos sacó un cuchillo y apuñaló al otro en el brazo.

Los testigos afirmaron que los dos adolescentes se conocían.

Las autoridades informaron que el joven fue trasladado “a un hospital local con una lesión que no pone en peligro su vida”.

La policía acordonó el estacionamiento de la biblioteca mientras realizaba la investigación.

La policía de North Miami indicó que la investigación seguía “en curso” el miércoles por la noche.

A pesar de la investigación, el adolescente responsable del apuñalamiento aún no ha sido capturado.

It’s been over 30 years since the state last elected a Democrat governor in 1994.

Current Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won reelection by about 20% in 2022, but he’s term-limited.

One of the Democrats running is former Republican Congressman David Jolly, who left the party and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump.

“Look, this is a governorship,” said Jolly. “I don’t have to litigate the President of the United States.”

Jolly said he is focusing on kitchen table issues.

“This is about housing, healthcare, and education,” he said. “We need more workforce and affordable housing. We have to solve our insurance prices. I think we can cut insurance by 50 to 60%.”

Jolly says he worked with colleagues on both sides of the aisle in Congress and added that his approach can appeal to all kinds of voters.

“I’m in a very post-ideological space in my life,” he said. “I believe in the Democratic values, but this is bigger than one party.”

A top challenger to Jolly is State Rep. Dotie Joseph of North Miami.

“I’m somebody who’s not afraid to work across the aisle, but also not afraid to fight,” said Joseph. “There are times when we need to stand up and make sure our rights are protected.”

A former government and civil rights attorney, Joseph has served in the state house since 2018.

“I want to focus on our needs right here in the state of Florida,” she said. “And for me, that focuses on affordability.”

Joseph said she wants to raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour.

In the Florida House of Representatives, she has proposed guaranteeing universal healthcare for all by creating a statewide publicly funded system.

“My message is just that I’m here for the people,” she said. “And I think for too long, we have a government that has only worked for its select few.”

There are four other candidates who are also running in the Democratic primary. They are Evelyn Castillo-Bach, Thomas Fernandez, Dayna Foster and Stephann Norman.

Según indicó la fiscalía en un comunicado, el detenido identificado solamente como Fausto “N” habría acompañado a un político local, Héctor Cuén, a la cita en la que fue secuestado Zambada en la capital de Sinaloa y fue testigo de los hechos.

Cuén fue asesinado ese mismo día, según Zambada, en el lugar donde a él le secuestraron para llevarle a Estados Unidos, aunque las autoridades de Sinaloa dijeron que el homicidio ocurrió en otro lugar.

La fiscalía acusa al detenido de su probable intervención en el encubrimiento del homicidio de Cuén y de falsedad en las declaraciones ante la justicia, ya que según indicó “incurrió en una serie de contradicciones en sus declaraciones y habría omitido proporcionar información verídica sobre lo sucedido, con la finalidad de desvirtuar la realidad y engañar a la autoridad, obstaculizando así el esclarecimiento de los hechos”.

Zambada dijo en una carta que fue engañado por Joaquín Guzmán López, un hijo de su ex socio Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, para acudir a una reunión en la que supuestamente iba a estar un político local y el entonces gobernador de Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha, que dejó el cargo después de que Estados Unidos le acusara de ayudar al Cártel de Sinaloa.

La supuesta trampa contra Zambada acabó con el capo secuestrado por Guzmán López en un operativo de película, el político local asesinado, la fiscalía federal acusando a funcionarios estatales de encubrir ese crimen y con una crisis abierta entre México y Estados Unidos por una posible intervención estadounidense en la acción —aunque Washington siempre la negó— que culminó con la acusación de Washington contra diez funcionarios o exfuncionarios de Sinaloa por vínculos con el narcotráfico.

Detenidos nueve miembros del Cártel de Jalisco en Michoacán

En una acción totalmente diferente, autoridades mexicanas informaron también el miércoles de la detención de nueve presuntos miembros del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación en el estado occidental de Michoacán, entre ellos el que consideran responsable de atacar a elementos de la Guardia Nacional en la ola de violencia que siguió a la muerte del líder de la organización criminal, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”, el pasado febrero.

Michoacán es una región donde operan cuatro cárteles designados como terroristas por el gobierno de Donald Trump, entre ellos del de Jalisco. El gobierno mexicano aumentó el despliegue de fuerzas de seguridad a finales del año pasado después de dos sonados asesinatos y más recientemente cuando Estados Unidos paralizó sus operaciones en la región por amenazas a sus funcionarios que inspeccionaban la exportación de aguacates.

Según explicó la Secretaría de Defensa en un comunicado, los arrestos tuvieron lugar en los municipios de Tanhuato y Ecuandureo.

Posterior a las detenciones se registraron bloqueos en carreteras y la quema de algún vehículo pero, según las autoridades, todas las vías de comunicación quedaron pronto liberadas.

El detenido de mayor rango fue identificado como Heraclio “N”, alias “Tío Lako”. Le atribuyen parte de la violencia desencadenada tras la muerte de “El Mencho”, que dejó más de 70 muertos, entre ellos 25 guardias nacionales.

La iniciativa que se aplicó durante dos décadas a episodios de violencia doméstica, al igual que en muchas otras naciones, podrá activarse a partir de ahora a incidentes en espacios públicos. El máximo tribunal brasileño resolvió de igual forma que los agresores deberán ir a juicio, incluso si no tienen un vínculo familiar o sentimental con la víctima.

Los 10 integrantes del tribunal votaron a favor de extender la aplicación de la Ley Maria da Penha a situaciones como persecución, amenazas y acoso fuera del hogar.

Durante el primer semestre del año se concedieron casi 340.000 medidas de protección urgente para mujeres en virtud de los mecanismos de la Ley Maria da Penha, de acuerdo con cifras del gobierno brasileño, un incremento del 170% en comparación con el mismo periodo de 2020.

La jueza Carmen Lúcia, la única mujer en el tribunal el miércoles, manifestó que la violencia contra las mujeres ha ido en aumento en el país a pesar de la aplicación de la Ley Maria da Penha, de 2006.

Añadió que la ley necesitaba actualizarse debido a que la violencia contra las mujeres en el país también es una cuestión de poder y porque muchos de los feminicidios ocurren fuera del hogar de la mujer y en situaciones que se denuncian a la policía, pero que fueron ignoradas.

“En la vida real, los jueces rechazan (las acusaciones contra los hombres) sin justificación, dicen que no es urgente, lo dejan para el próximo lunes. Mientras tanto, una de nosotras muere”, declaró la magistrada. "Con este fallo, este Supremo Tribunal Federal demuestra que no es ciego ni sordo a todo esto que ocurre contra todas nosotras, las mujeres”.

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Salazar, 64, the incumbent, won the Republican primary on Tuesday with 81% of the votes. V. Michael Arias, a Coral Gables-based attorney, lost with 19% of the votes.

According to the U.S. Federal Election Commission’s reports on campaign contributions, Salazar’s total receipts were more than $1.99 million, her total disbursements were more than $1.15 million, and her cash on hand was over $2.25 million.

Rodriguez, 69, won the Democratic primary with 54% of the votes. Robin Peguero, a former federal prosecutor, lost with 46% of the votes.

According to FEC reports on campaign contributions, Rodriguez’s total receipts were more than $661,170, his total disbursements were more than $336,000, and his cash on hand was more than $325,000.

On Wednesday, Rodriguez was campaigning in Westchester.

“I have to shine a spotlight on Maria Elvira Salazar. I know she, like me, worked in a television studio,” Rodriguez said. “I want to get those studio lights and focus them on her record.”

Rodriguez said his journalistic career and reputation are very different than that of Salazar’s.

“There’s one big difference, that is that I’m an honest broker of the truth,” Rodriguez said.

The U.S. Census reported in 2024 that the district is home to about 788,713 people. It covers about 119 square miles in Miami-Dade County, according to the Census Reporter.

“We have an economic crisis in this community, and we need somebody in Congress who is focused on the needs, the cost-of-living needs this community is facing,” Rodriguez said.

The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 5th. The deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot is Oct. 22nd. Early voting is from Oct. 24th to 31st. The midterm election is on Nov. 3rd.

Republican primary’s winner delivers speech

Democratic primary’s winner delivers speech

ELECTION RESULTS

La presidenta del partido, Nikki Fried, citó el éxito en las elecciones de juntas escolares, incluso en el condado de Sarasota, de fuerte tendencia republicana, donde candidatos respaldados por demócratas lograron cambiar el control de la junta.

“La gente, nuevamente, está cansada de las guerras culturales en nuestras juntas escolares”, dijo Fried.

Pero también reconocen el debate dentro del partido tras la victoria en las primarias de una socialista demócrata: la representante estatal Angie Nixon, demócrata por Jacksonville, es ahora la candidata del partido al Senado de Estados Unidos.

Ese debate queda al descubierto en Miami-Dade, donde la presidenta del Partido Demócrata, Laura Kelley, admite que “el socialismo no funciona”.

“No voy a ser una apologista de los socialistas demócratas. No hay lugar en nuestro partido para personas que apoyen, alaben a Fidel Castro, Nicolás Maduro y ciertamente no a Hamas”, dijo Kelley. “Y por eso creo que los Socialistas Demócratas de América, recuerden, no son el Partido Demócrata. Son una organización. Ni siquiera son un partido político. Son un grupo de personas que están verdaderamente, verdaderamente equivocadas”.

Con todo esto en mente, Local 10 News le preguntó a Fried qué pensaba sobre la elección de los votantes demócratas.

“Bueno, primero que nada, ya sabes, yo soy capitalista; empecemos por ahí”, dijo Fried.

Cuando le preguntaron si la nominación de Nixon hace “imposible” que los demócratas ganen el escaño del Senado ocupado por la republicana Ashley Moody, Fried señaló los esfuerzos de organización que han permitido ganar escaños ocupados por republicanos.

“En los últimos dos años, comenzamos lo que se llama el Proyecto Punchland, que es una organización durante todo el año y que, hasta ayer, había logrado más de 1.7, 1.8 millones de contactos con votantes, desde llamadas telefónicas hasta visitas puerta a puerta, y haciendo que los candidatos hablen con otros candidatos y con los votantes en todo el estado de Florida”, dijo. “Y hemos podido ganar 37 escaños gracias a eso”.

Por otro lado, los votantes demócratas también nominaron a un ex republicano como candidato del partido a gobernador, el ex representante de Estados Unidos David Jolly.

“Rechazo a la DSA. Rechazo a los socialistas. Soy capitalista”, dijo Jolly.

Kelley dijo: “A medida que avancemos hacia las elecciones, creo que veremos una comprensión fundamental de cuál es la diferencia entre un demócrata y un socialista demócrata. Y no son lo mismo”.

Mientras surgen voces diferentes dentro del partido tras las primarias del martes, Fried dijo que todos coinciden en una preocupación central: “Nuestro estado es completamente inasequible”.

Kelley coincidió.

“Cuando tenemos esta gran coalición donde puedes tener a alguien bastante conservador y a alguien extremadamente progresista, vamos a tener profundas diferencias políticas”, dijo. “Pero hay una gran mayoría de cosas en las que estamos de acuerdo. Y creo que debemos enfocarnos en aquello en lo que podemos estar de acuerdo. Y eso es lo que hará avanzar a los floridanos y a nuestras comunidades en términos de asequibilidad, humanidad y construcción de comunidad. Creo que esos son los fundamentos en los que todos podemos estar de acuerdo.

“Es lo que más les importa a los floridanos. Y, francamente, 30 años de gobierno republicano en este estado solo han hecho que sea más difícil para nosotros sobrevivir y prosperar”.

Experta: “Creo que los republicanos están eufóricos hoy”

Kathryn DePalo-Gould, profesora de Florida International University y experta en política, dice que las opiniones progresistas de Nixon podrían afectar a otros demócratas de Florida que aparecen más abajo en la boleta.

“Creo que los republicanos están eufóricos hoy porque nadie realmente pensó que Angie Nixon tuviera posibilidades de derrotar a Alex Vindman, quien tenía todo este dinero, ¿verdad?”, dijo DePalo-Gould. “Pero creo que la gente en el terreno tenía una idea de que él no era tan buen candidato como pensaban. Esos republicanos en el sur de Florida, creo que particularmente, están realmente emocionados de tenerla al frente de la boleta”.

Dijo que la presencia de Nixon podría movilizar a los republicanos, especialmente en el sur de Florida.

“Creo absolutamente que esto va a afectar las contiendas de los cargos que aparecen más abajo en la boleta. Quiero decir, todos, desde David Jolly, quien dice: ‘Esto no soy yo. Esto no es lo que apoyo’, algunas contiendas al Congreso quizás, pero incluso todo lo demás en la boleta, desde contiendas legislativas estatales, tal vez contiendas locales”, dijo. “Creo que esto va a aumentar la participación republicana”.

DePalo-Gould dijo que los demócratas no serán los únicos que hablarán sobre la asequibilidad.

“Anoche vieron a Byron Donalds en su discurso hablando sobre la asequibilidad. Se estaba apropiando de esta idea en particular. No creo que los republicanos quieran ceder este tema a los demócratas en absoluto”, dijo. “Creo que los demócratas están tratando de decir: ‘Somos una gran tienda de campaña’. Pero los republicanos van a decir: ‘Miren, esa tienda ahora está llena de candidatos aterradores que no van a aceptar el sueño americano, que no van a hacer que las cosas sean más asequibles’”.

“I don’t think we’ve played great,” the two-time reigning NL manager of the year said Wednesday. “We haven’t really jelled. We haven’t really come together."

The Brewers’ results tell a different story.

Milwaukee appears well on its way to earning its eighth playoff berth in the last nine seasons as it chases a fourth consecutive NL Central title. The Brewers won three of four from the two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers last weekend and trounced Seattle 22-0 on Tuesday before their four-game winning streak ended with a 7-5 loss to the Mariners on Wednesday.

“There’s so much that I see that needs to improve, yet you look up and everybody’s saying, ‘Wow, I love the way you play,’ “ Murphy said before Wednesday's game. “And I look funny and I look behind me, and I see if they’re talking to someone else. Really? Maybe I’m too critical. Maybe I’m missing something. I don’t know. I do trust the team.”

They’ve been rewarding that trust.

Surviving a 17-day grind

The Brewers just completed a 17-day run that included no days off, one complete West Coast trip and part of another. They went 10-7 during that stretch.

After losing three straight games at San Diego last week, the Brewers responded by winning a series with the Dodgers, who swept them out of the NL Championship Series last year. After finally getting a day off Monday, the Brewers delivered their 22-0 blowout of Seattle that matched the most one-sided shutout in modern MLB history.

“I think it says we’re a good baseball team,” first baseman Jake Bauers said. “I think in tough times it can be easy to lose sight of that, but we have the right people around to bounce back when things get tough, and we have the right people around to continue to play winning baseball.”

Milwaukee has needed to stay hot to remain ahead of the Chicago Cubs, who have won 11 of their last 16 games and are 4 1/2 behind Milwaukee in the NL Central standings. The Brewers and Cubs face off in a four-game series Aug. 31-Sept. 3 at Wrigley Field before meeting again for three games in Milwaukee from Sept. 7-9.

During that grueling 17-day run, the Brewers encountered some criticism for their inability to acquire two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal. The Brewers made a strong push to land Skubal, only to see the Detroit Tigers send him to the Dodgers instead.

Having NL Cy Young Award front-runner Jacob Misiorowski and Skubal fronting a starting rotation in a playoff series would have given the Brewers perhaps their best shot at making the postseason breakthrough that has eluded them during the franchise’s longest run of sustained success. The Brewers haven’t reached a World Series since 1982 and have never won it all.

Continuing to win without adding Skubal

Logan Henderson, an outstanding rookie pitcher the Brewers chose to keep rather than including in a trade last month, outdueled Skubal in Sunday’s series finale at Los Angeles. The 6-2 victory improved Henderson’s record to 7-2 with a 2.70 ERA.

The Brewers pivoted after the Skubal trade by acquiring former St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Dustin May, who is seeking to become the latest in a growing list of starting pitchers to improve after joining the Brewers. Left-hander Kyle Harrison, who also is thriving in his first year in Milwaukee, attributes that trend to Milwaukee’s pitching coaching staff of Chris Hook, Jim Henderson and Juan Sandoval.

“They’re so good at just knowing who you are as an individual and knowing what you need,” Harrison said. “Shoot, yeah, they’ve been doing it for a while now, too, so it’s pretty cool to have those guys you can trust and rely on.”

The Brewers believe they have the makings of a quality playoff rotation with Misiorowski, Henderson, Harrison and May. Milwaukee has withstood injuries that knocked two-time All-Star Brandon Woodruff out for the season and prevented Quinn Priester from pitching at all this year.

Milwaukee’s lineup has produced the fewest homers in the big leagues, yet the Brewers remain among the top five teams in scoring. Bauers’ breakthrough season has helped the Brewers overcome down years from 2018 NL MVP Christian Yelich and three-time All-Star William Contreras.

Without naming names, Murphy said: “I watch some of our leaders that might not be getting the results, but the way they handle everybody else is pretty impressive.” Murphy added that might be one of the keys to this team’s success.

Another is simply the ability to continue competing even when things aren’t going smoothly.

“Maybe that’s the secret,” Murphy said. “Maybe this team still plays well enough to be close when they’re not at their best.”

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The pilot of a single-engine helicopter with Lady Lori Helicopters was flying a group of six tourists from the Suyian Conservancy to Mount Ololokwe when they crashed in Samburu County, according to Kenya’s Civil Aviation Authority and the helicopter operator.

The seven victims were José Alberto Suárez, Roger E. Duarte, Adam Hlavaty, Henry Parra, Michele Sensi-Contugi, Stephany Hollihan, and Josh Outram.

Suárez, who grew up in Coral Gables, was the president and general manager of the Telemundo-owned stations in Orlando, Tampa, and Fort Myers. He was 55.

Hlavaty was a real estate executive. He was the vice president of development for Benihana and served as a board member of the Coral Gables Art Museum. He was 42.

Parra, a software executive, co-founded Trax USA, based in Coral Gables. He was 55. Parra and Hlavaty were married and lived in Coral Gables.

Duarte was the entrepreneur behind Hospitality Capital Partners, the owner of George Stone Crabs, and the co-founder of My Ceviche. He was 42.

Duarte’s family was “devastated and heartbroken by the tragic helicopter accident in Kenya ... the magnitude of this tragedy is impossible to comprehend, and there are no words to express the depth of our pain,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement.

Authorities in Ecuador identified Sensi-Contugi, 44, as the director of CIES, the country’s strategic intelligence center, and a close ally of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa. Hollihan, 42, a fashion designer, was married to Sensi-Contugi.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Latin American Fashion Summit described Hollihan, the founder of Sensi Studio, as “a true visionary and an extraordinary force” who celebrated Ecuadorean artisans’ work with “paja toquilla.”

Harpers Bazaar reported Hollihan was born in Ecuador’s port city of Guayaquil and served as a proud ambassador of her country’s artisans in the U.S. and Europe.

The spokesperson for Duarte’s family identified Suárez, Hlavaty, Parra, Sensi-Contugi, and Holliham as “dear friends” and Outram as the pilot based in Kenya.

“I am hugely passionate about flying, and what Kenya has to offer, especially the North, are some of the most diverse landscapes,” Outram told a writer for Elewana last year, adding that he also provided aerial support for wildlife monitoring.

The Loisaba Conservancy in Kenya released a statement describing the victims of the helicopter crash as “guests” of &Beyond, a travel agency.

In a statement, NBCUniversal executives described Suárez as ”a deeply respected leader and beloved friend and colleague” who “brought energy, humor, warmth, and a strong sense of purpose to his work.”

Suárez, a Coral Gables High School alumnus, started his journalistic career as a reporter and anchor. He served as president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He was with NBCU for about two decades, leading stations in San Antonio, Sacramento, Fresno, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas.

During his time with WUPW Fox Toledo, Suárez won three Emmys for Outstanding Daily Newscast and several Associated Press Awards, according to his biography with NBCU.

Suárez’s career also included programming, digital and creative leadership for the Telemundo Station Group, NBC6, and Telemundo 51 in Miami.

Duarte’s friend Lee Schrager, a businessman known for his work with the Food Network South Beach, said he wasn’t surprised when Forbes recognized Duarte in the 30 under 30 list.

“He had such an incredible work ethic,” Schrager said.

Duarte is survived by his two sons, Roger and George, and his wife, Nicole Valls, whose family founded Versailles, the iconic Cuban restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana.

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An update on the air accident in Samburu of the operator and souls on board.
Read full statement below: pic.twitter.com/WjiggB3vvo

— Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (@CAA_Kenya) August 19, 2026

Search and recovery efforts are ongoing, hampered by difficult terrain access and an active fire at the crash site.

An additional team has been dispatched from Isiolo to reinforce the operation.

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— Kenya Red Cross (@KenyaRedCross) August 19, 2026

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Incident Level: CRITICAL (Level 4) – Fatal helicopter crash; all occupants deceased

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John Barrett, the U.S. representative in Venezuela, calling the 20 excavators provided to the country, along with other equipment, highly sophisticated with the ability to be operated remotely.

It’s all part of an effort to clean up the rubble left behind after the earthquakes and to restart the battered economy of the coastal region.

Nearly 30,000 people in the area make their living by working in imports, according to the local customs’ brokers association.

The majority of them had little work up until the recent reopening of the main port.

Venezuela’s main international airport is also located there, and it remains closed.

They are both of vital importance for the economic well-being of the entire region, with the ripple effects being felt throughout the economy.

Para Nixon, eso incluye tener conversaciones incómodas con votantes dentro de su propio partido en un intento por convencer a votantes de ambos lados del espectro político de apoyarla en noviembre.

“Ya lo hemos hecho”, dijo. “Ya tenemos republicanos e independientes que incluso cambiaron su afiliación partidista para votar por mí en las primarias, donaron a la campaña y también fueron voluntarios”.

Durante su campaña, Nixon se vinculó con el grupo de socialistas demócratas.

Explicó que su plan es convencer a los demócratas moderados que probablemente votaron por su propio rival de partido, Alex Vindman, para que ahora la elijan a ella.

“Los temas son los mismos, así que voy a hablar con ellos, voy a tener esas conversaciones con ellos”, dijo Nixon. “No huyo de las preguntas difíciles. Creo que eso es lo que nos ayuda a avanzar aquí en este país, cuando tenemos esas conversaciones incómodas”.

Vindman agregó: “Nos quedamos cortos, pero tenemos a una Angie Nixon, y podemos felicitarla por la victoria y llevar esta batalla hasta noviembre”.

Moody quiere conservar el escaño en el Senado de Estados Unidos que ha ocupado durante poco más de un año, cuando el gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, la nombró para el cargo en reemplazo de quien ahora es secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio.

“Defendemos el sentido común, un compromiso con comunidades seguras, un compromiso con un gobierno responsable y receptivo”, dijo Moody después de ganar la nominación republicana el martes. “Un compromiso para garantizar que el gobierno del pueblo ponga primero los intereses del pueblo”.

Moody y Nixon se enfrentarán en las elecciones generales del 3 de noviembre.

Salazar, de 64 años y actual representante, ganó el martes las primarias republicanas con 81% de los votos. V. Michael Arias, un abogado de Coral Gables y su único oponente, perdió con 19% de los votos.

Según los informes de la Comisión Federal de Elecciones de EE. UU. sobre las contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Salazar superó los 1,99 millones de dólares, sus desembolsos totales fueron superiores a 1,15 millones de dólares y su efectivo disponible superó los 2,25 millones de dólares.

Rodriguez, de 69 años, ganó las primarias demócratas con 54% de los votos. Robin Peguero, ex fiscal federal y su único oponente, perdió con 46% de los votos.

De acuerdo a informes de la FEC sobre las contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Rodríguez superó los 661.170 dólares, el total de sus desembolsos fue superior a los 336.000 dólares y su efectivo disponible superó los 325.000 dólares.

La Oficina del Censo de EE. UU. reportó en 2024 que el distrito tiene alrededor de 788,713 habitantes. Abarca aproximadamente 119 millas cuadradas en el condado de Miami-Dade, según Census Reporter.

La fecha límite para registrarse para votar es el 5 de octubre. La fecha límite para solicitar una boleta para votar por correo es el 22 de octubre. La votación anticipada será del 24 al 31 de octubre. Las elecciones de medio término serán el 3 de noviembre.

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Un piloto de Lady Lori Helicopters transportaba a un grupo de seis turistas desde Suyian Conservancy hasta el monte Ololokwe cuando el helicóptero monomotor se estrelló en el condado de Samburu, según la Autoridad de Aviación Civil de Kenia y el operador del helicóptero.

Las siete víctimas eran José Alberto Suárez, Roger E. Duarte, Adam Hlavaty, Henry Parra, Michele Sensi-Contugi, Stephany Hollihan, y Josh Outram.

Suárez, quien creció en Coral Gables, era presidente y gerente general de las estaciones propiedad de Telemundo en Orlando, Tampa y Fort Myers; tenía 55 años.

Hlavaty era ejecutivo del sector inmobiliario que se desempeñó como vicepresidente de Desarrollo de Benihana y fue miembro de la Junta Directiva del Coral Gables Art Museum; tenía 42 años.

Henry Parra era un ejecutivo del sector del software, tenía 55 años. Parra y Hlavaty estaban casados ​​y vivían en Coral Gables

Duarte fue el empresario detrás de Hospitality Capital Partners, propietario de George Stone Crabs y cofundador de My Ceviche; tenía 42 años.

“Las familias Duarte y Valls están devastadas y desconsoladas por el trágico accidente de helicóptero en Kenia... la magnitud de esta tragedia es imposible de comprender y no hay palabras para expresar la profundidad de nuestro dolor”, escribió un portavoz en un comunicado.

Las autoridades de Ecuador identificaron a dos de las víctimas como Michele Sensi-Contugi, quien se desempeñó como director del centro de inteligencia estratégica del país, y su esposa, Stephany Hollihan.

En un comunicado, un portavoz de la Latin American Fashion Summit describió a Hollihan, de 43 años y fundadora de Sensi Studio, como “una verdadera visionaria y una fuerza extraordinaria” que puso en valor el trabajo de los artesanos con la “paja toquilla”.

El portavoz de la familia de Duarte identificó a Suárez, Hlavaty, Parra, Sensi-Contugi y Holliham como “amigos entrañables”, y al piloto como Josh Outram.

La Reserva Loisaba emitió un comunicado describiendo a las víctimas como huéspedes de &Beyond, una agencia de viajes.

En un comunicado de NBCU, los ejecutivos Cesar Conde, Valari Staab y José Cancela describieron a Suárez como “un líder profundamente respetado y un querido amigo y colega” que “aportó energía, humor, calidez y un fuerte sentido de propósito a su trabajo”.

Suárez, exalumno de Coral Gables High School, comenzó su carrera como reportero y presentador. Trabajó con NBCUniversal News Group durante más de dos décadas y también dirigió estaciones en San Antonio, Sacramento, Fresno, Salt Lake City y Las Vegas.

Durante su tiempo en WUPW Fox Toledo, Suárez ganó tres premios Emmy por Mejor Noticiero Diario y varios premios de la Associated Press, según su biografía con NBCU.

La carrera de Suárez también incluyó labores de programación y liderazgo digital y creativo para Telemundo Station Group, NBC6 y Telemundo 51 en Miami.

Lee Schrager, amigo de Duarte y empresario conocido por su labor en el Food Network South Beach, afirmó que no le sorprendió cuando Forbes incluyó a Duarte en su lista “30 under 30″ (30 menores de 30 años).

“Tenía una ética de trabajo increíble”, comentó Schrager.

A Duarte le sobreviven sus dos hijos, Roger y George, y su esposa, Nicole Valls, cuya familia fundó Versailles, el emblemático restaurante cubano del barrio de La Pequeña Habana en Miami.

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Una actualización sobre el accidente aéreo en Samburu, del operador y las personas a bordo.Lea el comunicado completo a continuación: pic.twitter.com/WjiggB3vvo

— Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (@CAA_Kenya), 19 de agosto de 2026

Las labores de búsqueda y recuperación continúan, obstaculizadas por el difícil acceso al terreno y un incendio activo en el lugar del accidente.

Un equipo adicional fue enviado desde Isiolo para reforzar la operación.

Se darán a conocer más actualizaciones. https://t.co/XUjWArYul3pic.twitter.com/qSApuA1b0y

— Kenya Red Cross (@KenyaRedCross), 19 de agosto de 2026

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The ruling Wednesday by Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green is a victory for Republicans seeking to hold onto their slim majority in the U.S. House. But the case is likely to end up in the state Supreme Court.

Missouri’s new districts already were used in the August primaries. On that same day, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected a petition with thousands of signatures seeking to force a November referendum on the map. Hoskins asserted that Missouri’s Constitution doesn’t allow a referendum on congressional redistricting.

The judge agreed with Hoskins and other Republicans, who joined in defense of the new map.

“The Missouri Constitution does not supply any statement — let alone a clear one — reallocating authority over congressional redistricting away from the General Assembly to a referendum process,” Green wrote in the ruling.

Opponents of the redistricting plan quickly announced an appeal.

“Everyone knows that Cole County is not the final decision here,” said Richard von Glahn, executive director of People Not Politicians, who sued to try to place the new map on the ballot. “After months of delay, we are pleased to be moving forward to the Missouri Supreme Court to enforce our constitutional rights.”

Missouri’s redistricting targeted Democratic congressman

Missouri's current U.S. House delegation is made up of six Republicans and two Democrats who were elected from districts with boundaries drawn after the 2020 census.

But Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe called the Legislature into a special session on redistricting last year after Trump urged Republican-led states to redraw congressional boundaries to their advantage ahead of the midterms.

Missouri's revised map is designed to help Republicans defeat Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City. It reassigns portions of Kansas City to two neighboring districts represented by Republicans and stretches the remainder of Cleaver’s 5th Congressional District far eastward into Republican-heavy rural areas. About 59% of its voters are new to the 5th District, according to an Associated Press estimate.

State Sen. Rick Brattin won a Republican primary in the reshaped district in early August. Cleaver was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

Republicans had argued that the new districts should be used in the November elections even if a voter referendum on the map was allowed to occur at the same time.

Lawsuit highlights dispute about referendum rights

The Missouri Constitution does not specifically say that a referendum can be used to decide congressional redistricting, nor does it forbid it, which is why the issue ended up in court.

Republican Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s office, which represented the secretary of state in court, argued that congressional redistricting is a legislative duty not subject to referendum without specific constitutional permission.

The attorney general and the Republican Party also argued it was too late to switch district boundaries before the November election. Changing districts after the primary would cause “widespread voter confusion” and an “erosion in confidence in the integrity of the state’s elections,” said John Gore, an attorney for national, congressional and state Republican committees.

The judge agreed, ruling that a district swap after the primary would violate federal law.

It’s been more than 100 years since a Missouri redistricting plan faced a referendum. In 1922, voters rejected a new congressional map passed by the Republican-led Legislature. The legitimacy of that referendum petition was not challenged in court.

Redistricting battle spread to numerous states

Missouri’s mid-decade redistricting effort has been among the most litigated nationally, triggering about a dozen lawsuits over the past year.

The Republican-led state was the second, after Texas, to respond to Trump’s call to redraw congressional districts. Several other states followed. All told, Republicans hope to win as many as 16 additional seats from new House maps enacted in eight states: Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama. Democrats, whose counterattack faced several setbacks, think they could win up to six additional seats from new districts in California and Utah.

It remains to be seen whether the redistricting works as intended for Republicans. The president’s party historically has lost congressional seats in the midterms, and Trump’s poor approval ratings could provide an extra hurdle for Republican candidates.

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Associated Press journalist Hannah Recht contributed from Washington.

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For Nixon, that includes having uncomfortable conversations with voters within her own party in an attempt to sway voters on both sides of the aisle for her in November.

“We already have,” she said. “Republicans and independents that actually change their party affiliations to vote for me in the primary, they donated on the campaign and they also volunteered.”

During her campaign, Nixon affiliated herself with the democratic socialist group.

She explained that her plan is to convince the moderate Democrats who likely voted for her own party opponent Alex Vindman to now choose her.

“The issues are the same and so I’m going to talk to them, I’m going to have those conversations with them,” said Nixon. “I don’t run away from hard questions. I believe that is what helps us progress here in this country, when we have those uncomfortable conversations.”

Added Vindman: “We came up short, but we have an Angie Nixon, and we can congratulate her on the win and take this battle forward to November.”

Moody wants to keep the U.S. Senate seat she has been occupying for a little over a year, when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed her to the position to replace now-U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“We are standing for common sense, a commitment to safe communities, a commitment to accountable and responsive government,” Moody said after winning the Republican nomination on Tuesday. “A commitment to ensuring the people’s government puts the people’s interest first.”

Moody and Nixon will face off in the general election on Nov. 3.

The couple's children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, have already enrolled at British schools and will start classes in September, according to a person close to the Sussexes who was not authorized to speak publicly. The family plans to live at a private, non-royal residence outside of London, but plans to maintain their home in Montecito, California, and their vacation property in Portugal.

The Daily Telegraph first reported the story. When asked to discuss the reports by the AP at a roundtable event with U.S. veterans in Washington Wednesday night, Harry replied, "Nothing to say.”

Harry and Meghan gave up their royal duties and moved to California more than six years ago to earn their living through lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify. Although relations with the rest of the royal family have soured since then, Harry has recently expressed an interest in reconciliation so he could spend more time with his father, King Charles III, who is being treated for an undisclosed form of cancer.

Charles was informed of the couple's plans on Sunday. Harry and Meghan visited the U.K. last month.

Buckingham Palace has a policy of not commenting on speculation about non-working members of the royal family. A representative for Harry and Meghan declined to comment.

According to a source close to the Sussexes, Meghan will continue heading her As Ever company from the U.K., while Harry can spend more time working with his U.K.-based charities.

Harry and Meghan have had a stormy relationship with the royal family ever since they decamped to a mansion in the exclusive Southern California enclave of Montecito.

In a series of interviews and Harry's memoir “Spare,” the couple said they left Britain to escape the restrictions of royal life and criticized palace officials for being insensitive to Meghan's mental health while alleging that at least one member of the royal family had expressed racist views when she was pregnant with their first child. Meghan describes herself as biracial.

Those tensions were exacerbated by Harry's long-running legal battle with Britain's tabloid newspapers, which he alleges illegally hacked his phones and invaded his privacy when he was younger. The prince has lost a series of lawsuits against the media, including one against the publisher of the Daily Mail, which concluded last month.

The latest trial has left Harry facing a potential bill for millions of pounds after the court ruled he and other plaintiffs in the case were liable for the publisher's legal fees. Associated Newspapers has filed documents showing that its legal costs amounted to 34.5 million pounds ($47 million).

Harry has also been embroiled in a legal wrangle with the British government after a government committee refused to authorize police protection for the prince and his family when they are in the U.K. The prince says he and his family need armed police protection because they are at risk simply because they are members of the royal family, regardless of whether they are working royals.

After losing a court battle over the security issue last year, Harry said he hoped to rebuild relations with his family.

“I would love reconciliation with my family. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore,” Harry told the BBC. “I don’t know how much longer my father has.”

Last month, Harry returned to the U.K. for a series of charity engagements. Meghan and the children joined Harry for part of the visit and they spent time with the king at his Highgrove estate in western England. It was the first time Archie and Lilibet had seen their grandfather since the late Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee in 2022.

While Harry has recently met with his father, there are no signs of a warming of relations with his brother, Prince William, the heir to the throne.

Peter Hunt, a former BBC royal correspondent, said the surprise announcement would make William “apoplectic.”

“In the short term, Harry will be able to deepen his rapprochement with his father," Hunt told Britain's Press Association. “And his presence back home will make it harder for his brother to duck a reconciliation."

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“Les prometo que, si las elecciones fueran esta noche, ganaríamos la gobernación del estado de Florida”, dijo Jolly a sus seguidores el martes.

Donalds, mientras tanto, dijo que su campaña está enfocada en “hacer que Florida sea responsable, alcanzable y, sobre todo, asequible”.

Donalds obtuvo un respaldo clave del presidente Donald Trump al inicio de las primarias republicanas.

Actualmente representa al Distrito Congresional 19 de Florida, que incluye partes del suroeste de Florida, entre ellas Fort Myers, Naples, Bonita Springs y Cape Coral.

En su primera publicación en redes sociales como candidato republicano, Donalds dijo que Florida “no puede permitirse a David Jolly”.

“Estoy agradecido con mi familia, mi equipo, mis voluntarios y cada floridano que nos impulsó a esta victoria.

Ahora es el momento de que el Partido Republicano se una. Al trabajar juntos, podemos hacer que Florida sea más asequible y defender el Sueño de Florida para nuestras familias, adultos mayores y jóvenes…”  pic.twitter.com/HZBtyaCS9G

— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) August 19, 2026

“La razón por la que Florida ha seguido siendo republicana y conservadora es simplemente porque nuestras políticas funcionan. Por eso la gente viene a nuestro estado”, dijo Donalds. “La verdad es que él (Jolly) es simplemente un caballo de Troya para los socialistas demócratas de Estados Unidos”.

Jolly, un ex congresista republicano que dejó el partido en 2018, está convirtiendo el costo de vida en un tema central de su campaña.

“Todos estamos preocupados por el costo de la vivienda, la atención médica, los alimentos y la gasolina”, dijo Jolly en un anuncio de campaña publicado el miércoles.

Jolly posteriormente apareció con su compañera de fórmula, Gwen Graham, en una barbería antes de hacer una parada en Vicky Bakery.

“Rechazo el socialismo. Soy capitalista”, dijo Jolly.

También criticó a los republicanos por el costo de la vivienda.

“En este momento, la gente está perdiendo sus hogares debido al colapso y los republicanos no han hecho nada al respecto. Byron Donalds no tiene una solución”, agregó Jolly.

Jolly expresó confianza en su capacidad para derrotar a Donalds en noviembre.

“Los votantes siempre nos dicen lo que quieren”, dijo Jolly a Byron Tollefson, de Local 10, el martes. “Hace cuatro años, los votantes no estaban pidiendo un cambio, y por eso los demócratas, a pesar de nuestros valores, no estábamos donde estaban los votantes. Esta noche, los votantes están clamando por un cambio. Están rogando por un cambio. Están diciendo basta del control económico, enfoquémonos en la vivienda, la atención médica y la educación”.

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“I promise you, if the election were tonight, we would win the governorship of the state of Florida,” Jolly told supporters on Tuesday.

Donalds, meanwhile, said his campaign is focused on “making Florida accountable, achievable and most of all, affordable.”

Donalds scored a key endorsement from President Donald Trump early in the Republican primary.

He currently represents Florida’s 19th Congressional District, which includes portions of Southwest Florida, including Fort Myers, Naples, Bonita Springs and Cape Coral.

In his first social media post as the GOP nominee, Donalds said Florida “can’t afford David Jolly.”

I am grateful to my family, my team, my volunteers, and every Floridian who powered us to this victory.

Now is the time for the Republican Party to unite. By working together, we can make Florida more affordable and defend the Florida Dream for our families, seniors, and young… pic.twitter.com/HZBtyaCS9G

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“The reason why Florida has continued to be Republican and be conservative is simply because our policies work. That’s why people come to our state,” Donalds said. “The truth is he (Jolly) is just a Trojan horse for Democrat socialists of America.”

Jolly, a former Republican congressman who left the party in 2018, is making the cost of living a central issue in his campaign.

“We’re all worried about the cost of housing, health care, food and gas,” Jolly said in a campaign ad posted Wednesday.

Jolly later appeared with his running mate, Gwen Graham, at a barber shop before making a stop at Vicky Bakery.

“I reject socialism. I’m a capitalist,” Jolly said.

He also criticized Republicans over the cost of housing.

“Right now, people are losing their homes because of the collapse and Republicans have done nothing about it. Byron Donalds doesn’t have a solution,” Jolly added.

Jolly expressed confidence in his ability to take down Donalds in November.

“Voters always tell us what they want,” Jolly told Local 10’s Byron Tollefson on Tuesday. “Four years ago, voters weren’t asking for change, and so Democrats, despite our values, weren’t where voters were. Tonight, voters are screaming for change. They’re begging for change. They’re saying enough with the economic grip, let’s focus on housing, healthcare and education.”

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While the first Atlantic hurricane forms on average around August 11^th, the date of the first hurricane can vary wildly. In some seasons like 2016, it can happen from an initially non-tropical system in January, but in other seasons like 2002 and 2013, it doesn’t come until the second week of September.

But they do eventually come. Even in our most inactive hurricane seasons or during ones held back by El Niño – like in 1983, 1997 (very strong El Niño), 2009, 2013, and 2015 (very strong El Niño) – we had hurricanes. Multiple hurricanes. We’ve never gone through an entire hurricane season in the reliable records without a hurricane, and the last time we recorded fewer than two hurricanes in a season was over a century ago in 1925 (and that number was almost surely an undercount due to a sparse ocean observing network that relied mainly on unlucky ships).

By August 19^th, most Atlantic hurricane seasons have notched their first hurricane. In fact, in about 7 in 10 seasons, we’ve seen the first hurricane formation by today’s date. So far in 2026, though, hurricanes have been a no-show.

It’s unusual and it speaks to just how hostile the background state is this hurricane season due to the historic El Niño.

Long-range models indicate the Atlantic will remain at a standstill for another week, but as anyone whose experienced a drought knows, they always come to an end and when it eventually rains, sometimes it pours. Last year it was Category 5 Hurricane Erin that broke the dry spell around this time in August, but we can hope this season with a powerful El Niño in play, the drought doesn’t end so dramatically.

A real (rude?) Atlantic awakening on the horizon?

While we’ve seen some signs of life this August in the Atlantic, we’ve not yet seen the big awakening or storm outbreak that often accelerates us into the busiest 6-week stretch of the season. We expect that by late August and if the overnight runs of our computer models – lit up like a December Christmas tree – are any indication, we may be in store for a flurry of activity to end the month.

The signal is perhaps the strongest we’ve seen yet this season in the deep tropics across nearly all of our major global weather models (both AI and conventional models) but the question is whether it sticks and persists.

For now, the strongest signal is far away from the U.S. and still about a week out so we have plenty of time to follow the trends. It’s an important reminder, however, that hurricane season might be on hold right now, but don’t expect it’ll last into September.

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Party Chair Nikki Fried cited success in school board races, including in deep-red Sarasota County, where Democratic-aligned candidates flipped board control.

“People, again, are tired of the cultural wars in our school boards,” Fried said.

But they are also acknowledging the intra-party debate underway in the wake of a primary win for a democratic socialist: State Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville, is now the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate.

That debate is laid bare in Miami-Dade, where Democratic Party Chair Laura Kelley admits, “socialism does not fly.”

“I’m not going to be a Democratic socialist apologist. There is no room in our party for people who would support, praise Fidel Castro, Nicolas Maduro and certainly not Hamas,” Kelley said. “And so I think that the Democratic Socialists of America, as an organization, remember, they’re not the Democratic Party. They’re an organization. They’re not even a political party. They’re a group of people that are truly, truly misguided.”

With all that in mind, Local 10 News asked Fried what she thought of Democratic voters’ choice.

“Well, first of all, you know, yo soy capitalista; we’ll start there,” Fried said.

When asked whether Nixon’s nomination makes it “impossible” for Democrats to flip the Senate seat held by incumbent Republican Ashley Moody, Fried pointed to organizing efforts that have flipped GOP-held seats.

“In the last two years, we have started what’s called the Punchland Project, which is year-round organizing that, as of yesterday, we had over 1.7, 1.8 million voter contacts from phones to door-knocks and having candidates talk to candidates and to voters all over the state of Florida,” she said. “And we’ve been able to flip 37 seats because of that.”

On the flip side, Democratic voters also nominated a former Republican to be the party’s nominee for governor, former U.S. Rep. David Jolly.

“I reject the DSA,” Jolly said. “I reject socialists. I am a capitalist.”

Kelley said, “As we move forward to the elections, I think that what we’ll see is, like, a fundamental understanding of what the difference between a Democrat and a Democratic Socialist is. And they’re not the same thing.”

As disparate party voices emerge from Tuesday’s primary, Fried said everyone is in alignment on one core concern: “Our state is completely unaffordable.”

Kelley agreed.

“When we have this big tent where you can have somebody who’s quite conservative to someone who is extremely progressive, we are going to have deep policy differences,” she said. “But there is a vast majority of things that we agree on. And I think we need to focus on what we can agree on. And that is what is going to move Floridians and our communities forward in terms of affordability, in terms of humanity, in terms of community building. I think those are the fundamentals that we can all agree on.

“It’s what Floridians care about most. And, frankly, 30 years of Republican rule in this state has only made it more difficult for us to survive, to thrive.”

Expert: ‘I think Republicans are gleeful today’

Kathryn DePalo-Gould, a professor at Florida International University and political expert, says Nixon’s progressive views may be a drag on other Florida Democrats down the ticket.

“I think Republicans are gleeful today because nobody really thought that Angie Nixon had a chance to beat Alex Vindman, who had all this money, right?” DePalo-Gould said. “But I think people on the ground had an idea that he wasn’t as great of a candidate as they thought. Those (Republicans) in South Florida, I think particularly are really excited to have her on the top of the ticket.”

She said Nixon’s presence could galvanize Republicans, especially in South Florida.

“I absolutely think this is gonna impact downballot races. I mean, everybody from, you know, David Jolly who is saying, ‘This is not me. This is not what I embrace,’ some congressional races perhaps, but even everything else on the ballot from state legislative races, maybe local races,” she said. “I think this is going to increase Republican turnout.”

DePalo-Gould said Democrats won’t be the only ones talking affordability.

“You saw Byron Donalds in his speech last night talking about affordability. He was grabbing on to this particular idea. I don’t think the Republicans want to cede this issue to the Democrats at all,” she said. “I think, Democrats are trying to say, ‘We’re a big tent.’ But Republicans are going to say, Look, that tent is now full of scary candidates (who) are not going to embrace the American dream, that are not going to make things more affordable.”

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Authorities arrested suspect Eddie Zewayne Bussey, 28, of Yonkers, New York, on nearly a dozen felony charges on Tuesday, including kidnapping and multiple counts of attempted murder and sexual battery.

An arrest report from the Miami Police Department states that the 40-year-old woman had left a nightclub in the city’s Wynwood neighborhood sometime between 3:30 and 4:30 a.m.; her phone had run out of battery and she was walking home up Biscayne Boulevard, unable to request a ride.

Near Northeast 24th Street, police said the woman noticed Bussey, a stranger, “following her and yelling unsolicited remarks toward her such as, ‘Let me taste you.’”

“The victim crossed Biscayne Boulevard attempting to distance herself from (Bussey), but he continued to follow her mimicking her same movement crossing the road,” the MPD report states.

Police said the woman walked into an office building at 4770 Biscayne Blvd., in the Bay Point neighborhood, after “noticing it was well lit and fearing (for) her safety.”

Authorities said she went into the lobby and got into the elevator, going up to the 12th floor to try to find someone to help her. She couldn’t.

Police said after going back down to the lobby, she saw Bussey coming in. She tried to exit through another door, they said, but it turned out to be locked.

In an attack caught on surveillance camera, Bussey exposed himself, punched and choked the woman, then dragged her by the hair and dragged her into a mailroom, where he continued to punch, kick and choke her as she tried to fight back, the report states. Police said Bussey could be heard telling her, “Taste it,” “I’ll rape you” and “I’ll kill you” before performing multiple sex acts on her.

Authorities said the victim broke two of Bussey’s necklaces as she tried to fight him off. They said she was able to run to a nearby CVS Pharmacy, where she was able to call police.

“The victim sustained visible injuries, including bruising and discoloration to her face, lips, throat, back, ribs, hip and thigh, as well as (a) laceration to her cheek,” the report states.

DNA evidence from a rape kit tied the crime to Bussey, police said, and officers found him Tuesday near Northwest 36th Street and 13th Avenue in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood.

Bussey, according to the report, told investigators that he’s been staying in Miami with his brother for about a month at a short-term rental in Wynwood. The report states that he initially told officers he had “walked home and remained there for the rest of the night,” but then, after being shown a surveillance still from the Bay Point office building, “recanted and told detectives he was at the incident location to charge his phone.”

Police said he claimed that at the building, the victim made “racist remarks” and then “spat on him, causing him to black out and begin to beat her.”

But they said he “denied sexually assaulting” her because “she is a (woman) and he only likes (men).”

A separate arrest report states that Bussey became combative with officers as they tried to collect a DNA sample pursuant to a warrant, spitting on them and fighting them. They said he also “repeatedly kicked the wall and door inside the interview room,” causing damage.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Bussey was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed in jail records as “to be set.”

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Authorities took Charles Weiner, 44, of Oakland Park, into custody on Wednesday.

Officials identified him as an IT employee for Broward County Transit.

Weiner is facing multiple charges of possession or control of child sex abuse material and a charge of compiling computer pornography featuring a minor.

Following his arrest, Broward County Transit released the following statement to Local 10 News:

“We are aware that a Broward County Transit employee has been arrested by the Broward Sheriff’s Office in connection with alleged possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. The employee did not have a public-facing role. We are fully cooperating with law enforcement and following the appropriate protocols regarding his future employment.”

Broward County Transit

As of Wednesday afternoon, Weiner was being held at the Paul Rein Detention Facility on a $50,000 bond.

Medley police officers escorted Miguel Antonio Perez and his mother, Maria Rodriguez, from the police department to jail after the two were arrested Wednesday morning in Miami Beach.

They now face felony charges, including organized scheme to defraud and grand theft.

“The investigation revealed that company president Maria Rodriguez was entrusted with the company’s financial accounts, credit cards and payrolls,” said Andres Oviedo, a Medley police public information officer.

Police launched an undercover investigation, called Operation Iron Illusion, in April 2025 after officers responded to a report of financial fraud at Iron Container Holdings LLC.

Detectives found that Rodriguez allegedly used company funds for private luxury purchases, disguising them as miscellaneous company expenses.

Police also say she hired her son, Perez, as a security guard, initially setting his salary at $42,000 a year.

According to warrants, Rodriguez later made the security guard position remote and increased Perez’s salary to $114,000. Investigators say Perez never actually performed any security duties.

The investigation found that the two allegedly used company credit cards to pay for a Brickell condo, an elite gym membership, designer clothing from Saks Fifth Avenue and car insurance.

The alleged spending also included rentals for a luxury yacht and a Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

“The fraud leaves a trail,” Oviedo said. “And trails can be followed.”

As of Wednesday, Rodriguez and Perez remain at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where their bonds were each set at $30,000.

Police said they will continue using every available resource to investigate similar crimes.

Las autoridades detuvieron el miércoles a Charles Weiner, de 44 años, de Oakland Park.

Las autoridades lo identificaron como empleado de TI de Broward County Transit.

Weiner enfrenta múltiples cargos por posesión o control de material de abuso sexual infantil y un cargo por compilar pornografía informática en la que aparece un menor.

Tras su arresto, Broward County Transit emitió el siguiente comunicado a Local 10

“Estamos al tanto de que un empleado de Broward County Transit fue arrestado por la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward en relación con la presunta posesión de material de abuso sexual infantil. El empleado no desempeñaba un cargo de atención al público. Estamos cooperando plenamente con las autoridades y siguiendo los protocolos correspondientes con respecto a su futuro empleo”.

— Broward County Transit

Hasta la tarde del miércoles, Weiner permanecía detenido en el Centro de Detención Paul Rein bajo una fianza de 50,000 dólares.

It was a warm, sunny day in the coastal town of Narragansett when the spill happened Sunday, and Narragansett Police Capt. Ryan Prest said he was told that the scene “started to smell bad as the squid sat out in the sun for a few hours.”

The fully-loaded trailer was taking the squid to a processing facility out of town when the trailer dislodged and tipped on its side as the driver was navigating a turn, spilling a “substantial portion” of its calamari cargo, the police department said in a statement.

Police responded at 9:27 a.m., and the intersection wasn’t reopened until 5:15 p.m., authorities said.

Video of the scene showed a trailer on its side and massive piles of squid on the road.

“Squid has a distinctive odor to it,” Richard Stevens, a Narragansett resident and fisherman, told WJAR. “It can be very foul smelling, especially if it lands on the road and stays there for awhile.”

Heavy equipment and a dump truck were used to remove the squid, Prest said.

The driver and a passenger in the truck cab weren’t injured, and no other vehicles were involved, Prest said. The Rhode Island State Police Commercial Enforcement Unit is investigating but it’s unclear if any enforcement action will be taken, Prest said.

“We have not issued any citations,” Prest said. “I’m not sure if there will be any citations issued by the state police.”

State police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Narragansett Police Department made light of the situation in a social media post on Wednesday, stating that the town is “still recovering” from the “Squidpocalypse of ’26 — the spill that put ‘slippery when wet’ to shame.”

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Maya Garcia, 19, told Local 10 News in an exclusive interview that she had no idea she was stepping away from a potentially deadly fire when she went outside to grab her food.

“It was terrifying,” Garcia said.

When she went outside to get the food, Maya left her Samsung Galaxy A15 phone on her bed.

About a minute after the food arrived, Maya and her dad said they heard an explosion.

“I’m sitting there and I hear an explosion behind me,” Garcia said. “Sounded like — boom, like glass shattering, swoosh.”

Her room was quickly engulfed in flames.

“You couldn’t see inside the house — flames, smoke,” Garcia said. “I’m panicking, but I’m trying to stay calm.”

The room was left in ruins, with the phone still visible among the ash. Childhood memories were destroyed.

The outlet in the room showed no visible signs of an electrical issue.

Local 10 News reached out to arson investigators, who said their report is not finished yet.

Maya and her father said they were told by the arson team that the phone was responsible for the fire.

Maya said if the DoorDash delivery had been late, the story might have had a different ending.

For Maya, there is one word for how she feels.

“Grateful,” she said. “I am extremely grateful. What matters is I’m alive here today.”

Local 10 News reached out to Samsung. The company responded and reached out to the family for information.

Maya Garcia, de 19 años, dijo a Local 10 News en una entrevista exclusiva que no tenía idea de que se estaba alejando de un incendio potencialmente mortal cuando salió a recoger su comida.

“Fue aterrador”, dijo Garcia.

Cuando salió a recoger la comida, Maya dejó su teléfono Samsung Galaxy A15 sobre su cama.

Aproximadamente un minuto después de que llegó la comida, Maya y su padre dijeron que escucharon una explosión.

“Estoy sentada allí y escucho una explosión detrás de mí”, dijo Garcia. “Sonó como, boom, como vidrio rompiéndose, swoosh”.

Su habitación rápidamente quedó envuelta en llamas.

“No se podía ver dentro de la casa, llamas, humo”, dijo Garcia. “Estoy entrando en pánico, pero trato de mantener la calma”.

La habitación quedó en ruinas, con el teléfono aún visible entre las cenizas. Los recuerdos de su infancia fueron destruidos.

El tomacorriente de la habitación no mostraba señales visibles de un problema eléctrico.

Local 10 News se comunicó con investigadores de incendios provocados, quienes dijeron que su informe aún no está terminado.

Maya y su padre dijeron que el equipo de investigación de incendios provocados les informó que el teléfono fue responsable del incendio.

Maya dijo que si la entrega de DoorDash se hubiera retrasado, la historia podría haber tenido un desenlace diferente.

Para Maya, hay una palabra para describir cómo se siente.

“Agradecida”, dijo. “Estoy extremadamente agradecida. Lo que importa es que estoy viva aquí hoy”.

Local 10 News se comunicó con Samsung. La compañía respondió y se comunicó con la familia para solicitar información.

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said crews were working nonstop to fix the outages, but 75,000 customers still lacked electricity by late afternoon, mostly in Lake County next to the Illinois border.

They included more than 20,000 customers in Gary, where residents lined up again at community centers for hot meals and a place to charge phones.

The latest news for Gary wasn't good: Full restoration is not expected there until Aug. 25, NIPSCO said.

Roughly 300 poles and 44 power transmission poles need to be repaired or replaced in Gary as a result of the storm, which carried winds of 99 mph (159 kilometers per hour), said Melody Birmingham, an executive at NIPSCO's parent company.

Birmingham acknowledged the “real burden” of losing perishable food and people living for days without air conditioning after a “historic storm” that initially left 300,000 customers in the dark.

“These aren't simple repairs,” Birmingham said at a news conference. “These are systems that are being rebuilt.”

Utility says low-income residents are not ignored

Jeremy Spurrier, 51, said he's fortunate to have a generator at his Portage home, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Chicago. But the generator is expensive — it goes through about $75 of gas a day — and Spurrier said his family is relying on nonperishable food like soup. He drives to Illinois to get ice to chill his insulin.

"If I run out of ice, that’s several hundred dollars of insulin just ruined,” he said.

Gary, a majority-Black city, has been especially hit hard, with some residents voicing frustration that they're being ignored. Birmingham denied that low-income residents were being overlooked and blamed posts on social media.

“We have areas that are probably affluent where we still have customers out as well. ... This has nothing to do with race or any type of division,” said Birmingham, who is Black. “It's really a matter of where the storm hit.”

Gary Mayor Eddie Melton acknowledged that locals were “frustrated and exhausted” but said more than 600 linemen were working to restore power in the city.

"I want to reiterate this is clearly not just a Gary situation. It is a northwest Indiana situation,” Melton said.

No storm damage — but no power

A 4-year-old boy, three men and three women were among those who had died since the storms began Aug. 11, said Liz Woods, a spokesperson for the state Department of Homeland Security.

In Whiting, Myra Carden, 74, said her home wasn’t damaged by the storm — “not even a chair was blown over in the yard.” But she was in her second blackout Wednesday.

Carden, her son and three dogs lost power for more than two days last week. Then the electricity went out again Tuesday.

“More than once I have put in an outage report,” she said. ”All I get back is, ‘You already put in a report.’ Well, what do you want me to do? ... This doesn’t make sense. Of course I’m not a lineman; I’m a paralegal.”

Carden uses a generator to keep the refrigerator humming but only when someone’s home to monitor it.

“We have a deep freeze in the garage packed full with beef and chicken. I’m sure everything will be thrown away,” she said.

“Las autoridades argentinas se están acercando rápidamente hacia prácticas tecno-autoritarias”, señaló Matt Mahmoudi, investigador y asesor sobre Inteligencia Artificial y Derechos Humanos de Amnistía Internacional, durante la presentación del primer informe de la organización sobre el uso de tecnologías de vigilancia masiva en el país sudamericano.

A partir de la llegada de Milei al poder en 2023, Argentina implementó una gran cantidad de reformas en áreas de seguridad e inteligencia y expandió el uso de tecnologías de vigilancia, como el reconocimiento facial, el ciberpatrullaje, los drones y las cámaras móviles.

El cambio de paradigma sobre seguridad se dio en el marco del plan de austeridad implementado por Milei que implicó fuertes recortes presupuestarios en áreas sociales clave y detonó en violentas protestas callejeras.

Según el informe, entre 2024 y 2025 el gobierno argentino adquirió tecnologías de vigilancia por 1,2 millones de dólares a empresas como Maltego (recolección, cruce y visualización de datos provenientes de redes sociales, sitios web, datos personales, etc) y Clearview AI (reconocimiento facial), entre otras.

Efecto inhibidor

Para Amnistía, el despliegue de políticas y tecnologías de vigilancia en Argentina “tiene impactos directos en los derechos humanos”.

En particular, la organización alertó sobre su “efecto inhibidor”, que ocurre cuando la mera percepción de estar siendo vigilado modifica la conducta de las personas, limitando por ejemplo su derecho a manifestarse o provocando la autocensura en redes sociales.

“Hay una percepción generalizada de vigilancia estatal, tanto en el espacio físico como en el entorno digital”, indicó la organización.

The Associated Press consultó al Ministerio de Seguridad sobre el informe de Amnistía Internacional pero no obtuvo respuesta.

El uso de estas tecnologías no es patrimonio exclusivo del gobierno nacional. Amnistía Internacional advirtió que la alcaldía de Buenos Aires también amplió “significativamente” la cobertura territorial de cámaras y sistemas de procesamiento de imágenes.

En 2022 la justicia suspendió el sistema de reconocimiento facial de prófugos mediante el uso de algoritmos aplicados a imágenes captadas por cámaras de vigilancia en el espacio público, el cual derivó en múltiples arrestos por error.

La visita de Thiel

La presentación del informe coincide con el creciente interés del multimillonario tecnológico de Silicon Valley Peter Thiel, cofundador de PayPal y Palantir Technologies, en el país sudamericano. El tecno magnate habría adquirido una propiedad en uno de los barrios más lujosos de la capital argentina, según reportes de la prensa local, y mantuvo al menos tres encuentros con Milei, dados a conocer por el propio gobierno.

Palantir es uno de los principales proveedores globales de tecnologías de inteligencia y análisis masivos de datos para gobiernos. Recientemente firmó un acuerdo con el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos para agilizar el proceso de identificación y deportación de las personas a las que la agencia tiene en la mira. También es proveedor de Gran Bretaña, Alemania e Israel.

Amnistía Internacional comentó que por el momento no hay información pública sobre eventuales acuerdos de cooperación entre el gobierno argentino y Palantir.

“Palantir tiene una forma de aparecer en entornos muy particulares”, advirtió Mahmoudi. “Para ellos, este es un choque ideológico de civilizaciones. Y es importante tener eso en cuenta sobre Palantir, independientemente de lo que esté sucediendo aquí en Argentina”.

En paralelo, diputados opositores presentaron un proyecto para que el Parlamento rechace la presunta injerencia de Thiel en asuntos estratégicos de Argentina y lo declare persona “non grata”.

Sostienen que en los últimos meses trascendieron acuerdos entre Argentina y Estados Unidos en materia de defensa, cooperación tecnológica e inteligencia artificial que involucrarían a empresas relacionadas con Thiel, en el marco del alineamiento geopolítico de Milei con Donald Trump. El magnate y el gobierno no han hecho declaraciones públicas al respecto.

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Investigators said BSO Traffic Homicide Unit detectives responded to the intersection of Northeast 49th Street and North Federal Highway at the request of the Lighthouse Point Police Department to investigate the crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian riding a scooter.

The preliminary investigation found the scooter rider was crossing eastbound through the intersection when he was struck by a gray Toyota Corolla traveling southbound, according to detectives.

The driver, Gustavo Mendez, of Boca Raton, left the scene after the crash, authorities said.

They said Lighthouse Point Fire Rescue medics transported the victim to Broward Health North Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.

Detectives said that as the investigation continued, they located Mendez and the Toyota Corolla and arrested him in Boca Raton.

Additional information about the victim was withheld under Marsy’s Law.

Authorities said the investigation is “ongoing.”

Los investigadores señalaron que detectives de la Unidad de Homicidios de Tráfico de la BSO acudieron a la intersección de Northeast 49th Street y North Federal Highway, a petición del Departamento de Policía de Lighthouse Point, para investigar el accidente entre un vehículo y un peatón que conducía un scooter.

La investigación preliminar reveló que el conductor del scooter cruzaba la intersección en dirección este cuando fue embestido por un Toyota Corolla gris que circulaba hacia el sur, según indicaron los detectives.

El conductor, Gustavo Méndez, residente de Boca Raton, abandonó el lugar tras el accidente, comunicaron las autoridades.

Informaron que el personal de emergencias médicas de Lighthouse Point Fire Rescue trasladó a la víctima al centro médico Broward Health North, donde posteriormente se confirmó su fallecimiento.

Los detectives indicaron que conforme avanzaba la investigación, localizaron a Méndez y al Toyota Corolla, por lo que procedieron al arresto en Boca Raton.

No se divulgó información adicional sobre la víctima en virtud de la Ley Marsy.

Las autoridades dijeron que la investigación sigue en curso.

The milestone figure was recorded just five months after the U.S. hit a record $39 trillion debt in March. It reached $38 trillion five months before that, in October.

The unprecedented $40 trillion figure highlights competing administration priorities, from boosting defense spending that the U.S. relies on to carry out President Donald Trump's almost-6-month-old war in Iran to lowering the cost of gas and groceries.

Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, said the Trump administration “has been focused on slashing waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending while accelerating economic growth to get America’s debt-to-GDP ratio trending in the right direction.”

However, experts say the exploding debt and the latest record milestone are already affecting Americans' pocketbooks by raising borrowing costs for things like mortgages and cars, lowering wages from businesses that have less money available to invest, and creating more expensive goods and services.

“If we want to improve our living standards, today and for the next generation, now is the time for lawmakers to put our nation on a more affordable and sustainable path," says Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a think tank focused on U.S. fiscal challenges.

The debt has exploded over several presidential administrations, as the nation's leaders spend more money than it collects in taxes. In recent memory, the multi-year COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the U.S. economy, where the federal government borrowed heavily during President Trump's first term and under former President Joe Biden to stabilize the economy and support a recovery.

More government spending was approved after Trump signed Republicans’ tax cut and spending legislation into law last year.

Advocates for a balanced budget also warn that the long-term trend of borrowing more and paying more in interest will force Americans to face tougher fiscal tradeoffs ahead.

"The federal debt is already raising the cost of living and choking out other spending and investment, threatening our economy and Americans’ long-term prosperity,” said Margaret Spellings, president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center.

“Our current fiscal trajectory is plainly unsustainable, and that’s the best-case scenario. AI disruption, a recession, global war, or any number of other events could quickly push us over the edge from a challenge into a full-blown crisis," Spellings said in a statement.

The U.S. is subject to a statutory debt limit, or a limit to federal borrowing, which Congress has the authority to set, adjust or abolish. The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that the U.S. will most likely reach the $41.1 trillion debt limit sometime between late winter and mid-summer of 2027, requiring Congress to again vote on whether to raise or suspend it.

The U.S.' fiscal position stands as the worst among other developed countries, according to recent data analysis from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

En conferencia de prensa, junto al canciller peruano Carlos Espá, no se reveló la cantidad de dinero que representará la ayuda de Estados Unidos. Espá indicó que empezó una “hoja de ruta” que contempla ayuda en equipamiento, conocimiento y sobrevuelo para prevenir, mitigar y responder al fenómeno.

Navarro dijo en español que el objetivo de la reunión en Miami fue conocer las "necesidades" de Perú y “cómo podemos apoyar” con una respuesta rápida. Recordó que la ayuda en el reciente terremoto de Colombia hubiera sido más rápida “si hubiéramos estado más sincronizados”.

La conferencia ocurrió luego que el canciller peruano retornó de Miami donde estuvo junto a Navarro para conseguir cooperación de Estados Unidos frente al fenómeno climático. En otra cita el canciller también se reunió con empresarios estadounidenses interesados en invertir en planes de minería e infraestructura.

Navarro indicó que en febrero de 2027 llegará a la zona norte de la costa del Pacífico de Perú el barco hospital USNS Comfort que ya estuvo en Perú en 2018 y 2019. “Lo vamos a traer en febrero que es cuando creemos que va a ser el pico del problema con El Niño”, acotó.

El fenómeno climático El Niño es un calentamiento de las aguas del Pacífico cerca de la línea del ecuador que afecta los patrones climáticos globales. Según los meteorólogos, podría igualar o superar al fenómeno de 1997 que causó daños por olas de calor, lluvias intensas, inundaciones e incendios forestales.

La presidenta Keiko Fujimori, quien inició su gobierno el 28 de julio, ha indicado que una de las prioridades de su gestión es enfrentar el fenómeno climático. Antes de empezar su gobierno, Fujimori indicó que, según reportes científicos El Niño será “muy fuerte” y que incluso se menciona “la palabra catastrófica”.

Conveagro, que agrupa a la mayoría de agricultores de Perú, estima que podrían sumarse pérdidas por 3.000 millones de dólares, se reduciría hasta 50% la producción de alimentos y se afectaría a más de nueve millones de personas. ADEX, un gremio clave exportador, advierte impactos en las agroexportaciones por plagas y problemas fitosanitarios, mientras el sector pesquero prevé menores capturas por el calentamiento del mar.

Max D. Lederer Jr. announced his retirement, effective at the end of September, in a memo to staff on Tuesday, as well as in an interview with Stars and Stripes. In the memo, seen by The Associated Press, Lederer, the second full-time civilian in the position, wrote that it had “become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization.”

The announcement comes less than four months after the Pentagon fired Jacqueline Smith, ombudsman for the newspaper, whose job was to safeguard editorial independence. The news outlet is partly funded by the Defense Department, but has a legacy of independence from military and government leadership. “No one should be surprised that they’re kicking out the one person charged by Congress with protecting Stars and Stripes’ editorial independence," Smith wrote in a column.

Stars and Stripes has recently been at the forefront of some of the reporting on conditions for sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln and concerns for their mental health during the aircraft carrier’s long deployment — concerns that President Donald Trump has downplayed.

It's part of larger, government-driven changes to the military publication

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Lederer’s retirement, which comes seven months after the department announced in a social media post that it would essentially overhaul the newspaper to align with its current messaging.

Hegseth's spokesman, Sean Parnell, wrote on on X in January that the Pentagon “is returning Stars and Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters.” He said the department will “refocus its content away from woke distractions.”

“Stars and Stripes will be custom tailored to our warfighters,” Parnell wrote. “It will focus on warfighting, weapons systems, fitness, lethality, survivability and ALL THINGS MILITARY. No more repurposed DC gossip columns; no more Associated Press reprints.”

More broadly, the developments at Stars and Stripes come against a backdrop of increased efforts by Hegseth to control media coverage of the department.

Last year, officials attempted to impose restrictions on journalists working inside the Pentagon, which, in turn, led most news outlets to turn in their access badges and walk out.

Then this summer, the Pentagon took another step and declared its press office a classified space — instituting a policy that journalists must be accompanied by an escort on Pentagon grounds. That policy is being challenged in court. In mid-July, a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the policy could stand, overturning a lower court decision.

In her April column titled “The Pentagon is trying to silence me,” Smith, the former ombudsman, expressed concern over increasing restrictions on the media.

“For nearly a year, Pentagon leadership has placed more and more restrictions on the mainstream media,” she wrote. “The New York Times sued and when the Defense/War Department lost in court, instead of following the judge’s ruling Secretary Hegseth and company pivoted, finding another way to restrict journalists.”

Of Stars and Stripes, Smith wrote: “This newspaper has a long history of commitment to the military community and to journalistic values. Please don’t let it be controlled by Pentagon brass.”

The departing publisher objected to certain changes

Lederer was not made available for an interview with the AP. In the interview with Stars and Stripes, he said he did not feel the modernization efforts the Pentagon announced in March were appropriate, in particular a transitioning of print products to digital — a move he feared would limit accessibility for troops.

“I don’t feel that there’s a full recognition of the value of multiple platforms versus only a digital platform,” Lederer was quoted as saying.

In another development, Stars and Stripes said it could not confirm an account that, in recent weeks, a new deputy had been installed by the Pentagon under Lederer without the publisher’s prior knowledge.

In a letter seen by the AP, Rufus Friday, the chair of Stars and Stripes’ advisory board of publishers, wrote to congressional leaders about the arrival of the new deputy, a development he said “threatens Stripes’s editorial independence.”

Roughly half of Stars and Stripes' budget comes from the Pentagon, and its staff members are considered Defense Department employees.

The outlet’s mission statement emphasizes that it is “editorially independent of interference from outside its own editorial chain-of-command” and that it is unique among news organizations tied to the Defense Department in being “governed by the principles of the First Amendment.”

The newspaper has been reporting about the military steadily since World War II, to an audience mainly of service members stationed overseas.

Lederer told Stars and Stripes that while his retirement is effective Sept. 30, he does not know whether the Pentagon will keep him as publisher until then or name an acting publisher.

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Dr. Erica Schwartz also said she wouldn’t hesitate to disagree with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if necessary — but said she wouldn’t do so publicly.

Schwartz started at the head of the Atlanta-based federal agency last week, taking the reins from a series of temporary directors. She spoke to CDC employees Wednesday at her first “all hands” staff meeting. The Associated Press heard a recording of the meeting.

Schwartz mentioned an AP story this week about CDC programs that have congressional appropriations but functionally are dead or nearly dead because the CDC staffers who did the work were laid off by President Donald Trump’s administration or remain on leave.

She did not say exactly what she will do about these “zombie" programs and about staffers who feel exhausted and overloaded, but said she will meet with CDC staffers to learn more about the situation and what can be done.

“The good news is, I’m here,” she said. “I’m Week 1 of being here, and now I can certainly be able to advocate for the CDC. I think when you have (had) that leadership vacuum, it’s, you know, it’s hard to get that advocacy.”

Schwartz previously served in uniformed government jobs with the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Public Health Service. When she disagrees with other leaders she does so in private, “because that’s just part of the uniformed service person in me,” she said. She said she would continue to do so, but “not in front of the media.”

She also promised to build public trust in the agency through “radical transparency, scientific rigor and honest communications,” echoing language used by Kennedy.

Schwartz is the 22nd leader of the CDC, which is charged with protecting Americans from preventable health threats. In her talk Wednesday, she acknowledged the challenges agency employees have faced.

Largely due to layoffs and resignations, the agency has lost 3,000-plus employees, more than one-quarter of its workforce. Morale has plummeted as a succession of mostly temporary leaders has come and gone. The front office has been staffed by political appointees with little or no training in medicine or public health.

Kennedy, a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement, took several steps that ran counter to CDC research and recommendations, including disbanding an expert advisory committee and appointing his own panel that included several vaccine skeptics.

CDC staffers asked questions Wednesday, including one about Trump's executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

Schwartz said a task force on childhood vaccine safety is being established and she is on the panel. It has not met yet, she said. The panel has been given 90 days to report to Trump, she added.

Some current and former CDC employees said Schwartz appeared to be earnest, but want to see what she does.

The National Public Health Coalition, an organization of former and current CDC workers, issued a statement after the meeting.

“CDC staff and the American people deserve a strong, independent leader who will follow the science, defend public health expertise and put the health and safety of the public ahead of political pressure,” the statement said. “Dr. Schwartz has spoken about rebuilding trust. That trust must be earned through action."

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The team said Wednesday that Fudd will have arthroscopic surgery on her right knee next week in Connecticut, where she starred for UConn before becoming the Huskies' second consecutive top overall pick by Dallas. Reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year Paige Bueckers was the No. 1 choice last year.

Fudd was eased into the lineup as a rookie, coming off the bench for the first six games. She scored 24 points in that sixth game and immediately became a full-time starter. Fudd had a season-high 26 points in a win over Seattle in June.

Fudd, who averaged 13.1 points in 30 games, went through warmups before a home game against Golden State on Aug. 7 and was held out of the game “out of an abundance of caution,” according to the team. The soreness persisted.

Bueckers and Fudd won the 2025 national championship together at UConn before Bueckers was drafted by the Wings, who are 3-8 since a six-game winning streak that was the longest since the franchise moved to Texas 10 years ago.

Dallas is still in good shape to make the playoffs for the first time since 2023. The Wings play Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever at the home of the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night.

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The testimony of Paul Zeizel is the strongest evidence yet to support the defense contentions that Clancy should not be held legally responsible for murder because she has bipolar disorder and was in the grip of a rare mental illness called postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children before trying to kill herself. Zeizel began seeing Clancy as a patient at a hospital after the deaths.

“She was unable to conform her behavior to the rule of law. She had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act,” Zeizel said, adding that she had “a mental disease or a defect.”

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Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. Postpartum psychosis is linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Researchers estimate that the condition — which is more serious and less common than postpartum depression — afflicts 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after delivery.

Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the January 2023 killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.

Clancy was not getting better

Zeizel, who said he spent more than 35 hours with Clancy over dozens of visits and reviewed her medical records, said she went to a perinatal clinic in December 2022 because she felt her “brain was damaged,” “she should kill herself” and that she “is never going to get any better.” She also showed signs of psychosis, was paranoid and feared that people could hear her thoughts and that she would lose her children.

“She was worried that her children would be removed from her and that she would never see them again,” he said.

But just because she was in a psychotic state, Zeizel said, that didn't mean she couldn't do “everyday tasks of living” like driving and searching the internet, a reference to the fact that the day of the killings she took her daughter to the doctor, played with the children in the snow and searched online for a pharmacy and a restaurant.

“So the fact she is not talking about the unicorns in the corner, she is not slurring her words and she is not unable to walk, to your opinion to a degree of medical certainty, does that mean she is not in a psychotic state?” Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington asked.

Zeizel responded: “It does not.”

Prosecution challenges Zeizel's credibility

On cross-examination, prosecutors pointed out mistakes Zeizel made in his report about Clancy and questioned whether he could be objective about her diagnosis when he was seeing her as a patient and working with the defense including appearing with Reddington at a news conference.

Zeizel acknowledged that there was nothing in Clancy's medical records in which she reports hearing voices telling her to kill herself, only that she told her caregivers that “she wanted to die.”

Prosecutors have questioned the seriousness of Clancy’s suicide attempt. After strangling her children, Clancy jumped from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down.

Prosecution brings up the children's birthdays

Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham also read from daily reports from Tewksbury Hospital, the state psychiatric hospital where Clancy stays, that included the anniversary of the killings and what would have been her children's birthdays. Those reports mentioned her parents sometimes visiting or her talking with other patients. But they never mentioned anything she did to remember her children.

Reddington asked Zeizel if he saw anything in the record from the hospital about her “laughing, and partying and having a good time” while in the hospital.

“Lindsay Clancy has bad days and worse days,” Zeizel said.

Zeizel also said Clancy often talks about her children, aiming to dispel prosecutors' contention that she never mentions them. “She really loves them and misses them and thinks of them every single day, almost every moment of the day,” Zeizel said.

If convicted of murder, Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty because of a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

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Caruso, 67, of Riviera Beach, appeared before a Palm Beach County judge in prison clothing, handcuffs and shackles. He did not speak during the brief hearing and allowed his attorney to address the court.

The judge ordered Caruso held without bond while he awaits transfer to Orange County, where he faces charges including kidnapping, lewd or lascivious molestation, lewd or lascivious exhibition, luring or enticing a child and child abuse involving mental injury.

The judge also ordered Caruso to have no contact with the alleged victim or the victim’s family.

Authorities have said the investigation remains ongoing.

An arrest warrant obtained by Local 10 News states that the victim, who is under the age of 12 and is known to Caruso, claimed that Caruso engaged in sexual activity with him on two separate occasions — once around Thanksgiving in 2024 and again during a family cruise in August 2025.

Caruso has denied the allegations, according to his arrest affidavit.

Authorities said Caruso was arrested Tuesday and immediately suspended from his position by Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis’ executive order bars Caruso from performing any official duties and suspends his pay and allowances.

Shannon Ramsey-Chessman has been sworn in as clerk ad interim following Caruso’s suspension.

Caruso was appointed Palm Beach County clerk of the circuit court and comptroller by DeSantis in 2025 after serving in the Florida House of Representatives. He had been seeking reelection to the clerk’s position.

The arrest comes more than three years after Caruso backed legislation that created a capital sexual battery offense in Florida for certain sexual offenses against children. The law allows the death penalty in cases that meet its requirements.

“Obviously it was a very easy decision for me to yank him from that position,” said DeSantis on Tuesday. “I’m proud that we have very strong penalties for people that abuse children and if he is convicted he is going to be in for a world of hurt.”

Florida law allows the death penalty for an adult convicted of capital sexual battery involving a child under 12. The law applies to sexual battery, or an attempt to commit sexual battery that injures the child’s sexual organs.

Maj. Gen. Adel Issa is the first military officer to be turned over by Lebanon since Assad’s fall in late 2024.

Lebanon’s judicial authorities decided on Tuesday to deliver Issa to Syria, after questioning him over crimes he allegedly committed during the country’s conflict.

Syria’s Interior Ministry said it had asked authorities in Lebanon to hand over Issa to Syria over alleged crimes including intentional killing of more than two persons, the crime of torture resulting in death, and acts of aggression aimed at inciting civil war and sectarian strife.

The ministry added that Issa was the commander of the Syrian army’s 17th Division and the commander of ground forces in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour until 2016. The ministry posted a photo of Issa wearing a prison uniform.

Officials in Beirut said on Tuesday that Issa was turned over to Syria in accordance with a 1951 agreement between the countries that calls for delivering suspected criminals to face justice.

After Syrian fighters opposed to Assad marched into Damascus to end the Assad family’s five-decade rule in December 2024, a number of military and security officers fled to Lebanon, where some remain.

Dozens of other former members of his security agencies accused of atrocities have been arrested and put on trial in Syria.

Last week, a Syrian court sentenced Assad and his younger brother Maher to death in absentia while their maternal cousin, Brig. Gen. Atef Najib, became the most senior security official to be sentenced to death while in custody. The Assad brothers fled to Russia during the ouster.

Issa was detained on Aug. 8 when he went to the Syrian Embassy in Beirut for some paperwork. Embassy officials contacted Lebanon’s prosecutor’s office to tell them that Issa was wanted in Syria.

Issa had fled to Lebanon by crossing illegally after Assad’s fall, the officials said.

Syria’s conflict, which began with anti-government protests in March 2011 before turning into a civil war, left 500,000 people dead and over 1 million wounded.

Caruso, de 67 años y residente de Riviera Beach, compareció ante un juez del condado Palm Beach con ropa de prisión, esposas y grilletes. No habló durante la breve audiencia y permitió que su abogado se dirigiera al tribunal.

El juez ordenó que Caruso permaneciera detenido sin derecho a fianza mientras espera ser trasladado al condado Orange, donde enfrenta cargos que incluyen secuestro, conducta lasciva o indecente, exhibición lasciva o indecente, atraer o persuadir a un menor y abuso infantil con daño psicológico.

El juez también ordenó a Caruso no tener contacto con la presunta víctima ni con la familia de la víctima.

Las autoridades han dicho que la investigación continúa.

Una orden de arresto obtenida por Local 10 News señala que la víctima, menor de 12 años y conocida por Caruso, afirmó que Caruso tuvo actividad sexual con él en dos ocasiones distintas: una alrededor del Día de Acción de Gracias de 2024 y otra durante un crucero familiar en agosto de 2025.

Caruso ha negado las acusaciones, según su declaración jurada de arresto.

Las autoridades dijeron que Caruso fue arrestado el martes y suspendido inmediatamente de su cargo por el gobernador Ron DeSantis. La orden ejecutiva de DeSantis le prohíbe a Caruso desempeñar cualquier función oficial y suspende su salario y beneficios.

Shannon Ramsey-Chessman asumió como secretaria interina tras la suspensión de Caruso.

Caruso fue nombrado secretario de los tribunales de circuito y contralor del condado Palm Beach por DeSantis en 2025, después de haber servido en la Cámara de Representantes de Florida. Se había postulado para la reelección al cargo de secretario.

El arresto ocurre más de tres años después de que Caruso respaldara una legislación que creó en Florida un delito de agresión sexual con pena capital para ciertos delitos sexuales contra menores. La ley permite la pena de muerte en los casos que cumplen con sus requisitos.

“Obviamente, fue una decisión muy fácil para mí destituirlo de ese cargo”, dijo DeSantis el martes. “Me enorgullece que contemos con sanciones muy severas para quienes abusan de niños; si resulta condenado, le esperan consecuencias gravísimas”.

La ley de Florida contempla la pena de muerte para los adultos condenados por agresión sexual grave contra un menor de 12 años. La disposición se aplica a casos de agresión sexual —o intentos de cometerla— que causen lesiones en los órganos sexuales del menor.

Fletcher spoke to The Associated Press in an interview after a visit to the southern city of Kherson, where he witnessed how communities there are coping while living under the constant threat of Russian drones. Fletcher described the visit to Kherson, split by the Dnipro River, which acts as an active front line, as “quite chilling."

Russian forces occupy the eastern bank, while Ukrainian forces hold the western bank. From across the water, kamikaze and surveillance drones routinely hunt and attack civilians, vehicles and public transit.

“It really gives us an insight into the dangers ahead of us,” he said.

The threat is also making it harder for humanitarian organizations to reach people who need assistance.

Fletcher spoke after attending a commemoration for two humanitarian workers who had died while doing their jobs.

“Drones are a real threat to not just civilians but the humanitarians who are here to protect them,” Fletcher said.

He said that aid workers are protected under international humanitarian law and yet marked humanitarian vehicles have still been hit. “So that does restrict what we can do," he said.

Local organizations are particularly exposed. More than two-thirds of operations funded through Ukraine's humanitarian fund are carried out by local organizations, according to Fletcher.

“They’re the ones who are saying most loudly to us, we’re not protected,” he said.

Fletcher said the U.N. needs more than $2 billion for its prioritized humanitarian response in Ukraine this year, with winter among his biggest concerns. Damage to civilian infrastructure, including electricity, water and gas systems, could once again leave millions vulnerable during the harsh winter months, raising fears of a repeat of last winter’s severe conditions.

The U.N. has sharply narrowed its humanitarian priorities all over the world as donor funding has fallen. Fletcher said the organization initially identified 87 million people facing the most severe humanitarian needs, but that figure has since risen to about 92 million with the onslaught of Ebola in Africa, the earthquake in Venezuela and other conflicts.

The U.N. is seeking $23 billion to provide life-saving assistance to those people and had raised about $11 billion, said Fletcher.

Ukraine is relatively well funded compared with many other crises, he added, with roughly 70–75% of its hyper-prioritized funding requirement covered. But even full funding of the humanitarian plan would address only part of Ukraine’s needs.

Fletcher also admitted that raising money for humanitarian operations has become more difficult as governments have increasingly redirected spending toward defense and domestic priorities.

“We’re in a more transactional world, I would say a more selfish world,” he said.

Fletcher said the U.N. now has to demonstrate that it is using limited taxpayer money efficiently and strategically.

“We have to show governments that we are spending their taxpayers’ money sensibly, wisely, in a prioritized way,” he said.

In a stark new assessment released on Wednesday, the U.N. warned that 907 aid workers were victims of violence last year and over 1,000 have been killed in three years. Fletcher said he could not reassure colleagues that those responsible would be held accountable based on how the international community has reacted.

He said accountability should extend beyond identifying the person who physically carried out an attack.

“I want to see investigations into the people who fired the weapon or flew the drone,” he said.

During his second day of testimony, Arturo Béjar said Meta consistently prioritized profits over safety in designing its products, focusing on how often and for how long people used them, even if it was detrimental to their mental well-being.

“If you step away from the product, they are not going to make any money,” he said.

The trial that began Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, California, pits Meta against the states of California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey and is expected to last about six weeks. The four states were among 29 that sued the tech giant in 2023 over child safety and privacy — the other 25 will go to trial later. The company also faces lawsuits in state courts, including one underway in Tennessee.

The lawsuit accuses Meta of contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features that addict children to its platforms and hide these harms from the public. It also argues that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent, in violation of federal law.

Meta says users must be at least 13 years old to create an account, in line with the law, called the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.

“The attitude in particular on Instagram was ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell,’” Béjar said in response to a question about his perception of the company’s attitude towards users under 13.

The company has rejected the claims and said evidence at the trial will show its commitment to safety.

“You will hear over the course of this case a lot of important issues, issues like teen mental health, issues like social media, issues like how teens use social media,” Meta lawyer Paul Schmidt said Tuesday. “Those are important issues, and they’re issues where Meta believes that it has a responsibility. It has a responsibility to act on its own. It has a responsibility to try to work with teens and parents in partnership to try to address those questions.”

Plaintiffs' witness says safety was an ‘afterthought’

Béjar worked at Facebook from 2009 to 2015, attracting wide attention for his work to combat cyberbullying. He returned from 2019 to 2021 as a contractor to work on safety issues. He testified before Congress in 2023 about social media and the teen mental health crisis, saying that Meta executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, knew about harms Instagram was causing but chose not to make meaningful changes to address them.

In his testimony Wednesday, Béjar said employee performance reviews and compensation for those who worked on user-facing products were mostly focused on user numbers and how long they spend with those products.

“In that context, safety was an afterthought,” he said.

The states are seeking changes to user experiences for Facebook and Instagram as well as financial damages, which could include billions of dollars in penalties. In a written statement, the office of California's attorney general said if Meta loses, the amount of any damages would be set by the court.

“This case is about stopping Meta from offering a dangerous product to teens, and from lying to teens, families, and the public about the dangerousness of their platforms. The primary remedy under our state consumer protection law is an injunction,” the statement said.

Béjar walked through Meta features he said were designed for adults and are “inherently unsafe for teenagers.”

This includes video autoplay, which can mean teens see videos that may cause them harm even if they don't click on them; as well as various counters that track how many people liked, viewed or commented on your content or how many followers you have.

Child development experts have noted teenagers are more susceptible to social comparison than adults, so products that reward popularity can be more harmful to their mental health.

Age verification has been criticized for not going far enough

Despite Meta's statements that it works to find kids under 13 on its platforms and ban them, Béjar testified that he found “tens of thousands” of kids under 13 on Instagram through his research. He said it was “common knowledge” at the company that such young children were on Instagram.

“Meta has one of the most sophisticated infrastructures in the world to detect fake accounts,” he said. But despite that, he added, there were “no goals, no metrics” to detect and check kids’ ages who were suspected to be under 13.

Over the years, Meta has introduced features it says are designed to make the experience safer for young people. But Béjar said these did not work.

For instance, a tool called “Take a Break," introduced in 2021, is a feature that is "designed to fail,” he said. First, it is a setting that people have to turn on if they want to use it. Béjar said that in his experience building settings, very few users actually go through the trouble of turning them on. He compared it to an airbag that drivers have to turn on every time they get in a car.

“A safety tool has to be on by default,” he said.

The feature can also be dismissed with a tap of a finger. If Meta was serious about wanting users to take a break, Béjar said, it would not be so easily swiped away.

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The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the Texans haven’t announced the severity of his injury.

Higgins fell awkwardly while running a route during a joint practice with the Las Vegas Raiders on Tuesday in Houston. Coach DeMeco Ryans said at the time that Higgins was being evaluated for a leg injury.

The second-year receiver was expected to team up with No. 1 wideout Nico Collins in the Texans offense led by quarterback C.J. Stroud. A second-round pick in the 2025 draft, Higgins made 41 catches for 525 yards and six touchdowns in his rookie year.

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A person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press the contract is expected to be a one-year deal. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the terms hadn't been announced.

Diggs is a two-time Pro Bowler coming off a season in which he was waived by the Dallas Cowboys and released by the Green Bay Packers. In joining the Super Bowl champions, the 27-year-old hopes to more closely resemble the player who had an NFL-leading 11 interceptions and earned All-Pro honors in 2021.

“I’m looking to show that I’m still the best,” Diggs said. “I’m looking to show that I just want to win and be there for my teammates and be a great teammate and be a great player.”

The Seahawks brought in Diggs less than a week after the team entered an agreement with cornerback Terrion Arnold, whose status for the 2026 season is uncertain.

Arnold is facing eight felony charges stemming from allegations he orchestrated the abduction and beating of three men in February. He became a free agent in June, when the Detroit Lions released him a few days after the kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy charges were levied.

Arnold will be placed on the commissioner's exempt list when he signs. He will not be permitted to play or practice while the league investigates his case but can be paid and attend team meetings.

Wide receiver Julian Hicks was waived to make room for Diggs on the 90-man roster.

Diggs should add depth to a secondary that lost cornerback Riq Woolen to free agency and has been without second-year safety Nick Emannwori, who had offseason ankle surgery, during training camp.

In 2025, Diggs played six games for Dallas before sustaining a concussion in an accident at home on Oct. 16. He didn’t explain the cause of the injury to reporters until two months later, when he said he got hit in the head when he was mounting a pole while trying to install a TV.

“It was tough, but just keeping good people around you (helps),” Diggs said of his recovery. “My family is a great support system for me, keeping my mental straight. Just keep going.”

Even after Diggs cleared the concussion protocol, he remained off the field with what the Cowboys described as lingering knee issues. Diggs then returned for two games before getting waived in late December.

He joined the Packers just before their final regular-season game. He played nearly half of Green Bay’s defensive snaps in his Packers debut as the team rested its starters in a 16-3 loss at Minnesota. But he was on the field for only one snap when the Packers lost 31-27 at Chicago in an NFC wild-card playoff game.

Diggs made the Pro Bowl in 2021 and 2022 but his performance has declined since, in part because of two major knee surgeries. He declared himself healthy on Wednesday.

“It’s my first offseason that I’ve been able to just not rehab and actually do offseason training,” Diggs said. “So, a lot of trainers put the work in, helped me put the work in to get to where I’m at today.”

Diggs has played in 71 NFL games, including playoffs, since the Cowboys took him with the 51st pick in the 2020 draft out of Alabama.

The Seahawks fielded arguably the NFL’s best defense last season. No team allowed fewer points per game (17.2), and Seattle finished in the top seven in the league in sacks and interceptions.

Diggs has been teammates previously with Seattle cornerback Josh Jobe and defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence.

“It was just finding somewhere that felt like home,” Diggs said. “Finding somewhere that I’ll have the opportunity to compete, have the opportunity to play. It felt right.”

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En Potosí, región al sur de Bolivia y una de las más golpeadas por la nieve, se declaró la emergencia y se activó el apoyo económico y logístico, informó el miércoles la gobernación.

El Ministerio de Defensa señaló por su lado que en Potosí y otras zonas cercanas más de 26.000 familias y 323 comunidades dedicadas a la crianza de llamas y ovejas, así como a la agricultura, resultaron afectadas luego de que varias carreteras fueron cerradas a raíz de la acumulación de nieve.

El coronel Pompeo Sánchez, comandante departamental de la Policía de Potosí, informó por teléfono a The Associated Press que el martes fueron atendidas en diferentes rutas cientos de personas, entre ellas los turistas italianos que retornaban en autobús del Salar de Uyuni, uno de los más grandes del mundo que recibe a diario la visita de numerosos viajeros.

“Ahora todos están bien; siguieron su camino hacia La Paz”, señaló Sánchez. En días pasados, las autoridades también auxiliaron a tres estadounidenses y dos franceses.

El Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Italia informó por su lado que “a través de la Unidad de Crisis y en estrecha colaboración con la Embajada de Italia en La Paz” prestó asistencia la víspera a un centenar de ciudadanos italianos “que se habían quedado bloqueados en alta montaña debido a las adversas condiciones meteorológicas que están afectando a Bolivia”.

Imágenes de medios locales tomadas la víspera mostraron a llamas, alpacas y vicuñas cubiertas de nieve buscando refugio en zonas cercanas. Mientras tanto, en otras más alejadas los conductores se ayudaban entre sí para retirar la nieve y avanzar por la carretera.

El viceministro de Defensa Civil de Bolivia, Roberto Rivero Zimmermann, indicó que “Defensa Civil coordina con municipios, la ABC (Administradora Boliviana de Carreteras), bomberos y las Fuerzas Armadas para atender a las comunidades y rehabilitar caminos”.

La nieve también afecta a La Paz, donde el tránsito vehicular fue interrumpido debido a que una vía quedó resbaladiza por el hielo, lo que generó largas filas de camiones y buses, entre otros vehículos. En los valles de Chuquisaca se reportaron nevadas después de siete años, según autoridades locales, al igual que en Oruro y Cochabamba.

El Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología informó que no se prevén nuevas nevadas en el altiplano boliviano debido al ingreso de una masa de aire seco que permitirá una mejora del tiempo; sin embargo, alertó que se producirán bajas temperaturas por el ingreso de un frente frío.

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news more than a month after the startup's Link spacecraft rocketed away to the telescope's rescue.

Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture Swift and boost it to a higher orbit because of problems with controlling the spacecraft. NASA said this means the telescope will plunge through the atmosphere after more than 20 years of tracking some of the biggest explosions in the universe like gamma ray bursts and exploding stars. Its demise is not expected before October.

NASA paid $30 million to Katalyst in an attempt to raise the telescope to a safer, longer-lasting orbit. Intense solar activity caused it to lose altitude faster than expected. The rescue spacecraft went into an uncontrollable spin a few weeks after its liftoff in early July. While flight controllers managed to slow Link's tumble, issues continued to plague its pointing and positioning in orbit.

“This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement.

As a consolation prize, Katalyst will continue to operate Link in proximity with the telescope to demonstrate capabilities for future rescue operations.

Katalyst CEO Ghonhee Lee said it was an ambitious mission on an aggressive timeline that was thrown together in under a year .

“We took on this high-risk, high-reward challenge and are proud of the milestones we reached along the way,” Lee said in a statement. “We have already learned a tremendous amount."

Launched in 2004, Swift's science instruments were turned off earlier this year to slow its descent. It was orbiting 214 miles (345 kilometers) high as of Wednesday. Katalyst had hoped to lift the telescope back to its original orbit of 373 miles (600 kilometers), allowing for many more years of cosmic observations.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could benefit from an orbital boost and had been next in line for a rescue attempt had this mission gone well. The 36-year-old Hubble is also dropping in orbit because of all the sun's recent outbursts. It wasn't immediately known whether Hubble is now out of luck.

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Ice cream was a rare and expensive treat for centuries because of the difficulty of storing ice. In the summer of 1790, President George Washington spent $200 on ice cream, the equivalent of $7,259 today, according to the International Dairy Foods Association.

By the 1800s, inventions like mechanical refrigeration had made ice cream cheaper and more accessible. But America’s pushcart vendors needed a way to serve ice cream to customers.

Enter “penny licks.” Customers would pay a penny for a scoop of ice cream served in a thick glass, which they would lick clean and hand back to the vendor. The glass — sometimes rinsed, sometimes not — was then filled for the next customer. But vendors were frustrated by broken glass and cities were concerned about the spread of disease. London banned penny licks in 1898.

Italian immigrants came to the rescue. In 1902, Antonio Valvona, an ice-cream maker living in Manchester, England, was granted a U.S. patent for a metal mold that could form edible waffle-like cups. He quickly started selling the cups on both sides of the Atlantic.

The following year, Italo Marchiony, an ice cream vendor in New York, was granted a patent for a similar device. Marchiony went on to develop the ice-cream sandwich.

But it was the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair that gave the ice-cream cone its now-familiar shape and vaulted it to popularity.

Several concessionaires at the fair have been touted as the inventors of the ice-cream cone. Joy Baking Group, founded in 1918 and currently making 2 billion cones a year, credits Ernest Hamwi, a 20-year-old Syrian immigrant.

Hamwi was selling zalabiyeh – a crisp, fried pastry – in a booth next to Albert Aboussie, a Lebanese-born ice cream vendor. When Aboussie ran out of paper cups, Hamwi began rolling his pastries into cones dubbed “cornucopias.” They were an instant hit.

By 1910, “cornucopia” had been simplified to “cone,” and Hamwi founded the Missouri Cone Co.

Cone technology quickly advanced, with machines replacing hand-rolling. For those who wanted a lighter texture, the cake cone arrived in the early 1940s — around the time Dairy Queen and Baskin-Robbins emerged.

Increasingly health-conscious Americans eat less ice cream than they used to. In 1984, the average American consumed 17.8 pounds of regular ice cream each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. By 2024, that had fallen to 12 pounds.

But as anyone from George Washington to Ben & Jerry could tell you, on a hot summer night it’s a treat that’s hard to beat.

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The minutes of the July 28-29 meeting, released Wednesday, don't provide specifics on how many of the 19 officials supported higher rates. Only 12 of the 19 policymakers vote on the outcome. Officials voted 9-3 at the meeting to keep their key rate unchanged at about 3.6%.

Inflation has since showed some signs of cooling, though gas prices have rebounded this month on renewed hostilities in the Middle East. Wall Street investors now expect the Fed to remain on hold at its next meeting in September and potentially lift rates in December, though that outlook could change.

At last month's meeting, Fed officials were heavily focused on the threat of stubbornly elevated inflation. Fed officials worried that the Iran war, tariffs, and heavy investment in AI infrastructure were all boosting prices of a range of goods and services.

“Participants judged that their inflation outlooks were highly uncertain and that inflation risks were skewed to the upside,” the minutes said. “Many participants assessed that (higher rates) would likely be necessary if inflation did not decline."

Some Fed officials pointed out that “even after excluding prices of items most directly affected by tariffs and energy prices, underlying inflation appeared to be elevated,” the minutes said.

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called “core” prices have cooled, with annual core inflation falling to 2.5% in July, the government said last week, according to the consumer price index. Yet the Fed pays more attention to a separate gauge, the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, which is running hotter than the CPI. Core PCE prices are expected to have risen 3.3% in July from a year ago, a much higher reading than CPI. Those figures will be reported Aug. 26.

According to the minutes, "Most participants anticipated that inflation would step down over the rest of the year as the effects of tariffs and earlier energy price increases wane, but many participants noted the possibility that inflation might be more persistently elevated.”

New Fed chair Kevin Warsh also unnerved Wall Street investors last month by providing little guidance at a July 29 news conference on what the Fed's next steps might be, threatening the Fed's inflation-fighting credibility. Interest rates, or yields, on longer-term Treasury securities, which had already risen before the meeting, moved higher.

Warsh has said he will provide less of what he calls “forward guidance” about the Fed's plans, which he sees as limiting the central bank's policy options even if economic circumstances change. At the news conference, Warsh didn't fully commit to boosting the Fed's key rate even if inflation stayed persistently high.

The yield on the key 10-year Treasury note touched its highest point more than a year Tuesday, topping 4.7%, before falling back Wednesday. Mortgage rates have followed the 10-year higher, lifting borrowing costs for potential buyers. The yield on 30-year bonds reached the highest level since 2007.

In response, earlier Wednesday the Treasury Department said it would buy back more longer-term Treasury bonds, which helped to lower yields on the 10-year and 30-year Treasurys. But the move highlighted the government’s concerns that rising borrowing costs could weigh on the economy, particularly as U.S. tech companies are stepping up their own borrowing to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure.

“When consumers see a listed price, they expect it to be (the) same price that everyone else sees, not the retailer’s estimate of how much they are willing to pay based on their personal data,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement.

The FTC has had its eye on personalized pricing for several years. In a preliminary report filed in January 2025, the agency found that grocers, clothing companies and others were using third-party companies to help them individualize online prices based on shoppers' locations, browsing histories and other factors, including how long they left items in their virtual shopping carts.

In one hypothetical example, the FTC said a consumer profiled as a new parent might be shown higher-priced baby thermometers on the first page of their search results.

Ferguson said the FTC doesn't have the legal authority to ban personalized pricing in all circumstances. But under the proposed policy, businesses would have to “clearly and conspicuously disclose” if they are engaging in personalized pricing and share the types of data they're using to set those prices.

The proposed policy states that companies engaged in personalized pricing without revealing the practice and the data behind it could violate the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive practices in the marketplace.

The FTC is seeking comment on the policy for 30 days.

Several retail trade groups didn't comment directly on the FTC's proposal Wednesday.

The National Retail Federation, which represents big companies like Walmart, Target and Macy's as well as smaller stores, said retailers want to continue to offer incentives like loyalty and rewards programs, which collect personal data and provide offers tailored to individuals.

“NRF has and will continue to aggressively advocate to protect these programs that deliver timely savings and personalized offers that are relevant to each shopper's interests,” said David French, NRF's executive vice president of government relations.

FMI, a trade group for the U.S. grocery industry, said Wednesday it was reviewing the proposal and didn’t have immediate comment. But in a letter FMI sent to U.S. senators this month after a subcommittee hearing on personalized pricing, FMI also said it hoped to preserve shopper loyalty programs.

In the letter, FMI also noted that electronic shelf labels, which are becoming increasingly common at grocers and retailers like Walmart, don't automatically change prices based on individual shoppers.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association, a trade group that represents Best Buy, Home Depot, Dollar General and 200 other retailers, didn't comment on the new proposal Wednesday but cited its own letter sent to U.S. senators earlier this month.

In the letter, the association said retailers don't use consumers' personal data to increase prices because that would jeopardize customer loyalty.

“As shoppers demonstrate an increased willingness to seek out lower prices, competition among retailers intensifies to meet customers' needs, creating a strong and continuous incentive for retailers to offer attractive prices, discounts and value,” the letter said.

The FTC's action comes amid consumer unease about pricing tactics. Wendy's faced a backlash in 2024 after it said it was considering charging more for its menu items during peak times. Uber and Lyft have also been in lawmakers' crosshairs for their surge-pricing practices.

Several states, including Maryland, Connecticut and New Jersey, have already passed laws prohibiting personalized pricing at grocery stores. California and New York are also considering legislation that would ban personalized pricing.

New Jersey also placed a one-year moratorium on new electronic shelf labels despite retailers' assurances that the labels aren't used for personalized pricing and can actually help consumers by, say, automatically lowering prices for foods that are about to expire.

The consumer advocacy organization Consumer Reports said Wednesday that the FTC's proposal was encouraging but might still require consumers to read detailed disclosures on pricing while shopping online.

The group said the FTC and Congress should instead follow the states' lead and ban companies from using customer data to personalize prices in the first place.

La cifra de muertos por la tormenta aumentó a dos tras el hallazgo del cuerpo de un hombre cerca de una carretera.

Los restos del individuo, de poco más de 60 años, fueron localizados el martes por residentes en un pastizal del distrito más grande y más meridional de la Isla Grande, un día después de que se le solicitara a la policía realizar una verificación de su bienestar, informó el teniente de policía David Po’ohina en un comunicado.

Indicó que la muerte parece estar relacionada con la tormenta. El fin de semana pasado, Lala azotó la Isla Grande como huracán y luego rozó las islas vecinas como tormenta tropical, golpeando el archipiélago volcánico con fuertes vientos y lluvias intensas antes de desplazarse hacia el oeste. También se culpó a Lala por la muerte de una mujer de 93 años cuyo cuerpo fue encontrado el lunes, luego de que se reportara su desaparición en Naalehu, en el extremo sur de la Isla Grande.

Lala, que ahora se encuentra muy al oeste de las islas principales de Hawai, alcanzó el miércoles la fuerza de un huracán de categoría 3, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 120 mph (195 km/h), en lo que el Centro Nacional de Huracanes calificó como el primer huracán de gran magnitud en el océano Pacífico Central en 2026. Pero los hawaianos fueron alertados sobre otro sistema de tormentas, ubicado muy al este-sureste.

El centro de huracanes indicó que las condiciones parecían propicias para la formación de una depresión tropical en los próximos días.

Es demasiado pronto para determinar la ubicación exacta o los posibles impactos de viento, lluvia y marejada ciclónica. Sin embargo, “los interesados en las islas hawaianas deben vigilar de cerca el desarrollo de este sistema”, señaló el centro de huracanes, y añadió que ya podría ser un huracán cuando se desplace cerca de las islas o sobre ellas el fin de semana.

Los trabajos continuaban el miércoles para retirar toneladas de lodo y escombros dejados por un torrente de agua que inundó construcciones, de las cuales los vientos arrancaron algunos techos. Decenas de viviendas fueron arrastradas de sus cimientos, puentes resultaron dañados, y un tramo que se desplomó de una carretera de dos carriles impedía tener acceso a la comunidad de Pahala.

La mayor precipitación registrada —1,1 metros (43,54 pulgadas)— ocurrió en Laupahoehoe, en la costa nororiental de la Isla Grande, señaló el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

La empresa eléctrica Hawaiian Electric informó que unos 19.000 clientes seguían sin electricidad el miércoles en Hawai, en comparación con casi 104.000 el lunes por la tarde. Dijo que casi todos los clientes deberían tener el servicio restablecido para el viernes.

El miércoles, Lala avanzaba en dirección noroeste a 15 km/h (9 mph), y se prevé que gire hacia el norte el jueves en la madrugada. Se dirigía hacia una zona remota en el extremo noroeste del archipiélago hawaiano. Se emitieron advertencias de huracán para partes del Monumento Nacional Marino Papahanaumokuakea, desde la isla Lisianski hasta el arrecife Maro.

El servicio meteorológico indicó que se pronostica que la tormenta gire al este del Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre del Atolón Midway. La población en uno de los lugares más remotos de la Tierra está compuesta íntegramente por unas pocas decenas de empleados del Servicio de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Estados Unidos, voluntarios y contratistas. Los meteorólogos dijeron que había avisos relacionados con los trópicos para el atolón Midway, y que cualquier impacto podría incluir algo de oleaje elevado con una cantidad limitada de lluvia .

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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.

After the bond market’s alarm bells rose in volume through the summer, the Trump administration announced on Wednesday a move that could help calm it down. The U.S. Treasury Department said it will more than double the amount of U.S. government bonds that it will buy back, and the move worked in getting longer-term yields lower, for now at least.

Yields worldwide had earlier climbed to heights not reached in years and, in some cases, decades, because of the jump in oil prices due to the war with Iran, worries about big and growing debts for governments and other concerns.

The stakes are high because high yields drag on economies and bring downward pressure on stock markets after Wall Street hit records on excitement about big corporate profits and the promise of artificial-intelligence technology.

But what's to come is still uncertain, and some analysts warn the Treasury Department's move could even ultimately backfire.

Here’s a look at what’s going on and how things got this way:

Bond yields have been rising

In the United States, the centerpiece of the bond market recently touched its highest yield in more than a year. The 10-year Treasury yield, which shows how much interest investors want the U.S. government to pay them before they’ll lend it money for a decade, topped 4.70%, before falling back to 4.65% Wednesday.

That’s up from just 3.97% before the Iran war began in late February, and it’s a significant move for the bond market.

More notably, the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield has jumped well above 5%, back to where it was in 2007, before the 2008 financial crisis sent yields crashing toward zero worldwide.

In Japan, the yield on the 10-year government bond has touched its highest level in nearly 30 years, while the German 10-year yield is back to where it was in 2011.

High yields can slow the economy

When the U.S. and other governments have to pay more in interest to borrow money, so do people and companies.

For many U.S. households, that’s most easily seen through rates for mortgages. Such rates have climbed with the 10-year Treasury yield since the Iran war began, and the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is near its highest level in a year.

Higher yields also make it more expensive for U.S. companies to borrow money to build factories and otherwise grow. That’s particularly dangerous at this moment, when big investments in data centers to power AI are a major driver of the U.S. economy’s growth.

High yields affect all kinds of investments

If high yields slow the economy, that puts pressure on the stocks. An economic slowdown would threaten how much profit companies can make, which is the lifeblood of the stock market.

High yields undercut the stock market in other ways too. When a Treasury is paying more in interest, that can draw investors away from investments that carry more risk. Why pay record prices for U.S. stocks when a U.S. government bond is paying more than before to wait in relative safety?

Gold, bitcoin and many other investments can also feel downward pressure from high yields.

Then there’s the impact on the government

When yields rise, the U.S. and other governments have to pay more in interest to cover their debts. That’s painful when debt loads for governments worldwide are ballooning as they spend far more than they’re bringing in through revenue.

And if the U.S. government is already paying this much to borrow money when the economy is growing, what will happen if it needs to borrow even more to manage the pain when the next severe recession hits?

That’s why jumps in yields can scare politicians even more than swings in the stock market.

The bond market helped make Liz Truss the United Kingdom’s shortest-serving prime minister in 2022, when it revolted against her plan to cut taxes and raise spending without a way to pay for them.

Last year, President Donald Trump said the bond market may have played a role in his decision to delay many of his proposed tariffs, saying that he noticed investors there “were getting a little queasy.”

The long-term effect of the Treasury department's move is uncertain

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's move is a high-stakes effort to contain the rise in long-term yields, and some analysts are skeptical the impact will last.

“The operation changes almost nothing in terms of the fundamentals, in particular the unchanged need to finance the tidal wave of hyperscaler debt in addition to very large government deficits,” Krishna Guha, an analyst at Evercore ISI, and colleagues wrote in a note to clients.

“Hyperscalers” refers to the Big Tech companies that are borrowing mountains of money to build AI data centers. The bonds they’re selling are competing with U.S. Treasurys for buyers, which can push bond yields higher.

The U.S. government, meanwhile, continues to run its own large deficits regardless of what the Treasury Department does with its repurchases.

“The move could even backfire if the limited firepower results in little sustained impact,” Guha said.

A rate cut by the Federal Reserve won't magically solve the problem

The Federal Reserve could always cut the federal funds rate, which affects very short-term, overnight loans.

But longer-term yields like the 10- and 30-year Treasury yields are set by investors in the bond market. And recently, they have been demanding more in interest to make up for the growing risks of high inflation, continued government deficits and other factors.

The Fed also appears more likely to raise its benchmark short-term rate than to cut it. At its last meeting in late July, three Fed policymakers voted to raise the fed funds rates even as nine voted to keep it unchanged. And Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s decision to signal little about the Fed’s next moves appeared to push longer-term Treasury yields higher amid questions about what the central bank will do to get inflation back to its 2% target.

The government’s most recent inflation data suggest inflation may be slowing, leading many on Wall Street to forecast the Fed will keep the federal funds rates steady at its next meeting in September. The next big potentially market-moving event may come on Aug. 28, when Warsh will give a speech at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Trump gushed for several uninterrupted minutes about granite being laid and said the chopper landing area would leave visiting foreign leaders “very impressed” — including Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is coming next month.

At times, he sounded almost like a construction manager, singing the praises of granite over asphalt in painstaking detail and noting for reporters he brought out for the show that the stone could withstand 35,000 pounds per square inch of pressure.

“That's stone that, if you took a hammer and you started hammering right now — all day long — you wouldn't see a mark on it, literally, that's the kind of power it is,” Trump said, at times straining to be heard over the thrum of ongoing work behind him.

The president also revealed for the first time that he has replaced the walkway from the White House's diplomatic entrance along with a portion of the asphalt driveway around the South Lawn with white granite.

“One thing I know how to do is build,” he said, asserting that asphalt is “not appropriate for a great house, or a great place like the White House.” He said that, had he instead merely used “really powerful concrete," it would have supported ”just a tiny fraction of that in terms of strength.”

Trump relishes being the builder-in-chief

The president is called upon to fill many roles as president, but embraces none with as much zeal as managing various building projects to mold the White House and large swatches of Washington in his own image, seeming happiest recalling his days as a real estate developer.

Trump also likes to show off his handiwork and having the White House press pool on hand at all times gives him a readymade audience. Last year, he made an appearance on the roof of the briefing room to survey a future work site, and earlier this summer, he took reporters for a closer look at the ballroom construction site.

It suggests Trump remains focused on such projects, even as his war in Iran nears the six-month mark, his approval ratings sink with just 2 1/2 months to go before critical midterm elections, and as voters are increasingly worried about a weakening economy.

Trump drove home just how important the construction projects are to him, calling the work “very exciting.”

“This will be here long after we’re gone,” Trump said of the projects. “No matter what happens with the world.”

But whether it will endure after he leaves office remains to be seen. Trump once suggested that his refurbishing of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool would last a century, only for the paint to fade and its liner to peel away in chunks just days after it was laid.

Trump again says his ballroom will have security value

The president has increasingly insisted that the $400 million ballroom will add security to the White House and include things like anti-drone technology. His administration even unsuccessfully sought $1 billion in congressional funding to make military improvements to the structure.

“This will be the greatest military complex slash ballroom anywhere in the world,” he said.

Trump also scoffed at court orders seeking to block its construction without congressional approval, saying work is continuing regardless and predicting that the Supreme Court will eventually side with him and allow the project to be completed.

The president found time to talk again about one of his favorite subjects of late — grass — and praised at length Scotts-Miracle Gro. The company's former CEO is a Trump supporter, and it donated $1 million to repair the grass on the White House lawn after it was damaged by Trump's UFC fight marking his 80th birthday in June and by the helipad construction.

At one point on Wednesday, Trump signed the back of one of the granite stones that was marked “Donald Trump 45-47 president” for the occasion. Its front is shaped like an eagle and will be laid into the helipad's presidential seal once work is completed.

“I thought this would be a little different kind of a news conference,” the president said. “We were going to sign this privately and just put it in. I said, ‘This is something I think the press should see,’ and I hope you liked it.”

Trump had some of the construction workers sign the granite, too, and joked about leaving it upside-down so that his signature would be visible for future generations.

“Nice job, fellas,” he told the workers. “Does anybody know the word media?”

Trump also confirmed Wednesday that he'd delayed ongoing work on the helipad to ensure the project could be regraded to lay flatter.

He said that the granite used “has a million-year life” and predicted that it “will never break. It will never leak. It will never do anything" — which would mark a departure from the problem-plagued Reflecting Pool project.

“Nature is stronger than what the human can produce,” Trump said of the granite. “It’s really pretty amazing.”

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The officer was informed that the Buffaloes coach was “unavailable at the time to receive receipt of the papers,” a spokesperson with the sheriff's office said Wednesday. Sanders is being subpoenaed to testify as part of a bankruptcy trial involving his son, Shilo, that begins on Aug. 31, according to USA Today.

The Colorado athletic department had no additional information. The Buffaloes open the season on Sept. 3 at Georgia Tech.

The deputy arrived on campus at 10:22 a.m. on Aug. 11 with civil papers. It was the day the Buffaloes held an open practice with specific rules in place that nothing observed could be reported, published or shared.

Carrie Haverfield, a senior communications specialist for the sheriff’s office, wrote in an email to The Associated Press that it's not uncommon for civil papers to take several attempts to serve.

“While working with university staff to find a better time to complete the process, we heard from Mr. Sanders’ legal counsel who indicated that they were able to receive receipt of the papers on behalf of Mr. Sanders, however, they were not located in Boulder County, so we transferred the paperwork to Denver to be served,” Haverfield wrote. “We did not find any university staff to be attempting to block the civil service, on the contrary, they were attempting to help our deputy find a better time to do so. We do not disclose the specific contents of civil papers that we serve.”

Shilo Sanders remains in litigation over a lawsuit stemming from an incident with a security guard when he was in high school. The guard filed a lawsuit against Sanders and was issued a default judgment when Sanders didn’t show for his court date.

The hard-hitting safety who played for his dad at Colorado was waived by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last August.

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“I mean, I’d argue have they brought value to LIV?” McIlroy said at the BMW Championship.

LIV Golf's future is under scrutiny with the Indianapolis event this week being the last one of the year for a league that no longer will get funding from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.

LIV CEO Scott O'Neil remained bullish about plans for 2027 and beyond, saying players would be equity owners and have their commercial rights restored. O'Neil said the plan was to have five team championships overseas and five individual tournaments in the United States scheduled close to the majors for those who qualify for them.

He did not name the lead investor with whom LIV has reached an agreement. Several outlets have identified him as Ted Goldthorpe of BC Partners, who met with players on Tuesday. O'Neil said there was a deadline for players to commit to LIV 2.0 without saying when it is. He also has not mentioned the size of the proposed investment. LIV Golf spent more than $5 billion in five years.

“The entirety of our focus is to get to this transaction and get through it,” O'Neil said. "Without the players, that becomes very difficult. I have a good level of confidence in my conversation that we’ll have a critical mass of the right players to move this league forward.”

The critical players for LIV are Jon Rahm, whose contract end after 2027, and Bryson DeChambeau, whose contract is up this year. Both are two-time major champions and the biggest two names left on LIV Golf.

Brooks Koepka was the first player to return to the PGA Tour this year, with stipulations that he could not play $20 million signature events unless he earned his way, paid $5 million to charity and had no access to equity. The tour put the penalty value at $50 million and upward.

The tour then offered the same deal — and two weeks to decide on it — to Rahm, DeChambeau and Cameron Smith, all major champions dating to the launch of LIV in 2022.

“When we talk about the best players, LIV has a few players that are really good,” Scheffler said. "I think the depth that we have on our tour is unmatched, but I think when you look at the higher levels of LIV Golf there’s definitely some players that would provide a lot of value to the tour, and guys that I love competing against as well.

“So I think going forward there obviously has to be, I think, some sort of penalties.”

What those penalties are he said would be up to PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp.

McIlroy has been the biggest critic of LIV from the start. He has toned down his rhetoric over the years, though he suggested in February 2025 that players “have to get over it” when it comes to finding a way to bring defectors back.

He sounded more reluctant Wednesday, noting that top players had their chances to return at the start of the year and whatever offer likely would not be as good as it was for Koepka.

“I’m not part of these discussions, but I’m pretty sure they’re not going to be welcomed back straight away,” McIlroy said. "I think it was said at the time that the deal that they might get going forward — if they do decide to come back — isn’t going to be as good as the one that Brooks got.

“So, yeah, I would say it’s going to be a tough, tough road back.”

And it's going to be tough on LIV, particularly with at least two lawsuits pending from vendors.

Canadian-based Mobbi Systems Group field a lawsuit in Miami last month. The technology company that supplied LIV's “Any Shot, Any Time” feature on broadcasts is asking more than $1 million for outstanding invoices and lost revenue.

In another lawsuit filed last month in New York, Colorado-based Fresh Tape Media is asking for more than $1.2 million LIV owes for the company to produce its preseason media preview days.

“What I would say to them is we’re doing everything we can to make sure we can do right by them and the work they committed, and I hope we can,” O'Neil said. “For the next generation, it will certainly be a different business with a different process.”

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Las autoridades arrestaron el martes al sospechoso Eddie Zewayne Bussey, de 28 años, de Yonkers, Nueva York, por casi una docena de cargos graves, incluidos secuestro y múltiples cargos de intento de asesinato y agresión sexual.

Un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami indica que la mujer, de 40 años, había salido de un club nocturno en el vecindario Wynwood de la ciudad entre las 3:30 y las 4:30 a.m.; su teléfono se había quedado sin batería y caminaba a casa por Biscayne Boulevard, sin poder solicitar un transporte.

Cerca de Northeast 24th Street, la policía dijo que la mujer notó a Bussey, un desconocido, “siguiéndola y gritándole comentarios no solicitados como: ‘Déjame probarte’”.

“La víctima cruzó Biscayne Boulevard tratando de alejarse de (Bussey), pero él continuó siguiéndola e imitando su mismo movimiento al cruzar la calle”, señala el informe del MPD.

La policía dijo que la mujer entró a un edificio de oficinas en 4770 Biscayne Blvd., en el vecindario Bay Point, después de “notar que estaba bien iluminado y temer por su seguridad”.

Las autoridades dijeron que ella entró al vestíbulo y subió al ascensor hasta el piso 12 para intentar encontrar a alguien que pudiera ayudarla. No pudo.

La Policía dijo que, después de regresar al vestíbulo, vio a Bussey entrar. Intentó salir por otra puerta, dijeron, pero resultó estar cerrada.

En un ataque captado por una cámara de vigilancia, Bussey se expuso, golpeó y estranguló a la mujer, luego la arrastró del cabello y la llevó a un cuarto de correo, donde continuó golpeándola, pateándola y estrangulándola mientras ella intentaba defenderse, según el informe. La Policía dijo que se escuchaba a Bussey decirle, “Pruébalo”, “Te voy a violar” y “Te voy a matar” antes de cometer múltiples actos sexuales contra ella.

Las autoridades dijeron que la víctima rompió dos de los collares de Bussey mientras intentaba quitárselo de encima. Dijeron que pudo correr hasta una farmacia CVS cercana, donde pudo llamar a la Policía.

“La víctima sufrió lesiones visibles, incluidos moretones y decoloración en el rostro, los labios, la garganta, la espalda, las costillas, la cadera y el muslo, así como una laceración en la mejilla”, señala el informe.

La Policía dijo que las pruebas de ADN de un kit de violación vincularon el crimen con Bussey y que los agentes lo encontraron el martes cerca de Northwest 36th Street y 13th Avenue, en el vecindario Allapattah de la ciudad.

Según el informe, Bussey dijo a los investigadores que llevaba aproximadamente un mes alojándose en Miami con su hermano en un alquiler de corta duración en Wynwood. El informe señala que inicialmente dijo a los agentes que había “caminado a casa y permaneció allí durante el resto de la noche”, pero luego, después de que le mostraron una imagen fija de las cámaras de vigilancia del edificio de oficinas Bay Point, “se retractó y les dijo a los detectives que estaba en el lugar del incidente para cargar su teléfono”.

La Policía dijo que afirmó que, en el edificio, la víctima hizo “comentarios racistas” y luego “le escupió, lo que provocó que perdiera el conocimiento y comenzara a golpearla”.

Pero dijeron que “negó haberla agredido sexualmente” porque “ella es una mujer y a él solo le gustan los hombres”.

Un informe de arresto separado señala que Bussey se mostró agresivo con los agentes mientras intentaban recolectar una muestra de ADN conforme a una orden judicial, escupiéndoles y forcejeando con ellos. También dijeron que “pateó repetidamente la pared y la puerta dentro del cuarto de interrogatorio”, causando daños.

Hasta la tarde del miércoles, Bussey permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, con una fianza que figuraba en los registros de la cárcel como “por establecerse”.

Leaving home early that day likely saved his life, he says — the two-story home he had spent years building with his modest wages collapsed during the quake.

“The house is completely destroyed,” said the 66-year-old math teacher in Quibdo, the regional capital.

At least 312 people were killed by the Aug. 10 quake, according to figures published Wednesday by the central government, and 29,000 homes were destroyed.

Recovery will be particularly challenging for Choco, which was already struggling with high poverty rates, poor infrastructure and underfunded health and education services.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 69,000 people in Choco were affected or displaced by the earthquake — about 10% of its population.

The regional government says more than 200 schools were damaged, and poor internet access will make it difficult for children to take online lessons. With around 600,000 inhabitants, mostly Afro-Colombian or Indigenous people, Choco has long been one of the country's most neglected regions.

Largely covered by mountains and rainforests, only two precarious roads connect Choco to the rest of Colombia. Many towns are only reachable by plane or boats, and the rivers can be dangerous. There are no roads linking communities along the more than 650 kilometers (406 miles) of Choco's coastline hugging the Pacific Ocean to the interior.

In large swaths of the region, rebel groups fight over the control of illegal mines and drug trafficking routes, displacing civilians or imposing lockdowns that prevent villagers from working their fields for days at a time.

“We are facing a triple crisis,” said Luis Mora, the United Nations Population Fund's representative in Colombia. “You have the humanitarian crisis caused by the earthquake, now joining the under development crisis and the crisis caused by armed conflict in this territory.”

The agency has been supplying kits with personal hygiene products to women affected by the earthquake and working to create safe spaces for women within shelters.

The regional capital's only public hospital is ill-equipped for the disaster

Cristian Maturana, a doctor at Quibdo’s only public hospital, said that after the earthquake hit, the emergency room overflowed with patients with broken bones and other injuries.

In the days that followed, 36 patients with multiple fractures were flown to a hospital in the city of Medellin, in the neighboring region of Antioquia — because his hospital lacked enough personnel and equipment to treat them, Maturana said.

The hospital’s only refrigerator capable of storing blood donations was also damaged by a power surge following the quake, rendering transfusions impossible. It was replaced over the weekend with a fridge donated by a group of oncologists in Bogota, the country's capital.

“These have been tough days,” Maturana said, adding that support from elsewhere in Colombia and abroad "has been crucial.”

The emergency room is currently operating at twice its capacity, with patients being treated in chairs or on stretchers in the hospital’s hallways, Maturana said.

Donations of antibiotics, bandages, blood pressure monitors and other equipment have been helpful, but the hospital still needs wheelchairs and more beds.

“These seem like basic things,” Maturana said. “But they are items we have long had shortages of.”

Camilo Prieto, a doctor with the Colombian Environmental Movement, a humanitarian group, said his organization brought in more than 2 tons of medical supplies, including electrocardiogram and ultrasound machines last week. The group also flew some of the aid to remote towns with helicopters and small planes.

“By land it would be very difficult,” Prieto said. “But some companies and owners of private planes have given us flight hours.”

The region has a history of neglect

Wiston Mosquera, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Quibdo diocese, said he hopes the quake brings attention to many of Choco’s structural problems, like poor healthcare facilities, the lack of roads or the permanent problems with the power supply.

“We are decades behind the rest of Colombia’s regions,” said Mosquera, who was born and raised in Choco.

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has visited Choco twice since the earthquake, and promised a plan that will include billions of dollars in infrastructure investment and programs to generate jobs.

Choco’s unemployment rate was the highest in Colombia last year, according to DANE, the nation’s statistics agency. The region’s GDP per capita was 14.3 million Colombian pesos in 2025, or about $3,500 dollars, a quarter of Bogota’s per capita income.

De la Espriella said he will designate a government official to oversee Choco’s recovery, and provide subsidies to families left homeless by the earthquake so that they can rent new homes.

Arias, the math teacher who lost his home, said he’s skeptical of such promises because of the region's history of neglect. He said he spent around $32,000 building his home, taking out loans from banks, and will be hard pressed to raise those kinds of funds with his current teacher's salary.

“Even if I am helped, I don’t think I will get enough,” Arias said. He and his partner are for now staying at a relative's home.

“It's not the same,” he says. “You don’t have the freedom there that you get in your own house.”

That’s the word Wednesday from a pair of NASA astronauts living aboard the International Space Station for the past six months.

Astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway told The Associated Press that the space station’s position prevented them from seeing totality during last week’s solar eclipse, but they still enjoyed a partial eclipse. They said they’ll try to catch next week’s lunar eclipse, too.

“We're hoping for the best. It should be pretty awesome,” Hathaway said.

Meir said the best cosmic shows are auroras. The sun is coming off its busy season, making the northern and southern lights more dramatic and brilliant, she noted.

After one especially large blast of plasma from the sun, “the green dancing aurora” appeared right beneath them instead of off in the distance near the poles, she added.

“It looked like a snake making its way right beneath us and that was a really extraordinary one,” said Meir, the space station's commander. “You could see the green light bouncing off the white outside exterior of the space station.”

Meir has also taken special pleasure in whipping up culinary delights in orbit, donning a space cat-adorned apron while sampling some of the station-grown mustard greens and kale. She joined crewmate Anil Menon, wearing a chef's toque, for his first cooking episode of “Chez ISS” this week.

Arriving last month in a Russian capsule, Menon packed the apron and toque for his more-to-come cooking show. Meir's luggage included a piccolo: She performed John Philip Sousa's “The Stars and Stripes Forever” with the Boston Pops on July 4. Her part was prerecorded in space.

Meir also took up a fancy scarf and glittery violet bell bottoms, considerably more casual than the dress she flew on her last station trip that saw her take part in the first all-female spacewalk.

While Hathaway's culinary and musical talents may be lacking, he said he's never bored. “There's always something to do,” he said, including weekend karaoke nights featuring the guitar and other musical instruments.

Launched in February, Meir, a marine biologist, and Hathaway, a Navy captain, are due to return to Earth via SpaceX once their replacements arrive next month. The current crew includes three Americans, three Russians and one French astronaut.

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Amy Arlene Baker, 43, was arrested following the incident, which authorities say happened around 8:15 p.m. Saturday on northbound I-95 near Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach.

According to an arrest report, troopers were dispatched after 911 dispatchers in Lake Worth reported a domestic incident in Broward County. Troopers were told Baker and her husband had gone to West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton after the incident.

Baker initially called 911 and reported that her husband had struck her, the report states.

When troopers spoke with her husband, they said he was wearing a white bandage around his head and had streaks of what appeared to be blood extending down the right side of his neck and onto his shirt and shorts.

The man told troopers he and his wife were coming home from a boat party in the Fort Lauderdale Port Marina area when, while heading northbound on I-95 approaching Hillsboro Boulevard, he and Baker began arguing about “past problems within their relationship,” according to the report.

The report states Baker called her husband derogatory names, including a “f--got.”

The husband then told Baker, “Who is the one with the felony?” before claiming Baker slapped him while he was driving, according to the report.

About two minutes after the first strike, Baker grabbed his face with both hands and “intentionally bit into the right side of his ear, tearing off a portion of his ear,” the report states.

The husband told troopers he never touched Baker during the altercation.

His children, 1 and 7, were also in the vehicle at the time, according to the report.

After biting off the portion of his ear, Baker laughed and did not “initially appear to take the severity of his injury seriously,” the report states.

Friends of the victim picked up his kids and transported them to a home for their safety, according to the report.

Jail records show Baker is facing one count each of aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability and two counts of child neglect without great bodily harm.

She was no longer listed in the Broward County jail’s online database as of Tuesday afternoon.

The award is presented annually to the nation’s top receiver, regardless of position. Miami is one of nine programs with multiple players on this year’s watch list.

Toney, 18, is coming off a record-setting freshman season for the Hurricanes.

The Liberty City native led the nation with 109 receptions, a Miami single-season record, and set another program mark with 1,211 receiving yards. He also had 10 touchdown catches and 1,622 all-purpose yards.

Toney was named ACC Rookie of the Year and ACC Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2025, while also earning Football Writers Association of America Offensive Freshman of the Year honors. He was a first-team All-ACC selection and received multiple All-America honors.

Barkate, 23, enters his first season at Miami after transfering with quarterback Darian Mensah from Duke. Barkate earned second-team All-ACC honors in 2025

The Newport Beach, California, native has 185 receptions for 2,848 yards and 21 touchdowns in 37 career games. He has recorded 11 career 100-yard receiving games, including a career-high 172 yards against Georgia Tech last season.

The Hurricanes open the 2026 season Sept. 4 at Stanford. Kickoff is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET.

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Si bien en la mayor parte del país sudamericano vivir sin electricidad supone un problema constante, una de las regiones más afectadas es el estado central de Aragua, unos 80 kilómetros al sureste de Caracas, cuyos residentes soportan cortes a diario.

A Izamala Rivera la inestabilidad de la red le dañó casi todos los electrodomésticos, entre ellos la nevera, la cocina y el horno de microondas.

Durante una entrevista con The Associated Press la mujer se encontraba de pie en la entrada de su casa cuando de repente volvió la luz.

“Esa es la otra cara de la vida de los venezolanos: nos emocionamos cuando vuelve la luz porque podemos disfrutar de un poco de frescor y hacer nuestras cosas”, dijo Rivera, una abogada que dedica sus días a cuidar de su madre, que padece de Alzheimer, y de animales de compañía.

Sus vecinos del barrio Caña de Azúcar de Maracay —la capital de Aragua— afirmaron que los cortes, que antes duraban unas pocas horas, ahora se prolongan durante gran parte del día y provocan también falta de agua.

La peluquera Roxana Páez a menudo pasa todo su turno en un salón de belleza trabajando con herramientas inalámbricas hasta que se agotan las baterías.

“Abrimos a las 9 de la mañana y cerramos a las 5 de la tarde. Se va la luz a las 10 de la mañana y vuelve a las 4 de la tarde. Es todo un día de trabajo sin electricidad", se quejó.

Qué ha hecho el gobierno

La presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez puso en marcha este mes un plan nacional de ahorro energético para paliar el déficit de 2.500 megavatios diarios en momentos de un alza en la demanda por el calor y el posible aumento aún más de las temperaturas por el fenómeno climático de El Niño.

La administración de Rodríguez también ha anunciado nuevas medidas para reforzar a la red eléctrica, entre ellas un acuerdo con la empresa argentina de generación eléctrica IMPSA para reanudar obras en centrales hidroeléctricas que llevan hasta 12 años paralizadas.

Rodríguez afirmó la semana pasada que la demanda de electricidad había alcanzado los 15.726 megavatios, su nivel más alto en ocho años.

Según los expertos, los cortes que se registran casi a diario en 23 estados y en Caracas son consecuencia de una administración incapaz y una falta de mantenimiento del sistema eléctrico nacional.

Las instalaciones acusan un profundo deterioro, particularmente las centrales termoeléctricas que otrora conformaban el sistema de respaldo en temporadas de sequía o en caso de una avería en la hidroeléctrica Gurí, que suministra el 60% de la energía que el país utiliza.

Perder la paciencia

Una de la quejas más frecuentes de la población es que el racionamiento suele aplicarse sin cronograma o aviso previo.

Durante el último mes en la localidad de San Mateo, en Aragua, los vecinos han organizado varias protestas nocturnas en las que recorren las calles golpeando ollas y coreando consignas.

“¿Por qué tenemos que esperar pasivamente y dejar que ocurra lo mismo todos los días? ¡No! Si no quieren escucharnos, hagámonos oír”, afirmó la profesora Ninoska Barceló en un vídeo compartido en las redes sociales.

“Ya hemos esperado bastante, llevamos 27 años (de gobiernos socialistas) esperando”, declaró Barceló a AP.

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Uthmeier’s office filed the lawsuits against several VGW companies, Yodlee, Trustly, Worldpay Holdco, and Stake in Hillsborough County, accusing the “illegal online casinos” of harming users and depriving the state of “licensing, taxation, and other revenues.”

VGW’s “sale and use of its Sweeps Coins currency” openly flouts Florida’s gambling laws for “ill-gotten gains from Floridians, the state’s lawsuit claims.

The lawsuit also claims the companies “deceptively” advertise “free,” “100% safe,” and “100% legal” casino games, providing easy 24/7 access, accepting credit cards and Apple Pay, and using influencers.

“If it looks like a casino, takes money like a casino, and pays out like a casino, it is a casino—and it’s illegal in Florida,” Uthmeier said in a statement on X. “That’s why we’re suing predatory online gaming sites Stake and VGW to stop illegal gambling and recover money lost by Florida consumers.”

Attorneys for the companies could not be reached for comment.

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If it looks like a casino, takes money like a casino, and pays out like a casino, it is a casino—and it’s illegal in Florida.

That’s why we’re suing predatory online gaming sites Stake and VGW to stop illegal gambling and recover money lost by Florida consumers. pic.twitter.com/JMboneyvxN

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) August 19, 2026

La oficina de Uthmeier presentó las demandas contra varias empresas de VGW, Yodlee, Trustly, Worldpay Holdco y Stake en el condado de Hillsborough, acusando a los “casinos ilegales en línea” de perjudicar a los usuarios y privar al estado de “ingresos por licencias, impuestos y otros”.

La demanda del estado afirma que la “venta y uso de su moneda Sweeps Coins” por parte de VGW desafía abiertamente las leyes de juegos de azar de Florida para obtener “ganancias mal habidas de los floridanos”.

La demanda también afirma que las empresas anuncian “engañosamente” juegos de casino “gratis”, “100% seguros” y “100% legales”, ofrecen fácil acceso las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana, aceptan tarjetas de crédito y Apple Pay, y utilizan influencers.

“Si parece un casino, toma dinero como un casino y paga como un casino, es un casino, y es ilegal en Florida”, dijo Uthmeier en un comunicado en X. “Por eso estamos demandando a los sitios de juegos en línea depredadores Stake y VGW para detener los juegos de azar ilegales y recuperar el dinero perdido por los consumidores de Florida”.

No fue posible contactar a los abogados de las empresas para obtener comentarios.

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Si parece un casino, toma dinero como un casino y paga como un casino, es un casino, y es ilegal en Florida.

Por eso estamos demandando a los sitios de juegos en línea depredadores Stake y VGW para detener los juegos de azar ilegales y recuperar el dinero perdido por los consumidores de Florida. pic.twitter.com/JMboneyvxN

— Fiscal general James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier), 19 de agosto de 2026

Afternoon thunderstorms also made a comeback this afternoon with drier weather expected after 9 p.m. and overnight. We are fully back into our rainy season pattern with daily chances of afternoon thunderstorms into the weekend. High temperatures will no longer be setting records, but highs around 93 degrees and a heat index over 105 degrees at times is still hotter than average.

The low-tech, artisanal gold mine collapsed Tuesday morning in the village of Zamboye, in the Nana-Mambere prefecture, near the border with Cameroon.

In addition to the dead, several survivors were critically injured, said Gervais Ganagoroh, a local Red Cross volunteer involved in relief efforts.

The death toll is likely to rise since several people were still missing and others were trapped under the rubble, said Bertrand Be Yangué, a member of the Zamboye youth council.

“Finding them alive would be a miracle,” Yangué said. “We are saddened and heartbroken to see young men and women perish after coming to the mines to save their families from despair.”

An investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the collapse, identify the victims and those responsible for operating the site, and establish any potential criminal liability, the prosecutor at the Baboua sub-prefecture court said in a statement.

Footage showed miners, mostly young men and women covered in mud, pulling out a body from the pit while dozens of other miners and workers were scattered around the expansive site, some shouting for help.

Artisanal mine collapses are common in the Central African Republic, where several thousand people work in small-scale extraction mining. The work is risky because miners typically don't have enough protection, often leading to deadly outcomes.

Ramdin habló al concluir un viaje al atribulado país caribeño, donde se reunió con el primer ministro y otros funcionarios.

Afirmó que la nueva fuerza de supresión de pandillas respaldada por la ONU necesita más personal, equipo y financiamiento.

“Los esfuerzos de la (fuerza) son esenciales para mejorar la protección y la seguridad pública, y para crear las condiciones para un proceso electoral seguro”, señaló. “El progreso debe ser visible y medible lo antes posible”.

Ramdin indicó que las prioridades son asegurar la ruta hacia el principal aeropuerto internacional, garantizar el acceso continuo al aeropuerto y al puerto marítimo, y restablecer un acceso seguro a la región sur de Haití. Actualmente, las pandillas controlan las principales rutas de entrada y salida de la capital.

También instó a Haití a intensificar el registro y la identificación de los votantes antes de las elecciones generales del 13 de diciembre. Haití no ha tenido presidente desde que Jovenel Moïse fue asesinado en su residencia privada en julio de 2021. Desde entonces, la violencia de las pandillas no ha hecho más que aumentar, desplazando a una cifra récord de 1,5 millones de personas.

Ramdin prometió seguir “movilizando apoyo político, técnico y financiero” para el país caribeño.

Dijo que la OEA trabajará con la Organización Panamericana de la Salud para construir centros de trauma para atender a policías haitianos heridos, mientras continúan haciendo retroceder a las pandillas que controlan aproximadamente el 70% de Puerto Príncipe y amplias franjas de territorio más allá de la capital.

Ramdin señaló que también planea establecer una delegación de líderes empresariales para hablar sobre posibles proyectos de inversión en Haití, donde la pobreza, el hambre y el desempleo se están agravando.

“Haití está en un punto decisivo”, sostuvo. “El futuro de Haití pertenece ante todo al pueblo haitiano. Pero la comunidad internacional también tiene responsabilidades”.

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That means the heat index could be at or above 110° for two consecutive hours or more. This is the first Extreme Heat Warning of the season for South Florida.

During this weather, you must stay hydrated, stay in the shade or the air conditioning, or indoors as much as possible. Watch for signs of heat stress, which include feeling faint or dizzy and consider calling 911 for immediate help if your symptoms worsen.

Cooling storms are expected in a few spots toward the early evening, offering relief for some.

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Esto significa que el índice de calor podría alcanzar o superar los 110° durante dos horas consecutivas o más. Se trata de la primera advertencia de calor extremo de la temporada para el sur de Florida.

Con estas condiciones meteorológicas, es fundamental mantenerse hidratado y permanecer a la sombra, en lugares con aire acondicionado o en interiores siempre que sea posible.

Preste atención a los signos de estrés térmico —como sensación de desmayo o mareo— y considere llamar al 911 para recibir ayuda inmediata si los síntomas empeoran.Se prevén tormentas que refrescarán el ambiente en algunas zonas hacia el atardecer, lo que brindará alivio a algunos sectores.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, an arrest warrant was obtained for the suspect, Andres Gonzalez, and he was located in Puerto Rico with the assistance of U.S. marshals.

He is now awaiting extradition to Miami-Dade County.

According to MDSO, deputies were called to a home, located in the 26100 block of Southwest 209th Avenue, shortly after 8:30 a.m. on June 19 after receiving a report about an unconscious woman.

When deputies arrived, they found Esther Liontos, 58, lying on the ground outside the home, authorities said.

She was pronounced dead at the scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel.

Deputies said they found Liontos’ partner, Roger Arredondo Gonzalez, 61, lying on the ground nearby. He too was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities have not disclosed how the two were killed and an arrest report was not immediately available for Gonzalez.

A motive for the killings remains unclear.

A relative of Liontos told Local 10 in June that the family was trying to make sense of what happened as they navigate their immense grief, confusion, anger and desire for justice.

That relative described the couple as “wonderful people who loved their family.”

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, se obtuvo una orden de arresto contra el sospechoso, Andres Gonzalez, y fue localizado en Puerto Rico con la ayuda de alguaciles federales de Estados Unidos.

Ahora espera su extradición al condado Miami-Dade.

Según MDSO, agentes acudieron a una vivienda ubicada en la cuadra 26100 de Southwest 209th Avenue poco después de las 8:30 a.m. del 19 de junio, tras recibir un reporte sobre una mujer inconsciente.

Cuando los agentes llegaron, encontraron a Esther Liontos, de 58 años, tendida en el suelo afuera de la vivienda, dijeron las autoridades.

Fue declarada muerta en el lugar por personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Los agentes dijeron que encontraron a la pareja de Liontos, Roger Arredondo Gonzalez, de 61 años, tendido en el suelo cerca del lugar. Él también fue declarado muerto en la escena.

Las autoridades no han revelado cómo fueron asesinadas las dos personas y un informe de arresto de Gonzalez no estaba disponible de inmediato.

El motivo de los asesinatos sigue sin estar claro.

Un familiar de Liontos dijo a Local 10 en junio que la familia estaba tratando de entender lo sucedido mientras afrontaba su inmenso dolor, confusión, enojo y deseo de justicia.

El familiar describió a la pareja como “personas maravillosas que amaban a su familia”.

Overton is a medical doctor and deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council who has worked on several of Trump’s second-term health initiatives. She has become a trusted administration figure and a champion of the Republican president’s goals.

If confirmed by the Senate, she would have to balance a raft of competing priorities, including Trump’s fixations, the anti-regulatory interests of traditional Republicans and the anti-corporate posture of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Those challenges dogged the tenure of the previous FDA head, Dr. Marty Makary. He resigned in May, leaving behind unfinished projects such as work on ultraprocessed foods, antidepressants and COVID-19 shots.

Referring to her as “Dr. Heidi” in a Truth Social post, Trump said Overton was a smart and respected “rockstar” who would deliver on his priorities of faster cures, innovation, lower drug prices and more wins for Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement.

Kennedy posted on X that Overton has “exceptional judgment, professionalism, discipline and an unwavering commitment to the American people.”

Overton has promoted Trump’s health priorities

Overton attended medical school at the University of New Mexico and has a doctoral degree in clinical investigation from Johns Hopkins University, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before joining Trump’s second administration, she was the chief policy officer at the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank.

In recent months, she has appeared with the president to announce major projects, including some of his “most favored nation” deals with drug companies to lower prices to those of other developed countries and his recent vaccine order that sought to split the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate immunizations — against the advice of medical groups.

At an Oval Office event to promote that order, she stood by Trump as he falsely suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder. Scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link.

Overton has been critical of abortion pills and, if confirmed, would be positioned to roll back FDA rules that made them more accessible. U.S. abortion opponents have expressed frustration that the administration has not acted to stem the flow of such pills prescribed online, a situation they view as undermining state abortion bans.

Mifepristone is typically used with misoprostol in medication abortions that make up close to two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. Medical professionals call it “among the safest medications” ever approved by the FDA.

To be confirmed, Overton must seek approval from a narrowly Republican-led Senate and face questions from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Its chair, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician from Louisiana, has been a vocal critic of some of Trump’s actions to sow doubt in vaccinations, including the MMR order.

Cassidy posted Wednesday that while he respects Overton's medical background, he has “strong concerns” about the nomination, mentioning her lack of managerial experience and her participation in the recent vaccine order, which he called “almost disqualifying.”

Democratic senators slammed the nomination.

“Heidi Overton is a far-right, anti-abortion extremist who has no business leading the FDA,” posted Washington Sen. Patty Murray, a committee member.

Makary’s replacement will face challenges he left behind

Before he left the FDA, Makary had drawn complaints from health industry executives and anti-abortion activists. The frustration with him came to a head over the agency’s lack of movement on flavored e-cigarettes. Companies such as R.J. Reynolds are seeking to market to adult smokers, but sweet-flavored vapes have long been blamed for the trend of teenage vaping. FDA scientists have hesitated to endorse those products to curb adult smoking.

Days before Makary's departure, the agency opened the door to allowing more unauthorized electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches onto the U.S. market, in a policy change that essentially bypassed FDA experts.

Pharmaceutical companies will be looking for changes at the agency, too, after rejections or reversals of biotech drugs intended for rare diseases. Complaints from biotech companies, investors and patient groups have grown and been taken up by conservative lawmakers.

Makary tried to assuage industry grievances, in part by announcing new programs designed to streamline or accelerate drug approvals. Some of those initiatives, however, have meant new headaches for the agency.

Several of Makary’s deputies also exited the agency.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, the vaccine and biotech chief, stepped down in April following intense criticism from drugmakers, patients and investors. Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, who was involved in scrutinizing the safety of antidepressants, COVID-19 vaccines and other widely used therapies, was replaced as FDA’s acting drug center director.

MAHA has high expectations of FDA's next head

Overton would also need to tend to the priorities of Kennedy’s health movement, some members of which are already skeptical of her.

Kelly Ryerson, an activist critical of pesticides who is known to her supporters as “Glyphosate Girl,” told The Associated Press that Overton parroted pesticide manufacturer Bayer's talking points in a MAHA roundtable at the White House in April.

“I was stunned by the blatant, undisguised corruption,” Ryerson said.

One major decision for the next commissioner is what to do about peptide regulation. A panel of federal health advisers selected by Kennedy recently recommended easing access to several peptides that are popular with wellness influencers and celebrities, despite warnings from FDA scientists that the chemicals have not been shown to be safe or effective.

The agency recently proposed a rule change that would require food manufacturers to notify regulators before introducing new ingredients or additives into processed or packaged foods. But it is still working with the White House to finalize a first-of-its-kind definition of ultraprocessed foods, which Kennedy blames for elevated rates of diabetes, obesity and other chronic conditions.

Under Kennedy, the FDA has set up extra hurdles for vaccine testing and blocked the publication of research into the effectiveness of COVID-19 shots. Kennedy stood by Trump recently as the president signed the executive order aimed at upending childhood vaccinations in the U.S. despite unprecedented financial and logistical challenges.

The FDA also has an ongoing review of widely used antidepressants, including whether they may increase the risk of autism and other disorders when used during pregnancy. The medicines have long been a target of Kennedy, who was a leader in the anti-vaccine movement before joining the government.

In recent weeks, the agency has been investigating two summertime foodborne illness outbreaks: a cyclospora outbreak linked to tainted iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands of people and a multistate salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeño peppers.

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Swenson reported from New York. Associated Press journalist Laura Ungar contributed from Louisville, Kentucky.

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It happened around 9:45 a.m. Wednesday at The Residence at Dania Beach, located at 150 Stirling Road.

According to Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue, Florida Power & Light responded to the facility following reports of a power outage.

Officials said power was restored around noon.

No residents were evacuated, but those who were in the impacted area of the facility were moved to a different location where the power was working, according to BSFR officials.

“It’s very, very hot,” said resident Jorge Gonzalez. “And of course, people in this residency, we have people that are on oxygen, and older people that need their air conditioner and their oxygen.”

Officials said there were no reported medical concerns.

“The patients are in an environment that is tenable for them for the short term,” said Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Michael Kane.

El incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 9:45 a. m. del miércoles en The Residence at Dania Beach, ubicado en el 150 de Stirling Road.

Según el cuerpo de bomberos y rescate de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSFR), la compañía Florida Power & Light acudió al centro tras recibirse informes sobre la interrupción del suministro eléctrico.

No se evacuó a ningún residente; sin embargo, aquellos que se encontraban en la zona afectada del centro fueron trasladados a otra área donde sí había electricidad, según informaron las autoridades de BSFR.

“Hace muchísimo calor”, comentó el residente Jorge González.

“Y, por supuesto, aquí hay personas que dependen de oxígeno, así como ancianos que necesitan el aire acondicionado y su oxígeno”.

Las autoridades indicaron que no se reportaron problemas médicos.“Los pacientes se encuentran en un entorno adecuado para ellos a corto plazo”, señaló Michael Kane, jefe de batallón de bomberos y rescate de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward.

The 36-year-old eight-time All-WNBA forward announced Wednesday in an interview with Boardroom Talks that she’ll retire at the end of the season.

“I feel very fulfilled with the 15 years that I’ve been able to play and compete at such a high level,” the Los Angeles Sparks star said. “Even though I didn’t know what kind of player that I could be in this league, I never thought that I would play this long. Never thought that would be the type of player that I’d play this long.”

The No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft out of Stanford, Ogwumike earned Rookie of the Year honors that season with Los Angeles. She was voted league MVP in 2016 when she helped lead the Sparks to the WNBA championship, hitting the title-winning shot in Game 5 with 3.1 seconds left.

“Nneka will retire at the end of this season leaving the WNBA much better than she found it — a testament not only to the player she has been, but to the person and leader she is," WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement. “I have been fortunate to work closely with Nneka over the years and have been inspired by her passion and unwavering commitment to the players.

"It has been a privilege to watch her remarkable journey, and while there is still more basketball to be played this season, we congratulate her on an extraordinary career and look forward to celebrating her in the months ahead.”

Ogwumike isn’t ending her basketball career entirely. She still plans on playing in Project B, the new basketball venture that will begin this winter and play all its games outside of the U.S. She was the first player signed with the organization that former Sparks teammate Alana Beard co-founded.

“Nneka has always led with a rare combination of strength, purpose and grace," Beard said in a statement. “For 15 seasons, we’ve watched her give everything to this game, not only as an elite competitor but as a leader who has helped shape the league and lift up the people around her.”

Ogwumike this year made the All-Star Game for an 11th time and is averaging nearly 17 points a game.

“It is a little bit my body: I still feel very good,” Ogwumike said. “But I also feel the comfort of slowing down a little bit. I just feel content. I feel very content with where I’ve left my career.”

Ogwumike expressed pride in playing at the same time as the likes of Maya Moore and Tina Thompson, as well as Angel Reese and A'ja Wilson. Along the way, she was named one of the 25 players in the first 25 years of the WNBA and was a seven-time All-Defensive Team selection.

“I just feel like I have poured as much as I could into this game, and the last bit is this year of playing,” Ogwumike said. “I’m proud of what I’ve done.”

Ogwumike in the interview also expressed contentment with the state of women's basketball. WNBPA executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson credited Ogwumike for extraordinary leadership as president of the union, which earlier this year negotiated a transformative collective bargaining agreement.

“She has served this union with a level of commitment, courage, integrity and purpose that is truly unparalleled,” Carmichael Jackson said in a text message. “Nneka understood that leadership was not simply about having a seat at the table: It was about using that seat to move the game and the business of the game forward for every player — today and for generations to come.”

Ogwumike was reelected for her fourth term as president in June. It’s unclear who will succeed her after she retires.

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U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Democrat who represented the district for about 13 years and is known for her colorful hats, announced in May that she was not seeking re-election.

Wilson, 83, endorsed Gilbert, 53, a Miami-Dade commissioner and former commission chair who served as mayor of Miami Gardens from 2012 to 2020.

With all precincts reported after the primary, 34% of Democratic voters cast their ballots for Gilbert, who grew up in Miami Gardens and earned a JD from the University of Miami.

According to the U.S. Federal Election Commission’s reports on campaign contributions, Gilbert’s total receipts were more than $812,140, his total disbursements were more than $583,000, and his cash on hand was over $229,090.

About 32% also cast their ballots for Florida Sen. Shevrin “Shev” Jones, who served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020.

According to the U.S. FEC’s reports on campaign contributions, Jones’s total receipts were more than $283,690, his total disbursements were more than $205,080, and his cash on hand was over $78,610.

Gilbert and Jones, 42, ran in a crowded race with five other candidates: Kendrick Meek Jr., Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Moise, Jean Monestime, Roderick “Rod” Vereen, and Marshal L. Davis, Sr.

Gilbert will be running against Brown, a businesswoman born in Chicago, on Nov. 3rd. Early voting is from Oct. 24th to 31st. The deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot is Oct. 22nd, and the deadline to register to vote is Oct. 5th.

Gilbert delivers victory speech

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Wilson congratulates Gilbert

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It happened around 3 p.m. on June 22 in the area of Northwest Third Avenue and 10th Street.

According to the Miami Police Department, the victim parked his vehicle near the intersection and was looking for something in his trunk when he was approached by the suspect, who has been identified as Pierre Smith.

Police said Smith came up to the victim with a gun, and after snatching $100 out of his hand, proceeded to take an additional $1,800 from his pockets, along with his car keys before getting in the car and driving off.

The car was later found unoccupied along the 400 block of Northwest 19th Street later that day.

Police said through their investigation, they were able to identify Smith as the suspect, though the specifics of that identification were not released.

Investigators obtained a warrant for cell site information and determined that Smith had been in the area of the carjacking before it occurred and was also in the area of where the car was left abandoned after the incident, according to an arrest warrant.

On Tuesday, officers went to Smith’s home and took into custody.

A confession was made while speaking with Miami police officers, but it was redacted from Smith’s arrest form.

Police said a records check indicated Smith was a felon from a 2015 case in which he was convicted for accessory after the fact to a second-degree murder.

In this case, he is facing charges of armed carjacking and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

As of Wednesday morning, Smith was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set.”

El hecho ocurrió alrededor de las 3 p.m. del 22 de junio en el área de Northwest Third Avenue y 10th Street.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Miami, la víctima estacionó su vehículo cerca de la intersección y estaba buscando algo en su maletero cuando se le acercó el sospechoso, identificado como Pierre Smith.

La policía dijo que Smith se acercó a la víctima con un arma y, después de arrebatarle $100 de la mano, procedió a sacar otros $1,800 de sus bolsillos, junto con las llaves del vehículo, antes de subir al auto y alejarse.

El vehículo fue encontrado posteriormente desocupado ese mismo día en la cuadra 400 de Northwest 19th Street.

La policía dijo que, mediante su investigación, pudo identificar a Smith como el sospechoso, aunque no se dieron a conocer los detalles de esa identificación.

Los investigadores obtuvieron una orden judicial para obtener información de las torres de telefonía celular y determinaron que Smith había estado en el área donde ocurrió el robo del vehículo antes de que sucediera y también en el área donde el vehículo fue abandonado después del incidente, según una orden de arresto.

El martes, los agentes acudieron a la casa de Smith y lo detuvieron.

Smith hizo una confesión mientras hablaba con agentes de la policía de Miami, pero esta fue censurada en su formulario de arresto.

La policía dijo que una revisión de registros indicó que Smith era un delincuente convicto por un caso de 2015 en el que fue declarado culpable de ser cómplice después del hecho de un asesinato en segundo grado.

En este caso, enfrenta cargos de robo de vehículo a mano armada y posesión de un arma de fuego por parte de un delincuente convicto.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, Smith permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, con una fianza indicada como “por determinar”.

La representante federal Frederica Wilson, demócrata que representó al distrito durante unos 13 años y es conocida por sus coloridos sombreros, anunció en mayo que no buscaría la reelección.

Wilson, de 83 años, respaldó a Gilbert, de 53 años, comisionado de Miami-Dade y ex presidente de la comisión, quien se desempeñó como alcalde de Miami Gardens de 2012 a 2020.

Con el 99% de los precintos reportados después de las primarias, alrededor del 34% de los votantes demócratas emitieron sus votos por Gilbert, quien creció en Miami Gardens y obtuvo un título de Juris Doctor de la Universidad de Miami.

Según los informes de la Comisión Federal de Elecciones de Estados Unidos (FEC) sobre las contribuciones de campaña, los ingresos totales de Gilbert fueron de más de $812,140 USD, sus desembolsos totales fueron de más de $583,000 USD y tenía más de $229,090 USD en efectivo disponible.

Alrededor del 32% también emitió sus votos por el senador estatal de Florida Shevrin “Shev” Jones, quien se desempeñó en la Cámara de Representantes de Florida de 2012 a 2020.

Según los informes de la FEC de Estados Unidos sobre las contribuciones de campaña, los ingresos totales de Jones fueron de más de $283,690 USD, sus desembolsos totales fueron de más de $205,080 USD y tenía más de $78,610 USD en efectivo disponible.

Gilbert y Jones, de 42 años, compitieron en una contienda con otros cinco candidatos: Kendrick Meek Jr., el Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Moise, Jean Monestime, Roderick “Rod” Vereen y Marshal L. Davis, Sr.

Gilbert se enfrentará a Brown, una empresaria nacida en Chicago, el 3 de noviembre. La votación anticipada será del 24 al 31 de octubre. La fecha límite para solicitar una boleta para votar por correo es el 22 de octubre y la fecha límite para registrarse para votar es el 5 de octubre.

Gilbert da su discurso de triunfo

Jones pronuncia su discurso en reconocimiento de derrota.

Wilson felicita a Gilbert

Resultados de elecciones

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In a post on X, Uthmeier said Caruso’s arrest was made with “substantial assistance” from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and local law enforcement.

“Being in a position of public trust provides no shield from accountability,” Uthmeier said.

Authorities said Caruso, 67, of Riviera Beach, was immediately suspended from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis following his arrest.

They said Caruso is prohibited from performing any official act or function and from receiving any pay or allowances while suspended.

Jail records show Caruso is facing charges that include kidnapping, lewd or lascivious molestation, lewd or lascivious exhibition, luring or enticing a child, and child abuse involving mental injury.

An arrest warrant obtained by Local 10 News states that the victim, who is under the age of 12 and is known to Caruso, claimed that Caruso engaged in sexual activity with him on two separate occasions — once around Thanksgiving in 2024 and again during a family cruise in August 2025.

Caruso was seeking re-election to remain Palm Beach County’s clerk of the circuit court and comptroller. He also formerly served on the U.S. House of Representatives for seven years before he was appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to Palm Beach County.

Authorities said Caruso is set to be transported to the Orange County Corrections Department and held without bond pending his first appearance, which is scheduled for Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Interim Clerk Shannon Ramsey-Chessman has since been sworn into his position.

“This arrest is a decisive line in the sand. When someone targets a child, they don’t just break the law — they shatter a community’s trust. We intend to make sure this survivor’s voice is heard through every step of this process,” said Lisa Haba of the Haba Law Firm, the victim’s attorney, in a statement to Local 10 News.

The Palm Beach County Clerk of Court’s Office also issued this statement to Local 10 News following Caruso’s arrest:

"This morning, our office was notified that Clerk Mike Caruso was arrested on serious criminal charges. We are awaiting additional information from the Governor’s office on next steps.

While this is surprising news for our entire team, it does not change who we are at the Clerk’s office or our commitment to the community and customers we serve.

For decades, the Clerk’s office in Palm Beach County has consistently stood for professionalism and outstanding service for our customers. That focus remains for every one of our 650 employees."

Moderna and Merck are developing a treatment using an mRNA-based cancer vaccine called intismeran that is designed to be tailored to individual patients based on unique mutations within their tumors. In current studies, they are pairing it with Keytruda, a immunotherapy drug made by Merck.

The study compared using intismeran and Keytruda together on melanoma patients against using Keytruda alone. The companies said patients who received the combination lived longer without cancer returning or metastasizing than patients who got Keytruda alone.

The companies did not say how long patients survived without cancer returning or whether patients lived longer overall. They said they plan to present the study results at an upcoming international medical meeting.

Moderna shares rose more than 120% to $140.12 a share. Merck shares rose about 11%.

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Plantation Fire Rescue officials said multiple crews responded to the fire.

They said the truck driver quickly detached the trailer from the cab and safely drove an excavator off the trailer, helping protect the heavy equipment from the spreading flames.

Authorities said crews quickly extinguished the fire. No injuries were reported, and the lanes that had been blocked were reopened.

A PFR spokesperson also recognized a Broward Sheriff’s Office detective and a Hollywood Fire Rescue deputy chief who happened to be passing by and stopped to help.

Authorities said two public safety officials used their vehicles to help block traffic and protect firefighters while crews worked to put out the fire.

Officials reminded drivers to wear seat belts, avoid using their phones while driving and obey speed limits. Fire officials also urged drivers to give emergency crews plenty of room when they are working along the roadway.

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Funcionarios de Plantation Fire Rescue dijeron que varios equipos acudieron para responder al incendio.

Dijeron que el conductor del camión rápidamente desprendió el remolque de la cabina y sacó de manera segura una excavadora del remolque, ayudando a proteger el equipo pesado de las llamas que se propagaban.

Las autoridades dijeron que los equipos extinguieron rápidamente el incendio. No se reportaron heridos y los carriles que habían sido bloqueados fueron reabiertos.

Un portavoz de PFR también reconoció a un detective de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward y a un subjefe de Hollywood Fire Rescue que pasaban por el lugar y se detuvieron para ayudar.

Las autoridades dijeron que dos funcionarios de seguridad pública utilizaron sus vehículos para ayudar a bloquear el tráfico y proteger a los bomberos mientras los equipos trabajaban para apagar el incendio.

Las autoridades recordaron a los conductores que usen el cinturón de seguridad, eviten usar sus teléfonos mientras conducen y respeten los límites de velocidad. Los funcionarios de bomberos también instaron a los conductores a dar suficiente espacio a los equipos de emergencia cuando estén trabajando a lo largo de la vía.

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The star is zipping around the black hole, reaching speeds of about 15,534 miles per second (25,000 kilometers per second). That's 100,000 times faster than a commercial plane.

“That star is really, extremely fast,” said astronomer Stefan Gillessen with the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

The newly discovered star also orbits the black hole at closer range than scientists have ever seen before, taking just 8.7 years to complete a revolution. It harnesses the black hole's gravity to fly faster without falling in.

Gillessen and colleagues uncovered the star in data collected by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Their findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

There are several hundred stars that closely orbit this giant black hole and are sensitive to its gravity. Scientists have mapped the orbits of around 50 of them. The new star is 10 times closer than the previous record holder, meaning that it also feels the effects of the black hole's rotation.

There are supermassive black holes lurking in the center of almost every large galaxy. But nothing can escape them — not even light — so it’s notoriously difficult for scientists to figure out what’s going on inside.

Studying stars like this one could help scientists measure those mysterious properties, including how fast the supermassive black hole spins. Advanced telescopes are helping to pinpoint fainter stars that previously eluded detection, so there could be even speedier ones waiting to be found.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said astronomer Tuan Do with the University of California, Los Angeles, who had no role in the study. “As we get fainter, there should be many more stars like this.”

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Democrats have hoped to mount a comeback in the diverse, populous and economically dynamic state but have struggled to craft a message that resonates in the Sunshine State's political climate. Nixon's upset sets up a long-shot challenge to U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, a former state attorney general selected by Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill the seat after Marco Rubio vacated it when Trump chose him as secretary of state.

The race has already inflamed tensions within the Democratic Party over how to energize liberal voters eager for unapologetic, combative candidates without alienating independents and moderates who have been key to winning in battleground states.

“If you’re surprised by tonight’s election results, you haven’t been paying enough attention to what’s happening in the South,” said Britney Whaley, the southeast regional director of the Working Families Party, which backs populist candidates. “Tonight’s election results must be a wake-up call to a political establishment that believes a populist message can’t win in the South. Angie’s campaign proves voters will respond to a bold economic vision that meets their basic needs.”

A proud progressive who campaigned with new tactics

A spirited progressive who had the backing of Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Nixon is a longtime labor organizer who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America. She championed policies like universal healthcare and childcare and has been an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy and the war in Gaza.

In May, Nixon protested the Republican-controlled Florida legislature’s redistricting of the state’s congressional maps by shouting through a megaphone on the state House floor. She was later reprimanded by an ethics committee but earned plaudits from Democratic allies and voting rights groups for her demonstration.

Vindman raised about $16 million in his race and had spent more than $9 million by the end of July. Nixon, by contrast, had raised just shy of $1 million. Nixon eschewed broadcast television advertising, instead focusing on targeting voters on social media. She was backed by prominent online figures like children’s education influencer Ms. Rachel.

In contrast to other high-profile statewide democratic socialist bids this year, Nixon received little opposition from national Democratic figures or major political action committees. That didn't stop progressives from immediately touting her win as a sign of greater momentum for the region.

Florida's Senate race was widely considered out of reach for Democrats and not central to the party's efforts to retake the upper chamber. Nevertheless, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin issued a statement praising Nixon as a “proven leader,” adding that the DNC “is ready to help elect Angie and work together to flip this seat.”

A defeat for ‘resistance’ Democratic politics

Vindman served on the White House's National Security Council during Trump's first term. His testimony was central to Trump's first impeachment over a phone call in which the president pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden and his family. Vindman became a national Democratic star and target of Trump's ire for his actions, a dynamic that garnered him millions in small-dollar donations.

His twin brother Eugene, who also served on the council, is a Democratic congressman from Virginia.

“Rep. Nixon ran a strong campaign. I will be standing by her side in the fight against Ashley Moody. I hope you’ll join me,” Vindman said in a statement after he conceded the race.

Trump gleefully hailed Vindman's defeat to Nixon.

“The most gratifying loss last night was that of a real treasonous creep, Alexander Vindman, to a Radical Left Lunatic, who can’t speak or think properly, and who will go down to certain defeat at the hands of Ashley Moody, a truly Fantastic Senator, from the Great State Florida,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. Trump added that Vindman “should be prosecuted for what he’d did!”

Democratic leaders like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had hoped Vindman's reputation and campaign war chest would turn what election analysts considered a solidly Republican seat into a more competitive race. Nixon’s upset victory has now buoyed already high Republican confidence in the state and raised progressive confidence about the strength of their message.

Vindman's defeat mirrors that of others who rose to prominence opposing Trump during his first administration, when Democrats embraced “resistance” as a moniker for that opposition and for standing up for the rule of law. Their defeats may show how rank-and-file voters have shifted toward more strident and affirmative visions of politics.

In May, Rep. Al Green of Texas, a longtime Trump opponent and civil rights icon, lost a runoff race to Rep. Christian Menefee, a freshman progressive representative less than half Green's age.

Rep. Dan Goldman, who served as counsel for House Democrats during Trump's first impeachment, lost his primary in June to progressive challenger Brad Lander, who had the backing of New York City's democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. George Conway, a liberal lawyer who has garnered Trump's ire, came in fifth place in another New York Democratic primary for U.S. House.

And earlier this month, Rep. Shri Thanedar of Michigan, who last year introduced articles of impeachment against Trump, lost his primary to a democratic socialist in a Detroit-area congressional race.

Nixon's win headlined mixed results for progressives

In multiple southern Florida congressional primaries Tuesday, left-flank candidates lost to more moderate ones. While the state has shifted rightward in recent election cycles, Florida has long been a refuge for Latino communities who had fled left-wing authoritarian regimes in Latin America. Many of those Floridians have consequently reacted negatively to anything or anyone labeled as socialist.

Elijah Manley, who finished third in a Broward County U.S. House primary won by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, acknowledged the tightrope. He got about 14% of the vote in a five-way race. In neighboring districts, Rep. Jared Moskowitz and political newcomer Pia Dandiya ran as moderates and won 64% and 69% of the vote, respectively, over more progressive opponents.

“I’m a proud moderate. We need more moderates,” Dandiya said in an interview.

The Senate returns showed similar trends. Nixon carried most of the state but was weakest in southern Florida, which includes some of the state's largest Latino communities.

Still, Manley insisted the broader electorate wants a more aggressive, left-leaning party.

“They have looked at the Democratic establishment for the past four years, even 10 years, and it’s something that just isn’t working for them,” he said.

“Say what you will about the DSA. They’re organizing. They’re bringing people into the party. They’re exciting people, and they’re getting people. We should be happy that that’s happening,” Manley added.

Nixon's allies view her voter base, which includes some of the most working-class and majority-Black counties in the state, as another path to power when coupled with the broader Democratic coalition. But they caution intraparty divisions and an inauthentic message could hamper a candidate from any wing of the party.

“I think people are looking for change. They’re looking for leadership who they can trust and who listens,” said Moné Holder, a liberal activist and urban planning committee chair who defeated a Republican for an at-large seat on Jacksonville’s city council.

“They’re looking for people to serve who aren’t wrapped up in political drama, but are about people. And I think voters came out to show that, and it proved itself in my election, and Angie’s, and a few others,” Holder said.

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According to deputies, the shooting was reported at about 1 a.m. in the 2300 block of Southwest 46^th Avenue.

A Local 10 News crew was at the scene as a body was on the ground.

Deputies confirmed that they arrived at the scene and found the victim, Zakari Christian Glass, 24, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Despite immediately administering life-saving measures, paramedics with Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue pronounced Glass dead at the scene.

“It’s not too safe around here, you know?” AC Jones, who lives in the area, said.

BSO Homicide Unit detectives are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

A motive for the shooting remains unclear.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Both vehicles were traveling in opposite directions, authorities said. Preliminary evidence suggests that the truck, which wasn’t carrying any cargo, crossed into incoming traffic and collided with the minibus at around 3:30 a.m., Brazil’s traffic police said.

The crash happened on a highway near Ipiranga, a city of 14,000 residents in central Parana state and 560 kilometers (350 miles) south of Sao Paulo.

The minibus passengers included healthcare workers, patients and a few family members, authorities said. The death toll included 21 adults and two children.

Emergency teams and local police were still working at the site hours later. Footage from TV Globo shows the truck parked on grass on the side of the road and the crushed minibus, with shattered glass and belongings of the passengers strewn on the ground.

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“Say So,” with its big-hearted and hopeful chorus, is about suicide prevention. It was written in tribute to Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney's late mentor Ben Vaughn, head of Warner Chappell Music Publishing, who died by suicide a year before.

“If you’re going through hell, you’re not alone,” Mooney sings. “If you need somebody, say so.”

“For one of the first times in our career, I was like, ‘I’m not like sure if we should tackle this,’” Smyers told The Associated Press.

But in the studio, it became an inevitability — even though they were uncertain. “We were just sharing stories about our friend. And it just fell out of us. A verse and a chorus in, and I think we were all just like, ‘I don’t know, man. Is this too heavy to tackle?'” Smyers continued.

Creating the demo together, alongside co-writers David Hodges and Jimmy Robbins, became therapeutic.

“We owed it to our friend Ben,” he said. “We owe it to the community, who he meant so much to. And I feel like we owed it to ourselves to at least see that one through to the finish line.”

What they didn't realize is that the day they started work on the song was also what would've been Vaughn's 50th birthday. “It was more than a coincidence,” he said. “That was the sign that this song could help somebody.”

“Say So” may be the heaviest song off “Young,” but it is also a thematic center for the record — 10 autobiographical tracks of crossover country that reflect their lives, now, with new emotional vulnerability — what Mooney labels “a very life-giving thing.”

The heart of 'Young'

The album opens with its title track, the stripped-back acoustic arpeggio “Young,” what Smyers describes as “a message from your future self to your present and past self, about the passage of time and appreciating the moment.”

But there's an additional, gendered resonance. “Men — I just think, maybe I’m generalizing — don’t do as good of a job of sharing their feelings and emotions. And I’m saying that because that’s me,” he said.

“You’re tough. You bottle it up. But when I finally broke down that wall, it changed my life. And I think that song just talks about aging as a man.”

That's yet another difficult subject, which might also explain why, before creating the 10 songs that make up “Young,” Dan + Shay wrote and scrapped an entire album's worth of material. The tracks that made up the final collection took time, open and honest conversation, and a hearty dose of self-reflection.

It's why there may be more religiosity to this album than in the previous works — from the single “Her, The Kids and Jesus” to the album's two mentions of a King James Bible.

“'Her, the kids and Jesus,' that’s kind of a snapshot at what my life looks like right now,” Mooney said.

Growing into 'The Old Guys'

Grief — and affection — take on many forms across “Young." From the ode to a young adult's first pet (“Dogs in Our Twenties”) to a twist on the traditional love song format and praying your partner dies after you (the ‘90s country-channeling “The Old Guys"), the songs are delivered with tenderness. The latter includes the album's sole feature, Cody Johnson — a neo-traditionalist in country music that, on paper, may seem at odds with Dan + Shay's genre-hybridity. After all, these are the same guys who recorded the multiplatinum crossover hit “10,000 Hours” featuring Justin Bieber in 2019.

“We occupy a very different space in country music,” agrees Smyers. Even vocally — Mooney's got a high register, Johnson sings low, and when they're all singing together, “It's, like, perfectly meeting in the middle.”

It also highlights the range of this album. “There’s kind of a song for everybody, for whatever you’re going through,” says Mooney. “Whatever people need to get out of this album, I hope that they get that.”