Michael Capponi, fundador y presidente de GEM, dijo que las donaciones en efectivo eran más eficientes y permitían a su equipo comprar alimentos en Colombia.

Los voluntarios de GEM recibieron nuevos equipos para acampar, artículos de higiene no vencidos y kits de primeros auxilios de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m. en 1850 NW 84 Ave., en Doral.

Para obtener más información sobre cómo donar a los esfuerzos de GEM en Colombia, visite esta página. Para obtener más información sobre cómo ser voluntario de GEM, visite esta página.

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The meteors were spotted in Miami during Local 10’s morning coverage and caught the attention of reporter Saira Anwer during her traffic report. Newscast director Darby Patton first noticed the activity and alerted the newsroom, allowing the station’s cameras and editors to capture the streaks live.

The display came as the region was already dealing with another hot and humid August morning. Temperatures across South Florida were in the low to mid-80s before sunrise, with heat indices already reaching the 90s.

Highs were expected to climb into the low 90s Wednesday, with feels-like temperatures reaching the triple digits. A heat advisory was in effect for Miami-Dade and Broward counties from noon until 7 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.

Local 10 meteorologist Julie Durda said calmer winds were expected to keep the day’s storm activity focused mainly over inland areas of Broward and Miami-Dade counties, particularly west of the Florida’s Turnpike. Areas closer to the coast, including locations near and east of Interstate 95, were expected to remain mostly dry.

The meteor activity was visible before dawn, when skies are dark enough for brighter meteors to stand out. About 30 to 40 meteors per hour can be seen during the peak of a strong meteor shower under favorable viewing conditions, though actual visibility depends on weather, light pollution and location.

For South Florida residents heading out for the day, however, the more immediate concern remained the heat.

Durda urged residents to take precautions as temperatures and humidity rise, particularly during the afternoon when the combination can produce dangerous heat conditions.

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Leading the effort is Broward County District 4 Commissioner Lamar fisher.

“The sheriff’s done nothing wrong,” said Fisher. “I want to make that clear, nothing wrong at all. It’s just that, how do we look at public safety in its total?”

In 2003, Broward County Fire Rescue merged with the sheriff’s office and they’ve been together ever since.

The latest five-year contract between the two is coming up soon.

“Times have changed, cost has changed, and also control has changed,” said Fisher.

Local control is what Fisher says it’s all about, but also there is the financial impact.

The county would get all the say when it’s time to negotiate contracts with cities, including how much it’s going to cost to rely on their firefighters and paramedics.

“Right now, unfortunately, we can’t dictate to the sheriff how to spend his money,” said Fisher. “We can give him money and make suggestions, but this brings it back to where we have full accounting of how the department is run.”

After 35 years, Deerfield Beach voted to split from BSO and start its own police and fire departments, while just weeks ago, Pompano Beach ultimately decided to renew with BSO after months of debating.

Pembroke Park ended its police contract with BSO in 2022.

Next Thursday, the county commission will talk about the process for how this would work.

The meeting to watch will take place in late September, as that’s when Fisher plans to call for a vote to end the contract with BSO.

Local 10 News reached out to the sheriff’s office for comment, but they did not respond as of the time of this story’s publication.

Los meteoros fueron vistos en Miami durante la cobertura matutina de Local 10 y llamaron la atención de la reportera Saira Anwer durante su reporte de tráfico. El director del noticiero, Darby Patton, fue el primero en notar la actividad y alertó a la sala de redacción, lo que permitió que las cámaras y editores de la estación captaran las estelas en vivo.

El espectáculo ocurrió mientras la región ya enfrentaba otra mañana de agosto calurosa y húmeda. Las temperaturas en el sur de Florida estaban entre los 80 y 80 y tantos grados antes del amanecer, mientras que los índices de calor ya alcanzaban los 90.

Se esperaba que las temperaturas máximas subieran a los bajos 90 el miércoles, con temperaturas que se sentirían por encima de los 100 grados. Había un aviso de calor vigente para los condados Miami-Dade y Broward desde el mediodía hasta las 7 p.m., según el Servicio Nacional de Meteorología.

La meteoróloga de Local 10 Julie Durda dijo que se esperaba que los vientos más calmados mantuvieran la actividad de tormentas del día concentrada principalmente sobre las zonas del interior de los condados Broward y Miami-Dade, particularmente al oeste de Florida’s Turnpike. Se esperaba que las áreas más cercanas a la costa, incluidas las ubicaciones cercanas y al este de la Interestatal 95, permanecieran mayormente secas.

La actividad de meteoros fue visible antes del amanecer, cuando el cielo está lo suficientemente oscuro para que los meteoros más brillantes se destaquen. Durante el punto máximo de una fuerte lluvia de meteoros, se pueden observar entre 30 y 40 meteoros por hora bajo condiciones favorables, aunque la visibilidad real depende del clima, la contaminación lumínica y la ubicación.

Sin embargo, para los residentes del sur de Florida que salían para comenzar el día, la preocupación más inmediata seguía siendo el calor.

Durda instó a los residentes a tomar precauciones a medida que aumenten las temperaturas y la humedad, particularmente durante la tarde, cuando la combinación puede producir condiciones peligrosas de calor.

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El comisionado del Distrito 4 del condado Broward, Lamar Fisher, encabeza el esfuerzo.

“El sheriff no ha hecho nada malo”, dijo Fisher. “Quiero dejar eso claro, nada malo en absoluto. Es solo que, ¿cómo analizamos la seguridad pública en su totalidad?”

En 2003, Broward County Fire Rescue se fusionó con la oficina del sheriff y han permanecido juntos desde entonces.

El más reciente contrato de cinco años entre ambos está por vencer.

“Los tiempos han cambiado, los costos han cambiado y también el control ha cambiado”, dijo Fisher.

Fisher dice que se trata del control local, pero también está el impacto financiero.

El condado tendría toda la autoridad cuando llegue el momento de negociar contratos con las ciudades, incluido cuánto costará depender de sus bomberos y paramédicos.

“En este momento, desafortunadamente, no podemos decirle al sheriff cómo gastar su dinero”, dijo Fisher. “Podemos darle dinero y hacer sugerencias, pero esto lo devuelve a donde tenemos una contabilidad completa de cómo se administra el departamento”.

Después de 35 años, Deerfield Beach votó para separarse de BSO y comenzar sus propios departamentos de policía y bomberos, mientras que hace apenas unas semanas, Pompano Beach finalmente decidió renovar con BSO después de meses de debate.

Pembroke Park terminó su contrato policial con BSO en 2022.

El próximo jueves, la comisión del condado hablará sobre el proceso y cómo funcionaría esto.

La reunión que habrá que observar se llevará a cabo a finales de septiembre, ya que es cuando Fisher planea solicitar una votación para poner fin al contrato con BSO.

Local 10 News se comunicó con la oficina del sheriff para solicitar comentarios, pero no habían respondido al momento de la publicación de esta nota.

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“I was like, ‘wow,’” Jones said. “Now that’s low.”

The message targets Jones, an openly gay candidate for Congress, by falsely claiming he has HIV.

“First, the message is false,” said Jones. “I am not HIV positive, but I want to be very careful about how I respond to that, because I refuse to defend myself in a way that stigmatizes somebody else.”

The text claims Jones was denied the chance to donate blood to a COVID survivor because he had HIV and links to a real news story from 2020, but that story makes no mention of HIV.

Jones was actually turned away under a federal blood-donation policy in place at the time, restricting donations from gay and bisexual men.

That policy has since changed.

“HIV is not something to be ashamed of and being gay does not mean someone has HIV,” said Jones. “What somebody did was take an old dangerous stereotype about gay people and HIV and weaponize it for political purposes.”

The message also claims it was “paid for by Equality Florida” which is an LGBTQ advocacy group that has endorsed Jones, but the group says it did not send or pay for the text and is now trying to determine who did.

Two of Jones’ major opponents are also condemning the message.

Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert called it a “lie” and said the message was “hateful, homophobic and vile rhetoric.”

Kendrick Meek Jr. also spoke out against the text, calling it a “fraudulent, homophobic smear” and saying South Florida “deserves better.”

With the Aug. 18 primary now just one week away, Jones says he doesn’t know who is responsible for the false text, but wants them held accountable.

“People deserve to know actually who paid for it and who sent it,” he said. “It’s dangerous, it’s uncalled for and we should not allow people to get away with that type of behavior.”

“Yo dije, ‘wow’”, dijo Jones. “Esto ya es el colmo”.

El mensaje ataca a Jones, un candidato abiertamente gay al Congreso, al afirmar falsamente que tiene VIH.

“Primero, el mensaje es falso”, dijo Jones. “No soy VIH positivo, pero quiero tener mucho cuidado con la forma en que respondo a eso, porque me niego a defenderme de una manera que estigmatice a otra persona”.

El mensaje afirma que a Jones se le negó la oportunidad de donar sangre a un sobreviviente de COVID porque tenía VIH y enlaza a una noticia real de 2020, pero esa historia no menciona el VIH.

En realidad, a Jones se le negó la oportunidad de donar bajo una política federal de donación de sangre vigente en ese momento, que restringía las donaciones de hombres homosexuales y bisexuales.

Esa política cambió desde entonces.

“El VIH no es algo de lo que haya que avergonzarse y ser gay no significa que alguien tenga VIH”, dijo Jones. “Alguien tomó un viejo estereotipo peligroso sobre las personas gay y el VIH y lo utilizó con fines políticos”.

El mensaje también afirma que fue “pagado por Equality Florida”, un grupo de defensa de los derechos LGBTQ que ha respaldado a Jones, pero el grupo dice que no envió ni pagó el mensaje de texto y que ahora intenta determinar quién lo hizo.

Dos de los principales oponentes de Jones también condenaron el mensaje.

El comisionado de Miami-Dade Oliver Gilbert lo calificó de “mentira” y dijo que el mensaje era “retórica llena de odio, homofóbica y vil”.

Kendrick Meek Jr. también se pronunció en contra del mensaje de texto, calificándolo de “difamación fraudulenta y homofóbica” y diciendo que el sur de Florida “merece algo mejor”.

Con las primarias del 18 de agosto a solo una semana, Jones dice que no sabe quién es responsable del mensaje de texto falso, pero quiere que rindan cuentas.

“La gente merece saber realmente quién pagó por él y quién lo envió”, dijo. “Es peligroso, no tiene justificación y no debemos permitir que las personas se salgan con la suya con ese tipo de comportamiento”.

El próximo nombre en la lista es Cristóbal.

El sistema, del que hablamos por primera vez en este boletín hace casi dos semanas, ahora tiene una alta probabilidad de desarrollo, probablemente de jueves al fin de semana, mientras avanza hacia el oeste-noroeste en dirección general a las islas más orientales del Caribe.

Los modelos están divididos sobre si el sistema se mantiene débil y avanza hacia el Caribe o sobre partes de las Antillas Menores, Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes entre el domingo y el lunes, o si logra pasar entre las islas, desviándose hacia el norte de estas y entrando al Atlántico central abierto mientras se fortalece a principios de la próxima semana.

La mayoría de los modelos favorece por ahora la trayectoria más débil y hacia el sur, cerca de las islas más orientales del Caribe o a través de ellas entre finales de este fin de semana y principios de la próxima semana, y dada la intensa cizalladura del viento sobre el Caribe, es poco probable que el sistema sobreviva mucho durante la próxima semana si llegara a desarrollarse.

Aun así, los intereses en el Caribe oriental, principalmente desde Martinica y Dominica hacia el norte hasta las Islas Vírgenes y Puerto Rico, deben mantenerse atentos al pronóstico esta semana, principalmente por las fuertes lluvias locales que podría traer el sistema.

Aunque todavía no contamos con pronósticos específicos de intensidad para el sistema, ninguno de nuestros modelos globales sugiere un riesgo de fortalecimiento significativo esta semana y, si acaso, este sistema tendrá dificultades para convertirse en un sistema tropical y mantenerse como tal.

Curiosamente, Google DeepMind, el sistema de modelado basado en inteligencia artificial líder en su categoría que detectó por primera vez este sistema hace unas semanas, ha reducido notablemente las probabilidades de desarrollo, con la ejecución más reciente sugiriendo solo entre un 20% y un 30% de probabilidades de que el sistema supere el umbral de formación al este de las islas esta semana.

No hace falta decir que esto no representa una preocupación para el territorio continental de Estados Unidos y hay numerosos obstáculos que deberían debilitarlo si siquiera logra atravesar las islas intacto.

Hay que mantener la mirada puesta en las islas de Hawái durante el fin de semana

Se espera que una perturbación ubicada a unas 1,000 millas al sureste de las islas de Hawái, sobre el Pacífico central, designada como Invest 93C por el Centro Nacional de Huracanes, se convierta en una tormenta con nombre en los próximos días y se dirija hacia la cadena de islas durante el fin de semana.

El primer nombre de la temporada de huracanes del Pacífico central es Lala.

Los modelos sugieren que Lala podría ser una tormenta tropical fuerte o incluso un huracán en el límite mientras se aproxima a Hawái entre el sábado por la noche y el domingo, hora local, con la posibilidad de que afecte a varias islas.

No se necesita una tormenta con vientos tan fuertes para causar problemas en todo el estado como en el territorio continental, por lo que residentes y visitantes querrán monitorear de cerca los pronósticos durante los próximos días.

“Who is on first, what is on second, I Don’t Know is on third.”

The famous comedy routine by Abbott and Costello can be compared to the Trump administration’s foreign policy strategies these days. Diplomatic negotiations are complex and complicated, especially when dealing with countries, governments, and individuals with whom the United States has not had good relationships.

Reliable sources tell me there are tremendous differences between the staffs at the White House and the Department of State over how to handle negotiations involving Ukraine, Russia, Israel-Gaza, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. It does not help when those negotiating on behalf of the United States have limited to no diplomatic experience.

For now, let’s stay within the area of expertise: Cuba. While President Trump thinks Cuba can be resolved in two months, Secretary of State Marco Rubio knows very well, as does his senior staff, that negotiating with Cuba is not easy.

The Cuban government is willing to continue introducing cosmetic changes to its moribund economy without relinquishing political control. The United States can continue to sanction everyone on the island, and the Cuban government could not care less. All the while, the people of Cuba continue to suffer tremendous hardships. Yet the people are unlikely to turn against the government. The consequence of doing so can mean spending years in jail.

Meanwhile, in Miami, the guessing game continues over who will replace Raúl Castro when he dies, along with preparations for possible transition plans for Cuba. A transition to a democratic system of government in Cuba will take time. A civil society cannot be built overnight. It is also important to remember that Cuba did not have a democratic government before 1959.

For Rubio, expectations from the Cuban American community are high. Yet most in the community understand that it will not be easy to get the Cuban government to make political changes short of a U.S. military invasion. However, Rubio needs a win, especially if he is considering another presidential run. The failures of the Trump administration’s foreign policies around the world could affect Rubio’s future presidential campaign.

So, what will be Rubio’s next step on Cuba? The clock is ticking.

Aug. 10: Will the cat catch the mouse this time?

While U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues to put pressure on the Cuban government to change, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel went on Cuban television this past weekend and announced to the Cuban people that the government was making major “transformational changes” to the economy.

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Díaz-Canel also told the Cuban people that it would take time and patience -- two things the Cuban people do not have anymore. Díaz-Canel went on to say that the benefits of these changes will begin to show by 2029.

Sources in Washington, D.C. have told me that the Trump administration is looking to see if there is someone in the Cuban government, like Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela, to hand over Raul Castro or even take over the current government and be willing to negotiate with the U.S.

The Miami Herald reported this weekend that General Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas, currently the Cuban Minister of the Interior, may be acceptable to the U.S. General Casas is considered a hardliner and therefore unlikely to break with the Cuban leadership.

As I have said before, the case of Venezuela is quite different than Cuba. While Raul Castro is alive, I believe the Cuban government will continue in power and make promises to the Cuban people they cannot keep.

Aug. 8: Cuban opposition leader says Cuba’s transformation must include those on the island

According to Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, any plans to transform Cuba must include Cubans on the island.

But do Cubans on the island have the capacity and capabilities to participate in such a process? After living for almost 68 years under a totalitarian system that has shaped the population’s personal values and attitudes, it could take time not only to change it but, more importantly, to sustain those changes.

Democracies are not built in one day. It will take time and patience. Let’s also remember that before the Cuban Revolution, Cuba had a dictatorship under Batista.

Aug 6: US announces new set of economic sanctions against Cuba; 2 of Cuba’s top generals also sanctioned

The U.S. State Department announced a new set of economic sanctions against Cuba on Thursday. At the same time, two of Cuba’s top generals were also sanctioned, Alvaro Lopez Miera, Minister of Defense; and General Roberto Sotolongo, head of the armed forces.

Aug. 5: CIA Task Force on Cuba created, per report

The New York Times has reported the creation of a CIA Task Force on Cuba with the purpose of putting additional pressure on the Cuban government to make political and economic changes to their system.

This news will probably be received by Cuba as an additional threat by the U.S.

Aug. 5: Cuban president confirms ongoing conservations between Havana, US

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed today that there are ongoing conversations between Havana and DC for the purpose of avoiding a military confrontation and trying to find solutions to the issues between both nations.

The Cuban government understands that they are running out of options and most likely will need to reach an agreement with the U.S. Will it include regime change?

Aug. 3 update: Rubio speaks about Cuba’s ongoing espionage activities in the US

This past weekend, in an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio spoke about Cuba’s ongoing espionage activities in the U.S.

Rubio went on to say that Cuban spies continue to infiltrate the U.S. government, financial institutions, organizations, and academic institutions. Rubio claimed that Cuba continues to be a national security threat to the U.S.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

Un niño de 4 años murió cuando un árbol cayó sobre una vivienda en Geneva, Indiana, durante las tormentas del martes, informó la policía del condado de Jennings. En Ohio, el gobernador Mike DeWine señaló que un residente de Roseville murió durante una emergencia de salud cuando los equipos de primera respuesta, ante carreteras inundadas, no pudieron llegar. Las autoridades de Portage, Indiana, investigaban si el mal tiempo influyó en una explosión reportada en una casa que mató a una persona.

Un rayo impactó el martes en un complejo penitenciario al suroeste de Cleveland e hirió a 16 personas encarceladas que fueron hospitalizadas, según el Departamento de Rehabilitación y Corrección de Ohio. En un primer momento se desconocía su estado.

Las tormentas causaron daños en una amplia franja desde el área de Chicago hasta el oeste de Pensilvania, y el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional indicó que el riesgo de tormentas eléctricas severas y lluvias intensas continuará durante los próximos días en el centro-norte, el valle de Ohio y los Apalaches centrales.

Más de 700.000 clientes estaban sin electricidad la mañana del miércoles en Illinois, Indiana, Ohio y Kentucky, según poweroutage.us.

El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional dijo que confirmó tres tornados en condados al sur de Chicago. Se reportaron rescates acuáticos durante las lluvias intensas en varios estados, incluido Ohio, donde DeWine envió a 40 miembros de la Guardia Nacional de Ohio para ayudar en dos condados al este de Columbus.

Las sirenas de alerta por tornado sonaron el martes mientras el cielo se oscurecía en el área de Chicago. Todos los vuelos se detuvieron temporalmente en los dos principales aeropuertos de Chicago, y las autoridades advirtieron sobre demoras mientras se despejaba el cúmulo de vuelos pendientes.

Fotos publicadas en redes sociales desde el área de Chicago y al otro lado de la frontera estatal en Indiana mostraban carreteras inundadas, árboles enredados en líneas eléctricas y viviendas con grandes agujeros en sus techos.

“No hay electricidad. Fue muy aterrador. Estábamos abajo en el sótano”, contó Javid Jenkins, de Homewood, un suburbio de Chicago. “Estamos hechos para la nieve. Estamos hechos para el frío. No estamos hechos para esto”.

Jenkins, de 54 años, comentó que estaba conduciendo para buscar gasolina y encender un generador para conservar la comida en su refrigerador.

Los meteorólogos indicaron que en Gary, Indiana, se registró una ráfaga de viento de 99 mph (159 km/h). En otros lugares hubo numerosos reportes de ráfagas de 80 mph (128 km/h) o más en estaciones meteorológicas personales.

La información preliminar indicó que el intenso sistema que avanzó desde Iowa hacia Indiana durante varias horas calificó como un derecho, informó el martes por la noche el Centro de Predicción de Tormentas del servicio meteorológico. Los derechos son eventos prolongados de vientos en línea recta que desatan lluvias intensas y recorren grandes distancias. Los daños que provocan a veces son comparables a las fuerzas destructivas de tornados o huracanes.

“Devastación total. No hay tejado”, expresó Kerry Hourigan, de pie ante la casa donde vivió 25 años en Tinley Park, otro suburbio de Chicago. “Es una tontería, pero lo que pensaba es que acabo de comprar una parrilla nueva, y no tengo idea de dónde está. Desapareció”.

El meteorólogo Scott Baker explicó que el centro norte del país estaba en el borde exterior de un “anillo de fuego”, que traía oleadas de humedad excesiva, inestabilidad y tormentas.

Dayton, Ohio, estableció un récord diario de precipitaciones con 5,25 cm (2,07 pulgadas), superando una marca de 1915, informó el servicio meteorológico. Los pronosticadores señalaron que varias rondas de lluvia provocarían riesgos de inundación en el valle de Ohio hasta primeras horas del viernes.

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White informó desde Detroit. Contribuyeron los periodistas de The Associated Press Dave Collins en Hartford, Connecticut; Jennifer Garske en Washington; Sudhin Thanawala en Atlanta, y Christopher Weber en Los Ángeles.

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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.

Trump downplayed the extraordinary nature of the subterfuge involved in his flight, which saw him stow away in an airport catering container to sneak onto another plane while Air Force One was sent into the sky, essentially as a decoy.

Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary Tuesday in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party’s establishment. Flanagan defeated centrist U.S. Rep. Angie Craig with a pledge to fight the influence of corporations and confront Trump.

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Inflation paused, but higher costs remain an issue for Americans

U.S. inflation slowed last month and a measure of underlying price pressures also cooled, suggesting higher oil and gas prices from the Iran war are only having a limited impact on broader costs in the economy.

Consumer prices rose 3.4% in July from a year ago, down slightly from 3.5% in June, the Labor Department said Wednesday. But inflation is still higher than before the Iran war began in February, when it was 2.4%. On a monthly basis, prices rose just 0.1% from June to July.

Inflation has been pushed higher by a series of shocks to the economy, including President Trump’s tariffs imposed last spring, higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war, and a surge in investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure that has boosted computer chip prices. The key question for the inflation-fighters at the Fed — not to mention for consumers struggling with high gas and grocery prices — is how quickly those one-time effects will fade.

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Trump’s vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win. It also gives Democrats an attack line

President Trump pivoted the nation’s attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits.

After acting to overhaul the nation’s vaccine policy and guidance, the Trump administration had recently largely stepped back from additional changes to focus on less controversial subjects, raising questions over the political impetus behind and implications of the Republican president’s renewed focus on vaccines.

For well over a decade, Trump has expressed his view — against medical groups’ guidance — that childhood vaccines should be administered in smaller doses over a long period of time. The executive order sought to bear out that discredited theory.

While the move could endear Trump to some “Make America Healthy Again” voters who want more flexibility on immunizations, it’s also already attracting attacks designed to hurt Trump’s aligned candidates in November’s midterm elections.

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Progressive Democrats get another win in Minnesota US Senate primary

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party’s establishment.

Flanagan defeated centrist U.S. Rep. Angie Craig with a pledge to fight the influence of corporations and confront Trump.

“For months now, I have been telling you that this campaign was about the many versus the money,” Flanagan said as she celebrated her victory in Minneapolis. “Well guess what? The many just won.”

The outcome was another sign of progressive energy among Democratic primary voters. It comes a week after Abdul El-Sayed won a bitter and divisive primary in Michigan that fired up the left and fueled anxiety among party leaders that Democrats will alienate moderate swing voters.

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Trump says Secret Service and the military wanted him off Air Force One in Turkey due to threat

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat he insisted didn’t scare him.

Trump downplayed the extraordinary nature of the subterfuge involved in his flight, which saw him stow away in an airport catering container to sneak onto another plane while Air Force One was sent into the sky, essentially as a decoy.

He also downplayed the risk to the people — White House officials, security and support staff, and reporters — he left on the plane.

“They wanted me to go on a different flight, different plane,” Trump told reporters after returning from an event in Ohio, saying he had little choice in the matter.

“I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it,” he said. “I get a lot of threats.”

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In a statement, a spokesperson for the privately-held company founded in 1977 said the location had been open for a decade.

Aba, a Mediterranean restaurant, and Le Zoo, a French restaurant, also closed their locations at Bal Harbour Shops.

Related story: Workforce housing could rise at unexpected place: Bal Harbour Shops

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story reported that Carpaccio, an Italian restaurant, had closed. However, the owner of Carpaccio confirmed that the restaurant has been open for 31 years and continues to operate at Bal Harbour Shops. This story has since been corrected.

The 30-foot (9-meter) model of a Dutch Kitchenette opened to the public last month as part of the 150th anniversary celebration of Coppes Napanee, one of two companies still in existence that manufactured the popular Hoosier cabinets more than a century ago. The cabinet name was coined after its largest producer, the Hoosier Manufacturing Co.

Dubbed the world’s largest Hoosier cabinet, the replica built against a brick background is equipped with stairs leading to a loft that visitors to the town of Nappanee can look out from. It overlooks Coppes Commons, the site of the original Coppes Napanee factory that has been converted to an indoor marketplace, artisan hub and museum. The company still produces custom cabinets next door.

Wesley Mast, owner and president of Coppes Napanee, said he typically hears two types of responses when visitors first see the giant cabinet.

“There’s the one extreme where people are like, ‘Why? Why such a big cabinet?’” Mast said. “And my response is always like, ‘Why not?’

“The other response we get is like, ‘That’s so cool. Where did you get this idea? I love it.’”

Mast said the cabinet “brings us another level of attention and branding and makes this place more of a destination than just a pass-through.”

The Hoosier cabinet is a freestanding kitchen workstation and storage area that centralized and sped up food preparation. The cabinets were popular from the 1890s through the 1930s but waned after World War II as built-in, wall-to-wall cabinetry became the norm in new home construction.

A century ago, “this was the kitchen,” Mast said. “This was kind of the first piece of furniture that went into the house as a kitchen and was considered all-in-one, the kitchen itself in just one piece.”

There were 5,000 dealers of Hoosier cabinets across the country, said Mary Figueroa, curator of History at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, which has four Hoosier cabinets in its collection.

Prior to the Hoosier cabinet, a kitchen area would have some shelves, a separate work table and a corner cupboard. “But this was a piece of furniture that kind of consolidated all of that, allowed women to save their steps and have everything that they could possibly need to make a meal right at their fingertips,” Figueroa said.

The Hoosier cabinet had space for storing items such as flour, sugar, spices, loaves of bread and other pantry supplies. They were nicknamed “kitchen pianos” because everything that was needed was within close range. They had built-in flour sifters and came with small cookbooks with recipes involving meats, soups, breads or desserts, among other things. Advertising for the cabinets even made the promise to “strengthen your marriage” and “make you more beautiful” because of the time and steps that it saved for women, Figueroa said.

Nappanee is located in Elkhart County, a region known as a top U.S. hub for recreational vehicle manufacturing, wood products production and home to the third-largest Amish settlement in the nation. It is about 150 miles (241 kilometers) north of Indianapolis.

And now, add Nappanee as a potential tourist attraction for the colossal cabinet.

“It’s bringing awareness,” Figueroa said. “I mean, you can’t miss it.”

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Raby reported from Charleston, West Virginia.

A 4-year-old boy was killed when a tree fell on a home in Geneva, Indiana, during Tuesday's storms, the Jennings County Sheriff's Office said. In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine said a resident of Roseville died during a health emergency when first responders, faced with flooded roads, couldn’t reach them. Officials in Portage, Indiana, were investigating whether the severe weather played a role in a reported house explosion that killed a person.

Lightning struck a prison complex southwest of Cleveland on Tuesday, injuring 16 incarcerated people who were hospitalized, according to the Ohio Department of Corrections. Their conditions weren't immediately known.

The storms inflicted a wide swath of damage from the Chicago area to western Pennsylvania, and the National Weather Service said threats of severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall will continue over the next few days in the Midwest, Ohio Valley and central Appalachians.

More than 700,000 customers were without power Wednesday morning in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, according to poweroutage.us.

The National Weather Service said it confirmed three tornadoes in counties south of Chicago. Water rescues were reported during heavy rains in several states including Ohio, where DeWine sent 40 Ohio Army National Guard members to help in two counties east of Columbus.

Tornado warning sirens howled Tuesday as the skies darkened in the Chicago area. All flights were temporarily stopped at Chicago’s two major airports, and officials warned of delays as the backlog was cleared.

Photos posted on social media from the Chicago area and across the state line in Indiana showed flooded roads, trees tangled in power lines and homes with gashes in their roofs.

“No power. It was very scary. We were down in the basement,” said Javid Jenkins of Homewood, a Chicago suburb. “We’re built for snow. We’re built for cold. We’re not built for this.”

Jenkins, 54, said he was driving around for gas to fire up a generator to preserve food in his refrigerator.

Forecasters said a wind gust of 99 mph (159 kph) was recorded in Gary, Indiana. Elsewhere there were numerous reports of gusts of 80 mph (128 kph) or more at personal weather stations.

Preliminary information indicated that the intense system that swept from Iowa into Indiana over several hours qualified as a derecho, the weather service's Storm Prediction Center said Tuesday evening. Derechos are prolonged straight-line wind events that unleash heavy rainfall and travel far distances. The damage they cause is sometimes comparable to the destructive forces of tornadoes or hurricanes.

“Total devastation. No roof,” said Kerry Hourigan, standing outside her home of 25 years in Tinley Park, another Chicago suburb. “Stupid thing, but my focus was I just bought a new barbecue grill, and I have no idea where that is. It’s disappeared.”

Meteorologist Scott Baker said the Midwest was on the outer edge of a “ring of fire,” bringing waves of excessive moisture, instability and storms.

Dayton, Ohio, set a daily rainfall record with 2.07 inches (5.25 cm), shattering a mark set in 1915, the weather service said. Forecasters said multiple rounds of rain would cause flood hazards in the Ohio Valley through early Friday.

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White reported from Detroit. Associated Press writers Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, Jennifer Garske in Washington, Sudhin Thanawala in Atlanta, and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed.

At City Park in Sunrise, it’s the main event.

The beat sets the pace. The weights add resistance. And Paige Romans brings the energy — turning a monthly community workout into a celebration of rhythm.

“It is the soul of calypso music. Anything high and positive vibration is soca music,” said Paige Romans, owner of Soca Fitness.

Romans is a certified fitness instructor, personal trainer and owner of Soca Fitness in North Lauderdale. Her workouts built a following that caught the attention of the city of Sunrise, which recruited Romans to bring that same energy — free of charge — to the community on the last Friday of every month.

“You can’t run away or shy away from positive vibrations. You really can’t. Even if you try, at some little point you’re going to smile and feel good about that moment,” she said.

Romans may lead the workout, but the energy quickly becomes a group effort.

City leaders say the groups have grown every single month, with more people bringing friends.

“The way this program resonates with people — they come out, they release those endorphins through moving and they get happy, and they meet the person next to them. Smile. Have a good time. You’re going to see it,” said Khya Cummings, recreation supervisor for the city of Sunrise.

Romans wants Soca Fitness to celebrate the culture behind the music, build community through movement and inspire more people to simply show up.

“That’s what I’m hoping. For this community get bigger. More people to understand that movement is literally a gift and they should take on that in their day to day,” Romans said. “All the time, just show up. You’re never going to know how you are within a certain class until you actually do it. So, just show up.”

For those who want more Soca, Romans encourages them to stop by her studio. She also runs classes and fitness training virtually to keep everyone in step, so they never miss a beat.

Click here for more information on Soca Fitness.

After acting to overhaul the nation’s vaccine policy and guidance, the Trump administration had recently largely stepped back from additional changes to focus on less controversial subjects, raising questions over the political impetus behind and implications of the Republican president’s renewed focus on vaccines.

For well over a decade, Trump has expressed his view — against medical groups’ guidance — that childhood vaccines should be administered in smaller doses over a long period of time. The executive order sought to bear out that discredited theory.

While the move could endear Trump to some “Make America Healthy Again” voters who want more flexibility on immunizations, it’s also already attracting attacks designed to hurt Trump’s aligned candidates in November’s midterm elections.

Jayme Franklin, a 28-year-old conservative activist who appeared with the president to promote his executive order on Monday, said she thinks the action is “going to go a long way” for MAHA mom voters like herself.

But Shaughnessy Naughton, president of the left-leaning political action committee 314 Action, which aims to elect doctors to office, said she sees the order as “one more data point” in support of Democrats’ cause.

“Our organization and our candidates are certainly going to hammer that message home — that if you want healthcare that’s accessible and affordable, if you want medical advice that is science-based, we need to have accountability in Washington,” she said.

Trump has long called for shots spread out in separate visits

Trump’s doubt in the number and cadence of vaccines dates back at least to 2014, when he posted to social media the disproven claim that combination shots can cause autism and said if he were president he would spread them out.

While he’s since shown pride in his first-term Operation Warp Speed effort to disseminate COVID-19 vaccines quickly and praised certain other shots like the polio vaccine, he also has repeatedly called for reforming the childhood vaccine schedule. While his administration released an assessment comparing U.S. childhood vaccine schedules to peer nations', several of his suggestions have come without any new scientific evidence.

“This is based on what I feel,” Trump said last September when he called for splitting the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine into three single-disease vaccines.

On Monday, he again pushed for separating the MMR shot into three, ordering the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to work on developing that option for children, since it doesn’t currently exist in the United States. Public health experts have warned that spacing out shots could increase the risk of infection with a vaccine-preventable disease before a child returns for the next visit.

Most Americans don’t see reevaluating vaccine safety as a top issue

Trump’s views have aligned him with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist before he entered politics.

The president credits Kennedy’s diverse coalition of MAHA followers — whose priorities range from regulating pesticides to ending vaccine mandates — with helping him win back the White House in 2024.

Even as the Trump administration has handed several wins to the MAHA coalition, including changing the federal dietary guidelines and loosening restrictions on peptides, some in the movement have grown impatient as their other priorities remain unfinished. It’s unclear whether Trump’s action to loosen vaccine recommendations, an issue some MAHA supporters are passionate about, will be enough to shore up those voters ahead of the midterms.

Franklin, who runs a conservative magazine, said she had talked with Trump about making vaccine recommendations more flexible at a MAHA roundtable earlier this year. She was pleased when the administration informed her that her requests were coming true.

“I think it just really shows he loves to hear from everyday Americans on how his policies and his administration affect the lives of people who are raising kids in this country,” she said.

But political strategists and Trump’s own pollster Tony Fabrizio have warned that efforts to shave down vaccine recommendations may not matter much to most voters this fall.

Polls show most Americans believe children should be vaccinated to attend school, though Republicans are less likely to see vaccines as important. And as rising prices on things like groceries, gas and healthcare tighten Americans’ budgets, many view the economy as a top issue they care about.

“Nothing in America matters more than affordability,” pollster Frank Luntz said. “And anytime the administration or Republicans goes off affordability, they’re not talking about what Americans really care about.”

Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, said with most Americans viewing vaccines positively, Trump’s announcement “does not strike me as the most persuasive political message.”

Recent polling from the healthcare research nonprofit KFF suggests that even among MAHA supporters, only 10% rank reevaluating vaccine safety as their top priority for the federal government. Higher-ranking priorities included lowering health costs (42%) and restricting chemical additives in the food supply (21%).

Democrats are seizing on Trump’s message

Asked about the timing of the order with the midterms approaching, a White House official who insisted on anonymity to brief reporters said that the move was a longstanding presidential priority and that other health issues voters care about were still being addressed.

To that effect, on the day Trump signed the order, the Food and Drug Administration announced an effort to require more transparency from food manufacturers about new ingredients or additives in foods — something many in the MAHA movement had been calling for.

The administration has also touted its efforts to lower drug prices and crack down on federal health program fraud, which it argues will save taxpayers money.

Still, Democratic candidates, including doctors linked to Naughton’s group 314 Action, seized on Trump’s order in messages to voters this week.

Dr. Richard Pan, a physician running as a Democrat for the U.S. House in Northern California, reposted the American Medical Association's condemnation of Trump's vaccine falsehoods, among other fact checks. He told The Associated Press he thinks voters are deciding between electing people who choose not to hold the administration accountable and those who “stand for the science.”

Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician and Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina, pleaded with voters not to take health information from Trump in a video posted on Instagram in collaboration with the left-leaning Courier Newsroom.

“Do whatever you can to help elect scientists up and down the ballot in November, including sending me to the U.S. Senate,” she said to the camera. “I cannot think of a more urgent time for us to have a pediatrician in the room where these conversations are happening.”

There’s a good chance dealers will be looking to offload their remaining inventory of a discontinued vehicle, which can present an opportunity for you to negotiate on price. It’s also possible that a discounted vehicle might become a high-value classic many years from now. Edmunds’ auto experts have highlighted five of the most notable models that won’t be around after 2026. All of the following prices include destination fees.

Ford Escape

After 25 years and four generations, the Escape is departing dealership showrooms. Ford’s small SUV doesn’t fully measure up to top rivals like the Hyundai Tucson and Toyota RAV4, but there are enough positive attributes to make it worth considering, especially if you can get one at a discounted price.

The Escape has comfortable seating, a smooth ride quality and easy-to-use controls. It’s also available with two powertrains to help you save on gas: a hybrid that delivers an EPA-estimated 39 mpg combined or a plug-in hybrid that can go up to 37 miles on all-electric power before switching over to its gas engine.

2026 Escape starting price: $31,845

Volkswagen ID.4

The ID.4 was one of the first electric SUVs to challenge the Tesla Model Y when it was released in 2021. Its ample driving range and long list of standard features made it a viable choice for an EV, but over time, the ID.4 has been outclassed by competitors such as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 or undercut on price by less expensive options such as the Chevrolet Equinox EV.

However, picking up a 2026 ID.4 makes a lot of sense. Based on Edmunds’ analysis of transaction data, you’ll likely be able to get about $10,000 off the sticker price. For the best value of a 2026 ID.4, check out the Pro trim with standard rear-wheel drive. It comes generously equipped with heated front seats, wireless charging, a 12.9-inch touchscreen and several driver assist features.

2026 ID.4 starting price: $46,570

Jaguar F-Pace

If you’ve ever dreamed of owning a new Jaguar, then the 2026 F-Pace is your last chance at a gas-powered version because the company is transitioning to an all-electric ultra-luxury brand. The F-Pace is the last surviving model from Jaguar’s internal-combustion-engine past, and it won’t be replaced.

Although the F-Pace has soldiered on for 10 years without a redesign, it still boasts an attractive design, potent optional engines and sharp handling. The Jag can’t fully compete with newer small luxury SUVs, but scoring a good deal might be enough to tempt you. As a potential future classic, check out the performance-oriented SVR 575 Edition that comes with a muscular 567-horsepower V8 engine.

2026 F-Pace starting price: $58,375

Toyota GR Supra

The GR Supra is Toyota’s flagship sports car and the modern successor to the iconic Supra from the 1990s. After a seven-year run, 2026 will be its final year. Like its predecessor, the GR Supra boasts a powerful 382-horsepower engine, an engaging driving experience and an available manual transmission. The car’s swoopy styling remains one of the more distinctive shapes on the road too.

The GR Supra’s end isn’t necessarily because of slow sales. Toyota built it as part of a manufacturing partnership with BMW, which sold the related Z4 roadster. With Z4 production ending, there wasn’t a way to keep the Supra going. While it’s possible that a Supra successor is in the works, this GR Supra could easily qualify as a future classic.

Starting price: $59,595

Tesla Model S

The Model S will forever hold a place in automotive history as one of the earliest mass-produced electric vehicles. The 2026 model year is its last, however. The Model S’ longevity has rendered it a bit of an afterthought for a luxury EV, but it is a roomy electric sedan that’s ideal for daily driving and long road trips.

A base Model S has all-wheel drive, an EPA-estimated range of 410 miles, and enough power to get you from zero to 60 mph in a Tesla-cited 3.1 seconds. Another reason to buy the Model S over the competition is Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature, which enables automated driving on most roads as long as the driver is ready to take control if needed. Tesla is no longer selling new Model S sedans from its website, but used versions are available.

Used 2026 Model S pricing: starting around $110,000

Edmunds says

If you’re in the market for one of these vehicles, act fast because the remaining inventory will likely be limited.

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This story was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds.

Michael Cantu is a contributor at Edmunds.

Zhu died in Beijing at around 11 a.m. on Wednesday, the official news agency Xinhua reported.

Once sent into rural exile to do manual labor for praising reforms in other communist countries, Zhu pushed through a dizzying array of changes as premier, China’s top economic post, from 1998 to 2003 under former President Jiang Zemin.

Zhu clashed with Communist Party conservatives and state industry bosses as he pushed state-owned companies to become efficient and profitable. That cost millions of layoffs, but helped propel China to overtake Japan as the second-largest economy behind the United States in 2010.

Building on former leader Deng Xiaoping’s 1979 reforms, Zhu is credited with supplying the resourcefulness and tenacity to push through history-making changes such as China’s WTO membership, which helped to transform China into the world’s biggest exporter.

Those changes helped to keep economic growth above 8% a year from 2000 to 2010, peaking at 14.2% in 2007.

A spiky personality who fought corruption and conservatives

Named premier in 1998 at age 69, Zhu became a popular figure by criticizing official bungling and graft and accepting blame when the government fell short. His demanding style earned him the nicknames Boss and Zhu Fengzi, or Madman Zhu.

“I have prepared 100 coffins here — 99 for corrupt officials and one for myself,” Zhu said in 1998, according to the party newspaper People’s Daily.

Zhu ranked No. 3 in the party hierarchy behind Jiang and Li Peng, chairman of the ceremonial legislature, the National People’s Congress. But he was a technician without his own power base. Zhu complained that allowed officials to ignore his orders.

Zhu made his name as a deputy premier in the 1990s by crushing inflation. He enforced price controls and cut off loans to money-losing state companies, rebuffing resistance by local leaders — a pattern Zhu would repeat as he fought conservatives over the pace of reform.

Zhu led efforts to secure WTO membership following marathon negotiations that began in the 1980s. That status would enshrine free trade as a national commitment, giving Zhu a tool to force local officials to stop protecting favored companies.

Zhu’s campaign was nearly derailed when he went to Washington in 1999 with market-opening concessions to win U.S. endorsement of the WTO bid. The Clinton administration rejected the offer as inadequate, while his political enemies at home accused him of offering too much, but Zhu survived and China went on to join the body in December 2001.

Zhu launched China’s home ownership boom in 1998 with an initiative to sell apartments owned by state companies. Families rushed to buy, and within a decade the majority of urban housing was privately owned.

Still, Zhu was less an advocate of free enterprise than a skilled bureaucrat who carried out party orders to whip state industry into shape.

Zhu showed no interest in privatizing the economy. He played a key role in drafting plans in the 1990s to turn banks, airlines, oil companies and other enterprises into profit-oriented corporations but to retain government ownership.

Zhu stood out for admitting official failings

Born Oct. 23, 1928, in Mao Zedong’s home province of Hunan, Zhu paid an early price for his willingness to take risks and speak out.

After a start as an economic planner, his career went into a 22-year eclipse when he was labelled a “rightist” in 1957 for praising reforms in Hungary and Yugoslavia. He was banished to the countryside during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution to do manual labor.

Rehabilitated in 1979, Zhu rose swiftly, becoming deputy Shanghai party secretary in 1987 and mayor the next year.

As mayor in 1989, Zhu gained a reputation for moderation when he placated protesters and pledged not to call in the military.

“He managed to defuse, with considerable subtlety, a tense political situation that could have developed into localized violence or worse if the military had felt it necessary to intervene,” wrote Australian diplomat Shelley Warner in the 1991 book “The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces.”

Zhu’s boss, Jiang, would soon be called to Beijing by Deng and made party leader. Zhu was named deputy premier in 1991 and joined the party’s ruling Standing Committee in 1993.

Zhu broke with the leadership’s stance of infallibility by admitting and taking blame for official failings.

In 1998, after summer floods killed 4,150 people and officials were accused of embezzling money meant for anti-flood dikes, Zhu complained some barriers were no stronger than bean curd.

Three years later, he apologized on national television for his Cabinet’s failure to protect the public after an explosion in a schoolhouse in southern China killed at least 42 people, most of them children.

Zhu enlivened the party’s bland image by cracking jokes in public, sometimes at his own expense. Laughter erupted at a 1999 news conference when he said a recent photo “made me look like a dead man.”

One of Zhu’s proudest triumphs as deputy premier was to craft a tax system that required local officials to hand more revenue to Beijing. He said in 1996 that he deserved a Nobel Prize in economics for that.

Zhu rarely appeared in public after leaving office as premier.

Zhu was married to Lao An, a fellow Hunan native. Their son, Yunlai, also known as Levin Zhu, is a former CEO of China International Capital Corp., a government-owned investment bank.

Their daughter, Yanlai, led a charity organization supporting schoolchildren that was backed by Zhu Rongji.

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A previous version of this report incorrectly stated that Zhu died at 98. He was 97 years old.

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McDonald is a former Associated Press journalist. AP writer Kanis Leung contributed to this report from Hong Kong.

Speaking on a visit to a Russian warship that was taking part in a naval exercise in the Pacific, Putin described the Western moves to detain vessels linked to Russia as a breach of international maritime law.

“It’s nothing but piracy and robbery,” Putin said. “If this is done, we will be forced to respond in kind.”

He added that the Russian response wouldn't necessarily come in the waters where the Russian ships were seized, noting that Moscow could retaliate “in any area where we see it as necessary and appropriate,” including in the Pacific.

The Pacific Fleet chief, Adm. Viktor Liina, reported to Putin that the navy was ready to start inspections of the commercial ships serving the “unfriendly nations.” He noted that many of the ships operated by British, French and other European carriers fly the flags of other nations, effectively making them a “shadow fleet.”

“We have enough assets for inspection and detention of vessels of the unfriendly nations and their shadow fleet,” Liina told Putin. “We are ready to start performing the task.”

Russia is believed to be using a fleet of hundreds of ships to evade international sanctions imposed after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

France and the U.K. have detained tankers suspected of being of Russia's “shadow fleet” shipping oil in violation of international sanctions. The EU has sanctioned hundreds of “shadow fleet” ships.

Russia has recently started deploying warships to escort its commercial vessels.

Dmitry Medvedev, who served as Russia’s president in 2008-2012 to let Putin observe term limits and is now deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, noted that many ships belonging to European carriers fly the so-called “flags of convenience” just like Russian carriers do.

“It means that by applying a symmetrical approach, which is only fair, Russia has the right to attack any merchant vessel belonging to hostile nations, whether in our waters or in neutral waters, provided there are reasonable grounds to suspect it is carrying cargo in the enemy’s interest, and that applies to any cargo,” Medvedev said. “There are a great many such vessels, and our military is capable of dramatically expanding operations well beyond the Black Sea basin.”

British actor Will Poulter, Ohio-born and Brooklyn-based writer-director Adam Meeks and Annette Deao, the program director of an adult recovery court in west-central Ohio, were close enough before, having made the indie film “Union County” just last year. But nothing is quite so bonding as spending hours upon hours together packed inside a Chevrolet Traverse as they bring their film, a raw but hopeful portrait of addiction and recovery, out nationwide Friday, to independent movie theaters across the state.

A very Ohio road trip

In a lengthy interview with The Associated Press at the Cleveland Cinematheque, it becomes immediately clear that nothing is even remotely “Hollywood” about this tour.

There are no publicists, studio representatives or glam squads. One day, they all showed up to a regional news station wearing essentially the same thing (white T-shirts). Their “driver” is one of the film’s producers. They’ve made stops at family homes, including Deao’s 185-year-old renovated barn, Meeks’ uncle’s garage where he’d been storing various props and costumes from the movie “just in case.” And they're serious about finding Ohio’s best cuisine, counting Hoyo’s Kitchen, a Somali food stall inside Columbus’ North Market, as a particular highlight.

In the car, chosen primarily to accommodate two men who are over 6 feet tall, Deao supplied the snacks, a healthy smorgasbord of mandarin oranges, mangoes and coconut chocolate covered almonds. Meeks helped with the playlist (including Ohio’s own Afroman). And Poulter brought the sugar-free energy drinks, which Deao did not approve of.

“Will’s a bad influence,” laughed Meeks.

Seated together, the three seem more like relatives than temporary colleagues — they are light and jovial and excited by the response to the film from their screenings at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus and The Nightlight in Akron. The regional pride, Poulter said, has been palpable, not just for the fact that it was made locally but for how it represents the human element of the opioid crisis.

The real drug court behind ‘Union County’

“When it comes to this subject matter, sometimes there’s a tendency to sort of pair the subject of devastation and tragedy with visuals that match. You look for bleak winters and depressed landscapes,” Poulter said. “This film really celebrates the beauty of both the people in the community and the natural beauty of the place.”

“Union County” was made with the help of the recovery community: Many of the faces you see on screen are not even actors — they’re participants in the program, telling authentic stories of progress, setbacks and everything in between in real court sessions (participation was voluntary). Deao and Logan County Common Pleas Judge Kevin P. Braig play versions of themselves too. The main narrative is fictionalized, about foster brothers Cody (Poulter) and Jack ( Noah Centineo ) and their trials through recovery, but it’s also based on real stories from people Meeks met through Deao.

Poulter, who played a pharmaceutical sales representative in the acclaimed miniseries “Dopesick” just a few years prior, was interested in exploring the crisis from another vantage point, one in which recovery is achievable. He was moved by this program that, he said, was “characterized by so much humanity and dignity and celebration and positivity and hope and all of these things that cut against the grain of the stigma that still exists.”

By emphasizing successful recovery, Poulter said the film offers “something of a counternarrative to how addiction is often made the subject matter in TV shows and films.”

The story of the film began in the summer of 2017, when Meeks had gone back to the place he was born for a stay with his extended family; his family had moved away when he was 6. Upon returning, he was struck by how addiction had touched nearly everyone in some way.

“I was kind of like falling in love with this place while also kind of seeing the sort of circumstances at the time for what they were,” Meeks said.

The counselor turned breakout movie star

In a quest to learn more about regional recovery efforts, his uncle introduced him to a judge at the adult recovery court; Meeks was moved by the session he sat in on, but the story for the short and feature films really opened up after he met and got to know Deao, who has been working with addicts through the drug court program for over 20 years.

“People want to know about what it was like to try to earn the trust of the participants and convince people to be a part of it or something and so much of it was this kind of baseline trust that people had in Annette and the decisions that she made and the space that she created,” Meeks said. “There was a lot of like, ‘If you’re a friend of Annette’s, you’re a friend of ours.’”

Deao was also, it turns out, a good actor.

“At the end of filming on the short, Adam came to me and says, ‘You know, I thought you’d be good, but I really didn’t think you’d be that good,’” Deao said. “And then I said, ‘Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that I studied theater and music.’ He just about fell over.”

At several screenings, it’s been Deao who received the most applause, which was only a surprise to her. It also, Meeks said, makes her turn “bright red” every time.

“Annette is the heart and soul of the community with whom we made this film, but she’s also the heart and the soul of our film,” Poulter said. “It’s amazing to see her get the response that she gets and couldn’t be more deserving … There’s really no overstating what an amazing contribution she makes, not just to our film but daily to the community she works in.”

Mostly, Deao is just happy that they seem to have gotten it right.

“Everyone has been so generous and so kind and so encouraging that we got it right,” she said. “I just haven’t had one feeling at all that we missed something, that it wasn’t presented right.”

And they’re all already getting a little wistful about the end of the road trip.

“I have not laughed this much in years,” Deao said. “This has been so healing for me.”

After a brief stop in the projector booth, the group was off again — not to go back to their hotel rooms to spend time alone before another Q&A — but to have dinner, together, again.

Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.

Three Pakistanis among the dead in Houthi attack on ship

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday condemned the attack by Houthi rebels on the ship in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, saying three Pakistanis had been killed in the attack and another wounded. A total of six people were killed in the attack on Tuesday.

“Such attacks endanger innocent lives, constitute a violation of international law, and pose a serious threat to freedom of navigation, maritime security, and the safety of commercial shipping in the Red Sea,” Dar said in a post on X.

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut down by Iran and a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports, there has been a renewed focus on the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb strait at Yemen’s southern tip, which is an alternate route for Saudi Arabia to ship its oil.

The attack came as part of a growing number of Houthi strikes against government forces in Yemen and oil facilities in neighboring Saudi Arabia, which supports the Yemeni government, and the kingdom’s shipping in the Red Sea.

Many of the attacks have been focused on the government-held port city of Mokha on the Red Sea. Overall, dozens of government troops and civilians have been killed in attacks since last week, according to Yemen's military.

Fears are growing that the renewed violence could reignite Yemen’s civil war following a 2022 truce, and open a new front in the Middle East war.

Pakistan presses to defuse tensions between US and Iran

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar met Iranian Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam in Islamabad on Wednesday as Pakistan seeks to resume peace negotiations between Iran and the U.S.

Their meeting came a day after Pakistan sent Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to Tehran for talks with Iran’s top leaders.

An interim deal to end the fighting reached in mid-June is set to expire Monday. The ceasefire collapsed last month as the U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes over more than two weeks before pausing.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi told reporters Wednesday the June deal remains valid and the deadline could be extended.

“We are not closing the chapter,” Andrabi said.

Talks have bogged down over Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-fifth of the world's traded oil supplies passed before the war. Washington demands that Iran reopen the strait, while Tehran insists the U.S. must first end its blockade of Iranian ports and meet other conditions.

Turkey condemns Colombia's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights

Turkey condemned the decision by Colombia's new government, calling it a move to “legitimize Israel’s occupation” of the territory.

Colombia, shortly after the swearing-in of conservative Abelardo de la Espriella as president on Friday, became just the second country to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which Israel captured during the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed in 1981.

The United States, during the first term of President Donald Trump, was the first, reversing more than a half-century of U.S. policy in the Middle East. De la Espriella, a Colombian-American citizen, received Trump’s backing during his election campaign.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Golan Heights are an "integral part of Syria” and said Colombia’s move constitutes “a grave violation of international law.”

The United Nations recognizes the territory as part of Syria.

The Turkish statement called on the international community to work toward ending Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights and other parts of southern Syria.

Israeli troops accused of destroying a Lebanese school building

Israeli forces occupying the village of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah in southern Lebanon also blew up buildings including a municipal building and a children’s nursery, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

The village’s municipal council called the destruction a “heinous crime.” There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

Zawtar al-Sharqiyah is adjacent to a newly implemented “pilot zone” from which Israeli forces are supposed to gradually withdraw and hand control to the Lebanese army in exchange for disarmament of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Lebanese officials have objected to the Israeli military’s ongoing detonation of homes and other buildings in southern Lebanon amid negotiations to expand the pilot zones.

The latest Israel-Hezbollah war began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets across the border, two days after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.

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Cutting-edge drones developed by Kyiv since Moscow's full-scale invasion over four years ago have repeatedly targeted Russian ships in the Black Sea, including warships and oil tankers.

Ukraine's air and sea drones have succeeded in limiting the movements of Russia’s once-dominant Black Sea navy, Kyiv officials say, in one of the country’s biggest accomplishments of the war.

But Ukrainian officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is bent on pressing ahead with the war, despite his bigger army’s slow and costly progress on the battlefield and U.S. diplomatic efforts to find a settlement.

Putin is planning “an additional rapid mobilization of several hundred thousand Russians by the end of the year,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday night on social media, citing Ukrainian intelligence reports.

Those reports have said recently that Russia is expanding production of ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones, both of which are hard for Ukrainian air defenses to counter.

Ukraine also is trying to scale up its weapons manufacturing through agreements with partner countries.

Russia shows no sign of a new mobilization

Neither Putin nor other senior Russian officials have hinted at a possible major call-up of forces to fight in Ukraine. Some officials have accused Kyiv of trying to rattle the Russian public with talk of a mobilization.

Russian lawmaker Andrei Gurulyov brushed off reports of a possible autumn mobilization. “It is the enemy deliberately spreading rumors about mobilization in order to destabilize the situation inside Russia,” he was quoted as saying by pro-Kremlin online outlet Tsargrad in comments published Monday.

After the widely unpopular partial mobilization of some 300,000 men four years ago, Russia has relied on volunteers attracted by relatively high pay. However, the decree declaring the partial mobilization that Putin signed in September 2022 is open-ended, allowing authorities to resume it if needed.

Ukraine says it hit Black Sea port infrastructure

The Ukrainian military “carried out a unique operation targeting the naval base in Novorossiysk — the last major stronghold of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea,” Zelenskyy said in a social media post Wednesday. The attack struck air defenses, piers and other port infrastructure, he added.

Wednesday’s strikes damaged two of Novorossiysk’s three grain terminals, with one of them halting operations, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported.

Russia relocated most of its naval ships to Novorossiysk after Ukrainian strikes on the base at Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula earlier in the war.

Hundreds of Ukrainian drones attacked Novorossiysk, Anapa and Gelendzhik and the Temryuk district of the region overnight, said Krasnodar Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev.

Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses downed more than 500 Ukrainian drones.

In Novorossiysk, an 8-year-old child was killed in the attack, and a person who was injured in the Temryuk region later died in the hospital, Kondratyev said. He added that 12 other people in the region were wounded.

Debris from downed drones fell on the grounds of four industrial plants and 21 residential buildings, Kondratyev said.

Struck Russian port is also a key oil hub

Novorossiysk also is home to the Grushovaya oil terminal, one of largest international hubs in southern Russia for petroleum products. No reports indicated it had been hit.

In February, the U.S. State Department expressed its displeasure about Ukraine’s attacks on Novorossiysk, saying they affected U.S. oil interests in ⁠Kazakhstan.

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium operates a pipeline from the Caspian coast in northwestern Kazakhstan to Novorossiysk. The pipeline handles much of the crude exports from three major Kazakh fields in which major U.S. energy companies, Chevron and ExxonMobil, have stakes.

With the militaries of European countries boarding and detaining sanctioned Russian oil tankers at sea, hurting the country’s trade and heaping economic pressure on Moscow, Putin on Wednesday threatened retaliation for what he termed “piracy.”

Speaking on a visit to a Russian warship taking part in a naval exercise in the Pacific, Putin said Western countries are breaking international maritime law by seizing ships they say are part of Moscow’s “ shadow fleet ” of sanctions-dodging merchant vessels.

“It’s nothing but piracy and robbery,” Putin said. “If this is done, we will be forced to respond in kind.”

On the Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, air defenses downed 115 Ukrainian drones over Sevastopol overnight, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the city’s Russian-installed head. He added that 10 apartment buildings and 25 private houses were damaged.

Russian drones kill 2 and destroy a shopping mall in Ukraine

Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 138 long-range drones as well as an unspecified number of missiles during the night, with damage recorded at 16 locations.

In the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, a large-scale Russian drone attack overnight killed two people and wounded two others, said regional head Oleksandr Prokudin.

The attacks also destroyed a shopping mall in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, according to authorities.

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The report, “Powering India’s Secondary Steel Transition,” found renewable electricity could reduce annual power costs by about 22 million to 24 million rupees ($250,000 to $275,000) per unit, or up to 34%.

The report was jointly produced by a consortium of environmental groups and industry bodies including the Confederation of Indian Industry, WWF-India, the nonprofit group Climate Catalyst and the think tank JMK Research.

Electricity accounts for up to 40% of operating costs for many small steel producers, making it one of the industry’s largest expenses. Profit margins at many of India’s smaller steel companies have been affected by rising fuel costs resulting from the Iran war.

India, the world’s most populous nation, is among the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases contributing to global warming.

The steel sector accounts for as much as 12% of India’s annual emissions. Decarbonizing the sector is essential to meet the country's goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2070.

Shifting to clean power also could help shield Indian steel companies from European carbon taxes that took effect at the start of this year.

“With rising pressure on all industries to reduce their carbon emissions, a high-emitting sector like steel has to look at ways to reduce emissions at the least cost possible,” said Prabhakar of JMK Research, one of the report’s authors, who uses only one name. “With the huge growth in renewables in India, shifting to renewable electricity is low-hanging fruit for reducing carbon pollution.”

Steel firms can save with joint clean power investments

The report found the most practical option for small steel producers is to jointly invest in and own a renewable energy project from which they can draw electricity based on their investment and electricity needs.

This approach lowers the upfront financial burden for individual companies and creates projects large enough to be commercially viable, the report said.

“A cluster-based approach can fundamentally change how small steelmakers access renewable energy,” Prabhakar said. “Aggregating demand through industrial associations makes projects more bankable, enables optimal plant sizing and reduces the investment risk borne by any single unit.”

Renewable energy adoption remains limited among India’s smaller and medium-sized steel companies despite the country’s clean power capacity tripling over the past decade. The report estimated only about 11% of smaller steelmakers use renewable power, compared with roughly 22% of India’s overall electricity mix.

Helping small and medium steelmakers access clean energy is essential to India's ambitious climate goals, said Vinoth Balakumar of the Confederation of Indian Industry.

“The companies are ready to change and have realized that, to maintain profits, they could try to shift to renewable electricity,” he said.

Low awareness, red tape and high costs slow clean power shift

Owners of small steel companies said they are willing to shift to clean power because many of their domestic and international customers prefer steel with a lower carbon footprint. But high costs, government regulations and, in some regions, a lack of awareness about the benefits of renewable electricity are slowing the transition.

“When capital costs are really high, it makes it less viable for smaller companies,” said Sanjay Tripathi, a steel company owner in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

In the western state of Gujarat, the country’s second-largest generator of renewable energy, steelmakers said inadequate transmission and grid infrastructure prevent them from using all the solar power they have invested in.

“We are being asked to reduce our solar power production by up to 80% at times by state government authorities,” said Dhirubai Patel, who owns a steel company in Rajkot, home to one of India’s largest steelmaking clusters in Gujarat.

Patel and several other steel manufacturers in the city invested in a solar power plant that began operating in 2021.

“Our request is for the government to invest in infrastructure and make it easier for us to do business. We have a lot of good policies, but there is a lack of cooperation from officials in many government departments,” Patel said. “They are still living in the old era and need a change in their mindset.”

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The country has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Asia despite its fairly restrictive gun laws. The two recent shootings, both in Nonthaburi province northwest of the capital Bangkok, have intensified calls for tighter controls on firearms.

A student opened fire at his high school and family home on Friday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 20 before apparently taking his own life, according to police. Three days later, a former lawmaker was arrested after a shooting at a government office that killed one person and injured another.

Government spokesperson Lalida Persvivatana said the government is working to strengthen gun regulations and crack down on illegal firearms.

The ultimate goal is “to find ways to remove guns from people’s daily lives as much as possible and make Thai society safer,” she said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul ordered an urgent review of gun regulations, including a suspension of new permits to purchase firearms and a review of existing permits, according to a statement from the Government House.

He also instructed the Interior Ministry to propose amendments to Thailand's gun control laws within 60 days. The changes are expected to bolster the collection of firearms data, tighten controls on the gun trade and increase penalties for offenders.

Penalties for unlawful possession of firearms in Thailand include prison terms of one to 10 years and fines of up to 20,000 baht ($600). While the licensing laws are strict, critics say there are weaknesses in enforcement.

The measures announced Tuesday include the immediate suspension of welfare gun programs, which allowed public officials, including civil servants, police and soldiers, local officials and lawmakers, to buy guns at a discount through government subsidies. Gun control experts say the poorly regulated resale of the guns contributed to their proliferation.

Thailand’s high rate of gun ownership is second only to Pakistan in Asia, and far surpasses its Southeast Asian neighbors.

Data collected in 2017 by the groups Small Arms Survey and GunPolicy.org found that Thai civilians owned about 15 guns per 100 people, compared with less than one per 100 people in neighboring Malaysia.

Thailand had 3.49 deaths by firearms per 100,000 people, according to 2023 statistics published by World Population Review. That puts it well behind parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, but it is relatively high in Asia. Only the Philippines is higher in Southeast Asia.

While mass shootings are still rare in Thailand, the country has seen an uptick in high-profile attacks in recent years.

Michael E. Picard, a security analyst who researches arms trafficking in Southeast Asia, told The Associated Press that he hasn't seen much evidence of the effectiveness of gun control measures enacted after previous mass killings in 2020 and 2022 that each left more than two dozen people dead.

In reaction to last week's school shootings, in which the gun used was reported to be legally registered to the shooter's grandfather, he said increasing safe storage requirements for gun licenses would be an important step.

More broadly, if bribes are paid to get a gun permit, corruption in the government agency that administers licenses needs to be rooted out, he said.

The welfare gun programs also need to be scrapped, Picard suggested, adding that "the government should buy back, safely store, or organize an amnesty for the millions of welfare guns out there."

La esperanza volvió a Pereira, una de las ciudades más afectadas, con el rescate de Daniela Largo la noche del martes tras más de 12 horas de labores. Los rescatistas lograron liberar uno de sus brazos, que había quedado atrapado, al abrir un pequeño orificio entre los escombros. Una vez establecieron contacto con Largo, un médico la canalizó y, tras estabilizarla, fue trasladada en camilla para recibir atención médica.

La devastación ha puesto a prueba al nuevo presidente de Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, y a su gobierno, que se apresuran a responder al desastre natural así como a la sociedad civil, que se moviliza para brindar ayuda a las comunidades vulnerables más afectadas por el terremoto.

De la Espriella manifestó el martes que el temblor de magnitud 7,4 se había cobrado la vida de al menos 181 personas y dejó a otras 2.595 heridas en el oeste del país. Apuntó que al menos 195 seguían desaparecidas, aunque las bases de datos gestionadas por la sociedad civil situaban esa cifra más cerca de 4.000.

Los equipos continuaron revisando los escombros durante la noche en Cali, Pereira, Manizales y Quibdó, las ciudades más golpeadas, mientras se agota el tiempo para encontrar —y rescatar— a víctimas con vida.

Las agencias de ayuda consideran que las primeras 48 a 72 horas son cruciales para sacar a los sobrevivientes, aunque ese umbral puede ampliarse si tienen acceso a comida y agua.

Ha habido escenas de alegría en medio de la devastación: rescatistas sacando a un bebé cubierto de polvo a través de una grieta en un muro de concreto y espectadores aplaudiendo mientras los equipos subían a una mujer a una camilla.

En muchas zonas la respuesta oficial a la tragedia se ha visto complicada por las crisis persistentes de pobreza y la actividad de grupos armados ilegales, que lleva décadas provocando desplazamientos forzosos.

“Este terremoto agrava una situación humanitaria ya grave y se necesita un mayor apoyo para la respuesta humanitaria”, afirmó Giovanni Rizzo, director del Consejo Noruego para Refugiados en Colombia.

Un acuerdo de paz de 2016 entre los rebeldes y el gobierno, además de un conflicto armado en curso, podría permitir que las organizaciones de ayuda distribuyan alimentos y otros materiales de emergencia con mayor rapidez, señaló María José Torres, coordinadora residente de Naciones Unidas en Colombia. Las organizaciones humanitarias ya están presentes en algunos lugares azotados por el conflicto debido al proceso de paz como en Chocó, el epicentro del sismo.

“Tenemos presencia sobre el terreno. Por lo tanto, nuestra capacidad de estar allí, presentes con la gente, creo que ha aumentado exponencialmente”, indicó Torres en un comunicado el martes.

Al mismo tiempo, la ayuda de otros países y de organizaciones sin fines de lucro extranjeras seguía llegando.

Estados Unidos ofreció más de 15 millones de dólares en ayuda y la presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, afirmó que su país está listo para enviar a cientos de rescatistas y sanitarios, toneladas de suministros médicos y otros equipos.

El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, anunció el martes que mandará dos aviones cargados con 100 toneladas de ayuda en los próximos días.

“Nuestras oraciones están con las familias de las víctimas, con los heridos y con todo el pueblo colombiano”, escribió Bukele en X.

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. futures are pointing higher before the release of key inflation data for July that could provide a better idea of where prices are heading.

Futures for the S&P 500 gained 0.3% Wednesday and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 0.1%. Nasdaq futures gained 0.7%.

Rising costs are being closely watched by the Federal Reserve as well as Republicans facing tough midterm elections and millions of Americans struggling with higher prices for everything from groceries to gasoline. Economists expect new data to show to show inflation slipped to 3.4% in July from 3.5% in June.

Cooler inflation could relieve pressure on the Fed to raise interest rates. Higher rates could curb inflation also would drag on the overall U.S. economy by making it more expensive for households and businesses to borrow money. Higher rates also would undercut prices for stocks and other investments.

Shares of cloud computing company CoreWeave surged more than 18% and Super Micro Computer's stock jumped nearly 9% before the market opened on strong quarterly results. CoreWeave more than doubled its revenue as customer demand accelerated in the second quarter. The strong earnings gave a boost to other companies involved in building the physical infrastructure of artificial intelligence data centers including Coherent Corp., Lumentum Holdings and Marvell Technology.

Oil prices are essentially flat Wednesday but sharply higher this week with the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the global oil supply runs, effectively shut down as fighting in Iran continues.

The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, rose 0.19% to $89.08 early Wednesday. U.S. benchmark crude oil ticked up 0.4% to $83.53.

U.S. gasoline prices also edged 2 cents higher over night to a national average of $4.04 per gallon, according to motor club AAA. That's 16 cents higher than at this point last month.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would seek compensation from Iran for the conflict after Tehran said it would seek payments from the U.S. before it opens the strait.

Meanwhile an attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait at Yemen's southern tip has raised concerns that the violence could reignite civil war and further threaten regional shipping routes.

“The renewed hostilities between the US and Iran suggest that a long-term reduction in shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is now the most likely scenario,” said Ben May, director of global macro research at Oxford Economics.

Treasury yields have jumped since the war with Iran because of higher oil prices and worries about inflation. That has sent long-term mortgage rates to their highest levels in a year.

In early European trading, Germany’s DAX rose 0.47% to 26,514.56, while the CAC 40 in Paris fell 0.12%, to 8,705.08. Asian trading was mixed.

The U.S. dollar slipped to 159.16 Japanese yen from 159.22 yen. The euro was down slightly at $1.1537.

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Walls also accomplished the feat on April 18, 2023, at Cincinnati.

The 30-year-old shortstop hit his first homer Tuesday left-handed in the fourth inning off Athletics starter Mason Barnett. Walls went deep as a right-handed hitter off reliever Brady Basso in the sixth, helping Tampa Bay win its eighth straight game.

Walls is the fifth player this season to homer from both sides of the plate, joining the Chicago White Sox’s Drew Romo, Colorado’s Willi Castro, Pittsburgh’s Bryan Reynolds, and Minnesota’s Josh Bell.

Hitting his first long ball of the season, Walls ended his personal home run drought at 105 regular-season games, dating to July 27, 2025.

Walls only has 24 home runs in 581 games in the majors, counting the playoffs.

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The 30-year-old Walls, whose homers were his first of the season, went 4 for 5 in his second two-homer game. He last went deep as a righty and lefty on April 18, 2023, against the Cincinnati Reds.

Walls hit his first homer of the season, a two-run shot to right-center, in the fourth. He added a solo shot in the sixth inning. The homers ended a 105-game regular-season drought dating to July 27, 2025.

Walls is the fifth player this season to homer from both sides of the plate, joining the White Sox’s Drew Romo, Colorado’s Willi Castro, Pittsburgh’s Bryan Reynolds, and Minnesota’s Josh Bell.

Martinez (12-3) struck out five, and allowed four runs on eight hits with a 101-pitch effort for his second career complete game. He previously worked an eight-inning complete-game with the Reds in 2024, but took the loss.

The AL East-leading Rays jumped out to an early lead off Junior Caminero’s 412-foot, two-run shot to center field in the first inning.

Caminero also scored in the third on Chandler Simpson’s sac-fly, but Liam Hicks was thrown out attempting to tag from first for a double play that ended the inning.

Yandy Diaz had a solo homer, Carson Williams had a three-run blast and Victor Mesa Jr. has a two-run shot for Tampa Bay, which banged out 11 hits in the win.

Lawrence Butler had a two-run homer for the Athletics in the fifth inning. Mason Barnett (1-3) took the loss, allowing six runs on five hits in four innings.

The Athletics' Jacob Wilson had his MLB-record 112-game errorless streak come to an end in the eighth on a throwing error.

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Ademi was just 9 when he last saw his father, Adem Ademi, a prominent surgeon who disappeared along with 22 other intellectuals in April 1999, just months before the end of the war. Some 1,600 people are still missing from the conflict, believed scattered in unmarked mass graves, and Ademi's family had endured years of anguish and disappointments at failed efforts to find his father's remains.

They are now cautiously optimistic because the newly found graves are near to where Ademi was last seen. Excavations near the village of Kalluder e Vogel in the northern municipality of Zubin Potok, started in late July after the discovery of human remains there. Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said that the authorities believe the victims could be the missing intellectuals, who allegedly were caught as they were trying to flee Kosovo to avoid being rounded up by Serb troops.

“Always, when we hear about the beginning of the excavations, there is a mixed feeling, a feeling of hope and a feeling of pain,” Ademi said. “No matter how many years pass, the feeling of pain will always exist … but at the same time there has always been hope, a feeling that finally the truth will be revealed.”

Kosovo’s missing include roughly 1,200 ethnic Albanians, around 400 ethnic Serbs and dozens of Roma, according to the Humanitarian Law Center rights group.

Some 13,000 people died in Kosovo's war, which saw ethnic Albanians launch a rebellion to gain independence from Serbia. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, which Belgrade still does not recognize.

Tensions still simmer. In May 2023, Serbia and Kosovo reached an agreement which included commitments by both sides to clarify the fate of the missing, but Kosovo and Serbia have accused each other of stalling efforts to work together.

“It is obvious that authorities are not willing to cooperate,” said Bekim Blakaj, from the Humanitarian Law Center.

The European Union wants Kosovo and Serbia to normalize ties in order to move forward in their plans to join the bloc.

Police in Kosovo said last month they arrested two ethnic Serbs on suspicion of war crimes in connection with the mass graves, several days before the latest excavations started. The two men remain in custody.

Several top Serbian political and military officials have been tried and convicted of war crimes in Kosovo at a U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

Erblin Ademi clutched the photo of his father holding him as a little boy.

“Every human being has the right to have a grave where they can be visited, where they can be honored, where they can be remembered,” Ademi said. “We are very hopeful that this will be the end, no matter how long the whole process will take, we will wait until we can honor them as they deserve.”

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The devastation has tested Colombia’s new President Abelardo de la Espriella and his government as it scrambles to respond to the natural disaster and civil society as it pushes to provide aid to the vulnerable communities most affected by the quake.

By Tuesday, de la Espriella said the 7.4 magnitude earthquake had killed at least 181 people and left 2,595 more injured in the west of the country. He said at least 195 remained missing, but civilian-run databases put that number closer to 4,000.

Teams continued to pick through the rubble overnight in the hardest-hit cities of Cali, Pereira, Manizales and Quibdo, as time ticked away for victims to be found — and rescued — alive.

Aid agencies consider the first 48 to 72 hours crucial for retrieving survivors, though that threshold can be extended if they have access to food and water.

There have been fleeting moments of hope amid the devastation: rescuers pulling a baby covered in dust through a hole in a concrete wall, and onlookers cheering as teams lifted a woman onto a stretcher.

In many areas, the official response to the disaster has been complicated by the ongoing crises of deep poverty and civil warfare that has forced displacement for decades.

“This earthquake compounds an already severe humanitarian situation, and there is a need for increased support for the humanitarian response,” said Giovanni Rizzo, Colombia director for the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Many aid organizations were already on the ground at the epicenter of the quake in Colombia, supporting a 2016 peace accord between the government and leftist rebels and responding to violence involving other armed groups that has persisted since then, particularly in Choco.

That presence allowed humanitarian workers to quickly pivot to disaster relief, said María José Torres, the U.N. resident coordinator in Colombia.

“We have a presence on the ground. Therefore, our ability to be there, present with the people, I think, has increased exponentially,” Torres said in a statement Tuesday.

At the same time, aid from other countries and nonprofits abroad continued to roll in.

The U.S. has offered over $15 million in aid and Mexico’s president said she is prepared to send hundreds of search and health workers, tons of health supplies and other equipment.

On Tuesday afternoon, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said his country would send two planes loaded with 100 tons of aid in the coming days.

“Our prayers are with the families of the victims, the wounded and all the Colombian people,” Bukele wrote on X.

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Drought conditions had forced Mohamed and her family to leave Saakoow, a town in the Middle Jubba region more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) away. They moved from village to village before arriving in Baidoa, now a major hub for people fleeing drought, insecurity and food shortages, on Aug. 3.

“We are very hungry and in a desperate situation,” Mohamed said. “We have nothing to eat and can only place our hope in God, as He is the one who sustains us through this ordeal that culminated in our trip.”

The family's journey is one example of a deepening humanitarian emergency in Somalia, where years of drought, conflict and economic pressures are pushing more families from rural communities into displacement camps as hunger rises and humanitarian funding shrinks.

About 2 million people are facing emergency levels of food insecurity, more than double the number recorded last year, according to Plan International, which has provided assistance to more than 200,000 people in Somalia this year. The humanitarian group and Somalia’s Disaster Management Agency are calling for increased international assistance, with concern that the crisis could be compounded by another climate shock later this year.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has projected a greater than 90% probability of El Nino conditions developing from mid-2026 and intensifying during Somalia’s October-to-December rainy season, bringing the severe risk of flooding.

Somalia is highly vulnerable to extreme weather and has experienced repeated cycles of prolonged drought followed by destructive flooding. The shocks have eroded livelihoods, displaced communities, contributed to disease outbreaks and worsened food insecurity.

In Baidoa, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing prolonged drought have gathered in sprawling displacement settlements on the outskirts of the city.

One of them, Habiba Adan, fled her settlement in Awdiinle in the Bay region after four consecutive years of drought destroyed crops and killed livestock. She eventually moved to Baidoa with her two older daughters and now lives in a displacement camp.

Adan would like to return home, but she said continuing drought and failed harvests there have left families with little prospect of rebuilding their lives.

“The drought we are experiencing has stretched for four consecutive years, and this year, most crops have again been decimated,” Adan said. “Farmers were only able to harvest enough to sow their fields for the next season, leaving our future bleak. Here in these camps, we lack food and essential support. We have no food, water, or money, and we sit idly.”

According to Plan International, the city is hosting about 1.6 million people, nearly half of them displaced. It says one in five families lacks reliable access to water, among the most immediate challenges facing displaced families. They are increasingly forced to buy trucked water at steep prices that many simply cannot afford.

Families have nothing left after years of drought

Reena Ghelani, the global CEO of Plan International, visited Baidoa last week, meeting drought-displaced families and visiting a malnutrition ward in the Bay region.

Ghelani said many of the families she met had tried to remain in their communities through successive years of drought, leaving only when their resources were exhausted.

Many fled “after waiting and waiting year after year of drought and just surviving,” Ghelani said. “And now they say there’s nothing left. They have no water. They have no stocks. The animals have died. There is literally nothing left anymore.”

She said rising prices are placing additional pressure on families already struggling to find enough food.

Children are suffering from malnutrition

Data released in May by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a global hunger monitoring system, showed that about half of children under 5 in Somalia were facing acute malnutrition.

Plan International, citing Save the Children, said the number of children receiving treatment for the most dangerous form of malnutrition in Baidoa had nearly tripled over six months.

Dr. Omar Abdikarin, a nutritionist in Baidoa, said patients are arriving for treatment from the Bay as well as the neighboring Bakool and Gedo regions.

“Malnutrition is prevalent in this region, and the majority of patients treated at this hospital suffer from malnourishment,” Abdikarin said.

The health risks extend beyond malnutrition. Ghelani said she encountered children affected by outbreaks of diphtheria, measles, malaria, cholera and acute diarrhea.

The prospect of heavy rainfall later this year presents a new threat to communities facing multiple crises. Intense rainfall and flooding could wash away homes and farmland, contaminate drinking water and force families to move again. Aid agencies warn that the expected El Nino conditions will compound the crisis for countless families before they have had time to recover from prolonged drought conditions.

For families arriving in Baidoa such as Mohamed's, the most urgent question is where to find clean water and food.

Mohamed said her husband had left for farms on the outskirts of the city, in search of work or something for their children to eat. A day after arriving in the city, she was still waiting to find out whether her husband would return with good news.

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The fire started about 4:15 a.m. while the Putri Yasmin ferry was en route from Padang Bai port in Bali to Lembar port on the neighboring island of Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara province, according to the search and rescue office in Mataram, the provincial capital.

The agency received an emergency report almost half an hour later and immediately deployed personnel and rescue vessels.

“Our top priority is the safety of all passengers and crew members,” said Muhammad Hariyadi, who heads the Mataram Search and Rescue Office.

Initial reports said the ferry was carrying 131 people, including 17 crew members, based on the ship’s manifest, when the fire broke out in the Lombok Strait. However, hours after the incident, officials said more people were aboard than listed. It is common in Indonesia for the number of passengers on a boat or ferry to differ from the manifest. The ferry was also transporting 44 vehicles and 53 motorcycles.

The National Search and Rescue Agency, or Basarnas, said rescuers evacuated 172 people from the burned vessel, including 2 Australian tourists, and recovered the body of a 19-year-old Indonesian girl.

Syamsurizal, head of the Lembar Port Authority, said at least two injured passengers were rushed to a nearby hospital.

“The response operation is ongoing, and authorities are continuing to account for all victims,” said Syamsurizal, who like many Indonesians uses a single name.

Hariyadi said the rescue effort was supported by Indonesian navy ships, patrol boats and rescue vessels, and a helicopter to make an aerial survey. He said rough seas with waves reported as high as 4 meters (13 feet) complicated rescue efforts.

Wednesday's incident happened less than two weeks after another Indonesian ferry, the Mutiara Sentosa 2, caught fire in waters off the main island of Java, leaving at least five people dead.

Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands where ferries are a common method of travel. Disasters occur regularly, with weak safety enforcement often blamed.

“There’s a part of me which says, ‘you didn’t write that,’” he recalls of composing his debut album, “Life Is a Dream.” “What’s it called? Impostor syndrome.”

Thankfully, it did not stop him from finishing the collection of 12 compositions he crafted over six decades.

Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and recorded at London's Alexandra Palace in April, it will be released by Decca Records on Aug. 21.

“My first love, or vocation really, is music,” said the 88-year-old actor. “That sounds very official, but I was raised with a lot of music (of the) postwar years, and it influenced me. And I started playing the piano when I was quite young.”

He picked up the instrument at 4 and began composing years later, writing his first piece, a waltz, in 1960. He was 22 at the time.

“I find more freedom with music,” he says, compared to acting, which he labels “a discipline, you have to know your stuff. But music for me is a freewheeling kind of art form.”

And he's had his fair share of experience. Prior to the release of “Life Is a Dream,” Hopkins had composed scores for a number of films.

“The opening of ‘Shadowlands’ is my first adventure in composing music,” he said, referring to the 1993 film he starred in as “The Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis. Then he composed for a few other movies, including 1996’s “August,” 2007’s “Slipstream” and 2020’s “Elyse.”

Hopkins' childhood informed ‘Life Is A Dream’

“It's about my childhood,” he says of the album, which shares its title with the Pedro Calderón de la Barca play. “It's basically the memories of my childhood and growing up in Wales, and my developments in life, my adolescent years,” and so on.

But he says “there’s a great sadness in it all because — don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a wonderful life — but underneath it all, there is the knowledge that life is one long goodbye. From the moment we’re born, we begin to die,” he starts to laugh. “Sounds so cheerful!”

That tension — or better put, wisdom — carries throughout the release. Take the first single as an example. “1947: Suite for Solo Piano and Orchestra: ll. Bracken Road” is the middle composition in a three-part suite about a particular summer in South Wales. He says it contains a “melancholy and sadness,” a sense that arises with its cello.

“It’s the welcomed sound of nostalgia, of the strange, whimsical pain of life,” he describes the song. “All music is actually based in pain. Sounds pretty preposterous, but it is. It’s about the yearning.”

The same can be said about the song “Stella Aria” — named after his wife, director and actor Stella Hopkins — that deals with “the loneliness in all of us,” he says, but is part of a path to “sheer happiness.”

Hopkins has been reflecting for quite some time now — both in his memoir, “We Did OK, Kid,” released last fall — and on this album. “I look at my own life now, and especially this year; I’m going to be 89 at the end of the year. And I look back and I’m thinking, ‘good God, I couldn’t have planned any of this.’ From the moment I decided to become an actor, 70 years ago, I thought … ‘Why did I do that?’ I didn’t know, because I was pretty useless in school? I didn’t know what else to do. So I tried for a scholarship, became an actor instead of a musician. And suddenly I’m given a huge plate of success by some force of nature.”

“I'm without fear of mortality,” he adds. “I'm just so grateful I’ve lived this long.”

How Bradley Cooper was instrumental in the album

In a surprising turn of events, actor Bradley Cooper “passed me on to Dudamel,” says Hopkins, after witnessing Hopkins' composition a few years before with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Seal. Dudamel was on board.

But when it came time to record at Alexandra Palace earlier this year, “I’m sitting there thinking, ‘How the hell did I write this?' I have no idea,” said Hopkins. “And Dudamel said, ‘This is wonderful.’ … He is one of the most astonishing people I’ve met. He’s so full of life and so full of energy and love, and it’s quite extraordinary.”

It's a shared affection.

“The same depth of imagination, humanity and emotional truth that has defined his extraordinary work on stage and screen is present in his music,” Dudamel said in a statement. “Anthony approaches music with the heart of a storyteller and the instincts of a poet, creating sound worlds that are both deeply personal and universally resonant.”

Live performance may be on the horizon

After his debut album, live performances may be next. Top of Hopkins' list is Carnegie Hall.

“That’s where I want to go. That’s what I want,” he says.

The 1947 film “Carnegie Hall” was a formative film for him, and he has the distinct memory of his mother saying, “You play at Carnegie Hall one day.”

It is yet another dream in a life full of them.

“Many families are finishing up that back-to-school checklist, and among those things is the medical checkup and assuring that their kids have their vaccines,” Michigan pediatrician Dr. Molly O’Shea said. “To put into question the safety or efficacy of these vaccines right now is really unfortunate and ill-conceived.”

The order, signed Monday, advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different single-disease shots and giving all childhood immunizations at separate appointments when possible. It also includes several changes to the childhood vaccine schedule already attempted by Trump’s health department but blocked by a federal judge. The department is run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who helped lead the anti-vaccine movement for years.

Trump repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder, even though decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link. He also strongly suggested that the MMR vaccine could be harmful or even deadly.

Dr. Paul Offit, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia vaccine researcher and former government adviser, said the recommendations by Trump and Kennedy “are just not science based,” and it’s irresponsible to cast doubt on a vaccine that protects against measles when the nation is facing its biggest epidemic in more than 30 years.

“The harm that it will cause is … to induce chaos and confusion into the system, so people aren’t sure what they’re supposed to do,” he said.

Trump’s order evokes fears

At one point before signing his executive order, Trump used the word “lethal” when talking about the current MMR vaccine, saying: “Together there could be a possibility they are quite lethal and separately, it looks like they are not at all lethal but just very effective.”

Doctors strongly rejected this characterization, saying the current combination vaccine has gone through rigorous studies and years of safety tracking — like other childhood vaccines — and has been shown to be very safe. The diseases they protect against are the far bigger risk, they said.

“The suggestion that separating the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines one from another has value is incorrect in both science and in immune response,” O’Shea said. “You actually get a better immune response giving them together. There’s no value in separating them.”

There are currently no separate vaccines for children against these diseases in the U.S., but Trump's order directs the health department to present a plan to offer them. Trump spokesperson Kush Desai has said that would give parents more options on timing and frequency, ultimately increasing vaccine uptake.

Doctors lamented that Trump revived debunked theories about vaccines and autism. Autism diagnoses have been rising for decades, with a recent count finding that an estimated 1 in 31 children in the U.S. have autism spectrum disorder. Scientists say that’s in part because the definition has broadened with expanded understanding of its wide range of traits and symptoms. There’s no single cause, they say, and genetic and environmental factors can play a role.

Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the potential link between childhood vaccines and autism has been studied in dozens of well-designed studies around the globe and there is “unequivocally” no link.

The fact Trump raised the issue, O’Shea said, “is really misguided and unfair to families.”

Competing vaccine schedules raise confusion

Trump’s comments and his order also cause confusion about which vaccines to give children and when, doctors said.

In the first year of Trump’s term, Kennedy set out to overhaul immunization guidance, firing a 17-member vaccine advisory committee and installing replacements who made the restrictive recommendations halted by a federal judge. Those recommendations call for injections against 11 diseases, with additional vaccines separately categorized for at-risk children or as available through “shared decision-making” with a doctor.

The pediatrics academy, meanwhile, continued to recommend vaccines to protect against 18 diseases in its 2026 immunization schedule. O’Shea said that schedule “has been very well designed, carefully constructed and thoughtfully put together to provide safety and protection just as the baby or young child’s immune system is ready to accept it.”

Doctors said insurance coverage shouldn’t be an issue. Medicaid and CHIP continue to cover the vaccines recommended before the current Trump administration took office. Through 2027, private health insurance plans generally will too, said Chris Regal of AHIP, the national health insurers’ trade association.

Doctors say vaccine hesitancy, and dangers to kids, could grow

With confusion and fear rising, Racine said pediatricians expect to answer more questions from parents.

But many doctors fear vaccine hesitancy may still keep increasing. Federal data shows U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates have been dropping, with the share of children with exemptions hitting an all-time high in the 2024-25 school year.

Experts said they worry about families skipping necessary vaccines for their children or spacing out shots, since a vaccine-preventable disease could strike between doctor visits.

“Parents deserve clear, evidence-based guidance about how to protect their children, not competing recommendations issued through political processes,” said Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases. “When families receive conflicting messages, confidence in vaccination suffers, and children ultimately bear the consequences.”

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Melissa Redway is a former teacher at Westminster Academy, the church’s private school at 5601 North Federal Highway, according to police.

“After sustaining an alleged brain injury, and not able to conduct her teaching duties, she was laid off,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Redway, of Coconut Creek, is also a former member of the choir at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church at 5555 North Federal Highway, according to police.

“During her time away and changing personnel, she lost her position. Redway did not accept the news well and attempted to rejoin the church choir,” a police officer wrote, according to the report.

A leader at the church reported Redway used Gmail to send a threatening e-mail at about 11 a.m. on Feb. 8 that raised concerns about the safety of a concert on Feb. 20 at the church, according to the report.

Court records show the church’s executive director had accused Redway of stalking violence after service on Feb. 19, and the case closed. A judge issued an arrest warrant on April 20 over the alleged threat.

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Redway on Monday, and corrections held her on Tuesday at the North Broward Bureau, according to inmate records.

Redway faced charges of threatening to throw, project, place, or discharge a destructive device, a second-degree felony, and writing and sending a threat to kill or injure someone, also a second-degree felony. Her bond was $7,500.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

The Reds rallied from three runs down in the eighth inning after White Sox starter Sean Burke allowed only one run on three hits in seven innings.

Sean Newcomb (1-3) took the loss. Brock Burke (5-4) picked up the win and Emilio Pagan recorded his 14th save with a perfect 10th.

Bryan Hudson gave up an RBI single to De La Cruz in the eighth and Tyler Stephenson drove in two runs with a basesloaded single off Grant Taylor to tie the score.

The White Sox drew 38,113, their ninth sellout, for a unique giveaway: team-branded papal-style hats in honor of Pope Leo XIV, a lifelong White Sox fan who attended Game 1 of the 2005 World Series as Father Robert Prevost. Sister Mary Jo Sobieck threw out the first pitch.

Brenton Doyle hit Nick Lodolo's first pitch 415 feet to deep center, his fourth career leadoff home run and the sixth for the White Sox this season. Edgar Quero and Miguel Vargas also hit solo home runs for the White Sox.

Burke scattered three hits over seven innings, allowing one run on Eugenio Suarez’s third homer in four games, his 17th. Burke, who has allowed two or fewer runs in eight of his last nine starts, struck out eight Tuesday, walking none.

Muneteka Murakami extended his on-base streak to 26 games with a double in the eighth.

Lodolo was activated off the injured list (blister) to make his first start since July 11. He gave up four runs on five hits in four innings.

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Mayor Bryan Calvo said he wants an expert to conduct a “comprehensive, independent review” of the facilities’ conditions and the city’s aquatics operations.

“When information came to my attention that raised additional questions about our aquatics operations, I made the decision to act immediately,” Calvo, 28, said in a statement released on Tuesday.

Before reopening, Calvo plans to correct the findings of the review and make renovations, according to the city’s statement’

“The condition of many of Hialeah’s aquatic and park facilities reflects years of deferred maintenance and neglect that this administration is now confronting head-on,” Calvo said, adding that he asked the commission “to help find us $5 million to renovate and modernize these facilities.”

The Miami Herald reported the closures followed the Florida Department of Health shutting down a newly reopened water park after finding violations that included a pool without chlorine.

Here is the list of the city’s pools:

• Babcock Pool at 430 East Seventh St.
• Bright Pool, at 760 East 35 St., has been closed and inoperable for the last 7 years, according to Julio Ligorria, a city official.
• Bucky Dent Water Park, at 2240 West 60 St., recently closed over permit issues after renovations.
• McDonald Water Park at 7505 West 12 Ave.
• Milander Aquatic Center at 4820 Palm Ave.
• Reid Pool, at 2245 West Seventh Court, has been closed and inoperable for the last 7 years, according to Ligorria.
• Walker Pool, at 880 West 29 St., has been closed and inoperable for the last 7 years, according to Ligorria.

Esta iniciativa fue solicitada por varios sectores productivos como una medida estructural para cambiar la imagen del país tras casi 20 años de gobiernos de izquierda.

El ministro de Economía y Finanzas Públicas, José Gabriel Espinoza, señaló que la propuesta busca generar seguridad y previsibilidad para los inversionistas, así como ordenar los incentivos y normas jurídicas dispersas.

La propuesta tiene tres pilares con los que se busca trazar el camino para los próximos 20 años, en los que se priorizarán “sectores como la logística, la inteligencia artificial, la economía digital, la innovación y energías alternativas, como es el caso del hidrógeno y la energía solar, además de los sectores donde nosotros ya tenemos desarrolladas nuestras capacidades productivas”, dijo el ministro.

De esta forma se busca dejar atrás el modelo económico de los gobiernos de izquierda anteriores que priorizaban la inversión estatal y que nacionalizaron el sector de hidrocarburos, la empresa de telecomunicaciones y empresas de electricidad, según los expertos.

Espinoza aseguró que desde hace casi 20 años se han venido “violentando los derechos de propiedad y los derechos que están preservados en la Constitución, sin asumir prácticamente ningún costo”.

Además, mencionó que se creará un “sistema de incentivos y de regulación que permita dar previsibilidad, seguridad, estabilidad y confianza al inversionista, sea nacional o extranjero” y que respete la Constitución Política del Estado.

Asimismo, anunció la creación de la Agencia Nacional de Inversiones, la cual coordinará con las instituciones y con los diferentes alcaldes y gobernadores para que “la regulación, la promoción y la estrategia de atracción de inversiones tengan un orden institucional lógico”, explicó el ministro.

El presidente de la Cámara Nacional de Industrias, Gonzalo Morales, dijo a la televisora Red Uno que para que Bolivia pueda “recuperar la confianza de los inversionistas, es fundamental garantizar seguridad jurídica y previsibilidad normativa”.

Según la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la nación andina recibió 620 millones de dólares en inversión extranjera directa en 2025, un 0,3% del total regional.

Paz tiene el desafío de negociar con la Asamblea Legislativa, la cual está fragmentada. El mandatario recientemente se alejó de su principal aliado, el empresario Samuel Doria Medina, quien lidera la Alianza Unidad, pero varios parlamentarios no lo siguieron, aunque sí adelantaron que fiscalizarán las medidas.

Medina criticó el retraso para atender la crisis económica que golpea al país, que se profundizó con los bloqueos y protestas antigubernamentales de más de 50 días entre mayo y junio. La crisis se refleja en el persistente problema de abastecimiento de combustible, principalmente de diésel.

Paz ha logrado apoyo internacional y créditos de organismos internacionales por más de 5.000 millones de dólares.

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Also on Tuesday, the country’s medical examiner’s office reported receiving 160 bodies of earthquake victims from the areas of Chocó, Caldas, Risaralda, and Valle del Cauca.

Shortly after 10:40 a.m. on Tuesday, there was a 3.8-magnitude earthquake. The epicenter was at San José del Palmar, a municipality in Chocó, according to the Colombian Geological Service.

Officials placed the cities of Pereira, Cali, Quibdó, Manizales, and Armenia, where most of the damage happened, on a red alert.

De La Espriella, who took office on Friday after a ceremony in Cali, was visiting Pereira on Tuesday after visiting Quibdó on Monday.

De La Espriella reported 66 buildings had collapsed. There was also damage at 807 educational centers, 377 community centers, 85 health centers, 74 roads, 16 aqueducts, and 14 bridges.

Officials released the names of 22 out of the 160 victims’ bodies identified: González Fernando Alonso, Arango Sandoval Catalina, Henao Marín Oscar De Jesús, Rodas Cuadros Lina María, Mejía Moreno Julián Andrés, Chica Montoya Sandra Patricia, Giraldo López Gilberto De Jesús, Cni-Jiménez Toquica Pilar, Moncada Aguirre Sergiña, González Gutiérrez María Araenzola, Franco Paola Andrea, González Guerrero Dargui, Acosta González Angela María, Toro Sánchez Juan Manuel, Largo Trejos Wilson, Ossa Hernández Luis Fernando, Díaz Díaz Pedro Nel, Daza Valencia Aracely, Ramirez Quiroz Roger David, Carvajal Posada Mabel Cristina, Correa Grueso Martha Patricia, and Rosero Pretel Carlos Alberto.

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Michael Capponi, GEM’s founder and president, said cash donations were more cost-efficient and allowed his team to buy food in Colombia.

GEM volunteers welcomed new camping gear, non-expired hygiene supplies, and first-aid kits from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1850 NW 84 Ave., in Doral.

For more information about how to donate to GEM’s efforts in Colombia, visit this page. For more information about volunteering for GEM, visit this page.

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According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded on Friday to the 200 block of S. Dixie Highway in Pompano Beach in reference to a fight between two men.

Investigators said the fight was between the suspect, identified as Isra‘el Wal’quer, and another man, allegedly over sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl.

According to an arrest form, the victim said the fight was due to Wal’quer trying to protect the girl from the other man, but during the course of their investigation, deputies discovered that Wal’quer and the teenage girl had been involved in a sexual relationship for several months.

The victim told deputies that she and Wal’quer had sex “on at least five separate occasions inside Wal’quer’s vehicle,” according to the arrest form.

Authorities said the victim disclosed that she told Wal’quer she was 18 years old and that he had claimed to be 20 years old.

Wal’quer is facing five charges of sex offense with a victim between the ages of 12 and 15. As of Tuesday evening, he was being held at the Paul Rein Detention Facility on a bond of $250,000.

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What prompted the tears, however has become a source of scrutiny and concern.

The Domingo family recorded the tense moments when the U.S. Border Patrol pulled them over Sunday afternoon.

Their 18-year-old daughter, who they said is a U.S. citizen, was behind the wheel and was told by the officer she didn’t do anything wrong, but the family says the officer scanned their license plate which showed the car was registered to a non-citizen.

Maria and Abraham Domingo stepped out of the car, complying with the officer’s orders.

The footage captured the couple hugging their family members during an emotional goodbye when they were separated from their five children and detained.

The Guatemalan Maya Center in Lake Worth Beach posted the video. Mariana Blanco is the director of operations for the nonprofit.

The organization has based in South Florida for more than thirty years and passionate about advocating for families like the Domingos.

“They were just making one last stop to buy some new shoes for the beginning of the school year, when they were racially profiled and detained,” she said. “I know that they’ve been on the legal process for years. They migrated here because of the Guatemalan genocide in the 80s and they’ve been here for over 20 years. They’ve established a family here.”

Blanco says emotional scenes like this one have become familiar, especially as the immigration crackdown ramps up.

“There’s no real way to win,” said Blanco. “I think it’s always the children that end up losing.”

A GoFundMe page was created to help the family financially.

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The next name on the list is Cristobal.

The system, which we first discussed in this newsletter almost 2 weeks ago, now has a high chance of development, most likely from Thursday into the weekend as it tracks west-northwestward in the general direction of the easternmost Caribbean islands.

Models are split on whether the system stays weak and tracks into the Caribbean or over parts of the Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by Sunday into Monday, or manages to thread a needle, curving north of the islands into the open central Atlantic while strengthening into early next week.

The majority of model solutions favor the weaker and southern track for now (near or through the easternmost Caribbean islands late this weekend into early next week), and given the blistering firehose of wind shear over the Caribbean, it’s unlikely the system would survive much into next week if it did develop.

Still, interests in the easternmost Caribbean – mainly from Martinique and Dominica northward to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico – should keep tabs on the forecast this week, primarily for locally heavy rains the system could bring.

While we don’t have intensity-specific guidance just yet on the system, none of our global models suggests a risk of significant strengthening this week and, if anything, this one has an uphill climb to becoming and staying a tropical system.

Interestingly, Google DeepMind – the best-in-class, AI-based modeling system that first sniffed this one out a few weeks ago – has backed off noticeably on development odds, with the latest run suggesting only 20% to 30% odds of the system clearing the formation hurdle east of the islands this week.

Needless to say, this isn’t a mainland U.S. concern, and there are plenty impediments that should knock it down if it even makes it past the islands in one piece.

Keeping an eye on the Hawaiian Islands for the weekend

A disturbance about 1,000 miles southeast of the Hawaiian Islands over the central Pacific – designated Invest 93C by the National Hurricane Center – is expected to develop into a named storm in the coming days and head toward the island chain for the weekend.

The first name of the Central Pacific hurricane season is Lala.

Models suggest Lala could be a strong tropical storm or even borderline hurricane as it approaches Hawai’i late Saturday into Sunday local time, with the possibility of it affecting multiple islands.

It doesn’t take as strong of a windstorm to cause problems across the state as it does back here on the mainland, so residents and visitors will want to closely monitor the forecasts in the days ahead.

The 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit western Colombia on Monday wreaked havoc, collapsing buildings, buckling roads, crushing cars and leaving devastated residents to console each other among the wreckage of their homes. Excavators and heavy machinery cleared heavy chunks of concrete, while buckets of rubble were passed hand-to-hand along a line of volunteers.

Rescue crews and volunteers picked through flattened concrete buildings in affected cities, searching for signs of life. They raised their hands to call for silence when they thought they heard someone beneath the piles of debris. At least one woman was retrieved — alive — from the rubble.

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella said the earthquake killed at least 181 people and left 2,595 more injured. He said at least 195 remained missing, but civilian-run databases suggest that number could be closer to 4,000.

Crews race to find survivors

Authorities said the deaths were concentrated in the cities of Cali, Pereira, Manizales and Quibdo, but local leaders and families worried about casualties and damage in rural areas, from where very little information has emerged. Aid agencies consider the first 48 to 72 hours crucial for retrieving people alive, though that threshold can be extended if they have access to food and water.

De la Espriella said more than 1,000 homes were destroyed and yet more damaged.

Standing near the remains of his brother’s collapsed apartment building in Pereira, Jairo Vargas said he made the 220-kilometer (135-mile) drive from Medellin, hoping to find him alive.

“I’m absolutely certain he’s here. Absolutely certain,” Vargas said, adding that his brother’s car was still parked outside. But he fears his sibling did not survive.

“The debris surrounding my brother is soft,” he said, as heavy machinery rumbled nearby. “It’s possible that it’s protecting him, but we can’t hear any noises anymore. I don’t know. I have little hope.”

Colombia’s new president faces his first serious challenge

The earthquake presents the first major test for first-time officeholder de la Espriella, who entered office just days before the natural disaster. The leader, who split the country in recent elections, now seeks to unite Colombia in its disaster response.

That challenge was particularly notable in Choco, the region at the quake’s epicenter. It is one of Colombia’s poorest and most neglected regions, often beset by warring armed groups. Much of Choco is accessible only by boat, through the jungle or by airplane.

Sterling Palacios, a religious and environmental leader in the region, said Choco’s capital and smaller communities along the Atrato River were devastated. Homes were reduced to rubble and aftershocks continued to rumble, terrifying residents who slept in the streets overnight.

The Colombian Geological Service said it has documented more than 100 less powerful aftershocks since the initial quake.

“There are towns where people have lost everything, where people have died, where homes have been destroyed,” he said. “We don’t have a full panorama of the damage, but we know it’s been massive.”

De la Espriella traveled to Quibdo in Choco on Monday night where he announced he was mobilizing “the entire military and police apparatus,” as well as deploying engineers, rescue workers and search dogs.

“Choco will never again be the ‘land of the forgotten,’” he said.

Palacios said the government’s response has so far been “concentrated in the capital,” and that authorities were flying the wounded from Quibdo to hospitals in the city of Medellín.

The biggest challenge, he said, remains towns in rural areas only reachable by boat — journeys that can take hours or days. That response is also complicated by a toxic slate of armed groups warring for control who, during the COVID-19 pandemic, blocked healthcare workers from traveling to remote areas.

“It’s a risk and it’s very difficult to predict” what could happen, he said, adding it could take weeks to fully assess the devastation.

Desperate residents seek news of their loved ones

Families posted information about missing loved ones on citizen-run websites.

Dana Carolina Zamora posted an image of her missing 60-year-old uncle, Miguel Ángel Zamora, cradling his dog. The farmer was living in a rural area of El Cairo, not far from the quake’s epicenter in San Jose Del Palmar.

Local authorities said 80% of El Cairo, a town of about 7,000 people, was damaged. Zamora said her uncle lived in a traditional house of sticks and mud.

“We are afraid. We hope that is not the case, that he is all right and that it is only a communication failure. But we haven’t heard anything from him,” Zamora said.

The earthquake left many people unnerved after back-to-back quakes devastated neighboring Venezuela in late June, destroying hundreds of buildings and killing more than 6,300 people.

Mónica Sánchez, who lives in Pereira, one of the worst-hit cities, said when the quake happened a wall collapsed inside her clothing factory. Sánchez and her 12 employees escaped just in time.

“It was shocking — the city fell down around us,” she said.

On Tuesday, rescue workers pulled a woman alive from the rubble. Diana Troncoso lay on a stretcher, dusty and scraped up, with her eyes closed. Observers burst into applause as she emerged, but search teams raised their hand to call for quiet so they could continue their search for survivors.

Pereira and Cali enforced curfews Monday night to prevent looting, and private vehicles were banned from the roads of Pereira so ambulances, police and rescue workers were able to navigate what’s left of the roads.

The U.S. State Department has announced it would provide $15.5 million for emergency shelter, food and other aid. Governments across Latin America have also lined up to help.

“This has been a tragedy for the whole city, for thousands of families,” Pereira Mayor Mauricio Salazar told local media, his voice quavering. “But here we are, and we will continue forward with the hand of God.”

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Suarez reported from Bogota, Colombia, and Janetsky reported from Mexico City. Associated Press reporter Manuel Rueda in Bogota contributed.

The vote took place during a hastily convened meeting of Luxon’s center-right National Party lawmakers at Parliament in Wellington, which was held behind closed doors and ran for more than three hours. Luxon then emerged flanked by his lawmakers to give a brief statement and departed without taking any questions from reporters.

“There was a confidence vote in my leadership this morning at our caucus meeting,” he said. “I had the full support of our caucus and our caucus is united and it is determined to win this election.”

Luxon didn’t say how many lawmakers had voted for him to continue in the job, although such ballots are usually a secret.

Hours later, he said in a statement that the vote was prompted by a leadership challenge from his defense minister, Chris Penk, adding that he had removed Penk from his ministerial portfolios. On Wednesday night, Luxon's office distributed a statement from Penk, in which the challenger said he would quit Parliament altogether.

It was Luxon's second confidence vote since April

The vote was the second Luxon had called about his own leadership since April and leaves lingering questions coming so close to the election scheduled for Nov. 7.

The April vote followed drops in polling for National, while this week’s followed recent public remarks Luxon had made on various issues that some in his party saw as gaffes.

On Tuesday, the leader took the rare step of disclosing on social media that he faced renewed rumblings about his leadership, and announcing he would call a meeting of his lawmakers Wednesday to resolve it.

“It is my firm belief that division and disunity are a major distraction only 90 days out from the election,” he wrote on X. “I also believe this distraction is unfair to the New Zealand people, and dedicated National Party candidates, supporters and volunteers, when there is so much at stake.”

National has led a right-wing coalition government since New Zealand’s 2023 election. Luxon, a former airline executive who entered Parliament in 2020, had led the party since 2021.

Defense minister launched showdown

Details of who had prompted the leadership rumblings at first remained a mystery.

Nobody publicly confirmed plans for a leadership bid or expressed intentions to oust their leader, and those whose names were reported speculatively by news outlets denied it.

Several hours after the vote, Luxon named Penk as his challenger and said his now former minister’s position was “untenable.”

Penk, 47, was also the minister for building and construction, and responsible for the security services and space portfolios. A former lawyer who served in Australia’s navy, Penk entered Parliament in 2017.

He didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday, but in the statement Luxon's office attributed to him, Penk said he had “reflected on my political future with my family tonight” and would not seek reelection in November, effectively ending his political career.

“I am proud of the progress I have contributed to as a Minister this term,” Penk's statement said. “However, I have decided it is the time for me to seek other opportunities to serve New Zealand.”

The statement did not criticize Luxon or reference his leadership bid.

Meanwhile, Luxon’s political opponents lambasted him and his party.

“Backstabbing and infighting just means more delay and more distraction for New Zealand,” said Chris Hipkins, the opposition leader and leader of the center-left Labour party. “If National can’t govern itself, how can New Zealanders trust it to govern the country?”

Luxon’s remarks in recent weeks prompted fresh speculation

Among the recent remarks that appeared to prompt renewed leadership murmurings were comments Luxon made to a business audience earlier this month, when he said some business leaders in the country had a “parent-child mentality” and too often looked to the government for direction. Luxon, who was once an executive at Unilever when he lived in the United States, has always sold himself as a business expert and has sometimes pointed out where he sees New Zealand as falling short of global trends.

When elected, he pledged to use his experience to reverse New Zealand’s economic woes of recent years. This month’s remarks were lambasted, including by some in his own party, as being out of touch while the economy remained sluggish.

He later apologized for the comments. In another episode, he was forced to divulge that he had used a military aircraft to return to Wellington after a political party fundraiser.

Luxon also surprised his lawmakers this month when he promised a referendum on New Zealand’s electoral system if reelected – apparently without first telling his caucus. The episodes were seen among some in his party as an unwelcome distraction ahead of the election and revealing of Luxon’s relative political inexperience.

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This version has corrected that Luxon entered Parliament in 2020, not 2000.

Antes de convertirse en una depresión, la tormenta tropical Chan-hom tocó tierra en el sur de la prefectura de Ibaraki a última hora del martes. Se encontraba frente a la costa norte de Kioto a última hora de la mañana del miércoles mientras se alejaba del país, informó la Agencia Meteorológica de Japón.

La tormenta tropical azotó Japón días después de que el tifón Dolphin causara estragos en partes del sur del país, paralizando el tráfico y obligando a cientos de personas a refugiarse.

Después de degradarse a tormenta, Dolphin se cobró la vida de 10 personas en Filipinas y provocó inundaciones en China que desplazaron a cientos de miles de habitantes.

La tormenta tropical Chan-hom dejó siete personas con heridas leves, incluidos dos hombres en la prefectura de Iwate, en el norte del país, cuatro mujeres en la prefectura de Ibaraki y un hombre en la vecina prefectura de Tochigi, según funcionarios.

En Tokio, los comercios, trenes de cercanías y vuelos operaban con normalidad el miércoles, pero la agencia meteorológica advirtió a los residentes del norte y el oeste del país sobre las altas probabilidades de fuertes lluvias y tormentas eléctricas a lo largo del día.

Para la tarde del miércoles, poco más de 1.000 hogares estaban sin electricidad en Ibaraki, Tochigi y la prefectura de Saitama, de acuerdo con TEPCO Power Grid, una disminución desde más de 22.000 a última hora del martes.

La tormenta derribó árboles en varios puntos de Tokio, incluido uno en la exclusiva zona comercial de Omotesando, aunque ninguna persona resultó herida, según la televisora pública NHK.

El meteoro afectó a muchos veraneantes durante la semana del feriado budista de “bon”, en el que se honra a los espíritus ancestrales.

Unos 60 vuelos con salida y llegada al Aeropuerto de Haneda, en Tokio, fueron cancelados el martes. En la prefectura de Ibaraki se cerró la popular playa de Oarai.

Hasta el martes, ninguna tormenta tropical o tifón había tocado tierra en Ibaraki desde que la agencia comenzó a llevar registros en 1951.

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He struck out the side on 13 pitches in the first inning for the first time as a Dodger. The Dodgers rallied to beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 in 10 innings, although Snell didn't figure in the decision.

“He was fantastic,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “I just liked the look in his eye and obviously talking about how good he feels physically. I give him a lot of credit for really attacking and not trying to be too fine.”

After striking out Nick Loftin to open the fourth, Snell gave up back-to-back singles to Bobby Witt Jr. and Jac Caglianone. Witt scored on Salvador Perez's sacrifice fly, tying the game 1-1.

“Everything was free and easy,” Roberts said. “Really electric stuff.”

Snell allowed one more hit — a double to Tyler Tolbert in the fifth — before leaving the game in the sixth with the score still tied. He gave up one run and three hits and struck out 10 while walking one.

“I think the biggest thing was just being aggressive. Be in the zone, attack. I know how good my stuff is, so I didn’t want to just be nibbling and then complaining like, ‘Oh, that’s a strike,’” he said. “To strike out the side was good, but it’s just keeping the pace, keeping the velo where I need it to be, feeling strong, those things matter a lot to me. To be able to do that for six innings and feel like I had more left, I’m excited about that.”

The two-time Cy Young Award winner had made just one start this season, giving up four runs and six hits in three innings against Atlanta on May 9 before going on the injured list four days later.

“Pretty frustrating to have that as my only start and then have to rehab, go through all that, to come back,” Snell said. "Just had a lot of information from that game that helped me with this one on what I wanted to do differently and how I wanted to start. Definitely happy that I was more aggressive, more in the zone and more just in control of my emotions first one back.”

Snell is one of three Dodgers pitchers to have had surgery for loose bodies this season. Closer Edwin Díaz had right elbow surgery in April and fellow two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal had left elbow surgery in May while with the Detroit Tigers. Both are back pitching.

“That’s the Snell that we’re used to seeing and hopefully we have him for the next two, three months for the long run,” said teammate Max Muncy, who had the winning single in the 10th.

For the third consecutive season, Snell is returning from an injury in the second half. The NL West-leading Dodgers are looking for him to quickly get back on track, with the team losing eight of 10 before winning Tuesday.

“When he's going well, he's not really thinking about his mechanics and he's got a rhythm,” Roberts said before the game. “When he's not and he's searching, the game kind of comes to a standstill.”

Roberts can easily tell when Snell is in command on the mound.

“There’s a little swagger," the manager said. "There’s a little kind of standing a little taller.”

Snell made three rehab starts for Triple-A Oklahoma City and another for Single-A Ontario, going 0-0 with a 3.09 ERA. He struck out 19 batters for a 14.7 strikeout-per-inning rate.

“Coming back from rehab and to kind of feel your way into the middle of a season is really difficult,” Roberts said.

The 33-year-old left-hander had a 2.35 ERA last season, his first with Los Angeles after signing a $182 million, five-year deal. He helped the Dodgers win a second straight World Series championship, with three wins and a 3.18 ERA in six postseason games, including eight scoreless innings in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series against the New York Mets.

In other moves Tuesday, the team transferred reliever Blake Treinen to the 60-day IL. The 38-year-old right-hander has been out since June 20 while recovering from elbow inflammation. Roberts said he has not experienced a setback.

Left-hander Charlie Barnes was sent down a day after he was added, but didn't appear in the series opener against the Royals. Barnes went 0-1 with a 6.30 ERA in four appearances for the Dodgers.

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On Tuesday, she finally lashed out.

The 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year and one of the original Fever players angrily defended herself after she was criticized for her response to DiJonai Carrington's flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham, and pleaded with people to focus on the sport and not the continual sideshows.

“The hate, the fearmongering, the divisiveness that’s trying to hijack our league will not win. It won’t win,” White said, her voice rising as she pounded the table in front of her. “We are united. We are connected. We will not be divided. Every day these women put their ass on the line. Every day when they go low, we go high. Love will win. Grace will win. Humility will win and kindness will win. I stand by them, I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go to hell.”

White left immediately after her 2 1/2-minute outburst ended without taking questions.

Indiana responded with one of its best halves of the season, shooting 59% from the field and 79% on 3-pointers on its way to a 106-92 victory over the New York Liberty. The Fever have won seven of their last nine despite being the focal point of so many controversies.

Fever All-Star Caitlin Clark wasn't surprised by how the Fever played or White's pregame reaction. She was more upset by the boos she heard during White's pregame introduction.

“I talked to Steph earlier in the day and you know I think we forget a lot of times, like, we're humans and she has feelings and there are moments that are really hard and sometimes that's the job we sign up for," Clark said. “At the same time, it's OK to feel those emotions and I told her I've been through the same thing.”

Clark added: "There was like no way we were losing this game. Like, that’s my head coach. Like, I hated that our fans booed her before the game. That made me a little sick to be honest.”

Carrington hit Cunningham in the head and neck area Saturday, knocking the Fever guard hard to the ground on a breakaway layup. Cunningham got up and charged toward Carrington but was restrained.

Carrington was assessed a Flagrant 2, an automatic ejection. The Chicago Sky player then wrote “WHITE PRIVILEGE” and tagged the Fever on a social media account. On Monday, Carrington said she never claimed the foul call was “white privilege.”

Cunningham has been outspoken about her desire to keep transgender women out of women's sports, a position that has spurred rallies in support of and opposed to her stance.

White initially said she thought the refs got the call right but that she didn't think that action near the head and neck area was intentional. Critics claimed she was defending Carrington.

"OK... The Indiana Fever need to let Stephanie White go,” Indiana Lieutenant Gov. Micah Beckwith wrote Sunday on X. “No solid coach would ever take the side of the opposing team’s player who committed a flagrant foul on one of your own players. Terrible coaching! The Fever need to defend their players.”

White explained Tuesday that she had not seen the replay when she first spoke with reporters Saturday and that she changed her opinion after watching it again. She called the foul “egregious.”

“Our players' success, our players' health and wellness, our players' safety is always a top priority,” she began, her voice rising. “One of the things I pride myself on is my relationships with my players. For those who have anything to say about the play in the last game, I didn’t see the replay. I went straight to a press conference, I thought the play got called right. Thankfully, Sophie is OK. Was it egregious? Absolutely.

"When you get a chance to see that on replay over and over, you see that. I didn’t see that in real time. I personally take any suggestions that I don’t 100% always have my players back. I ride with them 10 toes down all the time, all the time.”

Cunningham received a loud ovation when she entered Tuesday's game. She and White hugged after the game.

“I think there’s just been a lot of outside noise but our locker room is good,” Cunningham said. “We have each other’s backs. Coach loves us. So give her her flowers. She didn’t see the clip and that’s OK. Me and Steph are great, and Steph is great with all of us.”

White faced a similar controversy when Clark also was fouled hard earlier this season, prompting a letter from the U.S. House of Representatives to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert.

White and Clark also were involved in a sideline spat in late and there was speculation about White's job status following the incident.

Now White just wants everyone to get back to basketball.

“It's a shame we can't have an opportunity to talk about what great basketball they are playing,” White said with emphasis. “The reality is, with me, I will always lead with love. I will always lead with grace, I will always lead with humility. and I will always lead with integrity. It doesn't mean I'll always get it right. I'm human.”

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Company spokeswoman Shino Yamada confirmed Wednesday that Okuda had died but said the date and cause of his death were not immediately available. Major Japanese companies are on summer break this week.

Okuda served as president then chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. from 1995 through 2006. In his 45-year career at Toyota, Okuda is especially remembered for having led the development of the gas-electric hybrid Prius, introduced in 1997, a model with the fuel-efficient technology that was ground-breaking at that time.

The Prius became a symbol of the auto industry ’s push for green driving. Okuda was instrumental in helping drive Toyota’s reputation for fuel-efficiency at a time when gas prices were already surging, with models such as its bestseller Camry, as well as the hybrids.

Born in central Japan, the area where Toyota has its headquarters, Okuda graduated in 1955 from the prestigious Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, with a degree in business.

Reputedly outspoken and always ready with a quick laugh, Okuda was unusual in not being from Toyota’s founding Toyoda family, as the leadership at the world’s top automaker tended to be.

He was key in leading Toyota’s global expansion while at the helm, not only in sales, but also production, setting up manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Europe.

Okuda, a black belt in judo, was vocal about his concerns over the possible backlash that Toyota might face, as its growth meant the inevitable dethroning of the American so-called “Big Three,” General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, once synonymous for U.S. manufacturing grandeur.

He liked to emphasize how the auto industry was global and connected, using the term “harmony” to drive home that message.

Toyota and other Japanese automakers like Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. were raking in huge profits, while the Americans were sinking into losses. That helped ring in “Japan-bashing” sentiments starting in the 1980s.

As is still the case today, the cheap yen viewed as giving Toyota and the other Japanese manufacturers an unfair advantage. A cheap yen raises the value of overseas earnings when translated into yen.

Okuda was an adviser on Toyota’s board when Toyota added an American, Jim Press, to its board for the first time, in 2007.

He was also a proponent of promoting younger managers, when that was still relatively rare in Japanese corporate circles, although that usually meant empowering men in their 50s instead of their 60s.

“A company must change when things are going well. There’s no point in trying to change after things start going bad,” he told reporters in 2005.

That emphasis on staying nimble encapsulates Toyota’s basic principle of constantly improving, known as “kaizen,” which, along with just-in-time production, centering on the idea of avoiding huge inventory, is at the core of Toyota’s founding philosophies.

Okuda served as the head of major business lobbies such as the Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren; the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association; the Prime Minister’s Economic Strategy Council of Japan and the Japan Federation of Employers’ Associations.

Toyota did not immediately have details on surviving family. Funeral arrangements were being made by the family, and plans may be coming later on a more public formal ceremony, according to the company.

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The 38-year-old Curry is hoping to play at least a couple more years and has said he wants them to be with the Warriors. He is set to complete a $62.6 million extension he signed for the 2026-27 season in August 2024.

Whether a new contract will get done right away remains to be seen. Curry becomes eligible for a two-year extension Aug. 29, and general manager Mike Dunleavy said, “I'm pretty confident Steph will finish his career here.”

"Ultimately it’s his call, his decision, whether that’s allowing his contract to run out and move on,” Dunleavy said during a video call Tuesday. “Look, if he comes to me and wants to be moved, Joe (owner Joe Lacob) and I will talk it through. We wouldn’t love it. But he’s earned the right to do what he wants, do those things. But as far as the messaging or any idea that he would be anywhere else, that’s not a thing we’re looking at or he’s looking at.”

Curry averaged 26.6 points, 4.7 assists and 3.6 rebounds but was limited to 43 games last season for the Warriors, who will host Denver on Christmas night — playing on the holiday for the 14th straight year.

Closely monitoring his playing time will be a top priority as coach Steve Kerr returns for two more seasons after signing a new contract in May. Curry missed more than two months with a nagging right knee injury before he finally came back in early April.

He had initially hoped to return after the All-Star break.

“I think with the knee, other injuries and then his age, it's definitely something we have to manage,” Dunleavy said.

The Warriors (37-45) also dealt with season-ending knee injuries to Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody that required surgeries and finish 10th in the Western Conference. After beating the Los Angeles Clippers in the first play-in tournament game, Golden State lost 111-96 at Phoenix.

The Warriors missed out on signing LeBron James this offseason but brought back Draymond Green on a one-year contract for $27.7 million, and also Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford and Gary Payton II.

Dunleavy hasn't heard any change of thinking from Curry, who is headed into his 18th NBA season still determined to add to his four championships with Golden State. The Warriors last won in 2022.

“That’s always been what he’s discussed. I think that’s tracking quite well,” Dunleavy said of Curry staying put.

“There's two things I’m confident about with Steph. He really, really wants to win and he wants to finish his career as a Warrior. I don’t think that changes tomorrow, Aug. 29th, the start of the season, middle of the season, the end of next season. I think those things are going to be consistent.”

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He would watch Philadelphia 76ers games in the 1960s, and probably unlike most kids growing up in that area around that time he had no aspirations of becoming the next Wilt Chamberlain or Billy Cunningham.

Crawford was the son of a baseball umpire — Shag Crawford worked in the National League for about 20 years. And that's why, when watching basketball, Joey Crawford was drawn to the referees. It was the family business.

“My father was a pro and he would be pointing out Mendy Rudolph, Richie Powers, Earl Strom," Crawford said, referring to some of the game's most prominent referees of that era. “I’d just be watching them. And my father, he's hitting me with the sledgehammer: ‘You’re not gonna play professional baseball, you're not gonna play professional baseball.' He wasn’t going to let me be that guy. So, I just earmarked refereeing.”

He was 13 years old. His mind was made up. Refereeing would be his path.

Little did he know it would take him to the Hall of Fame.

More than a decade after his final NBA game, Crawford is getting enshrined in this year's Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class. The Hall is reserved for the best of the best, the elite, and for referees the club is especially elite — with fewer than two dozen people getting enshrined because of their work with whistles.

“With Joey, especially if you were away from home, you had a chance to win,” said longtime NBA coach Mike D'Antoni, another member of the Hall's Class of 2026. “He was going to call the game the way it should be called, whether it’s home or away.”

Crawford's numbers are legendary: He officiated more than 2,500 regular-season games, nearly 400 more in the postseason and 50 of those were in the NBA Finals. He was a lightning rod for critics, doesn't deny that he had issues with his temper particularly in his earlier years, and wound up becoming one of the game's most beloved figures.

And he became a bit of a showman along the way, unafraid to put a funny personality on display. Doc Rivers, who is going into the Hall as part of this class as well, loves the story of how he was tasked with guarding a rookie named Michael Jordan in a game that Crawford was officiating.

Rivers argued that Jordan traveled.

“You didn’t give me that call when I was a rookie,” Rivers told him.

Crawford's response: “You were not that good.”

“It shut me up completely. I had nothing else to say," Rivers said. “I thought Joey was fantastic about understanding the room and the person he was dealing with and how to get out of a situation.”

Crawford remembers his final game — Nov. 8, 2015, Cleveland beating Indiana — not because of anything that happened on the court before he limped off in the third quarter, his long-problematic knees leaving him unable to finish, but rather for what happened in the referee locker room afterward.

“It was my last game. I knew it. Blew my leg out. And I knew I wasn’t going to ref again," Crawford said. “Richard Jefferson was on the Cavs. He knocked on the door and asked security if he could come in.

"He looked at me and said, ‘You’re done, aren't you?' I said I was and he says, 'You know, a lot of people hate you. But I tell a lot these players, everybody should have a Joe Crawford experience.' Every time I tell the story, I start to well up, because you come to the realization that everybody doesn’t hate you. And I’ve given people reasons to. I look back on them and I’m not fond of those times.”

Crawford was charged in a 1998 tax scandal involving airline tickets that he and other referees were accused of selling and not reporting the income. He wound up resigning, only to be reinstated by then-Commissioner David Stern. And in 2007, Crawford had a now-infamous incident with San Antonio star Tim Duncan — calling two technicals on the Spurs legend for laughing from the bench. That got him suspended.

Crawford always wondered if those things would keep him out of the hall. He now has his answer.

“The game is about the players," Crawford said. "I don’t care what anybody says, the players are the key to this. And I’m not taking the political line here. But if you’re a ref, which I am — I am a ref through and through — we know it's not about us. Our job is to get the play right. Technology has changed, the money has changed, but the job hasn't. But I hope, in my way, I helped make refereeing better.”

That's exactly what he did. Turns out, no backup plan was required.

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The depth chart is not set in stone. Teams are required by the NFL to release one, and the Dolphins have several position battles that will continue throughout the preseason.

Here are some of the biggest takeaways:

Caleb Douglas listed as starting wide receiver

Rookie Caleb Douglas is listed as a starting wide receiver after a strong training camp. Despite having a few drops throughout camp, the late third-round pick has shown explosiveness and toughness across the middle while emerging as a dependable target for quarterback Malik Willis.

Douglas has consistently made plays during camp and is currently listed ahead of veterans Tutu Atwell, Terrace Marshall Jr. and Theo Wease Jr.

Douglas joins Malik Washington as a starting receiver. Washington has also flashed big-play potential and has often been called “WR1″ throughout camp.

Trey Moore earns starting linebacker spot

Rookie Trey Moore, a fourth-round pick out of Texas, is listed as a first-team inside linebacker and the third linebacker in Miami’s base 4-3 defense.

Moore was selected 130th overall and brings versatility after playing as an edge rusher in college. He ran a 4.54-second 40-yard dash at the NFL scouting combine and has been praised for his explosiveness, leverage and pass-rushing ability.

While Moore is listed as a starter, the depth chart also lists Tyrel Dodson or Jacob Rodriguez at inside linebacker.

Rodriguez, Miami’s second-round pick out of Texas Tech, is competing with Dodson for the starting Mike linebacker role. Rodriguez’s position is different from Moore’s, making this another position battle to monitor during the preseason.

Chris Johnson listed as starting nickel corner

First-round cornerback Chris Johnson is listed as the starting nickel corner, with Jason Marshall Jr. and JuJu Brents listed on the outside.

Johnson’s placement inside is notable as Miami continues to determine how its young secondary will take shape.

Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips battling it out at second defensive tackle spot

The Dolphins also have a notable competition at defensive tackle, with Kenneth Grant listed as the starter alongside Jordan Phillips.

Grant, a first-round pick in 2025, is looking to prove he can live up to his draft status and play next to Zach Sieler.

RB2 battle: Jaylen Wright ahead of Ollie Gordon II

As of Tuesday, Jaylen Wright is listed as the Dolphins’ No. 2 running back ahead of Ollie Gordon II. De’Von Achane is the clear-cut No. 1 running back.

Gordon has shown good power and burst throughout camp but has a tendency to run a little high, opening himself up to fumbling, while Wright has displayed solid pass-catching ability and good vision in-between the tackles.

Wright received praise from center Aaron Brewer during training camp.

“You can see he’s matured much more,” said Brewer of Wright. “He’s trying to grind. He’s trying to make a name for himself.”

Malik Washington handling return duties

Washington is listed as Miami’s starting kick and punt returner.

That comes after special teams coordinator Chris Tabor indicated he plans to use Washington whenever possible. Washington has already shown his big-play ability as a receiver and now could have an expanded role on special teams.

Again, the depth chart is only a snapshot of where things stand entering the preseason. Miami’s first preseason game Friday against Washington will provide another opportunity for players competing for starting jobs and roster spots to make their case.

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

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- Caleb Douglas listed as a starting WR

- Tyrel Dodson OR Jacob Rodriguez listed as starting ILB

- Trey Moore starting at ILB

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Stewart canceled his Tuesday night performance at Rocket Arena in Cleveland shortly after postponing his Sunday concert in Cincinnati at Riverbend Music Center. The latter venue said at the time that it was due “to an unforeseen but minor medical procedure that required prompt attention.”

Stewart also canceled a few dates earlier this year, including two in Las Vegas and one in San Diego.

“Following further medical evaluation, Sir Rod Stewart has successfully undergone a routine coronary stent procedure. Doctors are pleased with his recovery, and Rod is doing very well and has returned to his normal daily activities,” a statement from his publicist read. “On the advice of his doctors, he will take the next four weeks to recuperate and regain full fitness before returning to the stage. Unfortunately, this means he will be unable to continue his current tour dates.”

It added that “information regarding affected performances will be communicated by the respective promoters and venues.”

Stewart, 81, was scheduled to appear through Sept. 3 in North America, including his six-night residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and a few dates in Mexico.

“I’m already feeling better and very much on the mend. I want to thank the doctors, nurses and everyone who has taken such wonderful care of me,” Stewart said in the statement. “I’m deeply disappointed to miss these shows and sorry to let my fans down, but I look forward to getting back on stage and having a good time with you all again soon.”

The Grammy Award-winning Stewart, whose signature rasp made him a rock ‘n’ roll legend, has sold millions of records across his career's many decades. Perhaps best known for hits like “Maggie May” and “Tonight’s the Night,” he has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice.

Tomorrow our rain chances will increase to 30%, especially in the afternoon as inland showers and thunderstorms develop. Temperatures will still reach the low 90s with a heat index of 105°-110°, which will likely spark another round of heat advisories. This pattern is expected to last through the end of the work week.

Romo, the network's lead NFL analyst, is on leave following his arrest last month in Wisconsin on suspicion of operating a vehicle while under the influence.

“It’s an evolving situation, and therefore we’re still assessing,” Berson said during a network event.

Berson also told reporters the decision to place Romo on indefinite leave was intended to shift attention toward the games and away from his legal situation.

“We we had to consider the impact on our image and on our brand. That’s very important to us. Whether the games, marketing, PR, social, the focus should and needs to be on our presentation and not on any other factors,” he said.

Analyst JJ Watt will join play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson on CBS Sports’ lead NFL team during Romo’s absence. Their first game will be on Sept. 13, when the Minnesota Vikings host the Green Bay Packers.

Watt joined CBS in 2023. He was an analyst on “The NFL Today” for two seasons before teaming with Ian Eagle on the network’s No. 2 crew beginning last season. Ross Tucker has been moved up to the No. 2 team. He has previously teamed with Eagle on radio broadcasts for Westwood One.

Romo, 46, has been the lead game analyst for CBS’ NFL coverage since 2017 after making four Pro Bowl appearances during a playing career that ran from 2004-16 and was spent entirely with Dallas.

He was arrested July 23 after he was stopped while driving south on Interstate 43 in Wisconsin. According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, Romo performed poorly on field sobriety tests before getting arrested, booked and released.

He has a court date set for Sept. 21.

Romo went to high school about 35 miles southwest of Milwaukee in Burlington, Wisconsin.

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The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different single-disease shots and administering all childhood immunizations at separate appointments whenever possible. It also directs the nation’s health department to improve research on vaccines, which are already extensively studied, and present a plan to offer separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for children, since that is not currently an option in the United States.

The renewed focus on vaccines marks a departure from the Trump administration’s recent efforts to emphasize less controversial health policies related to healthy eating, drug price negotiations and medical fraud crackdowns ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Public health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots as Trump suggests can lead to an increased risk that children become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. Childhood vaccines — and how and when to give them in combination — go through rigorous studies, and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used.

Trump called the announcement a “major victory for parents rights, religious and constitutional rights, and for the gold standard science.”

Speaking about the order at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder, even as scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link. The order also includes several changes to the childhood vaccine schedule that his health department has already attempted, but that have been blocked by a federal judge. A White House official who insisted on anonymity to brief reporters said Trump was within his right to provide his own recommendation through the executive order and said the lawsuit blocking the health department’s schedule was a separate issue.

Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the announcement spreads uncertainty, fear and confusion where “there doesn’t need to be any of that.” He disputed Trump’s recommendations and said previous ones should stand.

“Science about vaccines and their efficacy has not changed,” he said. “The distribution of viruses and other pathogens in our environment has not changed. Children in this country have not changed in the last 48 hours.”

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the Senate health committee, slammed the executive order in a social media post, saying vaccines are safe and do not cause autism.

“I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong,” the Louisiana senator wrote. “The President does not have the expertise to make these changes.”

Who is in charge of vaccine policy?

Even as the order calls for revised vaccine recommendations, states, not the federal government, have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren. The order advises states with school vaccine mandates to consider updating their laws to reflect the administration’s preferred schedule, according to a White House fact sheet.

Last December, Trump ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to review how peer nations approach vaccine recommendations and consider revising U.S. guidance accordingly. The department responded by cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child, a move that has since been blocked in court.

Changes to federal childhood vaccine recommendations customarily require approval from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The newly Senate-confirmed CDC director, Dr. Erica Schwartz, oversaw policies promoting vaccination of service members while in a leadership position at the U.S. Coast Guard.

However, public health law expert Lawrence Gostin at Georgetown University said the Supreme Court’s interpretation of Trump’s power may allow him to supersede Schwartz if she does not agree to new recommendations.

“This is clearly the first test for Dr. Erica Schwartz,” Gostin said in an email. “The President is placing her in an untenable position.”

Asked on a call with reporters why the president was advocating splitting MMR into three single-disease vaccines, the White House official did not provide any studies supporting the decision. They said that was Trump’s long-held view and that some countries provide individual measles vaccines in certain circumstances.

Kush Desai, a Trump spokesperson, told The Associated Press that the president is “one of countless parents who have voiced questions and concerns about the combined MMR vaccine” and said the plan to develop single-disease vaccines would “give parents more options on timing and frequency for their children,” ultimately increasing vaccine uptake.

Studies of babies and toddlers in the U.S. have shown that the use of combination shots for childhood vaccines, rather than single ones, increased the likelihood of completing all recommended vaccinations by the age of 2.

Announcement follows other Trump administration vaccine actions

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist before he entered politics, set out to overhaul immunization guidance at HHS in the first year of Trump’s term. He fired an entire 17-member vaccine advisory committee, installing replacements who made far more restrictive recommendations that have since been halted by a federal judge. He also personally directed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism, without supplying any new evidence to support the change.

Throughout his second term, Trump has been fixated on connecting autism to vaccines. He has recently ramped up pressure on Kennedy to identify the cause of autism, something Kennedy had pledged to do with new research unveiled last year. Trump publicly prodded the health secretary for an update on autism research in a Cabinet meeting last month.

“How are you doing on the autism research?” Trump asked.

“We will have an answer for you,” Kennedy said.

Scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link between childhood vaccines and autism. Racine reiterated that point on Monday, noting that the potential link had been studied in “over 40 methodologically well-designed studies in over seven countries involving over 5 million children.”

“I’m not sure that there is anything that has been as thoroughly looked at as this question,” he said. “And the answer is unequivocally no.”

In the Oval Office, Kennedy repeated his assertion that he believes an unknown environmental factor is to blame for rising autism diagnoses and said that his department will deliver research findings “as soon as they are ready.”

Monday’s order comes as students are returning to classrooms around the country and the nation contends with a measles outbreak that experts say could result in the U.S. losing its measles elimination status.

Doctors have raised concerns that Trump’s falsehoods on vaccines could stoke vaccine hesitancy. Federal data shows U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates have been dropping, with the share of children with exemptions rising to an all-time high in the 2024-25 school year.

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This story was first published on Aug. 10, 2026. It was published again on Aug. 11, 2026, to correct the name of the agency where Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. set out to overhaul immunization guidance. The agency was HHS, not DHS.

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Associated Press writers Laura Ungar and Mike Stobbe contributed to this report. Swenson reported from New York.

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“When I cook, when I go to bed at night, Geraldine took care of all of it — all of the cooking, paying the bills,” Francis said.

On Aug. 11, 2024, his wife, Geraldine, and his daughter, Lisa Jackson, were in South Florida from Bermuda to drop off his granddaughter, Kumani Jackson, at college when tragedy struck.

They were at the intersection of Northwest 27th Avenue and Sixth Street in unincorporated Broward when investigators said a speeding 19-year-old Gavin Dorvil slammed into them, killing Geraldine and Lisa.

Kumani suffered a brain injury and was in a coma for two months. She is still recovering to this day.

“Right now, you talk to her and she can’t remember what she did the prior day,” Francis said. “She’s progressed a lot since the hospital days. She could walk, and she could talk. She goes to therapy every day.”

The family hired Josiah Graham, of Graham Injury Firm in Fort Lauderdale, and filed a lawsuit against Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony.

“We allege that the Broward Sheriff’s Office was negligent in initiating and continuing this pursuit and that its actions contributed to the deaths of Geraldine Francis, Lisa Jackson, and the catastrophic injuries suffered by Kumani,” Graham said.

Graham shared surveillance video from a gas station showing the Tesla speeding and the BSO SUV and cruiser following behind seconds before the crash.

Deputies said Dorvil, of Lauderdale Lakes, was going more than 90 mph and ran a red light before crashing into the victims’ SUV.

Following the deadly crash, the Broward Sheriff’s Office initiated an internal affairs investigation. According to the report, deputies Mark Sugg and Nicholas Marciante saw Dorvil driving a white Tesla recklessly. They tried to get close enough to conduct a traffic stop. Video from the Tesla shows the patrol cruiser behind it.

Following the conclusion of the investigation, both deputies acknowledged they should have stopped after the driver failed to yield to a traffic stop, violating discretion policy.

While the discretion policy was violated, the pursuit policy was not. Both deputies were given disciplinary suspensions without pay.

Dorvil is still facing a slew of charges, including vehicular homicide.

“Cuando cocino, cuando me acuesto por la noche, Geraldine se encargaba de todo: de cocinar, de pagar las facturas”, dijo Francis.

El 11 de agosto de 2024, su esposa, Geraldine, y su hija, Lisa Jackson, se encontraban en el sur de Florida, procedentes de las Bermudas, para dejar a su nieta, Kumani Jackson, en la universidad cuando se produjo la tragedia.

Se encontraban en el cruce de la 27.ª Avenida Noroeste con la 6.ª Calle, en la zona no incorporada de Broward, cuando, según los investigadores, Gavin Dorvil, de 19 años, que circulaba a gran velocidad, se estrelló contra ellas, causando la muerte de Geraldine y Lisa.

Kumani sufrió una lesión cerebral y estuvo en coma durante dos meses. A día de hoy, sigue recuperándose.

“Ahora mismo, si hablas con ella, no recuerda lo que hizo el día anterior”, explicó Francis. “Ha progresado mucho desde que estuvo en el hospital. Ya puede caminar y hablar. Acude a terapia todos los días”.

La familia contrató a Josiah Graham, del bufete Graham Injury Firm de Fort Lauderdale, y presentó una demanda contra el sheriff de Broward, Gregory Tony.

“Alegamos que la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward fue negligente al iniciar y continuar esta persecución y que sus acciones contribuyeron a las muertes de Geraldine Francis y Lisa Jackson, así como a las lesiones catastróficas sufridas por Kumani”, afirmó Graham.

Graham mostró un vídeo de vigilancia de una gasolinera en el que se ve al Tesla circulando a gran velocidad y al todoterreno y al coche patrulla de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward siguiéndole de cerca segundos antes del accidente.

Los agentes afirmaron que Dorvil, de Lauderdale Lakes, circulaba a más de 90 mph y se saltó un semáforo en rojo antes de chocar contra el todoterreno de las víctimas.

Después del accidente mortal, la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward inició una investigación de asuntos internos. Según el informe, los agentes Mark Sugg y Nicholas Marciante vieron a Dorvil conduciendo un Tesla blanco de forma imprudente. Intentaron acercarse lo suficiente para realizar una parada de tráfico. Las imágenes del Tesla muestran el coche patrulla detrás de él.

Tras la conclusión de la investigación, ambos agentes reconocieron que deberían haberse detenido después de que el conductor no se detuviera ante la señal de alto, infringiendo así la política de discrecionalidad.

Aunque se infringió la política de discrecionalidad, no se infringió la política de persecución. Ambos agentes recibieron sanciones disciplinarias de suspensión sin sueldo.

Dorvil sigue enfrentándose a una serie de cargos, entre ellos el de homicidio imprudente con vehículo.

In the largest tent camp in the Venezuelan coastal state of La Guaira, hundreds live day to day, trying to meet their basic needs and sometimes unable to meet them.

Gabriel Colmenares, while holding his 3-month-old son, said the baby needs a cream for a rash on his back which he hasn’t been able to find.

Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez announced Monday afternoon that Venezuela would send humanitarian aid to Colombia, but at the sites of collapsed buildings, Venezuelans say they still need help.

Dr. Livys Quintero works at an emergency clinic set up by a collapse site.

She says it’s thanks to international aid that they have medical supplies, but is worried that the aid may slow down.

On the other side of the building, Valeria Alcala showed reporter Cody Weddle the hole where she thinks the bodies of her mother and stepfather are located.

New crews from Mexico were scheduled to arrive there on Wednesday, but they may now be diverted to Colombia.

Alcala said please don’t forget about us, but also please help Colombia.

It was a message repeated by many: please send aid quickly to Colombia, but please remember that Venezuelans continue to struggle as well.

State Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville, is a progressive lawmaker.

“Fighting for working families is not politics for me, it’s personal,” Nixon said in a campaign video.

Alex Vindman is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel.

“In a democracy, you decide who will stand for you — the patriot or the politician,” Vindman said in a campaign video.

Vindman moved to Florida with his wife and daughter three years ago. He was wounded in Iraq and received a Purple Heart. Within 24 hours of announcing his run for Senate in January, he raised a whopping $1.7 million. Since then, he has raised $19 million, even outraising Moody.

If Vindman’s name sounds familiar, in 2019, he appeared before Congress during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, testifying that the president had pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Following that testimony, his more than two-decade military career came to an end. Now he’s looking to serve in a different way.

“I’ve got a neat opportunity to take us in a different direction, to make life more affordable, lower costs and fight corruption,” Vindman said. “That’s such a huge driver of making life hard here in Florida.”

His campaign is promising to rekindle the American dream for Floridians, with a spotlight on affordability — from making sure buying a home is attainable to driving down health care costs.

“We are reversing the direction we’ve gone with health care costs. Critical. We can’t afford to do a trillion dollars in tax cuts to the billionaires and cut Affordable Care Act subsidies, cut Medicaid. That’s a looming cut,” Vindman said.

“I believe that government should work for the people and not against them, and so that’s why I’m running to become the next U.S. senator,” Nixon said.

Nixon is a six-year state lawmaker and a Florida native. She says she will fight to make life more affordable for all Floridians, saying the economy should work for everyone.

“We really need to work toward getting more affordable housing here in the state, as well as doing some rent stabilization, and we need to tackle this insurance crisis,” Nixon said.

Nixon’s campaign cornerstone is putting people over politics and profit.

“I understand how to work across the aisle. I understand how to hold people accountable because right now, there’s a lot of chaos and corruption happening,” Nixon said.

“I’m here to do what I’ve always done for 21 years in service: Be a fighter for Americans and people of Florida now,” Vindman said.

Sin embargo, lo que provocó el llanto se ha convertido en motivo de escrutinio y preocupación.

La familia Domingo grabó los tensos momentos en que la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos los detuvo el domingo por la tarde.

Su hija de 18 años, quien según ellos es ciudadana estadounidense, estaba al volante y el agente le dijo que no había hecho nada malo, pero la familia afirma que el agente escaneó la placa del vehículo, que mostró que el automóvil estaba registrado a nombre de una persona que no es ciudadana.

Maria y Abraham Domingo salieron del automóvil, cumpliendo las órdenes del agente.

Las imágenes captaron a la pareja abrazando a sus familiares durante una emotiva despedida cuando fueron separados de sus cinco hijos y detenidos.

El Guatemalan Maya Center en Lake Worth Beach publicó el video. Mariana Blanco es la directora de operaciones de la organización sin fines de lucro.

La organización tiene su sede en el sur de Florida desde hace más de treinta años y se dedica a defender a familias como la de los Domingo.

“Estaban haciendo una última parada para comprar unos zapatos nuevos para el comienzo del año escolar, cuando fueron objeto de perfilamiento racial y detenidos”, dijo. “Sé que han estado en el proceso legal durante años. Migraron aquí debido al genocidio guatemalteco en los años 80 y han estado aquí por más de 20 años. Han establecido una familia aquí”.

Blanco dice que escenas emocionales como esta se han vuelto familiares, especialmente a medida que aumenta la ofensiva contra la inmigración.

“No hay una manera real de ganar”, dijo Blanco. “Creo que siempre son los niños los que terminan perdiendo”.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday that Carmine Agnello began his 15-month prison term the previous day at the Federal Correctional Institution Fairton in southern New Jersey.

Agnello, who starred on “ Growing Up Gotti ” in the mid-2000s, was originally scheduled to report to prison in July. But U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury agreed to delay that until Sept. 18, saying it would allow enough time to recover from the surgery, presuming that happened by Aug. 10 as Agnello suggested

Agnello’s lawyers have said in court filings that Victoria Gotti, the daughter of the former head of New York’s Gambino crime family, suffers from chronic kidney disease.

On Monday, though, with no operation in sight, Choudhury ordered Agnello to surrender immediately to federal authorities.

“Because there is no concrete evidence that an organ transplant will be scheduled to take place at any time between today and Sept. 18, 2026, the request for another deferral of Mr. Agnello’s self-surrender is unjustified,” the judge said.

Agnello lawyer Robert Beltrani said in a letter that surgeons needed more time to set a date for the operation because Gotti was dealing with infections.

“It is undisputed that Carmine is a great match for Ms. Gotti,” he said. “He is simply asking the Court to allow him to remain available to his mother during this very limited period while her doctors determine whether and when she can proceed with transplant.”

Prosecutors objected, noting that a medical report attached to the defendant’s letter said doctors were working to “identify the etiology and the proper treatment” for Gotti’s recurring infections and no transplant could happen until they are fully treated.

“Clearly, the transplant surgery is not imminent,” said Joseph Nocella, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Nocella’s office declined to comment further, and lawyers for Agnello did not immediately respond to email messages. Nor did Gotti, an author and former columnist for the New York Post.

Agnello pleaded guilty in 2024 to wire fraud after prosecutors said he fraudulently obtained $1.1 million in loans from a federal program meant to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A resident of Long Island, he obtained the loans on behalf of his company, Crown Auto Parts & Recycling LLC, but lied about how many people it employed, his criminal record and his plans for the funds, prosecutors said.

The company ceased operations before Agnello applied for the loan, which he ultimately used on other ventures including a $420,000 investment in a cryptocurrency business, prosecutors said.

Agnello, now 40, was a teen when he and his brothers briefly rose to fame sporting gel-spiked hairdos on “Growing up Gotti,” which followed the family's life on Long Island.

His grandfather earned the nicknames “Teflon Don” and “Dapper Don” for his flamboyant style and ability to beat some of the criminal charges he faced over the years. He died in a Missouri federal prison in 2002 at age 61.

The New Jersey lockup where Agnello is now incarcerated has housed some notable inmates over the years.

Most recently disgraced former New York Congressman George Santos served less than three months of a more than seven-year sentence there before President Donald Trump granted him clemency last year.

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A Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report states that CCTV footage from Aug. 2 showed Rahul Pandey, 26, of Fort Lauderdale, along with a co-worker identified as a co-defendant, Deanza Hodge, walking out of the convention center with “two white bags contain(ing) New York strip steaks and beef tenderloins” worth $2,083.

The two, who work for an outside company managing the convention center, then loaded the steaks into Hodge’s vehicle, authorities said.

Deputies said a kitchen chef had inventoried the beef the day before the crime and then again on Thursday, noticing the steaks had vanished.

“During a post-Miranda interview, (Pandey) admitted that he knew the bag contained food belonging to his employer, although he claimed he did not know the specific type of food inside,” the report states, in part. “(He) further admitted that he knew removing the bag for Hodge was wrong.”

Pandey was arrested on Monday and is facing a grand theft charge. Hodge did not appear in county court or jail records as of Tuesday.

Trump downplayed the extraordinary nature of the subterfuge involved in his flight, which saw him stow away in an airport catering container to sneak onto another plane while Air Force One was sent into the sky, essentially as a decoy.

He also downplayed the risk to the people — White House officials, security and support staff, and reporters — he left on the plane.

“They wanted me to go on a different flight, different plane," Trump told reporters after returning from an event in Ohio, saying he had little choice in the matter.

“I guess there was a threat out there. I didn't really ask too much about it,” he said. “I get a lot of threats.”

His comments confirmed a report that first appeared in The Washington Post saying that Trump, following a NATO summit last month, was spirited onto a different plane because of a credible threat from Iran. The action was kept secret for weeks, until the newspaper's story.

“I think actually the plane that I flew on was at greater risk," Trump said Tuesday, who did not provide many details about the action. But he said the incident did not scare him.

“I don’t worry about anything, to be honest," Trump said. "Whatever it is. You know my attitude? Whatever!”

Presidents often take secret trips — but not like this

Commanders in chief have sometimes kept overseas trips covert for security reasons, with schedules and logistics kept classified until after for safety reasons. But the fact that Trump’s whereabouts were concealed at the time and for weeks afterward is believed to be unprecedented.

“We have absolutely seen the president fly on unmarked or decoy planes before, into Iraq, Afghanistan, other war-zone-like places,” said Garrett M. Graff, author of “Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die.”

“But this was an ongoing secret that I don’t think we’ve ever seen before.”

After hiding in the catering vehicle and being moved to the other plane, Trump stopped in Britain, sneaked back aboard the presidential plane undetected, and even later scoffed when asked about potential danger.

“If I go, you go. Right?” he told reporters then — gliding past the fact that if the plane had been shot down, the president wouldn't have been aboard.

Many details about what happened remain unknown

The president's flight out of Turkey made headlines at the time because he had arrived aboard a luxury jet gifted by Qatar, which was not equipped with some of the same missile detection and countermeasure systems found on older presidential jets.

Trump ended up traveling in a smaller government aircraft from Turkey to the United Kingdom, only to secretly reboard the decoy jet, then descend from it and climb back aboard the Qatari plane.

Presidents have regularly tested the confines of their office, pushing their security advisers to visit war zones as a show of American presence and their own leadership. Usually, this happens in the form of trips that aren't announced until the president is deemed to be out of harm's way.

What’s different this time is that Trump was covertly separated from the rest of his travelers — including the press pool meant to provide independent coverage of the president and his actions — and, instead of informing the public about what occurred once the risk had passed, the White House still hasn't fully revealed what took place.

Graff said the presence of the White House press corps is as much about protecting “the presidency and democracy” as it is about covering the story.

“This shows that the White House just fundamentally doesn’t understand how important that role is,” he said.

Officials have gone to great lengths to keep presidents safe on covert trips before

In 2023, a motorcade pulled away from the White House around 3:30 a.m. on a Sunday, and President Joe Biden later boarded an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757 normally used for domestic trips to smaller airports, and flew to Poland. Biden then took a secret, 10-hour overnight train ride to Kyiv meant to show solidarity with Ukraine after Russia’s invasion.

A press pool at the White House had been expecting a quiet Sunday for Biden in Washington. However, two journalists went to Ukraine with him and documented the trip, capturing images of Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walking together.

In Trump's first term, he made a secret Thanksgiving trip to Afghanistan in 2019, when officials kept a separate press pool and decoy plane in Florida to maintain the illusion that the president was spending the holiday at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Instead, Trump and another group of reporters flew to the U.S. military base at Bagram, where the president served turkey to troops, gave a speech and met with Afghanistan's then-president, Ashraf Ghani, while journalists documented what was occurring.

When President George W. Bush made his first trip to Iraq in 2003, news was not released until he was in the air on the way back to the United States. President Barack Obama made a furtive nighttime visit to Afghanistan in 2010, when he was meant to be spending the weekend at Camp David.

Other risky trips featured presidential misdirection

President Bill Clinton went secretly from India to Pakistan in 2000, attempting to calm tensions in the disputed Kashmir region. He was seen talking with officials in front of a military plane that he appeared to board. Instead, Clinton ducked around the front of the aircraft to another jet parked nearby.

Both planes took off for Islamabad, as did a third jet painted with the familiar baby blue markings of Air Force One.

Joe Lockhart, a White House press secretary for Clinton, noted that reporters knew the president was on one of the planes, “but not which one.” He said he and other officials had briefed the press pool ahead of time and “although they didn’t know all the details, it was made clear” that Clinton “was not going to travel on the plane they were on.

“There was no attempt to hide anything, much less lie about it later,” Lockhart wrote on social media.

Bush was visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida, during the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, and, after all commercial air traffic was grounded, officials wanted to move him to an undisclosed location.

The full White House traveling press pool flew with Bush from Florida to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, where officials reduced the number of reporters and staff on the plane. Bush and the smaller traveling party next flew to Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base before eventually returning to Washington.

Bush's location remained secret throughout the day. However, the White House did not suggest that the president was somewhere he was not — unlike when Trump was whisked out of Turkey.

“You can imagine the different ways that this could have gone wrong, where, for a period of time, no one would have been able to independently corroborate the status of the U.S. president, or who was in charge of the U.S. government,” Graff said. “And that’s an incredibly dangerous moment for the world.”

Un informe de detención de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward indica que las imágenes de las cámaras de seguridad del 2 de agosto mostraban a Rahul Pandey, de 26 años, de Fort Lauderdale, junto con un compañero de trabajo identificado como coacusado, Deanza Hodge, saliendo del centro de convenciones con “dos bolsas blancas que contenían filetes de lomo de Nueva York y solomillos de ternera” por valor de 2,083 dólares.

Los dos, que trabajan para una empresa externa encargada de la gestión del centro de convenciones, cargaron a continuación los filetes en el vehículo de Hodge, según las autoridades.

Los agentes indicaron que un chef de la cocina había hecho inventario de la carne el día anterior al delito y de nuevo el jueves, y se percató de que los filetes habían desaparecido.

“Durante un interrogatorio tras la lectura de sus derechos, (Pandey) admitió que sabía que la bolsa contenía alimentos pertenecientes a su empleador, aunque afirmó que no sabía qué tipo de alimentos había exactamente en su interior”, reza el informe, en parte. “(Él) admitió además que sabía que llevarse la bolsa para Hodge estaba mal”.

Pandey fue detenido el lunes y se enfrenta a un cargo por hurto mayor. Hodge no figuraba en los registros del juzgado del condado ni en los de la cárcel hasta el martes.

Tacoma police said the rescue began during a welfare check Thursday.

They said officers removed about 30 cats from the boat but continued to hear animals moving behind panels and furniture that could not be easily removed.

Animal control officers returned Monday to search below deck for additional cats. By noon, 21 more had been found.

The unusual rescue also drew help from two local joggers who spotted a cat in the water Sunday morning.

Ashton Efforts and his friend Jesse McConaugher were out for their weekly Sunday morning run when they saw the animal struggling in the water.

“All I said was, ‘Are we going to do something about it?’ And I started stripping and jumped down,” Efforts said.

The water was cold, and the cat scratched Efforts during the rescue. He said the scratches were difficult to feel because of the cold water.

“It looks worse than what it is, but the water was so cold you couldn’t feel the scratches,” he said. “And this will heal up. The cat will be alive.”

The cat was taken to an animal hospital after reaching shore.

Tacoma police said they do not recall responding to a similar call involving so many animals on a boat.

“No, 30, 40 cats on a boat — that’s pretty unheard of,” one officer said.

A local humane society will determine when, or whether, the rescued cats can be made available for adoption.

Police said they know who owns the sailboat and plan to begin a criminal investigation once the rescue operation is complete.

The announcement is the latest in a series of policies from the administration aimed at transgender people that began the day Trump returned to office last year.

The policy is to take effect Oct. 13.

It is not clear how much taxpayer funding is going to cover gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth now. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not respond to questions about the policy on Tuesday.

At least 27 states have already banned gender-affirming care for those under 18. Even in states that haven’t, many major hospitals have stopped providing some of the treatments. And gender-affirming surgeries for minors are rare. Puberty blockers and hormone treatments are more common.

The policy calls for Medicaid and CHIP to continue to pay for mental health treatment for transgender minors but phase out coverage of hormone treatments that are used both to block puberty and to produce sex-related physical changes for those already receiving them as of April 2027.

Trump said in a social media post Tuesday that he directed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the CMS administrator, to make the change.

“We are not going to pay for our innocent children to undergo these barbaric surgeries and practices, which result in unthinkable and irreversible harm to their young bodies,” Trump said in his post.

Advocates for LGBTQ+ young people look at it differently.

GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders legal director Josh Rovenger said the rule “is putting up barriers between parents and their ability to make the best medical decisions for their children” and would face a legal challenge.

“The Trump administration is terrorizing trans youth and their families with these kinds of actions, and it has to stop,” Human Right Campaign President Kelley Robinson said in a statement.

HRC is already suing the administration for efforts to bar gender-affirming care coverage under federal employee benefit plans.

The American Medical Association and most other major medical organizations support access to gender-affirming care, though the American Society of Plastic Surgeons said earlier this year that it found “insufficient evidence” that the benefits of chest, genital and facial surgeries on minors experiencing gender dysphoria — or the unease a person may have because their assigned gender and gender identity don't match — outweigh the risks.

The administration has already announced it would cut off Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for minors, along with barring transgender athletes from sports competitions for girls and women and blocking people from being able to choose male, female or X to designate their sex on passports.

It also released a report last year urging therapy only for transgender youth and not broader gender-affirming health care.

Most of the changes have faced legal challenges. The U.S. Supreme Court let the administration's passport policy stand and allowed states to enforce the sports bans. A lower court ruled against the administration's declaration that called the treatments unsafe and ineffective. A challenge over the policy targeting hospitals is still pending.

Twenty-two speakers testified at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's hearing, which lasted more than two hours. Most opposed the proposal to toss a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit annual workforce demographic reports to the EEOC, which is responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws.

Six speakers, however, spoke out in favor of the proposal, siding with the Trump administration's stance that reporting such data is burdensome and encourages companies to adopt discriminatory practices to diversify their workforces.

The proposal, currently subject to a 30-day public commentary period ending Aug. 24, is a key step in President Donald Trump's efforts to overhaul the country's civil rights enforcement, particularly stamping out diversity and inclusion practices.

Since 1966, the EEOC has required companies with at least 100 employees, or federal contractors with at least 50 workers, to submit a report each year called an EEO-1 that breaks down gender and racial representation across different roles, from executives to laborers and service workers.

The Republican-led EEOC voted 2-1 last month to stop collecting that data, arguing that the reporting requirement may encourage employers to engage in discriminatory tactics.

Civil rights groups argued the data has been a crucial tool for uncovering systemic discrimination in the workplace and tracking the progress of women and minorities since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

"By weakening EEOC enforcement, these changes will harm all workers, but particularly Black workers and other workers of color who continue to face racial discrimination more frequently,” said Amalea Smirniotopoulos, senior policy counsel at the civil rights group Legal Defense Fund.

Researchers said EEO-1 data has been crucial to their work.

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, co-director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Center for Employment Equity, said he has relied on EEO-1 data for dozens of research articles and two books. He said his research has found that while workplace discrimination has declined since 1964, progress has most recently stalled.

Without EEO-1 metrics, “our society will be flying blind into the future,” he said.

Rachel Lee, president and general counsel of Stand with Asian Americans, said the data has been critical for demonstrating that many Asian Americans rarely reach the highest ranks of many companies, despite comprising a large portion of professional roles.

“The EEO-1 report is the only federal instrument that exposes what we call the bamboo ceiling,” Lee said.

Several conservative advocates, however, criticized the EEO-1 data as outdated and conducive to stereotyping and discrimination.

“It is inconsistent with equal opportunity law, potentially unconstitutional, unnecessary to enforce anti-discrimination laws, and imposes substantial burdens on both employers and the EEOC that are not outweighed by its marginal benefits,” said Rachel Morrison, fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center and a former EEOC attorney.

Morrison pointed out that since the EEOC investigates some forms of discrimination not captured in the EEO-1 data, such as religion and pregnancy-related discrimination, the data “is not actually necessary for EEOC to enforce Title VII or fulfill its mission.”

However, two prominent employer groups said there is little evidence that companies have used EEO-1 data to engage in racial quotas or other discriminatory employment practices, as the EEOC under the leadership of its current conservative chair Andrea Lucas argues.

“Regarding the possible misuse of EEO-1 data, we cannot square that with the experience of our members, and I might add with my personal experience,” said David Fortney of the Institute for Workplace Equality, a nonprofit employer association whose members include many of the biggest U.S. companies.

Fortney, a former chief legal officer of the Labor Department under President George H.W. Bush, said many employers instead use EEO-1 data to detect and prevent discriminatory practices. He said the EEOC has not identified any instance of an employer using EEO-1 data for discriminatory purposes.

“Presumably after six decades, if the agency had specific instances, it would have called those out,” Fortney said.

Michael Eastman, of the Center for Workplace Compliance, described examples of how its member companies have used the EEO-1 data to uncover hiring and promotion practices that excluded certain groups.

One large company, he said, found data showed that an employee referral program at a manufacturing facility consistently produced a narrow applicant pool and “a homogenous hiring pattern at the facility.”

Another company, he said, found an “unusual pattern” in its promotion decisions that suggested that managers had misunderstood internal policies to mean race and gender could be considered in promotions.

“These examples reflect what many large employers are trying to do when they use demographic data for compliance purposes,” said Eastman.

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Homestead Police Department officers first arrested the suspect, Ludjy Juste, on Thursday in connection with the July 31 movie money case. He bonded out, but was arrested again on Monday after police said they tied him to a June 4 ring theft.

That case happened at the Homestead Plaza Apartments at 170 NE 10th St., about a block away from Juste’s own home, according to an HPD arrest report.

Police said the victim agreed to sell the $1,200 gold ring to an unidentified man known as “Chino” and they set up a meeting at the complex.

Authorities said Juste joined “Chino” and sat in the victim’s car to view the ring. “Chino” handed the ring to Juste and both took off, according to the report.

According to the report, the apartment building’s CCTV cameras weren’t working and the case went dormant.

That is until police said they identified Juste as the suspect in the July 31 theft. In that case, police said a man going by “Oscar Cruz” sought to buy a 10 karat Monaco gold chain worth $2,200.

According to a separate arrest report, the victim and “Cruz” agreed to meet at La Cruzada Restaurant at 331 Park Place. Police said “Cruz” brought Juste with him.

Juste handed the victim what the victim thought was $2,100 in $100 bills, according to the report. Police said the bills turned out to be counterfeit and labeled “for motion picture use only.”

“As the victim was accepting the currency, (Juste) simultaneously snatched the gold chain from the victim’s hand and both subjects ran from the scene,” the report states.

But police said Juste made a critical fumble as he ran away: He dropped his iPhone on Civic Court.

According to the report, information obtained from a search warrant on the phone revealed it was registered to Juste.

Authorities said investigators went to his home on Thursday. Police said when they asked Juste if he knew why they were there, he said, “Yes, the chain.”

Juste said he was the person who was texting the victim and an accomplice whom he called “Chucky” translated for him, the report states.

“Juste advised during the incident he gave the victim the ‘fake’ money and he was the one who snatched the chain,” the report states. “Juste advised (that) ‘Chucky’ knew about the robbery and participated in it.”

Authorities said Juste admitted to selling the chain for $1,400 days later and both split the proceeds. They said Juste also confessed to two additional thefts, including the June 4 ring theft.

Juste now faces charges of grand theft, robbery by sudden snatching and uttering forged bills.

As of Tuesday, records show he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.

Editor’s note: The original version of the article misstated the nature of the suspect’s robbery charge. It has since been corrected.

A boy’s scream can be heard in the distance on body camera footage showing how rescue teams last week found two women and a 9-year-old boy who had been stranded for three days after their river tubing trip went wrong.

“We’re coming, guys,” says Cameron Wright, a conservation officer from Newaygo County, his breath heard in ragged gasps.

The team picks up their pace, pushing through sharp switchgrass and stinging nettle, the footage released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows. A few moments later, they find Sarah Vida, 28, and her son Kayden Kovalcik, 9, along with Jazmin Hock, 28; wearing just their swimming suits.

Hock's legs are almost entirely covered in deep, red cuts from scrapes after trudging through the brush. They have a broken phone and a single water bottle with only a few sips left.

“You’re talking about vegetation that’s higher than your eyes and switchgrass that cuts you when you touch it and stinging nettles that makes your skin set on fire,” Anna Cullen, a conservation officer from Muskegon County who helped with the rescue, said Tuesday.

The trio had been on a tubing trip on the Muskegon River in the small community of Twin Lake on Tuesday when they'd hit logs and their tubes popped, according to officials. They were reported missing after one of the women hadn't shown up to her dentist appointment.

“I was just in disbelief at finding them because we were just running out of ideas and places to search and it was nothing short of a miracle that we ended up finding them the way we did,” Wright said.

For days, teams had scoured the river and rugged terrain.

The group was found Friday about 7 miles (11.27 kilometers) from where they entered the river, according to Wright. The rescuers had tracked them from a tube next to the river, following footprints, broken twigs and bent grass.

In the video, Kayden explains that they’ve been eating bark and flowers, while Hock says they had to drink river water.

They'd been tubing down the river and kept hitting log jams, Hock explains.

“The last one that we ran into just popped everything,” she says.

They started walking and soon realized they were going in circles, she says.

Members of the rescue crew handed over their own shirts to protect them from the bugs swarming their cuts and put medical gloves on some of their hands and feet. Wright inflated his life vest for Hock to sit on. As she answered the rescue team's questions, her legs, lined with scratches, shook.

“There was not even an inch of their exposed skin that was not just covered in cuts and bug bites and mud and scrapes where they were just physically not able to go any further,” Wright said, explaining that he still had cuts on his arms from the search.

Cullen said the women later explained that when they saw the rescuers, they thought they were hallucinating.

The two women couldn't walk, so the rescuers put them in Stokes baskets, a type of stretcher, to get them out of the brush, while Wright carried the boy on his back. They were taken to the hospital and treated for infections, dehydration and rashes, according to Lt. Pat Agema, a spokesperson for the Michigan State Police. As of Tuesday, they were all back home, he said.

Wright said the entire hike out, Kayden was telling him about everything he was going to eat and drink.

"He's just telling me about all of the root beer he’s going to drink and the slushies and the pizza and doughnuts he’s going to eat,” said Wright.

He adds: "You would have no idea that he had just spent 72 hours in the woods from how happy he was.”

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said a ballistic missile fired from the North's eastern coastal Wonsan area around 6 a.m. flew more than 700 kilometers (435 miles). The Japanese Defense Ministry also detected the launch, saying the weapon landed in waters outside its exclusive economic zone, between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

The launches, within days of each other, were seen as part of North Korea’s extended run of weapons tests as the country has refused to return to talks with the U.S. and South Korea for years. Experts say North Korea often uses its rivals’ military training as a pretext to boost its own testing activities.

South Korea's military said it remains ready to repel any provocation by Pyongyang in cooperation with the United States. South Korea's national security council called North Korean ballistic missile launches “acts of provocation” and urged the North to halt them immediately.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters that Japan strongly protested the North Korean launch through their embassies in Beijing. “It’s a serious problem that affects the safety of the Japanese people,” he said.

The latest launch came two days after South Korea and the United States announced they will kick off their annual large-scale military drills on Aug. 17 to beef up readiness against North Korean threats.

North Korea has previously responded to the Ulchi Freedom Shield training and other major South Korea-U.S. military exercises with provocative weapons tests and harsh rhetoric. The U.S. and South Korea have repeatedly said their training is defensive in nature.

After last year's Ulchi Freedom Shield training exercises began, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the drills showed the U.S. and South Korea's “will to ignite a war” and claimed they have grown more provocative than before, which has prompted North Korea to respond with “proactive and overwhelming” countermeasures.

On Aug. 6, South Korea, the U.S. and Japan detected the launch of a short-range ballistic missile from North Korea in what was the North’s first ballistic weapons testing activity since late June. North Korea didn’t confirm the reported launch, though it usually releases details of weapons tests a day later.

Multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions ban North Korea from launching ballistic missiles. But North Korea has ramped up ballistic and other weapons testing activities to expand its nuclear and missile arsenals since Kim’s high-stakes diplomacy with U.S. President Donald Trump fell apart in 2019. Experts say Kim likely hopes to use his enlarged arsenals to wrest concessions from the U.S., such as relaxing international economic sanctions on the North.

In recent years, Kim has boosted his diplomatic footprint by strengthening cooperation with Russia by supplying troops and ammunition to support its war against Ukraine. He's also recently taken steps to bolster ties with China, the country's traditional ally and economic pipeline. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the North Korean capital Pyongyang in June for the first time in seven years.

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The two cameras, located between Southwest 21st and 22nd streets, were damaged, according to an incident report.

The report said the cameras were “melted and slashed” and that it was unknown who caused the damage. The cameras are valued at about $3,000 each.

Flock cameras use artificial intelligence and license plate recognition technology to capture vehicle information, including license plates, makes, models and colors. The information can be searched by law enforcement agencies that have access to the system.

The technology has drawn opposition from privacy advocates and residents who argue that widespread use of the cameras amounts to an invasion of privacy.

In June, 19-year-old River Isaiah Blair, of Jacksonville Beach, was arrested and accused of spray-painting Flock cameras in the Jacksonville area.

According to his arrest report, investigators used Flock cameras to help identify him. The report also says he made statements about disliking Flock cameras and said he did not trust license plate readers.

The cameras have been vandalized or obstructed in other parts of the country as opposition to the technology has grown.

According to DeFlock, a website that maps Flock cameras, there are about 800 cameras in Broward County and 400 in Miami-Dade County.

FLPD confirmed their agency is in the process of executing a new agreement with Flock.

The technology also has faced scrutiny over how law enforcement agencies use the information. Several police officers in the United States have been accused of misusing license plate reader systems to track people, including former romantic partners.

Some residents have called on their cities to end their agreements with Flock. In Milford, California, residents have publicly challenged the use of the cameras.

Law enforcement agencies, however, say the technology is an important crime-fighting tool. About 40% of police agencies have contracts with Flock, according to the company.

Flock says its technology helps law enforcement solve more than 700,000 crimes annually.

The company also says its technology has helped locate missing people. They said in 2025, more than 10,000 missing people were located with the help of the technology.

This week, two children who were abducted from Columbia County, along with the suspect accused of kidnapping them, were found with the help of Flock technology, according to police.

No arrests have been made in connection with the damage to the two Fort Lauderdale cameras, and the incident report says there were no witnesses.

Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact FLPD at 954- 828-5700.

ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.

The devices are known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky. They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.

DHS said Tuesday that it was working on a response to an Associated Press inquiry and offered no immediate comment. Jeff Niklaus, the founder and CEO of Compliant Technologies, wrote in an email, “Unfortunately, we are unable to speak on this subject.”

The notice said the solicitation for a no-bid contract could be published as early as Friday.

Civil rights advocates expressed alarm at the plan, saying ICE officers already face criticism for their use of force with little oversight or accountability while enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Compliant Technologies says the devices function as a normal pair of patrol gloves until officers press a switch to activate their electrical mode. The gloves must be applied directly to someone's skin to deliver a pain stimulus that typically helps an officer gain compliance within seconds, according to the company.

“It’s immediate and sharp, and it will distract you. I call it like a bee sting,” said John Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, who is studying how the device has been used. “If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool.”

Peters said he believed ICE’s planned purchase would likely be the largest from the company to date. He said he could envision ICE officers using the gloves to help remove uncooperative subjects from cars and houses and in and out of detention facilities.

“For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage” because it can produce faster takedowns and shorten confrontations, he said.

The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people.

Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy project director on policing at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the public should have no confidence that ICE officers will use the devices appropriately. She questioned why the devices would be necessary for civil immigration enforcement and noted those getting shocked might have no advance warning.

“ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do,” she said. “Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public.”

Supporters say the devices are generally used in specific jail and transport situations, rather than broadly to patrol on the streets. They have been used to subdue violent suspects who are refusing to get into squad cars and inmates who are harming themselves and threatening officers, according to Compliant Technologies.

Peters said he expected the devices to be misused by a small number of employees, as with other policing technologies, but he said they are unlikely to cause injuries. He said it would be important for ICE to have robust policies and training in place.

To use the device, officers must complete a course and be recertified every two years, the manufacturer says.

Las dos cámaras, ubicadas entre Southwest 21st y 22nd streets, fueron dañadas, según un informe del incidente.

El informe indicó que las cámaras fueron “derretidas y cortadas” y que se desconoce quién causó los daños. Las cámaras están valoradas en aproximadamente $3,000 USD cada una.

Las cámaras Flock utilizan inteligencia artificial y tecnología de reconocimiento de placas para capturar información de vehículos, incluyendo placas, marcas, modelos y colores. Las agencias de las fuerzas del orden que tienen acceso al sistema pueden buscar la información.

La tecnología ha generado oposición de defensores de la privacidad y residentes que argumentan que el uso generalizado de las cámaras constituye una invasión de la privacidad.

En junio, River Isaiah Blair, de 19 años y residente de Jacksonville Beach, fue arrestado y acusado de pintar con aerosol cámaras Flock en el área de Jacksonville.

Según su informe de arresto, los investigadores utilizaron cámaras Flock para ayudar a identificarlo. El informe también señala que hizo declaraciones sobre su desagrado por las cámaras Flock y dijo que no confiaba en los lectores de placas.

Las cámaras han sido vandalizadas u obstruidas en otras partes del país a medida que ha aumentado la oposición a la tecnología.

Según DeFlock, un sitio web que registra las cámaras Flock en un mapa, hay aproximadamente 800 cámaras en el condado Broward y 400 en el condado Miami-Dade.

La FLPD confirmó que su agencia está en proceso de ejecutar un nuevo acuerdo con Flock.

La tecnología también ha sido objeto de escrutinio por la manera en que las agencias de las fuerzas del orden utilizan la información. Varios agentes de policía en Estados Unidos han sido acusados de utilizar indebidamente los sistemas de lectores de placas para rastrear a personas, incluyendo ex parejas sentimentales.

Algunos residentes han pedido a sus ciudades que pongan fin a sus acuerdos con Flock. En Milford, California, los residentes han cuestionado públicamente el uso de las cámaras.

Sin embargo, las agencias de las fuerzas del orden dicen que la tecnología es una herramienta importante para combatir el crimen. Aproximadamente el 40% de las agencias policiales tienen contratos con Flock, según la empresa.

Flock afirma que su tecnología ayuda a las fuerzas del orden a resolver más de 700,000 delitos anualmente.

La empresa también dice que su tecnología ha ayudado a localizar a personas desaparecidas. Dijeron que en 2025, más de 10,000 personas desaparecidas fueron localizadas con ayuda de la tecnología.

Esta semana, dos niños que fueron secuestrados del condado Columbia, junto con el sospechoso acusado de secuestrarlos, fueron encontrados con ayuda de la tecnología Flock, según la policía.

No se han realizado arrestos en relación con los daños a las dos cámaras de Fort Lauderdale, y el informe del incidente indica que no hubo testigos.

Cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el incidente debe comunicarse con la FLPD al 954-828-5700.

Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear he was with the press pool on Air Force One, according to a report published by The Washington Post.

Russia has released American military veteran Robert Gilman who spent more than four years in prison on disputed charges under abusive conditions and was said to be gravely ill and at risk of dying, a group advocating for him said Tuesday. Gilman was on his way to a U.S. military hospital in Texas, where he will be medically and psychologically assessed and treated.

The president’s media company has tried a half-dozen businesses to lift its stock, but nothing has worked. Now it’s getting back to its roots, telling investors Monday that Truth Social will focus on selling early high-speed access to his administration’s announcements on social media, a move raising ethical questions.

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More women than ever running for the House

That’s according to Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, which showed 590 women have filed to run for House seats in the 206 midterm elections, besting the record of 583 set in 2020.

The boost was largely driven by the number of Democratic women candidates, the center said. Women make up just over one-third of all Democratic candidates for the House, and 19.1% of Republicans.

Overall, 27% of all House candidates in 2026 are women, which is about on par with their representation in Congress this cycle, the center said.

Democrats announce investment to defeat GOP’s Rep. Max Miller

Democratic candidate Brian Poindexter was added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “Red to Blue” program the party signals an intensifying push to oust the Ohio congressman in its effort to wrest control of the House from Republicans.

The move comes after Miller brushed past Monday’s deadline for Republicans to replace him on the ballot, and those within his party urging him to step aside as he faced domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wife.

He has pledged to invest his own money to win.

Trump heads off to Patriot Games to watch teen athletes compete

The president has departed Washington to attend the Patriot Games in Geneva, Ohio.

The games that are part the America’s sesquicentennial celebration and feature high school athletes from across the country that Trump has billed as a chance to display “the best of American skill, sportsmanship, and competitive spirit.”

Trump is arriving on the final day of the competition, in which the student athletes are competing for a slice of a $250,000 scholarship pool.

Kennedy Center ordered to pay legal fees to musician who cancelled show over Trump name change

A judge has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay more than $250,000 in legal fees and costs to a musician who was sued by the performing arts venue for cancelling a Christmas Eve performance last year, an act of protest against adding President Donald Trump’s name to the building.

D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier on Monday ordered the center to pay the musician, Chuck Redd, approximately $252,000 within 45 days. The same judge had dismissed the center’s lawsuit against Redd in June.

Lisa Banks, an attorney for Redd, described the center’s lawsuit as a “meritless” attempt to silence opposition to the name change.

Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player, had presided over holiday “Jazz Jams” at the Kennedy Center for 20 years.

A Kennedy Center spokesperson said the center intends to appeal the judge’s ruling.

US military says it has fired on a ship in Gulf of Oman to enforce its blockade of Iranian ports

The U.S. military said Tuesday that its forces fired on a Panamanian-flagged ship in the Gulf of Oman that tried to evade the American blockade on Iranian ports, a move that comes as President Donald Trump tries to keep economic pressure on the Islamic Republic.

U.S. Central Command said the vessel had ignored warnings to stop, prompting an American helicopter to fire missiles into the engine room of the M/V Vela Nova, disabling the ship. U.S. Central Command’s statement does not say whether the ship’s crew suffered any casualties.

Central Command said it has redirected 55 commercial vessels attempting to run the blockade, disabled three non-compliant vessels and boarded two. The U.S. Navy currently has more than 15 warships, including two aircraft carriers and an amphibious assault ship, stationed in the waters of the Arabian Sea.

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Democratic Rep. Raskin launches inquiry into failed prosecution of constituent in Reflecting Pool case

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is launching an investigation into the Trump administration’s prosecution of former Olympian David Hearn over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro dropped the case after acknowledging damage to the pool was caused by a botched installation rather than vandalism. Trump then publicly rebuked Pirro, saying she “folded like an umbrella.”

In letters Tuesday, Raskin seeks records from the Justice and Interior departments on the decision to prosecute Hearn, a Maryland resident who lives in Raskin’s district. Raskin also seeks communications with the White House and evidence presented to the grand jury.

“At a minimum,” he wrote, “it appears that members of the Trump Administration were ready and willing to imprison an innocent American for a decade in a desperate effort to soothe an ex-landlord’s wounded ego about a terrible paint job and wasteful contract.”

Emails seeking comment were left Tuesday with Pirro’s office and the Interior Department.

Trump administration says more oil is flowing through Strait of Hormuz

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on social media that nearly 9 million barrels of oil a day are getting shipped through the Strait of Hormuz — as the administration is suggesting that the supply pressures tied to the Iran war are easing.

Wright said that along with additional oil flowing through pipelines total oil flows from the region are averaging roughly 15 million barrels a day.

U.S. oil futures prices remain above the pre-war levels, with a barrel trading on Tuesday afternoon at $83. The Trump administration has tapped the strategic petroleum reserve to steady the market and that reserve last week fell below 300 million barrels, down by more than 100 million barrels since the start of 2026.

Wright is setting expectations that oil will keep going through the strait.

Trump announces release of American detained in Russia, says no prisoner swap took place

The U.S. president said Tuesday that Robert Gilman, a Marine veteran who was detained in 2022, is being released on a “humanitarian basis” after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We appreciate this decision, and the fact that Russia asked for no one in return — No exchange took place,” Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday.

Gilman is scheduled to land at Andrews Air Force Base just outside of Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night, Trump said. He is being accompanied on the plane back to the U.S. by his mother, Nancy.

“I just spoke to him, and he had one request — A GREAT cheeseburger when he lands,” Trump said in his post. “I will take care of that!”

Sen. Ed Markey: Gilman’s return was long overdue

“It is a tragedy that it took Robert’s near-death condition for his case to receive the attention that it required for his release to be negotiated,” Markey said in the statement from Global Reach.

“Throughout his detention, Robert was subjected to physical torture, forced medication, and provocations by Russian authorities. There is no doubt that his treatment by Russian authorities is the reason Robert is in this precarious state today.”

State Department: Other Americans should be released as well

The State Department said that Gilman had been determined recently to have been wrongfully detained, and was released on humanitarian grounds.

This “was not part of an exchange, and no other concessions were provided,” the department said. It called Gilman’s release “a welcome step that we hope leads to the release of Americans unjustly held in Russia, such as wrongful detainee Stephen Hubbard.”

Gilman’s sister: ‘Why did they do this to such a wonderful person?’

Gilman’s sister, Lexie Hudson, credited President Donald Trump and Sen. Ed Markey for the former Marine’s release.

“There is no other reason that Robert is alive today other than that President Trump heard about the case and took action,” said Hudson, who thanked Markey in the statement from Global Reach “for leading our advocacy efforts in Congress.”

“The Russians treated my brother so badly,” Hudson said. “They hurt him for no reason, other than that he was both an American and a Marine. What did they get out of this? Why did they do this to such a wonderful person?”

Released American’s family flew to Texas to meet him, advocates say

Robert Gilman’s mother had been in Russia, attempting to see him there. Gilman had been in “a dissociative stupor” for 47 days due to the abuse he has suffered in prison, and was moved to a civilian hospital, where he was hooked up to a feeding tube and handcuffed to a bed, aid Eric ‌Lebson, chief strategy officer of Global Reach.

Now he’ll be medically and psychologically assessed and treated at a U.S. military hospital, Lebson said.

The 32-year-old teacher was convicted of beating a police officer after being taken off a train for causing a disturbance, and his sentence was extended last year to 10 years after he was found guilty of assaulting prison guards.

Sen. Edward Markey had called on Russia and the U.S. to work together to release the Massachusetts resident, one of at least 8 Americans who remained in Russian custody after a series of high-profile prisoner exchanges.

Former US Marine held in Russia for over 4 years has been released after group warned he was gravely ill

A former U.S. Marine who has been held in Russia for more than four years on disputed charges has been released, his advocates said Tuesday, days after warning he was gravely ill and at risk of dying.

Robert Gilman, a 32-year-old teacher detained since 2022, was on his way to a U.S. military hospital in Texas, according to Eric ‌Lebson, chief strategy officer of Global Reach, a group that’s been working to free him and other American detainees abroad.

Russian attacks kill 10 in Ukraine as Zelenskyy says Moscow is getting more North Korean missiles

Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with missiles, drones and glide bombs Tuesday, killing at least 10 civilians, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow is getting more North Korean help to extend its 4-year invasion.

Zelenskyy said Russian forces used ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea in the overnight attack, and is preparing to deploy more North Korean troops to Russia. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un already sent thousands of troops and huge supplies of weapons to support Putin’s invasion.

Now Ukraine says Russia aims to exploit Kyiv’s critical shortage of Patriot air defense interceptors, which worsened after U.S. diplomacy to end the war fizzled and Washington turned its attention to the Iran war.

“Every step Russia takes — increasing ballistic missile production, bringing in North Korean equipment, preparing for mobilization — all of this shows that Moscow is preparing not for peace, but for escalation,” Zelenskyy said on social media.

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Trump told Ukraine it had no cards. Then Kyiv took the war to Russia

When Trump told the Ukrainian president in the Oval Office last year that he had “no cards” in the fight against Russia, Volodymyr Zelenskyy already had a bold plan to take the fight deep inside Russian territory.

While Trump was warmly welcoming President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and encouraging Ukraine to accept an unfavorable peace deal, Ukraine was smuggling drones for an attack that destroyed Russian bombers worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

And since then, Kyiv’s campaign of longer-range strikes has targeted Russian air defenses, oil infrastructure and military suppliers, embarrassing Putin and impressing Trump. When Trump and Zelenskyy met at a NATO summit in July, the American president said the Ukrainian leader had “been very effective” in the war.

An Associated Press analysis shows how Ukraine has shifted the narrative about the war in Washington, but it’s still not clear if it will be able to push Putin toward the negotiating table.

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Houthi rebels attack vessel in Bab el-Mandeb, killing four

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired missiles on a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday and killed four people, Yemeni authorities said.

The transportation ministry of Yemen’s internationally recognized government said the dead included three Pakistani nationals and an Indonesian.

The ministry statement said the Houthis fired three ballistic missiles on the Yemeni commercial vessel, and then fired another missile that targeted rescue teams, wounding a Yemeni rescuer.

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut down by Iran, there has been a renewed focus on the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait at Yemen’s southern tip, which is an alternate route for Saudi Arabia to ship its oil.

Congressional Democrats probe alleged coordination between ICE and Iran to deport detainees

Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Adam Schiff are requesting access to all potential communications between two private immigration detention centers and Iranian diplomats, according to two letters shared with The Associated Press.

Iranian asylum seekers sued last month, alleging that the Department of Homeland Security endangered them by sharing details of their application records with the Iranian government.

The applicants said they were forced to meet with Iranian Interests Section officials who had confidential information about their claims of persecution in Iran for converting to Christianity, for their sexuality or for participating in the Women, Life, Freedom protests against the Iranian government, according to court filings.

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

In rejecting Trump’s Gaza plan, Netanyahu reprises a balancing act he has mastered

It’s possibly the most important job of any Israeli prime minister: maintain good relations with the United States while pushing back on demands seen as undermining Israel’s security.

No one has managed the balancing act longer than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader.

But with the Iran war at a stalemate, and U.S. President Donald Trump looking to advance peace efforts elsewhere, Netanyahu’s task is getting harder less than three months away from Israeli elections.

On Sunday, Netanyahu rejected Trump’s latest plan to advance the stalled ceasefire in Gaza, saying Israel will not withdraw from any of the roughly 60% of the territory it controls until Hamas has been completely disarmed — something the militant group controlling the other 40% has long resisted.

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Houthis hit Red Sea port city, threatening regional shipping

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels renewed attacks Tuesday on government-controlled areas in Yemen as the violence threatened to reignite civil war and raised fears over new threats to regional shipping lanes.

Yemen’s military said the rebels targeted the government-held port city of Mokha and the central province of Marib with missiles and drones but did not provide further details. The Houthis also hit Mokha with missiles and drones over the weekend and killed at least seven people, it said.

The escalation by the Houthis against government forces in Yemen and oil facilities in neighboring Saudi Arabia aims to threaten the kingdom’s alternative route for shipping its oil. The attacks could reignite Yemen’s civil war following a 2022 truce, and open a new front in the Middle East war.

Iran and Germany’s foreign ministers describe their call

Iran’s Abbas Araghchi said on his Telegram channel that in a call with Germany’s Johann Wadephul late Monday, he had “emphasized that making the Strait of Hormuz secure requires an end to the United States’ aggressive actions and unlawful interventions, including the naval blockade and other violations of U.S. obligations.”

Wadephul said on X that he had emphasized “the Strait of Hormuz needs to be opened unconditionally ensuring free and safe navigation for all.”

Iranian foreign minister underlines Tehran’s demands

Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran is insisting that the Strait of Hormuz won’t be reopened until the U.S. meets its conditions, after Trump said he wants compensation from Iran “for all of the people that they have killed” in the past.

Abbas Araghchi told reporters that Iran has “astonished the whole world” in the war against the United States and Israel, proving “that it is a tough and invincible power.”

Iran effectively closed the strait by threatening shipping after Israel and the U.S. attacked the country on Feb. 28.

Oil prices jumped, gasoline over $4 after Trump’s latest Iran war comments

Oil prices are settling in a state of uncertainty about when the Strait of Hormuz will reopen to global energy supplies, after jumping about 7.5% since Trump scoffed at Iranian demands for compensation for war damage.

Motor club AAA says the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline ticked up overnight to $4.01.

Brent crude oil was trading at about $87.61 a barrel early Tuesday, and U.S. benchmark crude at $82.19. Shares of major U.S. oil companies — including Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips — were close to unchanged after jumping 4.5% on Monday.

Higher oil prices mean consumers pay more for all manner of products as companies pay more for fuel to produce and transport goods. Accordingly, the main event for Wall Street this week will be Wednesday’s update on U.S. inflation.

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The executions come as a small number of states, including the three with scheduled lethal injections Thursday, drive execution numbers in the United States.

“You look at the country as a whole, you’ve just got this little pocket of five or six states that are using the death penalty, executing people, and a small number of states that are still imposing new death sentences,” said Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Maher said it is highly unusual to have three executions on one day, although it is largely a scheduling coincidence.

Eleven states executed a total of 47 people in 2025, the highest number since 2009. Florida accounted for most of the surge with 19 executions. Alabama, South Carolina and Texas each carried out five. Tennessee carried out three. Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arizona and Indiana each carried out two. Louisiana and Missouri each carried out one execution.

The 19 executions so far in 2026 have occurred in four states. Florida, which again leads the country, executed two inmates on the same day in July.

The last time three executions were held on the same day was Jan. 7, 2010, when Louisiana, Ohio and Texas put inmates to death. Three executions were scheduled on the same day in 2018, but only one went forward after a Texas man was granted a reprieve and prison officials in Alabama had problems with the IV line.

Tennessee will attempt another lethal injection after IV problems

Tennessee plans to execute Anthony Darrell Hines three months after the attempted lethal injection of another inmate was called off because of problems inserting an IV. The aborted execution put a spotlight on issues states have sometimes had in establishing IV lines during lethal injections.

“All eyes really are on Tennessee at this moment because of the problem that happened,” Maher said.

During the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers in May, the IV team established a primary line right away but then worked for more than an hour trying to insert a required backup line. The execution was ultimately called off and Carruthers was given a one-year reprieve.

Hines, 66, has seized on the problems with the previous execution, saying his health issues — including two strokes that left him partially paralyzed — increase the risk of difficulties at his execution. He has unsuccessfully asked the governor and courts to intervene, claiming the doctor who oversaw that execution was unqualified and is likely to botch his execution, as well.

Gov. Bill Lee has declined to take any action on Hines’ requests, and last week the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled against a stay of his execution. The state has declined to say whether the same doctor will preside over the upcoming execution, but the court noted that Hines had not proved that doctor was unqualified.

Hines was convicted of stabbing Catherine Jean Jenkins to death in 1985 while the 54-year-old was working as a motel maid in Kingston Springs. He was sentenced to death in 1986, won an appeal for a new sentencing hearing, and was again sentenced to death in 1989.

Alabama inmate asks to be put to death for killing girl

Alabama is scheduled to execute Jeremy Williams, 42, by lethal injection for the 2021 rape and murder of a 5-year-old Georgia girl.

Williams, who pleaded guilty to killing Kamarie Holland, has asked for his death sentence to be carried out.

Prosecutors said Williams raped and strangled Holland after offering her mother $2,500 for the child to perform oral sex on him. Williams filmed his attack on the girl and kept her body to continue to abuse, prosecutors said.

In 2022, Williams also was charged with the 2005 death of his infant daughter in Alaska.

“This man left a trail of destruction of children,” Russell County District Attorney Richard Chancey said.

About 10% of executed inmates are so-called volunteers who drop appeals, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, but most of those have been on death row longer. The time between Williams’ 2024 conviction and his scheduled lethal injection is unusually brief, Maher said.

It will be Alabama’s first execution of the year if it goes forward. A nitrogen gas execution was halted in June after a federal judge ruled the method unconstitutional.

Oklahoma inmate says he doesn’t want clemency

Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, for the 2003 murder of his girlfriend.

If the lethal injection goes forward, he will be the third person executed in Oklahoma this year.

Prosecutors said Olimpia Fisher, 43, had been making plans to leave Cuesta-Rodriguez when he shot her in one eye and then waited about eight minutes as she screamed for help before firing the fatal shot into her other eye.

Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-1 last month against recommending clemency for Cuesta-Rodriguez. Cuesta-Rodriguez’s attorneys had asked the board to recommend he serve life in prison without parole, saying he had a difficult childhood and suffered from brain damage, post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression with psychotic episodes.

But Cuesta-Rodriguez told the board that he did not want clemency. He said he wanted Fisher’s two daughters to know that he regretted what happened.

“I can’t have been in my right mind to have done something so horrific,” he said through a Spanish-language translator. “I have not been able to find any sense in all this.”

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Bryant, signed to a $40 million, three-year deal as a free agent this offseason, was expected to be an important part of a revamped Chicago secondary.

Johnson said Bryant had surgery Friday without disclosing details of the injury. He did not rule out the possibility that Bryant would return this season.

“I got to see him today,” Johnson said. “He’s going to be in a hurry to get back to help us out there at the end of the year.”

Bryant was hurt at practice on Aug. 3. ESPN initially reported that he could miss eight to 10 weeks, but the team never confirmed that timeline.

Chicago let All-Pro safety Kevin Byard leave for Buffalo in free agency and signed Bryant, who spent four years with the Seattle Seahawks. He was the starting free safety for last year's Super Bowl-winning squad.

“Coby is the template for how we all want our team to play,” Johnson said. “He was a big part of offense, defense and special teams, the mentality, the mindset, his approach. We loved everything about him.

“It certainly takes us back a little bit but it also provides opportunity for other guys to fill that void and it might be guys we hope to prod along a little bit.”

Former Dallas and Tennessee safety Xavier Woods was signed last week and immediately went in as a replacement for Bryant. He intercepted quarterback Caleb Williams in his first full practice.

“He’s a veteran player, he’s played a lot of football, been in a few different schemes,” defensive coordinator Dennis Allen said. “He’s been a productive player.”

Woods played for Bears defensive backs coach Al Harris in Dallas at the start of his career.

“So there’s some familiarity there with him,” Allen said. “And, I just think, right now, we needed another veteran piece back there in the back end, specifically at the safety position.”

Several other Bears players are banged up

The news about Bryant comes as the Bears deal with several less serious injuries. Chicago is preparing to host Cleveland on Saturday in its first preseason game.

Wide receiver Luther Burden suffered a groin injury last week and Johnson said he’ll miss the rest of training camp and the preseason, but will return for the start of the regular season.

Johnson also updated the injury status of starting left tackle Ozzy Trapilo, who suffered a patellar tendon injury last January in a playoff victory over Green Bay. Trapilo is progressing well, and Johnson wouldn’t rule out his return to practice by the end of preseason.

The Bears have been practicing without defensive end Montez Sweat, left tackle Braxton Jones, backup safety/cornerback Cam Lewis and backup safety Elijah Hicks. All of those injuries except for Hicks are considered day-to-day. Starting slot cornerback Kyler Gordon remains on the physically unable to perform list after a calf injury before training camp.

The Bears turned to rookie fourth-round pick Malik Muhammad in the slot last week and he continues to work with the starters in that role.

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The Maumelle High student felt unusual movement inside his headgear following warmups last week and brought his helmet to an assistant coach for inspection. A slithering 2-foot cottonmouth was discovered behind some padding.

The pit viper was so reluctant to exit the helmet that police officers had to pour water into it to force the snake out and into a bag. Animal services technicians arrived a few minutes later, identified the snake as a deadly cottonmouth and took it to a wooded area far from the school.

Cottonmouths are the second-most venomous snakes found in Arkansas.

Animal services director Chris Davis said the player wore the helmet for nearly an hour and was fortunate he wasn't bitten.

“It was unreal," Davis said. “You had to kind of be there and take pictures to say this was real.”

The player grabbed a different helmet and continued practice. But the situation caused the head coach to reiterate to his team that players should examine their equipment carefully before using it, checking for insects — or maybe something larger and more dangerous.

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Agentes del Departamento de Policía de Homestead arrestaron por primera vez al sospechoso, Ludjy Juste, el jueves en relación con el caso del dinero falso de películas del 31 de julio. Salió bajo fianza, pero fue arrestado nuevamente el lunes después de que la policía dijera que lo vinculó con el robo de un anillo ocurrido el 4 de junio.

Ese caso ocurrió en los apartamentos Homestead Plaza, en 170 NE 10th St., aproximadamente a una cuadra de la propia casa de Juste, según un informe de arresto de la Policía de Homestead.

La policía dijo que la víctima acordó vender el anillo de oro de $1,200 USD a un hombre no identificado conocido como “Chino” y coordinaron una reunión en el complejo.

Las autoridades dijeron que Juste se reunió con “Chino” y se sentó en el automóvil de la víctima para ver el anillo. “Chino” le entregó el anillo a Juste y ambos huyeron, según el informe.

Según el informe, las cámaras de circuito cerrado del edificio de apartamentos no funcionaban y el caso quedó inactivo.

Eso fue hasta que la policía dijo que identificó a Juste como sospechoso del robo del 31 de julio. En ese caso, la policía dijo que un hombre que se hacía llamar “Oscar Cruz” buscó comprar una cadena de oro Monaco de 10 quilates valorada en $2,200 USD.

Según un informe de arresto separado, la víctima y “Cruz” acordaron reunirse en el restaurante La Cruzada, ubicado en 331 Park Place. La policía dijo que “Cruz” llevó a Juste con él.

Juste le entregó a la víctima lo que esta creía que eran $2,100 USD en billetes de $100, según el informe. La policía dijo que los billetes resultaron ser falsos y tenían la leyenda “solo para uso cinematográfico”.

“Mientras la víctima aceptaba el dinero, (Juste) simultáneamente le arrebató la cadena de oro de la mano y ambos sujetos huyeron de la escena”, señala el informe.

Pero la policía dijo que Juste cometió un error crucial mientras huía: dejó caer su iPhone en Civic Court.

Según el informe, la información obtenida mediante una orden de registro del teléfono reveló que estaba registrado a nombre de Juste.

Las autoridades dijeron que los investigadores acudieron a su casa el jueves. La policía dijo que cuando le preguntaron a Juste si sabía por qué estaban allí, respondió: “Sí, la cadena”.

Juste dijo que él era la persona que enviaba mensajes de texto a la víctima y que un cómplice al que llamó “Chucky” traducía para él, señala el informe.

“Juste informó que durante el incidente le dio a la víctima el dinero ‘falso’ y que él fue quien le arrebató la cadena”, señala el informe. “Juste informó que ‘Chucky’ sabía sobre el robo y participó en él”.

Las autoridades dijeron que Juste admitió haber vendido la cadena por $1,400 USD días después y que ambos se repartieron las ganancias. También dijeron que Juste confesó otros dos robos, incluido el robo del anillo del 4 de junio.

Juste ahora enfrenta cargos de hurto mayor, robo con fuerza y uso de billetes falsificados.

Hasta el martes, los registros muestran que permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $2,500 USD.

Consumer prices rose 3.4% in July from a year ago, down slightly from 3.5% in June, the Labor Department said Wednesday. But inflation is still higher than before the Iran war began in February, when it was 2.4%. On a monthly basis, prices rose just 0.1% from June to July.

The modest decline could ease pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise their key interest rate to combat rising costs. Yet prices are still rising more quickly than average wages, underscoring the struggle many Americans have had with more expensive groceries, gas, and healthcare, trends that have taken on a high profile in the fast-approaching midterm elections.

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core inflation also slipped to 2.5% in July from a year ago, down from 2.6% in June. July's figure matches a post-pandemic low reached in January and February, before the Iran war.

Core prices rose 0.2% from June to July. Monthly increases at about 0.2% would be low enough over time to bring inflation closer to the Fed’s 2% goal.

Still, oil prices remain elevated and gas prices rose in late July and August, suggesting overall inflation could accelerate next month. On Wednesday, gas averaged $4.04 a gallon nationwide, 16 cents higher than a month ago, according to the motor club AAA.

Inflation has been pushed higher by a series of shocks to the economy, including President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed last spring, higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war, and a surge in investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure that has boosted computer chip prices. The key question for the inflation-fighters at the Federal Reserve — not to mention for consumers struggling with high gas and grocery prices — is how quickly those one-time effects will fade or whether they will lead to persistently rising prices.

Wednesday’s figures could bolster officials at the Federal Reserve who believe the central bank can leave its key rate on hold at about 3.6% while inflation steadily declines on its own as those temporary factors fade. Yet Fed officials are sharply split over their next steps and inflation could tick higher in the coming months, particularly if fighting in the Middle East flares.

Gasoline prices fell 2.9% from June to July, the inflation report showed, and even grocery prices declined slightly, falling by 0.1%. Grocery costs are still up 2.7% from a year earlier.

Hotel room prices dropped 2.8% just from June to July, likely reflecting the end of the World Cup tournament. Clothing costs rose just 0.1%, though they are up 3.9% in the past year.

Other things are growing more expensive faster, however: Computer prices jumped 3.5% from June to July, reflecting a decision by Apple to sharply raise prices for its computers and tablets as AI spending has pushed up the cost of semiconductors.

And airline fares rose 2.2% from June to July, reflecting the cost of jet fuel that has spiraled higher along with oil.

Price increases have stayed above the Fed's 2% target for more than five years, suggesting there is more than temporary factors at work.

The cost of services such as healthcare, restaurant meals, and car maintenance rose 3% in July from a year earlier, and they aren't particularly sensitive to gas prices or AI investment. Yet that figure is down from 3.2% in June.

Rising costs for services often reflect higher wages, as companies charge more to offset the cost of higher pay. But incomes aren't growing fast enough to sustain inflation, economists note.

It's a confounding situation that has left many economists — and Fed officials — seeking more information to determine where inflation is headed.

“You've got all these things that are just not the way the economy used to behave,” Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, said.

For many consumers, years of sharply rising grocery prices have led them to adopt a wide range of coping strategies, from comparison shopping, to couponing, to cutting back on favorite foods.

Some retailers, such as Walmart, have responded by rolling back food prices, a trend that could have lowered July's inflation figures. Yet many other firms are still passing on higher costs.

Paint company Sherwin-Williams is planning an 8% price increase effective Sept. 1 to offset higher raw material costs, CEO Heidi Petz told analysts late last month. She said that because of the company’s strong relationships with suppliers, it was able to delay price increases until now.

“We are seeing the impact of higher oil and related cost pressures, and we expect continued volatility throughout the balance of the year,” she said.

Wednesday's report comes as the Federal Reserve is sharply divided over whether it should hike its key interest rate to combat inflation. The Fed kept its rate unchanged, at about 3.6%, at a meeting late last month. But the vote was 9-3, with three dissenters favoring a rate hike.

And at a July 29 news conference explaining the decision, chair Kevin Warsh was vague about the Fed's next steps, in keeping with his focus on reining in the central bank's previous willingness to signal whether it was prepared to raise or cut borrowing costs.

“If inflation continues to be elevated ... interest rates could well be part of that solution," he said. “But I wouldn't say it's in isolation.”

Long-term interest rates rose after Warsh's comments, suggesting investors worried that inflation could worsen in the coming months and the Fed might not lift borrowing costs to fight rising prices.

Complicating matters, the government said last week that employers had cut jobs in July, a sign of potential economic weakness. The Fed typically avoids rate hikes when hiring is faltering, because higher borrowing costs could slow the economy further.

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They married Tuesday in a civil ceremony described by the public relations team that represents the Portuguese soccer star as “a private and intimate moment attended by their five children.”

The ceremony took place in Cascais, a coastal town in western Portugal near the capital Lisbon, the Brunswick Group said in the announcement.

The couple posted a picture on their Instagram accounts showing their rings.

They have been together for the past decade after meeting in Madrid.

The 41-year-old Ronaldo, a five-time world player of the year and one of the most high-profile sports stars, is coming off playing in his record-tying sixth World Cup for Portugal.

His Saudi team, Al Nassr, starts its domestic season on Saturday.

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It all made for one competitive and, at times, heated joint practice for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Jets on Tuesday.

The first of four scuffles started, according to Bucs right tackle Luke Goedeke, when Jets rookie edge rusher David Bailey called him out during 1-on-1 drills because he wanted to go up against him.

“And lost,” Goedeke said of Bailey.

The two lined up against each other several times and the No. 2 overall draft pick appeared to mostly get the better of the veteran O-lineman. They stalemated on one and Bailey appeared to pat Goedeke on the helmet. It set off a fracas that included Goedeke and Bailey taking swings at each other and players from both sides jumping in.

“He tried shoving me after that and then 52, I believe, came from the side and just cheap-shotted me,” Goedeke said, referring to Jets edge rusher Kingsley Enagbare. “That didn't start practice warm and fuzzy, that's for sure.”

Later, the two were still jawing on the field during 11-on-11 team drills when Jarius Monroe returned an interception of Baker Mayfield for a touchdown when another huge fight broke out. During the melee, Goedeke took the helmet of Jets cornerback Qwan'tez Stiggers and flung it about 20 yards downfield.

“Obviously, not the greatest decision by me,” Goedeke said. “But with that being said, I'm always going to defend my players. I'm always going to defend myself, for that matter. I'm not going to get punked and not do anything about it, especially on a football field. It just comes with the game, I guess, especially in joint practices, you see stuff like this all the time.

"Obviously, you try to limit it and make sure it doesn't happen in a game.”

Jets right tackle Armand Membou and Bucs defensive tackle A'Shawn Robinson also fought, and Robinson tore off Membou's helmet. New York rookie defensive tackle Darrell Jackson Jr. had a fight that involved several Tampa Bay players.

The teams were scheduled to have another joint practice Wednesday before their preseason opener Friday night.

Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said there were “a few minor dustups.” Jets coach Aaron Glenn added: “I thought the guys did a really good job of forgetting about it, getting to the next play and continue practicing.”

Vita Vea is with the Bucs but still not practicing

Buccaneers star defensive tackle Vita Vea was with the team and wearing his familiar No. 50 jersey but didn't participate in the joint practice with the Jets while his contract squabble continues.

Vea, a two-time Pro Bowl selection, is entering the final year of his deal and wants a new contract. He missed the first few days of practice with what Bowles said was a tweaked back, but Vea has continued to not participate.

Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht recently told reporters the team has no plans to trade Vea.

Vea joins Mayfield as Bucs players unhappy with their contracts. Mayfield said early in training camp he feels “disrespected” by the team for not getting the contract extension he sought. He's fully participating at practice, unlike Vea, and plans to play out the final season of his three-year, $100 million deal.

Jets set to play starters against Bucs in preseason opener

Geno Smith and the rest of the Jets starters will see snaps in the preseason opener.

“Oh, everybody's playing,” Glenn said.

Glenn explained that the team has two new systems being installed — his defense as the primary play caller and Frank Reich's offense — “and I think it's important for our guys to play,” he added. Glenn also said there is “science” behind the decision.

“What they say is when you have joint practices where the (starters) get a lot of reps and then you have that many plays — 25 to 30 in a preseason game — throughout those three games, the risk of injury actually goes down in that first part of the year,” Glenn said. "Just talking to those guys, I’m a big believer in that, so I’m looking forward to seeing that.”

Bucs' Browning leaves practice early with apparent injury

Buccaneers backup quarterback Jake Browning was expected to start against the Jets, but he left practice early with what appeared to be a back ailment.

Bowles had no update on the status of Browning, who walked off the field gingerly after team drills midway through practice. He took his jersey off and went inside the Jets' facility and didn't return to practice.

Mayfield won't play in the game Friday night, so if Browning can't go, the Buccaneers are down to Connor Bazelak and undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels at quarterback.

Jets activate Ossai from the PUP list

The Jets activated edge rusher Joseph Ossai from the active/physically unable to perform list after he sat out the start of training camp with an undisclosed injury.

Ossai signed a three-year, $34.5 million deal with New York in March. He spent his first five seasons in Cincinnati after being a third-round draft pick in 2021 out of Texas. He has 14 1/2 career sacks, including five in each of the last two seasons.

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Rebecca Jollotta, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at South Shore Health Perinatal Behavior Health Program, testified at the trial Tuesday she exchanged messages with Clancy regularly on a patient portal throughout in late November and December 2022. Much of their conversations revolved around Clancy reporting trouble sleeping, depressive symptoms she was having and her search for the right mix of medications to treat her symptoms.

Several times Clancy indicated to Jollotta either that she had not taken the full dose of a prescribed medication or that she wanted to reduce a dosage or change her prescription based on what she felt were intolerable side effects. Clancy also worried about being addicted to some medications like Ativan, but Jollotta said she was not.

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Struggle to find the right medications

“I really don’t like the way I feel on the Remeron and I know that I can’t stick with taking it,” Clancy said in a December message asking to switch from the antidepressant, which also is used to treat anxiety and insomnia, to a previous prescription mix. “I started having very intrusive thoughts that I never had before.”

Jollotta tried to assure Clancy that having intrusive thoughts is common with someone diagnosed with postpartum depression and anxiety and encouraged her to give the Remeron more time to work since she had only been on it a few days.

“This could be some postpartum anxiety. And I wanted to familiarize her with the symptoms, so that she had them written down and she could report them to me,” Jollotta said.

Jollotta, who is among several providers that Lindsay and her former husband Patrick Clancy have sued over her care, repeatedly came up with alternative treatment plans for Clancy including a range of different medications, behavioral therapy, support groups and meditation. But she acknowledged that it was up to Clancy whether she chose to follow her advice.

“I’m only making recommendations based on my education experience, training and what I’m seeing in terms of symptoms,” Jollotta said. “The patient has the autonomy.”

During their virtual and in-person visits, Jollotta said, Clancy never talked of having a plan to harm herself or her children. She also never showed signs of psychosis or mania.

But Jollotta acknowledged that Clancy did report having thoughts of suicide. She also suggested that Clancy might have underlying bipolar disorder — due to her days of going without sleep. But Patrick Clancy denied that was the case.

Suicidal thoughts

In mid-December, Jollotta had a call with the couple and was told Clancy had her “worst day” and was “having persistent, intrusive thoughts of suicide.” Jollotta suggested she consider a higher level of care such as that offered by Massachusetts General Hospital. She settled on the Women and Infants Hospital postpartum program in Rhode Island t but was soon discharged — with advice to stop taking one of her antipsychotic medication.

Jollotta, who was going on vacation, said she was concerned that Clancy had been discharged from the hospital, telling her in a message that she could “could benefit from the groups and added support separate even from medication changes.”

She was worried the hospital wanted Clancy to go off Seroquel, the antipsychotic medications. Clancy was advised this could lead to “worsening of mood, worsening of sleep,” but she insisted on going off the medication. Jollotta agreed to slowly reduce the dosage.

During cross-examination Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington argued that Jollotta was not familiar with the care Clancy received elsewhere.

Jollotta never talked to one of Clancy’s psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, nor did she access Tuft’s medical records. She did not know how many times Clancy saw Tufts, noting that she only thought Tufts treated Clancy in September.

“Would it surprise you if I told you that she saw Dr. Tufts 14 times” during a four-month period ending in January, Reddington said.

Jollotta never talked to anyone from the Rhode Island hospital that admitted Clancy, nor did she have access to the records of McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility that Clancy admitted herself into on New Year’s Eve.

“If you're treating a person through all of this stuff that we've talked about and it’s now apparent that things have decompensated so bad that they have voluntarily admitted her to a locked ward in a mental institution, is it important to Rebecca Jollotta to find out what the diagnosis and treatment was of their patient?” Reddington said.

Jollotta agreed it was but acknowledged that she never did find out.

Killer, or someone who was mentally ill

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. They were found in the basement of the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts, where their mother was lying in the yard. She had jumped from a second-story window, and she remains paralyzed from the waist down.

Prosecutors argue that the former labor and delivery nurse was an intentional killer who contrived to get her husband out of the house and then strangled the children with exercise bands on Jan. 24, 2023. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham has urged jurors not to view the trial as “a public debate about women’s mental health and how the medical system treats women.”

Clancy’s attorneys do not dispute that she killed the children. But they say she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill, believing she heard voices ordering her to take their lives and her own.

The defense says she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis, a rare postpregnancy condition that can alter a woman’s sense of reality. A forensic psychiatrist diagnosed Clancy with those conditions after the killings.

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board issued a final report into the August 2025 blast at Clairton Coke Works, which also injured 11 others, including contractors.

U.S. Steel has said the explosion happened when workers were flushing a gas valve with pressurized water in preparation for routine planned maintenance at the sprawling riverside industrial facility, the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. The valve ruptured under intense pressure and released combustible coke oven gas.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration previously fined the company a total of $118,214 and issued 10 citations. OSHA had said that U.S. Steel’s written procedures, practices and training to safely maintain equipment and flush the gas valve were incomplete, outdated or inadequate.

The Chemical Safety Board report recommended that U.S. Steel develop a written procedure for washing valves with pressurized water in order to minimize the operation's hazards. It also recommended that an industrial cleaning contractor which used a pump truck to apply pressurized water to the valve develop written policies and procedures for cleaning piping systems containing flammable or toxic gas, and train its workers in such operations.

The Chemical Safety Board report found that when a valve would not close fully, U.S. Steel had a practice of injecting steam or high-pressure water into the cleanout port in an attempt to remove residue.

“U.S. Steel had no procedure for how to safely conduct this operation, but for at least three years before the incident, U.S. Steel employees had utilized pressurized water to clean valve seats on an ad hoc basis despite the lack of a formal procedure prescribing it,” according to the report's executive summary.

Chemical Safety Board member Sylvia Johnson said the blast "was the result of workers routinely performing a task incorrectly over a period of years until it ultimately led to a catastrophic explosion.”

The valve that failed was more than 70 years old and made from cast iron, which the report said is widely recognized as a brittle material. Numerous safety publications either ban or warn against using cast iron equipment in certain hazardous applications, including for flammable substances such as coke oven gas.

The report also said the two workers who died and two of the five seriously injured workers were located around buildings directly above the coke oven gas piping. If these buildings were located in a different area of the facility away from coke ovens, "this incident could have been far less severe,” said Drew Sahli, the Chemical Safety Board investigator in charge.

Before the blast, Clairton Coke Works had a history of accidents and explosions, and some current and former workers there say poor management and underinvestment have exacerbated air pollution and undermined workplace safety, Pittsburgh’s Public Source and The Associated Press have found.

The blast came on top of a string of other accidents at the Clairton plant over time, as well as a long history of legal battles between U.S. Steel and Allegheny County regulators, who regularly accuse the company of flouting environmental rules at the facility.

The report noted that a similar gas oven explosion occurred at the Clairton plant in July 2010, injuring 14 U.S. Steel employees and six contractors. The report criticized U.S. Steel for failing to conduct a subsequent facility siting evaluation after that incident.

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Stowers told Local 10’s Will Manso that he knew right away that he was dealing with a similar issue. He said his recovery timeline will depend on treatment but expects to return before the end of the season.

Stowers said he knew right away it was a similar issue that he had earlier in the season. Says the timing will just depend on treatment, but he says he’ll definitely be back before the season ends. https://t.co/0gQsIOsdMD pic.twitter.com/kjkJNxZIsL

— Will Manso (@WillManso) August 11, 2026

Stowers missed about three to four weeks with the previous hamstring injury. If his recovery follows a similar timeline, he could return for roughly the final 20 games of the season.

The Marlins recalled infielder Graham Pauley from Triple-A Jacksonville to take Stowers’ place on the roster.

The Marlins are 60-59 on the season and 3.5 games back of the National League Wild Card spot.

Stowers dijo a Will Manso, de Local 10, que supo de inmediato que estaba lidiando con un problema similar al que tuvo a principios de esta temporada. Dijo que el tiempo de recuperación dependerá del tratamiento, pero espera regresar antes de que termine la temporada. https://t.co/0gQsIOsdMD pic.twitter.com/kjkJNxZIsL

— Will Manso (@WillManso)August 11, 2026

Stowers se perdió entre tres y cuatro semanas debido a la lesión anterior en el tendón de la corva. Si su recuperación sigue un período similar, podría regresar aproximadamente para los últimos 20 partidos de la temporada.

Los Marlins subieron al jugador de cuadro Graham Pauley desde Triple-A Jacksonville para ocupar el lugar de Stowers en el roster.

Los Marlins tienen marca de 60-59 esta temporada y están a 3.5 juegos del puesto de comodín de la Liga Nacional.

It turned out to be an ultrarare collection of 97 “absolutely pristine” copies of Super Mario Brothers Duck Hunt, a popular Nintendo game that was released in 1988, Ganos said.

After some initial research, Ganos found that the cartridges he held were not only a new variant of the game, but also the last known production date of it.

Most of the cartridges will go up for sale Friday in an online auction that will run until Sept. 9.

“I still don’t quite believe that any of this is happening,” Ganos said. “I just think it’s kind of serendipitous that this happened. It’s just still very bizarre to me.”

Ganos, a hard-core fan covered in Nintendo tattoos and who has operated Nintendo Wire, a news service for Nintendo announcements and nostalgia for over 10 years, said he would not venture to guess how much the games are worth.

But when he saw the box, he immediately knew it was special.

“It’s like pulling out like a Holy Grail,” Ganos said, later adding, “They're gorgeous.”

The discovery came after the owner, Kevin Braun, of One Stop Wonders in Waukesha, outside Milwaukee, asked Ganos to help him sell some stuff, including common Nintendo games and Pokémon cards.

Braun mentioned the box of Mario cartridges that had been sitting in storage for years. He recalled buying them from a customer whose family had kept them for metal scraps but thought they were not worth much.

The cartridges of Super Mario Brothers Duck Hunt he had were made in 1993, long after the company discontinued the bundle in 1991. Braun and Ganos still aren’t sure why the copies they possess were made but assume they were either warranty replacements or part of a bundle with a box retailer that never panned out.

Knowing the potential significance of the possession, Ganos booked a flight immediately.

“I flew down to California with 97 carts in my carry-on luggage, sweating bullets going through TSA, like why do you have 97 little circuit boards in your carry-on?” Ganos recalled thinking nervously.

He anxiously made it through airport security to meet with video game experts to have the cartridges verified and graded, giving them a perceived value.

There had never been a cartridge rated a perfect 10 at Professional Sports Authenticator video games, Ganos said.

Five of the 97 Ganos possessed received a perfect score.

“I think there’s going to be historic significance to the tens,” Ganos said when talking about how much the games may sell at the auction. “Like number one, it’s so many people’s childhoods, and number two, there’s never been a 10 in an NES cart before.”

Ultrarare video game cartridges, especially ones with unique production history, can be sold for six- to seven-figure prices in the collector’s market. Ganos said the 97 carts are also unique because of their perfect condition, which, much like comic books or sports cards, often sell higher.

Ganos can't estimate the ultimate worth of the cartridges because they are incomparable to other video game collectibles he has seen before. They could be worth hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands, he said.

Ganos and Braun are only auctioning off three of the perfect 10 scored cartridges at Golden Pop’s Culture Auction beginning Friday. They are both keeping one copy with a score of a 10, and a few others rated in the higher 9’s.

The games can be played if the buyer wants. But because they are pristine, Ganos hopes to keep them that way.

“Finding uncirculated stuff for me is just like super exciting,” Ganos said. “This game was the first video game I’ve ever played. Mario Duck Hunt was just such a big part of my life growing up.”

Braun and Ganos also plan to do a charity auction after they are finished with the current one.

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Wilder is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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Juan Emilio Iglesias, 34, was arrested Saturday by the Miami Police Department and is facing a charge of willful disregard of the environment, jail records show.

According to an arrest report, a Miami police detective reviewed a video posted to Instagram on July 8.

Police said the video shows Iglesias standing on the Brickell Key Drive bridge and intentionally emptying a brown trash container filled with “miscellaneous solid waste” over the bridge railing and into Biscayne Bay.

They said Iglesias, who is listed as homeless in his arrest report, then threw the trash container into the water.

The video also showed remnants of the trash that had landed on the bridge sidewalk being gathered by hand and thrown into the bay, according to the report.

The report states that authorities identified Iglesias on July 16 using a police flyer. An MPD officer said he saw Iglesias the day after the dumping while working an off-duty detail at a Whole Foods Market on Biscayne Boulevard.

Police said they obtained surveillance video from the store showing Iglesias wearing the same clothing seen in the Instagram video entering the store on July 9 and briefly interacting with the officer.

Records also show Iglesias is facing charges of resisting an officer without violence, giving a false name or identification after arrest, and prohibited camping in Miami Beach in an unrelated case.

As of Tuesday afternoon, he remained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”

Juan Emilio Iglesias, de 34 años, fue arrestado el sábado por el Departamento de Policía de Miami y enfrenta un cargo de desprecio deliberado por el medio ambiente, según los registros de la cárcel.

Según un informe de arresto, un detective de la policía de Miami revisó un video publicado en Instagram el 8 de julio.

La policía dijo que el video muestra a Iglesias de pie en el puente de Brickell Key Drive y vaciando intencionalmente un contenedor de basura marrón lleno de “desechos sólidos diversos” por encima de la baranda del puente y hacia la bahía Biscayne.

Dijeron que Iglesias, quien aparece como persona sin hogar en su informe de arresto, luego arrojó el contenedor de basura al agua.

El video también mostró restos de la basura que habían caído sobre la acera del puente siendo recogidos con las manos y arrojados a la bahía, según el informe.

El informe indica que las autoridades identificaron a Iglesias el 16 de julio utilizando un volante policial. Un agente del MPD dijo que vio a Iglesias al día siguiente de que arrojara la basura mientras trabajaba en un servicio fuera de turno en una tienda Whole Foods Market en Biscayne Boulevard.

La policía dijo que obtuvo un video de vigilancia de la tienda que muestra a Iglesias usando la misma ropa que aparece en el video de Instagram al entrar a la tienda el 9 de julio e interactuar brevemente con el agente.

Los registros también muestran que Iglesias enfrenta cargos por resistirse a un agente sin violencia, proporcionar un nombre o identificación falsos después de un arresto y acampar en lugares prohibidos en Miami Beach, en un caso no relacionado.

Hasta la tarde del martes, permanecía en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, donde su fianza figuraba como “por establecerse”.

But look skyward anyway Wednesday and, if you’re far enough north in the U.S. and Canada, you might savor a partial eclipse as the moon nibbles away at the sun.

Totality will begin near the North Pole, then streak southward across Greenland, Iceland, Spain and a patch of Portugal. Daytime darkness won’t last more than a couple minutes at best — shrimpy compared with North America’s epic 2024 eclipse — but it is continental Europe's first encounter with totality since 1999. Spain gets a much longer shot at totality next August, along with North Africa and the Middle East.

For the U.S., the Great American Eclipse of 2017 kicked off the sun-vanishing mania with more than two minutes of totality from Oregon to South Carolina. The amount of totality almost doubled in 2024, racing diagonally from Mexico's Pacific coast all the way past Newfoundland.

America's next coast-to-coast total solar eclipse isn't until 2045. So catch a partial now if you can, but don't forget to protect your eyes with certified eclipse glasses.

Here's a list of some U.S. and Canadian cities in position to see a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday if skies are clear, in alphabetical order, with local times and the amount of sun coverage provided by NASA:

—Anchorage, Alaska, with 28% coverage. Begins at 7:36 a.m. and ends at 9:09 a.m., peaking at 8:21 a.m.

—Bangor, Maine, with 24% coverage. Begins at 12:54 p.m. and ends at 2:49 p.m., peaking at 1:53 p.m.

—Detroit with 3% coverage. Begins at 1:03 p.m. and ends at 2:08 p.m., peaking at 1:36 p.m.

—Montreal, Quebec, with 18% coverage. Begins at 12:50 p.m. and ends at 2:38 p.m., peaking at 1:45 p.m.

—New York City with 9% coverage. Begins at 1:07 p.m. and ends at 2:38 p.m., peaking at 1:54 p.m.

—Philadelphia with 7% coverage. Begins at 1:11 p.m. and ends at 2:35 p.m., peaking at 1:53 p.m.

—St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, with 53% coverage. Begins at 2:28 p.m. and ends at 4:37 p.m., peaking at 3:35 p.m.

—Toronto, Ontario, with 8% coverage. Begins at 12:55 p.m. and ends at 2:23 p.m., peaking at 1:40 p.m.

—Washington, D.C., with 4% coverage. Begins at 1:17 p.m. and ends at 2:27 p.m., peaking at 1:53 p.m.

—Winnipeg, Manitoba, with 5% coverage. Begins at 11:25 a.m. and ends at 12:40 p.m., peaking at 12:02 p.m.

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Entertainment site TMZ first reported Tuesday on the deal between prosecutors and former Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Lamar Roman, who was fired soon after his arrest.

Roman, 29, of Key West, will avoid jail as part of the deal, signed on July 1. He was arrested in March.

Authorities said Roman, then 28, was working security on the set of “Bad Monkey” ― a streaming show set in the Keys starring Vince Vaughn and based on a book of the same title by legendary South Florida author Carl Hiaasen ― on Big Pine Key on Feb. 3 when he noticed the woman getting off the extras bus.

An MCSO report stated that he “began whistling at her” and proceeded to “cat call” her, “very loudly” saying, “Oh my god, why didn’t nobody tell me we were bringing models to (the) set.” Investigators said the two eventually spoke and while the woman said she had a boyfriend, Roman was “flirting and joking” with her and they exchanged names and cellphone numbers.

Investigators said Roman, who had been a deputy for about half a year, used Florida’s Driver And Vehicle Information Database ― better known as DAVID ― and the Florida Crime Information Center/National Crime Information Center ― or FCIC/NCIC ― databases to look up the extra and enter her license plate information into a “hotlist,” which would alert if her vehicle was picked up on any license plate readers.

He was accused of using that information to pull her over while she was driving on U.S. 1.

According to MCSO, after he got caught, Roman fessed up, saying, “I saw a shiny thing.”

As part of his deal, Roman will have to stay out of trouble for two years and have no contact with the woman.

He’ll pay about $1,700 to cover investigative and prosecutorial costs and will have to perform 100 hours of community service and continue psychotherapy.

El sitio de entretenimiento TMZ informó por primera vez el martes sobre el acuerdo entre los fiscales y el ex agente de la Oficina del Sheriff del condado Monroe, Lamar Roman, quien fue despedido poco después de su arresto.

Roman, de 29 años y residente de Key West, evitará la cárcel como parte del acuerdo, firmado el 1 de julio. Fue arrestado en marzo.

Las autoridades dijeron que Roman, entonces de 28 años, trabajaba como seguridad en el set de “Bad Monkey” —un programa de streaming grabado en los Cayos y protagonizado por Vince Vaughn, basado en un libro del mismo nombre del reconocido autor del sur de Florida Carl Hiaasen— en Big Pine Key el 3 de febrero cuando vio a la mujer bajarse del autobús de los extras.

Un informe de la MCSO indicó que él “comenzó a silbarle” y procedió a “gritarle piropos”, diciendo “muy fuerte”: “Dios mío, ¿por qué nadie me dijo que íbamos a traer modelos al set?”. Los investigadores dijeron que los dos finalmente hablaron y, aunque la mujer dijo que tenía novio, Roman estaba “coqueteando y bromeando” con ella y ambos intercambiaron sus nombres y números de teléfono celular.

Los investigadores dijeron que Roman, quien había sido agente durante aproximadamente medio año, utilizó la base de datos de Información de Conductores y Vehículos de Florida —mejor conocida como DAVID— y las bases de datos del Centro de Información Criminal de Florida/Centro Nacional de Información Criminal —o FCIC/NCIC— para buscar información sobre la extra y registrar los datos de su placa en una “lista de vigilancia”, que emitiría una alerta si su vehículo era detectado por algún lector de placas.

Fue acusado de utilizar esa información para detenerla mientras conducía por U.S. 1.

Según la MCSO, después de ser descubierto, Roman admitió lo ocurrido y dijo: “Vi algo brillante”.

Como parte del acuerdo, Roman tendrá que mantenerse alejado de problemas durante dos años y no podrá tener contacto con la mujer.

Pagará aproximadamente $1,700 USD para cubrir los costos de investigación y procesamiento y tendrá que realizar 100 horas de servicio comunitario y continuar con psicoterapia.

Other charges were dropped. After entering the plea by video, Haddish was placed on 12 months' probation and told to avoid drugs and alcohol and complete a substance abuse evaluation. She was credited for the brief time she spent in jail following her arrest.

Haddish’s films include the comedy “Girls Trip,” “Night School,” “Like a Boss” and “The Kitchen.” She wrote the New York Times bestseller “The Last Black Unicorn,” which earned a Grammy nomination for a subsequent audiobook she narrated. In 2018, she won an Emmy for her appearance on “Saturday Night Live” and a Grammy in 2021 for her special “Black Mitzvah.”

At around 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 14, 2022, someone called 911 to report seeing a person who appeared to be asleep in the driver's seat of a white Ford Explorer with their foot on the brake in Peachtree City, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Atlanta, according to a court filing. An officer spotted an SUV that matched the description given by the caller and stopped Haddish as she pulled into a neighborhood, according to a police report.

Haddish's lawyers in May asked a judge to dismiss the case, arguing that waiting more than four years for the case to be resolved had caused personal and professional difficulties and violated her right to a speedy trial. Fayette County State Court Judge Jason Thompson rejected her arguments.

The judge found that Haddish and her attorneys had requested some of the delays, including a request for a delay so she could attend a fashion show in Morocco and a request to leave a hearing early to catch a flight. He wrote that she also did not show any evidence of having missed specific performing opportunities or of actual financial harm because of the delay.

Haddish also was arrested in November 2023 in Beverly Hills, California, on suspicion of driving under the influence after police received a call and said Haddish appeared to be slumped over the wheel of a vehicle while the engine was still running.

Haddish reached a plea deal with prosecutors in that case in February 2024, pleading no contest to a vehicle code violation, and the two misdemeanor DUI charges against her were dropped, according to the Los Angeles Times.

En un comunicado, un portavoz de la empresa privada fundada en 1977 dijo que la ubicación había estado abierta durante una década.

Aba, un restaurante mediterráneo; Le Zoo, un restaurante francés; y Carpaccio, un restaurante italiano, también cerraron sus ubicaciones en Bal Harbour Shops.

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La policía de Hollywood identificó al sospechoso como Philip Brown, de 49 años, de Miami. Enfrenta cargos de conducta criminal y de causar más de $1,000 USD en daños a la propiedad.

El arresto se produce después de que los propietarios le dijeron previamente a Local 10 que un hombre que no conocían había aparecido repetidamente en su segunda vivienda y había dañado la propiedad.

Las cámaras de seguridad captaron varios de los incidentes.

Los propietarios dijeron que el hombre arrancó las cámaras de seguridad de la casa, rompió varias ventanas y realizó amenazas violentas. Según la pareja, había invitados en la propiedad durante algunos de los incidentes.

Los propietarios dijeron que se comunicaron con la policía cada vez que el hombre regresaba, pero él se iba antes de que llegaran los agentes.

“Tenemos miedo, estamos muy ansiosos por esto, porque este hombre está atacando nuestra casa, Dios sabe por qué”, dijo previamente a Local 10 uno de los propietarios, quien pidió no ser identificado. “No lo conocemos. No tenemos enemigos, nada. Es vandalismo, son amenazas, es robo y no tenemos idea de qué quiere de nosotros”.

En ese momento, la propietaria dijo que revisaba constantemente las cámaras de seguridad de la propiedad porque no sabía cuándo podría regresar el hombre.

Posteriormente, la policía de Hollywood arrestó a Brown en relación con los incidentes.

Brown posteriormente salió de la cárcel bajo fianza.

Las autoridades no han revelado un posible motivo del vandalismo repetido.

Mozeliak also fired bullpen coach Dom Chiti and assistant pitching coach Darryl Scott in a shake-up of first-year manager Kurt Suzuki’s staff with just 43 games remaining for the Angels, who have the majors' worst record at 45-74.

While Mozeliak said that "no one thing just stood out” in his decision to fire Maddux, he prominently cited his desire for the Angels to “use all the different tools that you see a lot of pitchers use today.”

“I think there was becoming some level of frustration with the inconsistency of that, and so ultimately that's when we started thinking about, ‘Do we need to make a change?’” Mozeliak said. ”I do feel like we have a lot of great resources that we could be taking (greater) advantage of."

The dismissals were the latest shake-up in a tumultuous year for the Angels, who fired general manager Perry Minasian in late June. Los Angeles is headed toward its 11th consecutive losing season and 12th straight non-playoff season, both the longest active droughts in the majors, under much-criticized owner Arte Moreno.

Mozeliak, the longtime St. Louis Cardinals general manager, agreed to take over baseball operations for Moreno on a temporary basis after Minasian's firing, and he has endeavored to modernize the Halos' long-struggling organization.

Mozeliak said the Angels have technology and information on par with the rest of the majors, and he's confident it is being used properly by Suzuki's offensive staff — but the pitching operation needed an urgent overhaul.

“There’s so many more resources out there that really every team in baseball is utilizing, so (we’re) just making sure that the Angels are up to speed with that and leveraging this,” Mozeliak said. “I know our research and development team upstairs, they’re providing a lot of useful things that I think we can be taking advantage of. And then moving forward ... what can we do to make this a state-of-the-art place for player growth? What you don’t want to do is have players outsourcing those types of things. You want it to be the internal model, and hopefully we can accomplish that.”

Maddux, who turns 65 later this month, didn’t last one full season with the Angels after leaving the Texas Rangers last winter. The former major leaguer is widely respected in the game after 24 seasons as a pitching coach, and he played a significant role in the Rangers’ success during their 2023 World Series title.

But in Anaheim, Maddux presided over a staff that has posted the majors’ seventh-worst ERA at 4.51 and an MLB-high 508 walks.

Angels left-hander Reid Detmers, whose 1.10 WHIP is the 14th-best in the majors, said “everybody is surprised” by the firings.

“I mean, if we have it, might as well use it, right?," said Detmers, who evaluates his biomechanics in every bullpen session and consults with his personal coaches during the season. “I'm not saying we didn't use it all the time, but there's definitely times where we could have used it. In my eyes, it's only going to make you better.”

Tim Leveque was appointed Los Angeles’ interim pitching coach, and Michael Wuertz will be the club’s interim bullpen coach. Leveque was the pitching coach at the Angels’ Double-A Rocket City affiliate after working in the Cardinals organization during Mozeliak’s tenure.

“He’s a smart guy who really understands where the game is at, and I think he’ll be a good resource for (Suzuki),” Mozeliak said of Leveque.

Suzuki is on a one-year contract in his first major league managerial job. Mozeliak said he won't make any additional changes before the end of the season in seven weeks.

“I appreciated everything that they did,” Suzuki said of the fired coaches. “They worked hard. They prepared. At the end of the day, Mo and I felt like the path moving forward in these last 43 games ... we felt like this was the best way.”

Chiti was in his first season as the bullpen coach after rejoining the Angels organization in late 2023. Scott also was in his first season with the Angels after several years with the Colorado Rockies.

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The fire companies tried to extinguish the May 15 fire inside a silo at the Robbins Lumber mill in rural Searsmont, Maine, by injecting it with water — unaware of warnings from the manufacturer that doing so would be dangerous.

The silo then blasted skyward like a rocket as flames and a shock wave from the explosion hurled workers and firefighters away.

The firefighters didn’t know, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health wrote this month, that the silo was oxygen-limiting, a type of sealed structure that can become pressurized with combustible gases during a fire.

That kind of buildup is a known hazard in oxygen-limited silos, and both the manufacturer and fire safety organizations put out firefighting guidance warning against putting water or foam into such chambers.

“The document warns against spraying water or foam into the oxygen-limiting silo as it will force air in and may create a potentially explosive mixture,” the report states. “The application of water into the silo in this incident likely entrained oxygen into the silo headspace, stirred up dust within the contents, and caused it to become suspended in an explosive concentration.”

The report recommends that fire departments make sure firefighters choose appropriate tactics for silo fires and never direct water or foam into oxygen-limiting silos. It also states that more training is needed for fire departments about the hazards associated with different types of silos.

The blast also injured at least 13 people and the toppling of the silo engulfed the surrounding area in fire, investigators have said. The explosion took place in the small town about 95 miles (150 kilometers) northeast of Portland and triggered a response of 299 firefighters from 46 departments across a four-county area. It took them hours to contain the fire.

Representatives for Searsmont Fire & Rescue did not return phone calls seeking comment Tuesday. The department's assistant fire chief, Wayne Woodbury, 76, died from injuries suffered in the explosion. Andrew Cross, 27, of the Morrill Volunteer Fire Department, also died. Alden Robbins, the co-owner of the mill, died from injuries weeks later.

Robbins Lumber representatives said on the company's website that “no report can fully capture the heartbreak experienced by our community, nor can it lessen the tremendous loss suffered by so many.” The company is working with industry experts to rebuild its facilities, the statement said.

“Our objective is not simply to meet current industry standards, but to exceed them. We are committed to learning from this event and to doing everything we can to help prevent anything like this from happening again,” the statement said.

The National Fire Protection Association declined to comment on the report beyond saying it encourages firefighters to participate in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's work to improve safety investigations. The Maine Department of Public Safety also declined to comment.

Officials with the town of Searsmont said in a statement that a final investigation into the explosion is still ongoing.

"As investigations move forward, we should allow the facts to guide any conclusions. It is neither fair nor constructive to rush to judgment or to diminish the dedication of the firefighters who responded or the company that suffered such a devastating loss," the statement said.

The Maine State Fire Marshal's Office said in late May that rapid ignition of particulate material resulted in the silo explosion, which caused it to lift from its concrete base and release large amounts of sawdust and other materials. It said the fire and explosion were accidental.

The mill is a part of the historic lumber and wood products industry in Maine. The company has said it is a high tech lumber manufacturer that has been in existence since the 19th century.

El depth chart no está definido. La NFL exige que los equipos publiquen uno, y los Dolphins tienen varias competencias por posiciones que continuarán durante la pretemporada.

Estos son algunos de los puntos más destacados:

Caleb Douglas aparece como receptor abierto titular

El novato Caleb Douglas aparece como receptor abierto titular después de un sólido campamento de entrenamiento. A pesar de haber dejado caer algunos pases durante el campamento, la selección de tercera ronda tardía ha mostrado explosividad y dureza en el centro del campo mientras surge como un objetivo confiable para el quarterback Malik Willis.

Douglas ha hecho jugadas de manera constante durante el campamento y actualmente aparece por delante de los veteranos Tutu Atwell, Terrace Marshall Jr. y Theo Wease Jr.

Douglas se une a Malik Washington como receptor titular. Washington también ha mostrado potencial para realizar jugadas importantes y con frecuencia ha sido llamado “WR1” durante el campamento.

Trey Moore gana puesto como linebacker titular

El novato Trey Moore, seleccionado en la cuarta ronda procedente de Texas, aparece como linebacker interno del primer equipo y como el tercer linebacker en la defensa base 4-3 de Miami.

Moore fue seleccionado en el puesto 130 en general y aporta versatilidad después de jugar como edge rusher en la universidad. Corrió las 40 yardas en 4.54 segundos en el NFL Scouting Combine y ha recibido elogios por su explosividad, uso de las manos y capacidad para presionar al quarterback.

Aunque Moore aparece como titular, el depth chart también incluye a Tyrel Dodson o Jacob Rodriguez como linebacker interno.

Rodriguez, selección de segunda ronda de Miami procedente de Texas Tech, compite con Dodson por el puesto de linebacker Mike titular. La posición de Rodriguez es diferente a la de Moore, lo que convierte esto en otra competencia por posición que habrá que seguir durante la pretemporada.

Chris Johnson aparece como cornerback nickel titular

El cornerback de primera ronda Chris Johnson aparece como el nickel cornerback titular, con Jason Marshall Jr. y JuJu Brents como cornerbacks exteriores.

La ubicación de Johnson en el interior es notable mientras Miami continúa determinando cómo quedará conformada su joven secundaria.

Kenneth Grant y Jordan Phillips compiten por el segundo puesto de tackle defensivo

Los Dolphins también tienen una competencia importante en tackle defensivo, con Kenneth Grant como titular junto a Jordan Phillips.

Grant, selección de primera ronda en 2026, busca demostrar que puede estar a la altura de su posición en el Draft y jugar junto a Zach Sieler.

Competencia por RB2: Jaylen Wright por delante de Ollie Gordon II

Hasta el martes, el corredor Jaylen Wright aparece como el corredor número 2 de los Dolphins, por delante del novato Ollie Gordon II. De’Von Achane es claramente el corredor número 1.

Gordon ha mostrado buen poder y explosividad durante el campamento, pero tiene tendencia a correr un poco erguido, mientras que Wright ha demostrado una sólida capacidad para atrapar pases.

Wright recibió elogios del centro Aaron Brewer durante el campamento de entrenamiento.

“Se puede ver que ha madurado mucho más”, dijo Brewer. “Está tratando de trabajar duro. Está tratando de hacerse un nombre”.

Malik Washington se encargará de las devoluciones

Washington aparece como el regresador titular de patadas de salida y despejes de Miami.

Esto ocurre después de que el coordinador de equipos especiales Chris Tabor indicara que planea utilizar a Washington siempre que sea posible. Washington ya ha demostrado su capacidad para hacer jugadas importantes como receptor y ahora podría tener un papel ampliado en los equipos especiales.

Nuevamente, el depth chart es solo una imagen de cómo están las cosas de cara a la pretemporada. El primer partido de pretemporada de Miami el viernes contra Washington ofrecerá otra oportunidad para que los jugadores que compiten por puestos titulares y lugares en el roster presenten sus argumentos.

El inicio del partido está programado para las 7 p.m.

El primer depth chart (no oficial) de los Dolphins ya salió:

- Caleb Douglas aparece como receptor abierto titula

- Tyrel Dodson O Jacob Rodriguez aparecen como linebackers internos titulares

- Trey Moore como linebacker interno titular

- Chris Johnson aparece como nickelback titular pic.twitter.com/VtB7WWI5Et

- Marcel Louis-Jacques (@Marcel_LJ) 11 de agosto de 2026