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An initial call was made to authorities regarding a suspicious white power found in an envelope.

Wasserman Schultz’s office is located in Sunrise, east of the Sawgrass Expressway and south of Sunrise Boulevard.

According to Sunrise police, the envelope was safely secured and remains unopened, but the contents of the envelope are unknown.

There has been no word on whether Wasserman Schultz was at her office on Monday.

The congresswoman did post about the incident on X, thanking Sunrise PD for responding quickly and ensuring the safety of her staff.

Today, like other Members, my district office received a suspicious letter. I’m thankful Sunrise Police and first responders acted swiftly to ensure my staff’s safety. Cowardly acts of intimidation like this will not work. They have no place in our politics and must be condemned. pic.twitter.com/w7cedz9VMw

— Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (@RepDWStweets) October 19, 2026

Wasserman Shultz dealt with a mail-related alarm eight years ago when a suspicious package arrived at the same district headquarters site.

We know that federal investigators are now looking into several similar incidents of suspicious letters arriving at congressional offices in recent days, that all contained a white powdery substance.

On Friday, investigators in Central Florida raced to Rep. Maxwell Frost’s office after a suspicious item was delivered there, and a second emergency call in the same area prompted a similar alarm at Rep. Darren Soto’s office.

Officials in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Ohio are also trying to narrow down the source of the concerning mail sent to the offices of elected leaders.

Wilson endorsed Gilbert, who served as the mayor of Miami Gardens from 2012 to 2020, and announced his Jan. 3rd resignation on May 29 as Miami-Dade County Commissioner.

Gilbert and Brown both agreed that the residents of the district, which covers parts of northern Miami-Dade County and southern Broward County, are struggling with affordability.

“I think there are three things that affect the cost of living. I think the tariffs are affecting the cost of living. I think the war in Iran, closing the Strait of Hormuz, has affected the cost of living ... the administration’s approach to immigration is affecting the cost of living,” Gilbert said. “I think we need to all of those three things.”

Gilbert said that he supports Temporary Protected Status for Haitians.

“TPS isn’t a new occurrence. Folks have come here fleeing countries that they couldn’t go back to all the time. We never put them out, while those countries were still bad,” Gilbert said. “We helped them incorporate themselves into the American experiment.”

Brown said she believes there are three options for immigrants.

“You either have a pathway to citizenship, you get in this line. You want permanent residency, you get in this line. If you don’t want either, you get in this line,” Brown said. “You have to go back.”

Wright Entertainment Inc. said Monday that Riehle had died Oct. 15 but disclosed no cause or details. “Our industry has lost an exceptional talent, and our community has lost a truly wonderful man,” said a statement.

Riehle's almost five-decade career included playing a quartermaster in the Civil War drama “Glory,” a prison guard in “The Fugitive,” an air marshal in “Executive Decision,” a police officer in a guest spot on “The West Wing” and a principal on the TV adaptation of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

“If a casting director has found themselves in need of a burly, blustery, mustachioed man for their project, Richard Riehle has likely been near the top of their list,” The AV Club said in 2017.

He fell into acting as a senior at the University of Notre Dame. He couldn’t really afford to stay another year but was told he could take all the credits he needed in speech and drama in one semester. He stayed.

“I spent a semester doing anything and everything that you do in the theater — acting, directing, building sets, etc. — and then for some reason they liked what I did enough that they got me a teaching assistantship at the University of Minnesota. So I went on and got my MFA (Masters of Fine Arts). I figured, ‘What the heck? If they’re gonna pay me to do it, I’m gonna do it!’” he told the AV Club.

He had his first lines in the 1977 movie “Joyride” alongside Desi Arnaz Jr., Anne Lockhart, Robert Carradine and Melanie Griffith. He'd go on to appear in the broad comedy “Bridesmaids,” the comedy-mystery “Shadows and Fog” for Woody Allen, “Black Rain” with Michael Douglas and the sitcom “Grounded For Life.”

He had an affinity to the “Star Trek” world, landing parts in three franchises — “Star Trek: The Next Generation” in 1992, “Star Trek: Voyager” in 2000 and “Star Trek: Enterprise” in 2004. He was on Broadway three times, including with Paul Giamatti in a 1999 revival of “The Iceman Cometh.”

One of his most beloved roles was in the 1999 film “Office Space,” as Tom Smykowski, an expendable employee at Initech facing getting laid off despite insisting, “I have people skills!”

“Beyond his immense talent, he will be remembered for his genuine goodness, boundless kindness, and unwavering generosity, particularly toward emerging actors and filmmakers, whom he encouraged and supported at every opportunity,” Wright Entertainment said.

Se trata de una medida provisional ordenada por el juez César Osorio Ortiz, responsable de un juzgado en Bogotá, mientras decide el fondo de una acción de amparo elevada por colectivos y políticos opositores que están en desacuerdo con la decisión.

La semana pasada, medios de comunicación locales y colectivos denunciaron el retiro de aproximadamente 30 obras relacionadas con la historia de las organizaciones sociales feministas, de la población LGBTIQ+ y de la violencia política en el país.

El juez ordenó preservar todas las piezas retiradas de las exposiciones y guardarlas en condiciones idóneas de conservación, absteniéndose de destruirlas, intervenirlas o trasladarlas fuera del museo. También ordenó a la institución enviarle un informe detallado de las piezas retiradas y su estado de conservación.

El desmonte de las obras del Museo Nacional —creado en 1823 y uno de los más antiguos del continente— coincidió con las declaraciones de De la Espriella sobre adelantar una “contrarrevolución” cultural que buscaría “impedir” que los espacios culturales “sean captados por el socialcomunismo ateo y enemigo de los valores fundamentales”.

La decisión fue cuestionada por organizaciones feministas, por la comunidad LGBTIQ+ y por colectivos de paz que consideran que se trata de un acto de “censura” que puede conducir a la exclusión de relatos y de hechos históricos del país.

El descontento se tradujo el fin de semana en manifestaciones frente al Museo Nacional, ubicado en el centro de Bogotá, que fueron disueltas el domingo por tanquetas antidisturbios con potentes chorros de agua. La defensora del Pueblo, Iris Marín, dijo el lunes a la prensa que tienen reportes de personas heridas durante la protesta, sin detallar el número.

Entre las obras retiradas está un afiche de Carlos Pizarro, excomandante del M-19 y quien fue asesinado en 1990 tras desmovilizar a esa guerrilla y aspirar a la presidencia. El expresidente progresista Gustavo Petro (2022-2026) militó en el M-19 y fue parte de quienes transitaron a la legalidad.

De la Espriella ha dicho que debe ser “desaparecida” de los lugares públicos la “oda de terrorismo en la que aparece Pizarro”. Mientras que la ministra de Cultura, Paola Holguín, aseguró que el museo no puede prestarse para la “apología al delito o revictimización”.

El lunes un grupo de congresistas impulsaban en el Congreso una solicitud para citar a Holguín a una rendición de cuentas por el retiro de las piezas en el Museo Nacional.

“I just think we have to create better shots in this game,” he said.

The swarming, in-your-face defense that carried the Valkyries to a No. 2 seed in their second season in the league was on full display in a 68-64 win Saturday — and coach Natalie Nakase challenged her team to be even more fierce defensively to dictate the tempo in Game 2.

“Looking forward to our best four quarters of defense,” Nakase said. “It will be today, it better be.”

Dream players met to discuss how they could improve their handling of various situations that came up in Game 1.

“Everybody's had a great attitude, they've all kind of pulled together,” Smesko said. “They know how important Game 2 is. These games come fast, you have to get over the disappointment of Game 1, learn from it and then try to give your best effort to win Game 2 and make the series even.”

Golden State's Tiffany Hayes, who hit her face on the court late in Game 1, was cleared to play. The veteran guard, who played her first 10 seasons for Atlanta, went down while trying to make a steal and was on the floor with 2:38 remaining before walking off the court to the locker room.

“Everyone's good to go tonight,” Nakase said.

The hope for the Dream was that Gray would be at full strength physically and ready to start. Smesko heard from the star forward she was feeling good. She returned in the series opener after being sidelined for the last two games of the Dream's semifinal sweep of the New York Liberty because of a finger injury.

Gray didn't score in the fourth quarter Saturday, when the Dream shot 2 for 19 and scored eight points over the final 10 minutes. Reese scored all of her 14 points before halftime.

“Don't let her touch it,” Nakase said of Reese. “That could be that easy. But she's a tough coverage, even when she has the ball she drives with force so it's just making sure we're taking away the shot that she wants but also it's going to be team base anyway.”

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Trump's relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has always been a moving target, while the Republican president has frequently boasted of his rapport with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. But relations between the U.S. and Ukraine appear to be at a new low, threatening to tip the balance of the war to Russia's favor and imperil America's security interests across the globe.

“At this moment in time, things look blacker than they ever had regarding this administration’s policy towards Russia and Ukraine,” said John Herbst, a former ambassador to Ukraine under President George W. Bush and now a scholar with the Atlantic Council.

Trump has been lobbing insults at Zelenskyy for over a week and turning to policies that benefit Putin, while Ukraine's president has said he feels betrayed and worries for his country's future. But the American president can still shift on Zelenskyy — especially as he faces bipartisan outrage from lawmakers — which Trump has done before.

Trump famously thrashed Ukraine’s leader in the Oval Office last year, warning him to “make a deal or we are out." Washington briefly suspended intelligence sharing. But Trump was praising Zelenskyy by that July and said they “actually developed a good relationship.”

“Trump is a mercurial guy,” Herbst said. “He can wake up tomorrow morning, decide he’s done enough on this, and he might start to lean back in the other direction.”

No one has taken responsibility for satellite restrictions on Ukraine

Trump's recent decisions have baffled experts and infuriated Democrats and some Republicans ahead of pivotal midterm elections in two weeks.

After The Wall Street Journal reported that Putin raised the prospect of a meeting with Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, Trump told reporters Monday that he was open to it but expected it to focus on denuclearization efforts. Asked whether he would be willing to negotiate the end of the war without Zelenskyy, Trump appeared to indicate yes.

“I think it’s time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine,” Trump said.

Trump decided Friday to waive sanctions on Russia in a bill that Congress overwhelmingly passed to support Ukraine. Named after late South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, the legislation targeted the flow of financial resources fueling Russia's war.

That rebuke followed Trump's announcement of a deal to import Russian diesel fuel in a long-shot effort to curb high gas prices. The agreement was pilloried by Republicans and Democrats alike who say it will help Russia without making a difference in global fuel prices, which are elevated mostly due to Trump’s war against Iran.

Then there were changes in SpaceX's satellite support to Ukraine's military, for which no one has taken responsibility.

Starshield is a military-grade version of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service and the backbone of Ukraine’s drone operations and communication. Zelenskyy says his country is facing major speed restrictions, so Ukrainian drones have been unable to intercept Russia's jet-powered drones.

SpaceX chief Elon Musk, a Trump ally, has said Starshield is controlled by the U.S. and any limits are decided by the military and ultimately Trump. But Trump told reporters Friday that he did not order restrictions and doubted that Musk did either.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that Ukraine wants access to Starshield but doesn't have it. On Monday, he said the Pentagon controls Starshield, and "Ukraine has benefited from it” and wants to expand its use to conduct attacks beyond its territory.

The U.S. military has not responded to questions about its involvement.

And while Russia has launched new attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Zelenskyy said Monday that Kyiv once again received no early warning of the latest attacks from partners such as the U.S.

“Russia killed six people, including a mother and her child, who was just over a year old,” Zelenskyy said on X, adding that this "is how Russia responds to sanctions waivers and reduced pressure.”

Trump and Rubio say Washington hasn’t stopped providing intelligence to Kyiv that has helped Ukraine counter Russian attacks.

Experts say Trump is trying to appease Putin

Dan Fried, a former U.S. ambassador to Poland and assistant secretary of state for European affairs under Bush, said he was mystified by the Trump administration’s shifting positions on Ukraine.

Fried said he first thought Trump’s diesel fuel announcement was aimed at trying to influence the midterms with cheaper fuel prices. But what followed has changed his opinion.

“It all seems designed to put pressure on Zelenskyy and curry favor with Putin,” said Fried, now a scholar with the Atlantic Council.

Fiona Hill, who was Trump’s Russia adviser on the National Security Council during his first term, said Trump could be trying to appease Putin over worries that Russia could do more to support Iran.

Since Trump launched the Iran war in February, Russia has sent drone technology to Tehran and information that could help it strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region.

“So maybe this is it — Putin’s just calling in a chit for not devastating Trump through Iran as he could do by helping the Iranians,” said Hill, now a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution.

Trump revealed his worries on social media Sunday, saying, “Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran, compared to what they could be doing, and I want to keep it that way, and will, unless stupid people get in the way.”

Criticism grows in Congress

One factor that could nudge Trump toward a detente with Zelenskyy is the cascading criticism from Republicans. They are facing a surge of Democratic momentum in the final stretch of the midterms, which will determine control of Congress.

Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a moderate Republican in a competitive race, is calling for congressional hearings into the Starshield disruptions and "immediate harsh and punitive budget cuts to any responsible agency or agency head.”

Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said on X that he and retiring Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis organized a call with Zelenskyy and a bipartisan group of lawmakers Monday, including about disruptions to U.S. intelligence sharing.

Zelenskyy, in a video of the briefing posted online, also noted that Ukraine has “almost no Patriot interceptors left from the United States” and claimed “the Pentagon is delaying the delivery of missiles that our partners have already paid for.”

Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged Trump to take up Zelenskyy's pledge to stop attacks on Russian energy infrastructure in exchange for U.S. targeting assistance to stop Russia's missiles.

“President Trump can lower prices at the pump today by simply agreeing to this deal!” Wicker posted on X.

Regardless of which political party controls Congress next year, lawmakers will likely revolt if Trump enters into a deal with Russia and China over Ukraine, said Fried, the former ambassador to Poland.

“It is clear that we are sitting on considerable leverage over Putin," he said, "but also clear that we are not using it. It’s a mess.”

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Associated Press writers Lynn Berry and Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.

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Sierra, 42, confessed to killing his estranged wife Gladys Machado,29, and her two young daughters – 6-year-old Julia Padrino and 3-year-old Daniela Padrino – in 2012.

After hearing weeks of testimony in the sentencing phase of the trial, jurors will need to weigh whether life in prison or a death sentence is the appropriate punishment for Sierra.

As lead prosecutor Abbe Rifkin delivered her closing argument for why she thinks the jury should recommend death as the appropriate sentence, she reminded the jury of the brutality of the triple homicide case.

She spoke about how Sierra “carved up her arms” while recounting how he used a yellow plastic Sedano’s bag to suffocate the three victims.

“He carved up her face,” he said.

Rifkin also referenced distressing autopsy and crime scene photos of wounds that tell the visual story of their violent end.

“It was heinous, atrocious and cruel,” said Rifkin.

Defense attorney Khurrum Wahid told the jury they took an oath to put their feelings aside, weigh trial evidence and consider life in prison without parole as an appropriate punishment.

“He admits that he did this monstrous act,” said Wahid. “You are going to have these feelings of anger, and hate, and disgust. The choice here is a moral choice that is before you.”

Wahid asked jurors to consider aspects of his client’s background, including a traumatic childhood car accident.

“(He suffered) a head injury in 1996,” said Wahid. “This is the piece that is missing.”

During the trial, a defense expert testified that head injury resulted in a change in behavior for Sierra’s personality, impacting his executive functioning.

“A non-healthy brain has consequences,” said Wahid, who requested the jury weigh the horrific events of that fateful day against the totality of their client’s life. “You still can exercise your moral clarity and choose life.”

Jurors are expected to begin deliberations on Tuesday after receiving final instructions from the judge.

Sierra, de 42 años, confesó haber asesinado a su esposa, de quien estaba separado, Gladys Machado, de 29 años, y a sus dos hijas pequeñas, Julia Padrino, de 6 años, y Daniela Padrino, de 3 años, en 2012.

Después de escuchar semanas de testimonios durante la fase de sentencia del juicio, los miembros del jurado deberán evaluar si la cadena perpetua o la pena de muerte es el castigo apropiado para Sierra.

Mientras la fiscal principal, Abbe Rifkin, presentaba sus argumentos finales sobre por qué considera que el jurado debería recomendar la pena de muerte como sentencia apropiada, recordó a los miembros del jurado la brutalidad del triple homicidio.

Rifkin habló sobre cómo Sierra “le hizo cortes en los brazos” mientras relataba cómo utilizó una bolsa de plástico amarilla de Sedano’s para asfixiar a las tres víctimas.

“Le hizo cortes en la cara”, dijo.

Rifkin también hizo referencia a perturbadoras fotografías de las autopsias y de la escena del crimen que muestran las heridas y cuentan visualmente la historia del violento final de las víctimas.

“Fue atroz, horrible y cruel”, afirmó Rifkin.

El abogado defensor Khurrum Wahid recordó al jurado que prestaron juramento de dejar sus sentimientos a un lado, evaluar las pruebas presentadas durante el juicio y considerar la cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional como un castigo apropiado.

“Él admite que cometió este acto monstruoso”, dijo Wahid. “Ustedes van a experimentar sentimientos de ira, odio y repugnancia. La decisión que tienen ante ustedes es una decisión moral”.

Wahid pidió a los miembros del jurado que consideraran aspectos de los antecedentes de su cliente, incluido un traumático accidente automovilístico que sufrió durante su infancia.

“(Sufrió) una lesión en la cabeza en 1996”, dijo Wahid. “Esta es la pieza que falta”.

Durante el juicio, un experto de la defensa testificó que la lesión en la cabeza provocó un cambio en el comportamiento y la personalidad de Sierra, lo que afectó sus funciones ejecutivas.

“Un cerebro que no está sano tiene consecuencias”, afirmó Wahid, quien pidió al jurado que evaluara los horribles acontecimientos de aquel fatídico día frente a la totalidad de la vida de su cliente. “Todavía pueden ejercer su claridad moral y elegir la vida”.

Se espera que los miembros del jurado comiencen las deliberaciones el martes, después de recibir las instrucciones finales del juez.

The Rays led the Cleveland Guardians 3-2 in the best-of-seven series and had a chance to close it out Monday night to advance to the World Series for the third time in the franchise's 29 seasons.

Díaz, who had three hits in a 3-1 victory Sunday, was asked after that game how he looked at the opportunity to go back to the World Series.

“It’s a great opportunity. All of us are thinking of it. But it all ends (Monday). We’re going to win (Monday),” Díaz said through an interpreter.

It wasn’t quite like Joe Namath’s guarantee that the New York Jets would win Super Bowl 3.

Guardians manager Stephen Vogt wasn’t even aware Díaz made those comments.

“He did that? He said that? I literally have no idea what you’re talking about,” Vogt said Monday. “I’m sure our guys saw it and they know about it.”

Asked if the comments are more motivating or blown out of proportion, Vogt said: “Probably somewhere in the middle of that. The thing I love about our guys, we worry about us, we focus on us. If that gives our guys a little more motivation, great.”

The Guardians face elimination. That's enough motivation. They won three straight games after falling behind the Chicago White Sox 0-2 in the AL Division Series.

“We’re all competitors. It would be kind of worrying if you didn’t feel that way. We think we’re going to win the game as well,” Guardians left fielder Steven Kwan said. “But he’s confident, we’re confident. Hopefully he’s wrong. Hopefully we can come out with the win today.”

The 35-year-old Díaz, who is from Cuba, began his major league career with Cleveland in 2017 and joined the Rays in 2019. He helped them reach the World Series in 2020, when they lost in six games to the Dodgers.

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Las autoridades recibieron inicialmente una llamada sobre un polvo blanco sospechoso encontrado dentro de un sobre.

La oficina de Wasserman Schultz está ubicada en Sunrise, al este de Sawgrass Expressway y al sur de Sunrise Boulevard.

Según la policía de Sunrise, el sobre fue asegurado de manera segura y permanece sin abrir, pero se desconoce su contenido.

Hasta el momento, no se ha informado si Wasserman Schultz se encontraba en su oficina el lunes.

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Fire rescue personnel and Florida Highway Patrol troopers responded to the multi-vehicle crash at about 3:50 p.m. north of Sunrise Boulevard.

Fire rescue personnel freed one person who was trapped in a car and took a woman who was injured to the Broward Health Medical Center, according to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.

Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editors Carson Merlo and Sofia Mendez contributed to this report.

Personal de bomberos y rescate y agentes de la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida respondieron al accidente de varios vehículos alrededor de las 3:50 p.m. al norte de Sunrise Boulevard.

El personal de bomberos y rescate liberó a una persona que quedó atrapada en un automóvil y trasladó a una mujer herida al Broward Health Medical Center, según el Departamento de Bomberos y Rescate de Fort Lauderdale.

Los editores de la mesa de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Carson Merlo y Sofia Mendez, contribuyeron a este reportaje.

George Morgan, a candidate for mayor, had asked the court to disqualify Desulme, who was running for reelection on Nov. 3rd, over the way he paid his qualifying fees.

“He shall be disqualified as a candidate for mayor,” Butchko Sanchez said, as she read her ruling.

Related story: Competitor wants North Miami mayor off ballot, arguing he didn’t properly qualify

Early voting started on Monday in Miami-Dade County. Desulme may decide to seek an emergency stay and to appeal the ruling.

“He is very disappointed,” said Attorney Ben Kuehne, who represents Desulme.

Florida election law requires that the fee be paid from a campaign account and signed by the campaign’s treasurer, and Desulme paid with bank-issued cashier’s checks.

Related story: North Miami voters face mayoral election in November

Kuehne argued that the city’s charter required that the funds come from a campaign account, and Morgan was 80 cents short on his payment.

Desulme, Morgan, and Morgan’s attorney declined to comment on this story.

“I want another two years to continue and finish that work,” Desulme recently told Local 10 News about his work to address flooding.

Related story: North Miami ballot battle heads to court

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Canvassers were out across South Florida as residents made their way to early voting sites, with many citing concerns about the economy, rising grocery prices and housing costs.

Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia said election officials are hoping for strong voter participation.

“We’re hoping for 100%, but we’ll be happy with 60-65 percent,” Garcia said.

Garcia also reassured voters about election security, emphasizing that the county’s voting system uses paper ballots and is not connected to the internet.

“We have no issues with security. As you all know, we vote on paper and we’re not connected to the internet in any way, shape or form,” Garcia said.

There was also a strong turnout on the first day of early voting in Broward County.

“We do usually get a nice group of folks that are waiting for their first day of early voting, and then it kind of tends to drop off after the first day,” said Broward Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott. “But it’s been pretty busy.”

Scott said usually, while the first day of early voting is the busiest, the county is still expecting plenty of ballots to be cast ahead of election day in November.

“People might be at work or have other obligations that day that doesn’t allow them to pull away to go vote,” he said. “But when you have this 14-day period, it’s basically an opportunity for everybody.”

Voters cite economy, rising costs as major concerns

Among those casting their ballots early was Sharon Horne, of North Miami, who said she wanted to make sure her voice was heard.

“We need changes and right now, things are not good -- prices of groceries are so expensive, and the housing market is expensive, and so on and so on,” Horne said.

Veteran Charles Symonette also voted early, saying economic concerns played a major role in his decision to head to the polls.

“I want to make changes. We’re ready for some changes — we done tried everything. We need some new changes now,” Symonette said.

He pointed to concerns about jobs and government assistance programs, including Medicare and Medicaid.

“I’m thinking about jobs being taken away, I’m thinking about Medicare, Medicaid, and I’m thinking about the people that don’t have as much as all the billionaires,” Symonette said.

NAACP urges participation, warns against voter intimidation

As early voting gets underway, Daniella Pierre, president of the NAACP’s Miami-Dade branch, is encouraging residents to exercise their right to vote while warning against voter intimidation.

“It is our responsibility to get up and vote. It is our responsibility if we want to see change — it begins at the ballot box,” Pierre said.

Election officials are encouraging eligible voters to participate as early voting continues across Miami-Dade and Broward counties through Nov. 1 and through Oct. 31 in Monroe County.

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Animal advocates say breeders operating outside the law are profiting from puppies while often failing to provide proper veterinary care, vaccinations and safe living conditions.

Local 10 News animal advocate Jacey Birch spoke with three people working to expose illegal breeding operations, strengthen enforcement and protect animals from exploitation.

Puppies sold in parking lot spark investigation

Rebecca Landerman, who runs Rescue Dog Network, spends her days rescuing dogs from streets and shelters. But she has also taken on another mission: exposing backyard breeders.

Recently, Landerman investigated a woman advertising husky puppies for sale online and arranging to sell them in a Costco parking lot in Davie.

During the encounter, Landerman learned the puppies were being offered for $800 each, were approximately six weeks old and had not received vaccinations.

Breeders are required to obtain permits and register with the county. Puppies must also meet veterinary and vaccination requirements and be at least eight weeks old.

Selling puppies in public places is also prohibited under the local rules cited during the investigation.

A Broward County Animal Care field officer responded and was seen issuing a citation for the violation as the husky puppies sat in a grocery cart.

Landerman believes enforcing existing laws is essential to addressing the problem.

Documentarian exposes conditions behind puppy sales

Christian Ruben, a documentarian with iFilm Heroes, has made it his mission to expose what he describes as the dark side of the animal breeding industry.

Through documentaries, drone footage and a podcast, Ruben has investigated breeding operations across Florida, documenting conditions that prospective buyers rarely see.

“I have seen dogs in Miami, actually in Homestead, German Shepherd breeding inside a chicken coop, barely tall enough to stand,” Ruben said. “When I saw that, I was like, ‘Wow, OK, this is crazy, it’s getting crazier.’”

Ruben believes financial incentives are driving the problem, with some breeders prioritizing profits over the health and welfare of their animals.

“Does this all come down to easy money, exploiting animals?” asked Local 10’s Jacey Birch.

“Yes,” replied Ruben. “They are the number one problem, in my opinion, you know, because think about it, a backyard breeder doesn’t care where the dog goes, they don’t vet anybody, they could care less who takes that dog.”

He said the appealing puppy photographs used in advertisements often conceal the conditions in which breeding animals are kept, including cages, neglect and inadequate care.

His work aims to show potential buyers what can happen behind the scenes before puppies are advertised for sale.

Palm Beach County pushes for tougher enforcement

In Palm Beach County, Animal Care and Control Director Jan Steele says illegal breeding is placing enormous pressure on shelters already struggling to accommodate unwanted animals.

“Right now, there are no spaces for all the animals being bred in South Florida, whether it’s dogs or cats, and a lot of that is coming down to the illegal breeders,” Steele said.

Steele, who has led the county’s Animal Care and Control department for five years, says the agency is working to strengthen its existing regulations.

“We’ve got a really good ordinance right now. We’re going to make it even tighter because what we want to do is we want to stop all the illegal breeding in Palm Beach County,” she said.

The department has 30 field officers and works closely with the sheriff’s office to investigate animal welfare violations and enforce breeding regulations.

Steele said illegal breeders frequently skip essential veterinary care while repeatedly breeding animals until they can no longer produce puppies.

“They don’t ever do the medical workups, they don’t do health checks, they don’t get vaccinations, they often times breed and breed and breed until the animals are just worn out and they end up in shelters along with at least half, if not more, of their offspring,” she said.

Rescue groups left dealing with the consequences

Animal advocates say the consequences of irresponsible and illegal breeding extend far beyond the animals being sold.

Dogs that are sick, unwanted, unsold or no longer profitable often end up abandoned, surrendered to shelters or taken in by rescue organizations.

That leaves volunteers and nonprofit groups struggling to find homes, provide medical treatment and cover the costs of caring for the animals.

Advocates say stronger enforcement, public awareness and responsible decisions by prospective pet owners are necessary to reduce the number of animals entering already overwhelmed shelters.

Their message to South Floridians is simple: Don’t purchase pets from illegal breeders.

Amato died early Monday at his Raleigh home under hospice care, the school announced on its athletics website. Amato had previously battled throat cancer and eventually lost his voice.

Amato led the Wolfpack from 2000-06, highlighted by the four-year career of eventual NFL star quarterback Philip Rivers and an 11-win season in 2002 that stands as the program's only season with double-digit wins in its history. He did it with flair, from his barrel-chested bravado to attention-grabbing choices for sunglasses and sneakers as he roamed the sideline for the program he played for in the 1960s.

“A huge personality, a great mentor to coaches and players alike, and a great alumnus,” current Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren said Monday, noting that Amato had come to practices and sat in meetings earlier in Doeren's 14-year tenure.

Among those offering tributes on Monday were North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein, who remembered Amato as “NC State to his core” in a social media post. Retired NFL coach Bill Cowher thanked Amato for “your influence and guidance in shaping me as a young LB” during Cowher's playing days at N.C. State while Amato was a Wolfpack assistant in the 1970s.

Earlier Monday, Duke coach Manny Diaz remembered Amato for giving him a start in coaching as an FSU graduate assistant.

“Wouldn't be standing here today if it wasn't for Chuck Amato,” Diaz said during a news conference in Durham, adding: “I don't know of anybody who loved N.C. State University more than Chuck Amato did.”

The Easton, Pennsylvania, native was a Wolfpack linebacker from 1965-67, which included N.C. State sharing an Atlantic Coast Conference title in 1965 under coach Earle Edwards. Amato was also an ACC champion wrestler.

Amato would later spend nine seasons as a Wolfpack assistant before later moving to FSU, working as a defensive assistant under famed coach Bobby Bowden during the Seminoles' 1990s peak that included national titles in 1993 and 1999.

It was after that latter championship run that he returned to N.C. State as head coach. His first game was a rain-soaked double-overtime win against Arkansas State, with Rivers starting as a true freshman on his way to a four-year career as the Wolfpack's QB.

Amato went 49-37 at N.C. State, winning five bowl games as well as handing FSU and Bowden its first-ever ACC home loss in 2001 — the Seminoles’ 10th season in the league — and coaching a No. 1 overall NFL draft pick in defensive end Mario Williams. There were off-field gains, too, as the school invested in upgrades and renovations to Carter-Finley Stadium as it sought to capitalize on the early buzz from Amato's return.

He was fired after a 3-9 season in 2006. He returned to Bowden's last staffs at FSU (2007-09), then had a stint as Akron's associate head coach before retiring in 2018.

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Trump talked to reporters on the South Lawn after The Wall Street Journal reported that Putin proposed the summit earlier this month.

“Not so much on Ukraine because Russia ... has been fine on Ukraine. They haven’t been doing much, and the same with China,” Trump said. “We would have it to talk about weapons and denuclearization.”

Trump was critical of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, who reported on Monday that Russia had used ballistic missiles and drones to attack energy infrastructure.

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Zelenskyy reported U.S. supplies were running late, and there were still restrictions on the SpaceX military-grade satellite internet service, which slows down drones.

The Trump administration recently moved forward with a deal to import diesel from Russia. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, meeting is on Nov. 18-19 in China.

On Monday, Trump was heading to Kansas to support Sen. Roger Marshall, who is running against Adam Hamilton, the co-founder of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood.

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Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an American-born U.S. citizen of Somali descent, won't be released because he's a risk to the community and a flight risk, U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce Foster said.

Mohamud had been on the FBI’s radar since December 2024, when he began trading messages with a confidential informant. He was arrested Oct. 6 after meeting with an FBI employee posing as a member of the Islamic State group and paying $600 for the rifle, 200 rounds of ammunition and four 30-round magazines, authorities said.

“This was as close to committing a terrorist attack as he could have gotten,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Bejar said during the hearing. “He was 100% committed to doing this crime and he was 100% committed to doing it on behalf of ISIS.”

Mohamud’s attorney, Manny Atwal, said during Monday’s hearing that he was just 16 when the confidential informant began speaking to him, and that his only access to weapons was through those supplied by the FBI. She had asked that he be held in a halfway house where he would be monitored by GPS and have no access to the internet.

Mohamud was arrested at a public park in Richfield, the Minneapolis suburb where he lived, several miles northwest of the mall. Authorities said Mohamud said he planned to attack the mall on Oct. 24, when there was a scheduled arts celebration by the Hmong community, Minnesota’s largest Asian ethnic group.

“He wanted to harm as many people as possible,” FBI Special Agent Keegan Rupenthal testified at Monday's hearing. The teen’s “ultimate goal was to become a martyr,” and during his arrest he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group's leader, Rupenthal said.

Mohamud initially expressed interest in messages about traveling to Somalia to fight for al-Shabab militants, according to Rupenthal’s affidavit in support of the criminal complaint. But Mohamud, who expressed admiration for terror attacks that had happened in the U.S., eventually said he didn’t have enough money to travel overseas and decided to carry out an attack in Minnesota, according to the affidavit.

Rupenthal said during the hearing that on multiple occasions, the confidential informant told Mohamud that the attack was a serious thing, and that he could back out. “He said that he was 100% committed to doing it and that he wasn’t being pressured,” Rupenthal testified.

The FBI has foiled several alleged attacks through sting operations in which agents posed as terror supporters, supplying advice or equipment. Critics say the strategy can amount to entrapment.

In May 2025, FBI agents were concerned enough that they went to Mohamud's home. His mother told them he wasn’t home from school yet and called the boy’s father, who declined to speak with them and said he would give their contact information to his lawyer, the complaint said.

Tens of thousands of people of Somali descent live in Minnesota, dating back to when refugees began arriving in the 1990s. Over the years several have been charged with attempting to join militant groups.

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Schmidt 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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According to an arrest report from the Coral Springs Police Department, the incident occurred at about 11 a.m. Saturday at the Chabad of Coral Springs, located at 3925 N. University Drive.

Police said an officer met with a security guard at the location who said that he had just witnessed a white male, wearing a baseball cap, and who was accompanied by a dog, ramming a menorah on the property with a shopping cart.

According to police, the impact caused the menorah to topple over, significantly damaging the structure, which is equipped with electrical lighting.

Rabbi Moshe Yaras said two members of the community witnessed the incident.

“Two community members saw a man with a dog in a shopping cart and purposely rammed it and completely knocked it over,” Yaras said.

Officers said the approximate damage to the menorah was estimated at $5,000.

According to the arrest report, a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) was issued over the police radio for the suspect and soon after, Matthew John Ryan, 44, of Winnetka, California, was spotted near Wiles Road and North University Drive, pushing a Walmart shopping cart with a pit bull inside.

Ryan was ordered to get on the ground as an officer pointed a Taser at him, but he refused to comply, authorities said.

Police said Ryan began to argue with the officers, saying he “didn’t do anything,” and adding, “I’m in a production movie.”

According to the report, Ryan then began reaching into his satchel. He was given “multiple loud commands” to stop reaching into his bag before an officer and sergeant approached him from behind and took him to the ground, the report stated.

Police said Ryan briefly struggled with authorities before he was placed in handcuffs.

The security guard at the Chabad identified Ryan as the person who damaged the menorah, authorities confirmed.

Ryan was first taken to a hospital after he complained that his blood sugar was high and his knee hurt from being taken to the ground before he was transported to the Broward County Main Jail.

He faces charges of criminal mischief at a church, synagogue or mosque; obstructing an officer without violence and illegal possession of a shopping or laundry cart.

Ryan has since bonded out of jail.

Rabbi expresses concern over message sent to Jewish community

While the damaged menorah can be repaired or replaced, Yaras said his greater concern is the message the incident sends to members of the Jewish community.

“It is not so much about damage as it is about the hatred toward the Jewish community and the intent to cause harm,” Yaras said.

The rabbi also expressed concern for the safety of synagogue members, saying he was grateful none of them had been approached by the suspect.

Despite the incident, Yaras encouraged members of his congregation to respond to hatred with love and positivity.

He urged the community to confront darkness and hatred with light rather than allowing fear to prevail.

The Jewish Federation of Broward County also posted a statement about the incident, saying, in part, “In response to the incident, the Jewish Federation of Broward County is coordinating directly with Chabad of Coral Springs to provide immediate additional security equipment and technological enhancements to reinforce the facility.”

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Keila Maldonado, 21, was taken into custody Saturday for the crash that occurred around 1:30 a.m. that morning near the 200 block of Sheridan Street in Dania Beach.

First responders arrived to the area to find a pedestrian lying in the street. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators spent hours combing over the evidence, including pieces of what they said was the 2025 Hyundai Sonata Maldonado was driving.

From the parts at the scene, detectives were able to determine the make and model of the car, and who they believe was behind the wheel.

According to an arrest report, Maldonado fled west to Federal Highway after the crash.

Detectives said that hours later, at about 11:30 a.m., they received information that the vehicle was possibly at the Lexus of North Miami dealership.

A detective met with the security manager at the business who informed him that the car, which is owned by Enterprise Car Rental, was “secured” on the second floor of the parking garage and had damage consistent with the crash, the report stated.

The detective then spoke with another employee at the dealership who claimed that a fellow employee, Maldonado, had asked him to provide a repair estimate on the vehicle she was driving, authorities said.

Detectives said the employee looked at the vehicle and saw that the damage to the passenger-side front bumper and windshield was not caused by a crash involving another vehicle. What appeared to be blood and human tissue was observed on the vehicle, authorities said.

According to the report, Maldonado then confessed to her co-worker that she had struck a person and then drove to a nearby shopping plaza where she watched first responders arriving at the scene.

Detectives said she then fled without ever identifying herself to law enforcement.

According to the report, because of the severity of the incident, the employee informed his supervisor about what Maldonado allegedly told him and the supervisor then spoke to her.

Detectives said Maldonado told the supervisor that she struck someone on a scooter.

Maldonado is now facing charges of failure to remain at an accident scene resulting in a death and tampering with evidence.

Maldonado has since been released from jail on a $51,000 bond. As part of her release, she has to wear an ankle monitor and is not allowed to drive.

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The next name on the list is Josephine.

Whether or not the impending nor’easter – which we first mentioned in this newsletter last Thursday and was added to the National Hurricane Center’s outlook on Saturday – harnesses the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream to fire off more concentrated thunderstorm activity, allowing it to shed its frontal features and transition into a hybrid-type subtropical storm, is left to be seen.

Most of our model guidance agrees that this is a borderline case for subtropical development. The traditional, physics-based European ensemble system and Google’s DeepMind machine learning-based ensemble system are more bearish than NHC on their prospects of tropical transition, giving the system a lower 20 to 30 percent chance of becoming Josephine this week.

The most bullish of our modeling systems on future development is the Euro AI, which pegged the system with higher 50 to 60 percent odds early Monday.

Name aside, coastal impacts unchanged

Whether or not the system musters up enough organized storminess to acquire subtropical characteristics later this week is immaterial to the coastal impacts expected from North Carolina’s Outer Banks through the Virginia Tidewater to southern New Jersey for the first half of the week.

The biggest change over the weekend was a shift eastward with the forecast position of the coastal storm, which will keep skies dry and confine impacts to coastal locales.

That said, significant coastal impacts are expected at least through Wednesday for the Mid-Atlantic coast, particularly along the northern Outer Banks northward to Virginia Beach/Hampton Roads and along the lower Delmarva and Eastern Shore of Maryland. Strong and persistent onshore winds gusting to 50 mph will bring rounds of moderate coastal flooding, ocean overwash, beach erosion, and dangerous surf tomorrow and Wednesday.

Vulnerable locations on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands along North Carolina’s Outer Banks will be prone to serious impacts with each high tide cycle, especially along historic Highway 12 where dunes remain fragile. Waves could reach 8 to 12 feet in the surf zone along oceanside beaches in Maryland and Virginia over the next few days, which will compound flooding in low-lying areas.

Though coastal flooding will persist through much of the week along the Mid-Atlantic, strong onshore winds should generally begin to subside by Thursday and Friday as the storm system pulls away.

Crickets elsewhere on the Atlantic side

The Atlantic basin looks to stay quiet elsewhere as we round out October.

Federal and local authorities descended on the area as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in a post on X that agents were responding to a report of a shooting at the mosque, northeast of downtown Columbus.

Police later said the shooting happened in the parking lot of an apartment complex next to the mosque.

“At the mosque, unfortunately, there was an event going on that had nothing to do with what was going on outside,” said Sgt. James Fuqua. “... But it’s super important that I make it clear that this shooting had nothing to do with an attack on the mosque itself.”

The ATF did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking further information.

The Rams (2-4) also lost veteran defensive tackle Poona Ford for the season due to a ruptured triceps, and defensive tackle Kobie Turner is going on injured reserve with a groin injury amid a cascade of health setbacks for the struggling preseason Super Bowl favorites, who have lost three of four.

Adams, a six-time Pro Bowl selection and the NFL's leader in touchdown catches last season, apparently got hurt on the Rams' penultimate offensive snap in their embarrassing 18-16 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. The injury happened on a noncontact play, with Adams pulling up in the end zone and hobbling to the sideline.

The 33-year-old Adams has 30 receptions for 480 yards and four touchdowns this season, his 13th in the NFL. He missed three games late last season with a hamstring injury, but returned for the playoffs.

“It's significant when you don't have a player like Davante, but we have to be able to adjust,” McVay said. “His contributions can't be measured. You don't replace somebody like him, and so what you've got to do is you've got to be able to figure out what's the next right thing? What does that look like in terms of our vision? We'll have to adjust and adapt.”

Adams' injury is particularly significant to the Rams because they don't have a trusted No. 3 receiver on their roster behind him and All-Pro Puka Nacua. Konata Mumpfield's eight catches for 127 yards are the third-most for a Rams wide receiver this season.

Los Angeles also didn't have an effective No. 3 wideout last season, and Matthew Stafford threw to his depth receivers with less frequency than any other quarterback on a playoff team.

Ford is a nine-year NFL veteran in his second season with the Rams. He has played just under 40% of their defensive snaps this season as a space-filling lineman alongside Turner and Aaron Donald.

Turner is on the field much more frequently than Ford for the Rams, but the fourth-year pro with 22 tackles this season also will miss “a handful of games,” McVay said.

McVay confirmed new kicker Blake Grupe is out for the season after tearing a ligament in his knee while making a tackle on kickoff coverage. The Rams will have to sign their third kicker of the season before they visit the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.

McVay said star cornerback Trent McDuffie is “feeling much better” after missing Sunday's game with an injury picked up in practice late last week. The Rams won't determine whether McDuffie will play against the Raiders until later in the week.

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The 76ers are consensus favorites — from 8-1 to 9-1 odds — in the East to win it all, even ahead of the defending champion New York Knicks.

“I’m a Sixers fan, so I was very thrilled about it myself,” BetMGM Sportsbook trader Christian Cipollini said of King James going to Philadelphia. “Far and away, our most bet-on team, far and away our biggest liability (among contending teams)."

How much James has left at age 41 will be a big question as the NBA season opens Tuesday, but he remained among the league's top players last season in LA.

And he's not the only reason for high hopes in Philadelphia. The Sixers also added Jaylen Brown in a marquee trade with Boston.

But Joel Embiid's health could put a major dent in any championship plans. The seven-time All-Star has played in fewer than 40 games each of the past three seasons.

“I think it’s more Embiid, keeping him in one piece, that's going to be the key for them more than LeBron," longtime handicapper Bruce Marshall said. "It sort of all goes through him, and that’s been tough for Philly.”

What about the champs?

Jalen Brunson and the Knicks overcame the odds to win the title last season, and they will have to do it again if they are to repeat.

Other than DraftKings Sportsbook, where they are 9-1 with the Sixers among Eastern teams to win the title, the Knicks sit just behind Philadelphia at BetMGM (10-1) and Caesars Sportsbook (9-1).

“Just with the hype of Philly and LeBron going there, it's just been more 76ers money than Knicks money,” Caesars NBA oddsmaker David Lieberman said. “It's so hard to repeat, but obviously their run was so dominant in the postseason, it's hard to doubt them until they (actually) lose in the playoffs.”

Thunder and Spurs again the favorites

San Antonio and Oklahoma City are co-favorites at BetMGM (+260) and DraftKings (+270), with the Spurs at +270, just a touch ahead of the Thunders at +280 at Caesars.

Both teams were in similar positions at the end of last season, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder looking to repeat and the young Spurs led by Victor Wembanyama playing as well as any team in the league.

The Spurs beat the Thunder in seven games to advance to the NBA Finals before losing in five games to the Knicks.

“The Spurs look like they're probably the team to beat in the West,” Marshall said. “So I think that's probably the way it goes, and it might be that way for a while.”

The Eastern Conference might be deeper

Though the Western Conference has long been the NBA's best and deepest, times could be changing, even with the two favorites being on that side of the bracket.

After the Spurs and Thunder, the next five teams — depending on the sportsbook — reside in the East.

“Outside the top two teams, I think the East has more maybe viable candidates,” Lieberman said. “It's almost like you can pretty much write down the 11 teams that make the playoffs maybe in both conferences. But given there's no tanking incentives anymore, there could be a couple of surprise teams that make it in one of the conferences.”

Haliburton boosts overlooked Pacers

Indiana was in the NBA Finals just two seasons ago, its chances all but going up in smoke when Tyrese Haliburton tore his Achilles tendon in Game 7 against OKC.

Now he's back, but the Pacers are 35-1 across the board to win the championship.

“I think the East is stronger than a couple of years ago, and it would be tougher for them to do it,” Marshall said. “This is sort of the year it's got to happen. They've got a lot of guys coming up on free agency, so we'll see. Most of the guys are there that were on it a couple of years ago. If Haliburton hadn't gotten hurt, I thought they could've won that last game.”

Watch out for the ... Jazz?

Few expect Utah to be a true contender this season, but there is optimism the Jazz could be on the way back with recent high draft picks Ace Bailey and Darryn Peterson and a core that includes Lauri Markkanen and Keyonte George.

“I feel like there’s times where a team can make really big jumps,” Cipollini said. “The Jazz could be one of those, and just looking at the bets that were coming in, of the unrealistic teams to win, certainly the most amount of bets and one of our highest liability.”

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Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Coral Springs, el incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 11 a.m. del sábado en el Chabad de Coral Springs, ubicado en 3925 N. University Drive.

La policía indicó que un agente se reunió con un guardia de seguridad del lugar, quien dijo que acababa de presenciar cómo un hombre blanco, que llevaba una gorra de béisbol y estaba acompañado de un perro, embestía una menorá en la propiedad con un carrito de compras.

Según la policía, el impacto provocó que la menorá cayera al suelo, causando daños significativos a la estructura, que cuenta con iluminación eléctrica.

El rabino Moshe Yaras dijo que dos miembros de la comunidad presenciaron el incidente.

“Dos miembros de la comunidad vieron a un hombre con un perro en un carrito de compras que embistió intencionalmente la menorá y la derribó por completo”, dijo Yaras.

Los agentes indicaron que los daños a la menorá fueron estimados en aproximadamente $5,000 USD.

Según el informe de arresto, se emitió una alerta de búsqueda (BOLO) por la radio policial para localizar al sospechoso y, poco después, Matthew John Ryan, de 44 años, residente de Winnetka, California, fue visto cerca de Wiles Road y North University Drive, empujando un carrito de compras de Walmart con un perro pitbull en su interior.

Los agentes ordenaron a Ryan que se tirara al suelo mientras uno de ellos le apuntaba con una pistola eléctrica Taser, pero se negó a obedecer, informaron las autoridades.

La policía indicó que Ryan comenzó a discutir con los agentes, diciendo que “no había hecho nada” y agregando: “Estoy en una producción cinematográfica”.

Según el informe, Ryan comenzó entonces a introducir la mano en su bolso. Recibió “múltiples órdenes en voz alta” para que dejara de meter la mano en el bolso antes de que un agente y un sargento se acercaran por detrás y lo derribaran al suelo, señala el informe.

La policía indicó que Ryan forcejeó brevemente con las autoridades antes de ser esposado.

El guardia de seguridad del Chabad identificó a Ryan como la persona que dañó la menorá, confirmaron las autoridades.

Ryan fue trasladado primero a un hospital después de quejarse de que tenía un nivel alto de azúcar en la sangre y de que le dolía la rodilla tras haber sido derribado al suelo, antes de ser llevado a la cárcel principal del condado Broward.

Enfrenta cargos por daños criminales en una iglesia, sinagoga o mezquita; obstrucción a un agente sin violencia y posesión ilegal de un carrito de compras o de lavandería.

Ryan salió posteriormente de la cárcel tras pagar una fianza.

Rabino expresa preocupación por el mensaje enviado a la comunidad judía

Aunque la menorá dañada puede repararse o reemplazarse, Yaras dijo que su mayor preocupación es el mensaje que el incidente envía a los miembros de la comunidad judía.

“No se trata tanto de los daños como del odio hacia la comunidad judía y la intención de causar daño”, dijo Yaras.

El rabino también expresó preocupación por la seguridad de los miembros de la sinagoga y dijo estar agradecido de que ninguno de ellos hubiera sido abordado por el sospechoso.

A pesar del incidente, Yaras alentó a los miembros de su congregación a responder al odio con amor y una actitud positiva.

Instó a la comunidad a enfrentar la oscuridad y el odio con luz, en lugar de permitir que prevalezca el miedo.

El incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 6:45 p.m. del viernes 2 de octubre en la tienda de conveniencia Kwik Stop, ubicada en 7120 Kimberly Blvd., en North Lauderdale, informaron las autoridades.

Según los investigadores, el enfrentamiento comenzó cuando la sospechosa y una empleada de la tienda tuvieron un desacuerdo por un recibo.

Los detectives indicaron que las cámaras de vigilancia captaron a la sospechosa introduciendo el brazo por una abertura en el área de cajas de la tienda, que está encerrada con vidrio y destinada exclusivamente a los empleados.

La sospechosa presuntamente roció entonces a la empleada directamente en el rostro con gas pimienta desde corta distancia.

Los investigadores esperan que las imágenes de vigilancia ayuden a identificar a la persona responsable.

La BSO indicó que la sospechosa tiene un tatuaje distintivo que cubre todo el antebrazo derecho.

Cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el incidente o la identidad de la sospechosa debe comunicarse con el detective Jacob Pincus, de la BSO en North Lauderdale, al 954-597-4779 o enviar información a través de la aplicación SaferWatch.

Quienes deseen permanecer en el anonimato pueden comunicarse con Crime Stoppers de Broward al 954-493-TIPS (8477), visitar browardcrimestoppers.org o marcar **TIPS (8477) desde cualquier teléfono celular en Estados Unidos.

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The incident in question occurred on Aug. 20 at a home that’s currently under construction in Miami.

According to police, Tennier Taylor, 42, hired someone to build him a pool at the home, which is located in the city’s Belle Meade neighborhood.

On the date in question, police said Taylor arrived and told the victim that he was not satisfied with the job before proceeding to pick up a hammer and began destroying the work, according to authorities.

The victim attempted to explain to the defendant that he could fix the issue, police said, but then Taylor became angry and struck the victim in the chest area with the hammer, according to an arrest form.

Police said Taylor also threw a hammer at the victim, which he blocked, and hit him in the back with a wooden stick.

After several months of investigating, authorities said the victim was able to pick Taylor out of a photo lineup, leading to Sunday’s arrest.

According to his arrest form, Taylor told police that he was dissatisfied with the quality of the work and asked the victim to either redo the work or leave, claiming that the two argued but that there was no physical altercation.

Taylor is facing a felony charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

As of Monday afternoon, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set.”

El incidente ocurrió el 20 de agosto en una vivienda que actualmente se encuentra en construcción en Miami.

Según la policía, Tennier Taylor, de 42 años, contrató a una persona para construir una piscina en la vivienda, ubicada en el vecindario Belle Meade de la ciudad.

El día del incidente, la policía indicó que Taylor llegó y le dijo a la víctima que no estaba satisfecho con el trabajo realizado, antes de tomar un martillo y comenzar a destruir el trabajo, según las autoridades.

La víctima intentó explicarle al acusado que podía solucionar el problema, informó la policía, pero Taylor se enfureció y golpeó a la víctima en el pecho con el martillo, según el informe de arresto.

La policía indicó que Taylor también lanzó un martillo contra la víctima, quien logró bloquearlo, y lo golpeó en la espalda con un palo de madera.

Después de varios meses de investigación, las autoridades indicaron que la víctima pudo identificar a Taylor en una rueda de reconocimiento fotográfico, lo que llevó a su arresto el domingo.

Según su informe de arresto, Taylor dijo a la policía que no estaba satisfecho con la calidad del trabajo y que le pidió a la víctima que lo hiciera nuevamente o se marchara. Afirmó que ambos discutieron, pero que no hubo ningún altercado físico.

Taylor enfrenta un cargo de delito grave por agresión agravada con un arma mortal.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, con una fianza que figuraba como “pendiente de establecer”.

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The incident happened around 6:45 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, at the Kwik Stop convenience store, located at 7120 Kimberly Blvd. in North Lauderdale, authorities said.

According to investigators, the confrontation began when the suspect and a store clerk got into a disagreement over a receipt.

Detectives said surveillance video captured the suspect reaching through an opening in the store’s glass-enclosed checkout area, which is designated for employees only.

The suspect then allegedly sprayed the clerk directly in the face with pepper spray from close range.

Investigators are hoping surveillance footage will help identify the person responsible.

BSO said the suspect has a distinctive tattoo that covers the entire right forearm.

Anyone with information about the incident or the suspect’s identity is asked to contact BSO North Lauderdale Detective Jacob Pincus at 954-597-4779 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch app.

Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477), visit browardcrimestoppers.org or dial **TIPS (8477) from any cellphone in the United States.

The case involves admissions to four selective middle schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, a diverse suburb of Washington, D.C. A group of parents said in a lawsuit that the district's admissions policy for four magnet schools, while race-neutral on its face, is designed to boost the admission of Black and Latino students while disadvantaging Asian American kids.

The high court said Monday it will weigh whether the parent group has enough evidence of discrimination for the case to move forward. Lower courts had dismissed the case because Asian American students were not underrepresented at the magnet schools compared with the pool of students that applied. If the Supreme Court rules for the parent group, the Association for Education Fairness, it could revive the lawsuit.

The case originates from a change in admissions policy that began a decade ago, when a consulting group was hired to evaluate how the school system chose students for its middle school magnet programs. The district then changed its admissions policies, factoring in the poverty levels of the schools the students attended. The share of Asian American students, who were clustered in more affluent, high-performing schools, subsequently fell.

The parent group sued in 2020. Not long after, the school system, which educates more than 150,000 students, changed its admissions practices to eliminate an extra in-person exam. Now, students qualify for a lottery according to their performance on standardized tests. But students in more affluent schools, where Asian American students are concentrated, must perform better on the standardized exam to enter the lottery.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss the case. In its ruling, the court said the parent group had failed to show Asian American students were harmed, because they were still being admitted at higher rates than the applicant pool. The Fourth Circuit was relying on a recent ruling in a different case, where parents challenged admissions practices at a highly selective magnet high school in Virginia. Those parents lost in part because Asian American students were still overrepresented relative to the applicant pool.

Supreme Court justices will now consider whether a group claiming to be targeted by a race-neutral policy must show it was disproportionately harmed to prove intentional discrimination.

The attorneys for the Montgomery County parents argued it's not enough to compare whether a targeted racial group is represented fairly compared with the group of students who apply. Other evidence of discrimination should also be considered, they wrote.

“Under the applicant pool benchmark, the government can set specific racial targets, hit them, and avoid even an inquiry into discriminatory intent," so long as it hasn't explicitly called out race in its process, they wrote in their appeal to the Supreme Court.

The school system has consistently argued the new admissions policy, called the Pandemic Plan due to the timing of its release, is race-neutral.

“The Pandemic Plan is a colorblind lottery,” attorneys wrote in a brief asking the Supreme Court not to take up the case. “Nothing about the Pandemic Plan, its history, or its purpose is offensive to the Constitution.”

The court is expected to hear arguments in the coming months.

Personas dedicadas a movilizar votantes estuvieron presentes en distintas zonas del sur de Florida mientras los residentes acudían a los centros de votación anticipada, y muchos expresaron preocupación por la economía, el aumento de los precios de los alimentos y los costos de la vivienda.

La supervisora de Elecciones del condado Miami-Dade, Alina García, dijo que los funcionarios electorales esperan una alta participación de los votantes.

“Esperamos un 100%, pero estaremos satisfechos con un 60% o 65%”, dijo García.

García también tranquilizó a los votantes sobre la seguridad electoral, destacando que el sistema de votación del condado utiliza boletas de papel y no está conectado a internet.

“No tenemos problemas de seguridad. Como todos saben, votamos en papel y no estamos conectados a internet de ninguna manera”, dijo García.

Votantes señalan la economía y el aumento de los costos como principales preocupaciones

Entre quienes emitieron su voto anticipadamente se encontraba Sharon Horne, de North Miami, quien dijo que quería asegurarse de que su voz fuera escuchada.

“Necesitamos cambios y, en este momento, las cosas no están bien. Los precios de los alimentos están muy altos, el mercado de la vivienda es caro, y así sucesivamente”, dijo Horne.

El veterano Charles Symonette también votó anticipadamente y afirmó que las preocupaciones económicas desempeñaron un papel importante en su decisión de acudir a las urnas.

“Quiero hacer cambios. Estamos listos para algunos cambios. Ya hemos intentado de todo. Necesitamos nuevos cambios ahora”, dijo Symonette.

También señaló su preocupación por los empleos y los programas de asistencia gubernamental, incluidos Medicare y Medicaid.

“Estoy pensando en los empleos que se están perdiendo, estoy pensando en Medicare, Medicaid y en las personas que no tienen tanto como todos los multimillonarios”, dijo Symonette.

NAACP insta a participar y advierte sobre intimidación a votantes

Mientras comienza la votación anticipada, Daniella Pierre, presidenta de la sección de Miami-Dade de la Asociación Nacional para el Progreso de las Personas de Color (NAACP), está alentando a los residentes a ejercer su derecho al voto y advirtiendo sobre la intimidación a los votantes.

“Es nuestra responsabilidad levantarnos e ir a votar. Es nuestra responsabilidad si queremos ver un cambio. Todo comienza en las urnas”, dijo Pierre.

Los funcionarios electorales están alentando a los votantes elegibles a participar mientras continúa la votación anticipada en los condados Miami-Dade y Broward hasta el 1 de noviembre y hasta el 31 de octubre en el condado Monroe.

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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz hosted a “Cuba Libre” panel with dissidents and former prisoners in an effort to highlight what he called the oppressive behavior of the island’s government.

The event included explicit footage of what appeared to be Cuban citizens being detained and panelists describing being tortured and persecuted for years for speaking out against the government. Havana has long denied holding political prisoners, but activist groups have registered thousands imprisoned for political reasons.

“This is the oppression that Havana wants to hide,” Waltz said during the event at the U.N. headquarters, while urging countries to look past “70 years of propaganda” and vote against the resolution next week.

A few feet away, Cuban Ambassador to the U.N. Ernesto Soberón Guzmán gathered diplomats and allies from around the world to protest what he called a sham event against Cuba.

“This charade is an attempt to deviate attention from a simple fact: The U.S. is acting as an international delinquent, enforcing collective punishment on the people of Cuba,” Guzmán said.

It is the second year in a row that the Trump administration has waged a campaign to influence the U.N. resolution aimed at calling out the U.S. government’s “maximum pressure policy” against Cuba.

The U.S. efforts are part of larger plan to force changes to Cuba’s political system by cutting off fuel to the island, leading to massive power outages that affect basic activities such as cooking, water supply and internet and telephone services.

The annual vote condemning the U.S. economic embargo has been put before the U.N. General Assembly for the past 34 years and each time receives overwhelming support from the world body’s 193 member states. Last year, the vote was 165-7, with 12 abstentions. Argentina, Ukraine and Hungary opposed the measure for the first time.

While such resolutions are not legally binding, they do reflect world opinion.

The U.S. embargo against Cuba was first imposed in 1960 after Fidel Castro led a revolution that toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista and nationalized properties belonging to U.S. citizens and corporations.

In 2015, then-Cuban President Raúl Castro and U.S. President Barack Obama officially restored relations. The following year, the U.S. abstained, for the first time, on the General Assembly resolution calling for an end to the embargo.

Cuba, meanwhile, has struggled since 2020 with an economic and energy crisis. Its gross domestic product has shrunk, and its 10 million residents have endured blackouts, food shortages and inflation. There have been waves of protests, and hundreds of thousands of Cubans have migrated, many to the United States.

Durante una conferencia de prensa en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Internacional de Florida (FIU), Uthmeier anunció cargos estatales contra Raúl Castro por conspiración para cometer asesinato en primer grado.

“Lo que ocurrió no fue un accidente, fue un asesinato”, dijo Uthmeier sobre las muertes de Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña y Pablo Morales el 24 de febrero de 1996, cuando volaban en dos avionetas Cessna 337.

De la Peña, de 24 años; Costa, de 29; Morales, de 29; y Alejandre, de 45, participaban en vuelos de Hermanos al Rescate, una organización sin fines de lucro cubanoamericana con sede en Miami, fundada en 1991 para ayudar a salvar las vidas de refugiados en el mar.

“Estaban en aeronaves civiles desarmadas que salían a salvar personas”, dijo Uthmeier.

En la conferencia de prensa, el fiscal federal Jason A. Reding Quiñones, del Distrito Sur de Florida, quien anunció el caso federal contra Castro el 20 de mayo en el centro de Miami, dijo que respaldaba el proceso judicial “paralelo” de Uthmeier.

“Buscar que se rindan cuentas importa, demostrarles a estas familias que su gobierno no las ha abandonado importa”, dijo la sheriff de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, durante la conferencia de prensa.

Antes de la conferencia de prensa, The Miami Herald informó que un juez del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade había firmado la orden estatal de arresto contra Castro.

Gráfico interactivo: Víctimas de Hermanos al Rescate

The men could face terrorism-related charges involving deadly devices and explosives under Cuba’s penal code, Col. Francisco Estrada Portales, an official with the Interior Ministry’s State Security department, told The Associated Press.

The offenses can carry the death penalty, but Estrada said prosecutors had not yet requested specific sentences. Cuba has not carried out an execution in decades.

A speedboat carrying 10 men of Cuban origin from the United States attempted to enter Cuban waters on Feb. 25 and opened fire on a Cuban coast guard vessel that tried to intercept it, authorities said. Three of the attackers were killed in the confrontation, and a fourth later died of his injuries. The boat was about 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) northeast of Cayo Falcones, off Cuba’s northern coast.

The captain of the Cuban coast guard vessel was wounded. Authorities also reported arresting a person on land who allegedly provided support to the group.

The incident came as tensions between Cuba and the United States intensified, with Washington imposing energy restrictions on the island as part of its campaign to force a change in government and not ruling out military action.

Cuba’s Interior Ministry previously displayed weapons and equipment seized from the group, including rifles, handguns, explosives, backpacks containing clothing, uniforms, boots, helmets, medical supplies, food, an electric generator, satellite communications equipment and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

“The weapons and explosives were all in good working condition and ready to be used to cause harm,” Estrada said.

Estrada said the suspects’ confessions and cooperation helped investigators determine that Amijail Sánchez, a Cuban who has lived in the United States since 2016, fired the first shots. Sánchez, who is in custody, was included on a list of alleged terrorists that Cuba submitted to the United Nations last year.

Another detained suspect, Leordan Cruz, also appears on Cuba’s terrorism list.

Cuban authorities showed AP video recordings of statements made by the suspects. AP could not independently verify the contents of the recordings or the circumstances under which the statements were made.

In one recording, Cruz said the group intended to secure an area and encourage Cubans to overthrow the government.

Estrada said Cuban authorities had shared their findings with the United States but had received no response as of Monday.

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BSO deputies reported responding to Ormo’s house at about 9 a.m. on Friday, along Quail Roost Drive, near Hunter’s Point Boulevard.

“The cause and manner of death will be determined by the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office,” Gerdy St. Louis, a BSO spokesperson, wrote in a statement on Monday about Ormo.

People described Ormo, better known as “Gus,” as a piano virtuoso, a singer, and a songwriter who was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Ormo’s Instagram page shows that he had been promoting “Agape,” a new six-track album.

A 911 caller who identified himself as Ormo’s brother reported an apparent suicide at the house in Weston, according to the recording of the 911 call.

The 911 caller, who spoke in Spanish, told the 911 dispatcher that Ormo was born in 1981 and was 45 years old.

“This could be a very dangerous situation. Do not go in the water,” the 911 dispatcher told the 911 caller, according to the recording.

The man reported that he had been in the house with other relatives for 15 to 20 minutes before calling 911, according to a recording of the 911 call.

“This morning I received a call from my mother, who was worried about my brother ... My mother talked to him yesterday,” the 911 caller told a first responder, according to the recording.

If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, call 1-877-565-8860, or 1-800-448-3000, or call 988, the free Florida Lifeline.

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

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Five of the world’s space agencies joined forces for the five-year mission that will attempt to land a robotic prospector plus a rover on Phobos, the larger and closer of Mars’ two pint-sized moons.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which is leading the bold sampling effort, launched the spacecraft before dawn from the country's main spaceport on Tanegashima Island. Officials declared success an hour later when the spacecraft separated as planned from the rocket's upper stage. Flight controllers burst into applause and jumped to their feet, shaking hands and embracing.

No one has managed to get samples from Mars or its moons yet

While NASA has successfully landed nine spacecraft on Mars over the past 50 years and China scored a 2021 touchdown, no one has ever ventured onto Phobos or its sidekick Deimos. And no one has managed to fetch samples from Mars, let alone its moons.

If successful, bits of dust, soil and rocks from Phobos will arrive on Earth in 2031.

“There’s a lot of adrenaline and a lot of excitement and a lot of wow,” said NASA astrophysicist Tom Statler, who’s involved with the project.

Japan has an edge going in, with two asteroid sample returns already under its cosmic belt.

Mars' moon Phobos is a lumpy, little rock

Phobos is a lumpy, potato-shaped rock just 14 miles (22 kilometers) or so across. Examining pieces of it can explain how Mars’ moons — and possibly moons elsewhere — came to be.

Dubbed MMX for Martian Moons Exploration, the $578 million mission features a hefty 5-ton spacecraft that should reach Mars by late next summer. It will sync up with Phobos’ tight orbit around the red planet, before ejecting the French-German rover that’s named Idefix after the white terrier in the Asterix comics.

No bigger than a microwave oven, Idefix will plop onto Phobos by itself, bouncing for several minutes before coming to a halt in the moon's extraordinarily low gravity.

What happens after Idefix the rover lands

The four-wheeled rover is designed to right itself if it lands upside down. All bets are off, though, if it sinks into soft soil or gets wedged between rocks, said the French Space Agency’s Julien Baroukh. Once the rover’s solar panels are deployed, the vehicle can no longer right itself, he added, which is why it will move at a glacial 1 millimeter per second (0.04 inches per second).

Idefix will serve as a “scout for safety,” according to Baroukh, as it prowls around Phobos for 100 days. Japanese flight controllers want to avoid powdery soil and rough terrain when the mothership — a four-legged stationary lander — descends to the surface to gather samples in late 2028 or 2029.

The lander will spend just two hours on Phobos, drilling and vacuuming up at least one-third of an ounce (10 grams) of material, before launching back into space. It will study Deimos during a series of flybys before leaving the Martian neighborhood in 2030 and hustling back to Earth for a 2031 sample delivery in the Australian desert.

It’s a treacherous undertaking, with wreckage littering the path.

The moons’ names aren’t exactly comforting: Phobos is Greek for fear and Deimos means dread. They’re the twin sons of the god of war Ares — Mars in Roman mythology.

Scientists hope to learn how Mars' 2 moons formed

Russia stumbled in all three of its Phobos attempts as well as many other Mars endeavors. In its only other Mars mission, Japan failed to get a spacecraft into orbit around the red planet. Even NASA has had its share of flops in a bid to answer the burning question: Did life ever exist on Mars?

By studying Mars’ moons, scientists hope to learn whether Phobos and Deimos formed in the aftermath of an ancient collision between Mars and a battering space rock. It’s also possible that the moons might be stray asteroids that became ensnared in Mars’ gravity.

Either way, scientists anticipate finding traces of Mars on Phobos, making the samples an irresistible two-for-one that should help demystify planetary and moon formation, and perhaps even the recipe for life. The findings will help shape future Mars missions, including those by astronauts, said NASA’s acting planetary science director Lindsay Hays.

“It is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. We are part of the first sample return mission from the Martian system,” said the Germany Space Agency's rover chief Markus Grebenstein.

Japan isn’t the only one looking to claim the scientific riches packed into the Martian system’s rocks and dirt. China plans to launch a sample return mission to Mars in 2028, while NASA is still debating how to retrieve the more than 30 sample tubes collected by the Perseverance Mars rover, the new champion for off-Earth driving.

Japan and China could be neck-and-neck in getting samples back from the Martian system. Both are targeting 2031.

Japan is investing $350 million in this mission. NASA is contributing $87 million, the French Space Agency about $68 million, the German Space Agency about $56 million and the European Space Agency some $17 million.

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Huang, whose company designs the powerful computer chips and software used by companies like Anthropic and OpenAI to develop AI applications, said that digital technology would never replace manufacturing and the engineering world of cars and robots where Germany has vast experience.

Or, as he put it, “electrons will never replace atoms.” But he said industry would benefit by leaning into technology.

“The next wave of AI is physical. This is where AI interacts with the physical world: robotics, manufacturing, cars, heavy industry,” Huang said Monday during a discussion with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at an investment conference in Berlin.

“And so AI can only augment your capability. It will not replace your capability. So take advantage of the technology.”

Huang said Germany’s data and expertise on manufacturing “is your natural resource, it belongs to the nation” but it needs to take better advantage of AI. ”This industrial revolution is so mighty, so powerful. You don’t have another chance,” he said.

European leaders like Merz are looking to AI as a potential source of growth but are also concerned about the extent of European dependence on U.S. tech companies in the field. Europe’s wealth of high quality public-sector and machine-readable manufacturing data could serve as grist for AI, an opportunity cited by former European Central Bank head Mario Draghi as an area where Europe could compete with the U.S. and China in the AI field.

Huang and Merz said AI was an opportunity for Germany’s so-called “mittelstand,” the hundreds of small- and medium-sized companies in highly specialized industrial sectors.

Merz is struggling to revive growth in Germany after years of near-stagnation after the pandemic. Among the economy’s headwinds are high energy prices after losing cheap Russian natural gas due to the invasion of Ukraine, competition from China in sectors like autos where Germany once dominated, and excessive red tape and permissions that hold up projects for years. All that has put a damper on an economy heavily oriented toward building complicated machines for export, including cars, trains, aircraft and factory equipment.

Europe lags the U.S. in building out the data centers that offer the massive computing capacity to train artificial intelligence applications, and faces concerns over the security of European companies’ sensitive data against subpoenas and criminal warrants on servers owned by U.S. companies and thus exposed to the U.S. legal system even if they’re in Europe.

Huang appeared to address such concerns by urging Germany to import AI technology but adding that “you should not export your culture, export your values, export your knowledge.”

Huang said Germany should “take advantage of artificial intelligence. Let them codify, let them program, let them teach this artificial intelligence and keep it here in Germany, and let’s re-engineer, the chancellor’s words, Germany. This is your chance to do it.”

On Monday, freshman running back Javian Mallory was named ACC Rookie of the Week by the conference.

The honor comes after Mallory helped Miami to a 43-35 double OT victory over rival Florida State University on Saturday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

In the win, Mallory rushed for 108 yards and a pair of touchdowns on just 13 carries, with both scores coming during the fourth quarter and overtime.

This is the second time that the ACC has recognized Mallory with the award.

Back on Sept. 14, Mallory was named ACC Rookie of the Week after rushing for 142 yards and a pair of scores on 10 carries during Miami’s 77-7 victory over Florida A&M University.

Now ranked No. 1 in the country, Miami will be back in action on Saturday when they host the Pittsburgh Panthers.

Kickoff from Hard Rock Stadium is set for noon.

Gardiner-Johnson was ejected late in the second quarter for unsportsmanlike conduct following an exchange with a group of Raiders players, including tight end Brock Bowers.

In issuing the suspension, the league cited its rule applying to “any act which is contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship.”

With Buffalo (5-1) entering its bye week, Gardiner-Johnson’s suspension will begin on Oct. 26 and run through Nov. 2, a day after the Bills host the Baltimore Ravens. The player has the right to appeal the suspension.

Gardner-Johnson apologized to his teammates immediately following Buffalo’s 33-30 win, and has since posted a note on social media apologizing to fans.

“I owe my teammates an apology and to be a man about it,” Gardner-Johnson said following the game.

“You got to understand that as a grown man you can’t be doing (stuff) like that in a game,” he added. “As a vet, I’ll be better. I’ll take my consequences as it is, handle it like a man and move on.”

The 28-year-old won a Super Bowl with the 2024 Philadelphia Eagles and is on his sixth team in eight seasons, and signed a one-year contract with Buffalo in March.

Coach Joe Brady referred to Gardner-Johnson's spitting act as being “inexcusable," and said he's discussed the matter privately with the player.

“It can't happen. That's not what we're about. That's not what the game of football is about, and he knows that,” Brady said.

Gardner-Johnson arrived in Buffalo with an established reputation of being a noted trash-talker and as someone who has on occasion crossed the line with illegal hits.

“I don't need a roster of everybody being the same person,” Brady said. “Obviously, he crossed the line yesterday and that can't happen. It won't happen again. Personality-wise, I'm not afraid to have people who are going to try to toe the line in everything they do.”

Also, the Bills announced they're bringing back a familiar face by signing cornerback Tre'Davious White to their practice squad.

The 31-year-old White returns for what would be a third stint in Buffalo, and provide the Bills secondary with some much-needed experience. White was selected by Buffalo in the first round of the 2017 draft, and spent his first seven seasons with the Bills before his career was derailed by injuries.

After splitting the 2024 season between the Rams and Baltimore, he re-signed with the Bills and had 16 starts last season. He didn't rule out another return to Buffalo after completing his one-year contract last season.

The Bills reached out to White a few weeks ago and targeted the bye week for his return. Buffalo opened up a practice squad spot by releasing cornerback A.J. Woods.

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Our rain chances start to change Thursday with a breeze picking up off the Atlantic. This will give us batches of rain swinging through at times. This will be on and off into the weekend. We will also be watching the potential for king tides this weekend into early next week to give us moderate coastal flooding.

In a crucial part of the Gulf between the light surface and the darkest depths, where the BP-operated well failed and dumped 134 million gallons of oil, the number of fish found dropped by 63.5% from the year after the spill to 2015. Crustaceans, including shrimp and krill, a key food for whales, went down 62%, and larger animals like squid and octopuses fell 59.7%, according to a study published Monday in the journal PNAS.

And those populations haven't come close to recovering, the study found.

Researchers focused on the ocean's “twilight zone,” a vast area above the seafloor, where much of the surface marine life, including dolphins and whales, feast on creatures. Yet little is known about this gigantic ecosystem, and this region of the Gulf had not been studied before the 2010 spill, said study lead author Tracey Sutton, a biological oceanographer at Nova Southeastern University.

A 2011 post-spill exploration cited in the research, which used six sets of nets at different depths and acoustic sonar, gave scientists a good sense of how much sea life was in the area between the surface and 5,000 feet deep (1,500 meters). They returned to the same place with the same equipment three-and-a-half years later and found sea life was between one-third and one-quarter of what it was in 2011.

“We saw this big decline,” Sutton said. “The question was then why? So we looked at all of the natural variables we thought could account for it, namely temperature, oxygen supply and food. None of those vary with the decline. The event that did was the oil spill. So we think that’s the most likely cause of the decline.”

Researchers kept on sampling since 2015 and the low populations remained, with a slight rise in 2022 and 2023 that did not prove statistically significant or lasting, Sutton said.

Documenting the decline

Sutton's team documented the population declines with three different lines of evidence: what they caught in the nets, what their acoustic sonar found and genetic studies showing the species losing genetic diversity because of inbreeding.

A lot of marine life died instantly after the explosion, which killed 11 workers, and from nearly five months of leaking oil and gas. Those pollutants got stored in the eggs of survivors and subsequent generations of critters got more compromised and weaker, Sutton said.

BP spokesperson Paul Takahashi said the accident “forever changed” the company: “We have made many changes intended to help prevent an event like this from ever happening again.”

Both the oil and the dispersants used to clean the spill hurt fish, but in different ways, said study co-author Isabel Romero, a chemical oceanographer at the University of South Carolina. Oil is more toxic and an overall threat, but the dispersant breaks the oil into smaller droplets, increasing the exposure of animals that live in the deeper water column, she said.

Dispersants caused many problems, and new studies show that in future accidents, it would be better to avoid those chemicals and instead add agents that increase oil-munching microbes, said former National Science Foundation Director Rita Colwell, a University of Maryland environmental microbiologist who headed a 10-year, $500 million BP-funded program to study spill effects.

Sutton said his team couldn’t prove an exact causal link to the BP oil spill, but by eliminating the other possibilities and looking at the timing, it’s logically clear that the spill caused the problem.

The krill population dropped 72%. Lanternfish — odd fish with blue-green lights embedded over their bodies — are a third of what they used to be, Sutton said. The stunning but scary dragonfish — with sharp teeth, light organs and a lure attached to its head — also had big losses, he said.

“These are foundational species,” Sutton said. “They're the things most things eat. So it's no wonder that we had wholesale changes across the community.”

The inner ocean is more unknown than outer space

Scientists learned much about this unexplored area of the Gulf.

“One of our biggest findings from the whole thing is how connected the whole oceanic Gulf is from top to bottom because the animals move up and down,” Sutton said. “There are predators at the top that dive deep. Lots of things that are deep that come up at night. So the system is one very large pulsing system, rather than just a layered system like people might have thought beforehand.”

Outside scientists were especially bothered by where the spill damaged.

“We know more about space in some ways than we do about the inner ocean. Because we can’t see these regions, there is a tendency to assume everything is fine, but here we have a clear result showing that something went very wrong," Scripps Institution of Oceanography marine scientist Kaitlin Frasier said in an email.

Frasier, who wasn't part of the study released Monday, published a post-spill study in 2024 looking at Gulf of Mexico whales and dolphins, finding population drops as high as 83%.

“It’s shocking how a single failure in a drilling rig can have this vast and sustained impact over thousands of square kilometers, with little visible recovery over 13 years after the spill,” said Dalhousie University marine scientist Boris Worm, who wasn't part of the study. “It is important that we see this, because for the longest time these consequences were completely out of sight and out of mind.”

Worm and Colwell said this damage should be kept in mind as the world talks about deep-sea mining and increased oil drilling in deep waters.

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Local 10’s Glenna Milberg takes a closer look at how we got here, and both sides of the Amendment 3 debate.

Glenna Milberg, de Local 10, analiza más de cerca cómo llegamos a esta situación y las posturas de ambas partes en el debate sobre la Enmienda 3.

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A deputy reported noticing Jonathan Hernandez speeding in a black 2025 Toyota Corolla shortly after 3:25 a.m., on Oct. 5, in the Redlands area, according to an arrest report.

During the traffic stop, as the deputy “reached” the Toyota’s driver’s side door, Hernandez “fled from the stop” near Krome Avenue and Southwest 256th Street, according to the arrest report.

Surveillance video showed Hernandez running a stop sign and crashing into a silver 2021 Toyota Corolla shortly after 3:30 a.m. in the area of Southwest 187th Avenue and 296th Street, according to the deputy’s arrest report.

Hernandez, who had a “strong odor of alcohol,” had three bottles of Heineken beer that were “cold to the touch” inside the Toyota, which had overturned, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade fire rescue personnel took Hernandez and the woman in the other Toyota Corolla to the Jackson South Medical Center, at 9333 SW 152 St., as trauma alerts, according to the arrest report.

“The victim sustained severe injuries to include a hip fracture, leg fracture, including multiple lacerations, and abrasions, and was listed in critical condition,” a deputy wrote about the woman’s injuries, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade prosecutors filed a case against Hernandez on Sunday on three felony charges: DUI with serious bodily injury, reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, and causing injury while fleeing or eluding a police officer.

Hernandez appeared in bond court on Sunday, and a judge set his bail at $30,000, according to court records. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Richard Hersch was set to preside over the case. His arraignment was set for 9 a.m. on Nov. 9.

Un agente informó que observó a Jonathan Hernandez conduciendo a exceso de velocidad un Toyota Corolla negro de 2025 poco después de las 3:25 a.m. del 5 de octubre, en el área de Redlands, según un informe de arresto.

Durante la parada de tránsito, cuando el agente “llegó” a la puerta del conductor del Toyota, Hernandez “huyó de la parada” cerca de Krome Avenue y Southwest 256th Street, según el informe de arresto.

Un video de vigilancia mostró a Hernandez ignorando una señal de alto y chocando contra un Toyota Corolla plateado de 2021 poco después de las 3:30 a.m. en el área de Southwest 187th Avenue y 296th Street, según el informe de arresto del agente.

Hernandez, quien presentaba un “fuerte olor a alcohol”, tenía tres botellas de cerveza Heineken que estaban “frías al tacto” dentro del Toyota, que había volcado, según el informe de arresto.

Personal de los Bomberos de Miami-Dade trasladó a Hernandez y a la mujer que viajaba en el otro Toyota Corolla al Jackson South Medical Center, ubicado en 9333 SW 152 St., como pacientes con alerta de trauma, según el informe de arresto.

“La víctima sufrió lesiones graves, incluida una fractura de cadera, una fractura de pierna, además de múltiples laceraciones y abrasiones, y fue reportada en estado crítico”, escribió un agente sobre las lesiones de la mujer, según el informe de arresto.

Los fiscales de Miami-Dade presentaron un caso contra Hernandez el domingo por tres cargos de delitos graves: conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol y causar lesiones corporales graves, conducción imprudente que provocó lesiones corporales graves y causar lesiones mientras huía o evadía a un agente de policía.

Hernandez compareció el domingo ante un tribunal para una audiencia de fianza, y un juez fijó su fianza en $30,000 USD, según los registros judiciales. El juez del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade, Richard Hersch, estaba designado para presidir el caso. Su audiencia de lectura de cargos fue programada para las 9 a.m. del 9 de noviembre.

Agentes de la BSO informaron que respondieron a la vivienda de Ormo alrededor de las 9 a.m. del viernes, en Quail Roost Drive, cerca de Hunter’s Point Boulevard.

“La causa y la manera de la muerte serán determinadas por la Oficina del Médico Forense del condado Broward”, escribió Gerdy St. Louis, portavoz de la BSO, en un comunicado emitido el lunes sobre Ormo.

Quienes conocían a Ormo, mejor conocido como “Gus”, lo describieron como un virtuoso del piano, cantante y compositor nacido en Maracaibo, Venezuela.

La página de Instagram de Ormo muestra que había estado promocionando “Agape”, un nuevo álbum de seis canciones.

El editor de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Carson Merlo, contribuyó a este informe.

Our rain chances start to change Thursday with a breeze picking up off the Atlantic. This will give us batches of rain swinging through at times. This will be on and off into the weekend. We will also be watching the potential for king tides this weekend into early next week to give us moderate coastal flooding.

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson died after being taken to a hospital following Saturday’s fall at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Nellis Air Force Base said in a statement. He had been rappelling toward the ground when spectators watched him plunge to the field prior to Navy’s game against University of Texas at San Antonio.

The military says an investigation is underway. The demonstration was part of a pregame program for the crowd during the annual “Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans” game in San Antonio.

“This tragedy is felt deeply across the 57th Wing,” U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Scott C. Mills, 57th Wing commander, said in a statement.

Patterson was a Tactical Air Control Party instructor assigned to the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2, and served for 15 years, according to the military. He was from Fort Stewart, Georgia, and had numerous decorations and commendations.

A video of the fall that was posted on social media showed Patterson in combat fatigues quickly descending to the ground feet first. The fall occurred with fans in the stands and a band and cheerleaders assembled nearby on the field. He was treated on the field for several minutes and taken away.

The sister of Patterson’s wife declined to comment.

Game was delayed after emergency response

Officials delayed the start of the game for about 10 minutes following the fall.

UTSA head coach Jeff Traylor said his team could see the effect that it had on the crowd of over 23,000 people as soon as players arrived on the field for the game, which his team won 38-34. Traylor said he had only been told there had been an “incident” that would delay kickoff.

“You could tell the energy was just gone,” he said. “It just really puts things in perspective. It really does.”

Air Force says demonstration included a team of specialists

Patterson was one of four military service members who were scheduled to participate in the pregame rappelling demonstration.

According to an Air Force website, the service members who were participating in the rappelling demonstration were part of a team that embeds with Army and Marine units and helps to direct air and artillery strikes from forward ground locations.

Part of their training includes learning to rapidly drop by rope, sometimes from helicopters that are 100 feet (about 30 meters) or more above the ground.

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Six weeks of excellence in NASCAR's playoffs had disappeared in the span of a few miserable hours in the desert on Sunday.

Even before the tire mishap, Larson struggled at Phoenix Raceway, qualifying 22nd on Saturday. He wasn't any better during the race, limping around the mile tri-oval in the back of the pack before the flat tire that almost seemed like a merciful ending.

Tyler Reddick won at Phoenix for his sixth victory of the season. Ryan Blaney was second, Chase Elliott finished third and Christopher Bell was fourth.

“I didn’t expect to be good, but I didn’t expect to be that bad either,” Larson said. "It wasn’t a lot of fun today, but we were just trying to salvage what we could of the day. We’ll go to Talladega and try to forget about today and get back after it. We’ve done well at the superspeedways, so hopefully we can execute, get some points and keep ourselves in the hunt.”

Forgetting about Sunday's miserable performance might be easier said than done, but it would be silly to say Larson's chase for a third Cup Series championship is finished.

The Hendrick Motorsports team still has a 5-point lead over Bell heading into Talladega next weekend. Briscoe is in third, 24 points back, while Denny Hamlin (31), Blaney (40), Joey Logano (44) and Reddick (56) are still in the hunt with three races to go — largely because Larson had such a bad day.

The No. 5's free fall was just as eye-catching as his previous dominance in NASCAR's postseason. His average finish of 2.83 was the best pace over the first six postseason races since the “Chase” was introduced in 2004. He's won two races and finished second in two others.

It was a stellar run reminiscent of Jimmie Johnson’s peak in the 2000s.

Now most of that momentum is gone. It's back to the garage to figure out what went wrong.

“We’ve done well at the superspeedways, so hopefully we can execute, get some points and keep ourselves in the hunt,” Larson said.

Who is on the rise?

Reddick's No. 45 Toyota has newfound momentum heading into Talladega. His 23XI team had the hottest car in the sport early in the year, winning four of the season’s first six races, but had a big lull over the summer.

He's back in the hunt for title — though still a considerable long shot.

“We just had to keep showing up, stay focused on the details,” Reddick said. “We did a good job of just fighting through the things that we needed to work on today, just making the right calls at the right time.”

Briscoe is still lurking as well after back-to-back wins in Las Vegas and Charlotte vaulted him back into contention. Hamlin — who is still looking for his first Cup Series championship — finished 28th in Phoenix after a one-two punch of bad luck caused by a flat tire and then a speeding violation on pit road as he struggled to control the car.

The No. 11 Toyota still made up ground in the chase from a points perspective, even though he fell from second to fourth in the standings.

Blaney and Logano had a good run in Phoenix for Joe Gibbs Racing and have plenty of confidence heading to Talladega. And then there's Bell, who finished fourth in the desert and is now just 5 points back of Larson.

Buckle up. NASCAR's postseason is wide open.

“It’s going to be a battle, that’s for sure,” Bell said. “We’re right there in it. Really proud of our team. They’ve been doing a really good job of bringing fast race cars, executing races. We’ve been able to qualify well and run up front in stages.”

Toyota continues excellence

Toyota continued its outstanding season by winning the NASCAR Cup Series Manufacturers' Championship after winning 18 races so far this season. It is Toyota's first manufacturers' title and most single-season wins since 2019.

Toyota has five of the top nine drivers in the playoff standings, including Bell at No. 2, Briscoe at No. 3, Hamlin at No. 4, Reddick at No. 7 and Ty Gibbs at No. 9. Bubba Wallace is 12th.

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Abdulrahman Alfozan’s wife and young son also left the country the day after the 35-year-old Saudi national’s arrest, traveling on a one-way ticket booked and paid for by a Saudi military official, prosecutors said in a memo Sunday seeking his continued detention.

“Ultimately, the defendant has little incentive to remain in the United States to see this case through,” federal prosecutors wrote. “He has ample resources —including his significant compensation from a decade of high-tech employment in the Bay Area and at least two bank accounts in Saudi Arabia — and what appears to be considerable support from a foreign government.”

A federal judge in San Francisco sided with prosecutors Monday, denying a request by Alfozan’s lawyers to release him to home confinement. His next court date is Nov.

Alfozan’s lawyer William Pernik argued in court that his client had strong ties to the U.S. and was “weeks away from achieving every immigrant’s dream” — U.S. citizenship.

Alfozan had a naturalization interview with federal officials scheduled next month and has been a lawful permanent resident since 2020, his lawyers said in their legal filings. He has also lived in the U.S. for 15 years and attended MIT and the University of California, Berkeley, they said.

Pernik said Alfozan is willing to put up “almost the entirety” of his assets — about $1 million currently in a U.S. investment account — to cover his bond.

“Everything this man has he’s willing to surrender,” he said, adding that Alfozan's wife is also willing to return to the U.S. as she still holds a visitor visa that expires in 2033.

Judge Alex Tse appeared doubtful, questioning whether Saudi Arabia’s government would simply reimburse Alfozan if he fled and forfeited his bond.

After the hearing, Pernik said he was disappointed with the ruling but declined further comment.

Pernik had argued in court filings that Alfozan purchased one-way tickets for his family to Saudi Arabia more than two weeks before prosecutors allege the recording devices were installed. They said the couple planned to spend Alfozan’s roughly two-month paternity leave in Saudi Arabia following the birth of their U.S.-citizen son.

But prosecutors said Saudi officials purchased new plane tickets for Alfozan’s wife and son after his arrest, allowing them to leave the U.S. sooner than the Oct. 12 flight Alfozan had originally booked.

Prosecutors have not said what Alfozan might have wanted to do with the recordings, but say he was in “frequent communication” with a member of the Saudi royal family. They said the royal family member repeatedly tried to recruit Alfozan to an artificial intelligence venture being launched in Saudi Arabia.

Alfozan had told the unnamed person he wouldn’t leave OpenAI until his stock was vested, even as he explored other career opportunities in the Middle Eastern kingdom, prosecutors wrote. He had worked at the ChatGPT maker since July 2025 but was fired after his arrest.

Prosecutors say Alfozan concealed an audio recording device in toilet paper and plugged it into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room he wasn’t authorized to access. They say security cameras captured him entering the room and checking behind the television after installing the device. It remained there for several days before being found Sept. 30.

Prosecutors say the conference room was typically used for meetings involving company leaders, government officials and other executives and “discussions of highly confidential technical, commercial, and strategic information, including proprietary research, as well as nonpublic information.”

OpenAI has said the recording device Alfozan used was sophisticated, designed to evade detection and featured advanced encryption and audio-monitoring capabilities. They also said they had evidence Alfozan planned to place other listening devices elsewhere in the office.

Alfozan has been charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. If convicted, he faces a five-year prison sentence.

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Marcelo reported from New York.

“Son delitos del título de terrorismo del Código Penal, actos con artefacto mortífero y explosivos”, explicó el lunes a The Associated Press el coronel Francisco Estrada Portales, del área de Seguridad del Estado del Ministerio del Interior.

Las sanciones previstas en la ley para este delito contemplan incluso la pena de muerte, pero Estrada indicó que todavía no hay pedidos de la Fiscalía y que la condena extrema no se aplica desde hace décadas.

Una lancha rápida procedente de Estados Unidos con 10 hombres de origen cubano a bordo intentó infiltrarse el 25 de febrero y abrió fuego contra una unidad del servicio de Guardafronteras isleño que trató de detenerla. Tres de los atacantes murieron en el acto y otro que resultó lesionado falleció posteriormente.

La nave se encontraba a unos 1,6 kilómetros al noreste de Cayo Falcones, frente a la costa norte de la isla.

El capitán de la embarcación de Guardafronteras resultó herido y las autoridades informaron que habían detenido a una persona en tierra que les servía de apoyo.

El incidente se produjo en el contexto de un incremento de las tensiones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos, que impuso un cerco energético a la isla para presionar un cambio de gobierno.

En su momento el Ministerio del Interior mostró el material decomisado a los atacantes: fusiles, pistolas, mochilas con ropa, uniformes, botas, cascos y medicamentos, comida, un generador eléctrico, una planta satelital de comunicación y miles de proyectiles.

“Las armas, los explosivos, todos estaban en buen estado técnico y con disponibilidad para ser utilizados y causar daño”, expresó Estrada.

Dado que los acusados confesaron y cooperaron con la investigación se pudo determinar que “la autoría de los primeros disparos” fue del encarcelado Amijail Sánchez, un cubano residente en Estados Unidos desde 2016 y a quien las autoridades de la isla habían incorporado a una lista de personas y entidades terroristas presentada ante la ONU el año pasado.

Otro de los atacantes detenidos, Leordan Cruz, también se encuentra en el listado de terrorismo de Cuba.

Las autoridades cubanas mostraron a AP imágenes de video con declaraciones de los acusados. La AP no pudo comprobar de manera independiente el contenido de las mismas.

En esas grabaciones Cruz declaró que la idea era despejar un área e incitar al pueblo a derrocar al gobierno. En otra parte indica que se buscaba provocar una intervención armada de Estados Unidos.

Estrada indicó que se compartió la investigación con Estados Unidos, pero hasta la fecha no se ha recibido respuesta.

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Robinson posted a statement of apology on social media Sunday evening, and coach Manny Diaz said Monday afternoon that Robinson has also apologized privately. Diaz said the team will handle the matter internally, but wouldn’t elaborate on specifics of any potential discipline or other steps to address the incident.

“All those are being handled internally, and we're confident in our plan with that,” Diaz said, “and that's really all we'll say about that.”

The incident took place midway through Saturday's third quarter, coming after Duke safety DaShawn Stone stayed down after making a tackle on UNC running back Jaylen McGill. In a video widely shared on social media, Robinson is standing close and leaning forward to watch over two male staffers tending to Stone.

The female staffer then runs in and pushes Robinson away and to the side as she kneels down to assist, with Robinson using his right arm to swat her left hand off of him before stepping back in to stand over the group working with Stone.

“I was completely wrong, and she did not deserve that,” Robinson said in his public apology Sunday night, saying he had apologized to her directly after the game and that he was scared that a teammate he considers “like family to me” was seriously hurt.

“But being worried about him does not excuse how I treated her,” Robinson said. “I should have controlled my emotions, and I didn't. I'm truly sorry for my actions and for letting her, myself and our program down. I have to be better than that.”

On Monday, Diaz said Robinson's behavior had “fallen well below" the standard he expects of team members. Asked to elaborate on conversations he had with Robinson afterward, Diaz said: "I think that's private, between he and I. I think his apology privately and publicly states where he was at.”

Duke lost 24-20 as UNC reclaimed the Victory Bell, presented to the rivalry game's winner, for the first time since 2023. The Blue Devils (4-2, 1-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) visit Virginia on Friday.

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Temporary Protected Status was set to end Oct. 19 for about 101,000 Ukrainians and 1,800 Sudanese. But DHS said an announcement “will be made at the appropriate time.” Until then, the department said in a written statement, Ukrainians and Sudanese in the U.S. covered by those temporary measures “retain protection.” The Department did not indicate how long they could stay or when a final announcement would be made on their status.

DHS did not respond to a question about whether they can keep their work permits, but TPS generally allows people to work while their protections remain in effect.

A relief without details

The decision Monday marks another incident where the Trump administration, which has previously sought to end these temporary protections from deportation and send people back to their home countries, has allowed people covered by the temporary status to stay in the country but without giving any guidance as to how long.

Yuriy Boyechko, CEO of Hope For Ukraine, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian aid in Ukraine and helps resettle newcomers in the U.S., described the government’s announcement as “last-minute patches.”

It is a “bandage that has been placed on a wound that does not solve the real issue,” he said. “It’s time for U.S. to come up with some normal path to permanent residency for all these people,” Boyechko noted. He emphasized that they cannot safely return to Ukraine.

Andrew Arthur, a national-security and immigration expert at the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that favors lower immigration, said the government will eventually decide but faces no deadline. Until then, nothing changes, he said.

“It’s simply going to be an extension until it is a termination,” he said. “It’s beyond cavil that both Sudan and Ukraine are experiencing ongoing armed conflict, and therefore the secretary is well within his authority to continue TPS for each of them."

The context of the decisions to keep the protections

The Trump administration has already terminated TPS for more than 1 million people from 13 countries, including Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and Syria.

But in a change in practice roughly a month ago, the administration kept protections in place for nearly 200,000 Salvadorans whose TPS was set to expire Sept. 9. In that case they also said that they were going to make a decision at the appropriate time and that in the meantime, people from El Salvador could continue to work and live in the U.S.

Activists and a bipartisan group of lawmakers have been raising the alarm over the upcoming deadline for TPS to expire for Ukrainians, arguing that conditions remain unsafe for them to return home amid the war with Russia.

Ukraine was first designated for TPS in April 2022, following Russia’s full-scale invasion two months earlier. The Biden administration subsequently extended the designation, most recently in January 2025, when DHS authorized an additional 18 months of protection through October 2026.

The TPS program for Sudan was established in 1997, and since then, successive U.S. administrations have extended it due to the armed conflict and political instability that have plagued the African nation.

The decision Monday comes two weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, when Trump’s hard line immigration policies will face a test at the ballot box.

The TPS program has offered protections for decades but is controversial

The U.S. Congress created TPS in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries suffering from natural disasters or civil strife.

It allows people already in the country to remain and work, for renewable periods if the homeland security secretary determines conditions are unsafe for their return. But it doesn't give them a pathway to permanent residency.

Supporters say that using this tool protects people from being returned to dangerous situations and that uprooting people covered by TPS after years of living in the U.S. is cruel. Critics, especially in the Trump administration, say successive administrations have extended these protections for years regardless of what has happened in the home countries.

Federal rules say TPS is automatically extended for six months if the secretary doesn’t make a determination at least 60 days before the designation expires.

Advocates are grateful for DHS decision, warn about the war

Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge, noted Ukraine and Sudan meet the legal conditions for TPS to be extended.

“It is not safe for these families to go home,” Vignarajah said.

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The conclusion of the state’s investigation into the shooting death of Kohen Wiley follows months of mourning and calls for justice, both nationally and in the small town where the shooting took place, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Memphis, Tennessee.

The shooting occurred in mid-June as Senatobia officers responded to a shoplifting call at a Walmart, where they saw Vellesiya Wiley, Kohen’s mother, carrying her son as she and a friend left the store, got into a car and began driving away. Wiley and her friend are both Black. Police believed they stole diapers and baby clothes. Kohen’s mother has denied she or her friend stole anything, and neither of them have been charged with shoplifting or any other counts, according to online state and county court records.

According to a statement released shortly after the shooting by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the car drove toward law enforcement, prompting an officer to fire into the car, striking Kohen and his mother’s friend.

Martin Zummach, an attorney who represents the officer who fired the shot that killed Kohen, says the attorney general’s findings cleared his client of criminal wrongdoing. He said the driver of the vehicle “tried to kill” his client and other officers who were present.

“He had no choice but to fire his weapon,” Zummach told The Associated Press.

In a video released days after the shooting, Vellesiya Wiley disputed that her friend, who was driving, headed toward the officers.

Lawyer calls for release of body-worn camera footage

Ben Crump, a nationally renowned civil rights attorney who is representing Kohen’s family, has said results of a preliminary independent autopsy indicate Kohen was shot from the side of the car, not the front, contradicting officers’ claims that the car was heading toward them.

Crump on Monday pointed out that authorities have yet to release video footage of the encounter to support the attorney general's finding that the shooting was a justified use of force.

“How can anyone accept that conclusion when Kohen’s family and the public still have not been allowed to see the body-camera footage?” Crump said in a statement. "If the footage supports the state’s decision, release it. We will not stop fighting until this family gets the truth.”

A photo of the car after the shooting shows that the passenger window was shattered and an apparent bullet hole pierced the windshield on the passenger side. The other woman in the car was badly wounded, authorities said.

John P. Gross, an expert on police use of force on moving vehicles, said that if the vehicle had been moving toward officers, the best practice would have been for them to get out of the way.

“This shooting was almost certainly unjustified,” Gross told the AP. “In terms of both officer safety, the safety of the occupants of the vehicle and general public safety, you don’t shoot vehicles.”

Charles “Joe” Key, a firearms and ballistics expert and former Baltimore police lieutenant who typically testifies in defense of police, said the image of the vehicle after the shooting suggests that the officer fired from the side.

“That indicates that the officer who did the shooting was not personally at risk at the time he shot,” Key said. “The only way it would have been justified is if officers had been in the path of a car driving directly at them."

“The body-worn camera’s going to have to tell if anybody was in danger,” he added.

Marquell Bridges, an activist who has been working with Kohen Wiley’s family, called for the release of video footage of the shooting in a statement.

“His family deserves the truth. The public deserves transparency,” Bridges said. “We will not be silent. We will not look away. And we will not allow the life of a Black child to be treated as though it means nothing.”

Child’s death stokes simmering tensions

The shooting is the latest in a string of incidents that has eroded trust between the Senatobia police department and the city’s Black residents.

Last year, a Senatobia officer threatened a Black woman with a Taser, pulling her from her car and onto the ground and arresting her during a confrontation over an accessible parking space in the same Walmart lot where Kohen was shot. Two years earlier, a Senatobia police officer was fired for arresting a Black 10-year-old for urinating in public.

More recently, former Senatobia Police Chief Harold Vanderford was fired by the city’s board of aldermen, after reporting by The New York Times, Mississippi Today and Verite News alleged he used racist slurs in private text messages.

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This comes as the world's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record continues to outpace efforts, and the virus has spread into eight provinces in Congo and into neighboring countries, Kenya and Uganda.

The revelations renew long-standing questions about transparency and accountability in Congo, a country battered by decades of major epidemics, including repeated Ebola outbreaks. In recent months, The Associated Press reported extensively on strikes of frontline health care and support workers over unpaid salaries, bonuses and dangerous conditions in eastern Congo.

Previous Ebola outbreaks were marked by allegations of corruption and mismanagement of funds, which experts said have contributed to the mistrust of local communities, complicating the efforts to halt the spread.

“Many of those involved in the response — who sometimes risk their own lives to save others — say that they have not been paid,” Prince Bahati, a nurse from Bunia, a town in eastern Congo which is at the center of the outbreak, told the AP. "Such a situation is unacceptable and demands clarification, as well as rigorous oversight of how the mobilized resources are managed.”

Anicet Kakule, a Bunia resident, said his friend died in an Ebola treatment center because of a lack of adequate care.

“When you hear about sums like these, frankly, I can understand why some people believe that Ebola has become a business for many NGOs,” he said. “I would like to see the management of funds allocated to the response handled jointly by our country’s government and humanitarian partners — the WHO, for instance — to ensure greater transparency and accountability," he said.

Here's what we know about the Ebola funding.

Not all funds are accounted for

Dr. Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent's top public health agency, told reporters last week that since the beginning of the epidemic, $962 million from international donors has been disbursed to organizations working on Ebola response in eastern Congo.

But only $200 million has been accounted for by organizations working on the ground, which include U.N. agencies such as the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Food Program, and international charities like Save The Children and Medecins du Monde, as well as local aid groups.

Only one-third of the organizations attended a recent meeting organized by Congo's health ministry and provided their financial records, Kaseya said. Those attending organizations ​said they received $228 million, ​of which $127 ⁠million had been spent and around $100 million remained available.

Kaseya did not specify which organizations lagged behind.

“This represents a significant lack of transparency and financial reporting on the part of these organizations, preventing the Government from having a comprehensive overview of the resources mobilized, how they were utilized and the results achieved,” the Africa CDC said in a statement.

“It is unacceptable for organizations to receive hundreds of millions of dollars to intervene in a country facing a major health emergency without providing a transparent account to the national authorities responsible for coordinating the response.”

Kaseya said the agency would work closely with the Congolese authorities to investigate what has happened with the remaining money.

Congolese authorities restrict how many organizations work on the ground

Following the statement from the Africa CDC, Congolese authorities, which are in charge of coordinating the response, highlighted that they have not received any money directly from international donors.

The country's health minister, Samuel Roger Kamba, told the Congolese Press Agency on Sunday that the authorities have restricted operations of organizations on the ground, and granted accreditations to only 25 out of almost 100 organizations that had been previously authorized to operate.

The authorities are investigating what happened to the money, he said, and implementing organizations are required to report how much money they received, from whom and detailed plans for how they are spending it.

“The funds granted were not paid into the general treasury; we must know who received what and who is doing what on the ground. All partners must be able to provide us with this information,” Communications Minister Patrick Muyaya told the AP.

Ebola's biggest outbreak on record continues spreading

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached an eighth province in the country’s north, authorities said on Sunday as the spread of the world’s fastest-growing outbreak of the disease on record continues to outpace response efforts.

Authorities have recorded at least 9,400 cases, including over 4,500 deaths, in the outbreak declared in mid-May, making it the deadliest in Congo’s history.

The virus has spilled over into other countries including neighboring Uganda, which has since declared itself free of the disease, and Kenya, which recorded a seventh case last week.

The spread of the outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment, is fueled by mass population movements, rebel violence, mistrust and poor working conditions of front line workers.

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Amanpour, the network’s chief international anchor, will scale back her daily show, “Amanpour,” on CNN International to once a week at the beginning of 2027, and end it in May, leaving the network the following month. She said in a statement Monday that she looks forward to “interesting new projects down the line.”

Amanpour, 68, also will end her PBS show, “Amanpour & Co,” at the end of the year, she said in her statement, shared by CNN. She will continue her podcast, “The Ex Files,” with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin, a former U.S. diplomat.

“After many months of thought and a few sleepless nights, I have decided to separate from CNN, my partner of 43 fantastic years!” Amanpour said. She added she would “always be rooting for CNN and maintaining its history of independent journalism. Remember: Always be truthful, not neutral.”

No reason given for her departure

Amanpour did not give a reason for her departure, nor did she specifically mention changes at her network. But her exit coincides with a new era at CNN as it comes under a new owner, Skydance. After a yearlong process, Skydance-owned Paramount closed its $81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery on Oct. 6. The merger unites under one roof two giants in TV news — CBS and CNN.

On a personal front, Amanpour has spoken openly about her 2021 diagnosis of ovarian cancer and two later recurrences, calling it “the invisible killer.” She has urged others to “get all the scans that you can.”

Amanpour joined CNN as an assistant in Atlanta in 1983. In his own message Monday, CNN's chief executive, Mark Thompson, wrote that at the time, her promise was not universally appreciated. “Famously, one of her bosses told her back then that she didn’t have what it took to become a foreign correspondent — or to hold any on-air role at all,” Thompson wrote. “Boy, did she prove him wrong!”

Fame came during the first Gulf War

Amanpour became a reporter and an international correspondent seven years later. She earned fame in the early 1990s, covering the Gulf War, conflict in the Middle East and many other hot spots. War reporting is “a sense of mission, it’s a sense of purpose, it’s a sense of being able to tell a story,” she said.

She aimed to bring international news — including complicated stories — to American viewers. “I’ve never believed that things are too complicated to put on American television,” she told The Associated Press in 2023. "I’ve never talked down to an audience. I’ve never believed that they just want to know what’s happening in their backyard.”

Amanpour also noted that her upbringing gave her a unique perspective.

“Because of my upbringing — I’m half-Iranian and half-British — I’ve had the great privilege of being able to see the world from two very distinct perspectives,” she said. “I’ve always spoken out about the need to bridge gaps. I know we can live in a world that’s not 100% tribalized.”

In her remarks Monday, Amanpour thanked her field crews and show teams.

“From my very first big exciting assignment covering the first Gulf War, to the horrors of the Bosnian War, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iran and all the points in between, it’s the teams and the camaraderie that counted so much,” she wrote, “as we together battled to seek the facts, the evidence and the humanity, so that CNN could always broadcast the truth about the world and to the world, without fear nor favor.”

“There is no universe in which all of this coincidentally happened all at the same time,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said during a hearing over the fate of a project that has emerged as the latest legal flashpoint in President Donald Trump's campaign to leave his personal imprint on the nation's capital. The hearing, which continued more than five hours, ended with Reyes taking no action.

Reyes last week ordered a halt to the golf course's redevelopment plans until at least Oct. 26 after scolding the government for starting a large-scale tree removal at the course over a holiday weekend while providing little notice to the court or the plaintiffs trying to stop the makeover.

Then, on Sunday, Trump announced plans on social media to close the golf course for 15 months, starting on Nov. 15, and redevelop the 106-year-old park and course despite a court challenge by the D.C. Preservation League and two golfers. In a post on Monday, Trump said the work would start immediately.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys challenging the golf course renovation work have asked Reyes to extend her order that temporarily paused the work. They say the work is inflicting irreversible damage and that the redevelopment would violate the congressional act that created the park where the course is located.

Tensions escalate between judge and Trump administration

The hearings on the century-old golf course have grown increasingly tense and on the eve of Monday’s hearing, Reyes rejected the administration’s request for her to recuse herself from the case. The government questioned her impartiality and accused her of engaging in “egregious” behavior from the bench during last week’s emergency hearing for the case.

Trump, a Republican, referred to Reyes as a “crazed lunatic” in his social media post on Monday.

"The United States Department of Interior wants to take a terrible and very unsafe golf course, and make it into a great, safe, and prestigious golf course. They have an absolute right to do so. It’s as simple as that!” Trump wrote.

Reyes, who was nominated by Democratic President Joe Biden, said the government has failed “by any objective measure” to demonstrate the need for her recusal from the case.

"It is easy to weaponize selective quotations to bring a baseless recusal motion. But it is much harder to meet the demanding legal standard against a full record,” she wrote.

She ended the hearing Monday by saying she was receiving threats over the case.

“A federal judge is getting death threats over a golf course,” she said. “I really don’t think that’s what the founders envisioned.”

Trump has pledged to turn the course into a world-class golf venue — part of his grand vision for Washington, D.C., where he has torn down storied structures, remade or renamed others and deployed the National Guard for more than a year.

While it has been open to Washingtonians of all income levels, opponents of Trump’s plans for the golf course have argued it will alter the character of the space and make it less affordable to people.

The DC Preservation League and other opponents have voiced concerns over whether the Trump administration is complying with federal laws, including the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. That fear was compounded by Trump's social media postings indicating plans are further along, without the proper steps being taken, than originally thought.

Judge presses officials over conflicting accounts

Monday’s hearing started with a tense confrontation between Reyes and Justice Department official Stanley Woodward, when the judge asked if other any government attorneys in the room “as officers of the court” were willing to certify that everything within a Sunday filing was truthful and legally sound under federal rules of civil procedures.

In that filing Woodward argued that there were no final plans for the park.

“First, the plan is not final because the Park Service has not completed its review and the details of the proposal are subject to change during the review process,” the filing said.

Trump's social media outbursts created other tension for Justice Department lawyers.

“I have on the one hand the president of the United States saying to the public there is a final plan,” one with sign off from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum “and then I have you telling me there is no final plan.”

Still, Reyes told the plaintiffs, who are seeking additional safeguards, that an all encompassing work stoppage order is unlikely.

The administration has maintained that the tree cutting was driven by a 2019 National Park Service report and not Trump's designs for the golf course, a line officials repeated on Monday.

Reyes expressed doubts over the claim.

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According to an arrest report from the Florida City Police Department, Jaquasha Dean is accused of shooting 46-year-old Frankie King early Saturday morning at a home in the 500 block of Northwest 16th Street.

Officers responded to the home around 2 a.m. that morning and found that King had suffered a gunshot wound to his groin, authorities said.

Police said King was airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center for treatment.

Argument between family members escalates

According to the arrest report, the incident began when King got into an argument with his mother, Kimberly Spell.

Spell told investigators the verbal dispute became physical before King walked out of the house.

Another woman, Selena Foster, told detectives she witnessed the confrontation and approached King, telling him it was wrong to hit his mother.

Foster claimed King then approached her and punched her in the nose.

However, the detective investigating the case reported seeing no visible injuries on Foster, who declined medical attention.

Spell later told investigators she did not want to pursue charges, describing the dispute as a family matter, authorities said.

Woman says she fired after man approached her

During an interview with detectives at the Florida City Police Department, Dean provided her account of the shooting.

According to the arrest report, Dean said she had been attending her grandmother’s birthday celebration at the home but decided to leave.

As she was placing a speaker in the trunk of her vehicle, Dean said she saw King punch Foster, who is her mother, authorities said.

Dean told investigators King then began walking toward her.

According to the report, Dean retrieved an M4 gun from her vehicle’s trunk and “racked the charging mechanism twice,” causing two live rounds to fall onto the pavement.

Dean said she warned King to step back, but he continued approaching her, authorities said.

According to the report, she told detectives she then fired a single shot, striking King in the groin.

Investigators said Dean was arrested on an attempted murder charge.

King’s condition was not confirmed in the arrest report.

As of Monday afternoon, Dean was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without bond.

Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Florida City, Jaquasha Dean está acusada de disparar contra Frankie King, de 46 años, la madrugada del sábado en una vivienda ubicada en la cuadra 500 de Northwest 16th Street.

Los agentes respondieron a la vivienda alrededor de las 2 a.m. de esa mañana y encontraron que King había sufrido una herida de bala en la ingle, informaron las autoridades.

La policía indicó que King fue trasladado en helicóptero al Jackson South Medical Center para recibir tratamiento.

Discusión entre familiares se intensifica

Según el informe de arresto, el incidente comenzó cuando King tuvo una discusión con su madre, Kimberly Spell.

Spell dijo a los investigadores que la disputa verbal se volvió física antes de que King saliera de la vivienda.

Otra mujer, Selena Foster, dijo a los detectives que presenció el enfrentamiento y se acercó a King para decirle que estaba mal golpear a su madre.

Foster afirmó que King se acercó entonces a ella y le dio un puñetazo en la nariz.

Sin embargo, el detective encargado de la investigación informó que no observó lesiones visibles en Foster, quien rechazó recibir atención médica.

Posteriormente, Spell dijo a los investigadores que no quería presentar cargos, describiendo la disputa como un asunto familiar, informaron las autoridades.

Mujer afirma que disparó después de que hombre se le acercara

Durante una entrevista con detectives en el Departamento de Policía de Florida City, Dean proporcionó su versión de la balacera.

Según el informe de arresto, Dean dijo que había estado asistiendo a la celebración del cumpleaños de su abuela en la vivienda, pero decidió marcharse.

Mientras colocaba una bocina en el maletero de su vehículo, Dean dijo que vio a King golpear a Foster, quien es su madre, informaron las autoridades.

Dean dijo a los investigadores que King comenzó entonces a caminar hacia ella.

Según el informe, Dean sacó un arma M4 del maletero de su vehículo y “accionó el mecanismo de carga dos veces”, lo que provocó que dos cartuchos sin disparar cayeran al pavimento.

Dean dijo que advirtió a King que retrocediera, pero él continuó acercándose, informaron las autoridades.

Según el informe, Dean dijo a los detectives que entonces realizó un solo disparo, alcanzando a King en la ingle.

Los investigadores indicaron que Dean fue arrestada por un cargo de intento de asesinato.

El estado de salud de King no fue confirmado en el informe de arresto.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, Dean permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight sin derecho a fianza.

Leo recalled the “grave situation” in Oleshky, in Ukraine’s Kherson region, and told Zelenskyy about his request to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a humanitarian ceasefire, according to a Vatican statement.

The pope expressed hope that cooperation between the two sides would allow food and medical aid to reach the city and permit the voluntary and safe evacuation of civilians. He also reaffirmed the Holy See’s commitment to promoting dialogue and peace.

Leo made the appeal to Putin during a phone call Friday while recovering at Rome’s Gemelli hospital from surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung. The Vatican said that Leo had expressed deep concern about conditions in Oleshky and sought a ceasefire to permit aid deliveries and evacuations.

The conversation on Friday was Leo’s second known phone call with Putin since becoming pope. The two previously spoke on June 4, 2025, when their conversation also focused on the war in Ukraine.

Leo underwent surgery on Oct. 13 after doctors identified a suspected cancerous nodule. Tests confirmed pulmonary adenocarcinoma. He was discharged Saturday and said on Sunday during his Angelus prayer that he’s slowly resuming his duties.

On Wednesday, he's expected to hold his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square.

The latest move in a power struggle between the two governing bodies came in the week after UEFA's European delegates were disappointed by what they perceived as a lack of clarity by FIFA president Infantino over the issues at a FIFA council meeting last week.

Infantino provided no documents about the $4.2 billion World Cup sell-off plan he launched and quickly dropped in July amid a fierce backlash led by Europe.

Among the 42 questions that UEFA is demanding an answer to are: Infantino’s personal remuneration package, financial payments made to singer Marc Anthony, the handling of U.S. striker Folarin Balogun's disciplinary case, business and political relationships involving Donald Trump and his family, and the operational independence of FIFA’s judicial, electoral, and ethics committees.

UEFA asked U.S. federal courts to authorize subpoenas compelling the production of documents and sworn testimony about the abandoned investment plan called FIFA Forward Enterprise.

FIFA lawyers have claimed UEFA is harassing Infantino.

Deep dissatisfaction

The formal letter, signed by UEFA general secretary Theodore Theodoridis on behalf of European FIFA council members, stated Infantino’s apology for his actions and subsequent explanation failed to address their core concerns.

“These explanations have not begun satisfactorily to address a number of fundamental questions raised by Council members. Others remain unanswered, and the information and documentation requested have not been (provided),” the letter said.

“The withdrawal of FFE, the recognition of mistakes, and the announcement of ‘potential governance reforms’ do not answer how the relevant decisions were taken or why the FIFA Council was not involved at the appropriate stage."

Tight timeline

UEFA submitted 42 detailed questions to FIFA, demanding responses by Nov. 2 — 16 days before the nomination deadline for the presidential election next March 18.

With the next FIFA council meeting scheduled for Dec. 16 in Doha — after nominations close — UEFA insisted that answers cannot wait.

“These questions require answers now. They cannot be deferred until the next meeting of the FIFA Council — nor can future governance reforms substitute for scrutiny of decisions already taken and accountability for them,” the letter emphasized.

The earlier deadline would give federations time to assess FIFA’s answers — or its failure to answer — while they can still nominate or endorse a challenger.

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Keila Maldonado, de 21 años, fue detenida el sábado por el accidente ocurrido alrededor de la 1:30 a.m. de esa misma mañana cerca de la cuadra 200 de Sheridan Street en Dania Beach.

Los equipos de emergencia llegaron al área y encontraron a un peatón tendido en la calle. Fue declarado muerto en el lugar.

Los investigadores pasaron horas examinando las pruebas, incluidos fragmentos de lo que, según indicaron, era el Hyundai Sonata 2025 que conducía Maldonado.

A partir de las piezas encontradas en la escena, los detectives pudieron determinar la marca y el modelo del vehículo, así como quién creen que estaba al volante.

Según un informe de arresto, Maldonado huyó hacia el oeste en dirección a Federal Highway después del accidente.

Los detectives indicaron que horas después, alrededor de las 11:30 a.m., recibieron información de que el vehículo posiblemente se encontraba en el concesionario Lexus of North Miami.

Un detective se reunió con el gerente de seguridad del establecimiento, quien le informó que el vehículo, propiedad de Enterprise Car Rental, estaba “resguardado” en el segundo piso del estacionamiento y presentaba daños compatibles con el accidente, según el informe.

El detective habló entonces con otro empleado del concesionario, quien afirmó que una compañera de trabajo, Maldonado, le había pedido que le proporcionara un estimado de reparación del vehículo que conducía, indicaron las autoridades.

Los detectives señalaron que el empleado examinó el vehículo y observó que los daños en el parachoques delantero del lado del pasajero y en el parabrisas no habían sido causados por una colisión con otro vehículo. También se observaron lo que parecían ser restos de sangre y tejido humano en el automóvil, según las autoridades.

De acuerdo con el informe, Maldonado confesó entonces a su compañero de trabajo que había atropellado a una persona y luego condujo hasta una plaza comercial cercana, desde donde observó la llegada de los equipos de emergencia al lugar del accidente.

Los detectives indicaron que posteriormente huyó sin identificarse en ningún momento ante las autoridades.

Según el informe, debido a la gravedad del incidente, el empleado informó a su supervisor sobre lo que Maldonado presuntamente le había contado, y el supervisor habló entonces con ella.

Los detectives señalaron que Maldonado le dijo al supervisor que había atropellado a una persona que se desplazaba en un scooter.

Maldonado enfrenta ahora cargos por abandonar la escena de un accidente que provocó una muerte y manipulación de pruebas.

Hasta la tarde del domingo, permanecía detenida en la cárcel principal del condado Broward bajo una fianza de $51,000 USD.

Lucas, de 28 años, enfrentaba el lunes un cargo de intento de asesinato en primer grado por la balacera ocurrida el 28 de septiembre en la lavandería de autoservicio Zippy Coin Laundry, cerca de North Miami, según el informe de arresto.

Un detective escribió que un video de vigilancia “que muestra el intento de homicidio ayudó a establecer causa probable”, según el informe de arresto.

Personal de los Bomberos de Miami-Dade respondió a la emergencia y trasladó al hombre herido al hospital HCA Aventura. Su estado era crítico, pero sobrevivió, según los agentes.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO) arrestaron a Lucas, residente de Pembroke Pines, a las 7:40 p.m. del viernes en el área de Northeast Third Court y la calle 138, según el informe de arresto.

El Departamento Correccional de Miami-Dade ingresó a Lucas poco después de las 12:50 a.m. del sábado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde permanecía detenido la mañana del lunes sin derecho a fianza, según los registros de reclusos.

Lucas también enfrentaba un cargo por disparar ilegalmente un arma de fuego en un lugar público, según muestran los registros.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este informe.

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The latest batch of planning documents are part of a meeting set for two days after the midterm election on Nov. 3 and reflect the Republican president's push to leave a lasting mark on Washington.

The documents include site maps and renderings of the arch. One response to questions from the National Capital Planning Commission asked for a justification for the structure's size — it's planned to be 250 feet tall (76 meters). The National Park Service, part of the Interior Department, cited the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding.

“The proposed Triumphal Arch is the celebratory contribution of the semiquincentennial generation of Americans,” the agency wrote.

The documents do not detail a military complex at the structure.

Trump said in September that he agreed, at the military's request, to convert the structure into a “top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch” and that it would store drones and ammunition, as well as accommodate snipers.

A spokesperson for the Interior Department said in an emailed statement that the structure could host those features, even though they were not specified in the plans.

“The current design of the Triumphal Arch is capable of accommodating the national security functions — and more — highlighted in the President’s Truth Social post,” the unidentified spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

The arch is proposed for a circle adjacent to the Memorial Bridge connecting the nation's capital with northern Virginia. Like other projects around the capital Trump is pushing, it faces legal challenges.

Among the others are the White House ballroom, renaming and renovating the Kennedy Center, and rebuilding a golf course in East Potomac Park, which could significantly reduce the public’s access to running and biking paths.

The arch's opponents say it's too big and would disrupt the view between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, meant to symbolize the reunification of the North and the South after the Civil War.

Tuesday morning will feature much of the same. Limited rainfall with highs in the mid-80s and winds out of the northeast gusting up to 20 mph at times. More rain will filter back in by the weekend.

That bullpen has done much of the heavy lifting in getting the Brewers to their first World Series since 1982.

Relievers allowed just six runs over 40 2/3 innings for a 1.33 ERA during Milwaukee’s 3-1 series victory over the San Diego Padres in the NL Division Series and four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Championship Series. According to Sportradar, that’s the fourth-best postseason ERA that any pennant winner has carried into the World Series since the wild-card era began in 1995.

Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy has leaned heavily on left-handers Ashby, DL Hall and JoJo Romero and right-handers Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill. They have combined to strike out 35 and allow only 15 hits and three earned runs over 35 innings.

“I know if I get two runners on, DL, Abner, Megill are behind me, and that’s an unbelievable feeling as a pitcher,” Ashby said after the NLDS. “I think it just allows the other guys in the bullpen to take a deep breath and trust who they have behind us. That’s a special feeling, when you’ve got guys like that in the bullpen.”

Bullpen ‘brotherhood’ helps Brewers thrive

This bullpen seeks to maintain that momentum when the Brewers open the World Series on Friday by hosting either the Tampa Bay Rays or Cleveland Guardians. The Brewers are seeking their first World Series title; they lost to St. Louis in seven games the only other time they reached the Fall Classic.

The only three teams that had better postseason ERAs from their bullpens heading into the World Series since 1995 were the 2022 Houston Astros (0.83), 2013 Boston Red Sox (1.28) and 2005 Chicago White Sox (1.29). All three won the World Series.

“I think it’s like a brotherhood out there,” Hall said. “We’ve kind of created this year of, if we come in for somebody and their runners are on, just trying to keep them where they’re at. I think we take a lot of pride in that, and it’s kind of become a thing for us, just like picking each other up.”

Milwaukee’s bullpen strength has helped the Brewers come from behind in six of their seven playoff victories. According to Elias Sports Bureau, Milwaukee became the first team ever to sweep a best-of-seven series while having a reliever earn the win in all four games.

How these relievers got to Milwaukee

Milwaukee acquired Megill in 2023 after the Minnesota Twins designated him for assignment, and he has collected 81 saves with a 2.80 ERA over the last three seasons. The Brewers signed Uribe from the Dominican Republic in 2018. Hall came over from Baltimore in the 2024 trade that sent 2021 Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes to the Orioles. Ashby was a fourth-round draft pick in 2018. Romero arrived with Dustin May from St. Louis at this year’s trade deadline.

Megill has been a steady closer who made an All-Star Game in 2025. Uribe is one of baseball’s top setup men, with a sub-2.00 ERA the last two seasons. Both rank above the 90th percentile of major leaguers in average fastball velocity.

Ashby and Hall have come on strong in October.

Ashby entered this season having allowed nine runs (eight earned) in 9 1/3 career playoff innings, but he’s been spectacular this postseason with 12 1/3 shutout innings. Hall has allowed three hits and no runs in 8 2/3 career playoff innings, including 5 1/3 this year.

Their emergence gives Milwaukee plenty of different ways to attack hitters in the late innings. For instance, Murphy didn’t bother to use Megill for the ninth inning of the NLCS Game 4 clincher and instead rode the hot hand by sticking with Ashby, who earned a three-inning save.

“It gives you a ton of flexibility to deploy guys in different ways throughout the game, throughout the series,” president of baseball operations Matt Arnold said before the NLCS. “It takes a little bit of pressure off the starters, if they need that, and for Murph to know that that’s there. Yeah, it’s great to have those kind of weapons down there. They’re all diverse.”

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Freedom last was at a WNBA game in late August when he went to see Chicago host Indiana. He was ejected from the game and banned from the arena for getting into a heated interaction with Sky guard Natasha Cloud.

“As you all know, this all started with an interview featuring Gabby Williams of the Golden State Valkyries, when she said, ‘I have no problem with trans athletes playing on my team or against my team.’ Her words gave me so much hope and motivation to come out as a woman and officially declare for the WNBA Draft. I can’t wait to watch my favorite player, the woman who inspired me to become who I am today!” Freedom said in his post.

The league declined to comment on Freedom potentially attending the Finals.

Freedom and Royce White, another former NBA player, have declared for the WNBA draft, saying they identify as women. But a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press in August they are not eligible.

The WNBA has been the subject of recent debates on whether transgender women — people assigned male at birth who transition to align with their gender identity — should be allowed to participate in the league. There has never been such a player in the WNBA.

Although the league’s collective bargaining agreement says the WNBA is restricted to women, it contains no more specific language about gender identity or sex assigned at birth.

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During a news conference at the FIU College of Law, Uthmeier announced a state case against Castro, 95, for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.

“I’m not ignorant of the fact that Raúl Castro is an older man who’s probably not looking to march himself into Miami,” Uthmeier said. “I think others would get him before the court of law would, but at the end of the day, we stand ready to prosecute the case.”

The state’s new case stems from the federal indictment announced earlier this year at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami, which also included murder charges.

“It was not an accident what happened, it was murder,” Uthmeier said about the deaths of Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña, and Pablo Morales on Feb. 24, 1996, as they flew in two Cessna 337 aircraft.

De la Peña, 24; Costa, 29; Morales, 29, and Alejandre, 45, were in flights with Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based Cuban-American nonprofit founded in 1991 to help save the lives of refugees at sea.

“They were in unarmed civilian aircraft going out to save people,” Uthmeier said.

At the news conference, U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida, who announced the federal case against Castro on May 20 in downtown Miami, said he was standing in support of Uthmeier’s “parallel” prosecution.

“Pursuing accountability matters, showing these families that their government has not given up on them matters,” Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said during the news conference.

Before the news conference, The Miami Herald reported that a Miami-Dade County Circuit judge had signed the state’s warrant for Castro’s arrest.

According to the affidavit, Castro, then minister of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, or MINFAR, and first vice president of Cuba, was “a final decision-maker in the chain of command” that authorized the shootdown, and Cuban spies infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue before Cuban MiGs destroyed the aircraft with air-to-air missiles without warning.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also investigated the case.

“Today’s case development carries a weight that has been felt for years—by the victims’ families, by the community, and by all who have waited for answers,” FDLE special agent in charge Michael Stein said in a statement. “FDLE assuming the lead investigative role on this case reflects one of our state’s core approaches to public safety: that the passage of time does not diminish the pursuit of justice.”

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Lucas, 28, faced an attempted first-degree murder charge on Monday over the shooting on Sept. 28 at the Zippy Coin Laundry near North Miami, according to the arrest report.

Surveillance video “showing the attempted homicide, helped to establish probable cause,” a detective wrote, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded and took the wounded man to HCA Aventura Hospital. His condition was critical, but he survived, according to deputies.

MDSO deputies arrested Lucas, of Pembroke Pines, at 7:40 p.m. on Friday in the area of Northeast Third Court and 138th Street, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Lucas shortly after 12:50 a.m. on Saturday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained on Monday morning without bond, according to inmate records.

Luca also faced a charge of unlawful discharge of a firearm in a public place, records show.

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

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A man was injured at about 6:20 a.m. on Nov. 16 in Hialeah, according to an arrest warrant that includes surveillance video images and Instagram photos that detectives reported show Jeremy Ambert-Rivera.

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A victim reported “he was ambushed by multiple subjects who were armed with firearms ... he was hit multiple times, pistol-whipped in the head, and dragged from the driver’s seat to the rear seats,” according to the warrant.

The victim reported jumping out of the 2014 Toyota 4-Runner, running away, and asking a random driver for help, according to the warrant.

A Hialeah detective used a surveillance video image of Ambert-Rivera to search facial recognition and vehicle databases to identify him as a suspect, according to the arrest warrant.

Miami-Dade corrections booked him shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Friday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained on Monday without bond, according to inmate records.

Ambert-Rivera faced two charges: Armed carjacking with a firearm and attempted armed kidnapping.

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

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday accused Castro, 95, of directing spies to infiltrate the exile group Brothers to the Rescue and ordering the attack on their planes. The state charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder is based largely on a federal indictment announced in May that included charges of murder and destruction of an airplane.

It remains unclear whether Castro will ever step foot in a U.S. courtroom. Uthmeier said the arrest warrant will restrict Castro’s ability to leave the island nation and prevent him from traveling to any place with an extradition agreement with the U.S.

“I’m not ignorant of the fact that Raúl Castro is an older man who’s probably not looking to march himself into Miami,” Uthmeier said. “I think others would get him before the court of law would, but at the end of the day, we stand ready to prosecute the case.”

According to the state complaint, Castro was the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and First Vice President of Cuba when he gave the final authorization to shoot down the planes. Cuban Directorate of Intelligence agents operating as part of the Wasp Network in the Miami area and the Florida Keys infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue and reported flight plans, investigators said.

On Feb. 24, 1996, three unarmed Cessna aircraft departed Opa-Locka Airport in Miami-Dade County. Well outside Cuba’s territorial waters, Cuban MiGs destroyed two of the civilian planes with air-to-air missiles, killing the four occupants, the complaint said. Both aircraft were traveling away from Cuba and received no warning despite contact with Havana air traffic control, U.S. officials said.

“Our historic federal indictment laid the groundwork, and James and his team have now taken the important step of bringing charges under Florida law," U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones said at a news conference.

In Cuba, authorities have rejected the new accusations against Castro.

“This reprehensible action against the Army General—staged this morning in a pathetic Miami circus with an electoral subtext—has no legal or practical basis whatsoever, nor will it ever have one,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrote on his X account.

“This maneuver, dressed up in legal terms by anti-Cuban politicians against Raúl and against Cuba, deserves our firm condemnation. It is part of an aggressive agenda and reflects the difficulties they face in trying to justify the blockade and the collective punishment of our people,” the president added.

Castro took over as president from his ailing older brother Fidel Castro in 2006 before handing power to Díaz-Canel, a trusted loyalist, in 2018.

While Raúl Castro retired in 2021 as head of the Cuban Communist Party, he is widely believed to wield power behind the scenes, as underscored by the prominence of his grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening military action in Cuba ever since U.S. forces captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Cuban government’s longtime patron.

After ousting the Venezuelan leader earlier this year, the White House ordered a blockade that choked off fuel shipments to Cuba, leading to severe blackouts, food shortages and an economic collapse across the island.

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El agua serpenteaba sin prisa por el terreno, se abría en varias ramificaciones que volvían a unirse para formar pozas detrás de montículos de palos amontonados. Sauces jóvenes se extendían desde la orilla a lo largo de una franja de terreno de aproximadamente la longitud de un campo de fútbol americano, alimentados por la humedad subterránea.

Entonces, de una poza profunda emergió una conocida cabeza marrón: un castor.

“Están prosperando aquí”, comentó Ramsay, radiante al mirar a la criatura. “Ellos se benefician de nosotros y, con suerte, nosotros nos beneficiamos de ellos”.

El terreno de los Ramsay, en el suroeste de Wyoming, es una de muchas zonas que están acogiendo a estos roedores semiacuáticos como ingenieros de la naturaleza. Grupos conservacionistas y agencias gubernamentales están incrementando el uso de "nidos preliminares" hechos de madera y ramas para animar a los animales a instalarse y ampliar las estructuras. Las presas de castores ralentizan el agua corriente de una manera que favorece la disponibilidad local durante todo el año, crea hábitat para peces nativos y proporciona una barrera natural contra los incendios forestales. Los partidarios esperan que, al aumentar el número de presas de castores, el ecosistema se vuelva más resiliente. Esto es cada vez más vital a medida que el cambio climático y el uso excesivo vuelven más seco el occidenta norteamericano, según expertos.

“Por naturaleza hacen una sola cosa: represar los arroyos y crear hábitat de aguas profundas para poder sobrevivir”, manifestó Nick Walrath, gerente de proyecto de la organización sin fines de lucro Trout Unlimited. Él le presentó por primera vez la idea a Ramsay, quien ahora alberga con orgullo más de 100 presas de castores hechas por humanos, además de las naturales.

La ayuda de los castores

Walrath ha supervisado la construcción de unas 500 “nidos preliminares” para castores en arroyos alimentados por nieve y por manantiales —incluido Trout Creek, en la hacienda de los Ramsay— que forman las cabeceras del río Green, el mayor afluente del río Colorado. Los materiales son sencillos: varios postes clavados verticalmente en el lecho del arroyo, ramas entretejidas de forma suelta alrededor de los postes y barro para compactarlo.

Estas estructuras por lo general se construyen cerca de familias de castores ya existentes para alentarlas a “mudarse” y personalizarlas. El objetivo final es fomentar poblaciones prósperas de castores en cuencas hidrográficas tanto en tierras públicas como privadas del oeste de Estados Unidos.

“Los castores están en una posición única para ser nuestros aliados en la batalla contra el cambio climático”, señaló Samantha Miller, responsable sénior de campañas sobre carnívoros en el Center for Biological Diversity.

Sin castores, el agua puede moverse tan rápido que erosiona la orilla.

“Donde el agua se retiene, se acumula sedimento, se forman los suelos, la vegetación florece y realmente lo vuelve frondoso”, explicó Ramsay. “Son muy beneficiosos cuando construyen donde uno quiere que lo hagan, pero pueden ser una molestia cuando construyen donde uno está tratando de desviar el agua”.

No todo el mundo quiere una presa

Las inundaciones causadas por presas de castores pueden ser una bendición para los ecosistemas, pero pueden presentar problemas para viviendas e infraestructura construidas cerca de arroyos.

La Universidad Estatal de Utah opera el programa estatal de reubicación de castores, que toma castores no deseados de propiedades privadas y los traslada a arroyos remotos donde se los necesita. Utiliza jaulas trampa no letales y pone a los castores en cuarentena en una instalación, con el objetivo de mantener unidas a las familias y evitar la propagación de especies invasoras, antes de liberarlos de nuevo en zonas más silvestres. El programa ha trasladado aproximadamente 100 castores cada año desde 2019.

El estado prohíbe la captura letal de castores a lo largo de cuencas hidrográficas donde intenta aumentar la población. También paga a tramperos para que capturen castores con trampas no letales y los entreguen a expertos capacitados para su reubicación.

El ecólogo acuático Nick Bouwes, miembro del profesorado de la Universidad Estatal de Utah que ayudó a poner en marcha el programa, contó que recibió innumerables solicitudes para deshacerse de las criaturas peludas que habían causado molestias a propietarios. Pero antes de trasladarlas, recomendaba soluciones para coexistir. Existe un tubo flexible conocido como nivelador de estanques que atraviesa una presa de castores y funciona como desagüe de rebose, además de jaulas que protegen las tuberías de drenaje para que no queden bloqueadas por presas, y cercas para proteger la base de los árboles.

Aun así, si los castores no son bienvenidos, los métodos no letales valen el esfuerzo porque los animales pueden beneficiar a otros cuerpos de agua, sostuvo Bouwes.

Las poblaciones de castores aún necesitan protección

Las poblaciones de castores se han recuperado con fuerza desde que los tramperos de pieles casi provocaron su extinción en el siglo XIX, pero aún se necesita protección debido a su papel en la preservación de recursos hídricos escasos en el oeste norteamericano, indicó Miller.

Oregon y Wyoming limitan la captura comercial de castores, mientras que California la ha prohibido por completo.

Walrath y otros defensores de la expansión de los castores entienden que hace falta mucho más trabajo para marcar una diferencia significativa en toda la cuenca.

“Es una gota en el balde”, declaró sobre el trabajo realizado hasta ahora. Pero después de la peor nevada registrada, seguida por un calor veraniego que batió récords, cualquier esfuerzo es “mucho más significativo”.

En una mañana reciente de agosto, Walrath y su equipo estaban instalando varios "nidos preliminares" en tierras privadas de pastoreo a lo largo de Spring Creek, en el oeste de Wyoming. El agua subió sobre la orilla seca y erosionada en un valle denso de artemisa poco después de que se levantaran las estructuras.

“Si podemos replicar eso cien, mil veces en toda la cuenca del río Colorado, podemos tener un impacto mucho mayor en el propio sistema”, afirmó.

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Un hombre resultó herido alrededor de las 6:20 a.m. del 16 de noviembre en Hialeah, según una orden de arresto que incluye imágenes de videos de vigilancia y fotografías de Instagram que, de acuerdo con los detectives, muestran a Jeremy Ambert-Rivera.

Noticia relacionada: Fotografías de Instagram ayudan a identificar a sospechoso de robo violento de vehículo en Hialeah, según la policía

Un detective de Hialeah utilizó una imagen de vigilancia de Ambert-Rivera para realizar una búsqueda en bases de datos de reconocimiento facial y de vehículos, lo que permitió identificarlo como sospechoso, según la orden de arresto.

Una víctima informó que “fue emboscada por varios individuos armados con armas de fuego, recibió múltiples golpes, fue golpeada en la cabeza con una pistola y arrastrada desde el asiento del conductor hasta los asientos traseros”, según la orden.

La víctima informó que saltó del Toyota 4Runner 2014, huyó corriendo y pidió ayuda a un conductor que pasaba por el lugar, según la orden.

El Departamento Correccional de Miami-Dade ingresó al sospechoso poco después de las 12:30 a.m. del viernes en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde permanecía detenido el lunes sin derecho a fianza, según muestran los registros.

Ambert-Rivera enfrentaba dos cargos: robo de vehículo a mano armada con arma de fuego e intento de secuestro a mano armada.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este informe.

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According to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report, Alexis Jose Ruiz , 23, was arrested Friday on accusations of stealing a 2026 Cadillac Escalade from the driveway of a home near Southwest 92nd Street and 84th Avenue in the Kendall area.

Deputies responded to the home around 7:40 a.m. on Sept. 3 after the vehicle’s owner reported his SUV missing.

The victim told investigators he had parked the Escalade outside his home the previous night and discovered it was gone when he woke up.

He said the vehicle had been locked and that he still had both sets of keys.

Investigators said the SUV was worth approximately $135,000.

Surveillance cameras stop working around time of theft

According to the arrest report, the victim’s home surveillance system stopped transmitting video around the time the Escalade disappeared.

The victim told detectives the cameras shut off at exactly 6:15 a.m.

Investigators noted that the interruption was consistent with the possible use of a signal-jamming device, although the report did not confirm that such a device was recovered.

Detectives later obtained data placing Ruiz near the victim’s home at approximately 6:22 a.m.

According to the report, investigators determined the Escalade was stolen using a computer to program a new vehicle key.

Based on the evidence gathered during the investigation, detectives identified Ruiz as a suspect in the theft.

Suspect linked to separate stolen BMW investigation

Investigators said they received information about Ruiz on Sept. 26 from a detective assigned to the sheriff’s office Midwest Auto Theft Unit.

According to the arrest report, Ruiz had been taken into custody following a hit-and-run crash involving injuries.

Detectives said Ruiz was driving a stolen BMW when the crash occurred and fled the scene on foot.

The report did not provide additional details about the crash or the injuries involved.

The information gathered during that investigation helped detectives connect Ruiz to the stolen Cadillac Escalade, according to the arrest report.

Previously accused in Pompano Beach boat equipment theft

Ruiz was also previously identified as one of three men arrested in connection with the theft of expensive GPS equipment from boats at Complete Marine in Pompano Beach.

In that 2023 case, surveillance footage showed several men cutting GPS units from boats at the marina, damaging the vessels in the process.

A security guard witnessed the thefts and contacted police.

Authorities identified the suspects as Ruiz, then 20, Hansen Hernandez, then 20, and Carlos Scorro, then 19.

The three were arrested near Northwest 32nd Street and 24th Avenue after fleeing their vehicle and faced charges of grand theft, burglary and fleeing from police, authorities said at the time.

The stolen GPS equipment, valued at approximately $20,000, was not recovered. Complete Marine said the equipment had been discarded before the arrests.

Ruiz remains in custody

In the latest case, Ruiz was arrested on charges of first-degree grand theft, unauthorized interference with radio transmission and offenses against computer users.

As of Monday morning, he was being held without bond at the Miami-Dade County Pre-Trial Detention Center.

Online jail records show he faces other charges, including grand theft of a vehicle, racketeering and possession of burglary tools in connection with separate cases, and was on probation at the time of his arrest.

The arrest report does not indicate whether the stolen Cadillac Escalade has been recovered.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, Alexis Jose Ruiz, de 23 años, fue arrestado el viernes acusado de robar un Cadillac Escalade 2026 de la entrada de una vivienda cerca de Southwest 92nd Street y 84th Avenue, en el área de Kendall.

Los agentes respondieron a la vivienda alrededor de las 7:40 a.m. del 3 de septiembre, después de que el propietario reportara la desaparición de su camioneta.

La víctima dijo a los investigadores que había estacionado el Escalade frente a su vivienda la noche anterior y descubrió que había desaparecido cuando despertó.

Afirmó que el vehículo estaba cerrado con seguro y que todavía tenía ambos juegos de llaves.

Los investigadores indicaron que la camioneta estaba valorada en aproximadamente $135,000 USD.

Cámaras de vigilancia dejan de funcionar alrededor de la hora del robo

Según el informe de arresto, el sistema de vigilancia de la vivienda de la víctima dejó de transmitir video aproximadamente a la hora en que desapareció el Escalade.

La víctima dijo a los detectives que las cámaras dejaron de funcionar exactamente a las 6:15 a.m.

Los investigadores señalaron que la interrupción era compatible con el posible uso de un dispositivo bloqueador de señales, aunque el informe no confirmó que se hubiera recuperado dicho dispositivo.

Posteriormente, los detectives obtuvieron datos que ubicaban a Ruiz cerca de la vivienda de la víctima aproximadamente a las 6:22 a.m.

Según el informe, los investigadores determinaron que el Escalade fue robado utilizando una computadora para programar una nueva llave del vehículo.

Con base en las pruebas recopiladas durante la investigación, los detectives identificaron a Ruiz como sospechoso del robo.

Vinculan a sospechoso con investigación separada por robo de BMW

Los investigadores indicaron que el 26 de septiembre recibieron información sobre Ruiz de un detective asignado a la Unidad de Robo de Vehículos del área Midwest de la Oficina del Sheriff.

Según el informe de arresto, Ruiz había sido detenido después de un accidente con heridos en el que el conductor se dio a la fuga.

Los detectives señalaron que Ruiz conducía un BMW robado cuando ocurrió el accidente y huyó de la escena a pie.

El informe no proporcionó detalles adicionales sobre el accidente ni sobre las lesiones sufridas.

La información recopilada durante esa investigación ayudó a los detectives a vincular a Ruiz con el robo del Cadillac Escalade, según el informe de arresto.

Acusado anteriormente de robar equipos para embarcaciones en Pompano Beach

Ruiz también fue identificado anteriormente como uno de los tres hombres arrestados en relación con el robo de costosos equipos GPS de embarcaciones en Complete Marine, en Pompano Beach.

En ese caso de 2023, las imágenes de vigilancia mostraron a varios hombres cortando y retirando unidades GPS de embarcaciones en la marina, causando daños a las mismas durante el proceso.

Un guardia de seguridad presenció los robos y se comunicó con la policía.

Las autoridades identificaron a los sospechosos como Ruiz, quien entonces tenía 20 años; Hansen Hernandez, también de 20; y Carlos Scorro, de 19.

Los tres fueron arrestados cerca de Northwest 32nd Street y 24th Avenue después de huir de su vehículo y enfrentaron cargos de robo mayor, allanamiento de propiedad y huida de la policía, informaron las autoridades en ese momento.

Los equipos GPS robados, valorados en aproximadamente $20,000 USD, no fueron recuperados. Complete Marine indicó que los equipos habían sido desechados antes de los arrestos.

Ruiz permanece detenido

En el caso más reciente, Ruiz fue arrestado por cargos de robo mayor en primer grado, interferencia no autorizada con transmisiones de radio y delitos contra usuarios de computadoras.

Hasta la mañana del lunes, permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Centro de Detención Preventiva del condado Miami-Dade.

Los registros carcelarios en línea muestran que enfrenta otros cargos, incluidos robo mayor de vehículo, crimen organizado y posesión de herramientas para cometer robos, en relación con casos separados, y que se encontraba bajo libertad condicional al momento de su arresto.

El informe de arresto no indica si el Cadillac Escalade robado ha sido recuperado.

Justice Diana Kavedza ruled that Pastor Paul Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, oversaw an organized system that used religious teachings to compel followers to fast until they died.

In 2023, more than 400 bodies were exhumed from shallow graves on the 800-acre (320-hectare) Chakama Ranch in coastal Kilifi County, where Mackenzie’s followers lived in mud huts, away from the scrutiny of local communities and authorities.

Mackenzie was arrested and charged with murder alongside his wife and dozens of his followers. Some followers later became prosecution witnesses in the case. The trial began in 2023.

He has denied all charges, saying he did not force his followers to fast.

A mitigation hearing will be held on Oct. 30, while sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 6.

The court found that the directive to fast to death was implemented by targeting children first, while guards were deployed to prevent them from escaping, beating those who attempted to escape or eat.

Mackenzie also told his followers to shun education and health care. In her ruling on Monday, Justice Kavedza said that “medical treatment was presented as an instrument of Satan."

For William Ponda Ngala, whose mother, older brother and two nephews died, Mackenzie's conviction offers hope that it will serve as a lesson to other religious leaders who may seek to exploit their followers in the future.

“Finally, as a family, we can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that Mackenzie and all those who caused the deaths of my family members have been convicted,” he told The Associated Press on Monday.

In April last year, the Court of Appeal allowed the prosecutor to proceed with 191 murder charges against Mackenzie and his co-accused.

In May 2024, the High Court directed prosecutors to reduce the murder charges to no more than 12 counts. However, the Court of Appeal ruled that the law does not limit the number of charges that can be brought against a defendant.

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Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, los agentes respondieron poco antes de las 5:50 a.m. a un accidente en el área de Northwest 57th Avenue y Miami Lakes Drive.

Personal de los Bomberos de Miami-Dade acudió al lugar y utilizó un helicóptero para trasladar al motociclista herido al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Hospital Jackson Memorial.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded shortly before 5:50 a.m. to the crash in the area of Northwest 57th Avenue and Miami Lakes Drive.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded and used a helicopter to fly the rider injured to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

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The Gators were the overwhelming pick to top the preseason AP Top 25 on Monday, receiving 47 of the 59 first-place votes from a panel of national media. It is the first time that coach Todd Golden's bunch has resided on top since the final poll in 2025, after they had beaten Houston to deliver the school its third national championship.

“It's cool,” Golden said of the ranking, “but like, we've been No. 1 before. We won a national championship before. That's what I want our program to expect. That's what we want to kind of go into every season at.”

Duke received 10 first-place votes and was second in the preseason poll. Illinois received the other two and was third.

The Gators started last season at No. 3 but crashed out of the poll entirely by early January. They rallied to win the Southeastern Conference regular-season championship, only to get stunned by Iowa as a No. 1 seed in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

“I think we're more prepared this year for early-season expectations than we were last year,” Golden said. “We were kind of gathering ourselves, figuring (things) out for the first time, where this year we can use last year's experience to learn from.”

In an era of roster upheaval — some teams still don't know who will be eligible as court cases play out — the Gators have the benefit of experience on their side. Thomas Haugh, Alex Condon, Rueben Chinyelu and Denzel Aberdeen all played on their national title team.

Aberdeen, back after a year at Kentucky, is among the players who've been granted another season of eligibility by the courts.

“We didn’t finish the way that we wanted to last year, so everyone’s kind of got that in the back of their head as motivation," Condon said. “Times where we're struggling in conditioning at 6 a.m., we just went back to that, and I feel like we’ve talked about it a few times with the core group, how motivating it is the fact that we fell short.”

The head of the class

The Blue Devils matched their highest preseason ranking since they were No. 1 in 2017, though coach Jon Scheyer is well aware that where they end up is what matters. Duke has won 70 games over the past two seasons, a school record for such a stretch, but losses to UConn in the Elite Eight and Houston in the Final Four have left a sting on Tobacco Road.

"I feel like any time I step on the court, I believe me and my teammates are going to win," said Dame Sarr, who along with Caleb Foster, Patrick Ngongba II and Cayden Boozer give Duke a talented returning nucleus to go with its top-tier recruiting class.

“I feel like we have a chance to win a national championship,” Sarr said. “It's just doing a better job this year.”

Illinois matched its best preseason ranking since 2001, and returns five of its top eight scorers — headlined by Andrej Stojakovic and David Mirkovic — from a team that made its first Final Four appearance in two decades last season.

UConn and Arizona, each coming off a Final Four trip of their own, rounded out the top five of the preseason poll.

The rest of the rankings

Michigan State, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and Houston finished out the first 10, while Louisville, Arkansas, St. John's, Miami and Gonzaga were next. Michigan, Kansas, Iowa State, Texas Tech and Alabama rounded out the top 20, while the final five in the Top 25 were USC, UCLA, Kentucky, Vanderbilt and BYU.

The Jayhawks feature the nation’s No. 1 recruit, Tyran Stokes, a year after Darryn Peterson brought the same billing to Lawrence for a frustrating season that ended with another first-weekend NCAA tourney exit. The late addition of all-Big Ten forward Trey Kaufman-Renn, a transfer from Purdue, coupled with the return of Tre White and Melvin Council III thanks to court decisions, could change those fortunes come March.

Kentucky is making its 998th appearance in the poll. Two more weeks and it will be the first to reach 1,000.

Vanderbilt, which finished 19th last year, is ranked in the preseason Top 25 for the first time since 2015, while BYU is back in the poll despite losing one-and-done phenom A.J. Dybantsa, the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft.

The best of the rest

Missouri is the top team outside the Top 25, though the Tigers could break in soon. All-SEC forward Mark Mitchell was granted an injunction last week to play another season, and he joins a roster loaded with veterans (Trent Pierce), elite transfers (Jamier Jones, Bryson Tiller, Jaylen Carey and Kennard Davis Jr.) and five-star freshmen (Jason Crowe Jr. and Toni Bryant).

Nebraska was next-best of the rest, while Purdue was among those receiving plenty of votes, though not enough to avoid ending the Boilermakers' streak of 79 consecutive weeks in the poll. That was second-longest to Houston, which is at 127 and counting.

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Speaking in Parliament in Ottawa, Carney said the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service was leading the investigation, with support from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, into Saturday’s tragedy at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta.

Lawmakers observed a moment of silence before Carney addressed the House of Commons. Opposition party leaders also paid tribute.

“A fire was burning in the training area. Driven by ferocious winds, the fire jumped nearly a kilometer in less than a minute to where soldiers were gathered,” Carney said.

He said investigators had not determined what ignited the grass fire.

“We will get the answers to what caused this terrible tragedy, as expeditiously and transparently as necessary,” Carney later told reporters.

The fire overtook soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, and Army reservists conducting live-fire training.

Nineteen of the injured were in critical condition as of Monday. Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who represents Wainwright in Parliament and was visiting the town, said many suffered severe burns requiring weeks or months of intensive care. He warned that their lives might never be the same.

Maj. Gen. Wade Rutland said Sunday that military officials knew about the fire for hours but believed it was contained and allowed training to continue before winds suddenly shifted.

About 84 soldiers from Charlie Company were training at two locations, one for throwing grenades and another for practicing attacks on simulated enemy positions. The fire swept into the second area.

Carney said the soldiers were preparing for a mission next spring to reinforce Canadian troops serving with NATO in Latvia.

Rutland said investigators would examine whether winds drove the flames toward the soldiers or whether the fire spread unseen through vegetation. They will also examine whether military safety procedures need to change.

The military identified those killed as Sgt. Morgan Wong of Edmonton; Pvt. Shaun Farrell of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; Pvt. Aidan Goulding of North Vancouver, British Columbia; and Pvt. Hayden Lykkemark of Langley, British Columbia.

Carney remembered Goulding as someone who willingly took on difficult challenges, and Wong as someone his family could always depend on. He said Farrell and Lykkemark were best friends and that Lykkemark had dreamed of a career in law enforcement.

Poilievre recalled meeting Goulding during Canada Day celebrations at the base in July, when a group of young soldiers approached him for a photograph. After Saturday’s tragedy, someone sent him the picture identifying Goulding as one of those killed.

Poilievre also said he had heard accounts of soldiers who ran toward the flames to help their comrades, describing their actions as extraordinary acts of courage.

Military liaison officers were assisting families at hospitals in Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer and Wainwright. Mental health teams and chaplains were also supporting soldiers and their families.

Carney ordered flags lowered to half-staff on all federal buildings nationwide Sunday in honor of the four soldiers killed.

Flowers were placed at Wainwright’s century-old war memorial, a stone clock tower honoring soldiers killed in past conflicts. The tower survived a devastating fire that swept through downtown Wainwright in 1929.

“They were training to defend Canada. To serve Canada. Now, Canada serves them,” Carney said.

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Crowds have taken to the streets for weeks in major cities, resulting in arrests, looting, injuries, and violence across France, Italy and Albania. In Spain and Portugal, tent camps have sprung up in protests against unattainable rents and housing costs.

Young Europeans are experiencing “a strong sense of uncertainty and a lack of control,” said María Silvestre, professor of sociology at the University of Deusto in Spain. “And when specific situations come together, a spark suddenly ignites that is capable of channeling that discontent and driving people into the streets.”

Cities have turned into battlefields as top EU economies, including France, Italy and Spain, approach pivotal elections, while far-right parties have made electoral gains in Germany and could do so elsewhere. It also comes as Europe faces a critical moment in its support for Ukraine, with President Donald Trump making overtures to President Vladimir Putin even as Russia is blamed for increasingly frequent hybrid attacks in NATO countries.

Right-wing politicians have seized on the chaos. While protests in France have appeared broad-based, Trump portrayed immigrants as responsible for the destruction, writing on his Truth Social platform: “The migrants have taken over France. They must CLOSE THE BORDERS, FAST!” on Monday.

Many of the protests have been fueled by frustrated young people. Other elements including black-clad, masked agitators have fomented violence, but French authorities and police have not blamed immigrants.

Here's a look at what's driving the unrest:

Students say education resources are dwindling

In France, which has a centuries-old tradition of popular protest, high schoolers have staged blockades and demonstrations for more than three weeks, demanding more resources for schools they call understaffed and dilapidated, especially in lower-income neighborhoods.

The protests then broadened as France's CGT labor union and other activists joined in while students paused for a fall break. The movement now includes demands over rising living costs and public services.

Despite hundreds of thousands of people marching peacefully, the weekend’s unrest led to 2,400 arrests and serious disturbances in parts of France, including looting in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux. In Limoges, flames engulfed the 19th-century City Hall and nearly destroyed the building. Some schools were set on fire. As students and rioters threw firebombs and law enforcement responded with tear gas, hundreds have been injured.

French President Emmanuel Macron condemned Saturday’s violence, accusing far-left activists of trying to foment chaos by attacking buildings and police.

“Those who looted will have to pay for the damage, and those who sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable,” Macron said Sunday in a rare televised address.

In Spain, elementary and secondary schoolteachers began an indefinite strike in Madrid last week to demand better pay and working conditions. Discontented teachers staged similar walkouts elsewhere in Spain this year.

Unaffordable housing stymies young people

In Madrid's central Puerta del Sol, tarpaulin tents have blanketed the square for weeks to protest rising housing costs, sparked by the eviction of Maricarmen, an 87-year-old woman who later died while hospitalized. Smaller protest camps followed in other Spanish cities.

The public pressure led the ruling Socialist government to approve affordable housing measures, but they lacked support in Parliament, triggering a snap election announced by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for November. A general strike also was called for November — the first in 14 years.

Similar housing protests have sprung up in Portugal’s largest cities, Lisbon and Porto, and in Barcelona, a focal point of Spain's overtourism and housing challenges.

Spain's minimum wage is 1,221 euros ($1,370), while the average monthly rent for an 80-square-meter apartment is around 1,130 euros (about $1,270), according to an analysis by the business newspaper Expansión.

“Most of my paycheck goes to the rent. My roommate struggles to make ends meet just like I do,” said Diana Manzanares, a 20-year-old waitress at the Madrid encampment. “This is my reality and the reality of most of us living in this city.”

Untenable living costs as inflation rises in Italy

“Italia in Piazza,” or Italy in the Streets, has galvanized thousands of demonstrators, voicing demands for better employment, healthcare, education, and access to housing, as well as higher wages. Inflation in Italy rose to 4.2% in September, surpassing the eurozone’s 3.8%, according to government data.

The peaceful marches were followed by violent riots in Turin and Bologna, and in Italy's finance and fashion capital of Milan, where masked rioters clashed with police, looted stores and set property on fire. Milan police said 271 people were arrested — most of them minors — and 14 security officers were injured during two days of unrest.

Now a newly formed group calling itself the “Oct. 17 Movement” has announced what it describes as a “permanent mobilization” to demonstrate every Saturday at 3 p.m. in cities across Italy.

Students in Albania join anti-corruption protests

Anti-government protests have stretched over a week in Albania's capital of Tirana, with clashes escalating after high school and university students joined the broad anti-government “Flamingo” movement calling for Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign.

Rama has condemned the protesters as “ideologized and radicalized” by antifa, an umbrella term for loosely organized far-left militants in the United States, where President Donald Trump has designated the movement a terrorist organization.

Ending corruption is a major demand of the movement, which was named for the natural habitat of flamingos in an area where Rama's government agreed to allow a major luxury tourism development linked to Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law. They also want protections for healthcare, education, and public pensions, according to its website.

In Serbia, the university students leading mass anti-corruption protests for nearly two years are challenging an attempted return to power by the Balkan country’s former populist leader Aleksandar Vucic in parliamentary elections.

The former authoritarian president is aiming to be named prime minister after the Oct. 25 vote. The youth-backed Students’ List party is believed to be running close to Vucic’s party, making the outcome uncertain and fueling fears of possible violence.

The child's relatives appealed to the high court after a U.S. Marine who helped evacuate them from Afghanistan took custody of the girl despite State Department efforts to reunite her with her Afghan family.

A 2022 Associated Press report about the case raised alarms at the highest levels of government, from the Taliban to the White House.

The child's parents were killed in September 2019 when U.S. Army Rangers, along with Afghan forces, raided a rural compound.

The baby was found in the rubble and hospitalized at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, where military lawyer Joshua Mast decided with his wife to adopt her.

But the State Department during President Donald Trump’s first administration worked with the Afghan government to track down surviving relatives, identified as a cousin and his wife.

The Afghan couple raised her for 18 months, but during that time the Masts also obtained a final adoption order from a Virginia court without notifying them. The Masts have insisted they acted honorably to save a child and give her a loving home.

In 2021, Joshua Mast helped the family leave Afghanistan during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from the country.

Once they were in the U.S., Mast took the child at a refugee resettlement center over her relatives' objections.

The Afghan couple went to court, asking judges to undo the adoption they said was deeply flawed from the start. Lower courts in Virginia agreed. But the state's highest court decided in the Masts' favor, citing a six-month deadline in state law.

Their Supreme Court appeal was backed by a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan as well as groups that support veterans and international adoptees.

The Masts dispute the family's kinship and argue that reopening the adoption now would be a significant disruption for the girl, who is now 7 and has been living with their family for years.

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Galofaro reported from Louisville, Kentucky.

Castel, 63, thrums on the counter for a drumroll as Mason Kauffman, one of a group of American exchange students in the cooking workshop, holds the plate steady and steels himself to flip the pan. After a countdown of 3, 2, 1, cheers erupt as he makes the flip, sliding the eggs back into the pan to finish cooking a Spanish tortilla, or omelet.

“I was so nervous,” says Kaufmann, a junior at New Hampshire's Plymouth State University, smiling broadly.

After each student has a turn, Castel pulls them into a hug and practically demands a kiss on the cheek. “You have to pay for the lesson!”

The workshop at Grandmas Cooking Barcelona offers tourists, schools and other visitors “authentic Barcelona cooking classes with local grandmas and grandpas.” It aims to share traditional Spanish and Catalan dishes and techniques that have become harder to find in the city's restaurants.

The benefits run both ways. The program helps provide purpose to older people who might be struggling with loneliness, says its founder, Veronica Baena.

Visitors can learn to cook the way grandma might

“Yes, it’s a gastronomic experience, but above all it’s about the empowerment of older people,” says Baena. “The idea was to try to recover their own personality, their own selves and integrate them into the international Barcelona.”

Baena founded Grandmas Cooking Barcelona in 2017 after seeing grandparents dropping off and picking up grandchildren at her son’s school. She learned some didn’t have much else going on in their lives anymore, so she invited a couple of them to cook at her house. Now, there are 20 older women — and one man — who share cooking tips, life lessons and more than a few jokes at civic centers, social service organizations and other locations in the city.

Passing down kitchen wisdom helps the ‘grandparents,’ too

Early on, Baena recruited a friend’s neighbor, Nuria Isanda, because of the irresistible aromas wafting from her kitchen window.

Isanda, 75, said her recipes are rarely found these days in a city whose restaurants increasingly cater to tourists. Such dishes cooked by older people might not even be appreciated by their own families, who may visit on weekends and “don’t even thank them for the food.”

The workshops, Isanda says, "can be the platform that makes grandmas feel valued and useful.”

At the recent workshop for study-abroad students, held in a rented kitchen at a civic center, Isanda showed them how to make zucchini ribbons, thread them onto skewers and dress them with a vinaigrette. Students also smeared crackers with goat cheese and blueberry jam, or decorated ensaladilla rusa, a potato salad laced with hard-boiled egg, chopped pickles and tuna.

Don't crack eggs on the bowl, and other tips

Isanda and Castel passed along cooking tips, like to always crack eggs on a counter, not the edge of a bowl, to keep out the shells.

They also stressed the sustainability of traditional cooking. For example, don’t waste anything, even carrot peels, onion skins and the ends of cut vegetables. Save them in a bag in the freezer. When the bag is full, make vegetable stock.

Castel joined Grandmas last year after retiring from a career in hospital admissions. Relating with so many foreign people has made her feel more connected and “more alive.”

“The joy of sharing food is a social act, and they leave happy,” she said. “Grandmas gives me that, and you can’t put a price on it.”

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Albert Stumm writes about travel, food and wellness. Find his work at https://www.albertstumm.com

El próximo nombre en la lista es Josephine.

Aún está por verse si la inminente tormenta del noreste, que mencionamos por primera vez en este boletín el jueves pasado y que fue incluida en el pronóstico del Centro Nacional de Huracanes el sábado, aprovechará las aguas más cálidas de la corriente del Golfo para generar una actividad de tormentas eléctricas más concentrada, lo que le permitiría perder sus características frontales y transformarse en una tormenta subtropical de tipo híbrido.

La mayoría de nuestros modelos de pronóstico coinciden en que este es un caso límite para el desarrollo subtropical. El sistema europeo de predicción por conjuntos tradicional, basado en principios físicos, y el sistema de predicción por conjuntos de Google DeepMind, basado en aprendizaje automático, son menos optimistas que el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC) sobre las posibilidades de una transición tropical, y asignan al sistema una probabilidad menor, de entre el 20% y el 30%, de convertirse en Josephine esta semana.

El más optimista de nuestros sistemas de modelado sobre el desarrollo futuro es el Euro AI, que a primera hora del lunes asignó al sistema una probabilidad más alta, de entre el 50% y el 60%.

Impactos costeros sin cambios, independientemente del nombre

Independientemente de si el sistema logra desarrollar suficiente actividad de tormentas organizadas para adquirir características subtropicales a finales de esta semana, esto no afectará los impactos costeros previstos desde los Outer Banks de Carolina del Norte, pasando por la región de Tidewater en Virginia, hasta el sur de Nueva Jersey durante la primera mitad de la semana.

El mayor cambio durante el fin de semana fue un desplazamiento hacia el este en la posición prevista de la tormenta costera, lo que mantendrá los cielos despejados y limitará los impactos a las zonas costeras.

Dicho esto, se esperan importantes impactos costeros al menos hasta el miércoles en la costa del Atlántico medio, particularmente desde el norte de los Outer Banks hacia el norte hasta Virginia Beach/Hampton Roads, así como a lo largo de la parte baja de la península de Delmarva y la costa este de Maryland. Los fuertes y persistentes vientos que soplan desde el mar hacia tierra, con ráfagas de hasta 50 mph, provocarán episodios de inundaciones costeras moderadas, desbordamiento de agua del océano, erosión de playas y oleaje peligroso mañana y el miércoles.

Las zonas vulnerables de las islas Hatteras y Ocracoke, a lo largo de los Outer Banks de Carolina del Norte, estarán expuestas a graves impactos durante cada ciclo de marea alta, especialmente a lo largo de la histórica carretera Highway 12, donde las dunas siguen siendo frágiles. Las olas podrían alcanzar entre 8 y 12 pies en la zona de rompientes de las playas frente al océano en Maryland y Virginia durante los próximos días, lo que agravará las inundaciones en las zonas bajas.

Aunque las inundaciones costeras persistirán durante gran parte de la semana a lo largo del Atlántico medio, se espera que los fuertes vientos que soplan desde el mar hacia tierra comiencen a disminuir generalmente entre el jueves y el viernes, a medida que el sistema de tormentas se aleje.

Sin actividad en el resto del Atlántico

Se espera que el resto de la cuenca del Atlántico permanezca tranquilo mientras nos acercamos al final de octubre.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the health matter.

Hurts was placed on injured reserve Saturday, two days after the Eagles revealed he has a blood clot in his calf. He missed the first of at least four games in Philadelphia's loss to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

The Eagles and Hurts' agent, Nicole Lynn, released more information on his condition Monday. They said Hurts has deep vein thrombosis and a bilateral pulmonary emboli, meaning a blood clot has traveled from the legs to the lungs.

His treatment involves blood thinners, and he won't be allowed to participate in any football activities until he is off them.

The Eagles and Lynn said Hurts was expected to make a full recovery. “He is clinically stable and has no significant functional limitations,” their statement said.

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was the only member of the organization made available to the media on Monday — not general manager Howie Roseman or any member of the team's medical staff — and largely deflected questions about Hurts' health or how the team handled the situation.

“I'm not a medical expert," Sirianni said. “I lean on our guys in all those situations. I'm a football coach. I lean on our medical experts in every situation. I have full trust and full faith in them. It's not just me that has major care for our players. It's them, as well.”

The Eagles previously said Hurts was injured when he took a cleat to his calf area on Oct. 4 in a game against the Los Angeles Rams.

Hurts informed the medical staff of the injury after practice on Oct. 8. The Super Bowl 59 MVP was back at practice the next day before the team left for London to play Jacksonville. Hurts was initially diagnosed by specialists in London with a left calf superficial vein thrombosis.

Sirianni declined to say Monday why the Eagles allowed Hurts to fly home with a blood clot. He referred to statements the Eagles and Hurts' agent released over the last week that addressed the timeline of his injury and treatment.

He had no answers on specific questions about Hurts and his blood clots.

"I understand you want this information on this," Sirianni said. “I fully trust the people that are involved in helping us all make these decisions. We have great people here.”

Hurts hadn’t missed more than two games in a season since becoming the full-time starter in 2021. He has led the Eagles to five straight playoff appearances, three NFC East titles and two Super Bowl appearances, beating the Chiefs 40-22 two years ago.

Tanner McKee started Sunday in place of Hurts against the Panthers. McKee finished 26 of 45 for 215 yards and a touchdown in the 25-14 loss. The Eagles (2-4) have lost four consecutive games for the first time since 2020.

Sirianni said Monday that beleaguered offensive coordinator Sean Mannion was still the play-caller.

Hurts has eight touchdown passes and three interceptions with 933 yards passing this season. He is in the middle of a five-year, $255 million extension, including $179.3 million guaranteed, that takes him through the 2028 season.

The Eagles stunned fans when they drafted Hurts out of Oklahoma in the second round in 2020. They seemingly had Carson Wentz entrenched at QB and had more pressing needs. But Hurts supplanted Wentz and became one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL.

“I haven't been without Jalen for an extended period of time,” Sirianni said. “I have the utmost confidence in Tanner. But I miss him. I know that will be the case. Jalen and I have been together, head coach and quarterback, for six years.”

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AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi in Tampa, Florida, contributed to this report.

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The arrests are part of a Trump administration effort to root out noncitizen voting ahead of next month's midterm elections, even though data shows that the problem is incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of races.

Federal officials on Monday blamed California officials for the alleged crimes, accusing them of facilitating noncitizen voting through inadequate voter roll maintenance and hiding it from the public. The charges escalated a simmering voter roll fight that came into focus last week when the Justice Department sued California and warned that local election workers who knowingly process or tabulate ballots submitted by noncitizen voters are at risk of investigation and potential prosecution.

The Justice Department said the 28 people who were charged as part of a sweep dubbed Operation Protect the Vote are lawful permanent residents — but not U.S. citizens who are permitted to legally vote. They are charged with crimes including making false statements on a naturalization application and submitting fraudulent voter registrations.

“This causes real damage to real elections and real damage to American citizens," Trent McCotter, the acting deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, said during a news conference in Los Angeles.

Rob Bonta, California's Democratic attorney general, said Monday that there is no widespread voter fraud in California and that while “one-off” examples of voter fraud are possible, those instances are “a drop in the bucket” considering the state has 23 million registered voters.

Bonta said he expects his state to prevail in the federal government's lawsuit, saying the Republican administration “has provided us with no facts of any ineligible voters, just a conclusory statement with no evidence to back it.”

California emerges as a flashpoint for voting dispute

The federal government has made noncitizen voting a priority this year, demanding detailed voter information — including dates of birth, addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers — from the states. While some states voluntarily handed over the information, the department sued 30 states and the District of Columbia to obtain it — lawsuits that so far have been unsuccessful.

The Justice Department said Monday it has charged 113 people in 20 states with illegal voting and illegal registration offenses over the last seven weeks. It earlier said it had charged about 90 people for various types of election misconduct so far this year, including 50 who are alleged to have voted as noncitizens. There were more than 227 million registered voters in the United States during the 2024 presidential election.

The operation Monday involved the four U.S. attorneys' offices across California in what the Justice Department intended as a statewide show of force.

Among the dozens of people arrested was a 72-year-old Belize-born man who is accused of voting illegally in four elections.

Dozens of federal agents descended on Omar Alexander Muñoz's residential cul-de-sac in Commerce, a small city in Los Angeles County, to make the arrest. Muñoz was put in handcuffs in his pajamas and taken into federal custody downtown.

Esmeralda Muñoz, 70, said her family was furious that agents showed up to their home in full tactical gear with guns drawn to arrest her husband before dawn.

“It’s a show for them,” she said, calling it a “shame” that government officials arrived with camera crews and news helicopters.

She and her three children and 10 grandchildren are all U.S. citizens, she said; Omar Muñoz is a legal permanent resident, she said, and they didn’t realize that he was registered to vote. When they do talk about politics, Esmeralda said Omar has been a vociferous supporter of Trump.

The arrests were the latest in a flurry of activity that has unfolded in heavily Democratic California, which is not typically regarded as a key battleground state but does have a handful of competitive congressional races that could help determine which party controls the U.S. House for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term.

The administration last week sued California to prevent it from counting mail ballots from people the federal government has identified as “likely” noncitizens until their immigration status can be confirmed.

The complaint was filed after California officials were given, and did not meet, a 48-hour deadline to review a password-protected thumb drive that contained a list of 20,000 names. The federal government says those are likely noncitizens who were sent ballots to participate in the Nov. 3 election, although the secretary of state said the administration has provided no evidence to support that claim. The state mails ballots to all registered voters.

McCotter said the 20,000 number was likely to rise.

“That’s just the floor,” he said.

DOJ accuses California of ‘state-facilitated voter fraud’

McCotter said the lawsuit against California was necessary because “state-facilitated voter fraud is unacceptable,” and accused state officials of creating the last-minute emergency before Election Day by not working with the Justice Department sooner to check alleged noncitizen voters.

Explaining why it was important to address voting by noncitizens even though it's rare, he noted that some races in California have been decided by just hundreds of votes.

Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, criticized the state's election officials for not cooperating with the department's demands.

“Why is California refusing to show their voter rolls?” he asked. “What are they afraid of? What are they hiding?”

As part of its lawsuit, the Justice Department filed paperwork Monday seeking a court order that would force California to set aside ballots from suspected noncitizens and to independently, or in conjunction with the federal government, verify their citizenship status before tabulating their mail-in ballots. The Justice Department asked for the order to be entered in time for the Nov. 3 election.

Absent that order, the government said, “there is a significant risk that American votes will be diluted.”

Requests for comment sent Monday to the secretary of state and governor's office were not immediately returned. Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday published a series of X posts seeking to undermine the Justice Department's announcement.

“WOW. First Assistant Bill just admitted in front of the press that not all of those arrested today may have voted,” he wrote in one post, referencing Essayli.

A warning for poll workers

On Friday, the Justice Department followed up with a warning that state election officials who knowingly process ballots cast by noncitizen voters are at risk of investigation.

A letter from McCotter reads: “If persons knowingly tabulate ballots cast by individuals identified by federal agencies as noncitizens, they risk becoming aiders and abettors to a federal crime.”

The letter is addressed to the Los Angeles County Counsel’s office and also is copied to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan, effectively putting the entire state on notice.

In response, Logan said his office is focused on conducting a fair and secure election while noting that Election Day is a mere 18 days away.

“The U.S. Department of Justice has chosen to litigate their unverified assertions of voting eligibility. At this point, it is best for this to be addressed in court,” he said.

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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington, Ali Swenson in New York and Sophie Austin in Sacramento, California, contributed to this report.

The Republican president signed an executive order creating a Women’s Health Division at the National Institutes of Health and a separate White House Women's Health Task Force. The panel was set to hold its first meeting on Monday.

“Beginning today we will change the reality of women’s health,” Melania Trump said. “Previous generations fought for women’s rights. Our generation will fight to discover the cures that will ensure a woman can live her life in health and to the fullest.”

The president spoke after his wife and said the order will “promote new research and really go after the understudied diseases affecting women.” The order is also intended to promote diagnostic technology and improve treatment.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, who recently completed treatment for breast cancer, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will lead the White House task force. Donald Trump said the panel will coordinate with various federal agencies and programs. The order does not include specific funding goals.

Trumps want more research into key areas of women's health

The initiative follows meetings the first lady had with the president, Kennedy and other federal health officials to help shape the order and the task force.

The president called it a "historic action” and praised her work.

“She’s accomplished so much,” he said before pivoting into unscripted commentary about White House renovations, including the patio stone now covering what used to be the Rose Garden lawn.

Shifting back to women's health, the president expressed surprise that some of the order's requirements had not already been imposed.

“Who the hell wouldn't have a women's health division?” he said, after recalling that he'd asked Melania Trump, “Are you sure they don't have that?”

The NIH has an Office of Research on Women’s Health, established in 1990 to advance understanding of the biological and social factors that influence women's health and disease, according to its website.

A goal of the new Women's Health Division is to improve the government's ability to coordinate research, according to a fact sheet distributed by the White House.

The executive order signed Monday calls for more research into key areas of women's health, including maternal health, mental health, endometriosis, infertility, fibroids and menopause. It also mentions other health concerns, including Alzheimer’s and heart disease, osteoporosis and stroke.

Women more likely to focus on health issues

The White House announcement comes about two weeks before Nov. 3 elections and as Donald Trump’s job approval ratings have declined.

About one-third of women now approve of how Trump is handling the presidency, according to recent AP-NORC polling. About two-thirds of women disapproved of how Trump was handing healthcare issues in a July AP-NORC poll.

An AP-NORC poll conducted earlier in October found women more likely than men to say healthcare is “one of the most important issues” in the upcoming election.

It was unclear whether Trump's order conflicts with his earlier executive actions curtailing federal programs and policies with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.

The administration’s broad cuts to scientific research have included studies focusing on women as it continues to eliminate grants with a “DEI” or diversity focus. Last year, the administration announced that the long-running Women’s Health Initiative, a study of preventive health strategies, would be closed early before abruptly reversing that decision amid protest.

Trump order cancels Biden action on women's health

In 2023, the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden signed an executive order as he announced a White House initiative to improve how the federal government approaches and funds research into the health of women, who make up more than half the U.S. population. The initiative was led by first lady Jill Biden.

Before leaving the White House, the Bidens highlighted Jill Biden’s effort and said the research initiative had attracted nearly $1 billion in federal funding, including from the Defense Department and NIH.

Trump's executive order rescinded the Biden effort.

The Trump White House said the steps announced Monday go beyond what was accomplished under Biden, citing the planned use of artificial intelligence, which Trump calls “super intelligence,” and creating a government-wide task force rather than having the first lady lead the initiative.

Melania Trump expands her portfolio

The initiative adds a new dimension to Melania Trump’s policy portfolio as first lady.

In Donald Trump's second term, Melania Trump has focused on improving foster care systems, expanding technology and artificial-intelligence access in education, and reuniting children separated from their families by Russia's war against Ukraine.

In Trump's first presidency, the first lady's signature initiative, Be Best, focused on child well-being, safe social media use and reducing drug abuse.

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Barrow reported from Atlanta. AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard and Associated Press writers Linley Sanders and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.

The agreement would have spared Mohammed the risk of execution in exchange for his guilty plea and a sentence of life in prison without parole.

Mohammed is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 25 years ago. Another of the hijacked planes crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

The plea agreement was approved by military prosecutors and the Pentagon’s senior official for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stepped in.

Austin threw out the deal in 2024, saying a decision on the death penalty in an attack as grave as Sept. 11 should only be made by the defense secretary.

Relatives of the Sept. 11 victims were split on the agreements for Mohammed and two co-defendants. Some said a trial is the best path to justice, while others saw it as the best hope for bringing the long, painful case to a conclusion.

Defense attorneys had argued that Austin, who served under President Joe Biden, acted too late. But a divided appeals court panel found Austin acted within his authority.

A trial date has been set for 2028.

Las manifestaciones forman parte de un movimiento que se opone a lo que los participantes describen como un abuso autoritario de poder por parte de la administración Trump y un deterioro de las normas democráticas.

La primera protesta nacional “No Kings” se realizó en junio de 2025, organizada por grupos como la Unión Estadounidense por las Libertades Civiles (ACLU) y la Liga de Mujeres Votantes. Las manifestaciones coincidieron con un desfile militar en Washington, D.C., realizado para conmemorar el cumpleaños del presidente Donald Trump.

Desde entonces, se han llevado a cabo otras dos protestas nacionales, dando continuidad a una serie de manifestaciones centradas en las preocupaciones sobre el poder presidencial y las instituciones democráticas.

Se espera que la protesta de hoy haga énfasis en las elecciones de medio término, con especial atención al acceso al voto y la participación electoral, mientras los votantes se preparan para acudir a las urnas.

Los organizadores y participantes están utilizando las manifestaciones para llamar la atención sobre las preocupaciones relacionadas con las elecciones y fomentar la participación pública en el proceso democrático.

Haga clic aquí para conocer más detalles sobre dónde y cuándo se realizan las protestas de este sábado.

La alerta estaba programada para expirar alrededor de las 5:15 p.m.

También estaba vigente un aviso de inundaciones para sectores de Deerfield Beach, al norte de Pompano Beach, el cual estaba programado para expirar alrededor de las 6 p.m.

Se instó a los residentes a tener precaución en las carreteras, ya que las lluvias y tormentas podrían provocar acumulaciones significativas de agua.

Las estimaciones de lluvia basadas en el radar se acercaban a las 5 pulgadas en los alrededores de Parkland y a las 6.5 pulgadas en Deerfield Beach.

Se esperaba que las lluvias y tormentas continuaran durante la tarde y hasta la noche. La actividad de tormentas sobre los Everglades podría volver a desarrollarse hacia los vecindarios locales, manteniendo el riesgo de inundaciones.

Las lluvias estaban asociadas con un frente frío que se extendía sobre la mitad sur del estado. La profunda humedad tropical que se desplazaba por la región estaba alimentando las lluvias y tormentas, permitiendo que produjeran fuertes precipitaciones.

Se esperaba que las condiciones inestables continuaran hasta el domingo.

Local 10 continuará proporcionando actualizaciones sobre las condiciones meteorológicas en desarrollo.

On Monday, general manager Chris Ballard paid the price for both.

Team co-owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon announced she had fired Ballard, who had been making the personnel decisions since 2017. The move comes one day after the hometown fans booed resoundingly throughout the second half of Sunday's game, chanted “Fire Ballard” and left early as the Colts blew a 13-point halftime lead and lost 26-20 to previously winless Tennessee.

Irsay-Gordon issued a statement, saying the decision couldn't wait until the offseason.

“Our standard is to compete for championships, and I believe a change in leadership is necessary to meet that standard,” she said. “Making this change during the season was a deliberate decision. Waiting would only delay the important work that needs to begin now.”

She said a “thorough search” for Ballard's successor has already begun. In the meantime, assistant general manager Ed Dodds is next in line to make the personnel moves.

Irsay-Gordon made her position clear in January when she declined to fire Ballard and coach Shane Steichen as fans clamored for their ousters.

Instead, she said she understood the fans' desire to field a championship-caliber team but brought both back, acknowledging the urgency to make the playoffs could not be higher.

Indy (2-4) has not won the AFC South since 2014, the longest title drought in the division. In fact, each of the other three teams has won at least two division crowns since the Colts won their last one.

But the early results didn't produce much of a difference.

Ballard spent the offseason overhauling the defense and then watched it open the season by allowing 1,029 yards, the second-highest two-game total in league history. Indy lost both games. Victories over the then-winless Houston Texans and a Washington Commanders squad playing with a backup quarterback briefly quieted the outside calls for changes.

Another poor defensive performance at Pittsburgh and Sunday's debacle — blowing a 13-0 halftime lead as the Titans special teams unit scored one TD and set up another, and Indy generating only one score in the second half — only turned up the heat inside the organization.

And it was notably different following the game.

“We’ve got to give them something to cheer about,” a feistier than usual Steichen said. “I don’t blame them for booing one freaking bit.”

The usually even-keeled Pro Bowl defensive tackle DeForest Buckner also showed his frustration.

“I’m sick and tired of the same song and dance every year,” the team captain said.

Apparently, that was enough to compel Irsay-Gordon to pull the plug on Ballard.

The next steps remain unclear. Steichen reiterated Monday that suddenly turnover-prone quarterback Daniel Jones would keep his job and he wasn't planning to make any staff changes, though he also has acknowledged the Colts must take better care of the ball.

He said Irsay-Gordon told him earlier Monday that the Colts were moving on from Ballard.

“The urgency has never been higher, and we've got to go put a product on the field that's a winning product, that people are proud of," Steichen said. “We've got to do a better job of that each and every week when we go out there and play.”

No players were available to reporters Monday.

Indy (2-4) visits unbeaten Minnesota (5-0) next weekend, then travels to AFC South-leading Jacksonville (4-2) the following week. Their next home game is Nov. 8 against Dallas.

Ballard presided over some strange twists and turns not necessarily of his own volition — the sudden retirement of Andrew Luck in August 2019, starting seven straight season-openers with a different quarterback, the midseason firing of coach Frank Reich and subsequent hiring of Jeff Saturday in 2022, and a nasty contract dispute involving Irsay and Jonathan Taylor in 2023.

Then last year, in need of a veteran quarterback trying to salvage a quickly unraveling season, Ballard brought Philip Rivers out of retirement just after he was named a Pro Football Hall of Fame semifinalist.

Ballard also presided over a team that always seemed to be on the cusp of contending.

Indy ended a three-year playoff absence in 2018 when Luck led them to a wild-card round win at Houston before falling in the divisional round at Kansas City, where Ballard worked prior to being hired by Irsay-Gordon's late father, Jim. Rivers led the Colts to their last postseason appearance in 2020, losing 27-24 at Buffalo.

Indy also was eliminated on the final weekend twice since then.

But it was the decision to select quarterback Anthony Richardson with the No. 4 overall pick in 2023 that ultimately may have cost Ballard his job. Richardson's inaccuracy, inconsistency and injury history prompted the Colts to bring in Jones last season.

Jones wound up winning the battle to play, and as he led the Colts offense to a historic start in 2025, Richardson continued to sit and watch as the Colts went 8-2. But a broken bone in Jones' left leg derailed the season, and he suffered a season-ending torn right Achilles tendon in December. Indy finished the season by losing its final seven games.

This season's poor start, apparently, was the final straw for Irsay-Gordon.

“I also want to be clear: this decision does not change our goals for the season," Irsay-Gordon said. "We have a lot of football in front of us, and I expect us to compete, improve, and win football games.”

Ballard, a Texan who played college football at Wisconsin, also worked in the Chicago Bears front office from 2001-11 and coached at Texas A&M-Kingsville from 1994-99.

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Six people died when a speedboat ferrying Syrian and Palestinian migrants struck the port side of a Greek coast guard vessel with its bow and capsized south of Lesbos late Sunday, a coast guard spokesperson told The Associated Press on customary condition of anonymity.

Four men, one woman and an infant were among the dead. Another eight people, including an individual who has been detained as the suspected people smuggler, were rescued.

Another speedboat capsized north of the island of Samos at around dawn on Monday, resulting in the death of five men and one woman. About 15 people have been rescued so far, including an Iranian man suspected of being a people smuggler.

The spokesperson said that a coast guard vessel and a helicopter were still in the area looking for another three missing passengers.

Greece's Maritime Affairs Minister Vasilis Kikilias expressed his “sorrow and rage” at the Lesbos capsizing in a post on X, calling the deaths of six people the “criminal act of modern-day slave traders.”

“Our position is clear: zero tolerance for people smugglers,” Kikilias said.

Greece is one of the main entry points into the European Union for people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, with many making the short but often treacherous journey from the Turkish coast to nearby Greek islands in inflatable dinghies or other small boats.

The EU's border control agency Frontex reported Monday that although irregular border crossings into the 27-nation member bloc were down by a third so far this year, the eastern Mediterranean was the busiest route.

The agency said that around 31, 800 crossings were recorded in the first three quarters of 2026, a fall of 15% compared with the same period last year. The corridor from Libya to Crete was the busiest section on the route, ahead of the eastern Aegean islands and the land border with Turkey, with Cyprus accounting for a small share.

Plaintiffs challenging the prohibition on home distilling claim the 1868 law is an antiquated relic of Reconstruction-era politics. They argue that Congress overstepped its taxation powers when it enacted the home distilling ban as part of a tax reform measure designed to curb fraud by commercial distillers.

Government attorneys counter that Congress properly restricted where spirits can be distilled to prevent producers from evading federal excise taxes. They warn that lifting the ban would violate Supreme Court precedent and erode congressional powers.

Federal law makes home distilling a crime punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Separate challenges to the law divided two federal circuit courts, which issued conflicting decisions in April, only 11 days apart.

A three-judge panel from the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the federal ban in a case brought by John Ream, a brewpub owner from Newark, Ohio, who wants to distill whisky at home for his personal consumption.

A Fifth Circuit panel ruled in favor of different plaintiffs — members of the Texas-based Hobby Distillers Association — and concluded that statutory prohibitions on in-home distilling are outside the scope of Congress’ taxing power under the Constitution.

The Supreme Court agreed to review the Fifth Circuit decision, which was the Justice Department’s preference.

Plaintiffs’ attorney Robert Alt said they are “thrilled” that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.

“Our country’s founders would be rolling over in their graves to learn that a pastime in which even George Washington partook, which is as American as apple pie and certainly a lot older, has quite absurdly been turned into a federal crime,” Alt said in a statement.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs in both cases argue that Congress could ban a broad array of activities inside private homes — including cooking, gardening and remote work — under the government’s interpretation of the 19th century law.

“The importance of this case and the questions it presents could hardly be overstated,” the plaintiffs' lawyers wrote. “It presents fundamental questions of the extent of federal power and the powers reserved to the states and the people.”

Justice Department attorneys said the government’s regulation and taxation on the production of distilled spirits is as old as Congress itself. They noted that Congress outlawed home distilling to prevent those producers from evading taxes or government inspections.

“And because the location restrictions were enacted only after lengthy experience with tax evasion, upholding those restrictions would not open the door to hypothetical laws restricting other conduct lacking that history,” they wrote.

The government says Ream asked the Supreme Court to resolve an “additional question” of whether location restrictions on home distilling exceed the scope of Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce. But the government urged the high court to avoid that question, saying it wasn’t part of Ream’s case or the government’s current arguments in either case.

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Rescuers saved 16 of those who were on board, including several who had suspected shark bites, the Coast Guard said. Crews spent nearly four days looking for survivors before ending the search late Sunday.

The boat capsized in an area frequented by smugglers outside of U.S. waters, according to the Coast Guard. Survivors pulled from the water early Friday told officials there were 27 people on board.

A mayday call came from someone on the boat around 1 a.m. Friday, said Coast Guard Lt. Santiago Tamburini. A helicopter reached the site two hours later, and it took about 90 minutes to rescue the 16 people, Tamburini said.

The Mexican consulate in San Diego said all those rescued were Mexican nationals. The Coast Guard has said Customs and Border Protection was investigating and interviewing the survivors. The agency did not immediately respond to requests on Monday for an update on the status of the federal investigation.

Both the Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy along with the Mexican Navy searched the waters with helicopters, planes and multiple boats.

The boat went down about 140 miles (225 kilometers) west of Ensenada, Mexico. The boat’s origin and destination were not clear.

The region is popular with fishing and leisure boats, but some attempts to transport migrants from Mexico to the U.S. have turned deadly in past years.

In May 2025, at least three people died when a boat flipped off the coast north of the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2023, eight people were killed in one of the deadliest maritime smuggling accidents off the U.S. coast, when two boats approached a San Diego beach in heavy fog and one capsized in the surf.

El ataque ocurrió el domingo en Croix-des-Bouquets, una comunidad en la capital de Haití, Puerto Príncipe, que ahora está controlada por pandillas violentas.

Las Fuerzas Armadas de El Salvador informaron en un comunicado el lunes que los cuatro técnicos de aviación regresaban al campamento cuando el vehículo blindado fue atacado con explosivos e incendiado.

Indicaron que los cuatro hombres lograron huir del vehículo en llamas y que se está trabajando con fuerzas internacionales “para establecer contacto y determinar la ubicación de nuestros militares”.

Las autoridades salvadoreñas señalaron que se enviaron helicópteros a la zona, pero que éstos también fueron atacados a tiros cuando dispersaban a hombres armados en el área.

“Se han realizado múltiples intentos de aproximación por vía terrestre y aérea, pero éstos se han visto obstaculizados por la intensidad de los enfrentamientos”, según las fuerzas armadas salvadoreñas.

Las armas y municiones que las pandillas están usando no se fabrican en Haití y seguirán encontrando formas de ingresar al país, dijo el lunes al Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU Wien-Weibert Arthus, el representante permanente adjunto de Haití ante la ONU.

“Este último episodio es un recordatorio, como si realmente necesitáramos uno, del hecho de que los desafíos de seguridad en Haití son complejos y complicados”, señaló. “Esperamos que los desaparecidos puedan volver con sus familias ilesos”.

La violencia de las pandillas ha desplazado a casi 1,5 millones de personas en Haití en los últimos años, con más de 5.700 personas muertas o heridas desde enero hasta mediados de septiembre, y más de 230 personas secuestradas, según Naciones Unidas.

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Mike Waltz, el embajador de Estados Unidos ante Naciones Unidas, condenó el ataque durante la reunión del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU sobre Haití.

“Creemos que los cuatro hombres sobrevivieron, pero siguen desaparecidos”, expresó. “Los traeremos a casa”.

Waltz dijo que las pandillas atacaron el vehículo blindado con “cientos de balas y explosivos”.

“A las pandillas y a los líderes de pandillas que llevaron a cabo este cobarde ataque, si creen que van a intimidar a esta coalición para que se retire, han cometido un terrible error”, declaró.

La fuerza antipandillas indicó en un comunicado que está evaluando la situación y ha recomendado a los residentes del lugar donde ocurrió el ataque que permanezcan en sus casas.

“Las pandillas están poniendo a prueba a la fuerza de supresión de pandillas”, dijo el lunes en la ONU Jack Christofides, el representante especial de la fuerza, que agregó que los ataques contra la fuerza han aumentado recientemente.

Advirtió que las pandillas han llevado a cabo asesinatos de represalia en algunas zonas tras operaciones de fuerzas haitianas e internacionales, y que han avanzado más profundamente en lugares que incluyen la comunidad de Kenscoff y la región de Artibonite.

“La realidad es que no podemos estar en todas partes al mismo tiempo”, señaló Christofides.

Haití se prepara para elecciones pese a la violencia

La zona donde fue atacado el vehículo blindado está controlada por pandillas, entre ellas Chèn Méchan; Kraze Barye, liderada por Vitelhomme Innocent, y 400 Mawozo, encabezada por Lanmo Sanjou. Ambos líderes de pandillas han sido sancionados por la ONU y Estados Unidos.

Romain Le Cour, jefe del Observatorio de Haití en la Iniciativa Global contra el Crimen Organizado Transnacional, comentó que, si bien algunas pandillas han estado bajo presión desde que se desplegó la fuerza de supresión de pandillas, “otras quieren demostrar que pueden contraatacar”.

“Si efectivamente estos soldados están retenidos, los grupos obtienen ventaja para negociar y para presionar a las fuerzas de seguridad”, afirmó.

El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU autorizó en septiembre de 2025 una fuerza de supresión de pandillas de 5.550 integrantes a fin de reemplazar a una anterior fuerza multinacional liderada por Kenia, que tuvo dificultades por la falta de fondos y recursos en su intento por ayudar a la Policía Nacional de Haití a contener la violencia de las pandillas.

La fuerza de supresión de pandillas cuenta actualmente con más de 2.000 efectivos desplegados en Haití, incluidos soldados de Chad, Jamaica y Guatemala.

“La fuerza está marcando una diferencia con lo que tiene”, aseveró Christofides, y alegó que las autoridades han comenzado a ver señales tempranas de una reducción de la influencia y el control de las pandillas en ciertas zonas.

Nadie se ha adjudicado el ataque contra las tropas salvadoreñas, que se dio en un momento en que Haití se prepara para sus primeras elecciones generales en más de una década y pone de relieve el poder de las pandillas armadas, que controlan un 70% de Puerto Príncipe, la capital.

Carlos Ruiz Massieu, el enviado especial de la ONU para Haití, informó en la reunión del lunes que los preparativos electorales “han alcanzado un nivel de progreso sin precedentes”.

Dijo que se han registrado más de 35 partidos y grupos políticos, junto con 3.500 candidatos. Entre ellos se encuentra el expresidente haitiano Michel Martelly, quien fue sancionado en noviembre de 2022 por Canadá y en agosto de 2024 por Estados Unidos, que lo acusó de facilitar el tráfico de drogas y de patrocinar a múltiples pandillas.

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“I did not direct, authorize, or approve the suppression of the investigation or prosecution of crimes,” Mbeki told a judicial inquiry in Johannesburg examining allegations that political interference in democratic South Africa prevented investigations and prosecutions of crimes committed under white minority rule.

Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela in 1999 and served until 2008, said in a written statement that the National Prosecuting Authority must explain why it failed to pursue cases referred by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

His testimony comes amid renewed efforts to resolve apartheid-era crimes left unprosecuted for decades. Ahead of his appearance, the Foundation for Human Rights and 25 families of victims and survivors called for an explanation and an apology.

“After so many years of waiting and obfuscation, the families really look forward to a candid explanation of why they have been denied justice,” the foundation’s executive director, Zaid Kimmie, said in a statement.

The African National Congress was at the forefront of the battle against the system of white minority rule and led South Africa to democracy when apartheid ended in 1994. But ANC-led governments since then have been criticized by some for prioritizing national reconciliation over justice for victims.

President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the inquiry last April after survivors and victims’ families sued successive governments for failing to investigate unresolved killings, disappearances and other crimes.

The truth commission, chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu from 1996, offered perpetrators amnesty in exchange for full disclosure of politically motivated crimes. Those denied amnesty or who did not apply remained liable to prosecution, but many victims’ families have waited decades for justice.

The truth commission received about 7,000 amnesty applications. By November 2000, roughly 850 had been granted, and about 5,400 refused, according to an interim tally published by the Justice Department, with other applications partly granted, withdrawn or still being processed.

The truth commission referred about 300 cases for further investigation and possible prosecution, according to an NPA-commissioned review, but only a handful resulted in successful prosecutions. Many referred cases have stalled amid allegations of political interference. Missing evidence and the deaths of witnesses and suspects have made prosecutions more difficult.

Allegations against Mbeki include secret talks with former military generals to secure a clandestine agreement to avoid prosecution. In his April 2003 parliamentary address responding to the TRC's final report, Mbeki said prosecutors, “working with our intelligence agencies,” could enter into lawful arrangements with people willing to disclose information about past crimes.

Critics argue that Mbeki’s cabinet response paved the way for political interference.

Mbeki acknowledged Monday that he met with former military and police officers, but denied agreeing to protect them from prosecution — he said the discussions were intended to encourage their participation in the truth commission.

He said his 2003 remarks concerned people who had not gone through the truth commission’s amnesty process, rather than cases it had referred for prosecution. He said the speech rejected blanket amnesty and affirmed the NPA’s authority to decide which cases to prosecute.

As for presidential pardons, the former head of state said the process applied only to people already convicted and did not prevent investigations or prosecutions.

Mbeki and his successor, Jacob Zuma, unsuccessfully sought to have the inquiry’s chairperson, retired Constitutional Court Justice Sisi Khampepe, recuse herself, arguing that her prior roles with the TRC and NPA compromised her impartiality. The Constitutional Court dismissed their challenge.

Authorities have also reopened inquests into apartheid-era deaths, including the 1967 death of Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli, the 1981 killing of lawyer Griffiths Mxenge, and the 1977 death of iconic anti-apartheid figure Steve Biko in police custody.

Mbeki’s testimony continues Tuesday, with three former Cabinet ministers due later this week. Zuma’s appearance, initially scheduled for Thursday, has been postponed to a date yet to be confirmed.

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Water twisted unhurriedly through the land, splayed into various branches that rejoined to form pools behind mounds of piled sticks. Young willows stretched from the bank across an expanse roughly the length of a football field, fed from moisture below.

Then a familiar brown head emerged from a deep pool: a beaver.

“They're thriving here,” Ramsay said, beaming at the creature. “They benefit us, and hopefully we benefit them.”

The Ramsays' ranch in southwest Wyoming is one of many areas embracing the semiaquatic rodents as nature's engineers. Conservation groups and government agencies are increasing their use of “starter homes” made of wood and brush to encourage the creatures to move in and expand upon the initial structures. Beaver dams slow moving water in a way that promotes localized year-round availability, creates habitat for native fish and provides a natural break that slows wildfires. Proponents hope that by increasing active beaver dams, the ecosystem will grow more resilient. This is increasingly vital as climate change and overuse make the U.S. West drier, experts say.

“In their blood, they have one thing and that’s to dam streams up and make deep water habitat so they can survive,” said Nick Walrath, a project manager for the nonprofit Trout Unlimited. He first pitched the idea to Ramsay, who now proudly hosts more than 100 human-made beaver dams in addition to natural ones.

Build it, and they will (hopefully) come

Walrath has overseen construction of some 500 “starter homes” for beavers across snow- and spring-fed streams — including Trout Creek on the Ramsay ranch — that form the headwaters of the Green River, the largest tributary to the Colorado River. The materials are simple: several raw posts jammed vertically into streambeds, branches loosely woven around the posts and mud to pack it down.

The structures, known as beaver dam analogs, are typically built near existing beaver families to encourage them to “move in” and customize them. The ultimate goal is to cultivate thriving beaver populations in key watersheds across both public and private land in the western U.S.

“Beavers are uniquely positioned as our allies in the battle against climate change,” said Samantha Miller, senior carnivore campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Without beavers, water can also move so fast that it erodes the bank.

“Where the water is held there, sediment builds up, the soils build, vegetation takes off and really makes it lush,” Ramsay said. “They’re really beneficial when they build where you want them to, but they can be a nuisance when they build where you're trying to divert water.”

Not everyone wants a dam

Flooding caused by beaver dams may be a boon for ecosystems, but can present problems for homes and infrastructure built near streams.

Utah State University operates the state's beaver relocation program that takes unwanted beavers from private property and moves them to remote streams where they're needed. It uses live-trap cages and quarantines the beavers at a facility, aiming to keep families together and prevent the spread of invasive species, before re-releasing them in wilder areas. The program has moved approximately 100 beavers each year since 2019.

The state bans lethal beaver trapping along key watersheds where it is trying to grow the population. It also pays trappers to live-trap beavers to hand over to trained experts for relocation.

Aquatic ecologist Nick Bouwes, a Utah State faculty member who helped launch the program, said he received countless requests to get rid of the furry creatures that had caused a nuisance for property owners. But before moving them, he'd recommend solutions to coexist. There's a flexible tube known as a pond leveler that runs through a beaver dam and acts as an overflow drain, as well as “beaver deceiver” cages that protect drainage pipes from damming and fencing for tree base protection.

Still, if beavers are unwanted, nonlethal means are worth the effort because the animals can benefit other water bodies, Bouwes said.

Beaver populations still need protecting

Beaver populations have made a strong recovery since fur trappers nearly caused their extinction in the 19th century, but protection is still needed because of their role in preserving scarce water resources in the American West, Miller said.

Oregon and Wyoming limit commercial beaver trapping, while California has banned it altogether.

Walrath and other advocates for beaver expansion understand that a lot more work is needed to make a meaningful difference across the basin.

“It’s a drop in the bucket,” he said of the work they’ve done so far. But after the worst snowpack ever measured, followed by record-setting summer heat, any effort is “much more meaningful.”

On a recent August morning, Walrath and his crew were putting up several “starter homes” on private grazing land along Spring Creek in western Wyoming. Water rose several feet across the dry, eroded bank in a valley thick with sagebrush shortly after the structures were erected.

“If we can replicate that a hundred, a thousand times over the entire Colorado River basin, we can have a much larger impact to the system itself,” he said.

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She handed them to Beverly Phoenix, who sat hunched over a table in the back of an exhibit hall, volunteering to help neighbors breathe new life into old tools. Now she offered advice to a member of Congress on using a Dremel, a handheld oscillating device, to sharpen the blades.

It was an unassuming campaign stop that reinforced Gluesenkamp Perez’s message of self sufficiency. The owner of an auto repair shop with her husband, Gluesenkamp Perez has positioned herself as someone who can help her party bridge the divide between urban and rural, blue collar and white collar, left and right.

If Democrats are going to take back control of the U.S. House, they need to hold districts like this one in Southwest Washington, which twice elected Gluesenkamp Perez while also supporting President Donald Trump in all of his campaigns. Although the party has been fixated on whether to accommodate the burgeoning progressive movement, Democrats' willingness to make room for more moderate and unorthodox members could be even more important to winning and maintaining a durable majority.

“We are a really independent community. What we want is respect for our priorities, for our values,” Gluesenkamp Perez said. When that causes friction with party leaders, she said, her job is “explaining my community to D.C., not letting D.C. try to define my community’s priorities.”

To prove herself, Gluesenkamp Perez, 38, will have to win a very different kind of campaign this year. In her last two elections, she faced Republican Joe Kent, who had connections to extremists. Now she's up against a more mainstream opponent in John Braun, a businessman and state legislator with a better shot at appealing to the district's moderate voters.

Gluesenkamp Perez is a lightning rod for progressive criticism

The Pacific Northwest has a reputation as a bastion of progressive politics, but Washington's 3rd Congressional District is more complex. It includes both the northern portion of the Portland, Oregon, metro area and expansive rural territory with economies centered around fishing, logging and manufacturing.

By balancing those competing interests, Gluesenkamp Perez sometimes finds herself in a lonely group of Democrats siding with Republicans.

She opposed President Joe Biden's student debt relief and voted for a Republican election proposal backed by Trump. She supported the Laken Riley immigration bill and defense legislation that included restrictions on abortion and climate change initiatives.

She voted to censure fellow Democratic Reps. Al Green of Texas and Rashida Tlaib, and she introduced a resolution to reprimand Democratic Rep. Chuy Garcia for quietly maneuvering to essentially hand his seat to a trusted aide.

Tensions flared again last month when Gluesenkamp Perez twice voted with Republicans on procedural issues, an apostasy in the traditions of Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are expected to stick with party leaders when it comes to such matters.

As a consequence, Republicans were able to force a vote on a resolution condemning socialism, putting some Democrats in an awkward spot in an election year.

“I get upset with her too at times, but you know, I also understand that she represents 800,000-plus people and that’s 800,000-plus opinions for differing views,” said Dale Benjamin, a 66-year-old retiree and self-described “Bernie progressive” who lives in Battle Ground. “I’m very thankful to her that she’s willing to do that, especially in such a divisive place and time that we’re in right now.”

Gluesenkamp Perez has prioritized legislation that bolsters her blue collar identity and the specific industries in her district. She's a strong proponent of “right to repair” legislation that would ensure consumers and independent businesses can repair things like tractors, cars and digital devices without going to the manufacturer.

And she's gone to legislative war against the sea lions that congregate around Columbia River dams, feasting on salmon and steelhead before they can reach fishermen. She has pushed for legislation that would make it easier to kill animals that she calls “Corolla-sized vermin.”

“People sometimes treat my agenda like it’s like quirky, and I’m like, this is actually very normal where I’m from,” Gluesenkamp Perez said.

More moderate Democrats are likely headed to Washington

Democrats can’t take control of the House without winning at least a dozen districts that voted for Trump.

If they pull it off, many of the party’s newest members of Congress — the ones who could deliver the majority — could resemble Gluesenkamp Perez more than the democratic socialists who won a string of primaries in blue districts this year.

Democratic leaders will need an agenda that speaks to moderates if they want to stay in power, said Jim Kessler, executive vice president for policy at Third Way, a Democratic group that advocates for centrist policies.

“What Democrats need to realize, when you win these seats, you’re in rental property. You don’t own them,” Kessler said. “You can keep them as long as you tend to them, but it just takes one bad cycle and they’re gone.”

Speaking of Gluesenkamp Perez, Kessler said “she’s carved out her own brand and she is able to survive in a hostile environment."

“And if she needs some leeway to do it, then she needs that leeway," he added.

Her electoral formula has worked so far. She finished 7 points ahead of Kamala Harris, Democrats' last presidential candidate, in 2024, winning by 3 points while Harris lost the district by 4.

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said Gluesenkamp Perez correctly challenges billionaires and corporations but sometimes “undermines Democrats just for the performative sake of opposing Democrats."

“I view her politically like a teenager who’s developing muscles and learning how to use them,” Green said, “with an expectation that her punches will be stronger and aimed in a better direction more and more over time.”

John Braun is a military veteran, business executive and legislator

Ambulance, fire trucks and other emergency vehicles filled the parking lot at Braun Northwest, a manufacturer that sits alongside Interstate 5, the main thoroughfare through the district.

John Braun’s parents founded the business 40 years ago, and he was named president in 2006.

A retired Navy captain in the submarine service, a business executive and the Republican leader in the state Senate, Braun, 59 has the kind of pedigree that dominated his party before Trump remade it in his image.

It's far different from Joe Kent, the party's nominee who lost to Gluesenkamp Perez in 2022 and 2024. Kent's campaign team included a consultant who was a member of the Proud Boys, and Kent supported conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Kent went on to lead the National Counterterrorism Center under Trump, resigning in March because of opposition to the Iran war.

Braun predicted that he would have more appeal to independent-minded voters, saying in an interview that Kent “wasn’t a good fit for the district."

Gluesenkamp Perez has focused on “marginal issues" affecting slivers of her constituency and, despite some high-profile disputes, hasn't broken with Democrats on “the things that really matter,” Braun said.

“It’s a very independent district, and while I think she has said ‘independent’ a lot, there’s a lot of frustration that she really hasn’t been all that independent,” Braun said.

Sandy Johnson, a 74-year-old Republican from Battle Ground, said Braun's background in business is appealing, and he doesn't see any difference between Gluesenkamp Perez and other Democrats.

“I can’t stand her. I think she’s a liar. She’s a manipulator,” Johnson said as he walked his dog in a park near his home. “She’s directed by them, and she follows them, not us.”

Jessica Martinez was deployed when immigration agents arrested her father, Humberto Martinez, just two months after she left for sea.

Humberto had worn a Navy sweatshirt the day his daughter departed, proudly supporting her military service.

But while Jessica was serving her country, her family was dealing with his arrest and eventual deportation.

“When I got the news that my dad got deported, I just didn’t want to continue anymore,” Jessica said.

She recalled how her father’s words encouraged her to keep going despite the emotional toll of their separation.

“My dad was all like, ‘I’ve always taught you to keep going in life. I didn’t raise a quitter.’ And I had to keep going. It was for my dad,” she said.

Family separated by immigration enforcement

The Department of Homeland Security defended its actions against Humberto Martinez, alleging in a statement that he is “a criminal with convictions for DUI and drug offenses, arrests for false citizenship and human smuggling” and had been previously removed from the United States six times.

However, public records reviewed for the report showed only a DUI conviction on Martinez’s record.

Martinez said the DUI was a misdemeanor and that he completed court-mandated classes and community service.

He also acknowledged unlawfully crossing the U.S.-Mexico border several times.

His family had been pursuing an immigration process for him, according to Jessica’s sister, Ana Martinez.

“My sister is in the military; she’s doing the process for him,” Ana said.

Emotional reunion across the border

After returning from her deployment, Jessica traveled with Ana to Tijuana, Mexico, to see their father for the first time since she left.

“This is my first time visiting Tijuana,” Jessica said as the sisters crossed the border.

As they approached their father, Ana spotted him.

“Dad, he’s right there,” she said.

The family then shared an emotional reunion after months apart.

Humberto said he was grateful his daughter had returned safely from her deployment.

He also expressed pride in Jessica’s accomplishments, saying it had been a dream come true to see her become a Navy sailor and pursue her college education.

But even as the family celebrated being together again, Humberto remained hopeful that they would someday be reunited in the U.S.

“I tell her, maybe someday, we’ll be able to reunite over there as a family,” he said. “Hopefully, somebody is gonna help me and I can go back to my family.”

Despite his deportation, Humberto said he remains grateful for the opportunities he received in the U.S.

“I have nothing against the country, and I’m grateful for the opportunities it gave me and everything else,” he said.

For now, Jessica and her family are navigating the challenges of being separated by the border, even after her return from nearly a year of military service.

The attack occurred Sunday in Croix-des-Bouquets, a once-peaceful community in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, that is now controlled by violent gangs.

The armed forces of El Salvador said in a statement Monday that the four aviation technicians were returning to camp when their armored vehicle was attacked with explosives and set on fire.

The military noted that the four men managed to flee the burning vehicle and it is working with international forces to “establish contact and determine the location of our military personnel.”

Salvadoran authorities said that helicopters were dispatched to the area but they, too, came under fire as they dispersed armed men in the area.

“Multiple attempts to approach by land and air have been made, but these have been hampered by the intensity of the fighting,” the Salvadoran military said.

The weapons and ammunition gangs are using are not made in Haiti and will continue to find ways to enter the country, Wien-Weibert Arthus, Haiti's deputy permanent representative to the U.N., told the U.N. Security Council Monday.

“This latest episode is a reminder, as if we really needed one, of the fact that the security challenges in Haiti are complex and complicated,” he said. “We hope that those who are missing will be able to go back to their families unscathed.”

Gang violence has displaced nearly 1.5 million people, a record, across Haiti in recent years, with more than 5,700 people killed or injured from January to mid-September, and more than 230 others kidnapped, according to the U.N.

A warning from the U.S.

Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., condemned the attack during the U.N. Security Council meeting on Haiti.

“We believe the four men survived, but they do remain unaccounted for,” he said. “We will bring you home.”

Waltz said that gangs attacked the armored vehicle with “hundreds of bullets and explosives.”

“To the gangs and gang leaders who carried out this cowardly attack, if you think you’re going to intimidate this coalition into retreat, you have made a terrible mistake,” he said.

The gang suppression force said in a statement that it's assessing the situation and has advised residents where the attack occurred to remain indoors.

“Gangs are testing the gang suppression force,” Jack Christofides, the force’s special representative, said at the U.N. Monday as he noted that attacks against the force have recently increased.

He warned that gangs have carried out reprisal killings in some areas following operations by Haitian and international forces, and that they have pushed deeper into places including the community of Kenscoff and the Artibonite region.

“The reality is that we cannot be everywhere at once,” Christofides said.

Haiti prepares for an election despite violence

The area where the armored vehicle was targeted is controlled by gangs including Chèn Méchan; Kraze Barye, led by Vitelhomme Innocent; and 400 Mawozo, led by Lanmo Sanjou. Both gang leaders have been sanctioned by the U.N. and the U.S.

Romain Le Cour, head of the Haiti Observatory at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, said that while some gangs have been under pressure since the suppression force was deployed, “others want to show that they can strike back.”

“If these soldiers are indeed being held, the groups gain (an) edge to negotiate and to pressure the security forces,” he said.

In September 2025, the U.N. Security Council authorized the 5,550-member force to replace a former Kenya-led multinational force that struggled with a lack of funds and resources as it tried to help Haiti’s National Police quell gang violence.

The gang suppression force has more than 2,000 troops on the ground in Haiti, including soldiers from Chad, Jamaica and Guatemala.

“The force is making a difference with what it has,” Christofides said, adding that authorities have started to see early signs of reduced gang influence and control in certain areas.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Salvadoran troops. It comes as Haiti prepares for its first general election in more than a decade and showcases the power of the gangs that control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince.

Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, said at Monday’s meeting that electoral preparations “have reached an unprecedented level of progress.”

He said that more than 35 parties and political groups have registered, along with 3,500 candidates. Among them is former Haitian President Michel Martelly, who was sanctioned in November 2022 by Canada and in August 2024 by the U.S., which accused him of facilitating drug trafficking and sponsoring multiple gangs.