The incident happened Sunday evening in the area of the 1000 block of Southwest Third Avenue, according to Hallandale Beach police.

Police said the suspect entered the home through a rear window. When the family returned, the suspect pointed a gun at two children, ages 10 and 12, before fleeing the home.

Video captures the children crying as the suspect runs away.

Police later arrested Rashad Randzell Corouthers, 36, whom investigators said was tracked down using a GPS monitor he was wearing.

Authorities said Corouthers is a convicted felon who was prohibited from possessing a firearm.

“The idea that a man sick could point a gun at a child is horrifying,” Hallandale Beach resident Eve Mart said. “You gotta be a sick individual.”

Jail records show Corouthers is facing one count each of home invasion with a firearm or deadly weapon. He is also facing two counts of aggravated assault wit a deadly weapon without intent to kill in an unrelated case.

As of Wednesday, he was being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.

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Records show the home, in the 500 block of Valencia Avenue, belonged to Henry Parra, 55, and Adam Hlavaty, 42, who were killed in last Wednesday’s crash along with five other people ― including others with South Florida ties ― in northern Kenya’s Samburu County.

Coral Gables police said the burglary happened sometime between Thursday and Saturday, after the crash.

They identified the burglary suspects as Geybert Alexander Garcia, 40, and Melany Perdomo, 24, who live together near the unincorporated Palm Springs North area of northwest Miami-Dade.

According to investigators, the pair “ransacked the residence and removed numerous items belonging to the decedent such as personal and business documents, jewelry, electronics, and artwork.”

They also stole the couple’s 2023 Land Rover and 2020 Porsche Taycan, an arrest report states. The report mentions the crash, but doesn’t state whether or how investigators believe that Garcia and Perdomo became aware of the couple’s deaths before the burglary.

Police said Parra and Hlavaty’s housekeeper discovered the heist on Sunday.

Authorities said a ping from the couple’s stolen MacBook, along with vehicle location from the stolen Range Rover, placed the stolen items at Garcia and Perdomo’s home in the 8300 block of Northwest 195th Terrace.

According to the report, after confirming the cars were parked outside of the home, Coral Gables police and Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies executed a search warrant there on Tuesday.

Investigators said Garcia hid in a closet while officers found Perdomo in an upstairs bedroom.

During the search, “officers located and identified numerous stolen documents” belonging to the couple, as well as the key fob to the Range Rover, the arrest report states.

“Additionally, several valuable pieces of artwork were recovered from inside the residence, including an art sculpture belonging to the victims and valued in excess of approximately $500,000,” it states. “Officers also located several items and instruments consistent with the production and/or alteration of fraudulent identification documents and personal identifying information.”

Additionally, investigators said they found a Ford F-250 with an altered VIN that turned out to be stolen out of Indian River County.

Jail records show Garcia and Perdomo were each arrested on multiple felony charges, including burglary and grand theft auto.

In court on Wednesday, Garcia’s attorney, Paul Basile, presented a document to the court stating that it had been signed and notarized and that granted Garcia “permission to have possession of those vehicles and to enter the premises.”

Lauren Bailey, a family friend of the victims, was also in court however, and said that can’t be true.

“There is no way that they could possibly have signed that document,” Bailey said. “They were not in the country, first of all. Secondly, they would have never done so. They had other people. They have a live-in maid that comes to the house every day. There would be no need to do such a thing.”

She continued, “The house was damaged; it was broken into. The door was destroyed. They ripped off the camera, which we’ve given the prosecutor the photos of that. His family came from Indiana and came home to a house that had been broken into and their things stolen, and they don’t feel comfortable if you let this person go.”

Prosecutor Nessa Eth asked Coral Gables Police Department Detective Wilfredo Diaz whether he believed the paperwork was legitimate.

“No,” Diaz testified. “I believe it is a fraudulent document.”

Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer also appeared to be skeptical about the document’s validity, especially considering that Garcia has a history of arrests in the county, and ordered that both he and Perdomo be held without bond.

Perdomo, despite being listed in her arrest report as being born in Florida, was also detained on an immigration hold, jail records show.

Fourth District Judge Steven Hippler, who sentenced Kohberger to life in prison without parole after Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders last year, set out the guidelines for how the case will proceed in a written order Wednesday morning.

The judge did not grant Kohberger a hearing on his claims that his guilty plea should be withdrawn. Instead, Hippler scheduled in a date for next June in case he determines an evidentiary hearing is warranted.

Kohberger, 31, is serving four consecutive life sentences for the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen in a rental home near the Moscow, Idaho, campus in 2022. In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

Kohberger filed a handwritten petition last month asking the court to let him take back his plea, saying his attorneys manipulated him into making the deal by promising him better prison conditions and scaring him about the quality of life on death row.

Kohberger offered only a few details in elaboration, saying they failed to disclose or review evidence that might have helped his case during plea discussions. Kohberger has since been appointed a new attorney, Greg Rauch, who said he couldn't immediately comment on the case.

In Wednesday's order, Hippler told prosecutors and Kohberger's attorney that they must “strictly adhere” to the Idaho Rules of Court Procedure, particularly the sections detailing what evidence is admissible in court. The judge also detailed how both sides should object to evidence that they feel is not admissible.

Anyone who doesn't comply with the court's order could be subject to sanctions, Hippler wrote.

Hippler said both sides should disclose any potential witnesses, including experts, by the start of February. He also set a status conference for next June.

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Torrasha Monique Smith was previously arrested in January 2024 for operating an unlicensed post-surgery ALF located at 18132 NW 91st Court in Miami-Dade County, and then again in June 2025 for opening another facility at 21480 SW 132nd Court.

In January, deputies said they received an anonymous tip regarding an illegal recovery house for post-surgery patients was being run by Smith.

Investigators discovered it was at the same 132nd Court location that deputies had previously encountered, determining that Smith never ceased operations despite her previous arrest.

According to an arrest warrant, patients advised deputies that they had paid Dream Body Retreat via Zelle for the services, and investigators determined that Smith was the sole proprietor of Dream Body Retreat.

Additionally, one of the patients told deputies they had used the facility previously in June 2025, which was after Smith’s arrest in May of that year after she was ordered to close the facility, according to official documents.

Authorities said they ultimately discovered that Smith ran the facility for 274 days after being issued a Notice of Unlicensed Activity on April 30, 2025, and during that time, she accepted Zelle payments exceeding $200,000.

According to investigators, Smith ceased operations at the facility sometime in February, but she continued to book appointments and receive deposits “without any intention of providing services.”

Multiple police reports were filed in Miami-Dade County over the following months from patients who had paid deposits to Dream Body Retreat only to discover the business had been closed, and then were unable to reach Smith when they tried to obtain refunds.

Ultimately, a warrant was issued for Smith’s arrest on July 20 after an attorney representing Smith told authorities he couldn’t advise as to when she would surrender herself.

According to an arrest form, Smith was taken into custody on Tuesday at the Harris County Jail Facility in Houston.

Officials did not indicate why she was arrested in Texas or how she was apprehended, but she has since been brought back to South Florida.

Smith is facing three charges of grand theft, a charge of organized fraud of $50,000 or more, and 274 charges of failure to cease operations of an assisted living facility.

As of Wednesday afternoon, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Official documents indicate that Smith was already out on felony bond at the time of her arrest for charges stemming from the illegal disposal of hazardous, biomedical waste.

“We can’t have people coming in and just manufacturing support for these projects,” Winker said.

Winker is accusing some people who claimed to be residents of lying to the commission in support of the development project.

“I was floored,” said Commissioner Melissa Castro. “I couldn’t even believe that was happening, especially in my city. I was in disbelief. Not only that, I really want to find out who is behind this, and paid for it.”

Coral Gables resident Omar Packard noticed that some of the people who were speaking in support of the development were seemingly struggling to pronounce the addresses that they were claiming to live at.

“We started noticing these people, that they seemed to need to look at their cell phone to recite their addresses,” he said. “And I found a lot of them didn’t even exist or were commercial buildings.”

It turned into a fact finding quest by Packard to find out if they actually life where they claimed to.

“Every single address that we checked was fraudulent,” said Winker.

Added Bolton: “This is a conspiracy to defraud not just me and the Garden of our Lord, but all of the residents of Coral Gables.”

Packard presented his findings to Bolton, who then shared them with Winker.

He outlined the findings for the commission, asking for a deferral.

“The law is clear, you can’t take an oath and say something that’s false,” he said. “That’s a crime.”

Instead, the commission opted to move forward with the development project, approving it with a 3-1 vote.

“I voted no. I don’t believe that vote should have taken place that day,” said Castro. “I believe that really messed with the integrity of the record. Because if there was false testimony, what else was false? Now it’s questionable.”

The commission also unanimously passed a motion moved by Mayor Vince Lago and seconded Castro.

“They showed up here and lied to the commission, saying they are residents of the city,” he said. “I want to make sure that goes to the necessary authorities, whether that is (Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine) Fernandez Rundle, whether it is the ethics commission, locally or the state.”

A spokesperson for the city said the Coral Gables Police Department will investigate some of the claims that were raised.

“And hopefully we’ll see what happens and we’ll see what the state attorney has to say about this, what FDLE has to say about this,” said Winker. “Because I think that it’s so fundamental to our democracy, right? We can’t have people just coming in and lying in official proceedings.”

Local 10 News received a statement from the developer, which read:

We were surprised and deeply disappointed by the actions alleged by Mr. Winker. They do not reflect who we are or how we operate.

For 40 years, Fifield has built its reputation on trust and true partnership with the communities we serve. This project is no exception.

At the heart of it is a promise to Crystal Academy and its students: a permanent, rent-free home for the next 99 years. We remain fully committed to fulfilling it, and to full transparency with the City Commission and the Coral Gables community as this process moves forward.

Fifield spokesperson

City of Coral Gables official statement:

To clarify, the City Commission did not vote to open a criminal investigation by the Coral Gables Police Department. The Commission requested that the Police Department investigate the claims of one of the parties and refer any appropriate allegations regarding the speakers’ addresses to the appropriate authorities for review. The Coral Gables Police Department will investigate some of the claims that were raised.

Because the matter is being referred for review, the city cannot speculate as to whether a law may have been violated or characterize the allegations as fraud, perjury or another potential offense. Those are matters for the appropriate authorities to determine.

The Commission separately approved the various related items by a 3-1 vote. Commissioner Ariel Fernandez did not attend the meeting.

The Commission’s land-use decision was based on the competent substantial evidence in the record; therefore, the referral of the separate allegations does not prevent the items from moving forward.

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To see Winker’s full presentation to the city commission, click here.

The NFL and the NFLPA said in a statement that they have agreed to place a greater emphasis on five health and safety rules violations: the hip drop tackle; horse collar tackle; launching; hit on a defenseless player; and blindside block.

The goal is to make the game safer by focusing discipline on the infractions most likely to leave players injured.

“There are some player safety fouls that really put the defender and his opponent at really high risk,” said Troy Vincent, NFL executive vice president of football operations.

“We don’t like to remove people from the team or the roster,” he added. "But we’ve had to put some measures in place to hold the player to greater accountability for himself and for his opponent.”

NFL players voted on the changes at a Board of Player Representatives meeting Tuesday and owners were briefed on the new safety rules violations standards during a meeting Wednesday in Atlanta.

The violations in those categories will carry forward into subsequent seasons but the league and union said all players will start the upcoming season with a clean slate.

Players who commit only one violation will receive 50% of their fine back at the end of the season.

Coaches will also be required to join players in meetings with the NFL to review video of the violations when a player has accumulated two infractions and is on the threshold of a suspension.

Clubs with excessive health and safety rules violations will face increased financial penalties.

Former Carolina Panthers and Washington Commanders coach Ron Rivera, who also played nine seasons in the NFL, will join the group of former players who oversee the on-field discipline appeal hearings.

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Tua Tagovailoa is returning to Hard Rock Stadium.

The former Dolphins starting quarterback is set to face his former team for the first time Friday night when Miami hosts the Atlanta Falcons in the preseason finale.

There are still plenty of good feelings toward Tagovailoa from his former teammates, including Dolphins EDGE Chop Robinson. But that doesn’t mean Robinson plans to take it easy on his former locker mate.

“It’s going to be fun,” Robinson said. “Especially since, you know, in practice we couldn’t hit him. But now it’s game time, and I’ll be able to hit him. I hope I get close to him.”

Robinson has plenty of fond memories of Tagovailoa, and the two grew closer during Tagovailoa’s final months in Miami.

“He was my locker mate my last year,” Robinson said. “Honestly, I feel like getting to know him, talk to him every day, just after practice, before practice. He was asking about my family and stuff like that. So really a great dude, and I miss him.”

Tagovailoa’s first season in Atlanta has been a struggle. One NFL insider said his performance has made it difficult for the Falcons to name him their Week 1 starter.

Tagovailoa also admitted it was “hard” seeing his time in Miami come to an end.

“You can try to trick yourself into thinking it’s not as hard as what you’re thinking, but it’s hard to go through something like that,” Tagovailoa said.

Robinson said Friday’s game will be personal, as any matchup against a former team would be.

“But at the end of the day, when the game is over, when the clock hits zero, it’s all love,” he added. “That’s still my brother.”

Dolphins backup quarterback Quinn Ewers also referred to Tagovailoa as his “brother” and said he doesn’t expect the reunion to be awkward because Tagovailoa helped him a lot last season.

For Tagovailoa, the return to Miami will be a chance to face the team and city where his NFL career began.

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Her name is etched on the city’s Walk of Fame, which sits right outside the Country Music Hall of Fame.

It wasn’t long ago when the hall opened a new exhibit showcasing her amazing career.

The gate to Parton’s Brentwood home was full of flowers and notes that people have left over the past day.

Fans also were seen at Dollywood, showing up and paying tribute in different ways, with the theme park opening the day after her passing, saying the show must go on as Parton would have wanted.

Just a few blocks away is the Songteller Hotel, one of Parton’s latest projects that is still under construction.

Outside, there were flowers and a note that said, “I hope life treats you well.”

Parton was a legend on stage, screen and in the community.

She was a girl from east Tennessee who lived a life that has left a lasting impact on the entire world.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ruled that prosecutors failed to properly explain their motivations for seeking the dismissal of Bannon's indictment. However, the judge said the government is free to renew its request in a manner that follows the law.

Nichols ruled several months after the U.S. Supreme Court — at prosecutors' request — threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Capitol riot.

In a February court filing, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her Washington-based office determined “in its prosecutorial discretion” that dismissing Bannon's criminal case is “in the interests of justice.” Pirro, a Trump appointee, didn't elaborate.

Dismissing the case would be largely symbolic. Bannon already served a four-month prison term after a jury convicted him of contempt of Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction before the Supreme Court overruled its decision.

Trump, a Republican, appointed Nichols to the bench during his first term in the White House.

Los Angeles County Judge John Lonergan Jr. sent Jeanine John Taele, 38, to a mental health court in Hollywood based on statements he made in a pretrial evaluation indicating he wasn't mentally fit to stand trial. In the evaluation, Taele falsely insisted he had been a State Department official for 14 years.

When Taele was arrested earlier this month, he was seen wearing an earpiece and taking pictures of the golf course where Trump was scheduled to attend a Republican National Committee dinner. The event was at Trump National Golf Course Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, just south of LA.

A search of his pickup truck in the golf course parking lot at the time turned up a loaded 9mm pistol, binoculars and a badge that read “security protection agent,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles.

Lonergan expressed particular concern over the 200 pages of Taele’s writings that investigators found following his arrest. The writings included schedules for first lady Melania Trump and members of the president’s Secret Service, as well as detailed lists for surviving “off the grid.” The judge did not say whether the writings included any specific political motives or ideologies.

“This case itself is alarming in this day and age with the violence that is creeping into our everyday lives, especially with our partisanship in the political environment" ahead of the midterms, Lonergan said.

The judge also cited a previous arrest in November 2025 at an AT&T store where Taele accused an employee of spying on him with Meta Glasses, stole the glasses, and was found muttering to himself in the parking lot. He was charged with second-degree robbery following that incident.

Taele was charged with several felonies including possession of a short-barreled rifle or shotgun and receiving a large-capacity magazine. He was also charged with carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, a misdemeanor.

Taele appeared in the Torrance, California, courtroom Wednesday, weeks after his Aug. 5 arrest, wearing a vest designed to prevent self-harm or suicide attempts. Nearly a dozen family members and friends tearfully watched from the courtroom.

Lonergan declined to set bail for Taele, who will remain in jail until a Sept. 9 hearing at the Hollywood Mental Health Court.

Taele's attorney, public defender A.J. Bayne, said it was too early to tell whether Taele's mental health would play a role in his legal defense.

“He's a veteran, he served our country, and I don't know enough right now, but he has a family that loves him, that has huge support for him,” Bayne said, adding that “people assume too much" about Taele's motives on the day he was arrested at the golf course.

Taele is a decorated U.S. Marine who served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2008 and 2016, according to a Marine Corps spokesperson. He was a corporal who received countless accolades, including two Marine Corps Good Conduct Medals, a Navy Unit Commendation, a National Defense Service Medal, and a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.

The game wasn't played in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that was the only pause in the postseason event.

“It's OK to be the first league to walk away from a competitive all-star game,” NFL executive vice president Peter O'Reilly said at the owners' meeting in Atlanta.

The league said 88 players will still be named as Pro Bowlers and honored in Los Angeles after this season. Several flag football events also will take place at that time.

“The Pro Bowl has always been about recognizing the players who distinguish themselves as the very best in the NFL,” O’Reilly said in a statement. “A Pro Bowl selection will return to its original purpose, honoring the best of the best. We want that distinction to carry even greater meaning for the players, their families, their clubs and our fans.”

O'Reilly said the decision was “a shift from the game to the honor.”

Troy Vincent, the league's executive vice president of football operations, said he heard from players that they “don't want competitive play” after the playoffs.

“You come off the championship games and the viewers see the physicality of the game and you try to replicate that,” Vincent said. “Frankly, it just doesn't sit well. This isn't a good representation.”

The Pro Bowl has waned in popularity in recent years. Once a staple in Honolulu, the NFL has moved the event to various cities and even switched from tackle to flag football in 2023.

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The ruling on Wednesday followed a three-day trial involving council members Kassandra Timothe, Mary Estime-Irvin and Pierre Frantz-Charles.

The lawsuit, filed in June 2024 by North Miami resident Eileen Bicaba, accused the council members of privately coordinating city business outside a public meeting in an effort to remove former City Manager Rasha Cameau.

The Sunshine Law generally requires certain government business to be discussed in public and prohibits elected officials from privately conducting public business outside properly noticed meetings.

During the trial, Timothe was questioned about whether she had discussed a motion to terminate Cameau with an attorney before bringing it before the council.

“I don’t recall,” Timothe said while testifying.

She also denied having the three votes needed to pass the motion before the meeting.

“You are asking me if I had three votes prior to the meeting. No,” she said.

Bicaba alleged the council members also interfered with Cameau’s management of city employees.

“We are alleging that they interfered with her ability to manage employees,” Bicaba said, adding that Cameau wanted to discipline the head of the public works department and that the council members tried to intervene through third parties.

The judge ultimately declined to find a Sunshine Law violation, saying there was not enough evidence.

The judge did, however, find a violation of Section 19 of the North Miami city charter. According to attorney David Reiner, the judge determined the council members conveyed a threat to Cameau that she would be terminated.

A violation of the city charter is a misdemeanor. Whether the matter will lead to additional legal action is up to the plaintiff, and there was no immediate word on whether she plans to pursue it.

Williams, 27, was there as an inmate after Miramar police accused him of attacking his fiancee at their apartment along Southwest 45th Court, near Red Road.

He had nothing to say as Local 10 News asked him about the charges.

According to an arrest report, the victim was dropped off to their apartment by a male friend. She told police Williams was upset once she got home, called her names and hit her, causing her to fall down the stairs.

The arrest report goes on to say that Williams was on top of her and punched her in the face and as the victim turned over to protect her face, he punched the back of her head and pulled her hair.

Police said the victim told officers that Williams put his right hand under her neck and tightened his grasp, then lifted her off of the ground by her neck.

According to the report, the victim fought back, telling police Williams threatened to kill her and she reached into her purse for her gun.

They struggled for the weapon before Williams snatched it from her and took off, authorities said.

A judge ordered him to have “no firearms, weapons, or ammunition” and to not return “to any place the victim lives, works, or frequents.”

He was arrested on Monday and faced a bond court judge on Tuesday.

Williams has been on unpaid leave since his arrest.

The handyman and father of a U.S. Navy sailor was released from ICE custody after being arrested over the weekend by the U.S. Border Patrol agents.

“I can’t say nothing bad, because I say thank you for giving me freedom to come back to my home,” Aviles said.

Federal authorities told Local 10 News that Aviles entered the United States illegally from Nicaragua nearly 20 years ago and that his son’s military service has no bearing on his status.

Aviles was asked Wednesday about his arrival those years back, but he declined to give details.

“I got very scared,” he said. “I don’t want to remember that situation.”

His arrest came in the midst of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Border Patrol agents, as well as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, are targeting convicted criminals in operations around South Florida.

But federal authorities are also arresting those without legal immigration status, who are subject to deportation in the eyes of the government.

Aviles’ case garnered national attention after his son Josh, who in his ninth month onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, made an outcry on social media.

Aviles says he has pending paperwork, and the process doesn’t deter him.

“I’m waiting for everything,” he said. “I believe in this country. I believe that everything is good. It’s good. I believe in the people of the United States too. I have a lot of friends I say thank you for taking care of my family.”

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A criminal complaint filed earlier in August reveals a $20 million criminal enterprise operating in South Florida.

The 29-page complaint says the FBI began investigating “money mule networks” last year.

Federal agents identified a group called the Honeybun Boyz.

The complaint describes the group as a major metropolitan criminal enterprise made up of financial fraudsters who flaunt $100,000 bankrolls tied to account takeovers that target vulnerable victims.

The term “honeybun” in certain circles means $100,000, a term also used by music artists like Pop Smoke.

The three-tiered network is made up of controllers, the bosses, handlers and mules who move the money.

Federal agents identified as many as 30 victims in South Florida, many of them elderly, including a widow who was convinced to withdraw $95,000 in cash.

The report says businesses were defrauded too. One victim was told the bank had a security breach.

Through a phishing link, fraudsters allegedly obtained the victim’s login information for an American business bank, and a fraudulent wire transfer for $82,000 was initiated, according to investigators.

They said the fraudsters used phishing links, fake bank phone calls and stolen banking information to get the cash.

A conplaint obtained by Local 10 News on Wednesday lists luxury purchases the suspects allegedly made in April, with thousands spent on high-end goods at Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton and a high-end Miami watch store.

Two of the suspects are accused of using the money to purchase a home in Miami Lakes worth close to $1 million.

Twelve defendants are listed in the complaint. They face charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The report says Honeybun Boyz groups have also been identified in other major cities, including Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York.

Una denuncia penal presentada a principios de agosto revela una empresa criminal de $20 millones USD que operaba en el sur de Florida.

La denuncia de 29 páginas dice que el FBI comenzó a investigar “redes de mulas de dinero” el año pasado.

Agentes federales identificaron a un grupo llamado Honeybun Boyz.

La denuncia describe al grupo como una importante empresa criminal metropolitana compuesta por estafadores financieros que presumen de fondos de $100,000 USD vinculados a apropiaciones de cuentas que tienen como objetivo a víctimas vulnerables.

El término “honeybun” en ciertos círculos significa $100,000 USD, un término también utilizado por artistas musicales como Pop Smoke.

La red de tres niveles está compuesta por controladores, los jefes, manejadores y mulas que mueven el dinero.

Agentes federales identificaron hasta 30 víctimas en el sur de Florida, muchas de ellas de edad avanzada, incluida una viuda que fue convencida de retirar $95,000 USD en efectivo.

El informe dice que empresas también fueron defraudadas. A una víctima le dijeron que el banco había sufrido una brecha de seguridad.

A través de un enlace de phishing, los estafadores presuntamente obtuvieron la información de inicio de sesión de la víctima para un banco comercial estadounidense, y se inició una transferencia bancaria fraudulenta por $82,000 USD, según los investigadores.

Dijeron que los estafadores utilizaron enlaces de phishing, llamadas telefónicas bancarias falsas e información bancaria robada para obtener el dinero en efectivo.

Una denuncia obtenida por Local 10 News el miércoles enumera compras de lujo que los sospechosos presuntamente realizaron en abril, con miles de dólares gastados en artículos de alta gama en Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton y una tienda de relojes de lujo de Miami.

Dos de los sospechosos están acusados de utilizar el dinero para comprar una casa en Miami Lakes valorada en cerca de $1 millón USD.

Doce acusados aparecen en la denuncia. Enfrentan cargos de conspiración para cometer fraude bancario y conspiración para cometer lavado de dinero.

El informe dice que grupos de Honeybun Boyz también han sido identificados en otras ciudades importantes, incluidas Los Ángeles, Atlanta y Nueva York.

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Jail records show Orlando Armin Villasmil Noriega, 37, was arrested Tuesday by the Hallandale Beach Police Department.

Police said Noriega worked as a manager at the South Florida chain’s location at 4 N. Federal Highway.

According to an arrest report, he was responsible for depositing the previous day’s cash revenue at a nearby Bank of America when he opened the business each morning.

Police said Noriega opened the restaurant on April 18 and removed deposits containing nearly $9,000 in revenue from the previous two days. Surveillance video showed him leaving the business with the money, according to the report.

The deposits were never received in the business’ Bank of America account, and the bank found no record of Noriega attempting to make the deposits, police said.

They said Noriega was again captured on surveillance video on April 19 removing a deposit bag containing just over $5,000. Police said he was not seen making a deposit at the bank.

From April 23 through April 26, Noriega worked as the closing manager and was responsible for preparing deposits and placing them in the business’ safe for the next day’s opening manager, according to investigators.

Deposits from those days, totaling more than $19,000, were never deposited, police said.

When questioned by police about what happened to the money, a witness told investigators that Noriega said the deposits were made at night, the report states.

Police said making nighttime deposits was not authorized at that Bank of America location and investigators were unable to locate surveillance video showing Noriega making the deposits.

They said Noriega was scheduled to work April 27 but called in sick and told the business he was “terminating his employment” with Flanigan’s. He reportedly said he was moving to North Carolina in May.

According to police, Noriega deprived the business of $33,091.06. The business is now seeking incarceration and restitution.

Records show that Noriega is facing one count of grand theft involving more than $20,000 but less than $100,000. He posted a $10,000 bond and was ordered not to return to any Flanigan’s locations.

As of Wednesday morning, he was no longer listed as an inmate in Broward County jail records.

NFL executive Troy Vincent reiterated the longstanding policy at the league's meetings Wednesday, saying players who go back to college will be ineligible to play in 2026. Vincent said any player who does that would instead become a free agent for the 2027 season.

The comments came one day after the Southeastern and Big Ten conferences banned players who were on NFL rosters from being able to play at their schools. Atlantic Coast and Big 12 conference leaders were also discussing the topic this week.

At least two players who signed with NFL teams as undrafted free agents this offseason were hoping to return to college and play at No. 11 LSU.

Tight end Dae'Quan Wright originally signed with Philadelphia as an undrafted free agent out of Mississippi following the draft. He was waived by the Eagles on Aug. 10 and claimed by Cleveland the following day. He spent about two weeks with the Browns without playing in an exhibition game before being waived on Monday. He cleared waivers Tuesday and now wants to go to LSU to play for his former Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin.

Defensive lineman Zxavian Harris signed with New Orleans in May as an undrafted free agent out of Ole Miss and participated in the offseason program. He was placed on the non-football injury list at the start of training camp in July and was waived Aug. 8. He wasn't claimed by any team and also wants to go back to college to play for Kiffin.

Both players entered the NFL draft because they had used up their four years of eligibility. The NCAA announced a rule change in June allowing players who began college in 2023 or later to have five years to play five years of sports in college.

That rule didn't apply to Wright and Harris, who entered college in 2022 but they are among the players who have sued the NCAA, arguing they’re being deprived of education and potential NIL financial benefits by being excluded from the rule.

Cal football general manager Ron Rivera said Wednesday he hopes the ACC joins the Big Ten and SEC in turning away former pros.

“I think when somebody makes a decision, goes in a certain direction, I think they’ve made their decision,” said Rivera, a former NFL player and coach. “I’m disappointed that people are looking for ways to cheat the system or beat the system.”

In Tennessee, the state's Court of Appeals granted the NCAA’s motion that puts on hold an order that would have given former Vanderbilt player Jalen Washington and 18 other basketball players a fifth year of eligibility.

The ruling gives the NCAA a win in ongoing litigation across the nation in federal and state courts involving college athletes who contend they should get a fifth year of competition under revised NCAA eligibility rules adopted in June.

Washington, who transferred to Tennessee, and the other plaintiffs are now ineligible pending resolution of the NCAA’s appeal of the lower court’s ruling.

Washington was the lead plaintiff in a complaint filed July 6 by the Texas Trial Group seeking the injunction. Others included Chendall Weaver, last at Texas; A.J. Storr of Mississippi; Jason Edwards of Providence; and Daniel Egbuniwe of St. Bonaventure.

The NCAA also has won stays of injunctions in Ohio and New Jersey state courts and in a federal court in Colorado.

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And it is because of that deep devotion that Parton's death has been profoundly personal to rural Sevier County. To the world, Parton was one of the world's best-known country music stars. To her neighbors, she was Tennessee's favorite daughter.

“It hit me hard. It hit me really hard,” said James Gambrell, a former chef at Dollywood, the signature theme park that Parton opened decades ago after seeing families like hers unable to afford to go to Disneyland.

“If it don’t affect you, then something’s wrong,” Gambrell said of Parton's death, adding that he became so close to her family that they adopted him as a kind of nephew.

Mourners flocked to a bronze statue of Dolly in the center of her hometown of Sevierville Tuesday night, exchanging stories and shedding tears. The town is set in the hills of the Smoky Mountains just minutes from Dollywood. Many brought flowers and drawings and other tributes to the late singer.

By Wednesday morning at Dollywood, the scent of cinnamon bread filled the air and long lines formed at a theater featuring biographical stories narrated by Parton. The park is closed Tuesdays, so Wednesday was the first chance for many to visit, including Carla Potts, who flew in from Seattle a few days earlier.

“She just consistently spread joy and hope and light, really” Potts said after entering the park on her first visit.

One of 12 children, Parton grew up in a two-room cabin with no electricity and no running water. In her music, she described life in East Tennessee as “peaceful as a baby’s sigh,” a place where “crickets sing in the fields nearby.” She moved to Nashville shortly after finishing high school, but she once joked to the Knoxville News Sentinel that she may be the “only person that ever left the Smoky Mountains and took them with her.”

It started largely with Dollywood

While the Smoky Mountains had long attracted outdoor enthusiasts to the region, Parton made a strategic decision to become co-owner of the amusement park in Pigeon Forge in 1986 and name it Dollywood. The park quickly became Tennessee’s most visited tourist attraction, with Parton often opening each new season with a performance and a parade. State officials say Dollywood generates $1.8 billion each year and is the county's largest employer.

“We had Great Smoky Mountains National Park since the '30s, and Gatlinburg was a huge destination for years, but Dollywood helped the county take that next step,” said Amanda Marr, a member of the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce. “Having that business has made such an impact because it’s drawn even more people to the area.”

Parton didn't stop with Dollywood

By the early 1990s, Parton created The Dollywood Foundation with the goal of decreasing the high school drop out rate in Sevier County, which was hovering around 30%.

David Wear, former mayor of Pigeon Forge, said he was in 8th grade when the Buddy Program launched with the promise that students and the buddies they were matched with would receive $500 to help cover college expenses for completing the program.

“If you and your buddy made it through high school, The Dollywood Foundation would give money to those high school graduates,” he said. “I personally got the experience of her charitable giving.”

According to the foundation, dropout rates eventually plummeted to 6% in Sevier County after the program was in place.

Separately, the international phenomenon that is her Imagination Library started as a local initiative to get more children to start reading. To date, kids across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia have received more than 330 million books since the program began.

Still, many folks get choked up the most over her response to a deadly 2016 wildfire. The fire, which began in Great Smoky Mountains National Park before invading nearby Gatlinburg, killed 14 people and caused an estimated $2 billion in losses, including to about 2,500 buildings that were damaged or destroyed.

Parton directed her foundation to distribute funds to displaced families and provided scholarships to students impacted by the fire.

“She single-handedly, through her generosity and raising of money, changed the trajectory of our recovery,” Wear said. “Her star power brought us back.”

Through her work, Parton also helped shatter stereotypes often associated with Appalachian communities, said Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian studies at Eastern Tennessee State University.

“She understood how people viewed the region, but she defied them to hold on to those negative images after talking to her and after encouraging them to travel to the region,” Olson said. “And she did so graciously.”

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Alan Smith, 44, killed his grandmother, his parents, his younger sister and her children before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound just after police arrived, authorities said. Multiple fires were set inside the suburban home on the outskirts of Billings. Smith had lived there before being asked to move out weeks earlier, according to accounts from police and surviving relatives.

“There’s many questions that will come from this investigation,” Yellowstone County Sheriff Kent O’Donnell said during a news conference Wednesday. “Some of those questions we probably won’t ever be able to answer, because all the parties that will have those answers are not here to answer them for us.”

The victims included Owen and Chloe Ireland and their stepsiblings, Landon and Charlotte Ghekiere. Owen, 13, was described by his father as the “perfect big brother” and Chloe’s protector. Landon, 15, planned to get his driver’s license this week. Charlotte, 12, was a lover of nature, particularly insects, said Jennifer Mercer, a neighbor and family friend.

A candlelight vigil was planned Thursday night.

Police had no prior contact with the shooter

The attack happened at the home of Smith's parents: Dana Smith, who was retired from the Air Force and Boeing, and Barb Smith, a retired teacher.

The Smith family was originally from the Seattle area. Brad Ireland, the father of Owen and Chloe, said that after he and Megan Ghekiere divorced six years ago, she moved to Montana with their children. That’s where she met the man who would become her second husband, Adam Ghekiere, who was at work when the shooting occurred.

Her parents soon followed to Billings, buying a house near their daughter, and her brother moved in. Police had not been called to the home before and had no previous contact with Alan Smith, the sheriff said.

Megan Ghekiere, 39, worked in healthcare, Mercer said. The eighth victim was Dana’s mother, Evelyn Smith, 92, who used a wheelchair and lived in a nearby retirement community.

Arriving officers heard shots and saw smoke

Smith showed up in the neighborhood at 5:49 p.m. Sunday, O'Donnell said, and just after 6 p.m., one of the females in the home called 911. He said he couldn't confirm who made it. But Mercer identified the caller as 12-year-old Charlotte, saying she tried to save her family.

The first arriving officers confronted Smith, and he ran back inside. The officers heard gunfire and saw smoke in the home, O'Donnell said. Smith then ran into the backyard and shot himself, authorities said.

The home quickly became engulfed in flames. The neighborhood homes operate on wells, and there were no hydrants required there, so firefighters had to truck in water.

Autopsies are still being conducted, O’Donnell said.

The sheriff said police had recovered weapons from the scene but he did not describe them or say what type of gun or guns Smith used. Investigators had “some idea” of what might have prompted the shooting, but said law enforcement is focused on the crime scene for now, adding, “Some of this is the family's story to tell.”

Brad Ireland described Smith as a “hermit” who spent most of his days on the computer. “There were many red flags and many people spoke out,” he told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “No one listened.”

Alan Smith had attended Eastern Washington University but had been unable to find or hold a job, he said.

Memorial features teddy bears and touching messages

At the mailboxes in the neighborhood, a makeshift memorial has grown with teddy bears, family photos, flowers, balloons and a notebook to leave messages. One classmate wrote they were “sorry that they wouldn’t see them in school this year,” O’Donnell said.

Among the items investigators found in the home were a photo album, largely intact, and a family Bible, almost entirely unscathed, O'Donnell said. Neighbors have offered law enforcement at the scene water and food as they dig through the wreckage of the fire.

“There are rays of good and sunshine that come through this,” O’Donnell said.

Billings Mayor Mike Nelson said it would be hard to find someone in the city of 120,000 who did not have some connection to the victims or feel an impact from their deaths.

“There was shock at first and now there are people who are deeply upset, and they should be. There are people who are angry, and that's OK too,” he said. “We'll come together and we'll support the family.”

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Johnson reported from Seattle, Schuettler from Phoenix. Associated Press writer Michael Biesecker in Washington, D.C., contributed.

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The deal cut short a landmark trial in federal court in Oakland, California, where the Instagram and Facebook parent company was fighting claims that it deliberately designed features that get children addicted. The agreement calls for Meta to pay out up to $18 billion and make a changes to how their platforms are operated, with new guardrails for kid safety.

It is one of many courtrooms around the country where Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube have been defending themselves against allegations their platforms have negatively impacted children’s mental health or otherwise hurt them.

Here is a look at some of the biggest cases against social media companies.

California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey's joint case

The settlement hit during the second week of what was expected to be a six-week trial in Oakland, with testimony from witnesses that would have likely included Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

It featured four states as plaintiffs: California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey. They were among dozens of states that filed a lawsuit three years ago targeting Meta’s design features and the subsequent harm to children on its platforms. The other 25 states were expecting to have trials later, but the settlement also stops those from going forward.

The states were seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total billions of dollars, plus changes to how the company operates Facebook and Instagram.

Tennessee argued Instagram harms kids’ mental health

The settlement also resolved a trial that was underway in Tennessee against Meta.

The Tennessee attorney general’s office was a part of the multistate investigation into social media companies that resulted in the 2023 filing against Meta by dozens of states, but opted to file in its own local court.

“We took Meta to trial because Instagram was hurting kids and misleading parents. Now we’re ending the trial with a settlement that imposes unprecedented protections for kids and delivers record-setting money for Tennessee’s Children’s Digital Protection Fund,” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said.

Skrmetti, and several other attorneys general, said the settlement addressed Meta's role in an “industrywide problem" and implored other social platforms to follow suit in implementing similar safety measures.

New Mexico's case resulted in hefty fine, outlined changes to Meta platforms

New Mexico was not among the 48 states involved in the settlement because it already won a court case against Meta.

The state argued the company knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms. A jury sided with the state in March, finding there were thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million.

In early August, the judge in the case ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of the trial. The judge also outlined new safety measures he ordered as a part of the ruling, including a time limit of 90 hours per month for users under 18, AI chatbot restrictions, and mandatory warnings on the platforms. Meta has said it disagrees with the verdict.

The other state that did not join the settlement was Florida, where the attorney general said the settlement was not tough enough on Meta.

School districts across the country have sued social media companies

Hundreds of school districts in the U.S. have filed lawsuits against the major social media companies seeking compensation for costs they say they incurred dealing with harms to children’s mental health from social media addiction.

A lawsuit brought by a small, rural Kentucky school district was set to go to trial this summer in federal court in California, but defendants Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube each settled before the trial began.

The Kentucky case was also selected as a bellwether out of 1,200 similar cases. The plaintiffs’ attorneys said in a statement that their “focus remains on pursuing justice for the remaining 1,200 school districts who have filed cases.”

Jury in Los Angeles trial found Meta, YouTube liable for harms

Earlier this year, a jury found Meta and YouTube liable in a case that centered on social media addiction and claims the companies designed their platforms to hook young users without concern for their well-being.

The plaintiff, known by her initials KGM, testified at trial that she became addicted to social media as a child and that it exacerbated her mental health struggles. After more than 40 hours of deliberations, a majority of jurors agreed and awarded $6 million in total damages.

It was a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that was randomly selected as a bellwether trial, or a test case for both sides to see how their arguments play out before a jury, and thus could influence the outcome of similar lawsuits.

TikTok and Snapchat were named as defendants in the lawsuit, but settled before the trial began. Meta and YouTube have each appealed the verdict.

Individual plaintiffs have filed similar lawsuits

The Los Angeles trial was the first of its kind, but there are thousands of similar lawsuits filed against social media companies by individuals.

Many allege the platforms' design features addicted them to social media, which led to adverse mental health outcomes. But there are also other harms plaintiffs say stemmed from young people's use of social media.

Some lawsuits have been filed by families of children and young adults who died by suicide after problematic use of social media, and families whose kids died from accidental overdoses from drug purchases facilitated by social platforms.

Schwarber drove a 98-mph fastball off Seattle starter Bryan Woo approximately 425 feet into right-center field, a three-run shot that gave the Phillies a 6-0 lead over the Mariners in the second inning.

Schwarber's homer tied a Phillies record for the most 40-plus homer seasons, matching former first baseman Ryan Howard. The 33-year-old Schwarber, who hit 56 homers last season, is also tied for the most 40-plus homer seasons among active players with Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees.

Schwarber's 227 homers with Philadelphia are the second-most in a player's first five seasons with a club. He trails only Babe Ruth, who had 235 homers with the New York Yankees. Schwarber, who spent six years with the Chicago Cubs, has 380 career homers.

Matt Olson (Braves) and Yordan Alvarez (Astros) trail Schwarber in homers with 36 each.

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Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died Tuesday, transcended celebrity in rhinestones and fringe. She was embraced by fans across gender, race and class, embodying a mythology typically inaccessible to even the most influential historical figures.

It’s hard to name a more adored artist — one who could deliver a perfectly timed dirty joke seconds before a folk classic of her own composition. (This is where, if Parton were reading along, a self-deprecating quip would come in — lest anyone forget she was a whip-smart jokester, too.)

Throughout her endeavors, Parton worked to build a better world, while becoming inextricable from the American imagination. It is one of her greatest legacies: to take what you have and help someone with it.

One of the most beloved artists of all time

In 2015, when Parton returned to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Grand Ole Opry announcer Bill Cody introduced her as “the most beloved artist of all time,” quickly amending it to “female artist.” As history has proven, he was correct the first time.

Parton’s legacy starts with the immortality of her music: songwriting as solace, an exercise in creativity and an unwavering ability to write experience into art. Across her career, Parton wrote and performed perennial hits (“Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” “Little Sparrow,” take your pick) and others that took on a life of their own (most famously, “I Will Always Love You,” made immortal by Whitney Houston ).

Parton grew up in poverty, one of 12 kids in East Tennessee’s rural Sevier County, where she started writing songs as a toddler. By 10, she was on the radio and TV in Knoxville, Tennessee. By 13, she had made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry. At 21, she joined “The Porter Wagoner Show,” her star power quickly eclipsing its host.

The accomplishments — and the trials and tribulations that came with them, which she let roll off her shoulders with enviable resiliency — came fast and furious, as they do with once-in-a-lifetime talents. There are the 10 Grammys, the numerous Hall of Fame inductions, and the fact that she revolutionized the world of country music for women alongside Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette, creating a path for crossover artistry. But there are also her Hollywood forays. It’s telling that her first feature film, “9 to 5,” celebrated women in the workplace and messed with their devious bosses.

One of her superpowers was rooted in a kind of irony: Everything about Dolly Parton is truly Dolly Parton or else she wouldn’t partake — down to the false eyelashes and big wigs. She built an economic empire with down-home sensibilities. If authenticity is currency in popular culture, Parton showed the world how it was done.

An honest-to-goodness iconoclast

There’s a moment in her 1983 television special, “Dolly in Concert,” where Parton calls herself “the original punk rocker.” It’s a fitting description: Armed in a uniform of high heels, acrylic nails (the better to write songs with), tight clothes and a big blond beehive, the image of Parton was enough to scandalize. Jokes about her breasts were prevalent for decades; she wielded them like a weapon.

Her first big break came in 1967 with a single, ironically titled “Dumb Blonde.” It’s a clever admonishment of a man who calls a woman stupid. It was fabulously misunderstood and misconstrued, forecasting the wonderful hypocrisy inherent in many public appreciations of Parton: She had full autonomy; make a low-brow pass at her and she’ll have the last laugh. Always.

That spirit was inherent in her business ventures as well. Too poor to travel to Disneyland as a child, Parton opened her Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, amusement park, Dollywood, in 1986. Many thought it was a bad idea; it proved to be her most lucrative business venture. It’s also, crucially, a blessing for the local economy. According to a 2021 study by the Tennessee Aviation System Plan, Dollywood brings in $1.8 billion each year.

A great unifier

Parton’s career kicked off in the transformative ’60s, perfectly aligning with the emergence of the women’s liberation movement. Though she didn’t use the word herself, much of Parton’s career — and in particular, her songwriting — has been viewed as a kind of feminism. Take the early hit, 1968’s “Just Because I’m a Woman.” Parton’s sweet soprano and idiosyncratic tremolo are on full display as she reminds her male partner that he need not judge her for having previous sexual partners because he has done the same. “My mistakes are no worse than yours,” she sings, “Just because I’m a woman.”

Or consider 1970’s “Down from Dover,” a tearjerker about a pregnant teenager abandoned by her family and the child’s father. She gives birth to a stillborn baby, alone, without medical treatment. “I guess in some strange way she knew she’d never have a father’s arms to hold her,” Parton sings. “And dying was her way of telling me he wasn’t coming down from Dover.” It’s evocative then and now.

Still, across political divides, Parton is welcomed with open arms. It may have something to do with the fact that, when it came to capital-P party line, Parton valued apoliticism. During the 2016 presidential election, she said a woman would do a great job in office. When it was viewed as an endorsement of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, she said her words were taken out of context. She never said who she voted for. And she declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom three times, twice from President Donald Trump and once from President Joe Biden so as to not appear biased. As a result, she was beloved by all — even in periods of unmitigated division.

A fantastic philanthropist

With the same resolve she exhibited in her performances, Parton was dedicated to charity work.

In 1988, she launched the Dollywood Foundation, originally designed to combat high school dropout rates. Its early ’90s Buddy Program paired junior high students in Sevier County and gave $500 to each if they both finished high school. In 2016, when wildfires ravaged her native Great Smoky Mountains, the foundation announced it would give $1,000 each month for six months to families who lost their homes. The following year, it was revealed the foundation’s My People Fund helped 900 families with roughly $9 million in the first six months after the fires.

In 1991, she launched a sanctuary for bald eagles that couldn’t survive in the wild; in 2000, she started a college scholarship giving $15,000 to five high school seniors in Sevier County. In 2020, she donated $1 million to COVID-19 research at Vanderbilt University, which helped fund Moderna’s vaccine.

Best known is her Imagination Library, founded in 1995. Parton’s father was illiterate; it inspired her to launch an organization providing books to those without resources. By 2025, she had given away over 200 million books to children in need.

Parton was truly one of one — a generous country music heroine from the small-town South turned global phenomenon.

“I hope I’ll be remembered as somebody that tried to do some good in the world,” she told The Associated Press in 2024. “And left, you know, a few good things behind.”

“Este no es un gabinete en la sombra, es un gabinete en la luz”, indicó Petro en un evento político en Bogotá durante el cual calificó al gobierno del conservador De la Espriella, en el poder desde principios de agosto, de representar la “muerte” y la “oscuridad”.

El nuevo equipo incluye a figuras destacadas del gobierno de Petro (2022-2026) como la excanciller, Yolanda Villavicencio; la exministra de Minas, Irene Vélez; el exministro de Hacienda, Germán Ávila, y el exministro de Trabajo, Antonio Sanguino.

Durante la presentación no se detalló si cada exfuncionario fiscalizará la cartera que antes dirigía, en una propuesta de oposición novedosa en Colombia, aunque aplicada en otros países.

Yann Basset, profesor de Ciencia Política de la Universidad del Rosario, explicó a The Associated Press que el “gabinete a la sombra”, como suele conocerse, es usado en el parlamentarismo, por ejemplo en Reino Unido, donde el gobierno de turno puede “caer por falta de mayoría en el parlamento” y ese equipo que ha estado fiscalizando al Ejecutivo y proponiendo políticas alternativas puede pasar a ser gobierno.

Sin embargo, en el caso de un país presidencialista como Colombia, no se trata de que el gabinete alterno esté listo para sustituir al actual, que fue elegido para cumplir un periodo de cuatro años.

“Es un ejercicio de control político y de preparación para las próximas elecciones”, acotó Basset. “Se está instalando en Colombia un sistema de alternancia entre derecha e izquierda y justamente por esta vocación de poder se hace este gabinete en la sombra”, agregó.

El senador progresista y excandidato presidencial Iván Cepeda, vencido en las urnas por De la Espriella, dijo durante el evento político en Bogotá que el gabinete estará preparado “intelectual, política y técnicamente para asumir, como lo haremos, la responsabilidad de conducir el Estado en el 2030”.

Cepeda indicó que ese equipo trabajará en conjunto con la bancada del Pacto Histórico, —movimiento político liderado por Petro—, que es la más numerosa en el Congreso, aunque no configura la mayoría.

“No solamente señalará lo que está mal, sino que contribuirá a lo que viene en nuestro país”, aseguró Cepeda, quien perdió el balotaje del 21 de junio por un estrecho margen de aproximadamente 250.000 votos.

Petro desconoció la victoria de De la Espriella alegando presunto fraude, pese a que la autoridad electoral declaró los resultados y misiones electorales internacionales no hallaron inconsistencias.

The company reported on Wednesday net income of $59.69 billion, or $2.46 per share, for the May-July period. That compares to net income of $26.42 billion, or $1.08 per share, in the same quarter last year.

Excluding certain items, earnings were $2.22 per share, well above the $2.09 per share consensus forecast by Wall Street analysts, according to FactSet.

Revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to $96.22 billion, surpassing analysts’ average forecast of $92.27 billion.

The Santa Clara, California, company's results have regularly cleared the bar set by analysts in the past three years, often by a wide margin, since Nvidia’s high-end chips emerged as AI’s best building blocks.

Along with higher profit and revenue, however, Nvidia’s operating expenses surged 55% to $8.41 billion.

For the current quarter, Nvidia forecast revenue of about $108 billion. Analysts are forecasting $104.86 billion.

If Nvidia hits its revenue target for the August-October period, it will translate into a roughly 89% increase from last year — an indication that Nvidia’s phenomenal growth rate is still accelerating.

The company said it’s not assuming any data center compute revenue from China in its outlook.

“AI has reached its inflection point. It’s doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue,” said CEO Jensen Huang in a statement.

Nvidia’s data center segment, which includes its AI data centers and factories business, as well as chip demand from hyperscalers — operators of huge cloud-computing data centers such as Amazon, Meta and Google — reported revenue of $89 billion, up more than twofold from a year earlier.

The company’s edge computing segment, which includes chips bringing AI-powered features to computers, game consoles and robotics, among others, posted revenue of $7.2 billion, up 27% from the same period last year.

Despite the stellar results and still-rosy outlook, many investors worry about a jarring comedown after a three-year boom that has seen Nvidia’s market value soar from $400 billion at the end of 2022 to roughly $5.2 trillion now.

While AI has powered stock market gains and U.S. economic growth in recent years, there’s been growing skepticism about whether AI will justify the trillions of dollars that are being spent to develop the technology.

The AI industry is also increasingly facing pushback amid objections to the expansion in data centers and fears that the speed with which AI is being adopted could lead to widespread job losses for many Americans.

Nvidia’s shares slipped 0.3% in after-hours trading shortly after it released its latest results. The stock ended the regular trading session 1.6% lower and is up 12.4% so far this year.

Según un reporte de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el accidente ocurrió alrededor de las 7:30 p.m. del 24 de junio en una casa ubicada en la cuadra 2900 de Southwest 57th Avenue, en el área no incorporada de Coral Terrace.

El reporte de MDSO señala que Allen Matis, de 67 años, de Coral Gables, conducía un Cadillac Lyriq por Palermo Avenue cuando no respetó una señal de alto y estrelló la camioneta SUV contra la casa, atravesando la pared y golpeando a Henri Bezy mientras dormía en el interior.

Bezy “quedó atrapado debajo del vehículo” y equipos de Bomberos y Rescate de Miami-Dade lo declararon muerto en la escena, señala el reporte.

Según el reporte, un agente vio a Matis al volante y “observó señales de que estaba bajo los efectos del alcohol”. El reporte señala que los resultados toxicológicos de muestras de sangre tomadas horas después del accidente mostraron que el nivel de alcohol en la sangre de Matis oscilaba entre 0.245% y 0.29%, más de tres veces el límite legal.

Los agentes dijeron que posteriormente obtuvieron datos del vehículo que mostraban que Matis aceleró hasta 43 mph y nunca frenó “durante los segundos previos al accidente”.

Matis fue ingresado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight por cargos de homicidio involuntario por conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol y homicidio vehicular por conducción imprudente. Hasta la tarde del miércoles, su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the crash happened at around 7:30 p.m. on June 24 at a home in the 2900 block of Southwest 57th Avenue, in the unincorporated Coral Terrace area.

The MDSO report states that Allen Matis, 67, of Coral Gables, was driving a Cadillac Lyriq on Palermo Avenue when he ran a stop sign and slammed the SUV into the home, crashing through the wall and hitting Henri Bezy as he slept inside.

Bezy “became trapped underneath (the) vehicle” and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews pronounced him dead at the scene, the report states.

According to the report, a deputy saw Matis behind the wheel and “observed signs of impairment.” It states that toxicology results taken from blood samples hours after the crash showed Matis’ blood alcohol content ranging from 0.245% to 0.29%, more than three times the legal limit.

Deputies said they later obtained vehicle data showing that Matis accelerated to 43 mph and never hit the brakes “during the seconds leading up to the crash.”

Matis was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on charges of DUI manslaughter and reckless vehicular homicide. His bond was listed as “to be set” as of Wednesday afternoon.

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Jail records show Ricindy Seaphin was arrested Tuesday evening by the North Miami Police Department.

North Miami police said officers responded just before 6:45 p.m. to an apartment near the 13000 block of Memorial Highway after receiving a report that a 6-year-old boy had been left unattended.

Police said Seaphin and the boy are stepfather and stepson and previously lived together as a family. They determined Seaphin was responsible for the boy’s care and supervision.

The report states Seaphin picked the boy up from school and drove him to his apartment complex. Police said the boy’s mother had previously told Seaphin that she would not be home.

Police allege Seaphin then “intentionally” dropped the boy off in front of the apartment complex and left without walking him to the apartment or confirming that a responsible adult was there.

They said the boy then walked to the apartment and knocked on the door, but no one answered.

He then left the complex and walked to the Family Dollar at 280 NE 135th St., where he approached people and asked for help and for someone to contact police, according to the report.

The report states that a witness located the boy and helped him back to the apartment.

After determining that no one was inside, the witness stayed with the boy, provided him with food and care, and contacted law enforcement, according to the report.

Police said Seaphin later arrived at the scene, and he was read his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with officers.

According to the arrest report, Seaphin admitted he was “in a rush” and intentionally dropped the boy off without verifying that anyone was home.

The report states Seaphin also told officers that he normally walks the boy to the apartment door and turns him over to his mother but failed to do so that day.

Seaphin told police he dropped the boy off at about 3:20 p.m. The report states the boy was not found by the witness until approximately 4:15 p.m.

Seaphin was arrested and taken to the North Miami Police Department for processing before being transported to TGK.

Jail records show Seaphin is facing one count of child neglect with no great bodily harm.

As of Wednesday, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Ricindy Seaphin fue arrestado la tarde del martes por el Departamento de Policía de North Miami.

La policía de North Miami dijo que los oficiales respondieron poco antes de las 6:45 p.m. a un apartamento cerca de la cuadra 13000 de Memorial Highway después de recibir un reporte de que un niño de 6 años había sido dejado sin supervisión.

La policía dijo que Seaphin y el niño son padrastro e hijastro y anteriormente vivían juntos como familia. Determinaron que Seaphin era responsable del cuidado y la supervisión del niño.

El reporte señala que Seaphin recogió al niño de la escuela y lo llevó en automóvil a su complejo de apartamentos. La policía dijo que la madre del niño le había dicho previamente a Seaphin que no estaría en casa.

La policía alega que Seaphin luego dejó “intencionalmente” al niño frente al complejo de apartamentos y se marchó sin acompañarlo hasta el apartamento ni confirmar que hubiera un adulto responsable allí.

Dijeron que el niño caminó hasta el apartamento y tocó la puerta, pero nadie respondió.

Luego salió del complejo y caminó hasta el Family Dollar ubicado en 280 NE 135th St., donde se acercó a varias personas y pidió ayuda y que alguien contactara a la policía, según el reporte.

El reporte señala que un testigo encontró al niño y lo ayudó a regresar al apartamento.

Después de determinar que no había nadie dentro, el testigo se quedó con el niño, le proporcionó comida y cuidados y contactó a las autoridades, según el reporte.

La policía dijo que Seaphin llegó posteriormente a la escena, donde le leyeron sus derechos Miranda y aceptó hablar con los oficiales.

Según el reporte de arresto, Seaphin admitió que “tenía prisa” y dejó intencionalmente al niño sin verificar que hubiera alguien en casa.

El reporte señala que Seaphin también dijo a los oficiales que normalmente acompaña al niño hasta la puerta del apartamento y lo entrega a su madre, pero que ese día no lo hizo.

Seaphin dijo a la policía que dejó al niño alrededor de las 3:20 p.m. El reporte señala que el testigo no encontró al niño hasta aproximadamente las 4:15 p.m.

Seaphin fue arrestado y llevado al Departamento de Policía de North Miami para ser procesado antes de ser trasladado a TGK.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Seaphin enfrenta un cargo de negligencia infantil sin lesiones corporales graves.

Hasta el miércoles, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

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The proposed deal called for five years of probation with no jail time in exchange for a guilty plea. But the judge denied the deal after the victim said five years of probation was not enough.

According to police, a Miami Southridge Senior High School student told investigators Infante made inappropriate comments to her, including, “If I was only 30 years younger... You’re so beautiful... I’ve been thinking about you... I can’t wait to be with you.”

He is accused of hitting on the student, inappropriately touching her and allegedly kissing her chest. The teen told police she felt afraid.

Infante was charged with four counts of battery and one count of offenses against students by authority figures.

The case will continue. There will either be a new plea deal or a trial.

El acuerdo propuesto contemplaba cinco años de libertad condicional sin tiempo en la cárcel a cambio de declararse culpable. Pero el juez rechazó el acuerdo después de que la víctima dijera que cinco años de libertad condicional no eran suficientes.

Según la policía, una estudiante de Miami Southridge Senior High School dijo a los investigadores que Infante le hizo comentarios inapropiados, entre ellos: “Si tan solo tuviera 30 años menos,  Eres tan hermosa,  He estado pensando en ti,  No puedo esperar para estar contigo”.

Está acusado de insinuarse a la estudiante, tocarla de manera inapropiada y presuntamente besarla en el pecho. La adolescente dijo a la policía que sintió miedo.

Infante fue acusado de cuatro cargos de agresión y un cargo de delitos contra estudiantes cometidos por figuras de autoridad.

El caso continuará. Habrá un nuevo acuerdo de culpabilidad o un juicio.

Los registros muestran que la casa, ubicada en la cuadra 500 de Valencia Avenue, pertenecía a Henry Parra, de 55 años, y Adam Hlavaty, de 42, quienes murieron en el accidente del miércoles pasado junto con otras cinco personas, incluidas otras con vínculos con el sur de Florida, en el condado Samburu, en el norte de Kenia.

La policía de Coral Gables dijo que el robo ocurrió en algún momento entre el jueves y el sábado, después del accidente.

Identificaron a los sospechosos del robo como Geybert Alexander Garcia, de 40 años, y Melany Perdomo, de 24, quienes viven juntos cerca del área no incorporada de Palm Springs North, en el noroeste de Miami-Dade.

Según los investigadores, la pareja “saqueó la residencia y se llevó numerosos artículos pertenecientes al fallecido, como documentos personales y comerciales, joyas, dispositivos electrónicos y obras de arte”.

También robaron el Land Rover 2023 y el Porsche Taycan 2020 de la pareja, señala un reporte de arresto. El reporte menciona el accidente, pero no indica si los investigadores creen que Garcia y Perdomo se enteraron de la muerte de la pareja antes del robo ni cómo pudieron haberse enterado.

La policía dijo que la empleada doméstica de Parra y Hlavaty descubrió el robo el domingo.

Las autoridades dijeron que una señal de la MacBook robada de la pareja, junto con la ubicación del Range Rover robado, situó los artículos sustraídos en la casa de Garcia y Perdomo, en la cuadra 8300 de Northwest 195th Terrace.

Según el reporte, después de confirmar que los vehículos estaban estacionados afuera de la casa, la policía de Coral Gables y agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade ejecutaron una orden de registro allí el martes.

Los investigadores dijeron que Garcia se escondió en un clóset, mientras que los oficiales encontraron a Perdomo en una habitación del piso superior.

Durante el registro, “los oficiales localizaron e identificaron numerosos documentos robados” pertenecientes a la pareja, así como el llavero electrónico del Range Rover, señala el reporte de arresto.

“Además, varias obras de arte valiosas fueron recuperadas del interior de la residencia, incluida una escultura de arte perteneciente a las víctimas y valorada en más de aproximadamente $500,000 USD”, señala el reporte. “Los oficiales también localizaron varios artículos e instrumentos compatibles con la producción y/o alteración de documentos de identificación fraudulentos e información de identificación personal”.

Además, los investigadores dijeron que encontraron una Ford F-250 con un VIN alterado que resultó haber sido robada en el condado Indian River.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Garcia y Perdomo fueron arrestados cada uno por múltiples cargos de delitos graves, incluidos robo y hurto mayor de vehículo.

Ambos permanecían detenidos en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, con las fianzas indicadas como “por determinar” hasta la mañana del miércoles.

Además, Perdomo, a pesar de que su reporte de arresto indica que nació en Florida, tenía una retención de inmigración registrada en su expediente carcelario.

It was not clear how many or what percentage of employees are being laid off. LIV ended its fifth season last week outside Indianapolis, one week earlier than expected.

The staff reduction was not a surprise. LIV Golf learned in April the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia would end financial backing after this season. LIV in July filed a notice under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act that indicated layoffs were likely.

There also was hope that several employees could be hired back depending on LIV securing its agreement with the lead investor and how the new league — LIV 2.0 — might look.

“The funding commitment announced by PIF earlier this year will reach its conclusion. As a result, we are scaling back operations as we transition to the next chapter of LIV Golf and work toward making LIV 2.0 a reality," LIV said in a statement Wednesday.

"This week, we informed many of our colleagues that their employment under LIV 1.0 will end in the first week of September. We are grateful to our employees for their hard work and dedication in building LIV Golf, and we remain committed to supporting those affected through this transition.”

CEO Scott O'Neil announced earlier this month that he had come to terms with a lead investor, which multiple reports have indicated was BC Partners, and they were hopeful of finalizing the deal in September.

LIV Golf had its shortest season since the year it launched in 2022, losing events in New Orleans and the team championship in Michigan, with the team title merged into the Indiana event.

Still to be determined are the futures of its biggest names, starting with Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau. Rahm still is under contract while DeChambeau started the year negotiating for a renewal. That was before Saudi Arabia pulled the plug on the funding when the Iran war led PIF to reshape its investment priorities.

O'Neil has not ruled out filing for bankruptcy as part of the restructuring. LIV already faces two lawsuits for not paying vendors for services.

Tyrrell Hatton, a four-time Ryder Cup player from England who joined LIV in 2024 with Rahm's team, entered the British Masters this week once he learned the team championship in Michigan had been canceled.

He said Wednesday he has “multiple years” on his contract with LIV. Hatton plans to play five of the next seven weeks on the European tour beginning with the British Masters, which starts the qualifying period for the Ryder Cup for Team Europe.

He said he expects LIV Golf to be playing in 2027.

“I know they have worked really hard to getting funding stuff in place. So I know it’s full steam ahead on that front,” Hatton said. He also said he has continued to play the European tour and “I don’t see why that should change for me in the future.”

O'Neil has pitched a 10-tournament schedule for LIV, half of them overseas and half in the United States. Key to that plan is making sure his players can compete anywhere, though his mantra of “Complete, Not Compete” didn't sit well with tours that lost players to big signing bonuses.

The PGA Tour has banned LIV players for at least one year dating to their last LIV appearance. An exception was made for five-time major champion Brooks Koepka, who ended his contract with LIV at the end of 2025 and returned to the PGA Tour under stiff financial penalty.

O'Neil said last week in Indiana the first stage of LIV required big investments.

“This next chapter requires something quite different — commercial discipline,” he said. ”I wasn’t here in the early days, but at least reputationally, it was a bit more free-spending than it will be in the future. We’ve taken a real disciplined look at the cost side of the business."

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The announcement comes as the Trump administration pushes hard to develop the next generation of nuclear power, including billions in loans for large nuclear reactors to meet skyrocketing power demand from data centers and a pilot program to boost advanced reactor designs and projects for military and civilian use. No nuclear microreactors are supplying power to the commercial electric grid in the United States today.

Five companies selected by the Army will be awarded up to $2.2 billion in total over five years to own, construct and operate the microreactors, if they hit set milestones along the way for their performance. The Army expects that more than 20 nuclear microreactors will be built and operated.

Army and industry officials say microreactors offer a resilient power source for critical infrastructure at military installations in case the grid fails. Reactors can run for years without refueling.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said the awards will accelerate the military’s ability “to deliver safe, reliable baseload power directly to our installations. We are building the energy resilience necessary to project combat power globally, without relying on potentially vulnerable external grids,” he said.

The grants are part of the Army's “Janus Program” launched last year to deliver next-generation nuclear energy. Officials hope to push nuclear development forward so that advanced reactor designs move beyond experiments and prototypes to provide power for years to come. This will be the “spear tip,” said Jeff Waksman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment.

“That is the transition that we are trying to effect here,” he said on a call with reporters Wednesday. “These are not meant to be Army-specific designs.”

Critics of building more nuclear reactors say they’re too expensive and riskier than other energy sources. Waksman said these reactors will shut down safely in case of a failure, they're small and the Army wouldn't add them to installations without being certain they are safe. He said the Army is working on a deal with the Energy Department to remove radioactive waste, and there won't be any long-term storage on these installations.

Army leads the military’s adoption of nuclear energy

President Donald Trump signed executive orders in May 2025 to speed up the development of nuclear power. The Army was tasked with ensuring that an advanced reactor would start operating at a domestic military installation no later than Sept. 30, 2028. The Janus program is named for the ancient Roman god of transitions.

Officials know that delivering nuclear power to a military base will be a challenge, so they picked five companies in case one or more fail, Waksman said. The selected companies are: Antares Nuclear at Fort Bragg in North Carolina; BWXT at Fort Campbell in Kentucky; General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems at Fort Hood in Texas; Radiant Industries at Fort Benning in Georgia; and Westinghouse Government Services at Fort Drum in New York.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked the Army to select Fort Drum. The critical missions Fort Drum supports require secure, reliable and resilient power generation, the New York Democrat said.

The reactors will be licensed by the Army, rather than the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which licenses commercial nuclear reactors. The Army is working to align its regulatory processes as much as possible, Waksman said, so that companies won’t need major changes to their designs to be later licensed by the NRC. Along with federal funding, the Army expects billions of dollars in private capital investment.

The military installations will remain connected to the grid. The reactors would not completely power them. Each reactor will provide between 1 megawatt to 20 megawatts of power, depending on the company's design. Major bases use as much power as a small city. Antares and Radiant are planning to deliver their reactors in three-packs, Waksman said.

The Army now uses diesel as a primary backup for critical infrastructure. But in a conflict, Waksman said, the Army may not be able to move fossil fuels easily wherever it needs them.

“That makes nuclear energy just a natural game changer,” he said. “It makes sense for the Army to take the lead here.”

A reactor at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, completed in 1957, was the first nuclear power reactor to provide electricity to a commercial power grid in the United States for an extended period, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Companies say this will accelerate US nuclear development

California-based Antares reached a crucial milestone under the U.S. pilot program that could allow it to produce electricity within a few years. The company said the Army's announcement extends its momentum.

Tori Shivanandan, president and chief operating officer of California-based Radiant, said the Army’s $750 million award “shows confidence in Radiant’s product and ability to manufacture, deploy and safely operate nuclear microreactors for the American military.” The Janus program “will build a stronger and more resilient America,” she said.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems said its reactor is designed to operate in remote, off-grid and extreme environments for 40 years. It said it will draw on more than 70 years of nuclear expertise to provide safe, dependable and independent power for the military.

Rex Geveden, BWXT's president and chief executive officer, said, “As we commence work on the Janus program, we are delivering the nation’s most credible and reliable path to deployable nuclear power.”

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Veder’s family on Wednesday confirmed that the retired Associated Press photojournalist died in his sleep, just eight days shy of his 100th birthday, at his home in El Dorado County, California, outside of Sacramento.

The San Francisco Bay Area native was 46 years old in March 1973 when he was sent to Travis Air Force Base for the arrival of Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm and other war prisoners returning from Vietnam. Veder was in a crowded bullpen jockeying for pictures with dozens of other photographers when, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Stirm’s four children begin to gallop toward their father.

“You could tell, even at a distance, what they were feeling. It was all over them, their faces, the way they all broke into a run. There was a surge of emotion from the crowd, too,” Veder said in a 2015 interview with The Guardian.

Using a makeshift darkroom set up in a women’s bathroom on base, Veder cranked out six images, including “Burst of Joy,” which won the 1974 Pulitzer in feature photography. Veder noted that in the photograph, Stirm has his back to the camera, rendering him an everyman soldier returning to the undeniable joy and excitement on the faces of his children.

The photo became a symbol of the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. But for Stirm, it represented heartbreak as he had been handed a “Dear John” letter from his wife, Loretta, by a chaplain upon his release and the couple divorced a year later. Stirm died in 2025.

Slava J. Veder was born Aug. 30, 1926, in Berkeley, California, to Ivan and Anka Veder, who had left Russia and taken the names John and Ann when they settled in the U.S. He was their only child.

He worked as a sports writer and news editor at several publications and, in 1961, he was hired as a staff photographer by The Associated Press at its Sacramento bureau. Later, he transferred to the San Francisco office, which is where he was based when he took the prize-winning photograph.

“He was a newsman at heart, it wasn’t just a career for him. It was really his passion,” said his daughter, Kathleen Daly. “The AP really was the home for him because they could appreciate what he had to offer.”

Daly, friends and former colleagues remembered Veder as a kind and humble person who loved to ice skate and sail. He mentored younger photographers and always took time to ask the people around him how they were doing that day.

“He was the first Pulitzer Prize winner I ever met, like holy smokes,” said Brad Mangin, a freelance sports photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. “He was just the sweetest man.”

Eric Risberg, a retired AP photographer who worked in San Francisco, said Veder was a great mentor and teacher.

“He really, really emphasized the marriage between pictures and words. He encouraged me to dive deeper, and get more into what’s really the story?” Risberg said.

Among his many assignments, Veder took photographs of the late Ronald Reagan when he was California governor, university campus protests against the war in Vietnam, the bank robbery trial of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, and the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by disgruntled former city supervisor Dan White in 1978.

Veder, who raised five children with his wife, retired from AP in 1993 to the small community of Camino, in El Dorado County.

He is survived by three children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

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Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, on Tuesday announced the official dissolution of the group which for years controlled a de facto autonomous zone that at once point encompassed about 25% of Syria.

The group lost much of the land it had held in a government offensive in January. Its fighters are now being integrated into the official state military and the civilian institutions it controlled are being handed over to the state.

The transition has unfolded more smoothly than many expected, and interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has promised to strengthen the rights of Kurds, who were long marginalized under the rule of the Assad dynasty before he took power.

Many Kurds initially regarded al-Sharaa's government with suspicion. Some of the insurgent groups that took part in the offensive that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad had also clashed with the SDF in the past.

Kurds say they are giving the new system a chance

But Mohammed al Mohammed, a civil society activist in Qamishli, said he has faith in Abdi, who led a yearslong battle against Islamic State militants.

“Our trust is that the general (Abdi) and his team will be able to work for the interest of the Kurdish people and be able to secure our rights,” he said. “Our rights are basic rights - being able to speak in our own language, to live on our land, to be able to manage our land ourselves, and not to be assaulted as Kurds, as it happened during Assad’s regime.”

Eva Sheikh Mousa, from the town of Amuda west of Qamishli, said the SDF as an organization is not important to her as long as Kurdish rights are respected.

“Whoever secures the rights of the Kurds, the right of speaking our own language, working freely in our farms, along with political rights and if we can be active players in the new Syria, that’s what the Kurds are looking for,” she said. ”... It’s not that SDF is gone and so the Kurds are gone too.”

Some were more wary of the changes taking place. Jwan Mohammed, was displaced from the town of Afrin in a 2018 offensive by Turkish forces and allied Syrian opposition fighters. Kurdish civilians as well as SDF fighters were pushed out of areas seized in the offensive, although some of the displaced have now begun to return.

Mohammed said he agrees with integration with the national military but is unhappy to see the SDF end as an organization.

The SDF “made great sacrifices and they fought against the Islamic State,” he said. “Now, they say the name of SDF doesn’t exist any more. It is too much and it is hard.”

Residents of the formerly SDF-controlled area have also been hard hit by price increases since the central government took control and removed fuel subsidies that had formerly been in place. Protests have broken out in recent months over rising prices and deteriorating living conditions.

International community welcomes the move

But the integration of the northeast has given a major boost to al-Sharaa’s government, which has struggled to unify the country as it begins to recover from a nearly 14-year civil war. The announcement of the SDF's disbandment was praised by international players.

French President Emmanuel Macron in a statement Wednesday congratulated Syrian on the “decisive step taken yesterday in the process of the peaceful integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the Syrian state.”

U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack in a post on X, called Abdi’s announcement “absolutely historic” and praised “far-sighted leadership” for “transforming past division into lasting partnership and restoring to the Syrian people the opportunity to shape their common future.”

He touted al-Sharaa's pledge to recognize the Kurdish language in education and the appointment of senior SDF figures including Abdi and Elham Ahmad, who served as the SDF-linked administration’s foreign relations official, to “substantive roles” in the Syrian government. The government has not officially announced the appointments, but local media has reported that Abdi would be appointed as a presidential adviser and Ahmad as a deputy in parliament.

Nechirvan Barzani, president of northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, who had played a mediating role between the SDF and Damascus, welcomed the steps taken to implement the agreement between them and called for “all Kurdish parties and all components of Syrian society to support these steps and contribute to their success.”

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The crash happened just before 2 p.m. in the 17000 block of Northwest 47th Avenue.

Video from Sky 10 shows a vehicle on the sidewalk, crashed into the rear of a pickup truck with MDFR and Miami Gardens police at the scene.

According to MDFR, medics took one adult victim and one of the child victims to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital’s trauma center by ambulance.

The other adult was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, an MDFR spokesperson said.

A spokesperson later said that a second child was also hurt and taken to a local hospital by private ambulance.

One of the victims was trapped and had to be freed from the vehicle, according to MDFR.

Additional details about the victims’ conditions and what led up to the crash weren’t immediately known as of around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell congratulated the family for having “great timing” in purchasing the team that is coming off its second Super Bowl victory in franchise history.

“It’s not very often you can buy a Super Bowl championship team, but you’ve done that,” Goodell said. “Many of our members struggle to find ways to get in the Super Bowl and win a trophy and you’ll be walking into your new building shortly with a fresh, shiny trophy there for you.”

The sales agreement was announced on July 11 and awaited Wednesday's approval at a special owners meeting in Atlanta to become official. The sale was in accordance with the wishes of late team owner Paul Allen.

Vinod Khosla thanked Allen's sister, Jody Allen, and the Allen Trust “for trusting us for this franchise.”

“As Roger said, it’s pretty simple when the team is functioning as well as it is today,” Khosla said. “How often do you get to buy a franchise that just won the Super Bowl? So we are incredibly lucky and humbled by this gift, I would say, from the Allen Trust.”

Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. His current net worth is $13.7 billion, according to Forbes.

The Khosla family will be required to relinquish its ownership stake in the 49ers as part of the deal. Khosla joined the 49ers ownership group as a minority owner in 2025, purchasing 3.1% of the team.

Goodell said the family's experience with the 49ers was attractive to other NFL owners.

“They know our league well,” Goodell said. “As you know, they have been ownership in the NFC West with the San Francisco 49ers. They understand the passion of the NFL, they understand the 12s, they understand this Seattle community and the NFL. And so that makes this transaction particularly attractive to all of us.”

Khosla also paid tribute to the Seattle fans known as the “12s.”

“Having been to Lumen Field and watching the 12s everywhere, I do want to thank them for their passion and fervor,” Khosla said. “And the community in Seattle is incredibly valuable. So we hope we’ll engage a lot more with the community also.”

Khosla's wife, Neeru, said their son, Neal, played a role in the family's interest in buying the team. They attended Wednesday's meeting with Khosla's daughter, Nina.

“He’s been a big fan of sports, and in particular, football,” Neeru said of Neal. “... So he’s the one who actually really pushed us into doing this. He worked really hard, so I’m really proud of him.”

Vinod Khosla, who was born in India, said he was first a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers when he moved to the United States in 1976.

“We’ve been very passionate about football for a long time,” he said. “I would say we’ve been going to home games at the 49ers since (Neal) was 5, maybe half of all home games since he was 5. And so football is definitely a passion. ... I was originally and still am a big Steelers fan. ... Little known fact, but I still watch all the Steelers games, too.”

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El accidente ocurrió poco antes de las 2 p.m. en la cuadra 17000 de Northwest 47th Avenue.

Un video de Sky 10 muestra un vehículo sobre la acera, que chocó contra la parte trasera de una camioneta, con Bomberos y Rescate de Miami-Dade y la policía de Miami Gardens en la escena.

Según Bomberos y Rescate de Miami-Dade, los paramédicos trasladaron en ambulancia a una víctima adulta y a uno de los niños al centro de trauma del HCA Florida Aventura Hospital.

El otro adulto fue trasladado en helicóptero al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital, dijo un portavoz de Bomberos y Rescate de Miami-Dade.

Un portavoz dijo posteriormente que un segundo niño también resultó herido y fue trasladado a un hospital local en una ambulancia privada.

Una de las víctimas quedó atrapada y tuvo que ser liberada del vehículo, según Bomberos y Rescate de Miami-Dade.

Hasta alrededor de las 2:45 p.m. del miércoles, no se conocían de inmediato detalles adicionales sobre el estado de las víctimas ni qué provocó el accidente.

El ministro de Economía, Luis Caputo, informó a periodistas que un monto en pesos equivalente a los 1.300 millones de dólares del Fondo de Garantía de Sustentabilidad (FGS) —administra los recursos del sistema previsional— serán invertidos en plazos fijos de los bancos, que a cambio ofrecerán líneas de crédito para la compra de la primera vivienda.

“En Argentina cuesta desarrollar el crédito hipotecario por nuestra volatilidad histórica de políticas económicas”, sostuvo Caputo, quien detalló que este tipo de crédito equivale actualmente a 2 puntos del PIB.

El anuncio tuvo lugar en momentos en que Milei enfrenta reclamos para atender la situación de seis millones de personas que no pueden afrontar deudas contraídas con bancos y billeteras virtuales, entre otros acreedores, en un contexto de actividad económica dispar y pérdida de poder adquisitivo de los trabajadores registrados.

La línea de créditos hipotecarios beneficiará a entre 17.000 y 18.000 familias que podrán acceder a un máximo equivalente a 200.000 dólares para adquirir su primera vivienda, con tasas de interés que no podrán superar el 7,5%.

El Banco Central ha reportado un crecimiento ininterrumpido de la tasa de morosidad en los últimos 20 meses. En junio, última cifra oficial disponible, el 17,5% del crédito estaba en mora. Préstamos personales y las tarjetas de crédito explican más del 70% del saldo moroso.

El gobierno atribuyó el fenómeno a una “falta de cultura financiera” de los ciudadanos, que cuentan con nuevas fuentes de financiamiento además de los bancos, y se negó a mediar en un asunto “entre privados”.

La semana pasada, un grupo de deudores protagonizó la primera movilización en Buenos Aires para denunciar los planes de refinanciamiento que ofrecen los bancos y demás acreedores con tasas de interés que resultan impagables. Este miércoles, el oficialismo frenó varias iniciativas opositoras en la Cámara de Diputados para declarar la emergencia crediticia.

Caputo aclaró que la tasa de morosidad para créditos hipotecarios es actualmente baja (1,6%) comparada con la del resto de los deudores en mora y aclaró que el Banco Central será el encargado de supervisar a las entidades adheridas al nuevo plan.

Una dosis de justicia social

Milei, un anarco-capitalista que reniega del Estado, manifestó hace un par de días que no va a modificar el rumbo de su plan económico de austeridad con vistas a las elecciones generales de octubre, en las que buscará la reelección, a pesar de que existen temores en los mercados sobre cuánto pesará la caída en los ingresos en el apoyo al gobierno.

“El mercado le asigna una probabilidad muy baja de volver el kirchnerismo —corriente del peronismo de centro-izquierda que gobernó el país entre 2003-2015 y 2019-2023—, entre 5 y 10%. Pero tiene impacto en el riesgo país. Venezuela sería Disneylandia si se diera el escenario ese”, sostuvo Caputo.

El ministro afirmó que el plan anunciado “hace a la justicia social, nada más justo que una persona que tiene trabajo tenga acceso a una vivienda”. La justicia social, paradójicamente, es una bandera del peronismo opositor.

Caputo también destacó que ayudará a reactivar a la industria de la construcción, uno de los sectores con mayor mano de obra y que se fue golpeado por la parálisis de la obra pública dentro del plan de austeridad.

El truco consiste en identificar a los cangrejos verdes europeos invasores que están a punto de desprenderse de su duro caparazón, dejando al descubierto un exterior más blando que tiene la textura de un sofá de cuero y que es popular en los restaurantes. Estos cangrejos verdes no solo se venden a mejor precio —Masi puede obtener 3 dólares por cangrejo en el mercado, frente a tan solo 8 centavos por uno de caparazón duro—, sino que, al capturarlos, también presta una especie de servicio al ecosistema oceánico.

“Casi todo el mundo los odia, y nosotros tratamos de convertirlos en un producto premium de mariscos”, señaló Masi, cuya empresa, shell+claw, es la única que cultiva comercialmente estos cangrejos.

Masi, un exprofesor de ciencias marinas de 45 años, forma parte de un creciente movimiento en toda Nueva Inglaterra que busca reducir el impacto destructivo de los cangrejos mediante el desarrollo de nuevos mercados. Otros incorporan cangrejos verdes en golosinas para mascotas, salsa de pescado e incluso en una línea de whisky de cangrejo verde en New Hampshire.

Los cangrejos verdes, o Carcinus maenas, llegaron desde Europa a la Costa Este en las aguas de lastre de los barcos hace cientos de años. Con poblaciones que se cuentan por decenas de millones, desplazan al cangrejo de roca del Atlántico y a las langostas jóvenes, destruyen praderas de pastos marinos y socavan las orillas de las marismas salinas. También le cuestan a la industria regional de mariscos decenas de millones de dólares cada año, ya que se alimentan de mejillones, ostras y almejas de concha blanda.

Chad Coffin, un pescador de almejas de Maine, atribuyó el drástico desplome de sus capturas a la aparición de los cangrejos verdes. Según el estado, los desembarques de almeja de concha blanda han pasado de más de 3,6 millones de kilogramos (7,8 millones de libras) de carne en 1978 a 572.644 kilogramos (1,3 millones de libras) en 2025.

El cambio climático favorece a los cangrejos

Los cangrejos verdes, conocidos por sus caparazones marrones o verdes y por tener cinco espinas a cada lado de los ojos, han aprovechado el calentamiento de las aguas oceánicas, un resultado del cambio climático impulsado principalmente por la liberación de gases de efecto invernadero producidos por la quema de carbón, petróleo y gas. Los cangrejos pueden sobrevivir a los inviernos de Nueva Inglaterra y, al mismo tiempo, prosperar en una gran diversidad de hábitats. Comen casi cualquier cosa y producen muchas crías; una hembra libera hasta 185.000 huevos una o dos veces al año.

Estas características los han convertido en una de las especies invasoras más exitosas del mundo, expandiéndose a lo largo de la Costa Oeste y hasta Alaska, y llegando a Sudáfrica, Japón, Argentina y Australia.

“Son unos bichitos realmente muy resistentes”, afirmó Carolyn Tepolt, bióloga evolutiva del Instituto Oceanográfico Woods Hole, que ha estudiado los cangrejos verdes durante dos décadas y los utiliza para entender por qué algunas especies prosperan en distintos entornos.

La pesca de cangrejo a gran escala sigue siendo esquiva

Durante la última década, la campaña de la región para combatir la invasión de cangrejos ha sido un esfuerzo de base que ha tenido un impacto mínimo en sus cifras.

Aunque una lista cada vez mayor de restaurantes y negocios de mariscos ofrece cangrejo verde, muy pocos pescadores de Nueva Inglaterra los capturan y casi no existe infraestructura para procesar los ejemplares capturados y llevarlos al mercado. Ni siquiera hay suficientes datos para mostrar cuántos cangrejos podría sostener una pesquería en Nueva Inglaterra, aunque los expertos dicen que la capacidad es mucho mayor que lo que se captura actualmente.

Marissa McMahan, vicepresidenta de pesquerías en Manomet Conservation Sciences, afirma que la gente del condado de Washington, Maine, en la frontera con Canadá, le dice que puede capturar “tantos cangrejos verdes como pueda desear”.

“Pero no pueden subirlos a un camión y llevarlos a donde realmente tienen que estar, y a menudo ese lugar es Boston o New Bedford o la ciudad de Nueva York”, explicó. “Eso es un enorme obstáculo”.

Se han dado pequeños pasos. Rhode Island aprobó una ley que ofrece una licencia de pesca de cangrejo verde por solo 10 dólares, Connecticut ahora permite que los cangrejos se vendan a restaurantes sin permisos adicionales, y Maine facilitó llevar esos crustáceos al mercado.

El problema, según muchos defensores, es la ausencia de un apoyo gubernamental significativo en Nueva Inglaterra. Solo Massachusetts ofrece incentivos para capturarlos: los pescadores reciben 40 centavos por libra además de lo que obtienen al venderlos, o poco más de 100.000 dólares al año.

Mientras tanto, el estado de Washington declaró una emergencia en 2022 y prevé gastar más de 38 millones de dólares en fondos estatales y federales hasta el año fiscal 2027 para erradicar los cangrejos. En lo que va de año, se han capturado casi 2 millones de ejemplares y, en su mayoría, se han convertido en 61.234 kilogramos (135.000 libras) de desechos que van a una empresa de fertilizantes orgánicos. La tribu indígena Shoalwater Bay y la nación Lummi también capturan cangrejos y los usan como composta.

“Varias pesquerías protegidas por tratados están en riesgo y existen hábitats críticos que son utilizados por todo tipo de especies nativas, así que nos preocupa mucho que empecemos a ver el tipo de efectos que se observaron en la Costa Este si dejamos que la población se establezca”, señaló Raquel Crosier, subdirectora del Programa de Pesca del estado.

A algunos comensales les encanta el cangrejo verde

La buena noticia en Nueva Inglaterra es que el apetito por el cangrejo verde está creciendo.

Desde 2021, los defensores han visto un aumento de más de 10 veces en los restaurantes que ofrecen este crustáceo. Algunos ponen cangrejo verde frito en sándwiches, encima de platos de pasta y en sus salsas. Muchos participan en semanas del cangrejo verde que ocurren durante la temporada de caparazón blando, que dura aproximadamente dos meses.

PAGU, un restaurante de tapas hispano-japonés en Cambridge, Massachusetts, incorpora los crustáceos al caldo de su laksa de cangrejo verde, una sopa de fideos de inspiración malasia, y, cuando hay disponibilidad, coloca un cangrejo verde de caparazón blando frito en tempura dentro de un pan al vapor llamado bao.

“Estos cangrejos son mucho más potentes en términos de sabor”, afirmó Tracy Chang, chef y propietaria de PAGU.

Al compararlos con los cangrejos real, de piedra o Jonah, añadió: “Todos tienen como un sabor a cangrejo dulce y ligero, y este tiene un sabor a cangrejo realmente rico, profundo, como exuberante”.

Sentado en el abarrotado restaurante, el doctor William Li, médico y autor, dio su primer bocado a su bao. Ácido, dulce y crujiente, con las pinzas a la vista, el plato llamó su atención porque le encanta el cangrejo.

“Es como un bocadito para elevar tu salud”, expresó Li. “Este bao de cangrejo verde fue espectacular, lleno de sabor, fácil de comer y muy sabroso”.

Sin embargo, de vuelta en el agua con Masi, da la impresión de que la captura industrial de cangrejo verde todavía está muy lejos.

El sistema de Masi requiere mucha mano de obra: su equipo revisa a mano miles de cangrejos verdes para detectar los que están a punto de mudar de caparazón. Capturados en estado salvaje, los crustáceos se almacenan en el agua. Una vez que muestran señales de muda o de que el caparazón se está abriendo, se trasladan a una red de tubos dentro de cajas para langostas.

El negocio de Masi ha crecido desde que empezó hace cinco años, pero asegura que todavía se siente como un pasatiempo que genera hasta 20.000 dólares al año. Sigue confiando en una pesquería de cangrejo verde y habla de, algún día, conseguir un barco más grande y mejorar la eficiencia. Su inspiración es una pesquería centenaria en Venecia, donde los cangrejos verdes, que son nativos de allí, son capturados por familias y fritos para preparar un plato llamado moeche, entre otras delicias.

“Soy cautelosamente optimista sobre el potencial de los cangrejos verdes”, afirmó Masi. “Estamos a un avance de convertir esto en un negocio rentable”.

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In the latest case, Liudmila Perez-Labrada was arrested Tuesday on a charge of counterfeiting goods worth $20,000 or more.

According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Crime Stoppers received a tip in February that counterfeit items were being stored and sold at a home in the 3100 block of Northwest 81^st Terrace.

A detective assigned to the case then reviewed an Instagram page called “Elegance and Glamour,” which Perez-Labrada allegedly used to sell counterfeit items, even though she was already arrested in July 2025 for the same crime, authorities said.

According to the report, a private investigator purchased a counterfeit Louis Vuitton Pochette Eva bag from the Instagram page for $211 using Zelle.

After the bag was delivered, it was sent to the senior manager of “criminal enforcement for Louis Vuitton,” who confirmed that the bag was counterfeit, the report stated.

Detectives said the real version of the bag retails for $1,460.

Over the course of the next couple of months, detectives said the private investigator purchased other counterfeit luxury items from Perez-Labrada, including a fake Gucci bag, Alo top and a Louis Vuitton bathing suit.

According to the warrant, a search warrant was obtained for Perez-Labrada’s home on July 21 and detectives executed the warrant the following day.

Detectives said a “customer” of Perez-Labrada’s was at the home when they arrived and she admitted that she was there to purchase counterfeit items that she had seen on Perez-Labrada’s Instagram page.

According to the report, detectives recovered a large haul of counterfeit items inside the home, bearing the brand names of Celine, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci, Nike, New Balance and others. The items recovered ranged from sunglasses to jewelry, clothing and handbags, authorities said.

Deputies said Perez-Labrada also admitted to having a storage unit and a search of that revealed more counterfeit goods.

According to the report, Perez-Labrada was not arrested on the day the search warrant was executed because she had just undergone major surgery.

Detectives, however, said they informed her they would be back to arrest her at a later date and they made good on that promise on Monday.

According to the report, had the seized merchandise been authentic, the total worth would have been about $1.7 million.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Perez-Labrada was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $7,500 bond.

Northwestern University medical school researchers pored through records of 916,404 visits to hospital emergency rooms and urgent care centers in Chicago from 2011 to 2023 to see if they could spot trends in illnesses and injuries when the temperature hits 92.6 degrees (33.7 degrees Celsius) or higher. They found when it gets hot, more than a dozen broad categories of injuries and illness become more frequent, including some that most people don't associate with heat, according to the study in Wednesday's Science Advances.

While the study looked only at Chicago, outside experts said it highlights underestimated health problems and rising costs that infect much of the warming world.

“The sound of the city is the sound of ambulances,” said study senior author Dr. Abel Kho, an internal medicine professor at Northwestern. “Hot days are just like, something’s going to happen.”

How heat multiplies medical problems

“When there’s heat, there’s a much higher likelihood of people having external injuries, as well as complications of certain conditions, specifically those related to kidney disorders or things like exacerbations of drug effects, like cannabinoids,” said Kho, a former emergency room physician.

Some problems doubled, tripled or, in the case of accidental gunshot wounds, jumped more than 30-fold compared to days under 92 degrees, the study said. Unspecified injuries from assault showed an even bigger increase, the data showed.

This study “helps confirm that we’ve been underestimating health risks from heat exposures,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, chair of health and environment at the University of Wisconsin, who wasn't part of the research.

“It also is a reminder that the price of climate change is increased illness, strain on our health care system and health care costs,” said Dr. Courtney Howard, a Canadian emergency room physician, chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance and president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association. She was not part of the study.

Northwestern researchers looked through all the records to see what became more frequent, instead of just focusing on known heat-related problems.

“Heat-related illness is undercounted when studies only search for explicit heat codes like heat stroke,″ said Dr. Nicholas Cozzi, president-elect of the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians. He wasn’t part of the study.

Researchers found an association between high temperatures and individual medical problems, but that's not the same as a cause-and-effect, Kho said. The data had more Black people and women represented than the general population, but University of Washington climate and health scientist Kris Ebi said that's another positive part of the study because those groups are often underrepresented in medical studies.

“We know that heat waves are becoming more frequent, more intense, and lasting longer,” said study co-author Daniel Horton, a Northwestern climate scientist. “So a study like this indicates that those heat waves have real effects on people, not only on the likelihood of mortality, but of morbidity as well. So all the other things, the bad things that happen on the way up to dying, may also increase.”

The importance of taking heat seriously

Cozzi said that the study has an important message for the public: “Don’t wait for heat stroke symptoms to take heat seriously. If you have a chronic condition — kidney disease, MS, venous issues — treat extreme heat days as a trigger for extra caution, not just an outdoor-activity problem.”

Many of the diseases that saw an uptick in heat had to do with kidneys and the renal system. The skin issues are known by doctors but not often seen in non-medical literature, Kho said.

With the marijuana mental health issues, Kho said doctors have long known that when a body is “under physiologic stress, some medications will have greater effects.” That's why, he said, when it gets hot “maybe people need to be a little more careful if they’re going to be using certain things.”

Yet cardiovascular problems, which are commonly connected to heat in other studies, don't show up in this research as spiking during extra hot days. That's probably because people suffering cardiovascular issues often have other problems at the same time, such as kidney or fluid issues, that determine how their records are coded, Kho said.

Dehydration or “changes in fluid status can then contribute to cardiovascular disease as the heart works harder to pump more concentrated blood to the skin in order to support sweat-related ways to cool the body down,” Canada's Howard said.

Kho said the study had him thinking back to the nights when he worked the emergency room: “When it’s hot out, it’s going to be a busy night. That’s just how it goes.”

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La Red de Sobrevivientes de Abusos Eclesiásticos manifestó su oposición a la visita papal que tendrá lugar en noviembre y afirmó que no tiene “ninguna intención” de reunirse con el pontífice en un comunicado difundido la tarde del martes.

El grupo agregó que todas las promesas realizadas por la iglesia y “la mencionada ‘Tolerancia Cero’ a los abusos” que planteó el anterior papa, el argentino Jorge Bergoglio, “son el verdadero humo blanco del Vaticano: una verdadera cortina de humo para seguir encubriendo y ocultando”.

Además indicó que a fines de 2025 envió a la Comisión Pontificia para la Protección de Menores un informe con un listado de supuestos abusadores y denuncias sobre la falta de acciones concretas de la Iglesia para reparar los daños causados. Señaló que no obtuvo respuesta y que por ello “es lógico pensar que no hay un verdadero interés en tratar el tema y que continúan con el negacionismo ante los abusos”.

Al ser consultado por The Associated Press sobre el comunicado de la Red, un referente de la Conferencia Episcopal Argentina —que pidió no ser identificado porque porque no se refiere públicamente a estas temáticas— se limitó a responder el miércoles que “respetamos todas las opiniones”.

En su visita a España en junio el papa León XIV pidió a la jerarquía católica que brinde reparación a las víctimas de abusos sexuales cometidos por miembros del clero y que aborde la crisis con transparencia.

León XIV recibirá el jueves en el Vaticano a las máximas autoridades del obispado argentino para pulir los detalles de la visita que realizará al país entre el 8 y el 11 de noviembre en el marco de su primer viaje a Latinoamérica que incluirá también a Uruguay y Perú.

Falta de castigos ejemplares, entre las críticas

La Red de Sobrevivientes, que agrupa a víctimas y cuenta con asesores legales y acompañantes psicológicos, exigió que "los delincuentes por pederastia de la Iglesia católica no tengan los privilegios que ostentan impunemente”.

Una de las críticas recurrentes de las víctimas argentinas al Vaticano es la falta de severos castigos eclesiásticos para los sacerdotes con condenas firmes por abuso como Julio Grassi, quien se hizo muy popular en la década de 1990 por administrar hogares para menores sin recursos.

La Corte Suprema argentina ratificó en 2017 la condena a 15 años de prisión en su contra por el abuso de un menor, pero hasta ahora el Vaticano no ha informado públicamente si ha dispuesto su expulsión o dimisión del estado clerical. Varios medios de prensa argentinos divulgaron que Grassi sigue dando misa a reclusos de la cárcel adonde está confinado en la provincia de Buenos Aires.

Los críticos también cuestionan la falta de transparencia del Vaticano sobre el resultado de los procesos que sigue a sacerdotes e integrantes de la alta jerarquía eclesiástica condenados por la justicia penal.

En su comunicado, el grupo argentino destacó la adhesión de pares de Europa y del continente americano como la Red de Sobrevivientes de Chile y la Red de Sobrevivientes de Abuso Sexual Clerical de Colombia.

Yes, and it's no accident. In a collision of dog lovers, sports and ongoing war with Russia, the Ukrainian president on Tuesday was captured on video as never before — cuddling and cooing over a floppy, three-month-old American pit bull terrier, handed to him by U.S. former boxer Terence Crawford.

The cute and fluffy scene in Zelenskyy's office in Kyiv was the latest volley in a deadly serious battle of visuals that runs in parallel to Ukraine's fight against Russia's brutal four-year invasion.

Crawford, a longtime supporter of Ukraine and a devotee of the American pit bull terrier, came forward and handed a reddish-yellow puppy to Zelenskyy.

And for a few minutes in Kyiv, cultures, death and geopolitics yielded to the power of sweetness and puppy love, as well as the symbolism of resilience and protection.

A happy, floppy puppy belies a more serious backdrop

It's a truism of the political world: If you want a friend, get a dog. Zelenskyy, weighed down by war and scandal, seemed to have found both in the light-eyed puppy that melted into his chest.

The president smiled and cooed something into the dog's fur. He cradled her as he was told the pup's name is Freya — after Zelenskyy's pet project, Freyja, Ukraine's proposed missile defense system with European allies.

He was further informed that Freya's grandfather survived the devastating Russian siege of Bucha in 2022. Zelenskyy cuddled the pup close as they posed for photos. She appeared to relax, letting two white-tipped paws dangle from Zelenskyy's arms.

“The president said he would accept" Freya, said Vadym Danylchenko, adviser to the minister of youth and sports in Ukraine, who helped organize the visit.

Politically and culturally, it might have been problematic to refuse. Animals have become a symbol of the nation's forbearance during the four-year war. One mural in a Kyiv park immortalizes a Jack Russell terrier named Patrone who is renowned for assisting mine-clearing teams in the northern Chernihiv district and became a mascot for Ukraine’s emergency services. Zelenskyy awarded him a state medal. UNICEF recognized the pup as the first “Goodwill AmbassaDOG.”

Another mural depicts volunteer fighter Oleksii Movchan, holding a grey-and-white cat. He and three fellow soldiers rescued 11 civilians and the cat in the eastern Donetsk region shortly before being killed by Russian shelling in 2022.

Stories abound of others going to great lengths to rescue Ukraine's animals during the Russian invasion, including one Ukrainian woman who worked to save hundreds from the war by shipping some to safer Western Ukraine and others overseas.

The politics of nations hovers

Then there's the fraught matter of American support for Ukraine. Zelenskyy was famously dressed down by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance last year in the Oval Office, though the leaders have appeared to have mended fences since then. But in Zelenskyy's office on Tuesday, an American sports hero was handing him an American dog breed. Zelenskyy embraced the love.

Freya is the granddaughter of Athos — a dog who survived the Russian brutality in Bucha and was found on the street where Ukrainian forces destroyed a large Russian convoy, Danylchenko told The Associated Press in an interview.

Through rescuers, Athos made his way to Crawford's friend Francisco Lopez, a professional breeder and longtime Ukraine supporter in America. Athos' daughter had been left behind in Ukraine. Lopez flew an unrelated male dog to Ukraine to mate with Athos' daughter. She gave birth to Freya.

The puppy's name has a particular resonance in Ukraine. European nations are developing the antiballistic missile defense system with Ukraine amid shortages, particularly of American-made Patriot interceptors. Patriot interceptors are in shorter supply as the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran continues to rage, and Trump last month appeared to back away from a recent commitment to give Ukraine a license to produce them.

“Terence really wanted to give the president this particular female puppy,” said Danylchenko, who said he wasn't initially supportive of giving the president a gift laden with such responsibility.

“They named her Freya. Obviously, from the perspective of our country's future, this was important,” he added. “This little girl is a symbol of the fact that her grandfather survived and was a direct witness to the events in Bucha. So it was very symbolic for them.”

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According to Fort Lauderdale police, an officer located a vehicle at approximately 11:30 a.m. that had just been involved in a “felony incident” in Pompano Beach.

Police said the vehicle had previously fled from BSO deputies.

A Fort Lauderdale officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but the driver refused to pull over, prompting officers to initiate a pursuit, according to FLPD.

BSO deputies and the agency’s Aviation Unit later joined the pursuit.

Authorities said the chase came to an end in the 1600 block of West Sunrise Boulevard after Fort Lauderdale police deployed a grappler, a device designed to help officers stop fleeing vehicles.

Police said three men “immediately bailed out of the vehicle” and ran from the scene.

All three were taken into custody a short time later, according to FLPD.

They were identified Tuesday as Claudin Butler, 45; Antonio Retcho, 35; and DeWantres McCray, 42.

Authorities have not released details about the felony incident in Pompano Beach that preceded the pursuit.

BSO is taking the lead on the investigation.

Gogel, whose best finish on the PGA Tour Champions this year was a runner-up in the Senior British Open, will be eligible to return on Feb. 22, 2027.

Gogel, 55, called it an honest mistake.

“In 2024 and 2025, I unknowingly violated the PGA Tour policy by placing small, recreational wagers on golf,” Gogel said in a statement provided by the tour. “I want to be clear that these wagers were not placed on regular PGA Tour events, PGA Tour Champions events or any tournament in which I participated.”

The tour did not disclose details of his violation, though his statement would indicate the wagers involved major championships.

Gogel, who grew up in Kansas, was best known on the PGA Tour for shooting 40 on the back nine in 2000 when Tiger Woods overcame a seven-shot deficit in the final seven holes at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for his sixth straight victory.

Gogel atoned for that two years later by winning at Pebble Beach, his lone PGA Tour title. He worked briefly for Golf Channel and CBS, returning to competition when he turned 50 and became eligible for the PGA Tour Champions.

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Perdue currently runs the Florida Department of Transportation. For now, it appears Perdue will lead both FDOT and FDEM.

He also most recently took up the fight to get rid of rainbow crosswalks across the state.

Perdue is taking over for Kevin Guthrie. DeSantis did not say whether Guthrie resigned on his own or if he was asked to leave after being named Lt. Gov. Jay Collins’ running mate.

Perdue said today that Florida is a leader in emergency response, and he will continue working to keep it that way.

“There’s been a lot of questions, are you still doing transportation, well you heard from the governor ― yes we have a very well-oiled machine, and a lot of great people at FDOT,“ he said. ”We are going to continue that operation, and the good news is FDOT and the Division of Emergency Management have been working shoulder-to-shoulder for years responding to natural disasters and those other things that pop up like wildfires, so we are well-prepared and we are going to continue to serve.”

The reason they hosted the news conference at FIU is because DeSantis also announced a new program there that will train the next generation of emergency management workers for the state.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the crash was reported just before 2:30 a.m. in the area of Northwest 36^th Street and Lee Drive.

Deputies said Miami Springs police officers responded to the scene and discovered the driver, Reginald Devon Faulks, 47, was heading west on Northwest 36^th Street, approaching Lee Drive, when the vehicle “traveled toward the right shoulder, entered the sidewalk, and struck a business storefront.”

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews also responded and transported Faulks to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead, deputies said.

MDSO officials confirmed that detectives from their Traffic Homicide Bureau have assumed the investigation.

The circumstances leading up to the crash remain under investigation.

Perdue dirige actualmente el Departamento de Transporte de Florida. Por ahora, parece que Perdue estará al frente tanto del FDOT como de la FDEM.

También asumió recientemente la lucha para eliminar los cruces peatonales con los colores del arcoíris en todo el estado.

Perdue sustituye a Kevin Guthrie. DeSantis no dijo si Guthrie renunció por decisión propia o si se le pidió que dejara el cargo después de ser nombrado compañero de fórmula del vicegobernador Jay Collins.

Perdue dijo hoy que Florida es líder en respuesta a emergencias y que continuará trabajando para que siga siendo así.

“Ha habido muchas preguntas: ¿todavía está a cargo de transporte? Bueno, ya escucharon al gobernador, sí, tenemos una maquinaria muy bien aceitada y mucha gente excelente en el FDOT”, dijo. “Vamos a continuar con esa operación, y la buena noticia es que el FDOT y la División de Manejo de Emergencias han estado trabajando hombro a hombro durante años respondiendo a desastres naturales y a esas otras situaciones que surgen, como incendios forestales, por lo que estamos bien preparados y vamos a continuar sirviendo”.

La razón por la que realizaron la conferencia de prensa en FIU es porque DeSantis también anunció allí un nuevo programa que capacitará a la próxima generación de trabajadores de manejo de emergencias del estado.

Torrasha Monique Smith fue arrestada previamente en enero de 2024 por operar un centro de vida asistida sin licencia para recuperación posoperatoria, ubicado en 18132 NW 91st Court, en el condado Miami-Dade, y nuevamente en junio de 2025 por abrir otro centro en 21480 SW 132nd Court.

En enero, los agentes dijeron que recibieron una denuncia anónima sobre una casa ilegal de recuperación para pacientes posoperatorios que era operada por Smith.

Los investigadores descubrieron que se encontraba en la misma ubicación de 132nd Court que los agentes habían encontrado anteriormente, y determinaron que Smith nunca cesó sus operaciones a pesar de su arresto previo.

Según una orden de arresto, los pacientes dijeron a los agentes que habían pagado a Dream Body Retreat a través de Zelle por los servicios, y los investigadores determinaron que Smith era la única propietaria de Dream Body Retreat.

Además, uno de los pacientes dijo a los agentes que había utilizado el centro anteriormente en junio de 2025, después del arresto de Smith en mayo de ese año, cuando se le ordenó cerrar el centro, según documentos oficiales.

Las autoridades dijeron que finalmente descubrieron que Smith operó el centro durante 274 días después de recibir una Notificación de Actividad sin Licencia el 30 de abril de 2025 y, durante ese tiempo, aceptó pagos por Zelle que superaron los $200,000 USD.

Según los investigadores, Smith cesó las operaciones en el centro en algún momento de febrero, pero continuó reservando citas y recibiendo depósitos “sin ninguna intención de prestar los servicios”.

Durante los meses siguientes, se presentaron múltiples reportes policiales en el condado Miami-Dade por parte de pacientes que habían pagado depósitos a Dream Body Retreat, solo para descubrir que el negocio había cerrado y luego no pudieron comunicarse con Smith cuando intentaron obtener reembolsos.

Finalmente, se emitió una orden de arresto contra Smith el 20 de julio después de que un abogado que la representaba dijera a las autoridades que no podía informarles cuándo se entregaría.

Según un formulario de arresto, Smith fue detenida el martes en la cárcel del condado Harris en Houston.

Los funcionarios no indicaron por qué fue arrestada en Texas ni cómo fue localizada, pero desde entonces fue trasladada de regreso al sur de Florida.

Smith enfrenta tres cargos de hurto mayor, un cargo de fraude organizado por $50,000 USD o más y 274 cargos por no cesar las operaciones de un centro de vida asistida.

Hasta la tarde del miércoles, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Documentos oficiales indican que Smith ya se encontraba en libertad bajo fianza por un delito grave al momento de su arresto, por cargos derivados de la eliminación ilegal de desechos biomédicos peligrosos.

En el caso más reciente, Liudmila Perez-Labrada fue arrestada el martes por un cargo de falsificación de productos valorados en $20,000 USD o más.

Según un reporte de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, Crime Stoppers recibió una denuncia en febrero de que se almacenaban y vendían artículos falsificados en una casa ubicada en la cuadra 3100 de Northwest 81st Terrace.

Un detective asignado al caso revisó entonces una página de Instagram llamada “Elegance and Glamour”, que Perez-Labrada presuntamente utilizaba para vender artículos falsificados, a pesar de que ya había sido arrestada en julio de 2025 por el mismo delito, dijeron las autoridades.

Según el reporte, un investigador privado compró un bolso Louis Vuitton Pochette Eva falsificado de la página de Instagram por $211 USD utilizando Zelle.

Después de que el bolso fue entregado, fue enviado al gerente sénior de “cumplimiento penal de Louis Vuitton”, quien confirmó que el bolso era falsificado, señala el reporte.

Los detectives dijeron que la versión auténtica del bolso se vende por $1,460 USD.

Durante los siguientes meses, los detectives dijeron que el investigador privado compró otros artículos de lujo falsificados a Perez-Labrada, entre ellos un bolso Gucci, una blusa Alo y un traje de baño Louis Vuitton.

Según la orden, se obtuvo una orden de registro para la casa de Perez-Labrada el 21 de julio y los detectives la ejecutaron al día siguiente.

Los detectives dijeron que una “clienta” de Perez-Labrada se encontraba en la casa cuando llegaron y admitió que estaba allí para comprar artículos falsificados que había visto en la página de Instagram de Perez-Labrada.

Según el reporte, los detectives recuperaron una gran cantidad de artículos falsificados dentro de la casa con los nombres de marcas como Celine, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci, Nike, New Balance y otras. Los artículos recuperados incluían desde gafas de sol hasta joyas, ropa y bolsos, dijeron las autoridades.

Los agentes dijeron que Perez-Labrada también admitió tener una unidad de almacenamiento y un registro del lugar reveló más productos falsificados.

Según el reporte, Perez-Labrada no fue arrestada el día en que se ejecutó la orden de registro porque acababa de someterse a una cirugía mayor.

Sin embargo, los detectives dijeron que le informaron que regresarían para arrestarla posteriormente y cumplieron esa promesa el lunes.

Según el reporte, si la mercancía incautada hubiera sido auténtica, su valor total habría sido de aproximadamente $1.7 millones USD.

Hasta la tarde del miércoles, Perez-Labrada permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Los registros de la cárcel en internet indicaban que su fianza estaba “por determinar”.

And oil is only the beginning.

Canada also supplies aluminum, potash to U.S. farms and parts for an auto industry built on both sides of the border.

“WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!” Trump posted this week, repeating his long-running claim.

Yet Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on Canadian aluminum while acknowledging this week that the United States badly needs the metal.

“This country desperately needs aluminum,” Trump said. “We don’t have it. We get it all from Canada for the most part, and we need it badly.”

The contradiction underscores how deeply the two economies remain intertwined — and how much could be at stake if Trump’s trade war reaches more of the energy, materials and supply chains that the U.S. still relies on Canada to provide.

Canada fuels American industry

Canada is the second-largest U.S. trading partner after Mexico, and energy is at the heart of that relationship.

The two countries exchanged about $872 billion in goods and services last year. Canadian crude imports equal nearly 20% of total U.S. petroleum consumption, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, part of the Department of Energy.

Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University, said Trump’s claim that the U.S. doesn't need Canada is “absolutely false,” citing U.S. reliance on Canadian oil and natural gas and deeply integrated industries such as autos.

Much of Canada’s crude flows to Midwest refineries built to process its heavy oil into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Energy also explains much of the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, which Trump frequently cites as evidence of an unfair relationship.

The White House this week portrayed the relationship in starkly negative terms, saying Canada had taken roughly $50 billion a year from the U.S. over the past decade. Much of that gap reflects U.S. purchases of Canadian energy, which helps power the U.S. economy. And Canada's heavy crude typically trades at a discount to U.S. benchmark oil, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Energy more than accounted for last year’s $48.3 billion goods deficit. Without energy, the U.S. would have run a trade surplus.

After trade talks collapsed last Friday, the U.S. imposed 50% tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods. The measures cover only about 5% of Canadian exports to the U.S. and exclude energy.

Canadian politicians debate using energy exports as leverage

For now, using oil as a weapon in trade negotiations remains a remote possibility. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith strongly rejected using oil as leverage, saying she could not think of “a more disastrous policy decision” than cutting off or taxing Alberta crude exports to the U.S. because it could devastate Canada’s economy.

But former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said Canada should not rule out export taxes on oil, fuel or potash if Trump escalates further.

Such retaliation “would affect Republicans who drive F-150s and lay fertilizer on their farm fields,” Kenney said.

“They should be mindful that if they really want to escalate, it will not end well for the American economy two months before midterm elections,” he said.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford cited Canadian commodities as leverage, accusing Trump of “putting out fake news” about the U.S. not needing Canada. He called potash used by U.S. farmers “one of the most powerful tools we have” and said Washington would have to turn to suppliers such as Russia if Canada redirected shipments.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe rejected that approach, saying his province “cannot and will not support” export tariffs on resources. He said Saskatchewan is on track to supply about half the world’s potash and warned that taxing exports could cost Canadian jobs, raise fertilizer prices and push U.S. buyers toward suppliers such as Belarus.

“This would be a tremendously flawed policy on behalf of Canadians,” Moe said.

Moe has backed a more targeted retaliation, saying Saskatchewan — one of only two provinces that had not removed existing U.S. alcohol from store shelves — will impose a 50% reciprocal charge on U.S. alcohol, starting on Sept. 8.

Kenney stopped short of advocating an export tax on oil, and Béland said such a move would probably be “a very divisive issue politically in provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan.”

That underscores the limits of Canada’s leverage: measures aimed at hurting U.S. industries could also hurt Canadian producers and strain political unity at home.

From pickup trucks to farm fields

Canada has long been the dominant foreign source of aluminum for the U.S. Smelting the metal requires enormous amounts of electricity, giving hydro-rich Canada a major advantage.

Prime Minister Mark Carney told a New York business audience in May that Canadian aluminum exports to the U.S. are “the energy equivalent of 10 Hoover dams.”

American farmers are even more dependent on Canada for potash, a fertilizer essential to crops such as corn and soybeans. More than 80% of U.S. potash imports come from Canada.

Even Trump’s ambassador has disputed the idea that the U.S. needs nothing from its neighbor.

“America has a tremendous amount of things where we have a need,” Ambassador Pete Hoekstra said in June. Pointing to Canadian fertilizer supplies, he added: “We need potash.”

Then there are cars.

Canada and the U.S. have built an integrated auto industry in which parts can cross the border up to six times before final assembly, according to the Canadian government.

Trump said Monday that his administration would impose 50% tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks and auto parts starting Jan. 1, 2027 — after the November midterm elections.

That means a tariff aimed at Canada can land in Michigan or Ohio. Tax Canadian aluminum and an American automaker may pay more for metal. Tax Canadian parts and the cost of assembling an American vehicle can rise.

AI needs power. Canada has it

Artificial intelligence is driving a surge in electricity demand. Canada supplied 85% of U.S. electricity imports in 2023, according to the Canada Energy Regulator, and Carney says the country needs to double the capacity of its electricity grid by 2050 through major hydroelectric and nuclear projects.

Carney said Canada could help the U.S. "meet exploding demand to power AI."

Police in Upper Pottsgrove Township, northwest of Philadelphia, responded around 12:30 a.m. Sunday to a 911 call about a possible break-in attempt, according to the Montgomery County district attorney's office. The office said in a statement that police found Glenwood Pysher IV at the rear of the home and ultimately shot and killed him.

Pysher's father, Glen Pysher, said his son and his friends had visited several bars earlier in the evening and were splitting up to spend the night in two homes when his son took a wrong turn in the woods. Based on what he has been told by his son's friends, Pysher believes his son mistakenly tried to enter what he thought was his friend's house. His son wasn't carrying any weapons, just a phone and backpack containing clothing and a few beers, he said.

“He tried to open the doorknob and obviously startled the homeowner,” he said. “From what we understand, he announced, ‘Hey! Open the door!’ because he thought he was at his friend's house.”

Pysher then sat down on the back porch and contacted his friends, who realized he was in the wrong place and set out to find him. But minutes later, they saw police and emergency vehicles and figured their friend would be arrested for public drunkenness. Instead, he was shot.

“At 12:32 a.m. my son was on a FaceTime call with his friends that were coming to get him,” he said. “We were told that my son was shot at 12:35 a.m. So what kind of encounter could have ensued? What kind of communication could that officer have given him?”

A Montgomery County Department of Public Safety dispatch record shows police were dispatched at 12:30 a.m. and arrived at 12:34 a.m. Upper Pottsgrove Township Police Chief Al Werner declined to release any information, including the names of any officers involved, until the investigation is complete. The Montgomery County Detective Bureau is investigating the shooting, the district attorney’s office said.

The shooting by police checking a report of a possible break-in is sharply distinguished from several other cases in which residents have shot people who mistakenly showed up at their homes.

Pysher was about to begin his senior year at Saint Elizabeth University in New Jersey, where he planned to play baseball. His goal was to become a high school history teacher and coach after graduation.

His father described him as a kindhearted, loving kid who could be a “knucklehead” but enjoyed helping others. Since the shooting, former teammates, coaches and others have been texting his father to share their memories of him.

“One young man in particular texted me and said, ‘I was going through a lot of really difficult things in my life. I was going the wrong way. And your son is the one who helped me put my life on track,’" the father said. “He will be sadly missed in his community.”

Pysher said police have given the family almost no information. On Wednesday, he called asking whether he could retrieve his son's favorite pair of black shoes to bury him in and was told that could be arranged.

“Then I got a call back saying they have to think about it,” he said. “They don't know if they can give them to me.” ____

Ramer reported from Concord, New Hampshire, and Brumback from Atlanta.

The record ended China’s five-day World Humanoid Robot Games, in its second year in Beijing, in which more than 2,000 humanoid robots competed in Olympics-style events including soccer, boxing and running.

The winning robot finished the 100 meters in 8.64 seconds, breaking a record for the second straight day. A robot ran 8.86 seconds Tuesday, after another clocked 9.39 seconds four days earlier — all at the Games.

For comparison, the men’s 100-meter world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Usain Bolt in 2009.

Several robot runners, including the champion, crashed into a padded barrier after crossing the finish line. Sparks flew from some of the robots as staff rushed over with fire extinguishers and sprayed those machines lying on the ground. Almost all the robot runners were eventually carried away on stretchers.

Robots also competed in real-world tasks, including housework, hotel services and emergency response.

All three records were set by the same humanoid robot model, Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics, also known as X-Humanoid. The company was founded in Beijing in 2023.

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This story has been corrected to show that the record set on Wednesday is 8.64 seconds, not 8.84 seconds.

Judge Lewis J. Liman explained in a written decision in Manhattan why Lively was not entitled to the full amount that her lawyers claim was spent after Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios LLC, filed their own claims in response to her December 2024 lawsuit.

Acknowledging Lively and Baldoni had “waged fierce battle against each other in court,” the judge denied Lively the bulk of legal fees she sought, citing the limits of a California law designed to protect survivors of sexual harassment and discrimination from retaliatory lawsuits.

The law meant to protect sex abuse survivors from legal actions designed to intimidate and silence victims could only be construed to let her be reimbursed for what she paid lawyers to defend against defamation claims rather than all claims Baldoni made against her, Liman wrote.

Thus, the judge ruled, Lively is entitled to $363,245 in attorneys' fees and $44,206 in costs.

Lawyers on both sides claimed victory for their clients.

Attorney Bryan Freedman, representing Baldoni, called the ruling a “significant victory for my clients” that will leave Lively with less than 5% of what she requested in legal fees.

He said in a statement that it also "sends a clear message that, no matter how powerful you may be, the courtroom is not a place to take advantage of the law for your own personal gain.”

Attorneys Esra Hudson and Michael Gottlieb, representing Lively, said in a statement that Liman's decision was “historic” because it was the first time under the California law that money was awarded. They said it showed “there are real consequences of bringing retaliatory lawsuits.”

The lawyers added that Lively had “lifted the curtain for other victims, and set the precedent for others to come forward and expose similar conduct.”

In her lawsuit, Lively asserted that she had been subjected to sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.

Baldoni, who directed the dark romantic drama and starred in it with Lively, denied harassing her or orchestrating a smear campaign. He claimed the complaints about his behavior were made up by Lively as part of an effort to seize creative control of the movie.

Weeks after Lively sued, Baldoni and Wayfarer asserted claims in a countersuit against Lively and her husband, “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds, of civil extortion, defamation, invasion of privacy, breach of good faith and fair dealing and economic interference.

In June 2025, Liman tossed out the countersuit Baldoni and Wayfarer had filed and nearly a year later rejected Lively's sexual harassment claims on the grounds that she was an independent contractor rather than an employee when she worked on the film.

In early May, two weeks before a scheduled trial, Lively and Baldoni reached a settlement, saying in a joint statement that Lively’s concerns “deserved to be heard” and that they ”remain firmly committed to workplaces free of improprieties and unproductive environments.”

“It Ends With Us,” an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel about a relationship devolving into domestic violence, was released in August 2024 and exceeded box office expectations despite criticism that it glorified abuse. Lively and Baldoni’s fractious falling out took attention away from the film, overshadowing its message and success.

Lively said in her lawsuit that during filming, Baldoni made inappropriate comments about her appearance, violated physical boundaries while filming a love scene, and pushed for nudity — against Lively’s wishes — during a scene in which her character was giving birth.

Baldoni denied doing anything outside the realm of the normal creative process of making a movie.

Lively appeared in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and the TV series “Gossip Girl” from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including “The Town” and “The Shallows.”

Baldoni starred in the TV comedy “Jane the Virgin,” directed the 2019 film “Five Feet Apart” and wrote “Man Enough,” a book challenging traditional notions of masculinity.

It also was the third-most watched regular-season game ever and peaked at 3.82 million viewers. That is behind only the June 21-22, 1997 opening weekend games that featured the New York Liberty-Los Angeles Sparks (5.04 million) and Charlotte Sting-Phoenix Mercury (3.59 million), also both on NBC.

Caitlin Clark and the Fever continue to be the league's top draw. They also have set all-time viewing records this season for games on CBS, ESPN and Amazon Prime Video.

Against the Sky, Clark made a career-high eight 3-pointers and scored 37 points in the Fever's 113-90 victory. Teammate Kelsey Mitchell added 30.

That game was the first meeting since Chicago's DiJonai Carrington fouled Indiana's Sophie Cunningham on a breakaway in the Fever’s 90-86 victory on Aug. 8. Carrington was ejected for the Flagrant 2 foul.

There were no such incidents between the two in the rematch.

But there was controversy. Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom attended as a spectator and was ejected in the third quarter after he and the Sky's Natasha Cloud exchanged words. Freedom has since been banned from Sky home games.

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That makes eight tournaments announced for the Championship Series, the only two surprises being the new Sompo Championship and the Greensboro, North Carolina, event that has changed sponsorship and now is the GO by Raymond James.

PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp said Tuesday that seven — now eight, with the Truist announcement Wednesday — of the 15 tournaments on the Championship Series have been announced. That doesn't include the four majors, The Players Championship and the postseason.

He said an additional three have been identified, and those will be disclosed shortly. There will be plenty of assumptions of current signature events, such as the AT&T Pebble Beach, the RBC Heritage and the Genesis Invitational.

The Genesis Invitational is the only player-hosted event — Tiger Woods — not yet announced. Part of that is due to the future of Riviera Country Club, which just finished a U.S. Women's Open in June, has the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2031 U.S. Open. The private club might want a breather. Discussions are ongoing.

“Of the remaining four regular-season events, we are currently in active discussions with 14 prospective partners,” Rolapp said. “Given that level of demand and interest, we expect to be making final decisions soon.”

He said he expects to announce the full 2028 Championship Series schedule on Feb. 22 at a special television show from PGA Tour headquarters.

Jim Furyk goes all in with Golf Channel

Jim Furyk is no longer just dipping his toes into the television world. The 2003 U.S. Open champion and two-time Ryder Cup captain has been named Golf Channel's lead analyst for PGA Tour events and the major championships.

Furyk agreed to a multiyear deal that takes him into the revamped 2028 schedule of Championship Series events. Golf Channel next year has full coverage of The American Express to start the season, and weekday coverage of the rest of the PGA Tour events (along with the U.S. and British Opens).

“I’m thrilled to expand my role with USA Sports and Golf Channel to call the action at men’s majors and the biggest PGA Tour events for years to come,” Furyk said. “I have really enjoyed my time in the booth and look forward to continuing to develop in the role.”

The announcement would seem to end speculation about Furyk joining the NBC booth because Golf Channel and NBC are now separately owned.

PGA Tour releases full 2027 schedule

The PGA Tour on Wednesday put out its full schedule for 2027, the last one before it changes to what amounts to a two-tour system.

It looks to be similar to this year, with a few tweaks. The Dallas-area tournaments are no longer in consecutive weeks in May. The CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Dallas will end in the first weekend of May, followed by the Valspar Championship in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area. That will lead into the Truist Championship, the PGA Championship and then Colonial will be the last week in May.

The Valspar previously was in March. That was been moved to clear the way for the Cadillac Championship in Miami to return to the Florida swing in March.

Also, the new Sompo Championship to be held in Napa, California, will be the last week in July and take the spot of the Rocket Classic in Detroit.

Pebble Beach again will have two events — the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February and the U.S. Open in June. The British Open returns to St. Andrews and the PGA Championship is at its new headquarters in Frisco, Texas.

That means the Dallas-Fort Worth area will have three tournaments in five weeks — The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, PGA Championship and Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial — with the PGA Championship and Colonial going back-to-back.

Colonial is about 50 miles southwest of Frisco.

Woodland still hearing about his tee shot

Gary Woodland is the feel-good story at East Lake simply by making it to the Tour Championship while trying to cope with the effects of his brain surgery three years ago.

That doesn't spare him from getting plenty of grief from last week at the BMW Championship.

He was on the bubble of being in the top 30, playing well in the final round at Bellerive, when he topped a tee shot into a creek about 100 yards in front of him on the ninth hole, leading to a double bogey. He was rock-solid the rest of the way, shot 69 and tied for fourth to advance.

Now about that tee shot?

He heard about it from Xander Schauffele on the putting green at East Lake on Monday. At the Payne Stewart Award ceremony Tuesday night, former award winner Brandt Snedeker was being interviewed on stage when he was asked if Woodland — one of Snedeker's assistant captains for the Presidents Cup next month — would be considered a captain's pick if he played well this week.

Snedeker paused during his answer, smiled and everyone knew what was coming. He mentioned the topped tee shot.

“I’ve hit some good shots this year, and I haven’t got as much attention as that shot has,” Woodland said.

Woodland even heard it from his father. They plan to play together again in December at the PNC Championship in Florida.

“When I turned my phone on after the round, it wasn’t, ‘Congrats’ or ‘Good playing.’ It was: ‘Hey, get that shot out of the way. I can’t afford to have that in the scramble,’” Woodland said.

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Los militares desarrollaban operaciones en la zona rural del convulso municipio de Buenos Aires cuando fueron atacados "mediante el lanzamiento de artefactos explosivos” desde un dron, indicó el reporte.

El ejército lamentó en un comunicado la muerte del soldado Alejandro López Quintero a causa de las heridas, pese a recibir los primeros auxilios de los enfermeros de combate.

La acción bélica fue atribuida preliminarmente por el ejército a integrantes de la estructura Jaime Martínez, que forma parte del “Estado Mayor Central”, la más numerosa de las disidencias que no se acogieron al acuerdo de paz firmado hace una década entre el Estado y las FARC.

Los ataques con explosivos lanzados desde drones acondicionados artesanalmente han cambiado la dinámica del conflicto armado interno en Colombia, afectando tanto a militares como a civiles, especialmente en el suroeste del país.

Al menos 21 personas fallecieron y 145 resultaron heridas por ataques con uso de drones entre enero y mayo, un aumento del 146% con respecto al mismo periodo del año anterior, dijo el lunes la estatal Defensoría del Pueblo.

Presidente promete enfrentar a “terroristas”

El conservador Abelardo de la Espriella, quien asumió a inicios de agosto la presidencia, ha prometido reforzar las operaciones militares en contra de los grupos armados ilegales y cerró la puerta a las negociaciones de paz impulsadas por su antecesor Gustavo Petro (2022-2026).

“En mi gobierno está absolutamente prohibido disfrazar con eufemismos la naturaleza de quienes aterrorizan al pueblo a punta de pistola y dinamita. Son terroristas y así lo vamos a tratar. Aquí no hay espacio para el diálogo”, dijo De la Espriella el miércoles durante la ceremonia de juramentación de la nueva cúpula militar.

El mandatario, quien se apoda “El Tigre”, reiteró que los ilegales tienen la opción de someterse ante la justicia o “recibirán su merecido en el campo de batalla... los terroristas sabrán lo duro que muerde el Tigre y su fuerza pública".

Recalcó su intención de construir grandes cárceles de máxima seguridad, al estilo de El Salvador, para recluir a los “terroristas”, con el apoyo del sector privado. Dijo que, entre tanto, ordenó reforzar la seguridad en las cárceles existentes.

En un balance sobre su gobierno, De la Espriella detalló que han muerto en operaciones militares 21 cabecillas de grupos ilegales, más de 530 han sido capturados y 13 toneladas de cocaína han sido incautadas.

Los grupos armados ilegales con los que aún lidia Colombia se disputan en territorios estratégicos el control de economías ilegales como el narcotráfico y la minería ilegal, con las que financian su accionar.

El general Francis L. Donovan, comandante del Comando Sur de Estados Unidos, arribó el miércoles a Colombia para reunirse con la nueva cúpula militar y “discutir esfuerzos conjuntos para combatir a los narcoterroristas”, informó la institución.

De la Espriella adhirió a Colombia al Escudo de las Américas, una iniciativa del gobierno estadounidense con aliados latinoamericanos mediante la cual buscan luchar contra el narcotráfico.

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The suspect was identified in an arrest report from the Hialeah Police Department as Louis Charles Munoz.

The report states that officers were dispatched at about 11 a.m. Tuesday to the Taco Bell at 785 E. Ninth St. after receiving a report of a man hitting the restaurant’s kiosks with a sharp metal object.

Police said they spoke with the manager, who stated that Munoz had ordered a meal and sat at a table inside the restaurant. She said he stared at her and other employees while he ate.

They said when the manager asked whether something was wrong, Munoz, who is listed as homeless in his arrest report, told her he had been “living here for three years and that things happen in life.”

Police said Munoz then got up, pulled out the metal object and smashed one large television menu and two electronic ordering kiosks. The damaged items were valued at approximately $2,500, the report states.

Munoz then told the manager to call police as he fled the restaurant, according to the report.

Police said they canvassed the area and found Munoz on the roof of 765 E. 9th St., where he barricaded himself.

After multiple attempts to negotiate with Munoz, police said he eventually surrendered the metal object by throwing it off the roof. They said he then turned himself in and climbed down using a Hialeah Fire Rescue ladder truck that was at the scene.

Police said Munoz was then taken into custody without incident.

According to the report, Munoz spontaneously told officers he broke the screens because he wanted to “receive help.”

Jail records show he is facing one count of armed criminal mischief involving property damage of $1,000 or more.

As of Wednesday, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”

El sospechoso fue identificado en un reporte de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Hialeah como Louis Charles Munoz.

El reporte señala que los oficiales fueron enviados alrededor de las 11 a.m. del martes al Taco Bell ubicado en 785 E. Ninth St., después de recibir un reporte de un hombre que golpeaba los quioscos del restaurante con un objeto metálico afilado.

La policía dijo que habló con la gerente, quien afirmó que Munoz había ordenado una comida y se había sentado en una mesa dentro del restaurante. Dijo que él la miraba fijamente a ella y a otros empleados mientras comía.

Dijeron que cuando la gerente le preguntó si algo estaba mal, Munoz, quien figura como una persona sin hogar en su reporte de arresto, le dijo que había estado “viviendo aquí durante tres años y que en la vida pasan cosas”.

La policía dijo que Munoz luego se levantó, sacó el objeto metálico y destrozó un gran menú de televisión y dos quioscos electrónicos de pedidos. Los artículos dañados estaban valorados en aproximadamente $2,500 USD, señala el reporte.

Munoz luego le dijo a la gerente que llamara a la policía mientras huía del restaurante, según el reporte.

La policía dijo que recorrió el área y encontró a Munoz en el techo de 765 E. Ninth St., donde se atrincheró.

Después de varios intentos de negociar con Munoz, la policía dijo que finalmente entregó el objeto metálico arrojándolo desde el techo. Dijeron que luego se entregó y bajó utilizando un camión con escalera de Bomberos y Rescate de Hialeah que se encontraba en la escena.

La policía dijo que Munoz fue detenido sin incidentes.

Según el reporte, Munoz dijo espontáneamente a los oficiales que rompió las pantallas porque quería “recibir ayuda”.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta un cargo de daños criminales con un arma que involucra daños a la propiedad por $1,000 USD o más.

Hasta el miércoles, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

Según un reporte de arresto, el incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 7:30 a.m. del sábado cerca de la intersección de Southwest 87th Avenue y 184th Street.

El reporte indica que Raimiero Rios conducía una SUV negra hacia el sur por Southwest 87th Avenue cuando comenzó a tocar la bocina a dos ciclistas que también se dirigían hacia el sur.

Rios luego desvió la SUV hacia los ciclistas, obligando a uno de ellos a salirse de la carretera, según el reporte.

Los agentes indicaron que Rios luego atropelló al segundo ciclista con la SUV.

Después de la colisión, Rios sacó un arma y disparó en dirección al ciclista, según el reporte.

El incidente fue captado en video.

Los agentes que respondieron al lugar indicaron que encontraron un agujero de bala en el suelo. No se reportaron heridos.

El reporte indica que Rios fue trasladado a la estación del Distrito Municipal de Cutler Bay de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade para ser interrogado, donde invocó sus derechos Miranda.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta un cargo de agresión agravada con arma de fuego, un cargo de agresión física agravada con arma mortal y un cargo por disparar un arma de fuego desde un vehículo.

Hasta la mañana del martes, permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, donde su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el accidente fue reportado poco antes de las 2:30 a.m. en el área de Northwest 36th Street y Lee Drive.

Los agentes dijeron que oficiales de la policía de Miami Springs respondieron a la escena y descubrieron que el conductor se dirigía hacia el oeste por Northwest 36th Street, acercándose a Lee Drive, cuando el vehículo “se desplazó hacia el arcén derecho, ingresó a la acera y chocó contra el frente de un negocio”.

Equipos de Bomberos y Rescate de Miami-Dade también respondieron y transportaron al conductor al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde fue declarado muerto, dijeron los agentes.

Funcionarios de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade confirmaron que detectives de su Oficina de Homicidios de Tránsito asumieron la investigación.

Las circunstancias que llevaron al accidente continúan bajo investigación. La identidad del conductor aún no ha sido divulgada.

Here's a look at some other notable corporate settlements.

BP and the Deepwater Horizon disaster

Oil giant BP agreed to pay $20 billion for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that became the worst offshore spill in the nation’s history.

The settlement, first announced in 2016, included $5.5 billion in civil Clean Water Act penalties and billions more to cover environmental damage and other claims by the five Gulf states and local governments. The money is to be paid out over roughly 16 years.

Enron and its massive accounting scandal

Enron, once the nation’s seventh-largest company, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001, after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions of dollars in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The energy company’s collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work and wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions.

Twenty-four Enron executives, including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, were convicted for their roles in the fraud.

A class-action lawsuit led to the recovery of more than $7 billion in funds.

WorldCom hid falling profits in one of the worst cases of accounting fraud

WorldCom Inc. collapsed and went into bankruptcy in 2002 following revelations of an $11 billion accounting fraud that included pressure from top executives on subordinates to inflate numbers to make the company seem more profitable. The collapse caused losses to stockholders, including those who had invested through retirement plans.

In 2005, the company agreed to pay shareholders about $750 million in cash and stock, while major banks and accounting firms settled for about $6 billion.

WorldCom's former CEO, Bernie Ebbers was convicted in New York in 2005 on securities fraud and other charges and received a 25-year sentence. He died in 2020, just over a month after his early release from prison.

After its collapse, WorldCom reemerged under a new name, MCI. It was taken over by Verizon and relocated its operations to Ashburn, Virginia.

JPMorgan, Bank of America and the housing bets that shook the world

JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $13 billion in a landmark settlement in 2013. The firm acknowledged that it misled investors about the quality of risky mortgage-backed securities ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.

The agreement also included settlements with New York, California and other states.

JPMorgan was among the major banks that sold securities that plunged in value when the housing market collapsed in 2006 and 2007. Those losses triggered a financial crisis that pushed the economy into the worst recession since the 1930s.

A year later, Bank of America reached a $16.65 billion settlement with the government over the same issue. Its deal called for the bank, the second-largest in the U.S., to pay a $5 billion cash penalty, another $4.6 billion in remediation payments and provide about $7 billion in relief to struggling homeowners.

Johnson & Johnson and the marathon legal fight over talc

Johnson & Johnson agreed in July to pay $5.5 billion after fighting lawsuits for almost two decades over talc products that plaintiffs claimed had caused ovarian cancer.

The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said that the settlement is conditioned on at least 95% of remaining claimants participating.

A U.S. bankruptcy court judge denied a $9 billion settlement proposed by company subsidiary Red River Talc last year that would have been one of the biggest mass tort settlements in history.

Johnson & Johnson decided not to appeal that ruling and instead fight on in court.

As part of the proposed settlement, Johnson & Johnson will make an initial payment of no more than $3 billion next year. It has no additional payments due until 2028.

Su nombre está grabado en el Paseo de la Fama de la ciudad, ubicado justo afuera del Salón de la Fama de la Música Country.

No hace mucho, el salón inauguró una nueva exhibición que muestra su extraordinaria carrera.

También se vio a admiradores en Dollywood, llegando y rindiéndole homenaje de diferentes maneras.

A solo unas cuadras se encuentra el Songteller Hotel, uno de los proyectos más recientes de Parton que aún está en construcción.

Afuera había flores y una nota que decía: “Espero que la vida te trate bien”.

Parton fue una leyenda en el escenario, la pantalla y la comunidad.

Fue una joven del este de Tennessee que vivió una vida que dejó un impacto duradero en todo el mundo.

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According to an arrest report, the incident happened at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday near the intersection of Southwest 87th Avenue and 184th Street.

The report states Raimiero Rios was driving a black SUV south on Southwest 87th Avenue when he began honking at two cyclists who were also traveling south.

Rios then swerved the SUV toward the cyclists, forcing one of them off the roadway, according to the report.

Deputies said Rios then struck the second cyclist with the SUV.

After the collision, Rios pulled out a gun and fired a round in the direction of the cyclist, according to the report.

The incident was captured on video.

Grant Cordery is an avid cyclist who runs a bike shop in Deerfield Beach.

Cordery is friends with members of the cycling group that was involved in the incident.

“It’s disgusting in my opinion, and I think I speak for all cyclists that we just want to be treated with the same respect,” he said. “A vehicle is definitely a weapon. I think there just needs to be more patience in the world and more respect in the world, for sure.”

Deputies who responded to the scene said they found a bullet hole in the ground. No injuries were reported.

Residents in the area told Local 10’s Roy Ramos that the area where the incident occurred is popular with riders.

“I saw two cyclists sitting on the grass with their bikes lying beside them, and I saw two police officers,” said Kathy Javach, who was driving in the area at the time of the incident.

Witnesses said Rios took off before deputies arrived but later turned himself in.

Jail records show he is facing one count each of aggravated assault with a firearm, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.

He posted a $15,000 bond and was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center early Wednesday. He declined to comment to Local 10 News and covered his face as he left the jail.

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KISS Country 99.9’s morning show featuring TC and Dina B provided a hearty mix of smiles and tears as they paid tribute to Parton.

For four hours, they didn’t just play her songs, they remembered her.

They said it’s the least they could do for a woman who has done so much for so many others.

“Every time you saw Dolly Parton, she was just this light, and I feel that if you know country music or if you don’t know country music, you know dolly parton,” said Dina B.

TC and Dina B have both spent more than a decade in radio, seeing songs and stars come and go, but Parton is one who withstood the test of time.

“Dolly introduced a whole new sound of country,” said TC. “It was a sound that you listened to music these days and it’s not all coming from the heart. Everything she wrote came from the heart. Everything she wrote is something you can connect to or some way or another.”

At Hollywood’s Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, butterflies lit up the sky as fans stopped by to pay their respects.

“She was an inspiration, an inspiration for everyone,” said fan Susan Salicco. “I honestly thought she’d live forever.”

One of Parton’s fans who visited the Hard Rock on Wednesday was Joan Pendergrass, widow of famed vocalist Teddy Pendergrass.

“She has given back so much,” said Pendergrass. “She has given so much of herself. What a beautiful, petite (woman), but so large at heart.”

You don’t have to go to Nashville to see Parton’s legacy.

Back in 1998, Parton joined Bob Hope to film a Christmas special at PortMiami, and further back in 1982, both Parton and Burt Reynolds made their way through South Florida crowds for a movie premiere.

El programa matutino de KISS Country 99.9, con TC y Dina B, ofreció una emotiva mezcla de sonrisas y lágrimas mientras rendían homenaje a Parton.

Durante cuatro horas, no solo tocaron sus canciones, también la recordaron.

Dijeron que era lo menos que podían hacer por una mujer que hizo tanto por tantas otras personas.

“Cada vez que veías a Dolly Parton, ella era simplemente esta luz, y siento que si conoces la música country o si no conoces la música country, conoces a Dolly Parton”, dijo Dina B.

TC y Dina B han trabajado en la radio durante más de una década, viendo canciones y estrellas ir y venir, pero Parton es una de las que resistió el paso del tiempo.

“Dolly introdujo un sonido completamente nuevo en la música country”, dijo TC. “Era un sonido que, cuando escuchas música en estos días, no todo viene del corazón. Todo lo que ella escribió venía del corazón. Todo lo que escribió es algo con lo que puedes identificarte de una forma u otra”.

En el Hard Rock Hotel & Casino de Hollywood, mariposas iluminaron el cielo mientras los admiradores se detenían para rendirle homenaje.

“Fue una inspiración, una inspiración para todos”, dijo la admiradora Susan Salicco. “Sinceramente pensé que viviría para siempre”.

Una de las admiradoras de Parton que visitó el Hard Rock el miércoles fue Joan Pendergrass, viuda del famoso cantante Teddy Pendergrass.

“Ella ha retribuido tanto”, dijo Pendergrass. “Ha dado tanto de sí misma. Qué mujer tan hermosa y pequeña, pero con un corazón tan grande”.

No hay que ir a Nashville para ver el legado de Parton.

En 1998, Parton se unió a Bob Hope para grabar un especial de Navidad en PortMiami, y anteriormente, en 1982, tanto Parton como Burt Reynolds se abrieron paso entre multitudes del sur de Florida para el estreno de una película.

The sanctioning body released its 2027 schedule Wednesday. The slate begins at Daytona International Speedway and wraps up back in the Sunshine State at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Among the highlights: a return to San Diego for the Cup and O'Reilly Auto Parks series. NASCAR and the Department of Defense unveiled a multi-year plan to host events beyond Coronado. In 2028, they intend to take the military-base street race to a different U.S. military installation.

The exhibition Clash will be held at Daytona the weekend before the Daytona 500. NASCAR’s All-Star race will be held at North Wilkesboro Speedway. And the season-ending NASCAR championship weekend will return to Homestead-Miami Speedway for the second straight year.

Homestead hosted NASCAR’s championship weekend from 2002-2019 before welcoming the season finale back in 2026. The venue is currently undergoing a $20 million capital investment project that will transform the track and enhance race-day experiences for fans, partners and industry stakeholders.

Also noteworthy: Dover Motor Speedway returns to a Cup Series points-race date May 16 after hosting the All-Star race; the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway will serve as the final regular-season race in the Cup Series, setting the field for the Chase; and Pocono Raceway will feature all three national series during its race weekend in June.

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The ruling Wednesday by a judge in the state's capital city marks another setback in Democrats' national attempts to counter a Republican redistricting movement pushed by President Donald Trump ahead of this year's elections. The judge ruled that the amendment cannot appear on the November ballot, but he paused the effect of that ruling to allow for an appeal to the state Supreme Court.

Democrats already control seven of Maryland's eight congressional seats. Democratic Gov. Wes Moore called lawmakers into a special session in August with a goal of making it easier to claim that final seat.

An amendment referred to the ballot by lawmakers seeks to sidestep a court ruling that struck down a previous Democratic redistricting plan in 2022. It would declare that a constitutional requirement for districts to be compact and take into account “natural boundaries” applies only to state legislative districts, not congressional ones.

That would allow Democratic state lawmakers to draw congressional districts that cross the Chesapeake Bay, reshaping a district east of the bay that is held by Republican Rep. Andy Harris, chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

Judge says legislature did not follow the laws it enacted

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Robert Thompson ruled that lawmakers violated their own deadlines for ballot measures. Earlier this year, lawmakers passed a law signed by Moore that set a July 1 deadline for the secretary of state to certify summaries of all statewide ballot questions to the Maryland State Board of Elections.

The state attorney general's office argued that deadline didn't apply to the redistricting amendment because lawmakers wrote their own ballot summary for it, using their constitutional authority. The judge disagreed, instead siding with arguments by the conservative Oversight Project and Republican state lawmakers who sued.

Thompson also ruled that lawmakers used “intentionally misleading” wording in the ballot question by stating that it merely “clarifies” the Constitution's redistricting standards. And Thompson said the amendment violates a single-issue requirement in the Constitution by also including a provision that would give the state Supreme Court original jurisdiction in lawsuits over congressional redistricting.

“The court has no choice but to enjoin the board of elections from including ballot Question 3 on the general election ballot for November 3, 2026,” Thompson wrote.

Redistricting dispute heads to the Maryland Supreme Court

Shortly after the ruling, the state filed a notice of appeal to the Maryland Supreme Court.

Maryland House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk, a Democrat, expressed hope of eventually prevailing.

“We remain confident in the authority of the General Assembly and believe Maryland voters should have the final say,” she said in a statement.

Redistricting opponents acknowledged the fight was not over.

But “today's decision is a major step in our battle against Maryland’s lawless attempt at redistricting. Complete and total vindication!” Oversight Project Strategic Counsel Marshall Yates said in a statement.

Maryland is the latest state to join a national redistricting fight

Earlier this year, the Virginia Supreme Court also invalidated a redistricting ballot measure because of procedural violations by state lawmakers. In that case, voters had already approved an amendment in April authorizing mid-decade redistricting when the court ruled that lawmakers last year had waited too long to take an initial step necessary to qualify it for the ballot.

Virginia and Maryland both were seeking to follow the path of California, where voters approved a Democratic-backed amendment authorizing mid-decade redistricting. Democrats hope to gain as many as five congressional seats from California's redrawn districts, plus an additional seat from new districts in Utah.

But Republicans hope to win as many as 16 additional seats from new U.S. House districts enacted in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas.

Redistricting typically happens near the beginning of each decade, after new census data is released. But a mid-decade redistricting battle broke out after Trump urged Republican-led states to redraw congressional districts in hopes that it might help Republicans hold onto a slim House majority in this year’s midterm elections.

Curry, who suffered a stroke in 2012 that put him in a wheelchair, died Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles, according to his longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz. No cause was disclosed.

Known for his arch humor, a puttylike face and gift with voices, Curry earned three Tony nominations — for “Spamalot,” “My Favorite Year” and “Amadeus” — and a Primetime Emmy nod in 1994.

“I like playing the more curious corners of the human mind and human behavior, partly because they’re a tad more interesting,” Curry told The Associated Press in 1993.

Curry burst onto the scene as the Transylvanian Frank-N-Furter in the sci-fi, cross-dressing rock musical “The Rocky Horror Show,” which premiered in 1973 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went with it to Broadway and then starred in the 1975 cult-classic movie alongside Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf and Susan Sarandon.

The show was ahead of its time in terms of its representation of LGBTQ+ characters and has entered the pop culture lexicon for its many iconic and memorable scenes, including the song “The Time Warp,” which has been covered by handfuls of artists, and the often-quoted phrase, “Dammit, Janet!” The show was twice revived on Broadway, most recently in 2026 with Luke Evans playing Frank-N-Furter.

“He was a force, a bright fierce flame, an exquisite charm and that rich vocal tone,” Evans wrote on Instagram. “I hope, wherever you are, you'd approve of one more Frank having the time of his life in those heels.”

Tim Curry's take on Frank-N-Furter

Curry's Frank-N-Furter had a posh British accent, but that almost wasn’t the case. He said he tried German and American accents but pivoted after he heard a British woman on a bus talking with her friend.

“I met a woman on a bus who said, ‘Do you have a house in town or a house in the country’ and I thought, ‘That’s the voice!’” he told LA Magazine in 2015.

For many years after the film’s premiere, the British-born actor declined to discuss it. He didn’t participate in activities promoting the film, which morphed into an interactive event at midnight shows. But he later warmed again to the project and embraced it at public events. Asked by LA Magazine how he viewed “Rocky Horror,” he responded: “With a sort of bemused tolerance. It’s neither a blessing nor a curse. I was lucky to get it.”

Curry’s Broadway career included starring in Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” in 1975-76, playing Mozart opposite Ian McKellen’s Antonio Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus” and King Arthur in the 2005 production of “Spamalot.” The New York Times said his “stalwart, plummy-voiced Arthur wears a smile as inflexible as armor.” He also played Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol,” at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in 2001.

His screen credits included starring as the child-killing monster in the 1990 miniseries version of Stephen King’s horror novel “It,” as a medical officer in “The Hunt for Red October” in 1990 and the double-dealing Cardinal Richelieu in 1993’s “The Three Musketeers” with Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Chris O’Donnell.

“Tim Curry was someone I cared deeply about, he was someone I loved working with and I am so lucky to have these memories,” Sutherland said in a statement.

In his 2025 memoir, “Vagabond,” Curry warned readers that while there were scraps of his nature in his characters, he was none of them. “The distinctions between who I really am and who I've pretended to be as an actor have proven to be a source of great disappointment to some audiences. It has not caused me much personal distress beyond the periodic necessity to deter stalkers,” he wrote.

Tim Curry's life and career began in England

Born in Cheshire, England, Curry was the son of a Navy chaplain and a school secretary. He was 12 when his father died and his mother subsequently went to work. Young Tim learned to cook his own breakfast, resulting in a lifelong passion for cooking, and sharpened his humor muscles.

“My father was a Methodist chaplain in the Navy, and we moved pretty much every 18 months,” he said. “So I had to make my mark in new schools and new playgrounds pretty quickly. And a sense of humor is the best way to do that. I was always a kind of mimic, one of those awful, relentless children, I should think.”

Acting did not occur to him until his middle teens, when he attended a school for the sons of Methodist ministers.

“I was lucky that it was a liberal kind of school; many of them in England are rather Dickensian,” he recalled to the AP. “There was a lot of theater, and I sang, too; I had been singing in church from the age of 7. I had enormous opportunities to express myself in that way. I just got hooked, really.”

His training continued in 1965 when he entered the University of Birmingham, at that time one of three English universities with a drama department. “I took an academic course, which I largely ignored, I’m afraid, and just acted all the time,” he said.

He then went down to London and talked his way into his first job, “Hair,” in the West End. Curry went on to the more formalized theater of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, where he was enlisted for “The Rocky Horror Show.”

Tim Curry's other roles

He went on to futilely try to stop Macaulay Culkin's Kevin McCallister from taking advantage of New York’s swanky Plaza Hotel in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.” Curry also was Wadsworth, the unhinged butler with a secret past, in the quotable “Clue.” He played a wealthy philanthropist in 1995's “Congo” and a baddie opposite Carol Burnett in the movie “Annie.”

“Nobody could play lovable villains better than he could,” Burnett wrote on Instagram. “He was a dear friend. I was blessed to know him.”

In later years, Curry lent his baritone voice to many voice-acting roles in children’s TV series, including “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” “The Wild Thornberrys” and “The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.”

He won a Daytime Emmy in 1991 for voicing Captain Hook in “Peter Pan and the Pirates” and earned a Grammy nomination in 2002 for the audiobook of the first “Lemony Snicket” novel, “A Series of Unfortunate Events.”

After a yearslong break from live-action roles, Curry played a plague doctor-masked man in a wheelchair in 2024's “Stream,” something the film's director Michael Leavy called a dream come true.

Curry, who never married and had no children, was deeply private about his personal life. But he wrote in his memoir that he was convinced to tell his story thanks to so many moving encounters with fans.

“The notion that my experiences might resonate helps me persevere — if they strike a chord with only one teenager, alone with a book in his room, as I so often was; or that young woman reading this on an interminably long bus ride; or that older queen, hopefully still in his fishnets, who saw ‘Rocky Horror’ upstairs at the Royal Court; or that middle-aged mother who organizes ‘Clue’ watching parties and refuses entry to anybody out of costume; or that buttoned-up bank clerk who relishes musicals; or that woman who kicked me out of the Waverly for being myself,” he wrote.

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This story has been corrected to show that the original stage version was titled “The Rocky Horror Show.” It has also been updated to correct that Curry’s publicist erroneously reported the date of his death as Wednesday, not Tuesday.

Paul McCartney explained those famous lines in the song by The Beatles, saying these Bibles “were in every hotel in America.” He’d never seen something like that in England.

For more than a century, countless have found it in the bedside drawers of American hotel and motel rooms. It has become a symbol of America’s roadside culture and Protestant tradition. It’s mentioned in lyrics, films, Broadway shows.

“The Gideon Bible is a peculiarly and amazingly American object,” says Lori Anne Ferrell, author of “The Bible and the People.”

It began with Gideons International, an organization of evangelical business and professional men founded in 1899.

One of its members, working on a railroad expansion project, gets off the train in the town of Superior in western Montana, and checks into a hotel. He asks the owner if he can place a Bible at the front desk. She responds with a more ambitious proposal: Place a Bible in each of the hotel rooms.

The group says that it has distributed more than 2.5 billion Bibles worldwide since that day in 1908. It was the year that Ford Motor Co. began manufacturing the Model T, the first low-priced car that introduced motoring to the masses.

“All of a sudden, we have the road culture, the interstate culture, we have motels, and we have, for the first time, people leaving home,” Ferrell says. “There’s a story about America with the Gideon Bible that you can’t tell with any other Bible because it’s distributed everywhere, and it represents the movement of people across the country.”

Gideon Bibles have been distributed in prisons, military bases, hospitals, even the White House. In a 1971 ceremony, the group presented its 100 millionth Bible to President Richard Nixon.

“It’s an expression of biblicism — the idea that the Bible it’s from God to you. And it’s all you need … and that biblicism is a deep element in American culture,” says Timothy K. Beal, author of “Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith.”

Over the years, its distribution in schools faced challenges. Its presence diminished as the number of U.S. hotels that offer religious materials in their rooms dropped.

Still, it remains the religious book that quietly seeks to provide comfort in the most secular of settings — and that, even with the advent of the TV and Wi-Fi, sits in motel nightstands across America and endures.

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Más del 33% de Puerto Rico está en condiciones de sequía extrema y otro 30% bajo una sequía severa. Julio fue el mes más árido para la capital, San Juan, en más de 120 años de registros, y el segundo más caluroso.

La gobernadora Jenniffer González informó que hace más de dos semanas solicitó formalmente la declaratoria al Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos.

“Desde el primer momento dejamos clara la necesidad de nuestros agricultores”, expresó.

La declaración abarca 26 de los 78 municipios de Puerto Rico, incluidos Cabo Rojo, Ponce, Yauco, Aibonito y Lares.

La declaratoria permite que los agricultores de esas regiones accedan a préstamos de emergencia.

“Este es un paso importante”, señaló el secretario de Agricultura de Puerto Rico, Irving Rodríguez. “Exhortamos a todos los productores afectados por la sequía a documentar sus pérdidas”.

Naia Seda es una de las agricultoras que no ven la hora de solicitar ayuda financiera. Tiene una finca de seis hectáreas (15 acres) en la que cultiva aguacates, plátanos, limones y yuca.

No ha llovido desde abril. A su granja, que opera desde 2009, la atraviesan grietas de varios metros de profundidad.

“Yo nunca había visto algo así en mi finca”, puntualizó.

Lamentó cómo sus cultivos se han ido marchitando y las frutas caen al suelo antes de madurar debido al implacable calor.

El canal de riego del que dependen su finca y otras 300 en el municipio de Lajas, en el suroccidente de la isla, solía suministrar agua según se solicitaba. Seda recibía ese suministro tres veces por semana. En junio, los funcionarios limitaron el suministro a una vez por semana.

Las persistentes condiciones secas han obligado a muchos agricultores a detener la producción desde mayo, indicó Fello Pérez, proveedor de asistencia técnica en Puerto Rico para RAFI, una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Carolina del Norte que atiende a agricultores pequeños y medianos en el sureste de Estados Unidos, Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos.

Pérez comentó en una entrevista telefónica que los agricultores puertorriqueños que trabajan con hidroponía y los que cultivan hortalizas son algunos de los más afectados.

Quienes cultivan frutas como café, cacao y distintos tipos de plátanos, han visto cómo caen verdes por falta de agua.

“La cosecha se adelantó”, dijo.

Quienes crían animales también se han visto afectados porque no han podido alimentar al ganado. En un intento por obtener dinero, pusieron a la venta toros jóvenes a precios de remate, pero nadie compraba debido a la sequía, explicó Pérez.

Los agricultores han perdido dinero desde mayo; uno de ellos incluso se vio obligado a retomar su trabajo como mecánico para llegar a fin de mes, agregó.

La gobernadora de Puerto Rico había declarado un estado de emergencia a finales de julio debido a las persistentes condiciones secas y activó a la Guardia Nacional para transportar, distribuir y purificar agua.

A principios de agosto anunció medidas de racionamiento de agua en ciertos vecindarios de San Juan y otras seis ciudades. Más de 180.000 clientes están sin agua hasta por 48 horas seguidas como parte de una rotación.

Grandes camiones distribuyen agua en esas zonas, con prioridad para hospitales y residencias de personas mayores.

Los meteorólogos afirman que la sequía en curso es el resultado de un ciclo natural de calentamiento conocido como El Niño, que también ha afectado a las vecinas Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos. El gobierno de Estados Unidos declaró un desastre por sequía a principios de este mes para Santo Tomás, San Juan y Santa Cruz, que están bajo sequía extrema.

Más allá de las condiciones secas, Puerto Rico también enfrenta una falta de agua atribuida al deterioro de la infraestructura.

Miles de puertorriqueños ya experimentaban escasez de agua y cambios en la presión de la misma desde hace un año.

La falta de agua no relacionada con la sequía llevó al alcalde de San Juan, Miguel Romero, a demandar a la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de la isla a finales de mayo, y la gobernadora reconoció que la infraestructura de la agencia ha carecido de inversión y mantenimiento durante décadas.

Puerto Rico implementó previamente medidas de racionamiento de agua en 2020 y en 2015, cuando unos 400.000 clientes del servicio público recibían agua solo cada tercer día.

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The incident occurred on Thursday, Aug. 6 outside of Sedano’s Supermarket, located at 950 E. Fourth Ave. in Hialeah.

According to the Hialeah Police Department, the suspect, Carlos Alvarez, loaned the victim $4,000 several days prior in order for him to purchase a vehicle.

Then on Aug. 6, police said Alvarez called the victim and asked for them to meet outside the supermarket.

According to authorities, the two conversed at first, but at one point, the victim began a video call with his girlfriend. During the call, police said Alvarez returned to his car and retrieved a gun, then went back to the victim and struck him in the face with it.

As the victim tired to get away, Alvarez fired two shots at the victim, according to an arrest report.

The report states that after the shooting occurred, Alvarez fled the scene and called the victim, who had retreated into the supermarket, telling him not to call the police.

Authorities said the victim waited a brief time before leaving the supermarket, at which time Alvarez returned and exited his vehicle, approached the victim and began punching him before again fleeing the scene.

Police said neither Alvarez or the victim were still there when officers arrived. It wasn’t until a week later on Aug. 13 that the victim reported the incident at the Hialeah Police Department’s main station, located at 5555 E. Eighth Ave.

Investigators obtained surveillance video from the area of the incident that corroborated the victim’s sworn statement, according to an arrest report.

Police said Alvarez was located at his home on Tuesday by members of HPD’s Major Crimes Unit and taken into custody.

Jail records show he is now facing charges of attempted second-degree murder with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

As of Wednesday morning, Alvarez was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set.”

El incidente ocurrió el jueves 6 de agosto afuera del supermercado Sedano’s, ubicado en 950 E. Fourth Ave. en Hialeah.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Hialeah, el sospechoso, Carlos Alvarez, le prestó $4,000 USD a la víctima varios días antes para que pudiera comprar un vehículo.

Luego, el 6 de agosto, la policía dijo que Alvarez llamó a la víctima y le pidió que se reunieran afuera del supermercado.

Según las autoridades, ambos conversaron al principio, pero en un momento dado, la víctima inició una videollamada con su novia. Durante la llamada, la policía dijo que Alvarez regresó a su vehículo y sacó un arma, luego volvió con la víctima y la golpeó en el rostro con ella.

Mientras la víctima intentaba escapar, Alvarez le disparó dos veces, según un reporte de arresto.

El reporte señala que después de la balacera, Alvarez huyó de la escena y llamó a la víctima, quien se había refugiado dentro del supermercado, diciéndole que no llamara a la policía.

Las autoridades dijeron que la víctima esperó brevemente antes de salir del supermercado, momento en el que Alvarez regresó, salió de su vehículo, se acercó a la víctima y comenzó a golpearla con los puños antes de huir nuevamente de la escena.

La policía dijo que ni Alvarez ni la víctima seguían en el lugar cuando llegaron los oficiales. No fue hasta una semana después, el 13 de agosto, que la víctima reportó el incidente en la estación principal del Departamento de Policía de Hialeah, ubicada en 5555 E. Eighth Ave.

Los investigadores obtuvieron videos de vigilancia del área donde ocurrió el incidente que corroboraron la declaración jurada de la víctima, según un reporte de arresto.

La policía dijo que Alvarez fue localizado en su casa el martes por miembros de la Unidad de Delitos Mayores del Departamento de Policía de Hialeah y fue detenido.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que ahora enfrenta cargos de intento de asesinato en segundo grado con un arma mortal y agresión agravada con un arma mortal.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, Alvarez permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, con la fianza indicada como “por determinar”.

FDA officials gave expedited approval to the first-of-a-kind pill, called daraxonrasib, which blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumor growth in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases. It's an approach that previously eluded drugmakers for decades.

The daily pills will be sold by Revolution Medicines under the brand name Rasonque. A one-month supply would cost approximately $39,800, the company announced.

Patients taking the drug nearly doubled their survival time, with fewer severe side effects, in a study that randomly assigned them to receive the experimental treatment or more chemotherapy. The company-funded study enrolled 500 patients whose metastatic, or spreading, cancer had quit responding to prior treatment.

Patients getting the new treatment lived for a median of 13.2 months compared with 6.7 months for chemotherapy recipients. Side effects included skin rash, mouth sores, diarrhea and other digestive issues.

“This is one of the most anticipated approvals I can think of,” said Dr. Andrew Coveler of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. “This medicine is not a cure but a significant improvement.”

Pancreatic cancer is among the most deadly forms in large part because it is hard to detect before it starts spreading to other organs. The American Cancer Society estimates about 67,000 new cases will be diagnosed in the United States this year and more than 52,000 people will die from the disease. The five-year overall survival rate is 13%.

The drug garnered public attention earlier this year when former Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., described on CBS' “60 Minutes” how he has had less pain while taking it. A surge in public interest led the FDA to allow “expanded access,” before the drug’s official approval, for patients who met certain criteria.

FDA regulators noted on Wednesday that they approved the drug more than six months ahead of their target date.

"It is our fundamental duty to deliver more cures and meaningful treatments to patients as quickly as possible,” the FDA's acting commissioner, Kyle Diamantas, said in a statement.

Unlike with other cancers that have benefited from a variety of chemotherapy alternatives, pancreatic cancer has been harder to tackle.

The new drug targets mutations in the RAS gene family that normally regulates cell growth. What are known as KRAS mutations are especially critical in fueling pancreatic cancer. But a structure that made it hard for drugs to stick to the mutated proteins meant this cancer driver was long considered “undruggable.”

Doctors who treat pancreatic cancer hope the drug may usher in more new options for other forms of cancer, with scores of experimental drugs in development.

“I think this has opened doors for many other companies,” said Dr. Pashtoon Kasi of City of Hope Orange County, a California-based cancer center. “Downstream I think there are going to be a lot more trials looking at this approach in other tumor types.”

Revolution Medicines’ drug uses what’s essentially a molecular glue to bind with multiple KRAS subtypes. The Redwood City, California-based drugmaker is studying its technology for several other forms of cancer, including lung cancer.

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Yunior Orlando Fonseca-Jorge, 31, of Miami, was arrested on a third-degree grand theft charge in connection with the July 25 theft, according to a Miami Police Department arrest report.

Police said the investigation began July 27, after the victim contacted officers about a laptop that was supposed to have been delivered to her apartment on Brickell Key Drive two days earlier.

An officer responded to the building and obtained surveillance video from the property.

According to the arrest report, the footage showed Fonseca-Jorge arriving at the building at approximately 12:45 p.m. on July 25 and placing the package inside the mailroom.

Investigators said he then took a photograph of the package before picking it back up, returning to his vehicle and driving away with it.

Investigators determined the delivery had been made through Roadie, a delivery service. Police said Roadie provided information associated with the account used to make the delivery, which helped investigators identify Fonseca-Jorge as the suspect.

When a detective initially spoke with Fonseca-Jorge, police said he remembered making the delivery but claimed he had left the package in the mailroom.

After the detective told him surveillance video showed him leaving with the package, Fonseca-Jorge said he “must have lost” it, according to the report.

Another Miami police officer who had previous experience with Fonseca-Jorge later identified him from the surveillance footage, investigators said.

During a recorded interview with detectives after being taken into custody Tuesday, Fonseca-Jorge was shown the surveillance footage and identified himself as the person seen in the video, according to the arrest report.

Police said he also acknowledged remembering the incident and admitted taking the package with him when he left the property.

Fonseca-Jorge was then transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center for processing.

As of Wednesday morning, Fonseca-Jorge remained at TGK on a $2,500 bond.

Yunior Orlando Fonseca-Jorge, de 31 años, de Miami, fue arrestado por un cargo de hurto mayor en tercer grado en relación con el robo del 25 de julio, según un reporte de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami.

La policía dijo que la investigación comenzó el 27 de julio, después de que la víctima contactara a los oficiales por una computadora portátil que debía haber sido entregada en su apartamento en Brickell Key Drive dos días antes.

Un oficial acudió al edificio y obtuvo un video de vigilancia de la propiedad.

Según el reporte de arresto, las imágenes mostraron a Fonseca-Jorge llegando al edificio aproximadamente a las 12:45 p.m. del 25 de julio y colocando el paquete dentro del cuarto de correo.

Los investigadores dijeron que luego tomó una fotografía del paquete antes de recogerlo nuevamente, regresar a su vehículo y marcharse con él.

Los investigadores determinaron que la entrega se había realizado a través de Roadie, un servicio de entregas. La policía dijo que Roadie proporcionó información asociada con la cuenta utilizada para realizar la entrega, lo que ayudó a los investigadores a identificar a Fonseca-Jorge como el sospechoso.

Cuando un detective habló inicialmente con Fonseca-Jorge, la policía dijo que recordó haber realizado la entrega, pero afirmó que había dejado el paquete en el cuarto de correo.

Después de que el detective le dijera que un video de vigilancia lo mostraba saliendo con el paquete, Fonseca-Jorge dijo que “debió haberlo perdido”, según el reporte.

Otro oficial de la policía de Miami que había tenido contacto previo con Fonseca-Jorge posteriormente lo identificó en las imágenes de vigilancia, dijeron los investigadores.

Durante una entrevista grabada con los detectives después de ser detenido el martes, a Fonseca-Jorge le mostraron las imágenes de vigilancia y se identificó como la persona que aparecía en el video, según el reporte de arresto.

La policía dijo que también reconoció recordar el incidente y admitió haberse llevado el paquete cuando salió de la propiedad.

Fonseca-Jorge fue trasladado posteriormente al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight para ser procesado.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, Fonseca-Jorge permanecía en TGK con una fianza de $2,500 USD.

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The suspect was identified in an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office as Stephanie Patrice Stanley.

Deputies said the incident happened Aug. 8 at her home near the 28,000 block of Southwest 126th Court in Miami-Dade’s Princeton area.

The report states that deputies were dispatched to the home at about 8:11 p.m. in reference to a fight involving injuries.

Depuites said they spoke to the victim who said she had been struck in the back several times with a 2-by-4 wood plank.

They said the victim was taken to Jackson South Medical Center for treatment.

The report states that investigators later received several videos showing the incident. According to the report, one video showed Stanley striking the victim in the back with a wooden plank four times.

Deputies said several other videos showed Stanley battering two children during the altercation.

After being advised of her Miranda rights, Stanley admitted to striking the victim with a wooden plank and battering the children, according to the report. She told investigators she was unaware that both kids were under the age of 18, deputies said.

Jail records show Stanley is facing one count of aggravated battery and two counts of child abuse without great bodily harm.

As of Wednesday morning, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where her bond was listed as “to be set.”

Deputies did not release the relationship between the suspect and victims, and the reason for the altercation remains unclear.

La sospechosa fue identificada en un reporte de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade como Stephanie Patrice Stanley.

Los agentes dijeron que el incidente ocurrió el 8 de agosto en su casa cerca de la cuadra 28,000 de Southwest 126th Court, en el área de Princeton de Miami-Dade.

El reporte señala que los agentes fueron enviados a la casa alrededor de las 8:11 p.m. en referencia a una pelea con personas heridas.

Los agentes dijeron que hablaron con la víctima, quien afirmó que había sido golpeada varias veces en la espalda con una tabla de madera de 2 por 4.

Dijeron que la víctima fue trasladada al Jackson South Medical Center para recibir tratamiento.

El reporte señala que los investigadores posteriormente recibieron varios videos que mostraban el incidente. Según el reporte, uno de los videos mostraba a Stanley golpeando a la víctima cuatro veces en la espalda con una tabla de madera.

Los agentes dijeron que varios otros videos mostraban a Stanley agrediendo a dos niños durante el altercado.

Después de ser informada de sus derechos Miranda, Stanley admitió haber golpeado a la víctima con una tabla de madera y haber agredido a los niños, según el reporte. Ella dijo a los investigadores que no sabía que ambos eran menores de 18 años, dijeron los agentes.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Stanley enfrenta un cargo de agresión agravada y dos cargos de abuso infantil sin lesiones corporales graves.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

Los agentes no revelaron la relación entre la sospechosa y las víctimas, y el motivo del altercado continúa sin estar claro.

More than 33% of Puerto Rico is under extreme drought, and another 30% under a severe drought. July was the driest month on record for San Juan in more than 120 years and the second hottest for the island's capital.

Gov. Jenniffer González said she had formally requested the declaration from the U.S. Department of Agriculture more than two weeks ago.

“From the very beginning, we made clear the needs of our farmers,” she said.

The declaration covers 26 of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities, including Cabo Rojo, Ponce, Yauco, Aibonito and Lares.

The disaster declaration allows farmers and agricultural producers in those regions to access emergency loans.

“This is an important step,” Puerto Rico Agriculture Secretary Irving Rodríguez said. “We urge all producers affected by the drought to document their losses.”

Naia Seda is among the farmers anxious to apply for financial help. She has a 15-acre (six-hectare) farm on which she cultivates avocados, plantains, lemons, cassava and other crops.

It hasn’t rained since April. Her farm, which she has cultivated since 2009, is crisscrossed with cracks several feet deep.

“I’ve never seen something like this on my farm,” she said.

Seda lamented how her crops are shriveling and fruits are dropping to the ground before they’ve ripened because of the unrelenting heat.

The irrigation canal that her farm and 300 others in the southwestern municipality of Lajas depend on used to supply water as requested. Seda received that supply three times a week. In June, officials limited the amount to once a week.

The persistent dry conditions have forced many farmers to halt production as early as May, said Fello Pérez, a Puerto Rico-based technical assistance provider for RAFI, a North Carolina-based nonprofit that serves small- to midscale farmers in the U.S. Southeast, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Pérez said in a phone interview that Puerto Rican farmers who work in hydroponics and grow vegetables in soil are among the most affected.

Those who cultivate fruits, including coffee, cacao, plantains, and bananas, have seen them fall green from the tree because of a lack of water.

“The harvest was ahead of schedule,” he said.

Those who breed animals are also affected because they haven’t been able to feed livestock. In a bid to make money, they were selling young bulls at rock-bottom prices, but no one was buying them because of the ongoing drought, Pérez said.

Farmers have been losing money since May. One was forced to resume work as a mechanic to make ends meet, he said.

Puerto Rico’s governor had declared a state of emergency in late July because of the persistent dry conditions and activated the National Guard to transport, distribute, and purify water.

In early August, she announced water rationing measures in certain neighborhoods of San Juan and six other cities. More than 180,000 customers are without water for 48 hours at a time as part of a rotating schedule.

Large trucks are distributing water in those areas, with priority given to hospitals and residences for older people.

Meteorologists say the ongoing drought is the result of a natural warming cycle known as El Niño, which has also affected the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. government declared a drought disaster earlier this month for St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, which are under an extreme drought.

Dry conditions aside, Puerto Rico is also struggling with a lack of water blamed on crumbling infrastructure.

Thousands of Puerto Ricans were already experiencing water shortages and changes in pressure for up to a year.

The lack of water unrelated to the drought prompted San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero to sue the island’s Water and Sewer Authority in late May, with the governor acknowledging the agency’s infrastructure has lacked investment and maintenance for decades.

Puerto Rico previously implemented water rationing measures in 2020 and in 2015, when about 400,000 utility customers received water only every third day.

Grint, who starred in all eight “ Harry Potter ” movies from 2001 to 2011, will join the play at the Lyric Theatre from Feb. 2 to May 30, 2027.

“Ron Weasley has been a part of me since I was 11 years old and I can’t wait to meet him again in this stage of life,” Grint said in a statement. “There is something so full-circle and so special about stepping back into Ron’s shoes now when we are both fathers; it is somehow both very familiar and completely new.”

It will mark the second time a member of the “Harry Potter” film cast has joined the stage production. This year, Tom Felton reprised his role of Draco Malfoy, seeing box office receipts jump.

The play picks up 19 years after the end of the final novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” An adult Potter is married to Ginny Weasley, sister of his best friend, Ron, who married brainy Hermione. Both couples have children and all are in danger again. Ron runs his own joke shop, Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes.

“His return creates a powerful bridge between the story audiences first fell in love with and the story of family, legacy and the passage of time that ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ carries forward,” producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said in a statement.

Grint made his Broadway debut in the original production of “It’s Only a Play,” opposite Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. He made his West End debut in Jez Butterworth’s play “Mojo,” starring opposite Ben Whishaw.

Jared Bridegan was shot in 2022 after he got out of his SUV to remove a tire from a road in Jacksonville Beach. The attack stumped police for months as they struggled to understand why someone with no apparent enemies would be killed while his daughter sat nearby in her car seat.

Prosecutors believe he was killed because of ongoing strife with his former wife, Shanna Gardner, over the parenting of their twins.

Mario Fernandez Saldana, 38, was convicted of first-degree murder and solicitation of murder and faces an automatic sentence of life in prison. He’s married to Gardner, 39, whose trial is set to start in September.

“They wanted a majority of the decision making. They wanted more custody, even 60-40," Assistant State Attorney Christina Stifler said during closing arguments Tuesday in Duval County court.

“It doesn’t matter if they were completely right about the situation or completely wrong. What matters is how they fixed it,” Stifler said. “They fixed it by executing a man when they had other alternatives available to them. That’s why we’re here.”

Prosecutors said Fernandez Saldana hired Henry Tenon to carry out the fatal ambush. He had no personal connection to Bridegan, but was a former tenant at Fernandez Saldana’s rental property in Jacksonville. The prosecutor described him as “basically homeless, squatting on people’s couches with overdrawn bank accounts.”

Jurors saw three checks totaling $10,000 written to Tenon after the homicide, marked as payments by Fernandez Saldana for handyman work and a business idea — “good luck!!”

Tenon’s DNA was identified on the rim of the tire that was intentionally placed in the road, police said.

He initially pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Fernandez Saldana but backed out and will stand trial in 2027.

Defense attorney Jesse Dreicer told jurors that Fernandez Saldana had no motive to have Bridegan killed. Fernandez Saldana and Gardner are estranged, and Gardner moved to Washington state after the killing. She was arrested in 2023.

“He certainly gained no benefit from the death of Jared Bridegan,” Dreicer said, noting there was no testimony that Fernandez Saldana told anyone that Bridegan “deserves to die.”

Gardner is the daughter of the co-founder of Stampin’ Up!, an arts-and-crafts company based in Utah.

Bridegan was shot twice when he stopped his Volkswagen Atlas to move the tire out of the way. He had just returned two children to Gardner's home after a meal with the twins. At the time of his death, he was married to Kirsten Bridegan and they had two children.

Kirsten Bridegan told the jury that the post-divorce relationship between her husband and Gardner was “pretty terrible,” adding there was “absolutely no trust.” She said it interfered with the kids' medical appointments and even routine meetings at school.

Bridegan was chief technology officer at Utah-based Clean Simple Eats before working at Microsoft for less than a year before his death, his wife said.

The fresh round of legal wrangling comes just two days after the Supreme Court handed down a procedural ruling in Trump's favor, and could mean the issue lands before the high court again before the pivotal contests for control of Congress. The first mailed ballots are set to be sent out next week.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston agreed to lift an order prohibiting the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out Trump’s order for November’s elections. She wrote that she was “compelled” to do so after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that a similar injunction she granted in a separate case was premature.

Talwani nevertheless said the executive order could unleash “chaos” and referred to it as “likely unconstitutional.”

The administration can now move forward and implement a Postal Service rule published late Friday. It would require states to follow a uniform envelope style for mail ballots and to give the Postal Service a list of voters eligible to receive them.

A new chapter in high-stakes litigation

The new lawsuit, filed by about two dozen Democratically controlled states against the U.S. Postal Service, marked a new phase in the high-stakes litigation.

It came after the Supreme Court ruled against them in a separate case, but did not say Trump’s order was legal.

The high court majority found the initial Democratic lawsuit was premature, but that was before the Republican administration issued a rule governing Postal Service delivery of mail ballots.

Election officials warn it will be impossible to implement before the first wave of mail ballots are sent out next week.

“Across the country, states are already deep into preparations for the 2026 elections. Now, at the last moment, the federal government is attempting to meddle in those preparations and potentially threaten countless Americans’ right to vote,” New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of 25 Democratic attorneys general filing the lawsuit, said in a statement. “USPS has no authority to decide who can and cannot vote by mail.”

The Trump administration plan faces a third lawsuit originally filed in May in the nation's capital, though courts there have so far declined to block it.

All previous challenges were filed before the administration published its mail ballot rule Friday night.

White House spokesperson Lauren Bis on Wednesday said the Postal Service’s proposals were “commonsense measures that protect the security of mail-in ballots” and that the administration would continue to work to implement them to boost “the safety and security of our elections.”

The Postal Service said it would not comment because of the pending lawsuit.

National Democrats on Tuesday cited the rule in asking the federal judge in the Washington case to block Trump’s order after he declined to do so last spring, saying the administration at the time had not taken concrete action.

In Boston, Talwani also found that the administration had violated a separate injunction she had placed on the Postal Service in drafting the new rule, although she did not take any action against the government. The League of Women Voters originally filed that lawsuit, and on Wednesday they also asked for a new court order blocking the mail voting plan.

Voting by mail has long been on Trump's radar

Trump has long targeted mail voting, which he falsely blames for his 2020 election loss and is disproportionately used by Democrats as a result of Trump’s condemnations. Since returning to power, Trump has tried to claim authority over election rules, saying he thinks Republicans should “take over” vote counting in Democratic areas.

He issued his first election executive order just months after retaking office, attempting to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote, among other changes. He has also been pushing a sweeping election bill that has stalled in the Senate amid opposition from Democrats and even some within his own party.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Orlando Armin Villasmil Noriega, de 37 años, fue arrestado el martes por el Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach.

La policía dijo que Noriega trabajaba como gerente en la ubicación de la cadena del sur de Florida en 4 N. Federal Highway.

Según un reporte de arresto, era responsable de depositar los ingresos en efectivo del día anterior en un Bank of America cercano cuando abría el negocio cada mañana.

La policía dijo que Noriega abrió el restaurante el 18 de abril y retiró depósitos que contenían casi $9,000 USD en ingresos de los dos días anteriores. Un video de vigilancia lo mostró saliendo del negocio con el dinero, según el reporte.

Los depósitos nunca fueron recibidos en la cuenta de Bank of America del negocio, y el banco no encontró ningún registro de que Noriega intentara realizar los depósitos, dijo la policía.

Dijeron que Noriega fue captado nuevamente en un video de vigilancia el 19 de abril retirando una bolsa de depósito que contenía poco más de $5,000 USD. La policía dijo que no fue visto realizando un depósito en el banco.

Del 23 al 26 de abril, Noriega trabajó como gerente de cierre y era responsable de preparar los depósitos y colocarlos en la caja fuerte del negocio para el gerente que abriera al día siguiente, según los investigadores.

Los depósitos de esos días, que sumaban más de $19,000 USD, nunca fueron depositados, dijo la policía.

Cuando la policía preguntó qué había sucedido con el dinero, un testigo dijo a los investigadores que Noriega afirmó que los depósitos se habían realizado por la noche, señala el reporte.

La policía dijo que los depósitos nocturnos no estaban autorizados en esa ubicación de Bank of America y que los investigadores no pudieron localizar videos de vigilancia que mostraran a Noriega realizando los depósitos.

Dijeron que Noriega tenía previsto trabajar el 27 de abril, pero llamó para reportarse enfermo y le dijo al negocio que estaba “terminando su empleo” con Flanigan’s. Según reportes, dijo que se mudaría a Carolina del Norte en mayo.

Según la policía, Noriega privó al negocio de $33,091.06 USD. El negocio ahora solicita encarcelamiento y restitución.

Los registros muestran que Noriega enfrenta un cargo de hurto mayor de más de $20,000 USD, pero menos de $100,000 USD.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, ya no figuraba como recluso en los registros de la cárcel del condado Broward.

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The modeling suites that were originally gung-ho on 96L’s development this week – notably the legacy physics-based Euro and American GFS models, the latter of which catapulted 96L into a hurricane in its forecast yesterday – have backed off considerably in recent cycles, showing 96L struggling throughout its journey this week across the deep tropical belt between Africa and the Caribbean.

As a result, the National Hurricane Center nudged down its development odds for 96L from high to medium early Wednesday.

That said, 96L for now remains a healthy disturbance and it wouldn’t take much additional organization for it to clear the hurdles to become a tropical depression or named storm today or tomorrow before environmental conditions become less conducive into the weekend.

The next name on the list is Dolly.

Google DeepMind first on and first off

Google’s DeepMind machine-learning based ensemble system – which had a banner, breakthrough year in 2025, becoming the new gold-standard hurricane forecast system – has been consistently first to sniff out new systems but also been consistently first to drop development odds when the picture turns less conducive.

This bellwether behavior has been true for 96L as well. When most other modeling camps insisted on the possibility of significant development this week, DeepMind balked, yesterday showing next to no chance of formation this week.

Overall development odds for 96L from DeepMind have fallen from 60% a few days ago to 40% yesterday to around 20% today. The now low odds don’t come until the disturbance is over the southwestern Atlantic and near the Bahamas in about a week, a scenario the model has been promoting for several days.

The odds are low and the trend is lower today than yesterday for this late-blooming scenario, but it’s one we’ll watch given the disturbance’s proximity to Florida and the U.S. next week.

This is beyond El Niño’s shear-induced moat over the central Atlantic and in a region where waters are at record or near-record warmth for the time of year so it’s worth following the trends.

The odds remain low and they’ve trended a little lower since yesterday so it’s nothing for us to worry about at this point.

Will 96L break through or fumble this week?

We’ll have to give this one some time and see how it plays out this week. As we discussed in yesterday’s newsletter, the harder it falls this week, the better, as a weaker system will have less time to recover on the other side of the shear zone next week.

Intensity models generally limit any organized development to tropical depression or low- mid-tier tropical storm strength the next few days. But again, it’s left to be seen if 96L will even cross these entry-level development thresholds before it hits a sizeable roadblock this weekend.

Interests in the eastern Caribbean islands should continue to monitor the forecast this week but right now 96L or what comes of it does not pose a significant threat.

95L no more

The development window for the disturbance in the middle North Atlantic previously designated Invest 95L quickly closed Tuesday and the remnant low-pressure area is being ushered out to sea by strong jet stream winds today.

Los conjuntos de modelos que originalmente apostaban con fuerza por el desarrollo de 96L esta semana, en particular los modelos tradicionales basados en la física, el europeo y el GFS estadounidense, este último llevó a 96L a convertirse en huracán en su pronóstico de ayer, han reducido considerablemente sus expectativas en ciclos recientes, mostrando a 96L enfrentando dificultades durante su recorrido esta semana por el cinturón tropical profundo entre África y el Caribe.

Como resultado, el Centro Nacional de Huracanes redujo ligeramente las probabilidades de desarrollo de 96L de altas a moderadas la madrugada del miércoles.

Dicho esto, 96L sigue siendo por ahora una perturbación saludable y no necesitaría mucha organización adicional para superar los obstáculos y convertirse en una depresión tropical o tormenta con nombre hoy o mañana, antes de que las condiciones ambientales se vuelvan menos favorables hacia el fin de semana.

El próximo nombre en la lista es Dolly.

Google DeepMind, primero en detectar y primero en descartar

El sistema de conjunto basado en aprendizaje automático DeepMind de Google, que tuvo un año sobresaliente y decisivo en 2025, convirtiéndose en el nuevo sistema de referencia para pronósticos de huracanes, ha sido consistentemente el primero en detectar nuevos sistemas, pero también el primero en reducir las probabilidades de desarrollo cuando el panorama se vuelve menos favorable.

Este comportamiento como indicador también se ha cumplido con 96L. Cuando la mayoría de los otros grupos de modelos insistían en la posibilidad de un desarrollo significativo esta semana, DeepMind se mostró contrario y ayer indicó una probabilidad prácticamente nula de formación esta semana.

Las probabilidades generales de desarrollo de 96L según DeepMind han disminuido de 60% hace unos días a 40% ayer y alrededor de 20% hoy. Las probabilidades, ahora bajas, no aparecen hasta que la perturbación se encuentre sobre el Atlántico suroccidental y cerca de las Bahamas dentro de aproximadamente una semana, un escenario que el modelo ha estado proyectando durante varios días.

Las probabilidades son bajas y la tendencia es menor hoy que ayer para este escenario de desarrollo tardío, pero es uno que vigilaremos dada la proximidad de la perturbación a Florida y Estados Unidos la próxima semana.

Esto se encuentra más allá de la barrera de cizalladura inducida por El Niño sobre el Atlántico central y en una región donde las aguas registran temperaturas récord o cercanas a niveles récord para esta época del año, por lo que vale la pena seguir las tendencias.

Las probabilidades siguen siendo bajas y han disminuido un poco desde ayer, por lo que no es algo de lo que debamos preocuparnos en este momento.

¿Logrará 96L desarrollarse o fracasará esta semana?

Tendremos que darle algo de tiempo y ver cómo evoluciona esta semana. Como comentamos en el boletín de ayer, cuanto más se debilite esta semana, mejor, ya que un sistema más débil tendrá menos tiempo para recuperarse al otro lado de la zona de cizalladura la próxima semana.

Los modelos de intensidad generalmente limitan cualquier desarrollo organizado a una depresión tropical o una tormenta tropical de intensidad baja a moderada durante los próximos días. Pero, nuevamente, queda por ver si 96L siquiera superará estos umbrales iniciales de desarrollo antes de encontrarse con un obstáculo considerable este fin de semana.

Quienes tengan intereses en las islas del Caribe oriental deben continuar monitoreando el pronóstico esta semana, pero por ahora 96L, o lo que llegue a desarrollarse de este sistema, no representa una amenaza significativa.

95L ya no existe

La ventana de desarrollo para la perturbación en medio del Atlántico Norte, anteriormente designada como Invest 95L, se cerró rápidamente el martes y el área remanente de baja presión está siendo arrastrada mar adentro hoy por fuertes vientos de la corriente en chorro.

The court in Yangon’s Kamayut township on Tuesday found Pavinee Supasirivisan guilty under a provision applying to any foreign national who commits a crime in the country, according to the lawyer.

The charge carries a sentence ranging from six months to five years, the lawyer said on condition of anonymity to avoid possible repercussions from Myanmar’s military-backed government, which exercises tight control over information. Pavinee is being held at Insein Prison.

Neither U.S. nor Myanmar officials have publicly named the dead man, but the New York Post and other Western media have identified him as 43-year-old Daniel Paul Riva, who served as a U.S. State Department assistant regional security officer. An online obituary for someone of that name has details including the same day of death as the victim and recollections of him having worked in several U.S. diplomatic missions.

The U.S. State Department had confirmed the death of a U.S. government employee, but refused to provide further information, including the victim's name, citing privacy reasons.

Pavinee was arrested after the diplomat was found dead with stab wounds to the head and neck on May 11 at the Sakura Residence & Hotel, a facility popular with diplomats, business people, and other international visitors that is about 1½ kilometers (a mile) from the U.S. Embassy.

Police have opened a case at the township’s police station under the relevant murder provision, which carries a sentence ranging from 10 years in prison to the death penalty. But it's not clear whether she has been formally charged with murder, or even whether a murder investigation is still ongoing, the lawyer said.

An official from Kamayut township’s immigration and population department confirmed her sentence for violating immigration law, but wouldn't provide further details. He spoke on condition of anonymity, because he wasn't authorized to speak with the media.

The military seized power from democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, giving rise to widespread protests that have expanded into a civil war in Myanmar, which is also known as Burma.

Authorities rarely speak with the media, which is tightly controlled. Police investigating the case, the Thai Embassy in Yangon, and the court that sentenced her all refused to comment.

UEFA’s member federations are meeting Thursday in Monaco ahead of the Champions League draw, where they are expected to end the boycott threat, a person familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agenda of the closed-doors meeting was confidential.

Ruling out a boycott will clear six European teams to continue preparing for the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup that kicks off Sept. 5 in Poland.

France and Spain named their squads last week for the 24-nation tournament which risked becoming an unwanted battleground in European soccer’s pushback against Infantino’s private investor plan. England, Italy, Portugal and host Poland also will play. The United States, Brazil and Argentina also are in the lineup.

FIFA welcomed the update from UEFA in a statement, adding it “strongly believes that football has the power to unite, even in challenging circumstances, and looks forward to welcoming all teams and players to Poland.”

Infantino infuriated soccer leaders worldwide last month when his plan for a $20 billion subsidiary controlling FIFA commercial rights including the World Cup was revealed by British daily The Times.

The spinoff was to be 20% owned by investors led by a New York fund created by Joshua Kushner, whose initial money was to pay offers of $20 million to each of FIFA's 211 member federations. They were given a mid-September deadline to accept.

The FIFA president dropped his proposal within four days amid a furious backlash led by UEFA, including the boycott threat, with support from the Asian Football Confederation and North American soccer body CONCACAF. The furor was fueled by criticism of the plan and of Infantino from senior FIFA officials.

UEFA then said it wanted assurances the spinoff, to be called FIFA Forward Enterprise, would not be presented in a different form. That assurance was now received, the person told the AP.

The European soccer body said Aug. 1 it had no confidence in Infantino’s leadership in a clear signal it would try to stop his reelection in March next year.

The next set of FIFA competition games in Europe after the Under-20s event is qualifying playoffs for the 2027 Women's World Cup scheduled Oct. 9-13. Qualifying games for the next men's World Cup do not start until 2029.

FIFA election timetable

FIFA previously set a Nov. 18 deadline for candidates to enter the presidential contest, four months ahead of the vote by 211 member federations in Rabat, Morocco.

Infantino had seemed sure to be reelected unopposed for a fourth and final term in office through 2031 until the turmoil created by his investor plan.

The 55 UEFA member federations are attending the meeting in Monaco four weeks after they united in an online call to agree the threatened boycott.

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The sisters will play doubles at the tournament after receiving a wild card Wednesday into the event they won twice.

Serena Williams returned to tennis this summer after a four-year absence, and the sisters were set to play at Wimbledon before Serena had to withdraw after injuring her knee in her singles loss. They played in the Cincinnati Open, losing in the first round.

The Williams sisters won the 1999 and 2009 U.S. Open doubles titles and are 27-7 in their nine appearances. They last played in 2022, losing in the first round in what was expected to be Serena's final match in Flushing Meadows.

Serena, 44, played with Carlos Alcaraz in mixed doubles Tuesday, winning one match before losing in the quarterfinals. Venus, 46, is entered in the women's singles event.

The Williams sisters teamed to win 14 Grand Slam doubles titles along with Olympic gold medals in 2000, 2008 and 2012. They shared the No. 1 ranking in women's doubles for eight weeks.

Serena opted not to compete in singles at the U.S. Open, where she won six of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles. But she felt good enough to accept wild cards into both doubles events.

She and Venus won their first U.S. Open doubles title the same year the younger Williams won her first singles championship there. The height of their dominance as a team would come about a decade later.

They won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2009, before picking up their second title in Flushing Meadows later that summer. They won in Australia again in 2010 and then picked up the French Open title, making the sisters the holders of all four major trophies at the time.

The first round of the women's doubles tournament begins Sept. 3.

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The U.S. Secret Service and Homestead Police Department are searching South Florida businesses for card skimmers — devices designed to steal information from credit and debit cards.

Local 10’s Jolena Esperto joined authorities during an operation targeting the devices and learned how quickly criminals can install them.

Surveillance video from businesses in Homestead and West Miami showed men using a silver pan to obstruct the view of employees while allegedly tampering with payment terminals.

At Mexico Market in Homestead, manager Sergio Carballo said employees once caught suspects attempting to tamper with a machine.

“One of them talked to the cashier,” Carballo said. “He tells her, ‘Show me one of those medicines.’ He holds the pan right in front of the machine, while other one is right here doing his thing.”

Carballo said an employee noticed something was wrong.

“We closed the register right away,” he said. “I had to compare with this one because you really can’t tell.”

Skimming devices can be made to look nearly identical to legitimate payment terminals and placed directly over the existing keypad or card reader, making them difficult for customers and employees to detect.

Once installed, the devices can capture information from cards that are swiped or inserted.

During the operation, authorities inspected payment terminals at several Dollar General and Dollar Tree locations, along with smaller businesses such as Mexico Market.

Skimmers are not limited to store checkout counters. A Local 10 employee previously used a gas pump that was later found to have a skimming device attached to it.

Stores that accept Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT, cards are also targets, according to authorities.

Jason Harris with the U.S. Secret Service said when criminals steal government benefits through skimming, the financial impact can extend beyond the individual victim.

“It’s money that the government has given as benefits, but those funds are fraudulently diverted to the criminals,” Harris said. “It means it’s costing taxpayer dollars because government has to reimburse those people for the funds lost.”

While accompanying investigators, Local 10 spoke with Betty Coats as she shopped at a Dollar General.

Coats said she has experienced credit card fraud and believes a skimmer may have been responsible.

“You have to go through a lot of work when you have credit card fraud,” Coats said. “You have to go through so many channels just to get your identity.”

She said the experience changed the way she pays for purchases. Coats now tries to use cash or tap-to-pay rather than inserting or swiping her card.

The Secret Service and local law enforcement continue working to identify and remove skimming devices before more consumers — and taxpayers — become victims.

El Servicio Secreto de Estados Unidos y el Departamento de Policía de Homestead están buscando clonadores de tarjetas en negocios del sur de Florida, dispositivos diseñados para robar información de tarjetas de crédito y débito.

Jolena Esperto, de Local 10, acompañó a las autoridades durante un operativo dirigido a estos dispositivos y descubrió la rapidez con la que los delincuentes pueden instalarlos.

Videos de vigilancia de negocios en Homestead y West Miami mostraron a hombres usando una bandeja plateada para obstruir la vista de los empleados mientras presuntamente manipulaban terminales de pago.

En Mexico Market en Homestead, el gerente Sergio Carballo dijo que empleados sorprendieron en una ocasión a sospechosos intentando manipular una máquina.

“Uno de ellos habló con la cajera”, dijo Carballo. “Él le dice: ‘Muéstrame una de esas medicinas’. Sostiene la bandeja justo frente a la máquina, mientras el otro está aquí haciendo lo suyo”.

Carballo dijo que un empleado notó que algo estaba mal.

“Cerramos la caja de inmediato”, dijo. “Tuve que compararla con esta porque realmente no se puede notar la diferencia”.

Los dispositivos para clonar tarjetas pueden fabricarse para parecer casi idénticos a las terminales de pago legítimas y colocarse directamente sobre el teclado o lector de tarjetas existente, lo que dificulta que clientes y empleados los detecten.

Una vez instalados, los dispositivos pueden capturar información de las tarjetas que se deslizan o insertan.

Durante el operativo, las autoridades inspeccionaron terminales de pago en varias tiendas Dollar General y Dollar Tree, junto con negocios más pequeños como Mexico Market.

Los clonadores de tarjetas no se limitan a las cajas registradoras de las tiendas. Un empleado de Local 10 utilizó anteriormente una bomba de gasolina en la que posteriormente se descubrió un dispositivo para clonar tarjetas.

Las tiendas que aceptan tarjetas de Transferencia Electrónica de Beneficios, o EBT, también son blanco de estos delincuentes, según las autoridades.

Jason Harris, del Servicio Secreto de Estados Unidos, dijo que cuando los delincuentes roban beneficios del gobierno mediante la clonación de tarjetas, el impacto financiero puede extenderse más allá de la víctima individual.

“Es dinero que el gobierno ha otorgado como beneficios, pero esos fondos son desviados fraudulentamente a los delincuentes”, dijo Harris. “Significa que está costando dinero a los contribuyentes porque el gobierno tiene que reembolsar a esas personas los fondos perdidos”.

Mientras acompañaba a los investigadores, Local 10 habló con Betty Coats mientras hacía compras en una tienda Dollar General.

Coats dijo que ha sido víctima de fraude con tarjetas de crédito y cree que un clonador de tarjetas pudo haber sido el responsable.

“Hay que pasar por mucho trabajo cuando se es víctima de fraude con tarjetas de crédito”, dijo Coats. “Hay que pasar por muchos procesos solo para recuperar la identidad”.

Dijo que la experiencia cambió la manera en que paga sus compras. Coats ahora intenta usar efectivo o pagos sin contacto en lugar de insertar o deslizar su tarjeta.

El Servicio Secreto y las autoridades locales continúan trabajando para identificar y retirar dispositivos para clonar tarjetas antes de que más consumidores, y contribuyentes, se conviertan en víctimas.

Storm systems are named by procedures set by the World Meteorological Organization, and the lists of names are reused every six years. For the Atlantic region, the lists are alphabetical and alternate male and female names.

This season started with Tropical Storm Arthur coming ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast in June, and Tropical Storm Bertha dumped rain in Louisiana and Texas in July. Tropical Storm Cristobal formed and quickly dissipated in the Atlantic earlier in August.

The National Hurricane Center was monitoring a weather system off Africa that may strengthen into a named tropical storm.

Conditions were somewhat favorable for the area of thunderstorms south of the Cabo Verde Islands to become a tropical depression sometime in the next week, forecasters at the Miami-based center said early Wednesday.

If it further develops, with maximum sustained winds of at least 39 mph (63 kph), the system would be named Tropical Storm Dolly.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has forecast a below-average Atlantic hurricane season due to El Nino. It forecast eight to 14 named storms, with three to six of them reaching hurricane strength and one to three of those intensifying to major hurricanes.

The NHC and other weather agencies name storms to easily communicate warnings about them to people and to avoid confusion. The WMO says names are chosen to be short, easy to pronounce and familiar to the regions of the world where the storm names are used. It meets regularly to evaluate potential names, and some names are retired for reasons of sensitivity, particularly for deadly or destructive storms.

One name from the 2025 season was retired, Melissa, which was a Category 5 hurricane that brought devastation to the Caribbean.

La policía de Miramar detuvo al agente Isaiah Williams por múltiples cargos, entre ellos agresión doméstica por estrangulamiento y robo mediante arrebato con un arma de fuego. Posteriormente, BSO suspendió sin sueldo al hombre de 27 años.

La policía de Miramar dijo que respondió a un complejo de apartamentos en Southwest 45th Court, cerca de Red Road, alrededor de las 2 a.m. del lunes. Indicaron que para cuando llegaron, Williams ya se había marchado.

Según el informe de arresto, un amigo dejó a la víctima en la vivienda de Miramar que compartía con Williams. Ella dijo a la policía que Williams estaba molesto, la insultó y la golpeó, provocando que cayera por las escaleras.

“El acusado estaba encima de ella, donde le dio un puñetazo en el rostro con el puño cerrado”, señala el informe. “Cuando la víctima se dio vuelta para protegerse el rostro, el acusado le dio un puñetazo en la parte posterior de la cabeza y le jaló el cabello. La víctima declaró que el acusado puso su mano derecha debajo de su cuello y apretó, luego la levantó del suelo por el cuello”.

Ella se defendió y dijo a la policía que Williams amenazó con matarla y que tomó su arma de su bolso, según el informe.

Ambos forcejearon por el arma antes de que Williams se la arrebatara y huyera, dijo la policía.

Las autoridades dijeron que la víctima resultó herida, con una cortada en el labio, un moretón en la nariz y rasguños en el cuello.

Williams se entregó el lunes por la tarde y compareció ante un juez de fianzas el martes.

Llevaba puesto un chaleco antisuicidio. Un juez fijó su fianza en $47,500 USD y le ordenó no tener contacto con la víctima, entregar sus armas y usar un monitor GPS.

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The move could impact up to 200,000 people, raising questions about what happens to those with asylum cases already pending.

“What the administration is trying to propose is to revoke anyone that came in under a B1, B2 visa and later for an asylum application,” said immigration attorney Maria Vivanco.

In the coming weeks, the U.S. State Department is expected to announce the revocation of those so-called B1 and B2 visas that were issued between 2016 and 2026, whose holders sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to new reporting from the Associated Press, which obtained State Department documents and spoke to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

“There are many aspects of why someone is filing an asylum application, but the main takeaway is that they’re filing to become refugees of the United States and not go back to their home country, which is the main intent of the B1 and B2 visa,” said Vivanco.

A State Department spokesperson said it’s working with the Department of Homeland Security to identify and revoke the visas.

Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, his administration has ramped up restrictions on visa applications.

Legal experts say the revocations would not necessarily result in immediate deportation.

“Just make sure you have copies of everything you filed,” said Vivanco. “Copies of the actual application and you make sure you have those documents with you.”

If this happens, it would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history, but it will also likely face legal challenges.

La medida podría afectar hasta a 200,000 personas, lo que genera interrogantes sobre qué sucederá con quienes ya tienen casos de asilo pendientes.

“Lo que la administración está tratando de proponer es revocar la visa de cualquier persona que haya ingresado con una visa B1 o B2 y posteriormente haya presentado una solicitud de asilo”, dijo la abogada de inmigración Maria Vivanco.

En las próximas semanas, se espera que el Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. anuncie la revocación de esas denominadas visas B1 y B2 que fueron emitidas entre 2016 y 2026, cuyos titulares solicitaron asilo o están solicitando asilo actualmente, según un nuevo reporte de The Associated Press, que obtuvo documentos del Departamento de Estado y habló con dos funcionarios estadounidenses familiarizados con el asunto.

“Hay muchos motivos por los que alguien presenta una solicitud de asilo, pero el punto principal es que están solicitando convertirse en refugiados de Estados Unidos y no regresar a su país de origen, lo cual es la intención principal de la visa B1 y B2”, dijo Vivanco.

Un portavoz del Departamento de Estado dijo que está trabajando con el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional para identificar y revocar las visas.

Desde que el presidente Donald Trump asumió el cargo para su segundo mandato, su administración ha intensificado las restricciones sobre las solicitudes de visas.

Expertos legales dicen que las revocaciones no necesariamente resultarían en una deportación inmediata.

“Solo asegúrese de tener copias de todo lo que presentó”, dijo Vivanco. “Copias de la solicitud en sí y asegúrese de tener esos documentos con usted”.

Si esto sucede, sería la mayor revocación masiva de visas de una sola vez en la historia de Estados Unidos, pero probablemente también enfrentará impugnaciones legales.

Closing arguments are expected to begin Thursday, before the jury begins deliberating.

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, with her lawyers arguing she was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she killed 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan Clancy at the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. The rare mental illness is linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.

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Prosecutors say Clancy planned the killings and understood her actions were wrong.

Clancy did not testify during the trial, which is in its fifth week. The defense called 10 witnesses, including some of Clancy's friends and relatives, while prosecutors called more than 70 witnesses, including her then-husband.

Testifying as the final rebuttal witness for the prosecution, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia and a senior psychiatrist for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit said Wednesday that he did not believe Clancy’s account that a voice ordered her to kill the children.

Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague asked Dr. Gregory Saathoff a series of questions about Clancy's account: Did the voice tell her where to kill the children? How to kill them? What to use? In what order? Saathoff answered no each time.

“Having no instructions as to how to do it, but being able to execute those decisions … that is surprising that she’s able to accomplish all of this without any other kind of direction or plan,” he said.

All three children were strangled with exercise bands in the family's basement before Clancy tried to kill herself while her husband was getting takeout and at a pharmacy on Jan. 24, 2023. Saathoff said her ability to accomplish everything she did without direction indicated Clancy “had control, control of the sequence of what she was doing throughout.”

“In the small amount of time that Miss Clancy had in the home without her husband, it was important, in order to carry this out, as well as her suicide, to do this quickly, methodically, and alike,” he said.

On Tuesday, Saathoff said he found it unusual that Clancy said the voice stopped once she was done strangling the children, that the voice was constant rather than intermittent and that she never previously reported hearing a voice to her medical providers. She also gave a different timeline to other evaluators about when she first heard the voice that day, he said.

“Committing the act is not curative of the voice,” Saathoff said of the voice stopping abruptly. “I’ve not ever seen that.”

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington began his cross-examination of Saathoff on Wednesday by trying to cast doubt on Saathoff’s expertise in postpartum psychosis and portray him as someone closely aligned with law enforcement, questioning him about his work with prisons, the Justice Department and the Virginia attorney general’s office.

Saathoff testified that he treated women with postpartum psychosis while working at a state hospital in the 1980s and 1990s, while much of his more recent research has focused on such subjects as extremist violence, national security and political radicalization.

Reddington also asked Saathoff about Clancy’s attempts to search online for information about postpartum depression, her visits to multiple maternal and mental health providers, disclosures to her mother and then-husband that she was suicidal and feared that she would harm her children, and calls to a suicide hotline — all attempts that Reddington contended establish Clancy realized something was seriously wrong and made a sincere effort over time to get help.

Reddington asked whether Saathoff believes that Clancy decided to kill her children because she “no longer liked the life she thought she wanted” and was making “a selfish choice” to “manipulate her providers, seek out a quick and easy fix when she was feeling depressed and anxious.”

“I think that statement that you read really minimizes what she was going through,” Saathoff responded.

They expect internal options to be able to fill that void.

The 27-year-old has a torn ACL in his right knee and is expected to miss the season, a person with knowledge of the injury told The Associated Press on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the team had not revealed the extent of the injury.

Austin was having a strong camp and preseason with two catches for 24 yards in exhibition play last week at Miami and many more in practice from Jaxson Dart as one of the starting quarterback's most popular options.

“Definitely impactful to our team because he was playing so well,” coach John Harbaugh said. “He was doing a great job across the board, offense and special teams. He had definitely carved out a role for us on our team.”

Darnell Mooney, also signed as a free agent in March, took Austin's spot with the first-team offense. Depending how many wideouts the Giants keep on their 53-man roster, Austin's absence could clear a path for Odell Beckham Jr. and punt returner Braxton Berrios to each make it.

Assistant general manager Brandon Brown said Tuesday was one of the best days of camp for Mooney and Beckham, the latter of whom is trying to show he still belongs in the NFL at 33.

“I think he’s had a good camp,” Harbaugh said of Beckham. “But I would say his best week of camp has come this week. He’s looked good and made numerous plays.”

Signed to a $1.5 million contract for this season, Austin had 89 catches for 1,140 yards and nine touchdowns in 51 games, counting the playoffs, over his first three seasons in the league, all with Pittsburgh. Harbaugh said he thought Austin was doing better Wednesday after the two texted multiple times since the injury happened.

“When you talk about doing things the right way, he’s done it ever since the first day he got here,” Brown said. “From offense to defense, there’s not anyone that can say a bad thing about him. The way he shows up every day, he’s a blueprint for working hard and going about your business the right way and being a professional.”

Malik Nabers walks off early

No. 1 receiver Malik Nabers, who is coming off his own torn ACL and is trending toward playing Sept. 13 against Dallas, walked off the field before the final set of team drills Wednesday.

Harbaugh said that “wasn’t part of the plan,” adding he would find out what happened while downplaying injury concerns.

“I’m sure it’s something with the trainer, I assume,” Harbaugh said. "But there’s no injury. We talked afterward. We always get the injury report right after. There was no talk about Malik that way.”

Harbaugh keeping it mysterious

Just like the first two preseason games, Harbaugh would not say whether Dart and the offensive starters would play in the finale Friday night against the Jets. He made it sound like an ongoing debate rather than a decision that had already been made.

“There would be things to be gained for those guys to play — defensively, as well — from a communications standpoint, but there’s risk,” Harbaugh said. “It’s just a balancing act of what we gain the most from with the least amount of risk. That’s what we’ve got to figure out.”

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The settlement resolved a pivotal case years in the making that sought to hold the tech giant accountable for the role its platforms played in undermining children’s mental health. The effort targeted features designed to hook young people’s attention.

The agreement “institutes real change, real transparency, real protections for children and teens across the country,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

If approved by the court, the deal will stop an avalanche of litigation by states against Meta, although the company still faces lawsuits from individuals and school districts throughout the U.S. For the states, the settlement delivers money for mental-health programs for kids, including after-school or summer activities and digital literacy counselors.

Advocates cheered the new protections, including default time limits and the disabling of features such as “like” counts.

But “we cannot truly protect all children and teens until these protections are required on every platform and are permanent — that’s something only Congress can do,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director of The Tech Oversight Project.

The settlement will be paid out over 10 years. California will get the largest sum of at least $1.5 billion, but several other states will still collect hundreds of millions of dollars each over the decade.

The settlement “will put an end to these dangerous practices and deliver meaningful relief that will protect children from online harm," Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones said.

Meta urges rivals to adopt similar safety measures

Meta said in a blog post that it was “building on our longstanding efforts to empower parents and support teens.”

“Ensuring teens have a safe and productive experience on our platforms is an absolute imperative for Meta,” the company said. “We want to get this right for parents and teens, and that’s why we partnered with state attorneys general to set a new industry standard."

The company urged competitors TikTok and YouTube to adopt similar safety measures.

The $18 billion settlement is a fraction of Meta's 2025 revenue of $201 billion. Meta shares closed up about 1% Wednesday, although they rose as much as 4% during the day.

The agreement cuts short an ongoing court case involving California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey, which were among 29 states that sued Meta in 2023. The federal trial kicked off last week in Oakland, California, where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had been among the witnesses expected to take the stand.

The lawsuit accused Meta of contributing to the youth mental health crisis by deliberately designing features that addict children to its platforms and hiding them from the public. The case also argued that Meta violated federal laws by routinely collecting data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent.

The cases in other states had been expected to go to trial later, but are now resolved. The settlement covers 48 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and some U.S. territories. The only two states to be excluded are New Mexico, which went to trial in its case against Meta and won earlier this year, and Florida, where the attorney general said the settlement was not tough enough on Meta.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote on X that the “payouts are peanuts compared to the profound harms Meta’s profit-driven addictive features inflicted on kids.”

New features to include time limits and curbs on push notifications

Under the proposed settlement, Meta agreed to adopt a series of safety features, including two-hour daily time limits that can only be disabled with a parent's permission and pauses for children using Instagram and Facebook.

The company will eliminate push notifications during weekday school hours and bring in “robust” age-assurance measures and “age-appropriate” content controls to prevent bullying and harmful material about eating disorders and self-harm.

There will be stronger and more user-friendly parental controls and limits on social comparison features such as “like” counts.

An independent auditor will assess how Meta is implementing the safety features and how effective they are.

The company said 30% of the settlement amount — about $5.3 billion — will be released to states only if rivals YouTube and TikTok meet two conditions: implementing similar safety features, including a one-hour daily time limit, a nighttime block and age-assurance measures; and paying the same amount, split between the two companies.

Neither YouTube owner Google nor TikTok responded to requests for comments.

Meta officials declined to comment on whether they had conversations with their competitors about those conditions, but said they intentionally designed the agreement with the states to incentivize the rest of the industry to follow suit.

Some of the safety measures Meta will implement, like disabling cosmetic surgery and extreme makeup filters, made sense regardless of whether competing platforms do the same, Meta said. Other features, like the overnight block, will function better if they are established across the board, the company said.

If industry peers sign on to the agreement, Meta will implement stronger defaults for teens’ daily time limit and the length of time for “night mode.”

Investigation was led by bipartisan coalition

The federal lawsuit was the result of an investigation led by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee and Vermont. It followed newspaper reports, first by The Wall Street Journal in 2021, that found the company knew about the harm Instagram can cause teenagers — especially teen girls — when it comes to mental health and body image issues.

Meta has since added a host of safety features to Instagram, including separate accounts for teenagers with stronger protections around messaging and privacy, along with content restrictions.

But child-safety advocates and experts, along with some former Meta employees, have long contended that the features are little more than window dressing.

Arturo Béjar, a former Meta engineering director who testified last week in the Oakland trial, called the settlement a “significant milestone” but warned that it should not be interpreted as an “all clear” sign that Instagram is now safe for children.

“The agreement has a big problem in that it allows Meta to define harm,” Béjar said in an interview. He urged the court to address that “because it’s one thing to say, ‘Yeah, you only get like two hours of alcohol or two hours of cigarettes a day,’ but it’s still as bad for you because of what’s getting delivered.”

Parents and advocates celebrated the settlement as a moment of accountability for Meta. Victoria Hinks, mother of Alexandra “Owl” Hinks, who died by suicide at age 16, said she was satisfied with the terms “as long as they enforce it properly.”

“It felt like today finally something was done,” she said outside the Oakland courthouse. “I feel like justice is possible.”

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Chan reported from London. Huamani reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, and Wyatte Grantham-Philips in Chicago contributed to this report.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade dijeron que acudieron al Krome Service Processing Center, ubicado en 18201 SW 12th St., la tarde del lunes después de recibir un reporte sobre el robo.

Un reporte de arresto de MDSO indica que, mientras miembros del personal preparaban documentos de deportación, el detenido les dijo que le faltaban $5,382 USD.

Las autoridades indicaron que revisaron imágenes de vigilancia que mostraban a Matthew Christian Torres, un guardia de seguridad de 31 años empleado por Akima Protective Services, colocando el dinero del hombre dentro de un libro de registro, sin registrarlo y, en cambio, “ocultando el dinero dentro de su chaqueta negra y entrando a un baño de empleados”.

“(Torres) luego regresa al área común de pertenencias y saca de la parte interior del área del pecho la bolsa de plástico transparente que contenía el dinero”, escribió un agente en el reporte al describir el video. “(Él) luego coloca el dinero dentro del bolsillo derecho de un pantalón cargo beige. Cabe señalar que (Torres) nunca informó a un supervisor sobre el dinero perteneciente a la víctima”.

Los agentes arrestaron a Torres, de Palmetto Bay, por un cargo de hurto mayor de tercer grado.

Hasta la mañana del martes, Torres permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una fianza de $2,500 USD.

Local 10 News se comunicó con ICE y Akima para solicitar comentarios sobre el caso.

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