Memorial events from Miramar to Miami brought together first responders, community members and local leaders to reflect on the attacks and the lasting impact on those who served at Ground Zero.

“Terror brought down buildings, but it did not bring down this nation,” Rabbi Mark Rosenberg, chief chaplain for the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and a chaplain with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, said during one ceremony.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Ray Jadallah remembered the firefighters and other first responders who rushed into the burning towers.

“(They) saw the explosions, saw the flames and ran towards them,” Jadallah said.

The effects of that service continue to be felt 25 years later. Many first responders and survivors have suffered illnesses linked to exposure to toxic dust and ash following the attacks.

Among them is retired Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Division Chief Robert Suarez, who retired in October 2007 after a career that included serving as a rescue specialist with Florida Task Force 1 at Ground Zero.

Suarez received a standing ovation during the ceremony as officials recognized his service.

“(It was) terrible, the loss of life, innocent people,” Suarez said. “2,977 people died that day. It was an honor to be there to help.”

For Rosenberg, the anniversary is also personal.

He was in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, shortly before the second World Trade Center tower collapsed. Rosenberg recalled running with a group of people toward the river as the building came down.

“There was so much confusion going on, yet everybody ran to help others,” Rosenberg said.

He recalled returning toward the disaster site and joining a human bucket search, an effort in which people passed debris hand to hand in the search for survivors.

“That just happened on its own — people as human beings, our instincts, to just do what we can to help,” Rosenberg said.

This year’s anniversary also coincides with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins Thursday evening. Rosenberg said the overlap adds another layer of reflection to an already emotional day.

“For those who celebrate Rosh Hashanah, we are going into a new year that requires us to reflect on what happened in the past and how we can do better moving forward,” he said. “So definitely a day mixed with emotions.”

For younger generations who did not experience the attacks firsthand, Rosenberg and Suarez said the hope is that the tragedy remains a lesson rather than something that must be experienced again.

“May God bless you that you never experience what we experienced,” Rosenberg said.

Suarez compared the remembrance of 9/11 to Pearl Harbor, noting that generations can honor events they did not personally witness.

“You never forget Pearl Harbor, and we were not even around for it,” he said.

His message for those reflecting on the anniversary was simple: “Love each other. Life is short. Don’t wait for tomorrow, because tomorrow might not come.”

Rosenberg said the events of Sept. 11 demonstrated how quickly life can change — and how people can respond in moments of unimaginable tragedy.

“Because in one moment, everything changes,” he said. “Don’t take anything for granted.”

The woman was walking near the 200 block of Northwest Ninth Terrace when the dogs, described as pit bulls, attacked her, according to Homestead police.

Police said a witness reported seeing the dogs on top of the woman and intervened, shooing them away.

They said the woman suffered multiple bite injuries to the back of her head, neck, right arm and right ankle. She was alert and speaking with first responders but appeared to possibly be in shock, according to first responders.

Police said she was transported to Jackson South Medical Center where she is currently undergoing surgery and is in stable condition.

They said the two dogs were secured and later impounded by Miami-Dade County Animal Services.

Detectives said no arrests are being made at this time. Authorities said they will remain at the scene as a precaution until the woman is out of surgery.

No other details about the attack were immediately released.

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Perdomo Torres, 36, was in a white 2012 Ford E-150 Econoline van, owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp., working at MIA, when a Boeing 767-300 cargo jet operating as Prime Air Flight 7598 overran a runway and crashed.

“Mr. Perdomo Torres was thrown into the air. He had the wherewithal to try to land sort of belly down, rather than on his back, thinking always about surviving,” said Attorney Pablo Rojas, who is representing Perdomo Torres and filed a lawsuit on his behalf on Friday in Miami-Dade County civil court.

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As federal investigators continued to collect and analyze evidence, Rojas, an aviation expert, claimed there were “apparent errors” and “safety lapses,” including “deficiencies” in training, supervision, operational oversight, and maintenance of the 32-year-old aircraft.

“For at least a minute, there were warnings inside the cockpit that the aircraft was approaching the runway too fast, and descending excessively,” Rojas wrote in Perdomo Torres’s personal injury lawsuit, which names Amazon, Amazon Services, 21 Air, Avia Acquisition, Avia Investments, Andromeda Leasing II, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Titan Aviation Leasing Limited Americas, and the two pilots.

The five dead identified by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday were Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.

“They were wrapping up their eight-hour shift,” Rojas wrote in the 32-page lawsuit seeking damages in excess of $50,000.

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Perdomo Torres claims he saw the jet coming towards the van, and was conscious when the force of the impact “flung” him “into the air,” and threw him from the van, which turned into “an unrecognizable heap of metal,” according to the lawsuit.

“When he landed, the impact crushed and fractured his hand,” Rojas wrote in the lawsuit. “The impact with the ground also caused fractures to his leg and ankle. Fighting for his life amid the chaos, Mr. Perdomo Torres attempted to stand, but was unable to.”

Without an Engineered Materials Arresting System, or EMAS, a safety bed to stop the jet, at MIA, the jet also struck a Toyota Corolla Cross LE SUV on Northwest 67th Avenue. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel found Perdomo Torres on the ground and took him in an ambulance to JMH, where he underwent surgeries, according to the lawsuit.

The four others injured were Perdomo Torres’s co-worker, Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, whose condition was critical on Tuesday; Joseph Carroll and Jaime Silva, the pilot and the co-pilot, who suffered minor injuries; and the driver of the Toyota, Eugenio Corredor, 79, whose condition was critical on Tuesday.

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The lawsuit claims the jet was “approaching the runway too fast and descending excessively,” the runway’s approach was at an “unsafe speed,” the landing was “too far down the runway,” and the landing gear made only partial contact with the ground.

“​A pilot called for flaps to be set to 20 degrees, and the other pilot cautioned they were too fast. The other pilot made additional comments regarding the aircraft’s excessive speed throughout the remainder of the recording. There was not a consistent verbal response to the comments about speed," an NTSB investigator wrote on a report about findings on the jet’s cockpit voice and fight data recorders.

The lawsuit also alleged the jet’s “full braking power” was not deployed as it was “barreling down the runway,” and the pilots gave “shifting and contradictory inputs,” as they appeared to have attempted a “go-around” to abort the landing before they “reversed this decision” and attempted to stop.

“By then, it was far too late,” Rojas wrote in the lawsuit.

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The jet traveled for 1,300 feet “past the paved surface,” according to National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy.

“No indication in the recorded data that speed brakes or thrust were deployed,” Chihoon Shin, the NTSB’s lead investigator, said during a news conference on Tuesday night.

There was “a trail of destruction the length of several football fields,” Rojas wrote in the lawsuit.

The jet stopped in an empty field with its nose in a parking lot for Tesla Robotaxis. Miami-Dade Fire Chief Ray Jadallah said a “complex fire” followed. A witness’s video showed one of the pilots climbing out of a window and using the firefighters’ ladder.

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Carroll, 55, the captain, “received his type rating in the 76,” a mandatory certification for the Boeing 767, in May, and Silva, 37, the first officer, received his type rating in the 76 on April 2, 2025. Silva had 2,655 flight hours as of Aug. 13, and Carol had 7,145 flight hours as of March 31, according to the NTSB.

As the jet, registered as N1997A, remained on the crash site, one of MIA’s four runways was closed on Friday.

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz asked travelers on Tuesday to check with airlines for the status of their flights. She also warned drivers that 67th Avenue was closed to the public from 25th to 32nd streets.

Homendy asked witnesses to share photos and videos with the NTSB team via e-mail at witness@ntsb.gov.

Cordero-Stutz asked the victims’ relatives to contact MDSO victims’ advocates at 305-471-1900.

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Pero más allá de las diversas celebraciones de organizaciones civiles, familiares de víctimas y partidos de oposición, la jornada estuvo marcada por la ausencia de actos oficiales convocados por el gobierno del conservador José Antonio Kast, un hecho inédito desde que el país recuperó la democracia en 1990.

"No puedo borrar el pasado, pero tampoco puedo pedirles a nuestros compatriotas que estemos condenados por nuestra historia a no poder mirar el futuro”, dijo Kast al defender la decisión de no realizar una ceremonia oficial.

La determinación del Ejecutivo marca un quiebre en la tradición de las últimas décadas ya que todos los gobiernos posteriores a la dictadura han realizado actos de memoria para recordar el asalto y bombardeo que destruyó el Palacio de La Moneda hace 53 años.

Desde que Kast asumió el poder hace seis meses su posicionamiento ante la fecha era una incógnita. Ello porque el ultraconservador nunca escondió su complacencia con la dictadura de Pinochet. En años anteriores llegó incluso a publicar en sus redes mensajes de apoyo al golpe.

Kast optó el viernes por alejarse de la icónica sede de gobierno —epicentro de las manifestaciones y homenajes— y visitar a las familias afectadas por las recientes emergencias climáticas en el sur del país.

“No hay mejor homenaje para la patria que enfrentar las urgencias de nuestros compatriotas", enfatizó. “Ese es el mejor homenaje que podemos hacer a Chile”.

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Mientras, en Santiago, centenares de personas salieron a las calles para recordar las atrocidades cometidas durante los 17 años del régimen militar y pedir justicia por las víctimas.

Con pancartas de “Muerte al fascismo”, los manifestantes marcharon por las calles del centro de la capital y depositaron flores y ofrendas en el monumento a la memoria de Allende, erigido en la Plaza de la Constitución, a pocos metros de la sede de gobierno.

“Para muchos chilenos el 11 de septiembre de 1973 fue la última vez que pudieron desayunar con sus padres, hermanos, compañeros. Y eso no lo podemos olvidar, por ellos, por nosotros”, dijo Emilia Núñez, de 63 años, quien tenía 10 años cuando los militares tomaron el poder. “Era sólo una niña, pero me acuerdo los gritos, la radio, los momentos de terror”.

El asalto de los militares a La Moneda terminó con la muerte del presidente socialista y marcó el comienzo de la dictadura de Pinochet, uno de los capítulos más sombríos de la historia del país.

“Desde este rincón, golpeado por la violencia fascista, exigimos verdad y justicia para los más de 3.000 asesinados y ejecutados. Exigimos respuesta por cada uno de nuestros detenidos desaparecidos”, dijo el sindicalista Andrés Troncoso.

De acuerdo con datos del gobierno chileno, la dictadura de Pinochet se saldó con unas 40.000 víctimas, entre ellas más de 2.000 ejecutados y 1.469 víctimas de desaparición forzada.

The uphill struggle the United States and its allies face during the monthlong extension was evident in speeches after the vote. Russia, which holds veto power in the council and backs the Sudanese government in its fight against paramilitary forces, vowed to prevent any expansion of the arms embargo.

Moscow made its “red lines” clear during closed negotiations, Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador Anna Evstigneeva said. “We will not allow even a hint of broadening the restrictions by the council on Sudan.”

The Security Council imposed an arms embargo on the vast Darfur region after violence erupted in 2003 when rebels took up arms against the authoritarian government in Khartoum, then led by Omar al-Bashir. The government responded with air attacks and a ground offensive by local nomadic Arab militias known as the Janjaweed, who are accused of mass killings and rapes. Up to 300,000 people died in the conflict and 2.7 million fled their homes.

At a council meeting on Aug. 24, the United States urged a countrywide arms embargo to push the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to negotiate an end to fighting that began in April 2023. The current war has killed at least 59,000 people, though aid groups warn the number could be much higher. It has displaced some 13 million people and pushed parts of the country into famine, creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

Evstigneeva asked why the U.S. was trying to expand the arms embargo now when government forces “have a definite advantage on the ground,” and not in 2023 when the RSF was threatening the capital, Khartoum, and other cities.

It is the government that guarantees the country’s unity and institutions, and protects its civilians, she said.

China’s deputy U.N. ambassador Sun Lei warned that extending the embargo would worsen the humanitarian situation and might lead to the fragmentation of Sudan, which would threaten regional stability.

Sudan’s U.N. Ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed told the council that a total arms embargo goes against the U.N. Charter’s guarantee that countries have the right to self-defense and their armed forces have the right to produce and acquire weapons to protect their sovereignty.

But U.S. deputy ambassador Jeffrey Bartos said another long-term extension of the Darfur embargo “is not an option,” calling it outdated and “insufficient to address the realities of the war today.” The council also needs to sanction people who commit “horrific actions,” including sexual violence, kidnapping for ransom and attacks on humanitarian personnel, he said.

“Inaction means more suffering and death,” Bartos warned. “That is unacceptable, and we refuse to rubber stamp another year of maintaining the status quo.”

He reiterated the U.S. call for an end to the flow of arms to the belligerents from external parties. And he decried the attacks on aid convoys, pointing to last week's loss of over 50 metric tons of aid in an aerial attack on clearly identified World Food Program trucks in South Kordofan.

WFP acting director Carl Skau said in an interview with The Associated Press during his recent visit to Sudan that a lack of funding has forced the agency to reduce the number of people it assists from about 5 million at the beginning of the year to 3.5 million. “We risk now having to cut even further,” he warned.

“The world keeps sending weapons when they should be sending food and shelter, and when the focus and the energy and effort should really be on trying to bring an end to this conflict,” Skau said.

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Fay Abuelgasim contributed to this report from Cairo

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Suzanne Howland, the granddaughter of the man who helped build the iconic waterfront Art Deco building at 3500 Pan American Drive, said the structure must be preserved.

“My grandfather built this building: Fred Howland of Fred Howland Construction Company,” Howland said. “This is an iconic building, it must be preserved.”

The building was constructed in the 1930s as Pan American World Airways’ seaplane terminal and has operated as Miami City Hall since the 1950s.

“Significant because of its beauty, its location, its usage, its accessibility,” Howland said. “I think the beauty of this building, the artistry, the history, the symbolism, is so important.”

Rich Heisenbottle, a leading renovation architect who worked to restore the building, said the connection between Miami and Pan Am is forever intertwined in the building.

“And that international connection that Pan Am brought to Miami has helped us even today. That international connection is the reason we are the city we are today -- the exciting, vibrant, multicultural city that we are,” Heisenbottle said.

Heisenbottle said that 10 years ago, the building “was in quite a bit of disarray.”

“What we did was uncover all the designs that were part of the Delano & Aldrich interior for Pan Am when it served as Pan Am’s terminal,” Heisenbottle said.

Several community members, historic preservation advocates and even former Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado gathered Thursday to support a resolution by District 2 Commissioner Damian Pardo.

Deborah Stander, president of Hangar 5 Foundation, Inc., called the building, “arguably Miami’s most iconic building that speaks so directly to our city’s identity as an international gateway to the Americas.”

“This is literally the embodiment of the gateway — this is the gateway,” Stander said.

Regalado said Miami cannot keep erasing its history.

“The most important thing is that we have little history,” Regalado said. “We cannot keep erasing the history of Miami. We can’t keep giving away the history of our city. We are stewards of the history of Miami.”

The resolution would continue the historic building’s use as City Hall, home to regular City Commission meetings, instead of moving into the new administration building under construction at the soccer stadium site near Miami International Airport.

“You don’t have to abandon your past to build your future,” said Prado.

The item was backed by several of his colleagues.

District 4 Commissioner Ralph Rosado said the city of Miami does not always have the best history of preserving its cultural, historic and civic assets.

“Today is about letting the public know we very much want to preserve this building, a civic function associated with it, and that it should be here for the rest of time,” Rosado said. “Our concern is that a private operator would take this over, maybe doing renovations that are not in keeping with the history of Miami.

“We have seen it before, we want to make sure that we express our commitment to keeping this building here, keeping it for history.”

District 5 Commissioner Christine King said the goal is to preserve City Hall and not move commission meetings from the historic space to the new administration building farther west.

“We see all across the U.S. where cities preserve their historic spaces,” King said. “In Miami, we seem to want to tear it down and just be a modern city and everything new and sparkly. We are standing here with Commissioner Pardo so we continue to utilize this space for what it was meant for.

“We are standing in unity because we want to see this space preserved. We want to continue to have our commission meetings here. We want to show not only the city of Miami, but the rest of the world that we care about our historic spaces as well.”

Pardo said the building represents Miami’s connection to the Caribbean and Latin America.

“This is where our leaders for 70 years debated our future, that is a tremendous legacy, this is the people’s place, where they come to speak and we want to make sure we honor that, where global leaders would come,” Pardo said. “There is nothing to replace this.”

The lone dissenter was District 1 Commissioner Miguel Gabela, who expressed concern about potential taxpayer duplication given that a new administration building is going up.

Pardo said those were valid concerns but that the city was still early enough in the process to make accommodations.

“I think those are very valid concerns, but we are still ahead enough in the process that we can make a lot of accommodations,” Pardo said.

The item passed 4-1, with Gabela voting no.

“Done and done, not moving, we are here,” Pardo said.

Natalia Curjeiras, the CEO of the Museum of Miami, a key stakeholder in telling the story of Miami, pitched commissioners on the idea of moving in.

“This is a historic gem, and we can have the ability to share the story of Miami and preserve this site for generations to come,” Curjeiras said.

Describing a “very, very preliminary” plan, Curjeiras said the museum proposed preserving the historic terminal while building a dedicated museum next to it.

She said the museum “is better equipped than anyone else to preserve this site for future generations,” as a curator of Pan Am artifacts and other historic items and documents.

“There is no other place that has so many layers of our history,” Curjeiras said. “The fact that we can bring those artifacts to where that history happened is a really powerful thing.”

Curjeiras told Local 10 News that, in addition to commission meetings, the museum could help activate chambers with a range of community programming to lean into the civic space Pardo described as Miami’s “ancestral home.”

“And what we want to build is a civic campus, where our community can come, learn about our history, go to a commission meeting, or attend a public event, or walk around the bay and make sure our children, and the children of our children and have access to that and take pride in the access to that history of the place we call home,” she said.

As for the idea of constructing an adjacent building for the museum, Howland expressed concern about what that could look like.

“I would like to see evidence of that plan but it just seems to me, shooting from the hip, that it would be an obstruction interfering with the setting of this building,” Howland said. “That perhaps, visually, it wouldn’t be such a great thing, but hard to say until we see it, would like to see it, but I think this should remain in the visual isolation that it is for it to be appreciated.”

Curjeiras said any new museum building would have to be built at scale in a way that allows the Pan Am terminal to remain the visual focus.

“It could potentially be behind, aside, that has yet to be determined, that is a whole process that would have to take place,” she said. “So we will present an intent to the city where we can hopefully come up with a framework that would allow us to start a formal conversation about next steps.”

Pardo said he anticipates the city will likely receive public-private partnership pitches from others seeking to collaborate.

“We are all open to everything, we also have Pan Am Airways there, they are starting the new Pan American Airways, they were here making a pitch of wanting to potentially have this space for operations in the future,” Pardo said.

Pardo said ultimately, the biggest criterion for consideration is financial viability.

“For the city the biggest criteria is the financial viability of whoever comes in here with us,” Pardo said. “We want to make sure that they can pay their share, that we can keep maintaining the building, which only costs $295,000 a year to maintain so at least it is not a big weight on the budget it is well worth the money to keep City Hall here.”

Pan American World Airways, LLC said it is currently undergoing FAA certification as a U.S. flag carrier and plans to operate Airbus A320-series aircraft from Miami International Airport. The company said it sees the historic City Hall building as an opportunity to reconnect Pan Am with its longtime Miami roots.

“Our idea for the Miami City Hall would accommodate the desire for the city to maintain a government presence in the building,” the company said. “We want to have our sales and marketing teams and our corporate communications team occupy some offices in the building, which would allow for the commissioners to still be able to meet there on the ground floor.”

Pan American World Airways, LLC said it is currently undergoing FAA certification as a U.S. flag carrier and plans to operate Airbus A320-series aircraft from Miami International Airport. The company said it sees the historic City Hall building as an opportunity to reconnect Pan Am with its longtime Miami roots.

“Our idea for the Miami City Hall would accommodate the desire for the city to maintain a government presence in the building,” a company spokesperson said. “We want to have our sales and marketing teams and our corporate communications team occupy some offices in the building, which would allow for the commissioners to still be able to meet there on the ground floor.”

The company also said it would like to incorporate Pan Am history into the building.

“We would work with the Pan Am Museum and others to put Pan Am memorabilia in the building,” the company said. “There is so much history associated with Pan Am and Miami, and we would like to help preserve and showcase that history in the very building that originally served as Pan Am’s seaplane terminal.”

But the company said its vision could eventually go beyond offices, memorabilia and civic functions.

“Eventually we would like to operate our 12-seat, all-electric seaplanes from the dock/waterfront in the back of the building,” the company said.

The company has created an animated video showing what the seaplane could look like taking off from Biscayne Bay.

“We think there is something very special about bringing Pan Am back to the waterfront in Miami in a way that respects the history of the building while also looking toward the future,” the company added.

Kamran Hekmati was let out of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on Sept. 5 after completing about half of a two-year sentence, his family recently wrote on a website advocating for his release.

The family said they are also “desperately afraid for his health and well-being” as he requires regular medical checkups to ensure his bladder cancer doesn’t relapse.

“The Iranian regime couldn’t care less,” the family wrote of Hekmati's medical challenges. “Much like other wrongful detention cases in Iran, Kamran appears to be caught up in Iran’s traditional approach of detaining Americans to obtain political concessions from the US.”

Representatives for the family and the federal government didn’t say where Hekmati, who turned 62 in August, is currently staying in Iran.

But Shohreh Nowfar, Hekmati’s cousin in California, said Friday that the family is “excited” and hopeful his passport can be returned soon so he can leave the country, which has been at war with the U.S. and Israel for more than six months now.

“We continue to hope this is a signal from the Iranian side as to their willingness to send Kamran home,” added Kieran Ramsey, chief investigative officer at Global Reach, a U.S. nonprofit working on Hekmati’s case.

The Iranian American, who is also Jewish, owns a jewelry business in Manhattan’s Diamond District and has lived with his family for years in Great Neck Estates, on suburban Long Island.

He was arrested by Iranian authorities last July after having his passport seized while trying to fly out of the airport in Tehran that May.

Hekmati’s family says he was charged under an Iranian law that bans Iranian citizens from visiting Israel within the last 10 years. But they maintain his last trip to Israel was 13 years ago -- prior to the passage of the law -- for his son’s bar mitzvah.

“Mr. Hekmati did nothing wrong,” said U.S. Rep. Thomas Suozzi, a Long Island Democrat who advocated for the State Department to officially designate Hekmati as wrongfully detained earlier this year. “We cannot rest until he is reunited with his family.”

The State Department similarly called on Iran to lift its so-called exit ban so Hekmati can return to the U.S. It also said the country should “immediately release” Iranian American journalist Reza Valizadeh and other Americans “unjustly detained in Iran.”

Valizadeh's lawyer, Ryan Fayhee, declined to comment Friday, citing the risks his client could face behind bars.

But in recent months, the journalist has sent voice messages describing conditions inside Evin prison, a high-security facility that holds many of the Islamic Republic’s political prisoners.

In an August recording, Valizadeh, who has been imprisoned since 2024, said prison officials have not allowed his family to visit for the past five months. He also said medical care is “almost non-existent,” save for the most basic medications.

“Diseases that were eradicated decades ago have returned inside the prison, including pulmonary and gastrointestinal tuberculosis,” he said in the voice message, which was shared by CBS.

Valizadeh also said that prior to his release, Hekmati had been granted a medical furlough for cancer treatment but was ordered back to prison after about a month, rather than being allowed to begin chemotherapy.

Like Hekmati, Valizadeh has also been officially designated wrongfully detained by the U.S. government. He was arrested after returning to Iran to visit his elderly parents and charged with collaborating with the U.S. government.

Valizadeh obtained U.S. citizenship in 2022 while working in Washington, D.C., for Radio Farda, the Persian-language arm of Radio Free Europe, which receives U.S. government funding. He is among at least nine reporters currently jailed in Iran, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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But there's one thing the two sides can agree on: Nashville International Airport should be renamed to honor Tennessee's favorite daughter, Dolly Parton.

Lydia Popovich, a Parton superfan who started a petition for the name change in 2025, said on Friday that Parton had gracefully batted down the idea of naming the airport after her, as she did with many other proposed honors during her lifetime. That includes a bill brought by Tennessee lawmakers in 2021 to place a statue of her on the Capitol grounds.

Parton asked lawmakers to withdraw the bill but expressed a hope that it might happen “somewhere down the road several years from now or perhaps after I’m gone if you still feel I deserve it.”

After Parton's death two weeks ago, the airport naming idea seemingly caught fire, with Popovich's petition reaching more than 175,000 signatures — not that the officials competing to run the airport needed the push.

At a meeting Friday of the state-controlled Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, a motion directing the airport CEO to begin the renaming process was unanimously approved by board members praising Parton to the heavens. Airport officials said the change could take a year or more and involves working with Parton's estate to determine how they might split profits from merchandise sales, among other things.

There are two Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authorities: one run by the state and the other controlled by the city, a bifurcated regulatory system that was created in 2023 amid a partisan dispute between the GOP-run state and the Democratic-run city. Who actually controls the airport has been in dispute ever since, with competing boards taking the reins only to be deposed as courts rule and are overturned.

Despite the acrimony, Nashville's Democratic Mayor Freddie O'Connell and the competing, city-controlled Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority are also in support of the name change, according to O'Connell spokesman Alex Apple.

“The FAA's going to get two votes from two boards, both in favor,” Apple said.

The situation is ironic, and it's hard to imagine that Parton would approve.

Stuart McWhorter, a member of the state-controlled board and deputy to Tennessee's Republican Gov. Bill Lee, briefly mentioned the dispute at the Friday meeting. He suggested that in the spirit of Parton “we can get beyond the litigation and get back to working together.”

Popovich, who attended the Friday meeting and spoke in favor of the proposal, was in tears after the unanimous vote in favor.

“It's been a really beautiful experience, especially as you're grieving someone that was such a great loss,” she told The Associated Press. “She's the best of Tennessee. She's the best of the humans on the planet. She was this magical person that provided light and guidance to all of us.

“Unfortunately she's left us, but now we get to celebrate her and get to tell the world how much Tennessee loved her.”

El máximo tribunal de Brasil desclasificó varios documentos a última hora del jueves en los que se muestra que el senador Bolsonaro, principal rival de Lula, está siendo investigado por recibir 61 millones de reales (12 millones de dólares) de un banquero situado en el centro de un escándalo de corrupción para producir una película titulada “The Dark Horse” (“El caballo negro”).

La investigación amenaza con socavar la postulación del senador Bolsonaro a la presidencia. La primera vuelta de las elecciones está prevista para el 4 de octubre y el senador está enfrascado en una reñida contienda con el presidente Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Las acusaciones se hicieron públicas por primera vez en mayo. El senador Bolsonaro ha negado cualquier irregularidad. Afirmó el viernes, durante un acto de campaña en Manaus, que buscaba inversión privada para una película.

El banquero, Daniel Vorcaro, es el exdirector ejecutivo del clausurado Banco Master. Vorcaro, que fue detenido en marzo, está acusado de defraudar por cientos de millones de dólares a muchos de los 800.000 clientes de Banco Master, entre ellos, varios fondos de pensiones de gobiernos estatales, al convencerlos de realizar inversiones cuestionables. El escándalo ha salpicado a varios altos funcionarios en Brasil.

El juez del Tribunal Supremo André Mendonca abrió una investigación contra el senador Bolsonaro en julio a petición de la Policía Federal de Brasil, según los documentos. En las últimas semanas, aliados de Lula han acusado a Mendonca, designado por Jair Bolsonaro para el tribunal, de proteger al senador Bolsonaro de las investigaciones.

Mendonca desclasificó los documentos a petición del presidente del tribunal, Luiz Edson Fachin, quien buscó aliviar una crisis política dentro de la corte y aportar transparencia a la amplia investigación sobre Banco Master.

La Policía Federal de Brasil estima el fraude total del banco en unos 12.000 millones de reales (2.300 millones de dólares).

El Banco Central de Brasil cerró en noviembre Banco Master, cuyos activos superaban los 16.000 millones de dólares.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, se reunió en la capital de Surinam, Paramaribo, con Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, líder del Partido Nacional Democrático, quien asumió el poder a mediados del año pasado y se convirtió en la primera mujer en presidir el país.

En materia energética, Venezuela ofreció brindar su experiencia en la exploración y producción petrolera y gas, así como capacitación a los trabajadores de la futura industria petrolera en Surinam por intermedio de la Universidad Venezolana de los Hidrocarburos, dijo Rodríguez en declaración difundida por la estatal Venezolana de Televisión.

Surinam se prepara para lograr una inédita afluencia de riqueza tras el descubrimiento de importantes yacimientos petrolíferos en alta mar, cuya primera producción se espera para 2028.

Otro de los convenios apunta a favorecer directamente a 200 pescadores venezolanos de los estados orientales de Nueva Esparta y Sucre, quienes contarán con licencias para ejercer sus labores en el corredor Atlántico de Surinam, se informó.

Las partes acordaron, además, dar impulso a la conexión aérea entre sus países, favorecer el comercio y el turismo binacional. En materia agrícola buscarán reforzar la seguridad alimentaria de sus países.

Desde que Geerlings-Simons asumió el cargo a mediados del año pasado adelanta un proceso que prioriza la estabilización de las finanzas en Surinam, un país sudamericano de habla neerlandesa con más de 646.000 habitantes.

La administración de su predecesor, el presidente Chandrikapersad Santokhi, estuvo plagada de escándalos de corrupción y una severa crisis económica que lo obligó a recurrir al Fondo Monetario Internacional para reactivar la economía del país. Como resultado, la deuda pública se reestructuró en gran medida y los subsidios gubernamentales se redujeron significativamente, generando violentas protestas en su contra que desembocaron en su salida del poder.

Geerlings-Simons, en consecuencia, enfrenta serios desafíos en los años previos a la producción de los primeros barriles de petróleo del país, en parte porque debe pagar aproximadamente 400 millones de dólares anuales en préstamos e intereses, según los expertos.

Academy President Panos A. Panay, speaking after a meeting with Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday, said Africa’s place in the global music industry was a project that cannot be measured by a single launch date, but by the work being put into building a foundation. The California-based Recording Academy is the organization that presents the Grammy Awards.

The academy now wants to expand its presence in Africa by establishing an Africa Recording Academy headquarters, which Kenya is bidding to host alongside Nigeria and South Africa. The Kenyan government has invested $3.9 million toward hosting the hub.

At a panel discussion Friday with various creative economy actors, Panay said the introduction of the best African music performance category in the Grammys and the establishment of the American Music Mentorship Program in partnership with the U.S. State Department, is part of the milestones achieved in the African music industry.

Panay said expanding the global reach of African music was a process like that of gardening where all the necessary conditions have to be in place before the final harvest.

“For things to happen, you need conditions, you need persistence. You need pruning,” he said.

Panay said plans were underway to enroll more African members in the Recording Academy, noting that Grammy Award winners are chosen through a peer-voting process rather than by a jury.

The Recording Academy has been working to expand and diversify its voting body by reaching out to underrepresented communities. Since 2019, the Academy has reported significant growth among voters from different racial backgrounds, including a 100% increase in Asian American and Pacific Islander voters, a 90% increase in Black voters and a 43% increase in Latino voters.

At the 2026 Grammy Awards, Bad Bunny won album of the year, making history as the first time a Spanish-language album has taken home the top prize.

Four years ago, the Grammys introduced the Best African Music Performance category and later formed an American Music Mentorship Program in partnership with the U.S. State Department.

Ruto, speaking Wednesday during a business summit, said the investment in the African hub to be hosted by Kenya was aimed at transforming Kenya’s creative economy into a viable source of income for artists.

“It is about attracting studios, labels, platforms and investors, and making Kenya a permanent center of African creative production,” he said.

The center will provide more opportunities on the international stage for African artists.

Manuel Abud, CEO of the Latin Recording Academy, said Africa’s push to establish a stronger presence within the Grammys should be viewed as a long-term project.

He compared it to the development of the Latin Recording Academy, saying it also took years to build the structures and networks needed to establish a strong presence in the global music industry.

Abud, Panay and Media Executive Nicholas Weinstock have been on a weeklong meet and greet in Nairobi as part of the U.S. Embassy-Kenya creative economy collaboration.

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Homestead police said they went to the victim’s home last Friday after she reported that her ex, Garrett Whitney, “made a verbal threat to kill” her.

She told police that she recently broke up with Whitney, 23, after more than two years together, according to an arrest report.

The report states that since the breakup, Whitney “has repeatedly called her and texted her from numerous different phone numbers to harass and threaten her” despite being told to stop and having multiple phone numbers blocked.

Using “several different vehicles,” police said Whitney “has repeatedly driven past her residence and questions her about her visitor(s) and her activities.”

According to the report, text messages show Whitney threatening to open an OnlyFans page under the handle “(victim’s first name)s_spicy_account,” which he later did and “posted nude photographs of her.”

Authorities said he texted her, “I’m going to murder you” and said “several times” during a child custody exchange, “I promise I’m going to kill someone.”

On Thursday, police said the victim further reported to them that Whitney “has been calling and harassing her non-stop, advising (that he has done so) over 500 times a day since she has moved out.”

Police said voicemails and text messages revealed further threats to the woman and her family.

“I am going too (sic) murder u,” police said he wrote in one message. “Like no cap, u really asking for it, u not gonna be with me u aint gonna be with no one b----, i swear bro im itching to do it and we going to do this right or he aint gonna have either of us.”

It turned out, according to a separate arrest report, that Homestead police had been conducting undercover drug buys with Whitney since February ― and on Thursday, they arranged to meet with him at the In-N-Out Market, a food store at 1395 SW Eighth St., for a $2,400 cocaine buy.

Authorities said after Whitney took the cash and gave the undercover officer more than three ounces of cocaine, police took him into custody. Charges listed in the arrest report indicate that the cocaine also contained fentanyl.

Whitney now faces multiple charges, including cocaine trafficking, aggravated stalking, written threats to kill and sexual cyber-harassment.

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

He also has a magistrate hold listed.

La policía de Homestead dijo que acudió a la casa de la víctima el viernes pasado después de que ella reportara que su ex, Garrett Whitney, “la amenazó verbalmente con matarla”.

Ella dijo a la policía que recientemente terminó su relación con Whitney, de 23 años, después de más de dos años juntos, según un reporte de arresto.

El reporte señala que desde la ruptura, Whitney “la ha llamado y enviado mensajes de texto repetidamente desde numerosos números telefónicos diferentes para acosarla y amenazarla”, a pesar de que le dijeron que dejara de hacerlo y de que varios números telefónicos fueron bloqueados.

Utilizando “varios vehículos diferentes”, la policía dijo que Whitney “ha pasado repetidamente frente a su residencia y le pregunta sobre sus visitantes y sus actividades”.

Según el reporte, los mensajes de texto muestran que Whitney amenazó con abrir una página de OnlyFans bajo el nombre de usuario “(nombre de la víctima)s_spicy_account”, lo que posteriormente hizo y “publicó fotografías de ella desnuda”.

Las autoridades dijeron que le envió un mensaje de texto que decía: “Voy a asesinarte” y dijo “varias veces” durante un intercambio por la custodia de un menor: “Prometo que voy a matar a alguien”.

El jueves, la policía dijo que la víctima reportó además que Whitney “la ha estado llamando y acosando sin parar, indicando que lo ha hecho más de 500 veces al día desde que ella se mudó”.

La policía dijo que mensajes de voz y de texto revelaron más amenazas contra la mujer y su familia.

“Voy a asesinarte”, escribió en un mensaje, según la policía. “De verdad, tú te lo estás buscando, si no vas a estar conmigo no vas a estar con nadie, p—, te lo juro, estoy ansioso por hacerlo y vamos a hacer esto bien o él no va a tener a ninguno de los dos”.

Según un reporte de arresto separado, resultó que la policía de Homestead había estado realizando compras encubiertas de drogas a Whitney desde febrero y, el jueves, acordaron reunirse con él en In-N-Out Market, una tienda de alimentos ubicada en 1395 SW Eighth St., para comprar $2,400 USD en cocaína.

Las autoridades dijeron que después de que Whitney recibió el dinero en efectivo y entregó al agente encubierto más de tres onzas de cocaína, la policía lo detuvo. Los cargos enumerados en el reporte de arresto indican que la cocaína también contenía fentanilo.

Whitney ahora enfrenta múltiples cargos, entre ellos tráfico de cocaína, acoso agravado, amenazas escritas de muerte y ciberacoso sexual.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza que figuraba como “por determinar”.

También tiene registrada una retención por orden de un magistrado.

Perdomo Torres, de 36 años, viajaba en una furgoneta Ford E-150 Econoline blanca de 2012, propiedad de Professional Ocean Service Corp., mientras trabajaba en el aeropuerto de Miami (MIA), cuando un avión de carga Boeing 767-300 que operaba como vuelo 7598 de Prime Air se salió de la pista y se estrelló.

“El señor Perdomo Torres salió despedido por los aires. Tuvo la lucidez de intentar aterrizar boca abajo, en lugar de boca arriba, pensando siempre en sobrevivir”, dijo el abogado Pablo Rojas, quien representa a Perdomo Torres y presentó una demanda en su nombre el viernes en el tribunal civil del condado de Miami-Dade.

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Mientras los investigadores federales seguían recopilando y analizando pruebas, Rojas, un experto en aviación, afirmó que hubo “errores evidentes” y “fallos de seguridad” que provocaron la tragedia, que era “evitable”.

“El vuelo 7598 no realizó un aterrizaje seguro ni efectivo. Durante al menos un minuto, se escucharon advertencias en la cabina de mando de que la aeronave se acercaba a la pista demasiado rápido y descendía excesivamente”, escribió Rojas en la demanda de 32 páginas.

Las cinco personas fallecidas identificadas el martes por la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Miami-Dade fueron Rolando Alemán León, de 55 años; Yoel Rodríguez Naranjo, de 53 años; Julio C. Pineda, de 75 años; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, de 53 años; y Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, de 47 años.

“Estaban terminando su turno de ocho horas”, escribió Rojas en la demanda por lesiones personales de Perdomo Torres, en la que se nombra a Amazon, Amazon Services, 21 Air, Avia Acquisition, Avia Investments, Andromeda Leasing II, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Titan Aviation Leasing Limited Americas y a los dos pilotos.

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Perdomo Torres afirma que vio el avión a reacción acercándose a la furgoneta y que estaba consciente cuando la fuerza del impacto lo lanzó por los aires y lo arrojó fuera de la furgoneta, que se convirtió en “un montón de metal irreconocible”, según la demanda.

“Al caer, el impacto le aplastó y fracturó la mano”, escribió Rojas en la demanda. “El impacto contra el suelo también le causó fracturas en la pierna y el tobillo. Luchando por su vida en medio del caos, el Sr. Perdomo Torres intentó ponerse de pie, pero no pudo”.

Sin un Sistema de Detención de Materiales de Ingeniería (EMAS, por sus siglas en inglés), una plataforma de seguridad para detener el avión, en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami (MIA), el avión también impactó una camioneta Toyota Corolla Cross LE en la Avenida Noroeste 67. El personal de rescate del Departamento de Bomberos de Miami-Dade encontró a Perdomo Torres en el suelo y lo trasladó en ambulancia al Hospital Militar John M. Johnson (JMH), donde fue sometido a cirugías, según la demanda.

Los otros cuatro heridos fueron Ridoel Averhoff Díaz, de 32 años, compañero de trabajo de Perdomo Torres, cuyo estado era crítico el martes; Joseph Carroll y Jaime Silva, el piloto y el copiloto, que sufrieron heridas leves; y el conductor del Toyota, Eugenio Corredor, de 79 años, cuyo estado era crítico el martes.

Según un informe relacionado, las víctimas del accidente del avión de carga estaban dedicadas a sus familias, afirma su abogado.

La demanda alega que el avión se aproximaba a la pista demasiado rápido y descendía excesivamente, que la aproximación a la pista se realizó a una velocidad insegura, que el aterrizaje se produjo demasiado lejos en la pista y que el tren de aterrizaje solo hizo contacto parcial con el suelo.

“Un piloto pidió que se ajustaran los flaps a 20 grados, y el otro piloto advirtió que iban demasiado rápido. El otro piloto hizo comentarios adicionales sobre la velocidad excesiva de la aeronave durante el resto de la grabación. No hubo una respuesta verbal consistente a los comentarios sobre la velocidad”, escribió un investigador de la NTSB en un informe sobre los hallazgos de las grabadoras de voz y datos de vuelo de la cabina del avión .

La demanda también alegaba que no se desplegó la “máxima potencia de frenado” del avión mientras “se precipitaba por la pista”, y que los pilotos dieron “instrucciones cambiantes y contradictorias”, ya que aparentemente intentaron una “maniobra de aterrizaje frustrado” para abortar el aterrizaje antes de “revertir esta decisión” e intentar detenerse.

“Para entonces, ya era demasiado tarde”, escribió Rojas en la demanda.

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Según Jennifer Homendy, presidenta de la Junta Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte, el avión recorrió 1300 pies “más allá de la superficie pavimentada”. Se detuvo en un campo vacío, con la parte delantera apoyada en un estacionamiento con robots Tesla.

“Los datos registrados no indican que se hayan desplegado los frenos aerodinámicos o el empuje”, declaró Chihoon Shin, investigador principal de la NTSB, durante una rueda de prensa el martes por la noche.

Carroll, de 55 años, el capitán, “recibió su habilitación de tipo para el 76”, una certificación obligatoria para el Boeing 767, en mayo, y Silva, de 37 años, el primer oficial, recibió su habilitación de tipo para el 76 el 2 de abril de 2025. Silva tenía 2655 horas de vuelo al 13 de agosto, y Carroll tenía 7145 horas de vuelo al 31 de marzo, según la NTSB.

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Como el avión, con matrícula N1997A, permaneció en el lugar del accidente, una de las cuatro pistas del aeropuerto de Miami fue cerrada el viernes.

La sheriff del condado de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, pidió el martes a los viajeros que consultaran con las aerolíneas el estado de sus vuelos. También advirtió a los conductores que la Avenida 67 estaba cerrada al público entre las calles 25 y 32.

Homendy pidió a los testigos que compartieran fotos y vídeos con el equipo de la NTSB por correo electrónico a la dirección witness@ntsb.gov.

Cordero-Stutz pidió a los familiares de las víctimas que se pusieran en contacto con los defensores de las víctimas de la MDSO al 305-471-1900.

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La cuarta edición anual del torneo Always Remember Never Forget reunió a 16 equipos de socorristas y veteranos militares de todo el sureste.

Para los jugadores, el torneo es una oportunidad para competir, fomentar la camaradería y recordar los acontecimientos que cambiaron al país hace 25 años.

“Cuando entran a este hielo durante una hora, nada más importa”, dijo John Allen, director del torneo.

Allen dijo que la importancia de ese día sigue siendo fuerte para quienes lo vivieron y para quienes prestaron servicio después de los ataques.

“Obviamente, hace 25 años hoy, Estados Unidos en su conjunto cambió”, dijo Allen. “Ese día fue traumático para muchas personas”.

Allen dijo que el torneo se centra en honrar a quienes prestaron servicio y a quienes se perdieron.

“Hoy se trata de recordar a las personas que han servido, a las personas que perdimos el 11 de septiembre, a las personas que perdimos en la guerra y en los acontecimientos posteriores”, dijo Allen.

Una vez que cae el disco, los jugadores se concentran en el partido, creando un sentido de unidad entre personas que comprenden la experiencia de servir a los demás.

“Podemos odiarnos cuando estamos en el hielo, pero cuando salimos, todo son abrazos”, dijo Greg Ferrari, de Panthers Warriors Team 1.

Ferrari sirvió 16 años en el Ejército y estuvo entre los últimos soldados en salir de Afganistán. Dijo que jugar hockey con otros veteranos le devuelve un sentido familiar de camaradería.

“Gran parte de la camaradería proviene de estar con personas que pasaron por experiencias similares a las tuyas, y todos practicamos juntos un deporte que nos gusta”, dijo.

El programa de hockey Panthers Warriors también utiliza el torneo como una oportunidad para apoyar a los socorristas y a otras personas que prestaron servicio.

“Hacemos lo que podemos para apoyar a las personas que estuvieron allí para ayudarnos”, dijo Ed Zito, presidente de Panthers Warriors Hockey.

Los partidos continuarán durante todo el fin de semana y el torneo se extenderá hasta el domingo. Consulte el calendario completo a continuación.

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The fourth annual Always Remember Never Forget tournament brought together 16 teams of first responders and military veterans from across the Southeast.

For the players, the tournament is a chance to compete, build camaraderie and remember the events that changed the country 25 years ago.

“When they get on this ice for one hour, nothing else matters,” said John Allen, the tournament’s director.

Allen said the significance of the day remains strong for those who lived through it and those who served in its aftermath.

“Obviously 25 years ago today, America as a whole changed,” Allen said. “That day was traumatic for a lot of people.”

Allen said the tournament is focused on honoring those who served and those who were lost.

“Today is about remembering the people who have served people who we’ve lost on 9/11 people who we lost in the war in the events following after,” Allen said.

Once the puck drops, the players focus on the game, creating a sense of unity among people who understand the experience of serving others.

“We may hate each other when we’re on the ice, but when we’re off it’s all hugs,” said Greg Ferrari of Panthers Warriors Team 1.

Ferrari served 16 years in the Army and was among the last soldiers to leave Afghanistan. He said playing hockey with fellow veterans brings back a familiar sense of camaraderie.

“A lot of the camaraderie of having guys that went through similar experiences as you, we all play a sport that we like together,” he said.

The Panthers Warriors hockey program also uses the tournament as an opportunity to support first responders and others who served.

“Doing what we can to support the people that were there to help us out,” said Ed Zito, president of Panthers Warriors Hockey.

Games will continue throughout the weekend, with the tournament running through Sunday. Read the full schedule below.

The documents illustrate security analysts' tracking of bin Laden's movements and support system, as well as concerns about possible threats to U.S. targets. They also detail officials' understanding of his network in the United States and other countries, including how his operations were financed.

Proclaiming it “an act of exceptional transparency,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the documents were the agency's single largest release of declassified presidential daily briefs — the highly classified briefings prepared by the nation’s intelligence community for the government’s most senior leaders.

The documents range from a February 1998 file — prepared for then-President Bill Clinton — titled “Terrorists seeking WMD capability” and mentioning bin Ladin and other Islamic extremists to a Sept. 12, 2001, report in which a source indicated the attacks had been planned for two years and had also targeted the U.S. Capitol.

An April 1998 document described the Taliban's unwillingness to hand over bin Laden, at the time seen as their “guest” in Afghanistan, noting their “gratitude for his assistance during the Soviet occupation” was making them “reluctant to alienate him by monitoring or controlling his activities.”

Briefers in July 1998 called it “plausible that Bin Ladin places a high priority on conducting attacks in the United States" and noted his "interest in conducting attacks with chemical and biological agents.”

Two months later, a briefer wrote that bin Laden's “preferred option is to strike the US on its own soil in Washington,” and that al-Qaida “may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.”

Potential hijackings were also discussed in December 1998, when a briefer described how conspirators “had evaded security checks during a recent trial run at an unidentified New York airport," and “some members of the Bin Ladin network have received hijack training.”

Other documents detail bin Laden's pursuit of materials for making “dirty bombs,” conventional weapons infused with radioactive material. By June 1999, according to intelligence officials, his operatives had conducted such experiments with explosives to "increase their energy output.”

About two years before the attacks, intelligence officials were aware bin Laden appeared to be misleading the Taliban about his reluctance to launch an unprovoked attack on the U.S. Briefs prepared for President George W. Bush in early 2001 focused in part on bin Laden's “experimentation by crude means to make and deploy biological agents.”

A report a month before the attacks indicated bin Laden's commitment “to conduct terrorist attacks in the US," noting that 1998 al-Qaida attacks on U.S. embassies “demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks.”

At that time — August 2001 — officials wrote of “suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York,” adding that the FBI was “conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related.”

Many of the documents were redacted to conceal sources’ names and other identifying information. They didn’t appear to break any new ground on the planning of the attacks or on U.S. officials’ understanding of how they had unfolded.

In the years immediately following the attacks, a bipartisan commission highlighted a lack of information sharing among agencies such as the CIA and FBI, and issued recommendations that yielded new positions, including a centralized director of national intelligence, as well as the National Counterterrorism Center, which analyzes domestic and foreign terrorism information across different government branches.

Asked for comment on the release, the White House noted the release of another batch of documents by the National Archives, also Friday. That batch, including interviews with national security officials in the Clinton and Bush administrations, was a product of the commission that probed the attacks from 2002 to 2004.

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The ceremony at the law enforcement officers’ memorial focused on the sacrifice of firefighters, police officers and other emergency personnel who responded to the attacks, as well as those who later became ill from exposure to toxic dust and debris.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Ray Jadallah singled out retired MDFR Chief Robert Suarez, who spent several days working at the World Trade Center site after the attacks. Suarez, now 72, received a standing ovation from those gathered at the memorial.

“Sacrifice is not always measured in a single moment,” Jadallah said. “Sometimes it’s carried for a lifetime.”

Jadallah thanked Suarez and other responders who continue to live with the consequences of their work, as well as those who have died.

“To every responder who continues to carry that burden, and to those who are no longer here to stand among us, we see you, we remember you, and we thank you for your service,” he said.

For many Americans, the attacks remain a defining collective memory — a day marked by shock, grief, fear and uncertainty that unfolded in real time and continued to shape the nation for years.

But for younger generations, 9/11 is increasingly something learned through history rather than experienced firsthand.

Suarez said the passage of time makes it even more important to preserve the lessons of that day. Among the most important, he said, is the need to have the courage to love, care for and support one another.

The ceremony was one of several events held across Miami-Dade County Friday as communities across the country marked 25 years since the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and forever changed the nation.

La ceremonia en el monumento a los agentes del orden se centró en el sacrificio de bomberos, policías y otro personal de emergencia que respondió a los ataques, así como de aquellos que posteriormente enfermaron por la exposición al polvo tóxico y los escombros.

El jefe de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Ray Jadallah, destacó al jefe retirado de MDFR Robert Suarez, quien pasó varios días trabajando en el sitio del World Trade Center después de los ataques. Suarez, ahora de 72 años, recibió una ovación de pie de quienes se reunieron en el monumento.

“El sacrificio no siempre se mide en un solo momento”, dijo Jadallah. “A veces se lleva durante toda la vida”.

Jadallah agradeció a Suarez y a otros socorristas que continúan viviendo con las consecuencias de su trabajo, así como a aquellos que han muerto.

“A cada socorrista que continúa llevando esa carga, y a aquellos que ya no están aquí entre nosotros, los vemos, los recordamos y les agradecemos su servicio”, dijo.

Para muchos estadounidenses, los ataques siguen siendo un recuerdo colectivo que los marcó: un día caracterizado por la conmoción, el dolor, el miedo y la incertidumbre que se desarrolló en tiempo real y continuó moldeando a la nación durante años.

Pero para las generaciones más jóvenes, el 11 de septiembre es cada vez más algo que se aprende a través de la historia en lugar de experimentarse de primera mano.

Suarez dijo que el paso del tiempo hace aún más importante preservar las lecciones de ese día. Entre las más importantes, dijo, está la necesidad de tener el valor de amar, cuidar y apoyarse unos a otros.

La ceremonia fue uno de varios eventos realizados en todo el condado Miami-Dade el viernes, mientras comunidades de todo el país conmemoraban 25 años desde los ataques que mataron a casi 3,000 personas y cambiaron para siempre a la nación.

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Deputies said they responded Sunday night to a report involving 41-year-old Nicholas Lydic, who is accused of touching himself in the parking lot.

Authorities said they also found a backpack inside his vehicle containing women’s underwear and sex toys.

They said Ledic was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure. His bond information wasn’t immediately available.

Heder, the director of the best picture-winning “CODA,” was taking a moment to reflect a few hours before she premiered her new film, “Being Heumann,” at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie is about Judy Heumann, the disability rights pioneer, and the protest movement she shepherded that ultimately led to the landmark Americans With Disability Act.

Heumann died in 2023, but as Heder prepared to debut the film, she was very present.

“It’s really sad that she’s not here to see this,” Heder said, beginning to tear up. “I’ll cry with you so I don’t have to cry tonight. I think about her all the time. I hope she would be proud of the movie and the way that we made it.”

“Being Heumann,” which Apple will release in theaters Nov. 6 and begin streaming Nov. 13, is Heder’s attempt to not only pay tribute to the relentless, hardscrabble protest movement, but to challenge the way movies are made.

“CODA,” the first film featuring a largely deaf cast to triumph at the Oscars, already marked a watershed moment for the film industry. It derived much of its crowd-pleasing power from the charisma of Troy Kotsur and Marlee Matlin, both of whom are deaf. But five years later, Heder has seen any momentary embrace by Hollywood of the disabled community come and go.

In “Being Heumann,” the opening night film of TIFF, Heder again strove for authenticity in a cast peopled with disabled actors. On Thursday night, just the presence of the cast of “Being Heumann” was a statement.

“I watched this incredible adjustment happen for ‘CODA’ in Hollywood, and then the moment ‘CODA’ was done, it was like, ‘Phew, now we don’t have to have interpreters anymore,’” Heder said. “Out of necessity, my cast showing up on a red carpet is going to force people to adjust. That’s going to be messy, but interesting and important.”

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ with disabled people

“Being Heumann” stars Ruth Madeley, a BAFTA-nominated actor born with spina bifida, as Heumann. It chronicles the historic 28-day sit-in when Heumann and more than 100 disability rights activists occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to demand the government sign the long-delayed accessibility regulations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Heder’s film derives much of its vibrancy from its day-to-day detail. Such a lengthy protest would be challenging for able-bodied demonstrators; for people in wheelchairs, it was dramatically more daring. But while “Being Heumann” captures that struggle, it’s also filled with a collective protest spirit. There is sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. Heder calls it “‘Dog Day Afternoon’ with disabled people.”

Although Hollywood has made some gains in representation over the years, the industry still often overlooks people with disabilities. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in four U.S. adults have some type of disability. Yet the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has found that over the last decade, the number of disabled characters in popular films has held steady at about 2.4%.

That legacy — which includes a long list of dubious depictions by able-bodied actors — was part of what led Heder to make “Being Heumann.” Following the success of “CODA,” she had a wide array of options. She met numerous times with Marvel. But after seeing “Crip Camp,” the 2020 documentary that featured Heumann, reading her autobiography and working with Heumann on the film, Heder became resolved.

“I was incredibly moved by Judy’s story and her life, and her relentless pursuit of the desire to make this group of invisible people visible,” Heder said. “I could see with this film an opportunity to carry on that legacy in casting a bunch of unknown disabled actors. In a way, we were storming the building of Hollywood.”

Remaking Hollywood film sets

Little of the accessibility that Heumann and company sought in 1977 exists on film sets today. When Heder began prepping for production, she found one accessible trailer in all of North America. They instead built trailers from scratch, created a “ramp village” and empowered an accessibility team.

“We had to discover all the ways that the set could become accessible,” Heder said. “It was kind of reinventing moviemaking while we were making a movie. It definitely laid a path that other people could follow.”

The cast of “Being Heumann” includes some familiar names like Mark Ruffalo (who plays Joseph Califano, the government official reluctant to sign Section 504) and Dylan O’Brien (who plays the reporter Evan White). But much of the film’s lived-in authenticity comes from performers like Andrew Pilkington (who used his letter board to talk), Madeline Delp (paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident in childhood), “CODA” actor Daniel Durant (who is deaf) and Charlie Rush-Reese (who is blind).

“The majority of sets I’ve been on, I’ve literally been the only disabled person. This is most of the cast,” said Madeley. “You can’t do that without proper accessibility. Being on the set of ‘Being Heumann’ really healed part of my acting journey. To have that on a Hollywood movie, that was my dream to see that.”

That doesn't mean there weren’t challenges. But for Heder, authenticity and specificity are the only ways to tell a story. “I think generality is the enemy of representation,” she said.

And for her it was also creatively inspiring. For example, Heder described a moment on set when Rush-Reese and Durant were working together to transfer Rio Finnegan out of a wheelchair.

“The way the communication started to move around between the three actors was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen,” Heder recalled. “Rio was having to narrate to Charlie with his voice while gesturing to Daniel with his body, while also acting as a translator between the two of them. That kind of interdependence was what kept this protest alive for 26 days. And I would never have been able to write that.”

Los agentes dijeron que respondieron la noche del domingo a un reporte relacionado con Nicholas Lydic, de 41 años, quien está acusado de tocarse en el estacionamiento.

Las autoridades dijeron que también encontraron una mochila dentro de su vehículo que contenía ropa interior de mujer y juguetes sexuales.

Dijeron que Lydic fue arrestado bajo un cargo de exhibición indecente. La información sobre su fianza no estaba disponible de inmediato.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, Ludvin Raul Gallopena, 40, was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm and improper exhibition of a weapon or firearm in connection with the Aug. 15 incident.

Police said officers responded shortly after 9 p.m. to the area of Northwest 17th Avenue and Northwest 30th Street, behind the Presidente Supermarket, following a report of an aggravated assault involving a firearm.

According to the arrest report, the victim told officers he was attempting to park when he became involved in a parking dispute with Gallopena.

The disagreement escalated into a verbal confrontation, during which Gallopena allegedly retrieved a black gun from his vehicle and pointed it at the victim, police said.

The victim told investigators that Gallopena threatened him, saying, “Hey, if I see you again, I’m gonna shoot you. You better not be around here.”

According to the report, the victim told officers he feared for his life.

Police said Gallopena then entered the supermarket and continued shopping before eventually leaving in a gray Honda Pilot.

Investigators later obtained recorded statements from the victim and a witness.

The witness told detectives that he had parked and apologized to Gallopena for taking his parking space, but Gallopena became angry and began arguing with him, according to the report.

The witness said he then asked the victim to speak with Gallopena.

At that point, Gallopena allegedly walked to the driver’s side of his vehicle, pulled out what appeared to be a gun and pointed it at the victim, the report states.

On Aug. 18, detectives showed the witness a sequential photo lineup. Police said the witness identified Gallopena as the person who had pointed the gun at the victim.

Detectives located Gallopena near Northwest Seventh Avenue and Northwest 62nd Street on Thursday and transported him to the department’s Violent Crimes Office for questioning.

According to the report, Gallopena waived his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with investigators.

Police said Gallopena acknowledged getting into an argument with the victim at the Presidente Supermarket parking lot.

Gallopena told detectives that he brandished a black airsoft gun and pointed it at the victim because he was afraid, according to the report.

He also told investigators that the airsoft gun did not have an orange tip and looked like a real firearm, the report stated.

According to the arrest report, Gallopena acknowledged that what he did was wrong and said he should have stayed at the scene and contacted police.

As of Friday afternoon, Gallopena was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,500 bond.

Según un reporte de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami, Ludvin Raul Gallopena, de 40 años, fue arrestado bajo cargos de agresión agravada con un arma de fuego y exhibición indebida de un arma o arma de fuego en relación con el incidente del 15 de agosto.

La policía dijo que los agentes respondieron poco después de las 9 p.m. al área de Northwest 17th Avenue y Northwest 30th Street, detrás del Presidente Supermarket, tras recibir un reporte de una agresión agravada que involucraba un arma de fuego.

Según el reporte de arresto, la víctima dijo a los agentes que intentaba estacionarse cuando se vio involucrada en una disputa por un espacio de estacionamiento con Gallopena.

El desacuerdo escaló hasta convertirse en un enfrentamiento verbal, durante el cual Gallopena presuntamente sacó un arma negra de su vehículo y apuntó a la víctima, dijo la policía.

La víctima dijo a los investigadores que Gallopena lo amenazó diciendo: “Oye, si te vuelvo a ver, te voy a disparar. Será mejor que no estés por aquí”.

Según el reporte, la víctima dijo a los agentes que temió por su vida.

La policía dijo que Gallopena entró entonces al supermercado y continuó haciendo compras antes de finalmente marcharse en un Honda Pilot gris.

Posteriormente, los investigadores obtuvieron declaraciones grabadas de la víctima y de un testigo.

El testigo dijo a los detectives que se había estacionado y se disculpó con Gallopena por ocupar su espacio de estacionamiento, pero Gallopena se enojó y comenzó a discutir con él, según el reporte.

El testigo dijo que entonces le pidió a la víctima que hablara con Gallopena.

En ese momento, Gallopena presuntamente caminó hacia el lado del conductor de su vehículo, sacó lo que parecía ser un arma y apuntó a la víctima, señala el reporte.

El 18 de agosto, los detectives mostraron al testigo una rueda de reconocimiento fotográfico secuencial. La policía dijo que el testigo identificó a Gallopena como la persona que había apuntado con el arma a la víctima.

Los detectives localizaron a Gallopena cerca de Northwest Seventh Avenue y Northwest 62nd Street el jueves y lo trasladaron a la Oficina de Crímenes Violentos del departamento para interrogarlo.

Según el reporte, Gallopena renunció a sus derechos Miranda y accedió a hablar con los investigadores.

La policía dijo que Gallopena reconoció haber discutido con la víctima en el estacionamiento de Presidente Supermarket.

Gallopena dijo a los detectives que exhibió una pistola de airsoft negra y apuntó con ella a la víctima porque tenía miedo, según el reporte.

También dijo a los investigadores que la pistola de airsoft no tenía una punta naranja y parecía un arma de fuego real, señala el reporte.

Según el reporte de arresto, Gallopena reconoció que lo que hizo estuvo mal y dijo que debió haberse quedado en la escena y haber contactado a la policía.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Gallopena permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $5,500 USD.

Patrice, la tía de Peyton y Brent, dijo que los hermanos eran inseparables.

“Siempre estaban juntos. Siempre estaban juntos”, dijo.

Los dos estaban juntos nuevamente la noche del miércoles, circulando en una bicicleta eléctrica cerca de Northwest 117th Street y Northwest Seventh Avenue cuando las autoridades dijeron que fueron atropellados por un vehículo.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, los agentes respondieron al accidente con atropello y fuga aproximadamente a las 8:40 p.m.

Los investigadores dijeron que el conductor de un Nissan Versa plateado o gris, modelo 2009-2012, circulaba hacia el norte por Northwest Seventh Avenue y se aproximaba a Northwest 117th Street cuando giró a la izquierda hacia 117th Street.

El vehículo atropelló entonces a Peyton y Brent mientras circulaban por Northwest 117th Street en la bicicleta eléctrica, dijeron las autoridades.

En lugar de detenerse, los investigadores dijeron que el conductor huyó de la escena en una dirección desconocida.

Los agentes llegaron y encontraron a ambos niños inconscientes y tendidos en la carretera.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue trasladó a los hermanos al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en condición crítica.

Peyton murió a causa de sus heridas el jueves.

Su tía recordó a la niña de 10 años como una porrista que llevaba alegría a quienes la rodeaban.

“Era porrista, ya sabes, llena de vida. Todo el mundo la quería”, dijo Patrice. “Y ahora que esto suceda y nadie se presente, simplemente no tiene sentido”.

El hermano permanece hospitalizado

Brent permanecía hospitalizado el viernes mientras su familia espera que despierte.

“Creo que acaba de salir de cirugía, si no me equivoco, y solo están esperando que despierte”, dijo Patrice.

Dos días después del accidente, se podía ver un monumento improvisado con velas, globos y otros homenajes cerca de la intersección donde los hermanos fueron atropellados.

Su familia ahora espera respuestas mientras los investigadores continúan buscando a la persona que estaba al volante.

“Tiene que entregarse, punto”, dijo Patrice. “Simplemente entréguese”.

La familia también pide a cualquier persona que pueda saber algo sobre el accidente que se presente.

“Solo espero que alguien se presente”, dijo Patrice. “Tenga corazón, por favor. Porque podrían haber sido los hijos de cualquiera”.

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La Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade pidió a los negocios del área que revisen sus videos de vigilancia e instó a cualquier persona que pudiera haber presenciado el accidente a comunicarse con los investigadores.

“Solo puedo imaginar cómo se sienten los padres en esta situación”, dijo un portavoz de MDSO. “Así que le pedimos a la comunidad, por favor. Si es dueño de un negocio en esta área y tiene cámaras, por favor revise sus cámaras. Si por casualidad estuvo aquí y presenció lo ocurrido, por favor llámenos”.

Detectives de la Unidad de Homicidios de Tránsito de MDSO están investigando.

Se pide a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el accidente o que crea reconocer el vehículo involucrado que se comunique con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-TIPS (8477).

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Patrice, the aunt of Peyton and Brent, said the siblings were inseparable.

“They always were together. Always were together,” she said.

The two were together again Wednesday night, riding an electric bicycle near Northwest 117th Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue when authorities said they were struck by a vehicle.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the hit-and-run crash at approximately 8:40 p.m.

Investigators said the driver of a silver or gray 2009-2012 Nissan Versa was traveling northbound on Northwest Seventh Avenue and approaching Northwest 117th Street when the driver made a left turn onto 117th Street.

The vehicle then struck Peyton and Brent as they traveled along Northwest 117th Street on the e-bike, authorities said.

Instead of stopping, investigators said the driver fled the scene in an unknown direction.

Deputies arrived to find both children unresponsive and lying in the roadway.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported the siblings to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.

Peyton died from her injuries Thursday.

Her aunt remembered the 10-year-old as a cheerleader who brought joy to those around her.

“She was a cheerleader, you know, full of life. Everybody loved her,” Patrice said. “And now for this to happen and no one to come forward, it’s just senseless.”

Brother remains hospitalized

Brent remained hospitalized Friday as his family waits for him to wake up.

“I think he just got out of surgery, if I’m not mistaken, and they are just waiting on him to wake up,” Patrice said.

Two days after the crash, a makeshift memorial of candles, balloons and other tributes could be seen near the intersection where the siblings were struck.

Their family is now waiting for answers as investigators continue searching for the person who was behind the wheel.

“They need to turn themselves in, period,” Patrice said. “Just turn yourself in.”

The family is also asking anyone who may know something about the crash to come forward.

“I just hope somebody just comes forward,” Patrice said. “Have a heart, please. Because this could have been anybody’s kids.”

Search for driver continues

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office has asked businesses in the area to review surveillance video and urged anyone who may have witnessed the crash to contact investigators.

“I can only imagine how the parents feel in this situation,” an MDSO spokesperson said. “So we urge the community, please. If you’re a business owner in this area and you happen to have cameras, please review your cameras. If you were here by chance to witness what occurred, please give us a call.”

Detectives with the MDSO Traffic Homicide Unit are investigating.

Anyone with information about the crash or who believes they recognize the vehicle involved is urged to contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477).

Lowry went from wanting to get off the course as quickly as possible in the wind-blown opening round to wishing a day like this wouldn't end. He made birdie on half of the holes and was hitting his irons so well that only three of the birdies were outside 10 feet.

“Every time I kept making birdie, I just kept going, wanting to birdie the next,” Lowry said. “I felt like I was in control out there. So it was good fun. It's been awhile since I've had that much fun on the golf course, so I'll take it.”

He was at 11-under 129, three shots clear of Haotong Li (63) and the Danish duo of Jacob Skov Olesen and Niklas Norgaard, who each shot 64.

Li also enjoyed a spell of good weather on the Doonbeg course along the Atlantic coast after Thursday when the wind was so strong it took some six hours to play. The first round had to be completed Friday.

“Yesterday was kind of like a little bit bad weather. Even some of the 3-feet par putts, I felt like they were shaking,” Lie said. “But today it was kind of like birdie heaven.”

That wasn't the case for defending champion Rory McIlroy, pleased with his game from the tee until he had the putter in his hand. McIlroy struggled to read the greens, and the 18th summed up his round of 69 when he three-putted from 4 feet for bogey, missing a 20-inch par putt.

“It’s hard whenever you struggle to read them,” McIlroy said of the greens. “And then when you do get over the ball you’re trying to trust what you’re seeing, but everything else that you have seen hasn’t went the way you thought.”

McIlroy was nine shots out of the lead and bracing for more rough weather over the weekend, when President Donald Trump is due for a visit.

Lowry made three straight birdies starting with a 4-footer on the third hole, and he closed out the front nine with another string of three birdies. Key to his momentum was a 10-foot par save on the 10th, followed by two more birdies that put him at 8-under par for the round through 12 holes and had the 2019 British Open champion thinking about breaking 60.

That thought lasted one hole — he three-putted from 18 feet for bogey on the 13th.

Joaquin Niemann, the 18-hole leader, had to settle for a 70 that left him six shots behind. Patrick Reed, the American who leads the Race to Dubai, had another 68 and was seven shots back. Jon Rahm had a 67 and was another shot behind at 3-under 137.

Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka, playing for the first time in a month, holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the last hole for a 66 to make the cut on the number.

Lowry won the Irish Open in 2009 as an amateur, and McIlroy said he was not surprised to see him with another chance at Doonbeg.

“He believes he’s a good player in windy links conditions, so I think that’s half the battle is believing that you are or knowing that you are,” McIlroy said. “I think he feels like he has an advantage when the conditions are like that. And that’s the way he sees the game.”

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Townsend and Siniakova rallied after a rough start contributed to losing the first three games and dropping the first set. The top seeds started looking like it with aggressive shots at the net, and they took control of the match on the way to a 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 victory at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

"There was lot of nerves," Siniakova said. “We were really fighting for this one, so I’m just really proud. We did it.”

The result validated Townsend's confidence in her play after getting knocked out of the women's singles tournament by No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. The 30-year-old American expressed confidence in her tennis at the moment, especially knowing she still had another opportunity in doubles.

That turned into her fourth major championship after she and Siniakova won Wimbledon in 2024, the Australian Open in 2025 and the French Open earlier this year. It is Siniakova’s 12th after winning seven with fellow Czech player Barbora Krejcikova and one with Coco Gauff.

It was an impressive run for Krueger and Montgomery, who respectively rank 570th and 610th in doubles and went through each half of defending champions Erin Routliffe and Gabriela Dabrowski separately in the quarterfinals and semifinals. Krueger and Montgomery reunited five years after winning the U.S. Open girls' doubles title and advancing a round at the women's level in 2021.

"We put (the wild card) to really good use," Krueger said.

Townsend and Siniakova got retribution after falling short against Routliffe and Dabrowski in the final a year ago. Townsend dropped to her knees after the final point and was all smiles as she said to Siniakova that they finally did it.

“If flipping the script had a face,”Townsend said, “you’d see my face.”

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The boy's brother and a cousin died sometime after the small boat flipped, according to the rescuers.

Their bodies were found after the teen was hoisted to safety near St. Lawrence Island — a remote Alaskan island that’s closer to Russia than it is to the United States.

The captain of the fishing boat, The Northwest Explorer, said the boy had clung to the skiff for close to three days. “That’s one tough kid,” Adam White told KTUU-TV in Anchorage.

Coast Guard planes and helicopters began searching for the skiff Monday morning after family members reported the three missing the night before. Authorities did not release the names of the three.

The group left St. Lawrence Island on Friday and planned to return early Sunday, the Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard said one of its air crews spotted the boy Monday morning and deployed a raft and supplies before contacting The Northwest Explorer.

Video of the rescue shows the boy in a bright yellow jacket kneeling atop the overturned skiff. The boat's crew tosses the boy a line, tugging the skiff closer until they can pull him into a rescue basket.

The boy was experiencing symptoms of hypothermia when he got onto the boat, the Coast Guard said.

The fishing boat crew warmed him with blankets and hot packs, its captain said.

“Through the teeth chattering, he had mentioned that his brother was still under the skiff,” White said. “And then he said that, in the previous night, before our rescue, that his cousin had slipped away.”

Falcons first-year coach Kevin Stefanski said Friday undrafted rookie Jack Strand will be the backup.

The late change in plans for the season opener came after Stefanski announced Monday that Tagovailoa will open the season as the starter and Michael Penix Jr. will be inactive. Penix did not play in a preseason game as he continues his recovery from a torn ligament in his left knee that ended his 2025 season.

Stefanski said Friday Penix was never an option for Sunday's game, even after Tagovailoa's injury.

“No. Mike will be ready when he's ready,” Stefanski.

The Falcons signed Rush on July 29 after Tagovailoa opened training camp with tightness in his lower back.

Rush, 32, has played in 42 NFL games, including 16 starts in eight seasons, seven with Dallas. The Cowboys went 4-4 in Rush's eight starts in 2024 and Baltimore was 0-2 in his two starts last season.

Rush will be asked to take over the offense after spending little time with the starters during training camp and the preseason.

“That’s the life of a backup quarterback,” Stefanski said. "There’s been great guys over the course of history that do an excellent job of staying ready so they don’t have to get ready and step in. The reason you’re able to do that is because you work so hard in the meeting room and on the practice field to stay up to speed.

“Now, in an ideal world, would you love to have gotten every rep? Of course. That’s a no-brainer. But, I do think there’s examples of guys that come in with no reps, and sometimes it’s after the first play, sometimes it is on play 59, whatever it is. And you’re expected to compete, and you’re expected to hold the standard of the room, in this case, the quarterback room. So Cooper’s been a backup in his career. He’s been the starter. He knows how to prepare.”

Tagovailoa bent over in obvious discomfort after throwing a pass during a portion of Thursday's practice open to media and grabbed his right side. He dropped to the ground for a few seconds before getting up and trying to shake off the injury. He was listed as a limited participant.

Stefanski wouldn't characterize the severity of Tagovailoa's injury or speculate if he might miss multiple games or Penix might be ready next week.

“Disappointed for him, obviously,” Stefanski said of Tagovailoa. “He’s a very competitive person, so disappointed. But he’s gonna rally behind Coop and do everything he can to help Coop.”

Stefanski said he couldn't remember having two top quarterbacks inactive for the opening game of a season. When a reporter suggested the scenario was unbelievable, Stefanski said “Not for me.”

Tagovailoa’s injury robs him of the opportunity to make his Falcons debut at Pittsburgh, the same spot where he made the last start of his rocky final season with Miami.

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The milestone anniversary brought memorial rituals — wreath-laying, flag-flying, moments of silence, vigils and readings of victims’ names — and volunteer projects in tribute to a day that about half of U.S. adults remember as the most historic event of their lifetime, according to a new poll. On Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida extremists hijacked four commercial jets and crashed them into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people.

Elsie Caldwell carried a photograph of her son Kenny Caldwell to the trade center to hear his name and all the others read aloud Friday morning. She last spoke to him that morning a quarter-century ago.

“Mom, I just want to let you know that I love you,” Caldwell said he told her in a final phone call. His remains, like those of many other victims, have never been recovered.

Trump attends Pentagon observance

The attacks brought down the World Trade Center’s twin towers — icons of U.S. economic power, and among the tallest buildings on Earth — and blew a hole in the Pentagon, the U.S. military’s fortress-like headquarters near Washington. The fourth plane was headed for Washington, officials concluded, but the aircraft went down in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew members stormed the cockpit and fought the hijackers.

“Sept. 11 reminded us of the terrible power of hate,” President Donald Trump said Friday at the Pentagon’s anniversary ceremony Friday.

“The 25 years since have shown us the even greater power of the American spirit to endure and prevail, and to win,” added the Republican, who was in his native New York on 9/11.

Former President George W. Bush, who was in office on 9/11, and ex-Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden and current Vice President JD Vance convened for the observance at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in New York. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wiped away a tear as he revisited the place where the attacks killed 658 of his then-colleagues — including his brother, Gary Lutnick — at the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald.

Other administration officials went to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania.

At ground zero, a new tribute to those who fell ill

For Angilic Casalduc, attending the New York commemoration “helps to show you’re not alone.” She lost her mother, Vivian Casalduc.

“There’s no timeline for grief, and unfortunately, no one can say how can you can grieve, but coming here once a year makes it feel just a little bit better,” she said.

Traditionally, there are no political speeches at the ground zero commemoration, where victims’ relatives read aloud the long list of names and added personal messages. They thanked first responders and the military, invoked religious faith, appealed for national unity and touched on the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia. The kingdom was the homeland of most of the hijackers but denied any involvement in the attacks.

Mostly, relatives spoke of, and to, loved ones — who some were too young to remember.

“You dreamed my whole life for me, and you only got eight months of it,” said Trisha Pakka, who lost her mother, Deepa Pakkala.

Kiersten Haub, who was 16 months old when the attacks killed her father, firefighter Michael Helmut Haub, said: “I carry you through every milestone.”

Besides moments of silence at key points in the attack timeline, this year’s ceremony added another moment to honor people who were exposed to the clouds of toxic dust released by the twin towers’ fiery collapse and have since died of cancer and other illnesses. Questions remain about how many people developed health problems linked to the dust.

The impact of 9/11 endures

It’s a reminder of how the attacks’ long shadow has reached into many corners of life in the U.S. and beyond.

The U.S.-led global war on terrorism included invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan — the latter Washington’s longest war — and detentions and harsh interrogation of terror suspects in an international network of secret CIA prisons. The U.S. found and killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, but accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed still awaits a trial 23 years after his capture.

The attacks changed U.S. air travel, led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, prompted new federal surveillance and intelligence-gathering powers and banking regulations and generated ongoing debate over the balance between security and freedom.

Sept. 11 engendered a culture of individual vigilance summed up by the slogan “ if you see something, say something,” while a wave of patriotism propelled some Americans to join the military, fire departments and police forces.

Casey Kloepfer was 4 when his father, police Officer Ronald Kloepfer, was killed at the trade center. The son became an officer himself this June, wearing his dad’s badge number.

“It’s big footsteps to fill, but it’s definitely something that I take very seriously and want to continue to honor him and be the best police officer I can,” he said by phone this week.

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Amid the post-9/11 calls to service and appeals for national unity, the attacks also fanned mistrust, prejudice and hate crimes directed at Muslims.

In the quarter-century since, Muslim Americans have played a growing role in public life from statehouses to Congress to New York City Hall, where Zohran Mamdani is the city’s first Muslim mayor. Yet he faced some criticism for attending the anniversary ceremony at ground zero.

Republican ex-Gov. George Pataki and 9/11 victims’ relatives cited, among other things, past remarks that some of Mamdani’s political associates have made about the attacks. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, also inveighed against Mamdani attending the remembrance, though the two shook hands there Friday.

Mamdani, a Democrat, said this week he loves the city and country and that he wanted the anniversary to focus on victims’ families, first responders and New Yorkers who helped one another after the attacks, which he called a “horrific act of terror.” The 34-year-old mayor was an elementary school student in New York on 9/11.

One victim’s son and namesake, Michael Massaroli, used his time at the podium Friday to deplore people “using this tragedy to spread hate” against Muslims and others.

“That’s wrong, and that does no honor to the victims here,” he said.

Times Square billboards pause advertisements

Remembrances extended far from the attack sites, including beams of light projecting from New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, a stair climb at Mississippi State University’s football stadium and a ceremony at Honolulu’s 9/11 memorial.

Sept. 11 isn’t a federal holiday, but Congress has designated it both Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance.

“One appropriate way to remember is by serving,” says Jay Winuk, who lost his brother Glenn Winuk and then co-founded the organization 9/11 Day with friend David Paine. The group coordinates volunteer opportunities and this year arranged for dozens of Times Square billboards to pause their advertising at 9:11 a.m. Friday.

Instead, they simply displayed the time.

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Associated Press journalists Michael R. Sisak, Anthony Izaguirre and Julie Walker contributed.

After observing the somber 25th anniversary on Friday of the 9/11 attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, Trump plans to fly to Ireland for a weekend at his eponymous golf resort in Doonbeg on the country’s Atlantic coast. Trump International Golf Links is hosting the Irish Open, which kicked off Thursday.

The president is an avid golfer who hits the links at clubs he owns in Florida, New Jersey and Virginia just about every weekend. Prime Minister Micheál Martin invited Trump to watch the Irish Open during a St. Patrick’s Day trip to Washington in March, and Ireland’s political leaders will most likely see the visit as a chance to maintain warm relations despite differences over trade and foreign policy.

Daniel Mulhall, a former Irish ambassador to the United States, said Irish and U.S. officials will see Trump’s trip “as a happy opportunity for him to have a little bit of R&R in a place that he really loves, which is his golf course in Doonbeg.”

“The relationship with America is on an even keel, which is great because not every country in the world can say that,” he said.

There will be a bit of politics, then golf

Trump plans to sit down on Saturday to talk about trade and international issues with Martin and will also have a brief meeting with President Catherine Connolly, a progressive campaigner who was elected Ireland's ceremonial head of state last year. He’ll give remarks to business leaders at the U.S. ambassador's residence, the White House said. Then he'll travel to Doonbeg to attend the tournament, and possibly present the winner’s trophy on Sunday.

The U.S. and Ireland share ties of history — 30 million Americans claim Irish heritage, and more than 1 million Americans visit Ireland every year — and strong economic bonds. The Irish Treasury takes in billions in corporate tax from U.S. technology and drug companies operating in Ireland, and American firms employ more than 200,000 people in the country.

Ireland is a member of the European Union, a frequent target of Trump’s ire, but so far the country's lucrative pharmaceutical sector has avoided steep levies.

The Middle East is a potential source of friction. Ireland has recognized a Palestinian state and banned goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, both positions eschewed by the Trump administration.

Martin, who leads a center-right coalition government, struck up a cordial relationship with Trump during his St. Patrick’s Day visits, though Trump said in the Oval Office in March 2025 that “of course” Ireland was among countries taking advantage of the United States.

Not everyone in Ireland is welcoming Trump’s visit. More than 150 Irish lawyers signed a letter objecting to the visit, alleging that through support for conflicts in Gaza and Iran Trump is “executing and enabling war policies which are illegal, causing death and destruction on a massive scale.”

A collection of left-leaning opposition parties, anti-military groups, pro-Palestinian organizations, environmentalists and others plans to demonstrate in Dublin on Saturday.

Trump has forged a role as sports fan-in-chief

Trump’s attendance at the Irish Open continues his trend of appearing at prominent sporting events — and having a hand in organizing some of them in ways that benefit his family business. His clubs in Doral, Florida, and Bedminster, New Jersey, have each hosted professional golf tournaments this year.

In July, Trump marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence from Britain by staging a UFC fight night on the South Lawn of the White House and sanctioning the first IndyCar race ever held on the streets of Washington.

Since beginning a second term in office in January 2025, he’s attended the Super Bowl, the Daytona 500, the FIFA Club World Cup final and the U.S. Open men’s tennis final. He recently announced that he will be at the Presidents Cup golf tournament in late September near Chicago in the traditional role as honorary chairman of the matches.

Last summer, he visited his golf courses in Scotland, meeting then-Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during the trip.

The president’s visit has brought a huge security operation to the rural area 175 miles (280 kilometers) west of Dublin, complicated by the presence of some 20,000 golf fans attending the Open.

Local councilor Rita McInerney, who owns a shop in Doonbeg, said Trump’s purchase of the golf course in 2014 has been a mixed bag for the town.

She said Doonbeg has been “vilified” by some in Ireland because of its Trump connection, but that the resort is a major employer and a responsible member of the local business community.

The area draws many American tourists, some of whom come because “they love the golf more than they hate Trump,” she said.

“And then there’s a group of people that will come because they follow Trump or they like Trump or they support him in the U.S.,” she said. “And then there’s other people that will avoid the place because he owns it.”

Brazil’s top court unsealed several documents late Thursday that show Sen. Bolsonaro, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's primary opponent, is under investigation for receiving 61 million reais ($12 million) from a banker at the center of a corruption scandal to produce an unreleased movie titled “The Dark Horse."

The investigation, which centers on whether the Bolsonaro family misused the funds and whether the payments were properly reported to Brazilian authorities, threatens to undermine Sen. Bolsonaro’s bid for the presidency. The first round of elections is slated for Oct. 4, and the senator is locked in a tight race with Lula.

The banker, Daniel Vorcaro, who was arrested in March, is accused of defrauding many of Banco Master’s 800,000 clients, including several state government pension funds, out of hundreds of millions of dollars by convincing them to make questionable investments. The scandal has engulfed several high-ranking officials in Brazil.

The allegations first became public in May. Sen. Bolsonaro has denied any wrongdoing and said Friday during a campaign event in the Amazonian city of Manaus that he was seeking private investment for the movie.

“It is very positive that the documents are unsealed," Flávio Bolsonaro told journalists at the event. "I want transparency in everything. I will only confirm what I always said. There's nothing wrong about the movie.”

Corruption, money laundering and tax evasion

One document alleges that Eduardo Bolsonaro, who lives in Texas and is one of Flavio Bolsonaro’s brothers, “guided how the resources (sent by Vorcaro) could be managed in the United States.”

Prosecutors suspect the funds for the film were used to pay Eduardo Bolsonaro's expenses and to promote Flavio Bolsonaro's political agenda to the Trump administration, documents show.

Eduardo Bolsonaro denied any wrongdoing in his social media channels and said investigators “are trying to repeat the mechanism that worked against Jair Bolsonaro.” The former president was sentenced by Brazil's Supreme Court to 27 years in prison after a coup attempt.

On Thursday, Brazil's federal police seized documents from the film's production company and from lawmaker Mário Frias, who sent about 2 million reais ($400,000) to a non-profit linked to the film. The production company and Frias deny any wrongdoing.

Supreme Court Justice André Mendonca, a Bolsonaro appointee, opened the investigation into Sen. Bolsonaro in July at the request of Brazil's federal police.

Mendonca's office has been silent about the case for many weeks, which led Lula's allies to accuse the Supreme Court justice of shielding Sen. Bolsonaro from investigations.

Mendonca unsealed the documents at the request of Chief Justice Luiz Edson Fachin, who sought to ease a political crisis within the court and bring transparency into the sprawling Banco Master probe. Fachin on Friday ordered Mendonca to release all documents regarding the Banco Master case within 24 hours.

Paulo Henrique Paschoeto Cassimiro, a political science professor at Rio de Janeiro State University, said Sen. Bolsonaro's links with Vorcaro could hurt his chances against Lula three weeks before the vote, after he spent months recovering in the polls since the revelations surfaced in May.

Cassimiro added that the unsealed documents could also boost Lula's standing since he has insisted for all of them to be aired publicly, no matter who they hit, as he knows "much of the scandal has hit politicians on the right, although not exclusively.”

Lula has brought the case to his campaign in ads and recent interviews.

“Banco Master was created in the Bolsonaro administration. Vorcaro was arrested in mine, the bank was shuttered in mine,” Lula said in an interview with broadcaster SBT aired Thursday evening.

Brazil’s Central Bank shut down Banco Master, whose assets topped $16 billion, in November.

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AP journalist Eléonore Hughes contributed to this report from Rio de Janeiro.

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Investigators say the theft operation spanned across multiple counties and resulted in over $1 million in stolen merchandise.

It’s being called a multi-circuit organized retail theft enterprise, a case that was finally cracked after a 15-month investigation.

According to investigators, the stolen baby formula was being stored inside a warehouse in Davie.

The slip at the warehouse comes back to a man named Mohammed Alsaidi. According to state records, he runs a hookah company, but Local 10 News has learned Alsaidi, 59, was arrested on accusations of being the head of the formula theft ring, along with 49-year-old Zeina Abdul-Hassan Sou Zabib.

Both are from the Lake Worth area, and both are now in custody.

The baby formula theft ring, according to investigators, uses “boosters,” described as people who are paid to steal the product from stores like Publix, Target, Walmart and Winn-Dixie.

Those boosters would then allegedly sell the stolen formula to Alsaidi and Abdul-Hassan Sou Zabib, and cops say the couple would sell the product on the illegal market far below its retail value.

Authorities said the pair eventually made more than $1 million in profit off the scam in as little as seven months, from November of 2024 to June of 2025.

Both suspects face charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering and two counts of directing or dealing in stolen property, all first-degree felonies.

If convicted as charged, each faces up to 90 years in state prison.

Los investigadores dicen que la operación de robo se extendió por varios condados y resultó en más de $1 millón USD en mercancía robada.

Se le describe como una organización de robo minorista organizado que operaba en múltiples circuitos, un caso que finalmente fue resuelto después de una investigación de 15 meses.

Según los investigadores, la fórmula para bebés robada era almacenada dentro de una bodega en Davie.

El recibo de la bodega está a nombre de un hombre llamado Mohammed Alsaidi. Según registros estatales, dirige una compañía de hookah, pero Local 10 News supo que Alsaidi, de 59 años, fue arrestado bajo acusaciones de ser el líder de la red de robo de fórmula, junto con Zeina Abdul-Hassan Sou Zabib, de 49 años.

Ambos son del área de Lake Worth y ahora se encuentran detenidos.

La red de robo de fórmula para bebés, según los investigadores, utiliza “boosters”, descritos como personas a quienes se les paga para robar el producto de tiendas como Publix, Target, Walmart y Winn-Dixie.

Esos “boosters” presuntamente vendían luego la fórmula robada a Alsaidi y Abdul-Hassan Sou Zabib, y la policía dice que la pareja vendía el producto en el mercado ilegal muy por debajo de su valor minorista.

Las autoridades dijeron que la pareja finalmente obtuvo más de $1 millón USD en ganancias con el esquema en apenas siete meses, desde noviembre de 2024 hasta junio de 2025.

Ambos sospechosos enfrentan cargos de conspiración para cometer crimen organizado y dos cargos de dirigir o negociar con propiedad robada, todos delitos graves de primer grado.

Si son declarados culpables de los cargos, cada uno enfrenta hasta 90 años en una prisión estatal.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright had said the 64-year-old J.H. Campbell Generating Plant was needed to ensure reliable electricity in the region, and he used emergency powers to keep it operating. Environmental groups and three states — Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota — went to court to try to overturn orders keeping the plant online.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the states and the groups, saying there was no real emergency under the law.

The section of the Federal Power Act that allows emergency orders “is essentially a narrow, last-resort backstop," Appeals Court Judge Cornelia Pillard wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel. Use of emergency authority “is triggered only when there is a need for immediate, essentially last-resort action and the circumstances require action by DOE in particular, as opposed to action by the state or states responsible for resource adequacy," she added.

Reversing the Campbell plant's “long and carefully planned retirement" is "disruptive," Pillard wrote.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said she was relieved the appeals court “threw out DOE’s order that had zero basis in reality.”

Nessel, a Democrat, said her office “has been fighting this unlawful political stunt at every turn, and this ruling proves what we have been saying all along: this administration does not get to invent fake emergencies to bypass the rule of law against the best interests of Michigan residents.”

The Michigan case is one several legal disputes that have emerged across the country as the Trump administration uses emergency powers to force a half-dozen coal-fired plants from closing.

The orders, which also apply to plants in Indiana, Colorado, Florida and Washington state, are raising ratepayer bills and adding air and water pollution that could have been avoided, critics say. An oil and gas plant in Pennsylvania was also ordered to keep its turbines running as a hedge against electricity shortages in the mid-Atlantic grid.

President Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency in a January 2025 executive order, citing demand increases from artificial intelligence and data center growth.

Keeping the Michigan plant open beyond its May 2025 retirement has cost about $259 million so far, according to new financial filings. Those losses will likely be paid by families and businesses in the Midwest, opponents of the order say.

Consumers Energy, which operates the Campbell plant, said it was reviewing the court ruling. In the meantime, the utility will keep the plant operating under terms of a recent DOE order that extends its directive through mid-November, spokesman Brian Wheeler said in a statement.

Ted Kelly, U.S. clean energy director at the Environmental Defense Fund, said the court ruling rejected the Trump administration’s nationwide effort to force “unreliable, aging coal plants that are bleeding money and polluting communities to stay online.”

The Energy Department's “unlawful actions attempted to make families and businesses in the Midwest wastefully pay hundreds of millions of dollars for a coal plant that should have been shut down over a year ago,” Kelly said Friday. The Campbell plant and other aging sites are “incredibly expensive, dangerous to our health and break down frequently,” he said.

Sanjay Narayan, a lawyer for the Sierra Club, called the ruling a victory for families across the Midwest who are “paying to keep this old, expensive and dirty power plant online.”

The Trump administration “has been pulling out all the stops to try to bolster dirty and expensive fossil fuels at public expense. This reckless agenda will not succeed,” Narayan said. "We will continue to fight back against the other illegal extensions across the country.”

The Energy Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Associated Press writer Ed White in Detroit contributed to this story.

Un reporte de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami señala que la investigación sobre Seth Thomas Vela, de 24 años y residente de Little Havana, comenzó en 2025 después de que Dropbox alertara al Centro Nacional para Niños Desaparecidos y Explotados sobre cinco archivos ilícitos subidos al sitio de almacenamiento en la nube.

El reporte señala que los detectives encontraron al menos 13 videos de niños y niñas de entre 1 y 3 años siendo violados o abusados sexualmente. Uno de los videos también involucraba a un perro en el abuso, dijeron los detectives.

La policía dijo que presentó una solicitud a Google para obtener información sobre la dirección de correo electrónico con la que estaba registrada la cuenta de Dropbox, lo que condujo a Vela, quien estaba relacionado con al menos otras seis direcciones de correo electrónico, incluida “methlabenjoyer@gmail.com”.

Otra de esas direcciones de correo electrónico adicionales condujo a la casa de Vela en la cuadra 200 de Southwest Sixth Avenue.

El jueves, la policía dijo que allanó la casa y confiscó varios dispositivos electrónicos. Vela, dijeron, “invocó sus derechos y se negó a responder cualquier pregunta”.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Vela permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight por 13 cargos relacionados con la posesión de material de abuso sexual infantil y un cargo por posesión de imágenes o videos de conducta sexual con animales.

Su fianza figuraba en los registros de la cárcel como “por determinar”.

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A Miami Police Department arrest report states that the investigation into Seth Thomas Vela, 24, of Little Havana, began in 2025 after Dropbox alerted the National Center for Missing and Exploited children to five illicit files uploaded to the cloud storage site.

The report states that detectives found at least 13 videos of boys and girls as young as 1 to 3 years old being raped or sexually abused. One of the videos also involved a dog in the abuse, detectives said.

Police said they submitted a request to Google for information about the email address the Dropbox account was registered to, which pointed back to Vela, who was associated with at least a half-dozen other email addresses, including “methlabenjoyer@gmail.com.”

Another one of those additional email addresses pointed back to Vela’s home in the 200 block of Southwest Sixth Avenue.

On Thursday, police said they raided the home and seized several electronic devices. Vela, they said, “invoked his rights and refused to answer any questions.”

As of Friday morning, Vela was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on 13 counts related to the possession of child sexual abuse material and one count of having images or videos of sexual conduct with animals.

His bond was listed in jail records as “to be set.”

They had even less trouble finding running room.

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But after piling up a school-record 856 yards in a 77-7 rout of Florida A&M at Hard Rock Stadium, the Hurricanes made it clear they weren’t interested in treating the blowout as the finished product.

“We’re not satisfied,” Hurricanes right tackle Matthew McCoy said. “We hold ourselves to a higher standard.”

That standard has produced two lopsided victories to open the season.

The Hurricanes followed a 45-6 win at Stanford with an offensive explosion against the Rattlers, improving to 2-0 while continuing to show the depth and versatility coach Mario Cristobal has emphasized throughout the offseason.

“Efficient, really, really efficient,” Cristobal said.

Mario Cristobal on the improvements from Week 1 to Week 2: pic.twitter.com/O51LDjUUDi

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

Miami was rarely forced into difficult situations.

Cristobal said the Rattlers did not have many opportunities to get Miami into third-down situations, while the Hurricanes consistently created explosive plays through the air and on the ground.

The result was a record-setting night.

Quarterback Darian Mensah completed 14 of 15 passes for 252 yards and three touchdowns in the first half before giving way to the reserves. The Duke transfer has now thrown eight touchdowns with only four incompletions through two games.

Mensah on his team’s record-setting night on offense: pic.twitter.com/asOm9lLftf

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

“We wanted to play well,” Mensah said. “That’s what I came here to do, and I’m doing it.”

Mensah opened the scoring by finding Josh Moore for a 55-yard touchdown on Miami’s second possession. Mark Fletcher Jr. added two first-quarter rushing touchdowns, including a 46-yard burst that moved him further up Miami’s career rushing lists.

The Hurricanes led 21-0 after one quarter and never slowed down.

Malachi Toney continued his strong start to the season, making a contested 52-yard catch before hauling in a 19-yard touchdown from Mensah. When asked about a separate deep ball he underthrew, Mensah gave Toney credit for making him look good.

Mensah on underthrowing Malichi Toney on a deep ball but Toney still coming up with the catch, and his fast success after transitioning into a new program. pic.twitter.com/MulZat2Y3I

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

“He kind of bailed me out right there, but, you know, that’s what he does,” Mensah said. “He’s an awesome player.”

Miami’s depth became increasingly apparent as the night progressed.

Girard Pringle Jr. contributed as a runner and receiver before scoring, while freshman running back Javian Mallory broke out for 142 yards and two touchdowns on 10 carries. The two scores were the first of Mallory’s college career.

Javian Mallory on scoring his first 2 collegiate touchdowns. Finished the night with 10 carries 142 yard and the 2 scores. pic.twitter.com/oeBcmZHLPc

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

“I was just very happy,” Mallory said. “Coming into this game, I knew I was gonna get the opportunity. I should make the most of it. That’s what I did.”

Mallory said earning an opportunity so early in his career carries added meaning because of the trust Miami’s coaches have placed in him.

“When I committed, I said that’s what I was gonna do, and I have to keep my word,” Mallory said. “I came in here, put my head down to work, and that’s all we do here at Miami is work hard.”

The Hurricanes took a 49-0 lead into halftime before Cristobal turned the game over to his younger players.

Backup quarterback Luke Nickel continued the offensive barrage, throwing three touchdown passes while completing all eight of his attempts for 144 yards. Dereon Coleman also saw action at quarterback.

The scoring allowed Miami’s younger players to showcase themselves, something McCoy said was one of the most enjoyable parts of the night.

He described himself as a “proud uncle” watching freshmen and other younger players make plays, adding that Miami’s expectations don’t change based on a player’s experience.

For Cristobal, that mentality was evident when the coaching staff considered leaving a starter on the field long enough to reach an individual statistical milestone.

Malachi Toney, Cristobal said, was told he needed a few more yards to reach 100 receiving yards. Rather than pursue the personal accomplishment, Toney wanted his teammates to get on the field.

“He’s like, coach, I want to see my teammates play,” Cristobal said. “I want to see them get better.”

Cristobal said the Hurricanes’ ability to play different combinations on defense also has become increasingly important as injuries have forced younger players into expanded roles.

Mario on the secondary stepping up despite multiple injuries early in the season: pic.twitter.com/cZ2KtYSwIX

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

Freshman safety JJ Dunnigan made his first collegiate start Thursday and was among the defensive backs who stepped up as Miami continued to keep opponents out of the end zone.

“It means a lot cause that’s our standard,” Dunnigan said. “That’s something we want to live by is keeping people out of the end zone, protecting Cane nation.”

JJ Dunnigan on the defense not allowing a TD in 2 games: pic.twitter.com/4CP4ynmQdR

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

Cristobal pointed to Dunnigan’s work since arriving at Miami as one reason the freshman was ready for the opportunity.

“It’s as simple as they earn the opportunity to play,” Cristobal said.

The secondary has already had to navigate several injuries. Starting cornerback Xavier Lucas, who was injured in the season opener against Stanford, is expected to miss “approximately a month,” Cristobal said.

“Hopefully that’ll be it,” Cristobal said. “And we’ll get him back.”

Lucas’ absence adds to a growing list of injuries in Miami’s secondary, with O.J. Frederique Jr. and Ja’Boree Antoine also sidelined long term.

Miami adjusted by giving Bryce Fitzgerald more responsibility at outside corner, moving Dunnigan into a starting safety role opposite Zechariah Poyser and keeping Omar Thornton at nickel.

Cristobal said the versatility Miami has developed in the secondary gives the Hurricanes multiple options.

“We have a couple of different combinations that we feel strongly about,” he said.

The defense has been just as dominant as the offense through two games. Miami has not allowed a touchdown this season, and Florida A&M managed only 37 rushing yards on 21 attempts Thursday.

Still, Cristobal was already looking ahead to Wake Forest.

The Hurricanes will have an extra day to prepare for their next opponent, but Cristobal said the benefit only matters if Miami continues to get better.

The starters played roughly 28 to 31 snaps Thursday, he said, enough for them to perform at a high level while allowing the coaching staff to get younger players meaningful reps.

“When it was time to come out, there was no pushback,” Cristobal said.

That response may have mattered as much to Cristobal as the final score.

Miami has scored 122 points in its first two games and outgained its opponents by a wide margin. The Hurricanes have also established themselves as one of the deepest teams in the early portion of the season.

But the message coming out of the locker room was not celebration.

It was expectation.

“Every single week you better get better,” Cristobal said. “And I think we, you know, in some respect, we did that tonight.”

Miami will take its undefeated record to Wake Forest on Friday, Sept. 18.

Incluso les resultó más fácil encontrar espacio para correr.

Pero tras acumular un récord escolar de 856 yardas en una aplastante victoria por 77-7 sobre Florida A&M en el Hard Rock Stadium, los Hurricanes dejaron claro que no estaban interesados ​​en considerar esa paliza como el resultado final.

“No estamos satisfechos”, dijo Matthew McCoy, tackle derecho de los Hurricanes. “Nos exigimos un nivel más alto”.

Ese nivel ha dado como resultado dos victorias aplastantes al comienzo de la temporada.

Los Hurricanes, tras su victoria por 45-6 en Stanford, protagonizaron una explosión ofensiva contra los Rattlers, mejorando su récord a 2-0 y demostrando la profundidad y versatilidad que el entrenador Mario Cristobal ha enfatizado durante toda la pretemporada.

“Eficiente, realmente muy eficiente”, dijo Cristóbal.

Mario Cristobal on the improvements from Week 1 to Week 2: pic.twitter.com/O51LDjUUDi

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

Miami rara vez se vio obligada a afrontar situaciones difíciles.

Cristobal afirmó que los Rattlers no tuvieron muchas oportunidades de poner a Miami en situaciones de tercer down, mientras que los Hurricanes crearon constantemente jugadas explosivas por aire y por tierra.

El resultado fue una noche histórica.

El mariscal de campo Darian Mensah completó 14 de 15 pases para 252 yardas y tres touchdowns en la primera mitad antes de ser sustituido por los suplentes. El jugador transferido de Duke acumula ya ocho touchdowns con solo cuatro pases incompletos en dos partidos.

Mensah on his team’s record-setting night on offense: pic.twitter.com/asOm9lLftf

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

“Queríamos jugar bien”, dijo Mensah. “Para eso vine aquí, y lo estoy haciendo”.

Mensah abrió el marcador con un pase a Josh Moore para un touchdown de 55 yardas en la segunda posesión de Miami. Mark Fletcher Jr. sumó dos touchdowns terrestres en el primer cuarto, incluyendo una carrera de 46 yardas que lo catapultó aún más alto en la lista histórica de corredores de Miami.

Los Hurricanes ganaban 21-0 después del primer cuarto y nunca bajaron el ritmo.

Malachi Toney continuó con su excelente inicio de temporada, realizando una recepción disputada de 52 yardas antes de atrapar un pase de touchdown de 19 yardas de Mensah. Cuando le preguntaron sobre otro pase largo que se quedó corto, Mensah le dio crédito a Toney por haberlo hecho quedar bien.

Mensah on underthrowing Malichi Toney on a deep ball but Toney still coming up with the catch, and his fast success after transitioning into a new program. pic.twitter.com/MulZat2Y3I

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

“Me salvó en ese momento, pero bueno, eso es lo que suele hacer”, dijo Mensah. “Es un jugador increíble”.

La profundidad de la plantilla de Miami se hizo cada vez más evidente a medida que avanzaba la noche.

Girard Pringle Jr. contribuyó como corredor y receptor antes de anotar, mientras que el corredor novato Javian Mallory destacó con 142 yardas y dos touchdowns en 10 acarreos. Estos dos touchdowns fueron los primeros de la carrera universitaria de Mallory.

Javian Mallory on scoring his first 2 collegiate touchdowns. Finished the night with 10 carries 142 yard and the 2 scores. pic.twitter.com/oeBcmZHLPc

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

“Estaba muy contenta”, dijo Mallory. “Sabía que iba a tener esta oportunidad antes de este partido. Tenía que aprovecharla al máximo. Y eso fue lo que hice”.

Mallory afirmó que tener esta oportunidad tan pronto en su carrera tiene un significado especial debido a la confianza que los entrenadores de Miami han depositado en él.

“Cuando me comprometí, dije que eso era lo que iba a hacer, y tengo que cumplir mi palabra”, dijo Mallory. “Llegué aquí, me puse a trabajar duro, y eso es todo lo que hacemos aquí en Miami”.

Los Hurricanes llegaron al descanso con una ventaja de 49-0 antes de que Cristobal cediera el juego a sus jugadores más jóvenes.

El mariscal de campo suplente Luke Nickel continuó con la ofensiva, lanzando tres pases de touchdown y completando sus ocho intentos para 144 yardas. Dereon Coleman también tuvo participación como mariscal de campo.

Los goles permitieron que los jugadores más jóvenes de Miami se lucieran, algo que McCoy calificó como una de las partes más agradables de la noche.

Se describió a sí mismo como un “tío orgulloso” que observa a los novatos y otros jugadores más jóvenes realizar jugadas, y agregó que las expectativas de Miami no cambian en función de la experiencia de un jugador.

Para Cristóbal, esa mentalidad quedó patente cuando el cuerpo técnico consideró la posibilidad de dejar a un titular en el campo el tiempo suficiente para que alcanzara un hito estadístico individual.

Según Cristobal, a Malachi Toney le dijeron que necesitaba unas pocas yardas más para alcanzar las 100 yardas de recepción. En lugar de buscar ese logro personal, Toney quería que sus compañeros de equipo entraran al campo.

“Me dijo: ‘Entrenador, quiero ver jugar a mis compañeros’”, contó Cristóbal. “Quiero verlos mejorar”.

Cristobal afirmó que la capacidad de los Hurricanes para utilizar diferentes combinaciones en defensa también se ha vuelto cada vez más importante, ya que las lesiones han obligado a los jugadores más jóvenes a asumir roles más importantes.

Mario on the secondary stepping up despite multiple injuries early in the season: pic.twitter.com/cZ2KtYSwIX

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

El safety de primer año JJ Dunnigan hizo su debut como titular universitario el jueves y fue uno de los backs defensivos que dieron un paso al frente mientras Miami continuaba impidiendo que los oponentes llegaran a la zona de anotación.

“Significa mucho porque ese es nuestro estándar”, dijo Dunnigan. “Queremos regirnos por eso: mantener a la gente fuera de la zona de anotación, proteger a la afición de los Cane”.

JJ Dunnigan on the defense not allowing a TD in 2 games: pic.twitter.com/4CP4ynmQdR

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 11, 2026

Cristobal señaló el trabajo que Dunnigan había realizado desde su llegada a Miami como una de las razones por las que el estudiante de primer año estaba preparado para la oportunidad.

“Es tan sencillo como que se ganen la oportunidad de jugar”, dijo Cristóbal.

La defensa secundaria ya ha tenido que lidiar con varias lesiones. Se espera que el cornerback titular Xavier Lucas, quien se lesionó en el primer partido de la temporada contra Stanford, esté de baja “aproximadamente un mes”, dijo Cristobal.

“Ojalá sea así”, dijo Cristóbal. “Y lo recuperaremos”.

La ausencia de Lucas se suma a una creciente lista de lesionados en la defensa secundaria de Miami, ya que OJ Frederique Jr. y Ja’Boree Antoine también estarán de baja por un largo periodo.

Miami realizó ajustes dándole a Bryce Fitzgerald más responsabilidad como esquinero exterior, colocando a Dunnigan como safety titular junto a Zechariah Poyser y manteniendo a Omar Thornton como nickelback.

Cristóbal afirmó que la versatilidad que Miami ha desarrollado en la secundaria le brinda a los Hurricanes múltiples opciones.

“Tenemos un par de combinaciones diferentes que nos convencen plenamente”, dijo.

La defensa ha sido tan dominante como la ofensiva en los dos primeros partidos. Miami no ha permitido ningún touchdown esta temporada, y Florida A&M solo logró 37 yardas por tierra en 21 intentos el jueves.

Aun así, Cristóbal ya tenía la vista puesta en Wake Forest.

Los Hurricanes tendrán un día extra para prepararse para su próximo rival, pero Cristobal dijo que ese beneficio solo importa si Miami continúa mejorando.

Según explicó, los titulares jugaron entre 28 y 31 jugadas el jueves, lo suficiente para que rindieran a un alto nivel y, al mismo tiempo, permitieran al cuerpo técnico dar oportunidades significativas a los jugadores más jóvenes.

“Cuando llegó el momento de salir del armario, no hubo ninguna resistencia”, dijo Cristóbal.

Esa respuesta pudo haber sido tan importante para Cristóbal como el resultado final.

Miami ha anotado 122 puntos en sus dos primeros partidos y ha superado ampliamente a sus rivales en yardas totales. Los Hurricanes también se han consolidado como uno de los equipos con mayor profundidad de plantilla en este inicio de temporada.

Pero el mensaje que salía del vestuario no era de celebración.

Era una expectativa.

“Cada semana hay que mejorar”, dijo Cristóbal. “Y creo que, en cierto modo, lo conseguimos esta noche”.

Miami llevará su récord invicto a Wake Forest el viernes 18 de septiembre.

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The events of 9/11 are etched in Derek Auguste’s memory.

“I was in shock and I did have family at the World Trade Center on 9/11,” Auguste said.

One cousin narrowly avoided the attack because he was still on his way to work. Another was at the World Trade Center and never came home.

“My cousin was luckily on his way to work and had to walk back home,” Auguste said. “Another cousin of mine was working on the concourse underneath and has never been found.”

The aftermath of the attacks also affected Auguste professionally. At the time, he was working in corporate sales.

“My sales dried up. My job dried up,” he said.

Looking for a way to provide for his family, Auguste decided to enlist in the U.S. Army.

“My daughter was 3 years old when I joined the military,” he said. “My son was born while I was serving in the military.”

Auguste spent 15 months in Iraq and served multiple deployments during his 11 years in the military, eventually reaching the rank of staff sergeant.

Then came another difficult decision.

“So I made the tough decision — OK, it’s time for me to hang up my boots,” he said.

A difficult transition home

Leaving the military presented challenges Auguste hadn’t anticipated.

After spending years away from his family during his service, Auguste said transitioning back into their everyday lives was difficult.

“Close to half the time I was in the military, I was not home,” he said. “So my wife and kids had to learn how to operate without me there.”

The family of four also had to adjust financially without his full-time military salary.

Eventually, Auguste said his home fell into foreclosure.

He was also diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and struggled with suicidal thoughts.

“When you’re in such a dark place, the most irrational thoughts seem rational,” Auguste said.

Seeing his wife helped him realize something needed to change.

“Seeing my wife’s face made me realize I have to do something,” he said.

Auguste received mental health counseling and reached out to United Way Miami Mission United and the Center for Financial Stability.

“To have someone take a step back and take a look and gave me that pathway — here’s an answer,” he said.

With help, Auguste was able to pay back the debt on his mortgage.

Mission United also helped him begin thinking about what would come next.

“What’s next?” Auguste recalled asking. “And he was like, ‘You have to go to school. You have to get a degree.’”

And he did.

Helping other veterans

In 2020, Auguste graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in political science.

His journey eventually led him to Florida International University, where he now serves as program director in the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs.

His new mission is helping other veterans navigate their own paths after military service and reminding them that difficult circumstances don’t have to define their futures.

“The future is bright because you are going to be part of it,” Auguste said.

His journey has also come full circle.

Auguste now serves as chair of the United Way Miami Mission United Advisory Board — the same program that helped him define his financial and educational goals during his own transition to civilian life.

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Los acontecimientos del 11 de septiembre quedaron grabados en la memoria de Derek Auguste.

“Estaba en shock y sí tenía familiares en el World Trade Center el 11 de septiembre”, dijo Auguste.

Uno de sus primos evitó por poco el ataque porque todavía iba camino al trabajo. Otro estaba en el World Trade Center y nunca regresó a casa.

“Mi primo, por suerte, iba camino al trabajo y tuvo que regresar caminando a casa”, dijo Auguste. “Otro primo mío trabajaba en el vestíbulo subterráneo y nunca ha sido encontrado”.

Las consecuencias de los ataques también afectaron profesionalmente a Auguste. En ese momento, trabajaba en ventas corporativas.

“Mis ventas se acabaron. Mi trabajo se acabó”, dijo.

Buscando una manera de mantener a su familia, Auguste decidió enlistarse en el Ejército de Estados Unidos.

“Mi hija tenía 3 años cuando me uní al Ejército”, dijo. “Mi hijo nació mientras yo prestaba servicio militar”.

Auguste pasó 15 meses en Irak y participó en múltiples despliegues durante sus 11 años en el Ejército, hasta alcanzar el rango de sargento de estado mayor.

Entonces llegó otra decisión difícil.

“Así que tomé la difícil decisión: está bien, es hora de colgar las botas”, dijo.

Una difícil transición a casa

Dejar el Ejército presentó desafíos que Auguste no había anticipado.

Después de pasar años lejos de su familia durante su servicio, Auguste dijo que la transición para volver a formar parte de su vida cotidiana fue difícil.

“Casi la mitad del tiempo que estuve en el Ejército, no estuve en casa”, dijo. “Así que mi esposa y mis hijos tuvieron que aprender a funcionar sin que yo estuviera allí”.

La familia de cuatro integrantes también tuvo que adaptarse económicamente sin su salario militar de tiempo completo.

Con el tiempo, Auguste dijo que su casa entró en proceso de ejecución hipotecaria.

También fue diagnosticado con trastorno de estrés postraumático y luchó contra pensamientos suicidas.

“Cuando estás en un lugar tan oscuro, los pensamientos más irracionales parecen racionales”, dijo Auguste.

Ver a su esposa le ayudó a darse cuenta de que algo tenía que cambiar.

“Ver el rostro de mi esposa me hizo darme cuenta de que tenía que hacer algo”, dijo.

Auguste recibió asesoramiento de salud mental y acudió a United Way Miami Mission United y al Center for Financial Stability.

“Que alguien diera un paso atrás, analizara la situación y me mostrara ese camino: aquí hay una respuesta”, dijo.

Con ayuda, Auguste pudo pagar la deuda de su hipoteca.

Mission United también lo ayudó a comenzar a pensar en lo que vendría después.

“¿Qué sigue?”, recordó Auguste que preguntó. “Y él me dijo: “Tienes que ir a la universidad. Tienes que obtener un título””.

Y lo hizo.

Ayudando a otros veteranos

En 2020, Auguste se graduó de la Universidad de Miami con un título en ciencias políticas.

Su trayectoria finalmente lo llevó a Florida International University, donde ahora se desempeña como director de programa en la Oficina de Asuntos de Veteranos y Militares.

Su nueva misión es ayudar a otros veteranos a recorrer sus propios caminos después del servicio militar y recordarles que las circunstancias difíciles no tienen que definir su futuro.

“El futuro es brillante porque tú vas a ser parte de él”, dijo Auguste.

Su trayectoria también ha cerrado el círculo.

Auguste ahora se desempeña como presidente de la Junta Asesora de United Way Miami Mission United, el mismo programa que lo ayudó a definir sus metas financieras y educativas durante su propia transición a la vida civil.

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Putting on a uniform, as so many did 25 years ago, is a reminder of the 411 first responders who never made it back home.

Even after all those years, their promise remains the same: to protect and to serve, even when they know they may not come home.

“The city of Miami sent 17 police officers to go help days after,” Miami Police Chief Edwin Lopez said.

As the American flag hangs above the fire trucks, it is a reminder that 25 years later, it isn’t just about remembering the work of heroes, but carrying that legacy forward.

“We can never forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice, not only today but every single day,” Lopez said.

Ponerse un uniforme, como tantos lo hicieron hace 25 años, es un recordatorio de los 411 socorristas que nunca regresaron a casa.

Incluso después de todos esos años, su promesa sigue siendo la misma: proteger y servir, aun cuando saben que podrían no regresar a casa.

“La ciudad de Miami envió a 17 policías para ayudar días después”, dijo el jefe de la Policía de Miami, Edwin Lopez.

Mientras la bandera estadounidense ondea sobre los camiones de bomberos, sirve como recordatorio de que, 25 años después, no se trata solo de recordar la labor de los héroes, sino de continuar con ese legado.

“Nunca podemos olvidar a quienes hicieron el máximo sacrificio, no solo hoy, sino todos los días”, dijo Lopez.

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The moments of silence were held at 8:46 a.m., when a plane struck the North Tower, and at 9:03 a.m., when a plane struck the South Tower.

U.S. Navy veteran Kevin Tyre told Local 10 News he had to be there to honor the fallen heroes and victims.

“I was in the first Desert Storm back in 1990,” Tyre said. “I was in the Middle East. I know the importance of just protecting the United States of America. That was a tragedy we will never forget.”

Local 10 evening anchor Calvin Hughes introduced the speakers at the ceremony.

Many started off by saying they were thankful Sept. 11, 2001 has not been forgotten.

Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam hosted the remembrance ceremony.

To conclude, a city wreath was placed on two columns from the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

Messam set up the memorial wall around the columns in 2023 after they had been sitting in storage for over a decade.

“Some of our residents have a direct connection to those attacks,” Messam said. “We’re really honored where we can honor those who lost their lives in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. Two columns are at the cornerstone of our memorial.”

Local 10 News spoke to veteran and pastor Robert Lemon about how Sept. 11 changed his viewpoint.

“It changed all of our lives forever, and it reminds us that we have to be ready,” Lemon said. “America’s freedom is not free. We all paid a price, regardless of color and ethnicity. We all are here as one rainbow melting pot. We protect by any means necessary.”

Los momentos de silencio se realizaron a las 8:46 a.m., cuando un avión impactó la Torre Norte, y a las 9:03 a.m., cuando un avión impactó la Torre Sur.

El veterano de la Marina de Estados Unidos Kevin Tyre dijo a Local 10 News que tenía que estar allí para honrar a los héroes caídos y a las víctimas.

“Estuve en la primera Tormenta del Desierto en 1990”, dijo Tyre. “Estuve en Medio Oriente. Sé la importancia de proteger a Estados Unidos de América. Esa fue una tragedia que nunca olvidaremos”.

El presentador de noticias de la tarde de Local 10, Calvin Hughes, presentó a los oradores durante la ceremonia.

Muchos comenzaron diciendo que estaban agradecidos de que el 11 de septiembre de 2001 no haya sido olvidado.

El alcalde de Miramar, Wayne Messam, encabezó la ceremonia conmemorativa.

Para concluir, se colocó una corona de la ciudad sobre dos columnas de las torres gemelas del World Trade Center.

Messam instaló el muro conmemorativo alrededor de las columnas en 2023, después de que estas permanecieran almacenadas durante más de una década.

“Algunos de nuestros residentes tienen una conexión directa con esos ataques”, dijo Messam. “Es realmente un honor poder rendir homenaje a quienes perdieron la vida en Nueva York, en el Pentágono y en Pensilvania. Dos columnas son la piedra angular de nuestro monumento conmemorativo”.

Local 10 News habló con el veterano y pastor Robert Lemon sobre cómo el 11 de septiembre cambió su perspectiva.

“Cambió todas nuestras vidas para siempre y nos recuerda que tenemos que estar preparados”, dijo Lemon. “La libertad de Estados Unidos no es gratuita. Todos pagamos un precio, sin importar el color ni el origen étnico. Todos estamos aquí como un crisol de culturas, como un arcoíris. Protegemos por cualquier medio necesario”.

While San Francisco's NFC West rivals may have gotten lots of the hype, the Niners showed that they might also belong on the short list of Super Bowl contenders after beating the Rams 27-7 in the season opener in Australia.

Much of the attention leading up to the game was focused on the Rams' decision to arrive in Australia on Thursday, about 24 hours before kickoff, but the 49ers enjoyed their weeklong stay Down Under and came out with the win.

“We were just focused on us,” linebacker Dre Greenlaw said. “We knew what we had to do. We know the standard that we play with. If they wanted to come in the day before, the week before, it didn’t matter at all. We got a standard that we play with, so for us it wasn’t even about how they were going to come out, it was about how we were going to come out.”

They came out strong.

The defense shut down QB Matthew Stafford and an offense that led the NFL in scoring last season. The offense neutralized Garrett and got three touchdown passes from an efficient Brock Purdy. The special teams even contributed with Deebo Samuel's 45-yard kickoff return that set up a touchdown to start the second half.

San Francisco then broke open a three-point game and won easily.

“I think it was definitely a matter of us feeling like we got stronger as the game went on versus the opposing team. It felt like they kind of withered away,” linebacker Fred Warner said. “Our plan was great coming out here early and all the resources they gave us to be successful for today is what gave us a chance to win this game.”

What’s working

Purdy to Mike Evans connection. It didn't take long at all for Evans to make an impact on the Niners after leaving Tampa Bay to sign as a free agent in the offseason. He had three third-down conversion catches on the opening field goal drive, marking the first team a 49ers player had done that in five years. He finished with six catches for 49 yards and a touchdown. Five of those catches came on third down conversions, including a 2-yard TD on a fade pass in the third quarter.

What needs help

Sacking the quarterback. The 49ers ranked last in the NFL with 20 sacks last year and got none in Week 1. Nick Bosa had a key pressure on the first drive in his first game back from a torn ACL and played very well against the run. Offseason acquisition Osa Odighizuwa had a team-high five pressures and provided a strong interior rush.

Stock up

Raheem Morris. The team's new defensive coordinator had an impressive debut by holding the Rams to their fewest points in 85 regular season or playoff games started by Stafford. The defensive backs have raved about his approach, which allows them to be more aggressive and helped lead to a first half interception by Renardo Green. The biggest play came when the Niners stuffed Stafford on a fourth-down sneak from the 1 in the third quarter.

Stock down

Young receivers. The 49ers have been trying to get younger at receiver through the draft but it hasn't led to production. Ricky Pearsall, a first-round pick in 2024, is out for the season with a knee injury. Jordan Watkins, a fourth-round pick in 2025, was a healthy scratch for Week 1. Rookie De'Zhaunn Stribling was being counted on heavily after a strong preseason but injured his ankle early and had no catches in his debut.

Injuries

Shanahan said Stribling's Achilles' was intact but he will need more tests to determine the extent of the injury to the ankle. ... TE Jake Tonges left the game with an MCL injury and will miss some time.

Key number

36. Christian McCaffrey's 36 snaps were his fewest in a game he didn't leave with an injury since his first season in San Francisco in 2022. The Niners had talked about lightening his workload after he led the NFL with 413 touches from scrimmage in the 2025 regular season. Rookie Kaelon Black helped make that possible by rushing 14 times for 65 yards.

Next steps

The 49ers host Miami on Sept. 20 in search of their fifth 2-0 start in 10 seasons under Shanahan. They made the playoffs the previous four with two trips to the Super Bowl.

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Ritchel Calvaire, 25, of North Miami, was arrested Thursday by the Doral Police Department after officers said they found him inside the couple’s room at Provident Doral, located at 8820 NW 58th St.

The couple told police they had checked into the room at about 9 a.m. Wednesday, closed the blinds to the rear sliding glass door and went to sleep, according to the report.

In the early hours of the following morning, the woman said she woke up after “feeling movement near the bed,” the report states.

She went back to sleep but told police she again felt movement coming from underneath the bed at about 6:30 a.m.

About an hour later, while checking under the bed to make sure she had not left or misplaced any belongings, she said she saw Calvaire hiding there, police said.

The couple immediately left the room and sought help from property security.

When a responding officer arrived, he found Calvaire under the bed inside the bedroom and took him into custody, according to the report.

Police said Calvaire entered the occupied hotel room without permission at an unknown time by “jumping over a balcony fence and entering through a rear sliding glass door.”

The report states Calvaire “concealed himself stealthily underneath the victims’ bed while the victims remained asleep inside the room throughout the night.”

Calvaire had previously been a guest at the property and had two separate reservations at the hotel, according to the report.

A property security manager told police that Calvaire checked out Aug. 31 and was instructed not to return.

The manager said Calvaire came back to the property about two days later, at which point security gathered belongings he had left behind and escorted him off the property.

After his arrest, Calvaire was read his Miranda rights and refused to speak without an attorney present, according to the report.

Jail records show Calvaire is facing one count each of burglary of an occupied dwelling and resisting an officer without violence.

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

Ritchel Calvaire, de 25 años y residente de North Miami, fue arrestado el jueves por el Departamento de Policía de Doral después de que los agentes dijeron que lo encontraron dentro de la habitación de la pareja en Provident Doral, ubicado en 8820 NW 58th St.

La pareja dijo a la policía que se había registrado en la habitación alrededor de las 9 a.m. del miércoles, cerró las persianas de la puerta corrediza de vidrio trasera y se fue a dormir, según el reporte.

Durante las primeras horas de la mañana siguiente, la mujer dijo que despertó después de “sentir movimiento cerca de la cama”, señala el reporte.

Volvió a dormir, pero dijo a la policía que alrededor de las 6:30 a.m. sintió nuevamente movimiento proveniente de debajo de la cama.

Aproximadamente una hora después, mientras revisaba debajo de la cama para asegurarse de que no había dejado u olvidado alguna pertenencia, dijo que vio a Calvaire escondido allí, según la policía.

La pareja salió inmediatamente de la habitación y buscó ayuda del personal de seguridad de la propiedad.

Cuando llegó un agente, encontró a Calvaire debajo de la cama dentro del dormitorio y lo detuvo, según el reporte.

La policía dijo que Calvaire entró a la habitación ocupada del hotel sin permiso a una hora desconocida, “saltando una cerca del balcón y entrando por una puerta corrediza de vidrio trasera”.

El reporte señala que Calvaire “se ocultó sigilosamente debajo de la cama de las víctimas mientras estas permanecían dormidas dentro de la habitación durante toda la noche”.

Calvaire había sido anteriormente huésped de la propiedad y tenía dos reservaciones distintas en el hotel, según el reporte.

Un gerente de seguridad de la propiedad dijo a la policía que Calvaire dejó el hotel el 31 de agosto y recibió instrucciones de no regresar.

El gerente dijo que Calvaire regresó a la propiedad unos dos días después, momento en que el personal de seguridad recogió las pertenencias que había dejado y lo escoltó fuera de la propiedad.

Después de su arresto, se le leyeron a Calvaire sus derechos Miranda y se negó a hablar sin la presencia de un abogado, según el reporte.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Calvaire enfrenta un cargo de robo con allanamiento de una vivienda ocupada y un cargo de resistencia a un agente sin violencia.

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

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Josuan Delgado and Brian Lores were arrested Thursday at their homes in connection with the string of thefts, according to multiple arrest reports from the Miami Police Department.

Police said the investigation centered on what authorities described as a recurring “push-out” theft pattern: They said the men entered Target stores, loaded shopping carts with high-value Lego sets and pushed the carts past all points of sale before leaving without paying.

According to an arrest report, the latest incident occurred last Friday at the Target, located at 3825 NW Seventh St., in Miami’s West Flagler neighborhood.

Police said the two men entered the store at about 9:20 p.m., grabbed shopping carts and went to the toy section, where they loaded the carts with Lego products. They said about four minutes later, the pair pushed the carts out of the store without attempting to pay.

The merchandise was valued at $3,289.77, according to the report.

Authorities said the case was later linked to a broader investigation by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Organized Retail Crimes Unit.

They said a Target investigator alerted the unit about two suspects who were reportedly targeting Target stores and repeatedly stealing high-value Lego merchandise.

Investigators said they reviewed surveillance footage from multiple stores and said it showed Delgado and Lores selecting Lego sets, loading them into shopping carts and leaving without paying.

The report states that both men were on probation in Florida.

Their respective probation officers, who were familiar with them through their official duties, identified the men from surveillance images, according to investigators.

Five incidents in unincorporated Miami-Dade County documented in the investigation resulted in $15,252.22 in merchandise losses, the report states.

Authorities said the other Target thefts included in the investigation in Miami-Dade and Broward counties were counted, the total documented loss reached $30,659.69.

Among the incidents detailed in the report:

Police said on Tuesday, Delgado and Lores entered a Target on Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura, selected multiple Lego sets and left with the merchandise without paying. The reported loss was $3,761.82.

Authorities said two days earlier, the men allegedly entered a Target at 5601 NW 183rd St. in Miami Lakes and pushed two shopping carts filled with Lego merchandise through the front doors. The reported loss was $4,091.84.

They said on Aug. 19, Delgado and/or Lores entered the Target at 15005 SW 88th St. in the county’s West End neighborhood, loaded Lego merchandise into a cart, and exited with it without paying. The reported loss was $1,669.93.

Police said on Aug. 16, Delgado and Lores pushed unpaid Lego merchandise out of the Target at 7795 SW 40th St. in the county’s Westchester neighborhood, resulting in a reported loss of $3,068.78.

The same Target was allegedly hit again Aug. 5, when Delgado and Lores removed Lego merchandise valued at $2,659.85 without paying, according to the report.

Authorities said surveillance footage captured each of the alleged offenses.

Jail records show Delgado is facing charges including retail theft with others of more than $3,000 and third-degree grand theft. Records show he is also facing charges related to fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, issuing a worthless check of $150 or more and alleged probation violations in an unrelated case.

Lores is facing charges including retail theft with others of more than $3,000 and third-degree grand theft, according to jail records.

As of Friday morning, both men were being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where their bonds were listed as “to be set.”

Josuan Delgado y Brian Lores fueron arrestados el jueves en sus casas en relación con la serie de robos, según múltiples reportes de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami.

La policía dijo que la investigación se centró en lo que las autoridades describieron como un patrón recurrente de robo de “push-out”: dijeron que los hombres entraban a tiendas Target, llenaban carritos de compras con sets de Lego de alto valor y empujaban los carritos más allá de todos los puntos de pago antes de salir sin pagar.

Según un reporte de arresto, el incidente más reciente ocurrió el viernes pasado en el Target ubicado en 3825 NW Seventh St., en el vecindario West Flagler de Miami.

La policía dijo que los dos hombres entraron a la tienda alrededor de las 9:20 p.m., tomaron carritos de compras y fueron a la sección de juguetes, donde llenaron los carritos con productos Lego. Dijeron que unos cuatro minutos después, la pareja empujó los carritos fuera de la tienda sin intentar pagar.

La mercancía estaba valorada en $3,289.77 USD, según el reporte.

Las autoridades dijeron que el caso fue posteriormente vinculado a una investigación más amplia de la Unidad de Crímenes Organizados de Venta Minorista de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

Dijeron que un investigador de Target alertó a la unidad sobre dos sospechosos que presuntamente estaban atacando tiendas Target y robando repetidamente mercancía Lego de alto valor.

Los investigadores dijeron que revisaron videos de vigilancia de varias tiendas y señalaron que mostraban a Delgado y Lores seleccionando sets de Lego, colocándolos en carritos de compras y saliendo sin pagar.

El reporte señala que ambos hombres estaban en libertad condicional en Florida.

Sus respectivos agentes de libertad condicional, quienes los conocían por sus funciones oficiales, identificaron a los hombres a partir de imágenes de vigilancia, según los investigadores.

Cinco incidentes en áreas no incorporadas del condado Miami-Dade documentados en la investigación resultaron en pérdidas de mercancía por $15,252.22 USD, señala el reporte.

Las autoridades dijeron que, al contabilizar los otros robos en tiendas Target incluidos en la investigación en los condados Miami-Dade y Broward, la pérdida total documentada alcanzó los $30,659.69 USD.

Entre los incidentes detallados en el reporte:

La policía dijo que el martes, Delgado y Lores entraron a un Target en Biscayne Boulevard, en Aventura, seleccionaron varios sets de Lego y salieron con la mercancía sin pagar. La pérdida reportada fue de $3,761.82 USD.

Las autoridades dijeron que dos días antes, los hombres presuntamente entraron a un Target ubicado en 5601 NW 183rd St., en Miami Lakes, y empujaron dos carritos de compras llenos de mercancía Lego a través de las puertas principales. La pérdida reportada fue de $4,091.84 USD.

Dijeron que el 19 de agosto, Delgado y/o Lores entraron al Target ubicado en 15005 SW 88th St., en el vecindario West End del condado, colocaron mercancía Lego en un carrito y salieron con ella sin pagar. La pérdida reportada fue de $1,669.93 USD.

La policía dijo que el 16 de agosto, Delgado y Lores sacaron mercancía Lego sin pagar del Target ubicado en 7795 SW 40th St., en el vecindario Westchester del condado, lo que resultó en una pérdida reportada de $3,068.78 USD.

El mismo Target presuntamente fue robado nuevamente el 5 de agosto, cuando Delgado y Lores sacaron mercancía Lego valorada en $2,659.85 USD sin pagar, según el reporte.

Las autoridades dijeron que los videos de vigilancia captaron cada uno de los presuntos delitos.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Delgado enfrenta cargos que incluyen robo minorista con otras personas por más de $3,000 USD y hurto mayor en tercer grado. Los registros muestran que también enfrenta cargos relacionados con huir e intentar evadir a un agente de policía, emitir un cheque sin fondos por $150 USD o más y presuntas violaciones de libertad condicional en un caso no relacionado.

Lores enfrenta cargos que incluyen robo minorista con otras personas por más de $3,000 USD y hurto mayor en tercer grado, según los registros de la cárcel.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, ambos hombres permanecían detenidos en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde sus fianzas figuraban como “por determinar”.

The spike adds to an already tough year for these farmers, who also faced higher costs for fertilizer, seeds and equipment.

Diesel hit a record price in the U.S. on Sept. 4, soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time as the six-month war with Iran disrupted the world’s flow of fuel. It has gone even higher since then, going for an average price of $6.05 a gallon on Friday, according to AAA.

“Those prices hurt," said Paul Mitchell, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And it’s not just the harvesting. It’s the hauling of everything, moving the grain or the silage from the field to the farm and then from the farm to wherever they're selling it.”

Jason Kurtz, a corn and soybean farmer near Forest City, Missouri, said he was paying twice as much for diesel this year. His combine uses 200 gallons (760 liters) of fuel a day; he expected to run it for 30 days. He also needed diesel for a tractor and trucks.

“We have to harvest," he said in an interview at his farm about 90 miles (145 kilometers) outside Kansas City on Tuesday. “We have to run the machines. We have to use the diesel, so it cuts into our bottom line.”

Kurtz, 49, said his finances were “already tight” this year after he also had to pay more for fertilizer and chemicals.

American diesel prices are now 60% higher than they were before the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran in late February, when the national average was about $3.76 per gallon, according to AAA. Prices quickly climbed as the cost of crude oil — the main ingredient in diesel, as well as gasoline — skyrocketed amid disruptions to tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz because of the war.

“Farms that are cash strapped, they’re the ones that are most having to figure out what to cut to make this work," Mitchell said. “There are a lot of farms facing that.”

Kurtz, who voted for President Donald Trump, said he planned to hold off on some farm work until later, when he was hopeful diesel prices would fall.

“That’s one good thing about farming," he said. “Tomorrow will be different.”

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Police said Shkebia Lynettee Stanley, who was booked under the name Lynettee Shkebia Stanley, began attacking the boy at around 3:45 p.m. in the 13300 block of Alexandria Drive.

An arrest report states that on their drive home Stanley, 37, “suddenly stopped the car (and) without warning, she began to strike him with a hammer that she had stored in her vehicle.”

“In a state of panic, (the boy) attempted to defend himself by blocking the blows with his left arm while seated in the rear passenger seat,” the report states. “The situation escalated further when his mother grabbed a canister of pepper spray and sprayed it directly into his face.”

The boy, police said, “described the overwhelming sensation as the spray filled the car and made it difficult for him to breathe.”

“In a desperate attempt to escape the violent confrontation, he managed to open the car door and fled to his father’s apartment, which was located nearby,” the report states.

Police said they found the boy “in the shower, desperately trying to wash off a chemical agent that his mother had sprayed on him” and said he was “was visibly shaken and expressed his fear and confusion about the events that had occurred.”

Authorities said Stanley, who smelled of pepper spray, claimed that “nothing happened.”

Police took Stanley into custody and as of Friday morning, she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.

Court records from Palm Beach County show that Stanley was found guilty of carrying a concealed weapon following a 2024 incident when she worked as a Florida Department of Corrections sergeant at the South Bay Correctional Facility.

According to an arrest report, FDOC officers were searching the parking lot when a K9 narcotics dog alerted on Stanley’s vehicle.

After she consented to a search, officers said they found a prison shank, which she claimed she found during a prison search and which she put “in her pocket and forgot about,” not having completed an evidence log.

Records show she received probation after entering a guilty plea.

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On Friday morning, Gineth Ramirez, who also has a 2-year-old son, was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, accused of torturing her daughter, according to arrest and inmate records.

During the investigation, a Florida Department of Children and Families’ child protective investigator responded to the Thumbelina Learning Center in Hialeah and met with Ramirez’s daughter, according to police.

The girl reported Ramirez “burned her on her arm and legs because she misbehaves,” and she “makes her sit on a brown chair and ties her hands to the back with a rope or handcuffs,” according to a police officer’s report.

Records show the DCF investigator described what “appeared to be first-degree burn marks,” and a detective photographed the girl’s injuries: “A burn mark on her right forearm, a burn mark on her right shin, and a burn mark on the inside of her upper right thigh.”

A detective questioned Ramirez on Thursday in Hialeah. Ramirez said her daughter had suffered one burn 15 days ago, but she couldn’t explain the other two, according to a police officer’s arrest report.

“The victim and she were in the kitchen cooking flan ... the victim told her she wanted to eat a piece of the flan ... she handed the victim the spoon with flan and told her to blow because it was hot ... she handed the victim the spoon but she did not grab it and instead it fell on her leg,” the detective wrote, according to the arrest report.

Ramirez told police that she doesn’t use corporal punishment, according to the arrest report.

“She does discipline the victim by making her sit on a chair and face the wall when she misbehaves, but she has never tied her hands with ropes or handcuffs,” a detective wrote, according to the police report.

Police officers arrested Ramirez shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday at her home in Hialeah, and corrections booked her shortly after 6:10 p.m. at TGKCC, records show. She faced one count of aggravated child abuse with great bodily harm.

Ramirez was scheduled to appear in bond court on Friday morning in Miami-Dade County, and the girl was scheduled to undergo a forensic interview on Friday afternoon, records show.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carmen Cabarga was set to preside over the case.

FDCF investigators ask anyone with information about child abuse to report it online on this page or call 1-800-962-2873 or The National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-4453.

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

Here is a list of warning signs of child abuse:

1. Unexplained injuries
2. Changes in behavior or destructive or aggressive behavior
3. Kids engaging in risk-taking behaviors
4. Kids displaying fear of going home or of specific adults
5. Changes in school attendance or performance
6. Lack of personal care or hygiene
7. Sexual behaviors that aren’t age-appropriate, symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases, or urinary tract infections
8. Eating disorders
9. Withdrawal and disassociation
10. Older children using coping mechanisms such as sucking their thumb or attaching to a stuffed animal

Sources: National Children’s Alliance, Cornell University, National Library of Medicine

La mañana del viernes, Gineth Ramirez, quien también tiene un hijo de 2 años, se encontraba en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, cerca de Doral, acusada de torturar a su hija, según registros de arresto y de la cárcel.

Durante la investigación, un investigador de protección infantil del Departamento de Niños y Familias de Florida respondió al Thumbelina Learning Center en Hialeah y se reunió con la hija de Ramirez, según la policía.

La niña reportó que Ramirez “la quemó en el brazo y las piernas porque se porta mal” y que “la hace sentarse en una silla marrón y le ata las manos por detrás con una cuerda o esposas”, según el reporte de un agente de policía.

Los registros muestran que el investigador del DCF describió lo que “parecían ser marcas de quemaduras de primer grado”, y un detective fotografió las lesiones de la niña: “Una marca de quemadura en el antebrazo derecho, una marca de quemadura en la espinilla derecha y una marca de quemadura en la parte interna superior del muslo derecho”.

Un detective interrogó a Ramirez el jueves en Hialeah. Ramirez dijo que su hija había sufrido una quemadura 15 días antes, pero no pudo explicar las otras dos, según el reporte de arresto de un agente de policía.

“La víctima y ella estaban en la cocina preparando flan, la víctima le dijo que quería comer un pedazo del flan, ella le entregó a la víctima la cuchara con flan y le dijo que soplara porque estaba caliente, le entregó la cuchara a la víctima, pero ella no la agarró y, en cambio, cayó sobre su pierna”, escribió el detective, según el reporte de arresto.

Ramirez dijo a la policía que no utiliza castigos corporales, según el reporte de arresto.

“Ella sí disciplina a la víctima haciéndola sentarse en una silla y mirar hacia la pared cuando se porta mal, pero nunca le ha atado las manos con cuerdas ni esposas”, escribió un detective, según el reporte policial.

Los agentes de policía arrestaron a Ramirez poco antes de las 3 p.m. del jueves en su casa en Hialeah, y fue ingresada poco después de las 6:10 p.m. en TGKCC, muestran los registros. Enfrentaba un cargo de abuso infantil agravado con lesiones corporales graves.

Ramirez tenía previsto comparecer ante un tribunal de fianzas la mañana del viernes en el condado Miami-Dade, y la niña tenía programada una entrevista forense para la tarde del viernes, muestran los registros.

La jueza de circuito del condado Miami-Dade Carmen Cabarga estaba asignada para presidir el caso.

Los investigadores del DCF piden a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre abuso infantil que lo reporte en línea en esta página o llame al 1-800-962-2873 o a la Línea Nacional de Abuso Infantil al 1-800-422-4453.

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

Esta es una lista de señales de advertencia de abuso infantil:

1. Lesiones sin explicación
2. Cambios de comportamiento o comportamiento destructivo o agresivo
3. Niños que participan en conductas de riesgo
4. Niños que muestran temor de regresar a casa o de adultos específicos
5. Cambios en la asistencia o el rendimiento escolar
6. Falta de cuidado personal o higiene
7. Conductas sexuales que no son apropiadas para la edad, síntomas de enfermedades de transmisión sexual o infecciones urinarias
8. Trastornos alimenticios
9. Aislamiento y disociación
10. Niños mayores que utilizan mecanismos para afrontar situaciones, como chuparse el dedo o aferrarse a un animal de peluche

Fuentes: National Children’s Alliance, Cornell University, National Library of Medicine

La policía dijo que Shkebia Lynettee Stanley, quien fue registrada bajo el nombre de Lynettee Shkebia Stanley, comenzó a atacar al niño alrededor de las 3:45 p.m. en la cuadra 13300 de Alexandria Drive.

Un reporte de arresto señala que, mientras conducían a casa, Stanley, de 37 años, “detuvo repentinamente el automóvil y, sin previo aviso, comenzó a golpearlo con un martillo que tenía guardado en su vehículo”.

“En estado de pánico, el niño intentó defenderse bloqueando los golpes con el brazo izquierdo mientras estaba sentado en el asiento trasero del lado del pasajero”, señala el reporte. “La situación se intensificó aún más cuando su madre tomó un envase de gas pimienta y lo roció directamente en el rostro”.

El niño, según la policía, “describió la sensación abrumadora mientras el gas llenaba el automóvil y le dificultaba respirar”.

“En un intento desesperado por escapar del violento enfrentamiento, logró abrir la puerta del automóvil y huyó al apartamento de su padre, que estaba ubicado cerca”, señala el reporte.

La policía dijo que encontró al niño “en la ducha, tratando desesperadamente de quitarse un agente químico que su madre le había rociado” y señaló que “estaba visiblemente alterado y expresó su miedo y confusión por los hechos que habían ocurrido”.

Las autoridades dijeron que Stanley, quien olía a gas pimienta, afirmó que “no pasó nada”.

La policía detuvo a Stanley y, hasta la mañana del viernes, permanecía recluida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $5,000 USD.

Los registros judiciales del condado Palm Beach muestran que Stanley fue declarada culpable de portar un arma oculta tras un incidente ocurrido en 2024, cuando trabajaba como sargento del Departamento de Correcciones de Florida en el Centro Correccional South Bay.

Según un reporte de arresto, agentes del FDOC estaban registrando el estacionamiento cuando un perro K-9 detector de narcóticos alertó sobre el vehículo de Stanley.

Después de que ella accediera a un registro, los agentes dijeron que encontraron un arma punzocortante de prisión, que Stanley afirmó haber encontrado durante un registro en la prisión y que guardó “en su bolsillo y olvidó”, sin haber completado un registro de evidencia.

Los registros muestran que recibió libertad condicional después de declararse culpable.

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According to the Hallandale Beach Police Department, officers responded to the 500 block of Northwest Fifth Street Thursday following a ShotSpotter alert indicating possible gunfire in the area.

As officers were responding, police said they spotted a vehicle believed to be connected to the incident leaving the area at a high rate of speed without its headlights on.

Officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but the driver fled, leading police on a pursuit that continued outside Hallandale Beach, according to the department.

Police said four people associated with the vehicle were ultimately taken into custody. They were identified as 20-year-old Tarrell Greene, 21-year-old Devon Halloway, 21-year-old Adrian Knighten and 19-year-old Ashton Jackson.

During the incident, two people fled on foot at separate locations, authorities said.

One was apprehended following a foot chase, while another was taken into custody in Fort Lauderdale with assistance from a police K-9, authorities said.

Police said one of the people taken into custody was found with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to the arm and hip/groin area and was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.

No officers were injured.

Detectives are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the shooting and the involvement of those detained.

The investigation remains active, and police said additional charges may be forthcoming.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach, los agentes respondieron a la cuadra 500 de Northwest Fifth Street el jueves tras una alerta de ShotSpotter que indicaba posibles disparos en el área.

Mientras los agentes respondían, la policía dijo que observaron un vehículo que se creía estaba relacionado con el incidente saliendo del área a alta velocidad y sin las luces delanteras encendidas.

Los agentes intentaron realizar una parada de tránsito, pero el conductor huyó, lo que derivó en una persecución policial que continuó fuera de Hallandale Beach, según el departamento.

La policía dijo que cuatro personas relacionadas con el vehículo finalmente fueron detenidas. Fueron identificadas como Tarrell Greene, de 20 años; Devon Halloway, de 21 años; Adrian Knighten, de 21 años; y Ashton Jackson, de 19 años.

Durante el incidente, dos personas huyeron a pie en lugares distintos, dijeron las autoridades.

Una fue detenida tras una persecución a pie, mientras que otra fue detenida en Fort Lauderdale con la ayuda de un K-9 de la policía, dijeron las autoridades.

La policía dijo que una de las personas detenidas fue encontrada con heridas de bala que no ponían en peligro su vida en el brazo y el área de la cadera/ingle, y fue trasladada a un hospital cercano para recibir tratamiento.

Ningún agente resultó herido.

Los detectives trabajan para determinar las circunstancias en torno a la balacera y la participación de las personas detenidas.

La investigación continúa activa y la policía dijo que podrían presentarse cargos adicionales.

BRICS is an organization of 11 emerging economies around the world. The organization works to influence their global importance and reshape economic governance.

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The membership includes Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

Partner nations include Belarus, Cuba, Nigeria and Thailand.

The Russians turned down Cuba for full membership into the organization because of Cuba’s poor economic conditions and poor predictions by economists moving forward.

Sept. 9: Cuba and the U.S. stuck in diplomatic rhetoric

Cuba’s Brigadier General Emir Mesa Corona, who is in charge of personal security at the Ministry of Interior, sent a strong message to the U.S. not to even think of trying to kidnap Raul Castro or anyone in Cuba’s government or they will face serious consequences.

At the same time, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parilla admitted that backroom negotiations with the U.S. continue but the U.S. will not soften their positions. Cuba wants the economic embargo lifted while the U.S. wants regime change.

Sept. 8: Blind passion for Cuban politics leads to a political circus between Miami, Havana and DC

As a little boy growing up in Miami, I remember when every presidential candidate from both political parties would come to campaign in Miami and promised that if elected, they would work to see a “Free Cuba.” They would end their speeches with “Viva Cuba Libre.” Local politicians representing different municipalities in Miami-Dade would talk about U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba like they controlled it, and yet, they had nothing to do with it within their scope of responsibilities. But it got them the votes they needed to be elected and remain in power, while political leaders in Cuba continued to blame everything wrong on the island on the U.S. economic embargo, or as they call it, “the blockade.”

On Jan. 3, the U.S. military captured Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela with the assistance of their current Interim President Delcy Rodriguez and brought him to the U.S. to face justice. Shortly thereafter, President Donald Trump announced that Cuba would be next.

The Trump administration began to sanction Cuban organizations and individuals of the government in an attempt to squeeze them out of power. So far, they are still in power. The Cuban government began to prepare for a U.S. invasion. To this date, it has not happened and probably never will.

On May 20, the U.S. Justice Department indicted Raul Castro for the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996 in a theater-like political rally at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami. So far nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen. There is no Delcy Rodriguez in Cuba. A week ago, many media outlets across Miami reported, based on sources from inside the island, that Raul Castro was gravely ill. This past weekend, Raul reappeared surrounded by Cuba’s military elite.

Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the three Cuban-American members of Congress from South Florida had announced that by the end of 2026, Cuba would fall. Now it has been pushed back to 2029. Furthermore, Rubio recently said that the problem in dealing with Cuba is the Helms-Burton Law (Senator Jesse Helms and Richard Burton, both Republicans) that was enacted by Congress in 1996, also with the hard work of the late Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.

The three Cuban-American members of Congress made it clear that the goal was to return Cuba to democracy. What democracy? Cuba did not have a democratic government before Fidel Castro took power. How much do they really know about Cuban history? Or is it just a play on words and empty promises?

So as time passes each day, the Cuban-American community is beginning to ask itself, what is really going on in D.C.?

It would not surprise me that in the near future the Trump organizations would negotiate to buy the empty Melia Hotels in Cuba and put the Trump name on them. After all, we now own a big chunk of Venezuelan oil and there was no regime change as promised.

Will we ever learn? How much longer are we going to be blind by our passion?

Sept 6: Raul Castro makes public appearance

After much speculation about Cuba’s Raul Castro being close to death, the Cuban leader showed up at a military event yesterday accompanied by his grandson, Raulito, and Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Sept 3: Raul Castro stable, according to sources

Sources in Cuba say Raul Castro, 95, is stable despite reports about his declining health. According to sources, retired General Abelardo Colome Ibarra, known as “ El Fury,” is currently in worse condition. Colome Ibarra was head of the Ministry of the Interior and highly respected by the Castro brothers and the Cuban military.

Sept 3: President Trump’s hands are tied with regard to Cuba, Rubio says

After months of saying Cuba would be next, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that the president’s hands are tied because of the Helms Burton Law which requires no normalization between the U.S. and Cuba unless there is regime change and a move towards a democratic government.

Even if Raul Castro was to die in the near future, I do not expect regime change.

Only the U.S. can change the Helms-Burton Law and I don’t expect that to happen anytime in the near future or after the mid-term elections.

Sept. 2: Children in Cuba start new school year amid more challenges than any other year before

Children in Cuba started the new school year Tuesday facing a lack of supplies, books, uniforms and teachers, and buildings that are falling apart, along with a lack of food to feed the children.

According to the Cuban minister of education, this will be a very challenging year unlike any others.

Cuban education was once one of the big accomplishments of the revolution. However, it was also used to indoctrinate the students in an ideology that no one on the island nation believes anymore.

Sept. 1: Raul Castro hospitalized, sources say

Reliable sources inside Cuba have informed me this afternoon that Raul Castro has been hospitalized. We need to be careful and not to over speculate what might happen until further notice.

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

Larkin had worn the “C” on his jersey for the past six seasons. He asked then-general manager Steve Yzerman for a trade after the team missed the playoffs for an active NHL-record 10th consecutive year.

Yzerman abruptly stepped down from that role in mid-July, and the Red Wings said any decisions about Larkin’s future would be made by the next person in charge of hockey operations.

The 30-year-old center said he appreciates the conversations he has had in recent weeks with team executives.

“When new leadership is in place, we'll talk further about the direction of the team,” Larkin said in a statement posted by the club on social media. “We'll keep those conversations private, and I will keep my focus on the season and on the guys in that room.”

Larkin has five seasons left on the eight-year, $69.6 million contract he signed in May 2023. That includes a no-trade clause, and he initially told Detroit he would only accept a move to Florida, Minnesota or Vegas.

Teammate Alex DeBrincat said word emerging of the trade request made things uncomfortable for a bit but did not change what he and others thought about Larkin.

“He’s still a great player,” DeBrincat said Wednesday at the annual NHL/NHLPA preseason player media tour in Las Vegas. "He’s been a great friend and a great teammate to me, and we obviously love him here. That’s kind of for him to answer of what’s next for him, but I think for us, it’s all the same. We’re happy to see him at the rink and happy to get started.”

Larkin has played his entire career in the league with the Red Wings after they selected him with the 15th pick in the 2014 draft and he debuted the following year. He ranks 10th in franchise history in scoring and has played in just five playoff games: a first-round loss to Tampa Bay in 2016.

The Waterford, Michigan, native was an important role player for the U.S. when it won Olympic gold at the Milan-Cortina Games in February.

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“I don’t really like the way he looks,” Trump told the laughing crowd in Paxton's home state of Texas. But never mind that because “he was our greatest attorney general and he deserves to go to the United States Senate.”

Paxton just grinned. After all, he needs the money. He’s locked in a tight race with Democratic nominee James Talarico, and Trump helped turn the convention stage into a national fundraiser for one of his party’s most important yet outfunded candidates.

“I need your prayers, your votes and your support,” Paxton said during his turn at the microphone.

The money has started to trickle out to him with two months to go. MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, announced last week it would spend $10 million. America PAC, which is connected to Elon Musk, has spent $250,000. And on Friday, the Senate Leadership Fund said it would contribute $13.8 million.

Paxton is perhaps Trump’s biggest political test this year. The president endorsed Paxton on the eve of his defeat of four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the May primary runoff, over the objections of Republican leaders including Thune, who viewed Cornyn as a far stronger candidate than the state’s scandal-plagued attorney general.

If Paxton wins, it will be hailed as proof of Trump’s political instincts and his ability to mold the Republican Party in his image. If he loses, it would be the first time that Texas has sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1988, and Trump could be blamed for doing too little, too late.

With so much riding on the race, the teasing from Trump seems to be a small price to pay for Paxton, who is enduring quite a lot of mockery.

Trump started it last week in the Oval Office, when he said “some people don’t like the way he dresses, or some people don’t like the way he interviews or talks.”

Later that night in the Rose Garden, it became clear that by “some people,” Trump meant himself.

“It’s so insulting to him, but I might as well say it. You might not love his look. You might not love his television interviews,” Trump said. But he added that Paxton's record as attorney general “speaks a lot louder than the suit he’s wearing that doesn’t look so great.”

Paxton is not the kind of camera-ready, high-energy political performer that Trump usually prefers. A bit rumpled, he speaks softly, even in front of thousands. But he’s distinguished himself as a conservative legal warrior, especially when he challenged President Joe Biden’s Democratic policies in court.

He also shares Trump’s sense of political persecution.

“The press, the courts and the establishment all tried to take President Trump down, but he’s won every single time,” Paxton told the convention audience this week. “He’s delivered more for this country than anyone before, secured victories for America that no other president could, and always stood up for Texas.”

Paxton has been the target of investigations for years. He was impeached by the Republican-led Texas House but acquitted by the Senate. A federal corruption case was dropped without charges, and a state probe into securities fraud allegations was settled. Paxton has consistently denied wrongdoing.

But Paxton's victory is an important part of Republicans' efforts to keep control of the Senate. South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the Senate majority leader who opposed Paxton's candidacy against Cornyn, held a fundraiser with Paxton on Thursday morning, according to a Republican operative with knowledge of the event but who was unauthorized to discuss the event and spoke on condition of anonymity.

When comparing candidates' campaign accounts, Talarico has an overwhelming advantage, having raised $68 million to Paxton's $9 million. Under federal election rules, candidates get cheaper advertising rates than independent organizations like super PACs.

Since the primary, Talarico and one smaller allied group have spent $37.8 million on advertising, while four super PACs have carried almost the entire load for Paxton, spending $24.4 million, according to AdImpact.

While Senate Republican leaders complained loudly last year that Paxton’s record of ethical and legal questions would require at least $100 million more to carry him to victory, even in a Republican-heavy state like Texas, they petitioned Trump and his team to open up their coffers.

“There's no sense bubble wrapping it. We've got a race in Texas,” Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, told Fox News last month. He added that “money is an issue” and “we need help from the president."

But after being traded from the Los Angeles Rams to the Cleveland Browns in the blockbuster Myles Garrett deal, Verse has different goals heading into his third season.

“I don’t have anything in my mind going like, ‘Oh, I want to win this, I want to do that.’ I’m just focused on 1-0,” Verse said as the Browns prepare for Sunday’s season opener at Jacksonville. “There have been too many times in my career I’ve been focused on what I can do and how to get to a position at the end of the season to be proud of.”

Verse led the Rams with 67 quarterback pressures last season and was second with 7 1/2 sacks. He has generated 143 pressures the past two seasons, tied for fifth-most in the league.

The Browns are hoping Verse can turn those pressures into more sacks.

“A lot of pressures, at least for me, come from bull rush. I bull rush him all the way to the quarterback, then I might end up giving a sack to somebody else. You need to work off your move and can’t get too connected to one thing,” Verse said.

Verse got a crash course in the defense after arriving in Cleveland on June 2, with only two weeks left in the offseason program. In early July, he attended the Sack Summit in Las Vegas, a yearly gathering of the NFL’s top pass rushers organized by the Raiders’ Maxx Crosby, Saints’ Cameron Jordan and former Broncos great Von Miller.

Verse then used training camp and the Aug. 20 joint practice against the Bills to try out some new moves and techniques, as well as making tweaks to suit his playing style.

“I wanted to try things I’m not comfortable with, try ghost moves and things I haven’t done in the season,” he said. “I tried moves, and they would kill everyone; I’d be like, ‘Alright, boom, I’m adding that to my bag.’ I also tried moves I had no business trying, and I’d be like, ‘Alright, let’s scrap this one and leave it to Von Miller or something.’ But I’ve learned a lot and got exactly where I want to be in my bag now.”

Verse also hasn’t been afraid to make sure his voice is being heard on the practice field or in the meeting rooms. Linebacker Quincy Williams was among many who said Verse has brought plenty of energy to the locker room.

Linebacker Carson Schwesinger is excited to see the impact Verse can have starting on Sunday. Verse faced the Jaguars last season while with the Rams and had one sack along with five pressures in Los Angeles’ 35-7 Week 7 victory.

“He’s strong, he’s rocked up and all that, and he can run down your face. He’s rangy, wiry, he’s slippery in ways,” Jaguars coach Liam Coen said. “He definitely makes a lot of different things challenging, whether it’s in pass protection or in the run game that you have to have a plan for.”

Even though he was on the winning side last season, Verse knows that Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence is a dual threat. Lawrence was sixth in the league in passing yards (4,007) but also was the fourth player in NFL history with at least 25 passing and nine rushing touchdowns in a single season.

“He can go back there, and he can dot you up all day, but he can also run the ball around you if you give him those gaps of the seams,” Verse said about Lawrence. “We’re not going to rush scared because you can’t do that with anybody. If you rush scared, he’s just going to be back there dotting you up the whole time. We’re going to get after him.”

The Browns were fourth in the league in total defense last season, but have had significant changes. Besides the Garrett trade, Mike Rutenberg has taken over as coordinator after Jim Schwartz resigned.

“He’s such a unique guy. He’s really like a unicorn in that he sets a standard with his play style and who he is," Rutenberg said. "Really, what we saw early is what we continue to get. He sets that standard from the jump, in meetings, great questions, great insight.”

Even though Verse was traded from a Super Bowl contender to a team many expect to pick in the top 10 of the NFL Draft again, he doesn’t seem daunted by the change.

“Respect is a thing that you can’t just get. No one just hands you respect. You have to earn that every week,” he said. “Every Sunday is the biggest thing. And going out of this game 1-0 would give us the most respect we can possibly get.”

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Just months after their 21‑year‑old son died in a road crash in October, Cristina Rapti‑Tzelepi, now 54, and her husband made the decision to pursue another attempt using an embryo frozen for 22 years.

Rapti-Tzelepi was running up against the Greek government's 54-year age limit for women to complete in vitro fertilization procedures and secure approval from a national authority. When she started, time was already running short.

“I only had a 2½-month window,” she said. “It was stressful, but with inner strength and our doctor and his whole team by our side, we got through every obstacle.”

She gave birth to a girl on Wednesday in Greek capital Athens who weighed in at 3.49 kilograms (7 pounds, 11 ounces). In a hospital room brightened with pink balloons and flowers on Friday, the new parents were overcome with emotion.

“We decided to give life a second chance, to make a new start, bring new life into our home and keep our family’s story going,” Rapti-Tzelepi said, sitting on her bed in black pajamas. “My wish for her is to grow up healthy and happy, full of joy like our first child, who filled our home with laughter.”

The child was born using the woman’s embryo that had been frozen more than 22 years ago, an unusually long time for a frozen fertilized egg to be used to produce a pregnancy.

Last year, an Ohio couple welcomed a baby boy developed from an embryo frozen for more than 30 years through a process known as “ embryo adoption,” and earned recognition from Guinness World Records.

Dr. Kostas Pantos, Rapti-Tzelepi's gynecologist and head of the Hellenic Society of Reproductive Medicine, argued that Greece’s age restrictions warrant review, noting the country’s steep birth rate decline.

“The law is very strict: 54 plus one day is not allowed. Maybe it’s time for it to change,” said Pantos, a native of Melbourne, Australia. “I think it’s a right (parents) should not be deprived of.”

The baby’s 60-year-old father, Constantinos Raptis, held his new daughter as she slept on his shoulder, wrapped in a white bodysuit. He said that he's deeply grateful to the doctor for restoring hope to his family.

“He took us by the hand and pulled us out of our deepest darkness,” Raptis said. “We escaped from that darkness, and I believe we have a lot to live for now.”

The couple named their daughter Georgia in honor of their late son, Giorgos, also born thanks to IVF. They haven't ruled out trying for another child — possibly by traveling abroad.

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said they are confident that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific outbreak is off the market.

Nearly 13,000 reported cyclospora cases were tied to the multistate outbreak, federal officials say. They represent the bulk of an unprecedented surge in the parasitic diarrheal illness this year.

Even with the outbreak deemed over, several questions remain, including about its origin. The parasite is spread through human feces, and it still isn't clear how sewage could have contaminated enough food to sicken so many people.

“This contamination can happen if produce is grown in soil or comes into contact with water that has been contaminated,” said Ellen Shumaker, director of outreach for a North Carolina State University food safety program, Safe Plates.

Since May 1, the government has received reports of nearly 20,000 lab-confirmed cases, or more than 16 times the number reported during the same period last year. More than 6,100 suspected cases also have been reported.

The worst previous year in the U.S. for infections was 2019, when about 4,700 illnesses were reported nationally.

This year’s surge in cases was dominated by an outbreak in 21 states linked to iceberg lettuce. But there are thousands of other cases that have not been linked to that outbreak.

Michigan was the hardest hit state, with the most reported cases and the two U.S. deaths tied to the outbreak.

Cyclospora is a microscopic, spherical parasite that commonly causes watery diarrhea “with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the CDC. Outbreaks tend to occur most often in the late spring and summer.

The illness, called cyclosporiasis, is less common than foodborne illnesses caused by other germs, including salmonella and E. coli. Many cases are never linked to a specific food or other source.

In this outbreak, investigators initially zeroed in on lettuce served at Taco Bell. Federal officials subsequently focused on Taylor Farms as the source of the lettuce, and the company recalled iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico.

The Taylor Farms recall involved thousands of packaged salad products combining iceberg lettuce with other vegetables. The products were shipped to major U.S. restaurant chains, including Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC.

The FDA has ended its on-site inspections and sample collection at iceberg lettuce growers and the processing facility in Mexico, the agency said Friday. Samples from the on-site inspections are pending analysis, the FDA said.

The outbreak cast a spotlight on a worsening problem: U.S. regulators are conducting fewer international inspections to catch contaminated produce before it lands on American plates.

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Still, it’s unclear whether the state will decide to drop the second-degree attempted murder case.

Attorney Richard L. Cooper, who is representing the alleged victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told Local 10 News that his client has “forgiven” Brown and “does not wish to participate” in his prosecution.

“After considerable reflection, prayer, and consultation with his family and counsel, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu has made the deeply personal decision to forgive Antonio Brown for the events that occurred in Miami in May 2025,” Cooper said in part, adding that “For Mr. Nantambu, forgiveness does not diminish the seriousness of what occurred. It means refusing to allow anger or resentment to dictate how he moves forward.”

Brown’s attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, told ESPN he and Brown now hope that the state will grant his motion to dismiss the case.

Eiglarsh has previously asked the judge overseeing the case to dismiss the attempted murder charge against Brown, citing Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, saying his client acted in self-defense during the violent confrontation outside an underground boxing event on May 16, 2025.

Eiglarsh also claimed that Nantambu has a documented history of violence toward Brown and intended to attack him again during last year’s incident.

Surveillance video obtained by Local 10 News shows the moments leading up to the shooting just before midnight.

In footage from a courtyard parking area around 11:55 p.m., Brown is seen punching a man, triggering a fight that draws in multiple people. The video shows the confrontation escalating into a three-on-one situation against the man before security intervenes. Brown can then be seen kicking a security guard as the scene is broken up.

Additional surveillance video from a nearby garage shows the man re-entering the camera’s view moments later. Authorities allege that at this point Brown retrieved a gun from a vehicle parked nearby. As the man is pushed away from the area, Brown is seen jogging toward the corner, allegedly holding a gun. At approximately 11:56 p.m., people in the video react as gunshots are heard.

Roughly a minute later, Brown is seen walking back into the area, followed by security guards with their weapons drawn. By 11:58 p.m., Brown is escorted out in handcuffs.

Police body camera footage from the scene shows officers telling Brown he was being detained, not arrested. In the video, Brown says he was injured after being pulled by security and insists he did nothing wrong.

Brown was not arrested the night of the incident because police said they were unable to locate a victim at the scene. An arrest warrant was issued the following month, in June, while Brown was in Dubai. U.S. Marshals later took him into custody overseas and returned him to Miami-Dade County.

According to the arrest warrant, Nantambu told investigators that bullets allegedly fired by Brown grazed his neck. Brown’s attorney maintains Nantambu has a history of attacking Brown and posed an imminent threat during the May 2025 confrontation, forming the basis of the self-defense claim.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Carlos Enrique Azuero, of southwest Miami-Dade, was taken into custody following the incident near Southwest 147th Avenue and Southwest 104th Street.

The report states that a deputy was dispatched to the area at approximately 4:52 p.m. after receiving a report about a fight involving a man armed with a bat.

According to the victim, he and Azuero became involved in a road rage incident while both were driving southbound on Southwest 147th Avenue, just south of Southwest 104th Street.

Deputies said both men eventually got out of their vehicles.

The victim told investigators that Azuero exited his vehicle carrying a baseball bat, approached him and swung the bat, striking him in the left arm.

According to the report, the victim said he responded in self-defense by punching Azuero twice, knocking him to the ground.

Deputies said Azuero provided a similar account of what happened.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the scene, but both men refused medical treatment, the report states.

Investigators determined Azuero was the primary aggressor and arrested him on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Azuero was transported to Jackson West Medical Center for medical clearance before being taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without further incident, deputies said.

As of Friday morning, Azuero remained at TGK with a bond listed in online jail records as “to be set.”

Según un reporte de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, Carlos Enrique Azuero, del suroeste de Miami-Dade, fue detenido tras el incidente cerca de Southwest 147th Avenue y Southwest 104th Street.

El reporte señala que un agente fue enviado al área aproximadamente a las 4:52 p.m. después de recibir un reporte sobre una pelea que involucraba a un hombre armado con un bate.

Según la víctima, él y Azuero se vieron involucrados en un incidente de furia al volante mientras ambos conducían hacia el sur por Southwest 147th Avenue, justo al sur de Southwest 104th Street.

Los agentes dijeron que ambos hombres finalmente salieron de sus vehículos.

La víctima dijo a los investigadores que Azuero salió de su vehículo con un bate de béisbol, se acercó a él y blandió el bate, golpeándolo en el brazo izquierdo.

Según el reporte, la víctima dijo que respondió en defensa propia golpeando a Azuero dos veces con el puño, derribándolo al suelo.

Los agentes dijeron que Azuero proporcionó una versión similar de lo ocurrido.

Personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondió a la escena, pero ambos hombres rechazaron tratamiento médico, señala el reporte.

Los investigadores determinaron que Azuero fue el principal agresor y lo arrestaron bajo un cargo de agresión agravada con un arma mortal.

Azuero fue trasladado a Jackson West Medical Center para recibir autorización médica antes de ser llevado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight sin más incidentes, dijeron los agentes.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Azuero permanecía en TGK con una fianza que figuraba en los registros de la cárcel en línea como “por determinar”.

Nazira Haji Zada, 47, was arrested in July at her Fort Worth, Texas, home and brought before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court on a Justice Department application to deport her from the U.S. On Friday, the department said that she had waived her rights to challenge her detention and had agreed to be deported to Afghanistan.

Haji Zada’s attorneys said her decision to consent to removal “should not be seen as an endorsement of this court’s legitimacy.”

“Dragging lawful permanent residents into court but refusing to show them or their attorneys the evidence that will be used against them is a plain violation of due process,” the defense lawyers said in a statement Friday. “We are confident that the Alien Terrorist Removal Court will be struck down as unconstitutional as soon as a judge is asked to address the issue.”

Court filings about Haji Zada's deportation, including a judge’s Aug. 20 removal order, remained under seal until after she reached her destination.

The swift resolution averts what could have been a protracted legal fight testing the authority of the court, which was established in 1996 but until July had not received any petitions, as well as the strength of allegations against Haji Zada.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said the case’s outcome is “a win for national security and the rule of law.”

“Those who support and condone terrorism should not be living in the United States, and this first-ever case before the (court) shows how the Department will use every tool at its disposal to protect our country,” Blanche said in a statement.

The Justice Department has described Haji Zada as a supporter of the Islamic State and identified her at the time as the mother and mother-in-law of two Afghan men who were convicted in Oklahoma of plotting an attack in the U.S. on Election Day in 2024. The plans were foiled before any attack took place.

Her lawyers at the time of the deportation had been pressing the court to force the Justice Department to share information and other evidence to support the allegations in the case.

The court has specific authority to conduct deportation proceedings for people whom the Justice Department classifies as “alien terrorists.” The court is composed of five federal judges from different districts across the country who are appointed by the U.S. chief justice.

"Those who plot acts of terrorism against the United States have no place in our country," Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement. "We will find them, and we will use every lawful tool available to remove them.”

On July 30, Judge Joan Ericksen presided over the first hearing for the court's first case since its creation 30 years ago.

One of Haji Zada's attorneys argued at the hearing that the Trump administration’s activation of the court violates her constitutional rights. Attorney Matthew Farley urged the judge to dismiss the case and immediately release his client.

An FBI memo dated July 15 said it “developed information” that Zada is an IS supporter who had her children pledge their loyalty to the terrorist group. Her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, was sentenced in November to 15 years in prison and court records show he previously agreed to be removed from the U.S. after his release.

Her son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, previously worked as a security guard for an American military installation in Afghanistan. He pleaded guilty to conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State group. Prosecutors have said he took steps to advance his attack plans by ordering AK-47 rifles, liquidating his family’s assets and buying one-way tickets for his wife and child to travel home to Afghanistan.

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It takes preparation, consistency, teamwork, and a commitment to doing things right every single day.

So today, we’re giving a well-deserved Clean Plate shout-out to these establishments.

Thank you for taking food safety seriously and for giving your customers something to feel good about.

It’s hard to do and when you do it, you deserve some serious kudos!

**PINEAPPLE POINT GUESTHOUSE, 315 NE 16TH TERRACE, FORT LAUDERDALE, 8/31

**FREEZE N NITRO CREAMERY, 11610 CITY HALL PROMENADE, MIRAMAR, 8/28

**CHIPOTLE, 2750 SW 27TH TERRACE, MIAMI, 8/28

**JW MARRIOT MARQUIS HOTEL BALLROOM KITCHEN, 255 BISCAYNE BLVD., MIAMI, 8/27

**LOBBY LOUNGE HYATT, 50 ALHAMBRA CIRCLE, CORAL GABLES, 8/26

**DOUBLETREE MIAMI MART AIRPORT HOTEL, 711 NW 72ND AVE., MIAMI, 8/26

**GARDEN INN, 51 SOUTH HOMESTEAD BLVD., HOMESTEAD, 8/26

**LA QUINTA INN & SUITES, 3701 N. UNIVERSITY DR., CORAL SPRINGS, 8/27

**NORTH ITALIA, 699 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY, FORT LAUDERDALE, 8/27

**AMC MOVIE PEMBROKE LAKES, 12085 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/25

**TURNBERRY ISLE/HARRY SOFFER ROOM, 19999 WEST COUNTRY CLUB DR., AVENTURA, 8/24

**BLAZ’N CHICKEN, 7955 MIRAMAR PARKWAY, MIRAMAR, 8/25

**CAFE MED/THE TERRACE EVENTS, 2096 NE 2ND ST., DEERFIELD BEACH, 8/25

**JAVA JOE’S, 2230 WILTON DR., WILTON MANORS, 8/24

**DUNKIN’, 11970 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/24

**MCGOWEN’S, 310 N. BROADWALK, HOLLYWOOD, 8/24

**LUKE’S LOBSTER, 701 SOUTH MIAMI AVE., 8/21, MIAMI

**KOSHER GRILL, 1501 NW 3RD ST., MIAMI, 8/21

**ANCHORED CHEF(CATERING), 664 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY, FORT LAUDERDALE, 8/21

**WENDY’S, 3535 HOLLYWOOD BLVD., HOLLYWOOD, 8/19

**JW MARRIOTT POOL BAR, 1109 BRICKELL AVE., MIAMI, 8/17

**PHO NGUYEN VIETNAMESE NOODLE HOUSE, 10820 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/14

**NRG COFFEE SHOP, 4053 SW 152ND ST., WESTCHESTER, 8/14

**PANDA EXPRESS, 18050 NW 57TH AVE., HIALEAH, 8/14

**TACO BELL, 4870 NW 183RD ST. (MIAMI GARDENS DR.), MIAMI GARDENS, 8/14

**WENDY’S, 697 NW 37TH AVE., MIAMI, 8/14

**KENDALL ICE ARENA, 10355 HAMMOCKS BLVD., WEST KENDALL, 8/13

**MAMACITA’S MEXICAN BAR & GRILL, 508 N. BROADWALK, HOLLYWOOD, 8/13

**EVERGLADES SAFARI RESTAURANT, 26700 SW 8TH ST., SOUTH-MIAMI DADE/REDLAND, 8/12

**SUBWAY, 12800 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/12

**EMACK & BOLIO’S, 10350 PINES BLVD., PEMBROKE PINES, 8/12

**BANQUET KITCHEN, 2670 EAST SUNRISE BLVD., FORT LAUDERDALE, 8/12

**BURGERS & BEERS, 2031 WILTON DRIVE, WILTON MANORS, 8/12

**DOMINOS, 2454 SHERIDAN ST., HOLLYWOOD, 8/12

**PIU ARGENTINIAN ICE CREAM, 6310 GRIFFIN ROAD, DAVIE, 8/12

**RECOVECO, 6000 SW 74TH ST., SOUTH MIAMI, 8/11

**PALM BISTRO JOHN KNOX VILLAGE, 700 SW 4TH ST., POMPANO BEACH, 8/11

**WENDY’S, 2370 SW 8TH ST., MIAMI, 8/10

**MCDONALDS, 7995 WEST FLAGLER ST., WESTCHESTER, 8/7

**WENDY’S, 16601 NW 57TH AVE., HIALEAH, 8/6

**WHIT’S FROZEN CUSTARD, 4850 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY, LIGHTHOUSE POINT, 8/5

**CHIPOTLE, 2110 SOUTH UNIVERSITY DR., DAVIE, 8/5

**PANERA BREAD, 1729 EAST HALLANDALE BEACH BLVD., HALLANDALE BEACH, 8/5

**ARIELA’S DELICIOUS PIZZA, 3330 GRIFFIN ROAD, DANIA BEACH, 8/3

**BAMBOO KITCHEN, 3322 GRIFFIN ROAD, DANIA BEACH, 8/3

**TRUE MADE METHOD, (CATERING), SUNRISE, 8/3

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The Atlantic hurricane season has never gone beyond September 11^th in the reliable records (since at least 1950) without a hurricane. But with no credible storm contenders on the horizon at least into early next week, the 2026 hurricane season will easily set a new record for the latest-forming first hurricane.

Officially, NOAA is predicting 2 to 6 hurricanes this season and while it’s still more likely than not we’ll see a hurricane or two on the back side of the season – after all, we’ve never had a hurricane season in the reliable record come and go without any hurricanes (1907 and 1914 are the only seasons in the full record without any hurricanes, but that was before we had satellites or airplanes to detect lone open-ocean storms) – but if ever we were to take the under, this would probably be the year.

Overall seasonal activity as measured by the Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE, is at a paltry 4.4 units (the average for September 11^th is 60.5 ACE units), the lowest of any hurricane season to date in the modern record.

None of this is to say that we can’t or won’t see a week or two before the end of November where a big hurricane breaks through, but for the traditional height of the hurricane season, it doesn’t get any better than this.

Low development odds over the open subtropical Atlantic next week

Yesterday we mentioned a subtle signal in our longer range models of a possible system coming from the open subtropical Atlantic for the middle to later part of next week. The signal has become a little more pronounced today, especially in our AI camp of models (in both the Euro AI and Google DeepMind) but remains in the 10-30% range for next week.

If anything were to develop later next week, it’s most likely it would do so well east of Bermuda and is certainly nothing for us in the U.S. to be worried about.

En los registros fiables (desde al menos 1950) , la temporada de huracanes del Atlántico nunca se había extendido más allá del 11 de septiembre ^sin que se hubiera formado un huracán. Pero, al no haber tormentas importantes en el horizonte al menos hasta principios de la próxima semana, la temporada de huracanes de 2026 establecerá fácilmente un nuevo récord para el primer huracán que se forma más tarde.

Oficialmente, la NOAA pronostica entre 2 y 6 huracanes esta temporada, y aunque sigue siendo más probable que veamos uno o dos huracanes al final de la temporada (después de todo, nunca hemos tenido una temporada de huracanes en los registros fiables que transcurra sin ningún huracán, 1907 y 1914 son las únicas temporadas en el registro completo sin huracanes, pero eso fue antes de que tuviéramos satélites o aviones para detectar tormentas solitarias en mar abierto), si alguna vez apostamos por la baja, probablemente este sería el año.

La actividad estacional general, medida por la Energía Ciclónica Acumulada (ACE, por sus siglas en inglés), se sitúa en tan solo 4,4 unidades (el promedio para el 11 de septiembre ^es de 60,5 unidades ACE), el nivel más bajo de cualquier temporada de huracanes registrada hasta la fecha en la historia moderna.

Esto no quiere decir que no podamos ver, o que no vayamos a ver, una o dos semanas antes de finales de noviembre en las que un gran huracán azote la zona, pero para el punto álgido tradicional de la temporada de huracanes, no hay nada mejor que esto.

Bajas probabilidades de desarrollo en el Atlántico subtropical abierto la próxima semana.

Ayer mencionamos una señal sutil en nuestros modelos a largo plazo sobre un posible sistema proveniente del Atlántico subtropical abierto para mediados o finales de la próxima semana. La señal se ha vuelto un poco más pronunciada hoy, especialmente en nuestros modelos de IA (tanto en Euro AI como en Google DeepMind), pero se mantiene en el rango del 10-30% para la próxima semana.

Si surgiera algún acontecimiento la semana que viene, lo más probable es que se produzca al este de las Bermudas y, desde luego, no es motivo de preocupación para quienes vivimos en Estados Unidos.

Thunderstorm chances remain high into the weekend, especially on Saturday. Some storms could be strong and any cities picking up 2-4 inches of rain in a short time could experience more minor flooding. High temperatures will be capped around 90 degrees each day.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade respondieron al accidente con fuga cerca de Northwest 117th Street y Northwest Seventh Avenue aproximadamente a las 8:40 p.m.

Un equipo de Local 10 News estuvo en el lugar más tarde esa noche, donde lo que parecía ser una bicicleta eléctrica estaba en el suelo con escombros esparcidos a su alrededor.

Según los investigadores, un conductor desconocido viajaba hacia el norte por Northwest Seventh Avenue y se acercaba a Northwest 117th Street cuando giró a la izquierda hacia 117th Street.

El vehículo luego atropelló a las víctimas, quienes viajaban en bicicleta por Northwest 117th Street, dijeron las autoridades.

Los agentes llegaron y encontraron a ambos menores inconscientes, tendidos en la vía, según la MDSO.

Equipos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondieron y trasladaron a ambas víctimas al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en condición crítica.

Las edades de las víctimas aún no han sido divulgadas.

Detectives de la Unidad de Homicidios de Tránsito de la MDSO asumieron la investigación.

Las autoridades no proporcionaron una descripción del conductor ni del vehículo involucrado.

La investigación continúa en curso.

Cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el accidente debe comunicarse con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-TIPS (8477).

The fastest man and woman in the 100 meters this year — Olympic titlist Noah Lyles (9.79 seconds) and burgeoning University of Georgia star Adaejah Hodge (10.63) — will both be absent from the track meet offering $150,000 top prizes.

It's part of the reality of track: Even when it tries its hardest to bring the best together, a sport with thousands of athletes — all independent contractors on different schedules and always at the risk of injury — will miss a few here and there.

In Lyles' case, it was a matter of a leg injury that came up at the U.S. championships in July and never fully healed that's keeping him away.

“I was very reluctant and I was saying ‘No, no, no, we can push through this,’” Lyles said. “But in reality, I had to come to my senses and say ‘No, I can’t keep pushing through this, or it's just going to get worse.'”

Lyles wanted to race in Budapest — and, in fact, he's here anyway, serving as an emcee and party planner for an event that's supposed to cater to the athletes.

But this event was never part of Hodge's plans.

She built her schedule around NCAA indoor and outdoor championships, where she won the 200 meters in both and also shattered Sha'Carri Richardson's seven-year-old college record of 10.75 seconds in the 100 meters in a preliminary heat before falling in the final.

Last month, Hodge, who competes internationally for the British Virgin Islands, won gold in the 200 at the Commonwealth Games, which is where she'd always planned to end her season. Not even a chance at the $150,000 first prize could change the schedule.

“We targeted that in training, got that done, stuck to our guns,” said Hodge's coach at Georgia, Caryl Smith Gilbert. “We said ‘Let’s rest.' There are three long years ahead. We've got worlds, Olympics, worlds.”

Track tries adding major to what used to be an ‘off’ year

For decades, track moved to that rhythm — an Olympic year sandwiched between years featuring world championships — and left the middle year between Olympic Games free of major international events.

The Ultimate Championship seeks to change that, banking that a $10 million prize pool will be enough to lure the top 16 athletes in selected events to a season-ending meeting that looks completely different from most in track.

The sport mostly got takers for the first edition of this format. For instance, Josh Kerr, who jettisoned 1,500-meter races this year to focus on the slightly longer mile, where he broke a 27-year-old world record, accepted a special invitation for the 1,500 at Ultimate.

“I think it's a really interesting opportunity for the athletes,” Kerr said. “To be able to go out there and race again against a world-class field is something I always want to do. I'm going to show up at my best. It's kept me going for an extra six weeks and I'm pretty excited about it."

Babies and injuries keep other athletes on the sideline

Not everyone, however, was willing to change plans.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the most consistently excellent athlete in the entire sport, took 2026 off to have a baby. Her daughter, Savannah, was born July 12.

Beatrice Chebet, the Olympic and world champion at 5,000 meters, also had a baby in June.

With Faith Kipyegon shutting down her season due to injury last month, Ultimate is missing the 1-2 finishers in the 5,000 (Chebet-Kipyegon) and the champion in the 1,500 meters (Kipyegon) from the last Olympics and worlds. There isn't a single Kenyan in the women's 5,000-meter race.

Finally, there is the case of Tara Davis-Woodhall, the reigning Olympic and world champion long jumper who suffered a concussion after getting hit head-on while driving in a parking lot on her way to training last month. She returned to training but earlier this week decided she had to shut down her season.

Davis-Woodhall, one of the more vibrant personalities in the sport, was supposed to be a lead content creator for Ultimate Championship.

“This one hurts,” she said in a social media post announcing she would not make the trip to Budapest. “I’m sad, disappointed and just hurt by all of it. I know this has to be part of my story.”

At 20, Hodge's coach promises the best is yet to come

While most of the athletes missing this week are known quantities, Hodge is still something of a mystery to all but true track junkies.

Two years ago, she was quietly suspended for 17 months by the Athletics Integrity Unit after testing positive for a banned substance called Cardarine. That and other positive tests from athletes in her training group at the time in Florida triggered an investigation into the coach of that group.

All parties in Hodge's case acknowledged she unintentionally ingested the substance. Her ban was reduced by seven months after she provided assistance to AIU in investigating the case.

Of the 10.63 Hodge ran in June in Eugene, Oregon, her coach, Smith Gilbert, said: “Part of me says she wasn't even close to that sort of time, part of me says it's what I thought she could do and part of me thinks this is completely amazing.”

“She's an amazing kid, a great person, a wonderful human being,” Smith Gilbert said. “You’re lucky enough to get kids like that maybe once or twice in your coaching career."

Hodge's time is .07 faster than the second-best marks of the season, posted by Olympic champion Julien Alfred and world champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, both of whom are racing Saturday.

Smith Gilbert said to expect Hodge to be in that mix starting in 2027.

“She's going to be one of the best ever,” the coach said.

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It has become a daily ritual for residents of Mansouri, who fled the village weeks ago and now are watching its destruction from the neighboring village of Hanniyeh.

Active fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has simmered down since they entered into a truce in June, but the Israeli military now occupies large swaths of southern Lebanon, where it regularly carries out controlled demolitions.

Massive clouds of smoke and dust rise periodically from Mansouri, as the men watching debate which neighbor's house has been destroyed this time and look for signs of their own. Early Friday, the Israeli military detonated the village's public school, Lebanese state media reported.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the demolitions.

Villagers decry the Lebanese government's lack of response

Some displaced residents blame the Lebanese government along with Israel, saying that authorities abandoned the village.

Ali Hussein Ghanem, a tobacco farmer from Mansouri, is staying with relatives in Hanniyeh along with his wife and children.

“This is something that should never happen,” he said, watching the smoke rise over his village from a distance. “Isn’t the state supposed to protect our town rather than hand it over to Israel?”

Wissam Khashabi, a beekeeper, also from Mansouri, agreed.

“We are seeing our land being destroyed,” he said. “We have lost our property, our orchards, and all our livelihoods. The state is not really doing anything.”

On Thursday, Israeli officials said they had blown up Hezbollah tunnel networks under the strategic Ali Taher ridge near the town of Nabatiyeh, in a different part of southern Lebanon. The force of the blasts caused the earth to shake in surrounding areas.

The Israeli military said the ridge contained extensive underground military infrastructure built by Hezbollah. It had been the site of clashes between Israeli forces and the militant group in recent weeks, before Israel announced it had taken “operational control” of it.

No political solution in sight

Many residents of Mansouri fled when the latest Israel-Hezbollah war began in March, but returned after the truce in June — only to flee again when the Israeli military issued a call to evacuate the village last month and began striking it again.

Israel said at the time that it was responding to ceasefire violations by Hezbollah. But it’s not clear why it has been demolishing the village since then.

Some of the displaced were taken in by relatives, while others are staying in school shelters in the nearby city of Tyre. At the height of the war, some 1.2 million people were displaced in Lebanon. The ceasefire has allowed most of them to return home, but more than 300,000 remain displaced.

With negotiations between Israel and Lebanon — and between the U.S. and Iran — stalled, there is no political solution in sight that would allow them to go home.

The latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah began on March 2, when the militant group fired rockets across the border two days after Israel and the U.S. launched a war on Iran.

The Lebanese government and Israel reached a framework agreement in June stating Israel will withdraw from Lebanon as Hezbollah is disarmed, but there has been little movement on implementing it.

Lebanese and Israeli officials are expected to meet for another round of talks in Rome later this month.

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Associated Press writer Abby Sewell contributed from Beirut.

The BRICS summit, chaired by India this year, is a grouping of major emerging markets and developing countries. The group’s acronym comes from the names of its founding members in 2006 — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which joined soon after. It has since expanded to include 11 countries that make up about half the world’s population.

Modi and Putin discussed cooperation in political, economic, defense, energy and other sectors. They also spoke about India-Russia engagement in BRICS and exchanged views on regional and global issues, including Middle East conflicts, India’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

Modi thanked Pezeshkian for Iran's high-level participation in BRICS, “despite the challenging circumstances,” the ministry said, referring to the Iran war. The two leaders, who had met earlier this month in Kyrgyzstan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting, also discussed bilateral ties, the ministry said.

The summit on Saturday and Sunday will also include Chinese President Xi Jinping. The BRICS nations have been facing a test of their unity against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East, as well as rising tensions between the United States and China.

Putin’s visit highlights a challenge for India

India has for decades maintained close defense and economic ties with Russia and has called for dialogue and diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine while maintaining relations with both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

India has declined to join Western efforts to isolate Moscow over Russia's war on Ukraine. New Delhi is also pursuing major trade and investment agreements with the U.S. and Europe.

Modi on Friday reiterated that dialogue and diplomacy were the way forward between Russia and Ukraine, and said that India was ready to assist in peace efforts, the ministry said.

Russia also remains a key supplier of military equipment to India, although New Delhi has sought to diversify its defense purchases. India has also sharply increased imports of discounted Russian oil since the invasion, making energy another pillar of the relationship and helping cushion the impact of the energy crisis triggered by the Iran war.

Putin last visited India in December 2025, but he met with Modi in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, earlier this month.

India remains engaged with Tehran

Despite India's deepening partnerships with Israel and the Gulf Arab states, New Delhi has also steadily maintained its ties with Iran, though that relationship remains constrained by geopolitics as New Delhi seeks to balance its strategic interests against Western pressure.

Severe U.S. sanctions and secondary penalties on businesses trading with Iran have forced India to stop direct crude oil imports.

The foreign ministry statement said Modi called for sustained efforts to preserve regional peace and stability, safeguard maritime trade routes and protect seafarers.

“We believe that we should move forward with a long-term and win-win strategy,” Modi later said in a social media post.

Pezeshkian’s visit, his first to India, could help bridge some gaps and strengthen ties between Tehran and New Delhi, according to Praveen Donthi, senior analyst with the International Crisis Group.

“India has been forced to reckon with Iran’s importance in the region and to reconsider its approach,” Donthi said.

Horns and noise echoed memories of the chaos, when entire buildings came crashing down. At least 330 people died.

It was the largest earthquake to hit the country since 1979.

At least 20 buildings collapsed in Cali, and the cleanup continues. Some of the collapse sites have now been cleared.

Nearly 40,000 tons of debris have been removed from more than 140 buildings that collapsed across Colombia.

With the debris cleared in Cali, the mayor has declared that the reconstruction process has begun.

But for people like Angela Charry, the uncertainty remains.

“I was autonomous. I had my own space. It was immense,” Charry said.

Her home, where she lives with her 90-year-old mother, was left uninhabitable. She is now staying with a family friend.

“All we are waiting for is an opportunity for housing,” she said.

For many survivors, finding a place to live is only part of the challenge.

“Some of them are feeling hopeless about the situation and don’t know what will happen,” said Pamela Londoño, a mental health leader with the NGO Project Hope. “What they are in need of is a safe space to live. They are looking to recover their livelihoods. But also they are in need of mental health and social-psych support.”

Social studies and civics teacher Robert Rabelo got a surprise — and it came with a $1,000 check.

The Orange Bowl Committee named Rabelo a recipient of its “Extra Yard for Teachers” program, honoring him for the difference he makes for his students.

Rabelo founded the “Power of One” club and “D-WOW Mindset of Success,” teaching his students to put others first and believe in their own potential.

On Thursday, his students got to see their teacher get a little recognition of his own.

According to an arrest affidavit obtained by Local 10 News, Carlos Jose Mejia, 51, the property manager for Venetian Gardens at Country Club of Miami, and Richard Thomas Murray, 62, owner of AP Construction Solutions LLC, worked together on a kickback scheme that funneled nearly $190,000 out of a 288-unit condo association.

The scheme impacted hundreds of unit owners who were paying the HOA, official documents indicated.

Jail records show Mejia is facing 10 counts of violation of the Florida Condominium Act and one count of organized scheme to defraud.

Records show Murray is facing one count of organized scheme to defraud.

The case began after roofing salesman John Kenney filed a complaint around June 20, 2025, according to the arrest affidavits.

Kenney told investigators he brokered the introduction between Mejia and Murray, expecting a commission on any resulting contract, according to the warrants.

After the introduction, Mejia began dealing directly with Murray, and Kenney said he was cut out of the arrangement and never received a commission. When he asked why, Kenney said he obtained documents — including loan paperwork and a canceled check — indicating Murray had been paying Mejia kickbacks disguised as personal loans, according to the warrants.

Venetian Gardens and AP Construction signed their first contract in February 2024, with payments to the company beginning that August, according to the warrants.

Investigators subpoenaed banking records and traced eight checks from Murray’s company, US Murray Holdings Inc., to Mejia between October 2024 and May 2025, ranging from $2,000 to $100,000 and totaling $171,426.05, according to the warrants. Each check’s memo line read “Loan Agreement.”

Bank teller records showed the checks were cashed at a JPMorgan Chase branch, with proceeds split among cash, credit card payments and, in one case, a $50,000 cashier’s check made out to a third party, the affidavits state.

Two additional checks issued in July and September 2025 brought the total payments to Mejia to approximately $186,445.27, investigators said.

Mejia appeared before a judge in Miami-Dade County on Thursday and was granted a $40,000 bond. He remained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Thursday evening, while Murray was not listed among the jail’s inmates.

Friday’s milestone anniversary brings memorial rituals — wreath-laying, flag-flying, moments of silence, vigils and readings of victims’ names — and volunteer projects in tribute to a day that about half of U.S. adults remember as the most historic event of their lifetime, according to a new poll.

President Donald Trump observed the anniversary by attending a ceremony at the Pentagon. It’s the second year in a row for Trump to mark the day at the Pentagon.

Here's the latest:

CIA releases d

ozens of declassified presidential daily briefs on 9/11 anniversary

The several dozen presidential briefing documents declassified Friday detail intelligence government officials had gathered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida leading up to the hijackings 25 years ago.

The documents also illustrate security analysts’ tracking of bin Laden’s movements and support system, as well as concerns about possible threats to U.S. targets

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the documents were the agency’s single largest release of declassified presidential daily briefs, the highly classified briefing prepared by the nation’s intelligence community for the government’s most senior leaders.

The documents range from an April 1998 file entitled “No Evidence Taliban Plans To Hand Over Bin Ladin,” to a Sept. 12, 2001, report in which a source indicated the attacks had been planned for two years and had also targeted the U.S. Capitol.

Nation’s capital remembers the day with bagpipes and a proclamation

City officials, first responders and others gathered outside of the Engine Company 16 fire station and remembered local victims from the day and reflected on the department’s response to the Pentagon attack.

Bagpipes played “Amazing Grace”, and a six-story flag billowed from D.C. Fire Department ladder trucks.

Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a proclamation asking that Washingtonians “join our fellow Americans in honoring the victims, survivors, and families whose lives were forever changed.”

The proclamation noted that D.C. public school students Bernard Curtis Brown II, Asia S. Cottom and Rodney Dickens, all 11, and their teachers, Sara Clark, James Debeuneure and Hilda Taylor, were traveling to California on a National Geographic-related trip when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.

D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said his enduring memory of that day was “our responders are capable of extraordinary things.”

Federal court rejects Energy Department order keeping Michigan coal plan open past retirement

The U.S. appeals court in Washington declared that Energy Secretary Chris Wright exceeded his authority when he forced the 64-year-old J.H. Campbell plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year.

Wright said the plant was needed to ensure reliable electricity in the region. Wright has since directed at least five other coal-fired plants to stay open past their scheduled retirements.

Environmental groups and three states — Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota — went to court to try to overturn the Michigan order.

A three-judge panel from the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the states and the groups, saying there was no real emergency under the law.

Environmentalists say the orders are raising ratepayer bills and adding air and water pollution that could have been avoided.

A new moment of silence

This year’s 9/11 remembrance ceremony in New York included a new moment of silence to honor people who were exposed to toxic dust released by the twin towers’ collapse and have since died of cancer and other illness.

Questions remain on how many people have health problems linked to the dust.

The new moment of silence came close to the end of the ceremony Friday afternoon in Manhattan.

At ground zero, a new tribute to those who fell ill

The ceremony has long been punctuated with moments of silence at key points in the attack timeline and this year organizers added another moment to honor people who were exposed to the clouds of toxic dust released by the twin towers’ fiery collapse and have since died of cancer and other illnesses.

Questions remain about how many people developed health problems linked to the dust.

Wife of 9/11 victim calls out Saudi Arabia during New York ceremony

A woman whose husband died in the attacks criticized Saudi Arabia and questioned the country’s tight relationship with the U.S. during an annual remembrance ceremony in Manhattan, calling on President Donald Trump to “tell the Saudis to stop lying.”

Terry Strada, who lost her husband Tom Strada on 9/11, said U.S. presidents have chosen “to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families,” as the crowd at the ground zero broke out in applause.

“It has been one betrayal after another. President Trump can still change that,” she said before telling Vice President JD Vance, who was in attendance, to “carry that message back.”

“Stand with the families, stand with the survivors,” she said. “Stand with Americans.”

Although 15 of the 19 attackers on 9/11 were Saudis, the Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the attacks.

Trump wraps remarks by insisting American resolve remains strong

The president sought to offer a hopeful note as he finished his remarks at the solemn remembrance at the Pentagon.

“September 11th reminded us of the terrible power of hate,” Trump said. “The 25 years since have shown us the even greater power of the American spirit to endure and prevail, and to win.”

“And today, our country is stronger than it has ever been before. It has never been as strong as it is right now,” Trump added.

Trump at 9/11 ceremony recognizes US troops fighting Iran

The president took a moment in his speech to give a nod to American troops at war.

“We salute the service members working right now to ensure the world’s number one sponsor of terror — the Islamic Republic of Iran — will never ever have a nuclear weapon.”

Trump begins his remarks by recalling American unity following the attacks

“In those harrowing days after the attacks, we saw the authentic spirit of our nation,” Trump said at the Pentagon ceremony. “We were all New Yorkers that day. Every one of us. We were all New Yorkers. We were all family.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth turns attention to the Iran war during his 9/11 remarks

In his remarks at the Pentagon, Hegseth took a moment to turn to the ongoing conflict in Iran and sought to connect it to the 2001 attacks on America.

“Over the past six months, we have laid waste to the world’s most prolific state sponsor of terrorism,” Hegseth said. “Our warriors have fought an Islamic theocracy that has wished us death for nearly half a century, that cheered on 9/11, a regime that has sponsored terrorist attacks against Americans for decades, killing thousands, including our comrades in Iraq, in Afghanistan.”

Condoleezza Rice acknowledges profound regret that 9/11 wasn’t prevented

Rice, who was serving as White House national security adviser on 9/11, said at the Pentagon ceremony that she still feels deep pain that “those of us in authority on that day did not see the nature of the danger in time to prevent the attack of 9/11.”

Rice added, “I will always carry deep personal remorse for the pain that you, the families of the fallen, still feel, and for the trauma that our country endured.”

Maine Gov. Janet Mills marks 9/11 anniversary with a message on her weekly radio address

Her message nodded to the millions of Americans who weren’t born yet at the time of the attacks.

Maine has a direct connection to 9/11. Two of the hijackers spent the day before the attacks in Maine. They would fly out of Portland Jetport the next day and transfer in Boston, where they boarded the plane that later struck the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Six Maine residents died in the attacks.

“Although more than a hundred million Americans are too young to remember that dark day, today, we take a moment to remember and to honor those who perished that day, as well as the first responders who ran towards danger and stayed through the devastating aftermath, and the men and women who stepped up and who continue to step up to keep us safe,” Mills said.

Gen. Caine reflects on the courage Americans demonstrated on 9/11

Speaking at the Pentagon memorial, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called on Americans to honor those lost through “selfless acts of compassion and courage for each other and for our fellow Americans.”

“Today is not just a story of loss,” Caine said. “It is also a story of great American courage, selfless service and those who’ve made the choice to carry those memories forward.”

Names of the Pentagon victims are read aloud at the start of the ceremony there

The president and first lady Melania Trump, sitting on stage, listened as the names of the 184 people killed at the Pentagon on 9/11 were read one by one, a bell tolling between each.

Images of each victim were displayed on a large screen beside the stage.

Security is tight at the ceremony in New York

Police officers stationed around the perimeter of the event are checking tickets and credentials to ensure only invited guests, such as victim relatives, survivors and first responders, and others connected to the event are allowed through. That’s before a full security screening at the entrance to the site, which is surrounded by the type of steel fencing now familiar at high-profile events.

Along with that, the streets are filled with the apparatus of police and emergency response — NYPD vehicles lining the western perimeter, heavily armed and armored counterterrorism officers patrolling the nearby subway stations, and flashing police lights abound.

As the memorial goes on, so does life around ground zero

New Yorkers going about their days mixed with 9/11 family members, firefighters and other first responders on the streets and sidewalks of lower Manhattan.

People jogged by in brightly colored running attire. Others hoisted American flags. People clasped iced coffees and bagged pastries. A woman outside a church sold buttons commemorating the occasion. A man thanked the two police officers guarding the perimeter for their service.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wipes away tears at the 9/11 memorial

He was the CEO of the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald when the attack on the World Trade Center killed 658 of its 960 employees.

He survived because he was taking his son to school when the attack happened. His brother, Gary Lutnick, was among those who died.

At the memorial Friday, Lutnick wiped away a tear, but also smiled as he looked fondly at the names of Cantor Fitzgerald employees inscribed on the parapets that ring the footprints of the fallen towers.

Former presidents attend 9/11 ceremony in New York

Four former presidents are in Manhattan for the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the city’s ceremony at ground zero.

Former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Joe Biden could be seen mingling with attendees at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan on Friday morning.

Vice President JD Vance is also attending the ceremony in New York, while President Donald Trump will attend an observance at the Pentagon.

American flag unfurled at the Pentagon

In a downpour at daybreak, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top military officials stood outside and watched as the giant American flag was unfurled on the building struck by a hijacked plane a quarter century ago.

US marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks

Americans are commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al-Qaida attacks on symbols of U.S. might and prosperity.

Friday’s milestone anniversary will bring memorial rituals — wreath-laying, flag-flying, moments of silence, vigils and readings of victims’ names — and volunteer projects in tribute to a day that about half of U.S. adults remember as the most historic event of their lifetime, according to a new poll.

For others it’s an occasion for private reflection — or, in many schools, education — about the attack that unfolded in a single morning but left nearly 3,000 dead and a decades-long trail of aftermath, from personal grief to far-flung wars.

Planned remembrances extend far beyond the attack sites, from beams of light projecting from New Hampshire’s Mount Washington to a stair climb at Mississippi State University’s football stadium to a ceremony at Honolulu’s 9/11 memorial.

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Trump to commemorate 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon

President Donald Trump is set to observe Friday’s 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by attending a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the lives lost when al-Qaida militants hijacked planes and killed nearly 3,000 people in three locations, upending American foreign policy and national security.

It’s the second year in a row for Trump to mark the day at the Pentagon. The president, who is originally from New York, last attended the ground zero ceremony there in 2024.

Vice President JD Vance is set to attend the New York observance alongside former presidents, while other administration officials will go to the ceremony in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Vance had planned to be in New York for the anniversary last year but instead flew to Salt Lake City to be with the family of Charlie Kirk after the conservative activist was assassinated.

During last year’s commemoration at the Pentagon, Trump delivered remarks recounting moments from the day of the attacks, including snippets of conversations from passengers who were aboard the hijacked airplanes.

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Two people died when Russian drones hit the Starokozache border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday night while a “direct threat” to a Polish-Ukrainian crossing point on Wednesday night was only avoided thanks to cooperation between Warsaw and Kyiv, Tusk said on Thursday.

He gave no further details of the incident, nor did he present evidence of Russian involvement.

Tusk said he received a briefing on Thursday from CIA Director Jim Ratcliffe, who was recently in Moscow, about the risks posed by Russia in the region in the coming months.

“Russia already decided to engage in provocative attacks on border crossing points, for example in Moldova,” he said, speaking on Thursday in Bratislava, Slovakia, during a meeting of central European countries and Ireland. “We expect similar actions regarding border crossings with Ukraine in other countries as well, including Poland.”

Tusk added that he received information from Ratcliffe indicating Poland and Europe should be prepared for “various scenarios” on the Russian-Ukrainian front and in the countries on the European Union’s eastern flank.

Ukraine shares borders with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova, as well as Russia and its ally Belarus.

Moldova confronts a string of border incidents

In recent weeks, Moldova, a former Soviet republic and a candidate for European Union membership since 2022, has been affected by multiple incidents near its southern border crossings with Ukraine.

On Aug. 20, an explosion in a parking lot on Ukrainian territory, about 150 meters (490 feet) from Moldova’s southern Giurgiulesti border crossing, resulted in a vegetation fire that spread about 100 square meters (1,076 square feet) onto Moldovan territory. The same day, border police spotted a crater on Moldovan territory about 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) from the border, where they found debris from a type of drone used by Russia in Ukraine.

A day later, Moldova’s Mirnoe border was temporarily closed after Russian strikes nearby on Ukraine. On Aug. 25, Moldova also suspended activity at its Vulcanesti border crossing after an Iranian-made Shahed drone struck the Ukrainian side. Moldova’s border police urged citizens “who hear drone noises or explosions” to remain calm and take shelter.

After the border incident on Tuesday night at the Starokozache crossing, Moldova’s pro-Western President Maia Sandu condemned Russia, and said Moscow’s “brutal war is reaching our border.”

“To deny the danger while Russian drones and missiles sow death and put Moldova in danger, and to criticize your country’s efforts to strengthen its defense system, is to choose betrayal over the safety of your own people,” she said in a post on Facebook.

Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a border crossing with NATO-member Romania, in the east of the country along the Danube River, was “deliberately damaged, ... as well as export infrastructure.” Moscow has repeatedly targeted Ukraine's river ports throughout the war.

Romania has also reported an almost threefold increase in drone incursions so far this year compared to the whole of 2025, and more than double the number of drones and drone debris found on its territory.

CIA briefs Poland on upcoming Russian threats to Europe

Tusk has been warning for weeks that Russia could carry out a limited military or more significant hybrid provocation against Poland or the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in the near future.

“In the last few hours, I received a fairly detailed report directly from the CIA director regarding possible incidents in the coming months—and this is exactly what I’ve been saying and warning about for many months now,” Tusk said in Bratislava.

In late August, Ratcliffe visited Moscow and held talks with his Russian intelligence counterparts, with Polish politicians speculating that one of the topics could have been the possible Russian threat to NATO.

On Tuesday, Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland's minister overseeing intelligence services met with Ratcliffe at CIA headquarters in Virginia to discuss Poland's security and cooperation with the Americans.

On Thursday and Friday this week, an American delegation including William Cappelletti Jr. from the Department of Defense and Thomas DiNanno from the Department of State, is visiting Poland to check out several potential locations for a permanent U.S. military base there.

Poland has for years sought to host a permanent U.S. base as a strong guarantee of its security in the face of the rising Russian threat.

Poland’s high defense spending and major U.S. arms purchases have persuaded the Donald Trump administration to consider putting a permanent base in Poland even as it reorganizes and reduces its overall military presence in Europe.

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McGrath reported from Leamington Spa, England.

The violent protests, which erupted in South Africa earlier this year, have forced thousands of migrants to leave and caused diplomatic tensions with other African nations.

Kamoru Ogunlana, the clerk to Nigeria’s National Assembly, said in a statement that the parliament was “particularly concerned by reports of Nigerians being killed, injured, displaced and forced to abandon their businesses, investments, homes and other properties as a result of recurring violent attacks.”

South Africa has for years attracted foreign nationals from across the continent, including many from Nigeria, because of its relative wealth and opportunity. But foreigners have also experienced sporadic outbursts of xenophobic violence. Protesters in the southern African country blame foreigners for high levels of unemployment, crime and pressure on public services.

In June, two Nigerians were killed during anti-migrant violence in South Africa, just two days before an unofficial deadline set by protesters for foreigners to leave. Nigeria's foreign ministry said one was allegedly killed by police officers and the other by unidentified attackers.

Nigeria’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, hosted South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola in the country’s capital, Abuja, in July to discuss the recurring attacks. At that meeting, Enikanolaiye said that at least 98 Nigerians have been killed since 2022 in mob attacks, hate-related violence and extrajudicial killings.

The move by the parliament in Nigeria on Friday is a “strong expression” of concern over the safety and welfare of Nigerians living and conducting legitimate businesses in South Africa, Ogunlana said.

According to South Africa's latest government figures, almost 90,000 people have either been voluntarily repatriated or have been deported since the migration tensions began. However, figures released by the governments of migrants’ home countries put the total at about 178,000.

According to the governor of the northwestern province of Sud-Ubangi, Jean-Rene Galekwa Vundawe, Congo’s national research institute tested a sample and found traces of the Bundibugyo virus, the rare kind of Ebola that caused the current outbreak.

The statement, which was issued on Thursday and reported by local media outlets on Friday, said the sample was from the Bulu health district in Sud-Ubangi. It did not disclose other information about the source of the infection.

Local lawmaker and former health minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani said on X on Thursday a positive case was recorded in Gwaka, a town in Sud-Ubangi province. He said the patient was a 23-year-old man and has died.

Mbungani said in just three weeks the man had departed from South Kivu province — where confirmed Ebola cases have been reported — and then traveled to Rwanda and Uganda. He then traveled to Congo's Ituri province, the epicenter of the outbreak.

He then traveled from the northeast of the country to the northwest through the provinces of Tshopo, Mongala and Sud-Ubangi, according to Mbungani.

Doctors and local authorities in Sud-Ubangi were alerted to a patient that had a fever and was vomiting blood, Mbungani told The Associated Press on Friday in a telephone interview, adding that the man had died on Tuesday. Samples were then taken after the patient had died and were sent to the national research institute.

“It worries me. … Our province borders Congo-Brazzaville and the Central African Republic. We fear it may spread regionally,” said Mbungani.

The development makes Sud-Ubangi the seventh province affected by the outbreak — and the first in western Congo — a worrisome spread outward from what was previously concentrated in the country’s east. A case was detected in Kinshasa in May in a person who had traveled from eastern Congo, but the Congolese capital, more than 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) away from the epicenter, was not classified as an affected province.

As of Wednesday, 6,942 cases and 3,349 deaths have been reported, according to the latest government figures.

The World Health Organization has said the outbreak remains out of control and is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the deadliest on record, which killed more than 11,000 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

In recent weeks, new cases and deaths have declined in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, but risen sharply in neighboring North Kivu and Haut-Uele.

The outbreak is spreading under extremely difficult conditions for aid efforts, fueled by insecurity, displacement, a health workers’ strike and intense population movements. The situation is particularly concerning at displacement sites, where residents already live in extremely precarious conditions.

Sud-Ubangi, which borders the Central African Republic, does not border any of the six provinces in eastern Congo where confirmed Ebola cases had previously been reported. They include Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Uele, Tshopo and Bas-Uele.

WHO said last month there is a risk the outbreak could spread from Congo to the Central African Republic and South Sudan, which border the affected provinces.

Neighboring Uganda, which had reported 20 cases since May, declared itself free of Ebola in July.

Last month, Congo began vaccinating health and other front-line workers with the Ervebo vaccine that was effective in past Ebola outbreaks caused by a different, more common type of the virus called Zaire.

Clinical trials are underway to find a licensed vaccine for the Bundibugyo virus.

The vaccination trials started in Tshopo, Haut-Uele and Bas-Uele provinces, Placide Mbala Kingebeni, Africa CDC’s director for research, clinical trials and innovation, said Thursday. Vaccinations in Ituri are set to start next week, he added.

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This story has been corrected to give the full name of the lawmaker and former health minister quoted: his full name is Jean-Jacques Mbungani.

Las sospechas de corrupción, sesgo político e interferencia policial se ciernen sobre varios de sus miembros, y la agitación está afectando ya a las elecciones generales de octubre.

El presidente del tribunal, Luiz Edson Fachin, ordenó la cancelación el jueves y convocó una nueva sesión para el martes, un día en el que la corte no suele reunirse. El pleno, formado por 10 magistrados, analizará si uno de ellos, Alexandre de Moraes, debe ser investigado por presuntos vínculos con el propietario del quebrado Banco Master, que cerró tras denuncias de fraude.

La crisis en el tribunal estalló el 1 de septiembre, cuando el juez André Mendonça, designado por Bolsonaro, desclasificó documentos de la policía federal que mostraban que el banquero Daniel Vorcaro buscó repetidamente el asesoramiento jurídico de De Moraes. La animadversión entre de Moraes y Mendonça no ha hecho más que crecer desde entonces.

De Moraes, de tendencia conservadora, fue aclamado como un héroe por simpatizantes del presidente, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, después de condenar al expresidente Jair Bolsonaro a 27 años de prisión el año pasado por un intento de golpe de Estado. Mendonça fue fiscal general con Bolsonaro antes de llegar al máximo tribunal de Brasil.

A principios de semana, De Moraes respondió y solicitó una investigación por un presunto abuso de poder de Mendonça por entrevistar al banquero sin la presencia de policías o fiscales.

Tanto Lula como su rival en las próximas elecciones —el hijo del expresidente, el senador Flávio Bolsonaro— exigen ahora investigaciones sobre los magistrados del Supremo, en línea con sus partidos.

También está en juego el liderazgo de la policía federal de Brasil, ya que decisiones contrarias del Supremo Tribunal esta semana destituyeron y luego restituyeron a su director general, también como parte del fuego cruzado entre magistrados.

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The aircraft left Istres air base in southern France on Tuesday and will travel 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles), cross three continents and make nine stopovers, working with international partners along the route to demonstrate the value of alliances at a time when big powers such as China and the United States seem determined to go it alone.

The military exercise called Pegase 26 aims to project military might and prove the nuclear power can defend distant territories and allies by strengthening French cooperation in the air with strategic partners including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and India.

Almost a year in the planning, the aircraft will be supported by three refueling planes, two transport aircraft and around 300 personnel overseen from a headquarters near Lyon in eastern France.

The Associated Press accompanied French planes this week over Greenland and Alaska and during exercises they conducted with U.S. fighter jets.

Showing commitment to law and freedom of navigation

“In practical terms, we fly together, we land together, we work together,” Alice Rufo, a deputy defense minister, said before the two single-seater and two twin-seater Rafale aircraft departed France.

“If we’re called upon to act together in the face of a threat, we need to be immediately interoperable,” Rufo said. “That doesn’t just happen. It must be prepared, and these exercises and missions allow us to prepare for that.”

Flying halfway around the world also will demonstrate France’s commitment to international law and the freedom of navigation in places where these principles face growing challenges such as the Middle East. The aircraft will fly in the Persian Gulf region via Qatar and end their journey in Egypt.

But along with political and practical advantages of navigating through complex new airspace in a range of temperatures, Pegase 26 is highly symbolic.

Aircraft experience new challenges over Greenland

In the early stage of the trip, the twin-engined jets headed for Alaska and passed over Greenland, where an Airbus A400M support plane capable of landing on ice was stationed. The flight from Istres to Alaska took nearly 11 hours, with the jets refueling midair five times to cover the vast distance without stopping.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to take control of Greenland have destabilized NATO, damaging confidence between allies meant to defend rather than attack each other. Greenland is a self-governing part of NATO member Denmark.

The flight exercise has been held annually since 2018, but the Pegase 26 commander, General Julien Sabènè, told The Associated Press this is “the first time we are heading up north, over Greenland, toward Alaska.”

“It’s important for us that we explore different routes,” he said. “We never know in case we need to go in the Indo-Pacific region, and there are thermals and it’s difficult to go the other way around. That gives us another option, going up north.”

Global warming also is making the Arctic more accessible to possible adversaries such as China and Russia.

“Climate change is changing the stakes and maritime routes are evolving,” Sabéné said. “There is a need for us to be present in the High North alongside our allies, and naturally alongside the Danes, who are an integral part of Greenland.”

Making a symbolic show of strength through partnership

The exercise also comes six months after President Emmanuel Macron offered to share France’s nuclear umbrella with his European partners as concern mounted about Trump’s reliability on security matters.

Some Rafale jets can be fitted with nuclear-armed missiles. They would probably be paired with the same Airbus A330 MRTT refueling planes to deliver those weapons over long distances, officials said.

To be clear, Pegase 26 is not a nuclear exercise. The fighter jets carry no real weapons, only mock conventional armaments adding weight and shifting aerodynamics to bring a more realistic edge to the drills. But pilots from France’s Strategic Air Force, which operates part of France’s nuclear deterrent, are involved.

The marathon flight also shows France can rapidly move combat aircraft between potential conflict zones in the Arctic, Pacific and Middle East, where many U.S. refueling planes are tied up with the Iran war, while sustaining operations from French bases.

At a time when great powers are questioning the value of multinational organizations and sometimes seeking to undermine them, Rufo said Pegase 26 proves France can exercise freedom of navigation while respecting international rules with the help of its allies and friends.

“Sovereignty can only be effectively exercised within a network of partnerships, and the exceptional number of partners involved in this mission demonstrates that,” she said.

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Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed to this report.

Separately, the AI company Anthropic said it identified and blocked users in northern Yemen attempting to develop advanced missiles.

Here’s a look at the latest news in the Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.

Houthi rebels capture strategic island as Saudi Arabia targets airport

Yemen ’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured the island of Mayun at the entrance of the Red Sea, a key alternative for shipping Saudi oil and other exports since Iran has been targeting vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

The island's seizure was confirmed by a senior military official with Yemen’s internationally recognized government and a Houthi official. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists.

Saudi Arabia responded with airstrikes against the airport in Yemen's port city of Mokha, which the Houthis captured on Thursday, a Houthi broadcaster said. There was no immediate report of damage or deaths.

About 12% of the world’s goods are typically shipped through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea. It's especially important to Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally.

The Houthis' military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said in a statement Friday that “maritime navigation is safe for all companies except for Saudi vessels.” But markets are nervous, and experts have described the Houthis as highly unpredictable.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry called for an end to Saudi Arabia’s blockade of Yemen and an immediate return to negotiations with the Houthis, showing support for its ally.

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By Samy Magdy in Cairo

Anthropic blocks users in Houthi-held Yemen over weapons development

The AI company Anthropic said it blocked users in northern Yemen who were using its AI models to run weapons development programs, some using commercially available smartphones.

Anthropic said its models were being used to pursue sophisticated precision, long-range ballistic and hypersonic missiles. The company said it identified the users during an internal investigation and banned their accounts.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels who control northern Yemen have been smuggling advanced weapons for years despite a blockade and U.N. arms embargo. Iran denies arming the rebels.

Anthropic said the accounts used Claude Code to develop software that “steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle” and were working to develop weapons including a guided rocket that allows mobile phone users to autonomously track targets.

There is no evidence the users in Yemen succeeded in fielding a weapon, the company said.

Iran to meet with Gulf Arab neighbors over Strait of Hormuz

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said Friday that a regional meeting is planned between Iran and other Persian Gulf countries, including Oman and Iraq.

Baghaei told reporters the meeting will take place on Monday in Oman and will include discussion on prior talks between Iran and Oman regarding shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Located on either side of the strait, Iran and Oman, have held talks over managing ship traffic through the critical waterway, which has been heavily disrupted by the Iran war.

About a fifth of the world’s traded oil passed through the strait before the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Since then, the Islamic Republic retaliated by repeatedly attacking neighboring countries in the Gulf that host U.S. military forces.

Israel says it has destroyed Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that his country’s military has completed the destruction of tunnels in the strategic Ali Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, which he said were built by the militant group Hezbollah with Iranian funding.

The ridge has been the site of clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in recent weeks. Nearby residents heard loud explosions and felt the ground shaking Thursday. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued to demolish houses in villages under their control in southern Lebanon.

Residents displaced from the coastal village of Mansouri watched from a distance on Friday as Israeli drones carried boxes of explosives to be dropped on their homes. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A man is killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza

An Israeli strike on Friday killed a man walking in a street in southern Gaza and wounded several people, including children, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the body and the wounded.

The Israeli military said the strike in Khan Younis had targeted a Hamas member.

Meanwhile, mourners held funeral prayers for two of three men who were killed Thursday in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said one of the men, Mohammad Yazouri, was a Hamas commander.

Developmental experts and educators say children need chances to struggle with everyday problems because figuring them out is a skill that has to be practiced.

The challenge for parents is knowing when to help and when to step back. There is a difference between helping children through difficult situations and removing the problem before they have a chance to try. At a time when an answer or AI-generated help can be seconds away, giving children room to figure things out for themselves can be hard to do.

What independence looks like depends on a child’s age, abilities, and circumstances, but experts say it means learning to plan, make decisions, solve problems, recover from mistakes and figure out what to do next. Here’s how experts say parents can give children more opportunities to practice those skills.

Pause before stepping in

Children have unprecedented access to information, while technology has given parents more ways to monitor their kids' lives. They can track their children’s locations, see grades in real time, and email teachers immediately. That means parents can intervene before their children have had a chance to realize there is a problem, let alone figure out a solution.

There is a downside to that convenience, said Dr. Dana Suskind, a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Chicago and author of the book “Human Raised.”

“I think the most important thing we can give children is not the answer, but the experience of figuring it out,” Suskind said. When parents swoop in, she said, children are deprived of opportunities to practice skills like pausing before acting, remembering what worked previously, and trying new solutions.

If children rarely have to struggle, it can lead to severe anxiety when they have to figure out something on their own, said Dr. Stephanie Carlson, director of the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota.

When there is a real danger, parents should step in, but when stakes are lower, they can slow down and talk through the problem. That could mean asking children open-ended questions: What do you think? What could happen? How could you solve this? What else could you try?

Allow children to experience boredom

Allowing children to be bored, frustrated, impatient or nervous can support their learning and better prepare them for adulthood, experts say.

Boredom can facilitate creativity and play while helping children build confidence and resilience, said Kiryn Hoffman, CEO of the National Children’s Museum in Washington, D.C.

In “10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World,” psychologist Dr. Jean Twenge writes that children and teens have fewer opportunities than previous generations to spend time with friends, get around on their own and make decisions outside the watchful gaze of adults. By their senior year of high school, fewer teens have a driver’s license, go on dates or work paid jobs than in previous generations, she writes.

Give children a little more to handle

Parents don’t have to manufacture situations for children to navigate. Routine tasks naturally provide children with opportunities to practice agency, experts say.

Nicole Knoth, a mother of two teen girls in Flagstaff, Arizona, started giving her daughters small decisions to make when they were young. At age 5, for example, she would give them $5 at a store and have them calculate what they could afford, including tax and discounts. Now, as teens, they are grocery shopping and her oldest is managing her own credit card.

Jemia Cunningham-Elder, a mother of four daughters in Chicago, learned there isn’t a set age for when children should be expected to do something on their own. She looks at what each child can handle, then gives them a little more freedom and watches what happens.

If they manage it, they get more independence. If they struggle, she considers whether it was a useful learning experience or a sign they weren’t ready yet.

That approach also recognizes something important: independence doesn’t mean doing everything alone.

Children who realize they don’t know how to solve a math problem and ask the teacher for help are practicing independence, too. So are children who forget their assignments and figure out how to find the information rather than having parents call their teachers.

Know when to step in

The same approach doesn’t apply to every situation. Parents have to weigh safety, maturity and circumstances.

Caroline Chirichella, a 37-year-old mother who lives in the Campania region of southern Italy, had been trying to give her 8-year-old daughter, Lucia, more freedom. But she hesitated to let her spend time outside with friends on her own because of concerns about traffic in the street.

There are other situations where the stakes are lower.

Chirichella said she and her husband eventually stopped calling other parents or teachers when Lucia forgot to write down an assignment. She told her daughter: “Your homework is your responsibility.”

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At Miami’s first beer spa, customers can now relax in a private soaking tub while enjoying a cold one nearby.

Hop ‘N Spa recently opened in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, offering private wellness sessions that combine beer-themed ingredients with traditional spa amenities.

“A beer spa is a private wellness experience where customers have their own private spa, and they get to enjoy the benefits of beer — not only drinking it, but we have our own soak that they get to soak their bodies in,” said Adrian Nazarett, the spa’s co-owner.

Nazarett, a Navy veteran, said the idea came from a trip to Iceland with his wife. The couple was traveling around the country in a camper van when they stopped at a brewery and discovered a beer spa.

“My wife and I were in a camper van just driving around the island. We saw a brewery on the way, and I love beer, so we were like, let’s go check out the brewery and they had a beer spa in there and we’re like, ‘What is this? We have to do it.’ And that’s where we found it. We fell in love with it,” he said.

The experience is not quite what the name might suggest. Customers don’t actually soak in beer. Instead, they add a mixture of ingredients to clean water in their private tubs.

“When the guests get here, we’ll add the ingredients of their soak into their tubs. That way they can see that it’s just clean water and they see exactly what is going into their bath,” Nazarett said.

The soak includes hops, brewer’s yeast and Epsom salt.

“The hops — the green stuff —give beer its aroma,” he said. “They release B vitamins into the water that can help your skin. The brewer’s yeast may also help fight some of the things that cause pimples and zits. And Epsom salt just makes the water feel a little better on your skin.”

Each private room has two soaking tubs, a sauna, music and a beer tap located next to the tub.

The concept combines two of the things Nazarett and his wife enjoy most.

“It just mixes two things that we both love. She loves spas, and I love beer. It’s an activity that we love to do together,” he said.

Nazarett said the couple wanted to bring the concept back home to Miami and create a place where people could enjoy a different kind of night out.

“There are plenty of bars, spas and restaurants, this kind of gives something different,” he added.

The spa also serves nonalcoholic drinks and wine.

For its grand opening, Hop ‘N Spa is offering a $150 promotion for a 60-minute private session for one or two people. The business is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Click here for more information on how to make a reservation.

Following an impassioned four-hour debate in the elected House of Commons, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was rejected 286 to 270. The outcome was somewhat surprising given that an almost identical bill had passed last year with a margin of 23 votes.

The vote brings an end to a two-year debate in Parliament about assisted dying, during which the House of Commons had backed assisted dying on two previous occasions. Their backing wasn't enough for it to become law because it was effectively filibustered by unelected lawmakers in the House of Lords.

Back in the House of Commons on Friday, the bill had proposed allowing adults in England and Wales who have fewer than six months to live to apply for an assisted death subject to the approval of two doctors and an expert panel.

Many individual lawmakers relayed their own stories both in favor of and against the proposal. The government took a neutral stance, meaning lawmakers voted according to their consciences rather than along party lines.

One lawmaker who was among those to oppose the bill, having previously backed it, spoke about how “nightmares” prompted her to switch sides. Janet Daby said she dreamed of “dying and death” because she had not been “entirely comfortable” with her former position.

The new U.K. leader, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, didn't vote because he said he didn't want to “unduly influence the debate.”

Opponents branded the bill unsafe and unworkable, citing concerns around potential coercion of vulnerable people and a lack of safeguards for those with disabilities.

Lawmaker and cancer surgeon Dr. Zubir Ahmed also noted uncertainty around a doctor’s prognosis.

“I have to be honest with you,” he said. “When I am asked to prognosticate as to whether someone has six months to live or not, I am as often wrong as I am right.”

The leader of Catholics in England and Wales, Archbishop Richard Moth, called the bill “wrong in principle” and “deeply flawed. The Church of England’s Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, also objected to the bill.

Medical colleges, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists, had raised “serious concerns” about the bill, saying there were “too many unanswered questions about the safeguarding of people with mental illness.”

Proponents of “ assisted dying ” — sometimes referred to as “assisted suicide” — had hoped it would mark the biggest change to social policy in the U.K. since abortion was partially legalized in 1967. The intention was to put an end to the practice of those near the end of their lives going to other countries, such as Switzerland, for an assisted death.

Lauren Edwards, who reintroduced the bill to the House of Commons, said the rejection was “heartbreaking” but expressed hope that the issue will win parliamentary approval in the future.

“Assisted dying will come in this country, as it is already doing all across the world, but not soon enough,” she said. “Parliament has dropped the ball today. It will be picked up again as it must be, because the law as it stands is simply too cruel and too unjust to be allowed to stand.”

Other countries where assisted dying is legal include Australia, Belgium and Spain, with regulations on qualifying criteria varying by jurisdiction.

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The dead are part of 1.5 million Russian casualties in Ukraine, Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Knighton, Chief of the U.K’s Defense Staff, said.

The U.K. figures roughly coincide with those published by the Ukrainian military. There was no immediate comment from Russian officials.

Moscow’s bigger army is struggling to make headway on the battlefield. Western officials and analysts say the Russian rate of advance has slowed significantly this year.

Russia’s armed forces have also lost an “enormous” amount of military materiel, Knighton told reporters. That includes more than 10,000 armored and protected vehicles, close to 3,000 air defense and artillery systems, and over 370 aircraft and helicopters, Knighton said.

He didn’t say what Ukraine’s losses were.

Neither Moscow nor Kyiv give regular updates on their battlefield losses.

Russian drones target Kyiv gas stations, aiming to rattle civilians

Russian drones targeted roadside gas stations in Kyiv for a second straight day Friday, as Moscow broadened its air war in what Ukrainian officials say is an effort to rattle civilians.

The attacks struck two Ukrnafta gas stations, killing two people and wounding six at one of them, the prosecutor’s office said.

Russian strikes on urban gas stations have intensified in recent months, mostly in regions near the front line in eastern and southern Ukraine. It is part of a campaign to disrupt civilian life and weaken morale that has also included attacks on food distribution hubs, sporadically leaving some supermarket shelves bare in the Ukrainian capital.

“Russia is systematically attacking places where it knows people will be spending their time going about their daily lives, seeking to maximize casualties, spread fear, and put pressure on Ukrainian society,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X late Thursday.

Authorities have urged residents not to linger near gas stations and other exposed infrastructure during air raid alerts.

Ukraine is urgently trying to improve its air defenses as Russia's invasion stretches into its fifth year, and on Thursday won pledges of more support from Canada.

Russian shopping mall strikes kill 5 in central Ukraine

Pavlohrad, a city in central Ukraine, observed an official day of mourning Friday for five residents killed near shopping malls in broad daylight by Russian drones the previous day.

The attack also wounded 67 people, Sybiha said on X.

In the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, a 32-year-old woman and her 10-year-old son were wounded in an overnight Russian drone attack, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. The drones struck a nine-story apartment block and a shopping mall, it said.

Efforts to put out the blazes were slowed by the constant threat of repeat strikes, forcing firefighters to stop working and take shelter, it added.

In Dnipro, a city in central Ukraine, a Russian daylight attack Friday wounded 12 people, according to local officials.

Russia says it stopped 777 Ukrainian drones

Ukraine, meanwhile, has extended its own long-range drone campaign deep into Russia, straining air defenses across its bigger neighbor’s vast territory. On Thursday, its military reported hitting a refinery more than 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles) away in Siberia as Kyiv tries to hurt Russia’s vital oil sector. Its strikes have caused fuel shortages in Russia, one of the world’s biggest energy producers.

Russia’s oil product exports hit record lows in August, and Moscow is importing fuel from South Korea and India, the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air said in a report.

“Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s refining capacity have turned tables on the world’s once largest oil product exporter to see them start importing fuels, with imports surging to a record 172,000 metric tons (189,600 tons) in August — more than seven times the previous monthly high,” the Finland-registered nonprofit said Thursday.

Ukraine launched a major barrage overnight from Thursday to Friday, with the Russian Defense Ministry saying air defenses intercepted 777 Ukrainian drones over 16 Russian regions, as well as occupied Crimea and the waters of the Azov and the Caspian seas.

Two people were killed and three others wounded overnight in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Tula region south of Moscow, local officials said Friday.

A Ukrainian drone strike during the night started a fire at the Saratov oil refinery in southwestern Russia, Russian independent online outlet Astra said Friday. Kyiv has repeatedly targeted that refinery, which was last hit in early August.

Major online retailer Ozon said its logistics facility in the same city was struck and set ablaze by a Ukrainian drone, though no casualties were reported. Ozon is a competitor to Wildberries, whose facilities Ukraine has also targeted.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said long-range strikes overnight hit eight Russian regions, including a business and an oil industry facility in the Saratov region.

The attacks were “aimed at reducing Russia’s capacity to wage war,” he said on X Friday.

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The men, who were arrested in the South African city of Cape Town in 2021, are set to be handed over to officials from the FBI on Friday and transported to the U.S. to face wire fraud and money laundering charges.

They are accused of belonging to a criminal network known as the Black Axe, which Interpol describes as being part of criminal groups responsible for a significant share of the world’s cyber-enabled financial fraud, typically through romance scams, cryptocurrency and investment scams.

According to South African police, the men are alleged to have targeted more than 100 women in the U.S., defrauding them of more than $6 million through online romance or love scams.

Among the alleged victims were pensioners and businesspeople who were reportedly targeted through sophisticated online relationships.

“Through the coordination of Interpol South Africa, the six will today be transported from a correctional facility in Cape Town to Cape Town International Airport, where they will be handed over to officials from the FBI and the United States Secret Service, who arrived in South Africa this morning,” said police spokesperson Katlego Mogale.

A recent operation by Interpol targeting West African organized crime groups led to the arrest of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects linked to various criminal networks involved in similar crimes, the multinational police body said last month.

The operation aimed to disrupt money laundering, identify high-value targets, seize assets and support arrests and prosecution.

In South Africa, authorities raided seven locations in the city of Johannesburg linked to a syndicate that ran romance and investment scams targeting retirees in English-speaking countries.

In that operation in South Africa, police arrested 39 people, seized $2.67 million and froze more than 250 bank accounts, Interpol said.

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Antonelli, the points leader coming off an epic comeback win in Monza, set the fastest time at the hybrid circuit that proved difficult but didn't yield many major incidents on the first day of track action.

Arvid Lindblad's crash prompted the first red flag of the weekend. He lost control of his Racing Bull on a turn and hit the barriers.

“It is a very cool circuit to drive around,” Antonelli said. “It is a real challenge for us as drivers, with lots of high-speed corners and walls close by. You need to be very precise with your lines and good on the brakes.

"It is very easy to lock up as there are a lot of places where you are braking and turning at the same time. It is a fun challenge and one that I am enjoying. We’ve had a good first day here."

Some drivers went off the track and a few brushed the walls at the unforgiving layout which mixes city roads and purpose-built sections. Many struggled to avoid track limits, and traffic was an issue as the layout produced few overtaking opportunities.

Qualifying on Saturday was likely to be key in determining Sunday's winner of F1's first race in Madrid in 45 years.

“Overtaking is likely going to be a real challenge,” Antonelli said. “That makes our single-lap work tomorrow morning even more important. We will focus on that overnight, but also looking to ensure we have a good race car for Sunday.”

Drivers said tire degradation would likely be an issue. Teams said the tires were tricky to get into the correct operating window as grip was surprisingly good.

“There’s a big question mark over the tire degradation," Antonelli's Mercedes teammate George Russell said. "With the tire degradation we all had, we think a six-stop race would probably have been the fastest way. I don’t think anybody’s going to do a six-stop race on Sunday and I’m sure tire deg will be better, but with that big long corner, it really hurts the tires. That’s going to be a real challenge for everyone.”

Russell was fastest in the first practice, followed by Antonelli, who is looking to keep his momentum and add to his points lead after rallying from 19th on the grid to win his home Italian GP in Monza last weekend.

Ferraris show good pace as well

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were second and third in the second session, respectively, both about a tenth of a second behind Antonelli. Lindblad was fourth despite his crash, ahead of Russell and Red Bull's Max Verstappen.

“I’m really sorry, I lost it super early,” rookie Lindblad told his team over the radio.

McLaren's Lando Norris had his run cut short early in the second session because of a gearbox problem.

Last weekend's victory gave the 20-year-old Antonelli a 66-point lead over Russell with 10 races remaining.

The Spanish GP ends the European part of the season.

Exciting new track

The 5.4-kilometer (3.3-mile) Madring track, the newest addition to the F1 calendar since Las Vegas’ debut three years ago, combines high-speed zones, heavy-braking areas, changes of gradient, blind turns and high-load corners that should give drivers little margin for error.

Cars from F2 and F3 were the first to take to the track on Friday, with a fiery crash involving F2 driver Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak after he hit the barriers and his car caught fire.

Spanish drivers struggle

Organizers said tickets for the Spanish GP were sold out, with 350,000 people in total expected to attend over the three days of racing.

But it was unlikely they will be celebrating a victory for one of the two Spanish drivers as Fernando Alonso 's Aston Martin and Carlos Sainz's Williams remained off the pace.

Alonso missed parts of the second practice because of a clutch problem. He ended 15th in the first session and 17th in the second. Sainz was 17th fastest in the first session and 16th in the second.

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The national average of nearly $6.06 is up from $5.85 last week and almost $3.71 this time last year, according to motor club AAA.

Higher diesel prices mean more expensive transportation for a long list of everyday goods. That’s because diesel is used for many freight and delivery networks. And some businesses have already passed along steeper costs to consumers in the form of added fees on online orders and packages in the mail.

Shoppers may feel more and more sticker shock, particularly in the grocery aisle. Perishable foods, like meat and produce, face one of the most immediate strains of expensive diesel because they need to be hauled in and restocked frequently — or may be harvested using farm equipment powered by the fuel.

It can take time for those costs to trickle down. But the surge in diesel prices doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.

Prices at the pump for diesel and regular gasoline — which hit nearly $4.30 on average in the U.S. Friday — closely follow that of crude oil. And oil has renewed its rise recently. This week, both Brent, the international standard, and U.S. crude surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time in months as fighting between the U.S. and Iran escalated again.

Political ramifications may pile up in the meantime. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly tried to downplay the effects of the war he co-launched, said that oil prices likely won’t come down until after November’s midterm elections.

What’s driving the latest jump for diesel

American diesel prices are now over 60% higher than they were before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in late February, when the national average sat at about $3.76 per gallon per AAA. Prices quickly climbed as the cost of crude oil — the main ingredient in refined fuel like diesel, as well as gasoline — soared amid supply chain disruptions across the Middle East, notably with most tanker traffic bottlenecked in the key Strait of Hormuz.

Despite some during hopes for peace earlier in the summer, oil has now renewed its climb as fighting once more escalates. And more supply disruptions are piling up. The International Energy Agency reported Friday that Saudi oil production fell to a three-decade low last month due to Houthi attacks on its energy facilities.

And elsewhere, losses in the Middle East have been amplified by the war in Ukraine, as the IEA also noted Friday. Disruptions in Russia’s refining system stemming from intense Ukranian attacks have nearly halted product exports.

When adjusted for inflation, fuel prices have been higher in the past. Ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, for example, diesel hit about $4.74 a gallon, equivalent to $7.20 in 2026, according to the government’s latest data. And 2022’s then-record of nearly $5.82 — reached just months after Russia invaded Ukraine — would be about $6.56 this year when accounting for inflation.

That doesn’t take the pain away from today’s steep prices, which are already bringing ripple effects for the economy and wider costs of living. Drivers are feeling the pain with gasoline, too.

Friday’s average $4.29 for a gallon of regular unleaded is up from $2.98 before the Iran war, although still below the 2022 peak of nearly $5.02 a gallon nationwide.

Diesel has been more expensive than gasoline in the U.S. for decades, and its price has risen at a faster pace before. Some reasons include less flexibility in demand and diesel’s position in global commerce overall. Individual households may find ways to drive less when gas prices are high, for example, but there’s fewer immediate substitutes for networks that rely on diesel to haul goods worldwide.

All eyes on food

Diesel is integral to every part of the food supply chain. It powers farm equipment and fishing boats, as well as the trains and trucks headed to grocery stores.

Fuel accounts for roughly 15% to 30% of the total cost of food, according to the Independent Grocers Alliance, a grouping of 7,500 global supermarkets. So higher diesel costs often result in more expensive groceries, although it can take a while for energy shocks to wind their way through the supply chain.

Items that need to stay refrigerated while they’re transported are often the first to see prices rise, according to David Ortega, a professor of food economics and policy at Michigan State University. In July, for example, overall U.S. grocery prices were up 2.7% compared to a year prior, but seafood prices were up 7% and fresh fruit prices were up 4.9%.

Ortega cautioned other factors can be at play, too. Lettuce also faced higher transportation costs in July, but a drop in demand due to the cyclospora outbreak caused prices to fall.

Still, consumers could feel more of a squeeze the longer diesel prices remain high.

“Early on, much of the cost increase gets absorbed along the supply chain through existing freight contracts and retailer margins,” Ortega explained last week. “But as contracts reprice and fuel surcharges take hold, more of that cost makes its way to the grocery store.”

Fuel shocks range far and wide

Back in April, e-commerce giant Amazon rolled out a temporary 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge on some third-party sellers. United Parcel Service, FedEx and the United States Postal Service also moved to add fees on some of the packages they ship earlier in the war, citing rising costs for fuel overall.

Experts warn that price hikes could mount the longer diesel remains expensive. A range of other products are also transported by diesel-powered networks, including clothing, cosmetics and furniture.

The ramifications extend beyond consumer goods. Some public transit buses and trains also run on diesel. And diesel generators are often used for backup or emergency power, if not central electricity sources in some remote parts of the world.

Experts warn the consequences could continue to deepen, particularly in African and Asian countries, which rely more on Middle East imports and have already been hit the hardest by energy shocks.

According to the latest data from Global Petrol Prices, diesel prices in Nigeria have surged over 90% since late February — followed by nearly 87% in Indonesia and 80% in Lebanon.

Price tags vary widely between countries, due to factors ranging from fuel taxes to local economic conditions. As of Monday, diesel prices in Nigeria were about $4.95 per gallon (1,730 naira per liter) on average. Meanwhile, the highest sticker price reported by Global Petrol Prices was in Hong Kong, where diesel costs have jumped almost 26% during the war and averaged at $17.78 a gallon (nearly 37 Hong Kong dollars per liter) Monday.

A long road of constrained supply — and perhaps higher and higher prices — could be ahead.

S&P Global Energy said Thursday it now doesn’t project crude oil production in the Middle East to return to prewar levels by the end of 2027.

“The market is not returning to calm, it is adjusting to the new normal,” said Jim Burkhard, VP and global head of crude oil research at S&P Global Energy, noting security and logistical challenges continue to limit oil flows.

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Her party of recent years, +Europa, announced her death.

“Her life was a long struggle against everything that denies freedom: against clandestine abortion, world hunger, the stranglehold of party politics, female genital mutilation, punitive justice, genocide, and every form of authoritarianism,” the party said.

Italy’s conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni paid tribute to Bonino, saying their different backgrounds and perspectives "never prevented me from acknowledging her significance and her role in our nation’s public life."

“For decades, Emma Bonino has been a strong and recognizable voice in Italian politics, championing her ideas with determination," Meloni wrote on social media.

Even after the Radicals’ political star faded, Bonino remained a key political figure and human rights campaigner active in Italy for over five decades. She served as a European commissioner for then-Premier Silvio Berlusconi and was a co-founder of the death penalty watchdog Hands Off Cain. But her bid in 1999 to become Italy’s first female president failed.

She remained known to younger generations as a sought-after political pundit, appearing frequently on Italian TV with her sharp wit and cutting insights. After her cancer diagnosis in 2015, she invariably appeared in public wearing colorful headscarves.

Bonino’s passing follows the recent death of several other feminist heroes, including activist Gloria Steinem and poet Robin Morgan.

Bonino challenged the Vatican and a conservative political establishment

Born on March 9, 1948, in Bra — not far from the northwestern Italian city of Turin, where carmaker Fiat’s factory drove the economy — she spent her childhood on a farm, where she was often tasked to pasture pigs, a lifestyle she described as “deadly boring” in a 2023 TV interview.

Bonino first got involved in Italian politics because she wanted to change the law. At 26, she became pregnant and had an abortion, even though it was illegal at that time.

Recalling the experience as one of the most humiliating of her life, in 1975 she was among the founders of the Information Center for Sterilization and Abortion, an organization that provided information and performed abortions before they were legalized.

The following year she was elected to the Italian parliament for the maverick Radical Party, a bastion of anticlericalism, civil libertarianism, feminism, liberalism and radicalism in Italy.

The party proposed itself as the strongest opposition to the Italian political establishment, seen as corrupt and conservative, and to the Catholic Church’s extensive influence on Italian society.

In 1978 abortion was legalized. That particular campaign may have been over, but Bonino had found her vocation: Politics was her life, and she became one of the most active leaders of the Radical Party and its successors.

She held key political roles in Italy and at the EU

A veteran legislator in Italian politics and an activist for various reform policies, she was elected six times as a Lower House lawmaker and two times as a senator. In 2017, she became the leader of +Europa, a liberal, European federalist party slate she launched ahead of the 2018 Italian general election.

An explosive presence in politics during her 50-year-long career, Bonino was one of the few Italian political figures who scored important achievements both at home and internationally.

Bonino won European exposure in a role she owed to then center-right Premier Berlusconi who, in 1995, offered her one of Italy’s two seats in the European Commission.

As a Commissioner she forged the EU’s consumer protection policy and created the European Commission Humanitarian Office, which is now the primary European humanitarian arm. It was this last portfolio, the humanitarian affairs, that she felt most strongly about.

She traveled to war zones — former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, Afghanistan — and convinced Europe that humanitarian assistance couldn’t be an excuse for lack of political or military intervention.

In June 1999 she headed a slate named after her — Lista Bonino — at the European elections. It was an overwhelming success: The party got 8.5% of the votes and became Italy’s fourth political force.

Bonino served as foreign minister, trade minister and EU affairs minister in Italian center-left governments of the 2000s and 2010s.

She was one of the strongest advocates for a common European foreign and defense policy. “My passion is humanity,” she said in May 2025, when her hometown Bra granted her honorary citizenship. “I’ve got roots, I’ve got a homeland, a family, but precisely all that allows me to be a citizen of the world.”

She got involved with Arab women’s battle for equality in 2001 and started spending half her time in Cairo. She became fluent in Arabic — she had graduated in foreign languages at Milan’s Bocconi University — and built a network of intellectuals, politicians and prominent civil society figures.

She shared a humanitarian mission with Pope Francis

Never married, she maintained strong bonds with her family in Piedmont. “My father died before I could show him I could accomplish something,” she recalled in a 2020 interview with Vanity Fair. “He never understood my restlessness. He used to tell me: Emma, you are like Japanese poetry: beautiful, but I can’t understand it.”

In January 2015, she announced on Radio Radicale that she was suffering from lung cancer and was being treated with chemotherapy but didn’t plan to stop her political activity. In May of the same year, she said her cancer was in complete remission and eight years later appeared on a popular TV interview program announcing she was healed.

Over the years, Bonino cultivated a deep friendship with the late Pope Francis, despite their conflicting views on key ethical issues, including abortion and euthanasia.

In November 2024, Francis paid a home visit to Bonino — who had been just released from the hospital after treatment for respiratory problems — bringing her a bouquet of roses and chocolates.

A photo posted by Bonino on social media showed them both sitting in wheelchairs on her sun-drenched terrace in Rome.

Bonino said that during their conversations Francis always encouraged her to bring forward her humanitarian battles, defending those most in need.

When asked what battles she still needed to fight, Bonino used to say: “Many, too many. Human rights, world hunger, free scientific research ... Ten lives won’t be enough.”

Bonino is survived by her siblings, Domenica and Giovanni, and their children.

The Houthis’ biggest territorial gains in years, along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, could boost Iran’s strategy of driving up world oil and gas prices to pressure the United States.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia said Friday that it had shut down a major cross-country oil pipeline after it was attacked the day before. A statement from the Saudi Ministry of Energy did not specify who carried out the attacks and called the shutdown “a precautionary measure.”

Built in the 1980s, the East-West pipeline has played an important role in Saudi Arabia’s ability to export oil following the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war. By early June, Saudi Arabia had more than doubled oil exports from the Red Sea port at the pipeline's end to more than 5 million barrels per day, according to the International Energy Agency.

The Houthi's capture of Mayun, a tiny, barren volcanic island inside the strait also known as Perim, was confirmed by a senior military official with Yemen’s internationally recognized government and by a Houthi official. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has increasingly relied on the Red Sea to get its crude to market as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has been striking ships. Houthi efforts to close the 28-kilometer-wide (17-mile) Bab el-Mandeb channel have made that route more complicated. Saudi officials declined a request by The Associated Press for comment on the developments.

In a statement Friday, the Houthi armed forces boasted of gains along the coast without mentioning the island, Mokha or the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. They vowed “escalation for escalation” in the confrontation with Saudi Arabia, while declaring that “maritime navigation is safe for all companies except for Saudi vessels.”

Still, markets are nervous, and experts have described the Houthis as highly unpredictable. Crude prices this week soared again above $100 a barrel, giving Tehran more leverage in any talks.

Yemen's government was shocked by slow Saudi response

The Houthis have been attacking Saudi shipping on the Red Sea since declaring a blockade in July, as well as hitting oil infrastructure inside Saudi Arabia. The rebels said they acted in response to the kingdom’s yearslong blockade of Houthi-held parts of Yemen.

Saudi Arabia struck the airport in the port city of Mokha after the Houthis seized it Thursday, a Houthi broadcaster said. There were no reports of damage or deaths.

A senior military official with Yemen’s internationally recognized government told the AP they were stunned that the Saudi air force did not try to prevent the capture of Mokha, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the strait. He assessed that Saudi Arabia didn’t get a green light from the U.S. to embark on a large-scale air campaign.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t allowed to speak to the media, also blamed “lack of coordination” between Yemen’s army and multiple allied militias, saying it gave the Houthis “a priceless opportunity.”

Shipping through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait had fallen by about 60% since the Houthis began attacking some ships there in late 2023 and expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Shipping increased this year as Saudi Arabia sought alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz, but renewed Houthi threats have “curtailed” that activity, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence.

That has forced Saudi Arabia to find yet another alternative, sending its oil north out of the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, either via the Suez Canal or a pipeline through Egypt, a far longer route for its clients in Asia. The Houthis have threatened that route as well, striking a Saudi vessel in the north of the Red Sea in late August.

Iran calls for a return to Saudi-Houthi talks

Earlier Friday, Iran’s government called for an end to Saudi Arabia’s blockade of Houthi-held areas in a show of support for its ally. The Iranian Foreign Ministry also called for a return to negotiations between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis.

In a sign of the Houthis' importance to Tehran, the spokesperson for Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard on Wednesday called for any negotiated settlement with the U.S. to include Yemen, the first explicit reference to that front.

Saudi Arabia, which said it had always offered “opportunities for negotiation,” also said it has the right to defend itself. The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia spoke Thursday about diplomatic efforts to “restore stability,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on social media.

The fighting risks a return to Yemen's civil war

As the Houthis swept along the Red Sea coast toward the Bab el-Mandeb channel, Yemen’s Saudi-backed government called for international support.

In a statement Friday from a meeting the previous day, its National Defense Council said it was on the front line of defending freedom of navigation and condemned the Houthis’ renewed attacks on Saudi Arabia.

The escalating fighting threatens to end a fragile truce that had largely halted Yemen’s civil war since 2022. At stake are 40 million people in the Arab world’s poorest country. The conflict killed 150,000 and brought many others to the brink of famine.

The surge in fighting in the past week has sent over 46,000 people fleeing, the U.N. migration agency said Friday.

People seeking safety left with “whatever they can grab,” Abdusattor Esoev, mission chief in Yemen for the International Organization for Migration, said Friday. He said the number of people displaced more than doubled this week and could still rise sharply.

“You see the fears in their eyes, and people are scared,” Esoev said.

Those fleeing included doctors and other medical workers. Lou Cormack, Yemen coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, said Friday that the aid group has prioritized keeping Mokha's hospital open after most of its staff left.

The Houthis have been at war with Yemen’s government since 2014, when the rebels seized much of northern and central Yemen and the capital of Sanaa. Saudi Arabia entered the war the following year on behalf of the government.

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Anna reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Geneva and Toqa Ezzidin in Cairo contributed.

Not for the first time at the biggest team event in women's golf, she delivered.

Ciganda pulled off an unlikely par, after world No. 1 Nelly Korda and Lauren Coughlin left birdie putts short, to gain a half-point with rookie Julia Lopez Ramirez, leaving Europe and the United States tied at 4-4 after a Day 1 that had a little bit of everything at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands on Friday.

Including a slice of history.

For the first time in the 36-year history of the Solheim Cup, the teams split each of the first two sessions. For two rivals that have long looked so evenly matched, maybe it was no surprise.

It was a tough end to the day for Korda, who had a 4-and-3 win with Allisen Corpuz over European stars Lottie Woad and Charley Hull in the morning foursomes that earned the U.S. pairing a fifth straight victory together — an unprecedented feat at the Solheim Cup. Then, Korda didn't win a hole with Coughlin in the four-balls.

There were some other memorable performances on a day of changing weather, not least from European rookies Mimi Rhodes and Nastasia Nadaud, whose first taste of the event was a 2-and-1 win in the four-balls over Corpuz and Auston Kim.

Then there was Megan Khang, the bubbly American who sat out the morning session — and turned into an impromptu cheerleader, dancing enthusiastically on the noisy first tee while wearing a cowboy hat — before winning 5 and 3 alongside Alison Lee in the afternoon. That extended Khang's unbeaten run in the Solheim Cup to nine matches, which is tied for the second-longest undefeated streak in the event.

They won five of the last six holes, and six of the last nine from 2 down against Celine Boutier and Nanna Koerstz Madsen, who were sent out together twice on Friday and lost both times.

The day ultimately belonged to the 36-year-old Ciganda, who was never in the right spot down No. 18 — in fact, she was never in the fairway — but ended up getting up-and-down for par against the odds and dropped her putter in astonishment. It's another chapter of the Spaniard's Solheim Cup story that peaked in 2023 when her late back-to-back birdies secured a singles win over Korda and retained the crystal trophy for the Europeans in a 14-14 tie.

“I love this week,” she said in a post-round interview on the 18th green. “I just love playing for the team, for my teammates.”

Still, it was a solid start for the Americans in their bid to reach either 14 points to regain the Solheim Cup, or more to win on the road for the first time since 2015.

“I expected them to throw the kitchen sink at us right from the bat,” U.S. captain Angela Stanford said of the Europeans, “and I think we held up well."

Europe's power pairing fails to spark

Woad and Hull, two Englishwomen in the top 10 of the world ranking, were put together by captain Anna Nordqvist for the first match in both the morning and afternoon sessions.

Europe's power pairing failed to spark.

Dominated by Korda and Corpuz in the foursomes, they then wasted a 3-up lead after 11 holes to only tie their match against Yealimi Noh and Angel Yin in the foursomes.

“I feel tired," Hull said, "and I can’t wait to get to bed."

Noh played the key role for the Americans, either winning or halving nine of the last 10 holes — including a shot out of a bunker on No. 17 to six feet to square the match. She propped up Yin, who only recently returned after more than two months out with severe stomach issues.

Yin, who was left out of the morning session, was in tears and seen being consoled after the four-balls.

“She’s been through a lot lately," said Stanford, who described Yin's reaction as an “unloading of emotion."

Party atmosphere on first tee

The first tee is always the place to be in these big team events and it lived up to its billing early Friday as players teed off in a party atmosphere inside the horseshoe-shaped grandstand containing around 3,000 spectators.

Stanford danced onto the tee around 7:30 a.m. local time after emerging from the tunnel. Maja Stark and Linn Grant, a Swedish pairing who beat Rose Zhang and Jennifer Kupcho 3 and 2 in foursomes, swayed in unison to the strains of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.” Lindy Duncan, a 35-year-old rookie who never expected to play a Solheim Cup, took video on the occasion with her cell phone. Leona Maguire teed off after chants of “We’ve got Maguire, USA is terrified!” and cheers for each of her practice swings.

“They’re living the dream,” Europe captain Anna Nordqvist said of the players, “and as a golfer it doesn’t get better than this.”

It was all very jovial, though, with respectful silence for each drive in front of a banner that read: “Dutch Courage. European Glory.”

With Ciganda on board, the Europeans will keep believing.

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