It happened around 1:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes near the Coral Way exit.

According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials, two people were injured in the crash.

One of those injured was rushed to a local area hospital for treatment while the second person was assessed at the scene but did not want to be taken to the hospital, officials said.

Video from Sky 10 showed a white vehicle on its side and a red vehicle with damage to its front end.

Several lanes of the expressway were blocked as investigators processed the scene.

That sentiment, along with others, was part of the letter Trump left for Biden upon leaving office in January 2021. Biden showed the note to some members of his staff after his inauguration in 2021 but didn’t let anyone read it, describing it later that day as “very generous” but otherwise saying he considered it to be private.

Inclusion of the letter in Biden’s “Promise Me, America,” his White House memoir slated for release Nov. 17, was first reported Tuesday by The New York Times. The Associated Press has reviewed a photocopy of the two-page letter, handwritten in Trump's trademark black Sharpie on White House stationery and addressed “To ‘46,’” denoting Biden's place as the 46th U.S. president.

“Many presidents have come and gone who simply governed as Republicans or Democrats,” Trump wrote. “Largely, they did not change history, they were just swept along in its relentless tide. This will not happen to you because I know how much you love the American people.”

At the time of transition, Biden was said to have been surprised by how gracious he thought the letter was, given the animosity between the political rivals. Trump had opted out of other presidential traditions, like attending Biden’s inauguration, or hosting the incoming president and first lady for tea at the White House.

Trump has said he thought it was up to Biden to share the letter, calling it “a nice note” during a September 2023 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” adding, “I took a lot of time in thinking about it.”

Elsewhere in the memoir, the first excerpt of which was published Monday by the Atlantic, Biden wrote of the deep damage Trump has inflicted, with an administration determined to “tear down institutions and inflame hatreds.”

Lamenting Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency and his aggressive reversal of many of his policies, Biden wrote of Trump’s “dismissive and destructive nature,” describing his predecessor and successor as someone “who seemed unable to tolerate the idea that someone else’s accomplishments might be worth building on rather than tearing down.”

But Biden's harshest characterization so far was focused on Trump's role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, as Congress met to certify the 2020 election, which Biden had won. Writing that Trump “led an insurrection,” Biden said Trump's ”goal was to remain in power after the American people had voted him out of office."

“What Trump did on January 6, 2021, should never be forgotten,” Biden wrote. "It should follow him to his grave.”

Asked for comment on both the letter and Biden's memoir, White House communications director Steven Cheung called the former president “a disgrace" who “should have heeded the President’s wise words, but instead he tried to destroy this country and weaponize the justice system against his political enemies.”

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The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade had not yet been announced by either club.

While an opening was created with the Raiders for rookie Fernando Mendoza, the first overall pick in the draft this year, a major move was also made by the Vikings to try to keep their season on track with a dominant defense and plenty of capable pieces on offense around the quarterback.

Cousins had some of his best performances with the Vikings while helping them win 13 games in 2022 in coach Kevin O’Connell’s first season, and he was playing even better in 2023 when he tore his Achilles tendon during a game at Green Bay in Week 8.

Guess where the Vikings play on Sunday? Lambeau Field, to face the rival Packers.

The Vikings had an extra third-round selection from Philadelphia in a swap they made in April for edge rusher Jonathan Greenard. The Eagles are unloading at 2-7, and the Vikings are still 6-2 despite their severe passing problems. That means pick they’re sending to the Raiders is likely to be much lower than the one they’re owed by the Eagles.

With Kyler Murray sidelined by a hamstring strain – he has missed two full games and the majority of a third to injuries – on Monday night against Buffalo, a Vikings offense that has been off track since Sam Darnold struggled through the last two games of the 2024 season hit a new low with Carson Wentz.

In his 101st start in the NFL, Wentz posted a career-worst 8.9 passer rating – the lowest by anyone in the league with at least 10 attempts in a game since Sam Howell (1.7) went 6 for 22 with two interceptions for 56 yards for Washington on Dec. 24, 2023.

Wentz was 8 for 25 for 81 yards, two interceptions and a lost fumble from a badly overthrown swing pass to Justin Jefferson in the first quarter that went backward for a live ball. With Wentz hobbling on an ankle injury and the offense going nowhere, Max Brosmer took over midway through the fourth quarter of the 23-6 loss.

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De acuerdo con el informe de la Policía Escolar de Miami-Dade, Torrez Ramon Thomas llevó una pistola cargada al plantel de Miami Gardens el miércoles 4 de noviembre y publicó una foto en la que aparecía sosteniendo el arma en un chat grupal de Instagram.

Thomas fue arrestado ese mismo día, luego de que funcionarios escolares recibieran una denuncia anónima sobre un estudiante que tenía un arma en la escuela.

La policía indicó que la directora del plantel avisó a la policía escolar tras recibir información sobre la publicación en redes sociales.

Los agentes interrogaron a Thomas sobre la denuncia, pero él negó tener un arma y les dijo que ese día no había llevado mochila, informaron las autoridades.

La policía se comunicó entonces con el personal de la escuela para saber a qué salones había entrado Thomas.

Según el informe, durante la investigación una estudiante les dijo a los agentes que esa mañana había visto a Thomas entrar a un cuarto de almacenamiento de un salón con una mochila Sprayground de color azul turquesa.

Los agentes revisaron el cuarto y encontraron la mochila.

Adentro, los investigadores hallaron una pistola Glock 19 negra y una billetera con la tarjeta de identificación de Florida de Thomas, según el informe.

La policía dijo que las cámaras de seguridad mostraban a Thomas entrando a la escuela con la mochila a la espalda, lo que contradecía su declaración inicial.

Un sargento de la policía escolar descargó el arma y comprobó que tenía 14 balas calibre 9 mm en el cargador y otra en la recámara.

De acuerdo con el informe, Thomas renunció a sus derechos Miranda y aceptó hablar con los detectives después de que se recuperara el arma.

Durante el interrogatorio, Thomas presuntamente admitió que había llevado la pistola a la escuela.

Según el informe, Thomas les dijo a los investigadores que llevó el arma porque le preocupaba una gran pelea entre varios estudiantes que “estaba a punto de ocurrir”.

La policía indicó que Thomas identificó a los estudiantes que, según él, estaban involucrados en el posible enfrentamiento.

Los investigadores dijeron que compartieron esa información con la directora para que las autoridades escolares tomaran medidas y evitaran la pelea.

Un informe policial complementario, fechado dos días después del incidente, ofrece más detalles sobre la investigación.

Según ese informe, el personal de seguridad de la escuela revisó los videos de vigilancia e identificó a un estudiante que había interactuado con Thomas poco antes de que se encontrara el arma.

En las imágenes se ve al estudiante salir de un salón y entregarle a Thomas su mochila alrededor de las 11:57 a.m.

Los investigadores interrogaron después al estudiante, quien dijo que Thomas era su amigo.

El testigo le contó a la policía que estaba en el salón cuando Thomas se tomó una foto con la pistola en la mano y la compartió en un chat grupal de Instagram de los estudiantes de último año.

Según el testigo, Thomas usó una función que solo permitía ver la foto una vez antes de que desapareciera.

El estudiante dijo que más tarde Thomas le pidió que le llevara la mochila al pasillo porque planeaba irse de la escuela y no asistir al resto de las clases después del almuerzo.

El testigo les dijo a los investigadores que, cuando le entregó la mochila, Thomas llevaba el arma encima y no dentro de la mochila, informaron las autoridades.

La policía indicó que los videos de seguridad confirmaron la entrega y mostraron a Thomas corriendo por el pasillo antes de desaparecer del alcance de la cámara.

Según el informe, el testigo siguió a Thomas al principio, pero luego regresó a su salón.

Thomas fue arrestado el 4 de noviembre por un cargo de posesión de un arma de fuego en propiedad escolar y trasladado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

En un comunicado enviado anteriormente a Local 10 News, un portavoz de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Miami-Dade calificó lo ocurrido como un “incidente aislado”.

“El incidente se atendió conforme a la ley y al Código de Conducta Estudiantil”, indicó el comunicado. “M-DCPS anima a los estudiantes y al personal a seguir reportando cualquier preocupación de seguridad a las autoridades escolares, ya que avisar a tiempo sigue siendo clave para mantener un ambiente escolar seguro. La seguridad y el bienestar de nuestros estudiantes y empleados siguen siendo nuestra máxima prioridad”.

Thomas está actualmente bajo arresto domiciliario tras pagar una fianza de $2,500.

Un juez del condado de Miami-Dade le ordenó cumplir un toque de queda de 11 p.m. a 6 a.m.

El informe policial indica que la Fiscalía Estatal de Miami-Dade programó para el jueves una reunión previa a la presentación de cargos por delito grave.

Thomas Markle was in custody awaiting a hearing in federal court in Tampa, Florida, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said.

He was arrested shortly after he cut off the ankle bracelet at 1:45 a.m., Essayli said.

Markle’s arrest on Friday followed the seizure of approximately 78 items, including slides, film negatives, and books that contained suspected child sexual abuse images in storage in the Los Angeles area, Essayli said.

During his arrest last week, he was taken from a senior care center in Lakeland by ambulance. Hours later, a judge allowed Markle to be released on the condition that he be electronically monitored, which typically means wearing an ankle tether.

The judge also ordered a mental competency exam and a report by Nov. 20.

His daughter, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex married Prince Harry at Windsor Castle in 2018. They have two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. She is an American citizen and actor who starred in the U.S. television drama “Suits.”

Meghan recently said she was “deeply distressed” by allegations that a collection of child sexual abuse images had been found at her father’s former home. She also revealed that a letter containing “troubling allegations” about him had been sent to police in London in 2019.

“It made troubling and disturbing allegations against my father and I was given assurances that these were being investigated,” Meghan said of the letter. “I hope it can now be understood that, despite certain media publications’ distortion over the years, any distance from my father and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children was for one reason: to protect them.”

Thomas Markle was living in the Philippines this year when he suffered a stroke and had his left leg amputated. That forced him to return to the U.S.

His arrest followed reports by The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper, that Meghan’s half brother found a collection of child sexual abuse images while clearing out their father’s home in the Philippines. That discovery led to information about two U.S. storage units in California, which Markle had rented since 2008.

The portable ring, made of rubber and plastic, serves as the stage for the improvised boxing matches that Abril has organized for months at parks in Bogota, mostly without official permits.

Dozens of young men and women gather on weekends for Abril’s pop-up fights, where strangers face off without the lengthy preparations required for regular boxing matches. Some want to test their boxing skills. Others are looking for a new thrill.

Women pay around $5 to compete, while men pay $15. Organizers provide boxing gloves but no headgear. Cash prizes of around $100 are given to those who can win two or three fights in a row in hastily organized tournaments.

For Ingrid Prieto, a 29-year-old who recently participated in a fight, boxing is a form of therapy.

“When I was young, I used to get in a lot of fights, so I began to practice taekwondo,” she said, adding that contact sports have helped her to channel her emotions.

Eliber Parra García, 27, repairs mobile phones for a living. He said he joined the pop-up fights to experience what it feels like to be a professional boxer, and also for the adrenaline that comes with fighting and the chance to make some money. “I have an orange belt in judo,” Parra García said. “But I know very little about boxing.”

Bogota’s municipal government told the Associated Press that the fights require permits and a plan for dealing with emergencies that must be submitted to authorities.

Police have asked Abril to dismantle his octagon in several parks around the city, after failing to present a permit.

Abril said participants are asked to sign a consent form stating they are in good health before fighting. He also said obtaining a permit to organize boxing matches is difficult because the sport is “monopolized” by promoters.

Abril’s fights are limited to two rounds lasting 90 seconds each. Participants are sorted into weight categories and given gloves that are heavier than those used by professionals.

“The gloves are so heavy that the boxers get tired faster, and that means they will not throw such hard punches,” said Abril, who has a degree in physical education. He said that sometimes there are bloody noses or burst lips in his fights, but that “no one has had their cheekbones broken.”

Despite the lack of permits, and being chased from parks by police, Abril says interest in his street fights is growing. He promotes them on social media under the nickname King Abril and runs a YouTube account with 131,000 subscribers.

“We started doing this on streets, on the pavement,” Abril said. “Now we have a cage, gloves and a mat.”

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Matthew Farwell, 40, was found guilty of strangling Birchmore on Feb. 1, 2021 — 12 days after a tipster called the suburban Boston police department where he worked and reported that they’d had an improper relationship. Birchmore, who was 23 when she died, had been in a tumultuous relationship with the detective, whom she first met while participating in a Stoughton Police Department youth program as a child.

Prosecutors said Farwell staged the crime scene to make her death look like a suicide — and that it nearly worked. Massachusetts State Police investigators quickly concluded that Birchmore killed herself. But the FBI began looking into the case two years later and concluded it was a homicide.

Federal prosecutors harshly criticized the initial police investigation at Farwell’s trial, saying officers didn’t follow leads and closed the case too quickly.

“Justice requires persistence, not deference, not convenience, and certainly not the protection of those who wear the badge and misuse their authority,” Ted Docks, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, said at a news conference after the verdict. “No badge, no title, no position places anyone above the law.”

Birchmore’s cousin, Ray Cosgrove, said the family was grateful to those who pursued answers but emphasized that no verdict could bring back Birchmore or her unborn son.

“Our family knew the person. The public knew the case,” Cosgrove said. “Sandra mattered before anyone outside her family knew her name.”

Farwell’s lawyers acknowledged that the married detective had an affair with Birchmore, but said it began when she was 16, making her old enough to consent under Massachusetts law. They also maintained that he did not kill her. They argued that Birchmore had threatened suicide before and that she killed herself after he went to her apartment to break up with her.

Farwell’s conviction carries a mandatory life sentence.

The nearly monthlong trial — with about 50 witnesses and 500 exhibits — unfolded in federal court in Boston, partly because local prosecutors never brought criminal charges.

Massachusetts State Police officers and investigators, some with personal connections to Farwell, quickly concluded Birchmore’s death was a suicide after she was found slumped on her apartment floor with a strap around her neck. One investigator, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Fogarty told jurors, saw nothing suspicious in Birchmore’s apartment and concluded this was a “troubled girl who killed herself.”

The state’s medical examiner, relying partly on information from police, initially ruled Birchmore died by suicide. The office has since changed the official manner of death to “undetermined.”

The FBI began looking into Birchmore’s death in 2023, partly at the urging of a former deputy chief at the Stoughton Police Department who had led an internal affairs investigation into Farwell based on the tip the department received before Birchmore’s death.

Federal investigators concluded the local probe into her death was rushed and compromised. Farwell was interviewed for just 15 minutes in a parking lot, they said. Investigators didn’t take notes, examine him for injuries or sample his DNA. Police looked at Farwell’s phone only after he had deleted texts with Birchmore.

The FBI investigation uncovered about 40,000 texts between Farwell and Birchmore, including some in which they reminisced about having sex when he was 27 and she was 15 — too young to consent under Massachusetts law.

The texts also showed how their relationship grew contentious as Birchmore pressed Farwell to get her pregnant and threatened to tell his wife about their relationship.

Texts in late 2020, after she was pregnant, showed they argued over what role, if any, Farwell would play in the child’s life. A paternity test after Birchmore’s death revealed a different man was the father.

At trial, a digital forensics expert testified that Birchmore’s phone stopped moving three minutes before the lobby security camera recorded Farwell leaving her building on the night of her death.

An expert hired by prosecutors, Dr. William Smock, testified that Birchmore’s injuries indicated she was strangled with a duffel bag strap and that she struggled before dying.

A defense expert, Dr. Thomas Andrew, the former chief medical examiner in New Hampshire, dismissed Smock’s determination that it was a homicide.

Speaking to reporters there for the first time since being dealt to New Jersey on Oct. 23, the goaltender said his family experienced “a few moments that I don’t want to see happen again.” He added he wanted to keep the details of the incidents private.

“There was some moments and some things that happened to my family that, for me, crossed the line and as a husband and a father, I felt made that decision very certain," Hellebuyck said. "I needed to be a good husband and a good father and do what’s best for my family and my career.”

Hellebuyck backstopped the U.S. to men’s hockey gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February. In the aftermath, he attended a White House reception honoring the team, drawing criticism in Canada.

Asked if the fallout played a role in the backlash, Hellebuyck said: I’m sure it did a little bit. I don’t think it matters if it’s fair or not."

“Those are accomplishments that I will never apologize for, and I will never speak negatively about,” the 33-year-old from Michigan said of his Olympic success. “I know the sensitivity about what’s going on between the U.S. and Canada, and I’ve never gotten into politics deep with anyone because I’m a hockey player.”

Hellebuyck said he still has a “strong emotional connection” to Winnipeg, and he doesn’t want what happened to reflect on the city as a whole.

“I grew up here," he said. “I made a lot of connections here. I don’t want anyone to think I don’t love it here.”

Hellebuyck said he was being honest about wanting to play for the Jets for his entire career when he signed a seven-year, $59.5 million contract extension in October 2023. But he said a lot has changed since then, from his family’s comfort in Winnipeg to the team’s competitiveness.

“To the people who feel that I’ve been disloyal, well, there’s also a lot that I was not expecting to happen go on throughout this contract,” he said.

The Devils said Sunday night that Hellebuyck would not play against his former team on Tuesday night, citing a decline in their expected win probability. Hellebuyck has won all five starts he has made since the trade and said he spoke with coach Sheldon Keefe and general manager Sunny Mehta about the situation.

“I’m 14 days into a new team, and they handle their business differently than I’m used to,” Hellebuyck said. “When I went in there and said my piece and said I felt it was my duty to play this game and said ‘I want to play,’ I had a good conversation with (Keefe and Mehta), and I left that conversation understanding where they’re at.”

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The ceremony took place in the towering 13th-century Toledo Cathedral in central Spain.

The collision happened on Oct. 28 when a high-speed train slammed into another that was stationary on the Madrid-Seville line near Urda, around 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of the capital.

It was the second deadly collision this year involving Spain’s extensive high-speed rail network, shattering Spaniards' trust in the transit system that is regarded as one of the country's crowning achievements.

Under growing pressure, Transport Minister Óscar Puente stepped down last week. His resignation was followed by that of Luis Pedro Marco, who was head of Spain's railway infrastructure operator.

Spain will hold a general election on Nov. 29, in which progressive Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is seeking reelection.

Sánchez did not attend Tuesday's funeral service.

A 16th-century sculpture of Christ was moved from the town of Urda to the cathedral in Toledo for the funeral service.

Residents of Urda placed 69 candles near the altar in honor of the victims. King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia sat near their families.

Sánchez has pledged an investigation and improvements to restore trust in the rail system that last year carried 45 million travelers, including millions of tourists.

Last week, the European Union's independent prosecutor said it had opened an investigation into possible fraud in the use of European funds allocated for safety upgrades and renovations on the same high-speed railway line on which both fatal crashes this year took place.

Rail travel in Spain was disrupted on Tuesday due to a train drivers' strike. A general strike on Wednesday is expected to cause further disruptions to public transit, and shutter or slow down businesses, factories and shops across Spain.

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Jason Watford told FBI special agents that he and the woman were traveling together when their arguing caused him to “snap” on Sunday night in their cabin, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Watford said he wrapped his arm around the woman’s neck and “released his hold only after becoming exhausted,” and a housekeeper reported finding her dead on the floor and noticing blood on Watford, according to the complaint.

The ship’s security detained Watford. FBI special agents boarded the ship and questioned Watford. MSC Seascape suspended the voyage to Costa Maya, the Roatan Islands, and Cozumel to return to the port in Gavelston.

“On reporting a guest incident aboard our ship, we were instructed by the authorities to return to the Port of Galveston,” a spokesperson for MSC Cruises wrote in a statement.

Gavelston Sheriff’s Office deputies held Watford at the Gavelston County Jail on Monday on a federal hold. The FBI was investigating with the assistance of the U.S. Coast Guard, Port of Galveston Police Department, and Customs and Border Protection.

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Rep.-elect Brian Poindexter said his win over incumbent GOP Rep. Max Miller ensures Ohio remains a very competitive swing state.

And Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot in New Jersey who said she's spent her whole life “trying to find the biggest, hardest problem to throw myself at,” was ready to give Congress a try. “There's always the unknown.”

They were among more than 100 newly elected members of Congress arriving in Washington this week for the start of freshmen orientation — the crush of new Democrats, many bringing a new sense of urgency after the party's sweep of the midterm elections, and the slim new class of freshmen Republicans.

“People were just looking for somebody who’s going to listen to them,” said Womack, who said she won by simply showing up and talking with voters.

“I’m a single mom and so I know what it’s like to have to live on a budget and figure out how am I going to feed my family,” she said. “And that’s what people want to fight for them in Washington right now.”

New-member orientation creates an unusual mash-up on Capitol Hill, as the newcomers are arriving and the exiting lawmakers begin to clear out, all in preparation for the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 3, when lawmakers are sworn in and the new Congress begins.

This week’s orientation includes training sessions and ritzy receptions for the newcomers, and for the defeated or those retiring it's the start of figuring out what’s next. Briefing rooms are filled with information about office setup, payroll and benefits, and there's a room to take official portraits.

It’s also the time for the House and Senate to hold internal party elections for their new leaders, ahead of a public vote in January for the speaker of the House.

“I’m looking forward to learning as much as I can and being the best representative I can be for my district," said Poindexter as he arrived at the nearby Navy Yard hotel where lawmakers are temporarily housed.

Selfies, besties and tough votes ahead

The Capitol was a changed place as the members-elect started meeting up with their colleagues and getting to know their way around the place.

Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan was swarmed by young people in the Capitol basement, taking pictures with the progressive star who is also the first Muslim in the Senate.

Texas Sen.-elect James Talarico paid a visit to the outgoing Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who lost his own primary for reelection when President Donald Trump backed his rival, Ken Paxton, who was defeated.

“I’m so grateful for his advice and his guidance as I try to fill his big shoes,” Talarico said of Cornyn as he walked through the Senate between orientation events. He said he wants to meet with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas as well.

And Sen.-elect Juliana Stratton of Illinois snapped a photo with new Democratic senators-elect including Talarico, El-Sayed, Annie Andrews, Roy Cooper, Peggy Flanagan, Josh Turek and others.

“First Freshmen Senator selfie! Couldn’t ask for a better team,” she posted as the caption.

Among them was former Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who defeated Republican Sen. Jon Husted, a Trump-backed favorite, for a comeback. Brown was in the Senate for 18 years before he lost two years ago to GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno, but he still joined his freshmen colleagues for their orientation.

“I’ve actually learned some things,” said Brown, who was celebrating his 74th birthday on Monday. “I’ve gotten to know my colleagues.”

Leadership elections test the new members

One of the first decisions the incoming lawmakers will make happens even before they’re sworn into office, as they huddle with their parties in private meetings to choose House and Senate leadership.

Congressional offices are being bombarded with phone calls and social media messages pushing Democrats to dump their current choices – House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer – in favor of a fresh start.

Jeffries scoffed when questioned Monday if he had support— the typically low-key leader flashing confidence he would have the votes. He is on track to make history as the nation's first Black American to become speaker of the House.

Progressive lawmakers, in particular, are agitating for change reflective of voters' sweeping turnout for Democrats, especially in the Senate.

Sen.-elect Chris Pappas, D-N.H. — who was darting back and forth between his day job as an outgoing member of the House and his new one as an incoming senator — said their class is “a new generation of leadership that wants to do things differently and shake up Washington.”

He said he wants to meet with Schumer and will later decide who he will support, if anyone challenges him.

Republicans will also choose their new leaders after House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to step aside following the party's election defeat. Tuesday's closed-door race between the No. 2 Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan is a repeat of the contest in 2023, before Johnson rose to power.

Rep. Richard Hudson, the House GOP campaign chairman who lost his own reelection bid in North Carolina, hesitated to assess the outcome.

Besides, he said, he doesn't have a vote in the matter — the exiting lawmakers are blocked from the GOP meeting.

A diverse new class arrives

As the week began, the House Chaplain Margaret Kibben opened Monday's session with a prayer, “some of us enjoying victories and others enduring disheartening defeats.”

On the Democratic side, the new Congress will see many milestones – Flanagan will be the first Native American female U.S. senator, Pappas the first gay male senator, and more.

Rep. Suzan DelBene, the House Democrats' campaign chief, called the party's candidates “all very unique.”

"We had firefighters, ministers, mayors, veterans, teachers, farmers, prosecutors, union leaders, law enforcement, doctors, journalists and even a Grammy award-winning musician," she said earlier.

“They understand that their job title is representative, not rubber stamp.”

Johnson, the outgoing speaker, hosted a reception in the Capitol's stately Statuary Hall for the House Republicans, whose shrinking numbers left the party lopsided, their minority made up of mostly white men.

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Sieler sustained the injury on the opening play of Sunday’s 19-9 loss to the Detroit Lions. Despite the injury, the team captain continued playing, logging 49 snaps on defense and special teams.

Sieler is expected to make a full recovery in five to six months, according to the report.

The 30-year-old defensive tackle has been a key part of Miami’s defense since joining the team in 2019 after being claimed off waivers from the Baltimore Ravens, who selected him in the seventh round of the 2018 NFL Draft.

Sieler established himself as one of the Dolphins’ most productive defensive players, recording 10 sacks in back-to-back seasons in 2023 and 2024.

He signed a three-year, $64 million contract extension with Miami in 2025 and has continued serving as a leader in the defensive line room.

Sieler recorded two sacks this season, both coming in Miami’s Week 4 matchup against the Minnesota Vikings.

His absence is expected to create more opportunities for Miami’s young defensive tackles, including 2025 first-round pick Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips and seventh-round pick Zeek Biggers.

The injury also eliminates any possibility of Sieler being moved ahead of Tuesday’s 4 p.m. NFL trade deadline.

Miami fell to 1-7 following Sunday’s loss to Detroit and remains winless at Hard Rock Stadium this season.

Miami faces the Colts (2-7) at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday at 1 p.m.

According to the report by Miami-Dade Schools Police, Torrez Ramon Thomas brought a loaded handgun onto the Miami Gardens campus last Wednesday, Nov. 4, and posted a photograph of himself holding the weapon in an Instagram group chat.

Thomas was arrested that same day after school officials received an anonymous tip about a student possessing a gun on school grounds.

Police said the school’s principal notified school police after receiving information about the social media post.

Officers questioned Thomas about the allegation, but he denied having a gun and told investigators he did not have a book bag with him that day, authorities said.

Police then contacted school personnel to determine which classrooms Thomas had attended.

According to the report, during the investigation, a female student told officers she had seen Thomas entering a classroom storage room that morning carrying a turquoise-blue Sprayground book bag.

Officers searched the storage room and located the bag.

Inside, investigators discovered a black Glock 19 handgun and a wallet containing Thomas’ Florida identification card, according to the report.

Police said surveillance footage showed Thomas entering the school with the book bag on his back, contradicting his earlier statement.

A school police sergeant subsequently unloaded the firearm and determined that it contained 14 rounds of 9mm ammunition in the magazine and another round in the chamber.

According to the investigation report, Thomas waived his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with detectives after the gun was recovered.

During questioning, Thomas allegedly admitted to bringing the gun onto campus.

According to the report, Thomas told investigators he brought the weapon to school because he was concerned about a large fight involving multiple students that was “about to occur.”

Police said Thomas identified the students he believed were involved in the potential confrontation.

Investigators said they shared that information with the principal so school officials could take steps to prevent the fight.

A supplemental police report dated two days after the incident provides additional details about the investigation.

According to the report, school security personnel reviewed surveillance footage and identified a student who had interacted with Thomas shortly before the gun was recovered.

The footage showed the student leaving a classroom and handing Thomas his book bag around 11:57 a.m.

Investigators later questioned the student, who described Thomas as his friend.

The witness told police he had been inside the classroom when Thomas took a photograph of himself holding the gun and shared it in a senior class Instagram group chat.

According to the witness, Thomas used a feature that allowed recipients to view the photograph only once before it disappeared.

The student said Thomas later asked him to bring his book bag into the hallway because he planned to leave campus and skip the remainder of the school day after lunch.

The witness told investigators that Thomas had the gun on him, rather than inside the book bag, when he handed him the bag, authorities said.

Police said surveillance footage confirmed the exchange and showed Thomas running down the hallway before disappearing from the camera’s view.

The witness initially followed Thomas but eventually returned to his classroom, according to the report.

Thomas was arrested Nov. 4 on a charge of possession of a firearm on school property and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

In a statement previously provided to Local 10 News, a Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesperson described the situation as an “isolated incident.”

“The incident was addressed in accordance with the law and the Code of Student Conduct,” the statement read. “M-DCPS encourages students and staff to continue reporting safety concerns to school officials, as timely reporting remains an important part of maintaining a safe school environment. The safety and well-being of our students and employees remains our highest priority.”

Thomas is currently on house arrest after posting a $2,500 bond.

A Miami-Dade County judge ordered that he follow an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew.

The police report indicates that the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office scheduled a felony prefile conference for Thursday.

Se pronostica que el aire frío descienda sobre el este y el sureste del país este fin de semana. El fresco llegará incluso al sur de Florida, donde las mínimas previstas bajarán hasta los 50 y 60 grados. Ese mismo sistema también traería lluvia y nieve el jueves y el viernes a zonas de mayor altitud y al interior del noreste.

Gran parte del norte de Estados Unidos ya ha registrado temperaturas bajo cero este otoño, algo que históricamente ocurre para finales de octubre en las Grandes Llanuras y el Medio Oeste.

Sin embargo, algunas ciudades importantes, como Chicago, St. Louis y Buffalo, todavía no han visto el termómetro bajar de los 32 °F. Minneapolis finalmente llegó a 31° el 6 de noviembre, con lo que igualó la tercera fecha más tardía en registrar temperaturas bajo cero desde 1872.

Es común que ciudades como Boston y Nueva York no tengan su primera helada hasta mediados de noviembre, debido a su cercanía al océano y al efecto de isla de calor urbana, que mantiene las ciudades más cálidas que las zonas rurales cercanas.

El frío en el sur de Florida solo durará hasta el fin de semana, ya que los pronósticos extendidos apuntan a temperaturas cercanas a lo normal para mediados de la próxima semana.

La policía de Pembroke Pines informó que el accidente ocurrió alrededor de las 6:30 p.m. cerca de la intersección de Southwest 69th Street y 166th Avenue, donde ambas vías se cruzan en un ángulo cerrado de 90 grados.

Según la policía, en el incidente estuvo involucrado un solo vehículo, y buzos de rescate sacaron a una persona del agua.

Funcionarios de bomberos habían informado previamente que la persona, identificada como una mujer de edad avanzada, sufría un paro cardíaco cuando fue trasladada de urgencia a un hospital cercano.

La policía de Pembroke Pines confirmó el martes que la conductora fue declarada muerta el lunes por la noche.

Los vecinos no ocultaron su conmoción al hablar con Local 10 News sobre el accidente que terminó en tragedia.

“Fue muy aterrador y muy emotivo. Fue algo muy perturbador”, dijo una residente. “Los policías pasaron por mi casa hasta el patio y se metieron al agua”.

La policía indicó que aún no había recibido confirmación de que se hubiera notificado a los familiares más cercanos de la mujer, por lo que no divulgaría su identidad.

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According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials, 16 units responded to the 12900 block of Northwest 25th Street around 3:25 a.m.

When crews arrived, one trailer was completely engulfed in flames, and the fire was beginning to spread to a second trailer nearby.

Firefighters initially had difficulty reaching the trailers because a fence blocked access to the area.

Crews began battling the flames using water cannons mounted on fire trucks and fire hoses while other firefighters worked to cut through the fence.

Once they gained access, firefighters noticed hazardous materials warning placards on the trailers, prompting them to call in the department’s specialized Hazmat unit, MDFR officials said.

Hazmat personnel then identified several materials inside the trailers and helped firefighters bring the blaze under control, according to the first responders.

According to MDFR officials, crews used specialized firefighting foam to extinguish the flames and help prevent the fire from reigniting.

Firefighters also worked to eliminate remaining hot spots.

No injuries were reported.

Authorities have not specified which hazardous materials were found inside the trailers.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Criminal Investigations Division identified Johnson Cuffy, Serena Morrisey, Tracy Hunter, Sharika Morgan, Ruel Green Jr., Charletta Gordon and Sylvester Cuffy as suspects in the alleged scheme.

According to investigators, the group submitted approximately 57 fraudulent claims totaling $1,990,533.71 between 2022 and 2024.

Eight of those claims were successful, resulting in $240,466.58 being fraudulently obtained, the affidavit states.

Authorities said the suspects targeted the Florida Division of Unclaimed Property and the Florida Division of Corporations, using fraudulent business filings and claims to obtain money belonging to legitimate businesses.

How investigators say the scheme worked

According to the affidavit, the suspects allegedly used public records to identify businesses with unclaimed funds being held by the state.

The Florida Division of Unclaimed Property holds assets such as inactive bank accounts, uncashed checks and the contents of safe deposit boxes until their rightful owners claim them.

Investigators said the suspects submitted fraudulent business documents through the Florida Division of Corporations to make it appear they were authorized to act on behalf of legitimate companies.

They then filed claims with the Division of Unclaimed Property, seeking payments for money belonging to those businesses, according to the affidavit.

The investigation identified numerous companies whose names were allegedly used in the scheme, including Countrywide Home Loans Inc., Washington Mutual, American Home Mortgage, Aegis Mortgage Company, First Franklin, GMAC Mortgage and other financial institutions.

The affidavit states that the suspects operated across multiple Florida counties, including Miami-Dade, Broward, Hillsborough and Polk.

Seven defendants face charges

The probable cause affidavit identifies the following defendants and charges:

• Johnson Cuffy, 48: Organized scheme to defraud involving more than $50,000 and aggravated white-collar crime.
• Tracy Hunter, 40: Organized scheme to defraud involving $20,000 to $50,000.
• Charletta Gordon, 34: Organized scheme to defraud involving more than $50,000 and criminal use of personal identification information involving more than $5,000.
• Ruel Green, 53: Organized scheme to defraud involving more than $50,000 and criminal use of personal identification information involving more than $5,000.
• Sylvester Cuffy, 51: Organized scheme to defraud involving more than $50,000.
• Serena Morrisey, 43: Organized scheme to defraud involving more than $50,000.
• Sharika Morgan, 49: Organized scheme to defraud involving $20,000 to $50,000.

According to online jail records from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Johnson Cuffy remained held at the Broward County Main Jail Tuesday morning, while Hunter was at the Joseph V. Conte Facility and Gordon was at the Paul Rein Detention Facility.

Green, Sylvester Cuffy, Morrisey and Morgan have already bonded out of jail.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami Shores Police Department, Mekhi Elijah Butcher, of Hugo, Minnesota, faces charges of bribery and reckless driving following the incident on Northeast Second Avenue.

Police said an officer spotted Butcher driving recklessly around 7:20 p.m. Monday, between Northeast 99th and 103rd streets.

According to the arrest report, Butcher sped through the center turn lane, illegally passed several vehicles and cut off other drivers during the four-block stretch.

Investigators said he also followed multiple vehicles too closely.

When the officer activated the emergency lights on a marked patrol vehicle, Butcher allegedly swerved into a turn lane for oncoming traffic on Northeast Second Avenue, near Northeast 103rd Street, before stopping with part of his vehicle still in the oncoming lanes, the report stated.

According to the report, the officer identified Butcher using his Minnesota driver’s license and ordered him out of the vehicle.

Police said Butcher was detained and cited for failing to use a designated lane, cutting in, following too closely and reckless driving.

According to the arrest report, Butcher attempted to bribe the officer after being taken into custody and placed in the back of a patrol vehicle.

Police said Butcher initially offered the officer $1,000 to release him “right here, right now.”

When that did not work, investigators said he increased the offer to $2,000.

The arresting officer reported that both offers were captured by the patrol vehicle’s rear-seat camera system, which records audio and video.

Police said Butcher was transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

As of Tuesday morning, he remained at TGK. Online jail records listed his bond as “to be set.”

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According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, Leeanthony Jerome Jordan was arrested in connection with the Oct. 25 shooting. The address of the apartment complex where the shooting occurred was redacted from the publicly released report.

Police said officers responded to the shooting in Miami’s 33150 ZIP code around 8:15 p.m. that night.

When police arrived, they found a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the left side of his abdomen.

An officer provided emergency assistance before the victim was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

Investigators later discovered a trail of blood on the second floor of an apartment building leading to one unit, authorities said.

According to witness statements, Jordan had been spending time with several people who were walking toward the apartment building when they encountered the victim.

One witness told detectives the victim intentionally bumped into Jordan as they walked along a sidewalk.

Jordan initially ignored the encounter and continued toward the apartment, the witness said.

While Jordan waited outside as the witness asked her mother if he could enter the apartment, the victim allegedly came outside and confronted him, authorities said.

According to the arrest report, the two exchanged words before Jordan answered a phone call and turned his back.

The victim then punched Jordan in the back of the head, prompting a physical altercation, investigators said.

According to the report, a witness reported hearing a gunshot before running inside the apartment.

Investigators said they obtained surveillance footage from the apartment building’s landlord that showed the confrontation leading up to the shooting.

According to the report, the video showed the victim striking Jordan in the back of the head before the two began fighting outside the camera’s view.

A gunshot could then be heard.

When the men returned to the camera’s view, the victim was on the ground suffering from a gunshot wound, the report stated.

Police said the footage showed the wounded man grabbing Jordan’s pants and pleading with him not to shoot again.

Investigators said Jordan then moved a black handgun into his right hand, aimed it at the victim and attempted to fire another shot.

According to the report, Jordan manipulated the handgun’s slide and tried to shoot the victim again, but the weapon appeared to malfunction.

Police said Jordan then fled on foot toward Northwest 65th Street.

During the investigation, detectives interviewed several witnesses who they said described previous disagreements between Jordan and the victim.

One witness told police Jordan had previously dated her older daughter and had been involved in earlier arguments with the victim.

She alleged that Jordan had pointed a gun at the victim during a previous confrontation, the report stated.

The witness also claimed Jordan had stolen the victim’s bicycle months before the shooting.

Another witness described a prior dispute in which Jordan allegedly damaged the victim’s bicycle, authorities said.

According to the arrest report, multiple witnesses identified Jordan in photographs as the man involved in the confrontation and shooting.

On Monday, detectives with the Miami Police Department’s Felony Apprehension Team located Jordan near 6900 NW Seventh Ave. at around 7:53 p.m.

He was taken into custody and transported to the department’s Violent Crimes office for questioning.

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

Police said Jordan told detectives he had been waiting outside the apartment when the victim approached him and asked, “What’s up?”

He also said the victim punched him from behind while he was answering a phone call, leading to a struggle, at which point the victim held him from behind, authorities said.

Further information provided by Jordan was redacted from the publicly released report.

Jordan was arrested and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

He faces one count of attempted second-degree murder and one count of discharging a firearm outdoors in a residential area, according to the arrest report.

The report did not provide an update on the victim’s condition following his hospitalization.

As of Tuesday morning, Jordan remained held at TGK without bond.

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On Monday night, a man asked police for help in the downtown riverfront area. He reported Bec, 33, had broken into his docked boat, punched him in the face, and caused “a laceration to his nose,” according to a police report.

By Tuesday afternoon, records show Bec’s charges had piled up to nine in five pending cases in Broward County court. Records show that earlier this year, public defenders asked judges to consider Bec’s mental health.

Before Bec got caught in a revolving door in Broward this year, prosecutors filed a 2023 case against her on two charges: Unlawful use of a false name or identity, a first-degree misdemeanor, and petit theft, a second-degree misdemeanor.

Records show Bec wasn’t arrested in 2024 or 2025 in Broward County. Police officers arrested Bec in 2024 at a hospital in Aventura, after she was accused of stealing the keys to a Porsche from a valet area in Bal Harbour, records show.

This year, Broward prosecutors filed a misdemeanor case on July 30, two third-degree felony cases on Sept. 21 and Oct. 2, a municipal ordinance case on Oct. 22, and a first-degree felony on Tuesday.

On July 20th, a judge in the 2023 case appointed experts to determine her competency. In the July 30th case, Bec faced a first-degree misdemeanor charge of unlawful use of a false name or identity after police officers arrested her on July 7 in Fort Lauderdale, according to court records.

In the Oct. 2nd case, Bec faced a third-degree felony charge of burglary after police officers arrested her on Sept. 21 in Fort Lauderdale, according to court records.

In the Oct. 22nd case, Bec faced a third-degree misdemeanor charge of trespassing after police officers arrested her on Sept. 11 in Fort Lauderdale, according to court records.

On Oct. 29, a public defender representing Bec in the Oct. 22nd case filed a motion asking a judge to find her “incompetent to proceed based on mental illness,” court records show.

On Nov. 2, Bec was released on a $3,500 bond in the Oct. 2nd burglary case, and the case was transferred to the mental health court division on Nov. 5th.

On Monday night, a police officer arrested Bec, whose record also includes four arrests in 2020 in Miami Beach, at 137 North New River Drive East in Fort Lauderdale, police and court records show.

In the case prosecutors filed on Tuesday morning, Bec faced four charges: Battery on a person 65 years of age or older, burglary with assault or battery, unarmed burglary, and trespassing.

On Tuesday afternoon, Bec was at the North Broward Bureau in Pompano Beach, according to inmate records. Broward County Circuit Judge Peter Holden was set to preside on Bec’s new case.

Local 10 News Photojournalist Wade Hughes and Assignment Manager Kelly Davis contributed to this report.

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Terra, the firm selected to oversee the property’s redevelopment, released its proposed “master plan” Tuesday after a year of community outreach and planning.

The proposal includes an 83,000-square-foot aquarium without marine mammals, marine research and education facilities, waterfront restaurants, a public marina and expanded access to Biscayne Bay.

Among the planned features is a free, three-quarter-mile waterfront promenade called Ocean Walk, with shaded paths, native landscaping and public gathering spaces.

The project also calls for a 118,000-square-foot marine research and innovation center in collaboration with the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School, along with an underwater classroom.

Plans for the waterfront include a marina with 295 boat slips, dry storage for 552 boats, restaurants, cafes and recreational attractions.

Environmental restoration is also a major part of the proposal, with initiatives focused on improving water quality, restoring coral and seagrass habitats and creating living shorelines along Biscayne Bay.

The plans also include restoring the property’s iconic Golden Dome, designed by architect Buckminster Fuller, and the Flipper House.

“Miami Seaquarium represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine one of our community’s most iconic waterfront properties,” Terra CEO David Martin said in a news release.

The Miami-Dade County Commission unanimously approved the project’s land use plan on first reading Oct. 21. A final vote is anticipated Nov. 19.

The redevelopment remains subject to additional government and regulatory approvals.

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According to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Southwest 21st Way around 10:20 a.m.

When officers arrived, a witness reported seeing two men arguing outside a home before both went inside.

The witness also reported hearing what sounded like a gunshot, authorities said.

As a precaution, police ordered everyone out of the residence while SWAT team members assisted in clearing the home.

Authorities said SWAT officers searched the residence but did not locate any victims.

No additional details were immediately released.

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According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a report of an “armed domestic disturbance” just before 1:40 a.m. in the 6500 block of Jupiter Gardens Boulevard.

When deputies arrived, they encountered a man “violently attacking” a woman with a knife, prompting one deputy to open fire, authorities said.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The woman was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of injuries she suffered during the attack, according to PBSO.

Authorities have not released the identities of the man or woman or provided information about the woman’s condition.

Detectives with the sheriff’s office’s Violent Crimes Division and crime scene investigators are investigating the shooting, along with representatives from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the State Attorney’s Office.

The sheriff’s office said additional details will be released as they become available.

Dos agentes en motocicletas increparon a Santiago Abril, el organizador del torneo callejero de boxeo, requiriendo permisos para organizar un evento deportivo en un espacio público. Al no tenerlos, tuvo que desmontar el improvisado ring.

Abril recorrió dos parques más hasta lograr instalar el ring para cumplir con más de 20 aficionados inscritos por entre cinco y 15 dólares para participar en el torneo del pasado domingo.

La pelea inició con los hombres que competían en dos categorías de peso, de 60 y 70 kilos, y siguió con la categoría de mujeres. Los hombres pelearon sin camiseta en dos asaltos de un minuto y medio.

“Firman un consentimiento informado que indique que vienen aptos, porque nos ha pasado que viene gente con una puñalada a pelear... ellos pelean sin camisa y todo para verlos que vengan bien”, aseguró Abril.

Para intentar mitigar el daño que se puedan causar los aficionados, Abril asegura que acorta los rounds y les da guantes pesados de seis onzas.

“¿Qué significa eso? Que nunca se van a romper la cara, de pronto un golpecito en la nariz y sangran un poquito, pero no se van a romper pómulos porque... el guante es tan pesado que va a hacer que el boxeador se canse más rápido y no tire los golpes tan fuertes”, explicó Abril.

Entre la adrenalina y la terapia

Los torneos que organiza Abril son convocados por redes sociales, en las que se hace llamar “King Abril”, y están por fuera del circuito profesional.

“Empezamos en la calle, en el pavimento. Ya tenemos una jaula, tatami (láminas de espuma), guantes”, contó a The Associated Press Abril, licenciado en Educación Física.

Pero aseguró que es “difícil” conseguir un permiso para hacer las peleas de boxeo callejero porque, consideró, en el boxeo hay un “monopolio” de los promotores.

La Secretaria de Gobierno de la Alcaldía de Bogotá dijo a AP que el organizador de un evento como el de Abril debe informarle con antelación por tratarse de una “explotación del espacio público” para recibir un permiso y contar con un plan de manejo de emergencias al ser una actividad de alto riesgo.

A su convocatoria acuden aficionados, que generalmente no se conocen entre sí, en busca de diversión, dinero o probar suerte en su sueño de boxear profesionalmente.

“Soy cinta anaranjada en judo, pero de boxeo muy poco”, aseguró la AP Eliber Parra García, un trabajador de un servicio técnico de celulares de 27 años que decidió participar en el torneo callejero.

Parra García buscó probarse en el boxeo por la adrenalina, el dinero —hay un premio que depende de cuánto recaude el organizador— y la experiencia para “ser profesional si Dios lo permite”.

Para Ingrid Prieto, un ama de casa de 29 años, acudir a una pelea de boxeo para aprender un deporte de contacto es una terapia que sirve para canalizar sus emociones.

“Desde pequeña me ha gustado porque peleaba mucho, entonces empecé a practicar taekwondo... me ayudó a canalizar como mi humor. Sufro de ira, porque tuve muchas experiencias de pequeña”, contó a AP.

Cold air is forecast to drop into the eastern and southeastern U.S. this weekend. Chilly temperatures will reach as far as South Florida by the weekend where forecast lows will reach into the 50s and 60s. This same storm system is also forecast to bring rain and snow to higher elevations and inland northeast on Thursday and Friday.

A large portion of the northern U.S. has had below freezing temperatures this fall, which historically occurs by the end of October for the Great Plains and Midwest.

Some major cities though have yet to see temperatures fall below 32°F like Chicago, St. Louis, and Buffalo. Minneapolis finally reached 31° on November 6th, which tied the third latest below freezing temperature since 1872.

It’s common for cities like Boston and New York to delay the first freeze until mid-November due to their location near the ocean and urban heat island effects, which keeps cities warmer compared to nearby rural areas.

South Florida’s cold snap will only last through the weekend as extended outlooks favor near normal temperatures for the by the middle of next week.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Fort Lauderdale, los agentes fueron enviados alrededor de las 10:20 a.m. a la cuadra 100 de Southwest 21st Way.

Al llegar, un testigo contó que había visto a dos hombres discutiendo frente a una casa antes de que ambos entraran.

El testigo también dijo haber escuchado lo que parecía un disparo, informaron las autoridades.

Como medida de precaución, la policía ordenó que todos salieran de la vivienda mientras miembros del equipo SWAT ayudaban a revisarla.

Las autoridades indicaron que los agentes del SWAT registraron la casa, pero no encontraron a ninguna víctima.

No se dieron a conocer más detalles de inmediato.

The Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board was overseeing the machine recount at the office of Alina Garcia, the Miami-Dade County supervisor of elections.

Attorneys for U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, the Republican incumbent, and Eliott Rodriguez, the Democratic challenger, were following the process.

The recount started on Monday morning after a federal judge ruled that Garcia would remain on the board despite Rodriguez’s push for her recusal.

Salazar held a lead of .44 percentage points over Rodriguez. Florida law requires automatic recounts if a candidate is defeated by less than 0.5% of the total votes cast.

The Florida Division of Elections requires the recount results to be ready by 3 p.m. on Thursday. A manual recount takes place when the margin is 0.25% or less, according to Garcia.

Razor-thin results

After polls closed on the night of the midterm election, Salazar told supporters at a campaign event in Key Biscayne that she was the victor.

“We have prevailed,” Salazar said. “We’ve prevailed against all odds.”

Rodriguez was waiting for the election results with supporters in South Miami.

“We knew it was going to be close, and it is, so we have to wait for the votes to be counted,” Rodriguez said.

Accusations

Salazar declared that with a lead of more than 1,100 votes, there was an “insurmountable margin.”

Salazar later released a statement accusing Rodriguez of behaving like an “election denier” and accusing him of trying to turn the electoral process into a “political circus.”

Rodriguez had filed a federal lawsuit as Democrats pushed for Garcia to recuse herself from the recount process.

The lawsuit also cited that Garcia’s son-in-law, Robert Fernandez, was an attorney representing Salazar during the recount process. Garcia refused to recuse herself.

“I am not the one counting the votes,” Garcia said last week. “Everything is transparent and open.”

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Midterm election results

The pledge sets the stage for a consequential month of legislative action and coalition negotiations. Eisenkot, a former military chief, has up to six weeks to form a government that would end the tenure of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister.

While it remains unclear whether Eisenkot will be able to forge a coalition government, the new Knesset can enact legislation in the meantime. Netanyahu's opponents now control a solid majority in parliament.

Eisenkot's bloc introduced a series of bills at the start of the legislative session that target Netanyahu and his policies. They include launching an official government-led inquiry into Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, setting term limits on the position of prime minister and overturning changes the outgoing Netanyahu-led government made to limit the powers of the judiciary. It was not immediately clear how quickly or far those bills would advance in the weeks ahead.

Competing calls for unity

The former general, who campaigned as a no-nonsense straight shooter, reiterated on Tuesday that his goal was a government that all Israelis could trust, not one that represents only certain factions.

“We will act for all citizens of Israel, those who voted for us and those who did not, out of deep commitment,” Eisenkot said ahead of the Knesset swearing-in ceremony.

Netanyahu has sought to undermine the certified election results after his bloc fell short of a majority. He has repeated unsubstantiated claims that Arab-led parties “stole” the elections.

In a speech following Tuesday’s ceremony, Netanyahu reiterated his claim that Arab politicians, who represent a minority comprising 20% of Israel’s population, cannot be trusted. He attacked Jewish opposition leaders who have signaled a willingness to partner with Arab parties to form a government. Eisenkot has left that possibility open if the parties meet several conditions, including accepting Israel’s identity as a Jewish state and declaring Hamas a terrorist group.

“I ask you: Are you prepared to be dependent on those whose goal is the destruction of the Jewish state?” Netanyahu said.

Eisenkot said Netanyahu's speech was “divisive” and “hate-filled,” adding: “I am now even more convinced that he is unfit to remain in office for even one more minute.” He later said he had canceled a meeting with Netanyahu's Likud party planned for Wednesday because of the speech.

Netanyahu's opponents already have a legislative agenda

Eisenkot's bloc also triggered a process on Tuesday to install a new parliamentary speaker as they kicked off work on their legislative agenda.

A majority of members submitted signatures calling for the ousting of the current Netanyahu-backed speaker, Amir Ohana, the first step toward a vote on his replacement. The vote can take place even before a coalition government is in place.

The Knesset speaker is a powerful position. The speaker determines what bills the Knesset will take up, meaning one picked from among the Eisenkot-led opposition parties could propel their legislative agenda forward.

The opposition nominated Matan Kahana, a senior member of Eisenkot’s Yashar party, for the job. A vote to appoint him speaker could come as early as this week.

Netanyahu as caretaker

The swearing-in of the new Knesset ushered in an unusual transitional period in Israeli politics — Netanyahu and his Cabinet remain in power, while the new lawmakers can introduce legislation.

Meanwhile, Eisenkot will meet with party leaders as he works to build a coalition that would likely make him prime minister. If he fails, Israeli President Isaac Herzog is expected to give Netanyahu the next opportunity to form a government.

As caretaker prime minister, Netanyahu faces court-imposed limits on his powers. But he can still pursue appointments and could try to block new legislation. He retains full authority over national security, including the military.

Netanyahu has argued that Jewish-led parties should form a unity government to counter the threat of an Iranian attack. He renewed that call Tuesday, urging them to “set aside all other considerations,” and said Israel should work to topple the Iranian government.

A governing coalition without Netanyahu could leave him politically vulnerable as he faces an ongoing corruption trial and possible findings of security failures in the lead-up to the Oct. 7 attacks.

El lunes por la noche, un hombre pidió ayuda a la policía en la zona ribereña del centro de la ciudad. Denunció que Bec, de 33 años, se había metido a la fuerza en su bote atracado, le dio un puñetazo en la cara y le causó “una cortadura en la nariz”, según un informe policial.

Para el martes por la tarde, los registros mostraban que los cargos contra Bec ya sumaban nueve en cinco casos pendientes en la corte del condado de Broward. De acuerdo con los registros, a principios de este año los defensores públicos pidieron a los jueces que tomaran en cuenta su salud mental.

Antes de que Bec quedara atrapada este año en un ciclo de arrestos y liberaciones en Broward, la fiscalía le había abierto un caso en 2023 por dos cargos: uso ilegal de un nombre o identidad falsos, un delito menor de primer grado, y hurto menor, un delito menor de segundo grado.

Los registros indican que Bec no fue arrestada en 2024 ni en 2025 en el condado de Broward. La policía la arrestó el 28 de enero de 2024, luego de que la acusaran de robarse las llaves de un Porsche del área de valet parking en Bal Harbour, según los registros.

Este año, la fiscalía de Broward presentó un caso por delito menor el 30 de julio, dos casos por delitos graves de tercer grado el 21 de septiembre y el 2 de octubre, un caso por violación de una ordenanza municipal el 22 de octubre y otro por un delito grave de primer grado el martes.

El 20 de julio, un juez del caso de 2023 designó a expertos para determinar si Bec es competente para enfrentar un proceso judicial. En el caso del 30 de julio, Bec enfrentó un cargo de delito menor de primer grado por uso ilegal de un nombre o identidad falsos, luego de que la policía la arrestara el 7 de julio en Fort Lauderdale, según los registros judiciales.

En el caso del 2 de octubre, Bec enfrentó un cargo de allanamiento, un delito grave de tercer grado, después de que la policía la arrestara el 21 de septiembre en Fort Lauderdale, según los registros judiciales.

En el caso del 22 de octubre, Bec enfrentó un cargo de entrada ilegal a propiedad ajena, un delito menor de tercer grado, tras ser arrestada el 11 de septiembre en Fort Lauderdale, según los registros judiciales.

El 29 de octubre, un defensor público que representa a Bec en el caso del 22 de octubre presentó una moción para pedirle a un juez que la declarara “incompetente para enfrentar el proceso debido a una enfermedad mental”, indican los registros judiciales.

El 2 de noviembre, Bec quedó en libertad bajo una fianza de $3,500 en el caso de allanamiento del 2 de octubre, y el 5 de noviembre el caso fue transferido a la división de la corte de salud mental.

El lunes por la noche, un agente arrestó a Bec, quien también tiene cuatro arrestos en 2020 en Miami Beach, en el 137 de North New River Drive East, en Fort Lauderdale, según registros policiales y judiciales.

En el caso que la fiscalía presentó el martes por la mañana, Bec enfrenta cuatro cargos: agresión a una persona de 65 años o más, allanamiento con asalto o agresión, allanamiento sin arma y entrada ilegal a propiedad ajena.

El martes por la tarde, Bec se encontraba en el North Broward Bureau, en Pompano Beach, según los registros de reclusos. El juez de circuito del condado de Broward Peter Holden estaba programado para presidir el nuevo caso de Bec.

El fotoperiodista de Local 10 News Wade Hughes y la jefa de asignaciones Kelly Davis contribuyeron a este reporte.

Terra, la firma elegida para encabezar la remodelación del lugar, presentó el martes su propuesta de “plan maestro”, tras un año de planificación y consultas con la comunidad.

La propuesta incluye un acuario de 83,000 pies cuadrados sin mamíferos marinos, instalaciones para investigación y educación marina, restaurantes frente al agua, una marina pública y mayor acceso a la bahía de Biscayne.

Entre las novedades previstas se encuentra Ocean Walk, un paseo gratuito de tres cuartos de milla frente al mar, con senderos bajo sombra, vegetación nativa y espacios públicos de reunión.

El proyecto también contempla un centro de investigación e innovación marina de 118,000 pies cuadrados, en colaboración con la Rosenstiel School de la Universidad de Miami, además de un aula submarina.

Para la zona costera se planea una marina con 295 amarres, almacenamiento en seco para 552 embarcaciones, restaurantes, cafés y atracciones recreativas.

La restauración ambiental es otro de los pilares de la propuesta, con iniciativas para mejorar la calidad del agua, recuperar los hábitats de corales y pastos marinos, y crear costas vivas a lo largo de la bahía de Biscayne.

Los planes incluyen además restaurar el emblemático Golden Dome de la propiedad, diseñado por el arquitecto Buckminster Fuller, y la Flipper House.

“El Miami Seaquarium es una oportunidad única en una generación para reinventar una de las propiedades frente al mar más emblemáticas de nuestra comunidad”, afirmó David Martin, CEO de Terra, en un comunicado de prensa.

La Comisión del Condado de Miami-Dade aprobó por unanimidad en primera lectura el plan de uso de suelo del proyecto el 21 de octubre. Se prevé que la votación final sea el 19 de noviembre.

La remodelación aún está sujeta a otras aprobaciones gubernamentales y regulatorias.

Pembroke Pines police said the crash happened around 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of Southwest 69th Street and 166th Avenue, where the two roads intersect at a sharp, 90-degree angle.

Police said the incident involved a single vehicle and that one person was pulled from the water from rescue divers.

Fire rescue officials previously said the person, identified as an elderly woman, was experiencing cardiac arrest when she was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Pembroke Pines police confirmed Tuesday that the driver was pronounced dead Monday evening.

Residents were emotional when speaking to Local 10 News about the wreck that turned fatal.

“It was very scary and emotional. It was very disturbing,” one resident said. “Police officers went through my house to the backyard and went for the water.”

Police said they had not yet received confirmation that the woman’s next of kin had been notified and were not releasing her identity.

There is growing evidence that exercise programs can improve cancer outcomes, helping patients live longer and improve their quality of life.

For Irene Morales and Michael Tyler, exercise has become part of their cancer care.

Morales battled brain cancer, while Tyler is a bladder and prostate cancer survivor. Both participated in a specialized exercise oncology program as part of their treatment plans at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Tracy Crane, PhD, director of lifestyle medicine, prevention and digital health at Sylvester, says research has shown the benefits of exercise in cancer care.

“We see improvements in overall longevity. We see improvements in physical function, so not only do we see improvements in survival, but we are seeing improvements in how people live their lives,” Crane said.

A recent study of colon cancer patients found that those enrolled in exercise oncology programs had a 37% lower risk of death and were 28% less likely to have their cancer return.

The growing evidence has also led to changes in cancer care guidelines. In January 2028, the Commission on Cancer is expected to release new guidelines stating that exercise oncology should be part of all cancer care.

But making that happen will require more resources and trained professionals.

“We need the workforce to deliver this. We need the reimbursements for exercise oncology, and we really need the programs to send our patients to that are safe,” Crane said.

Safety is especially important because coaches need specialized training in exercise oncology. Sylvester offers its own training program for interested students.

“A person who is trained in exercise oncology -- they need to understand these different diseases we are working with – the different cancer types, the different pathology and how that’s going to affect the way their body responds to the training and how we need to adjust the protocols,” Caleb Calaway, PhD, an exercise physiologist with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, said.

A person’s cancer type and treatment can affect how their body responds to exercise, making specialized training important.

For Morales and Tyler, continuing to exercise throughout their cancer journeys has helped ease anxiety and fatigue while making them stronger physically and emotionally.

Morales said finishing a workout brings a noticeable sense of relief.

“At the end of the exercise, you feel like a weight has been lifted, and you feel way better than you felt coming in,” Morales said.

Tyler says exercise has also helped him feel stronger and better prepared for whatever comes next.

“Not only does it make me feel better, I know it makes me stronger. If something comes up, another surgery or another procedure, I have the strength to go through it because I’m in good shape,” he said.

De acuerdo con un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami, Leeanthony Jerome Jordan fue detenido en relación con el tiroteo ocurrido el 25 de octubre. La dirección del complejo de apartamentos donde ocurrieron los hechos fue tachada en el informe dado a conocer al público.

La policía indicó que los agentes respondieron al tiroteo, en el código postal 33150 de Miami, alrededor de las 8:15 p.m. de esa noche.

Al llegar, encontraron a un hombre tirado en el suelo con una herida de bala en el lado izquierdo del abdomen.

Un agente le brindó primeros auxilios antes de que la víctima fuera trasladada al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Posteriormente, los investigadores hallaron un rastro de sangre en el segundo piso de un edificio de apartamentos que llevaba hasta una de las unidades, informaron las autoridades.

Según los testigos, Jordan estaba con varias personas que caminaban hacia el edificio cuando se encontraron con la víctima.

Una testigo les dijo a los detectives que la víctima chocó a propósito con Jordan mientras caminaban por la acera.

En un primer momento, Jordan ignoró el encontronazo y siguió hacia el apartamento, según la testigo.

Mientras Jordan esperaba afuera y la testigo le preguntaba a su madre si él podía entrar, la víctima presuntamente salió y lo confrontó, dijeron las autoridades.

De acuerdo con el informe de arresto, ambos discutieron hasta que Jordan contestó una llamada telefónica y le dio la espalda.

Fue entonces cuando la víctima le dio un puñetazo en la nuca, lo que desató una pelea, según los investigadores.

El informe indica que una testigo dijo haber escuchado un disparo antes de correr hacia el interior del apartamento.

Los investigadores obtuvieron del dueño del edificio un video de vigilancia que muestra la confrontación previa al tiroteo.

Según el informe, en el video se ve a la víctima golpeando a Jordan en la nuca antes de que ambos empezaran a pelear fuera del alcance de la cámara.

Luego se escucha un disparo.

Cuando los hombres vuelven a aparecer en la imagen, la víctima está en el suelo con una herida de bala, detalla el informe.

La policía dijo que en el video se ve al herido agarrándose del pantalón de Jordan y suplicándole que no volviera a disparar.

Según los investigadores, Jordan se pasó entonces una pistola negra a la mano derecha, apuntó a la víctima e intentó disparar otra vez.

De acuerdo con el informe, Jordan manipuló la corredera de la pistola y trató de dispararle nuevamente a la víctima, pero el arma aparentemente se trabó.

La policía indicó que Jordan huyó a pie hacia Northwest 65th Street.

Durante la investigación, los detectives entrevistaron a varios testigos que, según dijeron, describieron desacuerdos anteriores entre Jordan y la víctima.

Una testigo le contó a la policía que Jordan había sido novio de su hija mayor y que ya había tenido discusiones con la víctima.

La mujer aseguró que, en una confrontación anterior, Jordan le había apuntado con un arma a la víctima, según el informe.

La testigo también afirmó que Jordan le había robado la bicicleta a la víctima meses antes del tiroteo.

Otro testigo describió una disputa anterior en la que Jordan presuntamente dañó la bicicleta de la víctima, informaron las autoridades.

De acuerdo con el informe de arresto, varios testigos identificaron a Jordan en fotografías como el hombre involucrado en la confrontación y el tiroteo.

El lunes, alrededor de las 7:53 p.m., detectives del Felony Apprehension Team del Departamento de Policía de Miami localizaron a Jordan cerca de 6900 NW Seventh Ave.

Fue puesto bajo custodia y trasladado a la oficina de Crímenes Violentos del departamento para ser interrogado.

Según el informe de arresto, Jordan renunció a sus derechos Miranda y aceptó hablar con los investigadores.

La policía dijo que Jordan les contó a los detectives que estaba esperando afuera del apartamento cuando la víctima se le acercó y le preguntó: “¿Qué pasa?”.

También dijo que la víctima lo golpeó por detrás mientras él contestaba una llamada, lo que provocó un forcejeo en el que la víctima lo sujetó por la espalda, según las autoridades.

El resto de la declaración de Jordan fue tachada en el informe dado a conocer al público.

Jordan fue arrestado y trasladado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Enfrenta un cargo de intento de asesinato en segundo grado y otro por disparar un arma de fuego al aire libre en una zona residencial, según el informe de arresto.

El informe no ofreció detalles sobre el estado de salud de la víctima tras su hospitalización.

Hasta el martes por la mañana, Jordan seguía detenido en TGK sin derecho a fianza.

De acuerdo con un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami Shores, Mekhi Elijah Butcher, residente de Hugo, Minnesota, enfrenta cargos de soborno y manejo temerario tras el incidente en Northeast Second Avenue.

La policía indicó que un agente vio a Butcher manejando de forma imprudente alrededor de las 7:20 p.m. del lunes, entre las calles Northeast 99th y 103rd.

Según el informe, en ese tramo de cuatro cuadras Butcher aceleró por el carril central de giro, rebasó ilegalmente a varios vehículos y se le atravesó a otros conductores.

Los investigadores dijeron que además manejaba demasiado pegado a varios carros.

Cuando el agente encendió las luces de emergencia de una patrulla identificada, Butcher presuntamente se desvió hacia un carril de giro destinado al tráfico en sentido contrario en Northeast Second Avenue, cerca de Northeast 103rd Street, y se detuvo con parte de su vehículo todavía en los carriles contrarios, señala el informe.

De acuerdo con el informe, el agente identificó a Butcher con su licencia de conducir de Minnesota y le ordenó bajarse del vehículo.

La policía dijo que Butcher fue detenido y multado por no mantenerse en su carril, atravesarse a otros vehículos, seguir demasiado de cerca a otros carros y manejar de forma temeraria.

Según el informe de arresto, Butcher intentó sobornar al agente después de que lo pusieran bajo custodia y lo sentaran en la parte trasera de la patrulla.

La policía indicó que Butcher primero le ofreció al agente $1,000 para que lo soltara “aquí mismo, ahora mismo”.

Como eso no funcionó, según los investigadores, subió la oferta a $2,000.

El agente que hizo el arresto informó que ambas ofertas quedaron grabadas por el sistema de cámaras del asiento trasero de la patrulla, que registra audio y video.

La policía dijo que Butcher fue trasladado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Hasta el martes por la mañana, seguía detenido en TGK. Los registros carcelarios en línea indicaban que su fianza aún estaba por fijarse.

Jensen Huang has been synonymous with Nvidia since he co-founded it more than 30 years ago. The company now faces potential damage to its reputation and stock price, uncertainty over a possible successor and new scrutiny from shareholders and elected officials.

President Donald Trump said Monday that the FBI is investigating Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese government agent. But Trump said he spoke with the executive and believes Huang "had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy.”

With a valuation of more than $4 trillion, the company has outsized importance as a Wall Street behemoth and provider of chips relied upon by AI developers. Law enforcement and members of Congress, as well as Nvidia's board and shareholders, are all asking questions about the affair. The company's shares dropped more than 4% Monday and continued sinking Tuesday morning.

Nvidia's identity has been tied to Huang himself

Huang has said he has more than 60 direct reports in a corporate structure that keeps him at the center of decision-making. As various investigations ramp up, the succession plan to replace Huang is unclear.

“The Nvidia board is between a rock and a hard spot. They have almost no good options. Jensen is Nvidia,” said David Yoffie, a professor at Harvard Business School. “And if he has done something wrong and he needs to be removed and they have no successors, that’s a terrible outcome.”

Replacing Huang would be challenging in part because his public profile is so closely associated with Nvidia.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor of leadership at the Yale School of Management, compared Huang's relationship with Nvidia to Steve Jobs' role at Apple. Down to Huang’s signature leather jacket, like Jobs’ turtleneck, Nvidia is “symbolically and substantively, inextricably intertwined around his personal aura.”

Other tech executives, such as Oracle's Larry Ellison and Microsoft's Bill Gates, have also been deeply intertwined with the success of their companies, making it hard to separate them. But in those cases, the companies “can still be successful long after the original founders have taken on a lesser role,” said Dan Morgan, vice president and senior portfolio manager at investment firm Synovus Trust.

If Huang resigns or is removed by the board, speculation on possible replacements has turned to figures including Nvidia co-founder Chris Malachowsky, who is a senior technology executive at the company, and Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress.

Nvidia employs more than 40,000 people worldwide, and there are “lots of other great leaders” within the company, said Bob O’Donnell, president, founder and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research.

“I think it’s important that the company starts to let some of these other folks come out as spokespeople so people feel trust, they feel good about Nvidia and their future, even without Jensen,” O’Donnell said, although he said he does not think Huang will leave his post.

In a statement announcing its own investigation, the company’s board also expressed confidence in Huang and said it had no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised.

Huang had the ‘Midas touch,’ but his reputation is at risk

During his 33-year tenure at the helm of Nvidia, Huang built a reputation as a trusted business leader and an established voice within the technology world. He cultivated close relationships with other tech executives, as well as with Trump, helping to persuade him to take a lighter touch on regulating AI.

“Everybody wanted to have that Midas touch of his when it comes to technology,” O’Donnell said.

But the scandal is a growing liability for Huang and Nvidia at a delicate time for the AI industry after the midterm elections in the U.S. ushered in a wave of Democrats promising tougher regulation. Top Democrats Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said Monday they are interested in investigating further.

A shareholder on Monday sued Nvidia and Huang, accusing them of deceiving investors in their responses to media reports about Huang’s affair with the purported Chinese spy. The complaint filed in federal court in California says the company misled investors about Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, who news reports said is suspected of working for Chinese intelligence, and the national security implications.

The New York Times identified her as a business executive and Chinese citizen.

Sonnenfeld said he places the odds that Huang stays on as CEO at roughly 50-50, but those odds are “slipping by the moment.”

“He has lost the confidence and trust of his key constituents, his board, his employees,” said Sonnenfeld, who is also founder and president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute. “And every employee knows that if anybody else had done this, they would have been fired long ago.”

Some experts are more confident in the company’s stability going forward. Morgan, of Synovus Trust, said that if Huang is required to step down to a lesser role at Nvidia following the company’s investigation, he is “still confident that the company will continue to maintain its lead in the GPU AI chip market.”

But at the same time, the affair “sounds more like a made-for-TV melodrama than a real story,” he said.

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Huamani reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press Technology Writer Barbara Ortutay in Oakland, California, contributed to this report.

The ruling ended a nearly 10-year battle for gay rights in the twin-island nation and cannot be appealed.

“Those laws cannot be regarded as reasonably justifiable in a society that has a proper respect for the rights and freedom of the individual,” said Judge Philip James Sales of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

In February 2017, Jason Jones filed the case, arguing that so-called “buggery” laws dating from when Trinidad and Tobago was a British colony are unconstitutional. The laws that call for up to five years in prison have not been enforced in recent history, but critics say they still send a message.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Jones said he was celebrating what he called a “stunning victory.”

He described himself as “a very angry gay man” and said he used that anger to power himself through the case as it made its way through the courts for almost a decade.

“Society has treated me worse than a criminal,” he said. “There is a real sense of vindication with this judgment. Finally, the courts are seeing that they need to step up because our politicians are so toothless.”

Encounter with Nina Simone inspired Jones

Jones, who has been openly gay since age 16, left Trinidad and Tobago in 1996 because of what he described as homophobic violence and discrimination. He said he was a singer in church as well as an actor and a dancer.

“Anybody along those lines who was not following the macho rules was treated as a pariah,” he recalled.

He told the AP that he was inspired to speak out after losing friends to HIV/AIDS and after meeting Nina Simone, the American singer, songwriter, composer and civil rights activist, who had traveled to the twin-island nation in 1984 for Carnival. He said he was 19 and spent three weeks with her.

“Nina was the one who said, ‘Jason, get off this rock and go see the world,’” he recalled, calling it a defining, life-changing experience.

Tuesday's ruling was live-streamed, with Sales reading part of the unanimous decision.

“The current understanding of the fundamental individual right to respect for private and family life is that it protects such a core part of human identity, as one’s sexual orientation and the sexual activities carried on in private between consenting adults to give expression to that identity,” Sales said. “Laws which seek to criminalize such activities cannot be justified.”

Jones said he loves his country and is not angry with its people, but rather its laws.

“To discriminate against somebody simply because of who they choose to love is simply ridiculous,” he said by phone, adding that the ruling is a stepping stone in the fight for equality. “Why do people feel they have the right to pass judgment on anybody else?”

Gay sex still banned in some Caribbean nations

Those who opposed Jones include Trinidad and Tobago’s government, the country’s Council of Evangelical Churches and its largest Hindu organization, Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha.

Trinidad's attorney general did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Meanwhile, the Council of Evangelical Churches said it did not have immediate comment.

In April 2018, Trinidad’s High Court found the laws unconstitutional, but a local appeals court partially reversed that ruling in March 2025. Trinidad’s Court of Appeals later allowed Jones to seek a ruling from the Privy Council in England. Trinidad and Tobago is a sovereign republic within the British Commonwealth and still uses London’s Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as its highest court of final appeal. However, the country has pushed for the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice to replace the Privy Council.

Trinidad and Tobago’s government sought a ruling that would uphold the March 2025 ruling. A majority of justices in 2025 found that the High Court erred by allowing judges to change a law. A provision in some Caribbean constitutions protects colonial laws from legal challenges, including in Trinidad and Tobago.

Caribbean nations with so-called buggery laws still on the books include Grenada, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Meanwhile, the Bahamas decriminalized homosexuality in 1991, and the U.K. government repealed such laws in 2001 in Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Elsewhere in the Caribbean, judges have recently struck down similar laws in Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda.

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Associated Press reporter Anselm Gibbs in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad contributed to this report.

Desde la primera hora de la mañana los camioneros bloqueaban varios tramos de carreteras a lo largo del país e interrumpían el acceso de carga a algunos puertos chilenos como el norteño Iquique.

Los cortes igualmente han impedido la recalada de un crucero turístico, que fue reprogramada para el próximo 20 de noviembre, de acuerdo con los documentos de planificación naviera de la Empresa Portuaria de Iquique.

Otros importantes puertos del país, como el de Arica y San Vicente, operaban con restricciones logísticas, mientras Valparaíso y San Antonio —las dos principales terminales portuarias en volumen de carga— mantenían sus actividades de forma regular, aunque han advertido sobre posibles bloqueos a lo largo de la jornada.

De acuerdo con la Confederación Fuerza del Norte (CTFN), que agrupa a cerca de 50 asociaciones de transportistas, la huelga obedece al “alza desmedida” de los combustibles, que han ”absorbido por completo los ingresos del sector".

El costo de los combustibles aumentó un 12,3% en octubre empujado por el precio del diésel y acumula una variación de 53,5% en lo que va de año, informó el martes el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE). La gasolina, por su parte, subió 4,5% el mes pasado y se encareció 26,2% desde enero.

La suba de los combustibles llevó la inflación anual a su nivel más alto en 18 meses para situarse en 4,5% en octubre, mostraron datos oficiales divulgados la semana pasada.

“Estamos acá exigiendo los derechos para el pequeño transporte que está quebrando en este país en estos momentos gracias... a los altos costos y a los peajes”, dijo a The Associated Press Cristián Astudillo, presidente de la Unión Gremial para el Pequeño Transporte Subcontratado.

Ante la exigencia de los camioneros de medidas para estabilizar los precios, el gobierno de Kast intentó contener el conflicto con una propuesta que busca limitar las futuras alzas a 20 pesos chilenos (0,02 dólares) por litro durante los próximos 90 días, medida que fue considerada insuficiente por los manifestantes.

Algunas autoridades advirtieron que utilizarán las fuerzas del Estado para enfrentar la situación, lo que llevó al presidente Kast a pedir una desescalada del conflicto.

"El llamado es a que pensemos en Chile. En que pensemos todos cómo vamos mejorando la situación, en los que generan la carga, aquellos que tienen que pagar el flete, en aquellos que hacen el transporte”, dijo el mandatario el martes en un acto público.

Por su lado, el delegado presidencial Germán Codina abordó los cortes de rutas registrados en la región Metropolitana y aseguró que buscará alternativas para mantener las vías abiertas a fin de asegurar el desplazamiento de la población. Asimismo, destacó que apostará por el diálogo con los manifestantes, pero no descartó utilizar la fuerza para despejar las vías.

“Cortar las rutas en un delito”, dijo a periodistas y agregó que, de no llegarse a un acuerdo, los bloqueos de carreteras podrían derivar en una intervención policial.

A medida que pasaban las horas otros sectores del transporte, como los microbuses, los taxis colectivos, los furgones escolares y los autobuses interurbanos se sumaron a la movilización. En las afueras de Santiago algunos ciudadanos salieron a las vías con sus vehículos para demostrar su apoyo a los transportistas, en unas protestas espontáneas.

“Estoy acá porque soy un ciudadano que se ve afectado por el incremento de los combustibles y el alza en la vida diaria”, expresó Alexis Sepúlveda, de 39 años. “Uno no puede quedar ajeno a esta situación”.

Initial public offering, or IPO

A company's first offering of stock to the public. It is the first time a company's value will be determined by a public market.

Prospectus

A formal offer to sell shares in the company. It also includes a business plan with details about the company's finances and operations. Also known as an S-1, after the Securities and Exchange Commission form.

Listing

This describes the ticker symbol for the stock and the public exchange where it is being traded. For example, Apple is traded as “AAPL” on the Nasdaq and Macy's is traded as “M” on the New York Stock Exchange. Anthropic plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “ANT.”

Underwriter

An underwriter is a bank or other financial institution that acts as the intermediary between the company and investors. They purchase the stock being issued by the company in the IPO and sell it to the public. There are often several underwriters involved to share the risk. The lead underwriters for the Anthropic IPO are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Roadshow

The name for the presentations given by company executives and underwriters to potential investors, typically institutional investors, before the company issues its shares.

Lockup

This is the period of time when executives, insiders and early investors are legally prohibited from selling their shares. It is typically 90 or 180 days and is meant to prevent insiders from quickly cashing out or dumping their shares. Anthropic said that directors, officers and holders of “substantially” all of its capital stock have agreed to a 180-day lockup period, while co-founders and certain stockholders have agreed to a 365-day lockup.

Over-allotment

This is a provision that allows underwriters of an IPO to sell more shares than initially planned. It is meant to meet unexpectedly high demand or to help stabilize the stock price.

Price range

This is an estimated range for the price of the shares the company is offering provided before the stock is publicly traded. Investors place bids within that range before the listing price is determined. Anthropic set a price range between $70 and $78.

Price discovery

This describes the broader process undertaken by the company and underwriters to determine the listing price for the stock. It attempts to balance demand for the stock with the potential supply of shares. The process typically takes longer when an IPO has high interest from potential investors.

“We are not the problem. I think our disappearance is a problem,” Lina Attalah told The Associated Press in an interview Monday, as the 13-year-old site Mada Masr fights the decision to shut it down.

Its closure would mean "butchering what’s left of a space that’s keeping this country sane and healthy, and a societal need for information that cannot just be ignored.”

Mada Masr has been a unique voice in Egypt, investigating allegations of corruption and human rights violations, providing deep coverage on economics and politics, and hosting cultural discussions. Meanwhile, authorities have clamped down on other newspapers and television.

Late last month, a court ordered Mada Masr to close after convicting Attalah, 44, of running a website without a license. At trial, she learned that another court had, without her knowledge, convicted her of spreading false news and sentenced her to a year in prison and a large fine.

On Wednesday, she will be retried for that sentence, which was issued in absentia even though she was in Egypt. Mada Masr is also appealing the closure order, in a hearing scheduled for Nov. 25.

Attalah said she didn’t know why authorities were seeking to close Mada now but suggested they might be trying to silence independent media at a time of economic strain and regional instability.

“There seems to be a political directive going into the direction of: There can’t be media speaking out in this moment, because it’s a tough moment somehow. What is this moment exactly?” Attalah said. “I cannot tell.

“But there seems to be a lot of challenges and a desire for the media not to reflect on it.”

The Iran war has driven up energy costs and forced Egypt’s government to raise fuel prices as it grapples with mounting debt obligations. That has strained an economy long struggling with inflation, unemployment and widespread poverty.

The Egyptian Embassy in Paris did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the case. Egypt’s top judicial body, the Supreme Judicial Council, said in an Oct. 31 statement that the trials were conducted within “constitutional guarantees” and “correct and established legal principles” and that it rejects “any attempts to cast doubt on the integrity of the Egyptian justice system.”

Mada Masr gives people ‘a space to think’

Attalah helped launch Mada Masr in 2013, a year that saw the military’s ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood after a wave of protests against him, and the rise to power of current President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.

Since then, Mada Masr's investigations have often touched on sensitive issues – reports on a media empire created by intelligence agencies, business monopolies in Egypt, and a private firm that collected millions of dollars to arrange the exit of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip during the war there.

It also has reported on Egypt’s economy and regional issues including the war in Gaza, turmoil in Libya, and conflict in Sudan and the Horn of Africa. Attalah also pointed to the paper’s reporting on social and cultural issues.

Mada, she said, “does not just give people information, but allows them a space to think.”

Most other media outlets in Egypt strictly report the government line. Egypt ranks 169th out of 180 countries for press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders’ 2026 analysis. At least 26 journalists who were arrested in recent years are currently in detention, according to the group.

Attalah said Mada’s coverage “has a stabilizing effect” that can benefit the government, with its factual reporting and professional standards creating an informed public.

“The problem is when your only political tool is security, you’re not going to see us as other than an enemy, and this is very sad,” she said.

Journalists are under fire as press freedoms in Egypt shrink

In late September, the entire editorial staff of the fact-checking platform Matsadaash was detained on charges of joining and financing the Muslim Brotherhood, a group labeled a terrorist group by the government, and spreading false information — accusations frequently used against Egyptian journalists and government critics in recent years.

“We didn’t know that we would be next, but it felt like it’s an operation to sort of end a lot of media operations that were doing important work,” Attalah said.

Mada Masr — which has stopped publishing since the court order — says it first applied for a license in 2018 but never received an answer. Authorities have blocked its website inside Egypt since 2017, and the outlet says this is the sixth case brought against it or its journalists in six years.

“We are not against licensing as a regulatory measure,” she said. “We’re against licensing when it becomes a tool of control.”

Mada Masr has repeatedly faced closure threats, but this time was different, Attalah said.

She said the case against her outlet was referred to court last month “very swiftly” and issued with the maximum verdict.

Human Rights Watch has called the prosecution of Attalah an escalation of an “outrageous attack on independent media.”

Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said assaults on press freedom are widening in Egypt.

"These alarming developments must end immediately, and journalists must be able to carry out their essential work free from intimidation and reprisals,” he said Tuesday.

Attalah believes the work will continue

Attalah remains hopeful that Mada Masr’s suspension could offer an opportunity to highlight the importance of its work and encourage others to defend independent journalism.

“The space is shrinking for sure, but the intention, the people, the talent is there,” she said. “So I won’t be surprised if there will be a coming together of other groups and other people trying to do the work.”

The Mada staff feels “a little bit bruised” from the week’s events, she said, but a wave of support from readers has also shown them “why this work matters.

“If you want to see something bright in this darkness, it would be that.”

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Jason Watford, 48, of Tyler, Texas, was set to make an initial federal court appearance on a murder charge Tuesday in Galveston. He was being held at a county jail. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer who could respond to the allegations.

A man who said he is Watford’s son declined to comment Tuesday when reached at a phone listing in public records for relatives.

The alleged killing happened aboard the MSC Seascape, a towering white vessel that has 2,270 cabins and can host nearly 5,900 guests on five- and seven-night trips to the Caribbean, according to the company’s website.

The woman, who was not immediately identified, was killed Sunday after the vessel left Galveston, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court. A ship investigator contacted authorities to report that the woman was found dead in her room with multiple facial injuries.

A housekeeper who knocked to deliver towels saw the woman lying motionless on the floor and what looked like blood on Watford's hands and pants when he opened the door, the affidavit said.

In an interview with FBI agents after the ship returned to Galveston on Monday morning, Watford said he and the woman had boarded the vessel together Sunday and began arguing while having dinner at one of the ship's restaurants, according to the affidavit. The argument continued in their room, it said.

Watford told agents he struck the woman several times and “applied pressure” to her neck “for approximately four to five minutes” until he became exhausted, the affidavit said. He said she lay motionless for about 10 minutes until the housekeeper arrived.

Surveillance video showed that Watford entered the room at 7:46 p.m. and the victim went in about 25 minutes later, authorities said. At 9:15 p.m., he was seen on the video leaving the room wearing a different shirt and pants, according to the complaint, and sat on the hallway floor looking at his phone.

MSC Cruises said authorities told the ship to return to Galveston after the crew reported the passenger's death, and that the vessel resumed its voyage Monday. The company said it was cooperating with authorities and providing support to those impacted.

Homicide investigations on cruise ships are uncommon. Earlier this year, a teenager was charged with murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of his 18-year-old stepsister on a Carnival Cruise ship out of Florida.

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Two people were aboard the Bell 206L-4 helicopter when it came down on a road at the Port Jersey Marine Terminal in Bayonne, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, around 8:55 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said.

No injuries were reported, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. Messages seeking comment were left for the helicopter’s operator, FlyNYON.

Video of the scene shows part of the helicopter’s tail sitting on the road about 30 feet (9 meters) from the aircraft, which was manufactured in 1999, according to FAA records.

In a recording of the air traffic control audio posted on the ATC app, the pilot can be heard saying, “Mayday, mayday, mayday" and “We need to land outside of the airport.” The helicopter landed several minutes later, just outside of the container terminal, the Port Authority said.

Last year, a Bell 206L-4 sightseeing helicopter plummeted into the Hudson River, killing all 6 people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board said the remains of several geese were found on the helicopter, suggesting it may have struck several birds before crashing.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General announced an audit of sightseeing helicopter regulations, citing “longstanding concerns regarding the industry’s safety and whether the current regulatory framework provides adequate safeguards."

Since 2008, there have been at least 58 helicopter crashes involving tourist helicopters in the U.S., including 11 that were fatal, Assistant Inspector General Marshall Jackson said.

Boone's son, Bret, announced his father's death Tuesday on social media. The Phillies said in a statement Boone died Monday. No cause of death was announced.

“He was a man of great integrity. He was a great dad, husband, and patriarch. It was a privilege to call him my father. Baseball lost a great one today,” Bret Boone wrote.

Boone spent his first 10 seasons with the Phillies, played seven with the California Angels and two with the Kansas City Royals. He also managed the Royals and Cincinnati Reds.

“Bob was an incredible player, teammate and family man. He embodied everything we believe exemplary athletes should represent, both on and off the field,” the Phillies said in a statement. “We were proud to have him as part of the Phillies family during one of the most historic runs in team history. His impact on our organization, his teammates, and everyone who had the privilege of knowing him will never be forgotten.”

Boone's father, Ray, played 13 seasons in the majors and was a two-time All-Star with the Detroit Tigers. Bob Boone's two sons both enjoyed long baseball careers. Aaron Boone played 13 seasons in the majors and played for the Reds when Bob managed the team. Aaron now manages the New York Yankees. Bret Boone was a three-time All-Star over a 14-year career spent largely with the Seattle Mariners. A third son played in the minor leagues. Bret's son, Jake Boone, works in the New York Mets' front office after playing at Princeton and briefly in the minors.

“His legacy is profound, and we can see the values he embodied carried forward by his son, Aaron, in his leadership of the Yankees,” the Yankees wrote in a statement.

Bob Boone was a sixth-round draft pick as a third baseman out of Stanford in 1969. He was converted to catcher in the minor leagues and caught 1,095 games with Philadelphia, second on the Phillies’ all-time list to Red Dooin (1,124). Boone caught 2,225 games overall in 19 big league seasons.

“We played in the minors together where he gave up third base so I could play it, only to become one of the best catchers in baseball history,” Phillies Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt said. “Bob was a great father and husband. Our lives and careers were intertwined, we pursued our Christian faith together, worked out together, and became world champions together.”

He was the first Phillies catcher to win a Gold Glove (1978, 1979) and led the Phillies with a .412 batting average in their 1980 World Series win over the Kansas City Royals.

“Bob Boone was a quiet leader, both on and off the field,” said Larry Bowa, the shortstop on the 1980 team. “I had the privilege of playing alongside him for nearly my entire career, and without question, he was the backbone of our team.”

A native of San Diego, Boone made NL All-Star teams in 1976, 1978 and 1979. He set the record for career games caught by a catcher with 1,919 in Kansas City. He was 41 years old when he won his final Gold Glove with the Royals in 1989.

Ivan Rodriguez (2,427) and Carlton Fisk (2,226) have since passed Boone on the career games caught list.

“I grew up watching Bob with the great Phillies teams of the 70’s. His play and mastery of catching inspired me to want to play the position,” Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza posted on social media.

Boone caught the final out of the 1980 Game 6 clincher when Tug McGraw struck out Willie Wilson to win the World Series. Boone was involved in a more famous play earlier in that inning when he ran after Frank White's foul pop near the home dugout in Veterans Stadium. The ball bounced off Boone's mitt and straight into Pete Rose's glove for an out — a catch played on countless highlight reels through the decades in Philadelphia.

Boone was added to the Phillies' Wall of Fame in 2005.

Boone won four more Gold Gloves, made another All-Star team and twice led the Angels to the playoffs. He went 10 for 22 (.455) with a homer and two RBIs against Boston in the 1986 American League Championship Series.

“Our franchise leader in games caught, Boone’s leadership, exceptional defense and knowledge of the game made him an invaluable presence behind the plate and helped the Angels win two division titles,” the Angels said in a statement.

Boone went 371-444 overall as a manager, spending three seasons with the Royals and three with the Reds. He joined the Washington Nationals' front office in 2005.

Washington won the World Series in 2019, the first championship in franchise history. Boone resigned in 2021 rather than comply with the organization’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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Fieles de toda Argentina condujeron durante horas para estar presentes en la misa, desde el extremo norte del país hasta la Patagonia en el sur y puntos intermedios. Tras casi 40 años sin una visita papal, se eligió a Córdoba para recibir a León por su ubicación central.

León les dijo que Córdoba era una “ tierra de santos” , hogar de algunos de los misioneros más conocidos de Argentina. Entre ellos están San José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, conocido como el “cura gaucho”, y “Mama Antula”, quien en 2024 se convirtió en la primera santa argentina. Ambos fueron canonizados por el papa argentino Francisco.

León exhortó hoy a los argentinos a seguir su ejemplo.

“Todos estos santos y beatos ya han cumplido su misión en la Tierra. Hoy nos toca a nosotros seguir la luminosa estela de santidad que nos han dejado”, dijo el papa.

“No en vano, la tierra que ahora nos acoge ha sido rica en frutos de santidad; el ejemplo de quienes nos han precedido en este camino nos sigue interpelando a vivir como ellos vivieron y a entregar la vida, como Cristo ha hecho por nosotros y ellos supieron imitar con perfección”, añadió.

Después de la misa, León sorprendió a la multitud con una breve aparición en el balcón de la residencia del arzobispo en el centro de Córdoba, el mismo balcón desde el cual San Juan Pablo II saludó a Córdoba en 1987. Miles de personas coreando “León, León” colmaron la calle de abajo.

Erika Viñales, de 39 años, y Elena Llanquenao, de 54, docentes de educación religiosa de la provincia de Santa Cruz, en la región patagónica del sur de Argentina, contaron que viajaron 2.000 kilómetros (más de 1.200 millas) para poder asistir.

Recuerdos dolorosos de la dictadura

El sitio de la liturgia fue el predio de una fábrica de aviones administrada por la fuerza aérea durante gran parte del siglo XX, que construyó las aeronaves que el ejército usó a fines de 1975 para atacar a guerrilleros izquierdistas.

Esa campaña contrainsurgente fue el preludio del terrorismo de Estado desatado durante la dictadura militar de 1976-1983, en la que grupos de derechos humanos estiman que unas 30.000 personas fueron asesinadas o desaparecieron.

Después de la misa, León se reunió en privado con 20 personas elegidas por el arzobispo, entre ellas Alba Camargo, de 64 años, cuyo padre, madrastra, tía y tío desaparecieron durante la dictadura militar de 1976-1983.

Camargo dijo que le contó al papa que había ido en nombre de familiares que aún buscan los restos de las víctimas en La Perla, un antiguo centro clandestino de detención a las afueras de Córdoba, y le entregó una carpeta con fotos de las excavaciones y los nombres de los identificados hasta ahora.

“Iba asintiendo con la cabeza, como que estaba en tema. Me tomó de la mano y bendijo las cruces franciscanas que yo le había llevado”, dijo Camargo a The Associated Press.

Muchos otros del grupo, que incluía a un peón rural, una trabajadora de un comedor comunitario y una sobreviviente de trata de personas, estaban tan sobrecogidos por la emoción que apenas podían hablar, dijo.

“Fue muy fuerte verlo tan humano, ahí, escuchándome a 15 centímetros. Lo tenía ahí nomás; no es que lo tenía a un metro”, comentó.

“Dándonos a nosotros la oportunidad de encontrarnos con él, en este caso en mi nombre, ya es un gesto de que él nos está viendo”, dijo Camargo, quien fue detenida por fuerzas de seguridad en 1976, a los 13 años, poco después de que su padre, su madrastra, su tía y su tío fueran secuestrados y llevados a La Perla.

Hace dos semanas, antropólogos forenses hallaron e identificaron los restos de nueve personas desaparecidas de La Perla, uno de los mayores centros clandestinos de detención y tortura de la dictadura.

Con respecto al gobierno, Camargo indicó, “yo espero que cambie”, en un momento en que la administración de Milei ha recortado drásticamente los fondos para sitios de memoria de la dictadura y para organizaciones que buscan a los desaparecidos, y ha promovido un relato revisionista que presenta los crímenes militares como poco más que excesos en una guerra contra guerrilleros izquierdistas.

“Es muy agotador porque permanentemente te están diciendo que eso no es verdad. Cuando vos lo has vivido toda la vida”, manifestó Camargo.

León solo ha hecho una referencia pasajera a la dolorosa historia argentina

León solo ha hecho una referencia pasajera a la dictadura durante su estadía en Argentina. En su primer discurso, pronunciado el domingo ante el presidente Javier Milei y autoridades gubernamentales, habló de la historia argentina que "guarda motivos de gratitud y también recuerdos dolorosos”.

“A cada generación corresponde discernir aquello que merece ser conservado, afrontar las consecuencias injustas del pasado y acrecentar el patrimonio material y espiritual común”, añadió en comentarios interpretados como una alusión a la dictadura.

Mientras la homilía del martes se centró en la fe y la santidad, sus llamados sociales más directos durante sus dos primeros días en Argentina seguían resonando en Buenos Aires.

Cuatro senadores del partido de Milei comenzaron a preparar el martes el tratamiento de un proyecto de ley estancado que prohíbe los anuncios de apuestas en línea, al que Milei se ha opuesto y que la Iglesia ha promovido como una forma de proteger a los niños. El principal diplomático de Argentina defendió el historial del gobierno frente a críticos que interpretan las palabras del papa como un reproche a la austeridad de Milei, insistiendo en que el mensaje de León de proteger a los vulnerables estaba dirigido a todos.

Pero el canciller Pablo Quirno también reconoció que sus declaraciones expusieron las carencias del país.

“El mensaje del Santo Padre es universal y claramente interpela a todos los argentinos, interpela a toda la clase política, a la clase dirigencial, nos interpela como sociedad y da un mensaje de lo que nos falta”, dijo Quirno al canal argentino TN.

“Estamos trabajando todos los días para que, justamente, el mensaje del papa y lo que nos falta lo vayamos cubriendo, pero debemos hacerlo juntos como argentinos”, añadió.

El anfitrión de León en Córdoba también es uno de los críticos más abiertos de Milei dentro de la Iglesia argentina. of Milei. El cardenal Ángel Rossi, jesuita, se formó con Jorge Mario Bergoglio en la década de 1970, décadas antes de que Bergoglio se convirtiera en el papa Francisco y lo nombrara cardenal.

Ha defendido a familiares de los desaparecidos y ha arremetido contra los recortes de Milei a la ayuda para personas con discapacidad y jubilados, calificándolo de sadismo estatal e institucional.

Líderes locales dijeron que la visita de León ofreció a un país amargamente dividido la esperanza de encontrar un terreno común.

“En tiempos de tantas divisiones e individualismo nos interpela tu mensaje de paz, fraternidad y esperanza”, escribió en redes sociales Martín Llaryora, el gobernador de Córdoba.

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DeBre contribuyó desde Buenos Aires. El corresponsal Martín Silva Rey contribuyó con esta nota.

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La cobertura de temas religiosos de la Associated Press cuenta con apoyo de The Conversation US, con fondos de la Lilly Endowment Inc. La AP es la única responsable del contenido.

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

Según funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR), 16 unidades acudieron alrededor de las 3:25 a.m. a la cuadra 12900 de Northwest 25th Street.

Cuando llegaron los equipos, uno de los tráileres estaba totalmente envuelto en llamas y el fuego comenzaba a extenderse a un segundo remolque estacionado cerca.

Al principio, a los bomberos se les hizo difícil llegar hasta los tráileres porque una cerca bloqueaba el acceso a la zona.

Mientras unos combatían las llamas con los cañones de agua de los camiones y con mangueras, otros bomberos trabajaban para cortar la cerca.

Una vez que lograron entrar, los bomberos vieron en los tráileres letreros de advertencia de materiales peligrosos, por lo que llamaron a la unidad especializada Hazmat del departamento, indicaron funcionarios de MDFR.

El personal de Hazmat identificó entonces varias sustancias dentro de los remolques y ayudó a los bomberos a controlar el incendio, según los socorristas.

De acuerdo con MDFR, los equipos usaron una espuma especial contra incendios para apagar las llamas y evitar que el fuego se reavivara.

Los bomberos también trabajaron para eliminar los puntos calientes que quedaban.

No se reportaron heridos.

Las autoridades no han precisado qué materiales peligrosos se encontraron dentro de los tráileres.

La causa del incendio sigue bajo investigación.

La Criminal Investigations Division del Florida Department of Financial Services identificó como sospechosos a Johnson Cuffy, Serena Morrisey, Tracy Hunter, Sharika Morgan, Ruel Green Jr., Charletta Gordon y Sylvester Cuffy.

De acuerdo con los investigadores, entre 2022 y 2024 el grupo presentó unas 57 reclamaciones falsas que sumaban $1,990,533.71.

Ocho de esas reclamaciones fueron aprobadas, lo que les permitió obtener de forma fraudulenta $240,466.58, indica la declaración jurada.

Según las autoridades, los sospechosos usaron registros comerciales y reclamaciones falsas ante la Florida Division of Unclaimed Property y la Florida Division of Corporations para quedarse con dinero que pertenecía a empresas legítimas.

Cómo funcionaba el esquema, según los investigadores

De acuerdo con la declaración jurada, los sospechosos presuntamente revisaban registros públicos para identificar negocios con fondos no reclamados en manos del estado.

La Florida Division of Unclaimed Property guarda bienes como cuentas bancarias inactivas, cheques que nunca se cobraron y el contenido de cajas de seguridad hasta que sus dueños legítimos los reclaman.

Los investigadores explicaron que los sospechosos presentaban documentos empresariales falsos ante la Florida Division of Corporations para aparentar que estaban autorizados a actuar en nombre de compañías legítimas.

Luego, según la declaración jurada, presentaban reclamaciones ante la Division of Unclaimed Property para cobrar el dinero de esas empresas.

La investigación identificó numerosas compañías cuyos nombres supuestamente se usaron en el esquema, entre ellas Countrywide Home Loans Inc., Washington Mutual, American Home Mortgage, Aegis Mortgage Company, First Franklin, GMAC Mortgage y otras instituciones financieras.

La declaración jurada señala que los sospechosos operaban en varios condados de Florida, incluidos Miami-Dade, Broward, Hillsborough y Polk.

Siete acusados enfrentan cargos

La declaración jurada de causa probable identifica a los siguientes acusados y sus cargos:

• Johnson Cuffy, 48 años: esquema organizado para defraudar por más de $50,000 y delito de cuello blanco agravado.
• Tracy Hunter, 40 años: esquema organizado para defraudar por entre $20,000 y $50,000.
• Charletta Gordon, 34 años: esquema organizado para defraudar por más de $50,000 y uso criminal de información de identificación personal por más de $5,000.
• Ruel Green, 53 años: esquema organizado para defraudar por más de $50,000 y uso criminal de información de identificación personal por más de $5,000.
• Sylvester Cuffy, 51 años: esquema organizado para defraudar por más de $50,000.
• Serena Morrisey, 43 años: esquema organizado para defraudar por más de $50,000.
• Sharika Morgan, 49 años: esquema organizado para defraudar por entre $20,000 y $50,000.

Según los registros carcelarios en línea de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, Johnson Cuffy seguía detenido el martes por la mañana en la Broward County Main Jail, mientras que Hunter estaba en el Joseph V. Conte Facility y Gordon en el Paul Rein Detention Facility.

Green, Sylvester Cuffy, Morrisey y Morgan ya salieron de la cárcel bajo fianza.

De acuerdo con la Oficina del Sheriff de Palm Beach (PBSO, por sus siglas en inglés), los agentes acudieron poco antes de la 1:40 a.m. a un reporte de una “disputa doméstica con arma” en la cuadra 6500 de Jupiter Gardens Boulevard.

Al llegar, los agentes encontraron a un hombre que atacaba “violentamente” a una mujer con un cuchillo, lo que llevó a uno de ellos a disparar, informaron las autoridades.

El hombre murió en el lugar.

La mujer fue trasladada a un hospital cercano para ser atendida por las heridas que sufrió durante el ataque, según PBSO.

Las autoridades no han revelado la identidad del hombre ni de la mujer, ni han dado detalles sobre el estado de salud de ella.

Detectives de la División de Crímenes Violentos de la Oficina del Sheriff y técnicos de la escena del crimen investigan el tiroteo, junto con representantes del Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) y de la Fiscalía Estatal.

La Oficina del Sheriff indicó que dará a conocer más detalles a medida que estén disponibles.

En el documento prometido por Brasil, que presidió la conferencia climática del año pasado, se propone una “transición para alejarse de los combustibles fósiles” en las conversaciones de este año, conocidas como COP31, que se realizan en la ciudad turística turca de Antalya.

El documento subraya diferentes “palancas” que los países pueden usar para pasar del carbón, el petróleo y el gas a fuentes más limpias, como la eólica y la solar, que no liberan los gases que atrapan el calor y contribuyen al calentamiento global. Esta transición se ha prometido desde hace tiempo, pero las anteriores conversaciones climáticas no ofrecieron ninguna orientación.

“Lo que queremos es ser muy pragmáticos, ayudar a los países a avanzar”, declaró a The Associated Press Ana Toni, directora ejecutiva de la COP30 en Brasil.

Quienes asistieron a las conversaciones en Antalya recalcaron la necesidad de una acción climática global.

“No necesitamos más promesas, necesitamos planes”, afirmó John Kerry, exsecretario de Estado de Estados Unidos y exenviado presidencial para el clima, aunque Estados Unidos brilla por su ausencia, por segundo año consecutivo.

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, calificó el cambio climático como “la mayor estafa jamás perpetrada contra el mundo” en la Asamblea General de la ONU de 2025. Más recientemente, ha puesto en la mira proyectos eólicos marinos y eliminó normas que limitaban las emisiones de las centrales eléctricas.

Pero las políticas de combustibles fósiles de Trump —que él ha resumido como “perfora, nena, perfora”— están siendo cuestionadas. La semana pasada, durante las elecciones de mitad de mandato en Estados Unidos, los demócratas ganaron el control de ambas cámaras del Congreso en un contundente rechazo a la gestión republicana. Los demócratas han dado señales de que responderán con iniciativas de energía limpia.

“Les prometo que es una transición que el mundo desea”, sostuvo Kerry, y añadió que eso quedó claro en las elecciones de mitad de mandato, “cuando la gente convirtió el cambio climático y sus exigencias en un tema de votación”.

La hoja de ruta de Brasil era esperada desde hace tiempo

La hoja de ruta de Brasil está diseñada para permitir que las naciones examinen distintas herramientas y tomen decisiones específicas según su contexto sobre cómo alejarse de los combustibles fósiles, explicó Toni.

Algunas personas pueden pensar que esto es imposible, añadió, pero la hoja de ruta muestra que es inevitable. En ella se destacan acciones clave, como detener la construcción de nuevas centrales eléctricas de combustibles fósiles y recortar los subsidios a dichos combustibles.

Brasil, que alberga la mayor parte de la Amazonía, que es la selva tropical más grande del mundo, tiene importantes yacimientos de petróleo y es un gran exportador de combustibles fósiles. La mayor parte de su energía local proviene de la hidroelectricidad.

Toni declinó comentar directamente sobre las exportaciones de petróleo de su país, pero señaló que la hoja de ruta “es buena no solo para Brasil, sino para el mundo”.

Al igual que Holanda, muchos países dependen de los combustibles fósiles importados y estas hojas de ruta pueden “ofrecer un camino claro hacia un futuro de energía limpia a escala global, regional y nacional”, indicó Stientje van Veldhoven, ministra holandesa de clima y crecimiento verde.

El grupo ambiental Climate Action Network elogió a Brasil “por hacer algo que parece cada vez más revolucionario en una cumbre climática: definir cómo cumplir lo acordado”.

En la COP31, Brasil también presenta otras hojas de ruta que se centrarán en abordar la deforestación y en cumplir con los 1,3 billones de dólares necesarios en financiación climática para las naciones más pobres.

“Aunque cada país tiene un punto de partida diferente, todos los países pueden iniciar su propio camino”, manifestó Stela Herschmann, responsable de política internacional de Observatório do Clima, una red de organizaciones ambientales brasileñas.

Los atascos ralentizan el segundo día de las conversaciones climáticas

El acceso a la sede de la COP31 siguió siendo un desafío el martes, ya que la congestión de tráfico y los cierres de carreteras obligaron a reprogramar varias reuniones matutinas ya que los delegados tuvieron dificultades para llegar al lugar.

Al llegar a las conversaciones, la destacada activista contra el cambio climático y propalestina Greta Thunberg dijo sobre el cambio climático que “todo y todos los que amamos están en juego. Esto amenaza todo”.

Hay más de 68.500 participantes registrados en la conferencia y una fuerza laboral de casi 25.000 personas, según las Naciones Unidas.

“Esto simplemente hace que sea muy difícil para los países y para otras personas hacer su trabajo”, comentó la participante Emilie Beauchamp, quien vio pasar cuatro vagones de tren llenos, uno tras otro, antes de poder subir.

Los objetivos climáticos están fuera de rumbo

Las conversaciones climáticas de este año comienzan tras un año de desastres mortales relacionados con el clima y el fracaso inminente de compromisos anteriores para frenar el calentamiento global.

“La COP31 debe mostrarles a los países (que) trabajar juntos es la única manera de enfrentar el cambio climático y otras crisis que el mundo afronta”, señaló Chris Bowen, jefe de las negociaciones de este año y ministro de cambio climático y energía de Australia.

En septiembre, la ONU reajustó su objetivo, con una década de antigüedad, de limitar el aumento de la temperatura global a 1,5 grados Celsius (2,7 grados Fahrenheit) respecto de los niveles preindustriales, porque el mundo está rebasando ese umbral.

La electrificación es un tema clave este año, y Turquía impulsa que la electricidad —preferiblemente generada por energías renovables, como la solar y la eólica— represente el 35% del consumo energético mundial para 2035, frente al 23% actual.

“Esperamos que la electrificación que se plantea aquí se alimente con electricidad verde”, señaló Irene Vélez Torres, exministra de Ambiente de Colombia.

“No debería haber manera de que el gas, el carbón o incluso el diésel impulsen esa electrificación”, añadió.

En abril, Colombia fue anfitriona de una cumbre aparte que impulsó la transición para alejarse de los combustibles fósiles, después de que Brasil no lograra sacar adelante un plan sobre combustibles fósiles en la COP30 el año pasado.

“Necesitamos seguir insistiendo en hojas de ruta nacionales y regionales que aborden explícitamente la eliminación de los combustibles fósiles, no solo del lado del consumo y la demanda, sino también del lado de la oferta y la producción, que siempre ha sido un tabú”, afirmó.

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Borenstein informó desde Kensington, Maryland; Arasu desde Bengaluru, India, y Delgado desde Bangkok.

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It hasn’t quite worked out that way.

Scoring in the Big Ten did rise in 2024, the first year after Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington joined a league known more for defense. Point totals went up again last year. But they’re dropping this year as three Big Ten teams already have fired their offensive coordinators.

Nebraska dismissed Dana Holgorsen and Michigan fired Jason Beck over the weekend, two weeks after No. 18 Oregon dumped Drew Mehringer.

“I felt like as I watched us play, it just isn’t working the way we want it to work,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said Monday. “For me, you think about what it takes to win in college football, you need to have an explosive offense. You need to have the ability to score points.”

Not enough Big Ten teams have shown that ability this season.

Sportradar says games featuring two Big Ten teams have averaged 47.3 total points this season, putting the league on pace for its lowest season-ending average since 2023 (45.0). Before then, the last time Big Ten games averaged fewer than 47.3 points was way back in 2006 (46.5).

The only league whose conference games have lower scoring averages this season is the Mountain West Conference with 45.5. Among Power Four conferences, the Big 12 averages 56.8, the Atlantic Coast Conference has 53.4 and the Southeastern Conference is at 50.7.

“When you think of Big Ten football at its core, you think of running the football and playing defense,” said Big Ten Network analyst Ryan Kerrigan, who was named the league’s defensive player of the year while playing for Purdue in 2010.

That was supposed to change once those West Coast schools arrived. For a while, it did.

Games featuring two Big Ten teams averaged 48.4 total points in 2024, the highest number since 2021. They went up in 2025 to 49.0 points per game, the most since 2020.

Quarterback issues hinder offenses

It would be easy to write off this year’s drop as a result of the flurry of Big Ten quarterback injuries, most notably to preseason Heisman Trophy contenders Dante Moore of Oregon and Julian Sayin of Ohio State.

Other quarterbacks simply haven’t developed as expected.

Bryce Underwood, regarded as the nation’s top overall recruit in his high school class, got benched midway through his sophomore season at Michigan. Tommy Carr took over and struggled to such an extent in a 15-6 loss to Michigan State on Saturday that Wolverines coach Kyle Whittingham fired Beck and reopened the quarterback competition.

Whittingham said he had intended to wait on any coaching evaluation decisions until after the season, but this game changed his mind.

“When I turned on the film and really dove into it, it just became apparent to me that we needed to make the change now,” Whittingham said. “There’s just too much regression in the offense in that particular game.”

While Big Ten offenses have struggled, the league’s defenses have generally stepped up. Five of the top 10 Bowl Subdivision defenses in yards allowed per play are Big Ten programs: No. 6 Indiana (1st, 4.08) No. 4 UCLA (5th, 4.25), Michigan (6th, 4.26), Wisconsin (7th, 4.30) and No. 16 Iowa (10th, 4.40).

Indiana, Iowa, UCLA and Wisconsin all rank in the top 10 in yards allowed per carry.

"Physicality is probably the operative word for defenses in the Big Ten," Whittingham said.

Defensive coaches provide more challenges

Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell struggled to come up with a reason for why the numbers have dropped this year.

“I can tell you this: There’s no better-coached conference in college football,” Fickell said. “I’m just telling you, the uniqueness of what has always been done in the Big Ten continues to get better. That’s why it’s difficult to be successful in this league offensively without having the ability to be balanced in what you’re doing, to run the football and throw the football, because I think it’s so well coached.”

Kerrigan and Minnesota offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Greg Harbaugh offered similar assessments.

Kerrigan cited the presence of outstanding defensive coordinators such as Indiana’s Bryant Haines and Iowa’s Phil Parker. Harbaugh said the defenses Minnesota faces each week are difficult to prepare for because they can attack teams in multiple ways.

“It’s just the players, and I think the coaching in this league is really, really good,” Harbaugh said. “There’s always an answer. You have to prepare. You have to go back and watch things that they’ve done in years past because you’re always attempting to put your guys in a position to succeed and be ready for something that could happen.”

That hasn’t stopped some staffs from making changes in a season that’s become notable for coordinator firings.

Illinois fired defensive coordinator Bobby Hauck after splitting its first four games of the season. Purdue fired defensive coordinator Kevin Kane on Sunday, the day after a 34-29 loss to Maryland that gave Terrapins interim head coach Aazaar Abdul-Rahim his first win. Abdul-Rahim took over after the firing of Mike Locksley in the Big Ten’s first head coaching change of the year.

But there have been even more staff moves involving offensive coordinators.

Oregon has revived its playoff hopes by beating Northwestern and winning at Ohio State with Jay Johnson calling plays after the firing of Mehringer. Michigan and Nebraska can only hope their coordinator changes produce similar results.

“We’re not scoring enough points,” Rhule said. “So I felt like the time was now.”

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AP Sports Writers Dave Campbell and Larry Lage and AP College Football Writer Eric Olson contributed to this report.

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Faithful from all over Argentina drove hours to be on hand for the service, from the farthest north of the country to Patagonia in the south and points in between. After nearly 40 years without a papal visit, Córdoba was chosen to host Leo because of its central location.

Leo told them that Córdoba was a “land of saints,” home to some of Argentina’s best-known missionaries. They include St. José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, known as the “ Gaucho priest,” and “Mama Antula,” who in 2024 became Argentina’s first female saint. They were both canonized by the Argentine Pope Francis.

Leo urged Argentines today to follow their example.

“We are all called to holiness,” he said. "These saints and blesseds have already fulfilled their mission on Earth. Today, it is our turn to follow the radiant example of holiness they have left with us.”

After Mass, Leo surprised the crowds with a brief appearance on the balcony of the archbishop’s residence in downtown Córdoba, the same balcony from which St. John Paul II greeted Córdoba in 1987. Thousands of people chanting “León, León” packed the street below. “United, we can do anything,” the pope told them.

Erika Viñales, 39, and Elena Llanquenao, 54, religious education teachers from Santa Cruz province in southern Argentina’s Patagonia region, said they traveled 2,000 kilometers (more than 1,200 miles) to be on hand.

“It was quite a journey,” Viñales said.

A site that recalls the dictatorship

The site for the liturgy was the grounds of the Argentine Aircraft Factory, a plant run by the air force for much of the 20th century that built the attack planes Argentina’s military first used in late 1975 to strike leftist guerrillas.

That counterinsurgency campaign was a prelude to the state terror unleashed under the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, in which human rights groups estimate that around 30,000 people were killed or disappeared.

After Mass, Leo met privately with 20 people chosen by the archbishop, among them Alba Camargo, whose father, stepmother, aunt and uncle all disappeared under Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

Camargo said she told the pope she had come on behalf of relatives still searching for victims’ remains at La Perla, a former clandestine detention center outside Córdoba, and handed him a folder with photos of the excavations and the names of those identified so far.

“He was nodding, as if he knew all about it, and, looking deep in my eyes, took me by the hand and blessed the Franciscan crosses I had brought him,” she told The Associated Press.

Many others in the group, which included a rural worker, a soup kitchen organizer and a human trafficking survivor, were so overcome with emotion they could barely speak, she said. “It was unbelievably powerful to feel him so human, listening to you like that from 15 centimeters away.”

Camargo, 64, who herself was detained by security forces in 1976 at age 13, said the mere meeting was a "gesture showing that he sees us.”

Two weeks ago, forensic anthropologists found and identified the remains of nine missing people from La Perla, one of the dictatorship’s largest clandestine detention and torture centers.

Camargo said that she hoped Tuesday’s meeting “would bring change” at a time when President Javier Milei’s government has gutted funding for dictatorship memorial sites and organizations searching for the disappeared, and has promoted a revisionist account that casts the military’s crimes as little more than excesses in a war against leftist guerrillas.

“It’s exhausting to have people constantly telling you that what you’ve lived through your entire life isn’t true,” Camargo said.

Leo has made only a passing reference to Argentina's painful history

Leo has only made a passing reference to the dictatorship while in Argentina. In his first speech delivered Sunday to President Javier Milei and government authorities, he spoke of Argentina’s history that included “reasons for gratitude and painful memories.”

He said then that it was up to each generation to “discern what deserves to be preserved, to confront past injustices and to add to its shared material and spiritual patrimony,” in comments seen as referring to the dictatorship.

While Leo’s Córdoba homily focused on faith and holiness Tuesday, his more pointed social calls during his first two days in Argentina were still reverberating in Buenos Aires.

Four senators from Milei’s party began preparing Tuesday to take up a stalled bill banning online gambling ads, which Milei has opposed and the church has promoted as a way to protect children. Argentina’s top diplomat defended the administration’s record against critics interpreting the pope’s words as a rebuke of Milei’s austerity, insisting Leo’s message to protect the vulnerable was meant for everyone.

But Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno also acknowledged that his remarks exposed the country’s shortcomings.

"It challenges the entire political class, the leadership class, it challenges us as a society and delivers a message about what we lack,” Quirno told Argentine TV channel TN. “We are working every day to address the pope’s message and what we lack.”

Leo’s host in Córdoba is also one of the Argentine church’s most outspoken critics of Milei. Cardinal Ángel Rossi, a Jesuit, trained under Jorge Mario Bergoglio in the 1970s, decades before Bergoglio became Pope Francis and made him a cardinal.

He has advocated for relatives of the disappeared and railed against Milei’s cuts to aid for people with disabilities and retirees, calling it “state and institutional sadism” at a Mass in May.

Local leaders said Leo’s visit offered a bitterly divided country hope of finding common ground. “In times of so much division and individualism, your message of peace, fraternity and hope challenges us,” Córdoba’s governor, Martín Llaryora, wrote on social media.

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DeBre contributed from Buenos Aires. Martín Silva Rey contributed to this report.

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Hegseth framed the impeachment effort as a “political spectacle” that undermines U.S. troops by targeting him over mere “policy disagreements” — not the high crimes required in the Constitution for his possible removal.

A day earlier, Rep. Thomas Massie launched a bid to impeach Hegseth over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other military actions. Massie, who lost his GOP primary in Kentucky to a Trump-backed opponent, read the impeachment resolution from the House floor just hours after it opened for the first day of sessions after the midterms. A House vote on whether to move forward with the impeachment is expected later Tuesday.

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Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio elected to lead House Republicans in the minority

Jordan won the race Tuesday to serve as House Republican leader as the GOP prepares for its new role in the minority.

Jordan, who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, defeated Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana in a secret ballot election of Republicans who will serve in the next Congress. The vote was 106-73.

Jordan, 62, is a co-founder of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and served as its first chairman. His candidacy appealed to those looking for new leadership in the wake of last week’s election debacle and to those who like his hard-hitting political style. Jordan warned of the coming Democratic efforts on oversight, with numerous investigations of the Trump administration expected.

Trump nominates Justice Department official to civil rights panel after firing Democrat

Trump’s nomination of Matt Zandi to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission signals the administration will forge ahead with its overhaul of civil rights enforcement, underpinned by targeting diversity and inclusion policies.

Zandi currently serves as chief of staff for the Justice Department’s civil rights division, which saw the mass departure of career lawyers as it shifted to investigating diversity policies which the administration believes discriminate against white workers and others.

Zandi was nominated to fill a seat previously held by Jocelyn Samuels, one of two Democratic commissioners fired by Trump before the end of their terms in an unprecedented move to seize control of the EEOC, a bipartisan agency created by Congress through the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

US and China will act in their own interests on AI, Rubio says in the shadow of Nvidia scandal

Rubio was asked about whether Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese government agent would affect U.S.-China talks to regulate AI.

“I think that the Chinese system is always going to act in the best interest of the Chinese system, and the United States will always act in the best interest of the United States,” Rubio told reporters after a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Paris. “So we’re going to do whatever it takes.”

Rubio says the U.S. is “realistic and open-eyed” about differences between the world’s two leading AI powers.

Conversations to set up guardrails on AI are at “a technical level,” Rubio said. He noted that it’s certainly a topic for U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping when they meet next week in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

Trump nominates a top Justice Department official to become federal judge

The nomination of Elliot Gaiser to serve on the bench for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas could leave the Justice Department with another key vacancy amid a wave of departures after the midterm elections.

Gaiser was sworn in last year as assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, which writes opinions on thorny legal questions for the executive branch.

Under Gaiser, a former solicitor general of Ohio, the Office of Legal Counsel has weighed in on issues ranging from gun rights to the U.S. military operation that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from power.

Trump said in a social media post that “Texas will appreciate having such a talented and intelligent Judge on their Federal Bench.”

The Justice Department has seen several high-ranking departures over the last week, including the resignations of three division leaders at Washington headquarters.

Rubio says Hegseth carried out orders from Trump

Asked about the impeachment effort against the Pentagon chief, the secretary of state defended Hegseth by saying he had worked to “execute on a direct order from the commander in chief” when it came to Iran, strikes on alleged drug boats in Latin America and more.

Rubio, who is also the national security adviser, told reporters after a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Paris that Trump has a right “to address imminent threats” against the United States.

He said Iran’s threats and boats that smuggle drugs into the U.S. fall into that category, referring to a campaign of deadly military strikes on vessels since last year.

In the January capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Rubio again insisted it “was in many cases a law enforcement operation because he was a fugitive of American justice who was captured” on drug trafficking charges.

Vance weighs in on looming Hegseth impeachment

The vice president wrote in a social media post that the answer to whether Hegseth committed impeachable crimes is “obviously not.”

Vance argued that lawmakers backing a Hegseth impeachment were using the tool to register policy disagreements rather than for high crimes and misdemeanors.

“They did the same to Donald Trump,” Vance wrote. “Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).”

Vance argued that lawmakers were most upset with Hegseth for his efforts to reposition U.S. troops out of Europe, not for the Iran war.

Senate Republicans leave leadership meeting with no resolution on Thune’s future

Senate Republicans met Tuesday to discuss their future and were expected to reconvene in the afternoon as they decide whether to keep South Dakota Sen. John Thune as their leader. The meetings come just a week after major losses in midterm elections that cost them their majority.

Thune is still expected to be reelected, given that he remains popular with his GOP colleagues and is so far running unopposed. But senators left the meeting after two hours of discussions with no resolution on a way forward.

Some senators had said beforehand that it was too soon after the election for a vote on leadership.

“We want to be thoughtful and do the right thing,” said West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice as the meeting broke up.

Johnson calls Hegseth impeachment effort ‘shameful’

House Speaker Mike Johnson is blasting the effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling it a “political gambit for attention” and “shameful.”

“The idea that you would impeach the secretary of war at a time of international conflict sends a terrible message to our enemies and our allies, and we are not going to play that game,” Johnson told reporters.

Johnson said he also watched most of Hegseth’s news conference in which the secretary gave a defiant and politicized defense of his stewardship of the U.S. military.

“I thought he did very well,” Johnson said, before predicting that Republicans would defeat the impeachment effort “one way or the other.”

Decision to hold a Trump-Putin-Xi meeting may come soon, Rubio says

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday confirmed Trump’s intent to hold three-way talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin when the U.S. president is in Shenzhen next week.

“We’re working to organize it and to frame it in the appropriate way,” Rubio said. “And hopefully, you know, we’ll have some news for you about that fairly soon.”

Trump believes the three sides should discuss “the status of nuclear weapons in the world,” as the president thinks nuclear proliferation is dangerous, Rubio said.

The meeting would be historic, though foreign policy experts warn that the three sides, with conflicting interests, are unlikely to hold substantive discussions.

Beijing does not like to engage in discussions on nuclear weapons, while Russia seeks to undermine U.S. support for Ukraine.

John Thune seeks another term as Senate Republican leader

Thune is expected to be reelected, given that he remains popular with his GOP colleagues and is running unopposed. But some Republicans who returned to Washington on Monday for the first time since the election wipeout that cost them at least seven seats said it’s too soon to endorse the status quo.

“We need to have some real soul-searching,” said Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, who circulated a letter to the conference asking to delay the closed-door, secret-ballot leadership elections. “We can’t just continue on business as usual — that kind of defeat demands change.”

Still, Johnson conceded that there’s no one else on the ballot.

The angst comes as the party is beginning to reckon with what the election results mean for GOP lawmakers and how soon they can try to rebuild their ranks. Two additional races remain uncalled in Alaska and Mississippi that could further deplete their numbers.

Thune made clear Monday that leadership is moving ahead with Senate elections, which include contests for other party leaders.

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Thune arrives at Capitol ahead of leadership vote

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has arrived on Capitol Hill ahead of a meeting of his fellow Republicans to decide whether to delay leadership elections or select him as leader again in the next Congress.

Asked how he was feeling as he walked into his office, Thune said, “We’ll see.”

Inflation ran hotter than expected last month, underscoring affordability challenges

U.S. inflation was higher than expected last month, signaling that rising prices that powered sweeping Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections will continue posing challenges for the White House and the Federal Reserve.

The consumer price index rose 0.4% from September to October, the Labor Department said Tuesday, down from 0.6% the previous month. The government did not report a yearly inflation rate because last year’s government shutdown meant no data was released for October 2025.

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 0.3%, the same as the preceding month. Both figures were a tenth of a point higher than forecast.

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A defiant Hegseth concludes news conference

Hegseth has concluded the news conference after taking six questions.

The secretary of defense was overwhelmingly defiant in his remarks from the Pentagon podium, which cast the impeachment as “sabotage” against U.S. troops. He insisted he had done nothing wrong and claimed the support of Trump and Vice President JD Vance. And when asked, he avoided questions about the political backlash against the war in last week’s midterm elections.

“I stand behind every one of these operations. I was proud to execute them, and I would do it again tomorrow,” Hegseth said.

The impeachment, he insisted, “puts a target on the backs of American warriors by signaling that Congress will undermine their missions in real time. This is not patriotism. This is sabotage.”

Trump praised Hegseth’s performance in a social media post published minutes after the news conference ended.

“Pete Hegseth gets an “A” PLUS, PLUS, PLUS for his defense against a disgruntled, angry, defeated, former Congressman, Thomas Massie, a TOTAL LOSER!” Trump wrote.

Hegseth slams impeachment as attack on troops

Hegseth is defending himself against impeachment by describing the effort as an attack on the troops.

“On the eve of Veterans Day,” Hegseth said, “these resolutions tell every one of them that their service was a crime.”

“These are heroes, and no politician in Washington will tell them otherwise while I hold this office,” he added. “If they want to come for the warriors, they’re going to have to come through me.”

Hegseth slams impeachment effort as ‘political spectacle’

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is condemning the impeachment effort against him as “a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment.”

Hegseth made the comments at the beginning of a morning news conference at the Pentagon. It was his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months and came just a day after Rep. Thomas Massie launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions.

Hegseth said Massie’s concerns are not impeachable, calling them “policy disagreements, not high crimes, not misdemeanors, not treason, not bribery, not the kinds of offenses the founders intended when they wrote the impeachment clause.”

He continued: “The proper remedy for a policy disagreement, it’s legislation, it’s debate, it’s the next presidential election.”

FBI is looking at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese agent, Trump says

Trump said Monday that the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese government agent, but said he doesn’t think the executive who has helped to develop artificial intelligence has a reason to worry.

“I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he’ll be in good shape,” Trump said at a White House briefing.

The sudden emergence of Huang’s infidelity has rocked the political class and America’s tech sector, creating new concerns about whether China has been able to access the cutting-edge chips designed by Nvidia that are powering the development of artificial intelligence.

Trump suggested the extraordinary step of directly involving himself in a counterintelligence investigation, a sign of his friendly relationship with Huang and the possible geopolitical stakes.

Huang has acknowledged he had an affair, issuing an apology to his wife and to the company in an open letter posted on Nvidia’s website. The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence determined that the woman was gathering information for Beijing.

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Thune and Schumer face questions about Senate leadership in aftermath of elections

Senators from both parties returned to Washington on Monday with questions about the future of their leadership after last week’s election decisively gave Democrats a significant new majority.

Republicans who are losing around a quarter of their conference to election losses and retirements are debating whether to immediately reelect South Dakota Sen. John Thune as leader in votes scheduled for Tuesday. Across the aisle, Democrats who could hold as many as 56 seats next year are having private discussions about whether New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is still the right person to lead them, even as he carried the party to historic wins.

Both men are expected to easily win the backing of a majority of their members in closed-door, secret-ballot elections — the Republicans this week, and Democrats likely in December. But the internal discussions on both sides could prove consequential to their parties’ effectiveness in the next Congress and how voters perceive them leading into the 2028 presidential election.

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Senate advances sweeping energy legislation in first major action since midterm elections

The Senate on Monday advanced bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews to power data centers and other infrastructure projects, in the first major action since last week’s election that soundly repudiated Trump and congressional Republicans.

The Senate voted 73-25 to formally take up the bill, which senators and the president have pushed to meet growing demand for electricity and other energy sources that now face yearslong delays before reaching the grid.

The legislation’s sweeping changes would shorten the timeline to get big energy projects started — both for clean energy and fossil fuel projects — and make sure data centers pay for the energy they use. Anger over artificial intelligence data centers and rising electricity prices helped usher in a wave of Democrats pledging to clamp down on the massive, energy-hungry structures.

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Hegseth is set for his first Pentagon news briefing since May as he faces possible impeachment

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to give his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months on Tuesday, just a day after a Republican lawmaker launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions.

The briefing will be Hegseth’s first since May, even as the U.S. military has kept up intermittent operations against the Islamic Republic as well as fatal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in Latin America.

Hegseth, who has said the news conference would focus on the impeachment threat, is gearing up for a fight, having launched a social media blitz and saying he is ready to defend his and President Donald Trump’s actions from “politically motivated people.”

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who lost his primary to a Trump-backed opponent, filed the impeachment resolution in the House on Monday. It sets the stage for a dramatic vote on whether to remove a prominent Trump administration figure following sweeping losses for Republicans in last week’s midterm elections that many at least partly blamed on the Iran conflict and its economic impact.

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The status of the two races had been in question since the Iran war forced the Bahrain Grand Prix to be moved to Malaysia and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to be canceled.

But F1 has now dropped plans for the Imola circuit in Italy to be a backup option for the season finale, a person with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.

F1 started making preparations with local authorities at Imola but has told the Italian circuit and the teams that there will be no race there, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither F1 nor the circuit announced the details publicly.

‘Countdown is on’ to Qatar and Abu Dhabi

Separately, the president of F1’s governing body, the FIA, said “the countdown is on” to race in Qatar and Abu Dhabi as preparations go ahead.

“We are ready for Qatar and Abu Dhabi,” FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem posted on Instagram. “We are fully prepared and committed to delivering two outstanding Grand Prix weekends and a spectacular conclusion to the (F1 championship).”

Ben Sulayem, who is from the United Arab Emirates, which includes Abu Dhabi, did not give any details of the preparations or security arrangements. “We are working closely with our partners to ensure everything is in place for our drivers, teams and fans,” he added.

There are three races left: Las Vegas on Nov. 21, Qatar on Nov. 29 and Abu Dhabi on Dec. 6. Kimi Antonelli won the championship this month.

The FIA approves the F1 calendar as the series’ governing body, but it is a matter for F1 to agree on contracts and hosting agreements.

Middle East races are among the most lucrative for F1 and valuable markets for the teams and their sponsors.

A long wait and a driver with doubts

F1 dragged out the decision for months, far beyond chief executive Stefano Domenicali’s earlier prediction of a mid-September call on whether to return to the Middle East.

That allowed F1 to take notes as motorbike series MotoGP — like F1, owned by Liberty Media — raced in Qatar last week. Its events went ahead as scheduled despite criticism from riders and the withdrawal of the Yamaha team.

The wait also meant F1 could monitor whether the U.S. midterm elections would be followed by more intense military action between the U.S. and Iran, which has not happened.

Williams driver Carlos Sainz Jr., director of the Grand Prix Drivers Association, expressed doubt in F1's plans to race in the Middle East.

Speaking last month ahead of the United States Grand Prix, Sainz said: “They seem very convinced that it’s going to go ahead. I think on my personal side, I’m not," adding that “we need to stay diligent, and reactive to whatever happens.”

Hours later, Williams issued a statement quoting Sainz as saying: “I want to be clear that I know the FIA and Formula 1 will put safety first and completely trust them to make the right decision. We look forward to racing in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.”

No party at home for Antonelli

Imola would have offered a homecoming party for Antonelli, the first Italian champion in 73 years, even if wintry weather might have put a dampener on the celebrations.

His hometown of Bologna is just down the road from the circuit, which hosted the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix until last year and dropped off the schedule for 2026.

Racing there at the end of the season would have meant unusually cold weather for a Grand Prix, potentially with rain or snow.

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ITV News and the Guardian newspaper said their joint investigation featured interviews with multiple women who gave firsthand accounts of Walliams' conduct. One woman alleged she was sexually assaulted by Walliams at his London home when she was 15, while others accused him of grooming them when they were teens.

Walliams, 55, denied the allegations. He unsuccessfully sought a court injunction to bar the news outlets from identifying him, claiming that publication of sexual misconduct allegations would lead him to take his own life.

The court fight delayed publication for months, but a judge rejected his injunction request last week and the protection of his identity expired late Monday.

“I am not a sexual predator,” Walliams said in a letter to the news organizations. “I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”

“Whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did,” he added.

Walliams is best known for comedy sketches on “Little Britain,” a hugely popular British TV show in the 2000s, but he’s also a celebrated children’s book author with some 40 published titles that sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, according to his website.

Several of them, including “Gangsta Granny,” have been adapted into BBC comedy dramas and stage productions.

Walliams was dropped last year by publisher HarperCollins after allegations were made of inappropriate behavior. Few details were published at the time, but the Guardian reported Tuesday that there were concerns about his behavior for years, including an allegation that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a junior female employee.

He was also a judge for a decade on “Britain’s Got Talent,” though he stepped down in 2022 after apologizing for making “disrespectful comments” about auditioning contestants.

The BBC said Tuesday it was removing some programs, including “Little Britain,” while it carried out a review of “all material featuring and written by David Walliams on our platforms."

The literary agency Independent Talent Group also said it was dropping Walliams following the new allegations.

The court fight, in which Walliams was identified in news reports as a “famous man,” drew widespread attention in Britain because it highlighted questions over public figures’ right to privacy and what media can report on the basis of public interest.

Walliams’ lawyer, Sara Mansoori, told the High Court that he had made a suicide attempt when he received letters from ITN and Guardian News and Media seeking his response to the allegations. He later made another attempt, she said, and he was recently admitted to the hospital for psychiatric care.

Attorney Gavin Millar, representing the media companies, has said that the allegations were gathered after “a wide-ranging and rigorous investigation” and that there was a strong public interest in publishing them.

Millar told the court that the investigation involved speaking to more than 100 people, and alleged that over a period of years Walliams “used his status and influence as a well-known public figure to establish contact with young women, some considerably younger than him, and that he engaged or sought to engage in seriously inappropriate conduct,” according to a summary of the court judgment.

Some of the alleged conduct could amount to criminal offenses if proven, a summary of the court judgment said.

The Metropolitan Police in London contacted the news organizations Tuesday to make sure any possible victims knew how to report criminal allegations.

In dismissing the injunction bid, Justice Matthew Nicklin said such a legal measure would mean “an exceptionally serious interference” with the rights of the media companies.

He noted that Walliams had a “serious and longstanding psychiatric vulnerability” which must be taken seriously, and said a decision allowing the allegations to be published will substantially increase his risk of suicide. However, he added that the evidence did not “establish that suicide is inevitable.”

However, Press Forward Executive Director Dale Anglin said the organization’s work is far from complete. Not only will the group continue raising and investing money, it will also expand its range of initiatives to support journalism.

“The industry is going through an incredible transformation,” Anglin told The Associated Press in an interview. “It took 20 years to get to this point – if not longer. It’s going to take us a while to get out of it.”

According to “ The State of Local News 2026 ” from Northwestern University, the number of news deserts – counties that have no locally based professional sources of news – grew by 12% this year to 238, as advertising and audiences continued to decline. Though there were dozens of newsrooms started this year, more than two newspapers closed for each outlet launched.

Anglin said she has had success convincing more funders to support Press Forward, which launched in 2023 through donations from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Democracy Fund and 19 other funders. The nonprofit now has 144 funders and has explained how longer-term support for journalism is necessary, similar to arts or education funding in a community.

Press Forward has helped establish a $21 million impact investing fund with Social Finance and the Knight and MacArthur foundations to support outlets with small loans they would likely not get elsewhere. It already has 50 local Press Forward chapters that have invested $87 million to strengthen journalism in their communities, including $53 million in the past year.

“The challenges in local news were really kind of universal,” Anglin said. “But it turns out, as we have learned over the last three years, that a lot of the solutions are local.”

Press Forward Chicago sees promise in pooled funds

Tracy Baim, executive director of Press Forward Chicago, said her chapter believes it has developed part of the solution to journalism’s funding problems.

In addition to accepting traditional donations, Press Forward Chicago has established a pooled fund, which uses donations from multiple organizations to support specific initiatives.

“It is a way to tiptoe into journalism funding," said Baim, adding that many foundations, especially smaller ones, saw supporting individual news outlets as too intimidating. She said the potential pitfalls of being associated with a controversial project or being accused of influencing coverage because of their donations kept some foundations from getting involved.

“A pooled fund mitigates those risks,” Baim said. Chicago’s fund further minimizes risk for donors by distributing the donations to multiple outlets.

Its first pooled fund was used last year to fund increased immigration reporting. Nearly $1 million was collected from 12 donors and distributed to 12 organizations, ranging from national outlets like ProPublica and major local outlets like Chicago Public Media and Block Club Chicago to smaller outlets serving Latino and Chinese communities. The donations allowed the outlets to add reporting, editing and presentation capacity right before the Department of Homeland Security launched the immigration operation “Midway Blitz” in Chicago.

A second pooled fund focused on education and allowed outlets to increase coverage of the Chicago Board of Education elections.

“We are making these outlets stronger,” Baim said. “We’re not just giving an organization a grant to cover stuff. We are amplifying their work so that they can get new subscribers and that’s a pipeline of potential donors.”

Knight Foundation CEO says local funding improves sustainability

Supporting that sort of sustainable growth is the next phase of Press Forward’s work. And Knight Foundation President and CEO Maribel Perez Wadsworth said that is more significant than cofounding the organization.

“Announcing half a billion dollars in national funding toward journalism was important in terms of demonstrating the urgency and the importance of supporting local journalism,” Wadsworth said. “But the more important thing, ultimately, is to really catalyze and create deeper awareness at the local level about the essential nature of access to reliable news and information as a public good.”

There are signs that donors, both big and small, are making journalism a priority because it provides an information base that supports other initiatives. Last month, the Ford Foundation, one of the world’s largest grantmakers, said that supporting journalism would become one of its priorities as it overhauls its giving to focus on the building blocks of democracy. The much smaller nonprofit Public Media Co. has made providing trustworthy local information a cornerstone of its work to keep public radio stations operating following ongoing federal funding cuts.

Perez Wadsworth said that having local and regional funders work together to keep local news outlets open in their communities is a more sustainable solution to many journalism outlets’ budgetary problems.

“Philanthropy writ large is not a business model,” she said. “And it’s not sustainable to believe that philanthropy is just going to always support whatever the thing is, no matter how important.”

‘No silver bullet’ for journalism’s economic woes

Press Forward’s Anglin said there is “no silver bullet” to solve journalism’s economic problems. But philanthropy can help strengthen news outlets until they figure out a new business model that will make them sustainable.

Press Forward plans to promote solutions through public policy changes, encouraging cooperation and resource-sharing between outlets and supplying infrastructure and capacity-building grants. Its chapters, which operate independently, have met a wide spectrum of needs – from helping defray some Minnesota outlets’ cost of covering the surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis earlier this year to training local residents in Kentucky to become reporters.

“You can’t nonprofit your way out of this problem,” Anglin said. “We understand that some things will still close. But we are building for the long term.”

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La reunión de este año, denominada Conferencia de las Partes, o COP31, se celebra después de un año de olas de calor provocadas por el cambio climático y otros desastres.

Al llegar al lugar de la reunión en Antalya, Turquía, Thunberg manifestó que el cambio climático “lo amenaza todo” y que “todo y todos los que amamos están en juego”.

“Deberíamos actuar para proteger y beneficiar a las personas en lugar de sacrificar constantemente a la mayoría global y al propio planeta en el que todos vivimos, para que unos pocos afortunados sigan obteniendo ganancias inimaginables y manteniendo el poder geopolítico”, declaró a la prensa.

La activista asiste a su primera cumbre climática de la ONU desde que participó en la COP de 2021 en Glasgow, Escocia, donde desestimó las promesas hechas por líderes mundiales como “bla, bla, bla”.

En 2024, Thunberg participó en una manifestación de protesta en Georgia contra el hecho de que Azerbaiyán acogiera las conversaciones climáticas de ese año. Acusó a ese país de utilizar esa cumbre para “lavar de verde sus crímenes y abusos de derechos humanos”.

Se espera que la activista se sume a las conversaciones de este año durante unos días. Afirmó que se necesitan cambios estructurales en todo el mundo para afrontar la crisis climática porque los sistemas políticos y económicos actuales “se han vuelto incompatibles con la naturaleza humana”.

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Winfrey praised Mary Lawson's “Solace in Winter,” which came out Tuesday, as “beautifully written and deeply moving.”

“'Solace in Winter' reminds us that even in our loneliest moments, unexpected connections can open our hearts, heal old wounds, and change our lives in ways we never imagined,” Winfrey said in a statement. Her discussion with Lawson can be seen on Winfrey's YouTube channel and other video podcast outlets.

The 80-year-old Lawson is known for her prize-winning debut novel, “Crow Lake,” and for two books longlisted for the Booker Prize: “The Other Side of the Bridge” and “A Town Called Solace.” Winfrey, as she has done with previous choices, phoned the author without warning to give her the news. Lawson said in a statement that she thought at first she was being scammed.

“Is this for real?” she remembered asking.

Yes, Oprah told her. It's real.

“Oh goodness. Oprah,” Lawson responded, recognizing her voice. “Hello.”

The consumer price index rose 0.4% from September to October, the Labor Department said Tuesday, down from 0.6% the previous month. The government did not report a yearly inflation rate because last year's government shutdown meant no data was released for October 2025.

But excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 0.3%, the same as the preceding month. Both figures were a tenth of a point higher than forecast, and at an annual rate would be well above the Fed's 2% target.

The new inflation data heightened concerns that strong consumer and business spending, combined with higher gas prices and supply disruptions stemming from tariffs and global turmoil, are creating increasingly stubborn inflation that could extend beyond temporary spikes in prices at the gas pump. The economy expanded at a 3.4% annual rate in the July-September quarter, mostly driven by consumer spending.

“It's worrisome. There is a sense that inflation is broad, persistent, a little bit everywhere,” said Riccardo Trezzi, founder of Underlying Inflation, a consulting firm, and a former Fed economist. “The Fed should be very worried.”

Using rough estimates for last October's data, Trezzi calculates that consumer prices rose 4% in October from a year ago, up from 3.7% in September. Core prices rose 2.8%, he estimates, up from 2.6%.

Americans’ struggles with high prices were evident as they ousted Republican majorities from the House and Senate last week. With historic gains in both chambers, Democrats in Congress will soon face the same challenges. President Donald Trump has acknowledged voter anger over the Iran war and gas prices but has shown no sign yet of changing course.

The AP Voter Poll, a survey of 100,000 voters, found about two-thirds blamed Trump’s policies for higher costs. About 9 in 10 said the cost of living was a “crucial” or “major” factor in their vote.

Federal Reserve may become more aggressive about raising borrowing costs

The persistence of elevated inflation makes it highly likely that the Fed will raise its key interest rate at its next meeting in December. It kept rates unchanged late last month, after raising them in September. The Fed increases borrowing costs in an effort to cool spending and bring down inflation.

Earlier Tuesday, Fed governor Christopher Waller, an outspoken member of the central bank's rate-setting committee, said that a hike of a half-point next month was possible, double the size of the usual quarter-point increase.

“Economic activity is strong, the labor market is stable, but inflation is too high, well above" the Fed's 2% goal, Waller said.

Stock prices fell in early trading Tuesday, and Treasury yields rose, on expectations of more persistent inflation and higher rates from the Fed.

Higher gas prices may have begun to spread through economy

Gas prices rose 1% from September to October, the government said, a stiff increase but still much lower than in previous months. Gas prices have soared more than 37% from a year ago. Still, oil prices have fallen sharply in recent days on hopes that the Iran conflict is fading, and gas costs have declined this month.

Yet there are signs higher energy prices are spreading into other parts of the economy, with air fares, public transportation, and delivery services all jumping in price. Electricity prices rose 0.9% from September to October, the most since April, and grocery prices jumped 0.4%, a painful rise after years of increases.

Beef prices rose 0.9% last month, after jumping nearly 14% in the first half of this year. Restaurant prices rose 0.5% from September to October, the most since January 2024. Rising shipping prices, driven up by more expensive gas, have lifted costs for restaurants and grocery stores, which may be passing them on to consumers.

Inflation has also been worsened by the massive investments flowing into artificial intelligence, which has contributed to higher prices for computer chips, electricity and consumer electronics. Voters swept dozens of candidates into office who had pledged to slow data center construction.

Computer prices jumped 0.5% last month, the government report showed, after rising nearly 10% in the year ending in September, lifted by more expensive chips. The cost of computers had been retreating for years as semiconductor chips became more efficient. That trend reversed course this year as prices rose sharply.

Prices are rising, and it's not just gasoline

Prices are also rising in some sectors that have little to do with oil and gas or AI. Streaming video services have recently gotten more expensive, with Disney raising prices last month for its ad-supported Disney+ and Hulu streaming bundle to $12.49 a month from $11.99. The ad-free version rose by $2.50 to $21.49.

Prices also increased last month for an Apple TV/Peacock streaming bundle, to $17.99 from $14.99 a month.

Small businesses are bracing for a spending pullback by customers.

Chris Butler, CEO of National Tree Company, an artificial tree importer and wholesaler, says most of his customers now spend $200 or less on a tree. That is a big departure from the pandemic days when many people, flush with cash, were spending $300 to $400, he said.

“Inflation continues to persist," he said. "Gas prices continue to be high, so consumers are hurting from a discretionary perspective.”

Last year, National Tree was forced to raise prices on its products, sourced in China and Cambodia, between 10% and 15% because of Trump’s tariffs, Butler said. Tariffs have come down, but now the firm is grappling with higher diesel costs.

Butler said the company, based in Cranford, N.J., doesn’t plan to raise prices again this year given the existing financial stress on customers, who are already spending less on trees.

Outside of inflation, other measures show the economy is largely doing well. The unemployment rate is a low 4.1% and growth is steady. Still, high prices have left most Americans with a dour view of the economy.

“It might not be a recession, but if you’re still living paycheck to paycheck and watching gas prices go up, grocery prices go up, your rent costs go up, it’s not going to feel like a robust economy,” said Jim Baird, chief investment officer at Plante Moran Financial Advisors.

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The recorder was found at the site where the Bahamas-bound Learjet slammed into the ground and erupted in a fireball Nov. 1, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement posted to social media.

If data from the device can be recovered, it could provide crucial details about what the pilots said to each other as they encountered turbulence, ice formed on the wings and they lost control of the aircraft.

It was not immediately known if the recorder had been damaged or if it was working in the first place. The NTSB said the device was being evaluated at a lab in Washington.

From photos the agency posted online, showing the recorder’s orange-painted metal shell, it appeared to be in decent shape, aviation safety expert Jeff Guzzetti told The Associated Press.

“It’s very plausible that any info on the recorder survived,” Guzzetti said. “If they can recover it, and it’s from the accident flight, that will be a huge help to investigators.”

He noted that when the NTSB recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a medical transport plane that crashed in Philadelphia in January 2025, killing seven people, it turned out the device likely had not been functioning for several years.

Witnesses captured dramatic video as the business jet plunged nose-first into the ground, and air traffic control transmissions recorded the disturbing moments as the pilots realized their fate. But the cockpit voice recorder could shed light on other aspects of the crash, including why the Learjet appeared to steer around a large storm cell only to head directly into a rapidly developing smaller one.

Investigators have said pieces of a key part of the tail called the elevator, which controls the plane’s pitch, were found more than a mile away from the main crater, confirming the plane started to break apart before impact.

The co-pilot told air traffic controllers that the plane was being thrown up and down more than 700 feet (213 meters), and she asked them for a better route through the area.

Generally, it takes 12 to 18 months for the NTSB to complete a crash investigation, but complicated cases can take longer. The NTSB’s roughly 400 workers are pursuing more than 1,200 active investigations.

Investigators will review maintenance records and any history of problems with the plane. They will also interview officials at Upper Jets, the company that operated the flight, as well as air traffic controllers and people who work at the airport in Austin, Texas, from where the plane departed.

The actor, whose Broadway credits include “Hadestown,” “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Sweeney Todd” and “ Hamilton,” will play Prince's leading role of “The Kid” in a musical adaptation of “Purple Rain.”

The musical will premiere at the Majestic Theatre next spring, beginning previews in March. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

“Purple Rain” tells the vaguely autobiographical story of an up-and-coming rock musician in the Minneapolis club scene who is juggling a tumultuous home life and a budding romance. The film, which won an Oscar for its song score, includes the hits “Let’s Go Crazy,” “When Doves Cry” and “Take Me With U.” The soundtrack won two Grammys.

The show marks the first time Fisher, also known for “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and winning “Dancing With the Stars,” originates a Broadway role.

The show made its world premiere in 2025 in Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis with a story by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and direction by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Since then, the creative team has changed. The Broadway version has a story by Peter Duchan and direction by Saheem Ali. Kris Kollins played “The Kid.”

Prince died in 2016.

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This story has been updated to correct the name of the character. It is “The Kid,” not “The Boy.”

Playing the sport was sort of an accident.

“I was like, ‘OK, I don’t know what I’m doing, but sure,’” Sam Fisher said.

At the time, 12-year-old Fisher had never even touched a lacrosse stick.

“Like, you’re an athlete, just take the stick and go score,” she recalled.

Now 23 years old, Fisher looks back at the small favor that would open doors she never saw coming.

“She’s one of the most extraordinary players that has ever come out of South Florida,” said Fisher’s lacrosse coach, John McClain.

From high school to Elon University and now Team Israel, McClain said her journey has been anything but ordinary.

“When you chase perfection, you become excellent, right? And that’s what she is,” McClain said.

Right now, Fisher is part of a historic dream.

Team Israel is currently on the road to qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics.

It’s the first time women’s lacrosse will ever have a platform on an Olympic stage, and a first for Israel.

“My whole life has led up to these moments,” she said.

But Fisher’s journey to these moments hasn’t been without heartbreak.

She went from living in Parkland to living in Israel, where she’s been face to face with the realities of war, but the first tragedy she ever experienced happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

“High school wasn’t the easiest road, starting with the Douglas shooting,” Sam Fisher’s father, Mitch Fisher, said.

For Fisher’s parents, Jen and Mitch, the pain of that day in 2018 is still fresh.

“We’re the fortunate ones,” Mitch said, with Jen adding that Sam “made it out.”

Sam Fisher was inside her freshman classroom when a gunman opened fire.

“I now have a different why, of why I play. It’s not just my passion, my love for the game, but I play because 17 people can’t,” she said.

Among the 17 lives lost was Fisher’s classmate Joaquin Oliver, nicknamed Guac, short for guacamole.

“I now play for him in everything I do, athletically I’m doing with him,” she said. “I play with an avocado sticker on my stick to represent him and have him with me.”

“If you went through the Douglas shooting and you went through that, you can go through anything in life,” Jen Fisher said.

And now, on the road to the Olympics, Fisher is carrying more than just her own dream.

“Pressure is a privilege,” she said.

In November, Team Israel will take on Portugal, Latvia, France and Poland.

By next year, only six teams will make the Summer Games.

“To know that it’s a possibility to grow this sport even more is more than we can ask for,” Fisher said.

What started as one small favor has taken Fisher further than she ever imagined.

Years after picking up a lacrosse stick for the first time, she is still chasing victories, but she says the one that matters most can’t be measured in goals.

“Again, fear is just another reason to try harder,” she said. “You have to use every moment, every good and every bad, to just push yourself, and I hope to be that light that people can see.”

This year's meeting — called the Conference of the Parties, or COP31 — comes after a year of climate-induced heat waves and other disasters.

As she arrived at the meeting venue in Antalya, Turkey, Thunberg said climate change is “threatening everything" and that “everything and everyone we love is at stake.”

“We should act to protect and benefit people rather than constantly sacrificing the global majority and the very planet we are all living on, for a fortunate few to keep making unimaginable profits and maintaining geopolitical power,” she told reporters.

Thunberg is attending her first U.N. climate summit since she participated in the 2021 COP in Glasgow, Scotland, where she dismissed promises made by global leaders as “blah, blah, blah."

In 2024, Thunberg participated in a protest rally in Georgia against Azerbaijan hosting that year's climate talks. Thunberg accused Azerbaijan of using that summit to "greenwash their crimes and human rights abuses.”

Thunberg is expected to join this year's talks for a few days. She said structural changes are needed across the world to deal with the climate crisis because current political and economic systems “have become incompatible with human nature.”

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The company behind the Claude chatbot said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it will sell 825 million shares priced between $70 and $78 a share. That would give Anthropic the ability to raise more than $61 billion, if the IPO is priced at the midpoint.

The initial pricing of a company's shares is a complex process. If they are priced too high, it can send shares skidding on the first day. If shares are seen as cheap, the company and the banks running the IPO can leave money on the table.

The San Francisco company is expected to make its Wall Street debut this month.

Anthropic could be among the biggest initial public offerings of stock ever, but now seems like it will fall short of eclipsing the record $86 billion raised by SpaceX in its IPO in June. An Anthropic IPO would also put the company ahead of OpenAI in going public, setting the stage for a pair of blockbuster stock debuts by rival AI developers.

“For tech and AI, this is the first time a U.S. frontier lab carries a standalone public market price, uncluttered by an ad business or a rocket business,” Dan Ives, partner and senior managing director at Yorkville Ives & Co., wrote.

The IPO could give Anthropic enormous resources to accelerate its expansion and potentially add billions of dollars to the fortunes of CEO Dario Amodei and his sister and co-founder, Daniela Amodei.

A regulatory filing last month showed that Anthropic’s revenue is growing rapidly, reaching more than $16 billion in the first half of the year — 14 times its revenue from the same period last year. But like many other tech companies going public, the company has yet to turn a profit.

Formed in 2021 by former OpenAI leaders, Anthropic is locked in a fight for dominance with that company. But both companies have plenty of other competitors, including Google, newer startups in the U.S. and China and SpaceX, which has an AI business. Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX’s AI division have all lost more money than they've made because of the huge costs of resources in building AI. That has fueled growing concerns that a bubble has formed in the AI sector.

There was a brutal sell-off on Wall Street last week led by stocks in companies tied to the buildout of AI data centers. Yet shares of AI-related companies have swung wildly for month, particularly after the U.S. Federal Reserve, which has been attempting to cool inflation, hiked interest rates in September for the first time in three years.

Growing anxiety about the cost of borrowing money was heightened Tuesday after a new inflation reading for the U.S. came in hot, raising the odds that the Fed will grow more aggressive in its attempts to cool the economy with larger rate hikes.

Dario Amodei cautioned in September that the AI industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without such a slowdown, Amodei warned AI could be capable of letting loose a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet within six to 12 months.

He offered a plan in a post on his website to increase checks on the industry, noting that Anthropic is already undertaking part of this on its own. As for other steps, though, he said that would require coordination across the industry and with governments around the world, including authoritarian ones.

The shares are expected to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the “ANT” ticker symbol.

Harry spoke at the European Parliament in Brussels during the opening of a memorial to children who have died as the result of harm suffered on social media. The Lost Screen Memorial features replicas of oversized smartphones with the photo of a deceased child on each home screen.

Meghan, also known as the Duchess of Sussex, was originally scheduled to speak alongside Harry but withdrew because she was not “strong enough emotionally,” a person familiar with her reasoning said. She still accompanied her husband to the event.

The allegations against Thomas Markle Sr. surfaced last month. He appeared in a Florida courtroom on Friday charged with possessing child sexual abuse material. The 82-year-old has previously strongly denied the allegations, labelling them as “sick lies.”

Harry appeared emotional during his speech as he urged social media companies to avoid showing children content they would not show their own children. He also called on the companies to be more transparent and helpful to parents, particularly those seeking access to their children’s devices and social media accounts to understand what happened to them online.

“For many parents, even though their child killed themselves, they’ve had to wait years – in some instances, eight years – to get access to their child’s phone,” Harry said. “Because of the company’s privacy policies, the parents were blocked from finding out how their child died. That cannot be right.”

The new Global Rooftop Solar Declaration launched Tuesday on the second day of this year’s climate talks, known as COP31. The aim is to double the number of homes with rooftop solar panels from about 150 million today to at least 300 million by 2030.

“This is the future of affordable energy," said Sonia Dunlop, CEO of the Global Solar Council. "This is the way we can help average working people insure themselves from future price rises to come.”

COP31 comes after a year of deadly climate-related disasters and as concern grows that governments are not doing enough to curb global warming. Recent energy shocks from the Russia-Ukraine war and Iran war have also increased interest in renewables.

The U.N. climate talks have been criticized in the past for making promises that later fall flat. For rooftop solar goals to actually make a dent in the emissions contributing to climate change, experts said policies to upgrade power grids and subsidize solar panels and batteries must quickly follow.

“The pledge is a pledge," said Bruce Douglas, CEO of the Global Renewables Alliance. “We now need to see national policies and frameworks in place.”

More rooftop solar may help regular people

Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Vanuatu joined Australia by endorsing the rooftop solar declaration in the Turkish resort town of Antalya, where COP31 is being co-hosted by Turkey and Australia.

Lawmakers from 21 other countries — including the United Kingdom, South Africa and Sri Lanka — have also endorsed it. So has Indonesia’s state-owned electric power company Perusahaan Listrik Negara.

The declaration is voluntary and non-binding, like many of the agreements made at U.N. climate talks.

“We know the world is currently facing the greatest energy cost of living crisis the world has ever seen," Dunlop said. “We know that families all over the world are struggling to pay their bills and what we are saying with the Global Rooftop Solar Declaration is that we have a solution that will bring down your bills."

Electrification is a cornerstone of this year's talks, with Turkey pushing for electricity — preferably from renewables like solar and wind — to make up 35% of global energy consumption by 2035.

“Electrification by itself is incredibly beneficial because of the efficiency gains. Renewables by themselves, again, very beneficial. Put the two together and it is really a killer combination,” Douglas said.

Nations lean on fossil fuels, despite solar gains

Turkey's electrification pledge and Australia's rooftop solar declaration put a spotlight on the energy mix of both nations, which still rely heavily on fossil fuels.

In Turkey, home to one of Europe's largest solar farms, solar and wind make up nearly 23% of energy generation. But coal was still the country’s largest source of electricity last year, accounting for 33% of generation, according to Turkey’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources.

In Australia, one in three homes has rooftop solar and more than 700,000 homes have batteries to store excess energy. But coal still makes up more than 40% of electricity generation in Australia, which is also one of the world's largest coal exporters.

“Setting ambitious renewable targets without addressing grid capacity, storage and the continued role of coal risks undermining energy security, reliability and affordability," said Michelle Manook of FutureCoal, an industry-backed group formerly known as the World Coal Association.

The tension between renewable rollouts and continued coal use is mirrored in the world's most populous countries, China and India. They have both installed record-breaking amounts of renewables, but sometimes lose the energy because of insufficient transmission and storage capacity.

“Energy storage deployment must catch up with the speed of renewables deployment," said Nikit Abhyankar, with the India Energy and Climate Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Otherwise, it creates massive operational challenges for the grid, resulting in significant curtailment," he said, referring to the practice of limiting electricity output because the grid cannot handle it.

Solar spreads, but barriers remain

Rooftop solar panels are often decentralized from power grids, meaning that electricity is generated, stored and managed near where it is consumed, rather than coming from distant power plants.

This makes solar ideal for remote communities and hard-hit areas, like refugee camps and disaster zones.

Renewables, largely driven by solar from China and India, generated more than a third of the world's electricity last year, overtaking coal for the first time.

The Iran war's energy shock has also spurred solar interest in energy-hungry regions, like Southeast Asia, which was hit hard by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and sent into a state of energy triage.

Indonesia pledged to install 100 gigawatts of solar power by 2029. Thailand and Vietnam are offering subsidies for rooftop solar installations, and the Philippines became the second-largest destination for Chinese solar exports in the first quarter of 2026.

National policies must swiftly follow the COP31 promises to address issues like the funding of subsidies for consumers, clearer policies for solar companies and the availability of qualified installers, according to Sheryl Estella, with the nonprofit New Energy Nexus in the Philippines.

“This is an opportunity that we should not waste,” she said. “This is the biggest wave of interest in rooftop solar that we have seen so far.”

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Delgado reported from Bangkok and Arasu from Bengaluru, India.

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The complaint comes after President Donald Trump said the FBI is investigating the affair, which Huang has acknowledged and apologized for. Trump said Monday that Huang told him he had no idea the person could be involved in espionage.

The affair, which is also being scrutinized by Nvidia's board, has raised concerns that Beijing is using nefarious means to gain access to Nvidia 's cutting-edge microchips which power the development of artificial intelligence but face export restrictions to China.

The complaint filed Monday in a California court says the company misled investors about Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, who news reports said is suspected of working for Chinese intelligence, and the national security implications.

The news reports said that the Commerce Department was investigating Alice Huang's company, Singapore-based Megaspeed, on suspicions that it was helping to sidestep U.S. export restrictions blocking Nvidia chips from being sold to China. But Nvidia said then that its compliance team checked and determined that Megaspeed wasn't doing anything illegal.

But, according to the complaint, the statements were misleading because they were made when Jensen Huang was having an affair with Alice Huang, who is “suspected of seeking to help smuggle Nvidia products into China.”

It accuses Nvidia and Huang of failing to disclose the affair and issuing false statements about Nvidia's relationship with Megaspeed, which posed a “material risk” to Nvidia's reputation and business prospects.

Nvidia didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The complaint, filed by retail investor Mark Kistenmacher, seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial. It seeks to represent in a class-action lawsuit anyone who bought shares of Nvidia from October 9, when The New York Times first reported about the pair socializing in Taiwan, until November 8, when the company said it was investigating reports that Huang was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort."

Shares of Nvidia, one of the world's most valuable companies, fell $7.97, or 4.3%, on Monday, wiping out about $190 billion in market value. Shares were down again Tuesday before the opening bell.

“As a result of Defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the precipitous decline in the market value of the Company's securities, Plaintiff and other Class members have suffered significant losses and damages,” the complaint said.

Had investors known the truth, they wouldn’t have purchased Nvidia’s shares “at the artificially inflated prices that they did, or at all,” the complaint said.

The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence determined that Alice Huang, a former executive of Megaspeed International, was gathering information for Beijing. Huang is a common Chinese surname and the two are not related.

Megaspeed bought more than $4.8 billion worth of Nvidia chips over the past two years, according to The Times.

Trump said in a White House briefing that the FBI is “looking into” the affair, but added he doesn’t think Huang needs to worry, saying “he’ll be in good shape.”

The episode is also starting to attract congressional scrutiny, with top Democrats Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries saying Monday they are interested in investigating it further.

Huang is a singular figure in the technology landscape and one of the world’s wealthiest people thanks to booming demand for his company's microprocessors, which are in huge demand for cloud computing and data centers that underpin the AI boom.

He apologized to his wife, family and the company for the affair in an open letter posted on Nvidia’s website.

“I support the investigation and will cooperate fully. I love our country and our company. I am committed to protecting NVIDIA and supporting America’s national security,” Huang said in his letter.

Top officials in Iran and the U.S., meanwhile, continued to trade barbs over which nation was suffering the most amid the ongoing war.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tuesday. Read our full coverage here.

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 5

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed five people in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, hospital authorities said.

Four people were killed in three separate Israeli strikes in Gaza City, according to Shifa Hospital. In the southern city of Khan Younis, one person was shot dead after crossing the Yellow Line, according to Nasser Hospital.

The Israeli military said it had struck militants in Gaza City but did not immediately comment on the shooting in Khan Younis. The deaths came amid continued Israeli attacks in Gaza despite a ceasefire agreement that took effect in October 2025.

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians during olive harvest

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and activists accompanying them as they harvested olives in the occupied West Bank, an activist and local officials said Tuesday.

Mattan Berner Kaeish, an activist with Protect the Harvest, said the settlers struck multiple people with sticks and rocks in the village of Qusra. Rabbis for Human Rights also shared a video on Instagram showing a masked settler striking a woman in the head with a flagpole.

Associated Press footage showed Israeli forces arriving and trying to disperse crowds. After the confrontation, another group of settlers attempted to enter the village and threw stones at Israeli security forces, who responded with tear gas.

The Israeli military confirmed stones were hurled at soldiers but didn't say by whom.

Overnight strikes kill 1, wound 9 in Yemen

A Tuesday airstrike hit a gas station in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, killing one person and wounding three others while another airstrike targeted an oil company, wounding at least six people, the country's Houthi-run health ministry said.

The agency blamed Saudi Arabia for both strikes, though the Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the claims.

A spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis, meanwhile, said on X that a drone was intercepted and destroyed in eastern Saudi Arabia. The AP also couldn’t independently verify that claim.

Iranian state TV shows underground missile facility

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday displayed what it said was an underground “missile city” and new, unidentified surface-to-surface missiles.

State TV broadcast a heavily edited and partially blurred video showing the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Gen. Ali Abdollahi, visiting the underground facility. The video did not indicate when the visit took place, or give any details on the location.

Iran and US trade barbs over ongoing war

Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei claims that the war has already “wrecked” the United States while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran is “bleeding economically.”

Rezaei said in a post on X late Monday that it was time for the U.S. to “surrender” to the country's terms, which include lifting sanctions and the blockade on its ports.

But Rubio dismissed Iran's terms as “absurd” and said no major military action is needed for now because Iran is struggling.

“It’s sad," he said in Paris. “The Iranian people deserve better than to be a third world country, which is where their leadership is taking them.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, facing possible impeachment by Congress, declared the war a “historic military victory.”

“More than 13,000 targets struck. Their navy sunk. Their air force grounded. Their defense industrial base gone,” he said during a rare press conference Tuesday. “More than 80% of their nuclear industrial base gone. Their military in ruin."

Iranian state TV says three tankers struck mines in contested strait

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday that three vessels struck naval mines and caught fire while using an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported.

It said one of the vessels was a supertanker and another was attempting to cross the strait under the protection of the U.S. military. The claims could not be independently verified.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which monitors maritime security incidents, said in a separate statement that a tanker was struck Tuesday by an unknown projectile northeast of Lima, Oman. It said the crew were safe.

And Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said Tuesday that one of its vessels was attacked in the United Arab Emirates’ territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The company did not identify the vessel or say who was behind the attack.

It was not immediately clear whether any of the reported incidents were related.

Iran denies role in France cyberattack

Iran on Tuesday denied it played a role in the cyberattack that raised the temperatures of refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets across France last month.

The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the French government’s accusations “baseless and self-serving" in a social media post.

“Unable to manage fridges let alone addressing grievances of its people, French government is shifting blame for its failures onto others,” Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, added in a separate post on X.

French authorities are seeking European Union sanctions against Iran after prosecutors on Monday determined the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was behind the Oct. 12 cyberattack, which affected about 700 of the country’s 10,000 supermarkets.

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This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.

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“As of Oct. 30, 904 cases (of dengue), of which 60% have been acquired in the state of Florida, and that’s quite unusual,” said Florida International University Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Aileen Marty. “So this is dramatically more than last year, although last year was a banner year as well.”

When it comes to dengue cases currently being tracked across the country, Florida is a national leader.

“We actually have had all four dengue virus types in Florida,” said Marty. “Just overwhelmingly type two and overwhelmingly this particular subtype that’s very dangerous.”

Marty went on to explain that the majority of cases are now being acquired in Florida, as opposed to international travel-associated cases.

“So in Florida, from this particular outbreak this year, one individual died in Hillsborough County, an elderly woman,” she said.

An increase in dengue cases acquired in Florida has been primarily driven by an outbreak in the Tampa area, with 407 cases out of Hillsborough County.

Cases in South Florida are comparatively lower, with Miami-Dade County at 12 cases and Broward County with just one reported case.

“It is good, and Broward, for example, is phenomenal,” said Marty. “We have drones that can deliver targeted bacillus thuringiensis to kill off larvae in people’s little lagoons or what have you, or plant areas, and also spray anti-mosquito products targeted to exactly the mosquitoes.”

Marty added that the rising global temperatures are raising the stakes.

“It has to do with the hotter temperatures, which facilitates the growth of mosquitoes, such that you get new generations of mosquitoes in much shorter periods of time and they’re thirstier, so they bite more,” she said. “Because when it’s hot, the mosquitoes, like all animals, get thirsty.”

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Other reasons for more cases: “It’s a reflection of where there were mosquitoes that were resistant to permethrin, which is a problem now in Florida, which is one of the anti-mosquito products that we use. So that’s a problem. It’s not a mosquito repellent you would put on your skin ever, but it is a very valuable, otherwise mosquito product that these mosquitoes are resistant to so some of the spraying doesn’t work.”

On Hillsborough spike: “Demand governmental action so that, for example, there’s something called bacillus thuringiensis, which is a bacterium. You can buy it on Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe’s, what have you. And these little, you buy them as little packets, you throw it in water that you can’t remove in your area, and it kills the larva of the mosquitoes in your area. That helps reduce the problem for you. And let me add that that is another reason that we saw so many in that particular region of Hillsborough County. And that is, it’s a poor area where people often don’t have the wherewithal themselves to spray their areas and may not have the time or ability to get rid of water sources where the mosquitoes are laying their eggs.”

How to prevent infection: Marty said it could take between three days and two weeks to see the symptoms. Things to do around your home include making sure there is no standing water. You can also place a drop of olive oil in plants where standing water can gather, like orchids, and she said not to drink beer outside as that can attract mosquitos.

Marty said there are some groups at higher risk to dengue, including those who are immune compromised, but also pregnant women. She said if you are pregnant and showing signs of dengue fever to see a doctor or go to hospital immediately.

Additional resources:

Broward County enlists drones to keep mosquitos at bay

CDC resources regarding dengue

Miami-Dade mosquito inspections and surveillance

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According to the Hialeah Police Department, Madelien Inurrieta-Martinez committed a series of abusive acts, including pulling one of her sons by the ear and biting one of her other son’s ears.

Inurrieta-Martinez, of Miami, was taken into custody on Thursday.

An HPD arrest report states that the incident happened at Fatty’s Market, located at 893 Palm Ave., on Wednesday.

According to the report, Inurrieta-Martinez entered the store with her children and then sat on “several boxes of beverages,” then grabbed her older son, 7, by the ears “and forcefully pulled them” and then grabbed him by the hair “and forcefully pulled it.”

The report states she then “disengaged” from abusing her older son and began attacking her younger son, 4. Police said she “grabbed (him) by the ears before biting (him) on the right ear.”

Authorities said Inurrieta-Martinez exited the business and then “began striking both (of her sons) in the face simultaneously.”

The entire attack was caught on video.

“Now we’re left with the feelings of what we just saw,” Lt. Eddie Rodriguez, an HPD spokesperson, said. “Having to watch that video ― that’s one of the most vicious videos that I’ve seen. That’s, in my opinion, a total betrayal of a mother’s love."

He added, “It’s definitely heartbreaking to hear the screams that that child felt. You could tell the pain that he was going through.”

Police said they found her the next day in the area of East First Avenue and 13th Street and took her into custody.

As of Monday morning, she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond. However, records show the Cuban national is also subject to an immigration hold.

Police said staff with the Florida Department of Children and Families took the boys. Police said they have different fathers, one of whom is out of the country. So the likelihood is that they may be split up.

Editor’s note: The original version of this article included incorrect incident dates. They have since been corrected.

Thune is expected to eventually win, given that he remains popular with his GOP colleagues and is so far running unopposed in the secret ballot election. But senators left the closed-door meeting after two hours of discussions Tuesday morning with no resolution on a way forward after an election wipeout that cost them at least seven Senate seats.

As they reconvened Tuesday afternoon, Republican senators were divided on whether a delay of anywhere from a week to a month would be productive. Votes were expected on whether to postpone.

“We want to be thoughtful and do the right thing,” said West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice as the meeting broke up. He said no obvious alternative had emerged, but “there is a legitimate argument that, good gracious, if we lost as badly as we lost, why would we continue on with the same leadership?"

At the same time, the current GOP leadership “didn't cause this problem to happen,” Justice said. “They do a good job."

The angst comes as frustrated Republicans are just beginning to reckon with what the election results mean for their future. Two additional Senate races remain uncalled in Alaska and Mississippi that could further deplete their numbers.

Several senators had already called on the Republican leadership to delay the elections, which include contests for other party leaders as well and are held in the small Old Senate Chamber.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said he isn't aware of anyone else running for leader, but “maybe there would be” if they waited.

“I just think that we’ve got a lot of things that we’ve got to think through, and I think that to just rush into this and just ratify all of the same leadership, what message does that send?" Hawley told reporters after walking out.

"If you don’t think after losing seven Senate seats minimum that we need to change course, I don’t know what planet you’re on,” he said.

Thune, who replaced Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as leader in early 2025, said before the meeting that they would have a “very fulsome, robust conversation about where we go from here and then we’ll see what the consensus of the conference is.”

No alternative to Thune has emerged

Thune has not yet made his case for leadership, senators emerging from the meeting said, and has instead been listening to his colleagues' concerns. Hawley said the discussion was a “frank” and “honest” open- microphone meeting and some senators discussed their own races this year — some who won, and some who lost.

Republicans in the meeting were also pushing Thune to stay in session around the clock in the coming weeks to push through war spending and other party priorities before they lose power.

“We need a plan to get the Republican agenda done,” said Florida Sen. Rick Scott.

Before the meeting, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson had circulated a letter asking for the delay. He said the conference needs to do some “real soul-searching” but conceded that there's no one else on the ballot.

“That's part of our problem, who would want the job?” he said, turning to a reporter and joking, “Do you want it?”

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Lankford said that there is “widespread support” among Republican senators for Thune, who has made it a point to hear out different viewpoints before he makes major decisions and has maintained close relationships with the rank and file — a different approach from his predecessor, McConnell.

Lankford said he supported having the elections on Tuesday because many of the new GOP senators are already in town for freshman orientation.

“It’s a pretty complicated role to be able to manage,” Lankford said of Thune's leadership post. “No one wants that job.”

Walking into the meeting, South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds said most senators are ready to move forward. It is time to have “leadership in place,” he said.

Thune has navigated Trump in his first two years as leader

Thune has spent much of the last two years navigating President Donald Trump, who has often been at odds with the Senate.

While backing up Trump on most policy, Thune has refused to change Senate rules and scrap the filibuster to pass voting legislation that would require proof of citizenship for all voters — a position that frustrated Trump and enraged some in the president's political base.

But Trump hosted Thune and his family at the White House in October. He said Monday that the GOP leader is “a very fine man.” The election is “up to the Senate,” Trump said.

The soul-searching comes as lawmakers are trying to wrap up the year’s work — funding the government and seeing if there are some issues where they can work together, including an energy permitting bill that moved forward on a bipartisan vote Monday evening.

When he gets the chance to speak at the meeting, Thune is expected to emphasize his collaborative approach to his colleagues and point out what they did get done in the last year — including the tax and spending cuts legislation and an attempt at reining in the chaotic annual spending process.

In a Senate floor speech Monday, his first extended remarks since the election, Thune said the midterm election was a “tough night” and previewed his pitch to his colleagues who may be looking for answers on how they will navigate the minority.

Republicans will be willing to work with Democrats, Thune said, but “the American people are not looking for socialist government and leftist fantasies.”

Despite gains, Democrats are having similar conversations

Across the aisle, Democrats who could hold as many as 56 seats next year are having private discussions about whether New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is still the right person to lead them.

Schumer has found critics on the left and the right of his caucus as candidates from both sides declined to say in the campaign whether they would support him as leader. Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin have both considered challenging Schumer, but neither has announced a run.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Schumer’s New York colleague and the head of the Democratic Senate campaign arm, predicted that he will win enough support. Schumer not only won the Senate back but he “cares deeply, and he understands politics well," she said.

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La espesa niebla en la autopista que conecta la capital, Sofía, con el puerto de Burgas, en el mar Negro, derivó en dos colisiones múltiples. Los accidentes obligaron a cerrar la vía en ambos sentidos, señaló la ministra de Salud, Katya Ivkova.

Ivkova indicó que 10 personas “murieron en el lugar” y otras dos fallecieron mientras eran trasladadas al hospital. También precisó que otras 46 personas fueron trasladadas a centros médicos para recibir tratamiento.

Unos 86 vehículos, muchos de ellos camiones pesados, estuvieron involucrados en los choques, que ocurrieron en calzadas opuestas en el mismo lugar a las 7 de la mañana.

El gobernador Mihail Kasherov dijo a los reporteros en el lugar del choque masivo que la escena desafiaba toda descripción y que nunca había visto algo así.

La policía inició una investigación, pero señaló que las evaluaciones iniciales apuntan a una “visibilidad reducida debido a una densa niebla que se formó rápidamente, la superficie de la carretera mojada y velocidades inadecuadas para las condiciones”.

La presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen, quien se encontraba en una visita de trabajo en Bulgaria el martes, tuvo que cambiar su agenda después de que su anfitrión, el primer ministro Rumen Radev, tuvo que ir al lugar del accidente.

La presidenta Iliana Yotova también acortó su participación en el Foro de Paz de París y regresará a Bulgaria, anunció su oficina de prensa.

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Jordan, who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, defeated Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana in a secret ballot election of Republicans who will serve in the next Congress. The vote was 106-73.

Jordan, 62, is a co-founder of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and served as its first chairman. His candidacy appealed to those looking for new leadership in the wake of last week’s election debacle and to those who like his hard-hitting political style. Jordan warned of the coming Democratic efforts on oversight, with numerous investigations of the Trump administration expected.

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House Republicans will move Tuesday to select their leader in the minority after a brutal drubbing at the polls, with the two candidates being House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio.

The lawmakers and those set to join the next Congress are gathering in the morning for a vote expected in the afternoon.

Scalise and Jordan have faced off before, both running to serve as House speaker after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the job a little more than three years ago. Neither was able to rally the support necessary to secure the position, which eventually went to Mike Johnson, who is stepping aside from the leadership in the new Congress.

Now Republicans are headed into the minority, changing the nature of the job. The winner of the leadership race will inherit a historically small House Republican conference that is only beginning to grapple with its loss of power as President Donald Trump serves out his final two years in office. Leading the party back to the House majority in 2028 is sure to be a stiff climb, given the scope of Democratic victories in the midterms.

Scalise, 61, has held key GOP leadership positions going back to 2014, serving as party whip and then as majority leader. In 2017, he was critically wounded when a gunman opened fire at a baseball practice where several Republican lawmakers and staffers were preparing for an annual charity baseball game against Democrats. In 2023, he was stricken with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that was successfully treated.

“Overcoming adversity is nothing new to me,” Scalise said in his pitch to colleagues.

Jordan, 62, is a co-founder of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and served as its first chairman. He has been the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for the last four years.

“Our job cannot be merely to spotlight how radical this new Democratic Party is — offense, not defense, wins elections,” Jordan said, a nod to his pugnacious reputation in committee hearings.

Trump hasn’t publicly weighed in on the race.

Scalise and Jordan are a familiar match-up

Both men have been here before. Scalise edged Jordan in head-to-head voting to become the Republican speaker nominee three years ago, but he ended up withdrawing from the race when he could not secure the near unanimity it required from Republicans to win a majority vote on the House floor.

At the time, some of the more conservative members declined to back Scalise following Trump's endorsement of Jordan. Trump was not president at the time, but his voice still carried the most weight for many.

Jordan then became the nominee, but others within the conference were adamant they would not reward the hardball tactics used to topple McCarthy and then Scalise, so he fell short in multiple rounds of votes. Eventually, Republicans turned to a new face who was not part of their internal skirmish — Johnson.

In a letter to colleagues, Scalise emphasized that he was ready to lead on Day One of the next Congress. He cited his work in helping deliver legislative wins, such as Trump's big tax and spending cut bill.

He also emphasized his fundraising prowess, noting he raised $67.9 million for this year's midterms, with about a third of that going directly to individual House campaigns and the National Republican Congressional Committee. He said his grassroots fundraising operation is the most prolific among House Republicans.

“In competitive districts, every dollar counts and those resources are critical to winning back the majority,” Scalise said.

Jordan warned of the coming Democratic efforts on oversight, with numerous investigations of the Trump administration expected.

“I am battle-tested on the oversight front and I know the Democrats' playbook,” Jordan said.

Republicans are weighing their choice

Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland said he would be supporting Jordan.

“I think you need to change the team and I think you need an excellent communicator, and he fits both those bills,” Harris said.

Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania said he believes Scalise is better suited for the job.

“I like people who do legislation and appropriations. I think that's important," Kelly said. “I know other people have maybe had more time on Fox, but I like guys that work more on facts.”

Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas called it a “really, really close race.”

“There’s a school of thought a lot of members have that a new broom sweeps clean after going through what we just went through last Tuesday,” Womack said. “There’s also a school of thought of people that believe Mr. Scalise, who has led us back before, can do it again.”

Johnson said he was close to both men and would not try to dictate the outcome.

“I want the body, I want the members to make those decisions themselves,” Johnson said. “I'm not weighing in here on the leadership elections.”

Other positions are also up for grabs

In addition to the race for minority leader, Reps. Tom Emmer of Minnesota and August Pfluger of Texas are vying to serve as Republican whip, the No. 2 position in the leadership hierarchy. Three candidates are seeking to serve as conference chair: Reps. Lisa McClain of Michigan, Erin Houchin of Indiana and Greg Steube of Florida.

The Republicans who will serve in the next Congress will hear from the candidates in the morning, followed in the afternoon by voting through secret ballot.

Democrats will hold their leadership elections next week.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York is expected to become the next House speaker, the first African-American to hold the job, and Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts is expected to become the next majority leader. She would be the first woman to hold that position.

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Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co. reported a profit of 516.76 billion yen ($3.3 billion) for the six months through September, up from 311.83 billion yen a year earlier. First half sales rose 13% to 12 trillion yen from 10.6 trillion yen.

The robust results came despite costs in its electric vehicle program, where it dropped some models. Honda said EV-related losses erased 484.8 billion yen from its operating profits.

But officials stressed that Honda expects battery EVs might eventually become more popular and it will remain flexible enough to switch to EV production in the future.

Honda raised its full-year operating profit forecast to 780 billion yen from 650 billion yen.

Honda attributed the more optimistic forecast to favorable exchange rates and efforts to reduce the impact of U.S. tariffs, including shifting production to the United States.

The maker of the Super Cub motorcycle and Accord sedan also announced major production investments in North America and Brazil.

Honda plans to build a new auto production plant in Ohio, increasing production capacity in North America to 1.91 million vehicles by 2029 from 1.67 million. The company expects U.S. demand to grow, especially for its hybrid models.

Honda also plans to expand production of its motorcycle business at its Manaus factory in Brazil, increasing capacity to 2.3 million motorcycles by 2029 from the current 1.6 million.

Honda marked a record for fiscal first half sales in its motorcycle division, as its models proved popular in Brazil and India. It sold 11.9 million motorcycles during the six months, up from nearly 10.8 million the previous year.

However, Honda sold 1.57 million automobiles globally in the first half of the year, down from 1.68 million.

Honda shares, which have risen over the past year, had slipped 1.6% in Tokyo trading on Tuesday before the financial results were released.

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The move was part of a comprehensive push by Prime Minister Péter Magyar's new government to unearth suspected corruption and abuses of office committed by Orbán's far-right administration and associated business circles during his 16 years in power.

Magyar, whose center-right Tisza party defeated Orbán in a landslide election in April, has called the effort “Operation Cleansing Fire.” Several Orbán-era officials, including the former governor of the Central Bank, are already in police detention on suspicion of fraud and corruption crimes.

Hungarian police said in a statement Monday that they made arrests and carried out house searches in four separate locations in and around the capital, Budapest, and had employed the assistance of Hungary's Counter-Terrorism Center since the presence of firearms was expected at two of the scenes.

The arrest of four individuals was part of a joint investigation by the National Bureau of Investigation and the newly formed National Asset Recovery and Protection Office. The investigation centers on the alleged use of political connections to arrange expedited work permits for foreign nationals in exchange for lucrative payments.

Police said the four individuals, who are all suspected of “human trafficking committed in a criminal conspiracy for financial gain,” had facilitated Hungarian residence permits for more than 100 Vietnamese nationals in 2024, most of whom had aimed to leave Hungary for countries in Western Europe.

One of the suspects is alleged to have engaged in influence peddling in the acquisition of the residence permits.

Police did not release the names of the suspects, and declined to provide further details on their identities in response to a request by The Associated Press. But Orbán, who remains the president of his anti-immigration Fidesz party, said that police actions against his brother, Áron Orbán, were politically motivated.

“I am the target; my younger brother is just a means to an end,” he wrote Monday on Facebook. “What is happening in Hungary is not accountability but a settling of scores. ... In this dirty game, the aim is to eliminate political opponents and establish a one-party system.”

Photographs published by Hungarian news outlet HVG Monday evening showed the younger Orbán arriving in a police vehicle at a pretrial detention facility in Budapest.

Áron Orbán's detention was the latest of several high-profile police actions against former officials or other individuals with close ties to the former prime minister.

In October, police detained the former governor of the Hungarian Central Bank, György Matolcsy, for suspected fraud and other crimes. Matolcsy was one of Orbán's closest economic allies, and is suspected of misusing funds through a foundation set up in 2014 that was endowed with some $818 million in public assets.

Matolcsy has denied wrongdoing and is still in custody, while an international arrest warrant for his son, Ádám, is still active.

In September, police took into custody two former ministers in Orbán’s government. One is suspected of criminal mismanagement of 17.3 billion forints ($53.6 million) of public funds and the other of accepting more than 12 billion forints ($37.2 million) in bribes and kickbacks. They remain in police custody.

On Monday, Orbán’s Fidesz party added Áron Orbán to a list of “political prisoners” on its website.

The Military Air Tracking Alliance, a team of about 30 open-source analysts that routinely analyzes military and government flight activity, said that it spotted 13 U.S. aircraft stationed at RAF Mildenhall departing for bases in Scotland, Spain and Germany.

The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the evacuation, said that the threat related to Iran. The report cited "people familiar with the matter."

The relocation of the aircraft came less than two months after the U.S. Air Force withdrew its bombers from another U.S.-run base in Britain, RAF Fairford, as police investigated a suspected terror plot linked to Iran. Bombers flying out of RAF Fairford had been used to strike Iran during the Middle East conflict.

Some of the aircraft that were relocated were permanently based at RAF Mildenhall, while others were there on rotation and included a combination of Osprey aircraft and midair refueling tankers, the Military Air Tracking Alliance said.

The base also raised its alert level to FPCON Charlie — the second highest level — the organization said. That applies when an incident occurs or intelligence is received indicating that some form of terrorist action targeting personnel or facilities is likely.

The decision to move the aircraft was proactive rather than reactive, a U.S. official said, adding that the U.S. military is agile to potential threats. Some of the planes that left were in transit while others were permanently stationed at RAF Mildenhall and they may return, the official said. The official didn't elaborate on the nature and source of the threat.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States is “constantly repositioning forces around the world for a variety of reasons,” and referred questions to the Pentagon, which didn't provide immediate confirmation.

An official from the U.S. Air Force in Europe told the AP that the U.S. is “taking coordinated and appropriate actions" to ensure the safety and security of U.S. and U.K. personnel and their families. The official said that aircraft are rotated between bases for various reasons, including training and “real world requirements.”

The official said that the U.S. military constantly assesses a variety of factors that determine what security measures are implemented. The official wouldn't provide further information on movement of assets or specific force protection for reasons of operational security.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about sensitive military matters.

The U.K. prime minister's office said that British air bases are safe and their security is a top priority. The office said that the U.K. is in constant communication with the U.S., sharing intelligence and assessing threats together.

RAF Mildenhall, a U.K. base operated by the U.S. Air Force, hosts the 100th refueling wing, the only permanent refueling wing in the European region. It operates the KC-135 Stratotanker, a four-engine jet aircraft with a wingspan of 131 feet (40 meters) that can carry up to 83,000 pounds (nearly 38,000 kilograms) of cargo.

Five men were detained on Sept. 27 after three suspicious vans were spotted traveling toward RAF Fairford. The U.K.-owned base has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East, including the Iran war.

Other arrests followed and two men have been charged under the National Security Act.

The U.K. Defense Ministry said in a statement that it doesn’t comment on the activity of other nations and said aircraft and other assets move regularly according to operational requirements.

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Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. racked up a 1.1 trillion yen ($7 billion) loss for the three months through September, a reversal from the 2.5 trillion yen in profit the same period a year earlier. Quarterly sales rose 16% to 2.2 trillion yen from 1.9 trillion yen.

Analysts say the financial results for a company like SoftBank Group are difficult to predict as it invests in a variety of other companies, including OpenAI and Arm Holdings, whose fortunes tend to be volatile.

Founded by Masayoshi Son, SoftBank was an early investor in internet technology, and has focused on companies related to AI, telecommunications, robotics and e-commerce. It runs a series of investment funds called Vision Fund that center around a portfolio of various technology companies, including startups.

Son, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, boasts a wide circle of friends among American entrepreneurs including Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. That is relatively unusual for a businessperson in Japan.

Son also has a highly public friendship with Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang. Son had sold his shares in Nvidia before the revelations of Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese government agent, which Nvidia officials and other authorities said was being investigated.

“I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he’ll be in good shape,” U.S. President Donald Trump said at a White House briefing on Monday.

The disclosure has renewed concerns about whether China has been able to access Nvidia AI chips.

SoftBank Group stocks, which have lost about a third of their value over the last year, closed nearly 14% higher in Tokyo trading Tuesday, before the earnings results were released.

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Several significant players have already changed uniforms. More moves are expected before the NFL’s trade deadline Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET.

Everyone is watching the Minnesota Vikings (6-2) and wondering what they’ll do after Carson Wentz’s dismal performance against Buffalo on Monday night. The Vikings have to be calling teams looking for an upgrade at quarterback. Kyler Murray is dealing with a hamstring issue and the offense has been mediocre with him. Wentz played well in Week 1 filling in for Murray and won his next start but he got pulled for Max Brosmer in a 23-6 loss to the Bills.

Would Las Vegas consider sending Kirk Cousins back to Minnesota? The Raiders (4-5) aren’t going anywhere and have Fernando Mendoza waiting but it takes two teams to make a trade.

Mac Jones is too valuable as a backup to Brock Purdy so it’s unlikely the San Francisco 49ers (7-1) would move him.

Daniel Jones finished the 2024 season in Minnesota so he’s familiar with Kevin O’Connell’s offense. The Indianapolis Colts already sent guard Quenton Nelson to Seattle and defensive tackle DeForest Buckner to San Francisco in separate trades on Oct. 27. Running back Jonathan Taylor, wide receiver Josh Downs and Jones could be next to go.

Jacoby Brissett was traded from Arizona to Baltimore last week after Lamar Jackson went down with a thumb injury and backup Tyler Huntley sustained a season-ending toe injury.

Jacksonville went all in on Monday, acquiring defensive tackles Jordan Davis and Davon Godchaux and safety Jessie Bates III. The Jaguars (6-2) sent a 2027 first-round draft pick and a 2029 second-rounder to Philadelphia for Davis. They gave up a 2027 second-round pick and a 2028 fifth-rounder to get Bates from Atlanta, and a 2028 sixth-rounder that could be elevated to a 2027 sixth-rounder went to New Orleans for Godchaux.

That’s a lot of draft capital but the Jaguars lead the AFC South and are aiming for the No. 1 seed.

Detroit strengthened a depleted secondary on Monday, adding safety Andre Cisco from the Jets for a 2028 sixth-rounder.

Chicago gave up a slew of picks to get Simmons from Tennessee two weeks ago. The Titans got 2027 and 2028 first-round picks in addition to a 2027 fourth-round selection, while Chicago got a 2028 fifth-round pick in the deal. Simmons, an All-Pro defensive tackle, has been dominant in his first two games with his new team.

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The model for the term sheet released Tuesday by Athletes.org does not carry the weight of a signed agreement but is unusual in that it comes with the support of school leadership. It outlines guidelines for paying players, the transfer portal, academics and ways to enforce rules in an industry that pays millions to athletes under the guise that the money is for things other than playing sports.

“We know what we want and how we want to move forward,” said DeWayne Brown II, a freshman for the 11th-ranked Volunteers and one of three team organizers. “Working through the collective bargaining process has been great and I hope it’s just a steppingstone for more college athletes to replicate our process with their own schools.”

A CBA that would offer some union-like protections is one of the most divisive issues in college sports, which has never had a union for athletes. A bid to unionize the Northwestern football team failed because opponents in the Big Ten Conference include public schools that aren’t under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. Similar efforts at Dartmouth and Southern California have gone nowhere.

But the landscape has dramatically changed in favor of the athletes, who have won multiple court fights to be able to transfer without penalty and are seeing millions come their way via revenue sharing and name, image and likeness deals.

Supporters of the CBA idea, including Tennessee athletic director Danny White, believe it's the most direct way to save an industry under increasing financial pressure in a world of $50 million football rosters. Opponents view it as a possibly illegal cash grab that could bankrupt the athletic departments that fund all their sports teams with revenue generated by football and basketball.

Among the key differences between the Tennessee model and the rules governing college sports are that it would replace frameworks that vary from school to school with a universal agreement on total player compensation. It would do away with the idea that players are being paid for promoting or sponsoring some product, as opposed to simply being paid to play, which is forbidden under NCAA rules.

In fact, under this model, NIL deals would no longer be used as recruiting inducements and the deals themselves would ultimately be replaced by a salary structure, including spending caps and floors for schools, that would more resemble what exists in professional leagues.

Pay to play is no longer something to avoid

The current maximum a school can share with players is $21.5 million per year, though most major programs blow past that cap via third-party NIL deals, many of which are brokered by third parties associated with the schools.

White said it is “intellectually dishonest" to believe most players earn the bulk of their money for use of their actual name, image and likeness.

“We're paying them to play sports," said White, a former Notre Dame basketball player and longtime college administrator. "We're doing that because we lost several court cases that said we're violating antitrust law by not doing so. We need to accept our legal reality. By not accepting it, we've created this system that's the most inefficient way I can think of for building rosters and organizing this thing.”

Athletes.org approached the Tennessee players in June, knowing they played at a school where leadership generally agreed with the notion that a CBA would eventually need to replace the current structure.

The group negotiated directly with leadership at Tennessee, then the player reps — Tyler Lundblade, Campbell Duncan and Brown — brought the agreement to their teammates. The deal was agreed to on Oct. 1.

“It does away with the idea that athletes are too tired, or don’t care, or aren’t mature enough to do this," Athletes.org executive director Brandon Copeland said in addressing another longstanding argument by opponents. "They did it. And they worked extremely hard to not only look into the perspective of what’s best for them, but what’s best for the industry.”

College sports is looking to DC and elsewhere for solutions

To garner support from Democrats, the issue of a CBA or players becoming employees was largely left unaddressed in the Protect College Sports Act, the bill that passed the Senate last month and is awaiting action in the House.

Were some concept like a CBA to overcome opposition from athletic conferences and the NCAA, some skeptics suggest it could still take years to come together.

Randy Levine, the president of the New York Yankees who played a role in crafting the legislation, said recently that “people who continue to go down that path, need to be honest and basically say that in order to do that, you have to change not only the National Labor Relations Act” but a host of state laws.

This deal proposes a centralized employer model, the likes of which has been used by Major League Soccer to give athletes an entity not affiliated with the state through which to bargain. Copeland says such an arrangement would not require new laws or for Congress to get involved. White compared it to college students working on campus at, say, a unionized food-service company that has headquarters in a different state.

“There are examples of students all over higher ed in this country that also have jobs,” he said. “Those who say it's impossible are looking at it through the lens of the athletes being employees of the universities. But that's not what I've been suggesting for four years now. I think a central employment entity is critical to the model.”

CBA and union models starting to crop up

Around this time last year, Athletes.org launched its first model CBA that contained many elements in the framework it rolled out with the Tennessee players.

The group considers getting actual teams to sign on with the blessing of their school a next step at an important time — with Congress looking at passing a law and the conferences looking at alternatives if there's no action in Washington.

“It hopefully proves to the industry that this can happen in college sports,” Copeland said.

The move comes a little more than three months after another players group, the College Football Players Association, announced Stanford had become the first team to organize a player-led chapter.

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No. 1 South Carolina will face third-ranked USC on Sunday for the third time in the past 12 months. The Gamecocks won the first two meetings, including an NCAA Tournament second-round victory last season. The Trojans will have JuJu Watkins back in the lineup this time as the sensational wing missed both of last season's game while she was still rehabbing an ACL injury she suffered 20 months ago.

The Gamecocks have looked dominant so far in their first two games, beating ranked opponents Maryland and North Carolina. The victory over the Tar Heels was by 45 points — the team's largest over a Top 25 team, according to ESPN.

Watkins has looked strong in her return. She averaged 26.5 points, 10.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 3.5 steals in easy wins over UNLV and Utah State.

South Carolina had its own return with Chloe Kitts, who missed last season with an ACL injury also. She had 17 points and 10 rebounds in the victory over the Tar Heels. It was Kitts' first double-double since she had 15 points and 11 rebounds against Maryland in the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

Both the Gamecocks and Trojans play before Sunday's showdown.

That same day No. 8 Vanderbilt and Mikayla Blakes will visit 10th-ranked Iowa. The Hawkeyes are coming off a loss at UConn. Sunday's game will be an opportunity for Vanderbilt to go on the road and play in a loud road environment before the tough SEC schedule that awaits them in the new year.

The Commodores are 3-0 and have scored more than 100 points in each of their first three contests, albeit this will be a giant step up in competition.

Also on Sunday, No. 4 UConn plays at seventh-ranked Louisville. The Cardinals have looked dominant in the three victories so far while the Huskies suffered a rare November loss, falling at Michigan.

Ivy League contenders

It's a busy week for some of the top teams in the Ivy League as Columbia, Princeton and Penn all play ranked teams. The Lions will host No. 2 Michigan on Thursday night — the highest ranked opponent ever to visit Columbia before visiting No. 19 Maryland on Sunday. Princeton has a busy week with a home game against Villanova on Tuesday before a west coast trip to face Pepperdine and No. 10 UCLA. Penn will host No. 23 North Carolina on Saturday.

Honoring Summitt

The U.S. Postal Service announced Monday that former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt will be honored with a stamp in 2027 along with baseball great Willie Mays.

Summitt's stamp features a portrait of the Hall of Fame coach, who died at age 64 in 2016. She led the Lady Vols to eight NCAA championships and 1,098 victories in her career, which was cut short after she was diagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type before the 2011-12 season. She retired after that season at age 59 and started the Pat Summitt Foundation.

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“I raised it. I didn’t get a response,” Rubio said when asked how other G7 foreign ministers reacted to his appeal.

Rubio said the United States will continue to defend shipping through the strategic waterway, where vessels continue to face drone attacks.

"We've actually encouraged our partners to join us in the effort of defending global shipping,” he said after two days of talks in Paris on the Middle East, Ukraine and other issues.

U.S. allies including France have said fighting would have to stop before they could provide minesweepers and other assistance to safeguard tankers and other ships passing through the strait.

Rubio described the situation as “kind of a Catch-22.”

“Part of the challenge we have is there’s countries out there that say, ‘Well, we’re ready to provide forces to help defend shipping once there’s no risk of conflict,'” he said.

“We think it's in the interest of the world to protect shipping because the U.S. doesn’t get any oil from there,” he added. “These countries should step up. I think a couple are thinking about it," he said.

As three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States were taking place in the United Arab Emirates, top G7 diplomats met with Ukraine’s foreign minister in France.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha started his day in Paris in talks with Rubio before heading to the French foreign ministry for a larger group meeting with the entire G7. Neither man spoke as they posed for photos ahead of their discussion.

The U.S. State Department said afterwards in a brief statement that the pair had “discussed negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war, energy resilience, and defense cooperation.”

The larger meeting was to address defense and security assistance to Ukraine, which the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has reduced, causing consternation not only in Kyiv but in capitals across Europe, the largest of which — Paris, Berlin, Rome and London — are G7 members.

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The procedural vote will either block the impeachment resolution or set up a final vote Wednesday. With Democratic leadership backing the effort brought by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, the outcome will likely hinge on whether Republican lawmakers break ranks after their sweeping losses in the midterm elections.

Hegseth dug in for a congressional fight in his first news conference in months on Tuesday, portraying Massie as a rogue lawmaker and arguing that he had committed none of the high crimes required in the Constitution for his removal. He framed the effort as an indictment against the nation’s service members and their successes while undermining American forces “in real time.”

“This is not patriotism,” Hegseth said. “This is sabotage.”

Massie's resolution includes eight counts of impeachment. It largely focuses on the war in Iran but also includes references to Hegseth's role in carrying out military actions in Yemen and Venezuela.

Massie, a Kentucky Republican leaving Congress in January after losing his primary to a Trump-backed opponent, says Hegseth has “knowingly executed and implemented unlawful orders."

Hegseth holds rare press conference

Tuesday morning, Hegseth gave a defiant and politicized defense of his stewardship of the U.S. military in his first news conference at the Pentagon in six months. He chose to hit back at the rising bipartisan anger over battlefield strategy while offering few details about intermittent operations against Iran or fatal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in Latin America.

President Donald Trump praised Hegseth’s performance at the briefing in a social media post, while Vice President JD Vance said in his own post that the impeachment effort is “a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking.”

Hegseth said the impeachment resolution “tells our enemies — Iran, the cartels, every adversary watching — the United States will actually punish its own warriors and its own civilian leadership for successfully executing lawful military operations.”

An impeachment vote is looming in the House

Massie filed the resolution in the House on Monday, giving Republican leaders two days to bring it to a vote. Tuesday's vote is a procedural attempt to stop the impeachment push outright by sending the matter back to committee.

If the impeachment resolution advances, it would set the stage for a dramatic vote Wednesday on whether to impeach a key Trump Cabinet member following sweeping losses for Republicans in last week's midterm elections, which many at least partly blamed on the Iran conflict and its economic impact. If the resolution were to pass the House, it would ultimately be sent to the Senate, where a two-thirds vote would be needed for Hegseth's removal.

“The law requires our military to withdraw from hostilities within 60 days if Congress does not authorize the activity,” Massie wrote on social media Tuesday. The Iran war "has been underway for 256 days. Congress has not authorized it. Hegseth is breaking the law."

What constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors” is not spelled out in the Constitution, leaving it to lawmakers to decide what are impeachable acts.

Hegseth said Massie’s concerns are not impeachable, calling them “policy disagreements, not high crimes, not misdemeanors, not treason, not bribery, not the kinds of offenses the founders intended when they wrote the impeachment clause.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson called it a “political gambit for attention” and predicted that Republicans would defeat it “one way or the other.”

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is on the cusp of becoming the nation’s first Black House speaker, said Monday that he is a “hard yes” on the resolution. He called Hegseth the “architect” of the war in Iran.

In the Senate, meanwhile, next steps were uncertain if the impeachment resolution cleared the House.

Outgoing GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa said Tuesday that she wants to ensure “that the right information is flowing from the Pentagon to the president.”

“Is he being truthful in the way the war is going?” Ernst said of Hegseth.

This isn't the first impeachment attempt in recent years

Hegseth cast Massie's resolution in historic terms, arguing that no defense secretary has been impeached in the nation's 250-year history “for carrying out lawful military operations.”

But more recently, a Cabinet official in President Joe Biden's administration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, was impeached by House Republicans over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. But the Senate dismissed all impeachment charges, shutting down his trial before arguments even began.

Mayorkas, who did not appear to testify before the impeachment proceedings, put the border crisis squarely on Congress for failing to update immigration laws during a time of global migration. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had said then, in April 2024, that House Republicans’ charges failed to meet “the high standard of high crimes and misdemeanors” and could set a dangerous precedent.

Republican Rep. Nick LaLota, who voted to impeach Mayorkas, said he didn't believe Hegseth had committed any impeachable offense.

“Impeachment has been watered down,” LaLota said.

Before Mayorkas, no sitting Cabinet secretary had ever been impeached. It was nearly 150 years ago that the House voted to impeach President Ulysses S. Grant’s war secretary, William Belknap, over a kickback scheme in government contracts. He resigned before the vote.

Trump offers support for Hegseth

Trump has backed Hegseth in the wake of Massie's impeachment resolution, pointing to the U.S. military raid to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January as well as operations against Iran that he asserts have “obliterated” its navy and air force.

“Pete Hegseth gets an “A” PLUS, PLUS, PLUS for his defense against a disgruntled, angry, defeated, former Congressman, Thomas Massie, a TOTAL LOSER!” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

Iran, however, has been able to keep striking U.S. military bases in the Middle East and has disrupted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz during the more than 8-month-old conflict, driving up global oil prices.

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But the seven-term congressman wasn't able to save his own seat this year. Republicans floundered in the state after party organizations pulled support from Michael Whatley, their U.S. Senate candidate, as he failed to gain traction against Democratic nominee Roy Cooper.

Hudson lost North Carolina's 9th district to Richard Ojeda, a former Army major who became a liberal social media phenomenon during President Donald Trump's first term. He ran multiple races in West Virginia then moved back to North Carolina, where he had served at Fort Bragg, and successfully ran against Hudson.

“Our victory is not just impressive because of how many seats we gained — although we did gain a lot — what was incredible last night was how far we reached into deep red territory," said Rep. Suzan DelBene, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Ojeda arrived on Capitol Hill this week, one of several new members who pulled off upset victories this year. Here's a look at some of them.

Colorado 5th district

This district is home to NORAD, Fort Carson and the Air Force Academy, as well as the evangelical group Focus on the Family.

Although Colorado Springs has been a conservative stronghold for years, the city has been slowly turning more moderate as young families move in. Its veteran population has also been unsettled by Trump’s approach to the military and the Iran war.

Jessica Killin, a Democrat and former Army captain, capitalized on this to run as a moderate against Rep. Jeff Crank, who had previously run the Colorado chapter of the conservative group Americans For Prosperity. She hammered him for falling in line behind Trump once he got into the House.

Nevada 2nd district

Former state lawmaker Teresa Benitez-Thompson made history as the first Democrat to win Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District after her Republican opponent David Flippo’s campaign was muddied by accusations of exaggerating his military record and failing to release his required financial disclosures on time.

Benitez-Thompson campaigned as a moderate with longtime northern Nevada roots, contrasting herself with Flippo, who aligned himself closely to Trump and moved from southern Nevada to join the race after longtime Republican Rep. Mark Amodei announced his retirement. Amodei refused to endorse Flippo, calling him a fraud.

For the first time ever, all of Nevada's congressional seats will be held by Democrats.

Wisconsin 1st district

Republican Rep. Bryan Steil won all four of his previous elections in this southeast Wisconsin district by at least 9 points. Before him, former House Speaker Paul Ryan held the seat for two decades, and no Democrat had won since 1993.

All of those factors made it improbable that Democratic newcomer Mitchell Berman, running his first campaign for any office, would come out on top this year. But Berman, an emergency room nurse, tapped into voter anger and leveraged his middle-class background to beat Steil by nearly 4 points.

The outcome will ripple through Wisconsin politics because Steil was widely considered as a likely candidate for U.S. Senate down the road.

Texas 23rd district

The race opened up when Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales announced he wouldn't run for reelection after admitting to an affair with a former staff member who later died by suicide. Primary voters chose Brandon Herrera, a gun enthusiast YouTuber with some 4 million subscribers and a history of caustic commentary, to run in his place.

Democrats put up Katy Padilla Stout, a lawyer and former teacher, but she was believed to have little chance. The district hadn't elected a Democrat since 2012. She ended up winning by 8 points.

Texas 9th district

This district used to be considered so blue that Republicans didn’t even put up a candidate to run there in 2024. But a year later at Trump's urging, the state legislature redrew the congressional map, making it far more conservative. Democrats and their donors figured the seat was a lost cause as Democrat Leticia Gutierrez, who had previously worked in Houston city government, went up against Republican Alex Mealer, a well-financed military veteran who was active in conservative politics.

“Everyone felt it was a done deal that this was written for Republicans,” said Gutierrez in an interview with The Associated Press. “They just weren’t going to invest their time, money, and resources into someone that had never run a congressional campaign.”

Then Gutierrez beat Mealer by a little over 15 points.

Indiana 5th district

Rep. Victoria Spartz has been a wildcard in the Republican caucus, often withholding her support for legislation until the last minutes as she seeks concessions from party leadership.

But the Ukrainian-born lawmaker seemed to be a safe reelection prospect in conservative Indiana, particularly in her affluent suburban and rural district north of Indianapolis. The seat only became more red in 2021, when the state legislature removed portions of more Democratic-leaning areas of Marion County and added conservative rural tracts. Two years ago, Trump won by 17 percentage points, and Spartz won by even more.

But this year J.D. Ford, a Democratic state senator, beat Spartz by 3.4 percentage points.

New Jersey 2nd district

There's not many red seats left in the Northeast, but one of them has been in the southeastern corner of New Jersey. The district stretches from shore resorts to the pine barrens, and it's been represented by Rep. Jeff Van Drew. He was first elected to Congress as a conservative Democrat in 2018 only to switch parties in 2020 after Trump's first impeachment.

Van Drew kept winning reelection until this week, when he lost to Zack Mullock, the Democratic mayor of Cape May. Mullock focused on Van Drew’s support for the president, attacking him in a debate over the Iran war and tariffs. Van Drew argued that his connections with Trump would benefit the district.

Iowa 2nd district

When Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson decided to run for U.S. Senate, that left an open race for her House seat in the northeastern corner of Iowa. The Republican candidate was Joe Mitchell, a former state lawmaker, and Trump visited Dubuque just two days before the election to try to boost turnout.

Mitchell lost to Lindsay James, a Democratic state lawmaker and a minister.

“I am going to stay laser-focused on lowering costs for hard-working families here in my district because that’s what they have asked me to do,” James said in an interview.

Her victory was boosted by two other candidates on the ballot — one libertarian and one unaffiliated — who received more votes than James' margin over Mitchell.

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Associated Press writers Hannah Fingerhut, Mike Catalini, Thomas Beaumont, Jesse Bedayn, Scott Bauer and Jessica Hill contributed to this report.

Hopes of ending Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II are tempered, however, by the absence of any significant breakthroughs in three previous rounds of talks earlier this year.

There's nothing to suggest a new posture that would lead to a breakthrough, but circumstances surrounding the talks have been changed by the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections as well as increased pressure on Russia’s wartime economy. Moscow also is seeking to break Ukrainians’ will as another winter sets in by ramping up its battering of the country’s power grid.

Neither Rubio nor Zelenskyy attended the talks in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The session lasted four hours and another is scheduled for a second day Wednesday.

Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv met as Washington, represented by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff, renewed its push to stop the fighting.

“It looks like the talks in Abu Dhabi were very productive,” Rubio said in Paris at the Group of Seven meeting, although he urged patience. “There’s a lot of work to be done in that regard. It’s not like something that’s on the verge of being solved in the next 24 hours or anything like that.”

Zelenskyy said the talks were largely about humanitarian issues, including prisoner exchanges and returning Ukrainian civilians in captivity, as well as children taken from the country. Security guarantees also were discussed, he added during an appearance at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

A senior Ukrainian official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly said Ukraine and Russia talked about a large scale prisoner swap, although the details will be discussed in the coming days.

The 3-way meeting was the first since February

The two-day session is the first such meeting since February on Russia's full-scale invasion, which analysts and humanitarian organizations say has killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and thousands of civilians.

Kushner said he believed there were “some good ideas how to bridge” the differences between the two sides.

Trump, whose stance on the war has varied, must reckon with Democrats taking over the U.S. Congress in January following the U.S. elections. Democrats could demand more support for Ukraine.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told ZDF television Monday night that “I don’t have overly high expectations” for the talks.

There are no signs the fighting is abating, and the talks come against a backdrop of new long-range strikes by both Russia and Ukraine. The two armies are largely deadlocked on the front line.

Russia launched 162 drones of various types and a ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s air force said.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces downed 155 Ukrainian drones overnight in eight Russian regions, as well as over the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Kushner says the U.S. aims to build on past experience

Kushner said in opening remarks that the goal of the talks is to “create a new framework and a new understanding building upon the different institutions and understandings of the past.”

“We take what’s worked, we try to identify what’s failed, why we’re in this position and hopefully create a new framework that leads us for decades, if not centuries, of peace,” he said.

NATO commander U.S. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, who was also present, said the U.S. delegation looked forward “to working with both sides as we seek to advance the progress we’ve made in the past and continue this pursuit to set the foundations for a lasting peace.”

Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service who leads Kyiv’s delegation, thanked the U.S. for its peace efforts.

“Our people are waiting to end this war. And we hope that we will achieve the lasting peace for Ukraine,” he said.

Ukrainians meet first with European and NATO officials

The head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, expressed hope the meeting “will allow us to advance on the path towards peace in the interests of the people of Russia and the people of Ukraine.”

Umerov said the day began with a meeting between the Ukrainian team, the U.S. envoys and representatives from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, NATO and the European Commission.

Russia has objected to the Europeans’ involvement in the three-way talks, but said EU representatives could join at a later stage.

Russia and Ukraine hold to their demands

The Russian and Ukrainian governments remain far apart on key elements of any prospective deal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to pull its troops back from four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed in September 2022 but has never fully captured. He also demands that Ukraine abandon its bid to join NATO and accept strict limits on its military, among other issues.

Putin wants a comprehensive peace deal on those conditions and won’t agree to a general halt in hostilities, arguing that it would only allow Ukrainian troops to rest and replenish their weapons stockpiles.

Zelenskyy rejects Putin’s demands to voluntarily cede territory. He also rejects any limits on Ukraine's military or its arrangements with Western partners, which Kyiv sees as essential security guarantees to stop Moscow from invading again.

Ukraine argues an immediate ceasefire is the necessary first step toward negotiating a wider settlement and says a direct meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy is the only way territorial issues can be settled. Putin has spurned those suggestions.

Moscow and Kyiv sent experienced negotiators

The Russian and Ukrainian delegations include senior officials who have attended previous rounds of talks.

Russia’s chief negotiator is Medinsky, a Putin aide who has led Moscow’s team since the first full-fledged peace negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul in March 2022, although exploratory talks took place earlier in neighboring Belarus. The Russian delegation also includes deputy foreign ministers Sergei Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin and military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov.

Ukraine's delegation includes Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov.

The US says a broader European security deal is in the works

Last week, Trump declared that some kind of grand deal about European security was in the works, describing it as “a big agreement” that is “going to involve more than Ukraine.”

Kushner said Monday on X that a “comprehensive and lasting settlement will also require direct engagement between Russia and our European partners on the broader security arrangements that affect them.”

Moscow has welcomed that approach. “The idea of ​​defining clear parameters for a future security architecture, and only then moving on to resolving the actual Russian-Ukrainian conflict, is quite sensible,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

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John Leicester in Paris, Geir Moulson in Berlin, Susie Blann in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal, contributed.

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This week is one of them.

The second-ranked Blue Devils meet the fifth-ranked Spartans while No. 15 Kansas plays No. 24 Kentucky on Tuesday night in the Champions Classic, this year hosted by the United Center in Chicago. For many years, the annual doubleheader represented the first big step up in competition for the quartet of bluebloods after easy exhibition games and lopsided regular-season openers.

That would have been the case this year, too, without those exhibitions.

Duke beat Army and Coastal Carolina last week; Michigan State blew out Quinnipiac and Toledo; Kansas handled Fordham and Middle Tennessee; and Kentucky took care of Manhattan and James Madison. The only game that was even close was the last of them, and the Wildcats pulled away from the Dukes in the closing minutes for a reasonably comfortable victory.

Compare that to the exhibitions they played: Kentucky faced No. 16 Texas Tech, Michigan State played UConn and Marquette, the Jayhawks played Louisville, Duke played Tennessee, and Kansas and the Blue Devils faced each other at Allen Fieldhouse.

“It’s part of the reason we played the exhibition schedule we did,” Duke coach Jon Scheyer acknowledged. “We wanted to be tested in different ways. There’s no question Michigan State is going to test us in ways we haven’t seen yet. We know it’s going to be a tough game but it’s also what we signed up for. We want to be in moments like this and games like this."

Scheyer just doesn't necessarily want that big moment to come without a little bit of work against similar competition.

Not to say that the slate of exhibition games is real competition. By design, they offered teams an opportunity to experiment with lineups and playing styles without any danger of a loss hurting their resumes. But after the Blue Devils beat the Jayhawks a couple of weeks ago, Scheyer admitted that the game felt nothing like a meaningless exhibition.

Now is when that pays off.

“I feel like this is a statement game for us just to show where we're at currently in the season,” the Wildcats' Zoom Diallo said. “Kansas is a premier college basketball team, and so are we. We're going into an atmosphere where we're ready to fight.”

Duke and Kansas are both 9-6 in the Champions Classic, which matches those same four teams in various combinations and different cities during the first couple of weeks each season. Kentucky and Michigan State are each 6-9 in the series.

“We're going to play a good team,” Jayhawks coach Bill Self said of their matchup with the Wildcats. “Two winningest programs of all time hooking up and playing at a neutral-site venue that'll, I'm sure, be turned up. It should be a lot of fun.”

Tuesday is for basketball

The Champions Classic isn't the only big matchup Tuesday night, one of the few days of the week that isn't dominated by college football or the NFL at this time of year. Third-ranked Illinois is headed to Texas Tech for the kind of true nonconference road game that has become increasingly rare as schools chase NIL money available by playing neutral-site games.

So is Friday, for that matter

Unless you're a prep football fan, Friday night is the other night that's relatively quiet when it comes to the pigskin. And that means the hardwood can take center stage. This week, Ohio State plays fourth-ranked UConn in Hartford, Connecticut; sixth-ranked Virginia visits Maryland; No. 12 Arizona heads to Auburn; and Seton Hall takes a trip to No. 18 Alabama.

Next week, things really heat up

The college basketball season really gets going next week, when the first of two Players Era Festival events takes place in Las Vegas, and a series of tantalizing nonconference matchups make for some prime midweek viewing.

In the “Players Era 8,” No. 1 Florida will face Notre Dame and No. 8 Houston will play Rutgers on Nov. 17 with the winners meeting in the semifinals. The Jayhawks will play UNLV and West Virginia will face Auburn with those winners also advancing.

The Illini, meanwhile, visit Duke on Nov. 17, the same day Michigan State visits Tennessee. UConn travels to Arizona the next day.

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The sudden blue tint to so many more statehouses opens the door to enough states joining 18 other Democratic-run states in a deal that would effectively neuter the Electoral College. It would remake the battle for the presidency into one for the most votes nationwide, rather than candidates concentrating on a half dozen or so swing states.

The states that have joined what is known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact account for 222 Electoral College votes. Once the number of states involved hits the 270 needed to win the presidency, the arrangement would effectively require a candidate to win the national popular vote to get an Electoral College majority.

It's not clear that the strategy has support from all the newly elected lawmakers and governors in the key states, and it's almost certain to draw legal challenges from conservative groups. If it does go forward, it could land before the conservative-majority Supreme Court.

Yet the sweep of the Democratic wins for governor and in state legislatures has the plan's supporters optimistic. In Tuesday's elections, Democrats won full control in six states representing 71 Electoral College votes: Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Minnesota, with its 10 electoral votes, had joined the compact when it was previously under full Democratic control in 2023.

Some governors express support while others are noncommittal

“We can do away with it,” Wisconsin's new Democratic Gov. David Crowley said of the Electoral College, now that he has a legislature in his party's hands for the first time in 16 years. “I am interested in having those conversations with the state Legislature.”

Over the weekend, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a likely 2028 contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, said he would like his newly Democratic legislature to take steps toward making the Electoral College obsolete.

"I think that the national popular vote makes sense. My views on that have not changed," Shapiro said on a liberal podcast. "I’ll work with lawmakers to figure out what the right mechanism is for moving forward on that."

If Pennsylvania and Wisconsin supported the compact, reaching the 270 threshold would require Michigan and either Arizona or Nevada to join. Michigan's new Democratic governor, Jocelyn Benson did not respond to a request for comment.

Not every Democratic governor is embracing the push yet. In a television interview on Monday, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs declined to say whether she favored her state joining the compact. She said she's focused on other things, like the cost of living.

Nevada’s previous experience with the issue also is a cautionary tale for supporters.

In 2019, then-Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak vetoed a measure that would have committed Nevada to joining the compact after it was passed by Democratic majorities in both houses of the Legislature. Sisolak said at the time that the popular vote idea would diminish the influence of smaller-population states like Nevada in national elections.

Democrats passed another measure to join the compact in 2023, but couldn't figure out a way around the state's then-Republican governor. The incoming administration of its new Democratic governor, Aaron Ford, did not respond to requests for comment.

Republicans will use their diminished power to push back.

“Our Constitution gives states a voice in choosing the president for a reason,” Tyler August, the Republican leader in the Wisconsin Assembly, said in a statement Tuesday. “This would undermine that balance and disenfranchise Wisconsin voters by letting results in other states override their choice."

Two presidents 16 years apart lost the popular vote

The idea of shifting to a national popular vote gained traction among Democrats after Republican George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election by inching ahead of Democrat Al Gore in the Electoral College even while losing the popular vote. It became turbocharged after Republicans again won the White House that way in 2016 with Donald Trump's victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Under the National Popular Vote plan, the candidate who wins the popular vote nationwide would receive the Electoral College votes from the states that have joined the compact.

There's nothing inherently partisan about the idea, said Patrick Rosenstiel, a Republican strategist in Minnesota who is a senior consultant to the popular vote movement. Occasionally GOP-majority legislative chambers, including the Oklahoma Senate, have passed proposals to join the compact, but the bills haven’t gone further.

He said his own presidential vote is essentially meaningless because Minnesota has reliably voted Democratic in presidential elections for decades, leaving him with no say in the outcome and steering the vast majority of the candidates' attention elsewhere.

“I don't believe I've ever been relevant in the outcome of a presidential election,” he said. “National popular vote forces campaigns to focus on every persuadable voter in every precinct across the nation.”

Rosenstiel said the national popular vote campaign has been revving up to push the issue when the newly Democratic state legislatures convene at the start of the year. He said the organization has already lined up legislative sponsors.

The compact could create constitutional concerns

Republicans no longer have the power to stop the change in the Democratic-controlled states, but some conservative groups are prepared for a fight. The change “disenfranchises voters in member states if enacted, violates the United States Constitution, and undermines America’s Founders’ intent,” wrote analysts for the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank, in September.

There also is no guarantee the proposals will pass. Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who is skeptical of the idea, said some might have second thoughts now that it's gone from a symbolic protest vote to a real possibility. He said there will be constitutional concerns, as well, that will likely lead to legal challenges.

The Constitution lets states run elections, and the Supreme Court in a case stemming from electors who sought to find a substitute for Trump in 2016 has ruled that states can require electors to vote for the presidential candidate they're pledged to.

Muller flagged potential legal hurdles to the popular vote plan. States have the power to run their elections but not set rules that will determine the outcome in other states' contests. Additionally, each state ballot is different, and some would potentially have third-party candidates who wouldn't appear elsewhere, leading to the dilution of a vote for a Democrat or Republican in one state compared to another.

That could violate the 14th Amendment's requirement that everyone have “equal protection of the laws.” The U.S. Supreme Court also might decide that states can't join a compact to change one of their core constitutional duties, unless they get congressional approval.

“I think the Supreme Court will be interested,” Muller said.

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Bauer reported from Madison, Wis. Associated Press writers Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pa., Jacqueline GaNun in Lansing, Mich., Jessica Hill in Las Vegas and Mikella Schuettler in Phoenix contributed to this report.

The regulator would enforce world-leading legislated AI standards that would apply to all frontier AI companies that want to operate in Australia, Albanese said. Financial penalties would apply, although the government has yet to detail those penalties.

“When it comes to the generational opportunity that artificial intelligence offers Australia, I’ve been very clear: our task is to make sure we shape AI rather than AI shape us,” Albanese told reporters. “Australia is the first mover in this space and we want to make sure that we continue to work so that we can reap the potential benefits from AI.”

AI standards would mandate rapid incident notifications

The standards would include companies maintaining security controls across all stages of models’ development and deployment, as well as identifying and managing serious risks. The standards also would mandate rapid notification to the government of incidents such as “misaligned behavior” conflicting with developers' intentions.

Australian government documents define frontier AI as the most sophisticated models at the cutting edge of current technological capability.

Albanese told OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman that the U.S. company took too long to inform the government in September that a rogue agent had infiltrated government websites three months earlier, which was the first occurrence of such a breach with the technology.

Information taken without authorization from the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18 has since been made public. It is not clear whether the portal breach broke any Australian laws.

OpenAI apologized in September for the breach and its slow response.

“We are sorry and working to do better in the future,” OpenAI said in a statement. “We also should have handled our response better.”

Inquiry recommends possible criminal law changes

A government inquiry into the June breach made several recommendations including that the government consider changing the law.

Albanese said his government had accepted all the inquiry’s recommendations, including for potential criminal law reform.

“The point is law needs to get ahead of and in some cases make sure that it catches up with what is a very fast-changing world. And to be clear, Australia is a first-mover in these areas,” Albanese said.

The proposed AI regulator would follow Australia appointing an eSafety Commissioner in 2015. The office describes itself as the world’s first government agency dedicated to keeping people safer online.

Since December last year, the commissioner has been enforcing a world-first ban on Australian children younger than 16 holding accounts on popular social media platforms.

Josh Allen, James Cook and the rest of the group were more than content to grind this one out.

Allen threw a touchdown pass with 44 seconds left before halftime and Cook had 31 carries for 107 yards and a late score for the Bills in a 23-6 victory on Monday night, sending Vikings deeper into an unmitigated offensive slump.

“We stuck with it, stuck with it, and eventually we broke it,” Cook said. “We knew what type of game it was going to be, a bloody game."

With Kyler Murray sidelined by a hamstring injury, Carson Wentz started at quarterback for the Vikings (6-2) and didn’t finish what became one of the worst performances of his 11-year career.

Linebackers Terrel Bernard and Dorian Williams had interceptions and Tyler Bass made three field goals to stretch his franchise-record streak to 24 straight as the Bills (7-1) matched their best eight-game start since 1993. That season ended with the last of their four straight Super Bowl losses.

"It’s just a mindset of going out there and not being result-driven, going out there and being process-driven and understanding what they’re trying to do," said Allen, who went 21 for 31 for 234 yards and one interception. “At the end of the day, having fun playing the game of football.”

The Vikings as usual sent blitzers at Allen from every angle possible, racking up four sacks. Allen heaved a third-and-23 throw into the end zone to beat the rush in the first quarter that Byron Murphy ran down and returned 55 yards. But the Bills eked out just enough in the first half to give themselves a lead, when Allen found tight end Keleki Latu open in the back of the end zone for a 25-yard touchdown as he rolled right and was hit hard by Andrew Van Ginkel.

“There was no panic early in the game when things weren’t going our way,” coach Joe Brady said, marveling at his team's 42:32 possession time. “Eventually you end up making it a game that they weren’t willing to play.”

The Vikings are running out of answers on offense

Wentz went 8 for 25 for 81 yards and three turnovers, including a backward pass in the first quarter that was thrown too high for even Justin Jefferson to catch it — resulting in a lost fumble near midfield.

Wentz, who was checked out in the medical tent at one point for an apparent lower leg injury, was replaced by Max Brosmer midway through the fourth quarter. Wentz completed 1 of 8 passes in the second half, and the Vikings finished with just 178 total yards.

The battle between the best offense and best defense in the NFL might well have gone to Minnesota had the offense been able to muster a decent drive or two.

But the Vikings had four straight possessions in the first half start beyond their 40-yard line, and the furthest they made it was the Bills 48.

“Put tonight 100% on me. It’s not about any one particular player," Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell said. "But we’ve got to improve offensively, at a rapid pace.”

O'Connell blamed himself for not calling more running plays: Jordan Mason and Aaron Jones combined for just 11 carries when it was clear from the start how off-the-mark Wentz was. Jefferson finished with three catches for 58 yards on 11 targets.

“I've always said it doesn’t really matter who’s throwing the ball, as long as it gets there,” Jefferson said. "That’s all that matters. It’s up to us to make those plays. It’s tough, definitely tough.”

Allen matches Manning's 10-year touchdown mark

With 322 regular-season touchdowns — 232 passing, 88 rushing and two receiving — Allen tied Peyton Manning for the most in NFL history over a player's first 10 years. Allen is halfway through his ninth season.

Injury report

Bills: Starting LT Dion Dawkins (ribs) and starting LG Alec Anderson (ankle) were inactive.

Vikings: WR Jauan Jennings (calf) and FS Theo Jackson (quadriceps) were inactive.

Up next

Bills: At the New York Jets on Sunday.

Vikings: At Green Bay on Sunday.

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Laura Turner Seydel recounted her father saying, “Well, I would have to do something really important and big and significant” to match that. A month later, in September 1997, he shocked a U.N. gala dinner after receiving a Global Leadership Award by announcing the gift to U.N. causes — the largest individual donation in history at that time.

Stressing the “challenging times” the world now faces, Seydel urged the audience of several hundred people to honor her father by following his example. “Please use your ideas, resources and ambitions to back the institutions that hold the world together,” she urged.

The UN was Turner's ‘headquarters’ in New York

Turner died in May at age 87 from the effects of Lewy body dementia, an incurable disease with which he was diagnosed in 2013, Seydel said. She was charged with spreading his ashes in the places he loved, and some fell to the floor of the U.N. Economic and Social Council chamber, where the celebration of his life was held.

“There was really nothing like the U.N., his headquarters here in New York,” Seydel said, recalling how he would talk to everyone from the secretary-general and ambassadors to the security guards and cleaners.

Turner’s $1 billion was used to start the United Nations Foundation — the U.N. itself can accept money from governments, but not individuals — and since then, Seydel said, “there’s been another $3 billion donated to match that.”

Foundation President Elizabeth Cousens said the audience reflected those “inspired by Ted and his life, vision and work” -- diplomats from all over the world, U.N. staff, philanthropists, staffers from CNN which Turner founded and members of civil society, academia and the private sector.

In a video tribute, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Turner “a one-of-a-kind visionary” whose quest for peace and a better world has helped the United Nations expand its reach and further his goals of protecting health, a flourishing environment and global disarmament.

Former U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said in his video tribute that Turner “changed the trajectory of countries and lives around the world” by establishing the U.N. Foundation. “And today, as multilateralism and the U.N. itself are facing elevated challenges in our uncertain world, it is absolutely critical that we all continue to work tirelessly in championing the very causes and vision that Ted Turner so fiercely advocated,” he said.

His family also shared memories

There were also memories from three of his 14 grandchildren. “Grandpa, you will always be my idol, my inspiration, pushing the limits of what is possible in a human lifetime,” said one, Vasser Seydel.

Several of Turner’s music favorites were also part of the celebration. Johnny Cash’s son, John Carter Cash, and his wife, Ana Cristina Cash, sang “Jackson.” Singer Carolina Rial and the Harlem Gospel Choir also performed.

Several of CNN’s biggest names gave video tributes. Wolf Blitzer said something Turner said when he hired him in 1990 has lingered — commitment to the network's global nature. Said Blitzer: “He thought that if people all over the world were seeing the same news, maybe, maybe the world would be a little bit more peaceful and a little bit better."

Christiane Amanpour said: “First and foremost, for me, is his total dedication to a global community and a global perspective — and that’s what he would want us all to keep pursuing.”

Anderson Cooper said giving $1 billion to the U.N. “was not exactly the easiest applause line in America. With Ted, he didn’t care whether it was popular or even possible. He knew he could do impossible things because he did time and time again.”

Addressing the audience, Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler, told the audience that working for CNN “took me to places that I never imagined” as a young reporter. “I call myself Ted’s ripple — what he created shaped my world.”

Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Andrew Young, who is Black and was with Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated, recalled entering politics and getting to know Turner when he was starting in television. “It was something in Ted that made him look beyond race … and see people as children of God,” the former Atlanta mayor said.

In the only political remarks at the two-hour event, Young said he saw “the spirit of God moving across this planet” in last week’s election when people came together. “Whether he wanted to or not," Young said, "Ted Turner was a major influence — and you ain’t seen nothing yet.”

The S&P 500 fell 0.9% and gave back some of its big rally from the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 319 points, or 0.6%, as of 1:29 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.4% lower.

Pressure from the bond market undercut stocks following the discouraging report on inflation. People had to pay prices for groceries, electricity and other costs of living that were even higher last month than economists expected. That could push the Federal Reserve to hike its main interest rate at its next meeting in December and beyond.

Higher interest rates can help rein in inflation, but they do so by making it more expensive for everyone to borrow money and by slowing the overall economy. Higher rates also make investors less willing to pay high prices for stocks and other investments.

One Fed official even hinted the central bank may increase the federal funds rate by double the typical amount next month because of how high inflation has remained for years.

Speaking in London before the inflation report was released, Fed Gov. Christopher Waller said “a stronger policy move may be needed” if the report showed an important underlying measure of inflation rose by 0.3% from September.

In that case, he said the Fed should consider hiking the federal funds rate by half a percentage point rather than the typical quarter point. Moving by only the usual amount could “put our credibility at risk, a risk I am not eager to take.”

Shortly afterward, Tuesday’s inflation report showed that the underlying measure of inflation Waller was worried about was exactly 0.3%, the threshold he had set. It's the Fed's job to keep inflation under control, along with keeping the job market strong.

That sent yields jumping in the bond market as traders upped their forecasts for coming hikes to rates by the Fed.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury jumped to 5.01% from 4.88% late Monday. It's a notable move for the bond market, and the yield helps set where rates are for mortgages and other loans going to U.S. households and businesses.

The 10-year Treasury yield had been dropping since early October, when it topped 5.30% as worries spiked about high inflation, higher interest rates, the U.S. government’s big debt and other concerns.

Tuesday’s jump in yields came even though oil prices fell again. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil fell 0.8% to $91.81. President Donald Trump said late Monday that the war in Iran, which sent oil prices much higher, “militarily is effectively over.”

Brent’s price has been falling from more than $112 at the start of the month amid uncertainty about what will happen with the war with Iran.

Jumps in Treasury yields push downward on prices for all kinds of stocks, and they can particularly hurt companies in the real-estate business.

Higher mortgage rates can keep potential customers away from homebuilders, for example, and Lennar fell 4.4% for one of the sharper losses in the S&P 500.

Rival homebuilders also fell, including drops of 3.6% for D.R. Horton and 3.5% for PulteGroup. Builders FirstSource, which sells crown mouldings, cabinets and other products to homebuilders, sank 3.9%.

The single heaviest weight on the S&P 500 was Nvidia, which fell 6.3%. It's been under pressure since its board announced an investigation into its CEO, Jensen Huang, who admitted to a relationship with a woman who, according to The New York Times, U.S. intelligence determined was gathering information for China.

It's also been swinging amid broader worries that have knocked the artificial-intelligence industry around recently. Democratic victories in statehouses across the country last week raised concerns about possible restrictions on construction of AI data centers. That built on top of already longstanding worries that AI stock prices had shot too high and were in a bubble.

Other stocks in the AI industry also slipped. GE Vernova, which is helping to power AI data centers, dropped 7%. Micron Technology, which sells memory for computers, fell 3.6% after flipping between gains and losses earlier in the morning. CoreWeave, a company that rents out access to AI chips to customers over the cloud, fell 2.6%.

Advanced Micro Devices held up better and was mostly unchanged.

The recent shakiness for AI-related stocks had raised questions about whether Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, may delay its initial public offering of stock.

But Anthropic said in a filing with U.S. regulators on Tuesday that it's looking to sell its stock at a price valuing the company at roughly $1.3 trillion. That would make it one of the most valuable companies on Wall Street, worth more than Walmart, JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil or Coca-Cola.

In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe and Asia.

South Korea's Kospi jumped 4.4% for one of the world's biggest gains on strength for its two tech giants that have benefited from the AI boom, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

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AP Writers Elaine Lai and Matt Ott contributed to this report.

Now, the expanded complex also houses state-of-the-art public ice rinks.

Beyond the ice, the venue’s iconic main auditorium has been fully modernized for live music.

Partnering with live entertainment giant Live Nation, the venue is filling a key void in South Florida’s music scene between intimate clubs and massive sports arenas.

And of course, the heartbeat of venue is the memorial to our veterans.

That mother, identified as Yashira Marie Maldonado, 34, was arrested in July, when the incident occurred.

In the video, the teen’s image is blurred, but the footage shows officers speaking to a woman at the home and taking pictures of the girl.

According to an arrest report, Maldonado left the teen chained to an efficiency where her mother lived.

Police said surveillance video showed Maldonado chaining the girl to the fence before entering her car and leaving the teen behind.

Despite being chained up in the July heat for over an hour, police said the teen was found to be in good health.

Maldonado was arrested and charged with felony counts of child abuse and child neglect.

Exports in October surged 35.2% from a year earlier, the customs agency said. Exports have grown rapidly this year, supported by high-tech goods like semiconductors and autos.

Imports rose 41.6% year-on-year.

Between January and October, China logged a $1.04 trillion trade surplus, even as the trade surplus narrowed last month to $105.3 billion from $133.5bn in September as imports picked up pace.

That puts China on track for surpassing last year’s record $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2026.

“We expect Chinese exports to stay strong for the rest of this year, led by electronics and autos,” said Dave Chia, an economist at Moody’s Analytics.

China's imports soared in October partly because of a recovery in shipments of crude oil from the Persian Gulf.

Overcapacity in many industries, excess domestic savings and weakened domestic demand are still leading China to ship its goods abroad as some countries move to protect their own industries, said Alicia García-Herrero, chief economist for Asia Pacific at French bank Natixis.

The situation is not sustainable, she said.

Businesses are feeling the pressure of ferocious competition as China’s economy has slowed, said Cinders Zhou, who sells eyewear for a manufacturer in Linhai city in eastern China’s Zhejiang province.

“It comes down to product quality, or rather the increasing lack of it across the industry, since there’s significant homogenization,” said Zhou, whose company makes frames and lenses sold both in and outside China. “That has forced everyone to compete on price,” she said.

Trade curbs by the European Union pose an important risk at a time of heightened U.S. trade barriers and tariffs, Chia said.

Still, the EU's trade measures apply to only a small part of China’s exports, said Nguyen Hoang Nam with Capital Economics.

China has insisted it is not seeking to expand its surplus but wants more balanced global trade.

However, strong exports have helped offset sluggish domestic demand. The economy is forecast to meet Beijing’s official target of a 4.5% to 5% annual growth this year, slightly slower than last year’s 5% expansion.

China’s exports to the U.S. grew 32.9% in October year-on-year, building on a low base after China-U.S. trade was hit last year by Trump’s elevated tariffs. China's exports to the EU in October rose 24.3% year-on-year. They rose 17.2% in January-October.

For the first ten months, the trade surplus with the U.S. was around $266.5 billion, while for the EU, the 10-month difference was more than $310 billion. In 2025, the EU recorded a roughly $410 billion trade deficit with China, or more than $1.1 billion each day.

Figures reported by China often differ from those reported by its trading partner.

Also in October, China's semiconductor exports soared 137.1% in terms of value from the year before. Exports of autos rose 37.6%.

China’s exports could be vulnerable to setbacks for the artificial intelligence industry, a concern that deepened with the Democratic victories in the U.S. midterm elections given the public backlash against expansion of data centers.

“If the AI boom slows or turns into a correction, lower chip and electronics prices and smaller shipping volumes would hit China’s exports hard,” Chia said.

Trade is likely to be among top issues on the agenda in planned meetings between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders summit in China’s technology hub Shenzhen.

A two-month extension of a trade truce until January has provided some relief to exporters, though it’s unclear how long that may last.

U.S. and European trade policies have added “a lot of difficulties” for Chinese businesses to expand in the markets, said Wang Xin, head of the Shenzhen Cross-Border E-Commerce Association, an industry group.

La aprobación de este emplazamiento para confinar hasta 443 millones de toneladas de dióxido de carbono se ha convertido en parte del debate mundial sobre la captura y el almacenamiento de carbono. Quienes la defienden dicen que el proyecto desempeñará un papel importante en la reducción de las emisiones de industrias difíciles de descarbonizar, tales como la siderurgia y el transporte marítimo. Por otro lado, los críticos exponen que la iniciativa dañará hábitats fundamentales y a especies en peligro de extinción, a la vez que promueve una tecnología que prolonga el uso de combustibles fósiles altamente contaminantes.

La captura de carbono sigue siendo una solución climática controvertida

La captura y el almacenamiento de carbono (CCS, por sus siglas en inglés) es un proceso en tres etapas: la captura, el transporte y el almacenamiento de CO2, un gas que contribuye al cambio climático cuando es liberado en la atmósfera.

Algunos gobiernos y gigantes de los combustibles fósiles, incluidos Exxon Mobil y Shell, promueven esta estrategia como una solución climática que permite ganar tiempo para que los países y las industrias realicen la transición hacia el uso de energías más limpias.

Si bien la Agencia Internacional de la Energía considera que la captura, utilización y almacenamiento de carbono es una herramienta para frenar el cambio climático, el escenario de cero emisiones netas de la agencia prevé que esta tecnología contribuirá en menos del 5% a la reducción de emisiones para el año 2050.

Sus detractores manifiestan que ralentizará el progreso de las iniciativas globales — que ya de por sí están por debajo de sus objetivos — para limitar las emisiones, y que permitirá que las centrales eléctricas y las instalaciones industriales continúen con su quema de combustibles fósiles, amparadas por la promesa de capturar los gases emitidos posteriormente.

Los proyectos de captura y almacenamiento de carbono avanzan: Estados Unidos tiene varias instalaciones en funcionamiento y la Unión Europea inauguró su primera planta en alta mar en septiembre.

El proyecto en Australia estaría encabezado por la empresa energética japonesa Inpex, que realiza evaluaciones de impacto ambiental y requiere obtener otras licencias gubernamentales antes de que se tome una decisión definitiva y comience la inyección de CO2.

La iniciativa comenzaría en Darwin —la ciudad capital del Territorio del Norte, situada junto al mar de Timor—, se extendería 260 kilómetros (162 millas) mar adentro e inyectaría CO2 en un acuífero salino profundo llamado West Peron.

Inpex dice que el cliente principal sería la cercana planta de gas natural licuado de Ichthys —cuya propietaria mayoritaria es la misma Inpex—, que exporta la mayor parte de su gas a Japón.

En el futuro, otras empresas podrían depositar su CO2 en este sitio, que puede almacenar de forma permanente hasta 443 millones de toneladas de CO2 a lo largo de 35 años, según Inpex.

El gobierno acoge el proyecto, mientras que grupos ecologistas lo rechazan

Madeleine King, ministra de Recursos de Australia, expuso que la designación de este lugar constituyó un paso importante y demostró el apoyo del gobierno a las tecnologías que contribuyen a reducir las emisiones.

“La captura y el almacenamiento de carbono desempeñarán un papel fundamental en la reducción de las emisiones de industrias difíciles de descarbonizar, lo que apoyará la transición de Australia hacia cero emisiones netas”, declaró King en un comunicado.

Ni King ni el Departamento de Industria, Ciencia y Recursos de Australia respondieron a un correo electrónico de The Associated Press en el que se solicitaban más comentarios al respecto.

Por su parte, grupos ambientalistas expresan su preocupación por el impacto que el proyecto podría tener en los ecosistemas marinos, costeros y terrestres. La zona coincide con hábitats de diversas especies amenazadas y migratorias, tales como tortugas, los dugones y diversas aves marinas.

La construcción del proyecto supondrá una grave perturbación para estos ecosistemas, enfatizó Chelsea Deng, activista de la Australian Marine Conservation Society.

“Gran parte de esto implica dragado, perforación e hincado de pilotes en el océano”, explicó. “Esto provoca la alteración de los sedimentos y contamina el agua debido a los vertidos químicos. Además, conlleva mucho ruido submarino”.

Una vez que el proyecto esté en funcionamiento, habrá más tráfico marítimo en la zona, lo que causará mayores perturbaciones, señaló. Además, las inspecciones submarinas rutinarias que la empresa realizará para detectar posibles fugas dañarán aún más el ecosistema, agregó.

“Esto resulta sumamente perjudicial, especialmente para las ballenas, pero puede afectar negativamente a cualquier organismo, incluido el plancton, que se ha demostrado que muere a una distancia de hasta 1,2 kilómetros (0,75 millas) de estos impulsos sísmicos”, explicó. “Y esta situación se prolongará durante décadas mientras el proyecto esté en marcha, ya que es necesario realizar un seguimiento continuo de las columnas de CO2 que ellos inyectan en el subsuelo”.

Inpex no respondió a un correo electrónico de la AP en el que se le solicitaban comentarios.

Japón dice que la CCS es fundamental para alcanzar sus objetivos climáticos

Japón —uno de los mayores emisores de contaminantes del mundo— tiene objetivos ambiciosos para reducir sus emisiones de carbono en un 60% para 2035 —desde sus niveles de 2013—, y en un 73% para 2040.

No obstante, industrias altamente contaminantes como la siderurgia y la producción cemento, el refinado de petróleo y el transporte marítimo son vitales para la economía japonesa. Los combustibles fósiles generan la inmensa mayoría de su energía.

Para salvar esta brecha, el gobierno sostiene que la captura y almacenamiento de carbono es indispensable.

“Permite la descarbonización en áreas donde la transición hacia alternativas distintas a los combustibles fósiles —como la electrificación o el uso de hidrógeno— resulta difícil. Por consiguiente, la CCS se ha vuelto indispensable para lograr simultáneamente un suministro energético estable, el crecimiento económico y la descarbonización”, dice un informe de 2025 del Ministerio de Economía, Comercio e Industria de Japón.

El ministerio no respondió a un correo electrónico de la AP en el que se le solicitaban comentarios.

Empresas japonesas tienen otros proyectos de CCS

Frente a la costa de Chiba —donde el surf hizo su debut durante los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio—, una gran plataforma emerge del agua. En ese lugar se llevan a cabo perforaciones exploratorias para el proyecto de captura y almacenamiento de carbono del área metropolitana de Tokio —una iniciativa conjunta entre Inpex, Nippon Steel y otras entidades—, destinada a capturar el CO2 de las plantas siderúrgicas y almacenarlo en alta mar. Otra empresa japonesa también planea transportar sus emisiones a Malasia.

Los ambientalistas advierten que el aumento de proyectos de captura y almacenamiento de carbono prolongará el uso de combustibles fósiles altamente contaminantes.

“Lo consideramos una táctica de ‘greenwashing’ (la práctica de fingir un compromiso ecológico para limpiar la imagen propia) que están utilizando las empresas de combustibles fósiles para dar luz verde a la continuidad de la contaminación, en lugar de optar por la solución evidente de reducir la producción y eliminar gradualmente los combustibles fósiles”, apuntó Deng.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Keyner Roman Vazquez De Leon was arrested Saturday after Homestead police responded to a home in the 1200 block of Northwest Ninth Court just after 3:30 p.m.

When officers arrived, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel were already providing emergency medical assistance to the child.

Despite lifesaving efforts, the girl was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

According to the arrest report, Vazquez De Leon had been responsible for transporting the girl from her home to a babysitter’s home Monday through Saturday for about a year.

Deputies said Vazquez De Leon was not related to the child.

Investigators said he picked up the girl from her home around 6:45 a.m. Saturday with the intention of taking her to the babysitter.

As part of his regular routine, Vazquez De Leon also transported another person to work, according to the arrest report.

After dropping that person off, authorities said he returned to his Homestead home with the girl still inside his vehicle.

According to the report, Vazquez De Leon turned off the vehicle and went inside his home, leaving the toddler unattended.

At approximately 9 a.m., he began washing vehicles outside his home while the girl remained inside his vehicle, investigators said.

According to the arrest report, the victim’s mother contacted Vazquez De Leon around 3 p.m. to ask where her daughter was.

It was during that phone call that Vazquez De Leon realized he had left the girl inside the vehicle, deputies said.

Investigators said he immediately went to retrieve the child and found her unresponsive in her car seat.

He then carried the car seat, with the girl still strapped inside, into his home and called 911, according to the report.

Vazquez De Leon remained at the scene until first responders arrived and was taken into custody.

Police said he was then transported to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Homicide Bureau for questioning.

After being advised of his Miranda rights, Vazquez De Leon provided a statement corroborating the circumstances described in the arrest report, investigators said.

According to the arrest report, Vazquez De Leon faces three felony charges:

• Aggravated manslaughter of a child under 18.
• Leaving a child younger than 6 unattended in a motor vehicle, resulting in bodily harm.
• Child neglect causing great bodily harm.

The aggravated manslaughter charge is punishable by up to 30 years in state prison if Vazquez De Leon is convicted.

Vazquez De Leon is expected to be released on bond from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center after a Miami-Dade County judge on Monday granted him a “level one” house arrest, allowing him to work.

Attorneys for U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, the Republican incumbent, and Eliott Rodriguez, the Democratic challenger, were following the process.

The Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board was overseeing the machine recount at the office of Alina Garcia, the Miami-Dade County supervisor of elections.

The recount started on Monday morning after a federal judge ruled that Garcia would remain on the board despite Rodriguez’s push for her recusal.

Salazar held a lead of .44 percentage points over Rodriguez. Florida law requires automatic recounts if a candidate is defeated by less than 0.5% of the total votes cast.

The Florida Division of Elections requires the recount results to be ready by 3 p.m. on Thursday. A manual recount takes place when the margin is 0.25% or less, according to Garcia.

Razor-thin results

After polls closed on the night of the midterm election, Salazar told supporters at a campaign event in Key Biscayne that she was the victor.

“We have prevailed,” Salazar said. “We’ve prevailed against all odds.”

Rodriguez was waiting for the election results with supporters in South Miami.

“We knew it was going to be close, and it is, so we have to wait for the votes to be counted,” Rodriguez said.

Accusations

Salazar declared that with a lead of more than 1,100 votes, there was an “insurmountable margin.”

Salazar later released a statement accusing Rodriguez of behaving like an “election denier” and accusing him of trying to turn the electoral process into a “political circus.”

Rodriguez had filed a federal lawsuit as Democrats pushed for Garcia to recuse herself from the recount process.

The lawsuit also cited that Garcia’s son-in-law, Robert Fernandez, was an attorney representing Salazar during the recount process. Garcia refused to recuse herself.

“I am not the one counting the votes,” Garcia said last week. “Everything is transparent and open.”

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Midterm election results

The promised document by Brazil, which ran last year's climate conference, proposed a “transition away from fossil fuels” at this year's talks, known as COP31 in the Turkish resort city of Antalya.

It stresses different “levers” countries can use to transition from coal, oil and gas to cleaner sources, like wind and solar, which don't release the heat-trapping gases that contribute to global warming. This transition has long been promised but past climate talks didn't provide any guidance.

“What we want is to be very pragmatic, helping countries move forward,” Ana Toni, CEO of COP30 in Brazil, told The Associated Press.

Those attending the talks in Antalya stressed the need for global climate action.

“We don’t need more promises, we need plans," said John Kerry, former U.S. secretary of state and former presidential climate envoy — though the United States itself is noticeably absent, for the second year in a row.

U.S. President Donald Trump called climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" at the 2025 U.N. General Assembly. More recently, he has targeted offshore wind projects and removed rules limiting power plant emissions.

But Trump's fossil fuel policies — which he has summed up as “drill, baby, drill” — are being challenged. Last week during the U.S. midterm elections, Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in a decisive rebuke of Republican governance. The Democrats have shown signs they will be pushing back with clean energy initiatives.

“This I promise you is a transition that the world wants," Kerry said, adding that it was evident in the midterms, "when people made climate change and its exigencies a voting issue.”

Brazil's road map was long awaited

Brazil's road map is designed to allow nations to look at different tools and make context-specific decisions about moving away from fossil fuels, Toni said.

Some people may think this is impossible, she added, but the road map shows it's inevitable. It highlights key actions, such as halting construction of new fossil fuel power plants and cutting fossil fuel subsidies.

Brazil, which is home to most of the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, has significant oil deposits and is a major fossil fuel exporter. Most of its domestic energy comes from hydropower.

Toni declined to comment directly on her country's oil exports, but said the road map "is good not only for Brazil, but for the world.”

Like the Netherlands, many countries depend on imported fossil fuels and these road maps can "provide a clear path towards a clean energy future at a global, regional and national level,” said Stientje van Veldhoven, the Dutch minister of climate and green growth.

Environmental group Climate Action Network lauded Brazil “for doing something that feels increasingly revolutionary at a climate summit: working out how to deliver what was agreed.”

Brazil is also presenting other road maps during COP31 that will focus on dealing with deforestation and following through on the needed $1.3 trillion in climate finance for poorer nations.

“Although every country has a different starting point, all countries can start their own path,” said Stela Herschmann, international policy lead for Observatório do Clima, a network of Brazilian environmental organizations.

Traffic jams slow the second day of climate talks

Access to the COP31 venue continued to be a challenge on Tuesday, with traffic congestion and road closures forcing the rescheduling of several morning meetings as delegates struggled to reach the venue.

Arriving at the talks, prominent climate change and pro-Palestine activist Greta Thunberg said of climate change that “everything and everyone we love is at stake. This is threatening everything.”

There are more than 68,500 registered conference participants and a nearly 25,000-person workforce, according to the United Nations.

“It just makes it very difficult for countries and for other people to do their work,” said participant Emilie Beauchamp, who watched four packed train carriages come and go before finally being able to board.

Climate change goals are offtrack

This year's climate talks are kicking off after a year of deadly climate-related disasters and the imminent failure of past pledges to curb global warming.

“COP31 must show countries (that) working together is the only way to deal with climate change and other crises that the world is facing," said Chris Bowen, chief of this year's negotiations and Australia's minister for climate change and energy.

In September, the U.N. readjusted its decade-old goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels because the world is blowing past that threshold.

Electrification is a key issue this year, with Turkey pushing for electricity — preferably from renewables, like solar and wind — to make up 35% of global energy consumption by 2035, up from 23% today.

“We are expecting for the electrification that is being called here to be powered with green electricity," said Irene Vélez Torres, former environment minister of Colombia.

“There shouldn’t be a way for gas, coal or even diesel to power that electrification,” she added.

In April, Colombia hosted a separate summit pushing for the transition away from fossil fuels, after Brazil failed to push a fossil fuel plan through at COP30 last year.

“We need to continue insisting on national and regional road maps that explicitly address the elimination of the fossil fuels, not only from the side of the consumption and demand but also from the side of the supply and production which has forever been a taboo," Torres said.

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Borenstein reported from Kensington, Maryland; Arasu from Bengaluru, India, and Delgado from Bangkok.

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A neighbor has now been cited for trapping and then dumping the cat elsewhere.

“I call her name, Keisha, Keisha, come, I would call her the same way I would call her here and she would come,” Janet Jaen said.

Jaen got emotional while describing her beautiful 7-year-old calico tabby cat named Keisha.

“She likes to hang out in here, she likes to hang out in the fence, take sun on the ceiling, she likes to sleep here, the nap, this is her house,” Jaen said.

Keisha is a member of the family, showcased in every holiday picture and always invited to a tea party.

“She’s like my best friend, she’s always been there for me, she’s like my sister,” said Jaen’s daughter Valeria Borysova.

But on Oct. 14, she was nowhere to be found.

“Since that day, we have been going every day to search for Keisha,” said Jaen. “We printed fliers, we are posting her on social media.”

And then a friend sent her a WhatsApp string where a man commenting under the name of Pooh is complaining about exactly that: poo.

“He said that he’s tired of the cats pooping in the condominium, but there is a community of cats there, that is not my cat the one that goes and poops,” Jaen said.

Local 10 News saw plenty of community cats while we were on the property.

But that man made a whole video and sent it to neighbors in a WhatsApp chat.

He’s heard complaining about the cats pooping outside.

“Check it out, I’ve got my first participant, haha!” he said in the video.

He laughs as he shows off a cat trap, seemingly bragging that he has caught one, and then he doubled down on his threat in another video, even writing in the condo message string: “If you’re praying to God for that cat, pray that someone finds it somewhere around the I-95 and 62nd Street by the exit.”

“He was telling me, ‘Lady your cat is gone, gone, if you want good luck finding your cat,’” Jaen said.

Janet and her daughter went to the man’s house, hoping to get Keisha back.

“I had to tell him please brother look at my eyes, tell me where is my cat, I beg you, look at my child, we are desperate for the cat,” Jaen said.

“He said that he trapped her and took her to that place,” Borysova said.

The family searches that area daily, hoping someone will spot their uniquely colored cat.

Local 10’s Jacey Birch spotted the man in his truck as he was arriving home.

“Can I talk to you about what you did with the cat? Did you take the cat named Keisha? Your neighbor’s cat. You’re not going to talk to me about what happened with the cat?” Birch asked.

He refused to speak to us, a cat trap was clearly visible in the bed of his truck, and as he left the complex avoiding our camera, he called the police.

Jaen filed a police report with the city of Miami.

And Miami-Dade Animal Services issued a citation against the man, James Hodge, for improper animal disposal.

“So when I come into his apartment, in front of my daughter and two other witnesses, he told me, ‘Hey lady, your cat is gone, I got your cat and I took it to that address,’” Jaen told officers.

Now, Jaen and Borysova are just hoping someone finds Keisha and returns her.

Keisha is spayed and microchipped, and the family is offering a $500 reward for her safe return.

Los mashco piro, que viven en lo profundo de los bosques del sureste de Perú y evitan el contacto con personas ajenas para preservar su modo de vida tradicional, han sido vistos cada vez más cerca de concesiones madereras que avanzan sobre la zona en los últimos años, lo que pone de relieve la creciente presión sobre sus tierras ancestrales.

Eusebio Ríos Iviche, vicepresidente de la organización indígena FENAMAD, declaró a The Associated Press el lunes que la decisión amenaza con revertir años de labores para proteger a los mashco piro, exponíendolos a mayores riesgos de encuentros con foráneos y a enfermedades frente a las cuales tienen poca inmunidad.

La controversia se centra en un estudio gubernamental de 2016 que recomendó ampliar la Reserva Territorial Madre de Dios, un área protegida establecida en 2002 para los mashco piro y otros pueblos indígenas que viven en aislamiento.

Una comisión gubernamental, responsable de proteger a dichos pueblos indígenas, decidió la semana pasada volver a examinar ese estudio, en lugar de avanzar con la ampliación propuesta de la reserva, según organizaciones indígenas y el grupo activista Survival International.

La medida ha generado preocupación de que las concesiones madereras que se superponen con la ampliación propuesta puedan seguir operando en zonas que, según organizaciones indígenas, son esenciales para la supervivencia de los mashco piro.

El Ministerio de Cultura de Perú, que supervisa las protecciones para los pueblos indígenas que viven en aislamiento, no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios.

Ramón Rivero, quien en 2014 encabezó la oficina del gobierno peruano responsable de proteger a los pueblos indígenas en aislamiento, cuestionó la decisión, y sostuvo que las autoridades deberían completar la ampliación de la reserva en lugar de reabrir estudios ya aprobados. Indicó que el gobierno también debería considerar otorgar compensaciones para las empresas madereras cuyas concesiones pudiesen verse afectadas.

Creciente presión sobre las comunidades aisladas

Imágenes difundidas por Survival International en 2024 mostraron a decenas de personas mashco piro cerca de concesiones madereras en Madre de Dios, una región fronteriza con Brasil y Bolivia.

Ese mismo año, enfrentamientos violentos en los que estuvieron involucrados mashco piro y madereros dejaron al menos dos madereros muertos. Sigue sin saberse si algún mashco piro murió o resultó herido.

Tras las confrontaciones, el Forest Stewardship Council —una organización internacional que certifica bosques gestionados de manera responsable—, suspendió la certificación de Maderera Canales Tahuamanu, una empresa que opera en la zona. La certificación fue retirada de forma permanente en 2025.

Survival International dice que la tala ha continuado en la región, pese a la pérdida de la certificación.

Caroline Pearce, directora general de la organización, condenó la decisión del gobierno, diciendo que, de hecho, puso el territorio de los mashco piro a la venta y le dio prioridad a intereses comerciales por encima de vidas indígenas.

La disputa surge en un momento en que Perú enfrenta creciente escrutinio sobre la protección que da a los pueblos indígenas en aislamiento.

En septiembre, la FENAMAD y la organización jurídica ambiental EarthRights International presentaron un caso ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, acusando a Perú de no proteger el territorio ancestral de los mashco piro y su derecho a permanecer en aislamiento.

Ríos Iviche instó al gobierno a respetar el acuerdo de 2016, ampliar la reserva y retirar las concesiones madereras superpuestas.

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