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According to FBI Special Agent Willie Creech, the robbery occurred at about 4:20 p.m. Thursday at a Truist bank branch, located at 501 E. Las Olas Blvd.

Creech said the robber implied that he had a gun on him before demanding money from a bank employee.

No injuries were reported.

Creech declined to confirm the amount of money taken during the robbery.

Anyone with information about the bank robbery is urged to call 1-800-CALL-FBI or go to tips.fbi.gov.

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According to police, the crash happened at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the 2300 block of Southwest 173rd Avenue.

Police said the baby’s mother was driving and the woman’s other child was also in the vehicle.

Officers said the baby was airlifted to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, where he or she later died.

The mother was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood with minor injuries, according to investigators. The second child was not injured.

Authorities said MPD’s Traffic Homicide Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.

No other details about the crash or the family involved have been released.

Según el agente especial del FBI Willie Creech, el robo ocurrió alrededor de las 4:20 p.m. del jueves en una sucursal bancaria de Truist, ubicada en 501 E. Las Olas Blvd.

Creech dijo que el ladrón dio a entender que tenía un arma consigo antes de exigir dinero a un empleado del banco.

No se reportaron heridos.

Creech se negó a confirmar la cantidad de dinero que fue robada durante el asalto.

Se insta a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el robo del banco a llamar al 1-800-CALL-FBI o ingresar a tips.fbi.gov.

The Tempo guard has been out for two months with a left plantar fascia injury she suffered in a June 16 game against the Indiana Fever. Without her the team has struggled, dropping 10 straight games. Toronto was in the mix for a playoff spot before the skid that has left the Tempo at 10-23 for the season, the third-worst record in the league.

Sykes said at practice Monday that she just needed to get cleared by the doctor to be able to play.

"It’s been a testing eight weeks, but, you know, it taught me a lot about myself. I got to show up for my teammates and the org in a different way,” Sykes said. “I’m just grateful that I got that time. I got a lot of therapy sessions in. I got to find out a lot about myself. In this point in my career, I’ve been here before, but it seems like this injury was way harder to deal with.”

Even when she wasn't able to play, Sykes was a veteran presence on the team, trying to keep her teammates' heads up during the skid.

She could make her return against Caitlin Clark and the Fever on Tuesday. The Tempo have a busy week ahead, with back-to-back games against Indiana at home and then against Washington on the road. Then Toronto will trek across Canada to Vancouver to face Portland on Friday and Las Vegas on Sunday.

It will be the second straight season that the WNBA will play games in Vancouver; Atlanta faced Seattle last season there in front of a sold-out crowd.

The timing is tough because the Tempo just came back from a five-game road trip that saw them criss-cross the U.S., with games on the West Coast, Atlanta and Dallas before returning home.

After the two games in Vancouver, the team finishes off its pre-World Cup schedule with three more road games in Seattle, Las Vegas and Phoenix.

The Tempo also played a pair of games in Montreal in July, splitting with Dallas and New York.

Power poll rankings

Minnesota held onto the top spot in the power poll again this week as the unanimous choice. The Lynx beat Portland and Las Vegas on the road last week. Golden State was second and the Aces were third. Indiana, Washington and New York were next. Atlanta was seventh, with Dallas, Portland and Chicago following the Dream. Phoenix, Los Angeles, Connecticut, Seattle/Toronto rounded out the poll.

Honoring Diana

The Phoenix Mercury retired Diana Taurasi's No. 3 jersey on Sunday in a halftime ceremony with a star-studded crowd in attendance. At the end of the evening, Taurasi stepped to the microphone one more time, pausing as the crowd gave her a 45-second standing ovation. Her 30-minute speech was a mixture of seriousness and comedy, drawing laugh from the thousands of fans who stayed after the Mercury lost to Portland.

Player of the week

Clark was the AP player of the week. Indiana's star guard averaged 25.7 points, 9.7 assists and 3.3 rebounds to help the team win all three of its games last week. Other players receiving votes were Allisha Gray of Atlanta, Olivia Miles of Minnesota and A'ja Wilson of Las Vegas.

Game of the week

Indiana at Dallas, Thursday. The teams will play for the second time in two weeks, with the Wings looking to get a measure of revenge for the loss last week in Indiana. Paige Bueckers put on a show for Dallas, but it wasn't enough to overcome the play of Clark, Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston.

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According to the Miami Police Department, the incident happened at around 1:10 a.m. along Brickell Avenue, near Southeast Seventh Street.

MPD arrest reports state that as the victim rode the scooter north on Brickell Avenue, the trio drove beside him in a gray Mercedes-Benz SUV and the two rear passengers opened fire, striking him with multiple BB gun pellets, “including one pellet that struck him near his left eye, causing him to fall from his scooter.”

“While the victim was attempting to get back onto his feet, the vehicle made a turn and returned toward him, at which time the occupants again fired BB guns in his direction,” the report states. “The vehicle subsequently made another turn and left the area. During this occurrence, the victim was able to record video footage of the vehicle as it departed the scene.”

Police said they recovered three BB pellets at the scene and were able to make out a partial license plate, locating the vehicle about 20 minutes later along Southwest Second Avenue, near Eighth Street and pulling the group over.

Police identified the driver as Kai McMurray, 21, of Laguna Beach, California; and the passengers as Tomas Flecha, 19, of Conyers, Georgia; and Ayden Hanan, 23, of Gurnee, Illinois.

Officers said they found “multiple BB pellets on the vehicle’s floorboards, seats and cup holders.”

According to the reports, McMurray admitted that Flecha and Hanan “were actively rolling down the vehicle’s windows and shooting BB guns at people while he drove throughout the Brickell area.”

“(He) further stated that after shooting the BB guns in the area, the occupants returned to their apartment, where the BB guns were dropped off,” it states. “The occupants subsequently left the apartment again and continued driving around the area.”

Hanan, police said, admitted to being “aware of the BB gun shooting.”

Police took all three into custody on charges of aggravated battery and shooting or throwing a deadly missile. The latter charge was labeled as “attempted” for Hanan and McMurray.

The men were being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bonds listed as “to be set” as of Monday afternoon.

The league announced the approval Monday after a vote. Feliciano and Jones reached an agreement in May to buy the Padres from the family of late owner Peter Seidler at an MLB-record valuation of $3.9 billion. The deal is still contingent on the official closing of the transaction in the coming weeks.

“José and Kwanza understand the unique place the Padres hold in San Diego and the powerful bond between the club and its fans,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “We look forward to their leadership of the Padres and to working with them to build on the club’s strong foundation in a market that is so important to Major League Baseball.”

Seidler's family announced its intention to explore a sale of the Padres last November, two years after Peter Seidler's death. The 53-year-old Feliciano, a co-founder of Santa Monica-based private equity firm Clearlake Capital, emerged from the competition as the Seidler family's top choice.

Padres CEO Erik Greupner and general manager A.J. Preller will remain in charge of day-to-day operations, according to MLB's announcement.

“We are a family first, and becoming owners of the San Diego Padres means joining an even larger one,” Jones and Feliciano said in a statement. “We are grateful to the Seidler family, and especially to Peter, for raising the expectations of what this franchise can achieve. ... Our ambition is clear: to bring a World Series championship to San Diego and build an enduring organization capable of competing for championships year after year. We intend to be engaged owners, bringing our energy, experience and perspective while working alongside the talented team already in place and investing ambitiously and thoughtfully in the Padres’ future.

“We are all in and committed to winning.”

Peter Seidler assumed majority control of the Padres in 2020 after first joining their ownership group in 2012, but he became beloved in San Diego for his aggressive financial pursuit of winning and his eagerness to engage with the team's fan base. He died at 63 in November 2023.

The Padres dramatically increased their payroll under Seidler, allowing Preller to build the foundation for the current team, which has made four playoff appearances in the past six years and won at least 89 games in three of the last four seasons during the most successful stretch in franchise history. San Diego is currently in the playoff race again, winning 17 of its last 24 games to surge into an NL wild-card position at 67-58.

Manfred thanked the Seidler family, including John Seidler, who became the Padres' chairman after his brother's death.

“Continuing the legacy established by the late Peter Seidler, the Padres reached the postseason four times in the last six years, energized one of baseball’s most passionate fanbases and strengthened the club’s role as a cornerstone of the San Diego community,” Manfred said.

When Feliciano and Jones reached their agreement to purchase the Padres earlier this year, they praised the team as "a unifying force in San Diego, rooted in community, connection and belonging.” They've since been spotted at Padres games in San Diego and in Mexico City.

The Padres have never won a World Series, but they were a valuable commodity for potential owners as the only team in the four biggest North American sports leagues in a metropolitan area with roughly 3.3 million people. Downtown Petco Park has become one of the liveliest ballparks in the sport, and the Padres ranked second in the majors in attendance last season.

Feliciano, who was born in Puerto Rico, becomes the second Latino principal owner in baseball, along with the Los Angeles Angels' Arte Moreno. Latino and Hispanic players comprise roughly 30% of major league rosters.

Feliciano and Jones will hold an introductory news conference at Petco Park on Monday, Aug. 24.

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The process launched by newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is a victory for Second Amendment advocates who have long pushed for nonviolent people with felony convictions to be given a pathway to regain their legal right to own firearms.

“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right, and the federal government should not permanently deprive Americans of a constitutional right without regard to whether they pose a danger to public safety,” Blanche said in a statement. The attorney general said the new process will protect “public safety while giving deserving Americans a real path to restoration.”

It’s the latest move by President Donald Trump's administration to ease firearms restrictions. The Justice Department moved earlier this year to roll back and modify a slate of gun regulations. Separately, the department recently decided against challenging a court ruling that struck down regulations on firearm suppressors and certain guns.

Federal law has long allowed people who've had their gun rights stripped because of felony convictions to petition the government for the ability to own firearms again, but Congress since 1992 has effectively barred the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from processing applications.

The Trump administration's rule aims to circumvent that by establishing a new application system using an online portal.

The Justice Department says restoration will be granted on a case-by-case basis, weighing a person's record and reputation to determine whether they pose a likely threat to public safety. Officials say people who have been convicted of violent crimes, registered sex offenders, people living in the country illegally and others whom officials believe pose a danger to society will be denied “absent extraordinary circumstances.”

Según la policía, el accidente ocurrió alrededor de las 12:30 p.m. del sábado en la cuadra 2300 de Southwest 173rd Avenue.

La policía indicó que la madre del bebé conducía y que el otro hijo de la mujer también estaba en el vehículo.

Los agentes dijeron que el bebé fue trasladado en helicóptero al Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, donde posteriormente murió.

La madre fue trasladada al Memorial Regional Hospital en Hollywood con lesiones menores, según los investigadores. El segundo hijo no resultó herido.

Las autoridades indicaron que la Unidad de Investigaciones de Homicidios de Tránsito del Departamento de Policía de Miramar (MPD) está investigando las circunstancias del accidente.

No se han divulgado más detalles sobre el accidente ni sobre la familia involucrada.

The project through the national park in southern Texas has faced fierce bipartisan opposition by critics who say it is marring a pristine environmental area and that the region’s rugged and remote terrain already serves as a deterrent to migrants and smugglers.

Rodney Scott, who heads Customs and Border Protection which is tasked with building the wall, said in an announcement on X that he was visiting Texas to do an evaluation.

“CBP is pausing all construction activity in Big Bend National Park while I visit and conduct a personal, on-the-ground evaluation,” Scott said.

Congress gave the Trump administration $46 billion last summer to build a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, and the administration has been racing ahead and waiving numerous regulations in an effort to swiftly build the wall.

Scott has said that he expects that they will build the first layer of the wall by the end of next year.

But they have run into fierce opposition in Texas especially when it comes to construction in and near Big Bend National Park and a state park to the west.

On Aug. 9, Karyne E. David fired into his ex-girlfriend’s home at 9:50 p.m. at Northwest 19 Avenue and 185th Terrace in Miami Gardens, according to a police officer’s arrest report.

On Aug. 10, David “shouldered” a rifle and pointed it at a Miami Gardens special victims unit detective, who then “discharged his duty pistol,” before a pursuit started, according to a police report.

David, who was armed with an AK-style Century Arms Draco with a wood and black finish, fled in a black Honda Accord, and during the high-speed pursuit, “put the rifle out of the window and began shooting back” at the detective, according to the police report.

The detective fired at David at Northwest 19th Avenue and 183rd Street, and again along Northwest 22nd Avenue, near 135th Street, according to the police officer’s report.

David “crashed into large bushes on the side of the road ... bailed out and fled eastbound on foot along a tree line” of Northwest 107th Street in Opa-locka, according to a police officer’s report.

Police officers reported running after David and catching up to him about a block away from the crash along 107th Street, near 17th Avenue, and detaining him before Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel arrived.

David also had a 30-round magazine loaded with nine live rounds and one round in the chamber, and he had an extra live round in his pocket, according to police.

MDFR personnel took David, who suffered a gunshot wound, to the North Shore Hospital, and he was transferred to the HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, where he attempted to escape on Aug. 10, according to police.

David was in the intensive care unit when he detached electrocardiogram leads from his chest to create a “sharp metal tool” that he inserted in the handcuff locking mechanism, according to a police report.

On Aug. 13, police officers arrested David after a doctor discharged him from the HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, records show.

Miami-Dade corrections booked David at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained without bond on Monday afternoon.

Miami-Dade prosecutors filed two cases against David on Friday and two on Thursday, according to county court records.

In the first case filed on Thursday, David faced six charges: Two counts of premeditated attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, and two counts of throwing a deadly missile.

In the second case filed on Thursday, David faced a charge for escaping, a second-degree felony.

In the third case filed on Friday, David faced five charges: Attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, fleeing and eluding police, throwing a deadly missile, aggravated assault with a firearm, and resisting arrest.

In the second case filed on Friday, David faced nine more charges: Three counts of attempted murder, three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and three counts of throwing a deadly missile.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Jason Bloch was presiding over the cases. His next pretrial detention hearing was set for 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

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Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.

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According to a federal court case filed on Monday, Hakam Shahin, 30, of Oakland Park, is facing a count of conspiracy to transport stolen motor vehicles.

Federal prosecutors are trying the case in U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey. That’s the city where authorities say “stolen vehicles were being transported, loaded into shipping containers and exported” to the Middle East and Africa from a lot “run by an international shipping and logistics company.”

According to a federal criminal complaint, on April 29, Homeland Security Investigations agents were made aware of the criminal activity.

Surveillance of the lot the next day showed multiple parked luxury vehicles, including a Range Rover, Cadillac Escalade and Mercedes-Benz G-Class, all reported stolen out of Florida, New Jersey and Texas respectively, the complaint states.

On May 1, agents said they saw a Bentley Continental that had been stolen in Florida just three days before.

Agents said they saw Shahin at the lot on multiple occasions, taking photos of the vehicles and at one point arriving with a trailer carrying a Lamborghini Aventador stolen from Florida.

The complaint mentions other vehicles stolen from Michigan, Illinois, Tennessee and New York.

Agents said they were able to intercept shipments of stolen luxury cars that were bound for the west African country of Togo, as well as the United Arab Emirates.

They said they obtained text messages showing a co-conspirator advising Shahin and others to “always avoid” Flock surveillance cameras when driving.

They said they also obtained texts showing unnamed co-conspirators and Shahin discussing “watching out for law enforcement.”

According to the complaint, that includes an April 30 text in which a co-conspirator told Shahin to “Fast go clean the g class...before it f---s up the yard,” to which Shahin replied with a photo of two Newark Police Department vehicles at the lot.

The next day, agents said Shahin told the co-conspirator to “keep quiet” and that “someone (was) giving info” to authorities.

On May 5, agents said a co-conspirator told Shahin, “You’re f---ed” after Shahin sent a photo of an NPD cruiser behind a stolen Ferrari.

Agents said they also obtained messages showing group chats between Shahin, the co-conspirators and employees of the unnamed shipping company.

Broward Sheriff’s Office jail records show that federal authorities arrested Shahin on Friday. He was being held at BSO’s Main Jail facility in Fort Lauderdale, on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service, as he awaits extradition to the Garden State.

He had been scheduled to make an initial appearance in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Monday morning.

In the meantime, records show the two state cases against Shahin ― in which he faces nearly a dozen felonies total ― remain active in Miami-Dade County court. He’s scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 8.

Según un caso presentado el lunes en un tribunal federal, Hakam Shahin, de 30 años, de Oakland Park, enfrenta un cargo de conspiración para transportar vehículos motorizados robados.

Los fiscales federales están procesando el caso en el Tribunal de Distrito de Estados Unidos en Newark, Nueva Jersey. Esa es la ciudad donde las autoridades dicen que “vehículos robados eran transportados, cargados en contenedores de envío y exportados” a Medio Oriente y África desde un lote “operado por una compañía internacional de envíos y logística”.

Según una denuncia penal federal, el 29 de abril, agentes de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional (HSI) fueron informados sobre la actividad delictiva.

La vigilancia del lote al día siguiente mostró múltiples vehículos de lujo estacionados, incluyendo un Range Rover, Cadillac Escalade y Mercedes-Benz G-Class, todos reportados como robados de Florida, Nueva Jersey y Texas, respectivamente, según la denuncia.

El 1 de mayo, los agentes dijeron que vieron un Bentley Continental que había sido robado en Florida apenas tres días antes.

Los agentes dijeron que vieron a Shahin en el lote en múltiples ocasiones, tomando fotografías de los vehículos y, en un momento, llegando con un remolque que transportaba un Lamborghini Aventador robado de Florida.

La denuncia menciona otros vehículos robados de Michigan, Illinois, Tennessee y Nueva York.

Los agentes dijeron que pudieron interceptar cargamentos de vehículos de lujo robados que tenían como destino el país de África Occidental Togo, así como los Emiratos Árabes Unidos.

Dijeron que obtuvieron mensajes de texto que mostraban a un co conspirador aconsejando a Shahin y a otros que “siempre evitaran” las cámaras de vigilancia Flock al conducir.

También dijeron que obtuvieron mensajes de texto que mostraban a co conspiradores no identificados y a Shahin hablando sobre “estar atentos a las autoridades”.

Según la denuncia, eso incluye un mensaje del 30 de abril en el que un co conspirador le dijo a Shahin que “Rápido, ve a limpiar la G class... antes de que se j--- el patio”, a lo que Shahin respondió con una foto de dos vehículos del Departamento de Policía de Newark en el lote.

Al día siguiente, los agentes dijeron que Shahin le dijo al co conspirador que “guardara silencio” y que “alguien estaba dando información” a las autoridades.

El 5 de mayo, los agentes dijeron que un co conspirador le dijo a Shahin “Estás j---do” después de que Shahin enviara una foto de un vehículo policial de NPD detrás de un Ferrari robado.

Los agentes dijeron que también obtuvieron mensajes que mostraban chats grupales entre Shahin, los co conspiradores y empleados de la compañía de envíos no identificada.

Los registros de la cárcel de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward muestran que las autoridades federales arrestaron a Shahin el viernes. Permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal de BSO en Fort Lauderdale, en nombre del Servicio de Alguaciles de Estados Unidos, mientras espera su extradición al Garden State.

Estaba programado para comparecer inicialmente ante un tribunal federal en Fort Lauderdale el lunes por la mañana.

Mientras tanto, los registros muestran que los dos casos estatales contra Shahin, en los que enfrenta casi una docena de delitos graves en total, siguen activos en el tribunal del condado de Miami-Dade. Está programado para ser procesado el 8 de septiembre.

Syrians have taken to social media and the streets in recent days to demand answers about the death of Mohammad Ghamira, who was buried Monday in his hometown of al-Haffah in coastal Latakia province.

When insurgents unseated former President Bashar Assad in December 2024 after a nearly 14-year civil war, they opened the country's notorious prisons. During Assad's rule, rights groups say, thousands of prisoners were killed in mass executions or died from injuries and disease. Detainees were subjected to torture, beatings and rape.

Officials with the government of interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa have promised accountability in Ghamira’s case, but rights groups say it is not an isolated incident and that abuses persist in detention centers.

The detainee had hemophilia, which affects blood clotting

Ghamira, a 29-year-old father of two, was a former volunteer with the White Helmets civil defense organization, which operated in opposition-held areas before Assad's fall.

He died in a hospital in Latakia on Sunday after being released from jail. He had been detained days earlier following an "allegation of theft involving a sum of money,” Latakia’s internal security command said in a statement, without giving more details.

Syria’s Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh, who was previously head of the White Helmets, said on X that Ghamira had died of “complications from cerebral and gastrointestinal hemorrhaging” that “resulted from a beating he sustained after being detained at the al-Haffah police station.”

Al-Saleh and Ghamira’s relatives said he had hemophilia, a condition affecting the blood’s ability to clot.

Ghamira’s uncle, Issam Ghamira, said in a video interview with state news agency SANA that the family had told the police chief in al-Haffah that his nephew had hemophilia and warned against hitting him. Despite that, he said, his nephew was hit while in custody.

Syria’s interior ministry announced an investigation into Ghamira’s death and said seven interior ministry personnel were detained for questioning.

Syria’s Interior Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba, speaking to journalists, acknowledged “shortcomings and deficiencies” in some of the country's police departments but said others were doing “exceptional” work.

“God willing, this painful incident will serve as a catalyst for positive change in the operations of the ministry of interior," he said.

Watchdogs call Ghamira’s death part of a wider problem

In a report released in March, the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic said it had documented “torture and ill-treatment” in 18 official detention facilities and 12 “makeshift facilities” in different areas of Syria between January and October 2025, in the months following Assad's ouster as the new government asserted control.

The practices it documented included beating prisoners with rifle butts, sticks, pipes, bars and cables; the use of electric shocks and other forms of torture; mock executions; and sexual violence.

Syrians for Truth and Justice, a human rights organization that tracks abuses, in a report published earlier this month said that “severe beatings, electric shocks, humiliation, threats, deprivation of basic necessities, and deaths in custody continue to be common practices at the hands of multiple security and military actors.”

The group concluded that the incidents were too widespread to treat as isolated incidents but that there was not evidence of a “single centralized system equivalent in structure and direction to the torture apparatus entrenched by the Assad regime.”

“It is somehow widespread, but it’s not structured,” Bassam Alahmad, the group’s executive director, told The Associated Press. “For us, there is no evidence that these orders came from the commanders to torture people, but still (the authorities) have a responsibility to stop this behavior."

Syrians whose loved ones disappeared or died in detention centers during Assad’s rule said they were disturbed to see the patterns being repeated under the new government.

Families for Freedom, a group representing relatives of detainees, said in a statement, “What happened to Mohammed reopens the wounds of torture and death in detention for thousands of Syrian families — practices Syrians have struggled for years to end, and the recurrence of which cannot be accepted today.”

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Lala se debilitó de huracán a tormenta tropical el domingo después de azotar el estado sin tocar tierra. Se prevé que la tormenta continuará desplazándose hacia el oeste y se convertirá otra vez en huracán mar adentro lejos de tierra para el miércoles.

No había vigilancias ni avisos costeros vigentes para Hawai el lunes, cuando comenzaban las labores de limpieza, pero persistían condiciones de oleaje y corrientes de resaca potencialmente mortales, según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes. La saturación causada por las fuertes lluvias aún podría provocar algunos deslizamientos de tierra, pero los vientos ya no representaban una amenaza, indicó el meteorólogo del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional Patrick Blood.

“No hay peligros realmente inminentes a los que nos estemos enfrentando ahora”, afirmó. “Lala se ha ido hacia el oeste”.

Laupahoehoe, en la costa noreste de la Isla Grande, registró la mayor cantidad de lluvia, con 1,1 metros (43 pulgadas). Los vientos más fuertes se registraron en la cima del imponente volcán Mauna Kea, donde las ráfagas alcanzaron los 225 km/h (140 mph). En las zonas de menor altitud, residentes de toda la cadena de islas experimentaron vientos con fuerza de tormenta tropical de 48 a 64 km/h (30 a 40 mph), con ráfagas de hasta 97 km/h (60 mph), señaló Blood.

La tormenta derribó árboles y cables eléctricos y provocó graves inundaciones que arrancaron de sus cimientos unas 100 viviendas en la Isla Grande, informaron las autoridades. El gobernador Josh Green manifestó el domingo que al parecer nadie murió cuando las casas fueron arrastradas por el agua.

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El accidente ocurrió en los apartamentos Aliro, cerca de Northeast 142nd Street y 18th Avenue.

Equipos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondieron a la escena.

A pesar de los daños, no se reportaron personas heridas.

Aún no está claro qué causó que el conductor perdiera el control y chocara. Las circunstancias que rodean el incidente están bajo investigación.

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Led by head coach Mario Cristobal, Miami enters the season looking to build on its historic 2025 campaign, when the Hurricanes reached the College Football Playoff National Championship game before falling to Indiana at Hard Rock Stadium.

The Hoosiers were led by quarterback and Miami native Fernando Mendoza, who was selected No. 1 overall by the Las Vegas Raiders in the 2026 NFL draft.

Miami opens the 2026 season against Stanford on Sept. 4.

Quarterback Darian Mensah will lead the Hurricanes after transferring from Duke last season, along with key players, including running back Mark Fletcher Jr. and wide receiver Malachi Toney.

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Dirigido por el entrenador en jefe Mario Cristóbal, Miami entra a la temporada con la intención de aprovechar su histórica campaña de 2025, cuando los Hurricanes llegaron al partido por el Campeonato Nacional de los College Football Playoff antes de caer ante Indiana en el Hard Rock Stadium.

Los Hoosiers fueron liderados por el quarterback y nativo de Miami Fernando Mendoza, quien fue seleccionado en el primer lugar general por Las Vegas Raiders en el draft de la NFL de 2026.

Miami abre la temporada de 2026 contra Stanford el 4 de septiembre.

El quarterback Darian Mensah liderará a los Hurricanes después de transferirse de Duke la temporada pasada, junto con jugadores clave, incluyendo al corredor Mark Fletcher Jr. y al receptor abierto Malachi Toney.

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The representative said Panettiere’s death appears to have been the result of a possible drug overdose. An official cause of death, however, has not been announced.

Dispatch audio shared by TMZ with Local 10 referenced a “cardiac arrest” and an “overdose” as South Carolina first responders rushed to an apartment complex in Greenville, where Panettiere was found unresponsive Sunday afternoon.

Despite lifesaving efforts, Panettiere was pronounced dead at the scene.

Greenville investigators said their preliminary investigation found no signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances.

Panettiere’s father remembered his daughter as an “incredible light” in a statement following her death.

“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” the statement read. “She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen.”

From child actor to television star

Panettiere began her television career in the 1990s, appearing in commercials and soap operas before landing one of the roles that would make her a household name.

In 2006, she began portraying Claire Bennet, a cheerleader with superpowers, on the television series “Heroes.”

Six years later, Panettiere took on the role of country singer Juliette Barnes in “Nashville.”

Her career also included roles on the big screen, including “Remember the Titans,” “Raising Helen” and “Bring It On: All or Nothing.”

Panettiere gave birth to her only child in 2014. A year later, she entered rehab.

In recent years, the actress had spoken openly about her struggles with opioid and alcohol addiction, as well as her attempts at recovery.

Panettiere returned to the screen in 2023 as fan-favorite Kirby Reed in the sixth installment of the “Scream” franchise.

That same year, she experienced a personal tragedy when her younger brother died from a heart condition.

Earlier this year, Panettiere released her memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” in which she opened up about postpartum depression, addiction and recovery.

Panettiere would have turned 37 on Friday.

Her official cause of death remains pending.

El representante dijo que la muerte de Panettiere parece haber sido resultado de una posible sobredosis de drogas. Sin embargo, no se ha anunciado la causa oficial de muerte.

El audio de la llamada de emergencia compartido por TMZ con Local 10 hizo referencia a un “paro cardíaco” y una “sobredosis” mientras los primeros socorristas de Carolina del Sur acudían a un complejo de apartamentos en Greenville, donde Panettiere fue encontrada inconsciente la tarde del domingo.

A pesar de los esfuerzos por salvarle la vida, Panettiere fue declarada muerta en el lugar.

Los investigadores de Greenville dijeron que su investigación preliminar no encontró señales de juego sucio ni circunstancias sospechosas.

El padre de Panettiere recordó a su hija como una “luz increíble” en un comunicado tras su muerte.

“Es con profunda tristeza que compartimos la trágica muerte de nuestra querida Hayden”, decía el comunicado. “Ella era una luz increíble y una fuerza de la naturaleza que brindó un amor y una alegría inconmensurables a todos los que la conocieron, y a los millones que la vieron en pantalla”.

De actriz infantil a estrella de televisión

Panettiere comenzó su carrera televisiva en la década de 1990, apareciendo en comerciales y telenovelas antes de conseguir uno de los papeles que la convertirían en un nombre reconocido.

En 2006, comenzó a interpretar a Claire Bennet, una porrista con superpoderes, en la serie de televisión “Heroes”.

Seis años después, Panettiere asumió el papel de la cantante de música country Juliette Barnes en “Nashville”.

Su carrera también incluyó papeles en la pantalla grande, incluyendo “Remember the Titans”, “Raising Helen” y “Bring It On: All or Nothing”.

Panettiere dio a luz a su único hijo en 2014. Un año después, ingresó a rehabilitación.

En años recientes, la actriz había hablado abiertamente sobre sus problemas con la adicción a los opioides y al alcohol, así como sobre sus intentos de recuperación.

Panettiere regresó a la pantalla en 2023 como Kirby Reed, una de las favoritas de los fanáticos, en la sexta entrega de la franquicia “Scream”.

Ese mismo año, sufrió una tragedia personal cuando su hermano menor murió a causa de una enfermedad cardíaca.

A principios de este año, Panettiere publicó sus memorias, “This Is Me: A Reckoning”, en las que habló sobre la depresión posparto, la adicción y la recuperación.

Panettiere habría cumplido 37 años el viernes.

La causa oficial de su muerte sigue pendiente.

The standoff, in the village of Qusra, has seen groups of settlers surround several Palestinian houses and prevent residents from leaving. The United States has condemned the siege and the Israeli military has deployed troops it says are there to maintain order.

The siege of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers comes as violence in the West Bank has soared in recent months. The settlers, emboldened by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, have ramped up attacks on Palestinian towns and villages, harassing residents and setting homes, mosques and fields ablaze.

As Loui Ridi, an Ohio-based owner of one of the houses, landed in Israel, settlers were still roaming near Qusra, according to video footage taken by his brother. It showed them driving ATVs and speaking to soldiers.

“I’m terrified for my brother and his son and their safety,” Ridi told reporters at Israel’s main international airport. “And now I’m going to have to fear for my own safety.”

Ridi arrived in Qusra late Monday night.

As he waited for Israel’s military to escort him to his home on the village’s outskirts, Ridi said little had changed since early last week, when the siege began. His brother’s footage still showed the soldiers interacting amicably with settlers in Qusra rather than arresting them.

When Ridi finally reached his home, he was greeted by his brother and teenage nephew, who have stayed inside to protect the property from the settlers. He exited his car carrying an American flag while settlers were still visible from the home's security cameras.

The village is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Nablus. Israel declared the neighborhood where Ridi's home is located a closed military zone last week.

According to Palestinian health officials, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed 87 Palestinians so far this year. Palestinians have killed three Israelis, including two who were killed in the West Bank village of Tell last month.

__ Metz reported from Tel Aviv, Israel.

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The crash happened at the Aliro Apartments near Northeast 142nd Street and 18th Avenue.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene.

Despite the damage, no injuries were reported.

It remains unclear what caused the driver to lose control and crash. The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.

Según los agentes, el tiroteo se reportó alrededor de la 1 a. m. en la cuadra 2300 de Southwest 46th Avenue.

Los agentes confirmaron que, al llegar a la escena, encontraron a la víctima con múltiples heridas de bala.

A pesar de aplicar de inmediato maniobras de reanimación, los paramédicos del servicio de rescate y bomberos de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO) declararon a la víctima fallecida en el lugar.“

No es muy seguro por aquí, ¿sabes?“, comentó AC Jones, residente de la zona.

Detectives de la Unidad de Homicidios de la BSO investigan ahora las circunstancias del tiroteo. Hasta el momento no se ha revelado la identidad de la víctima ni el motivo del tiroteo.

Se solicita a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el incidente que llame a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

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Sandi Marie Wensel, 37, of Key West, faces three felonies and one misdemeanor charge. She has since been fired, Monroe County Tax Collector Sam Steele told Local 10 News via email.

According to an FHP arrest report, Wensel issued an ID card to Reneris Obando Martinez, 45, of Geiger Key, under another man’s name and Social Security card on July 21.

Records show an FHP trooper pulled over Obando on July 22 near Boca Chica Road and the Overseas Highway on Big Coppitt Key and took him into custody on felony fraud, forgery and perjury charges.

Troopers said that Obando, a Nicaraguan national under a deportation order, admitted that he knew Wensel and was “friends with her husband.”

Surveillance footage showed Wensel “gestur(ing) for (Obando) to come directly to her workstation” when he was in the tax collector’s office and issuing him the ID card.

Authorities said they went to the office, located at 1200 Truman Ave. in Key West, on Thursday morning and took Wensel into custody.

According to the arrest report, she admitted she knew Obando as “Rene” and not under the name she issued the ID card for ― a man named Luis ― and showed investigators text messages between her and Obando’s wife as he arrived at the office.

Wensel, who faces charges of official misconduct, issuing identification documents to an unauthorized person, unlawful use of a two-way communications device and criminal conspiracy, was given a $15,000 bond and no longer appeared in Monroe County Sheriff’s Office jail records as of Monday morning.

Meanwhile, records show Obando remained in MCSO’s Key West jail facility on a $320,000 bond. His arrest report also states that he has an immigration detainer.

Steele told Local 10 News in an email Monday afternoon that his office “immediately reviewed our transaction records and security footage” and provided information to FHP after being informed of the investigation into Wensel, who was “immediately” fired following her arrest.

“A public office is a public trust,” Steele said. “As an elected constitutional officer, I lawfully appoint my deputy tax collectors to carry out the duties of this office, and each takes a loyalty oath before serving the public. My employees are entrusted with sensitive personal information, and I have zero tolerance for conduct that abuses that trust or compromises the integrity of this office.

“My office has cooperated fully with the Florida Highway Patrol throughout its investigation, and we value our continued partnership with FHP in protecting the public.”

Sandi Marie Wensel, de 37 años, de Key West, enfrenta tres cargos graves y un cargo menor. Desde entonces fue despedida, informó Sam Steele, recaudador de impuestos del condado Monroe, a Local 10 News por correo electrónico.

Según un informe de arresto de la FHP, Wensel emitió una tarjeta de identificación a Reneris Obando Martinez, de 45 años, de Geiger Key, usando el nombre y la tarjeta del Seguro Social de otro hombre el 21 de julio.

Los registros muestran que un agente de la FHP detuvo a Obando el 22 de julio cerca de Boca Chica Road y Overseas Highway, en Big Coppitt Key, y lo puso bajo custodia por cargos graves de fraude, falsificación y perjurio.

Los agentes dijeron que Obando, un ciudadano nicaragüense sujeto a una orden de deportación, admitió que conocía a Wensel y que era “amigo de su esposo”.

Las imágenes de vigilancia mostraron a Wensel “haciéndole señas a (Obando) para que fuera directamente a su estación de trabajo” cuando estaba en la oficina del recaudador de impuestos y emitiéndole la tarjeta de identificación.

Las autoridades dijeron que acudieron a la oficina, ubicada en 1200 Truman Ave., en Key West, el jueves por la mañana y pusieron a Wensel bajo custodia.

Según el informe de arresto, ella admitió que conocía a Obando como “Rene” y no con el nombre para el que emitió la tarjeta de identificación, un hombre llamado Luis, y mostró a los investigadores mensajes de texto entre ella y la esposa de Obando cuando él llegó a la oficina.

Wensel, quien enfrenta cargos de mala conducta oficial, emitir documentos de identificación a una persona no autorizada, uso ilegal de un dispositivo de comunicación de dos vías y conspiración criminal, recibió una fianza de $15,000 USD y ya no aparecía en los registros de la cárcel de la Oficina del Sheriff del condado Monroe el lunes por la mañana.

Mientras tanto, los registros muestran que Obando permanecía en la cárcel de MCSO en Key West con una fianza de $320,000 USD. Su informe de arresto también indica que tiene una retención migratoria.

Steele dijo a Local 10 News en un correo electrónico el lunes por la tarde que su oficina “revisó inmediatamente nuestros registros de transacciones e imágenes de seguridad” y proporcionó información a la FHP después de ser informada de la investigación sobre Wensel, quien fue despedida “inmediatamente” después de su arresto.

“Una oficina pública es un fideicomiso público”, dijo Steele. “Como funcionario constitucional electo, nombro legalmente a mis agentes recaudadores de impuestos adjuntos para desempeñar las funciones de esta oficina, y cada uno presta un juramento de lealtad antes de servir al público. A mis empleados se les confía información personal confidencial, y tengo tolerancia cero con conductas que abusen de esa confianza o comprometan la integridad de esta oficina.

“Mi oficina ha cooperado plenamente con la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida durante toda su investigación, y valoramos nuestra continua colaboración con la FHP para proteger al público.”

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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 suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Despite immediately administering life-saving measures, paramedics with Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue pronounced the victim 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.

The victim’s identity has not yet been released nor has a motive for the shooting.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Without a chance of rain through tomorrow, we will have an elevated wildfire risk in the afternoons. The next chance of afternoon storms will not begin until Wednesday, when our normal rainy season pattern begins and continues for the second half of the week.

According to an arrest report from the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department, the incident was reported shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday at Town Center Park, located at 17200 Collins Ave.

Police said a man notified officers that the young boy had approached him and said his mother, Elena Sexton, had left him at the park and he was scared and had not eaten since breakfast time.

The witness told officers that the boy had been alone in the park for nearly an hour.

According to the report, the boy told officers that his mother had left him alone so she could go get food with a friend.

Police said officers canvassed the area but could not locate the boy’s mother.

Officers eventually spotted Sexton, 41, of Corpus Christi, Texas, walking back to the park, the report stated.

According to the report, Sexton claimed that she had parked at a nearby shopping plaza and went back to get some toys when she saw a friend who asked her to sit and have food.

She said she did so while leaving her son at the park, authorities said.

Sexton was arrested on a charge of child neglect without great bodily harm.

Police confirmed the Florida Department of Children and Families was also notified, but the report did not state whether the boy was released into DCF custody or was turned over to a relative.

As of Monday afternoon, Sexton remained held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.

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Virgen Pereirasardui got into an argument with her co-worker about “serving alcoholic beverages to customers” at about 3:40 a.m. on July 18 at Guembos, at 2055 NW 22nd Ave., according to police.

Pereirasardui “grabbed a glass alcohol bottle and hit the victim on the forehead, which caused the victim to suffer a laceration to the right side of the forehead, lose consciousness, and fall to the floor,” a Miami police officer wrote, according to an arrest report.

A man took the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where she underwent several stitches on the right side of her forehead, according to the arrest report.

The victim reported the July 18 attack on Aug. 6 to police and said she had worked with Pereirasardui from Wednesday to Saturday since February.

Police officers arrested Pereirasardui shortly after 11:15 a.m. on Friday at an apartment building in Miami’s Little Havana, according to the report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Pereirasardui shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Friday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Pereirasardui faced a charge of aggravated battery with great bodily harm, a second-degree felony, according to Miami-Dade court records.

Pereirasardui, who was born in Cuba, was denied bond on a hold by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, records show.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.

The 6-pound, 9-ounce (3-kilogram), girl born Aug. 3 in Lisbon, Portugal, is the third child of Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank.

“Two weeks ago today we welcomed our girl to the world," Eugenie said on Instagram. “And since then we’ve had the most special, cosy and love-filled time.”

Eugenie is the younger daughter of the former Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson. She's the niece of King Charles III.

The infant girl has two brothers, August, 5, and Ernest, 3.

She was named in honor of three people “we love and admire past and present,” including Eugenie's late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, and to reflect her English and Portuguese roots.

The name was also inspired by Queen Adelaide (1792-1849), who was married to King William IV, as well as Maria Adelaide of Portugal. Annina is the name of a close friend.

Virgen Pereirasardui discutió con su compañera sobre “servir bebidas alcohólicas a los clientes” alrededor de las 3:40 a. m. del 18 de julio en el establecimiento Guembos, ubicado en el 2055 de la avenida 22 del noroeste (NW), según la policía.

Pereirasardui “agarró una botella de vidrio de alcohol y golpeó a la víctima en la frente, lo que le provocó una laceración en el lado derecho de la frente, la pérdida del conocimiento y una caída al suelo”, escribió un agente de la policía de Miami, según el informe de arresto.

Un hombre trasladó a la víctima al Hospital Jackson Memorial, donde recibió varios puntos de sutura en el lado derecho de la frente, según el informe policial.

La víctima denunció la agresión del 18 de julio ante la policía el 6 de agosto y declaró que había trabajado con Pereirasardui de miércoles a sábado desde el mes de febrero.

Los agentes arrestaron a Pereirasardui poco después de las 11:15 a. m. del viernes en un edificio de apartamentos en el barrio de La Pequeña Habana (Little Havana), en Miami, según el informe.

El Departamento de Correccionales de Miami-Dade registró el ingreso de Pereirasardui poco después de las 5:30 p. m. del viernes en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según los registros de reclusos.

Pereirasardui fue acusada de agresión agravada con lesiones corporales graves, un delito grave de segundo grado, según los registros judiciales de Miami-Dade.

A Pereirasardui, nacida en Cuba, se le denegó la libertad bajo fianza debido a una orden de retención del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE. UU. (ICE), según indican los registros.

Con la medida, el gobierno del conservador Rodrigo Paz avanza en sus reformas liberales, que implican la eliminación total de los subsidios a los combustibles, una de las causantes de la crisis del país.

La escasez de gasolina y diésel derivó en un estallido social de 53 días de protestas con cortes de ruta entre junio y julio que asfixiaron a La Paz y otras ciudades. Los bloqueos fueron en rechazo a la escalada de los precios de los alimentos y en demanda de la renuncia del mandatario, que lleva nueve meses en el poder. Paz decretó el estado de excepción para frenar las protestas.

Una de las razones principales de la medida del presidente obedece a que, como Bolivia importa la mayor parte del diésel que consume, mantener un subsidio para todos los sectores se volvió financieramente difícil para el Estado debido al agotamiento de las reservas internacionales. Cobrar un precio real a las grandes industrias permite aliviar la presión sobre las finanzas.

Qué implica la medida

Desde el lunes y por la quita del subsidio, el diésel, el carburante más escaso, pasó de costar 0,85 a 1,56 dólares por litro para empresas corporativas, exportadores, compañías mineras y la gran industria.

“El gobierno busca reordenar la economía, mejorar el abastecimiento y corregir la distorsión de precios”, dijo en rueda de prensa el ministro de la Presidencia, Fernando Aramayo.

En tanto, la gasolina que mueve gran parte del transporte público mantiene la subvención.

El ajuste llega ocho meses después de uno destinado a todos los sectores que redujo en gran parte el subsidio a la gasolina y al diésel importados. Paz aplazó hasta diciembre un nuevo ajuste en el precio de la gasolina.

Según el gobierno, al sacar los subsidios al combustible para grandes industrias e incrementar su costo, el gobierno desincentiva un mercado negro donde gran parte del producto se vende a más del doble.

El ajuste busca “sincerar la economía, la alta carga fiscal por importación, frenar el contrabando, la reventa ilegal y garantizar el abastecimiento”, explicó el ministro de Hidrocarburos, Marcelo Blanco.

“Es una medida en el camino correcto; los subsidios no son sostenibles, pero todavía es una medida parcial. Las inversiones no llegarán si se mantiene la subvención a las gasolinas y al gas”, dijo a The Associated Press el analista energético Álvaro Ríos.

Advirtió que la medida será efectiva en la medida en que el gobierno evite el desvío de diésel subvencionado, algo poco efectivo hasta ahora por, según dijo, la corrupción en la petrolera estatal.

El gobierno gastó 1.203 millones de dólares para importar combustibles el primer semestre del año, según el privado Instituto Boliviano de Comercio Exterior (IBCE). La anterior administración destinó 3.300 millones de dólares en 2024, según datos oficiales.

Paz alcanzó acuerdos con el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) por 1.900 millones de dólares en créditos —así como con otros organismos financieros— para estabilizar la economía fuertemente estatista tras casi 20 años de gobiernos de izquierda (2006-2025) que derivaron en una crisis de la industria gasífera por falta de inversiones extranjeras.

La caída en las exportaciones de gas privó al Estado de una fuente vital de dólares, cuya escasez provocó a su vez una caída en la importación de gasolina y diésel.

En el primer semestre del año, el gobierno redujo el volumen importado de combustible en 31%, según el IBCE.

El fin de semana el gobierno logró acuerdos con sectores privados de Santa Cruz —el motor agroindustrial del país— para importar crudo y refinarlo en el país para bajar los costos y mejorar el abastecimiento. La gasolina y diésel importados llegan por cisternas a un mayor costo.

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Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Sunny Isles Beach, el incidente fue reportado poco antes de las 9 p.m. del sábado en Town Center Park, ubicado en 17200 Collins Ave.

La policía dijo que un hombre notificó a los agentes que el menor se había acercado a él y le dijo que su madre, Elena Sexton, lo había dejado en el parque y que estaba asustado y no había comido desde la hora del desayuno.

El testigo dijo a los agentes que el menor había estado solo en el parque durante casi una hora.

Según el informe, el menor dijo a los agentes que su madre lo había dejado solo para ir a buscar comida con una amiga.

La policía dijo que los agentes recorrieron el área, pero no pudieron localizar a la madre del menor.

Los agentes finalmente vieron a Sexton, de 41 años y residente de Corpus Christi, Texas, caminando de regreso al parque, según el informe.

Según el informe, Sexton afirmó que había estacionado en una plaza comercial cercana y regresó a buscar algunos juguetes cuando vio a una amiga que le pidió que se sentara a comer.

Ella dijo que aceptó mientras dejaba a su hijo en el parque, informaron las autoridades.

Sexton fue arrestada por un cargo de negligencia infantil sin causar daños corporales graves.

La policía confirmó que también notificó al Departamento de Niños y Familias de Florida, pero el informe no indicó si el menor fue entregado bajo la custodia del DCF o a un familiar.

Hasta la mañana del lunes, Sexton permanecía detenida en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Los registros carcelarios en línea indicaban que su fianza estaba “por determinarse”.

The Buckeyes received 40 first-place votes and Oregon received 14 in voting by 69 media members who cover college football.

Ohio State will go into a season No. 1 for the ninth time, and first since 2015. The Buckeyes are now tied with Alabama for second-most preseason No. 1 rankings behind Oklahoma's 10.

Oregon has its highest preseason ranking in program history after having opened No. 3 four times.

Georgia, Notre Dame and Texas round out the top five. Defending national champion Indiana starts at No. 6 and is followed by Miami, Texas A&M, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

Notre Dame received six first-place votes, Indiana got eight and Miami one.

This is the first year a conference has held down the top two spots in the preseason poll since Oklahoma and Nebraska of the Big Eight were 1-2 in 1987.

The last time the Big Ten had the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in the preseason was 1961, when Iowa and Ohio State topped the poll. The Hawkeyes lost four of their last five games after a 4-0 start and finished that season unranked. The Buckeyes went 8-0-1 and ended the season No. 2 behind unbeaten Alabama.

The Big Ten has won three straight College Football Playoff championships (Michigan, Ohio State, Indiana) and will be going for an unprecedented fourth straight national title. This is the fourth consecutive year the Big Ten has had two of the top three teams in the preseason rankings.

The Southeastern Conference leads all conferences with nine teams in the preseason Top 25, marking the third straight year it has had at least that many. Five of the top 10 teams are from the SEC for the first time since 2013.

Four Big 12 teams are ranked, with conference champion Texas Tech the highest at No. 12. The Atlantic Coast Conference has three ranked teams, with the Hurricanes joined by No. 19 SMU and No. 24 Louisville. There are no Group of Six schools in the Top 25.

Top-ranked Buckeyes

The offense is loaded. Heisman Trophy finalist Julian Sayin was the most accurate passer in the nation by a wide margin last season, Jeremiah Smith leads the nation in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns over the last two years and Bo Jackson is coming off a 1,000-yard rushing season as a freshman.

There is little concern about the defense even though eight starters must be replaced for a second straight year. At least six transfers are projected to start or play major roles.

Ohio State will get tested early and often. The Buckeyes visit Texas on Sept. 12 and five of their nine conference games are against preseason ranked teams, including at Indiana and against Oregon at home.

The Buckeyes have ended a season No. 1 in the AP poll six times (1942, 1954, 1968, 2002, 2014, 2024).

Bulldogs best of the SEC

The beat goes on for Kirby Smart's Georgia Bulldogs. They're in the preseason top five for the ninth straight year. The two-time defending SEC champion Bulldogs are favored to play in a sixth straight conference title game and appear in the CFP for the sixth time in 10 years.

Texas, the preseason No. 1 last year, opens in the top five for the third straight year. No. 8 Texas A&M is in the preseason top 10 for the first time since it was No. 6 in 2022, the year that marked the beginning of the end for coach Jimbo Fisher.

Pete Golding's first full season as Mississippi head coach starts with the No. 9 Rebels in the preseason top 10 for the second time in three years and third time since 1970. No. 10 Oklahoma is in the preseason top 10 for the first time since 2022, when it was in the Big 12.

What about the Hoosiers?

Indiana is the seventh returning national champion in 40 years, and second in three years, to be ranked outside the top five in the preseason (Michigan went into the 2024 season ranked No. 9 after winning the national title).

The Hoosiers became the first team in the modern era to go 16-0, and they return lots of talent and signed a top-10 transfer class. The move from Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 NFL draft pick Fernando Mendoza to TCU transfer Josh Hoover at quarterback apparently put doubts in the minds of voters.

Poll nuggets

— Ohio State will try to become the 12th team to start and finish No. 1 since the AP preseason poll debuted in 1950. The last team to do it was Alabama in 2017.

— Notre Dame has its highest preseason ranking since it was No. 2 in 2006. The Fighting Irish, who have a Heisman candidate in quarterback CJ Carr, bring a 10-game winning streak into the season and are still smarting from being left out of the playoff.

— Lane Kiffin's first LSU team is No. 11 after finishing 7-6 and unranked under Brian Kelly and Frank Wilson.

— Ten of the 12 CFP teams last season are ranked. The two that aren't are James Madison and Tulane from the Group of Six.

— No. 23 Houston has its first preseason ranking in four years and third since 1991.

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Although the center of Lala never technically crossed land, it came to within about 25 to 30 miles of the Big Island as a Category 1 hurricane, the closest approach of any hurricane on record (since at least 1949) to the Big Island.

At Lala’s closest approach on Saturday, snow was even reported atop the nearly 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea, with winds at the time gusting to 119 mph and a wind chill of 24°F.

One of the wettest U.S. tropical cyclones on record

The upslope winds (winds blowing from the east and pushing up windward or east-facing mountain slopes) enhanced rainfall as Lala’s eyewall and outer bands collided with Hawai’i’s dramatic, undulating terrain on Saturday. Rainfall totals reached an incredible 43.55 inches at Laupāhoehoe Natural Area Reserve on the northeast side of the Big Island based on preliminary totals.

Lala will likely go down as one of the top 10 wettest tropical cyclones on record for the U.S. and perhaps the third wettest to affect Hawai’i, only behind Lane in 2018 and Hiki in 1950 which brought rainfall totals of 58 inches and 52 inches, respectively.

Even outside the Big Island, Lala dropped double-digit rainfall totals along windward slopes. Rainfall exceeded two feet (24 inches) along the Waikamoi Ridge on Maui and a foot (12 inches) in the Moanalua Valley northwest of Honolulu on Oahu.

Though rainfall totals stayed in the single digits on the drier, downslope side of the islands, including in some of the state’s more densely populated districts, hurricane force wind gusts knocked out power to over a quarter million customers at the storm’s peak, including nearly 175,000 customers on Oahu, constituting more than half of all Hawaiian Electric customers on the state’s most populous island.

As of Monday morning, about 116,000 customers remain without power, according to PowerOutage.us, or about 25% of customers across the state.

Another central Pacific system possible this week but should stay south of Hawai’i

Lala continues to pull away from Hawai’i today and though another system may develop southeast of Hawai’i later this week, forecast models largely keep it weaker and tracking well south of the state through the upcoming weekend.

Atlantic systems fizzle

Meanwhile on the Atlantic side, the two systems we were tracking last week – Invest 92L and Invest 94L – have fizzled.

Invest 92L was torn apart by a firehose of wind shear as it moved quickly through the Caribbean this weekend and Invest 94L is succumbing to the same fate, being shredded to pieces just east of the Caribbean islands early Monday.

We’ll continue to watch the waves roll off Africa this month, but for now, models suggest they’ll have a hard journey given El Niño’s stronghold on the basin.

So far we’ve not yet recorded an Atlantic hurricane. The average date of the first hurricane in the Atlantic is August 11^th. The latest date for the first hurricane formation is September 11^th (a record held by Hurricanes Gustav in 2002 and Humberto in 2013). No Atlantic hurricane season in the modern era has ended without a hurricane.

Aunque el centro de Lala técnicamente nunca cruzó tierra, llegó a unas 25 a 30 millas de la Isla Grande como huracán de categoría 1, el acercamiento más cercano de cualquier huracán registrado (desde al menos 1949) a la Isla Grande.

Durante el acercamiento más cercano de Lala el sábado, incluso se reportó nieve en la cima de casi 14,000 pies de altura de Mauna Kea, con vientos que en ese momento alcanzaban ráfagas de 119 mph y una sensación térmica de 24°F.

Uno de los ciclones tropicales más lluviosos registrados en EE. UU.

Los vientos ascendentes (vientos que soplan desde el este y empujan hacia arriba las laderas de las montañas orientadas al viento o al este) intensificaron las lluvias cuando la pared del ojo y las bandas exteriores de Lala chocaron con el espectacular y ondulado terreno de Hawái el sábado. Los totales de lluvia alcanzaron unas increíbles 43.55 pulgadas en la Reserva del Área Natural de Laupāhoehoe, en el lado noreste de la Isla Grande, según los totales preliminares.

Es probable que Lala pase a la historia como uno de los 10 ciclones tropicales más lluviosos registrados en EE. UU. y quizás como el tercero más lluvioso en afectar Hawái, solo detrás de Lane en 2018 y Hiki en 1950, que dejaron totales de lluvia de 58 pulgadas y 52 pulgadas, respectivamente.

Incluso fuera de la Isla Grande, Lala dejó totales de lluvia de dos dígitos a lo largo de las laderas orientadas al viento. Las lluvias superaron los dos pies (24 pulgadas) en Waikamoi Ridge, en Maui, y un pie (12 pulgadas) en Moanalua Valley, al noroeste de Honolulu, en Oahu.

Aunque los totales de lluvia se mantuvieron en cifras de un solo dígito en el lado más seco y a sotavento de las islas, incluso en algunos de los distritos más densamente poblados del estado, las ráfagas de vientos huracanados dejaron sin electricidad a más de un cuarto de millón de clientes durante el punto máximo de la tormenta, incluidos casi 175,000 clientes en Oahu, lo que representaba más de la mitad de todos los clientes de Hawaiian Electric en la isla más poblada del estado.

Hasta la mañana del lunes, unos 116,000 clientes permanecían sin electricidad, según PowerOutage.us, o alrededor del 25% de los clientes en todo el estado.

Otro sistema del Pacífico central podría formarse esta semana, pero debería permanecer al sur de Hawái

Lala continúa alejándose de Hawái hoy y, aunque otro sistema podría desarrollarse al sureste de Hawái más adelante esta semana, los modelos de pronóstico en gran medida lo mantienen más débil y siguiendo una trayectoria muy al sur del estado durante el próximo fin de semana.

Los sistemas del Atlántico se disipan

Mientras tanto, en el Atlántico, los dos sistemas que seguimos la semana pasada —Invest 92L e Invest 94L— se han disipado.

Invest 92L fue destrozado por una corriente de fuerte cizalladura del viento mientras avanzaba rápidamente por el Caribe este fin de semana, e Invest 94L está sucumbiendo al mismo destino, siendo desintegrado justo al este de las islas del Caribe a primera hora del lunes.

Continuaremos observando las ondas que salen de África este mes, pero por ahora, los modelos sugieren que tendrán un camino difícil debido al fuerte dominio de El Niño sobre la cuenca.

Hasta ahora no hemos registrado ningún huracán en el Atlántico. La fecha promedio del primer huracán en el Atlántico es el 11 de agosto. La fecha más tardía para la formación del primer huracán es el 11 de septiembre (un récord que comparten los huracanes Gustav en 2002 y Humberto en 2013). Ninguna temporada de huracanes del Atlántico en la era moderna ha terminado sin un huracán.

Tyler's “If I Sing You A Love Song" played as her rose-covered coffin was carried into Swansea Minster for the invite-only funeral that was projected on a screen outside. Her “It’s a Heartache” played as the coffin was placed in front of the altar.

“Bonnie was always a star but never a diva,” her manager, Matthew Davis, said in one of several tributes. “She never forgot her roots or where she came from. She would have been amazed and very gratified at the massive outpouring of love from all over the world that has occurred since her sudden and unexpected passing.”

The Grammy-nominated pop star, beloved for her 1983 chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” died last month in a hospital in Portugal at 75. She had been hospitalized in May in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency intestinal surgery.

The funeral was held less than a week after her signature song served as the soundtrack at celebrations marking a total eclipse that darkened skies across parts of Europe.

Crowds lined the streets Saturday in her seaside Welsh village of Mumbles as a hearse carried her coffin, draped in a Welsh flag, home.

Kathleen Davies, who joined the crowd outside the church, said she was starstruck when she first saw Tyler but later came to learn she was down to earth.

“She’s Welsh through and through,” Davies said. "Everything about her, she’s natural, there’s no fake stuff. When you see her on the interviews, she’s just who she is.”

Tyler was born Gaynor Hopkins, a coal miner’s daughter in public housing with an outside toilet in Skewen, Wales, about 7 miles (11 kilometers) outside Swansea. She grew up with three sisters and two brothers.

Canon Justin Davies said in a eulogy written by her family that she first performed in a contest at a rugby club in the late 1960s, singing ”Those Were The Days,” made famous by Mary Hopkin.

“She came in second and won just one pound, but was hooked," Davies said. “The rest, as they say, was history.”

Tyler went on to earn three Grammy nods and in 2013 represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she came in 19th. She was honored as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2022 for her services to music by Queen Elizabeth II, thanks mainly to “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”

The ballad shot to the top of the charts in Britain and the United States and has had more than 1 billion streams, boosted by real eclipses in 2017, 2024 and most recently during last week’s solar eclipse.

She was also known for “Holding Out For a Hero,” from the soundtrack of the film “Footloose.”

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Melley reported from London.

The prosecution rested its case earlier in the day after three weeks of testimony. A former coworker of Clancy and Clancy's sister were among the first witnesses called to the stand.

Prosecutors argue Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, was an intentional killer who contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to get takeout and to the pharmacy on Jan. 24, 2023. Then, she strangled the children before attempting to kill herself.

Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington does not dispute that she killed the children. But he says the jury should not hold her criminally responsible because she had postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. He said she also had bipolar disorder and that antidepressants prescribed after the birth of her third child worsened her condition.

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The jury has heard so far from witnesses who demonstrated that Clancy had sought treatment for severe mental health problems, including admitting herself to a psychiatric hospital. But witnesses also noted Clancy wouldn't always take the medications prescribed to help with her insomnia, anxiety and depression, and that she expressed fears she was addicted to some of them.

The defense, on cross-examination, argued that Clancy was overmedicated and demonstrated that her care was disjointed, with doctors not speaking to one another, conducting appointments with her over Zoom and not sharing their notes. Despite her efforts to seek treatment, the defense also showed she was discharged from one facility after a day and denied a higher level of care at another when she couldn't show that she had a suicide plan.

Prosecutors also questioned the seriousness of Clancy's suicide attempt and showed through texts and photos that she performed many normal activities the day of the killings, including taking her children to the doctor and playing with them in the snow.

Her doctors also testified they never saw Clancy exhibit signs of mania or psychosis, though she did repeatedly talk of feeling suicidal.

Clancy hasn't testified in the trial and isn't required to do so, but jurors have seen her break down in sobs at several points while others have been testifying, including when prosecutors showed the jury autopsy photos of the children.

Early in the trial, Clancy's former husband, Patrick Clancy, described the horror of returning home to find his dead children. During his testimony, prosecutors played a harrowing 911 call he made after finding his wife outside in the backyard.

Patrick Clancy also testified he got a call from Lindsay Clancy about a week after the killings. She didn't mention her children, he said, but “talked about what she went through. She said she heard a man’s voice telling her if she didn’t do it now she would lose her chance or something like that.”

Here are some of her most memorable films and television shows, and where to stream them.

“A Bug’s Life” (1998)

She was already a veteran of soaps (she got her first role at age 4, playing Sarah Roberts on “One Life to Live”) and commercials when she was selected to voice Princess Dot in the Pixar movie. Co-director and writer Andrew Stanton said he wanted to include a little girl because of his newborn daughter.

WHERE TO WATCH: Streaming on Disney+.

“Remember the Titans” (2000)

Playing the football-loving, wise-beyond-her-years Sheryl Yoast was a breakthrough moment for Panettiere, who was 10 at the time of filming but playing “nine and a half, thank you very much,” as she so memorably informed Denzel Washington’s Coach Boone. It was her absolute favorite movie to film, she told ET in 2023. “What an incredible time in my life … I was surrounded by the cutest boys. Kate Bosworth was like my big sister,” she said in the interview. “If I had wished to go back to any time in my life, it would be going back to ‘Remember the Titans.’”

WHERE TO WATCH: Streaming on Hulu and Disney+.

“Ice Princess” (2005)

A teen sports trifle that’s now bonded in tragedy after the deaths of both Michelle Trachtenberg and Panettiere, who played Casey Carlyle’s (Trachtenberg) fellow junior ice skater Gennifer “Gen” Harwood and daughter of Kim Cattrall’s coach character. Panettiere did much of her own skating in the film.

WHERE TO WATCH: Streaming on Disney+.

“Bring It On: All or Nothing” (2006)

It might not be a particularly good movie, or her only cheerleader role of the year, but the third “Bring It On,” co-starring Solange, has become a nostalgic millennial classic. Rihanna also had a cameo as herself, as a cheerleading competition judge.

“I loved the passion that people had for ‘Bring It On.’ When fans would come up who loved that movie, they would freak out — have a physical, visceral reaction to me that I had never seen before,” Panettiere told Entertainment Weekly this year.

WHERE TO WATCH: Available to rent on various platforms.

“Heroes” (2006-2010)

“Save the cheerleader, save the world.” Panettiere was the indestructible Claire Bennet at the heart of the popular sci-fi series, the first season of which regularly drew over 14 million viewers.

“I think ‘Heroes’ is really hot because it's just a really great combination of everything that people love,” she told The Associated Press in 2008. “They love reality, they love sci-fi and then things like ‘X-Men’ where they get to, you know, dream of something bigger. And at the core of it are these human stories that people just can relate to.”

WHERE TO WATCH: Streaming on Netflix.

“I Love You, Beth Cooper” (2009)

Chris Columbus directed this teen rom-com about a nerd (Paul Rust) and the popular girl of his dreams. Yes, her character here was a cheerleader as well.

WHERE TO WATCH: Available to rent on various platforms.

“The Cove” (2009)

When she was 18 years old, Panettiere, who advocated for whale and dolphin safety as a spokesperson for The Whaleman Foundation and creator of the “Save the Whales, Again!” campaign, went to Taiji, Japan, to protest and disrupt the dolphin hunting with a group of activists on paddleboards. A tense encounter with the men on the boats was featured prominently in the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove.” Weeks after the film won, she returned to Taiji to try to meet with officials about their whaling practices.

WHERE TO WATCH: Streaming on Tubi, Fandango and Pluto TV.

“Nashville” (2012-2018)

Playing rising country superstar Juliette Barnes was perhaps her defining role, but she wasn't even originally envisioned as the series' main star. Connie Britton's Rayna was.

“Unfortunately, after the pilot, it was clear that my billing had gone way up. I went from maybe number five in terms of importance to nipping at Connie’s heels,” she wrote in her memoir. “I was deeply uncomfortable with this development.”

On Jay Shetty's podcast this year, she spoke about how closely Juliette's trials resembled her own. “I didn't know where Juliette began and Hayden ended,” she said. “I didn't even realize I was becoming her constantly, and I wasn't able to take care of myself.”

WHERE TO WATCH: Streaming on Netflix.

“Scream VI” (2023)

Fans immediately took to Panettiere’s horror movie loving character Kirby Reed in the otherwise much-derided “Scream 4,” which left her fate ambiguous. In the 2022 “Scream,” it was revealed that she was still alive. Panettiere played a part in advocating for her return in “Scream VI,” which became a box office hit.

“It was thrilling that people fell in love with Kirby,” Panettiere told ET in 2023. “I loved playing Kirby, so I’m glad they love her as much as I did.”

WHERE TO WATCH: Streaming on Netflix.

The Southeastern Conference gets bragging rights with nine ranked teams, but the Big Ten isn’t far behind with eight.

Indiana finished the 2025 season at No. 1 in the rankings after a historic 16-0 run and national championship game victory. This season, Ohio State enters with the best odds (+600) to win it all. Notre Dame (+650), Texas (+650), Indiana (+800) and Oregon (+800) round out the top five.

The Top 25 voters are more than 60 journalists covering college football for AP members and other news organizations. They’re urged to base their votes on head-to-head results, not reputation, preseason speculation or regional bias.

No. 1 Buckeyes are loaded but face tough schedule

Ohio State starts a season No. 1 for the ninth time. The Buckeyes didn’t end there the previous eight.

They have an excruciating schedule but are built for what awaits.

Jeremiah Smith is the most productive receiver in the nation, quarterback Julian Sayin is one of the most accurate passers and the offensive line is elite. There are plenty of talented transfers waiting to emerge for a defense replacing eight starters, all of whom were drafted.

The Buckeyes visit Indiana on Oct. 17 and host Oregon on Nov. 7. Those games will go a long way in deciding which teams make the Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis, not to mention impact CFP seeding.

Missouri only team that will play 5 of the preseason top 10 teams

No. 25 Missouri has the 12th-toughest schedule in the country, according to ESPN, but the Tigers are the only team that will play five of the top 10 in the AP Top 25 preseason poll.

All five of those are bunched into the Tigers’ final seven regular-season games. They play No. 8 Texas A&M on Oct. 10, at No. 9 Mississippi on Oct. 17, No. 5 Texas on Nov. 7, at No. 3 Georgia on Nov. 14 and No. 10 Oklahoma on Nov. 28.

Oklahoma, which plays four top-10 teams, has ESPN’s second-toughest schedule behind Arkansas. No. 5 Texas’ schedule is ranked third in degree of difficulty.

On the bubble

Clemson was the first team out with 112 points, five fewer than No. 25 Missouri. Florida, Boise State, Arizona, TCU, Navy and South Carolina were the next teams out, each received double-digit points.

The bubble teams enter the season in unique position to move up quickly in the ranks. With Clemson just points away at No. 26, a Week 1 win could easily do the trick.

The bad news? Clemson heads to No. 11 LSU for its season debut on Sept. 5.

Expectations remain high for Texas – just not as high as last year

After ranking No. 1 in last year’s preseason poll, the Longhorns enter the 2026 season at No. 5, behind Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia and Notre Dame.

Texas will be put to the test early, with a Week 2 rematch against Ohio State giving the Longhorns a chance to make a case for a higher ranking.

Arch Manning struggled under high expectations in his first career start last season against Ohio State, gaining momentum only in the fourth quarter of a 14-7 loss. After completing nine passes for 38 yards and an interception through the first three quarters, Manning finished the game with 17 completions for 170 yards.

A Week 2 win against the top-ranked team in the preseason poll would give the Longhorns the kind of start they desperately needed last year.

In the ACC, it’s Miami … and everyone else

Miami has a good-sized lead over the other ACC teams in the preseason poll. The Hurricanes came in at No. 7 and earned one first-place vote after a season that ended just shy of a national title.

SMU was the next-closest team at No. 19. Louisville squeaked in at No. 24.

The ACC also had three teams ranked in last year’s preseason poll. Clemson ranked No. 4 before what turned out to be a disappointing season. Miami ranked No. 10, and SMU came in at No. 16.

The ACC ended up being a weird one last year, with an unranked Duke team taking on then-No. 16 Virginia in the conference championship game. Duke delivered a 27-20 overtime win, but it wasn’t enough for the CFP committee to view them as a viable option. Miami instead earned an at-large bid, and James Madison and Tulane secured bids as two of the five highest-ranked conference champions.

Clemson left out of preseason poll for first time since 2011

Clemson is unranked in the AP preseason Top 25 for the first time since 2011.

The Tigers almost got in. They received the most voting points among teams left out. They’re five points behind No. 25 Missouri.

Clemson is coming off a 7-6 season, its worst since 2010. The offense struggled to get anything going in the ground game and was second-to-last in the ACC in third-down conversions. The defense underachieved.

Look for the offense to be much better with the return of offensive coordinator Chad Morris, who led some of the nation’s most potent offenses when he had the same job at Clemson from 2011-14. The defense should play with more confidence in Tom Allen’s second year as coordinator.

Clemson gets a measuring-stick game right away when they open at No. 11 LSU.

Five teams got first-place votes, but not No. 3 and No. 5

Of the top seven teams, five received first-place votes: Ohio State (40), Oregon (14), Notre Dame (6), Indiana (8) and Miami (1). Voters skipped over No. 3 Georgia and No. 5 Texas, which both fell into the top five but didn’t receive first-place votes.

Perhaps most notably, voters don’t see an SEC team breaking a three-year championship drought. After Michigan, Ohio State and Indiana took home the last three titles, faith in the Big Ten remains high.

Ohio State and Oregon, the top two teams in the poll, give the Big Ten its first preseason 1-2 since 1961 — a sign that voters expect the conference to bring home a fourth straight national title.

Sarkisian: Preseason polls great for conversation, and that’s about it

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, whose team landed No. 5 in the AP Top 25 preseason poll, doesn’t put much credence in the polls. The polls do have some value, though, he said.

“I love the polls for college football fans, for the excitement, for the marquee matchups, for all those things,” he said. “But the polls internally, they just don’t matter. They’re really irrelevant. I think we’ve gotten to a point now as a team to understand that what matters is how we play each and every Saturday.”

Georgia holds steady in the top five

Georgia enters the season at No. 3, marking the eighth straight year with a top-five preseason ranking.

The Bulldogs will have plenty of familiar faces taking the field this fall, with quarterback Gunner Stockton, running back duo Nate Frazier and Chauncey Bowens and tight end Lawson Luckie bringing valuable game experience to the offense. Expectations are high for linebackers Raylen Wilson and Chris Cole, while KJ Bolden, Kyron Jones and Ellis Robinson IV will hold down the secondary.

Georgia earned the No. 3 seed and a first-round bye in the 12-team College Football Playoff after beating Alabama in the SEC Championship game. The Bulldogs went on to fall 39-34 to Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl.

Conference breakdown

SEC (9): No. 3 Georgia, No. 5 Texas, No. 8 Texas A&M, No. 9 Mississippi, No. 10 Oklahoma, No. 11 LSU, No. 13 Alabama, No. 20 Tennessee, No. 25 Missouri

Big Ten (8): No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Oregon, No. 6 Indiana, No. T-14 USC, No. 16 Michigan, No. 17 Washington, No. 18 Penn State, No. 22 Iowa

Big 12 (4): No. 12 Texas Tech, No. T-14 BYU, No. 21 Utah, No. 23 Houston

ACC (3): No. 7 Miami, No. 19 SMU, No. 24 Louisville

Independent (1): No. 4 Notre Dame

No Group of 6 teams ranked

After two non-power conference teams (Tulane, James Madison) made the CFP in 2025, none cracked the preseason Top 25.

Since two were ranked in the preseason in 2022, only Tulane in 2023 and Boise State in 2025 have started a season in the Top 25.

Boise State, which has moved from the Mountain West to the new Pac-12, was the top vote-getter among Group of Six teams outside the Top 25. Nine others got at least one vote.

New coaches, same expectations

Four Top 25 teams have new coaches, and they’ve been given a short runway.

Pete Golding, who begins his first full season at No. 9 Mississippi, was able to keep key pieces of the staff and he brought back top players. He led the Rebels to the CFP semifinals after Lane Kiffin’s ugly departure, and another magical run is possible.

Speaking of Kiffin, much is expected at No. 11 LSU. The Tigers haven’t gone to the CFP since winning it all in 2019 and have lost at least four games in five of the six seasons since.

Penn State is No. 18, which seems generous given Matt Campbell will be relying on players he brought with him from Iowa State.

Morgan Scalley, entering his 19th year at No. 21 Utah, gets back QB Devon Dampier and RB Wayshawn Parker but not many other starters from an 11-2 team.

SEC has 9 ranked teams to Big Ten’s 8

Having Ohio State and Oregon enter the season Nos. 1 and 2 ahead of sixth-ranked defending conference and national champion Indiana is a flex for the Big Ten, which already is riding the momentum of winning the last three national titles.

Having five of the top 10 teams, and seven of the top 13, bolsters the SEC’s contention that it has greater depth. The SEC has nine ranked teams compared to the Big Ten’s eight.

The debate goes on over conference supremacy and will only heat up when the Big Ten and SEC square off in the first heavyweight games of the season Sept. 12. That’s when No. 10 Oklahoma visits No. 16 Michigan and No. 1 Ohio State goes to No. 5 Texas. Both are rematches of games won by the home team last year — OU 24-13 and Ohio State 14-7.

Longhorns, No. 1 in last year’s preseason poll, look to bounce back

The Longhorns entered the 2025 season at No. 1 after receiving 25 first-place votes — two more than No. 2 Penn State. But after a Week 1 loss to Ohio State, Texas found itself fighting upstream to maintain its top-ranked status. An October loss to a struggling Florida team didn’t help either, knocking Texas out of the rankings altogether.

The Longhorns, despite gutting out a few impressive wins, ultimately fell short of the 12-team College Football Playoff after Georgia handed them a third loss.

Eyes will be on quarterback Arch Manning, who the Longhorns hope makes the expected jump from year one to year two as a full-time starter. Manning, a favorite for the Heisman Trophy this year, will have to lead a team facing plenty of expectations once again.

Buckeyes are an early favorite

It’s the first time the Buckeyes have topped the list since the 2015 preseason.

Ohio State ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 for the entire regular season last year, only dropping after a Big Ten Championship game defeat from Indiana. With a 12-1 record, Ohio State still earned the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes ultimately went on to drop 24-14 to eventual runners-up, Miami, in the Cotton Bowl.Gallery

This season appears promising with quarterback and receiver duo Julian Sayin and Jeremiah Smith returning to the offense. Veteran defensive end Kenyatta Jackson Jr. is expected to anchor the defense. Notre Dame and Texas are tied for the second best odds at +650. Indiana (+800) and Oregon (+800) round out the top five.

How are votes counted?

There was a time when voters called, emailed and faxed their votes to the AP. Long ago, the ballots were tabulated by hand.

Now voting is done online and all the tabulation is automated.

There is a 1-25 point system, with a team voted No. 1 receiving 25 points down to 1 point for a 25th-place vote. After that, it’s simple: The poll lists the teams with the most points from 1 to 25 and others receiving votes are also noted.

Where did we leave off?

After shocking the nation with a perfect 16-0 record, Big Ten title and national championship victory, the Indiana Hoosiers were unanimously voted No. 1 in the final poll of the season.

Runners-up Miami finished right behind after falling just short of a national title. Miami’s No. 2 ranking was its highest since the 2002 season.

Ole Miss, Oregon and Ohio State rounded out the top five.

But a lot can change from one year to the next.

Eight Hoosiers ascended to the pros, including Heisman winner and first-overall pick Fernando Mendoza. Miami had nine draftees, including three first-rounders.

Ole Miss, Oregon and Ohio State have the advantage of a returning quarterback in 2026 — each in the Heisman conversation ahead of the season.

The origin story

The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll started in 1936, the brainchild of former sports editor Alan J. Gould.

The number of teams ranked, the number of voters on the panel and how the ballots are tabulated has fluctuated over the years, but no news organization has been ranking teams and naming a major college football national champion longer than the AP. It has been the Top 10, Top 20 and, since 1989, the Top 25.

El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional indicó que rondas repetidas de lluvias intensas y tormentas eléctricas continuarán un día más antes que un frente frío barra ese patrón meteorológico de la costa este del país el martes. Por otro lado, gran parte de Virginia Occidental, el sureste de Ohio y el noreste de Kentucky estaban bajo vigilancia por inundaciones hasta la noche del lunes, y el nivel alto del agua que persistía por tormentas anteriores aumentaba la posibilidad de inundaciones repentinas.

En otros lugares, el clima caluroso planteaba un problema mayor, particularmente en el sur, el sureste y el suroeste de Estados Unidos. El servicio meteorológico emitió advertencias de calor extremo para partes de Mississippi, Arkansas, Luisiana, Georgia, Carolina del Sur, Arizona, Nevada y California.

En Indiana, donde días de tormentas e inundaciones dejaron al menos siete muertos, las aguas retrocedieron en el río White de Indianápolis y las lluvias disminuyeron en otras partes del estado el domingo. Pero una advertencia por inundación seguía vigente la mañana del lunes para parte del condado Randolph, en el centro-este de Indiana, donde las tormentas eléctricas dejaron entre 1 y 2 pulgadas de lluvia hasta las 8:00 de la mañana y se instó a los residentes de media docena de condados a mantenerse alejados de las carreteras excepto para viajes esenciales.

“Aunque hemos visto tendencias alentadoras, el trabajo está lejos de terminar”, expresó Jacob Spence, director de la Agencia Metropolitana de Servicios de Emergencia en Indianápolis, donde funcionarios municipales lanzaron el domingo un sitio web para apoyar a los residentes afectados.

Al sur de Indianápolis, las autoridades de Madison Township indicaron que bomberos y otras personas rescataron a 10 personas de sus hogares la noche del domingo. Otras tuvieron que ser rescatadas de sus autos luego de intentar conducir por carreteras inundadas.

“Esta sigue siendo una situación activa y potencialmente peligrosa”, advirtió el Departamento de Bomberos en una publicación en redes sociales. “No podemos enfatizar esto lo suficiente: NO CONDUZCA A TRAVÉS DE AGUAS DE INUNDACIÓN”.

Entre los fallecidos por las tormentas que comenzaron el 11 de agosto están un niño de 4 años, tres hombres y tres mujeres, informó Liz Woods, portavoz del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional del estado.

Además, entre las siete víctimas había un ciclista de 31 años que fue hallado muerto temprano el domingo en un agujero que se abrió en una carretera arrasada por las aguas en el condado Henry, al este de Indianápolis. El forense del condado Henry, Brian Clark, señaló que el hombre, James Briar, al parecer rodeó una barricada y cayó en el tramo de carretera colapsado.

Las lluvias intensas azotaron Indiana la última semana, haciendo que los ríos alcanzaran su cresta y estableciendo récords, mientras carreteras y puentes resultaron gravemente dañados o fueron arrasados por completo por las aguas que corrían con fuerza.

Más de 106.000 clientes en todo el estado seguían sin electricidad hasta la mañana del lunes, por debajo de un máximo de alrededor de 300.000, según el sitio que da seguimiento a los apagones PowerOutage.us.

Las lluvias torrenciales y las inundaciones destructivas estuvieron entre los impactos de tormentas severas que han causado estragos en la parte norcentral del país y más allá en los últimos días. Tornados, lluvias intensas e inundaciones repentinas provocaron daños graves en comunidades desde Illinois hasta el oeste de Pensilvania.

El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional pronostica lluvias intensas y tormentas eléctricas en el alto valle del río Ohio hasta los Apalaches centrales, con posibilidad de tormentas severas a última hora del lunes en el este de Tennessee y el oeste de Carolina del Norte.

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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.

The verdict against Lev Shlosberg, a senior member of the Yabloko party, was another step by the Kremlin to stifle dissent since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022. Yabloko is the only official political party overtly opposing the war.

In a separate ruling Monday, Russia’s Supreme Court upheld its earlier decision to bar Yabloko from the ballot in the Sept. 18-20 parliamentary vote, denying an appeal by the party.

The moves against Shlosberg and Yabloko highlight the Kremlin’s intolerance toward any criticism of the war, now in its fifth year.

It was Shlosberg's second trial in 2 years

Shlosberg, 63, is Yabloko's deputy chairman and served in the regional legislature of Pskov from 2016-21. He stood trial in the city of Pskov, some 600 kilometers (370 miles) northwest of Moscow, on charges of "discrediting” and spreading “false information” about the Russian military.

The charges stemmed from a debate in which he called for ending the war and from posting on his Telegram channel a British tabloid front page featuring an image of a bloodied woman next to one of Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the headline: "Her blood ... his hands.” Shlosberg has rejected the charges as unfounded.

It was the second trial for Shlosberg in the last two years. He has also been designated a “foreign agent,” a label that carries strong pejorative connotations in Russia and brings additional government scrutiny. He was convicted of violating the foreign agent regulations.

In December 2025, he was placed in pretrial detention on the new charges and has been behind bars ever since. He is one of several prominent Yabloko members in recent years to be jailed or designated a “foreign agent” as Kremlin pressure on the party has mounted.

Yabloko called the sentence ‘barbaric’

In his final statement to the court Friday, Shlosberg said that for 30 years, Russia has traveled “a path from hopes for freedom to the almost complete destruction of human and civil rights and freedoms.”

He said the war in Ukraine has “changed the lives of every Russian citizen without exception,” and predicted that once its true death toll becomes known, “the entire country will shudder.”

Yabloko said Shlosberg received a “barbaric sentence” for “love of the Motherland and calls for a ceasefire.” In a statement on Telegram, the party said Shlosberg will appeal.

Amnesty International denounced the verdict against Shlosberg.

“His arbitrary prosecution and sentencing are blatant reprisals for exercising his right to freedom of expression to call for peace,” said Marie Struthers, the group's Eastern Europe and Central Asia director.

“The Russian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Lev Shlosberg and quash his conviction," her statement added. “They must repeal legislation criminalizing peaceful anti-war expression, end the persecution of Yabloko members and supporters, and respect the rights to freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly and political participation for all Russians.”

Supreme Court upholds removing Yabloko from the ballot

In Moscow, the Supreme Court upheld its ruling of a week ago to remove Yabloko from the ballot in the election for the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, denying an appeal by the party.

The Central Election Commission in July had allowed Yabloko on the ballot along with 10 other parties. Young social media users and many Russian opposition figures in exile have since come out in support of Yabloko, urging voters to back the party, once a leading liberal voice in parliament that later lost its bloc of seats as the Kremlin tightened its grip on politics.

In recent years, Yabloko was the only registered opposition party that opposed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Its campaign slogans for this year’s election included, “For a ceasefire agreement, diplomacy and peace!” “Our goal is to prevent nuclear war!” and “For a Russia free from fear and political repression!”

Several Kremlin parties publicly assailed Yabloko for its anti-war stance after it got a slot on the ballot. The Motherland Party filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court, demanding its removal from the ballot, accusing Yabloko of copyright infringement and exceeding campaign spending limits. The party also viewed Yabloko’s stance on Ukraine as unlawful and tantamount to calling for the violation of Russia’s territorial integrity.

Yabloko rejected these accusations, but the Supreme Court sided with the Motherland Party.

As the court met Monday on Yabloko's appeal, the party's supporters gathered outside the courthouse and Russian media reported that several dozen people were detained.

Liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky, who co-founded Yabloko in the 1990s and chairs its political committee, deplored the court's ruling in an online statement. It marked “a serious, deepening crisis in the Russian political system and a lack of understanding of a desired future,” he said.

“People begin to feel this more acutely, regardless of their political views and positions," he said, adding that Yabloko's campaign “for peace and freedom” hit this particular “sore point.”

Yabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov told reporters after the ruling that the party will continue its fight by lodging a complaint to the Presidium of the Supreme Court and possibly going to the Constitutional Court.

“We achieved the main thing: The whole world knows how many people in Russia want peace, want to live normally and to raise children under a peaceful sky in their country,” Rybakov said.

Regarding the prison term handed to Shlosberg, Rybakov said that “our feelings are with Lev and other political prisoners who have fought and are fighting for peace, for people to not die.”

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Kova, a Miami-based singer with deep musical roots, worked with Grammy-winning producer Teddy Riley on her debut single, “Bye Bye Bye.” Riley, known as the creator of New Jack Swing, has become a mentor to the young artist as she develops a sound blending pop, R&B and early-2000s nostalgia.

“I’m a huge 2000s girlie,” Kova said. “That’s my whole brand.”

For Kova, working alongside Riley was an opportunity to learn from someone whose influence stretches across generations of R&B.

“Working with Teddy Riley was such a surreal experience,” she said. “Being in a room with such a legend who has so much aura, knowledge, and he’s iconic. He is a blueprint in music.”

But the upbeat sound of “Bye Bye Bye” came out of a difficult period in Kova’s life.

She said she walked into the studio at a low point and knew exactly what kind of song she needed to make.

“I was like, ‘OK guys, I need a good feel-good song,’” Kova said. “‘I need a song that feels like a bop that’s going to make me feel like I’m the baddest.’”

While the title may sound like a breakup anthem, Kova said its message goes beyond leaving a relationship behind.

“I’m also saying ‘bye bye bye’ to, like, my old identities, my old self, my old friendships, my old habits,” she said.

A musical calling

Music has been part of Kova’s life since childhood. Her mother was a singer in Russia, while her father was a music producer.

Initially, Kova wanted to take a different path.

“I wanted to stand out and I was like, I’m going to be the only one in the family that does not do music. I’m going to be a lawyer,” she said.

That changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when time alone gave her an opportunity to reconnect with music.

“You know when something is just your calling, you can’t run from it,” she said. “And I fell in love all over again. I started to write. I started to sing.”

Now, Kova hopes to use her growing platform for more than her music. She has spoken openly about struggling with body image when she was younger and wants her brand to encourage self-acceptance.

“When I was younger I really faced body dysmorphia issues and not loving myself,” Kova said.

Her “Body So Tea” message, she said, is about reminding others to embrace who they are.

“I want to emulate that you are beautiful the way you are and you are special,” she said.

More music on the way

Kova is already preparing her next release, “Red Light Green Light,” which she describes as a blend of pop and house music.

“It’s a metaphor for, you know, that push and pull effect sometimes you have with someone,” she said. “So it’s a very flirty, sexy song.”

In September, Kova plans to perform both songs during her first showcase in Wynwood.

She is also working on additional music, with a potential EP on the horizon.

Kova, una cantante radicada en Miami con profundas raíces musicales, trabajó con el productor ganador del Grammy Teddy Riley en su sencillo debut, “Bye Bye Bye”. Riley, conocido como el creador del New Jack Swing, se ha convertido en mentor de la joven artista mientras desarrolla un sonido que combina pop, R&B y nostalgia de principios de los años 2000.

“Soy una chica de los 2000 de pies a cabeza”, dijo Kova. “Esa es toda mi marca”.

Para Kova, trabajar junto a Riley fue una oportunidad de aprender de alguien cuya influencia se extiende por generaciones de R&B.

“Trabajar con Teddy Riley fue una experiencia tan surrealista”, dijo. “Estar en una habitación con una leyenda que tiene tanta presencia, conocimiento y que es icónico. Él es un referente en la música”.

Pero el sonido alegre de “Bye Bye Bye” surgió de un período difícil en la vida de Kova.

Dijo que entró al estudio en un momento difícil y sabía exactamente qué tipo de canción necesitaba hacer.

“Yo estaba como, “OK, chicos, necesito una canción que me haga sentir bien””, dijo Kova. “”Necesito una canción que se sienta como un bop que me haga sentir que soy la más poderosa"“.

Aunque el título puede sonar como un himno de ruptura, Kova dijo que su mensaje va más allá de dejar atrás una relación.

“También estoy diciendo “bye bye bye” a, como, mis antiguas identidades, mi antiguo yo, mis viejas amistades, mis viejos hábitos”, dijo.

Un llamado musical

La música ha sido parte de la vida de Kova desde su infancia. Su madre era cantante en Rusia, mientras que su padre era productor musical.

Inicialmente, Kova quería tomar un camino diferente.

“Quería destacar y decía, voy a ser la única de la familia que no haga música. Voy a ser abogada”, dijo.

Eso cambió durante la pandemia de COVID-19, cuando el tiempo a solas le dio la oportunidad de reconectarse con la música.

“Sabes cuando algo es simplemente tu llamado, no puedes huir de ello”, dijo. “Y me volví a enamorar. Empecé a escribir. Empecé a cantar”.

Ahora, Kova espera utilizar su creciente plataforma para algo más que su música. Ha hablado abiertamente sobre sus dificultades con la imagen corporal cuando era más joven y quiere que su marca fomente la autoaceptación.

“Cuando era más joven, realmente enfrenté problemas de dismorfia corporal y de no amarme a mí misma”, dijo Kova.

Su mensaje “Body So Tea”, dijo, busca recordarles a los demás que acepten quiénes son.

“Quiero transmitir que eres hermosa tal como eres y que eres especial”, dijo.

Más música en camino

Kova ya está preparando su próximo lanzamiento, “Red Light Green Light”, que describe como una combinación de música pop y house.

“Es una metáfora de, ya sabes, ese efecto de tira y afloja que a veces tienes con alguien”, dijo. “Así que es una canción muy coqueta y sexy”.

En septiembre, Kova planea interpretar ambas canciones durante su primer showcase en Wynwood.

También está trabajando en música adicional, con un posible EP en el horizonte.

The National Weather Service said repeated rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms would continue for one more day before a cold front sweeps the weather pattern off the East Coast on Tuesday. In the meantime, much of West Virginia, southeast Ohio and northeast Kentucky were under a flood watch through Monday evening, with high water lingering from previous storms increasing the possibility of flash flooding.

Elsewhere, hot weather posed more of a problem, particularly across the South, Southeast and Southwest. The weather service issued extreme heat warnings for portions of Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Arizona, Nevada and California.

In Indiana, where days of storms and flooding left at least seven people dead, floodwaters receded in Indianapolis’ White River and rains eased in other parts of the state Sunday. But a flood warning remained in effect Monday morning for part of Randolph County in east central Indiana, where thunderstorms had dropped between 1 and 2 inches of rain by 8 a.m., and residents of half a dozen counties were urged to stay off the roads except for essential travel.

“While we have seen encouraging trends, the work is far from over,” said Jacob Spence, director of the Metropolitan Emergency Services Agency in Indianapolis, where city officials on Sunday launched a website to support affected residents.

South of Indianapolis, officials in Madison Township said firefighters and others rescued 10 people from their homes Sunday night. Others had to be rescued from their cars after attempting to drive through flooded roadways.

“This remains an active and potentially dangerous situation,” the fire department said in a social media post. “We cannot stress this enough: DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS.”

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

Also, among the seven victims was a 31-year-old cyclist found dead early Sunday in a hole that opened up on a washed-out road in Henry County, east of Indianapolis. Henry County Coroner Brian Clark said the man, James Briar, appears to have gone around a barricade and fallen into the collapsed road.

Heavy rains hammered Indiana over the past week, causing rivers to crest and setting records as roads and bridges were seriously damaged or washed out entirely by the rushing waters.

More than 106,000 utility customers statewide remained without power as of Monday morning, down from a peak of around 300,000, according to the online utility tracker PowerOutage.us.

The drenching rains and destructive flooding were among the impacts of severe storms that have wreaked havoc across the Midwest and beyond in recent days. Tornadoes, heavy rains and flash flooding brought serious damage to communities from Illinois to western Pennsylvania.

The National Weather Service forecasts heavy rain and thunderstorms across the upper Ohio Valley to the central Appalachians, with the possibility of severe storms late Monday across eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.

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The closures included restaurants in Miami Beach, Miami, Aventura, Plantation and Cutler Bay.

All of the restaurants mentioned were allowed to reopen following an ordered cleanup and re-inspection.

No restaurants in the Florida Keys were ordered shut.

**OSTERIA DEL MAR

BEACON SOUTH BEACH HOTEL

720 OCEAN DR.

MIAMI BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 8/13

5 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live rodent present. Observed at ware washing area live rodent crawling on the floor under dishwasher and another crawling on the floor at cook line.”

“Reach-in cooler /Walk- cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Observed shelves at walk in cooler and reach in cooler across from walk in soiled with mold like substance.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed can opener blade at prep table soiled.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw shell eggs stored over a container of marinara sauce at walk in cooler.”

**VILLA PIZZA

MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

CONCOURSE D

4200 NW 21ST

MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 8/11

22 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately one rodent dropping by the flour container, three rodent droppings on a shelf on top of the three compartment sink, one by the front counter behind reach in cooler.”

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed three live roaches on the floor under the front counter pizza display area.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed two dead roaches in the lobby.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed three flies by the ice machine, one under the soda machine.”

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

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed Mixed tomatoes (51 F - Cold Holding); Shredded mozzarella (56 F - Cold Holding); Mixed vegetables (59 F - Cold Holding); Diced pineapple (58 F - Cold Holding); Diced olives (58 F - Cold Holding); Diced pepperoni (57 F - Cold Holding) in the prep cooler area, according to operator stored in unit for more than five hours. Repeat Violation.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed soda nozzles located in the lobby soiled. Observed pizzas on the front counter on wood service area. Repeat Violation.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed wall soiled under the three compartment sink, walls behind kitchen equipment with heavy soiled.”

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

“Cold holding equipment not maintained in good repair. Do not store time/temperature control for safety food in this unit until the unit is repaired. observed prep reach in cooler ambient temperature 56 F. Repeat Violation.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed flour lid broken, observed prep reach in cooler ambient temperature 56 F. “Repeat Violation.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor soiled under oven, kitchen equipment. Repeat Violation.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed walk in fan cover soiled. Repeat Violation.”

**REN’S SUSHI JAPANESE AND THAI CUISINE

801 S. UNIVERSITY DR.

PLANTATION

ORDERED SHUT 8/14

12 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 1 live roach in the dishwashing area crawling on clean dishes. Observed 2 live roaches under the sushi area crawling on the floor. Operator killed and disposed of roach and rewashed the dishes.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach in the triple sink, 3 dead roaches under the prep sink, 5 dead roaches in the dry storage area, 1 dead roach in a box of single use cups, 6 dead roaches in the back storage area, 12 dead roaches in the expo area, 3 dead roaches in the sushi area and 4 dead roaches near the ice machine.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 12 small flying insects at the dishwashing area landing on clean and dirty dishes.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris between large pieces of equipment in the kitchen.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed handwashing sink used to thaw shrimp. Operator removed item from handwashing sink.”

**TEJAS DE HONDURAS

19200 SW 106TH AVE.

CUTLER BAY

ORDERED SHUT 8/12

22 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 6 live roaches, one roach crawling inside the gasket of the reach in freezer, one crawling inside the oven, two crawling on the floor of the kitchen area next to the reach in cooler, one crawling on the floor at the cook line and the other roach crawling under the preparation table in the kitchen area.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 7 dead roaches in the kitchen of the establishment, one dead roach on preparation table in the kitchen,3 on the floor of the kitchen , two inside a dirty pot stored on the floor of the kitchen and one under the AC located behind the mop in the kitchen area.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed a can of raid on the floor of the kitchen next to the stove.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cheese (52 F - Cold Holding); chicken (46 F - Cold Holding) at the reach in cooler in the kitchen. Also observed cheese (51 F - Cold Holding); milk (46 F - Cold Holding) at the reach in cooler at the front counter. As per operator foods were stored inside reach in cooler since yesterday. Foods have been out of temperature for more than 4 hours. Stop sale was issued. Repeat Violation.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed fan covers with accumulated grease in the kitchen area.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed throughout the kitchen.”

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

“Floor not cleaned when the least amount of food is exposed. Kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed plastic waters and sodas stored on the floor at the front counter.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food thawed in an improper manner. Observed chicken and beef inside a plastic bucket stored on the floor.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed throughout the kitchen.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. Observed at the front counter.”

**CVI.CHE 105 AVENTURA

AVENTURA MALL

19501 BISCAYNE BLVD.

AVENTURA

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 8/13

13 VIOLATIONS FOUND

Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 10 + live roaches crawling on food bags and containers, wall and underneath the shelves in dry storage area.

Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed accumulation of old food debris underneath the shelves inside dry storage area.

Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. All three ice machines with excessive accumulation of mold like substance inside .

Dish machine not sanitizing properly. Discontinue use of dish machine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dish machine is repaired and sanitizing properly. Observed dishwasher machine at the bar chlorine 0 ppm. No sanitizer container in use at the dishwasher machine at bar.

Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Observed bar dishwasher in use with glasses and cups without sanitizer solution. Manager adjusted the machine, then chlorine sanitizer 100 ppm.

Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Observed employees wearing gloves without washing their hands first. All employees were coached and washed hand correctly.

Hand sink used for ware washing. Observed employee washing utensils in the hand sink at the bar and at the grill/sauté line. **Repeat Violation**

**LA GRANJA CHICKEN STEAK AND SEAFOOD

6144 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY

SOUTH MIAMI

ORDERED SHUT 8/11

9 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Observed 25 + live flies on dry food racks inside bag of onions in kitchen area.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 25 + live flies on dry food racks inside bag of onions in kitchen area. Observed 1 live fly above triple sink on clean container. Observed 1 live fly on wall above prep table in kitchen area. Observed 1 live fly on wall above sauces in kitchen area. Observed 1 live fly on wall above soda container in kitchen area.”

“Insect control device installed over food preparation area. Observed above prep table.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw eggs behind herbs and corn in lowboy. Repeat Violation.”

“Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit based upon minimum required cooking temperature. Observed raw chicken above raw pork in cooler drawers under cook line. Repeat Violation.”

**TEJAS DE HONDURAS

19200 SW 106TH AVE.

CUTLER BAY

ORDERED SHUT 8/12

22 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 6 live roaches, one roach crawling inside the gasket of the reach in freezer, one crawling inside the oven, two crawling on the floor of the kitchen area next to the reach in cooler, one crawling on the floor at the cook line and the other roach crawling under the preparation table in the kitchen area.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 7 dead roaches in the kitchen of the establishment, one dead roach on preparation table in the kitchen,3 on the floor of the kitchen , two inside a dirty pot stored on the floor of the kitchen and one under the AC located behind the mop in the kitchen area.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed a can of raid on the floor of the kitchen next to the stove.”

“Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed throughout the kitchen.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cheese (52 F - Cold Holding); chicken (46 F - Cold Holding) at the reach in cooler in the kitchen. Also observed cheese (51 F - Cold Holding); milk (46 F - Cold Holding) at the reach in cooler at the front counter. As per operator foods were stored inside reach in cooler since yesterday. Foods have been out of temperature for more than 4 hours. Stop sale was issued. Repeat Violation.”

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

“Floor not cleaned when the least amount of food is exposed. Kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed plastic waters and sodas stored on the floor at the front counter.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed reach in cooler and reach in freezer door gaskets soiled and also hood filters soiled. Repeat Violation.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed 3 holes in the wall next to the hand wash sink in the kitchen. Also observed a hole at the kitchen entrance.”

“Employee has not received adequate training related to their assigned duties as evidenced by lack of general knowledge in performing their assigned duties. Employee did not how to sanitize utensils.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. Observed at the front counter.”

Los cierres incluyeron restaurantes en Miami Beach, Miami, Aventura, Plantation y Cutler Bay.

Todos los restaurantes mencionados recibieron autorización para reabrir después de una limpieza ordenada y una nueva inspección.

Ningún restaurante de los Cayos de Florida fue ordenado a cerrar.

**OSTERIA DEL MAR

BEACON SOUTH BEACH HOTEL

720 OCEAN DR.

MIAMI BEACH

ORDENADO A CERRAR EL 13 DE AGOSTO

5 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Roedor vivo presente. Se observó un roedor vivo arrastrándose por el piso debajo del lavavajillas en el área de lavado de utensilios y otro arrastrándose por el piso en la línea de cocina”.

“El interior/estantes del refrigerador vertical y del refrigerador de acceso peatonal presentan acumulación de residuos de suciedad. Se observaron estantes del refrigerador de acceso peatonal y del refrigerador vertical frente a la cocina sucios con una sustancia similar al moho”.

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con residuos de alimentos, sustancia similar al moho o baba. Se observó la cuchilla del abrelatas en la mesa de preparación sucia”.

“Alimentos de origen animal crudos almacenados sobre alimentos listos para consumir o sin la separación adecuada. Se observaron huevos de gallina crudos almacenados sobre un recipiente de salsa marinara en el refrigerador de acceso peatonal”.

**VILLA PIZZA

MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

CONCOURSE D

4200 NW 21ST

MIAMI

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA QUEJA

ORDENADO A CERRAR EL 11 DE AGOSTO

22 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Presencia de roedores, evidenciada por excrementos de roedores encontrados. Se observó aproximadamente un excremento de roedor junto al recipiente de harina, tres excrementos de roedor en un estante sobre el fregadero de tres compartimentos y uno detrás del refrigerador vertical, junto al mostrador delantero”.

“Presencia de cucarachas, evidenciada por cucarachas vivas encontradas. Se observaron tres cucarachas vivas en el piso debajo del mostrador delantero, en el área de exhibición de pizzas”.

“Cucarachas muertas en el establecimiento. Se observaron dos cucarachas muertas en el vestíbulo”.

“Se encontraron pequeños insectos voladores vivos. Se observaron tres moscas junto a la máquina de hielo y una debajo de la máquina de refrescos”.

“Acumulación de una sustancia similar al moho negro/verde en el interior de la máquina/depósito de hielo”.

“Se emitió una orden de no venta para alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura por seguridad debido a un manejo inadecuado de la temperatura. Se observaron tomates mixtos (51 F - conservación en frío); mozzarella rallada (56 F - conservación en frío); vegetales mixtos (59 F - conservación en frío); piña en cubos (58 F - conservación en frío); aceitunas en cubos (58 F - conservación en frío); pepperoni en cubos (57 F - conservación en frío) en el área del refrigerador de preparación, que según el operador habían estado almacenados en la unidad durante más de cinco horas. Violación repetida”.

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con residuos de alimentos, sustancia similar al moho o baba. Se observaron las boquillas de refrescos ubicadas en el vestíbulo sucias. Se observaron pizzas en el mostrador delantero, sobre el área de servicio de madera. Violación repetida”.

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, residuos de alimentos y/o polvo. Se observó la pared sucia debajo del fregadero de tres compartimentos y las paredes detrás del equipo de cocina con mucha suciedad”.

“Techo/losetas del techo/ventilaciones sucios con acumulación de residuos de alimentos, grasa, polvo o sustancia similar al moho. Se observaron ventilaciones del techo sucias en todo el establecimiento”.

“Equipo de conservación en frío no mantenido en buen estado. No almacene alimentos que requieran control de tiempo/temperatura por seguridad en esta unidad hasta que sea reparada. Se observó una temperatura ambiente de 56 F en el refrigerador vertical de preparación. Violación repetida”.

“Equipo en mal estado. Se observó la tapa de la harina rota y una temperatura ambiente de 56 F en el refrigerador vertical de preparación. Violación repetida”.

“Piso sucio/con acumulación de residuos. Se observó el piso sucio debajo del horno y del equipo de cocina. Violación repetida”.

“Superficie que no está en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, residuos de alimentos, suciedad, baba o polvo. Se observó la cubierta del ventilador del refrigerador de acceso peatonal sucia. Violación repetida”.

**REN’S SUSHI JAPANESE AND THAI CUISINE

801 S. UNIVERSITY DR.

PLANTATION

ORDENADO A CERRAR EL 14 DE AGOSTO

12 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Presencia de cucarachas, evidenciada por cucarachas vivas encontradas. Se observó una cucaracha viva en el área de lavado de platos, arrastrándose sobre platos limpios. Se observaron dos cucarachas vivas debajo del área de sushi, arrastrándose por el piso. El operador mató y desechó la cucaracha y volvió a lavar los platos”.

“Cucarachas muertas en el establecimiento. Se observó una cucaracha muerta en el fregadero triple, tres cucarachas muertas debajo del fregadero de preparación, cinco cucarachas muertas en el área de almacenamiento seco, una cucaracha muerta en una caja de vasos de un solo uso, seis cucarachas muertas en el área de almacenamiento trasera, 12 cucarachas muertas en el área de despacho, tres cucarachas muertas en el área de sushi y cuatro cucarachas muertas cerca de la máquina de hielo”.

“Se encontraron pequeños insectos voladores vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 12 pequeños insectos voladores en el área de lavado de platos, posándose sobre platos limpios y sucios”.

“Piso sucio/con acumulación de residuos entre equipos grandes en la cocina”.

“Fregadero de manos utilizado para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó el fregadero de manos utilizado para descongelar camarones. El operador retiró el producto del fregadero de manos”.

**TEJAS DE HONDURAS

19200 SW 106TH AVE.

CUTLER BAY

ORDENADO A CERRAR EL 12 DE AGOSTO

22 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Presencia de cucarachas, evidenciada por cucarachas vivas encontradas. Se observaron seis cucarachas vivas: una arrastrándose dentro de la junta del refrigerador congelador vertical, una dentro del horno, dos arrastrándose por el piso del área de cocina junto al refrigerador vertical, una arrastrándose por el piso en la línea de cocina y otra arrastrándose debajo de la mesa de preparación en el área de cocina”.

“Cucarachas muertas en el establecimiento. Se observaron siete cucarachas muertas en la cocina del establecimiento, una cucaracha muerta sobre la mesa de preparación en la cocina, tres en el piso de la cocina, dos dentro de una olla sucia almacenada en el piso de la cocina y una debajo del aire acondicionado ubicado detrás del trapeador en el área de cocina”.

“Se encontró un pesticida/insecticida etiquetado únicamente para uso doméstico en el establecimiento. Se observó una lata de Raid en el piso de la cocina junto a la estufa”.

“Se emitió una orden de no venta para alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura por seguridad debido a un manejo inadecuado de la temperatura. Alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura por seguridad se mantenían en frío a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observó queso (52 F - conservación en frío); pollo (46 F - conservación en frío) en el refrigerador vertical de la cocina. También se observó queso (51 F - conservación en frío); leche (46 F - conservación en frío) en el refrigerador vertical del mostrador delantero. Según el operador, los alimentos habían estado almacenados dentro del refrigerador vertical desde el día anterior. Los alimentos habían estado fuera de temperatura durante más de cuatro horas. Se emitió una orden de no venta. Violación repetida”.

“Techo/losetas del techo/ventilaciones sucios con acumulación de residuos de alimentos, grasa, polvo o sustancia similar al moho. Se observaron cubiertas de ventiladores con acumulación de grasa en el área de cocina”.

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, residuos de alimentos y/o polvo. Se observó suciedad en toda la cocina”.

“Área(s) del piso cubierta(s) con agua estancada. Se observó en la cocina”.

“Piso no limpiado cuando hay la menor cantidad de alimentos expuestos. Cocina. Violación repetida”.

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso. Se observaron aguas y refrescos de plástico almacenados en el piso del mostrador delantero”.

“Alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura por seguridad descongelados de manera inadecuada. Se observaron pollo y carne de res dentro de un cubo de plástico almacenado en el piso”.

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, residuos de alimentos y/o polvo. Se observó suciedad en toda la cocina”.

“No se proporcionó jabón en el fregadero de manos. Se observó en el mostrador delantero”.

**CVI.CHE 105 AVENTURA

AVENTURA MALL

19501 BISCAYNE BLVD.

AVENTURA

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA QUEJA

ORDENADO A CERRAR EL 13 DE AGOSTO

13 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Presencia de cucarachas, evidenciada por cucarachas vivas encontradas. Se observaron más de 10 cucarachas vivas arrastrándose sobre bolsas y recipientes de alimentos, la pared y debajo de los estantes en el área de almacenamiento seco”.

“Piso sucio/con acumulación de residuos. Se observó acumulación de residuos de alimentos antiguos debajo de los estantes dentro del área de almacenamiento seco”.

“Acumulación de una sustancia similar al moho negro/verde en el interior de la máquina/depósito de hielo. Las tres máquinas de hielo presentaban una acumulación excesiva de una sustancia similar al moho en su interior”.

“Máquina de lavar platos no desinfecta adecuadamente. Suspenda el uso de la máquina de lavar platos para desinfectar y establezca una desinfección manual hasta que la máquina sea reparada y desinfecte correctamente. Se observó la máquina de lavar platos del bar con cloro a 0 ppm. No había un recipiente de desinfectante en uso en la máquina de lavar platos del bar”.

“Las superficies en contacto con alimentos no fueron desinfectadas después de la limpieza y antes de su uso. No utilice equipos/utensilios que no hayan sido desinfectados adecuadamente. Se observó el lavavajillas del bar en uso con vasos y tazas sin solución desinfectante. El gerente ajustó la máquina y luego el desinfectante de cloro registró 100 ppm”.

“Empleado no se lavó las manos antes de ponerse los guantes para iniciar una tarea relacionada con alimentos. Se observaron empleados usando guantes sin lavarse las manos primero. Todos los empleados recibieron instrucciones y se lavaron las manos correctamente”.

“Fregadero de manos utilizado para lavar utensilios. Se observó a un empleado lavando utensilios en el fregadero de manos del bar y en el área de parrilla/salteado. Violación repetida”.

**LA GRANJA CHICKEN STEAK AND SEAFOOD

6144 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY

SOUTH MIAMI

ORDENADO A CERRAR EL 11 DE AGOSTO

9 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Se emitió una orden de no venta debido a que los alimentos no se encontraban en condiciones aptas y seguras. Se observaron más de 25 moscas vivas en los estantes de alimentos secos, dentro de una bolsa de cebollas en el área de cocina”.

“Se encontraron pequeños insectos voladores vivos. Se observaron más de 25 moscas vivas en los estantes de alimentos secos, dentro de una bolsa de cebollas en el área de cocina. Se observó una mosca viva sobre el fregadero triple, encima de un recipiente limpio. Se observó una mosca viva en la pared sobre la mesa de preparación en el área de cocina. Se observó una mosca viva en la pared sobre las salsas en el área de cocina. Se observó una mosca viva en la pared sobre el recipiente de refrescos en el área de cocina”.

“Dispositivo para el control de insectos instalado sobre el área de preparación de alimentos. Se observó sobre la mesa de preparación”.

“Alimentos de origen animal crudos almacenados sobre alimentos listos para consumir o sin la separación adecuada. Se observaron huevos crudos detrás de hierbas y maíz en el refrigerador bajo. Violación repetida”.

“Alimentos de origen animal crudos no separados adecuadamente entre sí en la unidad de almacenamiento según la temperatura mínima requerida de cocción. Se observó pollo crudo sobre carne de cerdo cruda en los cajones del refrigerador debajo de la línea de cocina. Violación repetida”.

**TEJAS DE HONDURAS

19200 SW 106TH AVE.

CUTLER BAY

ORDENADO A CERRAR EL 12 DE AGOSTO

22 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

“Presencia de cucarachas, evidenciada por cucarachas vivas encontradas. Se observaron seis cucarachas vivas: una arrastrándose dentro de la junta del refrigerador congelador vertical, una dentro del horno, dos arrastrándose por el piso del área de cocina junto al refrigerador vertical, una arrastrándose por el piso en la línea de cocina y otra arrastrándose debajo de la mesa de preparación en el área de cocina”.

“Cucarachas muertas en el establecimiento. Se observaron siete cucarachas muertas en la cocina del establecimiento, una cucaracha muerta sobre la mesa de preparación en la cocina, tres en el piso de la cocina, dos dentro de una olla sucia almacenada en el piso de la cocina y una debajo del aire acondicionado ubicado detrás del trapeador en el área de cocina”.

“Se encontró un pesticida/insecticida etiquetado únicamente para uso doméstico en el establecimiento. Se observó una lata de Raid en el piso de la cocina junto a la estufa”.

“Interior del horno/microondas presenta acumulación de sustancia negra/grasa/residuos de alimentos”.

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, residuos de alimentos y/o polvo. Se observó suciedad en toda la cocina”.

“Se emitió una orden de no venta para alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura por seguridad debido a un manejo inadecuado de la temperatura. Alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura por seguridad se mantenían en frío a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observó queso (52 F - conservación en frío); pollo (46 F - conservación en frío) en el refrigerador vertical de la cocina. También se observó queso (51 F - conservación en frío); leche (46 F - conservación en frío) en el refrigerador vertical del mostrador delantero. Según el operador, los alimentos habían estado almacenados dentro del refrigerador vertical desde el día anterior. Los alimentos habían estado fuera de temperatura durante más de cuatro horas. Se emitió una orden de no venta. Violación repetida”.

“Área(s) del piso cubierta(s) con agua estancada. Se observó en la cocina”.

“Piso no limpiado cuando hay la menor cantidad de alimentos expuestos. Cocina. Violación repetida”.

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso. Se observaron aguas y refrescos de plástico almacenados en el piso del mostrador delantero”.

“Superficie que no está en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, residuos de alimentos, suciedad, baba o polvo. Se observaron sucias las juntas de las puertas del refrigerador vertical y del congelador vertical, así como los filtros de la campana. Violación repetida”.

“Orificio u otro daño en la pared. Se observaron tres orificios en la pared junto al fregadero de manos en la cocina. También se observó un orificio en la entrada de la cocina”.

“Empleado no ha recibido capacitación adecuada relacionada con sus funciones asignadas, evidenciado por falta de conocimientos generales para desempeñar sus funciones. El empleado no sabía cómo desinfectar los utensilios”.

“No se proporcionó jabón en el fregadero de manos. Se observó en el mostrador delantero”.

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Investigators shut down a portion of the 2700 block of Arthur Street after gunfire rang out inside a home around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.

When they arrived, officers said they found two men with gunshot wounds.

According to family members of one of the victims, a 23-year-old man was inside a home during a studio session when someone inside pulled out a gun and started shooting.

They said their family member was shot multiple times in his abdomen, hand and leg.

Police said the suspect remained at the scene and was taken into custody.

A silver BMW SUV was towed away from outside of the home where the shooting occurred.

No other details were immediately released by police.

Marsh died Friday in Connecticut, his friend Jeffrey St. Clair, a co-editor of the online magazine Counterpunch, told The Associated Press. St. Clair said Marsh had been suffering from a degenerative brain disease for several years. Jim Rotolo, the SiriusXM radio host, announced Marsh’s death on his social media accounts.

Springsteen paid tribute to Marsh in an Instagram post, writing that the loss had left the band “heartbroken.”

“My great friend Dave, with his straight out of Detroit attitude, was a true Rock ‘n’ Roll lifer. He was soulful, intelligent, heartfelt, opinionated, bruising and often fantastically argumentative,” Springsteen wrote. “He deeply believed in what I was trying to accomplish and his lifetime of support meant the world to me.”

Steven Van Zandt also wrote a remembrance on Instagram, writing “he was fearless, relentless, arrogant, everything you'd want in a RocknRoll troublemaker. And by the way, a tremendous writer.”

Marsh was an early champion of Springsteen, writing about him for Creem magazine and penning his first Rolling Stone cover story in 1978. In 1979 his biography “Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story” was released and became a best seller. He followed it in 1986 with “Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s.” Legend has it that he was the one responsible for getting Jon Landau, Springsteen's longtime manager and record producer, to his first Springsteen concert.

Born in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1950, Marsh dropped out of Detroit’s Wayne State University in 1969 to write for the new rock magazine “Creem,” where Lester Bangs was among his friends and mentors. Springsteen wasn’t Marsh’s only subject, but he was always close by. In 1979, he married Barbara Carr, who would go on to be Springsteen’s co-manager alongside Landau for decades. The rocker even attended their wedding.

He and Carr also devoted much effort to The Kristen Ann Carr Fund, a charity that they started named after their daughter who died from sarcoma at age 21 in 1993. Later that year, Springsteen hosted a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, where they raised $1.5 million.

Marsh also wrote “The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made,” a biography of The Who, and a book about The Kingsmen hit “Louie Louie.” In recent years he was a frequent co-host and guest on the E Street Nation SiriusXM channel.

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About 290 people have died, roughly 140 remain missing and nearly 4,000 others have been injured following the earthquake.

As communities in Colombia work to recover, aid from South Florida is making its way to some of the hardest-hit areas.

On Sunday night, a benefit concert at the Kaseya Center in downtown Miami brought together some of Latin America’s biggest music stars and a crowd hoping to support relief efforts in both Colombia and Venezuela, which is also recovering from devastating earthquakes.

Camilo Garcia, who is Cuban, said he wanted to attend and show his support.

“Loud, beautiful. People dancing. People screaming. Clapping. Everything was nice,” Garcia said of the concert.

He said the event demonstrated the importance of communities coming together following disasters.

“This is a great thing we’re doing for both countries,” Garcia said. “They needed this to get help from us, and we should help more people in the future like this.”

Relief supplies headed to Colombia

The support extended beyond the concert.

A plane loaded with medical supplies was preparing for its second relief flight from South Florida to Colombia.

Juan Rojas, president of Red Legacy Aviation, said the aircraft was headed to Pereira, near the center of some of the earthquake damage.

“This airplane is going to head down to Pereira, which is super close to the center of all the damage -- one of the cities that has suffered the most,” Rojas said.

Help Land Foundation is also among three organizations urgently collecting supplies for earthquake victims.

“We’re small but with big hearts,” founder Ender Urdaneta said. “For us, the important thing is making sure we’re helping those in need.”

The relief efforts come as rescuers in Colombia continue searching for survivors and those still unaccounted for nearly a week after the earthquake.

The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. The court denied Trump’s petition along with several others.

It’s unusual — although not unheard of — for the court to grant such requests. Trump paid the judgment shortly after the court declined to take up his appeal in June.

Trump and the Justice Department are also asking the high court to toss out a second Carroll verdict totaling $83 million. They argue he’s immune from being sued over comments he made about her in 2019, when he was president. The court has not yet acted on that appeal.

Carroll is a longtime advice columnist and former TV talk show host. She testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly 1990s encounter into a violent attack in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury retailer across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan. The jury found Trump liable for defaming Carroll when he denied her allegation in 2022.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing.

The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.

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Rodri was expected to undergo a medical as Barcelona and City exchanged documentation to finalize the agreement.

Barcelona agreed to a deal worth 76.5 million euros ($88.5 million), a person with knowledge of the transaction confirmed to The Associated Press on Sunday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the transfer have not been made public.

The 30-year-old midfielder Rodri, who helped Spain secure its second World Cup title last month, will join international teammates Lamine Yamal, Dani Olmo, Pau Cubarsí, Gavi and Pedri at the Catalan club.

Rodri won the Golden Ball as the World Cup’s best player. He had one year left on his contract with City.

Real Madrid was also reportedly interested in signing Rodri at one point, and he had loudly praised the Barcelona rival in the past.

Hansi Flick's Barcelona, chasing a three-peat in the Spanish league, has already boosted its squad with England forward Anthony Gordon, who will help to make up for the departures of Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres, who scored the winning goal in extra time in the World Cup final against Argentina.

Rodri joined City from Atletico Madrid in 2019. He scored the winning goal in the Champions League final victory over Inter Milan in 2023, and won the Ballon d'Or as the world's best player the following year after being part of Spain's European Championship-winning team.

His departure further weakens City's midfield, with Bernardo Silva having left for Real Madrid earlier this offseason.

Rodri did not play Sunday in City’s 3-0 defeat to Arsenal in the Community Shield. He is recovering from minor back surgery he underwent after the World Cup.

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Unas 290 personas han muerto, aproximadamente 140 permanecen desaparecidas y casi 4,000 más han resultado heridas tras el terremoto.

Mientras las comunidades en Colombia trabajan para recuperarse, la ayuda del sur de Florida está llegando a algunas de las zonas más afectadas.

La noche del domingo, un concierto benéfico en el Kaseya Center, en el centro de Miami, reunió a algunas de las mayores estrellas de la música latinoamericana y a una multitud que buscaba apoyar los esfuerzos de ayuda tanto en Colombia como en Venezuela, que también se está recuperando de devastadores terremotos.

Camilo Garcia, quien es cubano, dijo que quería asistir y mostrar su apoyo.

“Fuerte, hermoso. Gente bailando. Gente gritando. Aplaudiendo. Todo estuvo bien”, dijo Garcia sobre el concierto.

Dijo que el evento demostró la importancia de que las comunidades se unan después de los desastres.

“Esto es algo grandioso que estamos haciendo por ambos países”, dijo Garcia. “Necesitaban esto para recibir ayuda de nosotros, y deberíamos ayudar a más personas en el futuro de esta manera”.

Suministros de ayuda se dirigen a Colombia

El apoyo se extendió más allá del concierto.

Un avión cargado con suministros médicos se preparaba para realizar su segundo vuelo de ayuda desde el sur de Florida hacia Colombia.

Juan Rojas, presidente de Red Legacy Aviation, dijo que la aeronave se dirigía a Pereira, cerca del centro de algunos de los daños causados por el terremoto.

“Este avión se dirigirá a Pereira, que está muy cerca del centro de todos los daños, una de las ciudades que más ha sufrido”, dijo Rojas.

Help Land Foundation también se encuentra entre las tres organizaciones que están recolectando suministros con urgencia para las víctimas del terremoto.

“Somos pequeños, pero tenemos corazones grandes”, dijo el fundador Ender Urdaneta. “Para nosotros, lo importante es asegurarnos de que estamos ayudando a quienes lo necesitan”.

Los esfuerzos de ayuda se producen mientras los rescatistas en Colombia continúan buscando sobrevivientes y personas que aún permanecen desaparecidas, casi una semana después del terremoto.

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Lighthouse Point police confirmed that the crash happened at approximately 9:25 p.m. Sunday in the 4900 block of North Federal Highway.

Police said officers responded to the scene and found that the crash involved a vehicle and a scooter.

Because of the severity of the injuries sustained in the crash, the investigation was turned over to BSO’s Traffic Homicide Unit, police said.

Lighthouse Point police said they assisted with traffic control while BSO investigators processed the scene.

Authorities have not released information about the person who was injured, the extent of their injuries or a description of the vehicle believed to have left the scene.

North Federal Highway has since reopened to traffic.

The investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

La Policía de Lighthouse Point confirmó que el accidente ocurrió aproximadamente a las 9:25 p.m. del domingo en la cuadra 4900 de North Federal Highway.

La Policía dijo que los agentes respondieron a la escena y encontraron que el accidente involucró a un vehículo y un scooter.

Debido a la gravedad de las lesiones sufridas en el accidente, la investigación fue transferida a la Unidad de Homicidios de Tránsito de la BSO, dijo la Policía.

La Policía de Lighthouse Point dijo que ayudó con el control del tráfico mientras los investigadores de la BSO procesaban la escena.

Las autoridades no han divulgado información sobre la persona que resultó herida, la gravedad de sus lesiones ni una descripción del vehículo que se cree abandonó la escena.

North Federal Highway ya fue reabierta al tráfico.

La investigación continúa.

Cualquier persona que tenga información debe llamar a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

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The incident happened around 1:30 a.m. after Fort Lauderdale police received a call about a drunk boater crashing into other boats.

Video captured witnesses watching as the boat eventually became tied up to a portion of the dock. In the video, one of the men appears to point a gun at the boater.

It’s not clear how many boats the man crashed into.

Video also shows damage to the boat he was driving, including shattered glass and portions of the hull torn apart.

In another clip, people on board can be seen sitting while everyone involved waits for police to arrive.

Fort Lauderdale police’s DUI officer was part of the investigation.

Police identified the man as Michael Bender and said he was charged with boating under the influence.

However, Bender is not in custody. Police used a not-in-custody probable cause filing and are awaiting toxicology results to determine his blood alcohol level.

El incidente ocurrió alrededor de la 1:30 a.m., después de que la Policía de Fort Lauderdale recibiera una llamada sobre un navegante ebrio que chocaba contra otros botes.

Un video captó a testigos observando mientras el bote finalmente quedó amarrado a una parte del muelle. En el video, uno de los hombres parece apuntar con un arma al conductor del bote.

No está claro contra cuántos botes chocó el hombre.

El video también muestra daños en el bote que conducía, incluidos vidrios rotos y partes del casco destrozadas.

The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo’s most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever, with 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths, according to government data released overnight into Monday.

This is Congo’s 17th and largest Ebola outbreak. The toll eclipses that of the country's 2018-2020 outbreak when 2,299 deaths out of 3,481 cases were recorded.

The latest data shows 101 new cases and 33 deaths reported in the previous 24 hours. Over 1,000 people have recovered, while 730 remain in hospitals or isolation.

The outbreak has infected and killed more people at a greater speed than any other outbreak in history. The World Health Organization has said it is on track to surpass the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the deadliest on record with more than 11,000 deaths.

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for the current outbreak across six provinces in Congo's east. Trials for those are ongoing in Ituri province, the epicenter.

Most new cases and deaths are being reported outside of people being monitored. Challenges also include strikes by some unpaid health workers, threats by rebel groups, anger from long-traumatized communities, territories difficult to reach due to bad roads, and misinformation asserting that Ebola isn’t real.

WHO warned over the weekend that the outbreak is still moving at an “exceptional pace” ahead of efforts to track it, noting that it reached a weekly record of 579 cases and 304 deaths in the previous week.

“A substantial scaling up of response activities is underway to get ahead of the outbreak,” the agency said.

On Friday, United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher announced the allocation of an additional $30.5 million and the deployment of 20 more staff to aid the response on the frontlines.

“This is a wake-up call,” Fletcher said. “We need speed, scale and solidarity before this virus gets even further ahead of us.”

The primary for governor could set the direction for both parties in the state. A longstanding rivalry between DeSantis and President Donald Trump broadly shapes the Republican contest, while moderate and progressive candidates compete to guide beleaguered state Democrats out of their electoral doldrums.

Eleven candidates are competing for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, including Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, former investment firm CEO James Fishback and former state House Speaker Paul Renner.

Donalds has Trump’s endorsement and enjoys an overwhelming financial advantage over the rest of the field. He backed Trump over DeSantis in the 2024 presidential primaries and was considered as a possible Trump running mate that year.

Collins is a close DeSantis ally who says he is running to “protect the DeSantis legacy.” He was tapped by DeSantis to serve as lieutenant governor in August 2025. In his announcement, DeSantis said Collins, an Army Special Forces veteran who lost a leg to combat injuries, was “the Chuck Norris of Florida politics.” Nonetheless, DeSantis has not endorsed a candidate in the primary.

Six Democrats are running to succeed DeSantis, including former Republican U.S. Rep. David Jolly, state Rep. Dotie Joseph and former high school math teacher Dayna Marie Foster, who is backed by the state’s Democratic Progressive Caucus.

Jolly took an unlikely path to running for governor as a Democrat, joining the party in 2025 after leaving the GOP in 2018. He has a commanding fundraising lead over the rest of the field in spite of his past political affiliation. He has tapped former Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham as his running mate, and her name will appear alongside his on the ballot. Graham is the daughter of the late Bob Graham, the longtime Democratic U.S. Senator and governor.

Florida Democrats have faced a drought in statewide elections, particularly for governor. A Democrat last won the governorship more than 30 years ago. DeSantis was reelected in 2022 with a 19-point margin over former Gov. Charlie Crist, another former Republican-turned independent-turned Democrat.

In the U.S. Senate race, Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody faces minimal opposition for the party’s nomination. Moody was state attorney general in January 2025 when DeSantis appointed her to fill Rubio’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. She is now running to complete the final two years of Rubio’s term.

Her Democratic opponent in November will be either state Rep. Angie Nixon or retired Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman. Vindman, a former National Security Council staff member, was a key witness in Trump’s first impeachment in 2019. His brother, Eugene, was elected to Congress from Virginia's 7th District in 2024.

Nixon, along with Joseph in the race for governor, was among a group of Black state lawmakers who led unsuccessful Democratic efforts to block Republican redistricting plans in 2022 and 2026.

The new congressional boundaries Republicans enacted in May essentially eliminate four congressional districts currently or most recently represented by Democrats. Democratic U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor in the 14th District around Tampa and Darren Soto in the 9th District near Orlando are both running for reelection in their new Republican-friendly districts and will face the winners of crowded GOP primaries.

In South Florida along the Gold Coast, Republicans redrew the area with the hope of reducing the number of Democratic districts from five to three. Like Castor and Soto, U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz is running for reelection in a new Republican-friendly district, but he must first clear a primary challenge from union organizer and democratic socialist Oliver Larkin.

In another South Florida district, former U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is mounting a comeback bid after resigning from the 20th District in April. She’ll face U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Democratic primary in the new 20th, which is no longer a majority-Black district.

Republican U.S. Reps. Randy Fine and Cory Mills face competitive primary challenges in the 6th and 7th Districts, respectively, while a crowded Republican primary to replace Donalds in the 19th District has attracted a lot of out-of-state interest. Former U.S. Reps. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina and Chris Collins of New York, as well as a former Illinois state senator, all seek the Republican nomination.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET. Most of the state is in Eastern time, and polls there close at 7 p.m. ET. A few counties are in Central time, and polls there close at 8 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, chief financial officer, agriculture commissioner, state Senate and state House.

Who gets to vote?

Only voters registered with a political party may participate in that party’s primary. Democrats may not vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or unaffiliated voters may not participate in either primary.

How many voters are there?

As of July 20, there were about 13.5 million registered voters in Florida. Of those, about 5.6 million, or about 42% were Republicans; about 4.1 million, or 30%, were Democrats and about 3.3 million, or about 25%, were not registered with any party. The rest were registered with other parties.

How many people actually vote?

About 1.5 million Republican primary voters and about 1.1 million Democratic primary voters participated in the 2024 U.S. Senate primaries.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 63% of the Republican primary vote and about 77% of the Democratic primary vote in the 2024 U.S. Senate primaries was cast early in-person or by mail.

As of Friday, about 663,000 Republican ballots and about 610,000 Democratic ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

Florida counties release all or almost all of their results from early in-person and mail voting in their first vote updates of the night, usually before releasing any results from in-person Election Day voting. Less than a third of counties release any in-person Election Day results in their first vote update.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2024 state primary, the AP first reported results at 8 p.m. ET, just as the final polls closed in the state. The last vote update of the night was at 11:47 p.m. ET with about 99.9% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

Florida requires a machine recount in races where the vote margin is 0.5% or less of the total votes cast. A manual recount of overvotes and undervotes is then required if the machine recount results in a vote margin of 0.25% or less of the total votes cast. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 77 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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The number of people worth at least $100 million whom the Republican president has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total under the three previous presidents, according to a report from the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

It’s the numbers for the Trump administration, in the context of previous administrations, that stand out in Public Citizen’s report, published on Monday. In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 ambassadors and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.

Look no further than Trump's Cabinet. Eight of its 23 members fit the category, notably Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, both billionaires.

The president, himself a billionaire, has described his inclination toward appointing the ultrawealthy as deference to financial success. And yet, Trump, who owes his White House comeback to support from middle-income, working Americans drawn to his pledge to lower everyday costs, now faces a midterm election electorate decidedly less keen on his handling of the economy.

Presidents have long sought counsel from the nation’s wealthiest people and tapped some for high-profile administrative leadership roles. Likewise, presidents routinely reward wealthy and influential supporters with ambassadorships.

Among the most notable examples is Andrew Mellon, the aluminum, oil and banking tycoon who was among the handful of the nation’s wealthiest people in the 1920s and served as treasury secretary for three presidents.

The Trump officials worth at least $100 million include Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg and Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler, who are also billionaires, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and special envoy Steve Witkoff, both worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

By comparison, Republican George W. Bush’s administration and Democrat Joe Biden’s each included five members worth $100 million or more. Democrat Barack Obama’s included three, the report states.

A government populated by so many of the economic elite presents potential problems, the report's authors said.

"When the people holding the reins of government are drawn overwhelmingly from the ranks of the ultra-rich, it leads to misplaced incentives and corruption, and begs the question, ‘Whose interests they are truly serving?” said Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen’s co-president.

The list does not include Trump, whose net worth Forbes estimates at more than $6 billion. Nor does it include space and social media giant Elon Musk, who advised Trump last year on an effort to reduce the federal government's size, scope and workforce and is the world's wealthiest person, with a net worth Forbes estimates at about $860 billion.

Trump's views are well established: Financial success is evidence of executive mastery and negotiating strength.

“They have great competence, those people. Incredible competence. Some of the smartest business leaders,” Trump said last year in explaining why he put considerable weight on advice from business executives.

He has also pointed to investments by wealthy people as a signal of future economic growth. To encourage billionaires to deliver, Trump, in his first year back in the White House, pursued policies on artificial intelligence and financial regulation that could benefit wealthy people, along with tax cuts and reduced regulatory burdens for large-scale investments.

Still, last month, only 32% of U.S. adults approved of Trump’s handling of the economy, down from 40% at the beginning of his second term and as his Republican Party faces headwinds in its attempt to hold both majorities in Congress in November.

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This story has been corrected to show Lutnick is commerce secretary, not treasury secretary.

A spokesperson for Burnham declined to comment, saying it was policy not to discuss “national security matters.”

Politico cited four unnamed officials in first reporting that Burnham thought he was messaging with Susie Wiles before he became suspicious and cut off communications.

The White House said the incident had nothing to do with Wiles’ devices being hacked.

Last year, the U.S. government investigated a series of messages that elected officials, business executives and other prominent figures in the U.S. received messages from someone posing as Wiles.

Soon after those incidents, the State Department warned U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using artificial intelligence. The warning followed the discovery that an impostor posing as Rubio had attempted to reach out to at least three foreign ministers, a U.S. senator and a governor.

The FBI had warned of “malicious actors” misusing AI to impersonate senior U.S. government officials.

Burnham, who became prime minister less than a month ago, has tried to forge good ties with the White House. Trump initially warmed to Burnham's predecessor, Keir Starmer, before souring on him.

The upcoming departures of Gov. Mark Gordon and U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, along with U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman’s decision to run to replace Lummis, marks the first time in 32 years that Wyoming has had open seats for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House at the same time. The races for Wyoming Secretary of State and state Superintendent of Public Instruction are also open seats, with both incumbents seeking higher office.

All statewide elected offices in Wyoming currently are held by Republicans.

Gordon considered seeking a third term and challenging a state term limit law but ultimately decided against it. Four candidates now seek the Republican nomination to replace him: state Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder, former state House Speaker and current state Sen. Eric Barlow, retired Marine Corps colonel and 2022 gubernatorial candidate Brent Bien, and professional bull rider and rodeo producer Curt Blake.

The Degenfelder and Barlow campaigns are on roughly even financial footing, with Degenfelder raising about $1.3 million and Barlow raising about $1.2 million. Bien raised about $192,000, while Blake reported raising no money.

President Donald Trump has endorsed Degenfelder. The winner will face Democrat Kenneth Casner in November.

Among the five Republicans running to replace Lummis in the U.S. Senate are Hageman, former Kirby Mayor Sam Mead and former environmental services business owner Jimmy Skovgard.

Hageman is in her second term in Congress. She was Trump’s pick in 2022 to defeat then-U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the president’s harshest Republican critics following the attack on the U.S. Capitol and his attempts to remain in office after his 2020 election defeat.

Trump has once again endorsed Hageman in her U.S. Senate bid. She has raised about $2.4 million for her campaign, nearly 10 times that of Mead, her closest competitor in fundraising.

The winner will likely face former Democratic state Rep. James Byrd, who is the only candidate in the two-person primary field to report raising any money for the campaign.

Nine active candidates are competing for the Republican nomination to replace Hageman in the U.S. House in what’s shaping up to be the most expensive contest on Tuesday’s ballot. The field includes former state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow, Senate President Bo Biteman, businessmen Steve Friess and Reid Rasner, and Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray.

Friess, Rasner and Gray have outspent the rest of the field, thanks to sizable loans each candidate has made to their campaigns. Friess, who is a son of the late Republican megadonor Foster Friess, loaned $3 million to his campaign. Rasner loaned about $1.9 million to his campaign, while Gray floated his campaign about $1.4 million.

Neither Trump nor Hageman have made an endorsement in the primary.

In the Democratic primary, former Democratic state Sen. Lisa Kinney, like Byrd in the U.S. Senate race, faces an opponent who has not raised any money.

About half of Wyoming’s 31 state Senate seats and all 62 state House seats are up for election in 2026. Democrats hold only eight seats across both chambers, giving Republicans overwhelming supermajorities. Republican members of the conservative Freedom Caucus movement hold an outright majority in the state House.

Laramie and Natrona counties, home to Cheyenne and Capser, respectively, are the state’s most populous and most influential in statewide elections. Campbell, Sweetwater, Fremont, Sheridan and Park counties also tend to play important roles in primaries. Albany and Teton counties are the most Democratic-friendly in the state and tend to have an outsized say in Democratic primaries. They were the only counties that Cheney carried against Hageman in the 2022 primary, before a 2023 law prohibited Democrats and Republicans from changing their party affiliation at the polls.

The winners of Tuesday’s Republican primaries will have an advantage heading into the general election in a state that’s only elected one Democrat statewide in more than 30 years. Wyoming is one of the most reliably Republican states in the country. It was Trump’s best state in 2024 and 2020 and his second-best state in 2016.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 7 p.m. MT, which is 9 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, secretary of state, treasurer, state school superintendent, state Senate and state House.

Who gets to vote?

Only voters registered with a political party may participate in that party’s primary. Democrats may not vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or unaffiliated voters may not participate in either primary. Voters registered with a party had been able to change their party affiliations at the polls on Election Day, but the 2023 law ended that practice.

How many voters are there?

As of August 1, there were about 272,000 registered voters in Wyoming, including about 212,000 Republicans, about 30,000 Democrats and about 25,000 voters not affiliated with any party.

How many people actually vote?

About 104,000 Republicans and about 10,000 Democrats participated in the 2024 state primaries for U.S. Senate. More Republicans voted in the 2022 primary for governor, with about 164,000 voters casting ballots, compared to about 7,000 in the Democratic primary. 2022 was the last statewide primary held before the law restricting party affiliation changes was enacted.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 30% of the Republican primary vote and about 52% of the Democratic primary vote in the 2024 state primary was from absentee ballots cast either in-person or by mail.

As of Friday, about 30,900 Republican primary ballots and about 4,300 Democratic primary ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

In recent elections, more than half of Wyoming counties released all their vote results in their first vote updates, regardless of vote type. Almost every county released at least some in-person Election Day vote results in their first vote updates.

Laramie County tends to release a significant amount of in-person Election Day vote before releasing any results from absentee voting.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2024 state primary, the AP first reported results at 9:27 p.m. ET, or 27 minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 12:58 a.m. ET with about 98% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

Recounts in Wyoming are automatic if the vote margin is less than 1% of the votes cast for the winning candidate. Candidates alleging fraud or error in the result may request and pay for a recount. The cost is covered by the affected counties if the recount changes the result. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 77 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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Although the state has long been safe Republican territory in federal elections, this year marks the third consecutive election cycle in which Alaska finds itself among a handful of states at the center of the fight for control of Congress.

At the top of the ballot, Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan faces a strong challenge from Democratic former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola in his bid for a third term. They are the most notable contenders among 16 candidates in the state’s all-party primary, in which the top four vote-getters will advance to the general election regardless of party affiliation. The winner in November will be determined by ranked choice voting, as is the case for all Alaska general elections following a new law approved by voters in 2020.

Sullivan was first elected in 2014 after defeating Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, 48% to 46%. He won his 2020 reelection with 54% of the vote and a 13-percentage-point lead over his Democratic opponent.

Peltola was first elected in a 2022 special election to replace longtime Republican congressman Don Young, who died after almost 50 years in office. She defeated Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich in Alaska’s first statewide ranked choice voting election. She was elected to a full term later that year but lost her 2024 reelection bid to Begich, who is the nephew of the former U.S. senator.

Peltola has raised about $18.5 million for her campaign, compared with about $11.7 million for Sullivan. As of July 29, Sullivan had about $7.3 million in his campaign account, compared with about $4.6 million for Peltola.

The only other U.S. Senate candidate who reported raising any money was another Dan Sullivan, a former teacher who shares the same first and last name as the Republican incumbent. Republicans tried unsuccessfully to block the other Dan Sullivan from appearing on the ballot, accusing him of colluding with Democrats to help elect Peltola by confusing voters, which he and the Peltola campaign have denied. An Alaska court overturned efforts to boot the challenger from the ballot.

Sen. Sullivan will appear on the ballot as “Dan S. Sullivan” alongside the labels of “Registered Republican” and “Incumbent.” Challenger Sullivan will be listed as “Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.” without any party affiliation listed, although he filed for office as a Republican.

Nick Begich also faces a crowded field in his bid for a second term in the state’s lone congressional seat, but only commercial fisherman and former Bristol Bay Borough School Superintendent Bill Hill has emerged as a credible challenger. Hill is running as an independent, but he has the backing of several local union organizations as well as that of Anchorage pastor Matt Schultz, the top Democrat in the race before he suspended his campaign and endorsed Hill.

Begich raised about $5.5 million for the campaign, compared with about $1.3 million for Hill, and the incumbent sits atop a far larger campaign war chest.

Seventeen candidates are running to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Among them is former Gov. Bill Walker, who is running as an independent.

Republican candidates include former state Sens. Click Bishop, Shelley Hughes and Lesil McGuire, former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, former state revenue Commissioner Adam Crum, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Edna DeVries, former state Attorney General Treg Taylor and business owner and conservative activist Bernadette Wilson.

Former state Sen. Tom Begich and former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins are the two Democrats in the race. Begich is the brother of Mark Begich and the uncle of Nick Begich.

Voters will also decide a statewide ballot measure that would impose contribution limits on state and local political campaigns. A 2021 federal court ruling lifted limits on what an individual could give a candidate.

Half of Alaska’s 20 state Senate seats and all 40 state House seats are up for election in 2026. Republican lawmakers outnumber Democratic lawmakers, but both chambers are organized by multiparty coalitions rather than along strict party lines.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 8 p.m. local time, which is midnight and 1 a.m. ET. Almost all polls in the state close at midnight ET, but one polling location in the Aleutian Islands closes at 1 a.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, state Senate and state House, as well as a statewide ballot measure.

Who gets to vote?

Any voter registered in Alaska may participate in the state’s all-party, top-four primary system.

How many voters are there?

As of Aug. 3, there were about 602,000 registered voters in Alaska. About 380,000 voters, roughly 63%, were either undeclared or nonpartisan voters; about 142,000, or 24%, were Republicans; and about 70,000, or 12%, were Democrats.

How many people actually vote?

Roughly 190,000 voters participated in the 2022 U.S. Senate and gubernatorial primaries. About 108,000 voters participated in the 2024 U.S. House primary.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 23% of the U.S. Senate primary vote and about 28% of the U.S. House primary vote in the 2022 state primary was cast early in person or by mail.

As of Thursday, about 18,000 ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

A mix of vote results from in-person Election Day and early in-person voting are released in the first vote update of the night. Typically, nearly all in-person Election Day results and in-person early voting results are released by the last update of the night, with the bulk of mail voting results released in the days following election night.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2024 state primary, the AP first reported results at 1:03 a.m. ET, or three minutes after final polls closed. The election night tabulation ended at 4:58 a.m. ET, with about 89% of total votes counted. The count reached 100% on Sept. 1 at 6:57 p.m. ET, 12 days after the election.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

Recounts in Alaska are automatic in the event of a tie vote. Candidates may also request and pay for a recount. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 77 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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The USS George Washington is replacing the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed Lincoln. The move leaves the western Pacific without a key military asset as China shows more signs of aggression.

The BBC asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony to defend against his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. The request filed in federal court in Florida on Friday argues that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. have “personal knowledge” and likely have records relevant to Trump’s claims.

The Latest:

Trump says concerns about conditions on USS Lincoln are ‘fake’

Trump downplayed reports about conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln to reporters in the Oval Office. The aircraft carrier has been the subject of escalating concern over mental health and supply issues for American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea.

Trump called it a “good period of time” but added that “over the years, we’ve had them out there much longer.”

The carrier has had a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days.

But Trump said he spoke with a retired admiral over the weekend who recounted being on ships for “much longer.” Trump said the admiral assured him that the Lincoln is “beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of.”

Trump did not name the admiral.

Trump administration pauses contentious border construction in Texas’ Big Bend National Park

The Trump administration says it is temporarily pausing construction of a controversial border construction project in the Big Bend National Park while the head of the agency tasked with building the wall visits Texas to do an “on-the-ground evaluation.”

The project through the national park in southern Texas has faced fierce bipartisan opposition by critics who say it is marring a pristine environmental area and that the region’s rugged and remote terrain already serves as a deterrent to migrants and smugglers.

Rodney Scott, who heads Customs and Border Protection which is tasked with building the wall, said in an announcement on X that he was visiting Texas to do an evaluation.

“CBP is pausing all construction activity in Big Bend National Park while I visit and conduct a personal, on-the-ground evaluation,” Scott said.

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Trump calls UK prime minister’s text exchange a ‘miscommunication’

The U.S. president was asked about a report that said new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone posing as Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff.

“I’m sure that he had a miscommunication,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

The report from Politico said Burnham thought he was messaging with Wiles before he became suspicious and cut off communications.

Earlier Monday, the White House said the incident had nothing to do with Wiles’ devices being hacked.

Trump says North Korea’s Kim has responded to request for a conversation

The U.S. president was pressed on whether he has had a conversation with the North Korean leader.

Trump said “yeah he has” responded to Trump’s request to have a conversation, referring to Kim Jong Un.

Trump offered no other details, but noted later during the Oval Office appearance that “I get along with him very well.”

Trump says his administration is taking a look at Flock cameras

The president said there are pros and cons to Flock Safety cameras, which have come under scrutiny from civil rights groups and lawmakers in both parties.

“It’s being studied right now,” Trump said when asked about the subject Monday at an Oval Office event. “We’ll have an answer soon as to our views on it.”

The company’s nationwide network of cameras record the license plate numbers and other characteristics of passing vehicles.

Thousands of police agencies can use Flock data to support investigations, and advocates call it an important crime-fighting tool. Critics say it amounts to needless mass surveillance.

Trump sits with 10-year-old and his lifeguard rescuer in Oval Office

Nathanial Rai had been swept off his feet along the California coast, was rescued by a 16-year-old lifeguard and was now sitting in the Oval Office.

Rai wore a dark suit and maroon tie and sat on a gold couch aside his father and the president of the United States. Across from Rai was his rescuer Ryder Williams, both of whom watched Trump speak of their ordeal, a video of which went viral.

“He’s a real hero. I don’t know if I’d do it,” said Trump. “I wouldn’t probably. You’re lucky I wasn’t on the service that day.”

Trump meeting with teenage lifeguard who saved boy in dramatic viral video

A teenage lifeguard who saved a 10-year-old boy from pounding waves off the California last month is being honored at the White House on Monday.

President Donald Trump is meeting Ryder Williams after saying the teen deserved a civilian honor. Trump previously said on social media that he would be inviting Williams to the White House to reward his bravery.

Dramatic video of the rescue went viral last month. It showed Williams clinging to Nathaniel Rai as waves repeatedly crash over them. The pair disappeared from view and reemerged after several seconds as the wave receded.

A second lifeguard was eventually able to help get them both back to shore at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz.

Trump initially commented on the video in response to a post from his son, Eric Trump, who said Williams deserved “the highest civilian honor.”

After killing hundreds in boat strikes, US military expands campaign on land

The Trump administration says it is seeking to expand its lethal campaign of bombing boats off Latin America’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts onto land.

It will be “like you saw with the strikes on the drug boats,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a military drill in the jungle in Panama last week. “Same effect on land.”

The government has lined up regional allies to let the U.S. military operate within their borders in a campaign to assert what it calls “American dominance over the Western Hemisphere.”

Critics say the expansion could pave the way for more civilian casualties and anger toward Washington that may outlast the Trump administration.

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Trump dwarfs his predecessors in ultra-rich appointees

Wealth, perhaps second only to loyalty, has been a prized attribute for Donald Trump during his second presidency.

The number of people worth at least $100 million whom the Republican president has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of his three predecessors, according to a report from Public Citizen.

The consumer advocacy group’s report Monday says 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 ambassadors and eight of his Cabinet members. Treasury Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon are billionaires.

The president, himself a billionaire, has described his deference to the financial success of the ultrawealthy. Yet Trump owes his White House comeback to support from middle-income working Americans drawn to his pledge to lower everyday costs, and now faces an electorate decidedly less keen on his handling of the economy.

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Public Citizen says ultra-wealthy White House can lead to corruption

Trump’s views are well established: Financial success is evidence of executive mastery and negotiating strength.

And to encourage billionaires to deliver future economic growth, Trump has pursued policies on artificial intelligence and financial regulation that could benefit wealthy people, along with tax cuts and reduced regulatory burdens for large-scale investments.

But a government populated by so many of the economic elite presents potential problems, the report’s authors said.

“When the people holding the reins of government are drawn overwhelmingly from the ranks of the ultra-rich, it leads to misplaced incentives and corruption, and begs the question, ’Whose interests they are truly serving?” said Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen’s co-president.

Trump’s scaling back military training with South Korea is ‘inane,’ senator says

Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Trump appears to be appeasing North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un while worsening relations with U.S. allies.

“This is another inane, haphazard decision by President Trump and his chaotic administration,” Reed said in a statement.

“America’s alliances are built on trust and strength,” he said. “When President Trump cuts military exercises to flatter a dictator or punishes South Korea for declining to join a war he started, all of our allies — and adversaries — think that America’s commitments are negotiable.”

Reed noted that the U.S. and South Korea have conducted joint military exercises since the 1950s as a show of strength and deterrence against aggression from North Korea. And he warned that warned that China and Russia are watching how easily Trump abandons America’s allies.

The buck stops somewhere else: A look at Trump’s tendency to avoid blame

President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk. The current Oval Office occupant often veers from that motto of taking responsibility.

Trump has blamed his predecessors for the weak economy, high inflation and the increasingly unpopular war in Iran that has kept oil prices high and his approval rating low while sending shock waves through the global economy.

He blames vandals for the problem-plagued Reflecting Pool renovation, and now the dead grass where his July 4th event was held on the National Mall.

All presidents try to shift some responsibility, but none in modern history has taken it as far as Trump.

The White House says Trump is working to correct long-festering challenges. But his unwillingness to accept blame sometimes leads him to deny problems, which could put GOP seats in jeopardy as Republicans face voters.

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Wall Street nears new records as big US companies report booming profits

Big U.S. companies in the S&P 500 index are on track to deliver growth of roughly 50% for earnings per share in the spring from a year earlier, according to FactSet. Still to come are profit reports from big retailers, including Home Depot, Target and Walmart this week.

They’re facing pressure. Customers’ incomes may be turning iffier after U.S. employers surprisingly cut more jobs last month than they added, as bills rise quickly with inflation much higher than anyone would like. Shoppers surprisingly spent less at U.S. retailers last month than in June.

And the wait continues to see what the Iran war will do with oil prices. Brent crude rose 0.7% to $89.15 a barrel Monday, a relatively modest move after jagged recent swings.

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Trump threatens Oman during interview with Fox News

Trump has warned Oman as the Gulf nation works with Iran on a plan for the Strait of Hormuz, telling Fox News reporter Trey Yingst that the U.S. would bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” using an expletive for emphasis.

Fox News did not provide audio of the Monday interview.

This is not the first time that Trump has threatened Oman. In May, he told reporters during a Cabinet meeting that “Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we will have to blow them up.”

Trump also said the expiration of the 60-day deadline on ending the war was irrelevant and said there was no timeline, Yingst said. And Trump said the U.S. has a backchannel for talks with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Yingst said.

Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump, upholds $5 million for E. Jean Carroll

The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal.

It’s unusual — although not unheard of — for the court to grant such requests. Trump paid the judgment shortly after the court declined to take up his appeal in June.

Trump and the Justice Department are also asking the high court to toss out a second Carroll verdict totaling $83 million. They argue he’s immune from being sued over comments he made about her in 2019, when he was president. The court has not yet acted on that appeal.

Israel’s Ben-Gvir advocates killing ’30 to 40′ people in Gaza every night

The comments by an extremist Israeli lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition surfaced Sunday and were quickly shared by Palestinian media, but scarcely mentioned by Israel’s domestic media.

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir was speaking on a podcast about Israel’s recent drawdown of strikes in Gaza.

“I disagree with the prime minister,” he said. “I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat — there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”

In the past, similar statements by Ben-Gvir and other Israeli officials were widely condemned and presented to the U.N.’s world court as evidence of genocidal intent. Israel denies it has committed genocide in Gaza.

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Kushner meeting with Netanyahu as he seeks approval of Gaza road map

Trump son-in-law and Mideast negotiator Jared Kushner was holding meetings with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after talking with Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt on disarmament.

The Israeli leader rejected a 15-point, U.S.-backed road map to move the truce deal forward in Gaza. Hamas says it has agreed to the road map, which includes disarmament, and the group is urging mediators and the U.S.-created Board of Peace to “compel” Israel to sign on as well.

But Israel, which under the road map must withdraw from Gaza, says Hamas must fully disarm before any Israeli withdrawal will occur.

Trump’s 60-day deadline for an Iran peace deal is expiring

The deal Trump signed at Versailles set an ambitious 60-day deadline for ending the war with Iran and reaching an accord on its nuclear program. The deadline was Monday, and the two sides are even further apart.

Talks, such as they are, have focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting a U.S. blockade. Both were supposed to have happened under the interim deal. There has been no sign of any compromise on the strait, or that detailed nuclear talks have even begun.

The U.S., meanwhile, has no good options for getting out of the war it started alongside Israel. Acceding to Iranian control over the critical international waterway where global energy supplies moved freely before the war would be tantamount to admitting defeat. Escalating the deeply unpopular war would jolt the world economy and drive up prices ahead of U.S. elections.

Iran says deal with Oman over shipping through Strait of Hormuz is nearly final

Iranian Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters in Tehran on Monday that “an understanding has been reached regarding the map of the transit route,” and the sides are working to finalize details for the joint statement.

He did not elaborate, but details that have previously emerged suggest the deal would reopen the strait with ships entering through a route close to Iran and exiting through a route close to Oman. Ships would transit without paying fees or tolls during the interim period.

The U.S. has sought an acceptable deal on opening the strait before ending its blockade of Iranian ports and it was not clear whether this would meet Washington’s expectations.

US Central Command chief visited aircraft carrier after Trump’s comments

Adm. Brad Cooper visited the USS Lincoln amid reports that its record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days is taxing the crew’s mental health and creating supply shortages. The Lincoln has been supporting Trump’s war against Iran, including the blockade on Iranian ports.

Cooper praised the carrier’s leadership on Sunday for making mental health and resilience a priority. His visit followed comments by Trump on Friday that their deployment is “not nearly long enough.”

Top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have requested a classified briefing on the ship’s situation. Republicans have been less outspoken.

Trump blames vandals for damaged grass where he held his July 4 celebration

Trump on Sunday said vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial — in the same spot where Trump had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration.

Trump made the accusation in a social media post without saying why he believes it’s the work of vandals instead of trampled turf from the Independence Day festivities. He posted a photo showing a once-grassy area by the World War II Memorial, now patchy and brown across much of the sprawling turf.

“Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

Trump has repeatedly blamed vandals for damage to his renovation projects in the nation’s capital, often without evidence and sometimes despite opposing accounts from his officials.

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BBC seeks US help in getting Trump family testimony

The BBC asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony from members of Trump ’s family in connection with his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster, a court document showed.

Lawyers for the BBC argued that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. have “personal knowledge” and likely have records relevant to elements of Trump’s claims against the broadcaster, according to a filing Friday in federal court in Florida.

The broadcaster has been unable to serve subpoenas because the three have Secret Service protection and other security personnel around them, the filing says.

Trump filed the lawsuit in December seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing it of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.

The allegations center on the way a 2024 documentary edited a speech Trump gave on Jan. 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. The lawsuit accuses the BBC of “splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump’s speech” to “intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said.”

The BBC has apologized to Trump for the misleading edit, but said it had not defamed him.

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US pulls last aircraft carrier from Asia as Trump turns to Iran and Americas

The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed carrier. The Lincoln has had its time at sea extended from its original May return date to support operations against Iran.

The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.

“The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Instead, the U.S. is “doing the exact opposite” of its previously expressed goal of pulling out of the Middle East.

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Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea

President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back annual joint military exercises with South Korea, saying the ally declined to help with the war against Iran and citing his good relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

Trump said in a social media post that the exercises, which began Monday, are not only costly but “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which he said “has been unthreatening and respectful” during his time in the White House.

“Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises!” Trump wrote. The president added that he recently asked South Korea’s president if they would join the U.S. in the “denuclearization” of Iran, “and they said, ‘No thanks!’”

The move is the latest example of the president appearing to turn against an ally in favor of a leader that previous administrations have cast as an adversary.

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According to KWPD, Officer Dustin Christina, 40, was off duty when authorities responded to the area of Peary Court around 5:10 a.m. after receiving complaints and found him sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car.

Officials said a supervising officer investigated and determined there was probable cause to arrest Christina for DUI.

He was taken to the Monroe County Detention Center without incident on misdemeanor charges of DUI and refusal to submit to DUI testing, authorities said.

No other details were immediately released.

A forest ranger said the fire in Belgium could continue for months underground in peaty soil and sporadically flare up.

Europe is sweltering through one of its hottest and driest summers on record, which a recent study said was fueled by climate change.

Rain helps, but Belgian blaze is not yet under control

Belgium’s King Philippe interrupted his summer vacation to visit emergency services fighting the wildfire in the eastern High Fens, about eight kilometers (five miles) from the German border, as it spread east after moving into a pine forest on Sunday.

The fire in Liège province has burned an estimated 30 square kilometers (about 12 square miles), leaving blackened trees and smoldering ground.

While the fire did not significantly grow, due in part to favorable winds, it remained out of control in areas inaccessible to ground crews, the Wallonia region said in an update.

Some 500 firefighters were aided by aircraft sent from Norway, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands and local police with drones after a cold front brought overnight rain. Farmers were helping supply water to firefighting efforts, regional officials said. Helicopters emptied huge sacks of water over the flames as smoke billowed from forests.

“We managed to maintain the fire where the firemen are situated but there’s still a place which is totally inaccessible, where the fire is still going on in the direction of Monschau in Germany,” said Nicolas Yernaux, spokesperson for the Wallonia regional public services.

He said overnight rains helped contain the blaze and dampen the possibility that smoldering fires will flare up again, but he said they did not significantly impact the center of the fire.

A forest ranger from the region told The Associated Press that the blaze could continue for months underground because of the peaty soil.

“What we see here is that the grassland has burned and the fire has gone into the soil to a certain depth, into the peat, and it is still burning," said Yves Pieper. “It can go down very, very low in the peat layer.”

He said the fire can continue smoldering largely unseen underground for weeks or months before flaring up again, noting that new flames had already appeared nearby.

Precautionary evacuation orders remained in effect for hundreds of residents.

Veterinarian Hugues Guyvot, who was involved in animal rescue efforts, said large animals were able to flee but smaller ones like frogs and mice likely burrowed and were baked underground in a landscape of peat bogs.

“Maybe it will take decades to recover from this fire,” he said.

Greece quickly extinguishes fire near main airport

In Greece, fire department investigators examined the area on the island of Salamina where a fast-moving wildfire on Sunday killed two people, injured another nine and destroyed several homes. The island lies just west of the Greek capital.

New wildfires broke out elsewhere Monday. Dozens of firefighters along with two water-dropping planes and two helicopters raced to tackle one in Spata, an area east of Athens that includes the main international airport. The fire department said the blaze was contained within 30 minutes.

Separately, the fire department said an 80-year-old man was arrested in the northern town of Kavala on arson charges for allegedly deliberately setting fire to dried vegetation. It was among 302 fire-related arrests since Jan. 1 in Greece, including 31 for deliberate arson and 271 for negligence that sparked fires, the department said.

France says a fire in the southwest is under control

In southwestern France, authorities said a fire in the Landes region was under control after four days of battling the flames, allowing about half of the evacuated residents to begin returning home.

More than 600 residents evacuated last week as the fire burned about 17 square kilometers (6.6 square miles) during a prolonged spell of extreme heat. Some respite was on the way Monday as temperatures began to drop.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the state would provide a 12 million-euro ($13.9 million) aid package to Gironde and Landes, the regions hardest hit by the wildfires, to help rebuild homes and support affected businesses, including in Le Porge, where 183 homes were destroyed in a massive blaze last month.

Croatian police arrest arson suspects

In Croatia, four people are suspected of deliberately starting as many as 10 fires in the region around the coastal town of Zadar, a major tourism hub on the Adriatic coast.

The suspects were questioned by an investigative judge following their arrest on Saturday on a tip from residents.

The four are suspected of starting fires on Aug. 14 and 15 with an aim to “endanger lives and valuable property and inflict damage on a large number of residents in Zadar county,” police said in a statement. There was no word on a possible motive.

Police said they were assessing the extent of the damage caused.

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Corbet reported from Paris. Elena Becatoros in Argostoli, Greece, and Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia, contributed.

With two Democrats competing on the ballot, the seat in California’s 14th Congressional District is guaranteed to remain under Democratic control and further narrow an already fragile Republican majority in the chamber.

State Sen. Aisha Wahab and Bay Area Rapid Transit Board President Melissa Hernandez were the finalists in the June 16 special primary, in which the top two finishers regardless of party affiliation advanced to Tuesday’s special election. The two also will compete in the fall in a slightly redrawn district for a full term that begins in January 2027.

Wahab placed first in both the June 16 special primary and the June 2 primary for the full-term seat to replace Swalwell, who has denied the allegations against him. In both contests, Wahab led Hernandez by more than 20 percentage points.

Hernandez has more than doubled Wahab’s fundraising and spending for the campaign, but as of the end of July the two were on roughly even footing in terms of cash in the bank.

The race has also attracted the attention of several outside groups, including some affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful pro-Israel lobbying organization. United Democracy Project, a super political action committee backed by AIPAC, spent $1.2 million on the race in August in support of Hernandez and in opposition to Wahab, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Another group, Bold America, which has received funding from United Democracy Project, has spent about $1.7 million on the race since the special primary, also in support of Hernandez and in opposition to Wahab.

Collectively, outside groups have spent about $4.1 million on the race since mid-July. About $3.7 million was spent to benefit Hernandez’s campaign, compared with just shy of $400,000 to benefit Wahab’s.

The boundaries of the 14th Congressional District were redrawn as part of a new congressional map approved by voters in a 2025 statewide ballot measure known as Proposition 50. The map goes into effect for the full-term seat in January, while the winner of the special election will serve under the current boundaries for the remainder of the year.

Proposition 50 was placed on the ballot in response to mid-decade redistricting efforts led by President Donald Trump in several Republican-controlled states. While the plan created a congressional map more favorable to Democrats, no dramatic changes were made to the 14th District. Under the current boundaries, Democrats make up 50.4% of registered voters in October, compared with 17.6% for Republicans. Under the new boundaries, Democrats comprise about 49.7% of registered voters as of mid-May, compared with about 17.4% for Republicans.

In 2024, Democratic then-Vice President Kamala Harris carried the current 14th District with 65.8% of the vote in the presidential election against Trump. If the election had been held under the new boundaries, Harris would have received 65.4% of the vote.

Both versions of the district are contained entirely within Alameda County in the East Bay. The current district includes Hayward, Livermore, Pleasanton and Union City, as well as parts of San Leandro, Fremont and Dublin.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 8 p.m. PT, which is 11 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare a winner in the 14th Congressional District special election.

Who gets to vote?

Any registered voter in the current version of California’s 14th Congressional District may participate in the special election.

How many voters are there?

As of May 2026, there were about 423,000 registered voters in the 14th Congressional District, including about 210,000 Democrats, about 73,000 Republicans and about 116,000 voters with no party preference.

How many people actually vote?

Nearly 124,000 voters cast ballots in the June 16 special primary. About 276,000 people voted in the regularly scheduled 2024 general election in the 14th District.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 98% of votes in the June 16 special primary were from absentee ballots delivered in person or by mail.

As of Wednesday, about 52,000 ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election, about 32,500 from Democrats, about 7,800 from Republicans and the rest from unaffiliated or third-party voters.

When are early and absentee votes released?

In Alameda County, the first vote update of the night usually includes only results from mail voting, but the county typically still has a sizable number of mail ballots left to tally by the next morning.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the June 16 special primary, the AP first reported results at 11:17 p.m. ET, or 17 minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 1:03 a.m. ET, with about 87% of total votes counted. The vote count reached 99.9% complete at 7:26 p.m. ET on June 18.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

There are no automatic recounts in California. Any registered voter may request and pay for a recount. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 77 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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Russia has repeatedly battered the Ukrainian power grid since its all-out invasion more than four years ago. Moscow hopes to sap Ukraine’s will to fight by denying civilians light, heating and running water during the bitter winter months.

Ukrainian officials, who say Russia is “weaponizing winter,” fear Moscow will pursue its campaign through the coming winter, too.

Russian drones and missiles struck facilities in several regions of the country, with one asset hit multiple times during the week, Naftogaz said, reporting serious damage to equipment and production capacity. No employees were hurt in the attacks, the company said.

DTEK Group, a coal mining and power production company which says it is the largest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector, also said a Russian attack started a fire at one of its mines, killing a 52-year-old man.

With troops largely bogged down by drones and robots along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line, both Russia and Ukraine are expanding their aerial campaigns and devising new long-range weapons.

Ukrainian long-range attacks on Russia killed seven people, while five civilians died in Ukraine after strikes by Moscow’s forces, officials said Monday as they collated overnight attacks.

With the Russian capital now within range of Ukrainian drones that regularly attack the region, organizers canceled a large military music festival due to be held on central Moscow’s Red Square from Friday.

The organizers of the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival said on social media Monday that the event was postponed until next year due to reasons beyond their control.

In May, authorities significantly scaled back Russia's annual Victory Day celebrations on Red Square for the first time in nearly two decades. Officials put the move down to the “current operational situation” but did not elaborate.

Ukraine depended heavily on foreign military aid after Russia’s full-scale invasion of February 2022 but has gradually increased its domestically produced firepower, firing a salvo of more than 800 long-range drones at Russia on Sunday.

Ukraine also has successfully targeted depots owned by Wildberries, Russia’s main online retailer, as far as 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) from Ukraine’s border.

Russian forces have increasingly hit apartment blocks, ports, schools and hospitals, among other urban targets, killing close to 17,000 civilians, according to the United Nations. The death toll of 437 Ukrainian civilians in July was 70% higher than the same month in 2025, it said last week, as Russia's barrages intensified.

Russia has exploited Ukraine’s severe shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, which are the only way of countering ballistic missiles.

But Kyiv is swiftly innovating, with Ukraine now developing its own ballistic missile to hit back at Russia and working with European countries on developing more anti-ballistic air defenses.

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One person died in a landslide that struck an apartment building in the southern city of Geoje on Monday, the Interior and Safety Ministry said in a report. It said two people were injured in Geoje and two others in nearby cities.

The heavy rains that have pummeled southern South Korea since Saturday have forced about 390 people to evacuate to safe places and caused power outages at about 3,580 houses, the ministry report said.

In the Philippines, heavy monsoon rains flooded key streets and snarled traffic early Monday in the densely populated region of metropolitan Manila and a dozen outlying provinces, forcing the government to suspend government work and cancel classes at all levels starting at noon. Schools were asked to shift to online learning.

About three weeks of intermittent monsoon rains and a storm that lashed the main northern island region of Luzon two weeks ago left at least 23 people dead, mostly due to landslides and floods, and affected 5 million people, including nearly 25,000, who remained in government emergency shelters on Monday in several northern provinces, according to the Office of Civil Defense.

Among the dead were 10 people, including children, whose houses were buried by an Aug. 9 landslide in the northern mountain resort city of Baguio. Three others were dug out alive with injuries by rescuers from the avalanche of mud, rocks and debris that collapsed from a mountainside as people slept, officials said.

Trump cited his good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the decision, a likely bid to reengage with Kim, who views U.S.-South Korean military exercises as invasion rehearsals. But experts say the North Korean leader, now emboldened by his advancing nuclear arsenal and expanding military cooperation with Russia, won’t likely return to talks unless he is assured of serious U.S. concessions.

The 11-day, summertime Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises began Monday morning as scheduled and it wasn’t known which parts of the training were being downsized. Trump's announcement baffled many in South Korea, a key U.S. ally in Asia where national security is a top priority due to threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.

Trump orders military to ‘substantially reduce’ drills

Trump said in a social media post that the exercises are not only costly but “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which he said “has been unthreatening and respectful” during his time in the White House.

Trump instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” the exercises. He added that he recently asked President Lee Jae Myung if South Korea would join the U.S. in the “denuclearization” of Iran, “and they said, ‘No thanks!’”

Trump’s move is the latest example of the American president appearing to turn against an ally in favor of a leader cast by previous administrations as an adversary. Trump and others in his administration also have railed against NATO allies over a perceived lack of support for his war against Iran, even as they seek to confront an increasingly aggressive Russia in the Baltic region.

The trust many South Koreans have in the U.S. has eroded following a tariff war instigated by Trump’s administration and his transactional approach to security.

South Korea hopes for talks between US and North Korea

The office of South Korea's president said later Monday that the government hopes “friendly relationship” between Trump and Kim would lead to “meaningful dialogue” between the U.S. and North Korea and start discussions on promoting peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. It said that South Korea will make necessary diplomatic efforts for that.

South Korea and the U.S. are closely discussing practical and military contributions that can be made to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, according to South Korea's presidential office.

Lee is a liberal who espouses improved ties with North Korea. Since taking office last year, his government has taken proactive steps to improve ties with North Korea, including turning off front line loudspeakers that blared K-pop music and world news. On Saturday, Lee offered to hold talks to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

The conservative People Power Party, the main opposition party, lambasted Lee for allegedly “turning a blind eye on the public's security concerns” caused by Trump's announcement and prioritizing hopes for U.S.-North Korea diplomacy.

North Korea has shunned any talks with South Korea and the U.S. and accelerated weapons testing activities since Kim's high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with Trump broke down in 2019. Kim also has bolstered his diplomatic credentials by aligning with Russia over its war against Ukraine and taking steps to deepen cooperation with China.

In September 2025, Kim suggested he could resume talks with the American president if the U.S. drops “its delusional obsession with denuclearization” of North Korea. Experts say Kim likely aims to use his enlarged nuclear arsenal to win major concessions like extensive sanctions relief.

“Trump’s recent social media posts about Kim Jong Un suggest a willingness to reengage, but North Korea is busy profiting from Russia’s war against Ukraine while modernizing its own military,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.

Downsizing the U.S. and South Korean drills “can damage alliance coordination, slow the process of South Korea taking on greater responsibility for its own defense, and weaken deterrence against possible conflicts in Asia,” Easley said.

Duyeon Kim, a senior analyst at Washington’s Center for a New American Security, said “reducing joint drills weakens military readiness over time against another potential North Korean attack.”

Military drills test tactics and anger North Korea

South Korea's military earlier said the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises this year would be similar to previous years in scale, with about 18,000 South Korean soldiers taking part.

The U.S. military said the drills would incorporate lessens from recent conflicts such as North Korea's battlefield experiences in the Russia-Ukraine front, while including a live-fire exercise to test joint precision targeting and maneuver, a wet gap crossing and distribution of prepositioned military equipment.

North Korea's Foreign Ministry on Friday accused the U.S. and South Korea of plotting more provocative drills this year and vowed to respond with “a new level of a deterrent.” Earlier this month, North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea in a likely protest of the drills.

Duyeon Kim, the analyst, said North Korea uses U.S.-South Korean drills “for domestic propaganda purposes to create a false narrative of a hostile America and justify its nuclear weapons program.”

This is not the first time Trump has sought to suspend the drills. After his first summit with Kim in 2018, Trump unilaterally announced the suspension of the U.S.-South Korean summertime exercises, calling them “very provocative” and “tremendously expensive.”

Kim Dong-yub, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said North Korea feels less urgency to return to talks with the U.S. and South Korea now than when it entered talks with its rivals in 2018, but is unlikely to completely ignore Trump's overture.

He predicted North Korea will likely say it has noted Trump's post but will wait for further action showing the U.S. intends to drop hostilities against North Korea.

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Meanwhile, the 60-day negotiating period to find a peace deal between the United States and Iran was expiring, with no word of an extension and both sides seemingly as far apart as they were at the start.

Here’s a look at the latest developments Monday in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.

Iran says it is near finalizing a deal with Oman

Iran said it has reached an agreement with Oman over a plan for ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, which runs between the two countries, and they are now working to finalize details for a joint statement.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters in Tehran, Iran's capital, that “an understanding has been reached regarding the map of the transit route.”

He did not elaborate, but details that have previously emerged suggest the deal would reopen the strait with ships entering through a route close to Iran and exiting through a route close to Oman. Ships would transit without paying fees or tolls during an interim period.

The U.S. has sought an acceptable deal on opening the strait before ending its blockade of Iranian ports.

Iran effectively closed the strait — through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s traded oil supplies passed before the war — after Israel and the U.S. attacked the country on Feb. 28.

Baghaei conceded the talks with Oman have gone slowly, “but we had planned, and still plan, to finalize the understanding in the form of a package: the map plus a joint statement.”

Trump says US will bomb Oman if it gets in the way

Trump told Fox News reporter Trey Yingst that the U.S. would bomb Oman if it “gets in the way,” using an expletive for emphasis.

Fox News did not provide audio of the interview.

This is not the first time that Trump has threatened Oman. In May, he told reporters during a Cabinet meeting that “Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we will have to blow them up.”

Trump also said the expiration of the 60-day deadline on talks to end the war was irrelevant and said there was no timeline, Yingst said. Trump said the U.S. has a back channel for talks with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Yingst added.

Kushner meets with Netanyahu over Gaza road map

Mideast negotiator Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the day after he had a rare, two-hour meeting with Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt on disarmament of the Palestinian militant group.

Netanyahu last week rejected a 15-point, U.S.-backed road map to move the ceasefire deal forward in Gaza.

Hamas says it has agreed to the road map, which includes disarmament, and the group is urging mediators and the U.S.-created Board of Peace to “compel” Israel to sign on.

But Israel, which under the road map must gradually withdraw from Gaza, says Hamas must fully disarm before any Israeli withdrawal.

Israeli troops occupy about 60% of the strip, and Netanyahu has previously threatened to advance further.

Houthi rebels say they attacked boats in the Red Sea

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed that they attacked a ship and four military boats on Monday in the Red Sea off the Yemeni city of Mokha, near the strategic Bab el-Mandab Strait.

The rebels fired a number of ballistic missiles at the vessels, resulting in the capsizing and burning of the boats, Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, said in a statement.

The rebels claimed that the vessels belonged to Saudi Arabia, without providing evidence. There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia, and The Associated Press could not independently verify the Houthi claim.

Saree also said the rebels launched a drone attack on government forces in the central province of Marib.

Drone attacks target Iraqi officials

Two officials in northern Iraq were targeted in drone attacks that the regional counterterrorism service said were launched from the border with Iran.

One was fired at the office of Masrour Barzani, prime minister of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region, and the other targeted the home of a top regional intelligence official, the counterterrorism service said.

There were no casualties. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Since the beginning of the U.S.-Iran war, Iran and Iranian-backed Iraqi militant groups have launched regular attacks on U.S. military and diplomatic facilities in Iraq and on bases of exiled Iranian Kurdish dissident groups, but Monday’s direct attack on regional government buildings was unusual.

Barzani on X called the attack “a dangerous escalation and a direct threat to the security and stability of the Kurdistan Region.”

U.S. forces currently stationed in the Kurdish region of Iraq have begun withdrawing ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline agreed upon between Washington and Baghdad to end the U.S. military presence in Iraq.

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This story corrects the first name of the prime minister of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region to Masrour Barzani, instead of Masoud Barzani.

The 41-year-old superstar’s contract with Riyadh club Al-Nassr, signed in December 2022, expires next June, and he has told Vogue magazine that another is unlikely.

“This is probably my last year of football, and I want to leave a spectacular legacy,” Ronaldo said.

The Portugal forward, who has scored 976 career goals, married long-time partner, Georgina Rodriguez, earlier this month.

“I have my future all mapped out,” he said. “I have so many things to keep me busy that to tell you just one thing is hard. Because football could leave a big hole, you have to fill your time in various ways, not just one.

“And also have more fun, travel more, watch and play padel, which I really like, and continue to enjoy what I’ve earned — what we’ve earned. Because after all, it’s been 25 years with a lot of sacrifice.”

The 2026-27 SPL season is Ronaldo’s 25th as a professional. During his career, he has won five Ballon d’Or awards and five UEFA Champions League titles.

Ronaldo’s 28 league goals last season helped Al-Nassr become champion of Saudi Arabia in May to secure his first trophy since arriving in Riyadh, and a first league title for the club since 2019.

After returning from his wedding, he missed Al-Nassr’s first game of its title defense on Saturday, watching from the sidelines as it opened with a 3-0 win over Al-Fateh.

“Cristiano is here today, and he is always present with us,” Al-Nassr coach Ange Postecoglou said after the game.

Ronaldo could play against Al-Diriyah in the King’s Cup on Tuesday.

“The most important thing now is recovery, especially as we have only two days after this match,” former Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest coach Postecoglou said.

Ronaldo’s comments came days after long-time rival Lionel Messi revealed that, following his father’s death, he may soon retire.

“I don’t know how to carry on,” Messi, 39, said. “I used to just play football, and now I’m really not sure if I’ll carry on doing it for much longer.”

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The meeting comes a day after Kushner met for two hours with the Hamas leader in Egypt, as the U.S. presses for Israel’s approval of the road map. There is a lot at stake, including the lives of some 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, reconstruction of the war-demolished enclave and future control over it.

Hamas says it has agreed to the road map, which includes disarmament, and the group is urging mediators and the U.S.-created Board of Peace to “compel” Israel to sign on. But Israel, which under the road map must gradually withdraw from Gaza, says Hamas must fully disarm before any withdrawal.

Israeli troops occupy about 60% of the strip, and Netanyahu has previously threatened to control more.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Board of Peace Director Nickolay Mladenov were also in the meeting with Netanyahu, according to a source familiar with the plans and a diplomatic source. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a closed-door meeting.

Netanyahu's office said in a statement that he and the board had agreed to establish two working groups — one on the disarmament and demilitarization of Gaza and another focused on public health issues for Gaza. Israel and the board agreed that the demilitarization “should be prompt and completed before any reconstruction," the statement said.

Meeting follows Kushner's conversation with Hamas

Kushner met Sunday with Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya in Cairo on disarmament, according to a regional official and a Hamas official, who both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.

Officials from mediating countries Egypt, Qatar and Turkey also were there.

The Hamas official said the Hamas leader demanded that Israel halt its attacks on Gaza and withdraw to the so-called “yellow line” dividing the territory before beginning implementation.

The yellow line was never precisely defined. Israeli forces have moved beyond it and now control about 60% of Gaza. In May, Netanyahu said the next step was to move to 70% control, with Israel “tightening the grip” on Hamas “from every direction.”

Regional neighbors increase pressure on Israel

Several regional powers including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates issued a statement Sunday condemning Israel’s rejection of the road map. They said Israel "now bears responsibility for obstructing the efforts to bring peace in Gaza.” Other signers included Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia and the ceasefire mediators.

The foreign ministers’ statement called on the Board of Peace and the U.S. to take “immediate and concrete measures” to keep any party from obstructing the plan’s implementation.

The White House referred questions about Kushner’s meetings to the Board of Peace, which did not immediately comment. The Tony Blair Institute also did not comment.

The visit sparks hope and doubt in Gaza

While some in Gaza hope that efforts to implement the road map will bring an end to the war sparked by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, others remained skeptical.

Mohammad Abu al-Qombuz cast doubt on all talks and visits currently taking place.

“A conference here and there, it is all lies. We need a definitive solution that would work for everybody,” said Abu al-Qombuz, who lives in a Gaza City tent camp, part of the territory's vast displaced population.

Under the road map, Hamas would hand over weapons to the Palestinian technocratic committee meant to oversee daily operations in the territory. The committee has not yet entered Gaza.

But Hamas has linked the surrender of its heaviest weapons to the creation of a Palestinian state, and the road map entails the creation of a “credible pathway toward achieving Palestinian self-determination and statehood,” something Israel’s current government rejects.

Until the road map is agreed to, other elements of the ceasefire are on hold, including reconstruction and the deployment of international forces to separate Israeli forces from committee-controlled areas.

Netanyahu faces a challenging election on Oct. 27 as he tries to hold onto power with a coalition that includes ministers taking a harsh line on Gaza, and it’s not clear whether he will take decisive steps on the ceasefire before then.

Also coming up is the anniversary of the 2023 attack.

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Frankel reported from Jerusalem, Magdy from Cairo and Shurafa from Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip. Collin Binkley in Washington and Sylvia Hui in London contributed to this report.

The deadline was Monday, and the two sides are further apart than they were then.

Talks, such as they are, have focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting a U.S. blockade on Iran, both of which were supposed to have happened under the interim deal. There has been no sign of any compromise on the strait, or that detailed nuclear talks have even begun.

The U.S., meanwhile, has no good options for getting out of the war it started alongside Israel.

Acceding to Iran's latest demands would mean giving it control over a critical international waterway that carried a fifth of the world's traded oil and gas before the war — and would be tantamount to admitting defeat. Escalating the deeply unpopular war would further draw down U.S. supplies of advanced missile interceptors, jolt the world economy, and drive up gas prices ahead of U.S. congressional elections.

So both sides have dug in, hoping the other will blink first. So far, neither has.

The interim deal collapsed weeks later

The June deal, known as the Memorandum of Understanding, called for a halt to all military operations and set a 60-day deadline for an agreement to permanently end the war and resolve the longstanding dispute over Iran's nuclear activities.

It called for the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened but gave Iran a vaguely defined role in facilitating traffic, leaving open the possibility it could charge fees after the 60-day deadline. Iran has seized on that clause to claim control over the waterway.

A week after the deal was signed, Iran began firing on vessels using a route along the coast of Oman, on the other side of the strait, that is overseen by the U.S. military and intended to bypass Tehran's control.

The U.S. responded by striking Iran, which retaliated by attacking Arab countries hosting American forces, like Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain. The U.S. canceled waivers issued as part of the deal that had allowed Iran to sell its oil internationally and Trump restored a blockade of Iran's ports.

Each side accused the other of violating the June agreement, of which almost nothing remains.

The fighting eventually died down. A related truce in Lebanon between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah has mostly held, even as Israeli troops occupy large areas in the country's south. Lebanon's "territorial integrity and sovereignty" were to have been ensured under the June deal.

Iranian officials say they stopped negotiating with the U.S. in June, while acknowledging that messages have been relayed by intermediaries. Trump says the talks have continued, occasionally claiming progress after pulling back from threatening major strikes.

Pakistan, which played a key role in brokering the June agreement, noted last week that the deadline was Monday while expressing hope it would be extended.

“We are not closing the chapter,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi said. “Pakistan is making all-out efforts to bring the two parties to the negotiating table.”

Iran's leaders think they can force Trump to give up the strait

Earlier this month, Iran issued a list of demands for reopening the strait, including the lifting of the American blockade, the withdrawal of U.S. forces from around Iran and the payment of reparations for damage inflicted in the war started by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28.

Even then, Iran has said it would control the strait — and potentially charge fees — through an agreement it is negotiating with Oman, and that the strait will not go back to being an open, toll-free waterway as it was before the war.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have meanwhile begun attacking Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, threatening another crucial trade route that had been used to relieve some of the pressure from the strait being closed.

Trump has rejected Iran's demands — saying it's Tehran that should pay war reparations and claiming the U.S. controls the strait. He appears to be banking on economic pressure — in the form of the blockade and longstanding sanctions — to bring Iran's rulers to their knees.

Iran's economy has been battered by the war and isolation, and inflation has soared. The crisis could stoke renewed anti-government protests, like those that were brutally crushed in January.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which rose immediately after the interim deal, is back to a small fraction of what it was before the war. Rising prices of fuel and other goods are expected to climb further the longer this continues with effects far beyond the Middle East.

The clock is still ticking for both sides.

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Associated Press writer Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed.

El secretario de Defensa del presidente Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, anunció la semana pasada durante una visita a Panamá que Colombia, Guatemala y Honduras habían aceptado permitir que Estados Unidos lleve a cabo operaciones militares conjuntas contra grupos criminales en su territorio, después de Ecuador, que en marzo inició misiones similares con Estados Unidos. Guatemala, sin embargo, ha negado haber alcanzado un acuerdo de ese tipo.

Será “como lo que vieron con los ataques contra las lanchas del narcotráfico”, afirmó Hegseth durante un ejercicio militar en la selva de Panamá. “El mismo efecto en tierra. Y por eso estamos trabajando con Ecuador. Estamos trabajando con Colombia. Estamos trabajando con socios para llevar la lucha a las (organizaciones designadas como terroristas) en tierra”.

La ampliación marca una nueva fase en la campaña del gobierno de Trump para presionar a gobiernos de toda América Latina a alinearse con sus prioridades de seguridad y afirmar lo que denomina “dominancia estadounidense sobre el hemisferio occidental”.

Los votantes de toda la región respaldan cada vez más a líderes alineados con Trump, lo que le da a Washington socios más dispuestos. Pero críticos advierten que la expansión de la campaña militar de Estados Unidos eleva el riesgo de víctimas civiles y de una reacción contra Estados Unidos que podría perdurar más allá del gobierno republicano.

“Lo que está ocurriendo es un intento de legitimar un mayor uso del ejército de Estados Unidos en la región”, señaló Michael Shifter, experto en América Latina del centro de estudios Inter-American Dialogue. “Proyecta poder, demuestra superioridad militar y permite que Washington imponga su agenda. Esto no es cooperación; es, obviamente, una relación muy asimétrica”.

Escalada de ataques unilaterales contra embarcaciones a operaciones terrestres conjuntas

El ejército de Estados Unidos ha operado en América Latina durante generaciones, suministrando a aliados armas, inteligencia y entrenamiento para combatir el narcotráfico, mientras deja un legado problemático de apoyo a golpes militares y dictaduras.

Pero desde que Trump regresó al poder en enero de 2025, Washington ha adoptado su enfoque más intervencionista hacia la región en décadas.

Su gobierno ha designado a 20 grupos criminales latinoamericanos como “organizaciones terroristas extranjeras”, envió fuerzas de Estados Unidos a Venezuela para capturar a su presidente e involucró a agentes de la CIA en operativos contra laboratorios de droga en México. Ha matado a más de 200 personas en más de 60 ataques contra embarcaciones en el Caribe y el Pacífico oriental, ofreciendo poca evidencia de que los objetivos fueran “narcoterroristas” y generando dudas sobre la legalidad de los ataques.

Pero las operaciones de combate continuadas de Estados Unidos junto a fuerzas locales serían “nuevas y diferentes”, indicó William LeoGrande, especialista en América Latina de American University, al poner a prueba sensibilidades arraigadas sobre la soberanía nacional y la presencia de tropas de Estados Unidos.

Hegseth dio pocos detalles sobre cómo serían las operaciones conjuntas con Colombia, Guatemala y Honduras. Pero en Colombia, donde Abelardo de la Espriella —respaldado por Trump— asumió el cargo este mes, planteó la posibilidad de que fuerzas estadounidenses se sumen a ataques contra grupos armados, incluido el Ejército de Liberación Nacional, o ELN, el último gran grupo guerrillero de Colombia. Hegseth dijo que de la Espriella había solicitado una mayor participación militar de Estados Unidos.

“En cualquier lugar donde trafiquen drogas o amenacen al pueblo estadounidense o a nuestros socios, son un objetivo igual que ISIS o Al Qaeda”, sostuvo Hegseth, al equiparar a los narcotraficantes con grupos extremistas islámicos que dominaron durante décadas las prioridades de seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos.

De la Espriella prometió el sábado, tras un ataque con dron del ELN contra tropas, que los rebeldes pagarían un alto precio.

Preocupaciones por la presencia militar de EEUU

Ecuador se ha convertido en el caso más claro de participación militar directa de Estados Unidos, al lanzar redadas conjuntas con Washington pese a que los votantes rechazaron abrumadoramente las bases militares extranjeras en un referendo de noviembre de 2025. Una investigación de The New York Times halló que un ataque contra un supuesto laboratorio de drogas en marzo destruyó, en cambio, una finca ganadera.

El impulso para extender acuerdos de ese tipo ha ganado más tracción entre los aliados ideológicos de Trump en la región: líderes conservadores elegidos en los últimos meses con promesas de ofensivas agresivas contra el crimen.

Guatemala destaca como una excepción. Su gobierno progresista ha trabajado estrechamente con Washington en materia de seguridad pese a diferencias políticas. Pero el presidente, Bernardo Arévalo, ha negado haber acordado operaciones antidrogas conjuntas, al afirmar que serían ilegales sin aprobación del Congreso.

Honduras, Colombia y Ecuador no respondieron a solicitudes de comentarios sobre las declaraciones de Hegseth.

Un caso llamativo fuera de la nueva alianza antidrogas de Estados Unidos es México, un importante origen y punto de tránsito del fentanilo y otras drogas que ingresan a Estados Unidos. La presidenta progresista Claudia Sheinbaum ha cooperado estrechamente con Washington en seguridad, pero ha resistido la creciente presión para que el ejército de Estados Unidos tenga un papel en la lucha contra los cárteles en territorio mexicano.

“En última instancia, Estados Unidos tendrá que definir qué significa ‘operaciones conjuntas’ en cada uno de estos países. Puede descubrir bastante rápido que esto es algo con lo que la mayoría de los gobiernos —incluso gobiernos de derecha— se sienten bastante incómodos”, expresó Adam Isacson, analista de defensa de la Washington Office on Latin America.

"Sólo pueden ceder soberanía hasta cierto punto"

Observadores cuestionan si un enfoque más militarizado produciría mejoras de seguridad duraderas. Shifter dijo que la campaña podría servir en parte como una demostración de fuerza, apoyándose en la captura del expresidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro, mientras el gobierno de Trump busca compensar reveses de política exterior en otros frentes, incluido Oriente Medio.

Otros advierten que la estrategia conlleva el riesgo de víctimas civiles, particularmente en Colombia, donde grupos armados operan entre poblaciones civiles y a menudo funcionan como autoridades de facto en zonas fuera del alcance del Estado. En lugar de hacer retroceder a esos grupos, los ataques militares tienen más probabilidades de obligarlos a adaptarse, afirmó Jeremy McDermott, codirector de la organización investigativa InSight Crime, con sede en Colombia.

“Estados Unidos bombardea un campamento del ELN en Colombia o en Venezuela, ¿qué es lo primero que va a hacer el ELN? Van a desmantelar todos sus campamentos y se van a mover a las aldeas y a los pueblos”, explicó.

A largo plazo, dicen expertos, una participación militar más profunda de Estados Unidos podría poner a prueba hasta dónde están dispuestos a llegar los votantes al priorizar la seguridad sobre la soberanía, lo que potencialmente limitaría incluso a los aliados más cercanos de Trump.

“Todos estos presidentes, sin importar cuán de derecha sean, enfrentan presión para hacer algo sobre la seguridad y para dar una señal de que persiguen a los ‘malos’ que hacen que la gente se sienta insegura. Hay un amplio acuerdo en eso”, comentó Isacson. “Pero también saben que sólo pueden ceder soberanía hasta cierto punto antes de que la opinión pública empiece a volverse en su contra”.

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DeBre informó desde Buenos Aires, Argentina. Los periodistas de The Associated Press Sonia Pérez D. en Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala; Marlon González en Tegucigalpa, Honduras; y Astrid Suárez en Bogotá, Colombia, contribuyeron a este despacho.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

President Donald Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced last week during a visit to Panama that Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras had agreed to allow the U.S. to carry out joint military operations against criminal groups on their soil, following Ecuador, which launched similar missions with the U.S. in March. Guatemala, however, has denied reaching such an agreement.

It will be “like you saw with the strikes on the drug boats,” Hegseth said during a military drill in the jungle in Panama. “Same effect on land. And so we’re working with Ecuador. We’re working with Colombia. We’re working with partners to bring the fight to the (designated terrorist organizations) on land.”

The expansion marks a new phase in the Trump administration’s campaign to pressure governments across Latin America to align with its security priorities and assert what it calls “American dominance over the Western Hemisphere."

Voters across the region are increasingly embracing Trump-aligned leaders, giving Washington more willing partners. But critics warn that the widening U.S. military campaign risks civilian casualties and a backlash against the U.S. that could outlast the Republican administration.

“What's going on is an attempt to legitimize the increased use of the U.S. military in the region,” said Michael Shifter, a Latin America expert at the Inter-American Dialogue think tank. “It projects power, demonstrates military superiority and enables Washington to impose its agenda. This is not cooperation, it’s obviously a very asymmetrical relationship.”

Escalating unilateral boat strikes to joint land operations

The U.S. military has operated in Latin America for generations, supplying allies with weapons, intelligence and training to fight drug trafficking, while leaving a fraught legacy of support for military coups and dictatorships.

But since Trump returned to office in January 2025, Washington has pursued its most interventionist approach to the region in decades.

His administration has designated 20 Latin American criminal groups as “foreign terrorist organizations,” sent U.S. forces into Venezuela to capture its president and involved CIA agents in drug lab busts in Mexico. It has killed more than 200 people in over 60 boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, offering little evidence that those targeted were “narco-terrorists” and drawing questions about the strikes’ legality.

But sustained U.S. combat operations alongside local forces would be “new and different,” said William LeoGrande, a Latin America specialist at American University, testing deep-rooted sensitivities over national sovereignty and the presence of U.S. troops.

Hegseth provided few details about what joint operations with Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras would look like. But in Colombia, where Trump-backed Abelardo de la Espriella took office this month, he raised the prospect of U.S. forces joining strikes against armed groups including the National Liberation Army, or ELN, Colombia’s last major guerrilla group. Hegseth said de la Espriella had requested greater U.S. military involvement.

“Anywhere you traffic drugs or you threaten the American people or our partners, you are a target just like ISIS or al-Qaida,” Hegseth said, equating drug traffickers with Islamic extremist groups that dominated U.S. national security priorities for decades.

On Saturday, following a drone attack by the ELN on troops, de la Espriella vowed the rebels would “pay a high price."

Concerns over US military presence in Latin America

Ecuador has emerged as the clearest case of direct U.S. military involvement, launching joint raids with Washington despite voters overwhelmingly rejecting foreign military bases in a November 2025 referendum. A New York Times investigation found that one strike on an alleged drug lab in March instead destroyed a cattle farm.

The push to extend such agreements has gained the most traction among Trump’s ideological allies in the region — conservative leaders elected on promises of aggressive crackdowns on crime in recent months.

Guatemala stands out as an exception. Its progressive government has worked closely with Washington on security despite political differences. But President Bernardo Arévalo has denied agreeing to joint anti-drug operations, saying they would be illegal without congressional approval.

Honduras, Colombia and Ecuador did not respond to requests for comment on Hegseth’s remarks.

A notable outlier from the new U.S. anti-trafficking alliance is Mexico, a major source and transit point for fentanyl and other drugs entering the U.S. Progressive President Claudia Sheinbaum has cooperated closely with Washington on security but resisted mounting pressure for a U.S. military role in fighting cartels on Mexican soil.

“Ultimately, the United States will have to define what ‘joint operations’ means in each of these countries. It may discover pretty quickly that this is something most governments — even governments on the right — are quite uncomfortable with," said Adam Isacson, a defense analyst with the Washington Office on Latin America.

'There is only so much sovereignty they can cede'

Observers question whether a more militarized approach would produce lasting security gains. Shifter said the campaign may serve partly as a show of force, building on the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the Trump administration seeks to offset foreign policy setbacks elsewhere, including in the Middle East.

Others warn the strategy risks civilian casualties, particularly in Colombia, where armed groups operate among civilian populations and often function as de facto authorities in areas beyond the state’s reach. Rather than beating back those groups, military strikes are more likely to force them to adapt, said Jeremy McDermott, co-director of the Colombia-based investigative organization InSight Crime.

“The U.S. bombs an ELN camp in Colombia or in Venezuela, what is the first thing the ELN are going to do? They’re going to dismantle all their camps and move into the villages and towns,” he said.

In the long term, experts say, deeper U.S. military involvement could test how far voters are willing to go in putting security over sovereignty, potentially constraining even Trump’s closest allies.

“All of these presidents, no matter how far right they are, face pressure to do something about security and to make a show of pursuing the ‘bad guys’ who are making people feel unsafe. There is broad agreement on that," Isacson said. “But they also know there is only so much sovereignty they can cede before public opinion begins turning against them."

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DeBre reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Associated Press journalists Sonia Pérez D. in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Marlon González in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Astrid Suárez in Bogotá, Colombia, contributed to this report.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.4% but remains near its all-time high set Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 284 points, or 0.5%, as of 2 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% lower.

Wall Street has run to records in large part because profits are booming for U.S. companies. Those in the S&P 500 index are on track to deliver growth of roughly 50% for earnings per share in the spring from a year earlier, according to FactSet. That’s much better than analysts expected and would be the best since five years ago, when the economy was erupting out of the chasm created by the COVID pandemic.

Nearly all the companies in the S&P 500 have turned in their profit reports for the spring. Still to come are big retailers, including reports this week from Home Depot, Target and Walmart.

They’re facing pressure. Their customers’ incomes may be turning iffier after U.S. employers surprisingly cut more jobs last month than they added. At the same time, their customers are continuing to see bills rise quickly as inflation remains much higher than anyone would like.

A report last week said that shoppers surprisingly spent less at U.S. retailers last month than in June, and CEOs for retailers could give color this week on what they’re seeing.

In the meantime, the wait continues for what the war with Iran will do with oil prices. The price for a barrel of Brent crude rose 2.4% to $90.62 Monday, and the losses for stocks solidified in the afternoon as the gains for oil prices accelerated.

Brent zigzagged between $72 and $102 last month as hopes rose and fell that the United States and Iran could reach a deal that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Persian Gulf again.

In the bond market, Treasury yields ticked higher following their own big recent moves. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.72% from 4.68% late Friday following a report showing stronger-than-expected growth in manufacturing in New York state.

The 10-year yield has shot up from 3.97% before the war with Iran, largely because higher oil prices raised the pressure on inflation and upped the probability that the Federal Reserve will have to hike interest rates.

Higher rates could keep a lid on inflation, but they do so by intentionally slowing the economy and making it more expensive for everyone to borrow money. The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate has already jumped near its highest level in a year because of the rise in the 10-year Treasury yield.

Reports last week, though, showed that inflation last month was not as bad as earlier in the summer. That raised hopes that the Fed could wait until later in the year before having to decide whether to raise its main interest rate.

Usually around this time of year, anticipation is building on Wall Street to hear from the head of the Federal Reserve about where interest rates may be heading. But the Fed's new chairman, Kevin Warsh, may give little insight at this year's economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at the end of this month, according to Thierry Wizman, a strategist at Macquarie Group

Warsh has been adamant about giving Wall Street less guidance about the Fed's plans for interest rates.

On Wall Street, trading was relatively quiet.

L3Harris Technologies fell 3.9% after the defense company said Christopher Kubasik stepped down as its CEO and chairman following “certain conduct by Kubasik that was not consistent with the values of the Company.” It gave few details but said the conduct was not related to its financial reporting, controls, customer relationships or operational performance.

Alphabet dipped 0.9% even though Berkshire Hathaway said it increased its investment in Google’s parent company, along with several homebuilders. Berkshire built a reputation for buying stocks at affordable prices under its former CEO, famed investor Warren Buffett.

Constellation Brands fell 5.7% after Berkshire said it sold all its holdings in the seller of Modelo beer and Robert Mondavi wine.

In stock markets abroad, indexes dipped in Europe following a stronger finish in Asia.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rose 0.7% after a report said Japan's economy grew at a slower pace in the April-June quarter than economists expected. Indexes jumped 1.3% in Hong Kong and 1.4% in Shanghai for some of the world’s biggest moves.

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AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Michelle Champan contributed to this report.

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Earlier versions of this story incorrectly reported that Japan’s economy grew slightly faster than expected in the April-June quarter.

It might make for a fascinating playoff race.

There are seven teams fighting for the final AL wild-card spot and all of them have a record below .500. The Baltimore Orioles would make the playoffs if the season ended Sunday, sporting a 61-63 record.

Right behind them: The Texas Rangers (61-64), Toronto Blue Jays (61-65), Detroit Tigers (60-64), Minnesota Twins (60-65), Cleveland Guardians (60-65) and Seattle Mariners (59-66). The Houston Astros could be in the mix as well with a 63-62 record that gives them a narrow advantage in the AL West.

Many of those teams were sellers at the trade deadline this month. The Blue Jays traded outfielder Daulton Varsho to the Astros, the Orioles traded former No. 1 pick Adley Rutschman to the Red Sox and the Tigers dealt ace Tarik Skubal to the Dodgers and right-hander Casey Mize to the Padres.

Now at least one of those teams might find itself playing baseball in October anyway.

Only three teams in MLB history have made the playoffs with a losing record and all of them happened during seasons when the schedule was much shorter than normal.

The 1981 Kansas City Royals (50-53) qualified for the postseason thanks to a split-season format caused by a players' strike during the middle of the summer. In 2020, the Houston Astros and Milwaukee Brewers both squeezed into the playoff bracket with a 29-31 record during the pandemic-shortened season that had an expanded playoff field of 16 teams.

Trivia question

Joshua Báez became the first player to hit three home runs in his big-league debut, leading the Cardinals to an 8-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.

Only seven players have hit even two homers in their first regular-season game in the majors since 1900. Who are they?

The workhorse returns

Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara has had a great bounce-back season with a 13-7 record and 3.43 ERA after struggling last year following Tommy John surgery that caused him to miss the 2024 season.

He's also doing what he does best — pitch deep into games.

The 2022 National League Cy Young winner has already thrown 170 2/3 innings this year, which leads the big leagues by a large margin. If he continues at this pace, he'll throw roughly 220 innings in 2026.

Throwing more than 200 innings has become increasingly rare over the past few decades as teams lean more on their bullpens. Only three pitchers reached the mark last season — Logan Webb, Garrett Crochet and Cristopher Sanchez.

Just 20 years ago in 2006, there were 45 pitchers who hit 200 innings.

If Alcantara manages to make it to 220 this season, that will be most in the big leagues since — Sandy Alcantara. He threw 228 2/3 innings during 2022 when he won the Cy Young.

Dodgers in the dumps

The Los Angeles Dodgers are the two-time defending World Series champs and one of the favorites to win the title again this season.

They sure aren't playing like these days.

Los Angeles is 5-11 in its past 16 games, having been swept by the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs and losing series to the Arizona Diamondbacks and Milwaukee Brewers in that span. Since July 1, the Dodgers are 18-21.

“I say this because it’s just been four or five, six weeks of below average production in our offense. It’s just the truth, and I think we have just haven’t played clean baseball for quite some time, and that speaks to the defense,” manager Dave Roberts said.

The Dodgers have a chance to gain some momentum this week with three games against the Colorado Rockies and three more against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Rockies are in last place in the NL West while the Pirates have fallen to 61-65 after a promising start to the season.

Trivia Answer

Jose Fernandez (D-backs, 2026), Chase DeLauter (Guardians, 2026), Trevor Story (Rockies, 2016), J.P. Arencibia (Blue Jays, 2010), Mark Quinn (Royals, 1999), Bert Campaneris (Kansas City Athletics, 1964), Bob Nieman (Browns, 1951)

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Many residents on Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara province spent the day mourning victims while military teams tried to deliver food, clean water and clothing to inaccessible communities by plane.

The Saturday morning quake left widespread damage, with buildings collapsed onto parked cars, homes shattered and trees and boulders blocking roads.

“My house is just rubble now,” said Rasyid Jafar, a clothing trader in the village of Reo, the hardest-hit area in Manggarai regency. "We need food, medicine and clean water urgently.”

During Indonesia’s Independence Day ceremony in the capital, Jakarta, President Prabowo Subianto asked participants to pray for people affected by disasters in East Nusa Tenggara and other parts of the country, while leading a nationwide moment of silence honoring the nation’s independence heroes.

More than 4,500 homes were damaged when the quake struck Flores island early Saturday. Some 19,000 people were forced into temporary shelters and 213 people were injured, according to the National Disaster Management Agency or BNPB. The disaster also damaged 122 health facilities, 252 schools and 84 places of worship.

The province's governor declared a 14-day state of emergency on Sunday.

The quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles) shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and residents fled in panic as tsunami warnings were issued but later lifted. Authorities have since recorded 1,576 aftershocks into Monday, though only 54 were felt by residents.

Thousands await aid amid devastation

Thousands of people on Flores camped outside collapsed homes under tarpaulin tents overnight into Monday, sleeping outside because of the danger of more aftershocks.

For many residents, the disaster revived painful memories of a powerful earthquake and tsunami that struck Flores in 1992, killing about 2,500 people.

As thousands of survivors remain in need of food, shelter and medical treatment, the government said more than 1,800 military and police personnel have been deployed across the disaster zone, supported by 10 aircraft and several vessels, to distribute more than 100 metric tons of emergency aid.

Nearly 5,400 food packages, two field hospital tents, medicines and clothing were being delivered to communities across the disaster zone, as logistical challenges slowed deliveries to some hard-hit communities, national disaster agency Deputy Chief Abdul Muhari said in a video statement.

Authorities set up two emergency field hospitals in the worst-hit town of Ruteng to treat earthquake victims after local hospitals were damaged, with two crisis management teams overseeing a health emergency operation center, Muhari said.

He also said rescue teams continued searching for victims in the affected areas, although no residents have reported any family members still missing.

Rescuers struggle to reach isolated communities

Aid workers reached tiny Palue Island, one of the areas closest to the earthquake’s epicenter, late Sunday, after a difficult sea and land journey through landslide-hit terrain, authorities said. Thousands of residents remained in urgent need of assistance.

"The roads are steep and many were blocked by landslides. It was a near-death journey,” said the deputy police chief of Sikka regency, Marselus Yugo Amboro, whose team was among the first to reach the island with emergency supplies.

He said initial assessments revealed extensive damage, with one villager killed, two seriously injured and nearly 150 homes destroyed.

Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped arc of seismic faults and volcanoes.

In 2018, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake triggered a tsunami on the island of Sulawesi that killed more than 4,400 people. In 2004, a magnitude 9.1 quake off Sumatra unleashed a tsunami that killed about 230,000 people in a dozen countries, nearly 170,000 in Aceh province alone.

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Karmini reported from Jakarta. Associated Press journalists Edna Tarigan, Dita Alangkara and Andi Jatmiko, in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this story.

Jared Bridegan, 33, was killed in Jacksonville Beach in 2022 when he got out of his vehicle to remove a tire that was placed in the road while his 2-year-old daughter from a second marriage was strapped in her car seat.

More than four years later, Mario Fernandez Saldana, 38, is on trial in Duval County court for first-degree murder and solicitation of murder. He’s accused of arranging Bridegan’s death by hiring a gunman. Shanna Gardner, 39, faces her own trial in September.

“The killer was a stranger to Jared Bridegan. The murder was personal,” Assistant State Attorney Christina Simak Stifler said.

Defense says Fernandez Saldana didn't act like mastermind

But defense attorney James Hill told the jury that Fernandez Saldana, an Army veteran, had no desire to get rid of Bridegan and his actions shortly after the killing — a road trip to Pennsylvania and back — didn’t resemble that of a criminal architect “running from the law.”

“He had access to a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Hill acknowledged, referring to his wife's trust fund. “He could have fled the country.”

In her opening remarks, Stifler traced the bitter relationship between Bridegan and Gardner, the execution-style killing and the difficulty of trying to solve a shocking homicide with no witnesses. The victim, she said, had no obvious enemies and was a devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Bridegan and Gardner were divorced in 2015. The end of the marriage, however, led to years of acrimony about how to jointly raise their twins, from religion to doctor's appointments and even school conferences, Stifler said.

She said Gardner did not want her children involved with the Mormon church.

“They fought over everything. ... It was nasty. It was petty. It was not good on both sides,” the prosecutor said of the relationship.

Victim's daughter heard the gunshots

Bridegan remarried and had two more children. Gardner, meanwhile, married Fernandez Saldana, who was a maintenance man at a gym where she worked out.

Bridegan was attacked shortly after returning 9-year-old twins to Gardner’s home, following a regular “date night” with their children.

He was driving home to St. Augustine with one of two children he had with wife Kirsten when he stopped to remove a tire from the road. The child later recalled hearing “loud booms” and asking, “Are police going to help my daddy?” Stifler said.

A few months later, she said, police discovered a lead “that blew the case open” — a tire at a rental property owned by Fernandez Saldana. Investigators found the tire was similar to another tire that blocked Bridegan's Volkswagen Atlas on his drive.

Police matched DNA on those tires to Henry Tenon, a former tenant with a criminal record and financial problems. Records revealed that he was paid $10,000 by Fernandez Saldana after the murder, though the checks said the work was for landscaping, roof repair and a business idea.

“Mario Fernandez has hired him to do work, not murder,” Hill told the jury, disputing anything nefarious.

Alleged gunman pleaded guilty but backed out

Tenon, 65, was charged as the gunman who shot Bridegan. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and had agreed to testify against Fernandez Saldana. But he withdrew the plea earlier this year and will get his own trial in 2027.

Stifler said Gardner, who was from a wealthy family, relocated to Washington state with her children after Bridegan's death. Fernandez Saldana, meanwhile, moved to Orlando.

“Ms. Gardner got what she wanted: full control over her children and the freedom to move out of Jacksonville, Florida,” the prosecutor said.

Bridegan was chief technology officer at Utah-based Clean Simple Eats before working at Microsoft, according to his obituary.

That’s true — with a caveat. Wasserman Schultz is seeking her 12th term by running in a new district after Republicans scrambled the state’s congressional map earlier this year.

The fallout pushed Wasserman Schultz, a former national party chair with powerful ties in Washington, to cross district lines from her Fort Lauderdale exurb and be the only white candidate against four Black candidates in an area of Broward County that has helped send Black Democrats to Congress since 1992. That’s yielded an uncomfortable fight following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act provisions undergirding minority voting strength and effectively cleared Old Confederacy states, including Florida, to reshape House districts.

“For her to come in like this is just another Broward seat, it's a complete erasure of our history, our fight for Black access,” said former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, 47, who resigned from the seat in April while facing an ethics investigation but now wants it back.

Another candidate, 27-year-old progressive organizer and substitute teacher Elijah Manley, said Republicans’ redistricting ploy is not Wasserman Schultz’s fault. But she “had other options,” Manley added, including running in her new home district, which was gerrymandered to include the more conservative Gulf Coast.

“Instead, she stabbed us in the back, trying to take away Black representation,” Manley said, pointing to Congressional Black Caucus warnings that it could lose more than a quarter of its 60-plus members this fall.

Wasserman Schultz, 59, is by far the best funded out of five Democratic candidates and benefits from Florida rules that do not require a majority to win primaries.

She argued that she can ably advocate for the whole region after representing wide swaths of Broward as a state and federal legislator across three decades. “I’m not air dropping myself into this district,” she told The Associated Press. “I have represented diverse communities. I know how to tailor my service to them and represent a district more broadly.”

A win by Wasserman Schultz would be a rarity

President Donald Trump started pushing Republican-run states to redraw House boundaries last year to help preserve the party's fragile majority. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded with an effort that clusters southeast Florida Democrats together, intending to reduce five Democratic seats to three. Broward, the state’s most Democratic county, situated between Miami-Dade and Palm Beach, now has just one presumed-Democratic district anchored in and around Fort Lauderdale.

Nationally, white lawmakers typically hold some of the 115-plus House seats where the voting-age population is majority non-white. Wasserman Schultz does it in her existing north Broward-Palm Beach district, which was drawn after the 2020 census to be 42% Hispanic, 18% Black and about 6% Asian American. White voters compose the remaining third.

But a white lawmaker is a rarity for majority or plurality Black districts, like the new Florida 20th. The district is 42% Black, 23% Hispanic and 4% Asian, the rest white. The Black share includes a large Caribbean population, most notably Haitian Americans.

Going into November, an Associated Press analysis found that Wasserman Schultz is the only white Democrat positioned to represent any of the remaining districts with a Black majority or plurality.

Cherfilus-McCormick said she can win, despite losing Black constituents she previously represented in Palm Beach County. She dismissed concerns over federal criminal charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds. She has pleaded not guilty and has denied alleged violations of House rules.

The criminal case and redistricting fit together, she insisted, and “the people see what’s going on — them trying to silence the only Haitian member of Congress and take away our voice.”

Manley, though, was more circumspect about Wasserman Schultz’s status as the favorite. He mused about upsetting the veteran congresswoman on Tuesday yet looked ahead to the 2028 elections, hoping Black Democrats rally around one candidate rather than four. The current field also includes former 2 Live Crew rapper Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell and real estate broker and former local elected official Dale Holness.

Von Howard, a Black resident of Plantation, said the choice was wrenching. He declined to disclose his vote but said he wanted someone who “understands the totality of the district.”

“If you're not of the people, and you just want this for the clout, in some instances, that could be a turnoff,” the 47-year-old said.

Broward NAACP President Marsha Ellison was more direct, without endorsing any candidate.

“The whole mission was to take away Black power, so we don’t have representation to understand our lived experience,” she said. “That may not be important to Debbie, but it’s certainly important to us.”

There's a debate over what representation means

Wasserman Schultz said she occasionally hears those concerns from voters. Her response is that “lived experience matters, but experience broadly matters" as well.

She notes her Appropriations Committee seat, which could be even more influential should Democrats win a House majority. She recalls programs impacting Black communities she helped create and fund since her first years in the Florida Legislature.

“I fight every single day to help improve the lived experience of the people that I represent,” she said.

Wasserman Schultz also said she’s worked to connect across race and culture in Broward. Because of her existing district makeup, “I spent six years learning Spanish,” to converse with individuals and in town halls, news conferences and interviews broadcast on Spanish-language stations.

“Out of respect,” she said, “anything I can do to inspire people’s confidence that the person representing them understands them.”

Wasserman Schultz is a recognizable figure

Several times outside of early voting sites, Black, white and Hispanic voters waved or stopped to talk to the congresswoman. Among them were Broward County sheriff’s deputies who wanted photos and a trio of women who lamented they had been drawn into a new Republican-leaning district.

Yusdefs Delgado, a naturalized citizen from Colombia, told Wasserman Schultz that he enjoys her social media posts but wants to hear more about policy and less about the president.

“We know Trump sucks,” he told her, smiling and confirming that he voted for her. “I don’t agree with her on everything, but she’s closest to where I am, and I trust her to try to do the right thing for us,” Delgado explained later.

Cherfilus-McCormick and Manley said that’s not enough given the environment after the Supreme Court decision, Trump’s attacks on diversity initiatives and his push to rewrite how the U.S. tells its history on race and racism.

“We’re not at a place in this country where we can be completely colorblind politically,” Manley said. “We’re just not.”

Wasserman Schultz said the new district “is drawn in a way that the plurality population has the ability to elect the person of their choice” — language that alludes to the now-diminished Voting Rights Act. Voters, she said, can “consider all of the qualities that matter to them.”

As for putting herself on the ballot again, she remained unapologetic.

“Trump and DeSantis did this to our community,” she said, adding, “I’ll be damned if I’m going to let them steal Broward’s political power, de-unify us and prevent us from standing up for our community’s values.”

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Associated Press journalist Matthew Klein contributed from Washington.

Ukraine's drones have pummeled the giant depots belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online retailer, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise and bringing the war home to the broad public.

The attacks on about 20 Wildberries facilities have underlined Kyiv’s ability to strike far and wide inside Russia and posed a new challenge to President Vladimir Putin nearly 4½ years into his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

They have badly shaken the empire built by Tatyana Kim, the country’s richest female entrepreneur, whose fortune has been estimated at $8.1 billion.

Hundreds of thousands of individual sellers have lost their merchandise, sending shock waves across Russia’s economy. Wildberries has drawn massive loans from VTB and other banks as it expanded and likely will have trouble repaying them, putting more pressure on the financial system.

An online giant began in a Moscow apartment

Kim, 50, was born in Grozny, the capital of the province of Chechnya, to an ethnic Korean family of an engineer and a teacher. She launched Wildberries in 2004 from her Moscow apartment soon after giving birth to her first child while working as an English teacher.

“The idea was born from my own needs, and turned out to be needed by hundreds of thousands,” said Kim, now a mother of seven. “If a product or service makes your own life easier, you’re on the right track.”

Wildberries initially sold clothing before expanding to appliances, household items, cosmetics, books and more. The platform with its distinct purple logo has become an undisputed leader in e-commerce, accounting for about half of all online orders in Russia. Businesses big and small use it to store, ship and deliver merchandise across the country's 11 time zones.

An estimated 500,000 to 800,000 sellers use Wildberries, often described as Russia's Amazon. After Western brands fled following the war in Ukraine, online retailers filled the void with merchandise from China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.

The company also acquired a bank, expanded to tourism and even considered buying an airline.

In 2024, Kim divorced her husband, Vladislav Bakalchuk, triggering a fight for control of the company. Bakalchuk sought the support of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his feared paramilitary forces but eventually lost the battle, which peaked in a shootout at a business center near the Kremlin that left two people dead and several wounded.

Wildberries depots are easy targets

Unlike smaller competitors Ozon and Yandex Market, the company has prided itself on relying on about two dozen mammoth warehouses as the core of its vast logistical network, stockpiling the goods before shipping to about 100,000 storefront distribution points.

As Ukraine embarked on a strategy of long-range drone attacks deep inside Russia, it has expanded from striking military bases, oil refineries and other infrastructure to Wildberries warehouses, which provided particularly soft targets.

Since the first attack July 18 in Elektrostal, just east of Moscow, and in the southwestern Tambov region, Wildberries depots burned one after another in massive fires that flooded social media.

The depots, some as big as 300,000 square meters (about 3.2 million square feet) were unprotected. It took three days to extinguish the fire in Elektrostal, a key Moscow region hub.

On Sunday, Ukraine set ablaze another such hub in Podolsk, also near the capital.

Seven of Wildberries' 10 largest logistics centers have been knocked out of operation, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said. Wildberries did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“These are not military and high-value political targets, therefore they’re not especially secured, they’re not really built to be able to shrug off drone strikes,” said podcaster Mark Galeotti, a Russia expert who heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy.

The strikes have stretched from the European part of Russia to Yekaterinburg, over 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from Ukraine's border.

There's scarce public data, but some estimates indicate up to 20% of the company's total warehouse space has been destroyed, with assessments of losses running as high as $6 billion.

Kim said Wildberries’ sites have been “reinforced and strengthened” defensively, but the attacks continued. Some warehouses suffered only minor damage, and Ukraine tried to hit them again.

Wildberries said it's rearranging supply chains to create “partner hubs” for storing merchandise — a challenging process, given its dependence on big depots.

Attacks cause a ripple effect

Ukrainian officials have said Wildberries sells gear and technical components, including drones, to the military. Moscow denied it, but such dual-use items as drone components, flak jackets or thermal weapon sights remain available on the platform.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the attacks were designed to disrupt military supplies, breed popular discontent and cause a domino effect in the Russian economy by putting stress on major banks, including VTB and Sberbank, that made massive loans to Wildberries.

Wildberries’ debts were estimated at the equivalent of about $15 billion at the end of 2025.

Russia's small and medium businesses already have been hit hard by tax increases, regulatory hurdles and, most recently, a fuel crisis from attacks on oil refineries.

Chris Weafer, CEO of Macro-Advisory Ltd. Consultancy, said Monday the attacks have exacerbated Russia's business environment and are an attempt by Kyiv “to undermine public confidence.”

“There is a segment of the manufacturing sectors in Russia and elsewhere that are definitely suffering significantly from that,” he said.

Wildberries had recently changed its seller policy, exempting it from liability for stock damaged by a “force majeure” that includes drone attacks.

Kim pledged to support sellers with discounts on storage, free transfer of goods to other sites, discounted loans and other measures. Wildberries also issued some reimbursements that covered only a fraction of the losses.

Russia’s Central Bank has asked lenders to restructure loans to small and medium businesses that lost merchandise.

Meanwhile, many owners of Wildberries pickup points face lost revenue amid the plunging deliveries. Some vented frustrations on social media about going out of business.

The lost goods mean tens of thousands of small businesses can't continue to operate, service their loans or pay taxes. Many are pleading for government support.

Galeotti said the strikes reflected Kyiv's effort to bring the war home to Russia.

“It’s not just about seeing great clouds of black smoke over your cities because of some oil refinery on the outskirts being hit," he said. "You might be a small business whose inventory has just gone up in smoke in one of the Wildberries’ warehouses. Or else you just simply might be an ordinary consumer who just suddenly is no longer going to get the goods that you plan to buy.”

Some analysts warn the attacks could fuel stronger anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western fervor.

The Wildberries attacks have played into the hands of Russian hawks who urge escalating the war, said pro-Kremlin political expert Sergei Markov.

“It strengthens the view that it’s necessary to hit Europe,” he said. “And better sooner than later.”

Former President Dmitry Medvedev sought to stir up anger at Ukraine for trying to destroy an essential daily routine for millions.

“Our enemy is fighting not the Russian leadership or the army, but ordinary citizens,” he said.

“Let’s be clear, Duane Davis did not pull the trigger. But he did plan the shooting in retaliation of the beating of his nephew,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal told jurors at the start of Davis' Las Vegas trial. “Remarkably, you will learn that from Duane Davis himself.”

Davis, 63, is charged with murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang in Shakur's death. He pleaded not guilty. His lawyer in the defense opening called the prosecution's narrative “fiction.” If convicted, Davis faces life in prison.

Palal showed jurors video of Shakur’s entourage attacking Davis’ nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson outside the boxing match at the MGM Grand hours before the shooting on Sept. 7, 1996.

Davis spent the next two hours planning how to get even, said Palal, and Shakur was gunned down “in an act of revenge.”

What he told investigators in 2008

In a 2008 interview with a federal task force investigating the killing of Shakur's rival the Notorious B.I.G., Davis instead talked about the Shakur shooting, describing handing a gun to the men in the back seat of a white Cadillac that fired on Shakur and Suge Knight, the hip-hop mogul who was driving a black BMW with Shakur sitting next to him.

As prosecutors played audio of Davis explaining the moment Shakur was shot, members of Shakur’s family, including his stepbrother Maurice “Mopreme” Shakur, sat quietly in the audience, staring ahead.

Palal told jurors Davis held onto a visceral hatred for Shakur for decades that drove him to speak.

He said as early as 1998, the defendant talked to the FBI and admitted he had been in Las Vegas the night of the shooting. He spoke again in 1999 to the FBI and said again he was in Las Vegas then but denied responsibility.

In 2009, he admitted to his role in the killing in an interview with Las Vegas police, Palal said.

“And now 30 years later, we’re going to ask you to finally hold Duane Davis accountable,” Palal said.

He also showed jurors the 2019 memoir that Davis co-wrote, “Compton Street Legend,” that the prosecution will use and that the defense fought to keep out of the trial, along with several of the defendant's interviews.

How Davis' legal team responded

Davis watched the presentation wearing a blue suit and tie sitting next to his attorney.

“The state has just told you what they believe is the evidence in this case,” Sanft said to jurors in his opening. “What they are telling you, they are representing as fact, when it's really fiction.”

Sanft said Davis wasn't previously charged for the 1996 killing because law enforcement knew that he was “full of crap.”

“There’s no facts,” he said, to back up what Davis said in his book.

The defense attorney also pointed to missing documents in the original investigation and distrust between Los Angeles and Las Vegas police departments. He pointed out that the Compton Police Department was shut down in September 2000 due to corruption.

He called one detective’s work “biased,” “sloppy” and “incomplete.” He said retired Detective Clifford Mogg read portions of Davis’ book into the record as if it were fact, but said Mogg didn’t verify claims in it.

The ripple effects of the 1996 killing

Palal outlined the origins of the feud, saying it began in Compton, California with rival gangs Mob Piru and South Side Compton Crips. He said Knight employed Mob Piru gang members at the Death Row Records and Shakur, while not in a gang himself, was associated with Mob Piru. Davis was a prominent member of South Side Compton Crips.

Within 24 hours of the shooting, Davis and the rest of the group were back in Compton, driving home like nothing happened, Palal said.

But in the weeks after the killing, a war erupted in Compton in which three people were killed and multiple people including an 11-year-old girl were shot, Palal said, because “the streets knew the South Side Crips were responsible for this murder.” But those who knew what happened didn’t come forward with information. “In this world silence means survival,” Palal said.

The long-unsolved drive-by shooting gripped the hip-hop community, partly because no one was charged until Davis was indicted in 2023.

The other three men riding in the Cadillac have all died in the years since.

“When he says he’s the only person who can tell what happened, he’s right,” Palal said.

Shakur remains a cultural icon and is considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time, despite dying at 25. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.

Garry Dale, a bicycle officer at the time for Las Vegas police who stopped Shakur and Knight, was the first of the 35 to 45 witnesses the prosecution plans to call at the trial expected to last about a month.

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Associated Press journalists Ty ONeil in Las Vegas, John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, and Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

States are seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total as much as $1.4 trillion, plus changes to how the company operates Facebook and Instagram.

The lawsuit accuses the social media giant of contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features that get children addicted to its platforms. It also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent, in violation of federal law.

“Meta has harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare youth and teens. Its motive is profit, and in seeking to maximize its financial gains,” the lawsuit says.

Dozens of states filed the lawsuit three years ago. The trial set to begin Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, California, features four of the states as plaintiffs — California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey. The other 25 states are expected to have trials later.

Meta said it disputes the allegations, and the trial evidence will show its commitment to supporting young people. “We’ve listened to parents, worked with experts and law enforcement, and conducted in-depth research to understand the issues that matter most,” the company said in a statement.

States seek to land a major blow against Meta

For Meta, which already lost two pivotal cases over harms to children and teens this year, the stakes are high. The company reported a rare profit decline last month, in part due to $2.4 billion in legal expenses.

The $1.4 trillion figure, which Meta disclosed in a legal filing, is almost as high as the Menlo Park, California, company’s entire market capitalization — that is, the value of all its outstanding shares on the stock market. Paying it would inevitably put Meta Platforms in bankruptcy and perhaps put the company under state ownership.

“The state attorneys general are going for the gusto,” said Eric Goldman, a professor and co-director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law. “They are trying to set the definitive precedent in this case and they have asked for extraordinary damages and they are going to seek extraordinary structural remedies if they succeed.”

Meta calls the possible penalty “untethered to any claimed violation” by the states.

“A sanction of that size has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement,” Meta said in a July 6 filing with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

If Meta loses the trial, the court would have wide discretion over the size of any financial penalty, and legal experts say anything close to $1.4 trillion would be unlikely.

“It’s not plausible in the sense that Meta doesn’t have that much money and could not get it,” said James Grimmelmann, a law professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech. “An award that large would put Meta into bankruptcy, wipe out its owners, and effectively result in the states owning Meta.”

As a practical matter, Grimmelmann added, “that seems extremely unlikely to happen.”

In other cases that have involved high potential damages for multiple individual offenses, he said courts have stopped short of imposing the maximum penalties. One example is the Anthropic artificial intelligence training case, where plaintiffs were claiming damages of $150,000 per book that Anthropic copied, but the penalty ended up being $3,000 per book, totaling about $1.5 billion.

Trial seeks to hold Meta accountable on state and federal statutes

The federal trial this week is more complex than one earlier this year, in Los Angeles, where a state court awarded $6 million in damages from Meta and Google’s YouTube to a single plaintiff, a young woman who testified she became addicted to social media as a child.

That case was a bellwether, or test case, picked from thousands of similar civil tort lawsuits to give both plaintiffs and the defendants an idea of how their arguments fare in court. The jury determined that Meta and YouTube were negligent in the design or operation of their respective platforms, and that the negligence was a substantial factor in causing harm to the plaintiff. They also determined each company knew their platforms could be dangerous when used by a minor and that they failed to adequately warn of that danger.

The Oakland case, meanwhile, has state attorneys general as the plaintiffs and centers on state and federal statutes they allege Meta violated, which lay out potential penalty amounts for each violation.

“And there’s a lot of them because it’s four different states and at least three different kinds of statutes. There’s a child privacy statute, there’s a false advertising statute and there’s unfair competition statutes,” said Rebecca Allensworth, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School.

Meta has added safety tools — but states want more

An outcome that leads to changes in how Facebook and Instagram operate could be as consequential as any financial penalty.

Meta has introduced a slew of new features in recent years designed to protect minors. In 2024 it launched teen accounts on Instagram, which are private by default and come with messaging and content restrictions, and parental controls. The company also uses artificial intelligence to determine if kids under 13 are using Instagram or if teenagers are lying about their age to access adult accounts.

Safety advocates have called on the company to do more. A New Mexico judge earlier this month ordered new safety measures on the platforms including time limits for minors, AI chatbot restrictions, and mandatory warnings on the platforms, but his order applied only to users in the state.

“These AGs have a real chance at fixing the product,” Laura Marquez-Garrett of the Social Media Victims Law Center said Friday in a virtual discussion with advocates hosted by the Tech Oversight Project. “For these companies, this is a real point of reckoning. As these cases go forward, this is a leap forward, folks, not a step.”

During jury selection last week, prospective jurors were asked whether and how much they believe Meta has contributed to the youth mental health crisis. While many agreed that it did, they also put responsibility on parents, and said things like climate change and the state of the world are also causing children's and teenagers' mental health issues.

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That idea drew the two-time Oscar nominee to “The Magic Faraway Tree,” a family adventure about Tim, a stay-at-home father whose family is forced to reconsider life after his wife, Polly, quits her job. They move to the countryside, where their children discover the magical Faraway Tree and its ever-changing worlds, sending the family into a series of fantastical adventures. The film, based on Enid Blyton’s children’s books, arrives in U.S. theaters on Friday.

For Garfield, the story’s themes of nature, imagination and community feel especially timely as technology increasingly shapes everyday life. “I think people are craving connection and community and a kind of reconnection to the earth and to each other,” he said.

Garfield said he became passionate about the project after reading Simon Farnaby’s screenplay. “I really just adore his sense of whimsy and heartfeltness and magic and joy,” he said. “I felt very, very passionate about it.”

Tim’s journey reflects the film’s larger ideas about finding wonder outside the routine and distractions of modern life. For Garfield, that sense of wonder extends beyond fantasy. “I think it’s all around us,” he said. “There are so many things to be in awe of on this planet.” The film, he said, is ultimately about recognizing that “there’s magic in the ordinary” as well as in the extraordinary.

Garfield, whose credits include playing Spider-Man, says he is drawn to roles with an element of play, community and the natural world. He focuses on “anything that keeps me awake to the remembering of the connection that we have to each other, the connection we have to nature, how we are all interconnected,” he said.

Garfield grew up reading Enid Blyton’s “The Famous Five” with his brother but did not read “The Faraway Tree” series as a child. His mother introduced him to another beloved literary adventurer: Bilbo Baggins, the hero of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.”

“Any underdog story, really, those are the ones that get me,” Garfield said.

Another childhood escape was the video store. Garfield remembers being fascinated by the rows of VHS tapes and the possibilities behind their covers. The habit has survived in a new form in adulthood: spending an evening browsing streaming services without picking anything, enjoying the feeling of looking “into the windows of all these imaginary worlds.”

That may help explain why Garfield welcomes the resurgence of VHS and other analog technology among younger audiences.

“I dig that,” he said. “The regression to analog is looking good to me.”

Police said Panettiere was found unresponsive in an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina, shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday. Lifesaving measures were performed but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

No cause of death has been determined and Panettiere's death remains under investigation. An autopsy found no signs of trauma and police said officers saw no signs of foul play.

The television and film performer, who would have turned 37 on Friday, had been open about her private battles and wrote at length about them in the memoir, “This Is Me,” which came out in May. She described lifelong scars from her early fame, and acknowledged being addicted to alcohol and enduring postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya, with Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko in 2014.

“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” her father, Skip Panettiere, said in a statement provided to ABC. “She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen.”

A publicist for Panettiere did not provide any additional details in response to inquiries from The Associated Press.

Panettiere started out as a child actor

Panettiere was one of two children born to Skip Panettiere, a former New York City fire captain, and Lesley Vogel, a former soap opera star who had been the prime force behind her early career before the two became estranged. Panettiere began acting in commercials and soap operas, including as the ever-troubled Lizzie Spaulding on “Guiding Light.” In “This Is Me,” she wrote that the traumas her character endured, from being kidnapped to killing her mother’s boyfriend, led her to associate “catastrophe with adoration.”

“Grown-ups gave me positive attention when — as an actor — I failed, got sick, screamed and cried, killed, grieved, and suffered,” she wrote. “Is it any wonder why I’ve faced so many real struggles in my life? I’ve often wondered whether — unintentionally — I’ve brought on my traumas because I’m wired to think they’re good for me.”

She had much warmer memories of her role as a cheerleader with supernatural powers in “Heroes,” which propelled her to fame in 2006. The series revolved around the mantra: “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”

“I think ‘Heroes’ is really hot because it’s just a really great combination of everything that people love — they love reality, they love sci-fi and things like ‘X-Men’ where they get to dream of something bigger,” Panettiere told the AP in 2008. “And at the core of it are these human stories that people can relate to, very rugged. And it’s just grabbed everyone in every age group.”

She went on to win three Teen Choice Awards for that role and was nominated for a Grammy for a children’s spoken word album, “A Bug’s Life: Read-Along,” also voicing a role in the Disney animated movie.

Panettiere later played a brash country upstart opposite Connie Britton on “Nashville,” which aired on ABC for four seasons before being canceled and revived on CMT. She did her own singing in the show, which scored some hits on country charts, spawned U.S. tours and earned Panettiere two supporting actress Golden Globe nominations. Eleven songs that Panettiere recorded for “Nashville” appeared on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs charts during the show’s run, including two featuring Britton.

She checked herself into rehab

Panettiere’s daughter, now 11, began living with Klitschko full-time in Ukraine when she was 2. At the time, the actor was struggling with mental health and addiction.

“I think there’s been this very common misconception that I just gave up my child,” she said in an interview with podcaster Jay Shetty in May. “That could not be farther from the truth.”

She said she was in a “horrible cycle for years of battling depression and anxiety and alcoholism and substance abuse” while “just trying to find my way back, my way out of the darkness.”

She entered rehab in 2015, while filming “Nashville.”

“I was the one who put myself in the first treatment center. I was drowning,” she said in a 2023 interview with Women’s Health magazine.

Panettiere had endured numerous family struggles, and tragedy. Her parents' marriage was strained, and eventually ended. Her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, who was also an actor, died of a heart condition in 2023, at age 28. Years earlier, Hayden had made the painful decision to part professionally with her mother, who throughout her childhood had “defined and driven her” and watched her “struggle, learn, grow, fall apart, and triumph.”

“She and I spent so much time together, so deeply enmeshed in each other’s lives, that we started grating on each other,” Panettiere wrote in her memoir. “I hated when Mom whispered about other actors during auditions, positive that they could hear her compare them to me. I hated when Mom went to industry parties and got tipsy on the merlot she loved.”

In recent years, she had been in a tumultuous relationship with actor Brian Hickerson.

On Shetty’s podcast, Panettiere recalled how she exploded into the public eye through “Heroes,” including the first time she was tracked by the paparazzi. She described her response as “sheer terror.” In her memoir, she would remember unwanted encounters with fellow celebrities — from an Oscar-winning actor-director exposing himself to her to being forced into bed with a “famous thirtysomething British singer-songwriter.”

She had spoken positively about her experience filming “Remember the Titans,” saying she felt similar to the character she played — Sheryl Yoast, the opinionated, football-loving daughter of Will Patton’s Coach Bill Yoast. Panettiere also appeared in two of the “Scream” movies, and starred as the title character in the 2009 film “I Love You Beth Cooper.”

In her memoir, Panettiere described herself as an “optimist to the core” who refused to be defined by tragedy.

“One thing I know from my 36 years in the public eye is this: Life is a process that evolves day by day, year by year and — like it or not — you are engaged in a cycle of growth until the moment you take your last breath,” she wrote.

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Trump made the accusation in a social media post on Sunday without saying why he believes it's the work of vandals instead of trampled turf from the Independence Day festivities. The Republican president posted a photo showing a once-grassy area by the World War II Memorial, now patchy and brown across much of the sprawling turf.

“Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

“Anybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School!” he added.

Trump has repeatedly blamed vandals for damage to his renovation projects in the nation's capital, often without evidence and sometimes despite opposing accounts from his officials. Trump lashed out at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro this month after her office concluded that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of poor construction and not the work of vandals, as Trump claimed.

Authorities on Friday announced an arrest in connection with vandalism at the World War II Memorial, after the words “Clean hands dirty $” were found painted on the monument and bubbles filled a fountain. Pirro said felony charges were being brought against Melissa L. Farris, who was in custody and couldn't be reached for comment.

A woman identified on her Facebook page as Melissa Lovewell on Thursday posted a video in which she is seen taking cans of spray paint from her bag and then painting the monument. “I will wait here to be arrested for spraying our veterans’ fountain,” she says. “It was me. I’m doing it. It’s on camera.”

The woman was identified by her Kentucky driver’s license as Melissa L. Farris, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, an arrest warrant says.

Charging documents in that case make no mention of the grassy area Trump is highlighting in his new claims. Authorities said Farris had previously been arrested for camping on federal property a few blocks from the World War II Memorial, but not the area cited by Trump.

That stretch of lawn is instead where a large stage was built and crowds gathered to hear from Trump and watch fireworks at a July 4 event celebrating the nation's 250th anniversary. Trump claimed without providing evidence that more than 400,000 people attended the event before a storm hit the area and delayed his remarks.

Photos from the time, taken by a streaming webcam atop the Washington Monument, show a large bandstand and seating areas covering nearly the entire lawn Trump now says has been vandalized. Associated Press photos from the days that followed showed workers removing the structures, revealing brown, damaged grass underneath.

On Aug. 1, Trump posted a different photo of the same area that appears to show the numbers “86 47” — which federal officials have said constitutes a threat against Trump, the 47th president — emblazoned into the grass. He cited it as evidence refuting Pirro's conclusion, calling it “a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass."

“There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!” he wrote.

Those numbers are not visible in the photo Trump posted to social media on Sunday.

The NFL's active leader in sacks has agreed to a one-year contract for what will be his third team in three seasons, and second consecutive NFC East home. Miller is expected to arrive on the West Coast on Monday.

Dallas has only have two full practices remaining in its annual three-week California excursion. The Cowboys break camp before their second preseason game at Arizona on Saturday. Camp practices will resume in Texas next week.

Miller, who has 138 1/2 sacks over 14 seasons, dropped the quarterback nine times in his only season with Washington a year ago. He joined the Commanders after he was cut by Buffalo in a salary cap move.

The 37-year-old went to high school south of Dallas and starred at Texas A&M before Denver drafted Miller second overall in 2011. He was the Super Bowl MVP when the Broncos won the 2015 title with a dominant defensive performance against Seattle. Miller won another championship with the 2021 Los Angeles Rams.

Miller was The Associated Press NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year with 11 1/2 sacks in his NFL debut 15 years ago and was an All-Pro three times in his first six seasons. His stint with the Bills was plagued by injuries and a Dallas domestic violence case that led to a four-game suspension.

Even though Miller has been mostly a backup the past three seasons, the nine sacks with the Commanders were his most since he had 9 1/2 in his second Super Bowl-winning season. The Rams acquired him from the Broncos in a midseason trade.

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“Wow. Amazing. Amazing,” Castillo said.

Castillo, 33, is from Venezuela and is now a U.S. citizen. Standing at the polls, he said the moment felt special because he knew his vote counted.

“Super special for me. I am feeling my vote is counting,” he said.

Castillo was one of many voters taking advantage of early voting across Broward and Miami-Dade counties Sunday.

The Davie Cooper City Branch Library was one of 21 early voting locations across Broward. Hundreds of people showed up throughout the day to make their voices heard in the primary elections.

Premi Sterlin, 20, of Hollywood, brought her family with her to vote early.

“I got out here and voted early, I brought my family with me,” Sterlin said. “Bring your friends, bring your people, just get out here and vote. You don’t gotta worry about it getting too packed on actual voter day, you can come out early, they gave us a good week.”

As voters arrived, they were met by crowds of campaign volunteers making their final push to sway their votes.

Sterlin said she had not had many problems, but the number of volunteers calling out to voters was a little intimidating.

“I haven’t had many problems with anything,” she said. “I am a little intimidated by the amount of people screaming at me when I got out of the car though, telling me who to vote for. I think one thing we could do is clean that up.”

Still, for voters like Castillo, the day was about gratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to participate in American democracy.

“That’s my feeling. Believe me, I am enjoying this time, I don’t have words to make you feel what I’m feeling,” he said.

“I’m emotional just hearing this.”

“Yeah, yeah. Yeah. For me it’s amazing. That’s why I’m using the sticker with pride.”

For Phoenix Mercury fans, that case is already closed: She's undeniably the G.O.A.T.

Taurasi was inducted into the Mercury Ring of Honor on Sunday at halftime of a game between the Mercury and Portland Fire, with the franchise retiring her No. 3 jersey and celebrating a superstar who has become synonymous with basketball in Arizona for more than two decades.

“This place has made me who I am,” Taurasi said just before her banner was unveiled in the arena's rafters. “You guys let me grow, you let me fall, you let me get back up and gave me the space to become who I am today. Through the championships, all the good times and all the bad times, the loyalty you have given me is something I will take with me forever.”

Two decades of excellence in Arizona

Taurasi, 44, played for the Mercury from 2004 to 2024 and won just about every championship and award that is possible for a player.

She's the WNBA's career scoring leader (by more than 2,000 points), an 11-time All-Star, a six-time Olympic gold medalist, a five-time scoring champion, a three-time WNBA champion, a two-time WNBA Finals MVP, the 2009 regular-season MVP and the 2004 Rookie of the Year.

She said Sunday's honor ranks up there with her biggest accomplishments.

“Today's a big one,” Taurasi said before the game. “Today feels different. When your number goes up there, you can't use it anymore, it's done. So if there was any little competitiveness still in me, I think today it goes up in the rafters with the number and it feels really good.”

More than the sheer numbers, she's remembered for her fierce personality that resonated in Arizona, helping turn the Mercury into one of the WNBA's premier franchises. Taurasi was surrounded on Sunday by friends and family, including her wife, Penny Taylor, and their two children.

She said she's lucky to have 20 years of friendships to celebrate — including her long relationship with the “X-Factor," which is the nickname for the team's loyal fan base.

“When I walk into (the arena), I don't see strangers, I don't see employees,” Taurasi said. “I see friends, I see people I go to dinner with, I see people I text regularly with. This isn't just something where I showed up and said, 'Well, let's see what we can do here and then leave.'"

“I treated this like my extended family. I think that's why walking in today — I'm really emotional.”

Thousands of fans celebrate

Hundreds of fans had gathered in downtown Phoenix more than two hours before the game — many wearing the No. 3 jersey Taurasi donned for two decades — even on an August afternoon with temperatures topping 105 degrees. Some took pictures in front of a mural featuring Taurasi on the side of the arena.

The announced attendance was 16,513, a sellout and a testament to how much the WNBA has grown since she debuted with the Mercury in 2004 after a stellar college career at UConn.

A string of tributes flowed throughout the evening, including from Suns star Devin Booker, former teammate Brittney Griner and recent football Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Larry Fitzgerald. Three-time WNBA MVP Sheryl Swoopes and 23-time gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps were also in attendance.

Taurasi’s name was in lights several feet off one of the baselines, with some real, live goats grazing on hay. There was also a “Goat Plush Toss” where game staff threw toy goats into the stands.

The celebration continued during a postgame ceremony that featured video tributes from Lisa Leslie, Paige Bueckers, Magic Johnson and LeBron James and in-person praise from several others, including a poem from her wife, Penny.

At the end of the evening, Taurasi stepped to the microphone one more time. It took her a little while to start speaking — the crowd gave her a 45-second standing ovation.

Her roughly 30-minute speech was half serious and half comedy routine, drawing multiple laughs from the thousands who stayed.

“Tonight feels like the end and the beginning of so many things in my life,” Taurasi said. "Driving to the game today, I didn't know if I was going to suit up and play, whether it was my funeral or a celebration.

“I've come to realize — it's all of it. And it's amazing.”

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If so, the Fever looked playoff-ready in their 95-91 overtime win over the Atlanta Dream on Sunday.

The Fever showed impressive depth with four players scoring 18 or more points. Perhaps of more importance, Indiana responded to a major challenge from an Atlanta team that began the day one-half behind the Fever for the important fourth-place spot in the playoff standings. The top four teams receive home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

“Coming into each night, we know how important that win is to hopefully get home-court advantage in the playoffs,” Clark said.

Atlanta led 72-64 entering the fourth quarter. Indiana held the Dream to nine points in the final period of regulation.

Despite giving the Fever an overall grade of only “B-minus” for the game, Clark had praise for her team.

“Just proud of our group,” Clark said. “Super resilient. ... Obviously, this was a big one.”

Clark scored 26 points with nine assists. After scoring only five points in the first half, Kelsey Mitchell had an important layup late in overtime to finish with 20 points. It was Mitchell's 19th consecutive game scoring at least 20.

“Kelsey struggled from the floor in the first half, and she found it in the second half,” White said. “I think that’s part of her growth, which is knowing to stay with it, that it’s going to come.”

White said Clark and Mitchell “were both terrific” and said Clark was effective in creating scoring opportunities for her teammates.

“The way that she’s getting us into offense, the way she’s using the floor to give her teammates shots ... she’s allowing the game to flow, and she’s doing a great job of finding her teammates in that,” White said. “The way she does that, it opens things up for her.”

Makayla Timpson delivered Indiana's first three field goals of overtime to score a career-high 20 points. Aliyah Boston added 18 points with 14 rebounds.

Clark said Atlanta, which had 32 points from Allisha Gray and 15 points with 14 rebounds from Angel Reese, “is a team that will be scary in the playoffs. They're great at what they do. They have a lot of different weapons.”

The Dream also had the support of a sellout crowd of 17,044 at State Farm Arena, the home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and also the usual site of Dream games when Clark and the Fever are in town.

“For us, these are the games you get up for, that’s what’s fun about competition,” Clark said. “You know, you want to play the best. It brings out the best in you. Obviously, that’s been a challenge and we’re really good at that.”

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Hernández hit his team-leading 18th home run of the season to make it 1-0 with two out in the eighth. Agustín Ramírez reached on a throwing error by Elly De La Cruz, Xavier Edwards singled, and Sanoja walked to load the bases.

Griffin Conine took ball four, which Reds catcher Jose Trevino challenged, but the call was confirmed and Ramírez scored from third.

Ramírez added a double in the ninth, which was followed by Sanoja’s three-run homer to make it 7-1.

Reliever Josh Ekness (1-1) pitched a 1-2-3 seventh. Eury Pérez pitched the first six innings and allowed two hits. He walked five and struck out five.

Pinch-hitter Tyler Stephenson hit his 12th home run of the year for Cincinnati.

Reds reliever Tejay Antone (2-2) gave up two hits and two runs, one earned. Starter Nick Lodolo pitched the first five innings, giving up three hits, striking out two and walking two.

Up next

Marlins RHP Janson Junk (6-7, 4.41 ERA) starts against Phillies LHP Cristopher Sanchez (15-4, 2.54) on Monday in Philadelphia.

Reds RHP Rhett Lowder (4-8, 5.15) starts Monday to kickoff a home series against St. Louis. The Cardinals haven’t announced their starter.

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Niland's daughter, Haven, said he died Saturday morning in McKinney, a Dallas suburb.

Niland made 111 starts in 124 games over nine seasons with Dallas. He played for Philadelphia for one year before retiring after the 1975 season.

Niland made the Pro Bowl for six straight years from 1968 to 1973. He was a first-team All-Pro selection in 1969, 1971 and 1972.

He helped protect Roger Staubach when Dallas beat the Miami Dolphins 24-3 in the Super Bowl on Jan. 16, 1972.

Niland, a Massachusetts native, starred at Iowa before he was taken by the Cowboys with the fifth overall selection in the 1966 draft. He was inducted into the Hawkeyes' Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.

He is survived by Shaughn, his wife of more than 30 years, and daughters, Jordan and Haven.

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Get ready for temperatures to soar Monday. Highs could reach near-record levels, with Miami potentially reaching 95 degrees. The record is 96 degrees.

Tuesday, Miami could tie the record high of 96 degrees.

Rainfall will be hard to come by, and limited rainfall could exacerbate drought conditions this week.

Spieth and Keith Mitchell, who was up to his knees in water on the 18th trying to salvage his postseason, narrowly missed out advancing in the PGA Tour postseason Sunday, losing a chance to be guaranteed to play in all the $20 million signature events in 2027.

One birdie over his last three holes would have done it for Spieth. Mitchell would have needed to shave two shots from his score. He made bogey from the water on the 18th.

“I just feel like I’m kind of getting back to playing really good golf, like it’s close to kicking off, and I’m not going to play a tournament for a long time,” Spieth said after closing with three straight pars for an even-par 70.

Spieth came into the first playoff event at No. 54 and was projected to need something around the top 15 — depending on others around him — to make it to the BMW Championship for the first time since 2023.

He made it through the worrisome stretch of holes — Nos. 11 through 14 at the TPC Southwind — with a pair of bogeys and a 30-foot birdie putt.

“If you can get through there unscathed, you know you're looking at some opportunities on the other side,” Spieth said.

But he tugged his tee shot on the 15th far enough to the left that it found the water, leading to bogey. His chip from behind the green on the par-5 16th was too strong and rolled off the green, and he missed a 15-foot birdie putt. He missed a birdie from about that distance on the 17th.

Needing a birdie on the 18th, he went from a patch of dirt right of the fairway just over the green, still a putter in hand from 35 feet. He started walking before the long birdie putt finished short of the cup, giving him a par.

“I just didn’t execute enough shots and ... a couple bounces could have gone one way or the other,” he said. “I needed to be almost flawless today.”

Mitchell, who has never been among the top 30 to reach the Tour Championship in his nine years on the PGA Tour, started at No. 49 this week and was on the bubble seemingly all week. He said he never looked at a leaderboard until walking off the 17th green.

If he was safe, he could have played out to the right, away from the water, knowing a bogey wouldn't hurt him. But he was right on the projected bubble of top 50. He took on the shot. He thought it was ideal, but it barely cleared the water, and hopped below the hazard line on the bank of grass.

For Mitchell, there was no option. He removed his shoes and rolled up his pants, took his stance in the water up to his calves and gave it a shot. It bounced short and took a hop to the left, riding the bank down into the water. He did well to make bogey for a 72. In the end, even a par would have left him less than a point short of Matt McCarty at No. 50.

“I thought it was perfect when I hit it. Caught a little bit of a gust, and it came up that short,” Mitchell said. “The second shot was obviously interesting, and I just didn’t play it far enough right.”

The new points system that puts an emphasis on season performance means the postseason is not nearly as volatile. Sungjae Im, who started at No. 53 and started the final round tied for second, comfortably advanced.

Mitchell was the only one from the top 50 to fall out.

Maverick McNealy came in at No. 50 and was on the bubble all afternoon, played bogey-free on the back nine with two birdies for a 69 to tie for 19th — same position as Spieth — to secure his spot among the top 50. McCarty figured he was out when he tied for 63rd in the 69-man field. He made it on the number when Mitchell and Spieth couldn't catch him.

“I think the top 50 number is probably the most important number on the PGA Tour right now,” McNealy said. “I’m excited to get to St. Louis and just take a Hail Mary swing to see if I can get into the Tour Championship, which is the goal every year.”

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“Wow. Increíble. Increíble”, dijo Castillo.

Castillo, de 33 años, es originario de Venezuela y ahora es ciudadano estadounidense. Frente al centro de votación, dijo que el momento fue especial porque sabía que su voto contaba.

“Muy especial para mí. Siento que mi voto cuenta”, dijo.

Castillo fue uno de los muchos votantes que aprovecharon la jornada de votación anticipada en los condados de Broward y Miami-Dade este domingo.

La biblioteca Davie Cooper City Branch Library fue uno de los 21 centros de votación anticipada en Broward. Cientos de personas acudieron durante el día para hacer escuchar su voz en las elecciones primarias.

Premi Sterlin, de 20 años y residente de Hollywood, llevó a su familia para votar anticipadamente.

“Vine a votar temprano y traje a mi familia conmigo”, dijo Sterlin. “Traigan a sus amigos, traigan a su gente, simplemente salgan a votar. Así no tienen que preocuparse por que esté demasiado lleno el día de las elecciones; pueden venir antes, nos dieron una buena semana”.

A medida que llegaban los votantes, eran recibidos por grupos de voluntarios de campaña que hacían un último esfuerzo por convencerlos.

Sterlin dijo que no había tenido mayores problemas, aunque la cantidad de voluntarios llamando a los votantes le resultó un poco intimidante.

“No he tenido muchos problemas con nada”, dijo. “Pero sí me intimida un poco la cantidad de personas gritándome cuando me bajo del auto, diciéndome por quién votar. Creo que eso es algo que se podría mejorar”.

Aun así, para votantes como Castillo, la jornada estuvo marcada por la gratitud y el valor de poder participar en la democracia estadounidense.

“Ese es mi sentimiento. Créeme, estoy disfrutando este momento. No tengo palabras para hacerte sentir lo que yo estoy sintiendo”, dijo.

“Me emociona solo escucharte decir eso”.

“Sí, sí. Para mí es increíble. Por eso llevo esta calcomanía con orgullo”.

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The death toll has risen to over 290 people, with 140 still missing and nearly 4,000 injured.

A relief flight is taking off from South Florida on Sunday, sending much-needed supplies to survivors.

The pilot, Juan Rojas, is making his second flight back to Colombia, this time carrying about 2,000 pounds of medical supplies.

“We’re aiming to go to three cities,” he said. “This airplane is going to head down to Pereira, which is super close to the center of all the damage, one of the cities that has suffered the most. We’re gonna center most of this help to them. Then tomorrow we’re taking seven doctors to Quibo.”

Organizers said a portion of the supplies will help children who are in one of the hardest hit areas of Colombia.

“The idea is to not only use the plane to bring the assistance to Pereia, but also Quibo, and do that local flight to move rescuers from one city to the other,” said Help Land Foundation Founder Ender Urdaneta.