According to Miami Fire Rescue officials, the fire was reported around 2:30 a.m. at 5275 NW Seventh St.

Firefighters arrived to find smoke coming from the building and determined that the flames originated inside an apartment on the fourth floor.

According to fire officials, crews encountered extremely heavy smoke when they reached the fourth floor, leaving them with virtually no visibility as they worked to extinguish the flames and evacuate residents.

Firefighters helped several people escape the building, including residents who use wheelchairs and needed assistance getting to safety.

It took crews approximately 30 to 40 minutes to bring the fire under control.

Four people were evaluated following the fire, and two were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation, authorities said.

In total, 15 residents were displaced, including children and elderly people.

Although the flames were contained to the fourth floor, officials said water damage affected much of the building, including its elevator.

The elevator damage is particularly concerning for residents with mobility challenges who rely on wheelchairs and are unable to use the stairs.

The American Red Cross is working to determine what assistance will be needed for those displaced by the fire.

Authorities said two people were inside the fourth-floor apartment where the fire originated.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

“We certainly have a bigger footprint there now than we used to,” said the Rev. Peter Donohue, Villanova’s president. “People do know who we are, just because it’s the pope’s school.”

The pope graduated from Villanova with a degree in mathematics in 1977. He belongs to the Augustinians, the religious order that founded the university near Philadelphia in 1842. Now his alma mater is finding new and inventive connections to his papacy.

On Sunday, the men's and women's basketball teams from Villanova will open the season in Rome with a Catholic university matchup, playing Notre Dame 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) from the Vatican in what organizers are calling the Eternal City Tip-Off. The doubleheader comes only weeks after Villanova hosted a sustainability conference in Rome and awarded a cardinal with the inaugural Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal.

“It’s crazy,” Donohue said. “We’re taking over Rome.”

Villanova saw applications jump more than 10% during the first admissions cycle after the pope’s 2025 election.

“We claimed it was ‘the Pope Leo effect,’” Donohue said.

Pope Leo's alma mater is a basketball powerhouse

Villanova is the only American university that can claim a pope as a graduate — a distinction that has elevated its profile alongside a run of athletic success.

The school won the NCAA men's basketball championship in 1985, 2016 and 2018. Three alums dubbed the 'Nova Knicks were instrumental in the New York Knicks winning the NBA title this year.

Over Halloween weekend, the power of Catholic school basketball will be in full effect as 6,000 Villanova fans and 1,000 Notre Dame fans travel to watch their teams compete.

“The voice of the people of God will be very strong on the Villanova side,” Leo said in September.

The festivities were planned long before Leo’s recent cancer diagnosis and surgery. The sports-loving pope is scheduled — health permitting — to hold a private audience inside the Vatican on Saturday for the teams and their traveling fans. Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson Perez will also celebrate a private Mass for them in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Ed Hastings, who played on Villanova’s 1971 basketball team that lost the national championship to UCLA and now teaches at Villanova, will appear on a sold-out panel in Rome. He will be discussing sports and spirituality, bringing together “the passions of my life,” he said.

St. Augustine, who inspired the Augustinian religious order, wrote about self-knowledge. “And I learned a lot about myself through sports,” Hastings said.

On campus,

connections to Pope Leo are a source of pride

The Rev. Bernie Scianna, Villanova's vice president for mission and ministry, is a friend of the pope, having met him almost three decades ago through their Augustinian order.

Scianna has seen an uptick in interest in Catholicism at the school, which has around 10,000 students and a large Catholic population. Last year, 24 people joined the Catholic Church on campus, most of them students, though fewer than 10 typically do each year. There are 56 people in the current class of potential new members.

“It’s really a great feeling for us to be in this moment,” he said.

Villanova has long sent students to Italy and the Vatican for internships and study abroad programs, but those opportunities are growing.

Senior Mike Whaley just returned from a fall break trip there with his humanities class. He had visited the Vatican on a previous student trip, where he was an altar server at a private Mass for Villanova students celebrated by then-Cardinal Robert Prevost.

“So, my fun fact at parties is that I served Mass for the now Pope Leo XIV,” Whaley said.

Megan Zuzarth, another senior, also was in Rome recently with her business school class.

The pope's connection to Villanova makes him even more relatable once you realize “he probably sat right here or he walked these halls,” Zuzarth said. “He’s one of us.”

Church bells rang at Villanova for hours after Leo’s election.

Cathleen Kershner, now a junior, was wrapping up her final exams. “I get a text from my grandma and she was like, ‘Your pope! He’s your pope!’”

Before he was pope, they knew him as Bob

Donohue was at a Chicago restaurant when he heard the Vatican conclave had chosen a new pope.

“It’s Bob!” he screamed. A manager brought out Champagne to celebrate the new pope, who was born and raised in Chicago.

Donohue, a fellow Augustinian, was two years ahead of Pope Leo at Villanova. Before assuming the presidency, he chaired the school’s theater department.

As a child, while “other people were playing basketball and football, I was taking tap dancing classes,” he said.

His background in musical theater has been surprisingly useful as he navigates fundraising and donor relations. “I tell everybody it’s the biggest acting job I’ve ever had,” he said, “and the longest run I’ve ever had.”

Villanova has not been immune to the financial pressures many universities face, but it’s faring better than most. The school has undertaken renovations and expansion projects and recently opened a new campus at a nearby shuttered Catholic college.

The Pope Leo effect certainly has not hurt.

“We’re very proud of him, and very proud that he’s an Augustinian, and very proud that he is leading the church,” Donohue said. “Whatever we can do to help him, we’re trying to do that.”

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Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel and has long been a strong supporter of Palestinians.

The Indonesian Ulema Council, the country’s most influential body of Islamic scholars, demanded on Oct. 10 that organizers cancel Bocelli’s performances at the UNESCO-listed Borobudur Temple on Oct. 31 and in Jakarta on Nov. 3.

The council cited Bocelli’s past support for Israel, including his participation in a 2010 fundraiser in Los Angeles for the Israel Defense Forces and a 2022 concert in Tel Aviv.

Despite the objection, Bocelli's concert promoter Shoemaker Live said the concerts would take place as planned. It argued that they would support Indonesia's tourism and culture sectors, and that the decision was made in consultation with government officials and other stakeholders.

“Maestro Bocelli stands on the side of humanity and wishes to share hope for peace, especially with those who are unable to experience it today,” Shoemaker Live founder Prajna Murdaya said in a statement.

Murdaya said Bocelli is expected to dedicate a song during each performance to humanity and world peace, particularly for children and communities living amid conflict.

He said the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, established in 2011, supports education, community development and assistance programs for vulnerable communities around the world.

The organizer also announced a fundraising campaign that includes a pledge to donate 100,000 pairs of shoes to children in the Holy Land and other war-affected regions.

The religious council on Tuesday reaffirmed its opposition to the concerts. They could "hurt the feelings of many Indonesians who strongly support Palestinians,” said Sudarnoto Abdul Hakim, the council's chair for foreign affairs.

The performances in Indonesia are part of Bocelli’s Romanza 30th Anniversary World Tour.

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It's a particular concern in Texas, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa, which are bracing for razor-thin contests in which even a few percentage points for a third party can be enough to swing the outcome.

Although all of those states lean Republican, a number of party strategists say unhappiness with President Donald Trump could lead some conservatives to cast protest ballots. An unpopular war with Iran and Trump's expansion of executive power — two issues that grate on an anti-establishment slice of the American right — could fuel the Libertarian Party's message of nonintervention and limited centralized authority.

“Libertarians, we believe, could draw enough votes to affect the outcome in a number of these races," said Republican former Ohio state lawmaker Gene Krebs, who is working on a project to diminish the impact of spoiler candidates.

Trump is scheduled to hold rallies in Texas on Tuesday, Ohio on Wednesday and Iowa on Sunday.

Republican Senate campaign officials said they were less concerned about Iowa, where Libertarians are not a regular presence on the ballot, than they are about Ohio, Kansas and Texas. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy.

In Ohio, former Libertarian Party national chairman Bill Redpath is running against Republican Sen. Jon Husted and Democratic former Sen. Sherrod Brown.

“The Libertarian can easily pull enough votes away from the Republican so that the Democrat wins," Krebs said.

Third parties could work against Democrats, too. An organization with Republican ties has distributed fliers promoting a socialist candidate, an apparent effort to pull support away from Brown. Enough Promises Ohio PAC, which sent out the fliers, received $2.5 million from Conservative Americans PAC, according to federal disclosure reports.

Libertarian David Graham is running in Kansas, where Republican Sen. Roger Marshall is locked in a close race with Democrat Adam Hamilton.

This is Graham's second campaign. He received 3% of the vote in a race Republican Sen. Jerry Moran won by 23 percentage points.

In Texas, Libertarian Ted Brown received only 2.3% of the vote in 2024, when Republican Sen. Ted Cruz easily glided to another term. However, the race is tighter this year, with Democratic nominee James Talarico facing off with Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Wayne Hamilton, a former executive director of the Texas Republican Party, said Paxton's history of legal and ethical problems could have some conservatives looking for another choice.

“Nobody’s voting for the Libertarian. It’s a protest vote,” Hamilton said. “They are going to be voting that way because they don’t want to vote for Paxton, and this is an option.”

Brown is a former insurance adjuster from California who has been a longtime activist in the Libertarian Party going back to supporting Ron Paul's presidential campaign in 1988. He said some conservative voters have turned on Trump.

“Some libertarians supported him thinking he was an anti-war candidate. And that’s where he’s lost them,” Brown said. “But my view and a lot of libertarians’ view is that separation of powers is very important. This president has seized way too much power in this imperial presidency.”

Brown is under no illusions that he can compete with Paxton and Talarico for the seat. His campaign has a budget of about $30,000 and has spent $7,000 on advertising, running a spot on streaming services in four Texas counties where Libertarians have fared better in recent elections.

That's compared with the combined advertising total of roughly $390 million that Talarico, Paxton and aligned groups have spent since the May 26 primary, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.

Brown got 267,039 votes in 2024, a record for his party in a Texas Senate race. A great day for him on Nov. 3, he said, would be if he matched that, certain to net a higher percentage in the lower-turnout midterm.

Brown dismissed the criticism he says he gets regularly from Republicans that he is merely spoiling Paxton’s chances.

“They could avoid that problem by nominating a better candidate,” he said.

Brown said he tells Democrats the same thing.

“You can’t spoil a system that’s already rotten,” he said. “There are a lot of people making a protest vote, and there’s good reason to.”

Demographically, it is true that young people in aging societies — which include France but also the United States and others — no longer have the same weight of numbers that helped their parents and grandparents make their mark when they were young.

In France, protesting pupils have managed to spark a national conversation about funding for schools that has morphed into broader unrest over cost-of-living struggles and heavy-handed policing.

In Serbia, two years of student-led protests unseated the Balkan country's populist strongman, Aleksandar Vucic, this weekend. In Albania, high schoolers and university students are swelling the ranks of an anti-government movement that for months has pressured Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign. Gen Z is also mobilizing in India, Nepal and elsewhere.

“We’re seeing youth rising all over the world," Greta Thunberg, 23, said when she popped up at a school protest in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis.

“These movements are inspired by each other. People forget how connected Gen Z are across continents," she said.

But in France, Serbia and elsewhere, young people are also losing ground demographically to generations above them that are living longer and now outnumber them.

When they march, wave placards and shout slogans, the voice of young people isn't — at least mathematically — as dominant as it used to be.

Baby boomers outnumber the young

When rock ‘n’ roll sensation Johnny Hallyday, France's Elvis, had his first hit, “Souvenirs, Souvenirs,” in 1960, the first kids born after the devastation of World War II were becoming teenagers, the initial wave of a postwar baby-boom generation that went on to reshape the country and, on a global scale, the world.

They got the Beatles, who played their first concert in France in 1964, the right for women to open a bank account without their husband's consent, in 1965, and the contraceptive pill, legalized in 1967. Young people were becoming a political, cultural, societal and sexual force and took on the established order when they hit the barricades in May 1968, hurling stones and catchy slogans like, “Be realistic, demand the impossible.”

The demographics then were stacked in their favor. The 9.4 million teenagers and young adults in 1968 made up 19% of mainland France's population and comfortably outnumbered seniors. Just 13% of the population, or 6.3 million people, was aged 65 and above.

Today, it's the other way round. The 15 million people aged 65 and above, now 22% of the population, outnumber the 9.6 million 13-to-24-year-olds, who make up just 14% of the population.

The world's weight falls on young shoulders

For wealthier baby boomers — defined as people born between 1946 and 1964 — the world became their oyster.

In Europe, they grew up and secured first jobs in a postwar economic boom still fondly remembered in France as the “Trente Glorieuses” — 30 glorious years. They enjoyed the birth of low-cost air travel, the Cold War's end and the rise of personal computing. In France alone, boomers squirreled away a staggering 9 trillion euros (about $10 trillion) in personal wealth that they'll pass on when they die, in what experts call “the great transmission.”

But they're also leaving behind destructive climate change and record levels of human-made, heat-trapping pollution in the atmosphere as well as a world order shaken by unresolved wars in Ukraine and Iran that boomers started (Donald Trump was born in 1946, Benjamin Netanyahu in 1949 and Vladimir Putin in 1952).

In France, Gen Z is also inheriting record levels of poverty and crushing economic problems, including record public debt. They limit the government's ability to give protesting students everything that they want: Better schools with more teachers and no rat infestations, leaking roofs and other problems, and more opportunities after they graduate.

“I feel angry all the time, when I look at the world," said 27-year-old Camille Chesnier, protesting in Paris.

“We feel powerless and we really don't know how to make ourselves heard."

Some suggest lowering the voting age

To give young people a bigger voice at the ballot box, there have been calls in France to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.

The idea's backers include far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The 75-year-old has been the most prominent supporter of the high school protesters. He hopes their movement will translate into higher turnout by young voters, who cast fewer ballots than other age groups in the last presidential election in 2022.

Luc Rouban, a baby boomer himself and a researcher at Paris’ Sciences Po school of political sciences, doubts that many 16-year-olds would use the right to vote, because “they lack political knowledge and aren’t interested in politics.”

“Why aren’t young people joining political parties? Why are there fewer and fewer activists? Why are trade unions finding it increasingly difficult to recruit? That’s where the problem lies: there’s a kind of rejection of the system of representative democracy,” said the 68-year-old Rouban.

But protesting pupils these past weeks have learned to build barricades, to wash police tear gas from their eyes and other political lessons that were a rite of passage for boomers, too. And they've won concessions.

Paris Cité University student Mathis Aversenq said students' demands echo those of workers because “the wages are too low, the people are getting laid off. It’s harder and harder to work and live.”

Fred Salin, a 33-year-old teacher at a Seine-Saint-Denis high school that has seen numerous protests, said he's been “blown away” by how politically sophisticated his pupils have become.

Kamal Hachkar, 49, another teacher at the school, said pupils are “expressing terrible anguish about the future” and that some of them have moved him to tears.

“For baby boomers who went through the Thirty Glorious years, it was very easy,” he said.

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Associated Press journalist Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.

Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday that a Houthi attack that severely damaged a road leading to Taiz city where the humanitarian situation is worsening may be in violation of international law.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tuesday. Read our full coverage here.

Houthis say strike on gas station kills at least 2

Yemen's Houthi-run Health Ministry on Tuesday blamed government forces for strikes on a gas station in Taiz province that killed at least two people and wounded several others.

The attack occurred as fighting around the besieged provincial capital intensified.

Health Ministry spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi accused government forces of targeting the gas station late Monday.

Houthi-controlled Al-Masirah TV aired footage showing two bodies in body bags and several wounded people receiving treatment at a hospital. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the claim.

Meanwhile, Saudi-led coalition spokesperson Brig. Gen. Turki al-Malki posted on X overnight Tuesday that coalition forces had intercepted four Houthi drones targeting the kingdom’s south and three ballistic missiles aimed at its eastern region.

He didn't provide further details or evidence and The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the claim.

Human rights watchdog says Houthi damage to Taiz road worsens humanitarian situation

Human Rights Watch says the Iran-backed Houthi rebels used explosives to severely damage a road leading into the besieged city of Taiz, worsening an already dire humanitarian situation.

The rights group said in a report released Monday that the Hayjat al-Abd road is a crucial entry point for food, fuel and medicine.

It warned that destroying the road would violate international law if the Oct. 18 attack was intended to “disable infrastructure indispensable to civilian survival.”

The attack may also have harmed civilians.

Houthis say Egypt's support for Saudi Arabia could drag it into ‘aggression’ against Yemen

A Houthi official said Tuesday the Egyptian parliament's decision to support Saudi Arabia would draw the Arab world's most populous nation into what he called “aggression” against Yemen.

Houthi political bureau member Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told The Associated Press in a video interview that Egyptian support for Saudi Arabia would be considered “hostile action” because the kingdom is the aggressor in Yemen and doesn't need anyone to defend it.

Egyptian lawmakers approved the measure requested by the country's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in a closed session Monday as concern among ordinary Egyptians that the country could be drawn into the conflict in Yemen grows.

Egypt’s highest security body had earlier pledged to provide “all necessary and possible forms of support” to Saudi Arabia to defend its “security and stability,” protect its resources and territorial integrity, and safeguard Islamic holy sites.

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The report has been received by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa but will remain confidential while he reviews it, his office said in a statement.

The participation of Iran in drills also involving Chinese and Russian ships off Cape Town in January came at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, and sparked harsh U.S. criticism of South Africa for allowing Iranian warships to take part.

The drills took place during mass protests in Iran and a crackdown that killed more than 7,000 people. The U.S. and Israel launched military strikes against Iran a month later to start the war.

Ramaphosa ordered the investigation, led by a retired judge, in February, saying there was a “failure to heed the instruction” that Iranian vessels that had already traveled to South Africa for the planned exercises not take part.

The investigation looked at whether Ramaphosa's order was ignored by high-ranking members of the South African armed forces or officials at the Defense Ministry. The president ordered that the investigation report to him and not the Defense Ministry to ensure it was independent, his office said at the time.

South Africa's diplomatic relations with Iran have been a point of criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump and one of the reasons why his administration has accused Africa's biggest economy of having an anti-American foreign policy.

Ramaphosa's instruction that Iran not take part in the weeklong naval drills was seen as an attempt to avoid further diplomatic fallout with the U.S.

The naval drills involving South Africa, China, Russia and Iran were organized under the BRICS bloc, which the U.S. has viewed as a geopolitical and economic challenge to American influence.

BRICS has expanded to 11 member countries in recent years, with Iran among four new members that joined in 2024.

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British nationals Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim and Nouman Essghir, both aged 24 and from London, were charged under the National Security Act, the Crown Prosecution Service said. They are due to appear in court later Tuesday.

Abdulkarim is charged with assisting Iran's intelligence service and Essghir with entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the U.K.

RAF Fairford, in western England, has been used by American bombers to strike Iran during this year’s war.

Essghir was arrested outside the base on Sept. 27, when armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swarmed the rural area. Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes as police and army bomb-disposal experts searched for explosives.

Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in vans at the scene, but no explosives.

Essghir was initially released on bail before being re-arrested last week. Abdulkarim was arrested in the past week. Six other men have been arrested and released on bail as investigations continue.

British authorities have linked Tehran to the incident, which led the U.S. to pull its bombers from RAF Fairford. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said that the apparent plot was “almost certainly” directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Iran has denied involvement, although it has previously said that it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target.

Earlier this month, the head of Britain’s MI5 spy agency warned that both Iran and Russia were expanding their attacks against the U.K., and that the RAF Fairford incident was not unique.

Ken McCallum, who leads the U.K.’s domestic security service, said Tehran is seeking to intensify its attacks in Britain beyond the traditional targets of Iranians opposed to the country’s Islamic authorities. He said more than 50 people have been arrested over Iran-linked plots in the past year.

“We have seen a range of incidents in recent months that we believe have been directed by the Iranian state, and as the director general of MI5 said just the other week, we are working together to intervene, identify and respond to that threat,” said Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, the head of National Counter Terrorism Policing in the U.K.

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A previous version of this story incorrectly said Abdulkarim is a British-Iranian national. He is British.

It is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history and nearly half of the 10,060 confirmed to have the virus have died, according to data from Congo’s Ministry of Health. That also makes it the deadliest outbreak of the disease in the country’s history.

The outbreak declared in May is caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment. Response teams are battling armed conflict, poor roads and violence from residents fueled by mistrust and misinformation. Those obstacles compound the challenge of persuading people to report symptoms and accept care in communities that have endured years of violence and repeated epidemics.

Compared to the West Africa Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 – history’s largest and deadliest with more than 28,000 cases, including over 11,000 deaths – this has had at least three times the number of cases and number of deaths in the time since it was declared.

It has spread farther across Africa than any previous Ebola outbreak, reaching three regions with cases recorded in Kenya and Nigeria as well. It’s so far been recorded in five countries including Uganda and France, both of which have no active cases at the moment.

A recurring problem in the spread in Africa is what appears to be lax surveillance efforts as most of the first cases were confirmed long after people started showing symptoms or after traveling.

African health ministers are to hold a virtual summit on Wednesday to strengthen the continent's collective response. “Ebola is crossing borders. Our response must move faster, with stronger coordination, greater solidarity and decisive political leadership,” Dr. Jean Kaseya, head of Africa CDC, has said.

At least 2,600 patients have recovered from the disease in Congo, bringing rare moments of joy to affected communities. A viral video this week showed health workers in full protective gear dancing as the last two patients were discharged from a treatment center in Mongbwalu, Ituri province.

“The outbreak is far from over, but every life saved is worth celebrating,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of the video.

80% of new cases in Congo are outside of monitored contacts

In Congo, the disease has spread to 66 health zones across eight provinces, from three zones when it was first declared in May. Responders have told The Associated Press that they’re seeing treatment centers in some of those health zones getting overwhelmed, people still skeptical and violent toward them, and health workers are regularly going on strike to protest delayed or unpaid wages.

“Some people still don’t seem to understand the seriousness of the situation even though they are directly exposed to the risk,” said Sephora Bgosi with the Ebola burial team in Ituri province, the epicenter. “Ebola disease is extremely dangerous and can be deadly," said Bgosi.

About 80% of recorded cases are still coming from outside of monitored contacts, showing there are ongoing chains of transmission that health authorities are not aware of. At least 95% of recorded cases are supposed to be coming from known contacts for officials to say the outbreak has largely been brought under control, the Africa CDC has said.

At least half of deaths recorded are among people who have not been admitted to treatment centers, a sign that people are still not reporting symptoms at all in many areas.

In many zones, health workers are battling challenges ranging from basic needs such as adequate vehicles to complex ones like persuading families to release their relatives who are sick with the disease or who have died from it and need to be buried safely.

Last week at the Nia Nia health zone in Ituri province, some Ebola responders, including surveillance and community engagement officers, went on strike over unpaid bonuses owed since late August, a common trend across many affected localities.

More than five months since the outbreak was declared, health workers are still being attacked by angry villagers, including on Saturday when a nurse was killed and another health worker severely injured while responding to an Ebola alert in Bafwasende, Tshopo province.

The outbreak is impacting Congo’s healthcare services

The outbreak has disrupted essential health services that are already underfunded and overstretched and has shifted attention away from other disease outbreaks the country is battling, such as cholera.

More pregnant women are dying as they avoid hospitals over fear of infection and isolation, causing maternal mortality to double in some provinces soon after the outbreak was declared.

It has also disrupted routine healthcare services such as childhood vaccinations, interrupted schooling for children where millions are already out of school, caused trauma and stigma for affected families and further stretched the livelihoods of many already struggling with hardship.

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Beverage maker Dongpeng, dairy giant Mengniu and cheese maker Milkground announced Tuesday in similarly worded statements that they were ending agreements with the soccer star, each saying they oppose “any words and actions that hurt national sentiment.”

The companies did not specify what prompted their decisions, but they released their statements after a clip that appeared to show Mbappé being interviewed ahead of going on the French online talk show “The Bridge” circulated on X.

In the video, Mbappé is asked about his favorite meme of himself, and the soccer star replies that it was “a video someone made of a guy ... I think he was a Chinese dictator” before the video shows an altered image depicting Mbappé's face on the blue-suited body of Mao Zedong.

Soccer fans online jokingly call the star — who's said to overshadow many of his teammates and even the teams he plays on — a dictator, and memes showing him as Mao or other autocratic leaders are widely circulated.

The Associated Press was immediately unable to reach Mbappé's representatives for comment.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun said in response to a question about the controversy that “words and actions that hurt the feelings of the Chinese people will naturally be met with joint opposition from all sectors of Chinese society.”

Social media platform RedNote joined the criticism, saying in a separate statement that the company had a content partnership with Mbappé that ended on Dec. 31, 2024, and that it would “remove related promotional materials.” It likewise expressed opposition to “any conduct that hurts national sentiment.”

Mbappé's account on RedNote was not accepting new followers Tuesday.

Mbappé has featured in advertising campaigns in China for products from electrolyte drinks to milk and cheese. In one commercial for Dongpeng, Mbappé delivers a slogan in Chinese; in an ad for Mengniu, he appears alongside Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi.

On Chinese social media, there were already several comments criticizing the soccer star.

The hashtags “Dongpeng ends partnership with Mbappé” and “Several brands end partnerships with Mbappé” topped Weibo’s trending list. “Football fans boycott Mbappé” was also trending, with some users expressing anger at his remarks or telling him not to come to China.

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Associated Press video producer Olivia Zhang contributed to this report from Beijing.

In early European trading, Germany’s DAX slipped 0.1% to 25,373.71, while the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.3% to 7,824.83. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 1% to 10,664.58.

The future for the S&P 500 lost 0.1%, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was little changed.

Asian shares mostly gained as benchmarks in Tokyo and Seoul were lifted by buying of AI-related stocks.

South Korea’s Kospi briefly gained more than 4% and closed 3.1% higher, at 5,638.34. Computer chipmaker SK Hynix rallied 5.2% and Samsung Electronics gained 4.2%.

SK Hynix is set to release its third-quarter earnings Wednesday, a day before rival Samsung Electronics reports its results. Samsung has estimated its operating profit for the last quarter will be up nearly eight-fold from a year earlier.

Strong global demand for semiconductors is driving strong growth, and the South Korean economy expanded at a better-than-expected 3.4% annual rate in July-September, according to data released Tuesday.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 added 1.7% to 63,268.37. Testing equipment maker Advantest jumped 9.6% and OpenAI investor SoftBank Group climbed 5%.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gave up early gains, slipping 0.7% to 23,041.32, while the Shanghai Composite dropped 1.3% to 3,648.30.

Traders were watching for any major announcements from a closed-door meeting in Beijing of top leaders of China’s ruling Communist Party.

Taiwan’s Taiex rose 0.1%. India’s Sensex slipped 0.5%.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.5% to 8,852.10.

On Monday, the S&P 500 rose 0.7% and more than recovered its losses from last week, pulling within 1.8% of its all-time high set earlier this month. The Dow added 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.8%.

The strongest lift for the market came from Nvidia, which rose 2.4%. That helped the chip company recover some of its drop from three straight losing weeks, its longest such streak since June.

But stocks elsewhere in the artificial-intelligence industry remained unsettled. They’ve been swerving on worries about whether their industry’s boom is under threat because of how expensive it’s become for companies to borrow money to build data centers and buy more AI chips.

Anthropic, one of the key players of the AI boom, gave details Monday about how much money it’s losing as it prepares to sell its stock on the publicly traded U.S. market for the first time.

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company that also runs the xAI business, had similar swings after it announced a roughly $40 billion deal with an entity managed by Apollo Global Management to lease AI computing power.

Profit reports from huge tech companies this week could offer more details about how spending on AI is going, and whether it’s producing the profits and productivity that proponents promised.

Alphabet and Microsoft will report their latest quarterly results on Wednesday, with Amazon to follow on Thursday.

The Fed last month hiked the fed funds rate for the first time in three years in hopes of slowing inflation, which has remained much higher than anyone would like.

In other dealings Tuesday, Brent crude oil, the international standard, rose 0.7% to $111.54 a barrel. U.S. benchmark crude gained 0.7%, to $102.47 per barrel.

The dollar rose to 157.75 Japanese yen from 157.50 yen. The euro slipped to $1.1154 from $1.1176.

Pero los partidarios también advirtieron que un Congreso cada vez más dominado por la extrema derecha y la bancada del agronegocio podría socavar esos esfuerzos por proteger el bosque y combatir el cambio climático.

Lula derrotó al senador Flávio Bolsonaro, hijo del expresidente de extrema derecha Jair Bolsonaro, en la segunda vuelta del domingo con el 51,78% de los votos frente al 48,21%. Tras ir por detrás en la primera vuelta, Lula remontó para ganar por 4,4 millones de votos.

“¡La Amazonia puede respirar aliviada!”, afirmó David Lapola, científico brasileño y autor principal de un capítulo sobre los llamados puntos de inflexión en un próximo informe climático de las Naciones Unidas. Los científicos debaten el umbral a partir del cual la densa y húmeda selva amazónica podría pasar a un ecosistema más seco, con consecuencias irreversibles para la biodiversidad y el clima. El bosque absorbe enormes cantidades de dióxido de carbono, un gas de efecto invernadero que impulsa el calentamiento global. Cerca del 60% de la Amazonia se encuentra en Brasil.

Flávio Bolsonaro impugna la derrota

La victoria de Lula reflejó cambios en el apoyo de los votantes y una mayor participación en todo el país. En la Amazonía, comunidades indígenas y grupos de defensa movilizaron a los votantes y, con ayuda de fallos judiciales la semana pasada, contribuyeron a garantizar transporte gubernamental para quienes viven en zonas remotas.

La Articulación de los Pueblos Indígenas de Brasil, conocida como APIB, estuvo entre las organizaciones que acudieron a los tribunales para asegurar el acceso de los votantes indígenas a las urnas. En un comunicado, señaló que la victoria de Lula reflejó la “fuerza de la movilización de base en defensa de la democracia, la vida y los derechos de los pueblos indígenas”.

Flávio Bolsonaro se negó a reconocer la derrota el lunes y afirmó que pediría al tribunal electoral que anule los resultados. Enfrenta un obstáculo elevado: presentar pruebas de fraude suficientes para revertir el margen de victoria de Lula y convencer al tribunal antes de que los resultados se certifiquen el 18 de diciembre. Las primeras señales de las instituciones brasileñas y de líderes regionales, incluidos presidentes conservadores que se oponen a Lula, sugieren que el resultado será aceptado dentro y fuera del país.

Flávio Bolsonaro se había comprometido a impulsar políticas alineadas con las de su padre, quien gobernó de 2019 a 2022. La deforestación se disparó bajo Jair Bolsonaro, ya que su gobierno debilitó a los organismos de supervisión ambiental y flexibilizó las regulaciones. El gobierno de Lula anunció la semana pasada la tasa de deforestación en la Amazonia más baja registrada.

Ambientalistas expresan preocupación pese al triunfo de Lula

Se espera que Lula continúe los esfuerzos para frenar la deforestación y financiar una economía sostenible mediante donaciones internacionales, así como con fondos públicos y privados. Aunque fue el claro favorito de ambientalistas, científicos del clima y otros que quieren proteger la Amazonía, Lula ha propuesto políticas que han suscitado críticas. Más recientemente, ha respaldado iniciativas para perforar en busca de petróleo en aguas mar adentro cerca de la Amazonia.

Aun así, Flávio Bolsonaro planteó una disyuntiva tajante que, para muchos ambientalistas, parecía poner en riesgo la Amazonia y las protecciones ambientales de Brasil en general. Había negado el cambio climático mientras se presentaba como defensor del medio ambiente. Sin embargo, ofreció pocos detalles sobre la protección de los bosques o su financiamiento, y pidió “modernizar” las leyes ambientales y otorgar a los propietarios de tierras en la Amazonia mayor poder de decisión, propuestas que, según advirtieron los ambientalistas, podrían debilitar las salvaguardas y acelerar la deforestación.

El Observatorio del Clima de Brasil, una coalición sin fines de lucro de 172 organizaciones, acogió con satisfacción la reelección de Lula, pero indicó que siete de cada 10 legisladores entrantes se oponen a la agenda climática y ambiental. Citó medidas recientes que debilitan las normas sobre pesticidas, los derechos territoriales indígenas y las licencias ambientales, y exhortó a Lula a ampliar sus alianzas y fortalecer los vínculos con el Congreso.

“El objetivo de poner fin a la deforestación en todos los biomas de Brasil debe perseguirse sin descanso”, sostuvo el grupo.

Amazon Watch, una organización sin fines de lucro centrada en la protección ambiental y los derechos indígenas, también celebró la victoria de Lula, al tiempo que advirtió sobre obstáculos legislativos.

“Un Congreso fortalecido por fuerzas que buscan abrir las tierras indígenas a la minería y debilitar las protecciones ambientales sigue siendo una amenaza grave”, señaló Ana Alfinito, asesora jurídica de Amazon Watch.

WWF Brasil afirmó que la vasta biodiversidad del país y su porción de la Amazonia le otorgan un papel estratégico para abordar el cambio climático. Atribuyó a Lula el fortalecimiento del liderazgo de Brasil mediante la cooperación internacional.

“Mantener este liderazgo es esencial para movilizar a otros países, elevar la ambición de los compromisos globales y convertir los acuerdos en acciones concretas”, expresó la organización.

Los resultados electorales traen dinero para proteger el bosque

Claudio Angelo, responsable de política internacional del Observatorio del Clima, dijo que la reelección de Lula ya había producido un resultado: un compromiso de 500 millones de dólares anunciado el lunes por los Países Bajos para el Tropical Forest Forever Facility, un fondo respaldado por Brasil y lanzado en la cumbre climática de las Naciones Unidas del año pasado en Brasil.

La iniciativa paga a países en desarrollo para que mantengan los bosques en pie, pero ha tenido dificultades para conseguir 10.000 millones de dólares iniciales antes de fin de año. El compromiso neerlandés eleva los aportes comprometidos a 7.800 millones de dólares.

Angelo explicó que posibles donantes habían puesto los planes en pausa a la espera de los resultados electorales, y calificó el compromiso de los Países Bajos como un voto de confianza en la victoria de Lula.

“Había una preocupación justificada de que una victoria de Flávio Bolsonaro pudiera descarrilar el TFFF, de que Brasil se retirara y de que el fondo no alcanzara su meta de 10.000 millones de dólares”, comentó Angelo.

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At a former psychiatric hospital in suburban Detroit and a former funeral home in Toledo, Ohio, visitors can embark on guided paranormal investigations or even set out on their own with rented equipment, such as a handheld electromagnetic field (EMF) meter.

“Guests that come here on our paranormal tours, they get touched, they get grabbed, handprints on clothing, whistled at,” said Justin Cox, founder of Michighost Paranormal, which leads paranormal investigation tours of the Eloise Asylum attraction’s upper floors, where patients were treated. “Everything that you can imagine has happened here, and we’ve heard it all.”

The facility began as a 19th-century poorhouse and operated under various names as it expanded into a complex with dozens of buildings. By the late 1920s, it was one of the nation’s largest public health facilities.

“In the paranormal field, we believe that trauma leaves energy, which creates hauntings. This place had a lot of tragedy, a lot of trauma, so we believe it’s super haunted,” Cox said.

Family members of patients and others with ties to Eloise have argued against offering for-profit amusement at a site where vulnerable people suffered.

The upper floors of the asylum feel alive

Most of the complex’s buildings were razed in the 1980s, but a five-story, red-brick structure that came to be known as the Kay Beard Building still stands and is home to Eloise Asylum.

It’s there that Cox and his team lead guests on tours of the upper floors, including a room with a bathtub used in hydrotherapy sessions. It’s not uncommon for guests to get in the tub.

And if you "think you can handle the night here, we offer that as well,” Cox said about their overnight stays.

Eloise Asylum haunted attraction’s lead makeup artist and scare actor, Lexi Carter, has gone on the paranormal investigation tour. She said the upper floors feel alive.

Paranormal investigators use spirit boxes to scan radio frequencies for sounds they believe could be messages from spirits. They also use EMF readers to measure changes in electromagnetic fields that some associate with paranormal activity.

Carter said it was wild “watching those go off.”

“Oh, my God. It blew me away. I was like, ‘No way. This is real,'" she said. "'This is so cool.'"

Tours include visits to embalming and autopsy rooms

Fifty miles (80 kilometers) south sits the former Urbanski Funeral Home, which hosted thousands of viewings and services from 1926 until its sale last year. Now called Mortuary Manor, the 60,000-square-foot (5,580-square-meter) building serves as a funeral home museum and much more.

Paranormal investigators can check out the embalming and autopsy rooms, as well as a morgue where it is standard practice for guests to take pictures of themselves lying on a slab that juts out from a basement wall.

Mortuary Manor will host its first wedding in November on Friday the 13th, of course. And guests who pony up $200 can spend the night in a five-room suite. Operations manager Cory Leibenguth lives in a neighboring upstairs apartment.

He said the building has modern amenities like indoor plumbing, heating, air conditioning and Wi-Fi. That "sets us apart from some of these other abandoned locations that don’t have any of that. And then there’s not a lot of funeral homes you can go investigate, either.”

Mortuary Manor visitors can also watch a horror movie projected onto the wall of the main sitting room while surrounded by caskets.

It’s all part of elevating the Halloween experience for hard-core fright fans.

“In today’s world where everybody is so stressed out … Halloween is a time that everybody can just relax and just enjoy the time with their friends and their family, maybe get scared along the way,” Cox said.

Israelis vote for parties, which then form alliances to create a majority coalition. No single party has ever won a 61-seat majority in the 120-member parliament, or Knesset.

Opinion polls suggest a tight race, with no clear winner expected, setting the stage for weeks or even months of negotiations among around a dozen parties expected to win seats in the Knesset.

Here is the latest:

Netanyahu casts his ballot as supporters cheer

The Israeli prime minister cast his vote at a Jerusalem school where his supporters sang and cheered him on. The area of Gonenim is a strong Netanyahu base.

Some of his supporters stood on tables, trying to look over a makeshift security barrier separating them from the voting area.

Earlier, while waiting for Netanyahu, they chanted in Hebrew: “Bibi king of Israel.”

In his final campaign stretch, Netanyahu was busy on social media, from posting a fake image of a nuclear attack on Tel Aviv — underlining the perceived threat from Iran — to claiming that liberals were coming out in droves to vote against him.

He has also embraced the endorsements of U.S. President Donald Trump.

“This is a very moving and fateful moment. My wife and I are truly overwhelmed,” Netanyahu said after voting. “We know what is at stake, and since I am not allowed to say things explicitly, I will say: Vote correctly.”

The party of Netanyahu's rival alleges attempts to sabotage voting

The party of Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu's key rival and former army chief, filed a complaint with the Central Elections Committee, saying it has noted several incidents in which the party’s ballot slips were missing, damaged or turned over inside voting booths.

The party Yashar said this suggests a “systematic and deliberate” sabotage attempt rather than accidental errors.

The party called on the election commission to restore the ballots and carry out frequent inspections at polling stations.

Israel's election commission moves to dispel claims of voting irregularities

The commission overseeing the elections said in a statement that it has so far found no indication of systematic attempts to sabotage the voting.

It followed online reports and complaints by several parties about missing ballot slips and other irregularities at polling stations.

The committee said it was addressing every isolated incident brought to its attention.

A crowd at a polling station in northern Israel raises hopes of high Arab turnout

Voters swarmed around Maha Karkabi-Sabbah, a candidate on the Joint List, outside a polling place in the northern Arab town of Shefa-Amr. She said this gives her some optimism that turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel could be high.

“Our issues are the worst they’ve ever been under this government,” she said, citing high crime, personal safety and Israel’s conduct toward Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

“People feel ... that they should do whatever it takes to change reality here,” she added.

Anger toward Netanyahu drives young Arab voters

Mahmoud Aidi, a 35-year-old nurse from the Galilee, drove up to his polling station in the town of Maghar with a car full of signs for the Arab-led Ra’am party and its leader, Mansour Abbas.

A Palestinian citizen of Israel, Aidi said the growing challenges facing his community made him a fan of any candidate who could help get Netanyahu out of power. He mentioned crime, housing, jobs and education as key issues.

“Not much is needed to encourage people to vote this time,” he said.

Head of Israel's election commission says fewer irregularities are being reported

According to Dean Livne, acting director-general of the Elections Committee, the overall number of reports about irregularities or issues at polling stations by mid-morning was much lower than in previous elections.

Police believe the arrest of three people in southern Israel who are suspected of being involved in voting bribe attempts was a single incident and not part of a larger campaign, Livne added.

Israeli voters say they are casting ballots for a better future

At a polling station in Jaffa, a mixed Jewish-Arab area of Tel Aviv, voters said the elections were pivotal for the kind of country they want Israel to be.

“I believe we deserve a country with a good quality of life, where we can raise our children and grandchildren in peace and security,” said Haim Ron, 69, who said he was voting for Netanyahu's leading rival, Eisenkot.

The election is “about the last three years, and about the future we want for our children here,” said voter Noa Sabban.

Israelis can choose from a multitude of parties

Ahead of the vote, 38 parties were registered for the election but some later dropped out. Parties must reach a minimum threshold of 3.25% of the popular vote to get seats in the Knesset, and only around a dozen parties are expected to cross this threshold.

Israelis vote by placing a slip of paper for their party in a blue envelope. Ballots are counted by hand at each polling station by both showing and reading aloud the slip in each envelope.

More than 15,000 cameras have been set up at polling stations to document possible irregularities, along with thousands of volunteer monitors and those associated with the major parties.

Emotions are running high as Israelis vote

“This is critical. And it’s never been as critical,” said Noga Mizrahi, a voter in Jerusalem, speaking of the elections. She said she had come from kibbutz Nirim, which was attacked on Oct. 7.

In Kiryat Shmona, a Netanyahu stronghold near the border with Lebanon, a man kicked and tore down a poster of Eisenkot, the prime minister's chief rival.

In Tel Aviv, some families of those killed in the Hamas-led 2023 attack and families of former hostages held a moment of silence.

“Remember all those whose voices are no more,” said Yona Adam, the mother of Mapal Adam, who was killed.

At a polling station set up in a Jerusalem school, some said they were voting for change while others said they only trusted Netanyahu to keep them secure.

“He’s not responsible for Oct. 7,” said Nisim Cohen, a reservist.

He said he wants Netanyahu to win the election and continue the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and with Iran until Israelis can sleep peacefully.

Politicians and officials begin to vote

Mansour Abbas, the soft-spoken 52-year-old leader of the Islamist party Ra’am, voted in his mountainside hometown in the Galilee.

Ra’am is expected to win at most a handful of seats in the Knesset, but Abbas could emerge as an unlikely kingmaker if neither Netanyahu nor the bloc of parties opposing him win enough seats to form a majority.

Abbas said he was hoping record turnout in Arab communities could help unseat Netanyahu’s right-wing government. “Our vote will change the government,” he said.

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, also voted. He’s perhaps the most visible of Netanyahu’s allies, with his public taunting of Palestinian detainees.

“God willing I will become defense minister, it will be good for the soldiers and good for the people of Israel,” Ben-Gvir said.

Leading Arab party says some of its activists have been arrested

Ra’am, a leading Arab political party, says at least three of its activists were arrested overnight. It filed a complaint with Israel’s election commission on Tuesday and said the arrests were carried out “without justification” in Bedouin towns in the Negev Desert.

Israel’s police said three people were arrested overnight on suspicion of planning to bribe citizens to vote for Ra’am and denied attempting to interfere with the election.

Mansour Abbas, the Ra’am party leader, said after he voted that the arrests were undemocratic and “an attempt to influence the election results.” He also said that some polling places had reported shortages of Arabic language ballots and encouraged supporters to vote regardless of unforeseen challenges.

Rising crime is motivating Palestinian citizens of Israel to vote

The spokesperson of the Abraham Initiatives, an organization that promotes coexistence and equality in Israel, says that rising crime is prompting more Palestinian citizens of Israel — roughly 20% of the population — to vote.

The organization has tallied 186 crime-related killings in Arab communities so far in 2026. Last year, 252 Palestinian citizens were killed in violent crimes, making 2025 the deadliest year on record.

Lama Yassin said voters linked the unchecked violence to “years of government neglect and a failure to protect our communities.”

“We are demanding the most basic responsibility of any government: to protect the lives of its citizens,” she said.

Turnout was 17% by 10 a.m., election commission says

Initial figures released by the Central Elections Committee show that 17% — or some 1.2 million Israelis — have voted by 10 a.m.

In the last five Israeli elections, voter turnout hovered around 70%, with 70.63% voting in the previous elections in November 2022. The highest voter turnout in Israel’s history was in its first elections in 1949, when 86.9% voted. The lowest voter turnout was in 2006, with just 63.5% turnout.

Netanyahu's rival meets with voters in a southern community attacked in 2023

Eisenkot, Netanyahu's top rival, was up and meeting voters as polls opened in Ofakim, one of the communities in southern Israel that was attacked by Hamas-led militants on Oct. 7, 2023.

He said that if those in “the government had a shred of responsibility, they would start the morning here," near Gaza.

The visit was likely aimed at reminding voters of the security failures ahead of the deadliest militant attack on Israel in its history, and of Netanyahu’s refusal of a state commission of inquiry into them.

Eisenkot lost his son and two nephews to combat in Gaza. Speaking to the residents, he also repeated his vow to dismantle or destroy the militant Hamas group's “governing force” within 18 months of forming the next government.

“This is a commitment I will uphold,” he said.

Polls open across Israel in a tense election

Thousands of volunteer Israeli election observers were in place at polling stations across the country to monitor the election.

Eyal Sher said he volunteered with a civil society group called Elections Guards because he wanted to play a role in such a critical vote.

“We have a corrupt government that will do anything to stay in power," he said. "Every vote counts and we want to make sure the procedures are kept intact.”

According to Israel’s Central Election Committee, more than 7.3 million Israelis are eligible to vote, including around 330,000 young Israelis who spent their high school years in the shadow of war.

The polling stations — around 12,000 of them — will close in most places at 10 pm. Ballots are manually counted at each polling station immediately after voting ends.

Netanyahu’s legacy is on the line in the vote

Netanyahu has been Israel’s most dominant politician for nearly two decades, and a poor showing could end the 77-year-old’s lengthy career on a bitter note and open the door to a new era in Israeli politics.

A victory would cement his image as the ultimate political survivor. Earlier this month, Trump backed Netanyahu's reelection, but the late endorsement still marked a setback for the Likud politician who had billed his tight ties to the Republican president as a selling point for staying in power.

Netanyahu has been a master at forming coalitions with religious and nationalist partners. But opinion polls now suggest a tight race between his bloc and the one led by Eisenkot, which says Netanyahu should be held accountable for Oct. 7 and the failure to turn battlefield victories into diplomatic achievements.

Scars of Oct. 7 weigh heavily on Israelis

The deadliest day in Israel’s history has featured prominently in the campaign, but there has been almost no debate over Israel’s wartime conduct in Gaza, which led to an international arrest warrant against Netanyahu.

Israel's occupation of much of southern Lebanon and parts of Syria, as well as its two wars launched against Iran, also has broad support among Israelis.

The candidates have instead focused on Netanyahu’s role in the security breakdown on Oct. 7; his efforts to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service and a 2023 judicial overhaul seen by critics as an assault on Israel’s democratic institutions.

But supporters also warned that a Congress increasingly dominated by the far right and the agribusiness caucus could undermine those efforts to protect the forest and combat climate change.

Lula defeated Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, in Sunday’s runoff with 51.78% of the vote to 48.21%. After trailing in the first round, Lula staged a comeback to win by 4.4 million votes.

“The Amazon can breathe a sigh of relief!” said David Lapola, a Brazilian scientist and lead author of a chapter on so-called tipping points in an upcoming United Nations climate report. Scientists debate the threshold beyond which the dense, humid Amazon rainforest could shift to a drier ecosystem, with irreversible consequences for biodiversity and the climate. The forest absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that drives global warming. About 60% of the Amazon lies in Brazil.

Flávio Bolsonaro contests the loss

Lula’s victory reflected shifts in voter support and higher turnout nationwide. In the Amazon, Indigenous communities and advocacy groups mobilized voters and, aided by court rulings last week, helped secure government transportation for those living in remote areas.

The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, known as APIB, was among the organizations that went to court to secure Indigenous voters’ access to the polls. Lula’s victory reflected the “strength of grassroots mobilization in defense of democracy, life and Indigenous peoples’ rights,” it said in a statement.

Flávio Bolsonaro refused to concede Monday and said he would ask the electoral court to nullify the results. He faces a high hurdle: presenting evidence of fraud sufficient to overturn Lula’s winning margin and persuading the court before the results are certified Dec. 18. Early signals from Brazil’s institutions and regional leaders, including conservative presidents who oppose Lula, suggest the outcome will be accepted at home and abroad.

Flávio Bolsonaro had pledged to pursue policies aligned with those of his father, who governed from 2019 through 2022. Deforestation surged under Jair Bolsonaro as his administration weakened environmental enforcement agencies and loosened regulations. Lula’s government last week announced the lowest Amazon deforestation rate on record.

Environmentalists express concern despite a Lula win

Lula is expected to continue efforts to curb deforestation and finance a sustainable economy through international donations as well as public and private funding. While he was the clear favorite for environmentalists, climate scientists and others who want to protect the Amazon, Lula has put forward policies that have drawn criticism. Most recently, he has supported efforts to drill for oil in offshore waters near the Amazon.

Still, Flávio Bolsonaro presented a stark choice that for many environmentalists felt would put the Amazon and Brazil's overall environmental protections at risk. He had denied climate change while casting himself as an environmental defender. However, he offered few details on forest protection or financing, calling for “modernizing” environmental laws and giving Amazon landowners more decision-making power — proposals environmentalists warned could weaken safeguards and accelerate deforestation.

Brazil’s Climate Observatory, a nonprofit coalition of 172 organizations, welcomed Lula’s reelection but said seven in 10 incoming lawmakers oppose the climate and environmental agenda. It cited recent measures weakening pesticide rules, Indigenous land rights and environmental licensing, and urged Lula to broaden his alliances and strengthen ties with Congress.

“The goal of ending deforestation across Brazil’s biomes must be pursued relentlessly,” the group said.

Amazon Watch, a nonprofit focused on environmental protection and Indigenous rights, also welcomed Lula’s victory while warning of legislative obstacles.

“A Congress strengthened by forces seeking to open Indigenous lands to mining and weaken environmental protections remains a serious threat,” said Ana Alfinito, an Amazon Watch legal adviser.

WWF Brazil said the country’s vast biodiversity and share of the Amazon give it a strategic role in addressing climate change. It credited Lula with strengthening Brazil’s leadership through international cooperation.

“Maintaining this leadership is essential to mobilizing other countries, raising the ambition of global commitments and turning agreements into concrete action,” the organization said.

Election results bring money for forest protection

Claudio Angelo, the Climate Observatory’s head of international policy, said Lula’s reelection had already delivered a result: a $500 million pledge Monday from the Netherlands to the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, a Brazil-backed fund launched at last year’s U.N. climate summit in Brazil.

The initiative pays developing countries to keep forests standing but has struggled to secure an initial $10 billion by year’s end. The Dutch pledge brings commitments to $7.8 billion.

Angelo said prospective donors had put plans on hold pending the election results, calling the Dutch pledge a vote of confidence in Lula’s victory.

“There was justified concern that a Flávio Bolsonaro victory could derail the TFFF, that Brazil would pull out and the fund would miss its $10 billion target,” Angelo said.

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The prosecution of Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, announced Friday, is the latest in a series of splashy and politically charged investigative actions the Justice Department has undertaken in the run-up to next week’s midterm elections.

The case accuses the former officials of falsely playing down their knowledge about a laptop the Justice Department says Hunter Biden abandoned at a computer repair shop in 2019. But beyond that, it represents a Trump administration broadside against a since-disbanded FBI task force that was set up to monitor foreign influence. Congressional Republicans have long criticized the task force, saying it tried to discredit their own investigations into the Biden family.

Defense lawyers are expected to challenge the case at a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Washington's federal court, including by highlighting the unusual fact that the ex-FBI officials were charged via a criminal complaint signed by a magistrate judge rather than an indictment voted on by a grand jury. The Justice Department is thought to have repeatedly struggled in high-profile cases to persuade grand juries in the nation’s capital to return indictments.

It is a very intricate saga

The prosecution, a rare Justice Department criminal case against a former employee, revisits a tangled saga that roiled the final weeks of the 2020 race after the New York Post revealed the existence of a laptop it said had been dropped off by the younger Biden at a Delaware computer repair shop about a year earlier.

The Post said it had obtained a hard drive of the laptop from Rudy Giuliani, a close ally of President Donald Trump, and reported on some of the contents of the computer, including emails that appeared to show some of Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.

The curious circumstances of the laptop’s discovery raised concerns among Democrats and former intelligence officials about the possibility of Russian involvement, particularly when the Trump administration’s own intelligence community had assessed that Moscow was attempting to undermine the candidacy of Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who went on to defeat Trump in 2020, and as Giuliani had traveled abroad looking for dirt on the Bidens.

But Trump's then-national intelligence director, John Ratcliffe, quickly sought to quell speculation about the laptop's provenance by saying there were no signs it had anything to do with Russian actors. The FBI said it had nothing to add to Ratcliffe's statement and investigated the younger Biden on gun and tax charges that later resulted in felony convictions. President Joe Biden pardoned his son in late 2024.

The accused led the Foreign Influence Task Force

The FBI officials under scrutiny, Floris and Benavides, were leaders of the Foreign Influence Task Force, which was established in the first Trump administration to police influence campaigns staged by Russia and other nations aimed at sowing discord, undermining democracy and spreading disinformation.

In that capacity, the FBI officials briefed Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson in August 2020 as the lawmakers were doing their own investigation into Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine. News of the briefing leaked, and the senators lashed out at the FBI, saying their efforts to scrutinize the Biden family had been discredited and falsely linked to Russian disinformation.

The criminal complaint accuses them of lying to lawmakers in 2023 by denying contemporaneous knowledge of the Biden laptop or participating in internal FBI conversations about it. Their lawyers have denied any allegations of wrongdoing.

The task force was disbanded in February 2025 by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi.

U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices extended losses.

South Korea’s Kospi jumped more than 4% and was trading 3.6% higher at 5,667.99 by midday. Computer chipmaker SK Hynix surged 7% and Samsung Electronics gained 4.8%.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 added 2.2% to 63,542.77. Testing equipment maker Advantest jumped more than 10% and OpenAI investor SoftBank Group climbed 7%.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gave up early gains, slipping 0.2% to 23,174.44, while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.1% lower to 3,692.58.

Traders were watching for any major announcements from a closed-door high level meeting, or plenum, of China's ruling Communist Party.

Taiwan’s Taiex rose 0.5%.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.3% to 8,838.10.

On Monday, the S&P 500 rose 0.7% and more than recovered its losses from last week, pulling within 1.8% of its all-time high set earlier this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.8%.

The strongest lift for the market came from Nvidia, which rose 2.4%. That helped the chip company recover some of its drop from three straight losing weeks, its longest such streak since June.

But stocks elsewhere in the artificial-intelligence industry remained unsettled. They’ve been swerving on worries about whether their industry’s boom is under threat because of how expensive it’s become for companies to borrow money to build data centers and buy more AI chips.

Meta Platforms bounced up and down after outlining plans to raise $35 billion by selling stock to help pay for its AI investments. It also said Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom have already indicated they may buy a total of $5 billion of stock in its offering.

Anthropic, one of the key players of the AI boom, gave details Monday about how much money it’s losing as it prepares to sell its stock on the publicly traded U.S. market for the first time.

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company that also runs the xAI business, had similar swings after it announced a roughly $40 billion deal with an entity managed by Apollo Global Management to lease AI computing power.

Profit reports from huge tech companies this week could offer more details about how spending on AI is going, and whether it’s producing the profits and productivity that proponents promised.

Alphabet and Microsoft will report their latest quarterly results on Wednesday, with Amazon to follow on Thursday.

Roughly one out of every three stocks in the S&P 500 is scheduled to report its latest quarterly results this week.

In stock markets abroad, Brazilian stocks fell sharply after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection in a result that surprised investors. They worry he could increase government spending and put more pressure on the country's debt. The Bovespa stock index in Brazil dropped roughly 14%.

In the U.S. bond market, yields fell for longer-term Treasurys. The yield on the 10-year Treasury eased to 4.98% from 5.00% late Friday.

The two-year Treasury yield rose to 4.71% from 4.69% late Friday. It more closely tracks expectations for what the Federal Reserve will do with overnight interest rates, and the widespread expectation is that it will wrap up its latest meeting Wednesday without changing the federal funds rate.

The Fed last month hiked the fed funds rate for the first time in three years in hopes of slowing inflation, which has remained much higher than anyone would like.

In other dealings early Tuesday, Brent crude oil, the international standard, fell 0.8% to $109.82 a barrel. U.S. benchmark crude also dropped 0.8%, to $100.93 per barrel.

The dollar rose to 157.65 Japanese yen from 157.50 yen. The euro slipped to $1.1173 from $1.1176.

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AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed to this report.

But this year, when Dubow cast his early ballot in the midterm election, he found himself tipping more toward Democrats because of his frustration with Trump's decision to go to war with Iran.

“Where are the Republicans in Congress?” asked Dubow, 44, a dispatcher at a trucking logistics firm in Columbus, Ohio, where he has a bird's eye view of the disruption that surging fuel prices are having on the economy. "Why aren't the Republicans holding Trump accountable?”

The Iran war, which Trump often describes as a “little detour,” has emerged as an unforced liability for the president, who once promised to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars. Republican strategists privately acknowledge that the war is severely damaging the party's push to retain control of Congress for the final two years of Trump's presidency as rising gasoline prices drive up costs across nearly every sector and new hostilities emerge.

Voters are tired of elevated gas prices

High energy costs and voter fatigue over the nearly eight-month-old war — one that Trump predicted at the onset would last a matter of weeks — are weighing heavily on Republican candidates.

Regardless of the outcome of the Nov. 3 elections, an AP-NORC poll published last week found that voters from both major political parties want the next Congress to focus on making life more affordable and end the war in Iran that's had enormous ramifications for the global economy.

The situation has only become more complicated for Republicans making their case to voters. The conflict has spread, with Iran-backed Houthi rebels carrying out a series of attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure and airports. A Saudi-led coalition has responded with its own deadly attacks on Houthi-held territory in Yemen.

Over the weekend, the State Department said it was reducing staffing at four U.S. embassies in the Middle East after receiving intelligence that Iran has stepped up efforts to target American personnel in the region and elsewhere.

Trump insists costs of war have been no big deal

Diesel prices continue to hover near all-time highs in the U.S., creating trouble for Republicans in typically conservative states such as Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Texas who find themselves knotted in competitive races with Democrats.

Yet, Trump has consistently downplayed the conflict's economic impact as he rallies his supporters to try to keep the GOP's grip on both chambers of Congress.

Trump repeatedly insists that the war's end is near, only to threaten that a new, intensive round of bombing could very well be in the offing once the election passes — often within the same campaign speech or a single exchange with reporters.

He also argues that elevated gas prices are a temporary inconvenience worth paying to defang Iran.

Trump at a weekend rally in Michigan said that he has no regrets about launching the war and even argued that its economic impact has been less severe than he had expected.

“Somebody said, ‘If you had it to do again...’" Trump told the friendly audience. "I said, ‘Are you kidding?’ I thought gas would be double or triple. And it’s a small price to pay for taking a nuclear weapon away from maniacs.”

The president's mixed message on Iran has left Republican candidates in a difficult, if not untenable, position, said Christopher Borick, director of the Lehigh University Opinion Observatory.

“Trump's messaging on the war is resonating with a shrinking portion of the electorate,” Borick said. “For voters disappointed with the direction of the conflict, there's little by way of the president's claims that would change their negative outlook.”

GOP strategists have seen warning signs for months

Only a few elected Republicans have parted ways with Trump over the Iran conflict. Trump, for his part, has insisted that the midterm elections would have no bearing on how he approached the conflict.

But some party strategists have been sounding the alarm for months.

Early in the summer, five Republican strategists involved in key races or advising campaign leadership told The Associated Press that they had begun seeing warning signs that the war could hurt their candidates if the conflict did not wind down soon.

In June, after Trump forged an interim ceasefire agreement with Tehran, Trump and White House officials appeared more confident. But the deal unraveled within weeks.

At that point, campaign officials in some battleground races became more forceful during internal conversations that House districts Trump won easily in 2024 looked like they were becoming competitive, said the Republican strategists, who were not authorized to comment publicly on the internal party data and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Oil prices peaked in May, fell in June and surged again in September as Trump threatened to escalate the conflict before backing off and suggesting a deal could be around the corner. The national average has hovered above $4 per gallon since the middle of June.

As the Labor Day holiday passed, strategists said internal polls showed voters were more frequently tying the war to higher grocery prices and travel costs.

Trump has dismissed critics who argue that the war is driving an affordability crisis for Americans as pushing a “hoax” or “scam” invented by Democrats. But internal campaign polling suggests that Trump's argument has not resonated with American voters, the strategists said.

Some Republican voters are frustrated

In interviews, even some Republican voters who say they support Trump's decision to launch the war admit gas prices are testing their patience.

Clay Coey, 59, said he sometimes cringes when he fills the tank of his 2010 Chrysler Sebring, even as he says he's willing to temporarily pay higher gas prices to eliminate what he sees as a major security threat to the U.S.

“Do I like it? No, I drive this old beast,” said Coey, an auctioneer from DeWitt, Michigan. “However, there does come a point in time where you have to sit here and say, what is worth the cost?"

Some voters say Trump fumbled by predicting the war would be over in a matter of weeks.

Elizabeth Marlett, 61, of Moville, Iowa, said she wished Trump had avoided setting a timeline for the conflict and wished he would order the U.S. military to act more forcefully to force Tehran to capitulate. Still, she's sticking with Trump.

“We need to support our commander in chief, even if things take longer than expected," said Marlett, a small-herd beef rancher from Iowa's GOP-heavy northwest. “That’s life, and we can’t run from something we’ve started.”

Meanwhile, Trump's decision to start the war has been seen by some supporters as a betrayal of a central tenet of the Republican leader's “America First" campaign pledge: the promise to keep the U.S. out of the sort of “forever wars” that bogged down some of his recent White House predecessors.

Sean O'Brien, 21, a student at Auburn University in Alabama, said Trump's Iran decision left him “very disillusioned.”

O'Brien earlier this year attended the Conservative Political Action Conference, a major gathering for those on the political right. Now, he's rethinking his allegiances.

“At the moment, I expect to vote Democratic,” said O'Brien, who considers himself an independent.

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Beaumont reported from Sioux City, Iowa. AP journalists Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos in Columbus, Ohio, and Jacqueline GaNun in DeWitt, Michigan, contributed to this report.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who voted just after midday, faces an array of parties seeking to oust Israel's longest-serving premier from power. Opinion polls have suggested a tight race with his main rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot. Over 7 million people are eligible to vote, and tens of thousands have reportedly arrived from overseas.

“This is a very moving and fateful moment. My wife and I are truly overwhelmed," Netanyahu said after voting. "We know what is at stake, and since I am not allowed to say things explicitly, I will say: Vote correctly."

Inside Israel, the race is largely about security and who should serve to defend the country. Outside Israel, it's mainly about the country's reputation — and the security of Jewish people worldwide — after growing criticism over the war in Gaza and Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

Almost 17% of Israelis voted in the first three hours, the highest turnout by that point since 1981, according to initial figures by the Central Elections Committee.

In Israel's fragmented parliamentary politics, no single party has ever won an outright parliamentary majority. There is a chance that neither Netanyahu's religious and ultranationalist coalition nor the group of parties hoping to remove him has enough support for a majority. That could set off weeks of negotiations before a leader is declared.

Israel's Arab-led parties could emerge as kingmakers — if other parties agree to join forces with them.

“Our vote will change the government,” Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamist Ra’am party, said while voting, adding that he hoped turnout would surpass 70% in Arab communities. Arabs in Israel make up about 20% of the population.

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, known for taunting Palestinian detainees and saying some Palestinians in Gaza are “not even people,” warned that “it will be Mansour Abbas’ government” if Netanyahu and his allies don't win.

Emotions run high among some voters

Some emotions were high. In Kiryat Shmona, a Netanyahu stronghold near the border with Lebanon, one man kicked and tore down a poster of Eisenkot.

The election is Israel's first national vote since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war in Gaza and related conflicts. In Tel Aviv, families of some killed on Oct. 7 or former hostages held a moment of silence. “Remember all those whose voices are no more,” said Yona Adam, whose daughter Mapal Adam was killed.

Around 330,000 young Israelis, many facing compulsory military service under the shadow of war, are eligible to vote for the first time.

Eisenkot early Tuesday visited communities attacked on Oct. 7. “If someone in the government had a shred of responsibility, they would start the morning here" in the communities near Gaza, he said, while Netanyahu had not yet been seen in public three hours after polls opened.

Eisenkot's Yashar party said it filed an urgent complaint over nine incidents in which its ballot slips were missing, damaged or turned over inside voting booths, and suggested a “systematic and deliberate” sabotage attempt.

Overall, the acting director-general of the elections committee, Dean Livne, said the number of reports about irregularities or issues at polling stations was much lower than in previous elections.

Security, military conscription and integrity are top issues

The vote serves not only as a referendum on Netanyahu's leadership but also on what kind of country Israel should be — heavily influenced by religious and nationalist forces, or more firmly anchored in liberal and secular values.

Israel has found itself increasingly isolated over its conduct in Gaza and the West Bank. Public support among Americans has plummeted, and partners in Europe and elsewhere have slapped sanctions on Israel.

Also hanging over the election are lingering tensions with Iran. Netanyahu ramped up threats ahead of the vote, warning Tehran it would face “a devastating blow” if it attacked Israel.

Netanyahu's supporters see him as a steady hand and a consummate statesman who they believe has triumphantly guided Israel through multiple wars. They think he is protecting Israel’s Jewish identity while keeping in check what they see as an interventionist judiciary.

His Israeli detractors see him as a polarizing leader who, beset by an ongoing corruption trial, dragged on the war in Gaza and its hostage crisis for political reasons. They say he is undermining Israel's independent judiciary and weakening its democratic underpinnings. And they accuse him of abetting a system that has allowed ultra-Orthodox religious Jews to avoid enlistment in Israel's compulsory military.

“The present government is driving the country into the ground,” voter Angela Bengur said in Jerusalem.

Eisenkot is viewed by supporters as a capable leader with sterling security credentials who, along with his likely governing partners, could act as a bulwark against creeping illiberalism. As someone personally touched by the conflict — his son and two nephews were killed in Gaza — his backers believe that he feels deeply the pain that still courses through Israel.

Parties that likely would support Eisenkot have vowed to improve Israel's international standing and work to conscript ultra-Orthodox men while bolstering the independence of the judiciary.

The elections are about “who serves and who evades service — who takes an active part in building this country and who doesn’t," said voter Nisso Shitrit in Jaffa.

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Associated Press writers across Israel contributed.

The risks laid out by the San Francisco company in its filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission included discussion of bad actors potentially using AI models to build deadly weapons or the technology itself going rogue with untold consequences.

Of the 335 pages outlining Anthropic’s finances, executive compensation, dividend policy and the like, 93 pages are devoted to “risk factors” — the things that could hurt potential shareholders’ investments. Rival SpaceX’s listed risk factors, in comparison, took up 38 out of more than 250 pages.

In selling itself to investors, Anthropic presents its own initial public offering as a step toward mitigating the risks it believes AI poses.

“To build AI is to harness cognition itself, and anything so powerful can be used for ill as well as good,” write the company’s founders in a letter to prospective shareholders in the IPO filing. “Anthropic is a deeply values-driven organization, founded in large part to help the world realize AI’s benefits and avoid its dangers.”

Still, the risks are many. They range from the mundane — the possibility it won’t be able to retain key staff or navigate regulatory roadblocks — to involvement in cyberattacks and the spread of dangerous misinformation.

Here is a look at some of the risks Anthropic details:

The technology's rapid development

Anthropic said it's possible its models could develop so quickly the company won't be able to implement adequate safety measures, “which could increase the likelihood of safety incidents, regulatory intervention, or reputational harm, and could adversely affect our business."

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned in September that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet. The warning — and now Anthropic’s move to sell shares — comes as worries about AI grow inside and outside the industry about increasingly powerful systems that solve problems beyond human capacity but could also act on their own to carry out other, more harmful tasks.

As AI systems “become more autonomous and capable of taking consequential actions with less human oversight,” the SEC filing said, there’s a risk that such systems could “take harmful actions independently and at scale without human intervention.”

“Even if our own models do not cause such harm, a significant safety incident involving any frontier AI could trigger broad reputational damage to the AI industry, public backlash, and sweeping regulatory responses that could adversely affect our business,” Anthropic said.

Now that the AI models are themselves contributing to Anthropic’s own research and development, it’s possible that AI could progress “beyond our ability to evaluate and safeguard new models,” according to the filing. This, the document said, could adversely affect Anthropic’s business.

Malicious actors could cause mayhem with the technology

The filing discussed concerns that advanced AI systems, if not developed and operated with enough safeguards and oversight, “pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity, particularly if such systems were misused, replicated, weaponized, or allowed to operate with a high degree of autonomy.”

The company said it would be harmed if use by bad actors causes damage, “or if our model guardrails or safeguards fail to prevent such misuse.”

Anthropic sketched out the prospect of bad actors using AI models to build chemical weapons or authoritarian rulers turning to the technology to crack down on their citizens. In September, the company disclosed that it had blocked efforts to use its AI models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance and research that could have led to biological weapon development.

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Compute — the computing power or resources needed to build, test and improve AI models — is expensive and in high demand. Anthropic notes that if it's unable to secure adequate compute, or if “we fail to direct our compute effectively across our workloads, we may be unable to train models that remain competitive with those of our competitors or adequately serve our customers.”

Anthropic mentioned community opposition to data centers as a risk to its business. Data center development “has prompted public controversy and regulatory scrutiny regarding environmental impact, land and water use, and the allocation of limited power resources,” the filing said, adding that if regulators impose new requirements or charges as a result, its ability to do business could suffer.

In addition, the company relies on a small number of customers, including SpaceX and Microsoft, and distribution channels for a large portion of its revenue. This means that even if just one of its big customers decides to scale back — or drop the company altogether — Anthropic said it could see its prospects and finances suffer.

Mitigating the risks

In some ways, AI's enormous risk, combined with its enormous potential, is Anthropic's main selling point. The company has tried to position itself as a responsible AI company, and courts business customers by emphasizing safety-mindedness.

“We believe that frontier AI companies must invest in safety and alignment to help ensure the responsible diffusion of this technology,” the filing said.

Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Research, said IPO deals have to display “very clearly” what risks people face when they invest their money in a newly public stock.

“That’s one of the things that’s great about our capital markets here domestically is the level of transparency that you must commit to, to be a publicly traded corporation on a U.S. exchange requires you to outline those risks in a very clear way, so that people understand if they want to participate by offering their hard-earned money and help finance this type of a deal,” he said.

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AP Business Writer Bernard Condon and AP Technology Writer Kaitlyn Huamani contributed to this story.

The Fed's Oct. 27-28 meeting will be the fourth of Chairman Kevin Warsh's tenure, which has been marked by questions regarding his independence from President Donald Trump, who appointed him earlier this year. It also comes just six days before midterm elections that have been shaped by affordability concerns as gas prices have soared and grocery prices remain elevated.

High mortgage rates have become another elevated cost for consumers, with the average 30-year mortgage reaching a three-year high of 7.4% earlier this month before slipping last week to 7.32%. A year ago, the rate was just under 6.2%. Oxford Economics estimates that the sharp increases this year has put home buying out of reach for another 5 million households. Further rate hikes by the Fed could push mortgage rates even higher.

With all those moving parts, here's what to watch for from the Fed's meeting:

Slim chance of a rate hike

After inflation came in hotter than expected last month, Wall Street investors and some economists expected the Fed to lift rates at Wednesday’s meeting by a quarter-point, to about 4.1%. The Fed is charged with combatting inflation, and typically seeks to cool spending and bring down inflation by boosting borrowing costs.

Yet several top officials on the Fed’s rate-setting committee in speeches downplayed the likelihood of a rate hike in October. Investors now see almost no chance of an increase in the Fed's rate, currently at about 3.9%, according to futures prices.

Philip Jefferson, vice chair of the Fed's board of governors, noted that longer-term interest rates had shot higher in financial markets and added that, “my colleagues and I will need to come to our own judgment, which may take more time.”

Joseph LaVorgna, chief economist at SMBC Americas and a former top Trump administration official, said that the central bank will hold back just before the election.

“The Fed doesn't want to poke the White House in the eye six days before an election,” LaVorgna said.

Forward guidance — or not

The comments from Jefferson and others raise questions about one of Warsh’s signature initiatives: His disdain for so-called “forward guidance,” a term for the clear signals about the central bank's next moves provided by previous chairs. Warsh has said that such direction commits the Fed to a specific path and limits its ability to respond to economic data.

Yet the speeches this month by top officials appeared to some economists to be very much like forward guidance — just not from the chairman.

“Either he blessed this message from them and he was on board, in which case, one would have to question the credibility of this idea that that he doesn’t like forward guidance,” said Aditya Bhave, head of U.S. economics research at Bank of America. “But the other possibility is that he wasn't on board."

In that case, Warsh could implement a surprise rate hike, which would “end forward guidance by showing markets that they can’t listen to the guidance anymore."

Still, most economists see the odds of a hike as quite low.

Sizing up Warsh's independence

At the Fed's last meeting in September, Warsh defied Trump's preferences and raised rates, a step that defied concerns that the new Fed chair would turn out to be, in the words of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, “a sock puppet” for the president.

Trump had said before choosing Warsh in January of this year that he would only pick a Fed chair who would cut rates.

James Knightley, chief international economist for Netherlands-based bank ING, said that September's rate hike, in defiance of the White House, largely assuaged those concerns.

“So far I think the markets have been encouraged by what they've seen,” Knightley said.

Yet since the September meeting, Trump has renewed his efforts to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook. If he is successful, it would open up another slot on the Fed's board for Trump to fill. The Supreme Court in June blocked an earlier attempt to remove her.

Trump also said after last month's Fed meeting that he had called Warsh beforehand and told him he “might as well” vote to raise rates because other officials on the rate-setting committee had publicly called for a hike. Trump said the committee is “hostile” and “political.”

Warsh declined at last month's news conference to comment on any communications with Trump, despite news reports that he has spoken often with the president. With the scope of Warsh's communications with Trump unclear, Derek Tang, an economist at Monetary Policy Analytics, said, “I think there is still a question mark there” regarding the chairman's independence.

Warsh's characterization of inflation

Inflation has come in hotter than most economists expected for two months in a row, heightening concerns that gas price spikes could raise costs across the economy. Diesel fuel reached an all-time high of $6.53 in late September, and has only fallen to $6.35 since then.

High diesel costs raise the price of shipping all sorts of goods, including groceries, cars, and nearly everything else. Businesses could then pass on the costs to consumers, spreading inflation to more parts of the economy.

Bhave notes that inflation hasn't been at the Fed's target of a 2% annual rate for a single calendar quarter since the final three months of 2020 — nearly six years ago.

If Warsh reiterates some of what he's said before — that inflation is too high, and the Fed intends to return it to 2% in a “timelier” fashion — economists and investors will see such comments as a sign the Fed will likely hike rates at its next meeting in December.

Signs of dissent

The Fed's September decision to lift rates was unanimous. Many Fed watchers, however, expect there could be two or even three dissents among the 12 officials who vote on rates. Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and Lorie Logan, president of the Dallas Fed, are considered the most likely to vote in favor of a rate hike this week.

Both have expressed concerns that the Fed's key rate isn't high enough to slow the economy and cool inflation.

Ironically, dissents could help Warsh and the Fed, some economists say, by illustrating that there is still support for higher rates on the committee.

Gasser faced the minimum over six dominant innings, pitching the Milwaukee Brewers to the brink of their first championship in a 10-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night.

He's the first starter to face the minimum over six in a World Series game since Curt Schilling for the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 7 of the 2001 Fall Classic.

The last lefty to do it was Koufax, a Hall of Famer who spun his gem in Game 5 of the 1965 World Series.

The 27-year-old rookie nicknamed Bobby Diesel allowed a single to Yandy Diaz leading off the game but erased him on Chandler Simpson’s fielder’s choice. Catcher William Contreras then threw out Simpson attempting to steal second after Simpson slid off the bag.

Gasser retired 12 in a row until a leadoff walk to Victor Mesa Jr. in the sixth. Nick Fortes followed with a double-play groundout, and Taylor Walls grounded out to second on Gasser's final pitch.

Gasser, who began the season in Triple-A Nashville, earned the win with six scoreless innings on one hit, one walk and three strikeouts. He is the first Brewers starter this postseason to record an out in the sixth inning.

“It’s a special opportunity that we all have to be here,” Gasser said. "To be nervous or scared would only be cheating myself and my teammates.”

Second baseman Brice Turang, who helped Gasser with three hits and two RBIs, was hardly surprised Gasser kept his cool.

“He’s very chill,” Turang said. “He drives chill, too. He’s really slow at driving. Everything about him is just chill.”

A second-round pick by San Diego in 2021, Gasser joined Milwaukee in a then-maligned deal for All-Star closer Josh Hader in 2022. He made his major league debut in 2024 but had Tommy John surgery on his left elbow after just five starts.

He struggled to regain his form until late in 2026, when he finished the regular season with a 1.67 ERA in his final six appearances.

“A big word is belief,” Gasser said. “I haven’t changed much over the years from mechanics to velocity. I think it always comes down to, ‘Do you believe in yourself?’"

No question, the Brewers believe in him.

Milwaukee has won four straight road postseason games, three of them started by Gasser. That includes five scoreless innings in Game 3 of the NL Championship Series at Dodger Stadium.

Prior to this year, Milwaukee had lost 12 straight postseason road games since 2018, matching the longest skid in major league history set by the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins from 1925-87.

“He’s been great for us all year, all postseason,” Brewers captain Christian Yelich said. “And he’s got that steady heartbeat. The moment’s never too big for him, and you know when he goes out there, you’re gonna have a great chance to win the game.”

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The Cowboys linebacker raised the ball in celebration after making the clutch play the Eagles’ defense could not deliver.

Look at Dallas now, playing for a division title that's up for grabs.

Dak Prescott threw for 212 yards and three touchdowns, two to CeeDee Lamb, and the Cowboys handed the Eagles their fifth straight loss, 38-21 on Monday night.

The Eagles (2-5) are spiraling into a disaster of a season with their longest skid since 2016.

Javonte Williams ran for a career-high 155 yards and a touchdown for the Cowboys (3-4), who still have realistic designs on an NFC East title. The New York Giants lead the division at 4-2-1, and the Cowboys are the only team with two division victories.

“Come out, get a division win on the road in a hostile environment right before we get to go home for a couple of weeks, I think it was massive,” Prescott said.

Philadelphia lost eight straight games in 2012 and had a seven-game skid in 1994.

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is expected to miss the rest of the season because of blood clots in his lungs. McKee provided little encouragement that he can turn the season around, completing 23 of 35 passes for 211 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

Prescott finished long drives with scores that McKee was unable to match. The Eagles are 3-6 without Hurts since he became the starter in 2021.

With Dallas trailing 21-20 late in the third quarter, Lamb hauled in his second TD on a beautiful 16-yard floater from Prescott in the corner of the end zone. Prescott ran in the 2-point conversion for a 28-21 lead.

Brandon Aubrey kicked field goals of 55, 27 and 24 yards. The final kick extended Dallas’ lead to 31-21. Williams capped the scoring and the first 150-yard rushing game by a Dallas player since Ezekiel Elliott in 2018 with a 2-yard TD. The Cowboys finished with 204 yards rushing.

“Javonte, man, the power, the acceleration, it was there tonight. He looked great,” Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said.

Overshown sealed the win with the pick in his first game since he suffered a hamstring injury in Week 1.

“Our division, we're in it,” Overshown said.

Unlike the Eagles.

McKee orchestrated the first Eagles touchdown drive in the third quarter this season when they ran almost 10 minutes off the clock and he hit rookie Makai Lemon for a 4-yard touchdown and a 21-20 lead.

The Eagles didn't score again and are running out of chances to salvage their season.

“Football is going to deal you some tough hands at times,” coach Nick Sirianni said. “Can you get up and keep fighting?”

High-scoring game early

The Cowboys got a field goal on their opening drive, and the Eagles came right back and made it 7-3 on Saquon Barkley’s 8-yard touchdown run. Barkley returned after missing the last two-plus games with a hamstring injury and had 37 yards rushing on the drive.

Barkley entered with 36 yards rushing all season. He still seemed bothered by the hamstring and had to visit the sideline medical tent. Barkley also missed long stretches getting treatment for his back on the sideline and finished with 62 yards on seven carries. The Eagles also played without wideout DeVonta Smith.

Prescott threw touchdown passes of 9 yards to Lamb and 21 yards to George Pickens that helped the Cowboys stretch their lead to 20-14 at halftime. Pickens’ catch was particularly impressive, as he escaped tight coverage by safety Andrew Mukuba in the back of the end zone and dragged his left foot sideways for the score.

“Stuck to the run. Had great balance,” Prescott said. “When you’re able to do that, we should put ourselves in position like this. It was a great environment. We knew we had to win. We came out and got it done.”

Eagles' defense offers little resistance

The Eagles allowed 416 total yards with an average of 6.4 yards per play and 25 first downs. Philadelphia has allowed at least 375 yards in each game of its losing streak.

Lurie is an Eagles Hall of Famer

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame.

Lurie bought the Eagles on May 6, 1994, and since the turn of the century they have been one of the top franchises in football. The Eagles are one of three teams to play in four Super Bowls since 2004 and have won the only two titles in franchise history under Lurie's ownership.

Lurie was flanked by Eagles Hall of Famers including Brian Dawkins and Donovan McNabb and gave a brief halftime speech. However, unlike other Hall of Fame inductees, Lurie did not hold a pregame news conference. Sirianni remained the only team representative addressing Hurts’ condition since he was injured.

Injuries

Eagles: Kick returner Britain Covey suffered a knee injury in the first quarter.

Up next

Cowboys: Host Arizona on Sunday.

Eagles: At Washington in a Sunday night matchup of struggling NFC East rivals.

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The visit to Port Arthur, Texas, comes on the same day that Trump is campaigning in the state for Republican candidates in the midterms.

The president has rallies scheduled in Corpus Christi and Lubbock. Trump is trying to shore up support for U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who is locked in a tight race with Democratic candidate James Talarico.

It’s not clear whether Rubio, who also serves as Trump's national security adviser, would take part in any campaign events. But it's the first time that he's hitting the road with Trump as the president barnstorms the country.

The two U.S. officials and the congressional aide spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Rubio's plans before they were publicly announced.

It's highly unusual for the nation's top diplomat to participate in political travel. Rubio's trip would be the latest example of how Trump's second presidency has blurred the lines between governing and campaigning. Attorney General Todd Blanche has already been appearing at rallies alongside Republican candidates.

Rubio previously ran for president in 2016 and is considered a top prospect in 2028. He has not said whether he will run, and his political activities have been limited since becoming secretary of state.

The Milwaukee Brewers are one victory from their first World Series title after routing the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 on Monday night thanks to a trio of young players who have shined in October.

Chourio bookended Milwaukee’s eight-run fifth inning with two of his four hits, and Turang's two-run single opened a barrage of scoring with two outs.

“He was tremendous. Locked in. Gives us a big lift,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said about Chourio, who has eight hits in three Series games.

Gasser, a rookie left-hander, pitched one-hit ball and faced the minimum through six innings as Milwaukee rolled to a 3-0 lead in this Fall Classic. Game 4 is Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, where many Brewers fans showed up Monday and cheered from behind the visitors’ dugout.

“It is really cool when you go on the road in such an intense atmosphere to have that support,” Gasser said. “Normally it’s 35,000 against nine, but tonight we had 20,000 people behind us.”

Gasser allowed a line-drive single to Yandy Díaz leading off the bottom of the first and then retired 14 straight before Victor Mesa Jr. walked to begin the Tampa Bay sixth.

With the help of a caught stealing and a double play, Gasser became the first starter to face the minimum 18 batters through six innings of a World Series game since Arizona's Curt Schilling in 2001 — and the first lefty to do it since Sandy Koufax for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1965.

Chourio finished 4 for 5 with a double. Turang and William Contreras each went 3 for 5 as Milwaukee racked up 16 hits off “Fastball Freddy” Peralta and five relievers to win its eighth straight game — tying the record for a single postseason.

“I think that you could say this is one of my better games,” Chourio said through a translator. “Really I was just taking every at-bat like it could be my last and trying to find any way I could to get on base.”

Of the 43 previous major league teams to fall behind 3-0 in a best-of-seven postseason series, only the 2004 Boston Red Sox rallied to win four straight when they beat the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series.

“It’s kind of that chip and a chair mentality,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “We’ve got a seat at the table. We’ve got to do something with the chip. Obviously the only thing we can do is win tomorrow.”

Gasser became the first starter for Milwaukee to get an out in the sixth inning this postseason. He’s allowed one run in 15 innings over three starts, all on the road.

Peralta, the MVP of the ALCS against Cleveland, ran out of gas against the Brewers. He was charged with five runs and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings against his former team.

After a pair of tense, down-to-the-final-pitch, one-run games in Milwaukee, the Brewers put this one out of reach in the fifth with a postseason-record seven straight hits — all with two outs.

It was the first time in World Series history a team scored eight two-out runs in one inning.

“I was sitting in the dugout getting ready to go. There was two outs, and next thing you know, 40 minutes later, I have to go out on the field,” Gasser said. “It was special. I had a smile on my face the whole time. It’s just surreal when something like that happens.”

Chourio began the rally with a one-out single and stole second with two outs. Christian Yelich walked, and Peralta exited after Contreras’ infield single loaded the bases.

It seemed the inning was over when third baseman Junior Caminero fielded Contreras’ bouncer and threw to second for an apparent forceout. But the call at second was overturned to safe after a replay review, and Cam Booser entered.

Turang ripped a liner that shortstop Taylor Walls couldn’t corral on a short hop. It bounced off his glove and rolled into shallow center field for a two-run single.

“Knife to the chest,” Walls said.

Garrett Mitchell followed with an RBI single, Cooper Pratt grounded a two-run double down the left-field line and Sal Frelick lined a run-scoring double to make it 8-0.

“It’s definitely deflating,” Cash said. “How could it not be?”

Cole Sulser replaced Booser and allowed an RBI single to David Hamilton and an RBI double to the 22-year-old Chourio, who became the second-youngest player with four hits and a stolen base in a World Series game behind Ty Cobb in 1908.

Brandon Woodruff pitched the ninth for the Brewers, allowing one run and two hits in his first appearance in 3 1/2 months. The two-time All-Star had been sidelined by a shoulder injury that originally was thought to require surgery.

Also seeking its first championship, Tampa Bay made uncharacteristic mistakes on the bases and defense during the first two games in Milwaukee. Then the Rays completely unraveled at home in their first Series game at Tropicana Field since 2008.

Wearing their white Devil Rays uniforms, they were eager to play in front of their fans at the quirky, cavernous Trop, which had its roof shredded by Hurricane Milton in October 2024 and needed major renovations.

But the cowbell-ringing, towel-waving Rays fans among a sellout crowd of 40,388 couldn’t help the home team against the surging Brewers.

Griffin Jax is scheduled to start Game 4 for Tampa Bay. Milwaukee hadn’t announced a starter.

Of the 25 previous teams that took a 3-0 lead in the World Series, 21 swept and four won in five games.

With a victory in Game 4, the Brewers would become the first team to sweep an LCS and World Series since the 1976 Cincinnati Reds.

“We've been preparing for this day a lot,” Chourio said. “We have one more to lock in for tomorrow to complete the mission.”

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There was a wind advisory in effect for metro Broward and Miami-Dade counties, as a strong onshore wind continued with gusts up to 40mph at the coast.

Fast-moving showers were forecast to move onshore through Monday with temperatures in the 80s.

A coastal flood warning was in effect for Broward, Miami-Dade, and the upper keys in Monroe County. A coastal flood advisory was in effect for the lower keys.

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But the artists behind the “America Touched, America Seen” exhibition share something beyond their creativity: they are blind or visually impaired.

“We have just proved a blind person can do anything a sighted person can do,” said Virginia Jacko, president and CEO of the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. “They might do it a bit differently.”

The exhibition showcases the work by artists with Miami Lighthouse, highlighting how they use different techniques to bring their ideas to life.

Among the featured artists is Victor Brown. At an exhibition celebration in October, he proudly stood beside a large American flag he created using macramé, an art form that involves knotting cords into patterns.

For Brown, the work represents years of adapting to life without sight.

“I never had any vision in my left eye, and I had 20/400 in the right,” Brown said. “In 2007, I had detachment of the retina in my right eye and lost whatever vision I had left.”

At the Miami Lighthouse, Brown also works on sculptures made of popsicle sticks and glue. He carefully keeps track of each step as he creates his artwork.

“In his head, he has a process where he creates the sculpture,” said Aaron Hill, supervisor of fine arts and arts education at Miami Lighthouse. “He’s a mini engineer of those pop sticks.”

Throughout the room there were examples of adults finding their own way to bring their ideas to life.

“They might have to do things a little differently to make it happen, but they still can make it happen, and a lot of the time it’s better than us sighted people,” Hill said.

The exhibition also includes works from elementary school students from Miami Lighthouse. Students added color and creativity to soccer balls, which were suspended from the ceiling in the exhibition.

Victor Brown, a law school graduate who practiced with the state of Florida, hopes the work will help change the way people see those who are blind or visually impaired.

“I think the biggest takeaway is they need to look at the people that are doing it and maybe they will think of them having a little more worth,” Brown said.

The art exhibition is at the Coral Gables Museum until Nov. 1.

“Knife in the chest,” the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop said.

Tampa Bay's first World Series game at Tropicana Field in 18 years turned into a record-setter for Brewers batters.

Milwaukee became the first team to score eight runs with two outs in a World Series inning, routing the Rays 10-1 on Monday night to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.

Turang's two-run single was the second of a postseason-record seven straight two-out hits against starter Freddy Peralta and relievers Cam Booser and Cole Sulser.

Milwaukee turned a 2-0 lead into a 7-0 advantage with hits on three straight pitches by Turang, Garrett Mitchell and Cooper Pratt. The Brewers went on to score eight runs in a 17-pitch span to open a 10-run advantage. Jackson Chourio had a single and a double in the inning, part of his four-hit night.

"Worst feeling in the world, feeling like you let your team down,” a downcast Booser said in the quiet Tampa Bay clubhouse.

Among 25 previous teams that fell behind 3-0 in a World Series, 21 were swept and four lost in five games. Of 43 teams to trail 3-0 in any best-of-seven postseason matchup, only the Boston Red Sox against the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series rebounded to win.

“It’s kind of that chip and a chair mentality," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “We’ve got a seat at the table. We’ve got to do something with the chip. Obviously the only thing we can do is win tomorrow.”

Coming off a pair of one-run wins at American Family Field, the Brewers took a 2-0 lead in the third when Christian Yelich and William Contreras hit opposite-field, one-out RBI singles on consecutive pitches.

“They were very disciplined at the plate,” Peralta said. “Just tried to hit the ball the other way.”

Chourio singled with one out in the fifth and Christian Yelich walked with two outs. Contreras grounded to third and Junior Caminero threw to second as umpire Dan Bellino signaled a forceout. But the call was reversed in the New York replay operations center by umpire Alfonso Márquez, giving Contreras an infield single that loaded the bases.

Caminero may have had a better chance of throwing out Contreras at first base.

“I knew the speed at first base wasn’t necessarily the best in that situation,” Caminero said through a translator. “So going into the moment, once I got the groundball I was going to second base all the way.”

Booser relieved and Turang’s 106 mph one-hopper hit the dirt just past the infield grass, bounced off Walls' glove and into short center field.

“I’d like to have that one back. Those are plays that you’d like to make, that you expect to make even though they may be on the tougher end,” Walls said. “That was pretty much the turning point in the game there.”

Walls dropped to a knee and held out his glove at shoulder level trying to make what would have been an excellent stop, then tumbled as the ball bounced past him.

“You just try to get your eyes as close to where the ball is going to be, the height of the hop,” he said. “Ideally, I guess if you want to talk about fractions, if you can get your glove behind the ball and work more backwards you have a better chance to make the play than if you’re slightly above it having to kind of work down a little bit, which is where I kind of felt I was.”

Mitchell grounded an opposite-field RBI single through the shortstop hole vacated with Walls shifted toward second for the left-handed batter. Pratt followed with a smash off the glove of a diving Caminero that rolled into the left-field corner for a two-run double.

Sal Frelick sliced an opposite-field double that hit the wall on a hop in the left-field corner, scoring Pratt and chasing Booser.

David Hamilton greeted Sulser by lining a shoulder-high fastball into center for a run-scoring single and a 9-0 lead. Chourio then lofted an opposite-field RBI double that hit just in front of the warning track.

Boston set the previous Series high of seven runs with two outs in the fifth inning of the 2007 opener against Colorado, a feat matched three years later by San Francisco in the eighth inning of Game 2 against Texas, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The Los Angeles Dodgers were the only prior team with eight two-out runs in any postseason inning, scoring 10 with two outs in the first inning of Game 3 against Atlanta in the 2020 NL Championship Series.

Griffin Jax said he'll put the Series deficit out of his mind when he starts Game 4 on Tuesday.

“We just got our butts kicked tonight. I don’t think there’s really much else to say,” Jax explained. “We’ll just kind of forget it and try to sleep it off and come back tomorrow ready to fight.”

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Moore has not played since getting concussed on a late hit at Southern California in late September. He resumed practicing earlier this month but remained in the concussion protocol.

“I'm not anticipating him being back, no,” Lanning said during his weekly news conference in Eugene.

Moore returned to school as a senior instead of declaring for the NFL draft when he could have been a top-10 pick. The Ducks were ranked No. 2 in the AP Top 25 ahead of this season and Moore was considered a candidate for the Heisman Trophy; they are now 4-3 and unranked.

Moore, 21, threw for 926 yards and nine touchdowns with no interceptions in four games this season.

“I think if it was up to Dante in any shape, way, he would want to be out there playing for the guys. But unfortunately, it’s not really up to Dante. It’s not really up to me,” Lanning said. “We can control the setting at practice where he’s able to do things for us, where that’s not always the case in the game. And you know, we said before that this is a serious deal that he’ll 100 percent be able to make a full recovery from. That hasn’t changed, definitely feel that way. But for him to be out there on the field for us right now, that’s not going to happen.”

Lanning declined to speculate about whether Moore might return to Oregon next season.

“We’d love to have Dante out there. He’s still going to be a big part of this team and helping us move forward, finding opportunities for us to be better. I can tell you, we’re getting one of the best scout team quarterback looks every single week in practice, and he looks good out there,” Lanning said.

Moore threw for 3,565 yards, with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions last season. Oregon had just one loss in the regular season, at home to Indiana, before losing to the Hoosiers again in the College Football Playoff semifinals.

A five-star recruit, Moore started five games for UCLA as a freshman, throwing for 1,610 yards with 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He transferred to Oregon and spent 2024 as Dillon Gabriel’s backup, eventually taking a redshirt.

Dylan Raiola took over for Moore against the Trojans, throwing for 289 yards and two touchdowns in a 41-27 victory. But Raiola, who previously started two seasons at Nebraska, struggled in a 17-15 loss to UCLA, completing 6 of 19 passes for 43 yards with two interceptions.

Third-stringer Brock Turner started the next week against Nebraska, but he was ineffective. Raiola relieved him and found Jamari Johnson for a 4-yard scoring pass with 28 seconds left that gave Oregon a 17-14 win.

Raiola was 27 of 41 for 246 yards last Saturday in a 21-10 loss at Illinois, which effectively ended the Ducks’ hopes for a playoff berth. The next day, Oregon fired offensive coordinator Drew Mehringer.

The Ducks host No. 20 Northwestern on Saturday.

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Swift added another honor to her trophy wall with her second hall of fame induction this year and was celebrated at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala on Monday in a crowded ballroom full of artists, writers and country music elite.

“I knew from the time I wrote my first song that even if it couldn’t be my career, it would be my passion," Swift said.

She described soaking up the lessons from other writers like a sponge, learning how to push through writer's block and write about the human condition, even when her writing partner was hungover or going through a divorce.

Swift recalled her mom would regularly pick her up from high school and drop her off at a publishing house on Nashville's Music Row, where she poured out her emotions to one of her first co-writers, Liz Rose. She later would meet Nathan Chapman, who produced her self-titled debut album in 2006, released 20 years ago this month.

Swift, who took her talents to a much wider audience beyond country music, said her ability to “genre hop” was because she had learned the fundamentals of songwriting in Nashville.

“I’m so incredibly honored to be inducted into this sacred club," Swift said.

Brad Paisley, one of the first major artists to take her on tour after her debut album, introduced her as “the voice of a generation.”

He joked that Swift “went to Brad Paisley High School" as a 17-year-old traveling the country while on tour with him. Swift later recounted that Paisley took a prank too far in 2007 when he filled her bus with thousands of crickets.

"For months I couldn't sleep. Just chirp, chirp, chirp," she said.

Lainey Wilson performed a bluegrass version of “Love Story” with fiddle and stand-up bass from Swift's second album, “Fearless.”

Swift wasn't the only big star to be celebrated, as George Strait, the lauded “King of Country Music,” was given the Career Maker Award from the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Strait, a Country Music Hall of Famer, is known for picking great songs from other songwriters and sending them to the top of country charts for five decades.

Surrounded by songwriters on stage, Strait was predictably succinct in his speech as he sent out his thanks for all the writers who sent songs to him over the years.

“They made my career," Strait said. “I didn’t make theirs.”

Lovett spent his speech naming mentors and artists and writers who took a chance on him.

“I am humbled just to be in the room with these amazing Hall of Fame songwriters and amazing recording artists," Lovett said. "It is such a privilege to be able to go through your life and do what you want to do.”

Allison, who died in 2022, was a member of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets and co-wrote hits like “That'll Be The Day” and “Peggy Sue.” Camp, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, fiddle and more, co-wrote songs like “Two Pina Coladas” for Garth Brooks and “How Long Gone” by Brooks & Dunn, as well as hits for Blake Shelton and George Strait and many bluegrass songs.

Channel co-wrote “Hey! Baby!" a song that would become part of the movie “Dirty Dancing” but also a country hit for Anne Murray and many others. Miller co-wrote award-winning songs like “You're Gonna Miss This,” performed by Trace Adkins and “In Color," performed by Jamey Johnson.

The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Monday night that Jay-Z will be the featured performer for the halftime festivities on Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he had one request when the league first reached an agreement with Roc Nation: that Jay-Z take the stage himself “whenever the moment felt right to him.”

“From ‘Reasonable Doubt’ to standing on the Super Bowl halftime stage, this has been a journey,” Jay-Z said in a statement. “Thirty years of music, work, and culture on the world’s biggest stage. This run continues to be a dream come true.”

After days of speculation, Jay-Z is set to return to the stadium where he closed his celebration of the 30th anniversary of “Reasonable Doubt,” the mogul's 1996 debut album. The concerts included three sold-out shows at Yankee Stadium and sold-out performances in London and Paris ahead of a stop at SoFi Stadium over the weekend.

Jay-Z’s Roc Nation has partnered with the NFL since 2019 to advise on and help produce the league’s entertainment presentations, including the Super Bowl halftime show. At the time, Jay-Z said he had told Goodell, “If this is about me performing at the Super Bowl, then we can just end this conversation now.”

Seven years later, Jay-Z is ready to perform after all.

Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, has won 25 Grammy Awards and received 89 nominations, the second-most in history behind his wife, Beyoncé — who has performed at two Super Bowls. His catalog also includes the albums “The Blueprint” and “The Black Album,” and hit songs such as “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem),” “99 Problems” and “Empire State of Mind,” his collaboration with Alicia Keys.

Last year, “Reasonable Doubt” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

His recent concerts brought out a rotating cast of guests. At SoFi Stadium, his daughter Blue Ivy played piano on “The Story of O.J.” and “Dead Presidents,” while Scarface, John Legend and DJ Khaled joined him on opening night. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Too $hort appeared during Saturday’s finale.

Earlier in the run, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Eminem and Nas were among the guests at Yankee Stadium.

Jay-Z has built a career as an executive and entrepreneur. The Brooklyn rapper co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records and founded Roc Nation in 2008, building it into an entertainment company that works with artists and athletes.

Jay-Z became the first rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017 and joined the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. He is also a four-time Emmy winner.

Roc Nation will executive produce the halftime show, with Hamish Hamilton directing.

The halftime show has collected Emmys in recent years. Bad Bunny's performance in February won a record seven, including best variety special (live), while Kendrick Lamar's show last year won for music direction.

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Meanwhile, Finland’s president and Norway’s prime minister spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials said, in their first known direct contact since shortly after Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022.

The war that Russia launched set most of Europe against Moscow, with Western officials accusing Russia of masterminding a campaign of disruption across the continent.

After the conversation with Putin, the two Nordic leaders had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to Zelenskyy's office. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb both wrote on X that they had a “good call” with Zelenskyy during which they discussed their conversation with Putin.

A ceasefire takes hold in a southern Ukraine city, officials say

A local pause in fighting started at 3 a.m. to allow an aid mission into the Russia-occupied city of Oleshky later this week. The situation in Oleshky is desperate, with food and medical supplies running perilously low for the up to 2,000 people still there, as drones and land mines restrict movement.

Deep mistrust between Russia and Ukraine, as Moscow's full-scale invasion nears the five-year mark in February, has undermined previous attempts at limited ceasefires, which quickly unraveled or never took hold.

The humanitarian truce was a high-stakes operation for both Moscow and Kyiv, with both sides keen to win U.S. President Donald Trump’s favor.

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators as well as the militaries of the two countries confirmed in separate statements that the Oleshky ceasefire had begun.

Nordic leaders say Putin call was ‘frank and substantive’

The phone calls with the Russian and Ukrainian leaders followed an Oct. 20 meeting in Oslo between the two Nordic leaders, Zelenskyy and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff.

The call was held in consultation with Ukraine, according to the official statements by the two Nordic countries. Stubb and Støre initiated the call with Putin to discuss the war and upcoming trilateral talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the United States that are expected to take place next month in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The two European leaders spoke on behalf of their own countries and not the whole of Europe, the statements said.

“The discussion was frank and substantive,” Stubb said. “We are neighboring countries to Russia. The outcome of this war will have a direct impact on our and the broader European security. Ending the war requires direct discussions.”

“The war comes with enormous human and material costs,” Støre said. “The suffering and destruction will impact generations. In the call we stressed the importance of de-escalation.”

Melania Trump and Pope Leo worked for a truce in Oleshky

According to her office, Melania Trump led talks with civilian negotiators from Russia and Ukraine after meeting with U.N. officials who briefed the American first lady on the situation in Oleshky.

Up to 2,000 people are stranded in the city, unable to leave because of explosive mines and drone attacks in the area, according to the U.N. The partly occupied Kherson region of Ukraine where Oleshky is located is notorious for the dangers of Russian drone attacks on soldiers and civilians.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that “so far there have been no reports of violations.”

Pope Leo XIV spoke earlier this month with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging them to allow humanitarian aid into Oleshky and the safe evacuation of civilians, the Vatican said.

Negotiators involved in the aid mission said doctors, medicines, food supplies and water would be taken to Oleshky before evacuation corridors are opened.

The Kremlin said at the time that Putin voiced support for the Vatican’s plea, and an agreement was reached to coordinate efforts in this regard.

Moscow and Kyiv have blamed each other for the humanitarian crisis.

Russia, as the occupying power, must under international law ensure that civilians under its occupation live safely. Ukraine has repeatedly tried to negotiate a humanitarian corridor for evacuations and aid delivery with Moscow.

The aid mission is planned ahead of a new round of U.S.-brokered talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine expected next month that will seek to lay the groundwork for detailed peace negotiations later.

Lull in Oleshky is uneasy, a Ukrainian official tells the AP

The local ceasefire is due to last through Saturday, or longer if needed. Its geographical scope was unclear, though it was centered on Oleshky and other nearby parts of the Kherson region.

Oleshky is about 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Kyiv, where the Dnipro River separates Russian and Ukrainian forces. Oleshky sits across the Dnipro River from the city of Kherson, the region’s administrative capital. Russian forces seized Kherson in the early stages of the 2022 full-scale invasion, but retreated across the river several months later.

The Ukrainian-held side of the Kherson region was quiet Tuesday. Only Russian reconnaissance drones were in the sky, local authorities said, though they cautioned it was too early to draw any conclusions and that they didn't trust Russia.

“It’s too early to say. Let’s wait and see, because you can’t trust the enemy, especially the Russians,” Yaroslav Shanko, head of the Kherson city administration, told The Associated Press.

“There have been previously announced ceasefires more than once, and they had no effect on Kherson … and, let’s say, a lull like this is sometimes even frightening.”

Shanko acknowledged the situation was unusual. He typically travels with a portable drone detector that constantly picks up drones overhead, but it had gone silent. He said he still kept glancing at it, but it showed nothing.

The quiet stands in contrast to daily life in the city, where people are wounded or killed nearly every day, he said.

City services plan to use the pause to carry out utility work that is usually too dangerous because of constant drone activity.

Russian missiles kill at least 3 civilians in Ukraine, officials say

Minutes after 3 a.m., multiple ballistic missile explosions shook Kyiv and air alerts sounded in multiple parts of the country.

Russian ballistic missiles damaged the grounds of a university in Kyiv, killing one person and leaving 12 wounded, city officials said. In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, authorities said that attacks late Monday killed two people and wounded four others.

In total, Russia launched 16 ballistic missiles and more than 280 drones at 11 regions of Ukraine, Zelenskyy said.

“It is important that the world sees that Russia is showing nothing but a desire to kill and continue waging war,” he said.

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En una carta publicada en las redes sociales indicaron que un “encuentro con las víctimas sería una valiosa señal de cercanía, reconocimiento y compromiso con la verdad, la justicia y la reparación integral de las víctimas”.

“Nuestro propósito no es reabrir heridas, sino contribuir a que puedan sanar”, se añadió.

Enrique Escardó, el primer denunciante de los abusos del Sodalicio en el año 2000 y presidente fundador de una red de sobrevivientes de todo tipo de violencia en entornos de fe en Perú, informó en su cuenta de X que la carta fue entregada el lunes en la sede diplomática del Vaticano en Lima.

“El nuncio (apostólico) Paolo Rocco Gualteri ha recibido ya cartas anteriores y no ha movido un dedo”, comentó Escardó. Añadió que junto a la Conferencia Episcopal de Perú y al Arzobispado de Lima “callan en todos los idiomas sobre el caso Sodalicio y la búsqueda de justicia, sanidad y prevención”.

“Estamos hartos de esta situación y la hemos llevado directamente a Roma, donde esperamos que no sigan ahondando el escándalo con el mismo silencio que aquí”, dijo Escardó en su cuenta de X.

The Associated Press buscó comentarios de la Conferencia Episcopal de Perú y la Nunciatura Apostólica en Lima, pero no obtuvo una respuesta al momento. Juan Bytton, el secretario para la visita apostólica del Arzobispado de Lima, dijo la semana pasada a la AP que el el Santo Padre no ha descartado ni confirmado reuniones con víctimas del Sodalicio.

En 2015, los periodistas peruanos Pedro Salinas y Paola Ugaz publicaron el libro “Mitad monjes, mitad soldados”, donde expusieron las prácticas abusivas del Sodalicio. El libro impulsó que el entonces papa Francisco enviase una misión especial para investigar al grupo ultraconservador en 2023.

Antes de su muerte en 2025, el papa Francisco disolvió al Sodalicio tras la investigación vaticana que reveló abusos sexuales por parte de su fundador el laico Luis Fernando Figari. También halló mala gestión financiera de sus líderes y abusos espirituales cometidos por algunos de sus principales miembros.

Tras la muerte de Francisco y el inicio del pontificado de León XIV — el estadounidense Robert Prevost que fue obispo en Perú — víctimas de abusos del Sodalicio contaron a la AP en Lima que Prevost fue uno de los escasos líderes de la Iglesia peruana que los había escuchado y apoyado.

Pero en la carta del lunes las víctimas del Sodalicio, fundado en 1971, indican que no perciben “avances suficientes en justicia ni en rendición de cuentas".

En mayo el Vaticano envió una comisión a Perú para recoger testimonios de víctimas de abusos del Sodalicio. Jordi Bertomeu, comisario de la disolución del Sodalicio, dijo en mayo a periodistas en Lima que estaba "en marcha” el traslado de toda información del caso a la justicia estadounidense. No dio detalles.

Además de Lima, León XIV tiene previsto visitar las ciudades peruanas de Chiclayo, Cusco, Pucallpa y Santa Cruz de Succhabamba.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a preliminary injunction that temporarily bars the government from removing or damaging any additional trees on the East Potomac Golf Course. The administration must give 10 days’ notice in writing before making any "irreparable modification” to any “forms or features” of the course while the lawsuit is active.

“The Court earlier stated, ‘I am not the Lorax. I do not speak for the trees.’ The Court still does not speak for the trees. It speaks only for the rule of law,” Reyes wrote.

Reyes expressed astonishment that the government has asked her to “not to believe the sitting President” and disregard Trump’s statements about his plans for the golf course renovations.

“This started as a case about golf. That good walk spoiled. But it has become much more,” Reyes wrote. “It now forces the Court to reconcile assertions by President Donald J. Trump with the sworn testimony of multiple government employees and the argument of senior Department of Justice attorneys.”

On Oct. 18, Trump announced plans on social media to close the golf course for 15 months, starting Nov. 15, and redevelop the 106-year-old park and course despite a court challenge by the D.C. Preservation League and two golfers. A day later, Trump posted that the work would start immediately.

Reyes, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Joe Biden, previously ordered the administration to suspend work on the project until at least Oct. 26.

Trump was asked about the case late Monday night as he arrived back at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland following a rally in Mississippi and indicated that work on the golf course will proceed as planned.

“It has the go-ahead. The judge feels that she would like to approve it as it goes along. And I didn’t know she was an architectural critic of golf courses,” Trump said sarcastically.

He added of the judge: “She knows nothing about that, so we’ll appeal that” while also calling his planned overhaul a “beautiful project for Washington, D.C.”

Trump later in a social media post reiterated a statement he made Oct. 18 that the course would close for 15 months. “We are closing the East Potomac Golf Course Site as scheduled on November 15th in order to renovate and rebuild for Competitive (with other such projects!), Safety, Modernization, and Aesthetic reasons," he wrote.

The plaintiffs challenging the project, DC Preservation League and two golfers, claim the work is inflicting irreversible damage. At a hearing, the judge excoriated the government after workers cut down at least 400 trees over a holiday weekend with little notice to the plaintiffs.

The course renovation project is part of the Republican president’s aggressive campaign to leave his personal imprint on Washington’s historic landscape. Those plans include construction of a huge ballroom at the White House, a massive arch and the creation of a National Garden of American Heroes in West Potomac Park. DC Preservation League is part of a coalition of organizations, including the Cultural Landscape Foundation and one D.C. resident, who have filed lawsuit challenging those plans.

Reyes rejected the administration’s request for her to recuse herself from the case. The government questioned her impartiality and accused her of engaging in “egregious” behavior from the bench during an emergency hearing in the case.

In Monday's ruling Reyes stressed that she had hoped the parties could have resolved their dispute without judicial intervention. She noted that she had denied plaintiffs’ previous requests.

“The Court would much prefer not to have to resolve Lorax v. Once‑ler redux. Indeed, for months, the Court declined to intervene,” she wrote.

But she said the government forced her hand by bulldozing hundreds of trees without any notice, doing “what it assured all it would not do.”

Reyes quoted from a golf-related opinion written by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative icon, in stressing the temporary nature of her own decision.

“Here, golf and government have again clashed,” Reyes wrote. “By issuing this preliminary injunction, the Court does not end the round: it simply marks the ball until the parties can fully and fairly litigate this case.

Democracy Forward President & CEO Skye Perryman, whose organization is co-counsel representing the plaintiffs, called the ruling “a big win that will rightly protect East Potomac Park from further irreparable harm.” She added, in an email, that the move will stop activities “while the case continues, and we are eager to argue the case in court.”

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An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to Perryman as “he.” This version corrects her identity to “she.”

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Associated Press reporters Gary Fields and Will Weissert contributed.

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Detectives identified Kyan Davis as the suspect in the fatal double shooting on Sept. 9 at an apartment in the West Perrine neighborhood, records show.

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the shooting shortly after 5:20 p.m. at the apartment near Southwest 102nd Avenue and 175 Street.

Deputies found the Martinez brothers bleeding on the floor of the apartment’s master bedroom, and fire rescue personnel pronounced them dead, according to a deputy’s arrest report.

Detectives identified Davis, who police said lives in southwest Miami-Dade County’s South Perrine neighborhood, as a suspect after recovering surveillance video from a Ring camera, according to the report.

During detectives’ questioning on Sept. 19 at the MDSO homicide bureau, Davis confessed to being in the apartment, according to the report.

A witness told deputies that he and Davis “would lure the victims under the pretense of selling cannabis pens and/or other narcotics ... they would rob them,” according to the report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Davis shortly before 7:25 p.m. on Saturday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, and he was at the pre-trial detention center on Monday morning, according to inmate records.

Court records show Davis faced six charges in three pending cases. In the case at West Perrine, he faced two counts of first-degree murder.

In the other cases, Davis faced two counts of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and two counts of battery by a detainee.

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

In the months since, Nixon has been making her way through Florida, meeting voters with hopes they will send her to Washington, D.C. to represent the Sunshine State.

Local 10 News caught up with Nixon during one of her many college campus stops in South Florida.

“I’ve been all the way from the Panhandle all the way down to the Keys,” she said. “And a lot of things that folks are telling me about is that they just can’t afford to make it right now.”

Immigration remains a major issue in Florida, and Nixon said she’s been meeting with communities concerned about deportations and the future of temporary protected status.

“I would let them know, particularly Haitians and Hispanics, that I believe that we need to extend TPS for Venezuelans and Haitians,” Nixon said. “We also need to create clear and comprehensive pathways to citizenship, as it relates to the immigration issue.”

Nixon has also faced questions about her association with socialist politics and was asked how she has responded to voters who may not share those views.

“So what I like to tell people (is) that this is bigger than three letters or three words,” said Nixon. “I want to put people first, and folks don’t have to worry about any type of dictator or fascist regime that I would be supporting at all.”

Nixon is working to unseat Moody and insists Democrats must remain united.

“We are spreading out all across this 67 county state, and we come together when we can, but it’s going to take all hands on deck,” she said.

Nixon said she would like to debate Moody, but Moody has not accepted any invitations to debate.

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“I was a federal prosecutor, I was a judge for over a decade, I was your attorney general,” she said.

Moody, who earned her law degree from the University of Florida, spent six years as Florida’s attorney general.

At a recent rally in Broward County, Moody shared her usual campaign talking points about what she’s accomplished as a junior U.S. Senator, along with a little-known fact about herself.

“I’m super competitive,” she said. “I once won a chicken wing eating contest, and I don’t even really like chicken wings. So however they do it, I’m gonna win.”

Moody hails from Plant City, a community about 30 minutes outside of Tampa, best known as the strawberry capital of the world.

The 51-year-old politician is married to Justin Duralia, the deputy chief of the Plant City Police Department.

“My husband, as you know, is a career law enforcement officer,” said Moody. “He inspires me every day.”

The couple has two sons, one currently serving in the military and the other a teenager.

Many of Moody’s policies align with President Donald Trump, from immigration and border security to tax cuts and federal spending and government regulation.

Moody’s campaign slogan is “Florida’s America First fighter.”

“This is an important state,” she said. “We’ve done a lot of great things for Floridians and we need to keep the state strong.”

While tens of millions of dollars have been poured into the senate race in Florida this election cycle, it is substantially less than the amount of money that has been devoted to senate races in other states like Texas and Georgia.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been raised in each of those states.

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And that crazed, violet-clad “Ballhalla” home crowd roared at every chance — watching the Golden State Valkyries move one win away from a championship in their second season with a 64-55 victory against Atlanta in Game 5 of the WNBA Finals on Monday night.

Stokes had 13 points, eight rebounds and three blocks, and Burton contributed a nearly identical stat line with 13 points, eight rebounds and four blocked shots as Golden State got defensive once more to shut down Angel Reese and the Dream.

The Valkyries have leaned on Stokes' steady presence and postseason experience during this remarkable run.

“We’re not here without Kiah,” Burton said. “Every single day, every single game, from the beginning. Just her veteran experience as well. It's more than just defense.”

Reese finished with seven points, 15 rebounds and five assists — a big difference from her two standout performances in the first two games of the series at Chase Center. Reese shook her head when whistled for the second of her three offensive fouls with 7:43 to play.

“I still believe in our team, I still believe we can win this,” Reese said.

Fans screamed and clapped thunder sticks following the final buzzer as Stokes spoke from the floor to chants of “MVP!”

“We appreciate you,” a smiling Stokes said. “We got one more.”

On a night leading scorer Gabby Williams struggled to find her shooting touch, Golden State found that “strength in numbers” mantra coach Natalie Nakase has praised all season long and everybody made an impact. Veronica Burton had 13 points, eight rebounds and her postseason-best four blocks — tying Diana Taurasi in 2009 for most by a guard in a Finals game.

On Saturday, Nakase had changed up her lineup for a 67-62 Game 4 win by inserting Tiffany Hayes and Kaila Charles into the starting five. She stayed with those two Monday night, and it worked again. Hayes, who played 10 seasons for Atlanta and came out of retirement two years ago, had 12 points — and Nakase has said she wants to win it all for the veteran guard.

Williams began 2 for 11 and missed all four of her three 3-point tries, but she converted a three-point play with 9:08 remaining put the Valkyries ahead 49-42 and finished with nine points on 3-for-14 shooting and six rebounds.

Atlanta will now try to stave off elimination at home Thursday in Game 6 and force a deciding Game 7 back here at Chase Center on Saturday. The Dream hurt themselves with 17 turnovers that led to 21 points for Golden State.

“Nothing’s changed, we win two games we’re champions,” Dream coach Karl Smesko said.

Stokes hit a key 3-pointer with 2:46 to go in the third quarter and another with 7:21 left in the game, which ignited chants of “Ki-ah! Ki-ah!” from the rocking, rally-towel waving sellout crowd at Chase Center.

“It feels pretty special,” she said. “I always know what I brought to a team, I always understood my value but just to hear an arena full of 18,000 fans it just really makes me feel appreciated and loved.”

Stokes has recorded three or more blocks in six straight games, tying her with Lisa Leslie in 2003 for the longest such streak in a single WNBA postseason.

The Valkyries used a dominant second half after they led 25-22 at the break, the lowest scoring first half combined score in WNBA Finals history.

Rhyne Howard’s three-point play with 4:59 left in the third pulled Atlanta within 34-31, but after that it was Stokes, Burton and the Valkyries coming up with all the crucial plays on both ends.

"That’s just been our staple all season, we really rely on our defense,” Stokes said.

Golden State owner Joe Lacob promised a championship within five years in a bold declaration when the expansion franchise was granted to the Bay Area three years ago, yet this season has exceeded even what he could have envisioned.

Neither team could find a flow from 3-point range in the first half as they combined to shoot 5 for 29 from deep — 3 of 16 by Golden State and 2 for 13 by Atlanta.

Earlier Monday, the league announced Game 6 would be played at 17,000-seat State Farm Arena in Atlanta starting at 12:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday — a time when many fans on both coasts will be working.

“I’d like to see it be a national holiday for all WNBA championship games so whatever somebody can do,” Smesko said. “I hope everybody gets to see it somehow and I know that for some people it’s not realistic, they have jobs and won’t be able to make it. So I’m disappointed for that but I’m really hopeful that as many people can see the game as possible.”

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Miami enters the game 0-3 following a pair of home losses to Minnesota and Detroit and a tough road defeat on Saturday night in Charlotte.

Tipoff for Monday’s matchup is set for 7:30 p.m. from Kaseya Center in Downtown Miami.

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The 2-1 decision sets the Trump administration and state officials up for another legal showdown on the matter on Tuesday in front of a federal district judge, giving the federal government a very short window to compel California to sequester votes before the Nov. 3 elections.

The decision marks the latest in a string of legal setbacks for President Donald Trump’s administration as it seeks to assert greater federal control over state-run elections. Noncitizen voting has been a central focus of Trump’s political messaging for years, although available data indicates it is exceedingly rare.

Although the panel primarily ruled it was premature for an appeals court to get involved, two of the three judges also wrote separate concurrences making it clear they wouldn’t support setting aside ballots at this late date. They questioned the accuracy of the federal government’s list of alleged noncitizen voters and argued that to set aside votes risks disenfranchising citizens.

One judge dissented, arguing that federal law bars noncitizens from voting and compels California to vet the potentially illegal ballots before they are counted. The failure to do so, he wrote, would cause irreparable harm to the election.

Trump administration sued California officials over list of 20,000 names

The Republican administration sued election officials in the heavily Democratic state in mid-October, accusing them of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review a list of 20,000 people it alleged were likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked the judge to stop the state from counting those ballots until immigration status checks could be completed. The Justice Department made similar demands Monday in Washington, another state with races that will help determine control of the U.S. Senate and House.

Both state and federal law prohibit noncitizens from voting. But California officials say it’s not even clear the administration’s purported 20,000 noncitizen voters are actually not U.S. citizens. In court papers, Los Angeles election officials said the majority of a random sample of voters that the Department of Justice identified as immigrants seemed to have been born in the United States. The Justice Department, for its part, has said there is as much to lose from keeping the potentially illegal ballots in the count.

After a district judge had scheduled an Oct. 27 hearing on the issue, the federal government appealed to the 9th Circuit Court, arguing that a faster decision was needed to prevent the further counting of votes.

But two of the three 9th Circuit Court judges rejected that argument on Monday, writing that the federal government “failed to allow the district court adequate opportunity to consider” their initial request to sequester the ballots in question.

The time-sensitive emergency that the federal government used to justify the appeal, wrote Gabriel Sanchez, a circuit judge appointed by President Joe Biden, was at least in part “the product of the United States’s own decisions” to file so close to the elections, after votes had already started to get counted.

The federal government was delayed “in realizing that existing California state law governs the issuance and processing of ballots, in recognizing that California has millions of registered voters and processes ballots on a schedule aligned with that scale, and in communicating to the court its desired relief,” Sanchez wrote.

One judge wrote that setting ballots aside would invite ‘electoral chaos’

He wrote that setting aside the ballots at this stage “would transform California’s election rules for an election that is already underway” and “usher in electoral chaos.”

Judge Mark J. Bennett, who was nominated by Trump, also said that the federal government’s arguments weren’t supported by the law, writing that it appeared the administration had no power under the Constitution to force California to separate the ballots.

Judge Patrick Bumatay, who was appointed by Trump, forcefully dissented against the ruling. He argued that federal law precludes “California from commingling ballots likely cast by aliens with legitimate ballots, because it encourages and induces illegal voting. Stopping that practice for those identified as likely noncitizens is the bare minimum.”

Bumatay also affirmed the federal government's arguments about the need for an urgent ruling to sequester the ballots. While he conceded that the federal government could potentially prosecute fraudulent voters after the election, Bumatay said that the federal government “has an interest in stopping the illegal voting in the first place.”

California's attorney general called ruling a ‘welcome speed bump’ against Trump's attacks

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, hailed Monday’s ruling against the Republican administration as a “welcome speed bump to Trump’s disgusting attacks on the Constitution and our country’s democracy.”

In a statement, he urged voters to cast ballots early and “participate in democracy, don’t become disillusioned.”

The 9th Circuit decision sends the case back to a federal judge in Southern California, who will hear arguments from both sides on Tuesday at 1 pm.

Neither the Justice Department nor the Office of the U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California immediately responded to an emailed inquiry asking for comment.

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Flies can carry germs from contaminated surfaces and transfer them to food.

Last week, inspectors found flies landing directly on exposed food at several South Florida restaurants, including cooked chicken, eggs, cheese, dessert toppings and other ready-to-eat items.

In some cases, Stop Sale orders were issued because food was no longer considered to be in wholesome, sound condition.

And flies weren’t the only concern inspectors also documented mold-like buildup inside ice machines and other food-safety violations.

Below is a closer look at what inspectors found.

All of the restaurants listed below were allowed to reopen following an ordered cleanup and a follow-up inspection.

**SMOOTHIE SPOT DAVIE

8902 STATE ROAD 84

DAVIE

ORDERED SHUT 10/22

7 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 7 small flying insects at the front counter landing in hard boiled eggs, pico de gallo, cheese and tuna. Operator discarded items that small flying insects landed on.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 7 small flying insects at the front counter landing in hard boiled eggs, pico de gallo, cheese and tuna. Operator discarded items that small flying insects landed on. See stop sale. Observed approximately 4 small flying insects by the orange juicing machine landing on the machine and on wrapped single service items. Observed approximately 4 small flying insects by the chemical storage closet landing on walls and cleaning supplies.”

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

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed handwashing sink with a bucket containing soap and water stored in it.”

**PHAT BOY SUSHI

2702 N. UNIVERSITY DR.

CORAL SPRINGS

ORDERED SHUT 10/22

9 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 8 live flying insects in kitchen by handwashing sink and fryer. Observed 1 flying insects land in open package of sliced cheese. See stop sale. Observed 1 flying insect land on bottle of spicy mayo. Operator removed bottle to clean/sanitize. Repeat Violation.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Observed 1 flying insects land in open package of sliced cheese.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Prep Area - Near Ice Machine- Magnetic Knife rack observed with food debris.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Raw animal food stored over or with ready-to-eat food in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Walk in Freezer - Raw beef stored over ready to eat edamame.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Sushi Area - Low boy raw fish stored above ready to eat sauces.”

**USHIO SUSHI

2211 SOUTH UNIVERSITY DR.

DAVIE

ORDERED SHUT 10/21

13 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 12 small flying insects at the prep table by the ice machine landing walls/tables and 3 small flying insects landing on 2 pieces of cooked chicken. See stop sale. Observed approximately 5 small flying insects by the fryers landing on clean dishes and walls.”

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

“Employee eating in a food preparation or other restricted area. Observed employees drinking coffee by the sushi station. Manager informed employees not to drink coffee while working.”

“Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Observed employees phone stored over prep table in the kitchen.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Observed sushi chef not using a hair restraint.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Observed employees drinking coffee by the sushi area and changed their gloves but didn’t wash their hands before preparing sushi for customers order.”

**LA VIDA MISMA RESTAURANT & BAR

8945 SW 72ND PL

MIAMI

ORDERED SHUT 10/21

30 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed in bar area; 35+ live flies. Observed flies touching edible garnishes, cut limes and flower petals, on walls and ceiling in bar. Observed live flies on beer taps nozzles, on liquor bottles and decorations at bar counter. Observed 3 live flies on wall by waiter station. Observed 5 live flies on decoration in bar above entrance.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 12 small flying insects at the prep table by the ice machine landing on cooked chicken, walls and tables.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed no handwash for employees in kitchen; water was turned off.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed cooler, oven and microwave handles soiled. Repeat Violation.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed in kitchen, bulging tile. Repeat Violation.”

“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 reach in with ambient temp of 56F, the following TCS foods stored inside less than 3 hours: mozzarella (63F - Cold Holding); egg (62F - Cold Holding); Gorgonzola (60F - Cold Holding); cooked sausage (60F - Cold Holding); shredded cheese (60F - Cold Holding). Repeat Violation.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed soiled gaskets in multiple coolers. Repeat Violation.”

“Operating with an expired Division of Hotels and Restaurants license. Observed license expired; 10/01/26.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed multiple raw meats above bread and veggies in walk in cooler.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Observed multiple filets of salmon in walk in freezer stored in ROP bags, no approved HAACP or process waiver. Observed flies touching edible garnishes, cut limes and flower petals.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed reach in with ambient temp of 56F, the following TCS foods stored inside less than 3 hours: mozzarella (63F - Cold Holding); egg (62F - Cold Holding); Gorgonzola (60F - Cold Holding); cooked sausage (60F - Cold Holding); shredded cheese (60F - Cold Holding). Repeat Violation.”

“No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Operator brought napkins over.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. Observed none at hand sink in kitchen.”

*CHILL N KENDALL PLACE

9065 SW 107TH AVE

MIAMI

ORDERED SHUT 10/21

9 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 8 live flying insects flying and landing inside uncovered container directly touching dulce de leche at front counter. Observed 3 live flying insects flying and landing inside uncovered container directly touching Nutella at front counter. Observed 2 live flying insects landing directly on top of cheesecake bites at reach in cooler at front counter. Observed 1 live flying insect flying and landing directly inside container of mini chocolate chips at front counter. Observed 10+ live flying insects flying and landing on clean wiping cloths and clean equipment and utensils above triple sink. Observed 4 live flying insects flying in mop sink area. Observed 5 live flying insects flying and landing near dish machine. Observed 16 live flying insects flying and landing on shelf with clean equipment, single use gloves, and napkins in storage area. Observed 6 live flying insects flying and landing on shelf where various bags of coconut flakes, Oreos, marshmallows, and other toppings are stored in dry storage area. Observed 2 live flying insects landing on clean ice cream scoops at front counter. Observed 3 live flying insects flying above clean mixer containers under hand sink at front counter. Repeat Violation.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Live, small flying insects found. Observed 8 live flying insects flying and landing inside uncovered container directly touching dulce de leche at front counter. Observed 3 live flying insects flying and landing inside uncovered container directly touching Nutella at front counter. Observed 2 live flying insects landing directly on top of cheesecake bites at reach in cooler at front counter. Observed 1 live flying insect flying and landing directly inside container of mini chocolate chips at front counter. Repeat Violation.”

**SHORTY’S BBQ

11575 BIRD ROAD

WESTWOOD LAKES/WEST MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 10/22

55 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on floor in dry storage area. Observed approximately 5+ rodent droppings near electrical box in dry storage area. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on shelf where clean aprons are stored in dry storage area.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed three flying insects landing on chicken wings in back prep area. Observed four flying insects flying in the air near the ware washing area. Observed two flying insects landing on bread near cook line area. Observed approximately 10+ flying insects landing on kitchen prep table near back exit door.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed household pesticide stored in dry food storage area, next to flour.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale. Observed baked potatoes (84F - Hot Holding); ribs (126F - Hot Holding); cooked chicken (104F - Hot Holding); wings (110F - Hot Holding) at the stream table with incorrect time marking.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed baked potatoes (84F - Hot Holding); ribs (126F - Hot Holding); cooked chicken (104F - Hot Holding); wings (110F - Hot Holding) at the steam table in the kitchen area.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed HWS by the dishwashing area have a knife inside of it.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Observed ice machine have slime and black mold like build up.”

“Accumulation of debris inside ware washing machine.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed reach in cooler door handles at the cook line with food debris build up.”

“Ceiling tile missing. Observed two ceiling tiles missing in kitchen area.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed ceiling tiles in disrepair in kitchen and back storage area.”

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

“Cleaned and sanitized equipment or utensils not properly stored. Observed clean pot lids stored on floor in dishwashing area.”

“Cove molding at floor/wall juncture broken/missing. Observed cove molding on kitchen floor missing.”

“Employee drinking from an unenclosed beverage container in a food preparation/clean dishware area and the container does not have a dispensing mechanism to prevent hand contact with lip contact area of drink container. Observed employee drinking from an open container with no lid at the cook line.”

“Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Observed personal items stored on prep table in kitchen area.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed standing water on floor inside walk in cooler.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed chest freezer in kitchen area in disrepair. Observed walk in cooler door in disrepair.”

“Food storage container/container lid cracked or broken. Observed gray plastic container inside walk in cooler cracked.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed bucket of mayonnaise on floor.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed holes in wall in dry storage area by dish washer station.”

“Iced tea dispenser not cleaned at least once every 24 hours. Observed ice tea dispenser have mold like build up.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed hood filters at the cook line soiled. Observed reach in cooler gaskets at the cook line heavily soiled.”

“Old food stuck to clean dishware/utensils. Observed food debris on clean plates at the dry rack area.”

“Uncleanable knife block in use to store knives.”

“Utility lines are unnecessarily exposed. Observed utility lines in dry storage area exposed.”

“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.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee leave cook line station to clean dishes and then come back to cook line and begin food preparation with no hand washing.”

“Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee touch face and a clean tong without proper handwashing.”

Miami-Dade and Broward counties can expect northeast winds, sustained 20 to 25 mph with gusts 30 to 40 mph. Additionally, significant, saltwater flooding will occur along the immediate east coast at the time of high tide (around 9:30 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday, which is forecast to be the peak of this year’s king tides).

Tuesday will offer lingering clouds, off and on showers, and gusty winds, sustained 20 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.

Near seasonable temperatures are forecast, lows in the low 70s, highs in the low 80s.

Lula, who convinced an extra 10.4 million voters to support him in the runoff, is expected to take office on Jan. 5, 2027, for his fourth non-consecutive term. He will serve as a counterweight in a region where leaders are shifting to the right and aligning with U.S. President Donald Trump. Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, promised to cozy up to the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, without providing evidence, that Lula’s reelection was “rigged.”

“Elections have to be indisputable and it looked very bad to me,” Trump told reporters before flying to Mississippi for a rally. He added, “I thought it had a very bad look, the way it was tabulated.”

Trump also said: “It looked like another rigged election, frankly.”

At a news conference Sunday, Bolsonaro said he planned to request an annulment of the election following a chaotic extension of voting at the request of both candidates. But in a video on his social media channels on Monday he did not repeat that message and promised to organize opposition to Lula.

Bolsonaro said he will press the electoral court to nullify the election results, which it has never done before.

That would be a high hurdle: Bolsonaro would have to present evidence that the 4.4 million votes by which Lula won the election were fraudulent — and convince the full eight-member electoral court of that. He would need to do that before the election results are certified on Dec.18.

“I am going to gather elected lawmakers and senators to organize our strategy and make the lower house and the Senate our fortress against barbaric acts that are set to happen in another four years of Lula,” Bolsonaro said.

Bolsonaro also said he visited his father in house arrest on Monday. Jair Bolsonaro, who is now serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt, unsuccessfully contested his loss to Lula four years ago.

Early signs from Brazil’s institutions and from leaders across the region, including conservative presidents who oppose Lula, suggest the results will be respected nationally and internationally.

Even with the vote extension, Lula’s win was decisive. The soon-to-be 81-year-old incumbent won more than 64 million votes compared to just under 60 million for Bolsonaro, a margin of nearly 4%.

President of Brazil’s electoral authority, Kassio Nunes, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, was among those who recognized Lula’s victory Sunday.

“This is a really uphill battle for Flavio Bolsonaro. Important Brazilian power brokers are closing ranks behind Lula, sometimes begrudgingly,” said Brian Winter, Brazil analyst and editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly.

“I sense that Brazilian power brokers that matter don’t really want to go down the path of a truly contested election,” he said.

The numbers behind Lula’s victory

The key to Lula’s win was the additional 14.1 million voters who showed up for the second-round election, including those who voted for other candidates in the first round. Analysts say three-quarters of those votes went to Lula, handing him the victory. And notably, the first round set a record for the number of Brazilians who decided not to vote, while the second round had the least number of abstentions ever.

Lula gave his digital campaign to lawmaker André Janones, who mounted a fierce and persistent social media operation that mobilized many of those previously uncommitted voters. Janones’ key tool was a channel on messaging app WhatsApp called “Lula’s Army,” which gathered almost 11 million people and mobilized them to campaign via social media for the incumbent.

Janones “basically embraced the right’s style of aggressive politics, very intense, constant messaging,” said Oliver Stuenkel, a professor of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo.

“The defeat in the first round jolted the Lula campaign into action. The strategy during the first round was lackluster and saw a lot of infighting,” Stuenkel said.

Juliano Cortinhas, international relations professor at the University of Brasília, said Lula’s social media initiative in the runoff was also key to pressuring Meta, the owner of Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, to end what the president’s campaign denounced as bias helping Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s top electoral court ruled on Oct.15 that Meta must adopt measures that assure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates, which the company later said it addressed.

There was “external interference we were suffering by major platforms,” Cortinhas said. “It wasn’t only Meta, many others were using their algorithms to repost many images and many messages of the far-right, and they did not do the same to the left.”

It was the first time since 1989 that a candidate came from behind in the first round to win in the second.

Results show voter turnout surged overall, particularly in wealthier metropolitan centers, but Lula achieved his highest gains in lower-income municipalities where his base was already established. He mobilized former non-voters, those who voted blank in the first round and supporters of third-party candidates.

Jorge Henrique Oliveira Sena, a 26-year-old maintenance worker in Brasilia, was one of those who didn’t vote in the first round. Neither candidate excited him much, but he cast his vote for Lula. “It’s not a question of supporting, but between the two, I had more of a connection with him,” he said.

Brazil’s voting system and Sunday’s disruptions

Brazil holds general elections every four years, and its electronic voting machines have made the tallying process quick and secure.

Brazilian authorities adopted electronic voting machines in the 1990s to combat fraud and the system has been largely reliable since then. Results are usually reported mere hours after polls close.

In the lead-up to the 2022 vote, Jair Bolsonaro repeatedly cast unfounded doubts on Brazil’s electronic voting system. No significant fraud has ever been detected.

But the usually swift voting process was thrown into disarray Sunday after a last-minute decision to extend voting nationwide at both candidates’ requests.

Lula made the request because of issues with public transportation in metropolis, Sao Paulo, and the northeastern city of Salvador, two of his strongholds. Bolsonaro requested it after heavy rains in the south, which he won by a strong margin in the first round.

The decision was made by a Supreme Court justice mere minutes before polls were set to close at 5 p.m. and the speed of Brazil’s counting process meant many polling stations didn’t receive the news until they were already wrapping up.

Yet given the reliability of Brazil’s voting system and Lula’s win by a significant margin, a path to annul the results could be difficult for Bolsonaro.

Benjamin Gedan, senior fellow and director of the Stimson Center Latin America program, said Bolsonaro’s rejection of his loss was not surprising.

“False claims of fraud are becoming commonplace, though that does not make them any less dangerous,” he said. He noted “Lula’s margin of victory, and the quick recognition of the result by conservative leaders in the region.”

Nevertheless, Lula still faces challenges moving forward, including political polarization in the country, a possible fiscal crisis and a right-wing Congress in which Bolsonaro’s party will have more seats than any other. Bolsonaro himself remains a senator, though his term ends in January.

“We shouldn’t underestimate the power of the Bolsonaro family,” said Winter, the Brazil analyst. ”They can make life difficult for Lula for weeks and months to come.”

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Savarese reported from Sao Paulo. AP writer Will Weissert in Washington contributed.

Kane scored 73 goals for club and country last campaign — he was Europe's top scorer — and smashed scoring records in Germany for Bayern Munich and at the World Cup, where he captained England to a third-place finish.

The 33-year-old Kane says winning the prestigious individual award was built on so much more.

“Anything is possible with hard work, when no one else is watching, to go through the ups and downs, to learn through resilience, determination and self-belief,” an emotional Kane said in a message to young players, after reflecting on his early career struggles.

“My journey wasn’t straightforward. I wasn’t the kid who went straight to the top. I had to experience the downs,” he added. “I had to fight my way to be the very best right now. I hope that can give you inspiration as well.”

Kane was followed in the voting by Kylian Mbappé, Lamine Yamal — voted best young talent for a third straight year — 2024 winner Rodri and record eight-time winner Lionel Messi.

Kane thanked his teammates, coaches, parents, children — “It's past your bedtime” — and wife Kate, “ my best friend. We’ve been through ups and downs for sure. You’re my biggest supporter. You always want the best for me.”

Kane led Bayern to the Bundesliga and German Cup double, scoring a hat trick against Stuttgart in the cup final. Bayern also reached the Champions League semifinals.

At the World Cup, he scored six times to pass Gary Lineker as England’s all-time leading World Cup scorer and placed himself among the all-time top five in tournament history. His lineup lost to Argentina in the semifinals but beat Mbappé's France for third place, England's best World Cup placing in 60 years.

An Englishman hadn’t won the Ballon d’Or since Michael Owen in 2001.

“It's massive for England, for our country. (The ceremony) being here in London was a good omen for me,” Kane said. “It's been too long. Certainly (there have been) incredible English players... To put us back on the map, to put us here with this trophy I'm extremely proud. Playing for England is my biggest honor, the thing I love to do the most.”

England coach Thomas Tuchel told Kane the Three Lions are “lucky to have you as our leader.”

“I ran out of superlatives to describe your performances a long time ago, but I’m delighted to see that you have now been formally recognized by the football world,” Tuchel said.

Fans packed the streets and climbed light poles near the London Palladium, where the event was held, for a glimpse of the arriving athletes. Kane stopped to sign autographs on his way in.

They stayed through the ceremony and chanted Kane's name as he left the theater near Oxford Circus after midnight.

Kane planned to celebrate with family and friends, but just a little.

“We have a cup game on Wednesday so it can't get too messy,” Kane said, noting he has an early Tuesday flight back to Munich in time for team training.

Monday’s ceremony was held in London for the first time in recognition of the inaugural winner 70 years ago, England’s Stanley Matthews in 1956.

Putellas hat trick of awards

Earlier, Spain star Alexia Putellas won her record-equaling third women’s Ballon d’Or after leading her former club Barcelona to multiple trophies last season including the Women’s Champions League.

Putellas, who joined London City Lionesses in the offseason, also helped Spain win the Women’s Nations League last December.

The 32-year-old midfielder ended Spain teammate Aitana Bonmati’s three-year reign.

Putellas won the prestigious award in 2021 and 2022, tore her ACL and saw Bonmati rise to stardom. Bonmati, who completed her women’s Ballon d’Or three-peat in 2025, was not on this year’s shortlist after breaking her leg in December.

There wasn’t a women’s Ballon d’Or until 2018, when Ada Hegerberg won it.

Putellas urged young players to approach the sport with “love and passion.”

“Believe in yourself, that’s the most important thing,” she said. “If you have a dream, go for it, even if at some point you have to start from zero.”

Putellas had joined Barcelona in 2012 and called her time at the Catalan club “something special.”

“I'm really grateful for having 14 seasons as a player (at Barcelona),” she said. “What I experienced last year was like a perfect story.”

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PSG strikes late

Senny Mayulu rifled home an 18-meter strike seven minutes after coming off the bench to break Lyon’s resistance and set PSG on its way to an eighth straight win in all competitions.

Both teams started the match on 14 points but PSG had confidence, momentum and home turf that Lyon managed to resist until Mayulu’s goal.

Twelve minutes later, Mika Godts settled the game with a well-taken effort to finish off a fast break.

PSG moved one point clear of Rennes. Lyon remained in fifth place.

Romero’s third goal in three games

Isaac Romero scored against Aston Villa in the Champions League and against Levante before being sent off. For the visit of Osasuna he made his presence felt after 24 minutes.

Romero took Youssouf Fofana’s clever layoff and lashed it home from the edge of the box to put Sevilla ahead.

Felix Correia, who also scored in the 3-3 draw with Levante two weeks ago, got the second for Sevilla eight minutes from time.

It was a welcome return to form for a side that lost three of its last four games against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Aston Villa.

The result left Sevilla in sixth place. Osasuna remained in 12th, six points back.

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According to a news release from the office of Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar, the quartet now faces a combined 15 charges.

In a news conference on Monday morning, officials identified the victim as Thomas Hegarty, 71.

“His home was taken from him,” Hollywood Police Department Detective Theo Defreze said. “He lost all of his possessions ― belongings, cars. I mean, he lost everything.

Officials said the investigation began after one of Hegarty’s sister-in-law contacted Hollywood police, concerned about the senior’s “deteriorating mental condition and the suspicious circumstances surrounding the transfer of his longtime residence of over 25 years,” in the 2200 block of Mayo Street.

Investigators said the group “took advantage of the victim’s deteriorating mental state to obtain his signature on a power of attorney document and warranty deed,” which was “falsely notarized” by Derek Enrique, 43, of Tamarac, “and used to purportedly transfer ownership of the home,” to a company called Cash4Keys South Florida.

That company, authorities said, was controlled by 25-year-old investors Brandon Lee Miguel and Jordy Luis Perez.

Officials said the home was worth about $300,000 but sold for only $191,000.

“We haven’t found any evidence that (Hegarty) got any of that money,” Kiar said Monday.

Authorities said the duo then arranged to have realtor Monica Elizabeth Castelli, 56, of Margate, remove Hegarty from his home “and abandoned at a dilapidated rooming house in Miami Gardens.”

Officials said on Monday that Hegarty was distraught and crying, so Castelli picked him up and dropped him off again at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. That’s when staff notified his sister-in-law about what happened.

“Once the victim was removed from his home, they were able to gain entry and are alleged to have removed all of his personal property which was subsequently reported missing, including three vehicles that belonged to the victim,” Kiar’s office stated in the release.

Miguel and Perez, who were arrested in Miami-Dade County, now face charges including first-degree grand theft, elderly exploitation, organized fraud and mortgage fraud.

Castelli also faces an elderly exploitation charge, as well as a charge of kidnapping with intent to facilitate the commission of a felony.

Enrique faces a charge of false or fraudulent acknowledgements.

“It’s very upsetting, very sad, and what really bothers me is the person they picked on was about as vulnerable as they come and that really is what makes this case a case that’s very sad,” Kiar said on Monday. “I’m very glad that people have have been arrested and they will have their day in court.

Authorities said the investigation into the four involved multiple agencies; besides Kiar’s office and Hollywood police, the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Broward State Attorney’s Office and the Florida Department were also involved.

Kiar said Cash4Keys still controls Hegarty’s home, saying his family has now hired an attorney in an attempt to get it back.

There isn't a timetable for Williams' return and one won't be set until after the surgery, general manager Sam Presti said Monday — but given the history of such injuries, it's reasonable to think Williams could miss the rest of the season.

“Dub, as everybody knows, is as tough as they come,” Presti said at a news conference in Oklahoma City, where the Thunder were set to host Phoenix later Monday. “He's an elite competitor. Even last night, just miraculous in terms of his outlook and the way he's looking forward to attacking this. We're going to be with him the entire way.”

It was a double gut punch for the Thunder on Monday, with the team also revealing that forward Cason Wallace will need surgery to repair a left labral tear. Like Williams, Wallace was injured on Sunday in Oklahoma City's 108-101 win over the Los Angeles Clippers.

The timetable for Wallace's return also will be set after surgery, but such procedures typically require several months of rehabilitation. Williams was an All-Defensive team selection in 2024-25; Wallace was picked to that team last season.

“Tough night last night,” Presti said. “There's no way to paint that differently. We say within our walls all the time there's a difference between being positive and being optimistic. Not going to sit up here and say this is exactly where we want to be or this is how we'd like to have it, but at the same time, we're extremely optimistic about the recovery for both the players. Most importantly, things could have been a lot worse.”

The Thunder have experienced major injury-related challenges in recent years, including Chet Holmgren missing the entirety of what would have been his rookie season with a foot issue. The team's 2024 first-round pick, Nikola Topic, missed all but 10 games in the previous two seasons — first because of a torn ACL, then with testicular cancer. And Williams missed 49 regular-season games a year ago with an array of issues, mostly wrist and hamstring problems.

“We’ve had some tough, uniquely tough, circumstances over the last few years,” Presti said. “One of the things I tried to say to the staff this morning when I talked to them was we can’t get to the point where we feel like this is a common situation. But that being said, it’s our situation.”

Williams was injured on a drive with 1:14 remaining against the Clippers. He was tended to almost immediately by medical personnel after going down underneath the basket on the Thunder’s offensive end.

Williams’ ankle was draped by towels and players from both teams reacted with dismay and disbelief as a stretcher was brought out. The game was stopped for about five minutes.

Williams — who has averaged 17.9 points in 251 games over his first five seasons — has already been an All-Star and an All-NBA selection, and he was a huge part of the Thunder team that won the 2025 NBA title.

The Thunder entered this season as a co-favorite with the Spurs to win the NBA title. Oklahoma City will — in time — likely make some decisions about applying for a disabled player exception or even using its stockpile of future draft picks to try and make trades and keep a title-hopeful team in contention.

Those conversations, for now, can wait.

“I haven't thought about anything related to the roster spot,” Presti said.

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The twisted metal was left scattered just west of Interstate 95 by Northwest Seventh Avenue on Monday afternoon.

The road was temporarily closed but has since reopened after being cleared of the debris.

Officials have not said whether the high winds in the area played a role in the sign collapsing.

No injuries were reported.

The newly developed StarGate drone, a six-rotor aircraft fitted with an enclosed evacuation capsule, was used in two separate missions over the past week, according to the 475th Separate Assault Regiment.

One of the rescued servicemen, a 24-year-old from the 1st Territorial Defense Brigade identified by his call sign, “Izyum,” told The Associated Press he waited two days to be evacuated and was unable to walk 20 kilometers (12 miles) out of the combat zone. The soldier's name was not given for security reasons and in accordance with Ukraine's military protocol.

“The injury tore off half of my foot, so a lot of blood was lost already,” he said in a video interview from his hospital room. “I think if that incredible little bird hadn’t flown in, well, getting out from there would have been unrealistic.”

The drone, carrying an orange-and-black, cigar-shaped stretcher, landed in a field where tall grass was tangled with fiber-optic spool cable, raising fears among Izyum and fellow soldiers that it could get stuck.

The flight to safety lasted less than 15 minutes.

“From the bottom of my heart, I am so grateful that they actually flew in and picked me up,” he said.

The 475th regiment, also known as Code 9.2, had tested StarGate for several weeks before deploying it on the battlefield.

It said both rescued men had sustained “severe limb injuries and were at positions in the gray zone, approximately 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the state border with Russia,” referring to a strip of territory separating Ukrainian and Russian forces.

The drone was designed to evacuate injured soldiers from high-risk areas where heavy artillery fire and hostile drone activity make rescue operations dangerous.

Developed by Ukrainian technology company SkyFall, the drone is intended to reduce rescue times from hours to minutes, reaching hard-to-access combat zones that are currently served by unmanned ground vehicles.

The Associated Press was granted exclusive access to the drone earlier this month, ahead of the final stage of testing.

The manufacturer says the drone can carry 150 kilograms (330 pounds) and is equipped with signal jammers and autonomous navigation to counter Russian electronic warfare systems. A company spokesperson said SkyFall planned to create a dedicated unit for the rescue drones, providing pilots and deployment specialists.

“Service members who weren't sure if they would ever make it out of their positions are now able to return home and hug their children,” the spokesperson told the AP. The person spoke on condition of anonymity, citing security risks facing Ukrainian military technology personnel.

The commander of the Code 9.2 regiment, identified by the call sign “Flint,” said aerial evacuations could significantly improve rescue efforts.

“In the future, we plan to make changes to the staffing structure of our regiment and create a separate medical aviation unit within the medical company,” he said. “It will specialize directly in evacuating wounded soldiers from the battlefield by air transport.”

Izyum, who hopes to return to beekeeping after the war, said he expects aerial rescue operations to expand.

“I think this needs to be developed and expanded because we have a lot of guys who cannot get out of the situations they find themselves in,” he said.

“Having to walk very many kilometers with that level of shelling that is going on, whether walking yourself or carrying a wounded person — let’s just say making it out of there is not very likely.”

The criminal complaint unsealed Monday claims Matthew Ungelsbee sent at least four plain white envelopes with a powdery substance to elected officials in Chicago. They were postmarked in Springfield, Illinois, on Oct. 19 and had Unglesbee's name handwritten in the return address section.

Unglesbee, of Quincy in southwestern Illinois, is charged with mailing threatening communications and perpetrating a hoax. He was scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon. Court records did not list a defense attorney, and a phone number for Unglesbee could not be found. A Facebook message to a Matthew Unglesbee in Quincy was not immediately returned.

FBI agents interviewed Unglesbee at his home on Sunday and he told them all the letters contained salt, court records show. He claimed he’d sent the letters after hearing someone talk about similar mailings in the news earlier this month.

Testing confirmed the white substance was not dangerous. The records did not identify the substance.

A motive was unclear. But Unglesbee said he knew the congress members would “take it serious” because the powder might be perceived as anthrax, which he knew was dangerous and could prompt a response by hazmat teams, according to the complaint.

“Unglesbee claimed he was joking but recognized the recipients would not know he was joking and could perceive it as a threat,” the complaint stated.

Investigators said none of the recipients opened the letters. The most recent envelope was received Oct. 23 at the office of a U.S. senator, records show. It contained a white powdery substance and a handwritten note reading “HAH enjoy the gift,” according to the documents.

The investigation began after an anonymous tipster reported overhearing Unglesbee in a restaurant talking about mailing a suspicious substance to members of Congress. The tip was received Oct. 16, and the FBI tracked Ungelsbee down after the envelopes arrived at the congressional offices days later.

The recipients of the mailings were not named. Authorities searched Unglesbee's home and found a fifth envelope addressed to another congress member's Washington, D.C., office, the records show.

Earlier this month, federal authorities said they were investigating letters with “suspicious substances” that had been mailed to congressional and election offices nationwide. That investigation by the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and U.S. Capitol Police was first disclosed in a message from the Senate Sergeant at Arms obtained Oct. 15 by The Associated Press.

Unglesbee denied involvement in those mailings.

Voters at the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections’ office in Doral on Monday were among the 2.8 million Floridians who have either voted by mail or early in person.

Voter Johana Padilla raised the roof in a triumphant gesture after casting her ballot.

“I was celebrating because it’s very important to vote,” she told Local 10 News.

As of Monday, registered Democrats had a slight edge, with 1,109,000 ballots already cast. Republicans had just over 1.1 million, a little more than a half million with no party affiliation have made their voices heard.

“Voter turnout has been good; it could be better,” Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia said. “You know, we need everyone to come out and vote.”

Garcia touted secure intake stations at entrances to early voting sites.

Voters can drive up and hand their your mail-in ballot to a poll worker who verifies their identity.

There are also intake stations in Broward County. Its elections supervisor, Joe Scott, said they’ve made a difference.

“As soon as we started having the those intake stations available at 30 locations across Broward County, we saw the number of returns in our vote by mail jump dramatically,” Scott said.

But turnout is even better in the Florida Keys: Vote-by-mail turnout there is about 23%, Monroe County officials said.

Davis, de 27 años, quien se encontraba bajo los efectos de hongos alucinógenos, disparó contra Wakefield, de 21 años, un turista de Colorado, en el área al aire libre de un restaurante en South Beach, informó la policía.

Wakefield, residente de Castle Rock, estaba cenando con su hijo Eli, de 12 meses, y su esposa, Karina Olguin, en Ocean Drive cuando Davis los amenazó con un arma de fuego.

Davis se declaró culpable de asesinato en segundo grado en mayo.

Un aviso de vientos fuertes estaba vigente para las áreas metropolitanas de los condados Broward y Miami-Dade, mientras los fuertes vientos provenientes del mar continuaban con ráfagas de hasta 40 mph en la costa.

Se pronosticaron lluvias de rápido desplazamiento que avanzarían desde el mar hacia tierra durante el lunes, con temperaturas en los 80 grados Fahrenheit.

Una advertencia de inundaciones costeras estaba vigente para Broward, Miami-Dade y los Cayos superiores del condado Monroe. Un aviso de inundaciones costeras estaba vigente para los Cayos inferiores.

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Davis, 27, of Norcross, Georgia, was under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms when he shot Wakefield, 21, a tourist from Colorado, in the outdoor area of a restaurant in South Beach, police said.

Wakefield, of Castle Rock, was having dinner with his 12-month-old son, Eli, and wife, Karina Olguin, on Ocean Drive when Davis, then 22, waved a gun at them and shot Wakefield as he shielded his son.

“I remember hearing him say, ‘It’s time to die,’” Olguin testified on Monday.

Davis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in May.

In court on Monday, prosecutor Casey Hughes said Davis caused “chaos terror and fear.”

“As the defendant is dancing and rubbing himself against Karina, Mr. Wakefield is slowly dying,” Hughes said.

Wakefield’s family members packed the courtroom wearing matching shirts and a bible verse they say honors Wakefield’s sacrifice.

For that, they say, Davis should spend his life behind bars.

“He made the greatest sacrifices which was to lay his life down for his family. It’s what Jesus did for all of us,” Lora Wakefield, the victim’s mother, said. “I don’t want it, but he chose it. And I’m asking for life. Our family is asking for life in prison.”

Davis had a number of supporters in the courtroom as well.

The sentencing phase is expected to last through Wednesday and Thursday.

Anthony Rivers III disparó un arma alrededor de las 8 p.m. del sábado cerca de las calles Perry y Manatee, según el Departamento de Policía de Tallahassee.

“Lo que debería haber sido un fin de semana de celebración en nuestra comunidad se convirtió en una noche de miedo y violencia para las víctimas y sus familias”, dijo el jefe de policía Lawrence Revell en un comunicado.

El fiscal estatal del condado Leon, Jack Campbell, dijo que el adolescente enfrentaba 11 cargos de intento de asesinato en segundo grado y posesión de un arma de fuego por parte de un delincuente juvenil.

“Aunque este arresto representa un avance significativo, nuestro trabajo está lejos de terminar”, dijo Revell. “Seguimos comprometidos a responsabilizar a los culpables y obtener respuestas para cada familia afectada por esta tragedia”.

Revell pidió a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre la balacera que llame al 850-891-4610 y utilice el portal del departamento para presentar pruebas.

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Those flags signify the water being closed.

Between the wind and the king tides, there are several stretches of beach that have begun to experience cliffing, such as those at Mizell-Johnson State Park in Dania Beach.

Due to the conditions, very few people came out to the beach on Monday.

Some people were seen taking a risk and doing some surfing, which is very dangerous in water that choppy.

King tides are expected to continue to be a problem throughout the rest of the week.

Estas banderas indican que el acceso al agua está prohibido.

Entre los fuertes vientos y las mareas extremadamente altas, varios tramos de playa han comenzado a presentar erosión que forma desniveles pronunciados en la arena, como ocurre en el Parque Estatal Mizell-Johnson, en Dania Beach.

Debido a estas condiciones, muy pocas personas acudieron a la playa el lunes.

Se observó a algunas personas arriesgándose a practicar surf, lo cual es muy peligroso debido al fuerte oleaje.

Se espera que las mareas extremadamente altas continúen causando problemas durante el resto de la semana.

The allegations from the Justice Department were revealed Monday in newly unsealed court documents that shed light on a closed-door fight that represents an unmistakable escalation in the administration's targeting of Comey, a longtime critic and foe of President Donald Trump who has faced two other criminal cases since the Republican returned to the White House last year.

The effort to prosecute Comey is also part of a series of politically charged investigative actions the department has undertaken in the run-up to next week's midterm elections.

“Well, they’re back — again,” Comey said in a video statement Monday. “It would almost be funny if it weren't such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice — one that we cannot become numb to. Nothing’s changed with me; I’m still innocent, I’m still not afraid of these people — and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.”

The Justice Department said it had filed what's known as a “criminal information” to extend the statute of limitations for charges in the case.

"Filing a criminal information to toll the statute of limitations is a widely recognized practice in federal court and has been approved by multiple Circuit Courts of Appeals. This is an ongoing criminal investigation, and we will not comment further,” a department spokesperson said.

Asked about the Comey case, Trump told reporters upon arriving back to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland late Monday following his rally in Mississippi that “I don’t know much about it. I just heard about it.”

He added, “He’s a dirty cop, James Comey. But I know nothing about it.”

An information can be filed without the approval of a judge or a grand jury's finding of probable cause to a court. Comey’s lawyers made clear that they intend to fight the charges as invalid because the Justice Department did not file an indictment, which must be voted on by a grand jury, inside the 10-year statute of limitations required under the law.

“For the third time in little more than one year, the Department of Justice has attempted to charge Mr. Comey with a federal crime. Mr. Comey steadfastly maintains his innocence,” his attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, said in a statement.

The allegation was previously investigated

The latest allegation concerns an October 2016 New York Times story related to a secret court order that required Yahoo to scan emails for messages potentially linked to a foreign terrorist organization. The story cited two government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the order from a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that Yahoo was barred from publicly disclosing.

Federal authorities, including prosecutor John Durham, began investigating the disclosure in early 2017. Durham, who later investigated the FBI's conduct as it scrutinized potential ties between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, wrote a classified memo in December 2018 recommending no criminal charges against anyone in connection with the disclosure, Comey’s attorneys said in a recent court filing.

In January 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia opened a second investigation of the same matter under the code name “Tropical Vortex.” But that investigation was closed without any charges filed in February 2020.

“Both times the Government determined that no charges should be brought against anyone. Now, ten years after the article was published, the Government filed an “Information” against Mr. Comey that was not approved by a judge nor issued by a grand jury. It purports to charge Mr. Comey with crimes that he did not commit,” Fitzgerald said.

Prosecutors in a newly unsealed filing said investigators found evidence that Comey “sought to correct misinformation which had appeared in the press by way of Reuters the day before” that New York Times story was published, directed his staff to speak to a journalist at the newspaper related to accuracy concerns “and thereby illegally transferred classified information.”

The criminal information was filed under seal on Oct. 5, 10 years after the 2016 story was published. “But,” Comey's lawyers said, “the applicable statute of limitations explicitly demands an indictment within 10 years of the offense; an information does not suffice.”

They have asked a judge to dismiss the information, a request that is still pending.

Trump and Comey have a long and uneasy history

The first criminal case against Comey, filed in federal court in Virginia, accused him of having lied to Congress in 2020 but was dismissed by a judge who concluded that the prosecutor who brought the charges was illegally appointed. A separate pending indictment charges the former FBI director with threatening Trump through an Instagram photo of seashells in the numerical arrangement of “86 47,” a case Comey has sought to dismiss.

The prosecutions are part of a Trump retribution campaign that has even extended to Comey's daughter, Maurene, who was fired from her job as a Justice Department prosecutor in New York last year in a termination that a federal judge on Monday ruled was illegal.

Comey was the FBI director when Trump took office in 2017, having been appointed by then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and serving before that as a senior Justice Department official in President George W. Bush’s Republican administration.

But the relationship was strained from the start, including after Comey resisted a request by Trump at a private dinner to pledge his personal loyalty to the president -- an overture that so unnerved the FBI director that he documented it in a contemporaneous memorandum.

Trump fired Comey in May 2017 amid an FBI investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump’s campaign. That inquiry, later taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, found that while Russia interfered in the 2016 election and the Trump team welcomed the help, there was insufficient evidence to prove a criminal collaboration.

The two men have been bitterly at odds ever since Comey's firing.

Comey in 2018 published a memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” that painted Trump in deeply unflattering ways, likening him to a mafia don and characterizing him as “untethered to truth.” Trump, for his part, has repeatedly claimed that Comey should face charges for “treason” — an accusation Comey dismissed as “dumb lies” — and called him an “untruthful slime ball.”

The Justice Department has made a series of splashy moves in recent weeks , including a criminal complaint last Friday charging two former FBI officials with lying to Congress about their participation in investigations concerning Hunter Biden, and the search by federal agents of the Washington home of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

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Associated Press writer Will Weissert contributed to this report.

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Anthony Rivers III fired a weapon at about 8 p.m. on Saturday near Perry and Manatee Streets, according to the Tallahassee Police Department.

“What should have been a weekend of celebration in our community instead became a night of fear and violence for the victims and their families,” Chief Lawrence Revell said in a statement.

Leon County State Attorney Jack Campbell said the teen faced 11 counts of attempted second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a delinquent.

“While this arrest marks a significant step forward, our work is far from over,” Revell said. “We remain committed to holding those responsible accountable and getting answers for every family impacted by this tragedy.”

Revell asked anyone with information about the shooting to call 850-891-4610 and use the department’s evidence submission portal.

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The announcement is the latest sign of the administration’s attempts to sow doubts about the election or its outcome in states with races that will help determine control of the U.S. Senate and House.

In a letter to Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, the Justice Department said it had identified 1,500 votes cast by the more than 400 people in prior elections. It asked the state to set aside any ballots they might cast in next month's midterm until state officials can confirm they are legally eligible to vote. The state has more than 5 million registered voters, and the state issues mail ballots to all of them.

One listed voter last cast a ballot in 1994

At a news conference, Neil Floyd, the acting U.S. attorney in Seattle, said he believed the 405 voters identified so far represented “the tip of the iceberg.”

“Because of limitations the state has placed on our investigation, we’ve only been able to uncover a fraction of the total number,” he said.

Hobbs said he was reviewing the DOJ's request. His office noted that the data shared by the department included the last time each of the 405 people voted. One was in 1994.

“The timing of this request — one week before the General Election — is no doubt intended to cast unfounded suspicion on the results," Hobbs said.

Much of the list was built based on “recent contacts” with suspected noncitizens, Floyd said, because federal officers are now routinely checking to see if the people they interact with are registered to vote.

Lack of state cooperation a problem, DOJ says

Without access to those state records, proving someone illegally voted will be difficult, Floyd said. The Justice Department has demanded information including addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.

The effort is the latest by the administration to identify noncitizen voters, even though noncitizen voting is exceptionally rare. President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to undermine public confidence in elections.

Meanwhile, Washington officials have noted that changes in U.S. Postal Service operations have disenfranchised thousands of legitimate voters.

Voting is underway

The Washington request marks the third time this month that the Justice Department has brought a direct state challenge as voting is underway. All three states — Washington, California and Alaska — have House or Senate races that will help determine the balance of power in the nation's Capitol.

The race for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District is one of the most competitive in the country in this year’s midterm elections. Democrats are counting on Rep. Maria Gluesenkamp Perez winning reelection as crucial to their strategy of retaking the majority in the U.S. House. She has won twice in a district that also has supported Trump each time he’s been on the ballot.

The Justice Department sued in California as part of a similar attempt to require the state to set aside mail ballots from up to 20,000 people the federal government suspects may not be citizens. Another lawsuit filed in Alaska last week seeks to delay certification of the vote if the Republican incumbent doesn't win.

In California, a panel of federal appellate judges heard rare Sunday arguments and questioned the timing, constitutionality and authority of the Justice Department’s demand. On Monday, they declined to rule on the expedited timeline the DOJ requested and sent it back to a lower court.

The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures the power to set the time, place and manner of congressional elections.

Prior allegations have been overstated

Los Angeles County Assistant Registrar-Recorder Monica Flores said in a court filing that her staff went through a sample of 200 records from the Trump administration’s list. They found the sample included canceled or inactive registrations, people with no voting history and voters who appeared to have been born in the United States.

The Justice Department told Washington it anticipates sending the state an additional list of people it suspects are not citizens prior to Election Day. It also noted that some of the people it suspects registered without citizenship may have since become naturalized.

Investigations into prior allegations of noncitizen voters have revealed far fewer instances than the Trump administration has claimed. In Nevada, Trump’s administration alleged there were 1,500 potential noncitizen voters on the rolls but subsequent investigation found zero.

In Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, the county recorder, who is a Trump supporter, announced that there were 207 possible noncitizens on the county’s rolls. The Republican County Attorney determined there were actually eight. ___ Boone reported from Boise, Idaho.

Organizers of the Ballon d’Or event mistakenly published multiple “winners” of the men’s award on its website Monday hours before the ceremony.

One announcement read, in part, “Harry Kane wins 2026 Ballon d'Or” — and similar articles described Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé also winning.

It turned out the organizer France Football had prepared many announcements — to be ready for when the winner is announced — but they were accidentally posted well ahead of the gala at The London Palladium.

“Some profiles of nominees prepared by BallonDor.com were inadvertently published online,” the organizer said in a statement to the BBC.

“These articles had been prepared for all nominees and should in no way be considered as an indication of the final results or rankings.”

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Rubio told reporters in a call that the government of acting President Delcy Rodríguez replied to the U.S. by saying that Machado was free to enter the country. Machado returned to Venezuela over the weekend.

“Weeks and weeks ago, we spoke to the interim authorities and just said, 'Look, our expectation is that she’s a Venezuelan, she belongs in her country. That’s the country she’s from. She should be allowed to return. She should be allowed to return unperturbed,’” Rubio said.

He noted that the U.S. had not discouraged Machado from returning to Venezuela except immediately after devastating earthquakes in June. He said that was because the U.S. believed the priority should be in getting humanitarian and emergency relief into the country.

Rubio spoke after Venezuelan authorities and opposition figures agreed last week on a blueprint to reform the country’s electoral process in order for free and fair elections to take place at some point in 2027. He said the Trump administration, which captured then-President Nicolás Maduro in a January military operation and brought him to the U.S. to face drug-trafficking charges, would be watching events closely and urging all sides to comply with the new process.

“Obviously, we need to use our leverage with the government for the interim authorities to ensure that the process is moving forward in a responsible way,” Rubio said. “Our goal here is to have an election.”

Machado had been in hiding in Venezuela for most of 2025 before making a clandestine escape that December to Norway, where she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She later gave her medal to President Donald Trump.

She returned to Venezuela on Sunday, her first appearance since the U.S. deposed Maduro and replaced him with Rodríguez, who had been his vice president and has now exceeded the time she was authorized to serve, with no election yet scheduled.

Rubio said the U.S. goal is to help put in a place a sustainable election architecture that will give all parties confidence in the vote.

To get there, Rubio said Venezuela must stabilize its economy and rebuild its institutions, including its courts and electoral council, and provide an open space for political expression that will hinge on press freedom and access to all media outlets, including online platforms.

The University of New Mexico Health System told people not to show up at its main hospital in Albuquerque and canceled appointments at its more than 30 clinics. It said it was working to resolve the issue, the extent and nature of which was not immediately clear.

The hospital network conducts about 900,000 outpatient visits and receives 100,000 emergency room visits each year, according to its website. It operates the state’s only Level 1 trauma center.

Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Lovelace Health System, two other major healthcare providers in New Mexico, said they were coordinating with the UNM Health System, including taking additional patients.

The UNM Health System said in a statement that its hospitals and clinics began resuming operations in phases later in the day.

Multiple UNM Health System employees said they heard messages across their computers while working late Monday morning that claimed to have stolen student and employee data and patient information.

A spokesperson for the health system wouldn't comment, saying that the incident remains an active law enforcement investigation. FBI spokesperson Margot Cravens in Albuquerque said the agency was “assisting our partner” but declined further comment.

The Associated Press left emails and phone messages seeking comment from the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and the Albuquerque Police Department.

The incident comes amid growing concern about the security of digital systems that underpin essential services, from banking to medical care.

Incidents affecting hospitals, including demands for ransom. have been going on for a decade, said Josephine Wolff, a professor of cybersecurity policy at Tufts University.

Breaching a system to play a message on computers is pretty unusual, Wolff said. Monday's incident, she said, shows "how much work we still have to do to get better at defending ourselves.”

On Monday afternoon, at the main entrance to its Albuquerque hospital, employees in turquoise staff shirts sat on chairs that blocked the waiting room and told patients their appointments might be canceled.

At a medical center in the Albuquerque suburb of Rio Rancho, two security guards at the entrance told patients arriving for appointments to reschedule.

UNM's Health Sciences Center, the state's largest academic medical center, canceled classes Monday.

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Yu reported from Phoenix. Associated Press writer Susan Montoya Bryan contributed from Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

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Keith Evans, who lives in Miami’s Coconut Grove, had done this before in downtown Miami, and the drivers who trusted him have been ticketed and towed, according to a police report.

Police officers arrested Evans shortly after 8:25 p.m. on Friday at Northeast Second Avenue and Seventh Street, near the Kaseya Center, according to the report.

Evans, who posed as a Miami Parking Authority attendant, was “wearing a fluorescent yellow vest and carrying a flashlight, while flagging down vehicles,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Evans shortly before 10 p.m. on Friday and held him at the Metrowest Detention Center on Monday afternoon, according to inmate records.

Evans faced three charges: Operating a business without a local business tax receipt, doing business without a license, and petit theft after two convictions. His bond was $6,000.

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

Keith Evans, quien vive en Coconut Grove, Miami, ya había hecho esto anteriormente en el centro de Miami, y los conductores que confiaron en él recibieron multas y sus vehículos fueron remolcados, según un informe policial.

Agentes de la policía arrestaron a Evans poco después de las 8:25 p.m. del viernes en Northeast Second Avenue y la calle Seventh, cerca del Kaseya Center, según el informe.

Evans, quien se hacía pasar por empleado de la Autoridad de Estacionamiento de Miami, estaba “usando un chaleco amarillo fluorescente y llevaba una linterna mientras hacía señales a los vehículos para que se detuvieran”, escribió un agente de la policía, según el informe de arresto.

Las autoridades penitenciarias de Miami-Dade ingresaron a Evans poco antes de las 10 p.m. del viernes y lo mantenían detenido en el Centro de Detención Metrowest la tarde del lunes, según los registros de reclusos.

Evans enfrentaba tres cargos: operar un negocio sin un recibo de impuesto comercial local, realizar actividades comerciales sin licencia y hurto menor después de dos condenas previas. Su fianza fue fijada en $6,000 USD.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este informe.

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Sekennia Greene spoke to Local 10 News about losing her daughter, 35-year-old Dominque Greene, in the crash that occurred around 8 p.m. Wednesday along the 1300 block of West Sunrise Boulevard.

“She was my daughter, first and foremost, she was a granddaughter, she was a sister, an aunt, most of all she was a mom,” said Sekennia Greene.

According to police, Dominique Greene was crossing the westbound lanes of the road when a black Mercedes AMG crashed into her.

The driver of that Mercedes did not stop or try to help, police said, and just took off.

“I loved her with all my heart, that’s my child,” said Greene.

Rescue crews rushed her to Broward Health Medical Center where she died from her injuries.

“We’re fighting for justice for her, justice for her baby,” said Greene. “And just to have her memory live on.”

Family members are still explaining to the victim’s young daughter what happened to her mother.

“It’s hard to explain to a 4-year-old,” said Greene. “So you can just try the best way you can, because he has an expectation to see her, and this is something we’re going to have to deal with moving forward. I just pray and ask God to give us strength to take it one day at a time.”

Anyone with information on the crash is urged to contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.

Sekennia Greene habló con Local 10 News sobre la pérdida de su hija, Dominique Greene, de 35 años, en el accidente ocurrido alrededor de las 8 p.m. del miércoles en la cuadra 1300 de West Sunrise Boulevard.

“Era mi hija, ante todo, era nieta, hermana, tía y, sobre todo, era madre”, dijo Sekennia Greene.

Según la policía, Dominique Greene estaba cruzando los carriles en dirección oeste de la vía cuando un Mercedes AMG negro la atropelló.

El conductor del Mercedes no se detuvo ni intentó ayudarla, dijo la policía, y simplemente huyó del lugar.

“La amaba con todo mi corazón, es mi hija”, dijo Greene.

Los equipos de rescate la trasladaron de emergencia al Broward Health Medical Center, donde murió a causa de sus heridas.

“Estamos luchando para que se haga justicia por ella, justicia por su bebé”, dijo Greene. “Y para mantener viva su memoria”.

Los familiares todavía están tratando de explicarle a la pequeña hija de la víctima lo que le ocurrió a su madre.

“Es difícil explicárselo a una niña de 4 años”, dijo Greene. “Así que solo puedes intentar hacerlo de la mejor manera posible, porque tiene la expectativa de verla, y esto es algo con lo que tendremos que lidiar de ahora en adelante. Solo oro y le pido a Dios que nos dé fuerzas para afrontar un día a la vez”.

Se solicita a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el accidente que se comunique con Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-TIPS.

The 25-year-old allegedly communicated that he was “gonna hijack this” plane — although he used an expletive — and “crash ur row only,” according to a copy of the criminal complaint. The document doesn't specify exactly how the message was sent or to whom it was directed.

Las Vegas police said they detained the man after a report of a person making “terroristic threats” on the Saturday night flight that had been headed to Newark, New Jersey. He was arrested on charges of making a threat or providing false information regarding an act of terrorism, which carries a possible sentence of 1 to 20 years in prison.

An attorney listed for the man did not immediately return a request for comment. His initial court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday.

The scheduled redeye flight returned to the airport less than an hour after departing, according to Flightradar24 data.

United confirmed that the flight with 150 passengers on board returned safely to Las Vegas to address a “potential security concern.” The flight was delayed overnight and departed for Newark on Sunday morning.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it will investigate the incident and said in an email to The Associated Press there have been over 1,400 unruly passenger incidents so far in 2026.

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According to a police officer’s report, a neighbor in the Midtown area told police that she heard yelling and ran to the front door to look through a peephole.

She reported she saw Parajon, 34, “on top of the victim, stabbing him multiple times,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Parajon, a day laborer who was born in Nicaragua, had been in a romantic relationship with the victim for about six months, according to the police report.

The police officers who responded saw Parajon throwing glass bottles from the apartment’s balcony at Northeast First Avenue and 36th Street, according to the report.

The victim later told a detective that Parajon had been “making unusual statements and speaking to himself” before he “opened a nightstand drawer and retrieved a large knife,” a police officer wrote, according to the police report.

Miami police officers arrested Parajon shortly after 10:40 p.m. on Saturday, according to the arrest report. The victim survived stab wounds to his neck, face, and chest, according to the police report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Parajon shortly after 2:15 a.m. on Sunday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

Parajon was wearing an anti-suicide smock when he appeared in court at 11:10 a.m. on Monday, and a Miami-Dade judge denied him bond and ordered him to stay away from the victim and weapons.

Parajon faced four charges: Aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, shooting or throwing a deadly missile, assault, and resisting arrest. Records show he also had a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold.

Local 10 News Assignment Editors Mercedes Cevallos and Caron Merlo contributed to this report.

Según el informe de un agente de la policía, una vecina del área de Midtown dijo a las autoridades que escuchó gritos y corrió hacia la puerta principal para mirar por la mirilla.

La mujer informó que vio a Parajon, de 34 años, “encima de la víctima, apuñalándolo varias veces”, escribió un agente de la policía, según el informe de arresto.

Parajon, un jornalero nacido en Nicaragua, había mantenido una relación sentimental con la víctima durante aproximadamente seis meses, según el informe policial.

Los agentes de la policía que respondieron al incidente vieron a Parajon lanzando botellas de vidrio desde el balcón del apartamento, ubicado en Northeast First Avenue y la calle 36, según el informe.

La víctima dijo posteriormente a un detective que Parajon había estado “haciendo declaraciones inusuales y hablando consigo mismo” antes de que “abriera un cajón de la mesa de noche y sacara un cuchillo grande”, escribió un agente de la policía, según el informe policial.

Agentes de la policía de Miami arrestaron a Parajon poco después de las 10:40 p.m. del sábado, según el informe de arresto. La víctima sobrevivió a las heridas de arma blanca que sufrió en el cuello, el rostro y el pecho, según el informe policial.

Las autoridades penitenciarias de Miami-Dade ingresaron a Parajon poco después de las 2:15 a.m. del domingo en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, cerca de Doral, según los registros de reclusos.

Parajon llevaba puesta una bata de prevención del suicidio cuando compareció ante el tribunal a las 11:10 a.m. del lunes. Un juez de Miami-Dade le negó el derecho a fianza y le ordenó mantenerse alejado de la víctima y de las armas.

Parajon enfrenta cuatro cargos: agresión agravada con un arma mortal, disparar o lanzar un proyectil mortal, agresión y resistencia al arresto. Los registros muestran que también tenía una orden de retención del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE).

Las editoras de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos y Caron Merlo, contribuyeron a este informe.

Officials realized Jacob Morley, 28, was unaccounted for around 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, the Tennessee Department of Correction said in a statement.

Investigators looked at security cameras and saw Morley escaped while wearing his prison uniform, officials said. They did not release any other details, including how Morley got through the fence.

Prison officials offered a reward of up to $2,500 for Morley's arrest. They said law enforcement throughout the area has searched buildings and other structures near the prison about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Memphis in an isolated, rural area of flat land tucked near a bend in the Mississippi River near Missouri.

Morley is 5-foot-11 (1.8 meters) and 240 pounds (109 kilograms). He has brown hair and green eyes.

Morley was sentenced to life for killing co-worker Cody Birchfield in 2022. Birchfield's body was found in a box under Morley's Carter County home after he had been missing for a few weeks.

Along with first-degree murder, Morley was also convicted of aggravated burglary, tampering with evidence, vandalism and evading arrest. When Morley saw deputies at his home in 2022, he led police on a chase that ended in North Carolina, authorities said.

Several violent attacks between inmates and by employees have been reported in recent years at Northwest Correctional Complex. A grand jury in July returned dozens of indictments for five inmate murders, assaults against staff and inmates and other violence.

Northwest Correctional Complex can house 1,776 men and can house minors who have been convicted as adults, according to the Department of Correction. In 2023, an audit of Tennessee prisons found that the department was struggling to fill open positions at the prison and had a 61% vacancy rate for correctional officers in that fiscal year.

The screwworm — actually a fly larva that burrows into the flesh of livestock, pets and even humans — has threatened the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry. Containment efforts have cost jobs and trade in border communities, cutting off a source of cattle as the U.S. struggles to rebuild drought-depleted herds. Reopening crossings could help ease that squeeze, although experts caution that shoppers shouldn't expect quick relief on beef prices.

The port at Columbus, New Mexico, is the third to resume Mexican cattle imports under new safeguards, which include tests, shots and inspections that happen before an animal even gets close to the border.

Officials and ranchers in the two countries say layers of treatment and inspection give them confidence that imported livestock won't carry screwworm through the ports. But flies can buzz across the border on their own, meaning ranchers, hunters and pet owners should remain vigilant.

The parasite was an annual livestock scourge before being largely eradicated in the U.S. in the 1960s. It reappeared in Mexico in 2024, and the first confirmed U.S. case was in Texas in June.

More than 60 cases have been confirmed in Texas and New Mexico, with infestations of cattle, sheep, goats, horses and dogs. Last week, the first case in U.S. wildlife was confirmed after a hunter found screwworm in an elk.

Before the current outbreak, the U.S. was importing about 1 million head of cattle per year. It will take time to get back to that number while keeping a sharp eye on the risks to animal health, said Dudley Hoskins, undersecretary for the Department of Agriculture.

“As long as we can manage and mitigate that risk at an acceptable level, we will continue to process the safe and legal movement of cattle through these ports,” he said, watching as cattle lined up in the chutes at Columbus.

New Mexico is key for cattle imports

About a third of all Mexican cattle imported to the U.S. each year pass through Columbus and the Santa Teresa port near El Paso, Texas. Gerardo Fierro, executive director of the New Mexico Border Authority, pegged the value of the cattle trade for the area at $1 billion.

Fierro said the community watched as jobs, cattle sales and even tax revenue from the diesel fuel used to transport the animals evaporated due to the closures. Ranchers were no longer crossing into New Mexico and spending money on supplies, lodging and food, and farmers had no customers for their alfalfa and grain.

“This means a lot,” he said of the reopening.

Another border crossing for cattle in Arizona is due to open in late November.

Layers of safeguards ensure cows are clean

New Mexico state veterinarian Samantha Holeck said the rigorous process for getting cattle ready starts at their home ranches, where private veterinarians check for tuberculosis and other diseases and deliver medications that prevent screwworm.

At the next stop, veterinarians accredited by the Mexican government look for open wounds, signs of illness or other injuries. Then a head-to-tail inspection is done by the USDA while still in Mexico.

The last hurdle? Dipping — as it's commonly known — involves the cows being immersed in vats of insecticide to get rid of any missed parasites.

Flies have lots of ways to move around

Holeck said the protocols developed over recent years helped to buy more time, and the USDA is using fly traps and drones to survey areas.

The government has a longstanding program to breed sterile male flies and drop swarms of them from planes to mate with wild females, causing the flies to die out. The government is building a $610 million factory in Texas that can produce 300 million sterile flies per week. That will augment production at facilities in Mexico and Panama.

“That’s our sharpest tool,” Hoskins said.

Beef prices are a bigger problem

Mexican ranchers once again have a market for their feeder cattle, but experts say it will take time for U.S. ranchers to rebuild herds that have dwindled to record lows due to years of persistent drought. Constrained supplies have pushed prices higher.

Tom Paterson, president of the New Mexico Cattle Grower's Association, was among those who met with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins last week in Columbus.

“I agree with the secretary,” he said, “when she says that food security is national security.”

El Ministerio de Defensa colombiano informó el lunes que el personal militar estadounidense empezará a llegar desde el martes para participar en el ejercicio “Vanguardia del Sur”, un entrenamiento que suele realizar Estados Unidos con ejércitos de países aliados en la región.

El Comando Sur de Estados Unidos detalló en un comunicado que participarán cerca de 350 militares estadounidenses y 400 soldados colombianos en el entrenamiento diseñado para “contrarrestar amenazas regionales” y desarrollar las capacidades de los países aliados de Estados Unidos.

Los entrenamientos se realizarán en el Fuerte Militar de Tolemaida, ubicado en el céntrico departamento de Cundinamarca, desde el 2 hasta el 11 de noviembre.

Sin embargo, previamente realizarán una evacuación aeromédica desde el fuerte militar hasta una escuela militar en Bogotá, para verificar la capacidad de auxiliar a una persona que resultase herida en un área minada, detalló la cartera colombiana.

El Comando Sur indicó que, durante el entrenamiento, los escenarios se centrarán especialmente en la interdicción marítima, usualmente usada para inspeccionar embarcaciones sospechosas, las operaciones de seguridad terrestre, la ciberdefensa y la cooperación interagencial.

Colombia resaltó que el entrenamiento le permitirá a su ejército fortalecer tanto la cooperación internacional como preparar a su tropa para “contrarrestar la criminalidad de los grupos armados organizados que convergen en el territorio nacional”.

El país sudamericano lidia con múltiples grupos armados ilegales que suelen financiarse con ilícitos como el narcotráfico y la minería ilegal, a los que el presidente conservador Abelardo de la Espriella, aliado del estadounidense Donald Trump, se ha propuesto combatir con “mano de hierro”.

La renovada cooperación militar con Estados Unidos es vigilada de cerca por la oposición en Colombia, especialmente luego de que el secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Pete Hegseth, dijera en agosto que el gobierno de De la Espriella había solicitado colaboración estadounidense en operaciones militares conjuntas en Colombia para combatir el “narcoterrorismo”.

El excandidato presidencial y senador opositor Iván Cepeda advirtió entonces que las eventuales operaciones de militares estadounidenses en Colombia serían la “entrega” de la “soberanía” a ese país.

El colombo-estadounidense De la Espriella incluyó en agosto a Colombia en el “Escudo de las Américas”, una alianza en la lucha contra el narcotráfico que lidera Estados Unidos e incluye otros países de la región como Ecuador y Perú.

El fin de semana Joseph M. Humire, subsecretario adjunto de Guerra para Asuntos de Seguridad de las Américas de Estados Unidos, visitó Medellín, la segunda ciudad de Colombia, donde se está construyendo una sede de la coalición.

“It’s hard to believe,” crew chief Cliff Daniels said after Larson gained 10 spots on Sunday's final lap for his first victory in 24 starts at the treacherous track in Alabama. “I had to ask where victory lane was. I’ve never seen the place; didn’t even know where it was.”

The Chase points leader won’t need help finding his way if Larson celebrates a third Cup Series championship during the next two weeks.

Larson and Hendrick Motorsports know their way around the season’s final two tracks as well as anywhere on the NASCAR schedule.

With a 73-point lead over Denny Hamlin, a strong performance Sunday at Martinsville Speedway could make Larson the first driver in Chase history to clinch the title before the season finale.

Hendrick is NASCAR’s winningest team at Martinsville with 31 victories (including wins in seven of the past 12 races). Larson has eight consecutive top 10s (including a 2023 win) at the 0.526-mile oval.

He is even better at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where the Cup season ends Nov. 8. Larson has two wins at the 1.5-mile track, is tied for second in top fives (six) and ranks fourth in average finish.

Martinsville and Homestead are stronger fits for Larson’s aggressive style than the unpredictable draft of Talladega, which ranked among his worst tracks in Cup and seemed a major title roadblock.

A disastrous 34th-place finish at Phoenix Raceway left Larson clinging to a five-point lead, and five former Talladega winners were within striking distance.

It’s no wonder he was much looser after surviving the caution-plagued stress of 500 miles at Talladega, where the nine drivers behind him in the Chase standings were involved in incidents Sunday.

“I feel good,” Larson said. “Never in a million years would I have imagined leaving here plus-73. That makes the win feel even way cooler.”

After finishing eighth at Talladega, Hamlin conceded that Larson is destined for the title if he avoids misfortune in the next two races.

Hamlin still should be able to keep the pressure on at Martinsville. The Joe Gibbs Racing star ranks first among active drivers at the Virginia short track in wins, laps led and points per race, and he led a race-high 292 laps for a runner-up finish there on March 29.

Teammate Christopher Bell, ranked third in the Chase 74 points behind Larson, won at Martinsville four years ago and has four top 10s in the past six races there.

The competition is concerning to Daniels, who plans to keep the No. 5 Chevrolet on offense at Martinsville instead of protecting the Chase lead.

“The points can swing a lot,” said Daniels, who led Larson to championships in 2021 and 2025. “There’s always been this question of what is a comfortable points gap. The Chase so far has shown some volatility. You just never know what’s going to lie ahead.”

Though Larson can wrap up the title by scoring 59 points at Martinsville (he amassed 71 of a maximum 76 at Talladega), he and his team are downplaying their chances by noting that alternate tire strategies and the timing of cautions can negate a fast car.

“It’s certainly not over by any means,” said Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman and NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon, whose nine wins at Martinsville tie him for the team lead with seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson. “You’ve got to execute, and there’s so much on the line. So many different strategies can play out now. I know Hendrick runs good at Martinsville, but that’s just not a guarantee.”

Since joining Hendrick in 2021, Larson has finished outside the top 10 only twice at Martinsville. He is mindful it’s still easy for things to go wrong at the smallest track on the Cup circuit.

“If there’s a stackup on the first lap, I could cave in the radiator and be done,” Larson said. “There’s still a lot of racing left in the Chase. I’m not getting ahead of myself at all.”

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A spokesperson for the Davie Police Department asked drivers to avoid the area since the crash involved “downed power lines.”

Police officers closed both the northbound and southbound lanes of University Drive at Stirling Road, according to police.

The area re-opened, and the power was restored by 2:15 p.m.

Five professional leagues in North America were in action at the same time on Monday night, a phenomenon known as a sports equinox.

Major League Baseball and the NFL vied for the most viewers while the NBA, WNBA and NHL gave their diehard fans games to watch.

Monday marked the 33rd sports equinox, the first since Oct. 27, 2025, and the fourth instance with women's professional basketball included, according to Sportradar.

Here's a guide on how to sample a little bit of this and that in the sports smorgasbord:

World Series Game 3 becomes a rout

The Tampa Bay Rays hosted the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 3 of the World Series, with the game starting shortly after 8 p.m. EDT on Fox. After the Brewers won the first two games by one run, they scored eight with two outs in the fifth inning on the way to winning 10-1, with Brandon Woodruff finishing it off on the mound.

Milwaukee is one victory away from the franchise's first championship in nearly six decades of existence. Game 4 is Tuesday night.

Cowboys beat the Eagles on ‘Monday Night Football’

Even though the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys entered with 2-4 records, the NFL always draws a lot of interest and millions care about the NFC East matchup that kicked off at 8:15 p.m. on ESPN.

With quarterback Jalen Hurts on injured reserve because of blood clots, the reeling Eagles continued their free fall. Dak Prescott threw for three touchdowns, Javonte Williams ran for 155 yards and the Cowboys rolled to a 38-21 win.

Cooper Flagg returns in NBA action

Reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving returned to the Dallas Mavericks' lineup for their game at the Miami Heat. That game tipped off at 7:30 p.m. on NBA TV, well before baseball and football got underway.

Flagg dominated with 29 points and 11 assists as the Mavs sent the Heat to an 0-4 start.

In the middle of the World Series and “Monday Night Football,” the NBA had Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors visiting Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets at 10 p.m. on NBCSN and Peacock.

Valkyries take WNBA Finals lead

The WNBA was vying for eyeballs against MLB, the NFL, NBA and NHL for the first time since 2000, when the league did it three times in September of that year.

The Golden State Valkyries hosted Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream in Game 5 of the Finals at 8 p.m. on USA Network, CNBC and Peacock. With the best-of-seven series tied at two games apiece, the Valkyries won 64-55 to move one win away from their first title in their second season.

Game 6 is Thursday in Atlanta.

Stars shine around the NHL

The NHL had some of its top scorers skating in three games.

The New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings were on the ice at Madison Square Garden in a game that started at 7 p.m. on NHL Network. The Kings scored three times and chased Rangers goaltender James Reimer before either baseball or football started.

In a game that started at 8:30 on ESPN+, Toronto lost 5-2 at Calgary but not before captain Auston Matthews became the second-fastest U.S.-born player to reach 800 career points, doing so in 703 games.

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Las moscas pueden transportar gérmenes de superficies contaminadas y transferirlos a los alimentos.

La semana pasada, los inspectores encontraron moscas posándose directamente sobre alimentos expuestos en varios restaurantes del sur de Florida, incluyendo pollo cocido, huevos, queso, ingredientes para postres y otros productos listos para el consumo.

En algunos casos, se emitieron órdenes de cese de venta porque los alimentos ya no se consideraban aptos para el consumo ni en buen estado.

Y las moscas no eran la única preocupación; los inspectores también documentaron la acumulación de moho dentro de las máquinas de hielo y otras infracciones de seguridad alimentaria.

A continuación, se ofrece un análisis más detallado de lo que encontraron los inspectores.

Todos los restaurantes que se enumeran a continuación pudieron reabrir tras una limpieza ordenada y una inspección posterior.

**SPOOTHIE SPOT DAVIE

8902 CARRETERA ESTATAL 84

DAVIE

ORDEN DE CIERRE 22/10

7 VIOLACIONES DETECTADAS

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta debido a que los alimentos no se encontraban en condiciones higiénicas ni seguras. Se encontraron pequeños insectos voladores vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 7 pequeños insectos voladores en el mostrador, que se posaron en huevos duros, pico de gallo, queso y atún. El encargado desechó los artículos en los que se posaron los insectos.

Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 7 insectos voladores pequeños en el mostrador, posándose en huevos duros, pico de gallo, queso y atún. El empleado desechó los artículos en los que se posaron los insectos. Ver orden de cese de venta. Se observaron aproximadamente 4 insectos voladores pequeños junto a la máquina de exprimir naranjas, posándose en la máquina y en artículos individuales envasados. Se observaron aproximadamente 4 insectos voladores pequeños junto al armario de almacenamiento de productos químicos, posándose en las paredes y en los productos de limpieza.

“Acumulación de una sustancia negra/verdosa similar al moho en el interior de la máquina/contenedor de hielo.”

“El lavamanos se utiliza para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó un lavamanos con un cubo que contenía agua y jabón.”

**PHAT BOY SUSHI

2702 N. UNIVERSIDAD DR.

Manantiales de coral

ORDEN DE CIERRE 22/10

Se detectaron 9 infracciones.

Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 8 insectos voladores vivos en la cocina, cerca del fregadero y la freidora. Se observó un insecto volador posarse en un paquete abierto de queso en lonchas. Se ordenó la suspensión de la venta. Se observó un insecto volador posarse en una botella de mayonesa picante. El operario retiró la botella para limpiarla y desinfectarla. Se reincidió en la infracción.

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta debido a que el alimento no se encontraba en condiciones higiénicas ni seguras. Se observó un insecto volador posarse en un paquete abierto de queso en lonchas.

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, una sustancia similar al moho o una sustancia viscosa. Área de preparación: cerca de la máquina de hielo, se observaron restos de comida en el soporte magnético para cuchillos.”

“Acumulación de residuos en el exterior de la lavadora de vajilla.”

“Alimentos animales crudos almacenados encima o junto con alimentos listos para el consumo en un congelador; no todos los productos están envasados ​​comercialmente. Congelador industrial: carne de res cruda almacenada encima de edamame listo para el consumo.”

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados encima de alimentos listos para el consumo o sin la separación adecuada de estos. Zona de sushi: Pescado crudo en recipiente bajo almacenado encima de salsas listas para el consumo.”

**USHIO SUSHI

2211 UNIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DR.

DAVIE

ORDEN DE CIERRE 10/21

Se detectaron 13 infracciones.

Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 12 insectos voladores pequeños en la mesa de preparación, cerca de la máquina de hielo, posándose en las paredes y mesas, y 3 insectos voladores pequeños posándose en 2 trozos de pollo cocido. Ver orden de cese de venta. Se observaron aproximadamente 5 insectos voladores pequeños cerca de las freidoras, posándose en platos limpios y paredes.

“Acumulación de una sustancia negra/verdosa similar al moho en el interior de la máquina/contenedor de hielo.”

“Se observó a un empleado comiendo en una zona de preparación de alimentos u otra área restringida. También se observó a empleados bebiendo café cerca de la estación de sushi. El gerente les informó a los empleados que no debían beber café mientras trabajaban.”

“Objetos personales de los empleados almacenados en o sobre un área de preparación de alimentos, alimentos, equipos y utensilios limpios, o artículos de un solo uso. Se observó el teléfono de un empleado sobre la mesa de preparación en la cocina.”

“Empleado sin sujeción para el cabello mientras preparaba alimentos. Se observó a un chef de sushi sin usar sujeción para el cabello.”

“El empleado no se lavó las manos antes de ponerse los guantes para comenzar una tarea relacionada con alimentos. Se observó a empleados tomando café en la zona de sushi y cambiándose los guantes, pero sin lavarse las manos antes de preparar el sushi para los pedidos de los clientes.”

*LA VIDA MISMA RESTAURANT & BAR

8945 SW 72ND PL

MIAMI

ORDEN DE CIERRE 10/21

Se detectaron 30 infracciones.

Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños y vivos. Se observaron más de 35 moscas vivas en la zona del bar. Se observaron moscas tocando adornos comestibles, limas cortadas y pétalos de flores, así como en las paredes y el techo del bar. También se observaron moscas vivas en las boquillas de los grifos de cerveza, en las botellas de licor y en la decoración de la barra. Se observaron 3 moscas vivas en la pared junto a la estación de camareros. Se observaron 5 moscas vivas en la decoración del bar, encima de la entrada.

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta debido a que los alimentos no se encontraban en condiciones higiénicas ni seguras. Se encontraron pequeños insectos voladores vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 12 pequeños insectos voladores en la mesa de preparación, junto a la máquina de hielo, que se posaron sobre el pollo cocido, las paredes y las mesas.

“El empleado comenzó a manipular alimentos, equipos o utensilios limpios, o a tocar artículos desechables sin envolver sin lavarse las manos previamente. No se observó que los empleados se lavaran las manos en la cocina; el agua estaba cortada.”

“Acumulación de residuos en el exterior de la lavadora de vajilla.”

Acumulación de restos de comida/suciedad en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos. Se observaron sucias las manijas del refrigerador, el horno y el microondas. Infracción reiterada.

“El techo/las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado. Se observó en la cocina una baldosa abultada. Infracción reiterada.”

“El equipo de refrigeración no se mantiene en buen estado. No almacene alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad en esta unidad hasta que se repare. Se observó que, en una cámara frigorífica con una temperatura ambiente de 56 °F, los siguientes alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad se almacenaron en su interior durante menos de 3 horas: mozzarella (63 °F - Refrigeración); huevo (62 °F - Refrigeración); gorgonzola (60 °F - Refrigeración); salchicha cocida (60 °F - Refrigeración); queso rallado (60 °F - Refrigeración). Infracción reiterada.”

Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo. Se observaron juntas sucias en varios refrigeradores. Infracción reiterada.

“Operando con una licencia vencida de la División de Hoteles y Restaurantes. Se observó que la licencia estaba vencida el 1 de octubre de 2026.”

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados encima de alimentos listos para el consumo o sin la separación adecuada de estos. Se observaron varias porciones de carne cruda encima de pan y verduras en la cámara frigorífica.”

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta debido a que los alimentos no se encontraban en condiciones insalubres. Se observaron varios filetes de salmón en un congelador industrial, almacenados en bolsas ROP, sin aprobación del sistema HACCP ni exención de procesos. Se observaron moscas tocando guarniciones comestibles, limas cortadas y pétalos de flores.

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos refrigerados seguros a más de 5 °C (41 °F). Se observó en un refrigerador con una temperatura ambiente de 13 °C (56 °F) los siguientes alimentos TCS almacenados en su interior durante menos de 3 horas: mozzarella (17 °C - Refrigeración); huevo (17 °C - Refrigeración); gorgonzola (16 °C - Refrigeración); salchicha cocida (16 °C - Refrigeración); queso rallado (16 °C - Refrigeración). Infracción reiterada.”

“No había toallas de papel ni secador de manos mecánico en el lavamanos. El operario trajo servilletas.”

“No había jabón en el lavamanos. Tampoco lo había en el lavamanos de la cocina.”

*CHILL N KENDALL PLACE

9065 SW 107TH AVE

MIAMI

ORDEN DE CIERRE 10/21

Se detectaron 9 infracciones.

“Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños vivos. Se observaron 8 insectos voladores vivos volando y aterrizando dentro de un recipiente descubierto que tocaba directamente el dulce de leche en el mostrador. Se observaron 3 insectos voladores vivos volando y aterrizando dentro de un recipiente descubierto que tocaba directamente la Nutella en el mostrador. Se observaron 2 insectos voladores vivos aterrizando directamente sobre los bocaditos de tarta de queso en el refrigerador del mostrador. Se observó 1 insecto volador vivo volando y aterrizando directamente dentro de un recipiente de mini chispas de chocolate en el mostrador. Se observaron más de 10 insectos voladores vivos volando y aterrizando sobre paños de limpieza limpios y equipos y utensilios limpios encima del fregadero triple. Se observaron 4 insectos voladores vivos volando en el área del fregadero de la fregona. Se observaron 5 insectos voladores vivos volando y aterrizando cerca de la máquina lavavajillas. Se observaron 16 insectos voladores vivos volando y aterrizando en el estante con equipo limpio, guantes desechables y servilletas en el área de almacenamiento. Se observaron 6 insectos voladores vivos volando y aterrizando en el estante donde se almacenan varias bolsas de hojuelas de coco, Oreos, malvaviscos y otros ingredientes en el área de almacenamiento en seco. Se observaron 2 insectos voladores vivos aterrizando sobre cucharas de helado limpias en el mostrador. Se observaron 3 insectos voladores vivos sobre recipientes limpios de la batidora debajo del lavamanos en el mostrador. Infracción reiterada.

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta debido a que los alimentos no se encontraban en condiciones higiénicas ni seguras. Se encontraron pequeños insectos voladores vivos. Se observaron 8 insectos voladores vivos volando y posándose dentro de un recipiente descubierto que tocaba directamente el dulce de leche en el mostrador. Se observaron 3 insectos voladores vivos volando y posándose dentro de un recipiente descubierto que tocaba directamente la Nutella en el mostrador. Se observaron 2 insectos voladores vivos posándose directamente sobre los bocaditos de tarta de queso en el refrigerador del mostrador. Se observó 1 insecto volador vivo volando y posándose directamente dentro de un recipiente de mini chispas de chocolate en el mostrador. Infracción reiterada.

**SHORTY’S BBQ

11575 BIRD ROAD

LAGOS DE WESTWOOD/WEST MIAMI

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA DENUNCIA

ORDEN DE CIERRE 22/10

55 VIOLACIONES ENCONTRADAS

Se detectó actividad de roedores, evidenciada por los excrementos encontrados. Se observaron aproximadamente 10 excrementos de roedores en el suelo del área de almacenamiento en seco. Se observaron aproximadamente 5 excrementos de roedores cerca de la caja eléctrica en el área de almacenamiento en seco. Se observaron aproximadamente 10 excrementos de roedores en el estante donde se guardan los delantales limpios en el área de almacenamiento en seco.

Se encontraron pequeños insectos voladores vivos. Se observaron tres insectos voladores posándose en alitas de pollo en la zona de preparación trasera. Se observaron cuatro insectos voladores volando en el aire cerca de la zona de lavado de utensilios. Se observaron dos insectos voladores posándose en pan cerca de la zona de cocción. Se observaron aproximadamente 10 o más insectos voladores posándose en la mesa de preparación de la cocina cerca de la puerta de salida trasera.

“Se encontró en el establecimiento un plaguicida/insecticida etiquetado únicamente para uso doméstico. Se observó un plaguicida doméstico almacenado en el área de almacenamiento de alimentos secos, junto a la harina.”

“Los alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad, identificados en el procedimiento escrito como alimentos mantenidos en caliente como medida de control de salud pública, carecen de marcación de tiempo y no se puede determinar el tiempo transcurrido desde que se dejaron de controlar la temperatura. Véase la orden de cese de venta. Se observaron papas asadas (84 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); costillas (126 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); pollo cocido (104 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); alitas (110 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente) en la mesa de servicio con marcación de tiempo incorrecta.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos seguros, excepto asados ​​de carne enteros, mantenidos calientes a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron papas asadas (84 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); costillas (126 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); pollo cocido (104 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); alitas (110 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente) en la mesa de vapor en el área de la cocina.”

“El lavamanos se utiliza para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó que el lavamanos, ubicado junto al área de lavado de platos, tenía un cuchillo dentro.”

“Acumulación de una sustancia negra/verdosa similar al moho en el interior de la máquina/contenedor de hielo. Se observó que la máquina de hielo presentaba una acumulación de lodo y moho negro.”

“Acumulación de residuos dentro de la lavadora de vajilla.”

“Acumulación de residuos en el exterior de la lavadora de vajilla.”

“Acumulación de restos de comida/residuos de tierra en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos. Se observó acumulación de restos de comida en las manijas de las puertas de los refrigeradores en la línea de cocción.”

“Falta una baldosa del techo. Se observaron dos baldosas del techo faltantes en el área de la cocina.”

“El techo/las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado. Se observaron baldosas del techo en mal estado en la cocina y en el área de almacenamiento trasera.”

“Techo/baldosas/rejillas de ventilación sucias con restos de comida acumulados, grasa, polvo o una sustancia similar al moho. Se observaron rejillas de ventilación sucias en el área de la cocina.”

“Se limpiaron y desinfectaron equipos o utensilios que no estaban almacenados correctamente. Se observaron tapas de ollas limpias almacenadas en el suelo en el área de lavado de platos.”

“La moldura de remate en la unión del suelo y la pared está rota o falta. Se observó que faltaba la moldura de remate en el suelo de la cocina.”

“Se observó a un empleado bebiendo de un recipiente de bebida sin tapa en un área de preparación de alimentos/lavadero de vajilla. El recipiente no cuenta con un mecanismo dispensador que impida el contacto de las manos con la zona de contacto con los labios. También se observó a un empleado bebiendo de un recipiente abierto sin tapa en la línea de cocina.”

“Artículos personales de los empleados almacenados en o sobre un área de preparación de alimentos, alimentos, equipos y utensilios limpios, o artículos de un solo uso. Se observaron artículos personales almacenados sobre la mesa de preparación en el área de la cocina.”

“Zonas del suelo cubiertas de agua estancada. Se observó agua estancada en el suelo dentro de la cámara frigorífica.”

“Equipos en mal estado. Se observó un congelador horizontal en mal estado en la zona de la cocina. Se observó una puerta de la cámara frigorífica en mal estado.”

“El recipiente para almacenar alimentos o su tapa están agrietados o rotos. Se observó un recipiente de plástico gris dentro de la cámara frigorífica que estaba agrietado.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo. Se observó un cubo de mayonesa en el suelo.”

“Agujeros u otros daños en la pared. Se observaron agujeros en la pared del área de almacenamiento en seco, junto a la estación de lavado de platos.”

“El dispensador de té helado no se limpia al menos una vez cada 24 horas. Se observó que el dispensador de té helado presentaba una acumulación de moho.”

Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos sucia de grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo. Se observaron filtros de campana extractora sucios en la línea de cocción. Se observaron juntas de refrigerador en la línea de cocción muy sucias.

“Se observaron restos de comida adheridos a la vajilla y los utensilios limpios. También se observaron restos de comida en los platos limpios en la zona de secado.”

“Bloque para cuchillos imposible de limpiar, utilizado para guardar cuchillos.”

“Los cables de servicios públicos están expuestos innecesariamente. Se observaron cables de servicios públicos expuestos en el área de almacenamiento en seco.”

“El lavavajillas no desinfecta correctamente. Deje de usar el lavavajillas para desinfectar y realice la desinfección manualmente hasta que el lavavajillas sea reparado y desinfecte correctamente.”

“El empleado comenzó a manipular alimentos, equipos o utensilios limpios, o a tocar artículos desechables sin envolver sin lavarse las manos previamente. Se observó que el empleado abandonó su puesto en la cocina para lavar platos y luego regresó a la cocina para comenzar a preparar alimentos sin lavarse las manos.”

“El empleado se tocó la cara o el cabello y luego preparó alimentos, manipuló equipos o utensilios limpios o tocó artículos desechables sin envolver sin lavarse las manos. Se observó que el empleado se tocó la cara y unas pinzas limpias sin lavarse las manos adecuadamente.”

The company's voluntary exit offer was available to eligible employees in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States, the company's Chief People Officer Amy Coleman wrote in a blog post Monday.

“The Voluntary Exit Offer is new for us,” Coleman wrote. “We’ll learn from it. At the same time, we’ll keep helping people focus on the work that matters most, build new skills and, where it makes sense, find new opportunities across Microsoft.”

The company, which releases its quarterly financial results Wednesday, had approximately 223,000 full-time employees at the end of June.

Shares of Microsoft Corp., based in Redmond, Washington, hit an all-time high this month. The stock rose about 1% on Monday.

In May, Microsoft planned to offer buyouts to about 8,750 people, or 7% of its U.S. workforce, according to two people familiar with the plan who were not authorized to speak about it publicly. In July, the company said it was cutting 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its global workforce, including a large number of workers at its Xbox video game business.

The gusher of investment in data centers — likely topping $700 billion this year — to power artificial intelligence has made memory chips, computer processors and other equipment, as well as electricity, more expensive. Economists expect it will continue to push up inflation at least through the end of this year.

Microsoft has been ramping up its AI capabilities for several years. In 2024 the company revealed a new class of AI-imbued personal computers that centered on fusing its AI assistant, called Copilot, into the Windows operating system for PCs, where Microsoft already has the eyes of millions of consumers.

And in October 2025 Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called Mico, a floating cartoon face shaped like a blob or flame that embodies the software giant’s Copilot virtual assistant.

Los daños tan sólo en Nuevo México después de más de cuatro días de inundaciones —apenas el episodio más reciente tras un otoño de lluvias torrenciales en el suroeste de Estados Unidos— podrían sumar 300 millones de dólares, dijo la gobernadora Michelle Lujan Grisham.

El pueblo que más recientemente tuvo que evacuar fue el diminuto Bluff, en el sureste de Utah, después de que las inundaciones del río San Juan anegaran partes de ciudades y pueblos río arriba en Colorado y Nuevo México.

Mientras algunas partes de su pueblo de 250 habitantes seguían bajo el agua, el alcalde Josh Ewing estaba preocupado por un pronóstico de aún más lluvias intensas este fin de semana. Después de unos días de clima soleado y seco, se pronostican más rondas de lluvia el viernes por la noche y nuevamente el domingo, según el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

“Es la segunda inundación la que realmente te afecta, ¿sabes?, porque todo está completamente saturado. Y entonces estamos tratando de recuperarnos lo suficientemente rápido como para estar alerta ante lo que pueda pasar”, dijo Ewing.

Nuevo México evalúa daños y espera ayuda

Río arriba de Bluff, en Farmington, Nuevo México, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, y en otros lugares a lo largo de los ríos San Juan y Ánimas, cientos de viviendas seguían evacuadas o aisladas por caminos inundados. Muchas viviendas seguían sin electricidad mientras los funcionarios evaluaban cuándo sería seguro para los residentes regresar y que se restablecieran los servicios.

Se reportaron al menos dos muertes en Nuevo México. Isabelle Beulaygue, de 39 años, fue arrastrada mientras intentaba cruzar un arroyo crecido en un vehículo el sábado en Santa Fe, dijeron las autoridades.

A unos 80 kilómetros (50 millas) al sur, en el condado de Socorro, Grace Clark, de 64 años, fue arrastrada cuando las aguas subieron y atraparon a residentes en sus casas. El jefe de bomberos del condado de Valencia, Matthew Propp, dijo que otras nueve personas fueron rescatadas mientras los equipos trabajaban durante la noche para encontrar a residentes.

Entre 200 y 300 personas en el condado de San Juan, Nuevo México, fueron rescatadas en los últimos días, según el portavoz del condado Devin Neeley.

Los daños se extendieron a la vasta Nación Navajo que abarca partes de Arizona, Nuevo México y Utah.

Lupita Villa, su esposo y tres hijos pequeños evacuaron el jueves su casa rentada en la orilla del río San Juan en Farmington. Cuando regresaron el sábado, encontraron sus pisos laminados deformados bajo varias pulgadas de agua lodosa y gran parte de sus muebles destruidos .

La familia se está quedando con familiares en terreno más alto mientras planean los siguientes pasos. Villa dijo que sus hijos están teniendo dificultades para entender que su antigua casa ahora es inhabitable.

“Solo siguen preguntando: ‘¿Cuándo podemos volver?’”, dijo Villa.

Funcionarios en toda la región advirtieron a la gente que evitara entrar en zonas inundadas después de que las plantas de tratamiento de aguas residuales también fueran cubiertas por la crecida. Si se expone, dijeron, tome una ducha o baño lo antes posible.

En Montezuma Creek, a 22 kilómetros (14 millas) río abajo de Bluff, la Autoridad de Servicios Públicos Tribales Navajo informó que sus lagunas de tratamiento de aguas residuales fueron “completamente rebasadas”, lo que podría contaminar el río San Juan con bacterias y otros patógenos.

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Gruver informó desde Fort Collins, Colorado. La periodista de The Associated Press Jessica Hill contribuyó a este despacho desde Las Vegas.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

Según un comunicado de prensa de la oficina del tasador de propiedades del condado Broward, Marty Kiar, los cuatro enfrentan ahora un total de 15 cargos.

Durante una conferencia de prensa el lunes por la mañana, las autoridades identificaron a la víctima como Thomas Hegarty, de 71 años.

Las autoridades indicaron que la investigación comenzó después de que una de las cuñadas de Hegarty contactara a la policía de Hollywood, preocupada por el “deterioro de su estado mental y las circunstancias sospechosas que rodeaban la transferencia de su residencia de más de 25 años”, ubicada en la cuadra 2200 de Mayo Street.

Los investigadores señalaron que el grupo “se aprovechó del deterioro del estado mental de la víctima para obtener su firma en un documento de poder notarial y una escritura de garantía”, que fue “notarizada falsamente” por Derek Enrique, de 43 años, residente de Tamarac, y utilizada para supuestamente transferir la propiedad de la vivienda a una empresa llamada Cash4Keys South Florida.

Según las autoridades, esa empresa estaba controlada por los inversionistas Brandon Lee Miguel y Jordy Luis Perez, ambos de 25 años.

Las autoridades indicaron que la vivienda tenía un valor aproximado de $300,000 USD, pero fue vendida por solo $191,000 USD.

Las autoridades señalaron que ambos organizaron que la agente de bienes raíces Monica Elizabeth Castelli, de 56 años, residente de Margate, sacara a Hegarty de su vivienda y lo abandonara en una casa de habitaciones en condiciones deterioradas en Miami Gardens.

Las autoridades informaron el lunes que Hegarty estaba angustiado y llorando, por lo que Castelli lo recogió y lo dejó nuevamente en el Hospital Memorial Regional de Hollywood. Fue entonces cuando el personal notificó a su cuñada sobre lo ocurrido.

“Una vez que la víctima fue retirada de su vivienda, pudieron ingresar y presuntamente se llevaron todas sus pertenencias personales, que posteriormente fueron reportadas como desaparecidas, incluidos tres vehículos que pertenecían a la víctima”, indicó la oficina de Kiar en el comunicado.

Miguel y Perez, quienes fueron arrestados en el condado Miami-Dade, enfrentan ahora cargos que incluyen robo mayor en primer grado, explotación de un adulto mayor, fraude organizado y fraude hipotecario.

Castelli también enfrenta un cargo de explotación de un adulto mayor, así como un cargo de secuestro con intención de facilitar la comisión de un delito grave.

Enrique enfrenta un cargo por certificaciones notariales falsas o fraudulentas.

“Es muy perturbador, muy triste, y lo que realmente me molesta es que la persona que eligieron como víctima era extremadamente vulnerable, y eso es lo que hace que este caso sea tan triste”, dijo Kiar el lunes. “Me alegra mucho que estas personas hayan sido arrestadas y que tengan que comparecer ante la justicia”.

Las autoridades señalaron que la investigación sobre los cuatro involucró a múltiples agencias. Además de la oficina de Kiar y la policía de Hollywood, también participaron la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, la Fiscalía Estatal de Broward y el Departamento de Florida.

Kiar dijo que Cash4Keys todavía controla la vivienda de Hegarty y señaló que su familia ha contratado a un abogado para intentar recuperarla.

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Shorty’s Bar-B-Q in Miami was hit with 55 violations during a Thursday inspection triggered by a complaint and the findings are downright disturbing.

Inspectors reported rodent droppings on the floor and on shelves where clean aprons were stored, flying insects landing on chicken wings and bread, food held at unsafe temperatures, and employees failing to wash their hands properly.

The inspection also uncovered a dishwashing machine that wasn’t sanitizing properly, mold-like buildup in the ice machine and iced tea dispenser, and filthy, deteriorating kitchen conditions.

Fifty-five violations are unacceptable, and customers deserve better.

Below is a list of some of their violations.

**SHORTY’S BBQ

11575 BIRD ROAD

WESTWOOD LAKES/WEST MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 10/22

55 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on floor in dry storage area. Observed approximately 5+ rodent droppings near electrical box in dry storage area. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on shelf where clean aprons are stored in dry storage area.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed three flying insects landing on chicken wings in back prep area. Observed four flying insects flying in the air near the ware washing area. Observed two flying insects landing on bread near cook line area. Observed approximately 10+ flying insects landing on kitchen prep table near back exit door.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed household pesticide stored in dry food storage area, next to flour.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale. Observed baked potatoes (84F - Hot Holding); ribs (126F - Hot Holding); cooked chicken (104F - Hot Holding); wings (110F - Hot Holding) at the stream table with incorrect time marking.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed baked potatoes (84F - Hot Holding); ribs (126F - Hot Holding); cooked chicken (104F - Hot Holding); wings (110F - Hot Holding) at the steam table in the kitchen area.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed HWS by the dishwashing area have a knife inside of it.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Observed ice machine have slime and black mold like build up.”

“Accumulation of debris inside ware washing machine.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed reach in cooler door handles at the cook line with food debris build up.”

“Ceiling tile missing. Observed two ceiling tiles missing in kitchen area.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed ceiling tiles in disrepair in kitchen and back storage area.”

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

“Cleaned and sanitized equipment or utensils not properly stored. Observed clean pot lids stored on floor in dishwashing area.”

“Cove molding at floor/wall juncture broken/missing. Observed cove molding on kitchen floor missing.”

“Employee drinking from an unenclosed beverage container in a food preparation/clean dishware area and the container does not have a dispensing mechanism to prevent hand contact with lip contact area of drink container. Observed employee drinking from an open container with no lid at the cook line.”

“Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Observed personal items stored on prep table in kitchen area.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed standing water on floor inside walk in cooler.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed chest freezer in kitchen area in disrepair. Observed walk in cooler door in disrepair.”

“Food storage container/container lid cracked or broken. Observed gray plastic container inside walk in cooler cracked.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed bucket of mayonnaise on floor.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed holes in wall in dry storage area by dish washer station.”

“Iced tea dispenser not cleaned at least once every 24 hours. Observed ice tea dispenser have mold like build up.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed hood filters at the cook line soiled. Observed reach in cooler gaskets at the cook line heavily soiled.”

“Old food stuck to clean dishware/utensils. Observed food debris on clean plates at the dry rack area.”

“Uncleanable knife block in use to store knives.”

“Utility lines are unnecessarily exposed. Observed utility lines in dry storage area exposed.”

“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.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee leave cook line station to clean dishes and then come back to cook line and begin food preparation with no hand washing.”

“Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee touch face and a clean tong without proper handwashing.”

The Vatican press office said the pope’s recovery continues to progress in line with favorable assessments from his medical team. It also confirmed the pope is keeping the already ambitious trip program with no announced changes.

Surgeons on Oct. 13 removed a lobe where the nodule later diagnosed as malignant was located, in the first major health event of Leo’s 17-month pontificate. The surgery confirmed he had adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer.

Since returning to the Vatican, Leo has gradually resumed his activities while adjusting his schedule to prioritize recovery and periods of rest, the statement said.

The pope’s physician, Luigi Carbone, said there’s no medical reason preventing Leo’s trip to South America, which involves a dozen flights and two helicopter rides to high altitudes.

Leo expressed gratitude for the prayers and support he has received during his recovery and said he was eager to return to a region where he spent important periods of his life.

“I am looking forward to returning to the continent where I’ve experienced so many moments of my life,” Leo said Monday. “May this journey be an occasion for us to open our hearts to one another, strengthen our communion as brothers and sisters, and renew our commitment to proclaiming the Gospel with joy.”

The Vatican said the visit will provide an opportunity for the pope to strengthen ties with local churches, encourage the faithful and promote a message of faith, hope and peace in Uruguay, Argentina and Peru.

Lula, quien convenció a 10,4 millones de votantes adicionales para que le brindaran su apoyo en la segunda vuelta, tiene previsto asumir su cuarto mandato no consecutivo el próximo 5 de enero de 2027. Actuará como contrapeso en una región donde los gobiernos se han ido desplazando hacia la derecha para alinearse con las políticas del mandatario estadounidense Donald Trump. Bolsonaro, hijo del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, prometió acercarse a Washington.

Trump insinuó el lunes, sin aportar evidencias, que la reelección de Lula estuvo “amañada”.

“Las elecciones tienen que ser indiscutibles y me pareció que se veía muy mal”, dijo Trump antes de volar a Mississippi para un evento de campaña. Añadió: “Me pareció que tenía muy mala pinta, la forma en que se tabularon”.

Trump añadió: “Parecía otra elección amañada, francamente”.

Bolsonaro anunció el domingo en conferencia de prensa que solicitará que se anulen los comicios después de que se concedió una prórroga en los horarios de votación a solicitud de ambos candidatos a última hora de la jornada electoral, la cual provocó confusión y caos. Pero en un video publicado en sus redes sociales no repitió ese mismo mensaje , y en su lugar prometió organizar una oposición a Lula.

Bolsonaro afirmó que presionará al tribunal electoral para anular los resultados, algo que nunca ha sucedido.

Eso sería un enorme obstáculo: Bolsonaro tendría que presentar pruebas de que los 4,4 millones de votos por los que ganó Lula fueron fraudulentos —y convencer de ello a los ocho miembros del pleno del tribunal electoral. Además, tendría que hacerlo antes de la certificación de los resultados, el próximo 18 de diciembre.

“Voy a reunir a diputados y senadores electos para organizar nuestra estrategia y hacer de la Cámara baja y del Senado nuestra fortaleza para luchar contra la barbarie que sucederá durante cuatro años más con Lula”, declaró Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro señaló también que el lunes visitó a su padre, quien cumple una sentencia de 27 años en arresto domiciliario por un intento de golpe de Estado. Jair Bolsonaro impugnó sin éxito su derrota ante Lula hace cuatro años.

Las primeras señales provenientes de las instituciones de Brasil y de mandatarios de toda la región, incluidos gobernantes conservadores que se oponen a Lula, dejan entrever que la comunidad internacional y las instituciones nacionales respetarán los resultados.

Incluso con la prórroga de la votación, la victoria de Lula fue contundente. El mandatario, que pronto cumplirá 81 años, obtuvo más de 64 millones de votos frente a poco menos de 60 de Bolsonaro, una diferencia de casi el 4%.

El presidente de la autoridad electoral de Brasil, Kassio Nunes, quien fue designado para el Supremo Tribunal Federal por el expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, estuvo entre quienes reconocieron la victoria de Lula el domingo.

“Esta es una batalla realmente cuesta arriba para Flávio Bolsonaro. Importantes actores en Brasil están cerrando filas en torno a Lula, a veces a regañadientes”, observó Brian Winter, analista de Brasil y editor en jefe de Americas Quarterly.

“Percibo que estas figuras en el poder en realidad no quieren tomar la vía de realmente impugnar una elección”, añadió.

Los números detrás de la victoria de Lula

La clave del triunfo de Lula fueron los 14,1 millones de votantes adicionales que acudieron a sufragar en la segunda vuelta, incluidos quienes votaron por otros candidatos en la primera ronda. Analistas señalan que tres cuartas partes de esos votos fueron para Lula, lo que le dio la victoria. Y, de manera notable, en la primera vuelta hubo un récord de brasileños que decidieron no votar, mientras que la segunda vuelta registró el menor número de abstenciones de la historia.

Lula entregó su campaña digital al legislador André Janones, quien montó una feroz y persistente operación en redes sociales que movilizó a muchos votantes indecisos. La herramienta clave de Janones fue un canal en la aplicación de mensajería WhatsApp llamado “El Ejército de Lula”, que reunió a casi 11 millones de personas y las movilizó para hacer campaña en redes sociales a favor del mandatario.

Janones “básicamente adoptó el estilo de política agresiva de la derecha, mensajes muy intensos y constantes”, explicó Oliver Stuenkel, profesor de Relaciones Internacionales en la Fundação Getulio Vargas en Sao Paulo.

“La derrota en la primera vuelta sacudió a la campaña de Lula y la llevó a actuar. La estrategia durante la primera vuelta fue deslucida y hubo muchas disputas internas”, afirmó Stuenkel.

Juliano Cortinhas, profesor de Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad de Brasilia, señaló que la iniciativa de Lula en redes sociales para la segunda vuelta también fue clave para presionar a Meta, propietaria de Instagram, WhatsApp y Facebook, para que pusiera fin a lo que denunció como un sesgo pro-Bolsonaro.

El máximo tribunal electoral de Brasil dictaminó el 15 de octubre que Meta debía adoptar medidas que aseguren un trato igualitario a los dos candidatos presidenciales, algo que la empresa dijo posteriormente que abordó.

Hubo “interferencia externa por parte de las principales plataformas”, apuntó Cortinhas. “No fue sólo Meta; muchas otras estaban plataformas usando sus algoritmos para repetir imágenes y mensajes de la extrema derecha, y no hacían lo mismo con la izquierda”.

Fue la primera vez desde 1989 que un candidato remontó tras perder en la primera vuelta.

Los resultados muestran que la participación electoral aumentó en general, en particular en centros metropolitanos de clases más altas, pero Lula consiguió sus mayores avances en municipios de menores ingresos, donde su base ya estaba establecida. Movilizó a no votantes, a quienes votaron en blanco en la primera vuelta y a simpatizantes de candidatos de otros partidos.

Jorge Henrique Oliveira Sena, un trabajador de mantenimiento de 26 años en Brasilia, fue uno de los que no votó en la primera vuelta. Ninguno de los candidatos lo entusiasmaba mucho, pero sufragó por Lula. “No es una cuestión de apoyar, pero entre los dos, tuve más conexión con él”, dijo.

El sistema de votación de Brasil y las afectaciones del domingo

Brasil celebra elecciones generales cada cuatro años, y sus urnas electrónicas han hecho que el escrutinio sea rápido y seguro.

Las autoridades brasileñas adoptaron las urnas electrónicas en la década de 1990 para combatir el fraude y el sistema ha sido en gran medida confiable desde entonces. Por lo general, los resultados se informan apenas horas después del cierre de las urnas.

En la antesala de la votación de 2022, Jair Bolsonaro sembró repetidamente dudas infundadas sobre el sistema de votación electrónica de Brasil. Nunca se ha detectado un fraude significativo.

Pero el proceso de votación, normalmente ágil, se vio sumido en el caos el domingo después de la decisión de último minuto de alargar la votación en todo el país a petición de ambos candidatos.

Lula hizo la solicitud debido a problemas con el transporte público en la metrópolis de Sao Paulo y en la ciudad nororiental de Salvador, dos de sus bastiones. Bolsonaro la pidió luego de que se registraron fuertes lluvias en el sur, región que ganó por un amplio margen en la primera vuelta.

Un juez del Supremo Tribunal Federal dio a conocer la decisión apenas minutos antes del cierre de urnas a las 5 de la tarde, y la rapidez del conteo en Brasil hizo que muchos centros de votación no recibieran la noticia hasta que ya estaban por concluir.

Aun así, tomando en consideración la confiabilidad del sistema de votación de Brasil y la victoria de Lula por un margen significativo, le será difícil a Bolsonaro encontrar una vía para anular los resultados.

Benjamin Gedan, investigador principal y director del programa para América Latina del Stimson Center, explicó que el rechazo de Bolsonaro a su derrota no era sorprendente.

“Las afirmaciones falsas de fraude se están volviendo comunes, aunque eso no las hace menos peligrosas”, señaló. También destacó “el margen de victoria de Lula y el rápido reconocimiento del resultado por parte de líderes conservadores de la región”.

No obstante, Lula aún enfrenta desafíos de cara al futuro, incluida la polarización política en el país, una posible crisis fiscal y un Congreso de derecha en el que el partido de Bolsonaro tendrá más escaños que cualquier otro. El propio Bolsonaro sigue siendo senador, aunque su periodo termina en enero.

“No deberíamos subestimar el poder de la familia Bolsonaro”, dijo Winter, el analista de Brasil. “Pueden hacerle la vida difícil a Lula durante las próximas semanas y meses”.

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Savarese reportó desde Sao Paulo. El periodista de Associated Press Will Weissert en Washington contribuyó con 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.

Koenig died Monday at his home in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, talent agent Zachery McGinnis said in a statement.

In “Star Trek,” Ensign Chekov was the sole Communist-bloc member of the spaceship Enterprise bridge staff. His friendly, supportive presence showed how the rival nations (in the far-off future in which the show was set) were capable of working together.

Speaking Russian-accented English, Chekov embodied stereotypical Russian personality traits, including fierce pride, love of poetry and blind loyalty.

“Star Trek” ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969 and has had an almost unprecedented afterlife as fans, or Trekkies, kept interest in the show alive.

Koenig was born Sept. 14, 1936, in Chicago, the son of a businessman. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958, then studied acting at New York's The Neighborhood Playhouse for two years. He began getting television roles in the early 1960s, appearing on “Mr. Novak” and “Ben Casey.”

“My heart is heavy,” Koenig's castmate, George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu, said in a post on the social platform X. “Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend.”

Koenig was the best man at Takei’s 2008 wedding to Brad Altman, his partner of more than two decades.

“Walter’s legacy extends far beyond the screen. Through countless convention appearances and interactions with fans, he shared his kindness, wit, and appreciation with everyone fortunate enough to meet him. He understood what Star Trek meant to people and embraced the community that grew around it,” McGinnis said. “Thank you, Walter, for the memories, the inspiration, and for boldly going where few have gone before.”

McGinnis said Koenig died surrounded by his daughter and niece.

Koenig's son, Andrew, was also an actor, best known for playing Boner on the sitcom “Growing Pains.” Andrew Koenig died in 2010 at 41. Walter Koenig said his son had taken his own life.

Koenig played Chekov in seven “Star Trek” movies starting in 1979, as well as innumerable other spinoffs, including writing a “Star Trek” book, “Chekov's Enterprise,” in 1980. The TV show has also inspired two spinoff TV series with new casts, and conventions that draw thousands of fans.

After “Star Trek” ended, Koenig continued acting and wrote scripts for “Family,” “The Incredible Hulk” and other shows. He also taught part time at UCLA and other schools.

Koenig also worked in the burgeoning field of computer games, including some with a “Star Trek” theme. In 1995, he took a role in the CD-ROM game “Maximum Surge.”

“I'm at a point where I could opt in my life for complacency and a bit of predictability, or I could have one last holler — one last try for adventure,” Koenig told The Associated Press in 1995. “I'm of the opinion that adventure is still a very enticing and exciting option.”

He returned to the science fiction genre with occasional appearances in the syndicated 1990s TV series “Babylon 5.”

Koenig's death leaves William Shatner, who played Capt. James T. Kirk, and Takei as the only surviving members of the original series' main cast. Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan and DeForest Kelley, who played Spock, Uhura, Scotty and Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, have died.

Damage in New Mexico alone after more than four days of flooding — only the latest in a deadly autumn of soaking rains in the U.S. Southwest — could total $300 million, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said.

The latest town to evacuate was tiny Bluff in southeastern Utah after San Juan River flooding swamped parts of cities and towns upstream in Colorado and New Mexico.

With parts of his town of 250 underwater, Mayor Josh Ewing was worried by a forecast for yet more heavy rain this weekend. After a few days of sunny, dry weather, more rounds of rain are predicted Friday night and again on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

“It’s the second flood that really gets you, you know, because everything is completely saturated. And so we’re trying to recover fast enough to be on alert for what might happen," Ewing said.

New Mexico assesses damage, awaits aid

Upstream from Bluff, in Farmington, New Mexico, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and elsewhere along the San Juan and Animas rivers, hundreds of homes remained evacuated or cut off by flooded roads. Many homes were still without power as officials assessed when it would be safe for residents to return and have their utilities turned back on.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced federal disaster assistance would be available to New Mexico with 25% to be matched by agencies in the state. Earlier in the day, Lujan Grisham expressed concern about the matching requirement but said she would “frontload” state resources for flood recovery.

She estimated that the costs of debris removal, road and bridge repair and other “longhaul” recovery could amount to as much as $300 million.

“I don’t care if it’s a billion dollars. The goal here is to identify every state, every federal, every local resource and get it where it belongs,” Lujan Grisham said.

At least two deaths were reported in New Mexico. Isabelle Beulaygue, 39, was swept away while attempting to cross a flooded arroyo in a vehicle Saturday in Santa Fe, authorities said.

About 50 miles (80 kilometers) south in Socorro County, 64-year-old Grace Clark was swept away as floodwaters rose and trapped residents in their homes. Valencia County Fire Chief Matthew Propp said nine other people were rescued as teams worked overnight to find residents.

Between 200 and 300 people in San Juan County, New Mexico, were rescued in the last few days, according to county spokesperson Devin Neeley.

Damage spread onto the vast Navajo Nation spanning parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

Lupita Villa, her husband and three young children evacuated their rental home along the San Juan River in Farmington on Thursday. When they returned on Saturday, they needed muck boots and waders to reach the front door. Once inside, they found their laminate floors warped under several inches of muddy floodwater and much of their furniture destroyed.

The family is staying with relatives on higher ground while they plan next steps. Villa said her children are struggling to understand that their former home is now unlivable.

“They just keep asking, ‘When can we go back?’” Villa said.

Colorado residents still cut off by washed-out roads

The crisis continued in southern Colorado’s Archuleta County. After more rain brought another surge in San Juan River flooding through the hot springs resort town of Pagosa Springs last weekend, the river was back below flood stage Monday for the first time in more than three days.

No further rescues were reported after air operations that included the rescue of two people, three dogs and two cats from a recreational vehicle washed downstream in floodwaters Friday.

But all evacuated areas remained closed. Responders were landing in helicopters to check on people still unable to leave their homes due to the floodwaters and road damage.

“We do have a number of people cut off still but we’re accessing those with the National Guard and our search and rescue crews,” Archuleta County Sheriff Mike Le Roux said.

Utah town surveys desert that now looks like a sea

Officials throughout the region cautioned people to avoid entering floodwaters after wastewater treatment plants got flooded. If you are exposed, they said, take a shower or bath as soon as possible.

In Montezuma Creek, 14 miles (22 kilometers) downstream from Bluff, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority reported its wastewater treatment lagoons were “completely breached,” potentially contaminating the San Juan River with bacteria and pathogens.

The river crested Monday lower than expected in Bluff. The water stopped mostly short of a highway that runs through town, said Ewing, the mayor and a local firefighter who took part in flood rescues.

It was cold comfort, though, after floodwaters hit seven more homes and four businesses overnight to bring the local flood toll to 17 homes and five businesses since a surge on Friday.

Unlike flooding that followed a levee break Friday, Ewing said, the latest surge happened after a day of warnings that higher water was on the way.

“It’s kind a weird thing when you’ve lived in red rock country to feel like you live by the sea now. Our flood plain is just filled,” Ewing said.

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Gruver reported from Fort Collins, Colorado. Associated Press writer Jessica Hill contributed to this report from Las Vegas.

“I'm here because Cindy’s doing great, but I just got to make sure. I can’t take a chance,” Trump told the crowd, his voice audibly hoarse, as he worked to boost Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is facing a surprisingly stiff challenge from Democrat Scott Colom.

Colom was spotted at the rally site, too, creating the rare spectacle of Trump's staunchest supporters interacting directly with a figure the president would soon go on to denigrate as a “Marxist radical” and “fake" and “shameless phony who pretends to be a moderate” from the stage.

Mississippi, among the nation’s most reliably Republican states, is not where the Republicans envisioned needing a late-October stop from the president. But Colom is one of many Democratic underdogs who have managed to expand the House and Senate battleground maps because of widespread voter discontent over inflation, the Iran war and other aspects of Trump’s second presidency.

He said he had planned to go to the rally site to listen to what was on Trump supporters' minds.

"They actually deserve a senator that will listen to them, that actually cares about what they think, actually cares about what they’re going through,” Colom said ahead of the president's arrival.

Trump's event kicks off a week of aggressive campaigning that will include more stops in states he won comfortably in 2024, including Texas, South Carolina and Iowa. Trump also plans to hold a rally Saturday in Salina, Kansas, officials announced late Monday, marking his second visit to the state in less than two weeks.

Democrats, including progressives, are expanding their efforts

Top Democratic candidates and their surrogates were also greeting voters — more than 30 million of whom have already cast ballots, according to data collected by The Associated Press from election administrators across the country — as they try to end Republicans' threadbare majority in the House, reclaim control of the Senate and claw back power in state capitals.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats' 2024 presidential candidate, campaigned in Wisconsin with Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, who faces Rep. Tom Tiffany, a Trump ally, in the governor's race. If elected, Crowley would be the first Black governor to lead the battleground state.

“This is a tight race because the stakes are so high,” Harris said at an event billed as a “Women for Crowley” rally.

Meanwhile, in Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed distanced himself from an ad created by a group called Rebellion PAC that blames high grocery prices on U.S. support for Israel.

“This ad is not affiliated in any way with the Abdul for Senate campaign,” a spokesperson for El-Sayed, Roxie Richner, said in a statement about the spot, which features a couple discussing U.S. support for Israel as they shop for groceries.

“Apparently it’s costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza,” the woman says.

The ad had been condemned by U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, who narrowly lost to El-Sayed in the Democratic primary.

The way to win Michigan “is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world,” Stevens wrote on X.

El-Sayed, who would be the country’s first Muslim senator, has denounced antisemitism while fiercely criticizing Israel for its military operations in Gaza — a position that has been a frequent point of attack for both Republicans and supporters of Israel in his party.

Vance campaigning in other Republican states

Vice President JD Vance returned to Kansas to stump for Sen. Roger Marshall, who finds himself in a tight contest with Democratic nominee and pastor Adam Hamilton. Hundreds of people were gathered inside the warehouse of a steel-fabricating company in north Topeka in a state where Democrats haven’t won a Senate race since 1932.

Marshall, who has raised far less money than Hamilton, told the crowd that Trump is on the ballot, even if his name doesn’t appear, because of how Democrats will thwart his agenda if they win control of Congress.

“Democrats are coming out like it’s a presidential year,” he said, calling on the GOP to match Democrats’ energy.

Jace Sullivan, a 50-year-old electrician from Topeka who describes himself as “85% Republican,” said Trump supporters need to “circle the wagons” and get out to vote.

Wearing a red “JD Vance for President 2028" shirt, he said he thinks Trump is rightly working to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

“Gas prices are high and it does suck, but it’s a means to an end,” Sullivan said.

Trump, at the Mississippi rally, said he had, in fact, expected gas prices to rise even higher than they had.

“It worked out fine and it’ll be over soon,” he said of the war with Iran.

Earlier, Vance was in Belgrade, Montana, to campaign with Republican Aaron Flint, who is facing Democrat Sam Forstag in the race for the state’s 1st Congressional District, and Republican Senate candidate Kurt Alme.

Despite the visits to ruby red states, Sen. Tim Scott, who serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told The Associated Press Monday that GOP candidates are “closing very strongly” in races across the country, including South Carolina, which Trump is set to visit for the second time in as many weeks to stump for GOP Sen. Darline Graham.

“One of the reasons why we will be in the majority is because he has invested the time and the energy on the campaign trail,” Scott said on the sidelines of U.S. Rep. Russell Fry’s 3rd Annual Freedom Fry event.

Trump to rally in another reliably Republican state

But it's Trump's visit to Mississippi that perhaps brings the midterm landscape into the sharpest relief with just a week of campaigning left.

To be sure, Hyde-Smith, who is vying for her second full term, remains the favorite in a state Trump won three times by an average of nearly 20 percentage points.

But Colom, a local prosecutor who would make history as Mississippi's first Black senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction, is looking to parlay inflation, Trump's lagging popularity and Hyde-Smith's mistakes into an upset.

Senate Democrats’ super PAC has been a late entry in the contest, with a $1.2 million investment. Mississippians have not chosen a new Democratic senator since 1947, and Democrats last won a Senate race there when that senator, the onetime segregationist John Stennis, won his last reelection in 1982.

In New York, meanwhile, one of the party’s most vulnerable House members pulled from Trump’s campaign playbook. Rep. Mike Lawler, who is in a tight race with Democrat Cait Conley in New York City’s northern suburbs, manned a McDonald’s drive-thru — mimicking something Trump did two years ago, even as Lawler has tried to emphasize his independence from the president.

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Barrow reported from Atlanta and Colvin from New York. Associated Press reporters John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas; Meg Kinnard in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Laura Turbay in St. Paul, Minnesota; Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix; Seung Min Kim in Belgrade, Montana, and Anthony Izaguirre in New York contributed.

Los detectives identificaron a Kyan Davis como el sospechoso de la balacera que dejó dos muertos el 9 de septiembre en un apartamento del vecindario de West Perrine, según muestran los registros.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade acudieron al lugar de la balacera poco después de las 5:20 p.m. en el apartamento ubicado cerca de Southwest 102nd Avenue y 175 Street.

Los agentes encontraron a los hermanos Martinez sangrando en el piso del dormitorio principal del apartamento, y el personal de rescate los declaró muertos, según el informe de arresto de un agente.

Los detectives identificaron a Davis, quien reside en South Miami, como sospechoso después de recuperar un video de vigilancia de una cámara Ring, según el informe.

Durante el interrogatorio de los detectives el 19 de septiembre en la unidad de homicidios de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), Davis confesó haber estado en el apartamento, según el informe.

Un testigo dijo a los agentes que él y Davis “atraían a las víctimas con el pretexto de venderles vaporizadores de cannabis y/u otros narcóticos, para luego robarles”, según el informe.

Las autoridades penitenciarias de Miami-Dade registraron el ingreso de Davis poco antes de las 7:25 p.m. del sábado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, cerca de Doral, y el lunes por la mañana permanecía en el centro de detención preventiva, según los registros de reclusos.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Davis enfrentaba seis cargos en tres casos pendientes. En el caso de West Perrine, enfrentaba dos cargos de asesinato en primer grado.

En los otros casos, Davis enfrentaba dos cargos de posesión de un arma por parte de un delincuente convicto y dos cargos de agresión por parte de un detenido.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este informe.

Anthropic launched a new Claude for Nonprofits plugin created with 30 nonprofits to be more responsive to their specific needs. It will also broaden its Claude Corps program that embeds fellows with nonprofits to help them better utilize AI by also making consultants available to help organizations with smaller, shorter-term projects.

“This work is so core to who we are as a public benefit corporation,” Elizabeth Kelly, Anthropic’s head of beneficial deployments, told The Associated Press. “We were founded to ensure that we’re both developing AI safely and responsibly and that we’re deploying it in a way that really benefits everyone, including those who are too often left behind.”

Earlier this month, Anthropic announced plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund that could be used for large scale donations to nonprofits or directly distributed to groups of people adversely impacted by AI. The fund still needs to be approved by shareholders once Anthropic completes its IPO, which could come as early as November.

Critics say AI companies are using donations and nonprofit pledges as an attempt to generate goodwill with the public at a time when so many are worried about the potential dangers of the technology and its impact on jobs.

However, Anthropic says that as a public benefit corporation, it balances its commercial interests with the interests of the public good. Anthropic President Daniela Amodei told The Associated Press in a May interview that the company works to make that balance clear. “I think there’s something really valuable about that as a construct just to help investors and employees and outside people understand what our intentions are and hold us accountable to them,” she said.

Other public benefit corporations include eyeglass maker Warby Parker, insurance company Lemonade, and Amalgamated Bank.

Questioning whether public benefit corporations work for the public

Bella DeVaan, director of the Charity Reform Initiative at the Institute for Policy Studies, said that public benefit corporations can be meaningful, but the federal government doesn’t currently properly regulate corporations. Without tax reform and a change in what she calls “the public permissiveness toward billionaire power in America,” DeVaan said there is no guarantee that even public benefit corporations will act in the public interest.

“Their wealth belongs to the public in the first place -- it’s created by the country and there’s a sort of social wage owed to people who use their products,” she said. “I hope that when people use the ethos of Silicon Valley that gave birth to these companies that have grand designs of changing the world that they’ll also think about how philanthropy could actually achieve charitable aims.”

Kelly said Anthropic’s work with the nonprofit sector is part of the company’s mission. The bulk of the 25,000 nonprofits currently using Claude for Nonprofits have less than 10 people on staff, so its impact on the organizations is often great. She points to Allies Against Slavery, the Texas-based nonprofit fighting human trafficking, as an example of what is possible, after its only government affairs staffer used Claude to analyze more than 750 state-level anti-trafficking policies and turned them into recommendations for advocates.

“This is basically compounding good,” she said. “That’s the kind of work that we’re so excited to support here at Anthropic.”

Some nonprofits already find help from using Claude

Montgomery County Food Bank President and CEO Scott Burns said his organization’s use of Claude has already generated significant savings that allow it to provide food to more people in his Texas county north of Houston.

“Costs have gone up for fuel,” Burns said. “Costs have gone up in every area – for proteins, in particular… I still want to be able to do more without adding a bunch of additional resources and (Claude) will enable me to do that.”

The Montgomery County Food Bank is one of the 30 nonprofits that has been working with Anthropic to better customize Claude for its specific needs. Burns said his team has already used it to optimize scheduling for food pickup and delivery and keeping better contact with donors.

He is looking forward to welcoming two Claude Corps fellows into the organization soon to tackle its outdated inventory system and the scheduling of its volunteers. Burns said he is also hoping to share his findings with other food banks.

“Nonprofits – we’re kind of an open book,” he said. “Why would I not share? It’s only going to help get more people fed, right?”

Taproot Foundation CEO Cat Ward said her nonprofit is excited about working with Anthropic to provide pro bono expertise to nonprofits for specific projects.

“Nonprofits are as lean as they come,” Ward said. “They’ve got the ambition. They’ve got the vision. This is about empowering them with tools that’ll help them go further faster.”

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The 22-time Grand Slam champion will headline “The MGM Slam presented by Capital One” at T-Mobile Arena on Feb. 28, organizers announced Monday.

Nadal faced Carlos Alcaraz in the Vegas exhibition in 2024 during his final year on tour.

“I remember how impressive it was to feel the energy of a full arena in a city like Las Vegas,” the 40-year-old Nadal said. “Now I return in a different stage of my life, without the pressure of the tour but with the same passion for this sport. I have always loved competing, and even if my professional career is finished, that feeling never really goes away.”

Additional players and the format for the event will be announced in the coming weeks. It’s slated for just before the ATP 1000 event in Indian Wells, California.

Last year, eight players competed in a tiebreaker format.

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The crash happened just before 9:30 a.m. at Rock Island Road and West Commercial Boulevard, a Broward Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said.

Video from Sky 10 shows a blue hatchback with front-end damage behind the bus.

Authorities said they are investigating the crash. They did not provide additional details about the extent of the victims’ injuries.

El accidente ocurrió poco antes de las 9:30 a.m. en la intersección de Rock Island Road y West Commercial Boulevard, informó un portavoz de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward.

Un video de Sky 10 muestra un automóvil compacto azul con daños en la parte delantera detrás del autobús.

Las autoridades informaron que están investigando el accidente. No proporcionaron detalles adicionales sobre la gravedad de las lesiones de las víctimas.

Agentes de policía y personal de los Bomberos de Miami-Dade acudieron al incendio de la vivienda poco antes de las 9:20 a.m. del viernes, cerca de Northeast 14th Avenue y 154th Street.

Un testigo dijo a los agentes de policía que Jeffthe Arisda recogió “servilletas, trapos y otros artículos de la mesa del comedor y los arrojó a su dormitorio”, mientras “sostenía un encendedor”, según el informe policial.

Arisda luego salió de su dormitorio y “anunció que la residencia estaba en llamas” antes de que “un denso humo negro y llamas, , salieran por la ventana del dormitorio”, informó un testigo, según la policía.

Arisda negó haber provocado el incendio, según la policía. Los agentes lo arrestaron poco antes de las 9:25 a.m. del viernes y las autoridades penitenciarias registraron su ingreso a las 3:40 p.m. en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, cerca de Doral, según los registros de reclusos.

Arisda enfrentaba tres cargos: intento de asesinato durante la comisión de un delito grave, incendio provocado en primer grado y daños a la propiedad.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este informe.

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Police officers and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the house fire shortly before 9:20 a.m. on Friday near Northeast 14th Avenue and 154th Street.

A witness told police officers that Jeffthe Arisda collected “napkins, rags, and other items from the dining room table, and threw them into his bedroom,” while “holding a lighter,” according to the police report.

Arisda then walked out of his bedroom and “announced that the residence was on fire” before the “thick black smoke and flames ... blew out the bedroom window,” a witness reported, according to police.

Arisda denied arson, according to police. Police officers arrested him shortly before 9:25 a.m. on Friday, and corrections booked him at 3:40 p.m. at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

Arisda faced three charges: Attempted felony murder, first-degree arson, and criminal mischief.

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

The ruling is tailored to Maurene Comey but its import stretches beyond her case, repudiating the claim of President Donald Trump’s administration that the Constitution permits such firings for any reason. Administration officials have cited that belief repeatedly in a sweeping purge of the federal workforce.

Comey, an assistant U.S. attorney for a decade, was fired in July 2025 despite consistently receiving “the highest accolades from supervisors and peers alike," Judge Jesse M. Furman found.

The judge said her firing violated laws passed by Congress that were intended to abolish the spoils system, under which newly elected presidents regularly purged government workers and replaced them with loyalists.

Furman's decision didn't address the validity of Comey's claim that she was fired because she is the daughter of James Comey, whom Trump has long viewed as an enemy.

Trump fired James Comey as FBI director in May 2017 as the bureau was investigating ties between Russia and the Republican’s successful 2016 campaign for the White House. Trump in the years since has repeatedly called for Comey to be jailed, and his Justice Department has worked with mixed success to make that happen.

Hours after Furman's ruling Monday, unsealed court filings showed that the Justice Department had quietly brought another criminal case against James Comey, accusing him of leaking classified information.

Furman, who was nominated to the bench in 2011 by then-Democratic President Barack Obama, granted Maurene Comey retroactive reinstatement and back pay from the date of her firing through Dec. 20, 2025, when she began a new, private-sector job.

In a statement, the Justice Department said it disagreed with this decision and would appeal.

Comey’s lawyers, Ellen Blain, Nicole Gueron, Deepa Vanamali and Margaret Donovan, lauded the ruling.

“This hard-earned victory belongs to Ms. Comey, to all civil servants, and to all fighting for the rule of law,” they said in a statement. “This decision reaffirms our bedrock system of checks and balances: the President is not above the law.”

Comey was fired two weeks after leading the prosecution of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, which ended in a conviction on prostitution-related charges but an acquittal on others. She also worked on the sex trafficking prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who killed himself in jail a month after his arrest in 2019, and Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

The Justice Department during the Trump administration has fired scores of career employees, including prosecutors and FBI agents, who participated in investigations of Trump or who were perceived as opposed to the administration’s agenda. Some of those firings have also resulted in federal lawsuits.

The firing of Maurene Comey was seen as particularly personal, given her father’s longtime adversarial relationship with Trump.

An earlier criminal case accusing James Comey of having lied to Congress in 2020 was dismissed by a judge who concluded that the prosecutor who filed the charges was illegally appointed. A separate pending indictment charges the former FBI director with threatening Trump through an Instagram photo of seashells in the numerical arrangement of “86 47,” a case he has sought to dismiss that some legal experts have greeted with skepticism.

In his ruling on Maurene Comey's termination, Furman said the Justice Department's claim that Congress is barred from regulating the removal of federal prosecutors “flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent.”

Furman added: “Indeed, to accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system.”

He didn't rule on Comey’s claim that her firing violated her free speech rights, though he said he was inclined to dismiss it because she is now in private practice and no longer seeks reinstatement to her old job.

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Miami-Dade deputies arrested Tanisha Shelton after the incident Saturday night in the area of Northwest 63rd Street and 25th Avenue in an unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the scene after receiving reports of a person who had been set on fire.

Investigators say Shelton and the 33-year-old victim got into an argument before she left the area and returned a few hours later carrying a white plastic bucket.

According to investigators, Shelton poured an unknown accelerant on the man and used a lighter to set him on fire.

A witness told deputies they used pepper spray on Shelton after she tried to run away.

The victim was later found unconscious with burns covering at least 80% of his body. First responders rushed him to Ryder Trauma Center in extremely critical condition.

Despite receiving treatment at the hospital, deputies say the victim is not expected to survive.

Agentes de Miami-Dade arrestaron a Tanisha Shelton después del incidente ocurrido el sábado por la noche en el área de Northwest 63rd Street y 25th Avenue, en una zona no incorporada del condado Miami-Dade.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, los agentes acudieron al lugar después de recibir reportes de una persona a la que le habían prendido fuego.

Los investigadores señalaron que Shelton y la víctima, de 33 años, tuvieron una discusión antes de que ella abandonara el área y regresara unas horas después con un cubo de plástico blanco.

Según los investigadores, Shelton roció al hombre con una sustancia acelerante desconocida y utilizó un encendedor para prenderle fuego.

Un testigo dijo a los agentes que utilizó gas pimienta contra Shelton después de que ella intentara huir.

La víctima fue encontrada posteriormente inconsciente, con quemaduras que cubrían al menos el 80% de su cuerpo. Los equipos de emergencia lo trasladaron de urgencia al Centro de Trauma Ryder en estado extremadamente crítico.

A pesar de recibir tratamiento en el hospital, los agentes indicaron que no se espera que la víctima sobreviva.

Aquí en Piki Seei, el tembe -- la tradición saamaka de talla en madera y arte decorativo -- ha sido durante mucho tiempo parte de la vida cotidiana.

Los saamaka son uno de los seis pueblos tribales de Surinam cuyos antepasados escaparon de la esclavitud durante el dominio colonial holandés y construyeron comunidades independientes en el interior boscoso del país hace más de tres siglos.

Practicado en su mayoría por hombres y transmitido de padres y ancianos a las generaciones más jóvenes, el tembe puede verse en todo, desde bancos, remos y botes hasta peines, puertas y las casas de madera que bordean las comunidades fluviales. El bosque circundante ha sostenido a las comunidades saamaka durante siglos, al proporcionar alimentos, materiales de construcción y recursos centrales para sus tradiciones culturales. Pero la expansión de la minería de oro y la tala está ejerciendo una presión cada vez mayor sobre el medio ambiente, al tiempo que aleja a los hombres de sus aldeas y de los oficios tradicionales.

Para los talladores que se quedan, ese cambio es algo más que la pérdida de una forma de arte.

“La talla en madera es parte de quienes somos", declaró Josasath Liefde, de 50 años, tallador en Piki Seei. "Es una tradición saamaka que seguirá viva”.

Un conocimiento aprendido por generaciones

Los diseños geométricos del tembe pueden transmitir significados e historias, o crear objetos que se usan en la vida diaria.

Doekoe ha pasado décadas tallando madera y trabajando para preservar las tradiciones saamaka. Participa en Totomboti, un colectivo en Piki Seei que reúne a talladores y trabaja para transmitir el conocimiento cultural a las generaciones más jóvenes.

Varios de los talladores de Totomboti son rastafaris, seguidores de un movimiento espiritual que se originó en Jamaica en la década de 1930 y que enfatiza la identidad africana y la conexión con la naturaleza. Aunque no todos los saamaka son rastafaris, la fe tiene una presencia particularmente fuerte en Piki Seei. Doekoe explicó que él y otros hombres del poblado lo adoptaron tras reconocer similitudes con sus propias tradiciones espirituales y su conocimiento del mundo natural.

En su taller, bloques de madera y virutas cubrían el suelo mientras los talladores trabajaban en piezas en distintas etapas de elaboración. Doekoe señaló que, cuando es posible, usan árboles caídos y, en ocasiones, talan otros, procurando limitar su impacto en el bosque. Según el colectivo Totomboti, sus carpinteros utilizan apenas uno o dos troncos al año, y extraen de manera selectiva árboles de madera dura adecuados para su oficio.

Pero para Doekoe, la talla en madera es algo más que los objetos que producen. La música, el idioma y el arte saamaka preservan elementos de las culturas africanas de sus antepasados, quienes fueron trasladados por la fuerza a Surinam durante el comercio transatlántico de esclavos.

“Hay conocimiento oculto dentro de nuestro arte”, manifestó.

Liefde aprendió de su padre a convertir los árboles en objetos que su familia y su comunidad necesitaban. Hace bancos y remos y construye botes de hasta 15 metros (49 pies) de largo.

“Si tienes que irte de este lugar, necesitas un bote, y la madera que se usa para hacer ese bote viene de este bosque”, comentó. “Así que este es nuestro sustento”.

La minería es atractiva y se lleva a muchos jóvenes

Doekoe a veces pasa dos meses sin vender nada. Indicó que los hombres jóvenes pueden ver a otros de su edad regresar de los yacimientos auríferos con dinero para comprar autos y otras cosas, lo que hace que la minería sea una alternativa atractiva a la talla.

La minería de oro y la tala, tanto legales como ilegales, se han expandido por el interior boscoso de Surinam, ofreciendo la posibilidad de ingresos, pero con riesgos y daños ambientales. Un minero saamaka, que habló bajo condición de anonimato por temor a represalias de sus empleadores, dijo que conoce esos riesgos de primera mano.

En 2016, una excavadora le aplastó el brazo mientras trabajaba en una mina de oro. Perdió el brazo, pero con el tiempo regresó.

“Volví a este trabajo porque tengo una meta que quiero alcanzar, y creo que puedo lograrla de esta manera”, le dijo a The Associated Press desde debajo de un refugio improvisado con un techo de lona que protegía a los trabajadores del sol intenso.

El minero mantiene a dos adultos y cinco niños y ve pocas alternativas capaces de proporcionarle el dinero que necesita. Espera que, con el tiempo, pueda ganar lo suficiente con la minería para ampliar una granja de pollos en un terreno que ya posee.

Antes de perder el brazo, el hombre también tallaba peines tradicionales de madera. Muchos de los árboles que utilizaba han sido talados desde entonces, contó, lo que obliga a la gente a viajar más lejos para encontrar madera adecuada.

Aún sabe cómo hacer los peines, pero ya no está físicamente en condiciones de hacerlo.

Su experiencia ilustra las complejas decisiones económicas que enfrentan algunos hombres saamaka. La minería puede ofrecer una vía para perseguir metas que requieren efectivo, incluso cuando quienes la realizan reconocen sus peligros.

“Definitivamente hay presión sobre los hombres jóvenes para meterse en la minería de oro”, sostuvo. “Tienes que abrirte tu propio camino en la vida”.

Liefde ve de otra manera la partida de los hombres jóvenes. Dijo que ha advertido a sus propios hijos que no trabajen en los yacimientos auríferos. Señaló que algunos jóvenes que dejaron el poblado por trabajo han muerto.

“La persona que se va puede verlo como una oportunidad para sí mismo”, expresó Liefde. “Yo lo veo como una pérdida para el poblado”.

Los talladores transmiten la tradición

En Piki Seei, algunos talladores intentan asegurarse de que la próxima generación tenga otra opción.

Los talladores vinculados a Totomboti han trabajado con niños del lugar, organizando lecciones fuera del horario escolar en las que aprenden a medir y dar forma a la madera y a fabricar objetos por sí mismos.

El Museo Saamaka del poblado ofrece un lugar donde las tallas pueden exhibirse y venderse, mientras que los visitantes de fuera de la comunidad aportan otro mercado. Los talladores que viven o trabajan en otros lugares también regresan al poblado para practicar sus habilidades.

Doekoe declaró que el turismo y las ventas a extranjeros pueden dar a los artistas un incentivo para permanecer en sus comunidades. Pero preservar el oficio es algo más que encontrar compradores.

Describió días en el taller de Totomboti en los que los hombres deliberadamente dejan sus herramientas. En lugar de tallar, se sientan juntos, intercambian ideas y cuentan historias transmitidas por sus antepasados.

“Es espiritual, es la vida”, afirmó Doekoe. “Vive en nuestras historias”.

Los jóvenes todavía acuden a él con ganas de aprender. Podría empezar con un principiante usando un pequeño trozo de madera, mostrándole cómo marcarlo y darle forma hasta convertirlo en un peine para el cabello que luego podría regalarse a un amigo. Pero transmitir esas habilidades también depende de proteger el bosque que aporta los materiales y la inspiración para su trabajo.

Doekoe advirtió que la minería y la tala están dejando daños que, a su juicio, no pueden revertirse, al transformar los cursos de agua y destruir las condiciones conducentes a un florecimiento del bosque.

“El bosque ya no es el mismo, y nunca se recuperará a lo que Dios creó”, dijo.

Y es la próxima generación, teme, la que cargará con las consecuencias.

“Cuando las semillas de los árboles que deben crecer ya no crezcan, los niños que crezcan aquí no experimentarán el bosque como es hoy”, afirmó.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.