Officials said BSO deputy Isaiah Williams was taken into custody on Monday.

According to the Miramar Police Department, officers responded to a home along the 11000 block of Southwest 45th Court at approximately 2:05 a.m. Monday after receiving reports of a domestic battery.

Officers said that Williams had already left the scene when they arrived.

After detectives arrived and investigated the incident, police said an arrest warrant was completed for Williams.

Later Monday, Williams surrendered himself to police, according to Miramar PD.

He is facing charges of simple battery, domestic battery by strangulation, robbery by sudden snatching with a firearm and tampering/altering evidence.

In a statement, BSO told Local 10 News that Williams was placed on administrative investigative leave without pay as a result of his arrest.

Authorities did not provide any additional information regarding the circumstances that led to Williams’ charges.

As of Monday evening, Williams was being held at the Broward Main Jail.

The competition at Minnesota for the place kicking job has sure become complicated.

Brady Denaburg handled that job last year for the Gophers after spending his first three college seasons at Syracuse, and he was out of the picture until a federal judge in Denver ruled on July 31 that athletes from the 2022 high school class were eligible for a fifth year.

The NCAA had previously excluded that class from the new “five-for-five” rule that was designed to add clarity and fairness to college sports in the wild era of the transfer portal, revenue sharing and name, image and likeness earnings.

The Denver ruling was then temporarily halted on Friday by an appeals court injunction, putting thousands of athletes nationwide, like Denaburg, back in the lurch.

“Playing’s in limbo,” Gophers coach P.J. Fleck said after practice on Monday, just 10 days before his team's opener against Eastern Illinois. “I do hope that we come to some resolution at some point about what we’re going to do with all these players, because at the end of the day, if all we say is it’s about the student-athlete, then we have to make the decisions for them. Right, wrong or indifferent, legal cases, all those things, let’s get some direction of exactly what they’re going to be able to do. Because it’s lawsuit after lawsuit, just a ping-pong match that goes back and forth.”

The confusion also has spilled into Indiana's national championship title defense.

Following the initial ruling, sixth-ranked Indiana welcomed back two starting defensive linemen — Stephen Daley, who was the Big Ten's co-leader in tackles for loss (19) last season despite getting injured during the conference championship game celebration, and Kellan Wyatt, who missed the final nine games last season with a knee injury in mid-October.

Daley and Wyatt were practicing, for now, and Indiana coach Curt Cignetti threw his full support behind them on Monday.

“I think in their case, you’re creating opportunities,” Cignetti said. "You look at Wyatt, he started less than half the games last year and got hurt. Then, Daley started six out of 16 games, got hurt. Both had pro potential, but because of injury didn’t end up in NFL camp. We’d have to make no roster cuts if they’re eligible to play. We’re going to support them in their quest to be eligible to play.”

For the Gophers, it's even more nuanced than that.

The federal ruling from Denver was clarified three days later to exclude athletes who'd already signed professional contracts, which prompted a countersuit filed in Louisiana state court that gained a temporary restraining order on Wednesday. Former New Mexico kicker Luke Drzewiecki, who was in rookie minicamp with the Baltimore Ravens this spring, was in that group.

Drzewiecki entered the transfer portal and picked Minnesota, following special teams coordinator Daniel Da Prato, who'd jumped from the Lobos to Gophers this offseason.

With sophomore Daniel Jackson and Michigan transfer Beckham Sunderland, who has begun his third college season, the Gophers now have four kickers in the mix in practice. Anywhere between two and four of them will be eligible to play in the opener, which has obviously complicated the decision for Fleck and Da Prato.

“It kind of reminds you of the 2020 season with COVID. You didn’t know who was going to play. You didn’t know who passed the test right before the game or who wouldn’t pass the test,” Fleck said. “You’d have no idea, so you had to prepare for all of it. In that small scale, it’s kind of a little bit what we’re preparing for.”

With four kickers rotating, the Gophers have spent more time on field goal drills in fall camp than they have in the past. Sunderland also had Da Prato as a special teams coordinator at Texas State in 2024. He has never attempted a kick in a college game, only kickoffs. Jackson took two extra points and three kickoffs last season.

Denaburg was 33 for 33 on extra points last year and 14 for 21 on field goals, missing three of five attempts from 40-plus yards. Drzewiecki sparkled for New Mexico during his senior season, making 36 of 36 extra points and 18 of 19 field goals.

“We don’t know what will happen and who will be eligible and who won’t be eligible. You’d love some answers as soon as possible,” Fleck said. “We’re preparing for some of those guys to be eligible and we’re also preparing for everybody to be eligible, and that’s why this kicking competition continues to go through all the way."

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AP Sports Writer Mike Marot in Indianapolis contributed to this report.

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Seven months into the effective blockade, long power outages were widespread before — now many people get just one hour a day. But in Havana’s wealthier Playa municipality, people are installing their own electricity systems.

Resident Esther Torres had solar panels installed in the spring.

“It’s gone well with the panels because we spend too many hours without electricity and it’s an alternative you have to pay for to have power, to conserve food, and to be able to sleep better,” Torres said.

Her daughter, who lives in Chile, paid around $4,000 for the panels, the battery and everything needed to connect them.

“My mom is 80 years old and it was necessary for her quality of life,” Torres said. “It’s not a luxury, it’s a necessity.”

The Cuban government is pursuing the same strategy on a much bigger scale: expanding solar power — not so much to save the environment, as to keep the lights on.

In just one year, Cuban imports of Chinese solar panels increased 34-fold — the fastest growth anywhere in the world.

More than 50 solar parks have already been built. With China’s help, more are under construction.

Panels have also been installed on hospitals.

But on an island where the average state salary is just $11 a month, solar power remains out of reach for the vast majority.

“I have a neighbor who has it, but he has people outside the country who help financially,” one resident said. “I make the basic salary, so how could I afford it?”

Looking around a working-class neighborhood in Centro Habana, there are very few solar panels on the roofs of residential buildings.

The Cuban Revolution of 1959 promised people equality — but these days, one of the fault lines between rich and poor is who has electricity. The Trump administration is making a bad situation worse: sanctions this May hit shipping companies, leaving thousands of containers destined for Cuba stranded in Caribbean ports.

Fewer solar panels are getting into the country, and the price of solar has doubled. And that affects regular people desperate to get a little bit more electricity.

President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that financial, military and political support given to either the government forces or the rival paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces, remains a driver of the conflict, now in its fourth year.

Boulos did not name any countries providing that support. Egypt has been a vocal supporter of Sudan’s military, while the United Arab Emirates is accused by U.N. experts and human rights groups of providing arms to the RSF, which it has repeatedly denied.

He said the Security Council has the tools to curtail the provision of “a tremendous and increasing amount of military support to both warring parties” from “numerous external actors.”

U.N.-backed human rights investigators two years ago called for the expansion of an arms embargo on Sudan’s long-restive western Darfur region — scene of mass atrocities between 2003 and 2005 — to cover the entire country.

Boulos said a proposed U.S. resolution before the U.N. Security Council would expand the arms embargo throughout Sudan. It also would apply “to all parties operating in the territory” and reaffirm that drones and related technologies are part of the arms embargo.

Experts say Sudan's army and the RSF are competing to obtain new drone models. Rights groups have said the use of unmanned aircraft has become increasingly common in the northeast African nation’s war.

The U.S. draft resolution, obtained by The Associated Press, deplores “the continuous influx of external military assistance, weapons, and ammunition to the warring parties, which is prolonging the conflict and undermining mediation efforts,” including launching drones and unmanned aerial systems from third countries.

The proposed resolution demands that all countries “cease any direct or indirect support to the warring parties, be it logistical, financial or military, which enables conflict to continue.”

The conflict exploded from a power struggle that emerged following Sudan’s transition to democracy after an uprising forced the military ouster of longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.

Tensions boiled over three years later between Sudan’s military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, who chairs the ruling sovereign council, and RSF commander Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who was Burhan’s deputy.

Burhan said Monday that new sanctions would not deter his troops from carrying on with their war until all RSF-controlled areas are captured, according to the army-controlled SUNA news agency.

“Our souls and destiny are in God’s hands,” he said while attending the graduation ceremony of new police officers in the capital, Khartoum. “Our message to those staying in hotels abroad and cheering at sanctions that are meant to subjugate the Sudanese people is the following: The people will not be broken, but we will break and defeat you.”

U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council that despite numerous diplomatic efforts to get government and paramilitary leaders to start negotiations and end hostilities, “the parties remain locked in a zero-sum military logic.”

"Greater international attention and action are urgently needed for them to change that calculus,” she said.

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Luis Manuel Aviles, 48, was arrested after leaving his house to take his car to the mechanic, according to his wife, Argelia Aviles.

She said her husband, who works as a handyman in Key West, has a permit to work in the United States. Originally from Nicaragua, he has lived in the U.S. for 19 years.

Federal authorities told Local 10 News that a work permit doesn’t grant legal immigration status, and that Aviles came to the country illegally in 2006 from Nicaragua.

Aviles’ son, Joshua, posted to Facebook that he got the news while aboard the USS Lincoln while on a nine-month deployment in the Middle East.

He wrote: “This is heartbreaking for me…He is a hardworking, humble man.”

Aviles’ younger son, also named Luis, told Local 10 News on Monday the family has been “stressed.”

“He’s a good father. He doesn’t deserve it,” Aviles Jr. said.

“Having a family member in the military is not a free pass to violate our nation’s laws,” a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson wrote to Local 10, adding that the Trump administration “does not pick and choose which laws to enforce.”

There is a military program known as “parole in place” to obtain legal status. But not everyone is eligible, and it’s not granted automatically, according to DHS.

President Donald Trump’s pledge last week to unleash an “economic D-Day” against Tehran turned out to be new warnings to cut off Iran from the rest of the global economy. Asked why the U.S. was not imposing secondary sanctions on Iran’s trading partners, Bessent told reporters he wanted countries to have an opportunity to shift away from Iran before it was too late.

“Why would I want to blow up the global financial system?” Bessent said.

The Trump administration is struggling to find an off-ramp nearly six months into an unpopular war with an increasingly obstinate Iran. Diminishing stockpiles of key weapons appear to have forced U.S. officials to pivot to economic warfare, though Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said later Monday that he was not ruling out resuming strikes to hit Iran during a lull in hostilities.

Washington had promised new sanctions would put even more pressure on an Iranian economy already battered by previous penalties and a U.S. naval blockade.

But the announcement Monday provided little detail and did not name which countries could face secondary sanctions. China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are Iran’s largest trade partners.

“We are level-setting with every country to tell them our expectations. We know who they are. They know who they are,” Bessent said. “So when the hammer of U.S. Treasury actions falls upon them, they will have no one to blame but themselves.”

Dubbing the campaign “Operation Economic Outcast,” Bessent said Trump has been “making phone calls to world leaders with specific requests to cease their interactions” with Iran and has already seen results.

The UAE announced last week that it was suspending all trade, commercial exchanges and financial transactions with Iran until further notice after a reported missile attack on the Gulf country. Bessent said the UAE decision was “not a coincidence.”

Shortly before the announcement, Iranian parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said the U.S. is not in an economic position to further restrict Tehran’s relations with other countries.

“Iran’s trading partners, both in the media and through messages sent to us, have made it clear that they don’t take these statements into account anywhere,” Qalibaf, who has been Iran’s lead negotiator over the past six months, posted on X.

Bessent is pressed on what the new campaign means for China

Asked whether the U.S. would target China, Bessent said that “no one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions,” despite the fragile trade truce in place between the world’s two largest economies.

“If they facilitate transactions and are part of the ecosystem that turns Iranian oil into money, into repression, they will be targeted,” he added.

Experts say the U.S. is likely to carefully calibrate its actions on China, just a month before Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to visit the U.S.

How much the announcement matters “depends on the aggressiveness with which President Trump is willing to enforce it,” said Ali Wyne, senior research and advocacy adviser for U.S.-China relations at the International Crisis Group. “Thus far, despite threatening severe economic consequences for countries that do business with Iran, he has largely given China a pass.”

The Treasury Department said Monday that it was imposing sanctions on nearly 60 Iran-linked entities, accusing them of roles in Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, cyber activities and oil shipments.

That includes Hong Kong-based Sweet Ocean Industrial Limited and associated people and businesses, which were accused of helping Iran acquire sensitive goods such as laser optics equipment. Also penalized was China-based Shenzhen Huamei, which is a service provider for the Iran-based logistics company BRE Line, as well as BRE Line’s branch in Hong Kong, for allegedly supporting the missile and nuclear programs.

Iranian currency falls to a record low

Hours before Bessent’s announcement, Iran’s currency hit a record low.

The rial dropped to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets. Iran’s official Central Bank rate stood at around 1.5 million rials to the dollar, but the market rate is what most Iranians pay.

The currency had already been under pressure before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, as Iran faced double-digit inflation and negative growth. The rial has repeatedly hit new lows as nearly six months of war have taken an even greater toll.

Iranians find daily staples increasingly unaffordable. Since the war began, rice is up some 60% and beef prices are more than 150% higher. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that gross domestic product will contract more than 5%.

Still, economic pressure has not yet translated into political pressure. Iran retains a key strategic advantage: Its attacks and threats on ships in the Strait of Hormuz have brought traffic in the vital waterway to a near halt, damaging the world economy and heaping pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of congressional elections.

The war, as a result, has devolved into a fight over who controls the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil transited before the conflict. Iran is now refusing to fully reopen it unless it can charge ships.

Iran and Oman, which is on the opposite side of the strait, are reportedly in the final stages of agreeing on a plan for joint management of the waterway. Oman’s foreign minister is set to visit Iran on Tuesday.

Pakistani delegation visits Iran

Pakistan, which played a key role in brokering a 60-day ceasefire in June, sent a high-level delegation to Iran on Monday to encourage the U.S. and Iran to return to negotiations, two senior officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The military confirmed only Field Marshal Asim Munir’s visit, saying it was aimed at de-escalating tensions in the region.

Trump spoke with Munir ahead of the army chief’s visit to Iran, according to a person familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity to confirm a private conversation. Reuters, citing Pakistani sources, first reported the call.

Munir met Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni in Tehran, according to the two senior officials. Munir was accompanied by Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and other officials. Munir was expected to remain in Iran overnight and meet the Iranian president and other senior officials before returning to Pakistan.

His previous visit to Tehran in May helped pave the way for a memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S. and Iran in June.

In downtown Tehran, 73-year-old Sadegh Mahmoudi did not hold out hope for a resolution. He joined a line of about a dozen people to purchase U.S. dollars with his remaining savings to hedge against further declines.

“There is no hope for a deal and peace,” he said.

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Amiri reported from New York. Associated Press writers Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran; David Rising in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Seung Min Kim and Konstantin Toropin in Washington; and Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed.

Boutte confirmed the deal on social media before either team announced it. According to multiple reports, Houston sent safety Jaylen Reed and a 2028 seventh-round draft pick to the Patriots.

The move comes after No. 2 receiver Jayden Higgins tore an ACL in a joint practice with the Las Vegas Raiders Tuesday.

Boutte, a sixth-round pick in the 2023 NFL draft, had 33 receptions for 551 yards and six touchdowns last season.

The Patriots had a logjam at the position after trading for receiver A.J. Brown in June and signing Romeo Doubs to a four-year, $68 million contract in March.

The Texans also signed veteran receivers Zay Jones and Sterling Shepard this weekend as they look to fill the void left by Higgins' injury.

Higgins, who was expected to start alongside star Nico Collins, had 41 receptions for 525 yards and six touchdowns as a rookie last year.

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Shark Valley reopened on Monday afternoon, according to Elizabeth Strom, a park ranger and spokesperson for the National Park Service.

“The fires are still going, and so you may see some smoke still,” Strom said.

The air quality was moderate in western areas near Kendall and Homestead, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Moderate air quality may pose a slight risk to those who are sensitive to air pollution, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The “Chipmunk” wildfire was the largest. It had burned more than 15,505 acres in Miami-Dade County, and it was 50% contained, according to the National Interagency Wildfire Enterprise’s geospatial portal.

The “Movie Dome” wildfire had burned more than 6,200 acres, and it was 60% contained.

The “22 (13)″ wildfire, which had burned 880 acres and was 40% contained, according to The Florida Forest Service’s wildfires response map. The FFS Everglades field unit was working the fire.

The “Vulture” wildfire had burned over 345 acres and was 80% contained.

The “Tower Point” fire burned three acres.

The “Radio Tower” wildfire burned 700 acres and was contained.

FFS crews contained a wildfire that had been burning on Sunday in Collier County and were still fighting the “H2 (50)” fire on Monday in southwestern Palm Beach County, which was 85% contained.

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The PWHL provided few details. In a statement, the league thanked “everyone who helped track it down and to our fans for their concern and support.”

The trophy went missing last week when it failed to arrive in Lethbridge, Alberta, where it was to spend Thursday with Victoire forward Dara Greig. A container did arrive, but not the one the PWHL shipped with the trophy inside.

“Turns out, even the Walter Cup can have a little offseason adventure,” the PWHL said. “We’re looking forward to the Victoire continuing their celebrations alongside their Cup.”

It’s unclear where the trophy was found or how it went missing, with the PWHL saying the cup was “lost in shipment.” The league last week said it was working with its shipping company to locate the trophy.

The missing trophy was not the one presented to teams on the ice upon winning the championship. That one is permanently housed at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

What went missing was the team’s so-called “keeper” cup, a replica of the original sterling silver Tiffany & Co.-designed Walter Cup that weighs about 35 pounds (16 kilograms) and stands about 24 inches (61 centimeters) tall.

Montreal won the cup by defeating Ottawa in Game 4 of a best-of-five series in May to become the PWHL’s first Canadian champion. Minnesota won the PWHL’s first two titles.

The trophy is named after PWHL founder and primary financier Mark Walter and his wife, Kimbra. Walter owns the Los Angeles Dodgers and recently agreed to sell his controlling stake in the Los Angeles Lakers.

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According to the Davie Police Department, the incident happened Monday afternoon at a site in the 2200 block of Shotgun Road, east of the I-75 interchange with Royal Palm Boulevard.

Officer Julia Ross, a DPD spokesperson, said the agency responded to reports of a “possible drowning,” saw the excavator “submerged” in the pond, and said rescuers were able to pull the man from the water.

Officials from Davie Fire Rescue told Local 10 News that the operator was in cardiac arrest when rescuers found him; he was taken to Broward Health Medical Center.

Video from Sky 10 showed first responders, including divers, at the scene.

Ross said DPD is investigating the incident.

Jury selection was scheduled to begin Wednesday for the federal trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in Washington, D.C. His trial will be the first in the U.S. for the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich’s order didn’t specify the nature of the newly discovered evidence.

Al-Marimi’s lawyers say prosecutors disclosed the new evidence to them on Saturday and added that their “constitutional and ethical obligations require the defense to investigate this development.” Defense attorney Laura Koenig, an assistant federal public defender, declined to elaborate in response to an Associated Press inquiry.

The judge scheduled a Sept. 1 hearing in Washington to discuss the status of the case. Friedrich's brief order cited the complex nature of the case, the newly discovered evidence and “the need for the defense to determine how best to defend this case” as reasons to postpone the trial.

Al-Marimi is charged in the U.S. with making the bomb that downed the airplane, killing 270 people, most of them Americans.

Flight 103 was 31,000 feet (9.45 kilometers) over Lockerbie when a bomb in the plane’s forward cargo area exploded 38 minutes after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport. The flight was bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

The blast killed all 259 passengers and crew members and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, where the wreckage destroyed an entire city block. Citizens of 21 countries were killed, including 190 Americans and 43 from the United Kingdom. The passengers included 35 Syracuse University students returning home from a semester abroad.

Prosecutors allege Al-Marimi and others carried out the bombing at the direction of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was ousted and killed during a 2011 civil war.

Two other Libyan intelligence agents were tried by a panel of Scottish judges on a former U.S. military base in the Netherlands in 2000. The tribunal convicted one official and acquitted the other, but the bombmaker’s possible identity remained a mystery for years.

Al-Marimi, now in his mid-70s, is charged with two counts of destruction of an aircraft resulting in death. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted.

Al-Marimi worked for the Libyan intelligence service from approximately 1973 to 2011, rising to the rank of colonel, according to prosecutors.

Prosecutors believe he brought a suitcase containing a bomb to an airport in Malta and gave it to co-conspirators for a flight to Frankfurt, Germany. The suitcase traveled from Frankfurt to London, where it was loaded onto Flight 103, according to investigators.

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The incident was captured on video.

It happened just after 7:30 a.m. Saturday along Southwest 87th Avenue near 184th Lane.

In the video, the driver of a black SUV is heard honking his horn as the vehicle appeared to try and pass the cyclists.

It shows the SUV come to an abrupt stop, cutting off a cyclist who was then seen banging on the passenger door of the vehicle.

The video then shows someone from inside the vehicle appearing to open fire before the driver took off.

Deputies responded to reports of shots fired and arrived to find a bullet hole in the ground and no reported injures.

Anyone with information is urged to contract Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

El hecho quedó captado en video.

Ocurrió poco después de las 7:30 a.m. del sábado, en Southwest 87th Avenue cerca de 184th Lane.

En el video se escucha al conductor de una SUV negra tocar la bocina mientras el vehículo parece intentar rebasar a los ciclistas.

Las imágenes muestran que la SUV se detiene de golpe y le cierra el paso a un ciclista, quien luego aparece golpeando la puerta del lado del pasajero.

El video muestra después que alguien desde el interior del vehículo aparentemente abre fuego, antes de que el conductor se dé a la fuga.

Los agentes acudieron a reportes de disparos y al llegar encontraron un orificio de bala en el suelo, sin heridos reportados.

Se pide a cualquier persona con información que se comunique con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-TIPS.

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Roll and Dough Bakery, run by 21-year-old Julie Pierre, has become a hit.

She has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, and over the weekend she told them that someone stole $3,000 worth of her cinnamon rolls.

The crime happened on Saturday morning.

Pierre said she sells the rolls at a farmers market and called Uber, which offers a courier service.

But the order she sent off never arrived at their intended destination.

“A lot of people are speculating that he’s selling them on Facebook Marketplace,” she said of the assailant.

Uber sent Local 10 News a statement regarding the incident, which read:

“This report is very troubling, and not the experience we want users to have. We’re continuing to look into this so we can take appropriate action.”

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Uber added that they are continuing to look into the report and removed the driver’s access to the platform during the investigation.

A police report was filed with the Sunrise Police Department.

Additionally, a GoFundMe page was sent up to help with the lost expenses.

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Subtropical wasteland

The low-pressure area several hundred miles southeast of Bermuda – designated Invest 95L – has limited prospects beyond today. Although it could become a short-lived depression or storm, strong jet stream winds will rip it apart and whisk its leftover weather toward Atlantic Canada by tomorrow into early Wednesday.

Like Cristobal, the last named storm that formed around the middle of the month in the subtropics, this one won’t survive long enough to add much to the seasonal scorecard. The next name on the list is Dolly.

The first Cabo Verde storm of 2026?

The system that will take center stage this week is the one without an Invest moniker, at least for now.

The strong tropical wave that we first started discussing in this newsletter last Wednesday was added to NHC’s tropical outlook late Friday, as we indicated it would be in our newsletter earlier that day.

The wave is perhaps the most impressive we’ve seen yet emerge off the African coast this season.

As tropical waves often do, it’ll probably lose a little vigor today as it hits the Atlantic waters but should gradually pick up steam again in the coming days. With the exception of some drier air to its north and west, the environment ahead this week looks reasonably conducive to development, and the National Hurricane Center is giving the system a coin flip chance of becoming a depression or named storm before the week is out.

Forecast models generally agree, with the traditional physics-based European model being the more aggressive of our models in advertising development. Its AI counterpart, on the other hand, has been a little more hot and cold with the system.

Meanwhile, Google’s first-rate DeepMind machine learning-based 1,000-member ensemble system tends to follow NHC’s thinking (or NHC tends to follow its thinking), with a 40-50% chance of development over the coming week.

Interestingly, DeepMind suggests a development window over the next few days as it passes south of the Cabo Verde islands but then lower development odds until it lifts north of the Caribbean islands next week. This makes sense physically, as wind shear is highest and most pronounced from the Caribbean into the central Atlantic. If it’s able to survive into the subtropical Atlantic – north of around 20 degrees north latitude – and west of the islands, El Niño-driven wind shear becomes much less of an issue.

This is generally what other models suggest as well, with the possibility of a period of bona fide strengthening – perhaps into the season’s first hurricane – over the southwestern Atlantic in about a week or so. Of course, that assumes it stays a coherent system through the marginal environment this week.

There’s plenty of time to watch this one, so it’s not something we need to worry about for now. Any threat to the islands next week is low right now, with models largely indicating a track north of the islands.

However, given this is the first real long-track Cabo Verde contender this season, it’s one worth checking back on periodically this week.

Moke misses Hawaii

Moke passed about 250 miles safely south of the Big Island of Hawaii this weekend as a borderline tropical storm.

The Big Island avoided widespread heavy rains from Moke, with highest totals so far under 2-3 inches.

A Flood Watch remains in effect through Monday afternoon local time for lingering rains over still-saturated grounds from Lala, but any flood issues on east-facing slopes should stay localized.

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According to court documents obtained by Local 10 News, Montgomery, Alabama police said Jalil Bivens strangled Ava Walters at an off-campus location just before 11 a.m. on Sunday.

Bivens, 21, is now facing a murder charge in the killing of Walters, 20, a health information management major in her second year at ASU.

According to court documents, Bivens gave a statement to Montgomery Police Department detectives that led to his arrest, though the documents don’t provide additional details about what he allegedly said.

ASU President Quinton Ross Jr. said in a statement posted to social media that his heart was “heavy” as he and others at the historically Black university “mourn the tragic loss of one of our Hornets.”

He said he extended his “deepest condolences” to Walters’ family, friends and classmates.

“There are no words that can truly ease the pain of losing a loved one, but please now that the entire Hornet Nation stands with you during this difficult time,” he said.

Records show Bivens, who documents state lives near Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, was being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility as of Monday evening.

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For Kameron Glasgow, a patch of grass outside his aunt’s home in the 7900 block of Northwest First Street will forever hold one of his final memories of his wife, Kenya Glasgow, and their daughter, Kennedi.

“Words can’t describe that feeling,” Kameron Glasgow said.

Margate police said Kenya, 31, and Kennedi were struck by lightning at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

The family of four had just arrived at the home and were trying to get inside ahead of an approaching storm.

“We saw that the rain was picking up and we just said, ‘Hey, we got to get the girls inside,’” Glasgow recalled.

Then, lightning struck.

Glasgow said he felt the electricity shock him.

“I got the aftershock from the ground,” he said. “By the grace of God, I’m still here.”

But when he turned around, he was confronted with a devastating sight.

“To turn around and see your wife and your daughter there lifeless is even worse,” Glasgow said.

Kenya and Kennedi are survived by Glasgow and Kennedi’s twin sister, Kensli.

Glasgow said he is now grappling not only with his own grief, but with what the loss will mean for his surviving daughter.

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“For her to lose her twin sister, words can’t describe that feeling because I know she can’t even fathom it right now,” he said through tears.

Glasgow described his wife as someone who was always there for the people she loved.

“My wife -- the biggest heart in the world,” he said. “The biggest heart in the world. Puts everybody before herself.”

He called Kenya, who was his high school sweetheart who he met senior year, one of his heroes, alongside his late father.

“She helped me make me into the man that I am today,” Glasgow said.

He described Kennedi as an “Energizer Bunny” with a love of music, particularly songs by Benson Boone.

“I’ve never seen a 2-year-old sing Benson Boone on a karaoke with a mic word for word,” he said. “Two years old and as clear as day. ‘Beautiful Things’, that’s her favorite song.”

Glasgow said the loss is especially painful after he viewed the birth of his twin daughters as a blessing following the death of his father.

“I thought my biggest blessing was God sending me my two daughters once my dad passed,” he said. “Just for one of them to be gone now, it’s tough.”

He said losing the woman he had spent half his life with will also be difficult to comprehend.

Despite his grief, Glasgow said he knows he must find a way forward for Kensli.

“It’s going to be OK because I have to be, because I have another beautiful daughter that’s inside,” he said.

For now, he is leaning on his faith.

“God gives no challenges to people that can’t handle it,” Glasgow said.

Family members have set up a GoFundMe page to help with expenses.

Meanwhile, doctors are warning the public to be mindful of lightning.

Dr. Adam Rubin, the medical director of Memorial Regional Hospital’s emergency department, said if you are stuck outside, seek any kind of shelter.

“Ideally you want to get down on the ground as low as possible,” Rubin said. “Lightning tends to hit the highest points first, so if there’s a ditch or something like that that’s something you could ideally be into.”

Según el Departamento de Policía de Davie, el hecho ocurrió la tarde del lunes en un predio de la cuadra 2200 de Shotgun Road, al este del intercambio de la I-75 con Royal Palm Boulevard.

La oficial Julia Ross, vocera del DPD, dijo que la agencia respondió a reportes de un “posible ahogamiento”, encontró la excavadora “sumergida” en el estanque y que los socorristas lograron sacar al hombre del agua.

Funcionarios de Davie Fire Rescue informaron a Local 10 News que el operador estaba en paro cardíaco cuando los rescatistas lo hallaron, y que fue trasladado al Broward Health Medical Center.

Imágenes de Sky 10 mostraron a los socorristas en el lugar, entre ellos buzos.

Ross señaló que el DPD investiga lo ocurrido.

“Que empiecen los operativos coordinados con la policía de Barranquilla para dar con los inmigrantes ilegales: primero, los que están cometiendo delitos; segundo, los que no tienen regularizada su situación, y en el término de la distancia (de inmediato) tendrán que ser deportados", aseguró el conservador mandatario el domingo en esa ciudad del norte del país.

El venezolano César González, abogado migratorio residente en Colombia, aseguró el lunes a The Associated Press que la “preocupación es muchísima” entre la población venezolana. "No hemos podido ni contabilizar la cantidad de personas que nos han llamado para ver cuáles son sus opciones”, explicó.

Colombia es el mayor receptor de la diáspora venezolana en la región, al acoger a 2,8 millones de migrantes de ese país, según cifras oficiales, de los casi siete millones que han salido de Venezuela en más de una década en medio de la crisis política y social.

Según cifras públicas de Migración Colombia, en el país hay más de 527.000 venezolanos que ingresaron o permanecen en el país sin cumplir con la normativa migratoria.

Al ser consultado por la AP sobre el alcance de la orden presidencial, Migración Colombia respondió que no se ha posesionado el nuevo director de la entidad, a quien le corresponderá implementar las "decisiones del gobierno nacional en materia de operativos de control, regularización y eventuales procesos de deportación”.

De la Espriella, apoyado por el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, advirtió desde la campaña presidencial que estaría dispuesto a “devolver” a los venezolanos que no cumplieran la ley colombiana.

Ronal Rodríguez, vocero del Observatorio de Venezuela de la Universidad del Rosario en Colombia, considera que la migración venezolana a la nación colombiana ha tenido una dinámica distinta a la de otros países de la región, al compartir con Venezuela una frontera de más de 2.200 kilómetros con decenas de pasos irregulares.

“El Estado colombiano, a diferencia de otros países que pueden jugar un poco con la dinámica de la contención o incluso de la expulsión, no tiene capacidad para hacer eso”, explicó Rodríguez. “Más se demora y más gasta el Estado colombiano en trasladarlos hasta la zona de frontera y entregar a las autoridades migratorias, que esa persona en volver”, agregó.

Llamado a no “perseguir”

Ana Karina García, directora de la Fundación Juntos Se Puede —una iniciativa privada venezolana que ayuda a los migrantes— dijo a la AP que lo primero que harán será tratar de dialogar con el gobierno para pedir que se abra de nuevo la posibilidad de regularizar a los venezolanos, como lo hicieron gobiernos anteriores con documentos que les daban acceso a los beneficios sociales del Estado.

“No se puede perseguir a un migrante por no querer regularizarse si no hay una metodología de regularización, porque recordemos que el Estatuto Temporal de Protección se encuentra cerrado desde hace más de tres años”, aseguró García.

Rodríguez coincide en que el reto de Colombia es regularizar a la población migrante, especialmente a más de 193.000 menores de edad en condición irregular. “Ellos son sujetos de especial protección”, resaltó.

Riesgo de xenofobia

La diáspora venezolana teme que se incremente la xenofobia en el país luego de que la máxima autoridad, el presidente, pusiera el foco sobre ellos.

“Obviamente esto dispara la xenofobia porque la gente no mide cuando habla del tema de deportar”, aseguró a la AP Arles Pereda, presidente de la Colonia de Venezolanos en Colombia.

García indicó por su lado que está de acuerdo con que se persiga a la delincuencia, pero no que se la relacione con la migración, lo que además dispara la xenofobia. “Está demostrado en cifras que la criminalidad no se relaciona con los migrantes”, señaló.

La preocupación se agudiza, explicó Pereda, porque los venezolanos sienten que las puertas “no solamente se están cerrando en Colombia, incluso se vienen cerrando en Chile, Perú y Ecuador”, por las políticas migratorias de los nuevos gobiernos de signo conservador.

Roll and Dough Bakery, el negocio de Julie Pierre, de 21 años, se ha convertido en un éxito.

Pierre tiene cientos de miles de seguidores en redes sociales y durante el fin de semana les contó que alguien le robó 3,000 dólares en rollos de canela.

El hecho ocurrió la mañana del sábado.

Pierre explicó que vende los rollos en un mercado agrícola y que pidió un Uber, servicio que también ofrece envíos de mensajería.

Pero el pedido que despachó nunca llegó a su destino.

“Mucha gente está especulando que los está vendiendo en Facebook Marketplace”, dijo sobre el responsable.

Uber envió a Local 10 News una declaración sobre el caso:

“Este reporte es muy preocupante y no es la experiencia que queremos que tengan los usuarios. Seguimos investigando para poder tomar las medidas correspondientes”.— Vocero de Uber

La empresa agregó que continúa revisando el reporte y que le retiró al conductor el acceso a la plataforma mientras dura la investigación.

Se presentó un reporte ante el Departamento de Policía de Sunrise.

Además, se creó una página de GoFundMe para ayudar a cubrir las pérdidas.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation. The person did not elaborate on the reasons for declaring the two men ineligible.

Freedom and White have declared their intention to enter next year's draft, but the WNBA has not publicly addressed their eligibility.

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

Although the league’s collective bargaining agreement says the WNBA is restricted to women, it contains no more specific language about gender identity or sex assigned at birth. When they announced their intention to enter the draft, Freedom and White said they identified as women.

The 6-foot-10, 250-pound Freedom played 11 seasons in the NBA. White played in three NBA games.

Freedom was ejected from Sunday night’s Indiana-Chicago game after he was confronted by Sky guard Natasha Cloud late in the third quarter.

Freedom was sitting along the baseline wearing a black shirt that read “WOMAN noun. adult human female.”

The Fever called for a timeout after Cloud scored inside with 1:22 left in the third. Cloud then did a chest bump with teammate Aicha Coulibaly before turning around and walking in Freedom’s direction.

Cloud, 34, started yelling and pointing at Freedom, 34, as she approached him. A standing Freedom held his arms out and took one step on the court as security and a handful of Sky players moved in between the two.

Freedom stopped near the basket to plead his case to security as he was escorted from the court area. He spun around while holding his shirt out and encouraged the crowd to respond as he walked toward the front lobby.

He had a conversation with a group of police officers before departing Wintrust Arena.

“I just got kicked out of a @WNBA game for supporting WOMEN!” Freedom wrote on social media Sunday night. “Let that sink in, AMERICA!”

Cloud met with team and league security after the game. She did not speak with the media.

Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said in an ESPN profile published last month that she was opposed to transgender girls and women competing in girls’ and women’s sports, and since then the league has been embroiled in debates about transgender participation. Freedom joined a small rally in support of Cunningham outside the arena before the game.

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La reanudación del tránsito del ganado comenzó pasadas las 3:00 de la tarde cuando un primer lote de 716 reses pasó desde la localidad mexicana de Agua Prieta, estado de Sonora, hacia el poblado fronterizo de Douglas, en Arizona.

El proceso se inició luego de varias horas de revisión que realizaron las autoridades de México y Estados Unidos que utilizaron perros para inspeccionar cada una de las reses y determinar que no estuvieran contagiadas con la plaga del gusano barrenador.

La larva proviene de la mosca Cochliomyia hominivorax que invade las heridas abiertas o las mucosas de los orificios corporales de cualquier animal de sangre caliente, incluidos los humanos, y devora los tejidos haciendo que las lesiones sean cada vez más hondas y dolorosas.

La plaga llegó a México en noviembre del 2024 y ya está presente en 30 de los 32 estados, entre ellos en el estado norteño de Sonora, mientras que Estados Unidos los primeros casos comenzaron a reportarse en junio en los estados de Texas y Nuevo México.

Apertura con limitaciones

Para la reactivación el 24 de agosto de las importaciones de ganado mexicano, Estados Unidos aprobó un nuevo protocolo que incluyó la colocación de identificadores con radiofrecuencia en las orejas de las vacas y la instalación de arcos para detectar los identificadores.

Asimismo, se limitó el paso del ganado hacia Arizona a 700 reses por día, que se elevará la próxima semana a 900 diarias, y a la siguiente semana subirá a 1.300 al día.

México también tiene previsto reforzar los sistemas de trazabilidad del ganado y la dispersión de moscas estériles para avanzar en la contención de la plaga, informó el lunes la secretaria mexicana de Agricultura, Columba López. El país tiene actualmente 1.937 casos activos de gusano barrenador.

A finales de junio se reabrió en el estado sureño de Chiapas una planta para la producción de moscas estériles que fue financiada por México y Estados Unidos.

López indicó que se fortalecerá la dispersión de moscas estériles en los estados norteños de Chihuahua y Sonora que son los mayores exportadores de ganado hacia Estados Unidos y ya tienen casos del gusano barrenador.

Aunque México dispone en la actualidad de cientos de reses listas para la exportación, los controles impuestos por Estados Unidos ralentizarán el ingreso del ganado y demorarán la recuperación del hato estadounidense que ronda 86 millones de cabeza —el nivel más bajo en 75 años-- y que enfrenta un déficit de alrededor de 1,2 millones de cabezas que ha incidido en el alza histórica de los precios de la carne en ese país.

Two years ago, the port and Miami-Dade Animal Services partnered to care for the cats through the Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate and Return program or TNVR.

Miami-Dade Animal Services has sterilized 146 stray cats since the program started. Frontela, an advocate, has helped to trap and feed the cats.

“I am the voice of some of these cats,” Frontela said. “No food is being provided.”

The program relies on food donations and counts on 14 volunteers, but they need more.

“We are looking for volunteers that either work at the port, or they are familiar with the port, to assist feeding the cats,” said Raysa Samper, the port’s property manager.

Last year, Miami-Dade County commissioners voted to allow the lawful feeding of stray animals and to prohibit the dumping of animals at the port.

The port opened five designated cat feeding stations, but four are behind security fences. Samper said the volunteers who qualify also donate the food.

“It’s a commitment, so it has to be someone that really, really, really loves the cats,” Samper said.

Volunteers have to go through an application process to become “authorized individuals” in the “lawfully established” feeding program.

For more information about volunteering for the Miami-Dade Animal Services, visit this page.

For more information about volunteering at the port, contact Samper at 305-347-4908 or Raysa.Samper@miamidade.gov

Related link: Miami-Dade County Code Sec. 28A-13. - Personal conduct.

Según reportes que citan documentos judiciales, la policía de Montgomery, Alabama, señaló que Jalil Bivens estranguló a Ava Walters en un lugar fuera del campus, poco antes de las 11 a.m. del domingo.

Bivens, de 21 años, enfrenta ahora un cargo de asesinato por la muerte de Walters, de 20, quien cursaba su segundo año de la carrera de administración de información de salud en ASU.

El presidente de ASU, Quinton Ross Jr., dijo en un comunicado publicado en redes sociales que tenía el corazón “adolorido” mientras él y el resto de la comunidad de esta universidad históricamente afroamericana lamentaban “la trágica pérdida de una de nuestras Hornets”.

Añadió que extendía sus “más sentidas condolencias” a la familia, los amigos y los compañeros de clase de Walters.

“No hay palabras que puedan aliviar de verdad el dolor de perder a un ser querido, pero sepan que toda la Hornet Nation está con ustedes en este momento difícil”, expresó.

Los registros muestran que hasta la noche del lunes Bivens permanecía recluido en el Centro de Detención del condado de Montgomery.

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According to the MDSO, Darryl Frankders Johnson Jr. was riding an e-scooter just before 5:25 p.m. Sunday near Northwest 75th Street and 22nd Court, in the county’s unincorporated Gladeview area, when he and the suspect crashed, leading to an argument.

Deputies said the suspect pulled out a gun and shot Johnson, of Liberty City, before fleeing.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics pronounced Johnson dead at the scene.

Johnson’s mother, Stacy Bernard, spoke to Local 10 News.

“He’s a wonderful, awesome son,” she said. “He makes me proud every day. He wasn’t on the street selling drugs. He was on his way to work.”

Meanwhile, a nearby homeowner told Local 10 News that two of the bullets punctured her house.

An MDSO spokesperson said Monday that the suspect was with a child at the time of the shooting.

It was not immediately clear whether the two men knew each other prior to the crash and shooting.

Anyone with information on the case was asked to call investigators.

Two of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations still being finalized, said Trump is considering setting the new tariff at 7.5%. It's a level administration officials believe would not endanger the one-year trade truce between Washington and Beijing or a planned White House meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping expected to take place in late September.

The move, if finalized, appears to be a calibrated effort by the White House to work around a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that struck down Trump's plan to implement a sweeping, high-tariff scheme not seen since the 1930s.

After that decision, the Trump administration announced in March it was launching formal investigations targeting excess industrial capacity and forced-labor regulations in China and other nations.

It isn't clear if the U.S. administration is also nearing its decision in its probes of the other economies that it announced it was investigating for unfair trade practices, including the European Union, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Japan and India.

The White House and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office did not respond to requests for comment on the tariff deliberations, which Bloomberg News reported earlier Monday.

The Chinese embassy in Washington said in a statement that economic and trade issues should be resolved through bilateral talks rather than unilateral tariff actions, and rejected the idea that it has an issue with overcapacity.

The excess industrial capacity probe of China was initiated under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the president to levy tariffs against nations that discriminate against U.S. companies or commerce.

The new tariff would come on top of existing tariffs on China

The people familiar with the deliberations stressed that Trump could still change his mind on the new tariff on China.

It would come on top of tariffs of 10% to 12.5% announced last month for 60 economies around the globe that the Trump administration accused of failing to effectively enforce a ban on goods produced with forced labor.

Many countries, including China, protested that move, which took effect just as the clock ran out on temporary tariffs Trump had turned to after the Supreme Court in February struck down sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every U.S. trade partner.

China last month pushed back against claims of overcapacity, anticipating that the U.S. would soon release results of its probe and impose new tariffs.

Massive capacity in a slew of Chinese industries, from autos to solar panels, cement and steel manufacturing, has drawn increased attention from Beijing’s trading partners in recent years.

Although China’s own leaders have prioritized rebalancing the economy, slowing domestic demand has prompted companies to expand into overseas markets. Surging exports pushed China’s trade surplus to a record of nearly $1.2 trillion last year.

China has never sought a large trade surplus, the Ministry of Commerce said in a recently published report titled “China’s Position on the So-called Excess Capacity Issue.”

The deliberations come as the Treasury Department on Monday warned countries doing trade with Iran that new secondary sanctions are in the pipeline aimed at ostracizing nations that continue to do business with Tehran. China is Iran's biggest trade partner.

Washington has promised the new sanctions would put even more pressure on an Iranian economy already battered by previous sanctions and a U.S. naval blockade as the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran nears the six-month mark.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's announcement Monday provided little detail and did not name which countries could face secondary sanctions.

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AP writer Paul Wiseman contributed reporting.

The controversy could complicate El-Sayed's campaign as he tries to unify Democrats in a battleground state that will help decide control of the U.S. Senate.

El Sayed is one of several Democratic candidates this year who harnessed Piker's online megaphone to appeal to younger voters, and they appeared together at campaign events during the primary, but last week's comments may have cooled the relationship.

Wearing a suit and tie during one of his typically hours-long livestreams, Piker argued against the idea that opposing Israel is antisemitic. American Jews are not uniformly supportive of Israel, he said, but many “Jewish institutions” are “teaching people the idea that Jews are monolithic" and "its a very dangerous mode of propaganda.”

“If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel mind you, but against American Jews,” he said.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, issued a sharply critical statement.

“The malicious claim that American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and antisemitic,” he said on social media. “There is zero justification for threats against the safety of our Jewish brothers and sisters at a moment of rising hate.”

El-Sayed issued his own statement later in the day.

“I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence," he said. “This is particularly true for communities that have been intimidated for their beliefs in the past.”

He also said “antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms” and "nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.”

“And while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools and healthcare,” El-Sayed added.

While Piker was speaking on the livestream last week, he was displaying an X post with a photo of Jeremy Moss, a Jewish Democratic candidate for U.S. House in Michigan, on his screen.

Moss posted Monday, “I will not be lectured by a California podcaster about what Oakland County, Michigan's Jewish community should and shouldn't believe," adding that “we certainly won't be gaslit that we're responsible for the antisemitic harm upon us.”

Piker’s spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On another livestream Monday, he called El-Sayed’s statement “neutral” and described the outrage as a “smear." He argued that he wasn’t advocating violence but warning against the rhetoric that could.

El-Sayed's Republican opponent, former congressman Mike Rogers, said El-Sayed's response was inadequate.

“El-Sayed doesn’t have the guts to disavow his running mate,” Rogers said. He said the Democratic nominee is "unfit to represent our state.”

Piker's previous statements has been controversial, including a past comment that “Hamas is a thousand times better” than Israel.

Some Democrats urged El-Sayed to go further in responding to Piker's comments.

“I want Abdul to win desperately, but the most predictable thing in the world was that Piker would inevitably become a serious liability in a general election," Tré Easton, a Democratic strategist, wrote on social media. "If you care about Abdul’s campaign succeeding, you should want him to distance himself from Piker clearly and directly."

Robert White Jr., the Democratic nominee to be the district's sole delegate to Congress, unveiled the “Defend DC” mobilization effort, which he said will recruit, train and transport city residents and supporters to canvass for candidates who support the district's independence. White will also launch a political action committee to support candidates that back D.C. statehood and local control.

“Congress has used its power over D.C. to attack us. So Washingtonians are banding together to use our collective power to change Congress,” White told a crowd of supporters in a downtown Washington plaza.

The Constitution gives federal lawmakers authority over the District of Columbia, while the Home Rule Act of 1973 lets residents elect a mayor, a council and neighborhood commissioners. But Congress maintains significant control, including approving the budget and all laws passed by the D.C. Council.

The D.C. delegate position is a nonvoting one, but it grants the nearly 700,000 people of the district, who have no other representation in Congress, a voice through speechmaking on the House floor and bill introduction.

Trump has squeezed Washington's autonomy

White's plan comes as Washington during the second Trump administration has faced multiple new challenges to its autonomy, most visibly the ongoing deployment of the National Guard which has been extended into 2029.

The plan will target U.S. House districts within driving distance of the nation's capital in states like Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey with members up for reelection who have backed President Donald Trump's surge of federal agents into the district and who themselves have proposed efforts to overhaul the city's governance.

“If politicians somewhere else believe they can come into our city and take away our rights without consequences, then we will go into their communities, the communities that determine whether those politicians keep their jobs,” White said.

The program's first target will be Rep. John McGuire, a Virginia Republican who introduced legislation last year that would codify into law Trump's executive order, “ Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful."

The order paved the way for the deployment of the National Guard and federal law enforcement agents onto the streets of Washington, D.C. Trump later also briefly federalized the city's police force.

D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson called White's strategy necessary to protect D.C. residents' constitutional rights.

“Our current situation is one that was not imagined nor intended by the Founding Fathers,” Mendelson said.

Taking the fight to the district's congressional opponents has been central to White's platform. He spoke of the strategy during debates. He also spoke of his plan the night of the June primary when he won the Democratic primary for the district’s delegate to Congress, ushering in generational change for a position long held by 18-term delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.

White’s win in the heavily Democratic city set him up to take the top spot in November’s general elections. Norton, 89 and a fixture of the Civil Rights movement, decided not to run again after facing growing concerns over her ability to forcefully push back against the Trump administration's federal intervention into the city’s affairs.

One of Norton's key roles has been to push back against incursions by Republicans in Congress who have grown increasingly willing to step into local affairs, despite the city's Home Rule. In recent years, Congress members have tried to overturn the district's motorcycle helmet law and ban the district's use of automated traffic cameras.

White said he had spoken with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Susan DelBene, the chair of House Democrats' campaign arm, about the strategy.

A plan modeled after a former delegate's

White modeled the strategy after one used by the district's first delegate, Walter Fauntroy Jr., a civil rights legend who mobilized voters in several key races, most notably in 1972 in South Carolina. His efforts there were instrumental in defeating Rep. John McMillan, who chaired the House District Committee and routinely blocked the district's efforts to govern itself.

Michael Fauntroy, Fauntroy's nephew, and the founding director of the Race, Politics, and Policy Center at George Mason University, said the elder Fauntroy drew on a relationship he had built during his civil rights work, especially in the South when he sought office and visited targeted districts.

“His strategy was primarily to focus on those congressional districts in which the Black voters composed the margin of victory in a particular district,” said Michael Fauntroy, who authored "Home Rule or House Rule? Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia.”

"At one point, there were roughly 100-some-odd districts around the country, primarily in the South in which the Black vote was the marginal vote,” he said.

The situation is more complicated now. Gerrymandering has left few competitive districts, and Fauntroy said he doesn’t know what kind of network White has.

“If you don’t have those connections, it’s going to be difficult to take the fight to somebody,” he said.

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Deputies reported a woman injured at about 3:45 a.m. on Sunday near Northwest Third Avenue, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, and Fourth Court.

At about 10 a.m. on Sunday, BSO deputies arrested Brittany Payne, and corrections held her on Monday afternoon without bond at the North Broward Bureau in Pompano Beach, records show.

Payne faced charges of attempted murder and armed robbery, according to inmate records.

Broward County Circuit Judge Francis Viamontes was set to preside over the case, according to court records.

Local 10 News Assignment Editors Carson Merlo and Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

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The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump's order, and other similar cases have already been filed. The U.S. Postal Service laid out how it would implement the order last week, but time is running short to impose major changes. North Carolina is sending out ballots Sept. 4 overseas and to military voters, and other states will quickly follow suit in just a few weeks.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority didn’t decide the legality of Trump's order, instead ruling that states who sued did not have the legal right to challenge it.

While the emergency order is not final, it does have the potential to create chaos around voting across the country, with Trump often questioning the integrity of elections and the nation's highest court again the possible arbiter of a political controversy.

“The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell,” the majority wrote in an unsigned order.

The three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing that the rule “lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who seek to bring election-related challenges.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James foreshadowed more legal fights ahead, calling the decision a “painful setback” but vowing it would “not be the final word.”

The court’s order opens a path for the administration to begin action to restrict mail voting, but it also could lead to further litigation that could freeze the federal government again.

“This is just the first inning of a very fast nine-inning game,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame University.

Trump fights mail-in voting despite its growing popularity

Mail balloting has long been a favorite target for Trump, who has claimed that it breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and his own use of the voting method.

Trump's executive order, signed in March, calls on his administration to create lists of eligible voters and orders the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists. New requirements released Friday would forbid the Postal Service from sending mail ballots from any state that does not comply with Trump’s order.

A Postal Service spokesperson did not immediately respond messages seeking comment. The White House did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia sued to block the order. They argued that the Constitution gives states and Congress the power to run elections, and Trump’s changes could lead to chaos and partisan abuse.

“The consequences of allowing such transformative changes to take effect so close to this fall’s elections would be extreme,” attorneys for the states wrote. Dozens of state and local election officials weighed in, asking the justices to leave the order frozen while election preparations are already underway.

A judge in Massachusetts blocked the plan for the midterm elections in those states. An appeals court upheld her decision. She later granted a second order blocking it nationwide, another remaining stumbling block for Trump administration.

The Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court on procedural grounds in late July, arguing that the states sued too soon. They also pointed to another ruling out of Washington, where a judge allowed Trump’s order to proceed. An appeals court backed that decision, while still leaving room for future court action if the changes are implemented.

Federal attorneys argued that the Massachusetts order “blocks the government’s ability to finalize and implement the President’s proposed policies to promote election integrity for the upcoming federal elections in November.”

A dozen Republican-leaning states supported the federal government in their own appeal before the high court, saying states would have input on the final voter lists.

The Supreme Court has previously ruled against Trump-backed arguments on mail-in ballots, finding in June that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day. That case was decided after full briefing and arguments, rather than on the court’s emergency docket.

Trump has blamed mail voting — without credible evidence — for his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. He has promoted the proposed changes in his executive order as safeguards to keep non-U.S. citizens from voting.

He’s also repeatedly pressed for the passage of the legislation that requires proof of citizenship to vote. Noncitizen voting has been shown to be exceedingly rare, and is a felony that can be punishable by deportation.

Using mail ballots has become increasingly popular with voters of both parties, with about 30% of all ballots cast that way during the 2024 presidential election, according to federal data. The process also is secure. A 2025 Brookings Institution study found only about four cases of fraud out of every 10 million mail ballots cast.

David Becker, a former justice department lawyer who co-wrote a book debunking Trump’s 2020 election lies, said the high court created “pure chaos leading up to the midterm elections, waiting weeks after an administration filing, and just days before mail ballots go out, to completely rewrite the rules.”

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The crash was reported in the 13200 block of Northwest 32^nd Avenue.

Sky 10 was above the scene just before 2 p.m. as a damaged Mustang convertible was towed away. A large hole was left behind in the building, along with debris from the wall and vehicle on the sidewalk.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials confirmed that one adult, the driver of the vehicle, was transported to Jackson North Medical Center.

According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, the building sustained “significant structural damage” and was subsequently deemed both unsafe and uninhabitable.

No other details were immediately released.

Unless challenged or revised, the State Department is expected to announce in the coming weeks the revocation of so-called B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to State Department documents obtained by The Associated Press and two U.S. officials. The action will be taken in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.

“We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently,” said State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott.

He declined to comment on the number of visas that might be revoked, saying "as the process will be ongoing, the number of revocations remains dynamic and will be done on a rolling basis.”

The revocations would not necessarily result in their immediate deportation, the officials said. Most of those with asylum cases currently pending would be recategorized but would lose their status as business or tourism travelers, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the revocations are not final yet.

Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term last year, his administration has steadily ramped up restrictions on visa applicants — demanding more information about their social media histories, requiring the posting of expensive bonds for the processing of visas, and outright banning the issuance of visas to citizens of certain countries.

In a social media post on Monday, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau called out people who he said try to use tourist and business visas to get into the United States and then apply for asylum.

“People in the US and all over the world are fed up with bogus asylum claims,” Landau wrote on X. “Asylum isn’t supposed to be a loophole to circumvent immigration law.” Landau cited the case of a Colombian citizen who came to the U.S. in 2015 on a tourist visa and then applied for asylum.

B1 visas are generally issued for business trips and B2 visas are generally issued for tourism, family visits or medical care. It was not immediately clear from the documents or the officials how many of these visa holders are seeking or have sought asylum in the United States and would be affected by the revocations.

Current applicants for B1 and B2 visas are asked to affirm that they will not apply for asylum in the United States and prove that they intend to return to their home countries.

In the past 18 months, the State Department has revoked about 175,000 visas for people who have been convicted or accused of crimes ranging from drunken driving to rape and robbery, as well as for people who have spoken out publicly against U.S. policies, particularly in the Middle East.

The administration has also moved to crack down on so-called birth tourism, a practice the administration claims is used by foreign pregnant women to come to the United States to give birth so that their child will benefit from birthright citizenship. Trump has tried several times to end birthright citizenship, but those challenges have been rejected by courts, including the Supreme Court.

The State Department documents obtained by the AP suggest screening of current B1 and B2 visa holders began after the State Department received information about asylum requests from the Citizen and Immigration Service.

The high court heard oral arguments Monday regarding Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s seizure of approximately 650,000 ballots from a November 2025 special election on redistricting. The measure passed in the county by roughly 80,000 votes.

Bianco in March seized 1,000 boxes of election materials to investigate a complaint from a local citizens group that the count was off — though not by an amount that would've changed the outcome. Local election officials had previously said the complaint was unfounded. Bianco was running for governor at the time.

Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta immediately launched a legal challenge in March, arguing the sheriff has no authority over election materials and warning the seizure was designed to sow distrust in elections. He ordered Bianco to return the ballots, but Bianco did not. The University of California, Los Angeles Voting Rights Project also sued the sheriff on behalf of several Riverside County voters. The state Supreme Court heard arguments in both cases.

Chad Dunn, legal director and co-founder of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, told the court there are mechanisms to contest election results, and Bianco failed to follow them.

“The elections code provides a process. Citizens could have triggered a recount within, I think, it’s five days of the canvas, and they chose not to do that. They could ask the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and there’s other officials to trigger an official recount,” Dunn told the court.

Bianco began recounting the vote using sheriff’s officials under the supervision of a special master appointed by a court but suspended it days later, citing mounting legal challenges from the state attorney general and a voting rights group. But he has not returned the ballots.

“Nowhere else in election law, in this state, in any other that I’m familiar with, does anybody get to handle ballots on their own in the back room with their deputies,” Dunn he told the judges.

Bradley Hertz, who represented Bianco, argued the sheriff had a legal duty to open an investigation after receiving a complaint and he followed the penal code to carry out that investigation, first issuing search warrants in February.

Hertz said Bianco has not returned the ballots to the Riverside County registrar of voters because those ballots are “evidence.”

“The sheriff is holding that evidence, safeguarding it as a custodian for the court,” Hertz said.

He said Bianco didn’t follow Bonta’s order to return the ballots because a legal fight was already playing out.

Bianco said after the hearing that if he were to face the same complaint, he would again seize ballots.

“I did this and this was legal,” he said. “I went a different route. They are legal. Both routes are legal. It's just their side doesn't like the route I chose,” he told reporters.

At the time of the ballots’ seizure, Bianco was one of two prominent Republicans running for governor in a crowded June primary. He did not advance to the general election and later announced plans to run for reelection as sheriff in 2028.

Xavier Becerra, a former state attorney general and Democrat running for governor, is part of the UCLA lawsuit to halt Bianco's efforts.

The ballot investigation came as President Donald Trump has repeatedly disputed the results of the 2020 election, citing unsubstantiated instances of fraud. His administration recently seized ballots and other documents from an election office in Georgia. Some Republicans have mirrored Trump’s rhetoric on voting in their states.

The man who won five straight U.S. Open championships during the height of his dominance of the sport is set to play again in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night for the first time since 2019. And he's not quite sure how the game that perhaps nobody ever made look more elegant will appear now.

“I haven’t played a singles set in, I don’t know, (Hubert) Hurkacz at Wimbledon maybe, so it’s been five years,” Federer said Monday, referring to his 2021 quarterfinal loss in his last Grand Slam match. “I don’t know how it’s going to go tomorrow. So there is a lot of uncertainty but a lot of happiness that I can return to Arthur Ashe, a place where I have had so many beautiful moments.”

It's only one set of singles in an exhibition against Andy Roddick and one set of doubles with John McEnroe against Roddick and Andre Agassi. The winner of 20 Grand Slam singles titles should be fine for those.

But a return to tennis beyond that, competing in major tennis tournaments in his mid-40s like Venus and Serena Williams?

“No, no, no, no. No, not at all,” Federer said during a news conference. “Thanks for asking. I wasn’t sure if the question was going to get asked, but I’m happy you did so I can clarify in case anybody thought.”

At 45, Federer still looks fit, and said he enjoys working out in the gym. But he said he goes through long stretches where he is rarely on the court.

His lengthy absence from the U.S. Open has done little to dampen his popularity, based on the amount of people around the grounds who were mentioning his name. The appearance of “Roger Federer” up on the big board for all to see again, ahead of his afternoon practice on Ashe, where Federer collected the trophy every year from 2004-08, was a welcome sight for his fans.

The trip to New York is a stop for Federer on his way to Newport, Rhode Island, where he will be enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Federer never really had the chance to say goodbye to New York as a player, because there was no way to know his loss to Grigor Dimitrov in the 2019 quarterfinals would be his last match. He had reached the French Open semifinals and the Wimbledon final earlier that year, falling to Rafael Nadal in Paris and then Novak Djokovic in a fifth-set tiebreaker at the All England Club.

It was easy to imagine him returning to the U.S. Open the next year and making another deep run. But after falling to Djokovic in the semifinals of the Australian Open to begin 2020, he had knee surgery that February, then another procedure in May.

He returned to play in the French Open in 2021 but had to withdraw before his fourth-round match. After the loss to Hurkacz — where he appeared struggling and lost 6-0 in the third set — Federer had another knee surgery that August and knew there would be no more comebacks.

“The knee can’t do it anymore. It’s tired,” he recalled thinking. “The mind can’t be patient even more and wait for another couple years and see what happens.”

Federer knows Tuesday night won't be real tennis, joking that he and Roddick hopefully would be respectful and not try to drop shot each other. But it will be different from when he did return to Ashe a couple of years back to watch.

“They gave me an ovation because they saw me on the big screen, but I just feel, like, tomorrow and I guess today, as well, and Monday next week, it really gives me a true opportunity to say thank you and goodbye, which I think is important for some,” Federer said. "It’s a nice thing to do, for sure."

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Una ola de batas blancas, banderas paraguayas y pancartas tomó las calles con miles de profesionales de la salud de distintas partes del país concentrándose ante la catedral de la capital. Desde allí, marcharon hacia el Ministerio de Salud y luego se dirigieron al de Economía.

Los manifestantes exigieron la contratación de más personal, más insumos y un incremento salarial. Según el Sindicato Nacional de Médicos (Sinamed), los sueldos están congelados desde 2012.

Asimismo, pidieron la incorporación a la nómina permanente de los profesionales que llevan años trabajando con contratos temporales.

“Las condiciones son pésimas. No tenemos medicamentos, no tenemos insumos, se construyen hospitales nuevos, pero no tenemos médicos dentro”, dijo a The Associated Press la doctora Rosana González, secretaria general del Sinamed.

El sindicato se queja de que sus reclamos no son atendidos y pide una reunión con los ministros de Salud, María Teresa Barán Wasilchuk, y de Economía, Óscar Lovera.

No obstante el director general de Servicios del Ministerio de Salud, Gustavo Ortiz, dijo a la AP que esa cartera mantiene conversaciones regulares con los profesionales para lograr una pronta solución.

Médicos denuncian precariedad

Con pancartas que rezaban “Basta de descuentos”, “Queremos respuestas ya” y “La salud es una prioridad”, los médicos ocuparon diversas calles de Asunción pacíficamente.

Proyectaron piezas audiovisuales para denunciar las precarias condiciones en distintos hospitales e hicieron una dramatización en la que simularon el fallecimiento de un paciente crítico debido a la falta de atención adecuada.

“Estamos actualmente con escasez de medicamentos, insumos básicos y de personal... Es una situación que se vive a nivel país”, dijo el doctor David Martínez.

Está previsto que la huelga se extienda hasta el próximo viernes, aunque el sindicato indicó que podría alargarse indefinidamente en caso de no alcanzarse un acuerdo.

En algunas zonas de la capital los hospitales tan solo ofrecían los servicios básicos y atenciones de urgencia, según pudo comprobar AP. La huelga afectará a la red de asistencia de salud pública que abarca unos 1.500 centros de salud en todo el país. Mientras esté vigente, se asegurarán las guardias en áreas críticas y de urgencias, pero las consultas externas y las cirugías programadas quedarán suspendidas.

“El Ministerio de Salud Pública tiene el objetivo en este momento de garantizar la atención sanitaria mientras dure esta huelga”, afirmó Ortiz, y agregó que la cartera garantizará la cobertura continua en servicios críticos de áreas como maternidad, pediatría, oncología e internación.

Salud pública saturada

La huelga general se enmarca en el agravamiento del acceso a la salud en Paraguay, donde el 70% de la población no cuenta con un seguro médico, según un informe de Amnistía Internacional publicado en 2024 y datos oficiales enviados a AP.

Ello ha derivado en una crisis del sistema público de salud, saturado en medio de condiciones cada vez más precarias. Según la organización, “existen múltiples barreras de acceso” a la salud y el sistema está “segmentado, tiene brechas en inversión y atención, y está determinado por el estatus laboral y la capacidad adquisitiva de los hogares”.

El informe también indica que, en materia de gasto público, el gobierno paraguayo destina alrededor del 4% del PIB a la salud pública, una cifra por debajo del mínimo recomendado por la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (6%) para poder asegurar la cobertura universal.

Ortiz indicó que en los últimos meses se aprobaron una serie de medidas para hacer frente a la crisis que atraviesa la red pública, cuyos efectos deberán sentirse hasta finales del año.

Entre ellas destacan la incorporación de nuevos médicos, la habilitación de nuevas plazas de residencia en diferentes regiones y la regulación de las jornadas laborales.

Indicó además que el gobierno dio su visto bueno para el nombramiento oficial de más de 13.200 profesionales que actualmente trabajan bajo contratos temporales. De estos, 2.130 ya se han incorporado a la nómina definitiva, mientras que los demás deberán hacerlo en los próximos meses, detalló Ortiz.

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En esta nota colaboraron Nayara Batschke desde Santiago de Chile y Jorge Sáenz desde Asunción.

AI infrastructure, including advanced semiconductors mostly made in Taiwan, has become a key point of competition between the U.S. and China. Washington began imposing restrictions on Nvidia’s exports of advanced chips to China in 2022 and tightened them in subsequent years. In April 2025, the U.S. required licenses for exports of Nvidia’s H20 chips to China, before allowing some sales to resume later that year.

Under export controls, any sale by Nvidia of high-end AI servers — the computer infrastructure that houses the chips needed to power AI systems — requires a strict review process, according to a document from Keelung District Prosecutors' office in Taiwan. The document also said purchases of more than eight high-end AI servers require company staff to conduct on-site checks to the clients.

Prosecutors said the servers involved were graphics processing units known as “B300,” which have been banned from sale to China.

“We will work with the Taiwan authorities to help them resolve the allegations as quickly as possible,” Nvidia spokesperson Patrick Rutherford said in a written statement.

Super Micro said in a written statement that the arrests of two of its former employees were due to its cooperation with the Taiwanese authorities and the company will continue to work to “enhance its robust export compliance program to protect American innovation."

Seventy-four servers arrived in China successfully, according to the prosecutors. Of those, 50 were sent through Indonesia, 16 delivered directly to China and eight sent to Japan first, then Hong Kong, before they landed in mainland China.

Another attempt involving 56 servers failed, and the servers remain in Taiwan, said the prosecutor's office.

Prosecutors are seeking the maximum five-year sentences for four of the nine defendants, including Chang, an Nvidia manager identified just by his family name. Chang was the “key figure” responsible for “authorizing the release of the B300 GPUs” in this case but “demonstrated a clearly poor attitude following the offense,” the document said.

Some of the defendants set up a company in Japan, which helped successfully transfer eight of the servers, prosecutors said. Some allegedly created fake websites and falsified information to evade export restrictions.

By his high standards for the No. 11 Toyota, middling performances might be enough for the Joe Gibbs Racing star to capture his first Cup Series championship.

With a seventh place Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Hamlin clinched the top seed in the 10-race title run that will begin next month at Darlington Raceway.

“These are our bad days,” Hamlin said after rebounding from a pit-stop problem and narrowly missing a crash on the opening lap. “I feel good about where our team is right now. Everyone is kind of clicking well, and we don’t have a whole lot of weaknesses.”

Hamlin will enter the 16-driver Chase as the favorite with a 25-point lead on second and the best record on the tracks that make up the bulk of the playoff.

Six of the 10 Chase tracks are at least 1.366 miles long, including the 1.5-mile ovals of Kansas Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway and the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Hamlin’s four victories this season have been at Las Vegas (a 1.5-mile track that will play host to the fifth race of the Chase), Nashville Superspeedway (1.333 miles), Michigan International Speedway (2 miles) and Pocono Raceway (2.5 miles).

“The Toyotas’ strengths are going fast at the high-speed tracks where downforce matters a lot,” Gibbs teammate Christopher Bell said. “These shorter tracks, it seems like the Penske cars have the advantage.”

Second-ranked Ryan Blaney’s victory at New Hampshire was Team Penske’s fourth in the past six races, and three were on tracks of a mile or less in length.

But the team will need to improve on the bigger tracks in the Chase. In the five races on 1.5-mile ovals this year, Penske drivers Blaney, Joey Logano and Austin Cindric have combined for only four top 10s, with a best finish of seventh at Charlotte by Blaney.

“Obviously, we need to be a little better,” Team Penske president Michael Nelson said. “We definitely have been licking our wounds after a few of those mile-and-a-half tracks. We’re trying everything through those tracks to be better, and hopefully, we’ll have the right combination.”

Penske should excel on the three Chase tracks that are a mile or shorter — Bristol Motor Speedway, Phoenix Raceway and Martinsville Speedway – but Hamlin also finished in the top 10 on all three tracks at races earlier this season.

“We’re just not as strong as the Penske cars on these types of racetracks,” Hamlin said. “But Martinsville, we are good. Phoenix, we’ve been good. It’s just the last few have not been as strong, but it’s still top fives and top sevens. So it’s something we can work with, and the mile and a halves are certainly something that’s been our strength for a couple of years now. I look forward to getting the Chase started and seeing where it goes.”

Chase cutline outlook

Heading into Saturday’s regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway, the top 13 spots in the Chase have been clinched, and Bubba Wallace is a virtual lock to advance.

That leaves the final two slots decided between Cindric, Shane van Gisbergen and Ryan Preece, who trails 16th by 31 points heading to Daytona. NASCAR has instituted new aerodynamic and horsepower regulations on the 2.5-mile oval, and there’ll be no practice for the 400-mile race.

“I don’t think any of us know what to expect,” Preece said. “I guess we’re all on a level playing field.”

Berry’s quest

With consecutive finishes of seventh, fourth, eighth and third, Josh Berry has delivered the longest top-10 streak by a Wood Brothers Racing driver since Morgan Shepherd in 1994. Berry admitted to racing with desperation at New Hampshire as he attempts to land a Cup ride for the 2027 season. A potential landing spot disappeared Monday as Richard Childress Racing announced Austin Hill’s return next year.

“I don’t necessarily like racing like that, but these guys know what I’m up against right now,” Berry said. “Most of them have respect for me, so I think they understand. Knocking everybody out of the way is not sustainable over a Cup season, but in this scenario, you’re just fighting for everything you can.”

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Evans Class Brown, 27, of Coral Springs, is one of several people facing federal charges including wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering.

A March news release from federal prosecutors in Charleston, South Carolina, where the case is being tried, identified five of Brown’s accused co-conspirators as Charleston residents Kemar Christopher Edwards, 28; Xavier Gordon, 25; Warner Gordon, 27; and Kevin Milton Simpson, 30; as well as another Floridian, Tashagae Narcia Leslie, 25, of Orlando.

Two other co-defendants are identified in a Jan. 28 grand jury indictment as Justine Danielle Smith, 34, who federal court records show was arrested in June in Connecticut, and Marcia Minora Lawrence.

Federal authorities said the scammers convinced victims that they had won cash prizes in sweepstakes, but before receiving their winnings, they had to pay taxes and fees. Authorities said the 100-plus victims, “a substantial portion” of whom were seniors, sent the group money through the mail or by wire transfer.

Prosecutors said the group then laundered the money and sent a portion of the proceeds to co-conspirators in Jamaica, keeping some of the funds for themselves.

The victims lost more than $3.5 million as part of the scam, authorities said.

Brown was taken into custody on Wednesday and was being held in the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail facility in Fort Lauderdale on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service, as of Monday afternoon.

It wasn’t immediately clear when he was scheduled to be taken to South Carolina.

The suspects could face decades behind bars if convicted.

La calidad del aire era moderada en las zonas del oeste, cerca de Kendall y Homestead, de acuerdo con el Departamento de Protección Ambiental de Florida.

Eso significa que el aire es aceptable para la mayoría, aunque puede representar un riesgo leve para las personas sensibles a la contaminación, según la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos.

El incendio “Chipmunk” era el más grande. Había consumido más de 15,505 acres en el condado de Miami-Dade y estaba contenido en un 50%, según el portal geoespacial del National Interagency Wildfire Enterprise.

El incendio “Movie Dome” había quemado más de 6,200 acres y estaba contenido en un 60%.

El incendio “22 (13)” había arrasado 880 acres y estaba contenido en un 40%, según el mapa de respuesta a incendios del Servicio Forestal de Florida. La unidad de campo de los Everglades del FFS trabajaba en ese foco.

El incendio “Vulture” había quemado más de 345 acres y estaba contenido en un 80%.

El incendio “Tower Point” consumió tres acres.

El incendio “Radio Tower” quemó 700 acres y ya estaba contenido.

Shark Valley tenía previsto reabrir a la 1 p.m. del lunes, según un vocero del Servicio de Parques Nacionales.

Las cuadrillas del FFS contuvieron un incendio que ardía el domingo en el condado de Collier y seguían combatiendo el lunes el fuego “H2 (50)” en el suroeste del condado de Palm Beach, que estaba contenido en un 85%.

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Cinco incendios forestales seguían activos el lunes en el condado de Miami-Dade, según autoridades estatales y federales.

La calidad del aire era moderada en las zonas del oeste, cerca de Kendall y Homestead, de acuerdo con el Departamento de Protección Ambiental de Florida.

Eso significa que el aire es aceptable para la mayoría, aunque puede representar un riesgo leve para las personas sensibles a la contaminación, según la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos.

El incendio “Chipmunk” era el más grande. Había consumido más de 15,505 acres en el condado de Miami-Dade y estaba contenido en un 50%, según el portal geoespacial del National Interagency Wildfire Enterprise.

El incendio “Movie Dome” había quemado más de 6,200 acres y estaba contenido en un 60%.

El incendio “22 (13)” había arrasado 880 acres y estaba contenido en un 40%, según el mapa de respuesta a incendios del Servicio Forestal de Florida. La unidad de campo de los Everglades del FFS trabajaba en ese foco.

El incendio “Vulture” había quemado más de 345 acres y estaba contenido en un 80%.

El incendio “Tower Point” consumió tres acres.

El incendio “Radio Tower” quemó 700 acres y ya estaba contenido.

Shark Valley tenía previsto reabrir a la 1 p.m. del lunes, según un vocero del Servicio de Parques Nacionales.

Las cuadrillas del FFS contuvieron un incendio que ardía el domingo en el condado de Collier y seguían combatiendo el lunes el fuego “H2 (50)” en el suroeste del condado de Palm Beach, que estaba contenido en un 85%.

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An arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect, Marcos Danilo Assuncao-Oliveira, as a doctor from Brazil, however it also lists his current address as “homeless” in Miami.

Brazilian medical websites list a person with the same name as a gynecologist who works in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

According to deputies, Assuncao-Oliveira is accused of targeting several pieces of luggage in the American Airlines baggage claim area last Friday.

Investigators said surveillance video showed Assuncao-Oliveira loitering around the baggage claim before removing bags from different carousels over a short period of time.

According to the report, Assuncao-Oliveira would take one piece of luggage at a time, open it and remove items he wanted. Investigators said he would then return to the baggage carousels, select another bag and repeat the process.

Authorities said he did this several times before leaving the area on foot with the items he had taken.

Investigators have so far identified three victims and estimated the combined value of their stolen property at approximately $1,350, according to the report.

Authorities said several additional potential victims have not yet been identified.

The arrest report also states that Assuncao-Oliveira had no active flights with American Airlines during the previous six months.

The information provided in the arrest report did not specify the items that were allegedly taken from the bags.

Assuncao-Oliveira was taken into custody Sunday on three counts of third-degree grand theft.

As of Monday afternoon, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.

El accidente fue reportado en la cuadra 13200 de Northwest 32nd Avenue.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena poco antes de las 2 p.m., mientras una grúa se llevaba un Mustang convertible con daños. En el edificio quedó un gran boquete, y en la acera, escombros de la pared y restos del vehículo.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue confirmaron que un adulto fue trasladado a un hospital de la zona.

No se dieron a conocer otros detalles de inmediato.

After evacuation warnings by Israel's military, a strike hit a building in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. One family was unable to flee and a 4-year-old child was killed, according to Awda Hospital, where he was taken. His mother and sister were wounded. There was no Israeli military comment.

Israeli strikes hit three other buildings across the territory after residents said they received evacuation warnings. Some people sprinted away, with mothers carrying children, while others moved amid the rubble in wheelchairs or with canes.

Smoke rose over the already devastated landscape.

Israel's military said it carried out strikes in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City and in Deir al-Balah after issuing warnings, targeting what it described as two Hamas weapons storage facilities inside mosques. The military did not provide evidence but said the facilities contained dozens of “Kalashnikov rifles, magazines and additional military equipment.”

An earlier Israeli strike on a tent in Deir al-Balah killed a man, according to Al-Aqsa Hospital, where his body was taken. Israel’s military said it killed a militant affiliated with Hamas’ special forces unit.

Others were killed or hurt in Khan Younis in the south

A man was killed and five others were wounded in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the casualties.

And Israeli tank fire hit an area east of Khan Younis, killing a 10-year-old girl, according to the hospital, where her body was taken.

Israel's military did not immediately comment on the strike in Khan Younis and said it was not aware of the incident with the child.

Israel has continued to carry out targeted killings in the week since a U.S. delegation met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an effort to push last year's ceasefire deal forward.

U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner asked Netanyahu to draw down Israel’s attacks in Gaza, a person familiar with the meeting said last week, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief journalists.

Israel has announced strikes on six of the seven days since that meeting.

Israel says it is targeting militants and related sites

While the heaviest fighting in Gaza has subsided since the ceasefire took hold in October, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 1,288 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants.

Militants have carried out shooting attacks on Israeli troops, and Israel says its strikes are in response to that and other ceasefire violations. Five Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ceasefire.

Palestinian officials have reported strikes on homes and police stations, and Hamas has claimed that attacks are designed to destabilize Gaza and prevent progress on the ceasefire's next steps, which include demilitarizing and reconstructing the territory and the deployment of an international stabilization force.

Israel warns against kites sent from Gaza

In the period before the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel that sparked the war, burning kites and balloons were sent from Gaza into Israel, causing fires and other damage.

Now Israeli officials are expressing concern after several kites were found in a kibbutz near Gaza. No weapons or dangerous materials were attached. Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz in a statement Sunday threatened to ramp up strikes on Gaza unless Hamas ensures the kites stop flying toward Israel.

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem has called the kites “essentially children’s toys” and accused Israel of using them as “an attempt to justify the continuation of aggression and violations against our people.”

The Oct. 7 attack killed some 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage. All hostages or their remains were later released. Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed more than 73,422 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

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AlJoud reported from Beirut. AP writer Sam Metz in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

It happened just before 1:45 p.m. near Northwest 18th Avenue and 63rd Street in the unincorporated Gladeview area.

According to MDSO, deputies responding to a ShotSpotter alert found the man shot in “his lower extremities” and medics took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

An MDSO spokesperson said the victim’s condition was “unknown” as of Monday afternoon and that detectives were investigating the case.

Kirk Heilbrun said he ruled out acute psychosis with command hallucinations because he didn’t believe Clancy when she said she heard a voice telling her to “kill the children so you can kill yourself.”

“The way she described this as happening is that she heard a voice that she’d never heard before, experienced a hallucination and she’s never experienced it since. But she only experienced it for the 18 minutes or so that it took to kill the children,” Heilbrun testified. “To put it mildly, that would be a very, very unusual pattern or manifestation of how this kind of thing comes about. Very unusual.”

A key issue at trial is Clancy's mental health. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington does not dispute that Clancy killed the children in January 2023 but says she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible because she had postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.

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Clancy didn't want to leave her children behind

After killing her children, Clancy jumped from a second-floor window and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Heilbrun testified that he concluded that Clancy killed her children because she wanted to kill herself but didn't want to leave them behind.

“One of the things that she said when I asked about what happened, is that in the course of strangling each child, she said, `Go to God, baby. Go to God,'” he said. “That was part of her expectation that she and the children would be together in heaven with God.”

Heilbrun also mentioned Clancy's Catholic faith, prompting a request for a mistrial from Reddington that Judge William Sullivan denied.

He later instructed the jury to disregard the reference to “the religion that the defendant was raised with,” calling it “an absolutely inappropriate area of testimony.”

Prosecution argues Clancy wasn't suffering from psychosis

Heilbrun is the latest prosecution witness to say that while Clancy was mentally ill, she still knew that what she was doing was wrong.

On Friday, Dr. Avram Mack, a forensic psychiatrist, testified that he found no evidence of mania or hypomania to support a bipolar diagnosis — or of psychosis — leading up to the killings. He said Clancy was experiencing severe mental illness when she killed her children but that it was a continuation of the depression she had experienced for months in which she was able to control impulses and distinguish right from wrong.

However, Heilbrun said he did determine Clancy has bipolar 2 disorder, while saying it was difficult to diagnose at least in part “because of all the diagnoses in the records and all the symptoms that she experienced.” People with bipolar 2 disorder experience cycles of depression and hypomania, which is less intense than the mania experienced with bipolar 1 disorder.

Earlier in the trial, the jury heard that Clancy had sought treatment for mental health problems from multiple providers and even had admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital.

Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. Closing arguments are expected later this week.

Defense argues she had postpartum psychosis

The condition that Clancy's attorney says she had when she killed the children, postpartum psychosis, is more serious and less common than postpartum depression.

The last witness to testify for the defense before prosecutors began calling rebuttal witnesses was Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist and expert in filicide, or the killing of a child by a parent.

Resnick testified Friday that Clancy was “clearly psychotic” on the day she killed her children and was not in control of her actions. “It was almost like she was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings,” he said.

That echoed another defense witness, psychologist Paul Zeizel, who concluded Clancy “had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act.”

The spend of nearly $830,000 came as Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman wrapped up their compressed campaigns to win South Carolina's GOP nomination in a special primary to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on November ballots.

Tuesday's Senate runoff tests the heft of both a famous political last name and the endorsement of Trump, who is backing Darline Graham and campaigned in the state for her days ahead of the vote.

The matchup pits the well-known Norman — fresh off an unsuccessful gubernatorial bid earlier this summer — against Graham, the late senator's sister who was thrust into the political spotlight with her interim appointment, then a sprint of a primary campaign.

Trump making final push for Darline Graham

Graham drew early criticism for being in Washington, D.C., for Senate votes instead of on the ground in South Carolina, where many voters said they didn’t know anything about her or her positions. She’s been trying to make up that ground, holding meet and greet events, including two on Monday in Aiken and Seneca, as well as a news conference with Gov. Henry McMaster, who appointed her to the interim post and endorsed Graham on Friday.

Trump on Monday night also planned the second of two tele-rallies for Graham.

The president, long closely allied with Lindsey Graham, has done more to promote Darline Graham's candidacy than he has for others he’s endorsed in this year’s midterms. Trump encouraged her to run and traveled to South Carolina on Friday for a rally with Graham in Myrtle Beach.

Before several thousand people — some of whom said they came mostly to see the president, not his chosen candidate — Trump urged “every South Carolina patriot to go to the polls and vote for Darline Graham.”

When McMaster appointed Graham last month, a person familiar with McMaster’s thinking but unauthorized to speak publicly about it said the governor had never contemplated that she would run for the seat herself.

Asked Monday why he had waited until late last week to endorse Graham, McMaster said simply that “I thought that was the right time.”

Also Monday, the super political action committee that supports Trump and other Republicans infused Graham's campaign with more than $827,000, according to federal campaign finance filings. The money, aimed at text message blasts and phone calls to voters, marks a major investment for the group that up until now has been largely silent in this year's contests.

As of the end of last month, the group had more than $400 million in its coffers, and it's been unclear how much MAGA Inc. was willing to spend on this year's races — even as Senate Republican leaders have urged Trump’s team, both privately and publicly, to pick up the tab for candidates the president has endorsed in the 2026 midterms.

Norman crisscrossing the state to make his final campaign case

On Monday, Norman planned two events with pastors, ending his runoff campaign in Greenville. The most populous in the state, Greenville County typically contributes the most votes in statewide Republican primaries.

It’s also bucked against the front-runners in recent GOP contests. Norman also carried Greenville County in the gubernatorial primary earlier this year — and it was one of the only counties Lindsey Graham lost in his final election, this year’s original June primary.

Norman has decried the role of super PAC spending against him in the runoff campaign, accusing Graham of being funded by special interests who are pushing their own agenda through her candidacy. The wealthy developer has made large personal transfers into his campaign coffers and promoted his voting record and business acumen.

Norman has frequently reminded voters of his history supporting the president’s policies in Congress. He’s also portrayed his opponent as inexperienced for a six-year shot at the Senate job, saying in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press that the “Washington elite” who funded Graham were “dictating the terms and giving her the political answers” in her campaign.

At a town hall Friday, Norman leaned into his experience in elected politics and in the business world, reiterating his campaign trail slight against Graham, a political newcomer, that the Senate isn't a place to get “training on the job.”

“We've had a short runway, and I'm so glad I did this,” Norman told voters at a town hall in Anderson. “You have to know it. You have to be in it, and that's one of the advantages that I have.”

The winner of Tuesday's GOP runoff will face Democrat Annie Andrews in November. No Democrat has won a statewide-elected office in South Carolina in two decades.

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Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://x.com/MegKinnardAP

The provisions are still subject to additional legal challenges and may not go into effect in time to meet the tight deadline to change procedures for the midterm elections. They would forbid the Postal Service from sending mail ballots from any state that does not comply with Trump's order and would require an overhaul of the envelopes containing the ballots.

Despite the high court's initial clearance of the order, it did not decide on the constitutionality of the new regulation— only on whether the challenge was premature when Democratic-controlled states persuaded a federal judge in Boston to suspend them in June. A second ruling from the same judge would prevent the Postal Service from implementing any procedural changes before this year's midterms and would likely need to be nullified, as well.

Time is running out for the administration to make any changes in the nation's voting procedures. The first mail ballots are required to be sent to military and overseas voters from North Carolina on Sept. 4. At that point, it would be virtually impossible for all states to alter the formatting of their mail ballots to comply with Trump's directive. The Postal Service rule also requires states to submit voter lists in order to get their mail ballots delivered.

The Postal Service said it could not comment on its rule given the litigation.

Lawyers from Democratic-run states and civil rights groups who sued to block the order argued that Trump doesn't have the authority to change election regulations in states. The U.S. Constitution vests that power in the states or Congress, which has been unable to pass Trump's desired election changes.

The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court last month to let it move forward with the executive order, which calls for the federal government to compile a list of eligible voters and send mail ballots only to those on the list.

La operadora de aeropuertos informó el lunes que las nevadas “han reducido la visibilidad por lo que las operaciones aeroportuarias se encuentran temporalmente suspendidas” con el resto del país.

La terminal de autobuses de La Paz también suspendió salidas a otras ciudades del occidente debido a la intensa nevada que cae desde el domingo en el altiplano boliviano. Otras tres ciudades también cerraron carreteras anulando viajes de pasajeros.

La Paz registraba lluvia y bajas temperaturas, mientras que en la vecina ciudad de El Alto caía una profusa nevada y lluvia, fenómenos que son habituales al finalizar el invierno pero que este año se presentan más intensos con lluvias en el oriente, según los expertos. El Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología declaró un alerta debido a las nevadas de “intensidad de moderada a fuerte”.

Hace unos días varios turistas quedaron atrapados en el sur de Potosí cuando visitaban el Salar de Uyuni, el mayor atractivo turístico boliviano.

El temporal se presenta en medio del fenómeno meteorológico de El Niño, que este año se anuncia más intenso con sequías en el occidente y lluvias e inundaciones el oriente. Los expertos dicen que los mayores efectos del fenómeno se sentirán en Bolivia desde noviembre.

Miami police said the robbery happened on the morning of Aug. 14. Lee County deputies arrested Xavier Vance Thompson, 19, of Lehigh Acres, later that morning as he drove the Corvette in Fort Myers, according to an arrest warrant. Thompson would be taken back to Miami-Dade County to be booked on Friday.

Authorities said four other suspects were involved, one of whom was identified as 22-year-old Giovanni Lee Veilleux, who records show also lives in Lehigh Acres. He was not in custody in either Miami-Dade or Lee counties as of Monday morning.

The arrest warrant states that the victim had been invited over the apartment, the location of which wasn’t specified, to “hang out” to socialize with Thompson, Veilleux and another man, along with two women, on Aug. 12.

When he was invited back on Aug. 14, police said the victim was “smoking and socializing” with Thompson, Veilleux and three other men when he looked up to see the group armed with pistols and AR-15s, pointing the guns at him.

“You lacking, we got you,” police said Veilleux told the victim. “Give it up.”

One of the men hit the victim in the head with the AR-15 “several times” while he was restrained and placed in a chokehold, according to the warrant.

According to the warrant, the victim told investigators that “his face was pushed into the couch while the offenders searched his pockets and removed his Rose Gold 22 inch Cuban link with baguette diamonds necklace, Chrome Hearts designer reading glasses, red Nike shoes, identification card, bank card, cash and prescription pills inside their prescription bottle with (his) name,” along with his cellphone.

Authorities said he pleaded with the group to return his belongings to no avail; they instead “mocked him.”

They said two of the men “escorted him to the elevator and threatened him while forcing him inside.”

“The victim entered the elevator, and the doors closed,” the warrant states. “However, the elevator did not move because a key fob was required for operation. When the elevator doors reopened, the victim exited and heard the stairwell door closing. The victim then ran down the stairwell to check whether his vehicle had been taken.”

Police said his car was still there but he saw the group fleeing in the aforementioned Corvette, as well as a Dodge Durango. According to the warrant, he ran out of the parking garage and spotted a Miami police sergeant and reported what happened.

Authorities said downtown license plate readers captured both vehicles fleeing toward Interstate 95.

Just after 11:45 a.m., a detective with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office spotted the Corvette in Fort Myers and took Thompson into custody after conducting a felony traffic stop, according to police.

Authorities said while the LCSO detective searched Thompson, “a foreign cylindrical object was observed protruding from (his) rear area.”

That object, according to an LCSO report, was under the victim’s pants and boxers, stuffed “in between his buttocks” and turned out to be the victim’s pill bottle with his name on it.

Deputies said Thompson told them “something to the effect of knowing he wasn’t supposed to have the pills and stuffing them down his pants when he got pulled over.”

Detectives were able to identify two full pills inside as being Adderall and the opioid buprenorphine. They arrested Thompson on drug possession charges.

Now facing an armed robbery charge in Miami-Dade, Thompson was being held without bond in the Metrowest Detention Center as of Monday morning.

El alcalde de Kenscoff, Jean Massillon, relató que hombres armados irrumpieron en la comunidad a última hora del domingo, incendiaron viviendas y mataron a residentes.

“Sigue siendo imposible establecer una cifra definitiva de muertos debido a las dificultades de acceso y los problemas de comunicación”, declaró Massillon.

Los lamentos llenaban el aire en Kenscoff al tiempo que los sobrevivientes encontraban los cuerpos de amigos y familiares esparcidos en las calles a primera hora del lunes.

“¡Mataron a mi hijo!”, seguía gritando una mujer cuando personas cercanas intentaban consolarla.

Un hombre se arrojó al costado de la carretera, con la cabeza sobre su brazo derecho y lloraba en el suelo. Cerca, la gente recogía los cadáveres de los asesinados, algunos envueltos en sábanas salpicadas de sangre.

Robert Jean recordó cómo escuchó disparos antes del amanecer e intentó despertar a la gente para evitar que fuera asesinada. Dijo que buscaba frenéticamente a su hermano, quien fue asesinado: “Estaba llamando para ver si todos estaban a salvo. No pude encontrar a mi hermano”.

Otro residente de Kenscoff culpó al gobierno por las muertes.

“Si tan solo tuviéramos una buena fuerza policial que hubiera colocado aquí un camión blindado, lo que pasó aquí se habría evitado”, dijo Verti Enold-Saint, levantando una sábana sobre el cuerpo de su cuñado.

El agricultor Mathurin Pierre, de 41 años, contó a The Associated Press que perdió a 14 seres queridos y que un número desconocido permanece desaparecido.

Massillon atribuyó el ataque a integrantes de Viv Ansanm, que el gobierno de Estados Unidos designó el año pasado como organización terrorista extranjera.

“Sembraron el caos”, indicó Massillon.

Contó que los agresores atacaron una iglesia y viviendas, incluidas las del doctor Jean “Bill” Pape. Es un médico reconocido que dirige una organización no gubernamental en Haití que ayuda a pacientes, incluidos aquellos con VIH y tuberculosis.

No se disponía de más detalles sobre el ataque. Un portavoz de la fuerza de supresión de pandillas respaldada por la ONU no ha respondido a un mensaje en que se solicitaban comentarios.

El gobierno de Haití emitió un comunicado condenando lo que calificó como un atroz ataque criminal.

“Se están desplegando refuerzos”, indicó. “Kenscoff no será abandonada”.

Resaltó que se ha ordenado a las fuerzas de seguridad perseguir a los responsables.

“La población debe mantenerse confiada”, señaló el gobierno, y agregó que no dará marcha atrás.

Las pandillas controlan aproximadamente el 70% de Puerto Príncipe, la capital, y Viv Ansanm ha atacado repetidamente la cercana Kenscoff.

La violencia de las pandillas ha desplazado a una cifra récord de 1,5 millones de personas en todo Haití, donde se reportó la muerte de más de 3.100 personas de enero a junio y otras 1.189 resultaron heridas, según estadísticas de la ONU.

El ataque ocurre menos de una semana después que el gobierno de Estados Unidos deportara a más de 160 personas al atribulado país caribeño por primera vez desde que el gobierno de Trump ganó una batalla legal para poner fin al Estatus de Protección Temporal para unos 350.000 haitianos.

El gobierno de Haití ha dicho que algunos de los deportados incluían a beneficiarios del TPS. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos indicó el lunes, en un comunicado a la AP, que entre los deportados el viernes había varios pandilleros con antecedentes penales que iban desde agresión hasta narcotráfico.

Haití tiene previsto celebrar elecciones generales por primera vez en más de una década el 13 de diciembre, y ha estado registrando votantes en Puerto Príncipe y otras localidades. Expertos han advertido que actualmente es demasiado peligroso celebrar elecciones.

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La periodista de The Associated Press Dánica Coto contribuyó a este despacho desde San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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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.

The most destructive wildfire in state history, a blaze that killed 85 people and destroyed more than 18,000 buildings in Northern California, started two days after Newsom won the governorship in 2018. Investigators determined it was caused by Pacific Gas & Electric equipment. Facing tens of billions of dollars in liability, the giant utility filed for bankruptcy just weeks after Newsom's inauguration.

Months later, Newsom signed a law creating a $21 billion fund, paid for by utility shareholders and ratepayers, to help utilities pay for wildfire damages if they take certain safety measures.

Now, as the final legislative session of his governorship ends, Newsom is trying to broker a deal with lawmakers aimed at further shielding utilities from financial trouble if their equipment sparks a wildfire. His push comes as another major utility, Southern California Edison, faces claims from the state's second-most destructive blaze, a 2025 fire that killed 19 people outside of Los Angeles. Investigators ruled this month that it was sparked by one of the company’s transmission towers.

Newsom's plan could limit the amount electric and gas companies have to pay victims and attorneys. One of the goals is to stabilize the state's electricity rates, which are among the highest in the nation and have continued to climb in recent years. Utilities have raised rates to pay for wildfire prevention and recovery as climate change has made the blazes more intense and frequent. Six of the state’s 10 most destructive wildfires have been caused by utility equipment.

Newsom says the state needs to act quickly because he expects the wildfire fund to run out soon. His plan would require survivors to get paid by utilities sooner.

“Status quo is not going to work,” Newsom recently told reporters. “It’s not going to work for victims, who consistently are last in line. And that’s at the core of this reform."

But some of those victims are pushing back. They've said Newsom's plan prioritizes utilities over the needs of fire survivors. Meanwhile, insurance companies are concerned they would foot more of the bill for property damage. A coalition including the state's major utilities — PG&E, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric — has been urging lawmakers to pass the plan. The last-minute legislative battle could help shape Newsom's legacy as he considers a run for president in 2028.

Newsom says his plan strikes a fair balance

Under California law, utilities have to pay damages for fires ignited by their equipment, even if a judge doesn't find them negligent. Home insurers that pay for policyholders' rebuilding expenses can try to get reimbursed by utilities.

Newsom's plan could change that by making insurance companies cover more of the cost of property damage. The proposal would also require utility CEOs to forfeit bonuses if their company sparks a wildfire resulting in more than $1 billion worth of damage. And utility shareholders could be fined up to $10 million for violating wildfire prevention requirements, according to the governor's office, which hasn't released the full details.

Personal Insurance Federation of California, a group representing property insurers across the state, said insurance rates will increase if the plan is implemented. The onus should remain on utilities to pay, said Rex Frazier, the federation's president.

“Being responsible for your actions is something that parents tell children,” he said in a statement. "Hopefully the Legislature will tell this to the utilities.”

Fire survivors are also frustrated with the plan, which could limit their payouts. Joy Chen, executive director of Every Fire Survivor's Network, a group of survivors of the 2025 Los Angeles-area fires, blasted it at a virtual town hall this month.

“This is overall a massive transfer of liability for the three for-profit utility monopolies that have continued to burn down communities across California,” Chen said.

The Legislature has until Aug. 31 to pass a plan. If they don't, Newsom could call them back for a special session.

Democratic legislative leaders say the state needs to address the issue but haven't specified what a deal could include. Newsom proposed another $18 billion last year to supplement the wildfire fund, which the Legislature approved.

An economist says the state should reduce utility liability

California's longstanding requirement that utilities cover the cost of wildfire damages regardless of whether they were negligent is based on the fact that they are providing a public service, said Meredith Fowlie, an economist who co-directs an energy institute at the University of California, Berkeley.

But as climate change has fueled more frequent and destructive fires, the state should rethink how to distribute the ballooning costs of recovering from those blazes, she said.

“Utilities can start fires, but they don’t by themselves create catastrophe,” Fowlie said.

Other factors make wildfires turn into catastrophes, such as failing to clear vegetation or upgrade homes to make them more fire-resistant, she said. The question of who should be held responsible — and by how much — is “a critical, core issue that we have not dealt with and is not going away,” Fowlie said.

Newsom says he's prepared to tackle the issue he's kept revisiting since he took office.

“I'm not going to walk away and hand a real mess to the next governor,” he said last week.

Según la MDSO, Darryl Frankders Johnson Jr. conducía un scooter eléctrico poco antes de las 5:25 p.m. del domingo, cerca de Northwest 75th Street y 22nd Court, en el área no incorporada de Gladeview, cuando chocó con el sospechoso, lo que derivó en una discusión.

Los agentes dijeron que el sospechoso sacó un arma y le disparó a Johnson, residente de Liberty City, antes de darse a la fuga.

Los paramédicos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue declararon muerto a Johnson en el lugar.

Un vocero de la MDSO informó el lunes que el sospechoso estaba acompañado de un menor al momento del tiroteo.

No estaba claro de inmediato si los dos hombres se conocían antes del choque y del tiroteo.

Se pidió a cualquier persona con información sobre el caso que llame a los investigadores.

Los agentes reportaron a una mujer herida alrededor de las 3:45 a.m. del domingo, cerca de Northwest Third Avenue —también conocida como Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue— y Fourth Court.

Cerca de las 10 a.m. del domingo, los agentes de la BSO arrestaron a Brittany Payne, quien hasta la tarde del lunes permanecía bajo custodia en el North Broward Bureau, en Pompano Beach, según los registros.

Payne enfrenta cargos de asesinato en primer grado y robo a mano armada, un delito grave de primer grado. La jueza del Circuito del condado de Broward Francis Viamontes tenía previsto presidir el caso, de acuerdo con los registros judiciales.

Los editores de asignaciones de Local 10 News Carson Merlo y Mariana Ortiz contribuyeron a este reporte.

Un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Alguacil de Miami-Dade identificó al sospechoso, Marcos Danilo Assuncao-Oliveira, como un médico de Brasil, aunque también consigna su dirección actual como “sin hogar” en Miami.

Sitios web médicos brasileños registran a una persona con ese mismo nombre como ginecólogo en Minas Gerais, Brasil.

Según los agentes, Assuncao-Oliveira está acusado de hurtar varias maletas en el área de reclamo de equipaje de American Airlines el viernes pasado.

Los investigadores señalaron que el video de vigilancia lo muestra merodeando por la zona antes de retirar maletas de distintas cintas transportadoras en un lapso corto.

De acuerdo con el informe, Assuncao-Oliveira tomaba una maleta a la vez, la abría y sacaba los artículos que quería. Los investigadores dijeron que luego regresaba a las cintas, escogía otra maleta y repetía el proceso.

Las autoridades indicaron que lo hizo varias veces antes de irse del lugar a pie con lo que había tomado.

Hasta ahora los investigadores han identificado a tres víctimas y calculan el valor total de lo sustraído en unos 1,350 dólares, según el informe.

Las autoridades señalaron que hay otras posibles víctimas que aún no han sido identificadas.

El informe de arresto también indica que Assuncao-Oliveira no tenía vuelos activos con American Airlines durante los seis meses anteriores.

La información del informe de arresto no especificó qué artículos habría sacado de las maletas.

Assuncao-Oliveira fue detenido el domingo bajo tres cargos de hurto mayor en tercer grado.

Hasta la tarde del lunes permanecía recluido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de 2,500 dólares.

Evans Class Brown, de 27 años y residente de Coral Springs, es una de varias personas que enfrentan cargos federales por fraude electrónico, fraude postal y lavado de dinero.

Un comunicado emitido en marzo por los fiscales federales de Charleston, Carolina del Sur, donde se lleva el caso, identificó a cinco de los presuntos cómplices de Brown: los residentes de Charleston Kemar Christopher Edwards, de 28 años; Xavier Gordon, de 25; Warner Gordon, de 27; y Kevin Milton Simpson, de 30; además de otra floridana, Tashagae Narcia Leslie, de 25 años, de Orlando.

Otros dos coacusados aparecen en una acusación formal del gran jurado del 28 de enero: Justine Danielle Smith, de 34 años, quien según los registros judiciales federales fue arrestada en junio en Connecticut, y Marcia Minora Lawrence.

Las autoridades federales señalaron que los estafadores convencían a las víctimas de que habían ganado premios en efectivo, pero que antes de cobrarlos debían pagar impuestos y cargos. Según las autoridades, más de cien víctimas —“una porción sustancial” de ellas de la tercera edad— enviaron el dinero al grupo por correo o mediante transferencias bancarias.

Los fiscales indicaron que el grupo luego lavaba el dinero y enviaba parte de las ganancias a cómplices en Jamaica, quedándose con el resto.

Las víctimas perdieron más de 3.5 millones de dólares con la estafa, informaron las autoridades.

Brown fue detenido el miércoles y hasta la tarde del lunes permanecía recluido en la cárcel principal de la Oficina del Alguacil de Broward, en Fort Lauderdale, a disposición del Servicio de Alguaciles de Estados Unidos.

No estaba claro de inmediato cuándo sería trasladado a Carolina del Sur.

Los sospechosos podrían enfrentar décadas tras las rejas si son declarados culpables.

Lillian Smart died over the weekend after being diagnosed with an infection from Naegleria fowleri, according to a spokesperson for her family. Health authorities describe it as a “brain-eating amoeba" that thrives in freshwater bodies around the U.S. and can shoot up the nose and cause an infection that almost always proves fatal. On average there are fewer than 10 cases annually in the U.S.

“Last night Lillian ran from our arms to the arms of Jesus,” her parents, Daniel and Rebecca Smart, wrote Sunday in a public post on Facebook. “The injuries to her brain were too severe for her little body to recover from. Everyone did everything they could to keep her here.”

The Louisiana Department of Health said last week that the state had experienced its first confirmed Naegleria fowleri infection since 2013. The department, which did not identify Smart, does not comment on individual cases or specific patients, according to spokesperson Stacey Grow.

“Heartbroken over the news of Lillian’s passing,” Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry wrote on X.

The infection was likely contracted while swimming in Lake Claiborne in north Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Health said.

The amoeba can lead to a fatal infection known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis when water carrying the amoeba travels up the nose and into the brain. Between 1937 and 2025, there have only been approximately 180 confirmed infections in the U.S., according to the Health Department, which added that the cases are “nearly always fatal.” The infection cannot spread from person to person.

Naegleria fowleri is found in warm freshwater lakes, rivers, canals and ponds throughout the U.S. The amoeba becomes dangerous in water that stays over 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) and for years has been seen almost exclusively in the summer in the southern part of the country. A few recent cases have appeared in Maryland, Indiana and Minnesota, scientists said.

“The amoeba is naturally occurring, and there is no routine environmental test for Naegleria fowleri in bodies of water,” the Louisiana Department of Health stated.

Last year, a 12-year-old boy in South Carolina also died from an infection caused by the amoeba.

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Brook is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

Para Kameron Glasgow, un pedazo de grama frente a la casa de su tía, en la cuadra 7900 de Northwest First Street, guardará para siempre uno de sus últimos recuerdos de su esposa, Kenya Glasgow, y de su hija Kennedi.

“No hay palabras para describir lo que uno siente”, dijo Kameron Glasgow.

La policía de Margate informó que Kenya, de 31 años, y Kennedi fueron alcanzadas por un rayo alrededor de las 2:30 p.m. del domingo.

La familia de cuatro acababa de llegar a la casa e intentaba entrar antes de que se desatara la tormenta que se acercaba.

Kennedi (izquierda) abraza a su hermana melliza, Kensli.

“Vimos que la lluvia estaba arreciando y dijimos: ‘Oye, hay que meter a las niñas’”, recordó Glasgow.

Entonces cayó el rayo.

Glasgow contó que sintió la descarga.

“Me llegó el remezón desde el suelo”, dijo. “Por la gracia de Dios, todavía estoy aquí”.

Pero al voltearse, se encontró con una escena devastadora.

“Voltearse y ver a tu esposa y a tu hija ahí, sin vida, es todavía peor”, dijo Glasgow.

A Kenya y a Kennedi les sobreviven Glasgow y Kensli, la hermana melliza de Kennedi.

Glasgow dijo que ahora enfrenta no solo su propio duelo, sino lo que la pérdida significará para la hija que le queda.

“Que ella pierda a su hermana melliza... no hay palabras, porque sé que ni siquiera lo puede entender ahora mismo”, dijo entre lágrimas.

Glasgow describió a su esposa como alguien que siempre estaba ahí para los suyos.

“Mi esposa: el corazón más grande del mundo”, dijo. “El corazón más grande del mundo. Ponía a todos antes que a ella misma”.

Dijo que Kenya, su novia desde el último año de secundaria, era una de sus heroínas, junto con su padre, ya fallecido.

“Ella me ayudó a convertirme en el hombre que soy hoy”, dijo Glasgow.

De Kennedi dijo que era un “conejito Energizer” enamorado de la música, sobre todo de las canciones de Benson Boone.

“Nunca había visto a una niña de 2 años cantar a Benson Boone en un karaoke con micrófono, palabra por palabra”, contó. “Dos años, y clarito. ‘Beautiful Things’, esa era su canción favorita”.

Glasgow dijo que la pérdida duele aún más porque vivió el nacimiento de sus mellizas como una bendición tras la muerte de su padre.

“Pensé que mi bendición más grande había sido que Dios me mandara a mis dos hijas después de que murió mi papá”, dijo. “Y que ahora una ya no esté, es duro”.

Dijo que también le costará asimilar la pérdida de la mujer con la que compartió la mitad de su vida.

Pese al dolor, Glasgow dijo que sabe que tiene que salir adelante por Kensli.

“Todo va a estar bien porque tengo que estarlo, porque tengo otra hija hermosa que está adentro”, dijo.

Por ahora, se aferra a su fe.

“Dios no le pone a nadie una prueba que no pueda soportar”, dijo Glasgow.

Court records show that York initially was charged with engaging in prostitution, but prosecutors amended that to disorderly conduct. York was charged with possessing criminal tools for using his phone to respond to an undercover online prostitution advertisement, according to prosecutors.

York was arrested Sunday morning at a mobile home community in East Palestine, Ohio, near where he was born and raised in Youngstown. He was released after posting a $5,000 bond. He was sentenced to one day in jail for both offenses to be served concurrently and was credited with one day served when he pleaded no contest Monday morning. He also was fined $1,150.

Records also show that York had his cellphone returned to him and that $160 that was seized was to be given to the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force as part of the plea agreement. York also completed on online course.

Columbiana County Prosecutor Vito Abruzzino said most of these prostitution cases typically end in plea agreements.

“Each case is looked at individually and for specific facts of the conduct, what evidence the police provide, and input from the arresting officer,” he said in an email. “You also have to factor in criminal history of the defendant, and whether or not they have committed these types of offenses in the past, and importantly, what the judges will allow.”

The NFL issued a statement saying the league was aware of the arrest and would review it under the personal conduct policy. Owners are subject to possible fines or suspensions for violating the personal conduct policy. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was investigated but not punished by the league after he was arrested in Florida in 2019 for allegedly paying for sex with a woman at a massage parlor. The charge was later dropped after a court ruled that police violated the rights of Kraft and the other customers when they secretly installed video cameras inside massage rooms at the spa.

The team said it would not have any comment on the situation.

“As this is a legal matter, which has been resolved, we will not be providing any further comment at this time,” the team said in a statement.

York took over day-to-day control of the 49ers from his parents in 2008. He became the team's principal owner in 2024. After some initial struggles under York's leadership, the team has been a consistent contender since hiring coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch in 2017.

The Niners have made the Super Bowl three times under York's leadership, losing in the 2012 season under coach Jim Harbaugh and the 2019 and '23 seasons under Shanahan and Lynch.

York also oversaw the building of Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The team moved from San Francisco to the new stadium in 2014. The stadium has hosted two Super Bowls, a World Cup and a College Football Playoff title game.

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In Miami-Dade County, the list of local elections includes a school board seat, judges, and mayoral elections in Palmetto Bay, South Miami, North Miami, and Sunny Isles Beach.

In Broward County, the list of local elections includes five school board seats and mayoral elections in Dania Beach, Davie, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, North Lauderdale, Parkland, Plantation, Tamarac, and Wilton Manors.

In Monroe County, the local elections include Key West, Isla Morada, and Key Colony Beach.

Deadlines to remember

• The deadline to register to vote in the midterm election is Oct. 5.
• The deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot is Oct. 22.
• Early voting begins on Oct. 24 and ends on Oct. 31.
• General Election Day is Nov. 3
• For information about the general election results reporting timeline, visit this page.

How to be prepared

SEARCH DATABASES: Check that you are registered to vote, confirm your assigned voting precinct, and research your ballot

• Voter information look-up database
• Miami-Dade voting precinct finder
• Broward voting precinct finder
• Monroe voting precinct finder
• Research your ballot: BallotReady database and Vote database

Frequently asked questions

Who can vote?

To be eligible to vote, the applicant for registration has to be a U.S. citizen, a legal resident, at least 18 years old, and not have been adjudicated mentally incapacitated, or a convicted felon without a restoration of rights.

A military member, a military family member, or an overseas citizen can register and request an absentee ballot with the online Federal Post Card Application.

Who can’t vote?

A felony conviction in Florida for murder or a sexual offense makes a person ineligible to vote unless the State Clemency Board restores the right to vote.

How do I know if I am registered to vote?

There is a database online to look up voter information.

Can this be done online?

The voter registration process can be done online. The application requires a Florida driver’s license or identification card, the date when it was issued, and the last four digits of the Social Security Number.

When can one pre-register to vote?

Florida allows 16-year-olds to pre-register, but they won’t be allowed to vote until they are 18 years old.

How can I update my voter registration?

To change the address on the voter information card, the Florida driver’s license or Florida ID has to reflect the change before contacting the supervisor of elections. To request a record update, visit this page.

Can I register by mail and cast a ballot by mail?

Yes, if done on time and there is access to the forms online, a printer, and a post office. In Florida, those eligible are allowed to register to vote or vote by mail.

To vote: U.S. military members, military family members, and overseas citizens can register and request an absentee ballot with the Federal Post Card Application as soon as possible.

If done in Miami-Dade, visit this page. If done in Broward, visit this page. If done in Monroe, visit this page.

To register: Download the form to print, fill out, and mail.

Here are the mailing addresses for Monroe, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties:

BROWARD

Broward County Elections Office

4650 NW 21st Avenue

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309.

MIAMI-DADE

Miami-Dade County Elections Office

2700 NW 87 Ave.

Miami, Fla., 33172

MONROE

Monroe County Elections Office

530 Whitehead Street #101

Key West, Fla., 33040-6577

What if I forget to sign my vote-by-mail ballot?

In Miami-Dade, sign inside the red box on the back of the vote-by-mail envelope. If you forgot to sign the envelope or the signature does not match, Florida law allows you to submit an affidavit to cure your vote-by-mail ballot. The affidavit must be completed and submitted to the Elections Department along with a copy of your identification by 5 p.m. on the second day after the election.

· Vote-by-Mail Ballot - Signature Cure Affidavit (English)

· Vote-by-Mail Ballot - Signature Cure Affidavit (Español & Kreyòl)

Useful links

• For information about your voter status, visit this page.
• To download the online registration form, visit this page.
• The national 27-page voter registration application with instructions for each state is available here.
• For vote-by-mail ballot information and status lookup, visit this page.
• For more information about federal election guidelines, visit this page.
• For more information about early voting and ballot intake stations, visit this page.

Useful contacts

• For more information from the Florida Division of Elections, call 1-866-308-6739 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday.
• For more information in Broward, call 954-357-7050
• For more information in Miami-Dade, call 305-499-8683
• For more information in Monroe, call 305-292-3416

Who handles the process?

The Supervisor of Elections in the county of residence.

• Alina Garcia in Miami-Dade County
• Joe Scott in Broward County
• Sherri Hodies in Monroe County

Can I register by mail and cast a ballot by mail?

Yes, if done on time and there is access to the forms online, a printer, and a post office. In Florida, those eligible are allowed to register to vote or vote by mail.

To vote: U.S. military members, military family members, and overseas citizens can register and request an absentee ballot with the Federal Post Card Application as soon as possible.

If done in Miami-Dade, visit this page. If done in Broward, visit this page. If done in Monroe, visit this page.

To register: Download the form to print, fill out, and mail.

Here are the mailing addresses for Monroe, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties:

BROWARD

Broward County Elections Office

4650 NW 21st Avenue

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309.

MIAMI-DADE

Miami-Dade County Elections Office

2700 NW 87 Ave.

Miami, Fla., 33172

MONROE

Monroe County Elections Office

530 Whitehead Street #101

Key West, Fla., 33040-6577

What if I forget to sign my vote-by-mail ballot?

In Miami-Dade, sign inside the red box on the back of the vote-by-mail envelope. If you forgot to sign the envelope or the signature does not match, Florida law allows you to submit an affidavit to cure your vote-by-mail ballot. The affidavit must be completed and submitted to the Elections Department along with a copy of your identification by 5 p.m. on the second day after the election.

· Vote-by-Mail Ballot - Signature Cure Affidavit (English)

· Vote-by-Mail Ballot - Signature Cure Affidavit (Español & Kreyòl)

Useful links

• For information about your voter status, visit this page.
• To download the online registration form, visit this page.
• The national 27-page voter registration application with instructions for each state is available here.
• For vote-by-mail ballot information and status lookup, visit this page.
• For more information about federal election guidelines, visit this page.
• For more information about early voting and ballot intake stations, visit this page.
• To find your U.S. House representative, search this database.
• Database: Candidate listing for the general election in Florida

Useful contacts

• For more information from the Florida Division of Elections, call 1-866-308-6739 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday.
• For more information in Broward, call 954-357-7050
• For more information in Miami-Dade, call 305-499-8683
• For more information in Monroe, call 305-292-3416

The ruling Thursday said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of the Post’s opinion desk. The arbitrator, Sarah Miller Espinosa, also ordered the Post to award Attiah full back pay and lost benefits.

Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to become a top podcaster and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Sept. 10 during a public appearance at Utah Valley University. He was 31.

Kirk launched Turning Point USA in 2012 and made provocative statements about race, gender and politics. He was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement on college campuses and called George Floyd, the Black man whose 2020 murder at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked protests, a “scumbag.”

His death elicited a torrent of comments about him, both pro and con, and some who spoke out against him in the days after the killing faced sanctions or dismissal at work.

Attiah posted after Kirk's killing

After Kirk's killing, Attiah, the founding global opinion editor for the Post and the newspaper's only Black female opinion writer, made several posts to her Bluesky account.

One post read: “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence.”

“If anything, the rush to coddle violent white men is self-protective — that we know they are not used to feeling vulnerable and mortal — and will react violently out of fear. And we will all suffer,” read another post.

Attiah was emailed a termination letter on Sept. 11, accusing her of “gross misconduct.”

“Your public comments on social media regarding the death of Charlie Kirk violate the Post’s social media policies, harm the integrity of our organization, and potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff,” the letter read.

But Espinosa found that the newspaper, in a June 4 hearing, failed to establish that Attiah “engaged in gross misconduct” and that the Post “did not have good and sufficient cause to terminate” her employment, which violated the collective bargaining agreement with the newspaper's union.

“After wrongfully firing me last year, an independent arbitrator has ordered the @washingtonpost to reinstate me immediately, with back pay,” Attiah posted on Instagram on Monday. “It’s been a year-long fight, but this is a victory for journalists everywhere. More to come soon.”

Ruling welcomed as a landmark moment

The Democracy Defenders Fund, which, along with Washington-Baltimore News Guild, represented Attiah, said the ruling marks a landmark moment for press freedom, “confirming that corporate media institutions cannot use retaliatory discipline to silence journalists who address uncomfortable truths.”

The Post said in a statement that it respects the arbitration process, but declined to comment further.

At the time, Attiah’s firing was among dozens of others across various professions stemming from comments about Kirk’s assassination, igniting a debate over First Amendment rights as Trump vowed retribution for remarks he considers disparaging.

The National Association of Black Journalists, the nation’s largest professional advocacy organization for journalists of color, added at the time that Attiah’s firing had “raised an alarm about the erosion of Black voices across the media.”

During the organization's annual convention this month in Atlanta, the NABJ gave The Post a “Thumbs Down Award” because the newspaper has laid off Black journalists and eliminated race and culture beats.

“When the NABJ raises concerns about the treatment of Black journalists, we do so because the decisions news organizations make have real consequences for our members, our profession and the communities we serve,” NABJ President Errin Haines said Monday in a statement supporting Attiah.

The Dania Beach commission candidate who receives the most votes will be elected to a two-year term as mayor and succeed Joyce Davis, who was elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2024.

The Dania Beach candidate who gets the second-highest number of votes will be elected to a two-year term as vice mayor and succeed Marco Salvino, who was elected in 2024.

The city listed six qualified commission candidates who are campaigning for office: Maoz Druskin, Diana Fahmie, Aaron Hollis, Kevin Johnson, Colman Ryan, and Kristof Von Anderson.

Druskin filed his statement of candidacy on May 27. The Israeli Times described Druskin, 45, as an Israeli-born entrepreneur and writer. He identifies as a candidate committed to safety and supporting local businesses.

Fahmie filed her statement of candidacy on June 8. Fahmie, who has experience in real estate, identifies as a grandmother of three who will prioritize protecting the city’s charm and coastal areas.

Hollis filed his statement of candidacy on June 1. He founded KidsAlways1st, a nonprofit that focuses on crime prevention, in 2019. He identifies as someone whose work experience includes being an ice cream man and a diversion program facilitator.

Johnson filed his statement of candidacy on March 9. He earned a doctorate in business administration and sports administration from St. Thomas University and works at Florida Memorial University. He identifies as a candidate who wants the city to increase community engagement.

Ryan filed his statement of candidacy on May 26. Ryan identifies as the president of the Dania Improvement Committee, a civic organization. The Broward County Police Benevolent Association endorsed him in July.

Von Anderson filed his statement of candidacy on June 1. The U.S. Army veteran is a construction project manager who identifies as a father and a “fresh voice.”

Local 10 News Assignment Planner Abby Lawing contributed to this report.

The 48-year-old wrote Monday on Instagram that she had just returned back home from a trip to Ukraine, where she was exposed to air raid sirens in the ongoing war, only to find a message by a plastic surgeon offering her to “fix that little spot on your nose.”

“I’ve lost count of how many messages I’ve received over the years about my appearance,” Frederiksen wrote. “Especially that I have ugly teeth and thin hair. That I have an ugly ‘wart’ on my nose and well-meaning advice to get some Botox.”

The prime minister of the Nordic country posted a screen shot of the plastic surgeon's offer on Instagram but without identifying him.

She also posted her response: “Oh no. I’m happy with my body — I really don’t need a male plastic surgeon to have an opinion about it!”

Frederiksen, a Social Democrat and Denmark ’s second female prime minister, is now in her third term, making her one of Europe's longest-serving and most experienced leaders. She has led the European Union and NATO member country since mid-2019.

She has pledged to maintain a firm stance against U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitions for Greenland, the kingdom’s semiautonomous territory, and continue supporting Ukraine against Russia's war of aggression.

On Instagram, Frederiksen stressed that she does not interfere with other people's looks and that “I’m perfectly fine with my body — as it is when you’re a woman approaching 50.”

She added that "if you’re going to write to me (and you’re more than welcome to), I hope you’ll use your time to talk about something more meaningful. Not my nose."

The prime minister also said that those unsolicited beauty tips and suggestions made her feel “indignant” and that “today, I’m sending an extra loving thought to all of you who have to put up with the 'perfect imperfections' we all walk around with every day.”

Containment reached 27% and there was no new growth of the Hawk Fire, which has held steady at about 23 square miles (60 square kilometers) since it burned out of control on Sunday, authorities said at an afternoon news briefing.

“We are making progress,” said U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Matt Zumstein.

The number of residents under evacuation orders and warnings was reduced to about 63,000, down from more than 90,000 people when the blaze mushroomed over the weekend. While winds have eased, there's still concern that gusts could push the flames through dry brush into newly developed neighborhoods in Nevada's largest city outside of metro Las Vegas.

Firefighters are also contending with hot temperatures and low humidity. At least 32 homes have burned and six are damaged, but authorities said those numbers are sure to rise as assessment teams begin to survey the charred areas.

Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve said the way the fire spread so quickly at its height had her fearing for the worst.

“It lit up these areas like nothing I’ve seen before,” she said Monday. “It took your breath away, in the worst way.”

Hawk Fire triggers evacuations and school closures

Schools across Washoe County were closed Monday because of the evacuations and to keep roads clear for emergency crews. Nevada's governor declared a state of emergency in the county and mobilized the National Guard to help with aerial firefighting and protecting evacuated neighborhoods northwest of downtown Reno.

At one roadblock, residents expressed frustration Monday that they could not get back into their homes.

"There’s no fire here! Why are the National Guard here?” a driver yelled.

Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said he understands that some residents are frustrated that they can’t get home but the danger isn’t over yet. “It just takes that little breeze and one ember,” he said.

Wildfires near Reno are blamed on human activity

The fire near the California state line began Saturday and exploded in size on Sunday. At least seven people — three first responders and four civilians — have been injured.

This is the third large wildfire in the rugged terrain north of Reno in the past two weeks — all caused by human activity, according to fire officials. They haven't said whether the Hawk Fire was intentionally set or accidental. Much of the area that burned was sagebrush and grass.

Reno, home to about 280,000 people, is known for its casinos and as a gateway to nearby Lake Tahoe, North America’s largest alpine lake and a popular vacation destination. It's also southwest of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, site of the annual Burning Man festival, which begins next Sunday.

Many who travel to Burning Man make Reno a regular stop. But some are saying on social media they should avoid the city so they don’t take hotel rooms and other resources away from evacuees.

Fire claims a Reno woman's home for a second time

Videos posted on social media showed the smoldering ruins of homes and cars, with only a scorched basketball hoop still standing.

Crystal Hallock, 53, lost her home to fire for a second time in less than a decade. She moved into the rebuilt house in 2019, a year after an electrical fire burned it down.

On Saturday, with a giant plume of smoke and flames visible on the nearby mountaintop, she fled with her children, grandchildren and pets. Her ex-husband tried to save the property and her vintage Cadillac, grabbing a garden hose as flames melted children’s toys and burned bushes.

She urged him over the phone to get out and feared the worst when the line went dead. “He was saying he can’t breathe, it’s so dark I can’t see, and I’m screaming at him, ‘Leave the car, just leave it,’” she said Monday.

Thirty minutes later, he called to say he had gotten out with the car. “I’m truly blessed because I have a place to stay with my animals and my grandkids. We were all able to get out safely," she said from a niece’s apartment in Reno.

Nevada fire spread quickly in foothills

Many residents had little time to evacuate after the fire exploded in size.

“Honestly, I thought it was like in a movie,” said Ruby Delatorre, who got back from a concert only to find her home in the evacuation zone. She returned Sunday to walk to her house and get a few more possessions.

“I literally want to cry and go back for all my stuff. I just got what I thought I needed," Delatorre said.

Some who spotted the smoke on Saturday thought it was from another wildfire that has been burning the past two weeks.

“The flames were pretty close to my house, and the smoke was really thick, but we have no idea if our house survived or not,” Jon Hanbury said Monday at Reno's convention center, which is now a shelter.

Wildfire threat remains high in the West

Much of Nevada’s western edge is under an increased risk of wildfires this week because of high winds and low relative humidity, the National Interagency Fire Center said. The National Weather Service says the region will see warm, dry and breezy conditions, and that critical fire weather conditions are possible in the week's later half. Reno sits at an elevation of 4,500 feet (1,370 meters).

Extremely dry conditions across the American West have sparked a rash of wildfires this summer. Fires in eastern Washington state forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area in early August.

Nationwide, there have been more than 50,000 wildfires — the most over the past 10 years covering the same time period, according to the national fire center.

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Seewer reported from Toledo, Ohio. Associated Press writers Christopher Weber in Los Angeles, Martha Bellisle in Seattle, and Sudhin Thanawala in Atlanta contributed.

Wright's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, told The Associated Press on Monday that the tight end had been waived by the Cleveland Browns and, if he clears waivers, will join Lane Kiffin's roster at No. 11 LSU.

If he joins the Tigers, Wright is believed to be the first player to return to college after playing in the NFL. He may not be the last.

At a news conference Monday, Kiffin declined to discuss any specific players, but he did say of the players in the lawsuit: “They’re available to recruit. So, ourselves, like many places around the country, are recruiting them.”

Not doing so, Kiffin said, could lead to a situation where "we may end up playing against them.”

Wright signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted rookie following the draft. After Philly released him on Aug. 11, the Browns signed him. Wright didn’t play in Cleveland’s two preseason games. Wright played two seasons for Kiffin at Ole Miss. Last year, he caught 39 passes for 635 yards and five touchdowns for the Rebels.

Wright was among a group of players who sued in a Louisiana court, saying a new NCAA rule granting five years of eligibility to most athletes should apply to him and others who were not “grandfathered” into the rule, which did not include those who graduated high school in 2022.

Wright and two others who played for Kiffin at Ole Miss — former New Orleans Saints defensive tackle Zxavian Harris and Arizona Cardinals safety Wydett Williams — were among those granted a temporary restraining order last week. Former LSU and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Jack Pyburn also was among the plaintiffs.

The players can regain their college eligibility if they terminate their pro contracts and repay any pro earnings. Pyburn’s deal with the Bucs guaranteed him $115,000, including a $15,000 signing bonus.

“I’m just trying to maximize myself as a player and as a person and play my best football, wherever that is,” Pyburn told The Athletic last week.

A preliminary injunction hearing is scheduled for Aug. 31 in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The Southeastern Conference has its own rule barring transfers inside the conference beyond a designated window in January. Commissioner Greg Sankey sent the schools a reminder about that rule earlier this month, though there’s no certainty on how it would play into Wright’s move to LSU in the wake of the court order.

The judge in Louisiana allowed for the fifth year and also ordered the football transfer portal, normally open only in January, to reopen for a week for the players in the lawsuit.

“In my opinion, knowing the information, it’s really wrong to be critical of these kids,” said Kiffin, whose move from Ole Miss to LSU last season also created tension between the SEC schools. "They were granted a fifth year by a judge, saying they were wronged by the NCAA. … It’s simply that a judge decided they should have a fifth year, like everyone moving forward will have.”

Kiffin suggested that the current recruiting by colleges of NFL rookies is a “totally unique circumstance that came about because of the five-for-five (ruling), and players feeling like they should have known about it before, and because of all the cases around the country. I don’t think we’ll have this (situation) again.”

Other coaches, though, have been less supportive.

“I think there’s a lot of negatives that are involved around this,” Oregon coach Dan Lanning said. “Once you go to the NFL, to me, you’re in the NFL. You don’t get the opportunity to come back.”

Added Florida coach Jon Sumrall: “What I really struggle with is the rules are changing so daily based upon a court ruling, or what happens in a court in Colorado, or a court here, a court in Louisiana. We need to have some continuity and some consistency across the board.”

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Kenscoff Mayor Jean Massillon said armed men raided the community late Sunday, setting fire to homes and killing residents.

“It is still impossible to establish a definitive death toll due to access difficulties and communication problems,” he said.

Wails filled the air in Kenscoff as survivors found the bodies of friends and family strewn on the streets early Monday.

“They killed my son!” one woman kept yelling as people nearby tried to comfort her.

One man flung himself on the side of the road, head on his right arm as he cried on the ground. Nearby, people picked up the bodies of those killed, some wrapped in blood-spattered sheets.

Robert Jean recalled how he heard shooting before dawn and tried to rustle people from their sleep to escape being killed. He said he was frantically looking for his brother, who was killed: “I was calling to see if everyone was safe. I could not find my brother.”

Another Kenscoff resident blamed the government for the killings.

“If only we had a good police force that would have placed an armored truck here, what happened here would have been prevented,” said Verti Enold-Saint as he lifted a sheet over the body of his brother-in-law.

Farmer Mathurin Pierre, 41, told AP that he lost 14 loved ones and that an unknown number remain missing.

Massillon blamed the attack on members of Viv Ansanm, which the U.S. government designated as a foreign terrorist organization last year.

“They sowed chaos,” Massillon said.

He said gang members targeted a church and homes including those owned by Dr. Jean “Bill” Pape. He is a renowned doctor who runs a nongovernmental organization in Haiti that helps patients including those with HIV and tuberculosis.

No further details about the attack were available. A spokesperson for the U.N.-backed gang suppression force did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Haiti’s government issued a statement condemning what it called a heinous criminal attack. “Reinforcements are being deployed,” it said. “Kenscoff will not be abandoned.”

It said that security forces have been ordered to pursue those responsible. “The population must remain confident,” the government said, adding that it would not back down.

Gangs control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince, the capital, with Viv Ansanm repeatedly targeting nearby Kenscoff.

Gang violence has displaced a record 1.5 million people across Haiti, where more than 3,100 people were reported killed from January to June and another 1,189 injured, according to U.N. statistics.

The attack comes less than a week after the U.S. government deported more than 160 people to the troubled Caribbean country for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians.

Haiti's government has said some of the deportees included TPS holders. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday in a statement to the AP that those deported Friday included several gang members with criminal records ranging from assault to drug trafficking.

Haiti is scheduled to hold general elections for the first time in more than a decade on Dec. 13, and it has been registering voters in Port-au-Prince and beyond. Experts have warned it's currently too dangerous to hold elections.

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Associated Press reporter Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed.

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Records show rodent problems were reported at Eat and Run Subs, Seph Restaurant & Bakery, CM Chicken and Boardwalk Bar & Grill.

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Inspectors found dozens of rodent droppings at several of those businesses, including more than 50 at Seph, where additional droppings were found during a reinspection.

Roach activity was reported at LongHorn Steakhouse, Moonlite Diner, Eat and Run Subs, El Machetico, Family Kitchen Restaurant and Catering, The Licking South Beach and CM Chicken.

At Moonlite, inspectors found numerous live and dead roaches along with food being held at unsafe temperatures.

El Machetico had 18 violations, including live and dead roaches and employee handwashing violations, while Family Kitchen had dozens of live roaches and food held at temperatures as high as 65 degrees.

Inspectors also found dozens of flying insects landing directly on food at Chill N Kendall Place.

Below is a list of the establishments and some of the violations inspectors documented. All were ordered closed and later allowed to re-open following a cleanup and re-inspection.

**LONGHORN STEAKHOUSE

6225 N. ANDREWS AVE

FORT LAUDERDALE

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 8/21

5 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 1 live roach on cart in prep area. Operator removed cleaned and sanitized Observed 1 live roach on top of three compartment sink in ware washing area with cut lettuce being prepared in three compartment sink. Cross contamination not observed. Observed approximately 15 live roaches behind 3 compartment sink on wall Observed 2 live roaches in between cove molding and wall in ware washing area Observed 1 live roach on wall in ware washing area. Observed 1 live roach on pipe in prep area next to ware washing area Observed 1 live roach on ground in dry produce storage area.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 2 dead roaches on ground in prep area. Repeat Violation.”

“Interior of oven has accumulation of black substance.”

**MOONLITE DINER

6201 N ANDREWS AVE.

FORT LAUDERDALE

ORDERED SHUT 8/20

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 1 live roach on wall behind flip top cooler on cook line in kitchen Observed 1 live roach on ground in ware washing area in kitchen Observed approximately 12 live roaches on wall behind flip top cooler on cook line in kitchen Observed 2 live roaches on ground behind chest freezer on cook line in kitchen Observed 1 live roach under wait station flip top cooler.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on wall above wait station hand wash sink in kitchen area Observed 1 dead roach on wall under shelf in on cook line in kitchen Observed 3 dead roaches inside of reach in cooler at front counter.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. right to left: cut tomatoes (45F); diced tomatoes (49F); turkey (44F); feta (46F); hard boiled eggs (45F); shredded cheese (51F); sliced cheese (48F); cooked meatloaf (46F); turkey (53F); raw shrimp (44F); tuna (46F); egg whites (50F); liquid eggs (62F). Per operator items being held in unit for more than 4 hours.”

“Stop Sale issued. Fish reduced oxygen packaged on premises, or commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged fish labeled with instructions to remain frozen until time of use, not held frozen. Commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged fish bearing a label indicating that it is to remain frozen until time of use no longer frozen and not removed from reduced oxygen package. Raw salmon stored fully thawed commercially packaged reduced oxygen packaging.”

“Dish machine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dish machine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dish machine is repaired and sanitizing properly. Operator set up three compartment sink and called for service.”

“Proof of required state approved employee training not available for some employees.”

“Required employee training expired for some employees.”

**EAT AND RUN SUBS

16775 N. MIAMI AVE.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 8/20

10 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed 5 rodent dropping on top of water heater, 20+ rodent droppings on the floor under the fryers, 20+ rodent droppings on the floor under the display case at the front counter handwashing, and 5 droppings on the floor under mop sink.”

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 2 live roaches crawling on the curtain in the entrance of the kitchen.”

“Roach excrement and/or droppings present. Observed 25+ droppings on the floor under the 3 compartment sink, 10+ droppings on the floor under the bread shelves.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed slicer with old food debris.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed kitchen handwashing sink with old food debris.”

**EL MACHETICO

9674 NW 25TH ST.

DORAL

ORDERED SHUT 8/20

18 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 1 live roach crawling inside of the handwash sink in the kitchen. Also observed 1 live roach inside of sanitizer water at the triple sink. Observed 1 live roach crawling on floor under the steam table. Observed 1 live roach crawling on black cabinet at front counter coffee and pastry area. Observed 2 live roach crawling inside of dry coffee cabinet at front counter coffee and pastry area.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed approximately 7+ dead roaches under preparation table in the kitchen. Employee started cleaning under preparation table at time of inspection. Observed 4 dead roaches on floor at front counter. Observed 5 dead roaches inside of clean container inside of dry coffee cabinet at coffee and pastry area.”

“Server handled soiled dishes or utensils and then picked up plated food, served food, or prepared a beverage without washing hands. Observed employee began making coffee without first washing her hands after handling dirty dishes from customers table.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands.”

“Food not stored at least 6 inches off of the floor. Observed 1 box of sweet plantains store on floor under prep table in the middle of the kitchen. Also observed 1 box of onions store on floor under prep table in the middle of the kitchen.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. Operator provided soap at time of inspection.”

**CHILL N KENDALL PLACE

9065 SW 107TH AVE

KENDALL

ORDERED SHUT 8/20

9 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 15+ live flying insects flying and landing inside containers directly touching chocolate crunch bar, graham crackers, gummy worms, chopped pecans, Oreo cookies, chocolate chip cookie, Kit Kats, peanut butter cup, containers at front counter. Observed 2 live flying insects flying and landing inside containers directly touching white chocolate chips and mini chocolate chips at front counter. Observed 5+ live flying insects flying under front counter landing on brownie and cookie sheet tray. Observed 3+ live flying insects flying and landing on top of toppings reach in cooler at front counter. Observed 5+ live flies flying around dish machine. Observed 3+ live flying insects near reach in freezer in back prep area. Observed 5+ flying insects flying and landing on clean equipment at triple sink. Observed 20+ live flying insects landing on sponges at triple sink.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Live, small flying insects found. Observed 15+ live flying insects flying and landing inside containers directly touching chocolate crunch bar, graham crackers, gummy worms, chopped pecans, Oreo cookies, chocolate chip cookie, Kit Kats, peanut butter cup, containers at front counter. Observed 2 live flying insects flying and landing inside containers directly touching white chocolate chips and mini chocolate chips at front counter.”

“Insect control device installed over food preparation area. Observed bug zapper hanging on dry food rack in back prep room. Observed bug zapper installed over prep table at front counter.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee begin to prepare customer order without first washing hands.”

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

**FAMILY KITCHEN RESTAURANT AND CATERING

3134 WEST COMMERCIAL BLUD.

TAMARAC

ORDERED SHUT 8/18

12 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 1 live roach on ground at front door in dining room Observed approximately 15 live roaches in between wall and reach in cooler in dry storage area Observed approximately 20 live roaches on ground and behind chest freezers in dry storage area. Observed approximately 2 live roaches on ground under oven in kitchen. Observed approximately 5 live roaches on ground under 2 door stainless reach in cooler in kitchen.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on oven in kitchen Observed 1 dead roach in 1 door stainless reach in cooler in kitchen.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 2 door stainless: pickles (59F); cooked pork (59F); cooked beans (59F); raw chicken wings (59F); cooked gravy (60F); raw turkey wings (65F); operator states items have been held in unit overnight. Items not prepared or portioned today 1 door stainless: cooked chicken (48F); cooked pork (49F). operator states items have been held in unit overnight. Items not prepared or portioned today 1 door glass in dry storage: cooked chicken (51F); cooked turkey (48F); cooked goat (46F) operator states items have been held in unit overnight. Items not prepared or portioned today. pickles (80F) being held at front counter. Unknown time out of temperature.”

“No dishwashing facilities of any kind provided. No 3 compartment or ware washing machine provided in establishment.”

“Required employee training expired for all employees.”

**THE LICKING SOUTH BEACH

754-758 WASHINGTON AVE.

MIAMI BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 8/19

11 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed at ware washing area two live roaches crawling on the ground. Observed a live roach crawling on the wall next to prep sink at prep area. Observed one live roach crawling on the floor at cook line.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed two dead roaches on the floor next to prep sink at prep area.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Observed MAC AND CHEESE (50F - Cooling) at walk in cooler, as per chef made the day prior.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed buttermilk marinade (70F - Cold Holding) at kitchen area.”

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Observed at walk in cooler a plastic tray with no handle used to portion pasta sauce.”

“Manager or person in charge lacking proof of food manager certification.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for employee hired more than 60 days ago.”

**SEPH RESTAURANT & BAKERY

1362 NE 163RD ST

NORTH MIAMI BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 8/19

10 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Presence of insects, rodents, or other pests. Observed a potato with gnaw bites by the hot water heater.”

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 50+ rodent droppings on the floor under kitchen handwashing sink, 5+ dropping on top shelves where clean utensils are stored, 10+ rodent droppings on the floor by hot water heater, 3 rodent droppings on the shelves where chemicals are stored, 20+ rodent droppings on the floor under seasoning shelves and 25+ rodent droppings on the floor under the front counter steam table.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed hot holding box in the front counter soiled.”

“Worn, torn and/or soiled floors/carpeting. Observed floors under 3 compartment sink, reach in coolers, steam table, fryers and stove heavily soiled.”

“Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Observed front counter handwashing sink blocked by plates.”

RE-INSPECTION 8/20

“Observed 10+ rodent droppings on the floor under reach in cooler in the kitchen and 4 rodent droppings on the floor behind reach in freezer.”

**CM CHICKEN

1256 NE 163RD ST.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 8/19

8 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on the floor under the fryers and 3+ rodent droppings on the back door window.”

“Roach excrement and/or droppings present. Observed 15+ dropping on the floor under the 3 compartment sink, 5+ droppings by the back door window, 20+ droppings on the floor at the front counter, 5+ droppings on the floor under the boba station,”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 2 dead roaches on the floor next to oil filter in the back.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed kitchen storage shelves soiled.”

**FAMILY KITCHEN RESTAURANT AND CATERING

3134 W. COMMERCIAL BLVD.

FORT LAUDERDALE

ORDERED SHUT 8/18

12 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 1 live roach on ground at front door in dining room Observed approximately 15 live roaches in between wall and reach in cooler in dry storage area Observed approximately 20 live roaches on ground and behind chest freezers in dry storage area. Observed approximately 2 live roaches on ground under oven in kitchen. Observed approximately 5 live roaches on ground under 2 door stainless reach in cooler in kitchen.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on oven in kitchen Observed 1 dead roach in 1 door stainless reach in cooler in kitchen.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 2 door stainless: pickles (59F); cooked pork (59F); cooked beans (59F); raw chicken wings (59F); cooked gravy (60F); raw turkey wings (65F); operator states items have been held in unit overnight. Items not prepared or portioned today 1 door stainless: cooked chicken (48F); cooked pork (49F). operator states items have been held in unit overnight. Items not prepared or portioned today 1 door glass in dry storage: cooked chicken (51F); cooked turkey (48F); cooked goat (46F) operator states items have been held in unit overnight. Items not prepared or portioned today. pickles (80F) being held at front counter. Unknown time out of temperature.”

“Required employee training expired for all employees.”

**BOARDWALK BAR & GRILL

31044 AVENUE A

BIG PINE KEY

ORDERED SHUT 8/19

11 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by approximately 10 rodent droppings found on top of dish machine.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Potato cuter blade is soiled.”

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

“In walk-in cooler Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooked rice 56F, cooked broccoli 52F, shredded lettuce 53F items were transfer to another walk-in cooler that is cold holding at 42F or below as per operator these items were in the beer cooler under 4 hours.”

Un páramo subtropical

El área de baja presión ubicada a varios cientos de millas al sureste de Bermuda —designada como Invest 95L— tiene pocas perspectivas más allá de hoy. Aunque podría convertirse en una depresión o tormenta de corta vida, los fuertes vientos de la corriente en chorro la despedazarán y arrastrarán sus restos hacia el Atlántico canadiense entre mañana y el miércoles temprano.

Al igual que Cristobal, la última tormenta con nombre que se formó a mediados de mes en los subtrópicos, esta no sobrevivirá lo suficiente como para aportar mucho al marcador de la temporada. El próximo nombre de la lista es Dolly.

¿La primera tormenta de Cabo Verde de 2026?

El sistema que será el protagonista de la semana es, por ahora, el que no tiene designación de Invest.

La fuerte onda tropical de la que empezamos a hablar en este boletín el miércoles pasado fue incorporada al panorama tropical del NHC el viernes por la noche, tal como habíamos anticipado en el boletín de esa misma mañana.

Es quizás la onda más impresionante que hemos visto salir de la costa africana en lo que va de temporada.

Como suele ocurrir con las ondas tropicales, es probable que pierda algo de fuerza hoy al llegar a las aguas del Atlántico, pero debería recuperar impulso de forma gradual en los próximos días. Con excepción de algo de aire seco al norte y al oeste, el ambiente que tiene por delante esta semana luce razonablemente favorable para su desarrollo, y el Centro Nacional de Huracanes le da 50% de probabilidad de convertirse en depresión o tormenta con nombre antes de que termine la semana.

Los modelos de pronóstico coinciden en general, y el modelo europeo tradicional, basado en física, es el más agresivo al anunciar desarrollo. Su contraparte de inteligencia artificial, en cambio, ha sido más inconsistente con el sistema.

Trayectorias pronosticadas de baja presión hasta el próximo miércoles 2 de septiembre (los próximos 10 días), según el sistema de conjuntos del modelo europeo tradicional, basado en física (arriba), y los conjuntos más nuevos basados en inteligencia artificial (abajo). Los conjuntos sugieren una organización modesta esta semana, pero quizás un desarrollo más significativo la próxima semana al norte de las islas, si el sistema sobrevive al ambiente marginal de estos días. Crédito: weathermodels.com.

Por su parte, el excelente sistema de conjuntos de 1,000 miembros basado en aprendizaje automático de DeepMind, de Google, tiende a coincidir con el criterio del NHC (o el NHC con el suyo), con entre 40 y 50% de probabilidad de desarrollo durante la próxima semana.

Curiosamente, DeepMind plantea una ventana de desarrollo en los próximos días, mientras el sistema pasa al sur de las islas de Cabo Verde, y luego reduce las probabilidades hasta que suba al norte de las islas del Caribe la próxima semana. Tiene sentido desde el punto de vista físico, ya que la cizalladura del viento es más alta y pronunciada desde el Caribe hasta el Atlántico central. Si logra sobrevivir hasta el Atlántico subtropical —al norte de los 20 grados de latitud norte— y al oeste de las islas, la cizalladura impulsada por El Niño deja de ser un problema mayor.

Eso es lo que sugieren también los demás modelos, con la posibilidad de un período de fortalecimiento real —quizás hasta convertirse en el primer huracán de la temporada— sobre el suroeste del Atlántico dentro de una semana aproximadamente. Claro está, eso supone que el sistema se mantenga coherente al atravesar el ambiente marginal de estos días.

Hay tiempo de sobra para seguirle la pista, así que no es algo que debamos preocuparnos por ahora. La amenaza para las islas la próxima semana es baja en este momento, y los modelos indican en su mayoría una trayectoria al norte de ellas.

Sin embargo, como es el primer aspirante real a tormenta de larga trayectoria desde Cabo Verde en esta temporada, vale la pena volver a revisarlo periódicamente durante la semana.

Moke pasa de largo por Hawái

Moke pasó este fin de semana a unas 250 millas al sur de la Isla Grande de Hawái, sin causar daños, como una tormenta tropical en el límite.

Mejor trayectoria preliminar y pronóstico para la ahora depresión tropical Moke. Crédito: Tomer Burg/Polarwx.com.

La Isla Grande se libró de lluvias fuertes generalizadas por Moke: los acumulados más altos hasta ahora no llegan a 2 o 3 pulgadas.

Un aviso de inundación sigue vigente hasta la tarde del lunes, hora local, por las lluvias persistentes sobre terrenos que aún están saturados tras el paso de Lala, aunque los problemas de inundación en las laderas orientadas al este deberían mantenerse localizados.

The official spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly.

Prime Minister Mark Carney had said Saturday that retaliation would target sectors including steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics, but he said Monday that Canada may instead use more targeted measures.

President Donald Trump escalated the dispute again Monday, telling Canadian leaders to “fall in line” or face consequences “far WORSE” than tariffs already imposed and threatening new 50% tariffs on Canadian vehicles, auto parts and steel.

Earlier Monday, Carney accused Washington of trying to subordinate Canada and said U.S. trade demands had confirmed Canada’s fears that the United States was seeking to dismantle major Canadian industries.

“An attitude at the negotiation table that Canada is a subsidiary of the United States” is “not something we’re going to accept,” Carney said.

He said Canada was willing to resume talks when Washington returned with “the right attitude.”

Carney was blunter in French.

“We learned during the negotiations that the Americans want to destroy our major industries, including autos, steel and aluminum,” Carney said. “That was one of the main reasons we said no. It was a bad deal.”

The fiery words from both sides show how U.S.-Canada relations have deteriorated since Carney walked away from trade negotiations with the Trump administration late Friday, triggering the president's threatened 50% tariffs the next day on about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods.

Carney cast doubt on the U.S.'s dependability, saying Canada was finding reliable partners “everywhere in the world, except in the United States. Except in the United States. And Russia.”

Trump unleashes personal attacks on Canadian leaders

On Monday, Trump came back with further tariffs, warning that he would impose them on Canada's auto industry beginning next year.

“Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years,” Trump wrote on social media, criticizing what he called the country’s “ridiculously high tariffs” on American farmers.

Carney said Washington’s auto-sector proposals would gradually have the effect of dismantling Canadian production.

“This is the most successful automotive partnership in history,” Carney said, referring to the deeply integrated Canada-U.S. industry.

Meanwhile, Ontario Premier Doug Ford unleashed his own tirade. In an interview with The Associated Press, he said Trump had underestimated Canadians’ willingness to endure economic pain rather than give in to U.S. pressure.

“We’re all in,” Ford said. “Up here, we’re at a fever pitch; everyone’s in for an economic war. They know they’re going to have to sacrifice.”

Trump responded in a social media post by attacking Ford personally, calling him “the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford,” and once again referring to Canada's prime minister as “Governor Carney.”

Ford dismissed the insults: “If you think an insult from him hurts me? Well, bring it on, buddy, I’m ready.”

Ford is a Progressive Conservative whose party differs from that of Carney, a Liberal, but the two underscore broad political unity in Canada over the trade fight with Trump.

Ford threatens critical minerals and electricity

Ford said “everything is on the table” if the dispute worsens, including cutting off electricity and critical minerals from Ontario.

Critical minerals are increasingly important to U.S. national security and manufacturing. The Pentagon has sought more secure supplies of minerals used in military aircraft, missiles, munitions and electronics as Washington tries to reduce reliance on China, which dominates the mining or processing of several strategically important minerals.

Ford said Canada should also consider increasingly severe retaliation if Trump continues targeting Canadian industries, including oil and potash, while Ontario could raise electricity prices or stop sending power south.

“We power 1.5 million homes and businesses,” Ford said. “Everything’s on the table. I’ll do whatever it takes.”

Ford has used electricity as leverage before. During an earlier phase of the dispute, Ontario imposed a 25% surcharge on electricity exported to Michigan, Minnesota and New York. Trump responded by threatening to double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum before both sides backed away.

Auto industry becomes a central battleground

Ford accused Trump of not simply seeking a better trade deal but aiming to hollow out Canadian industries and move production south.

Ford said Trump wants to make Canada a vassal state.

“He wants to bleed out every single sector and bring them down to the U.S.,” Ford said.

The auto sector is especially important to Ontario, the center of Canada’s vehicle manufacturing industry. Plants and suppliers in Ontario are tightly integrated with factories in Michigan and other U.S. states, with parts routinely crossing the border multiple times during production.

Automakers including Ford, General Motors and Stellantis operate major assembly plants in Ontario, and the wider supply chain supports tens of thousands of jobs. Trump’s new threat of a 50% tariff on Canadian vehicles and parts puts that sector directly at the center of the escalating dispute.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Monday that “the only reason Canada has auto production in the first place” was because of the 1960s Auto Pact, under which Canada used access to its market to encourage vehicle production north of the border.

Ford says he opposed preliminary deal

Ford also disclosed that he had opposed the preliminary agreement Carney was considering before Canada walked away from negotiations, and that he was unwilling to restore American liquor to Ontario store shelves as part of an agreement.

“I wasn’t going to put the booze back on the shelves,” Ford said. “I was ready to go out there and call a press conference … and say I’m not buckling over.”

Ford said he understood Washington had sought language late in the negotiations that would have restricted Canada’s ability to negotiate trade agreements with other countries without U.S. approval. Carney has called that demand unacceptable and a question of Canadian sovereignty.

Carney said the dispute also exposed a deeper divide over language and culture, saying protections for French and Canadian culture that Washington views as trade irritants are considered fundamental rights in Canada.

“Who does he think he is?” Ford said of Trump. “You gotta be kidding.”

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Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim contributed from Washington.

According to the synopsis, the film was shot at night on Tel Aviv rooftops and focuses on the killings of Palestinian civilians. Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor co-directed “Naza,” which was produced by The Guardian and filmmakers behind “The Zone of Interest.” It’s the only documentary competing for the Golden Lion award.

Abraham and Szor were two of the four directors of the 2025 best documentary winner “No Other Land,” the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military. A collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, it was made over four years between 2019 and 2023, wrapping production days before Hamas launched its deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that started the war in Gaza.

“Naza” builds on reporting between 2023 and 2025 published by the Israeli-Palestinian +972 Magazine, the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call and The Guardian.

The war was top of mind at last year’s festival as well, where thousands gathered for a large pro-Palestinian protest during one of the busiest nights in hopes of redirecting the spotlight from the movie stars to the real world. The subject was also prominent in the program: Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” about the death of a 6-year-old girl attempting to flee Gaza City with her family in early 2024, won the festival’s Silver Lion award.

Ben Hania is part of the Maggie Gyllenhaal-led jury that will be selecting the award winners at the festival, which begins on Sept. 2. Winners will be announced on Sept. 12.

Earlier this year, the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition opened with no Golden Lions after the jury quit in protest of Israel’s and Russia’s participation and loud protests outside their pavilions. In 2024 the artist and curators representing Israel at the Venice Biennale kept the Israeli pavilion exhibit closed, saying they would only open it if there were a ceasefire in Gaza.

Harry, who last week announced he and his family were returning to live in the U.K., left the board of trustees after 10 years of service to the organization, a spokesperson for prince confirmed on Monday.

African Parks said in a statement dated Aug. 19 that the prince’s departure was part of a “governance refresh” in which a Kenyan Supreme Court justice and the president of AGRA, which helps small farmers in Africa, will join the board. The changes take effect Sept. 30.

Harry's departure comes four months after the Indigenous rights group Survival International called on him to resign after it alleged human rights abuses by rangers employed by African Parks. Previously, the prince left Sentebale, the charity he co-founded to fight poverty and AIDS in southern Africa, in March 2025 after relations with the organization's chair broke down.

“We extend our thanks to all the members of the Board who generously volunteer their time in support of our conservation mission — and particularly to The Duke of Sussex, for a decade of committed service to African Parks,” Vas Narasimhan, chair of the African Parks board, said in a statement.

Harry and his wife, Meghan, stepped aside from royal duties when they moved to the U.S. They will not return to royal duties and are expected to live in a non-royal residence outside London.

Agricultores del oriente desafiaron el estado de excepción con protestas y anunciaron marchas con tractores para esta semana, según el dirigente del gremio Javier Núñez. “Estamos en plena cosecha de invierno y los perjuicios son enormes, no podemos esperar más las promesas del gobierno”, dijo.

Centenares de agricultores salieron el domingo a protestar con tractores en el oriente para exigir abastecimiento y la derogatoria del ajuste en el diésel.

“El aumento de precio no ha resuelto el problema. Sigue la escasez y el decreto sólo alentará el mercado ilegal de combustibles y el contrabando. La cosecha está demorada y los costos repercutirán en los precios”, acotó Klaus Frerking, el presidente de la Cámara Agropecuaria del Oriente (CAO) que agrupa a grandes y pequeños productores de granos.

El aumento del precio del diésel rige para la industria y los grandes consumidores. El incremento busca acercar el precio al costo de importación para aliviar la fuerte carga sobre las finanzas públicas. La escasez de dólares es la principal causa que impide importar combustibles para cubrir la demanda, admitieron las autoridades.

Paz no ha tenido apariciones públicas desde hace una semana cuando la novia de su exasesor personal Fernando Cerimedo sobrevivió a un ataque armado y acusó a Cerimedo de pretender acallarla implicando a su pareja en presuntos negociados con el gobierno.

Cerimedo permanecerá recluido en un penal de la región de Santa Cruz, en el oriente, por seis meses mientras avanzan las investigaciones y tiene otra causa abierta por supuesto enriquecimiento ilícito.

Paz salió debilitado de las duras protestas de 53 días entre mayo y junio y el escándalo ha golpeado más su imagen. El estado de excepción decretado para aplacar las manifestaciones vence el 17 de septiembre y muchos sectores ya iniciaron protestas que amenazan con recrudecer en los próximos días.

Cerimedo “tenía un rol indeterminado, un poder grande y tomaba decisiones que no eran apropiadas para un asesor extranjero", dijo a The Associated Press el diplomático y exembajador de Bolivia en Estados Unidos, Jaime Aparicio.

Agregó que “nadie quiere que (Paz) se vaya del gobierno, creo que los bolivianos esperan un cambio de timón, un mea culpa a partir del cual pueda hacer los cambios que el país requiere. Es una última oportunidad que tiene el presidente para dar un giro radical”.

Since Watson ruptured his right Achilles tendon the first time in a Week 7 game in 2024, owner Jimmy Haslam had said during last year’s owners' meetings that the Browns “took a big swing and miss” when they sent three first-round picks to Houston for the controversial quarterback in 2022.

After Shedeur Sanders had a solid first half in last Saturday's 31-7 loss to Buffalo, a frustrated Watson said the boos from the crowd were “personal” and showed “disrespect” after he took the field in Cleveland for the first time in 22 months.

Despite the hurdles and a close competition with Sanders, Watson will be the Browns' starting quarterback for their Sept. 13 opener at the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Coach Todd Monken made the announcement Monday after informing Watson and Sanders.

“I took in the full body of work over the course of the offseason to training camp to the games, the joint practice, and ultimately felt like to start the season on the road, Deshaun gave us the best chance to move the ball and score points. I mean, that’s really what it’s about,” Monken said. “I felt that way going into the last game, but wasn’t sure. And after we talked as a staff and we re-looked at everything, we’re going to go that direction.”

Watson, a 10-year veteran, split reps with Sanders with the first unit throughout the offseason, training camp and the preseason.

The decision to start him will not be popular with Browns fans, who have booed Watson repeatedly during his time in Cleveland, and have put a lot of support behind Sanders since he was drafted last year.

Monken reiterated that fan sentiment and Watson’s comments did not play a role in his decision.

“Ultimately, the fans want us to win. That’s our job as coaches, why we’re hired to try and put the best product on the field. And when we don’t, then I understand their frustration. But ultimately they don’t decide who plays. I mean, who would I be if I let someone outside of the building decide who plays?” Monken said.

Watson has started only 19 games for Cleveland since being acquired from Houston and signing a fully guaranteed $230 million contract that will perhaps go down as one of the worst trades and contracts in NFL history. He is 9-10 with the Browns, with 19 touchdown passes, 12 interceptions and an 80.7 passer rating.

In 2022, Watson missed the first 11 games because of a league suspension resulting from his alleged sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions. He made six starts in 2023 before a season-ending shoulder injury and started seven in 2024 before the first of two Achilles tendon injuries.

After Monken's announcement, Watson took responsibility for his comments by saying his emotions got the better of him.

“I’m not a big talker anyway. I think people that know me and around the organization, I just felt like it was what was on my heart,” he said. “It was never intended to go at a certain person, fan base or a certain crowd. It was just, this is how I feel. And once I got it off my chest, I felt better and now I can move forward from it.”

Watson completed 11 of 15 passes for 126 yards and directed two scoring drives working with other starters and the second team during the first half of the preseason opener at Chicago.

“There’s a lot of things, too, that me and (Monken) talking personally that we haven’t showcased. We haven’t showcased my full talent and ability to run in his offense. Being able to run, getting outside the pocket, being able to do some other QB-driven stuff. So I’m excited to see what we can cook up, getting ready for Week 1,” Watson said.

Watson has a 7-1 record against the Jaguars with nine touchdown passes and three interceptions. His last win with the Browns was an 18-13 victory over Jacksonville on Sept. 15, 2024, during which he completed 22 of 34 passes for 186 yards.

After facing Jacksonville, the Browns are at Tampa Bay on Sept. 20 to face former quarterback Baker Mayfield, who was released after Cleveland traded for Watson. The Browns' first home game is Sept. 27 against Carolina.

Sanders has shown steady improvement throughout the offseason. He started the final seven games of his rookie season, going 3-4 with seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions.

Sanders went 9 of 11 for 74 yards with a touchdown and interception during the first half against the Bills last weekend. He completed his first eight throws before he was picked off by Damar Hamlin on a pass he threw behind tight end Jermaine Terry.

He was 6 of 11 for 79 yards with an interception in the second half against the Bears.

Sanders' biggest improvement has been his ability to stand in the pocket as well as move up when he needs to, along with better footwork and decision-making.

Even though Sanders will be on the sideline for the opener, he is likely to start at some point this season.

“I think he has come to understand the long game. What are we really in this for? What am I in it for? To have the Browns be an organization that people aspire to be. The long game. Where do we want to be in the long term?” Monken said.

Watson and Sanders will not play in Thursday's final preseason game against the New England Patriots. Dillon Gabriel and rookie Taylen Green will get the snaps as they compete for the third QB spot.

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Brown’s contract was set to expire at the end of the season. Senior adviser Jeff Bagwell and assistant general managers Charles Cook, Gavin Dickey and Connor Huff will take over Brown’s responsibilities while team owner Jim Crane will oversee baseball operations during the transition.

The move comes after the Astros went 3-6 on a homestand that ended Sunday to fall into a tie with the Texas Rangers for the AL West lead.

Brown had been the team’s general manager since January 2023.

“Over the past four seasons, Dana has helped our organization win two division titles and has led our baseball front office through key scouting, draft and development efforts,” Crane said in a statement. “On behalf of the Astros, I want to thank him for his commitment, energy, and contributions to our organization. We wish he and his family the best.”

Brown came to Houston after four seasons as vice president of scouting for the Atlanta Braves to replace James Click, who was not given a new contract and left the Astros just days after they won the 2022 World Series.

“I want to thank Jim Crane for the opportunity to serve in my first role as an MLB General Manager,” Brown said. “The Astros organization and the fans have welcomed me and my family, and I am grateful to have called Houston home for the past four seasons. I wish the organization well and I look forward to the future as I continue my 36-plus years in professional baseball.”

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Adilet, which is led by the former head of Tokayev’s presidential administration, won 71% of Sunday's vote, Kazakhstan’s central electoral commission said, according to preliminary results.

The second-place Auyl Party won 6.26% of the vote, with three other parties – the Nationwide Social Democratic Party, Respublica and Aq Jol – reaching the 5% threshold needed to win a place in parliament.

Election monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the vote was marred by a lack of distinct political opposition, with “all contesting parties supporting the incumbent president’s policies.”

Some 74% of the country’s 12.6 million eligible voters took part in the election, the central electoral commission said. Officials tried to boost turnout by having some voters travel to the polls by parachutes and hot air balloons.

The election was the first to choose lawmakers for the new single-chamber parliament, known as the Kurultai. It is the culmination of a constitutional overhaul initiated by Tokayev in March, when 87% of voters supported a referendum to merge the two chambers of parliament.

The vote also gave the president authority to appoint key officials, subject to lawmakers' approval.

Last month, Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court ruled that the amendments effectively reset the clock on Tokayev’s previous terms in office, clearing the way for him to seek another seven-year term when his mandate expires in 2029.

The decision echoes those seen in several former Soviet republics, including Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, where leaders have used new or amended constitutions to revise statutory term limits.

The 73-year-old Tokayev, a former Soviet official and Kazakh diplomat who previously worked at the United Nations, has been in office since 2019.

He has sought to maintain a balance between Moscow and the West since sanctions were imposed on Russia over the war in Ukraine. Tokayev has justified the constitutional changes by citing the need for rapid decision-making in a fast-changing world.

The election comes at a difficult economic moment for Kazakhstan, where inflation hit 10.2% in February and tax increases have fueled public discontent.

Analysts say the economic strain has made authorities wary of a repeat of the unrest of January 2022, when fuel price protests spiraled into violence that left dozens of protesters and police officers dead — a scenario Tokayev is seeking to guard against by concentrating power in his own hands.

The vote also took place against a backdrop of intensifying crackdowns on press freedom. Media organizations have urged Tokayev to drop criminal charges against several journalists under house arrest and to revise legislation to ensure freedom of speech. Authorities have opened roughly 10 criminal cases against independent journalists and popular bloggers.

Ministry of Health data showed that as of Saturday, the outbreak had recorded 5,514 cases and 2,642 deaths, including 317 deaths reported in the previous seven days. But Congolese experts have said the outbreak that started weeks before it was confirmed could be three times the known size.

This is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, with many people dying outside treatment centers. It has recorded seven times more deaths at this stage than the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak that is the deadliest in history with over 11,000 in all.

Most new cases in Ituri province, the current epicenter, still come from outside monitored contacts.

Nearly half of people infected have died — 47.9% — but the government data shows much higher rates in hard-to-reach areas such as North Kivu province, which has a fatality rate of 68.6%.

Frontline workers to receive vaccine used in past outbreaks

A key challenge has been the lack of approved vaccines or treatments for the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for the outbreak.

On Friday, Congo received more than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine that was effective in past Ebola outbreaks caused by a different, more common type. The World Health Organization says it also will be used in clinical trials for a Bundibugyo virus vaccine.

WHO says it’s not known whether Ervebo can protect against the Bundibugyo virus, although early laboratory and animal data suggest it may offer some protection.

Officials have not said when the vaccine will be rolled out to frontline workers. In Ituri, locals expressed optimism that it will help slow the outbreak.

“I am very pleased that these vaccines have finally arrived,” said Héritier Ramazani, a resident. “We are fed up with recording new cases of Ebola every day.”

The outbreak is unfolding in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable, with rebel threats and intense population movements.

Medical teams in Ituri and other affected provinces also face work stoppages by responders who haven’t been paid, anger from long-traumatized communities, bad roads and misinformation claiming that Ebola isn’t real.

Experts believe the virus was spreading in the mining town of Mongbwalu as early as February, months before authorities declared the outbreak on May 15.

Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility, even an inevitability.

Warning about an “extreme of extremes” or the “Other Big One,” a play off the California reference of a big future earthquake, can be fraught. After all, nobody can say for sure when a weather catastrophe may happen. But in the last few years, the planetary ingredients needed for a massive disturbance have been building. And alarm is growing.

“The risk is that people just think you are exaggerating,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the California Institute for Water Resources. “It's the ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf’ problem. Sometimes wolves are real. If it’s outside the door, wouldn’t you want to know?”

The risks have been known, and building, for over 150 years

In the 1850s, while living in Seneca Falls, New York, amateur scientist Eunice Newton Foote did a series of experiments that put different substances, including carbon dioxide and moist air, inside glass cylinders and left them in the sun. What she found was extraordinary: cylinders with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is released when coal, gas or oil is burned, heated up faster and took longer to cool after the sun went down.

Fast-forward: Today, Earth is being heated by massive amounts of greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere, leading to a gradual rise in average global temperature. That increase, 1.44 degrees Celsius (2.59 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer in 2025 compared to the early 1800s, leads to more frequent, and more intense, extreme weather events.

The country that has released the most greenhouse gas, and thus contributed most to climate change, is the United States. But don't expect recognition of that, much less major government-led efforts to combat it, as the country marks its 250th birthday. President Donald Trump has called climate change “the greatest con job ever," referred to climate policies as a “Green New Scam” and said U.N. climate predictions were made by “stupid people.”

At any given time there are numerous extreme weather events happening around the globe. Indeed, some have already been so big that we have arguably entered an age of extremes.

Consider Australia's “Black Summer” of wildfires in 2019 and 2020, when 19 million hectares (over 46 million acres) were scorched. Or Pakistan in 2022, when flooding left a third of the country under water. Or Hurricanes Milton and Helene in 2024, which ravaged parts of the southern United States. That is to say nothing of periodic smaller disasters, such as last year's Texas floods that engulfed young campers; the Los Angeles wildfires that chewed through entire neighborhoods; and Typhoon Kalmaegi, which walloped Vietnam and the Philippines.

Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climate scientist at Australian National University, says she had a “come to Jesus moment" when she realized that constant extreme weather events wouldn't stop even if the world could immediately reach net zero, the point when as much greenhouse gas is taken out of the atmosphere as released into it. Many countries and major companies have net-zero targets for 2050 or beyond.

Because carbon dioxide can remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, and so much has already built up, the damage could take centuries to reverse. And we keep adding more.

“It's the issue of the frog in the boiling water," said Perkins-Kirkpatrick. "If we get used to bracing ourselves, are we going to notice?”

What's clear is that no country is truly prepared for a major climate disaster, and the risks are changing.

Robinson, whose book was published in 2020, says if he were writing today he would include a chapter on wildfires, which have become larger and more destructive. And while the potential heat disaster he writes about in India would arguably be less likely today, thanks to less reliance on the grid and use of solar power, Robinson believes the risks of catastrophe have increased.

The book, he says, “still has a purpose."

People have a natural aversion to contemplating worst case scenarios

It's basic psychology to avoid talking about uncomfortable things. Climate change, depressing and overwhelming, falls into that category.

Instead of taking action by radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or updating our infrastructure to live in a world altered by extreme weather events, a common response, from governments to individuals has largely been to ignore it. Part of the challenge is the care scientists must take when discussing extreme events.

It's impossible to say, for example, that a disaster will happen in a certain year or even decade. But modeling improves every year, and the amount of time between extreme events is shrinking.

Sonia Seneviratne is a Swiss climatologist who vice chairs a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the top U.N. body of climate scientists. Seneviratne likens the risk to smoking and lung cancer. People who smoke won't necessarily get lung cancer, but the chances are higher and doctors should say that. Similarly, the risk of massive extreme events rises with every tenth of a degree.

“If such an event happened, I could already see the criticism of people saying, ‘Climate scientists didn’t tell us,’" Seneviratne said. "But we did.”

While earthquakes are not connected to climate change, the way many cities in earthquake-prone California have prepared for a potential Big One is as an example of what's possible. Central to that effort has been Lucy Jones, a seismologist and author of “The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them).”

In 2014, Jones, then with the U.S. Geological Survey, worked with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's administration in developing an initiative that produced widespread retrofitting and earthquake preparedness in LA, and then later in other California cities. Two years later, she formed a nonprofit that advises on preparing for earthquakes and other disasters.

Jones says people will make changes if they believe risks are real and solutions are possible. Without that belief, the response will likely be to ignore the issue.

“Climate denial is one way of coping," said Jones. She said people rationalize by thinking, 'I won’t believe it’s true, so I’ll feel safer.’”

In the movies, the final resolution is often extreme — and not helpful

Over the last quarter century, many movies have focused on extreme weather events, which provide action and danger to any plot. The cinematic portrayals usually have one of two endings: everything will be okay or we are doomed.

Consider two popular climate movies that came out 15 years apart. In the 2004 “The Day After Tomorrow,” Jack Hall, played by Dennis Quaid, is a climate scientist who, speaking at a U.N. climate conference in Delhi, urges a major reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, warning that a failure to do so will lead to major extreme weather events.

“The climate is fragile," says Hall.

“The economy is fragile,” responds the U.S. vice president.

Shortly after, the disaster that Hall warns about happens. Melting polar ice halts the North Atlantic Current, which moves warm ocean currents northeast across the Atlantic. There are giant cyclones, massive hailstones, heavy flooding and tornadoes before a big freeze takes over — so cold that anybody outside dies.

Eventually the vice president, who has become president, apologizes to the nation for exploiting nature.

“We were wrong," he says.

In the 2021 satire “Don't Look Up,” two astronomers played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence discover a giant comet heading toward Earth. They try to spur action to avoid annihilation. The U.S. president, played by Meryl Streep, isn't interested.

“At this exact moment, I think we sit tight and assess,” Streep says after learning the comet is heading straight toward Earth.

“How big is this thing? Can it destroy my ex-wife's house?” jokes a television news host.

At the end, almost everybody dies, a scenario that even the worst predictions of climate impacts don't envision.

Science tells us catastrophe is not a question of if, but when

As powerful as extreme weather events have already gotten, much worse is likely to come. It’s basic physics.

More than half all greenhouse gases produced by humans throughout history have been released into the atmosphere over 50 years. Those gases create heat, which scrambles weather patterns and ecosystems.

The when of a major climatic event, or more likely several in different parts of the world, can't be known with certainty. A catastrophic event in any given area could be in 50 years, or 10 years, or sooner.

People who deny climate change is real will point out that scientists get projections wrong, and it's true that not every climate model has been correct. But over the last decades, if anything, climate scientists have been too conservative. Climate impacts are happening much faster than predicted.

One of many examples: in January 2022, the U.K. Climate Risk Assessment said there was a 0.02% chance of 40C (104F) or above heat before 2040. That summer, parts of the U.K. topped 40C.

We have also reached a moment when “tipping points" — when deterioration of a given planetary system has crossed a threshold from which it can't recover — are no longer positioned as theoretical or futuristic.

The most commonly cited is corals. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, between 2023 and 2025, 84% of the world's corals suffered the expelling of microscopic algae in response to heat stress, which often leads to dying. Even if temperatures were to sharply drop, the recovery of most corals is doubtful.

The Amazon rainforest, which stores massive amounts of carbon dioxide and helps regulate the climate, is also at risk of a tipping point. Persistent drought, large wildfires and deforestation to make way for cattle have degraded swaths of forest in recent decades. The debate today is when, not if, the Amazon will release more carbon dioxide than it holds.

This year's El Niño, a natural and periodic warming cycle, is expected to be the strongest ever recorded, which could push temperatures even higher, breaking records and leaving damage along the way.

Overall, the Earth is on a dangerous path.

“We need to be talking about some of the worst things that can happen,” said Tim Lenton, climate science professor at the University of Exeter. “It’s natural to think that some bigger shocks are on the way.”

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said concerns about the New World screwworm's spread lessened enough to allow the movement of cattle from Mexico at a crossing in Douglas, Arizona, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) southeast of Phoenix. Over time, it hopes to reopen other crossings in New Mexico and Texas.

“Today, the border in Sonora is open for livestock,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said during a Monday morning news conference in Mexico City, referring to the Mexican state bordering Arizona.

Cattle were coming across the border by mid-afternoon Monday.

Beef prices clearly are a concern for President Donald Trump, who announced Friday that he would allow up to 331,000 tons (300,000 metric tons) of imported ground beef into the U.S., tariff-free, to be sold at below-market prices over the next 90 days. In February, the White House said closing the border to livestock imports from Mexico more than a year ago was “essential” to containing the screwworm but it has exacerbated a shortage of cattle for slaughter in the U.S.

“The administration obviously has a lot of incentive to try to be able to say that they’re doing something about high beef prices in particular,” said Derrell Peel, a professor of agribusiness at Oklahoma State University. “Beef has been singled out because it is an expensive product and because it’s just high profile.”

The Trump administration closed the border to cattle imports in May 2025 as part of its response to the screwworm, a parasite with flesh-eating larvae that can infest and even kill cattle or other animals. The move came as the U.S. already was struggling to meet beef demand, thanks to a cattle herd that has been shrinking for five years and now is the smallest in decades.

Because the USDA plans a phased reopening of the border, it will take months for Mexican imports to return to their traditional levels, Peel said. Mexico has traditionally provided 1.1 million head, or about 3% of the U.S. cattle supply.

“I don’t expect to see any measurable impact on cattle prices or beef prices soon,” Peel said.

The smallest US herd in decades fueled record prices

The USDA reported that on Jan. 1, the U.S. cattle herd had dropped to 86.2 million head, the lowest figure in 75 years. Beef prices skyrocketed over the past five years, rising significantly faster than food prices as a whole, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The average price of a pound (453 grams) of ground beef rose nearly 57% from July 2021 to July 2026, from $4.39 to $6.89 — hitting a peak of $6.90 in May — with a 10% increase over the previous year. Food prices have risen about 25% overall in those five years, according to the bureau's numbers.

The price for a pound of uncooked steak rose 35% over the past five years, reaching a record $13.06 per pound in July, also 10% higher than a year before.

But Glynn Tonsor, a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, said the potential effect on beef prices from the smaller supply of cattle was lessened because the U.S. beef industry is more efficient and has been able to get more meat from each animal than in past years.

The USDA says the reopening starts at a safe spot

U.S. government and industry officials view the New World screwworm fly as a major threat to the nation's $113 billion cattle industry. It was an annual warm-weather scourge for U.S. ranchers from at least the 1930s through the 1960s, until the U.S. largely eradicated it. The fly was contained for years near the Panama Canal, but returned to southern Mexico in late 2024 and advanced toward the U.S., with the first case in Texas since 1966 reported June 3.

Since then, more than 40 cases have been confirmed in southern Texas and southeastern New Mexico, with infestations of cattle, sheep, goats and dogs.

In her July announcement of plans for a phased reopening of the border, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said it was possible to start with an Arizona crossing because the northern Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua had stronger animal health programs than other parts of Mexico. She also said each animal would be inspected and declared free of the parasite before crossing the border.

U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman said the USDA is taking a “careful, science-based” approach to reopening the border and imposing strong animal health protocols.

“This is an important step for America’s cattle producers, especially our feeders in the border states,” Boozman, an Arkansas Republican, said in a statement. “Restoring this long-standing trade is critical to strengthening our cattle supply and supporting a healthy, competitive beef industry.”

Drought, low prices led to the smallest US herd in 75 years

Drought in cattle-producing regions of the U.S. is a major reason the national herd is so small, said David Anderson, professor of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University. If grass doesn’t grow, cattle have nothing to graze upon, forcing ranchers to sell them off. Low cattle prices over the past two decades also are a factor.

“Where we are today is sort of the culmination of some 18, 19, 20 years of very low cattle prices,” he said. “That forces us to reduce our herds. Drought forces us to reduce them even further.”

The shortage of cattle also has left beef processing plants operating below capacity.

Tyson Foods, one of the nation's largest meat processors, announced in November that it was reorganizing its beef operations and closing a plant in Lexington, Nebraska, about 220 miles (354 kilometers) southwest of Omaha. Earlier this month, it announced plans to close a plant in Utah outside Salt Lake City and another in Illinois about 150 miles (241 kilometers) southeast of Chicago.

In June, another major U.S. processor, JBS USA, announced plans to close beef plants in Memphis and outside Philadelphia, though it later said it would keep some operations at the Pennsylvania plant to preserve 400 jobs there.

Rebuilding the U.S. herd — and ultimately lowering prices — likely will take years, largely because a cow typically has only one calf a year, Peel said. In addition, breeding a heifer keeps her out of the food supply, tightening it further as the herd is rebuilt.

Peel said prices will remain high for some time and for elected officials, “There’s nothing you can do.”

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The decision appears to leave room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s order. And with some states beginning to send mail ballots to voters in just a few weeks, time is running short to impose major changes.

Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that new U.S. secondary sanctions in the pipeline aim to block all potential sources of revenue for Iran, telling nations to cut economic ties to Tehran or face U.S. retaliation. Tehran has withstood nearly five decades of punishing American sanctions. Ahead of the announcement, Iran’s currency hit a record low, dropping to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets.

Trump threatened on Monday to impose a 50% tariff on Canadian automobiles, car parts and steel starting next year as the trade rift with Ottawa continued to deepen. The announcement comes after trade talks between the otherwise reliable trading partners collapsed last week. Long-planned U.S. tariffs on various Canadian goods went into effect after the talks broke off, and Canada has vowed to retaliate.

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In Oregon, where ballots are sent to voters by mail, the state’s top Democratic officials are vowing to continue their legal fight against Trump’s executive order.

“Should USPS unlawfully attempt to interfere with Oregon’s vote-by-mail process, AG Rayfield will immediately sue to stop that threat,” the officials said in a statement, referring to state Attorney General Dan Rayfield.

Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read said in the statement that elections will “proceed as planned this November, free from any illegal federal interference.”

“We will continue to challenge this over-reaching executive order in court with the Attorney General when the time is right,” Read said.

Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs against US on Tuesday, official tells AP

Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs against the United States on Tuesday, an official familiar with the plans told The Associated Press, escalating a trade fight that has sharply worsened since negotiations with the Trump administration collapsed.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly.

Carney said Monday that Canada may need to move away from matching U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar and instead use more targeted retaliation, saying officials were reviewing options aimed at protecting Canadian workers and businesses.

Trump escalated the dispute again Monday, telling Canadian leaders to “fall in line” or face consequences “far WORSE” than tariffs already imposed and threatening new 50% tariffs on Canadian vehicles, auto parts and steel.

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Trump moves toward levying new tariff on China, AP sources say

The new tariff being weighed would penalize the world’s second-largest economy for flooding the global market with underpriced goods, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Two of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations still being finalized, said Trump is considering setting the new tariff at 7.5%.

It’s a level administration officials believe would not endanger the one-year trade truce between Washington and Beijing or a planned White House meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping expected to take place in late September.

The move, if finalized, appears to be a calibrated effort by the White House to work around a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that struck down Trump’s plan to implement a sweeping, high-tariff scheme not seen since the 1930s.

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The spend of nearly $830,000 came as Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman wrapped up their compressed campaigns to win the GOP nomination in a special primary to replace late Sen. Lindsey Graham on November ballots.

Tuesday’s Senate runoff tests the heft of both a famous political last name and the endorsement of Trump, who is backing Darline Graham and campaigned in the state for her days ahead of the vote.

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Supreme Court clears the way for Trump mail voting order in advance of midterms

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much his administration can implement before the fast-approaching midterm elections.

The decision appears to leave room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s order. And with some states beginning to send mail ballots to voters in just a few weeks, time is running short to impose major changes.

Mail balloting has long been a favorite target for Trump, who has claimed that it breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and his own use of the voting method.

The case could be one of multiple voting-related challenges before the justices. The Justice Department had filed an emergency appeal asking the high court to allow work on implementing the changes before the midterms.

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US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say

The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges.

Unless challenged or revised, the State Department is expected to announce in the coming weeks the revocation of so-called B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to State Department documents obtained by The Associated Press and two U.S. officials. The action will be taken in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.

“We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently,” said State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott.

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Hegseth won’t rule out a return to striking Iran

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is not ruling out resuming strikes to hit Iran amid a lull in hostilities.

“By no means are we foreclosing using kinetic strikes, anywhere, in the Strait of Hormuz or around Iran,” Hegseth told reporters Monday.

It comes as the Treasury Department has announced a new round of sanctions aimed at Iran and warned nations that do business with the Islamic Republic to sever those financial ties or face retaliation from the United States.

Hegseth said that “if Iran is foolish enough to overplay their hand or mess with the American military, we’ll do what we need to do” but he added that “economic pressure we know hurts them the most right now.”

Pentagon won’t cut money for weapons if Congress shrinks military budget, Hegseth says

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will proceed with efforts to significantly boost production of advanced weapons, even if it Congress fails to approve President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion budget.

Hegseth said the Pentagon has already inked multiyear deals with various contractors, with many scaling up manufacturing capacity.

“This is not a nip around the margins of a few more weapons,” Hegseth told reporters in Wisconsin. “This is a generational investment of 2X, 3X, 4X war munitions of the ones we know we’re going to need and use.”

U.S. military officials and Washington think tanks have raised concerns that the U.S. depleted many advanced weapons during the Iran war. But Hegseth pushed back, repeating the Pentagon’s stance that the U.S. military has plenty of munitions.

Treasury sanctions nearly 60 Iran-linked entities worldwide on nuclear, missile, cyber and oil networks

The Treasury announced sanctions Monday against nearly 60 Iran-linked entities over their roles in Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, malign cyber activities and oil shipments.

It is part of the administration’s economic campaign against Iran, including warnings to other countries not to do business with Iran in sectors such as shipping, technology and aviation.

The Treasury sanctioned Hong Kong-based Sweet Ocean Industrial Limited and its associated personnel and businesses, accusing them of helping Iran acquire sensitive goods such as laser optics equipment. The Treasury also sanctioned several other Hong Kong-based entities for having provided funds to Sweet Ocean and its network.

Separately, the Treasury sanctioned China-based Shenzhen Huamei, the Hong Kong branch of the Iran-based logistics company BRE Line and its director for their ties with BRE Line in support of Iran’s missile and nuclear programs.

A sanctioned company is cut off from the U.S. financial system.

Trump plays Pied Piper to show off his ballroom

At the end of a Back to School event near the Rose Garden, the president invited the crowd — which included dozens of children — to accompany him and see the White House ballroom being built nearby.

“If anybody would like to walk with me,” Trump said, calling it “a special way the kids could see construction.”

The president added: “I love the sound of construction.”

Trump has taken to calling the project a “ballroom slash military complex.” He noted that Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting soon and recalled his own visit to China in May.

“We saw the Great Hall of China,” Trump said. “Well, now we’re going to have a great hall, too, in the United States.”

Trump hosts education event in Rose Garden

The president’s main public event Monday is a back-to-school event featuring Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

Many schoolchildren are in the audience during the outdoor event.

“What a nice setting this is,” Trump remarked.

US formally removes Syria from state sponsors of terrorism list

The Trump administration on Monday formally removed Syria from the State Department’s “State Sponsor of Terrorism” blacklist, making permanent a series of sanctions removals that had been initially announced more than a month ago.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio had announced the recission of Syria from the list in early July, but there was a 45-day period for congressional review before it was formalized. That review period has now expired and sanctions related to the state sponsor designation have been almost completely removed, the State and Treasury departments said on Monday.

“Treasury is following through on President Trump’s promise to give the Syrian people a chance at greatness,” Bessent said in a statement. “Today’s action will help foster additional investment in Syria to promote political and economic stability.”

Bessent says no country is ‘above the reach of US sanctions’

When asked that the U.S. could go soft on China to maintain the fragile trade truce between the world’s two largest economies, Bessent said “no one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions”

“If they facilitate transactions and are part of the ecosystem that turns Iranian oil into money, into repression, they will be targeted,” Bessent said.

Experts have said the U.S. is likely to carefully calibrate its actions on China, just a month before Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to visit the U.S. to keep the already-fraught relations from falling out.

The Trump administration is challenged to act big with Iran “without escalating tensions with Beijing,” said Wendy Cutler, vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.

Bessent says its giving Iran’s trading partners a chance ‘to remedy bad behavior’

Asked by a reporter Monday about issuing warnings to Tehran’s financial partners instead of promising an ‘economic D-Day’, the Treasury secretary said he wanted countries to shift away from Iran before it was too late.

“Why would I want to blow up the global financial system?” Bessent said. “We believe that it is important to level set and give people a cure period.”

He added, “But they should know that that will move very quickly and that we are serious. Secondary sanctions are a very powerful tool.”

Bessent doesn’t name names, but insists US is making its expectations clear on Iran trade

The treasury secretary said Trump has been “making phone calls to world leaders with specific request to cease their interactions” with Iran and has already seen results.

The UAE announced last week that it was suspending all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran until further notice.

“I am confident the president, as you all know, is quite persuasive,” Bessent said.

Bessent said that Treasury and State Department officials are following up with calls and visits with officials from countries and entities it wants to see take action and laying out “exactly what we expect and the timelines.”

Iran’s parliament speaker dismisses impact of looming US sanctions

Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf on Monday said Iran’s trading partners were not taking Washington’s “statements into account,” even as the country’s economy reels from months of war and mounting pressure.

“Americans know that no one buys their bombast,” Qalibaf said in a post on X, saying that the United States was “not in an economic position to further restrict its relations with other countries.”

His comments came as Washington prepared to expand secondary sanctions targeting countries and companies doing business with Iran, in an effort to isolate Tehran from the global dollar-based financial system.

Bessent warns nations they can no longer operate in ‘gray zone’ of Iran conflict

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says new U.S. secondary sanctions in the pipeline aim to block all potential sources of revenue for Iran, telling nations to cut economic ties to Tehran or face U.S. retaliation.

Bessent added it’s “no longer acceptable to operate in the gray spaces” of Iran conflict as US threaten sanctions against Tehran’s trade partners.

The treasury secretary did not name what countries could face potential secondary sanctions from the United States, but China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are Iran’s largest trade partners.

“Let there be no ambiguity as to the position of the United States,” Bessent said at a Monday afternoon news conference. “An economic engagement of any kind with this murderous regime will expose those responsible to the full reach of American power.”

Vance calls Canada ‘a state’ but says doing so was an accident

Asked about the Trump administration escalating a trade war with Canada when Maine depends so heavily on cross-border trade, the vice president said, “Canada is a state” but then added, “Sorry. Freudian slip.”

As the crowd laughed and hooted, Vance added, “That was actually an accident.”

He likened Canada to China in what he called unfair trade practices, saying that “Canada allows itself to be a backdoor for Chinese goods” that eventually are imported into the U.S.

Vance said negotiations between Canada and the U.S. were ongoing and that he thought there’d have been an agreement easing trade disputes by now — but Canada had made “unreasonable” demands.

Vance gives shoutout to ‘our very independent friend, Susan Collins’

Republican Sen. Susan Collins was not accompanying Vice President JD Vance during his manufacturing stop in Brewer, Maine on Monday.

But he still made sure that her presence was felt.

“Whenever I’m in Maine, I got to give Susan a little bit of crap,” Vance told the crowd as he began his remarks. “Because as you know, Susan is the most independent member of the United States Senate, and as the president of the United States Senate, she sometimes makes my job just a little bit harder.”

Vance said Collins, who is up for reelection in the Democratic-leaning state, has visited the vice president’s residence about a half-dozen times. In those meetings, Vance said, Collins is constantly pressing him about how certain policies affect her state.

Vance ended his brief aside on the senator by asking the crowd to give a shoutout to “our very independent friend, Susan Collins.”

The Washington Post must reinstate a Black writer fired for posting about Charlie Kirk

“After wrongfully firing me last year, an independent arbitrator has ordered the @washingtonpost to reinstate me immediately, with back pay,” Karen Attiah posted on Instagram on Monday, calling it “a victory for journalists everywhere.”

The ruling found insufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, the last Black full-time member of the Post’s opinion desk at the time.

Kirk, a top conservative podcaster and Trump ally, made provocative statements about race, gender and politics, including calling George Floyd, whose 2020 murder at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked protests, a “scumbag.”

Kirk’s killing on Sept. 10 elicited a torrent of comments, and some who spoke out against him faced sanctions or dismissal at work. One post Attiah made said “Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence.”

A Post statement said it respects the arbitration process and declined further comment.

The tour on Monday revealed plans for PGA Tour Charities ahead of the season-ending Tour Championship, which has a $40 million purse that awards $10 million to the winner.

Along with building its charity strategy around national campaigns with a more local impact, the PGA Tour is prepared to make up any difference, if needed, to maintain charity levels from tournaments that move down to the Challenger Series in the 2028 schedule.

“This next chapter is about generating even more focus, coordination, resources and visibility,” said Laura Neal, executive vice president of PGA Tour Strategic Philanthropy. “Launching an evolved PGA Tour Charities — with a legacy-defining, transformative gift from the Finchems — is an exciting next step in golf's enduring commitment to giving back.”

The PGA Tour long has been the charitable leader in sports with a mechanism that has enabled its tournaments to generate more than $4.4 billion, all starting with a $10,000 donation at the 1938 Palm Beach Invitational. Each tournament operates independently and that doesn't change.

PGA Tour Charities will launch and fund national priority campaigns around such themes as health, youth, access and service. The idea is to connect with tournaments on a broader scale when their missions align, which the tour hopes can attract new resources and raise visibility.

Lucas Glover, the Player Advisory Council chairman who joins the PGA Tour board next year, is leading a committee of players to help shape the initiatives.

“How I grew up on the tour ... what we hung our hat on as an organization was giving back,” Glover said. "With COVID and then LIV coming in, it became more about money in our pocket instead of money in the pocket of people who need it more than we do. It never went away. It just got put on the back burner, and it's time we put it back on the forefront of our minds.

“When we talk about the PGA Tour, it shouldn't be how much we're making, how much we're playing for,” he said. "It should be about what we're doing in the communities where we play.”

PGA Tour Enterprises was launched as a for-profit commercial venture in January 2024 with an investment of up to $3 billion from Strategic Sports Group, which led to players receiving equity for the first time. The nonprofit PGA Tour still operates tournament and regulations. PGA Tour Enterprises is geared toward global business, commercial sponsorship and media rights.

The charitable engine doesn't stop for groups like the Thunderbirds (WM Phoenix Open), Copperheads (Valspar Championship) or the Salesmanship Club of Dallas (The CJ Cup Byron Nelson). Tournaments typically donate all net proceeds — operation costs offset by national and local sponsorship — to local charities.

It has been key for attracting thousands of volunteers — the backbone of golf tournaments — who feel like they are contributing to their communities because of the charitable function.

What the tour wants to emphasize with PGA Tour Charities is a dedicated platform for direct community investment that gives players, corporate partners, tournaments and fans a clear way to get involved. The Finchems' donation was seen as a catalyst.

“The PGA Tour family, its players, fans and communities have meant so much to us for so long, and we feel a connection to the golf world that endures to this day,” Holly Finchem said. “This donation to PGA Tour Charities, as it is reimagined for future generations of impact, is more than a capstone on Tim’s unwavering commitment to charity. It is a celebration of our belief in this great game and the PGA Tour. We can’t wait to see all the good this gift will inspire.”

His wife separately in a letter published in the digital magazine Global Golf Post disclosed that Tim Finchem has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Finchem, the tour's third commissioner, oversaw massive growth during his tenure from 1994 until retiring in 2016, much of that seizing on the arrival of Tiger Woods. Along with a sharp increase in TV contracts and prize money, he helped to create The First Tee in 1997.

Finchem was commissioner when charitable donations of PGA Tour events topped $1 billion in 2005 and $2 billion in 2014.

Meanwhile, the PGA Tour disclosed Monday the remaining $2.5 million charity donation from Brooks Koepka — he was required to donate $5 million as part of his return from LIV Golf — is being equally allocated to charities designated by nearly 100 players.

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It brings the overall death toll to 223 people killed in 67 strikes during the nearly yearlong U.S. campaign of bombing alleged drug boats off Latin America’s Caribbean coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command says the campaign has resulted in the destruction of 64 speedboats, three “low-profile” ships and a semisubmersible craft.

The command said on social media early Monday that forces “executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narcotrafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific.” The military said the strike occurred Sunday, and it marked the first since powerful back-to-back June 24 earthquakes in Venezuela killed thousands of people.

As with most of the military’s statements, Southern Command did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.

“We are committed to imposing total systemic friction on narco-terrorists — disrupting their operations, dismantling their leadership, and eliminating cartel terror across the region,” said Gen. Francis Donovan, who leads U.S. Southern Command.

The latest strike comes as the Trump administration pursues deals with allied nations to extend its offensive to land across multiple Latin American countries. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a visit to Panama this month that Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras had agreed to allow the U.S. to carry out joint military operations against criminal groups on their soil. Guatemala denied reaching such a deal.

Ecuador launched similar missions with the U.S. in March.

The Trump administration's boat bombing campaign began in early September and has left numerous survivors, but most of them have never been recovered.

U.S. Southern Command said in a separate statement Monday that there have been more than 20 search and rescue efforts overall, almost all of which were unsuccessful.

According to data compiled from the command's social media posts, the strikes have generated 28 survivors with only three people ever being rescued — one person during a strike in March who was transferred to the Costa Rican Coast Guard, and two wounded people who were later repatriated to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia.

The very first strike in September 2025 left two survivors who were killed in a second, follow-up strike. When that became public, it drew concern from some lawmakers and those who study military law. The White House insisted it was done “in self-defense” to ensure the boat was destroyed and in accordance with armed conflict laws.

But some legal scholars said a second strike killing survivors would have been illegal under any circumstance, armed conflict or not.

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and fatal overdoses claiming American lives. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing “narcoterrorists.”

Critics have questioned the overall legality of the boat strikes as well as their effectiveness, in part because the fentanyl behind many fatal overdoses is typically trafficked to the U.S. over land from Mexico, where it is produced with chemicals imported from China and India.

The Pentagon’s watchdog said in May that it plans to look into whether the U.S. military followed an established targeting framework when carrying out the strikes. However, the evaluation is focused specifically on what’s known as the six-phase Joint Targeting Cycle and not on the legality of the strikes, the inspector general’s office said.

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The contest between two Democrats will further reduce an already thin Republican majority in the U.S. House.

The finalists for the seat are former Gwinnett County School Board Chair Everton Blair and Marcye Scott, daughter of the late congressman. They were the top two vote-getters among five contenders in the July 28 all-party special election. Scott received about 46% of the vote, compared to about 38% for Blair.

The winner will serve out the remaining few months of David Scott’s final term. Neither candidate is running in for the next full term in this seat, which begins on Jan. 3, 2027.

Blair was the only candidate in the special election who also ran for the full-term seat. He placed third in the May 19 Democratic primary with about 12% of the vote. State Rep. Jasmine Clark won the primary with 56% of the vote and will face Republican Jonathan Chavez in November. Chavez, who ran unopposed for the GOP nomination, challenged David Scott in the 2024 general election and received about 28% of the vote.

Clark did not file to compete in the special election. Doing so would have required her to resign from her seat in the state Legislature just as Republican Gov. Brian Kemp was calling for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries in time for the 2028 elections. The state constitution bars state officeholders from seeking a different office with a start date more than 30 days before the end of the officeholder’s current term. The special session did convene, but Republican leaders opted not to take up redistricting.

In recent years, Congressman Scott had faced questions over his age and health. At the time of his death at age 80, he was facing a tough primary challenge from Clark and others as he sought a 13th term.

Georgia’s 13th Congressional District is east and southeast of Atlanta and includes parts of six heavily Democratic counties: Clayton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Henry, Newton and Rockdale. Of the six, the district’s portion of Gwinnett County has the lion’s share of voters, with about 46% of the district electorate in the 2024 general election.

Blair’s best performance in the July 28 special election was in his home base of Gwinnett County, where he received 56% of the vote. Marcye Scott, who lives outside the district in Fulton County as her father did, carried the other five counties in the district, scoring her highest totals in DeKalb, Clayton and Henry.

David Scott won his 2024 reelection bid with about 72% of the vote. In the presidential election that night, Democratic then-Vice President Kamala Harris received about 71% of the vote in the district, compared with about 28% for Republican Donald Trump. Trump had his best performance in the district in Gwinnett County, although that still only amounted to about 35% of the vote.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 7 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare a winner in the special runoff in the 13th Congressional District.

Who gets to vote?

Any voter registered in the 13th Congressional District may participate in the special runoff.

How many voters are there?

As of Friday, there were about 585,000 registered voters in the 13th Congressional District. Georgia voters do not register by party.

How many people actually vote?

A total of 20,510 votes were cast in the July 28 special election. Turnout in a runoff election tends to be lower than in the election that preceded it.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 47% of the total vote in the July 28 special election was cast early in-person or by mail.

As of Friday, about 5,200 ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election, with by far the largest share coming from Gwinnett County, followed by Clayton and Rockdale counties.

When are early and absentee votes released?

All six counties in the 13th Congressional District tend to release most or all of their results from early in-person and mail voting in the first vote update of the night, usually before any in-person Election Day results are released.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the July 28 special election, the AP first reported results at 7:05 p.m. ET, or five minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 10:05 p.m. ET with about 99.9% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

There is no automatic recount provision in Georgia, but a losing candidate may request a recount if the margin is less than or equal to 0.5% of the total vote. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 70 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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Graham won the June 9 Republican primary for renomination to the seat he first won in 2002, but his unexpected death on July 11 from an aortic tear created a vacancy not only for his current U.S. Senate seat but also as the party’s pick to compete for another six-year term.

The finalists for the Republican nomination are Graham’s sister, U.S. Sen. Darline Graham, who was appointed to serve out the remainder of her brother’s current term, and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, a five-term congressman who ran for governor earlier in the year and placed third in the primary.

Darline Graham placed first in the Aug. 11 special primary but fell shy of the vote majority needed to avoid Tuesday’s runoff. She received about 33% of the vote, compared to about 25% for Norman. U.S. Rep. Russell Fry placed third with about 20% of the vote.

Graham swept the counties across central South Carolina, including the Columbia area, as well as the state’s Lowcountry region, which includes Charleston. She scored her highest percentages in counties along the Georgia border.

Norman performed best in the state’s Piedmont and Upstate regions, including the Greenville area. Fry did best in the eight counties in the Pee Dee and Waccamaw regions that he represents in Congress.

Fry endorsed Graham after he lost the primary. She also has key backing from Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and President Donald Trump, who was an early proponent of Graham and held a campaign rally with her Friday in Myrtle Beach.

Greenville County is the most populous in the state and typically contributes the most votes in statewide Republican primaries. It also has bucked against the front-runners in recent Republican primaries. Norman also carried Greenville County in the gubernatorial primary, and it was one of the only counties Lindsey Graham lost in his final election.

Democratic-leaning Richland and Charleston counties have the next-largest populations and contribute a sizable number of votes in Republican primaries, but they tend to be more influential in Democratic contests.

Horry, Lexington and Spartanburg counties are also large counties that have big impacts on Republican primaries. Spartanburg was the only other county Lindsey Graham lost in the June primary.

The winner will face Democratic nominee Annie Andrews, a Charleston pediatrician who challenged Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace in the 1st Congressional District in 2022.

Lindsey Graham last won reelection in 2020 with 54% of the vote. Trump carried the state in 2024 with 58% of the vote.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 7 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare a winner in the special Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate.

Who gets to vote?

Voters who participated in the Democratic primary on June 9 may not participate in the special Republican primary runoff on August 25. Only Republican primary voters or registered voters who did not participate in any party’s primary on June 9 may cast ballots in Tuesday’s election.

How many voters are there?

As of Friday, there were about 3.4 million registered voters in South Carolina. Voters in South Carolina do not register by party.

How many people actually vote?

About 465,000 voters cast ballots in the June 9 Republican U.S. Senate primary when Lindsey Graham was renominated. About 336,000 voters participated in the Aug. 11 special Republican U.S. Senate primary.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 19% of the vote in Aug. 11 Republican special primary was cast early in-person or by mail.

As of Friday, about 45,000 ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

Nearly all of South Carolina’s 46 counties release all or almost all of their early in-person and mail voting results in the first vote update of the night, usually before releasing any results from in-person Election Day voting.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the Aug. 11 special primary, the AP first reported results at 7:13 p.m. ET, or 13 minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 11:25 p.m. ET with more than 99% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

In South Carolina, recounts are automatic if the margin between the winning and losing candidates is 1% of the total vote or less. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 70 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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The story has been updated to correct the South Carolina region from Upcountry to Upstate.

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The incident happened around 5:30 p.m. Two men were riding e-scooters in opposite directions when they collided near Northwest 75th Street and Northwest 22nd Court, investigators said.

The collision led to an argument that escalated, according to investigators.

One of the men shot and killed the other before fleeing the scene on his scooter, authorities said.

Daniel Castillo, a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office public information officer, urged anyone with information or camera footage in the area to contact investigators.

Investigators remained at the scene Sunday night as detectives continued working. Part of the neighborhood was blocked off during the investigation.

It was not immediately clear whether the two men knew each other prior to the collision and shooting.

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The smoke was moving north and away from the metro areas, according to Local 10 News meteorologist Jennifer Collins.

In northern Miami-Dade County, the FFS’s Everglades field unit responded to the 800-acre fire in Everglades National Park, and it was 30% contained on Sunday afternoon.

The National Park Service reported that it was temporarily closing Shark Valley while two wildfires, known as Chipmunk and Vulture, burned. The smoke was visible from Main Park Road and U.S. Highway 41.

Everglades field unit personnel also responded to a wildfire in southwestern Palm Beach County’s wildlife management area. The flames had burned 350 acres and it was 85% contained.

In western Collier County, a wildfire burned seven acres and was 95% contained near the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. The FFS’s Caloosahatchee field unit responded.

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A white work van, a silver sports utility vehicle, and a silver sedan crashed at the intersection of Northwest 17th Avenue and 103rd Street.

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded. One of the injured was a trauma patient, according to MDFR.

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The outcome of the gubernatorial primary to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has major implications for the fall general election, as Democrats haven’t won the Oklahoma governorship in 20 years. It will also further test President Donald Trump’s endorsement power.

State Attorney General Gentner Drummond and former state Sen. Mike Mazzei were the top vote-getters among nine candidates in the June 16 primary, with Drummond just edging Mazzei, 26.25% to 25.97%. Both fell far short of the majority needed to avoid Tuesday’s runoff.

Drummond narrowly carried Oklahoma and Cleveland counties in the Oklahoma City area, while Mazzei edged Drummond in Tulsa County. The two split most of the counties in the Tulsa area.

The two have poured millions from their personal fortunes into the race, with Mazzei loaning his campaign more than $11 million, compared with $3 million for Drummond, according to state campaign finance records. Mazzei has spent $12.3 million in the race overall, while Drummond has spent about $9.1 million. Loans aside, Drummond has far outraised Mazzei in campaign contributions, $7.1 million to about $1.5 million.

Trump endorsed Mazzei ahead of the primary, while also lobbing insults at Drummond. Trump’s picks overall in 2026 have had a strong record at the ballot box, but his endorsement is not a guarantee of victory, especially in gubernatorial primaries. The president’s picks for Iowa governor and Georgia governor lost their nomination bids, while his pick for South Carolina governor was forced to a runoff and ultimately lost the nomination after the president also endorsed her opponent.

The Oklahoma winner will face Democratic state House Minority Leader Cyndi Munson in the general election.

In the U.S. Senate race, nurse N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas received about 45% of the Democratic primary vote, short of the majority required to avoid a runoff. Attorney and minister Jim Priest placed second with about 24% of the vote, despite a massive fundraising advantage. He raised almost six times more than Thomas heading into the primary and increased his advantage heading into the runoff. As of Aug. 5, the Thomas campaign reported having only $455 in the bank, compared to about $56,000 for Priest.

The winner will face Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern, who won the five-way primary with about 70% of the vote. The state last elected a Democrat for U.S. Senate in 1990.

Also before voters is State Question 846, which would amend the state constitution to require voters to provide proof of identity in order to cast a ballot, which is already required under state law.

State Question 844 would affect the reimbursements that local governments receive from the state for lost property tax revenue under an incentive program for manufacturing companies.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 7 p.m. CT, which is 8 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in primary runoff elections for U.S. Senate, governor, state school superintendent, labor commissioner, insurance commissioner, state Senate and state House, as well as for the two statewide ballot measures.

Who gets to vote?

Voters registered with a political party may participate only in their own party’s primary runoffs. Democrats may not vote in a Republican primary runoff or vice versa. Independent or unaffiliated voters may not participate in either party’s runoff elections. All registered voters may cast ballots on the statewide ballot measures.

How many voters are there?

As of July 31, there were about 2.4 million registered voters in Oklahoma, including about 1.3 million registered Republicans, 616,000 registered Democrats and 500,000 independents not registered with any party.

How many people actually vote?

Roughly 403,000 votes were cast in the June 16 Republican primary for governor and 169,000 votes in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

In the June 16 state primaries, about 11% of Republican primary ballots and about 12% of Democratic primary ballots were cast early in-person or by mail.

As of Friday, about 32,000 ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

Almost every county in Oklahoma releases all or almost all of its results from early in-person and mail voting in the first vote update of the night, usually before any results from in-person Election Day voting are released.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the June 16 state primary, the AP first reported results at 8:14 p.m. ET, or 14 minutes after polls closed. By 10:19 p.m. ET, more than 90% of the vote had been counted. The last vote update of the night was at 12:14 a.m. ET with about 99.9% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

Oklahoma does not have automatic recounts for elections involving candidates, but candidates may request and pay for one regardless of the vote margin. The state does require automatic recounts for statewide ballot questions if the margin is 0.5% or less of the total votes cast. The required margin is larger for state constitutional amendments. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 70 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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But that's part of Christina Bohannan's long learning curve as a Democratic candidate for Congress.

“It’s a big district. It takes a lot of time to get around, get people to know you and trust you,” Bohannan told a couple dozen voters in the tiny Louisa County town of Columbus Junction on a recent Sunday afternoon.

She would know. It's her third crack at it.

Bohannan lost to Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa's 1st Congressional District in 2022 and 2024. Now she's banking on Trump's sagging popularity, healthcare struggles and economic concerns to put her over the top in a race that could help Democrats regain control of the U.S. House.

Miller-Meeks is digging in for a difficult campaign, describing Bohannan as a “radical progressive.” If Bohannan pulls off a victory this time, it could be the first ripple of what Democrats see as a potential national wave.

The Democrat is reaching into rural counties to shave the Republican edge

That's why Bohannan was in Louisa County, a place she did not visit in the months leading up to the 2024 election, when she lost to Miller-Meeks by only 799 votes.

It was the second-closest House race that year, and far closer than Bohannan's loss in 2022, when she fell short by 23,000 votes.

Iowa's 1st District is a microcosm of the state, largely rural with urban and suburban pockets. A geographic area larger than Massachusetts, more than half of its 20 counties have populations of less than 20,000 residents.

Cindy Starr and her husband Tim Knutson had never met Bohannan before they made the drive from nearby Wapello to see her at 92 Roadside, a Louisa County social hub named for the highway that runs past it.

“We’d never heard of any campaign event for her before,” said Starr, a 62-year-old retired social worker.

“Somebody rang our doorbell,” said Knutson, a 60-year-old retired meatpacking plant manager. “That’s never happened before.”

Two years ago, she lost the county by almost 1,400 votes.

This time, Bohannan has a more aggressive ground game, reaching out in rural counties she lost, but also beginning her canvassing in January as opposed to April. Her campaign’s door-knockers travel with a letter from Bohannan introducing herself.

Pushing against the image of a left-wing college professor

Bohannan's day job — University of Iowa law professor — can be tricky in a district where Trump won by 8.4 percentage points in 2024 and where the school is often parodied by Republicans as a haven for left-wing liberals.

“I’m not some radical,” said the 55-year-old former environmental engineer whose legal scholarship has focused on intellectual property, business innovation and copyright law.

She portrays her low-income upbringing in rural central Florida, her father’s nomadic life as a construction worker and her family’s healthcare crises during her youth as experiences that echo across the Mississippi Valley district where union manufacturing jobs have been declining for decades.

“Iowa is just a really good, common-sense state full of fair-minded, common-sense people,” she told The Associated Press. “Sometimes the Republicans have a point. I think tax dollars are precious. I think sometimes we do tend to stifle economic growth with maybe unnecessary regulation.”

Miller-Meeks did not agree to an interview.

Bohannan has been gaining ground in the district

Along with trying to shave the Republican advantage in the district's dozen-plus rural counties, Bohannan is also trying to gain a foothold in its more urban and suburban hubs.

Johnson County, with Iowa City and its teeming suburbs, and Scott County's economically diverse cities of Davenport and Bettendorf help make the district among the most competitive in the country.

Bohannan won more than 70% of the vote in Johnson County in 2022 and 2024. She also improved her performance in Scott County, losing in 2022 but winning narrowly there in 2024.

Those gains in a high-turnout presidential year, combined with the very narrow final margin — after a recount — made the decision simple for Bohannan to sign up a third time.

“That was a big part of it. That means tens of thousands of Trump voters split their ballot and voted for me,” she told The Associated Press after a stop at a Scott County Democrats’ picnic in Bettendorf. “It’s not always easy to get people, especially in this toxic political environment, from the other party to support you. But we’re taking the time. We’re going to every corner of the district.”

Now, she is trying to hold the edge in Scott County, hoping the recent move of more independent voters into the Democrats' ranks continues.

In another potential boost to Bohannan, Democratic voter registration in Iowa rose more than Republican registration ahead of the June primaries.

In Scott County, the district’s most populous, the trend has continued since the primary, said Terry Olsen, vice chairman of the Scott County Democrats and a former Republican.

“Every month it’s been moving,” Olsen said, though Democrats still narrowly trail Republicans and independent voters in the county. “But it’s a different strategy than 2024, trying to grab more of that rural vote and still boost turnout in the cities. That’s the hope, at least.”

Trump's agenda could drag down Miller-Meeks

Bohannan believes that Trump's failure to curb inflation since returning to the White House will drag down Miller-Meeks, who was first elected in 2020.

Miller-Meeks voted for measures blocking Congress from challenging Trump's emergency tariff actions, and the trade war has cut U.S. soybean sales. She has voted in support of Trump's ability to continue U.S. military operations against Iran, as drivers in her district pay nearly $4 per gallon for gas and farmers pay $5 per gallon for diesel fuel.

And Miller-Meeks last year supported Trump's signature tax-break and spending cuts bill, which is expected to reduce federal Medicaid spending over the coming years. Hospitals and other healthcare providers have warned that the changes could put additional financial pressure on rural facilities that rely heavily on Medicaid reimbursements.

Miller-Meeks, a physician, defended her record in a statement by saying “I’ve spent my career on the side of patients, not the big insurance companies and bureaucrats standing between them and the care they need.”

She said the legislation included "common sense provisions the majority of Americans support," and she said Bohannan “would have kept subsidies flowing straight to big profitable insurance companies that deny claims, jack up premiums, and restrict which doctors you can see.”

Healthcare funding pressures have surfaced in Miller-Meeks’ district. MercyOne Clinton Medical Center announced it would end its obstetrics, labor and delivery services in 2026, citing rising costs, staffing shortages, inadequate reimbursement, and changes to Medicaid policy among the factors.

“In the past, when I ran the last couple of times, people weren’t entirely clear on what Miller-Meeks had been up to,” Bohannan said. “And now people know what they are paying at the grocery store. They know what they are paying at the gas pump.”

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Margate police and Margate Fire Rescue personnel responded at about 2:30 p.m. to a 911 call about two people who had been struck by lightning and were found lying on a sidewalk near 7900 Northwest First St.

First responders immediately began treating the victims, including by performing CPR on them, according to police.

The woman, identified as Kenya Glasgow, was taken by Margate Fire Rescue to North Broward Medical Center in Deerfield Beach. The 2-year-old girl was taken to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale with a police escort.

Despite efforts by first responders and medical personnel, both mother and daughter died shortly after arriving at the hospitals.

Prince Moody, who lives across the street, said he had just returned from picking up groceries when he heard the lightning strike.

“I heard the loudest lightning strike I could hear, thunder, and an orange glow went through my window,” Moody said.

Moody said he was thinking about the family as he stayed at the scene.

“Imagine the family that’s actually going through this. The father, you know. I have a kid and I can imagine. My thoughts and prayers,” he said.

The incident remains under investigation by the Margate Police Department.

Police expressed their condolences to the family and loved ones of the victims.

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

Iran threatens response ahead of US sanctions announcement

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson warned that Tehran would respond harshly to expanded U.S. sanctions, including measures against countries it sees as cooperating with Washington.

“Any escalation of this situation will undoubtedly bring about consequences,” Esmail Baghaei said. “Our hands are not tied.”

The new head of Iran’s top security body warned Sunday that Tehran will see any country’s support for the sanctions as an “act of war.”

The expanded sanctions come after weeks of impasse. The United States has not dislodged Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil passed before the war started nearly six months ago.

Iran's demands for reopening the strait include lifting the U.S. naval blockade, withdrawing U.S. forces from the region and reparations for damages sustained in the war. It has held separate talks with Oman, on the other side of the strait, on jointly managing the waterway regardless of whether a new deal is brokered with the U.S.

Sanctions have historically raised prices of basic goods in Iran, but after decades of withstanding them, Iran’s economy has adapted through finding new trading partners and building domestic industries.

The country's currency hit a record low on Monday.

China warns new sanctions will 'escalate the situation'

China said Monday that sanctions and additional pressure “will not help resolve the issue,” as the U.S. has threatened to impose secondary sanctions on countries that trade with Iran.

“They will only exacerbate tensions and escalate the situation, which is in no one’s interest,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said during a daily briefing in Beijing.

He added that China was calling on all parties to avoid measures “that could further intensify differences and conflicts and disrupt global economic development and financial stability.”

China is considered the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, and was importing more than 80% of Iranian oil before the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Netanyahu claims Iranian assassination attempt on his son

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel’s Channel 14 television that Iran had attempted to assassinate one of his sons. He said that without security around his son, the attempt would have succeeded.

“Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to murder one of my sons,” he said in a phone interview with the television station.

Netanyahu did not say which son, where the attempt happened, what the attempt was and how it was thwarted. His office also gave no further details when asked by The Associated Press.

Israeli and Syrian officials meet following an Israeli airstrike

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani met over the weekend with a high-level Israeli delegation in Jordan to try to defuse tensions after Israel last week struck an air base in northern Syria, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

The U.S.-mediated discussions on Sunday focused on restarting negotiations for a future security agreement, SANA said.

Israel struck the Abu Duhur air base in Idlib province, saying it aimed to stop Turkey — which has supported the new Syrian government’s efforts to rebuild its armed forces after 14 years of civil war — from establishing a presence there.

Syrian officials during the talks asserted the right to develop an army and freely forge alliances with any country, SANA said.

They also called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from a buffer zone in southern Syria they have occupied since December 2024, and reiterated Syria’s stance that the Golan Heights — which Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed — is Syrian territory.

Israeli officials didn't immediately comment on the meeting.

Israeli strikes kill 4 in Gaza, including 2 children

Israeli strikes killed at least four people Monday in the war-torn Gaza Strip, including two children, hospital officials said.

In the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, a strike hit a building after residents said they received an evacuation warning. A 4-year-old child was killed after his family was unable to flee, according to Awda Hospital. His mother and sister were wounded.

Four other structures, including mosques, were hit after residents said they received evacuation warnings, sending scores of already displaced Palestinians fleeing again. Smoke rose over a landscape of rubble and destroyed buildings as elderly people pushed wheelchairs or used canes, women carried babies and others sprinted for safety.

Commenting on some of the strikes, the Israeli military said it struck Hamas weapons storage facilities in mosques after issuing warnings, but provided no evidence.

Separately, Israel said it killed a militant affiliated with Hamas’ special forces unit in an overnight airstrike. Israel says it targets Palestinian militants who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war.

Israel has announced targeted strikes on six of the seven days since U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week hoping to push the ceasefire deal forward.

At least 1,288 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire took effect last October, according to Gaza’s health ministry, part of the Hamas-run government. Its numbers are generally considered reliable by the international community.

A Palestinian American says he can’t freely leave West Bank home

Loui Ridi had traveled from Ohio a week ago to join his relatives at his home in the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank, which was besieged this month by Israeli settlers. He says he is unable to move freely.

The Israeli military declared the area a closed zone to restore order in Qusra. Ridi said settlers returned throughout the week to the hill above his house.

Since Israeli settlers surrounded the house more than two weeks ago, preventing occupants from leaving, Israeli soldiers have encouraged them to leave but Israel’s police have not announced arrests.

The siege and Israel’s response have sparked condemnation from Israeli rights groups and foreign officials, including U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who called the violence terrorism.

Palestinians consider the West Bank, home to some 3 million Palestinians and 560,000 Israeli settlers, the heart of any future state and have condemned Israel’s expansion there. This year has seen a dramatic spike in violence carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinians.

Trump administration removes Syria from blacklist

The Trump administration on Monday formally removed Syria from the U.S. State Department’s blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, making permanent a series of sanctions removals that had been initially announced more than a month ago.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had announced the move in early July, but there was a 45-day period for congressional review before it was formalized. That review period has now expired and sanctions related to the designation have been almost completely removed, the State and Treasury departments said.

“Treasury is following through on President Trump’s promise to give the Syrian people a chance at greatness,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.

Luis Manuel Aviles, 48, was arrested after leaving his house to take his car to the mechanic, according to his wife, Argelia Aviles. She said her husband, a handyman in Key West, Florida, has a permit to work in the United States. Originally from Nicaragua, he has lived in the U.S. for 19 years.

“He dedicates himself only to work so he can put food on the table at home. He is a good father. He loves his children with all his soul,” said Argelia, 47.

Aviles’ arrest comes as the Trump administration rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda, detaining at least dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

At least six family members have been deported and one self-deported, the AP found in the first accounting of such detentions, which the government does not track. One spouse, the wife of a U.S. soldier who spent more than a month in federal immigration detention, was removed from a deportation flight to Brazil after the AP’s reporting.

One of the military’s most highly advertised immigration benefits is “military parole-in-place,” which allows the spouses, children and parents of active-duty service members and veterans to obtain legal immigration status from within the country. Not everyone qualifies: those who overstayed visas or who already applied for legal status at the border, for example.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Border Patrol agents arrested Luis Aviles on Saturday in Key West and that he will remain in ICE custody while the government seeks to deport him.

“Having a family member in the military is not a free pass to violate our nation’s laws,” the department said Sunday, adding that the Trump administration “does not pick and choose which laws to enforce.”

Aviles’ son said in a Facebook post that he has been working 12-hour work shifts for more than 250 days without a break on the USS Lincoln, which is deployed in the Middle East. The deployment has raised widespread concerns about the impact on service members who are away from land for long periods, food shortages, as well as the increasing strain on the ship and its equipment.

The Pentagon referred all questions to the Navy. The Navy didn’t immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on Sunday afternoon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously called conditions aboard the Lincoln “completely misrepresented.”

Joshua Aviles wrote in his post on Saturday that he was still on the USS Lincoln “fighting for a country that has given me everything” when he got a call about his father’s detention on Saturday morning.

“This is heartbreaking for me. I don’t know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly treated like a criminal,” Joshua Aviles wrote.

Katherine Delgado, 28, Joshua Aviles’ sister, said that Joshua joined the military in part because he thought it would improve his father’s chances of getting citizenship and so that he would “no longer be living in fear of being arrested.”

She said being apart from Joshua, who she calls her “best friend” and her “ride-or-die,” has been devastating.

“I spent weeks without knowing where he was,” Delgado said. Once she heard from him, and was told that he wasn’t getting enough food, she said, she has spent hundreds of dollars to send him care packages with food and hygiene products — some of which never arrived.

Joshua is “supposed to come home soon,” Delgado said, referring to news that the ship her brother is on will soon be brought out of service in the Middle East. “And he’s gonna come home without his father.”

The son’s lengthy deployment has been challenging for Luis Aviles, according to his wife. He told her that he was looking forward to the deployment finally coming to an end. When six months passed and his son didn’t come back, Aviles was distraught, she said.

“He was excited,” she said. “He wanted to hug his son, as he hadn’t seen him for nine months.”

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One of President Vladimir Putin’s key goals in starting a war with Russia’s neighbor in February 2022 was to return Kyiv to Moscow’s orbit. Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Aug. 24, 1991, to proclaim the country’s independence, and a nationwide referendum later that year overwhelmingly approved it.

With no significant changes on the front line for months and no apparent progress after more than a year of U.S.-led peace efforts, both countries are locked in a spiral of escalating aerial attacks that are killing civilians and smashing infrastructure.

Europe rallies around Ukraine

U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, on his first overseas trip since taking office last month, joined almost a dozen other European leaders, as well as other dignitaries in Kyiv on Monday.

“For Ukraine, independence is not an abstract idea. We defended it against all odds,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on social media. “In times like these, nations learn how important it is to have allies by your side.”

Burnham co-chaired a meeting of what's been dubbed the Coalition of the Willing — a group of over two dozen countries helping Ukraine resist Russia's onslaught.

Burnham said he is pushing British industry to help a Ukrainian project that is working on a low-cost alternative to the U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems that are desperately needed but are in short supply. He urged other countries to encourage Washington to adopt stiffer sanctions on Russia and press Moscow to accept U.S. attempts to secure an unconditional ceasefire.

Zelenskyy said in a speech at Kyiv’s St. Sophia Square that the presence of European leaders reflected continental fears about Russia’s wider ambitions.

“We all understand that in this Russian war against us — against Ukraine — far more is being decided than the future of Ukraine and Eastern Europe,” he said.

“No nation in a war like this could rely solely on its own weapons," Zelenskyy said. "No nation could withstand attacks of such intensity without the world’s help.”

Ukraine eyes local production of Anglo-French missile

The leaders brought pledges of further military and financial support. Burnham announced his government has agreed to allow defense company MBDA to release classified information relating to British components used in the SCALP long-range missile. That paves the way for France and Ukraine to advance plans for the weapon's production in Ukraine.

SCALP is the French version of the U.K.’s Storm Shadow missile, with both systems incorporating shared technology.

“Ukraine has been Europe’s protector, not a drain on our security, but the front line of keeping Europe safe,” Burnham said, adding that Kyiv and its partners “must keep up the pressure on Moscow.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin views the plan “extremely negatively.” He accused the U.K. of “taking part in this war” on Kyiv’s side.

Ukraine has leaned heavily on NATO countries for help fighting Russia’s bigger army, although relations with the United States have been cooler under President Donald Trump.

Russia, meanwhile, is getting help from North Korea and China.

Ukraine displays its drones in a parade

Ukraine’s swift development of innovative drone technology has enabled it to blunt Moscow’s battlefield progress as well as hit targets deep inside Russia, as far as 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from their border. The speeches in St. Sophia Square were accompanied by a parade of domestically produced weapons.

Both Russia and Ukraine are trying through long-range strikes to inflict economic pain, disrupt military supplies and erode public morale.

Ukraine's long-range drones have repeatedly hit facilities in Russia's vital oil industry, causing fuel shortages, and have also engaged in a campaign against Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries.

But foreign suppliers also have to take into account their own needs, weapon production levels and the depth of stockpiles.

As the air war has intensified, Ukraine’s stocks of Patriot interceptors to counter Russia’s ballistic missiles have dwindled. Kyiv urgently needs more interceptors before winter, when Russia routinely bombards its power grid, but the demands of the Iran war and slow output of the sophisticated interceptors have left Ukraine short and vulnerable.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said he believed that striking Russian targets like Wildberries was a “sensible military strategy” that would hasten peace negotiations.

Ukrainian strikes kill 3 teenagers

Three teenagers were killed and six children were wounded in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, Russia’s children’s rights ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova said, as Ukraine attacked several warehouses of Ozon, another online retailer, for the third straight day, according to officials and the company.

Ozon said a large fire raged at its logistics facility in the suburbs of Krasnodar following the overnight attack.

A drone also hit the grounds of an Ozon logistics center in the southern Russian region of Adygeya, said regional Gov. Murat Kumpilov, although the company said its warehouse wasn’t damaged.

In all, four Ozon premises appeared to have been targeted.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces struck the Russian state-owned Kamenetsky Combine defense company in the Rostov region overnight, starting a fire. The plant produces rocket and missile fuel, it said.

Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses overnight intercepted and destroyed 351 Ukrainian drones over eight Russian regions, the Crimean Peninsula and the Azov and Black seas. Moscow illegally annexed Crimea in 2014.

The ministry also said its forces overnight struck Ukrainian ports and vessels delivering military cargo.

Russia has also turned its sights on Ukrainian shopping malls, supermarkets and gas stations in recent months. Russian drones struck a shopping center in central Ukraine in a daytime attack Friday, killing 16 people and wounding 130, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s southern Odesa region came under a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack Monday, with food storage facilities and energy infrastructure among the targets, regional authorities reported.

Eighteen people, including two children, were injured in a Russian drone strike on Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service.

It was not possible to independently verify each side's reports.

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The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% and pulled a bit further from its all-time high set earlier this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 140 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.8%.

Tech stocks led the way downward following big swings through the summer on worries that the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology sent prices too high and that the huge demand for AI chips won’t be sustainable if they don’t produce enough profits.

Chip giant Nvidia has been a tremendous winner of the AI boom and become Wall Street’s largest and most influential stock because of it. It will deliver its latest quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, which could dictate the next big move for AI-related stocks.

Nvidia sank 2.9% and was the heaviest weight on the S&P 500, where the majority of stocks rose. Drops of 5.8% for Micron Technology and 2.6% for Broadcom also helped drag the index lower.

All told, the S&P 500 fell 21.51 points to 7,652.86. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 140.15 to 53,417.16, and the Nasdaq composite sank 200.26 to 25,980.19.

The other big factor moving stocks recently has been the bond market, where longer-term Treasury yields climbed through the summer on worries about high inflation, huge government debts and other factors. High yields make it more expensive for everyone to borrow, not just the government, and have already pushed up mortgage rates and hurt the housing industry.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced a surprise move last week to increase the size of planned buybacks of Treasurys, which could help contain the rise in yields for 10- and 30-year Treasurys. But analysts warned the move may have only a limited effect because of how small the size of the buybacks are and how they do not fix the fundamental problems of too-high debt for the U.S. government and expensive oil prices because of the war with Iran.

On Monday, the yield of the 10-year Treasury eased to 4.70% from 4.74% late Friday and is back below where it was late Tuesday, before the U.S. Treasury Department made its surprise announcement.

Helping to bring yields down on Monday was a drop in oil prices. Brent crude fell 2.3% to $90.54 per barrel.

Last month it zigzagged between $72 and $102 as hopes rose and fell that the United States and Iran could reach a deal that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Persian Gulf again. The United States on Monday announced new sanctions aimed at Iran, which helped drag the value of Iran's currency to a record low against the U.S. dollar.

Despite Monday’s easing of Treasury yields, analysts warn the U.S. government’s attempts to influence the bond market could ultimately mean higher pressure on inflation. Inflation already is worse than nearly everyone would like and has been for years.

That raises the pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise the federal funds rate, which affects very short-term overnight loans. When the Fed raises that rate, it could help keep a lid on inflation by trying to slow the overall economy and undercutting prices for stocks and other investments.

The Fed’s new chairman, Kevin Warsh, is set to deliver a speech Friday at an economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The mountain setting has been the backdrop for major Fed policy announcements in the past, but investors are unsure of what they may get from Warsh this time around.

Warsh has insisted that he wants to give financial markets fewer clues about what the Fed will do with interest rates, hoping that markets react more to incoming data about the economy and inflation than to what the Fed is signaling.

But with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing his move last week, Warsh now holds the ball, according to economists at Bank of America. Expectations are high among investors for Warsh to talk about inflation and how the Fed could potentially react, and a failure to deliver could lead to bond yields rising further, they said.

In stock markets abroad, indexes dipped around much of the world. South Korea’s Kospi fell 3.1%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 1.9% for two of the biggest moves.

Seoul has been home to some of the world’s sharpest swings this summer because it is dominated by two tech titans benefiting from the AI boom, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

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AP Business Writers Michelle Chapman and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed to this report.

The first is the more traditional type — teams that will try to beat the Astros in key games and deny them a spot in the postseason.

The other includes individual spoilers — players who could prevent Alvarez from making history as baseball's next Triple Crown winner.

Alvarez currently leads the American League with a .320 average, 36 home runs and 90 RBIs. If he holds onto the top spot in all three categories, he'd be the first batter to win the Triple Crown since Miguel Cabrera in 2012. The biggest threats Alvarez faces all come from the AL East.

The next-highest batting averages in the AL both belong to Tampa Bay players — Chandler Simpson at .310 and Yandy Díaz at .306. Fortunately for Alvarez, there aren't any stealth candidates — players with high averages who don't currently have enough plate appearances to qualify, but would by the end of the season.

The home run race is currently the tightest, with Tampa Bay's Junior Caminero just one behind with 35. Ben Rice of the New York Yankees has 34. There are times when Alvarez seems like Houston's only major threat offensively, and he's been intentionally walked 28 times — way more than Caminero (10) and Rice (four). Those lost opportunities could matter in a close race.

Alvarez's closest competition in RBIs is Baltimore's Pete Alonso, who has 85. Alonso recently went on a 14-game hitting streak. Caminero is also in the mix with 83 RBIs.

When Cabrera pulled off the Triple Crown in 2012, he had to hold off Hall of Famers Joe Mauer and Adrian Beltre in batting average, as well as likely Hall of Famer Mike Trout. He finished one homer ahead of Josh Hamilton and Curtis Granderson.

Trivia time

Alvarez broke Jeff Bagwell's franchise record for intentional walks in a season. Bagwell drew 27 in 1997. Who is in third place on that list for Houston?

Performance of the week

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the first and a walk-off shot in the 10th to give the Chicago Cubs a 7-5 win over the White Sox on Monday night.

The Cubs then won in walk-off fashion again a night later against the White Sox, but were beaten via the walk-off twice in a row by Seattle later in the week. The Cubs have 13 walk-off wins this year, the most in baseball, but the White Sox and Mariners aren't far behind with 11.

Comeback of the week

Philadelphia was down 4-0 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth Sunday before rallying for a 6-4 victory over St. Louis. Edmundo Sosa hit a three-run double, and Bryan De La Cruz hit a single that tied the game. Then Kyle Schwarber won it with his major league-leading 39th homer of the season.

It was the ninth straight victory for the Phillies, who now trail first-place Atlanta by only three games in the NL East. The Braves were 9 1/2 games up less than two weeks ago.

It's been a bizarre season for Philadelphia, which was 8-18 by late April, then went 48-27, then lost eight of its last games in July before going 16-5 so far in August.

Team of the week

Kansas City was the lone team to go 7-0 over the past week, although the Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers both went 6-0. The Royals took advantage of four games against the dreadful Athletics before sweeping three in a row from a Detroit team that's chasing a playoff berth.

Last-place Kansas City is actually 36-30 at home this year but has gone 22-44 on the road.

Trivia answer

Rusty Staub drew 24 intentional walks for the Astros in 1968.

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But with a wife and a widowed mother to help support, he needed a quick solution. So the laid-off web developer turned to one of a growing number of three-year degree programs.

“I can’t afford to be out of the workforce for four years. That just seems like forever, and the three-year made it seem less daunting,” said Sims, a student at Ensign College, a private Salt Lake City school that recently changed all its bachelor’s degrees to require fewer classes than a traditional four-year degree.

The condensed programs have exploded in popularity. As of this spring, 26 U.S. states have a college that offers at least one reduced-credit, three-year bachelor's, according to the nonprofit research group RAND.

Advocates say these programs are a solution to the college affordability crisis and a godsend for non-traditional students like Sims.

Critics, however, worry that they’ll narrow too much what students learn, confuse employers, limit graduate school options and create headaches in fields that require state licenses.

The American Association of University Professors, for one, says the programs devalue the meaning of a college credential.

“This is not innovation. This is just cutting corners,” said Todd Wolfson, AAUP's president.

A new option to graduate more quickly, but with reduced credit

For decades, colleges have offered accelerated programs that let students finish faster, often by forgoing long summer breaks, maximizing transfer credits and condensing semester-long courses into shorter, five- to 10-week terms.

But those programs maintained the same course load, measured as credits. The new programs let students finish faster by completing as few as 90 credit hours. That shaves a year off the typical 120-hour bachelor’s degree.

Three-year bachelor’s degrees are common in other countries including the United Kingdom, India, France and Italy. But they can create complications for graduates seeking admission to U.S. graduate schools, which sometimes require extra coursework.

Some of the earliest colleges in colonial America, modeled after English institutions like Oxford and Cambridge, initially had three-year degrees, said John Thelin, the author of “A History of American Higher Education.” By the 19th century, the four-year format had taken hold, partly because there wasn’t an established system of public high schools to prepare students, Thelin said.

“The colleges would have to kind of start from scratch,” he said.

A change in accreditation opened the door to shorter degrees

The idea of bringing three-year degrees to the U.S. got attention in 2009 when Robert Zemsky, the founding director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, argued in a Newsweek cover story that three-year degrees could shake up a broken system.

But there was a roadblock, he recalled recently. “Accreditors said, ‘College is 120 credits, not 90 credits,’” he said.

Years passed. And in 2022, amid mounting concerns about college affordability, Zemsky helped revive the idea. The College-in-3 Exchange was born, and dozens of higher education institutions joined the network to look for ways to help students get degrees faster.

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities was the first accreditor to say yes in 2023, when it approved reduced-credit programs at Ensign and Brigham Young University-Idaho. Other accreditors quickly followed.

As of May, 119 reduced-credit programs had been publicly announced, according to the RAND analysis, which was conducted to help education officials in Ohio as they weigh the feasibility of reduced-credit degrees.

It comes at a time when tuition and fees averaged $11,950 for in-state students at public schools and $45,000 at private nonprofits last school year, although many students get discounts that reduce the price, according to a report from the College Board, the nonprofit that oversees the SAT.

Some degrees are easier to compress

Private nonprofit schools offer three-quarters of the reduced-credit programs, frequently online. Typically, they compress the majors by reducing electives. Business degrees in fields such as marketing and management are the most common, followed by computer and information sciences.

Other majors, such as engineering, with its extensive math requirements, have been harder to shrink. And RAND found just six reduced-credit degrees in teacher education, which involves real-world experience requirements and state licensure.

Jill Cohen, 42, lives on a ranch in rural Yoder, Colorado, and is completing her teaching degree through one such program at Indiana Wesleyan.

She quit her old job selling life insurance and turned to teaching after a farming accident nearly claimed her life. Already, she is in the classroom, teaching middle school English, as she works on the degree through a special “Grow Your Own” program designed to address staff shortages.

Because her home is busy — she has twin 12-year-olds, along with a menagerie that includes horses, goats and chickens — she appreciates the streamlined degree.

“Why do I need to take, you know, underwater basket weaving when I could just take the evolutionary structure of the English language — what I’m going to be teaching,” she said.

However, programs with state licensing requirements are one of the biggest worries for Jenna Kramer, a policy researcher at RAND.

Indiana Wesleyan, which has a growing slate of reduced-credit offerings, said its education programs are specifically designed to meet Indiana licensing requirements. Students from elsewhere will need to check if the programs meet their state requirements, said Pam Downing, the school's director of communications, in an email.

The RAND report also found the programs are so new that there are no standard practices for admitting three-year degree recipients into graduate school.

Students acknowledge it's a gamble

Gabriella Staten, a 20-year-old student in the reduced-credit digital marketing program at Mount Mary University, a Catholic women’s institution in Milwaukee, estimates it will save her at least $20,000. While she sometimes wonders whether employers will take her degree as seriously as a four-year degree, she decided she could prove herself.

“Even if they were to look a little bit down on the three-year pathway, I can show them otherwise with the work,” she said.

Wesley Hardy, who is three semesters into a bachelor of applied science in accounting at Ensign, also sees the pros and cons. He likes that the three-year format will get him into the workforce faster.

But he noted that the requirements to become a certified public accountant — something he has considered — vary by state. Many require 120 semester hours to sit for the exam and 150 to become licensed. Graduate school often is needed.

Bruce Kusch, president of Ensign, said he has talked to multiple college presidents and doesn’t anticipate that graduate school will be a problem. But Hardy, 22, has questions about how it would work.

“Would I have to take extra classes?” he asked. “It’s definitely something I’ve thought of.”

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Police officers and fire rescue personnel found the man and a red Hyundai that was riddled with bullets at about 3:30 a.m. on Saturday in the area of Northwest 58 Street and 12th Avenue in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood.

Miami Fire Rescue personnel took the wounded man — whose condition was serious after he was shot several times — to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, according to police.

A tow truck driver later hauled the damaged four-door Hyundai off the street after police officers seized it as evidence.

There have been other recent shootings nearby. At about 4 a.m. on Friday, in Liberty City, Miami police officers responded to another shooting that left a car riddled with bullets. No one was injured.

In July, in the Gladeview neighborhood, near Liberty City, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies reported that a 12-year-old girl was injured in a car during a shooting in the area of Northwest 64th Street and 21st Avenue.

In February, in Liberty City, a 19-year-old man died at Jackson Memorial Hospital after he was shot near Northwest 51st Street and 13th Avenue.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

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