The 7.8 magnitude offshore quake, which struck Monday off Sarangani province, injured about 1,120 people and displaced more than 45,000 people, about half them still in emergency shelters, after the quake damaged more than 12,600 houses across farming towns and cities.

Many were still too traumatized to return home because of strong aftershocks, officials said.

Days after the earthquake hit, more videos of the chaotic moments have been posted on social media showing horrified crowds witnessing the collapse of small buildings, and flag-raising ceremonies turning chaotic when the ground started to shake on the first day of school after a long summer break.

Students are seen on videos screaming in panic, but staying seated or standing still outside school buildings, with some covering their heads with their hands as teachers admonished them to calm down.

One video, which has gone viral on Facebook with millions of views, showed dozens of grade-schoolers screaming and breaking into tears as they sat on a tree-ringed school ground, which visibly swayed them from side to side. A tin roof shed nearby later collapsed with a loud thud, prompting many to dash away, but were asked by teachers to return and stay seated.

The grade school in the coastal town of Malita in Davao Occidental province reported no injuries from the quake.

“This incident serves as a reminder of the importance of earthquake preparedness and the value of regular disaster response drills,” the Mahayahay elementary school said in a statement.

Teresito Bacolcol, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said years of disaster-preparedness drills helped people anticipate and brace for extreme events like Monday’s quake, one of the strongest to hit the archipelago in a half-century.

He said that it was also fortunate that the quake hit at 7:37 a.m., a few minutes before work and classes were to start indoors.

“It’s good that our efforts to educate people on what to do when earthquakes hit somehow paid off,” Bacolcol told The Associated Press.

He expressed concern, however, over the collapse of some buildings that he said should have withstood the powerful quake, if construction standards based on the country’s building code were followed.

Ednar Dayanghirang, director of the Office of Civil Defense in a quake-hit region of about 5 million people, said that regular disaster-preparedness drills helped reduce casualties in many ways, including by preventing deadly stampedes.

“We required all school principals to take one-day courses on incident management, then they appointed disaster-response teams among teachers to deal with earthquakes, tsunamis,” Dayanghirang said. “They listened and they learned.”

The Philippines, one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, is often hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of seismic faults around the ocean.

The future for the S&P 500 was 0.2% lower while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was nearly unchanged.

Investors in the U.S. and elsewhere were awaiting the debut Friday on Wall Street of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, which is set to become the largest IPO on record, raising around $75 billion.

In early European trading, Germany's DAX picked up 1.3% to 24,524.21, while the CAC 40 in Paris rose 1.4% to 8,312.87. Britain's FTSE 100 added 0.7% to 10,374.37.

Asian markets logged bigger gains.

South Korea’s Kospi jumped 4.5% to 8,112.58, narrowing losses from earlier this month from sell-offs of shares related to artificial intelligence. The Kospi has roughly doubled over the past six months, with a record closing high of 8.801.49 on June 2.

Samsung Electronics, South Korea's most valuable company, advanced 7.9%. Computer chipmaker SK Hynix rose 2.3%.

Tokyo’s Nikkei’s 225 gained 2.8% to 66,020.04, also led by gains for technology stocks. SoftBank Group, a multinational investment holding company with a strong AI focus, was up 2%. Chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron jumped 10.3%.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 1.4% to 24,585.93 and the Shanghai Composite index rose 1.1% to 4,031.51.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 closed 2% higher at 8,804.00.

Taiwan’s Taiex gained 2.4%, while India’s Sensex advanced 1%.

The renewed investor optimism came after Trump said Thursday he had called off military strikes against Iran. He asserted that the U.S. had made “a great settlement of the war with Iran,” adding that an extension of the shaky ceasefire between the two sides could be finalized in “the next few days.” Few details were offered.

Global markets retreated earlier in the week as tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated. High oil prices have added to inflationary pressures globally as the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for the world's oil and gas transit, remained largely closed.

“Trump has said many times before that a deal is very close, only for hostilities to resume,” ING commodities analysts Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey wrote in a note on Friday. “However, there does appear to be more positive noise around the deal this time.”

“(But) we would be cautious about assuming that the extension of the ceasefire is a done deal,” they added. “Even if it is, it could be fragile.”

Brent crude oil, the international standard, fell 2.2% to $88.37 per barrel early Friday. That was still much higher than the roughly $70 a barrel level it was at before the war began in late February.

Benchmark U.S. crude shed 2% to $85.92 a barrel.

On Thursday, Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 surged 1.8% to 7,394.30, back to where it was in early May. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 1.9% to 50,848.75, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite climbed 2.5% to 25,809.66.

Prices of AI and other tech stocks have been volatile the past week in part due to renewed worries that massive investments and soaring share prices are creating a bubble liable to burst. On Thursday, U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology climbed 11.1%, but technology company Oracle lost 8.5% on worries over its high spending, despite strong-than-expected quarterly results.

In other dealings early Friday, the U.S. dollar rose to 160.35 Japanese yen from 159.93 yen. The euro was trading at $1.1571, down from $1.1578.

But even then, there were signs of strain in their relationship — tensions that could be on full display during next week’s G7 summit in France.

Back in 2017, Trump was a brash businessman just elected to America's most powerful office, and Macron was an upstart politician who had won his race in a landslide. At a NATO summit in Brussels, they clinched hands far longer than most people do when they meet for the first time. Neither seemed to want to be the first to break a grip so tight that it exposed white knuckles.

Nevertheless, a friendship was born. And early on, Macron seemed to be the one European leader with a knack for managing his mercurial, three-decades-older counterpart.

Macron invited the Republican president to join him for Bastille Day celebrations in July 2017, including an Eiffel Tower dinner date with their wives. Trump reciprocated by making Macron the guest of honor the following year at his first White House state dinner, the highest diplomatic honor the United States can extend to an ally.

But by the end of Trump's first term, the bromance had faded. And in his second term, the leaders now openly trade barbs, disagreeing over tariffs, Ukraine and the Iran war. That dynamic will be scrutinized next week when Trump and the leaders of Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan join Macron in the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains for the G7 summit.

Trump's long-simmering frustrations with US allies could be on display

There could be awkward moments between Trump and Macron, as well as among Trump and the other G7 leaders he's criticized for not joining him in Iran.

“But I also think European leaders are quite professionals when it comes to politics, and in some ways diplomacy at this point, and will maybe see it as an opportunity as well,” Max Bergmann, director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an interview.

Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, said the Trump-Macron relationship has been further complicated by the Iran war and Trump's complaints “that Europeans weren't helping, when they hadn't been consulted, and their interests are very much affected by this.”

“I think that was a negative for Macron,” Volker said.

Trump joined Israel in a war against Iran over its nuclear program back in February without consulting other U.S. allies. He then complained publicly when European countries spurned his requests for their help.

Waning support for Ukraine in its war against Russia from the Trump administration “has really irritated the French,” Volker said. “They feel this is important and we're not paying attention to it.” Macron invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to join the leaders’ discussions on Tuesday.

Macron is the G7 member who has dealt with Trump the longest

In Trump's first term, Macron appeared confident that he could persuade and influence the U.S. leader, but the relationship increasingly has come to be defined by their disagreements.

Macron now says he is “careful” about Trump's statements, suggesting he no longer takes them at face value. Their relationship remains cordial as each calls the other “my friend.” But the relationship has also experienced some ups and downs.

As president-elect, Trump attended the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in late 2024 at Macron's invitation. After Trump began his second term in 2025, Macron was an early Oval Office visitor. The president wrote on social media that he was “delighted” to welcome Macron back to the White House and said the relationship with France has been “very special.”

But at one point during the meeting, the French president publicly corrected Trump after he wrongly suggested that Europe would recover the money it had provided to support Ukraine. With a smile, Macron touched Trump's forearm and replied, “We provided real money.”

Macron also condemned as “brutal and unfounded” new tariffs that Trump slapped on steel, aluminum and a broader range of European imports in early 2025.

But there have also been some lighter moments mixed with the tensions.

A documentary aired last year on French television showed Macron telling Trump during a phone call that Zelenskyy had agreed to a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal. Trump replied, “You’re the greatest.”

Macron has often said he can reach Trump directly whenever he needs to — and proved his point during last year’s U.N. General Assembly session in New York. After police officers blocked the French leader from crossing a street because traffic had been halted for Trump’s motorcade, Macron whipped out his cellphone and dialed the U.S. president.

“How are you?” Macron said. “Guess what? I’m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you!”

‘This is not a show,’ Macron has said about Trump's NATO ambiguity

Macron has argued that Trump’s “America first” policies bolstered his case for a stronger European defense capability that would lessen reliance on the United States.

In April of this year, as Trump sent mixed signals about Washington's commitment to NATO after the start of the war in Iran, Macron delivered some of his sharpest criticism of the U.S. president.

“There is too much talk, and it's going in all directions,” Macron said. “We all need stability, calm and a return to peace. This is not a show.”

“You have to be serious, and when you want to be serious, you don't say the opposite every day of what you said the day before,” he said.

Trump, while mimicking a French accent, recently has taken to reenacting a conversation he says he had with Macron over drug prices and tariffs. Trump also poked Macron by telling a private luncheon in April that his wife, Brigitte Macron, treats her husband badly. The comments were in a video the White House had posted on its YouTube channel before blocking access.

Macron didn't see any humor in Trump's comments. “The remarks I heard were neither elegant nor appropriate,” he said. “They do not deserve a response.”

Still, Macron has tried to accommodate Trump's schedule to ensure his presence at the summit in Evian-les-Bains, knowing that he has a record of leaving such gatherings early.

Macron originally had set Sunday, which is Trump's 80th birthday, as the opening day of the summit, but he pushed the start back a day because Trump is celebrating the occasion with a UFC show staged on the White House grounds.

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After a lackluster first half in which both teams were jeered as they left the field, the Czech Republic took the lead in the 59th minute on a header by captain Ladislav Krejci after a long throw-in into the penalty area.

South Korea equalized in the 67th, when Hwang scored after faking a shot with a nifty move to clear two Czech players. The midfielder who plays for Dutch club Feyenoord then made the cross from the right flank for Oh Hyeon-gyu's decisive strike in the 80th in a match played in front of hundreds of empty seats at Guadalajara Stadium.

The South Korean squad celebrated with its fans behind one of the goals after the final whistle. Players later posed for a photo with the fans behind them.

“It was our first game and a very difficult one,” South Korea coach Hong Myung-bo said. “The win itself makes me happy, but what’s even more positive is that our boys won by not giving up. I knew that we were more than capable of winning, so at 1-1, I told the boys to keep playing the way we’ve been playing.”

It was South Korea's first opening World Cup win since it beat Greece in 2010 in South Africa. South Korea beat European opponent in the tournament for a third straight time, following wins over Portugal in 2022 and Germany in 2018.

Let by star forward Son Heung-min, South Korea controlled possession and outshot the Czechs, who were making their first World Cup appearance since 2006. The Koreans, ranked 25th by FIFA, had most of the significant scoring chances against the 38th-ranked Czechs but failed to capitalize early.

Son was looking to become South Korea’s top goal scorer at the World Cup and the Asian player with the most goals in the tournament. The 33-year-old former Tottenham star, who now plays for Los Angeles FC of Major League Soccer, entered Thursday having scored three goals over three prior World Cups.

Appearing in his fourth World Cup, Son had a couple of good opportunities to add to his tally but missed wide in the first half and had a close-range shot saved in the second.

The Czechs thought they had retaken the lead with another set piece in the 77th, but Tomas Soucek was ruled offside on his header.

Czech Republic coach Miroslav Koubek said “probably the better team won.” But he said his team could have had a better outcome if it weren’t for “some mistakes.”

“We played very well, it could have been a draw and we could have won as well,” Koubek said.

The announced attendance was 44,985 at the 45,664-capacity Guadalajara Stadium, a crowd that included FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Sections in the middle of the stands had many unoccupied seats and there were other empty seats scattered across the stadium.

South Korea is making its 11th straight World Cup appearance and 12th overall, the most of any Asian country. Its best result was a fourth-place finish at the tournament it co-hosted with Japan in 2002. Since then, the South Koreans have never gone beyond the round of 16.

In the other Group A match on Thursday, co-host Mexico defeated South Africa 2-0 in the tournament opener in Mexico City.

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The World Cup returns to the U.S. on Friday for the first time in 32 years after Trump threw himself into winning the bid to co-host the soccer tourney during his first term. He’ll be feted Sunday, his 80th birthday, during a UFC fight night that’s expected to draw thousands to the White House grounds. Hours after the final bout, he’s scheduled to jet off to the G7 summit in the French Alps for talks with several world leaders he’s been beefing with over war and tariffs.

But Trump set expectations even higher for the coming days when he announced Thursday that the U.S. and Iran could come to terms this weekend on an agreement that would set the pathway to end the three-month-old war that's been broadly unpopular with Americans and has rattled global oil markets. He said he plans to dispatch Vice President JD Vance to the signing of the agreement.

Trump has said on several occasions in recent weeks that he's on the cusp of a deal without anything coming to fruition. A spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry told state television following Trump's comments that mediators were active but nothing had been finalized to end the conflict.

Still, Trump is claiming this time might be different.

The breakthrough comes after he threatened to escalate the conflict with more intense bombardment of Iran and by seizing control of Iran’s oil industry, including capturing Iran's vital Kharg Island oil facility. The president's threats followed back-and-forth strikes this week that had rendered a temporary ceasefire agreed to in early April all but meaningless.

“They’ve taken a pounding like very few people could take," Trump said in an Oval Office exchange with reporters as he explained why he was confident that, this time, a deal would come through. "And they want to make the deal a lot more than I do.”

Trump offered scant details about the settlement he says is taking shape, but told reporters that he believed the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who is believed to have been wounded on the first day of the war and has not been seen in public since, is ready to sign off on the deal.

Trump is billing the deal as “very strong," though he says it remains “a little conceptual," and says it would ensure Iran is blocked from ever developing a nuclear weapon.

Trump's heightened threats are aimed at creating an off-ramp

With the conflict intensifying over the past week, Trump’s threat to escalate U.S. military action seemed in part aimed at demonstrating to the hawkish flank of his political base that he was willing to play “hardball” with the Iranians if they didn't come to a deal soon, said Ali Vaez, Iran director at the International Crisis Group.

Trump in March warned he would target Iran’s infrastructure and put American troops on Kharg Island before he ultimately backed down, and the two countries agreed to the temporary ceasefire.

Almost immediately after raising the idea again on social media Thursday, Trump appeared to back away. He called into a morning show on Fox News Channel and questioned whether Americans had the “stomach" for an option that would require putting U.S. troops in harm's way.

Hours later, Trump announced he had decided to cancel orders for “very hard” strikes on Iran and said a deal was close.

Vaez said even as Trump was posting on social media Thursday about escalating strikes, mediators from Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar had been making progress in their talks with Iran.

At the same time, Iran also may have reset the equation for Trump with its decision last weekend to attack Israel directly for the first time since the ceasefire after Israeli forces carried out military strikes on Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

With the move, Iran signaled that Israel could no longer bomb Lebanon without facing a meaningful reaction and in the process also raised the cost for the U.S. to follow through on its commitment to help safeguard Israel.

“It really does appear to me that Trump wants to bring this to an end, but his real challenge is that he’s looking for a victory lap and an exit ramp and those two things are not necessarily compatible,” Vaez said.

Trump expresses frustration with war narrative

Trump has been boasting since the early weeks of the conflict that he'd already won the war — much of the Islamic Republic's leadership has been killed in the bombings and the Iranian navy and air force have been severely degraded.

But Iran continues to effectively keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, choking a waterway through which about 20% of the world's oil supply passed before the war, and has yet to agree to restart negotiations with the U.S. over its concerns about Iran's nuclear program, the main reason Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave to justify launching the war.

But the real problem, Trump grumbled Thursday, was largely a public relations issue.

"They could wave the white flag of surrender. They could say: ‘We surrender, we surrender, we’re finished, we’ve had it. The United States is the greatest power, praise be to Allah,’" Trump said on Fox News. “They could say it loud and clear. And the fake news would say it was a great victory for Iran.”

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, a former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Trump has grown impatient with Iran and the renewed strikes and threats on Kharg Island and Iran's energy sector were intended to get the negotiations back to the “right place.”

Polls show that the conflict is largely unpopular with Americans. McCaul said he believes the Iranians want to “try to drag this out as long as they can,” closer to the midterm elections in November, because they see that as being to their benefit.

War will be high on agenda at next week's G7

Deal or no deal, the war will loom large during next week's talks at the Group of Seven summit in bucolic Évian-les-Bains, France.

Trump has frequently criticized some of the group leaders — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz — for resisting his calls to aid the U.S. and Israeli war effort.

The four leaders have also angered Trump by criticizing how he's gone about executing the war and his lack of consultation with allies before jumping into a conflict that's hurt the global economy as oil prices have surged.

But Trump said he is optimistic he could have an agreement before his talks with leaders in France.

“The strait will officially open as soon as we sign, which could be soon, very soon — maybe over the weekend in Europe,” Trump said.

Constantino, a political newcomer and candidate in the June 23 Republican primary to succeed Rep. Elise Stefanik, boasts a giant “Vote for Trump” sign atop his successful sticker business in the city of Amsterdam. He recorded a hip-hop album titled “Thank you President Trump." He even gifted Trump a big bronze statue of Trump himself last year at his West Palm Beach golf course.

Constantino's antics have not earned him fans among local party officials, who overwhelmingly support his opponent, state Assembly Member Robert Smullen, in the 21st Congressional District race. But Constantino has won over one powerful Republican who still has the power to sway primaries: Trump.

“Anthony is strongly supported by many of the most Highly Respected MAGA Warriors in our Movement, including Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Roger Stone!” Trump wrote in an endorsement of Constantino.

The president added: “The sign is still there!”

Constantino's battle against Smullen, a former U.S. Marine Corps colonel, is shaping up to be another test of Trump's pull at the ballot box, pitting the brash MAGA disciple against a more traditional conservative in the solid-red district.

Constantino has relentlessly attacked Smullen, calling him a “Trump hater” and giving him a derisive nickname out of the Trump playbook — “Slimebob.” He also doesn't miss a chance to feud with the state's Republican leadership.

“The New York GOP is a failing establishment, it’s a losing establishment,” Constantino said in an interview. “They reject outsiders. This happened with Donald Trump. The Republican Party tried to keep Donald Trump out, as well, because they knew he was going to reform things.”

Smullen has cast himself as the adult in the room, stressing his experience in the state Legislature, his military service, and his own ties to Trump.

“I think I directly represent the vast majority of the people in this district, their values, what they think about issues,” he said.

The district is 'not your country club Republican party’

The largely rural district sprawls across most of New York’s northern tip and includes the Adirondack Mountains, the U.S. Army's Fort Drum, dairy farms and dozens of small cities, towns and villages.

It's solid GOP territory — Stefanik won her last race by 24 points — with registered Republicans outnumbering Democrats 215,000 to 134,000. Voters there skew older and white, with many prison guards, police officers, farmers and devoutly religious people, according to Jack McGuire, an associate professor of politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam.

“It’s not your country club Republican party,” he said.

Stefanik shocked the New York political world when she announced late last year that she was suspending her campaign for governor and would not seek reelection to the House.

Her decision came after she didn't get full-throated support from Trump in the governor's race, and it followed an episode where Trump withdrew her nomination to be his ambassador to the United Nations over concerns about Republicans' threadbare majority in the House.

Local Republicans first began angling for the seat after she was tapped to head to the United Nations, only to begin circling again when she launched her run for governor.

A clash of candidates and styles

Smullen, who represents parts of the district in the state Assembly, is running a traditional campaign, chatting up voters at volunteer firehouses and community events.

He highlights a 24-year military career that included three tours of Afghanistan and combat experience, along with his more than seven years in the state Legislature. His 2018 appointment by Trump to serve in the White House Fellows program, along with attending both of Trump's inaugurations, was a go-to line when Constantino moved to cast himself as the Trump candidate during a recent debate.

“The idea that I have never been a supporter of President Donald Trump is a lie, it really is,” Smullen said during the debate. “And what's happening here is that if you say it long enough and if you say it hard enough then it's going to be true. But it's not true.”

Local GOP officials and committees are backing Smullen, as is the chair of the state Republicans. He also has the support of the state Conservative Party, which guarantees him a line in the general election even if he loses the GOP primary.

Matt Capano, who owns a hardware store in Gloversville, a small city in the district, said he knew Smullen as his local state lawmaker and had to “give him a lot of credit” because of his experience.

Constantino — who found success with his company Sticker Mule — is more of a showman. His style has forced his buttoned-up opponent to let loose. Smullen's campaign launched an anti-Constantino website that excoriates him for, among many other things, his past registration as a Democrat.

“I am the conservative Republican in this race,” Smullen said at the debate.

Constantino responded that he registered as a Democrat to vote for a childhood friend who was running for political office while calling himself a “lifelong conservative."

It didn't take long for him to steer the conversation back toward the president.

“I've always had his back through the whole thing,” he said of Trump. “In fact, in 2020, when he nicely exited the White House and a terrible person named Joe Biden entered, I went and I supported the president quietly by buying a Mar-a-Lago membership."

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Online jail records show Ashley Marie Hosendove, 32, faces a charge of disorderly conduct/breach of the peace.

According to court documents, a bench warrant was issued June 1 for Hosendove for an incident that occurred on March 12.

At Miami-Dade bond court Thursday, Hosendove appeared before Judge Betty Capote-Erben, a day after her daughter’s death.

“You have an open case of disorderly conduct. You were supposed to appear in court June 2,” Capote-Erben said.

“Yeah, I was late for the Zoom,” Hosendove replied.

An arrest report states that Hosendove was the victim of a battery allegedly committed by her boyfriend that day.

But as her boyfriend was being taken into custody by police, Hosendove began to “shout and scream profanities” towards officers at the scene and refused to provide them with a form of ID, the report stated.

Police said Hosendove’s actions, which were captured on bodycam video, caused neighbors to gather outside.

At bond court, Capote-Erben noted Hosendove had failed to appear twice.

“Well, you didn’t appear twice. You were supposed to appear April 28, and that one said you didn’t show and they reset your case last week for June 2, so you are telling me last week you logged into Zoom late?” Capote-Erben asked Hosendove.

“I was going to log in,” Hosendove replied.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday’s shooting was reported at about 2 a.m. at a home off Northwest First Court near 16^th Street.

Authorities said the girl, who was identified by a family member as Janova Park, suffered gunshot wounds to her stomach and torso and was rushed to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where she later died.

“We know that at the time of the shooting, there were three adults and two children -- the victim who’s 5 years old and her 4-year-old brother,” MDSO Detective Angel Rodriguez said Wednesday.

Detectives confirmed that Hosendove was among the adults inside the home at the time of the shooting.

Detectives said they’re still trying to determine how Janova was shot, including whether she may have accessed the gun herself or whether someone else shot her.

Local 10’s Hannah Yechivi spoke to Laticha Ellison, Janova’s grandmother, on Wednesday, who said the shooting could’ve been prevented.

“My grandbaby is 5 years old,” Ellison said through tears. “She’s only 5. It makes me angry because nothing like this should be able to happen, especially in your home — carelessness.”

Ellison described her granddaughter as “smart and sassy.”

Investigators said a gun was recovered inside the home and that they “are not looking for any individuals that may pose a threat to the community.”

Hosendove appeared in court Thursday morning and had a bond of $1,500.

Hosendove bonded out of jail Thursday night and ignored questions from reporters.

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Traffic homicide detectives with the Hialeah Police Department confirmed the arrest of Leonel Alejandro Laferte following an investigation into the crash.

According to police, the collision occurred around 4:11 a.m. near Southeast Fourth Avenue and East Okeechobee Road.

Investigators said Laferte was driving a dark-colored vehicle when he allegedly struck 37-year-old Kenneth Wembley, who was riding a bicycle, and then continued southeast on East Okeechobee Road without stopping.

Wembley died from his injuries, authorities said.

Police previously confirmed that Laferte’s vehicle was believed to have noticeable front-end damage and was missing its passenger-side mirror.

Lt. Eddie Rodriguez, a HPD spokesman, said Laferte is facing one count each of leaving the scene of a crash involving death and driving while his license was suspended.

Police said no additional information was being released as the case moves forward for prosecution.

With Karlsson knocked out of Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final because of injury, the Golden Knights took four penalties that turned into two power-play goals against. Carter Hart allowed four goals for a fifth consecutive game in the series, and now his team is on the brink of elimination after losing 4-2 to Carolina on Thursday night.

“When we lose Bill, it kind of screws things up," coach John Tortorella said. “We lost momentum when we went back to back in penalties. It was about the same time that we lost Bill. We’ve got to find a way.”

Karlsson appeared to injure his left arm or shoulder after getting knocked into the boards by Hurricanes defenseman Sean Walker a little over eight minutes into the second period. He got medical attention on the bench briefly, skated off and never returned and Tortorella foreshadowed that being the end of Karlsson's series.

“He’s not going to be with us, probably,” Tortorella said. "We’ve got to find a way to fill that void, not with just one guy but as a team.”

Karlsson making his playoff debut at the start of the second round changed everything for Vegas, shifting Mitch Marner to the wing and providing the kind of strong, reliable center depth needed to win this time of year. Karlsson had nine points in 14 games after missing the previous six months because of an undisclosed injury.

But the void left by Karlsson’s departure was all too clear, especially on the penalty kill. Carolina’s Andrei Svechnikov scored the first of his two power-play goals less than four minutes after Karlsson left, then added another in the third.

“He’s an important piece to us: up the middle of the ice, a penalty killer, power play guy," Tortorella said. “He’s a winner."

Fourth-liner Nick Dowd called Karlsson one of the team's best players. Defenseman Brayden McNabb, who along with Karlsson and Shea Theodore are the only players who have been around for Vegas’ entire nine-year existence, said Karlsson was a big leader in the locker room.

Karlsson is also nearly impossible to replace.

“He means so much," fellow center Jack Eichel said. "He’s a world class player. He plays in all situations. He’s extremely reliable in our own zone, and he creates a lot of offense. ... It's tough. You lose someone like Karl who’s so valuable to our team and playing so well. But it just means everyone else has to step up.”

Tortorella expects that to happen, promising there will be a Game 7 in Raleigh on Wednesday night.

“We’ll be back here. We’re just going to do it in a different order," Tortorella said. "I’m going to leave my clothes here, that’s for sure. They’ll be in the hotel.”

To do that, they'll have to win Game 6 back home in Las Vegas on Sunday. Hart is expected to be in net again despite a save percentage of .856 in the final.

Asked if he considered going to backup Adin Hill — who backstopped Vegas to the Cup in 2023 — in the third period, Tortorella scoffed and said, "That could be the stupidest question I’ve heard.”

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The Seoul Central District Court found Yoon and his ex-defense minister, Kim Yong Hyun, guilty of aiding an adversary and abusing their power, saying they sought to provoke North Korea into launching armed attacks or other serious provocations against South Korea to manufacture a national emergency. It said the moves harmed South Korea’s military interests by exposing its capabilities, undermining its ability to conduct future operations and prompting North Korea to strengthen its defense posture.

The same court earlier sentenced Yoon to life in prison for a rebellion conviction over his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.

North Korea accused Seoul of flying drones over Pyongyang to drop propaganda leaflets three times in October 2024. Kim, who was South Korea’s defense minister at the time, issued a vague denial before the Defense Ministry said it could neither confirm nor deny the allegations. Tensions rose sharply but did not lead to any military clashes.

Yoon’s lawyers criticized the latest ruling, saying the drone flights were a response to North Korea flying thousands of trash-carrying balloons into the South earlier in 2024. They argued that a guilty verdict would undermine South Korea's security interests but did not immediately say whether they would appeal.

Investigators led by special prosecutor Cho Eun-suk had sought a 30-year prison term for Yoon, accusing him of trying to create a warlike situation between the Koreas while plotting an authoritarian push to remove his political opponents and “monopolize” power. They had sought a 25-year prison term for Kim Yong Hyun, a key confidant of Yoon who helped plan and mobilize forces for Yoon’s martial law declaration.

Yoon proceeded with the declaration late in the night of Dec. 3, 2024, delivering a televised address in which he accused liberal lawmakers of being North Korea-sympathizing “anti-state” forces. He cited a range of grievances, but particularly the opposition’s impeachments of senior officials and cuts to his government’s budget bill.

Martial law lasted about six hours until lawmakers broke through a blockade of soldiers and police at the National Assembly and voted to overturn it, forcing Yoon’s Cabinet to lift the measure.

Yoon was quickly suspended from office, impeached and formally removed by the Constitutional Court. He was arrested in July 2025 and several criminal trial are ongoing.

The verdict in the most serious case, of rebellion, has been appealed both by Yoon and prosecutors, who had sought a death sentence.

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Five of those inspections resulted in follow-up inspections being required.

Elvis Italian Grille is a relatively new restaurant. It’s the old Mineo’s Pizza & Wings location on Griffin Road.

Records show it has been open for less than a year. An inspector visited the restaurant last week in response to a complaint.

Below is a list of the two restaurants that were inspected and some of the violations documented.

No kitchens in the Florida Keys were ordered shut last week.

All of the establishments mentioned were allowed to re-open after completing a required cleanup and passing a follow-up inspection.

**SICHUAN FISH RESTAURANT (SICHUAN CUISINE)

1242 NE 163RD ST.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 6/2

23 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed 6 droppings on dry storage floor. Also 4 droppings on kitchen floor in between the triple doors reach in freezer and wall, 1 dropping under dishwasher machine, 1 dropping on top of the clean garbage bags box located on front counter shelves.”

“Food with mold-like growth. See stop sale. Observed 3 cases with Spicy Mala Soup Base with Beef Tallow, with mold like growth in walk in cooler.”

“Accumulation of debris inside ware washing machine.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Under dishwasher machine. Repeat Violation.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw beef over cooked noodles in reach in cooler, operator removed it.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink.”

FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION 6/3

“Observed 7 droppings on the dry storage area shelf.”

**ELVIS ITALIAN GRILLE

4261 GRIFFIN ROAD

DANIA BEACH

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 6/5

18 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 1. Approximately 5 live roaches found in kitchen by cookline ;2 live roaches on floor by stoves, 2 live roaches on floor by reach in coolers, 1 live roach on floor behind ice machine in kitchen.”

“Dead roaches on premises. 1. Approximately 5 dead roaches observed by ware washing station 2 dead roaches on floor under bag in box soda area, 2 dead roaches on floor under triple sink and 1 dead roach on floor by dishwasher in kitchen. 2. Approximately 3 dead roaches observed on floor of bar area.”

“Live, small flying insects found 1. Approximately 10 live small flying insects observed at bar separate from kitchen.”

“Accumulation of black mold-like substance in the interior of the ice bin.”

“Interior of microwave has accumulation of food debris.”

“Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. 1. Observed bar area espresso machine with build up milk residue.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. 1. Container of raw chicken stored over container of raw steaks. 2. Container of raw salmon stored over container of cut spinach.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for employee hired more than 60 days ago.”

Newcomer Abelardo de la Espriella, a right-wing supporter of Donald Trump, and Iván Cepeda, a leftist and ally of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, moved forward after a tense election on May 31.

In Coral Gables, early voting will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. from June 15-20 at the University of Miami’s Watsco Center, at 1245 Dauer Drive — and not at the consulate at 280 Aragon Ave.

Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak, Jr., said on Thursday that the decision to avoid the consulate prioritized security, while the city was already dealing with high traffic during the FIFA World Cup.

Election Day is on June 21, and officials expect a high turnout. Voters will have assigned precincts available in a searchable database that requires the number of the Colombian identification, or “cedula.”

In South Florida, there will be six precincts. Three will be in Miami-Dade County and three in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Aside from the new one in Coral Gables, there will be one at the main gymnasium of the Miami Dade College campus, at 11011 SW 104 St., in Kendall, and one at the Milander Center, at 4800 Palm Ave., in Hialeah.

The voting precincts in Broward will be at Coral Springs High School, 7201 West Sample Road, and in the gymnasium of Cypress Bay High School, at 18600 Vista Park Boulevard, in Weston.

The precinct in Palm Beach will be at the Public Safety Conference Center at the Palm Beach State College at 4200 South Congress Ave.

In Florida, the consulate also reported that there will be a new precinct at the Strobes Event Center, at 3251 17 St., in Sarasota.

For more information from the Colombian consulate of Miami, visit this page. For more information from the Embassy of Colombia in the U.S., visit this page.

Seanna Martinez didn’t realize it at the time, but she was being groomed online. By 14, she had connected with a man on a hookup app called HUD, an app she chose specifically because it didn’t have an 18-plus age restriction.

“It’s supposed to be an app where you have FWB, which is friends with benefits,” she said. “I kind of just looked for something that was not necessarily for adults.”

She remembered specifically seeking it out: “I remember specifically back then I didn’t want to get on an adult dating site because the age restriction was like, ‘Oh, 18 plus.’ But I remember that that app, HUD, at least back then, I believe it wasn’t 18 plus.”

The man went by the alias “Adam0041.” He was actually Osher Mamion, a 30-year-old who wasted little time. His first message asked her age. When she told him she wasn’t 18, he responded, “Sexy.”

Within minutes, they moved from HUD to Snapchat, then to Instagram, where they video-chatted between 11 p.m. and midnight. Over two days, according to a court affidavit, Mamion convinced Seanna to send him explicit photos of herself.

Seanna said older men had been pulling her in for years before Mamion:

“At that time, I was honestly speaking to so many guys online who were older than me, who would genuinely just control me,” she said. “We would be on the phone for hours at night, and that was part of the grooming process. I feel like that’s kind of where I got this idea — ‘I’m just into older men’ — but the reality was I was really just into the affection that I was receiving, and I just kind of made that my identity.”

The two eventually agreed to meet in person. Seanna tried to back out, texting that they should meet another day. Mamion pushed back, telling her he had taken off work.

“I wanted to back out, and I remember making up a bunch of excuses, just being like, ‘No, I can’t do it,’” she said. “And he was very adamant, saying, ‘Oh, I took off of work — how could you do this to me?’ and so on and so forth. I eventually — I didn’t really know how to say no — just said, ‘OK, we’ll meet up.’”

Mamion picked Seanna up from her middle school in North Miami in a blue SUV and took her back to his apartment.

“I kind of just remember feeling icky, because even though online it was one thing, in person it was just kind of having someone who was ready to take advantage of you. It was very weird,” she said.

The relationship ended after Seanna casually mentioned Mamion to her sister, who was a year older. Her older sister took her phone and drove her straight to the police department. North Miami Beach police contacted the the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Mamion admitted to investigators that he had exchanged explicit photos with Seanna but claimed he didn’t know she was 14.

Seanna now wants parents to understand what she didn’t have: boundaries around cell phone use.

“Having boundaries with my cell phone, definitely placed by your parents — I would say they unfortunately placed too much trust in me and my cell phone, but my cell phone had predators on it,” she said.

Her message to parents is direct:

“I would say to set clear boundaries with your kids and their cell phone usage — whether that’s literally physically removing it from them at a certain time, checking it frequently, checking who they’re talking to, checking the apps that they have. That’s what’s going to help prevent things like this from happening.”

And even when kids push back, she says parents need to hold firm.

“I believe that it is the parents’ responsibility to do everything in their power to make sure their kid is safe. So even if there’s pushback, they need to step up and be a parent and make sure that their child is not in danger, because at the end of the day, if it’s not you, it’s going to be the predator who’s looking after your kids.”

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts downplayed the significance of the injury.

Roberts said the move was precautionary because the Dodgers did not want to risk Ohtani being injured further.

Roberts also said he is optimistic that Ohtani will be ready to play Friday night when the Dodgers meet the White Sox in Chicago to open a three-game series between division leaders.

“We tried to be smart about it and get him out of the game,” Roberts said. “He told the trainer that he felt a little something behind his knee and I just didn’t see any sense in risking it.”

The reigning NL MVP hit his 13th homer of the season, a solo shot, in the third inning. He also had a single and walked twice, reaching base in all four of his plate appearances.

Ohtani was not made available to the media following the game. He is hitting .305 with 40 RBIs. As a pitcher, he is 6-2 with a 1.06 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 67 2/3 innings.

Starting pitcher Justin Wrobleski left the game in the fifth inning with a left hamstring contusion. The left-hander was hit by a line drive off the bat of Bryan Reynolds. The ball ricocheted off Wrobleski to first baseman Freddie Freeman. Wrobleski collided with Reynolds while taking Freeman’s toss at first base.

“I’ll get some treatment on it and I’ll be fine,” Wrobleski said. “I don’t think it’s a big deal. Just a little frustrating.” ___

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La ceremonia para la suscripción de los acuerdos fue realizada en el palacio presidencial de Miraflores y estuvo encabezada por la presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez. Estuvieron presentes el presidente de Exploración y Producción de Shell, Peter Costello; la ministra de Petróleo venezolana, Paula Henao, y el presidente de PDVSA, Héctor Obregón.

Entre los cinco acuerdos suscritos destaca la licencia para el inicio de la Fase I de desarrollo y explotación del campo Loran, un conjunto de yacimientos de gas no asociado —que contiene principalmente ese hidrocarburo— ubicado en la fachada atlántica de Venezuela, con reservas estimadas en 7,5 billones de pies cúbicos, según cifras de PDVSA.

“La firma de estos acuerdos son un logro maravilloso para Venezuela y Shell; subraya nuestra alianza de mucho tiempo y estoy ansioso de trabajar juntos para ver lo que podemos lograr juntos en beneficio de Venezuela, de Shell”, indicó Costello.

Rodríguez, por su parte, indicó que la licencia del campo Loran “va a permitir que Venezuela dé un paso muy importante en su desarrollo gasífero y también como exportador de gas”.

“Lo dijimos desde que comenzamos las negociaciones con Shell y otras empresas en el área de gas, que queríamos convertir a Venezuela en un exportador de gas y con esta firma estamos reafirmando ese camino”, agregó la mandataria, destacando que el campo Loran estuvo sin desarrollo durante 23 años.

Los yacimientos se ubican mayoritariamente a ambos lados de la línea fronteriza entre Venezuela y Trinidad y Tobago.

Los gobiernos de Caracas y Nueva España —que en la década de 1990 firmaron el Tratado de Delimitación que establece los términos sobre la forma de explotación de cualquier yacimiento de hidrocarburos en ambos lados de la línea fronteriza— firmaron en 2015 un acuerdo para la explotación conjunta de yacimientos comunes, entre otras medidas para impulsar proyectos y beneficios binacionales.

El acuerdo fue suscrito luego de que en enero fue aprobada una nueva Ley de Hidrocarburos que redujo drásticamente el rígido control estatal sobre las operaciones petroleras vigente en las últimas dos décadas y que abrió ampliamente el sector a la inversión extranjera.

En respuesta a esa reforma legal, el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos comenzó a flexibilizar las sanciones a los hidrocarburos venezolanos y amplió la capacidad de las compañías energéticas estadounidenses y de otros países para operar en Venezuela.

Después que una operación militar de fuerzas estadounidenses depuso y capturó al entonces presidente Nicolás Maduro la madrugada del 3 de enero pasado, Washington se ha propuesto impulsar la capacidad operativa de Venezuela y asumir el control de la producción, refinación y distribución global de los productos petroleros venezolanos.

The 33-year-old Endo posted his decision on his X account in Japanese three days before his team's Group F opener against the Netherlands. The Japan team has been training in Nashville, Tennessee.

“Since getting injured and up till this point, I’ve done everything I could and I have no regret,” said Endo, who underwent surgery on his left foot in February. He came off at halftime on his return in Japan’s 1-0 warmup match victory against Iceland on May 31 in Tokyo.

“With this campaign, I will be retiring from the national team. So from here on, I’ll be cheering for the Japan national team as one of the fans."

National team director Masakuni Yamamoto said Ajax defender Ko Itakura has been named the new captain, while Borussia Monchengladbach forward Shuto Machino has been called up as a replacement for Endo.

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"It was instinctual. No one taught me how to do it," she said of songwriting through a raspy voice she attributed to screaming along to the night's performances and Wednesday night's historic NBA game between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.

She told the room about her family uprooting their lives to move her from Pennsylvania to Nashville, Tennessee, as a tween.

“I will never be able to express my gratitude,” the singer-songwriter said while holding back tears — crediting their sacrifice for her career.

She offered young songwriters advice: “You really have to prioritize what you love, down to your very core. Because you'll need that."

Steven Spielberg introduced Swift with a surprise speech about the power of songwriting. “There is something undeniable about how songs imprint on our souls,” he said, before changing his focus to Swift. “Somehow Taylor knows us all too well.”

Swift started her speech by acknowledging Spielberg. “Because of examples like Steven's, I trusted my imagination," she said.

The Gen Z singer Sombr launched Swift's segment by performing “Cardigan” and “Dear John" in front of her.

Swift has brought new eyes to this year’s ceremony and undeniably shaped contemporary pop music trends with her songwriting. Swift is the youngest woman inducted, but Stevie Wonder, who started his recording career at 13, was the youngest ever inducted, it was announced on stage.

It was a notable moment in an evening full of them, where Swift, Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins and more were honored.

A night of celebrating songwriters

Tamar Braxton opened the gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City with a spirted tribute to a new inductee — the game-changing R&B songwriter, producer and rapper Christopher “Tricky” Stewart — with one of the biggest songs he's known for: Beyoncé's “Single Ladies.”

He's also responsible for singer-songwriter Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Mariah Carey's “Touch My Body” and Justin Bieber's “Baby.”

Dallas Austin, a songwriter and producer known for work with Boyz ll Men and Madonna, introduced Stewart. “Think about that catalog,” he said, listing off those zeitgeist-shifting records. “Those are cultural moments."

Stewart thanked God, his family, artists he's worked with and mentors — giving a special shout out to Grammy award-winning music producer Antonio “L.A.” Reid and the iconic singer-songwriter Babyface. “I wanted to be like L.A. and Baby,” he reflected.

Kiss founders Simmons and Stanley — two and a half years after the band’s farewell — were also recognized for their glam rock classics “Rock and Roll All Nite” and “I Love It Loud.” The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan covered the former, a fittingly fiery introduction for the band. He was joined by Goo Goo Dolls’ frontman John Rzeznik for the latter.

Simmons wasn't present; Stanley said that he had a family emergency.

“Songs are the messenger,” he said — the foundation of “every show.”

Soft rock legend Kenny Loggins (“Footloose,” “Danny’s Song”) and the alt-rock icon Morissette were also inducted.

For the latter, Brandi Carlile performed “Uninvited” alongside SistaStrings, before introducing Morissette.

“Writing to me is not a hobby,” Morissette said, it’s critical. “It’s write or die.” Then she performed “Mary Jane” and "You Oughta Know" from her 1995 album “Jagged Little Pill.”

For Loggins, Gavin DeGraw performed “Danny’s Song,” before Loggins told the story behind the tune in his acceptance speech.

Acknowledging writers and their hits

Taylor Dayne and Madison Cunningham performed Tina Turner classics written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle in honor of their induction; John Fogerty was honored with the Johnny Mercer Award.

“I got my songs back!” Fogerty said, ending a nearly 30-minute speech, referencing the fact that he won the rights back to his catalog at age 80. Then he ran through a medley of his hits: “Proud Mary,” “Fortunate Son,” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” among them.

The songwriter Walter Afanasieff (Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You”) was also recognized, a segment that began with an introduction by actor Jeremy Renner and included a monster medley of his biggest songs by R&B singer Sheléa, kicking off with his Christmas classic six months early.

“I wanted to be The Beatles,” he said of falling in love with songwriting in his speech. “Sixty years later, I got to produce Paul McCartney.”

An established tradition

British singer-songwriter RAYE received the prestigious Hal David Starlight Award. She ended her speech by stating that songwriters deserve a cut of master royalties.

Last year's inductees included George Clinton, The Doobie Brothers, Ashley Gorley, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, The Beach Boys’ Mike Love and Tony Macaulay.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1969 to honor those creating popular music. A songwriter with a notable catalog of songs qualifies for induction 20 years after the first commercial release of a song.

Some already in the hall include Gloria Estefan, Carole King, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Lionel Richie, Bill Withers, Neil Diamond and Phil Collins.

In a new blow to the Kremlin's narrative that Moscow is winning the 4-year-old war in Ukraine, Kyiv's forces have targeted supplies to Crimea, triggering the worst fuel crisis on the Black Sea peninsula since it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

The persistent attacks reflect the growing intensity and efficiency of Ukraine’s drone strikes and have caught Russia off-guard and struggling for a response.

As the country marks the Russia Day national holiday on Friday, signaling the start of summer vacations, the gas shortages are threatening to cause further disruptions to the tourism-dependent region with its beaches and resorts.

In a rare public acknowledgment, the Kremlin has recognized the scope of the problem and promised to address the issue quickly.

Ukraine's successes have highlighted its ability to inflict painful damage to Russia and change the course of the conflict while Moscow’s advances recently have ground to a near halt. On Thursday, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine reached its 1,569th day, surpassing the duration of World War I.

Crimea’s importance to Russia

Crimea has been a jewel in Russia’s imperial crown since it was seized from Turkic-speaking Tatars in the 18th century after Moscow defeated the Ottoman Empire.

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 when both republics were part of the USSR. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the diamond-shaped peninsula became part of newly independent Ukraine.

Russia kept a naval base in Sevastopol, and when a Moscow-friendly Ukrainian president was ousted by a popular uprising in February 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent in troops to overtake Crimea. Weeks later, Moscow annexed the peninsula following a referendum that most of the world refuses to recognize.

Soon afterward, a Moscow-backed separatist insurgency erupted in eastern Ukraine, and fighting there raged with varying intensity until the February 2022 invasion. Russian troops concentrated in Crimea quickly seized large parts of southern Ukraine early in the war and secured the land route to the peninsula.

Since early in the war, Ukraine has fired missiles and drones to try to dislodge Moscow’s hold on the territory. The Ukrainian military sank several Russian warships in the Black Sea and at their Crimean bases, crippling Moscow’s naval capability and forcing it to redeploy its fleet to Novorossiysk.

Ukraine also methodically targeted munitions depots, airfields and Putin’s prized asset, the Kerch Bridge linking Crimea to Russia. The span was struck by a truck bomb in October 2022 that killed five people, blew up two sections of the bridge and required months of repairs. More attacks on the bridge followed in 2023 and 2025.

Ukraine's attacks on the land corridor to Crimea

Sine the Kerch Bridge attacks, Russia has channeled most fuel and other supplies along the highway and railroad via the occupied territories along the Sea of Azov coast. Those shipments were interrupted last month, when Ukrainian drones hit fuel trucks on the highway that Moscow once deemed to be safe, leaving behind dozens of burning vehicles.

Other relentless Ukrainian strikes hit refineries, oil depots and pipelines deep inside Russia, hurting its oil exports and causing domestic fuel shortages.

The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War noted the synergy between the longer-range attacks and those disrupting supplies to Crimea and other occupied regions.

“The long-range strike campaign is therefore reducing Russia’s production capacity, while the midrange strike campaign is hurting Russia’s ability to transport the gasoline Russia is still able to produce,” it said in an analysis.

Making maters worse, Ukrainian drones this week repeatedly hit the Chonhar Bridge, which links mainland Ukraine and Crimea over a shallow strait. Authorities deployed pontoon bridges.

The Ukrainian military said it struck the bridge to disrupt movement of troops, ammunition and fuel from Crimea.

Queues and gas rationing

It's not immediately clear how the fuel disruptions will affect Russian military operations, but residents of Crimea and other occupied territories are keenly feeling the blow.

The peninsula has had periodic fuel shortages from Ukrainian strikes before, but this crisis is the worst since its 2014 annexation.

At the end of May, authorities restricted the sale of gasoline to 20 liters (5 1/3 gallons) per vehicle owner per week using prepaid coupons. Those were snapped up immediately following their release on an official messaging app channel, and motorists lined up for hours, waiting to refuel.

Social networks have been abuzz with requests and advice on where to find fuel, and authorities launched a hotline for tourists who have found themselves trapped.

While fuel shipments over the Kerch Bridge long has been suspended for security reasons since the Ukrainian attacks, fuel also has been carried by ferries. Those shipments are expected to increase.

Some motorists bring their own gas over the bridge from the mainland, but they are restricted to carrying 100 liters (about 26 1/2 gallons) per vehicle. Some speculators are selling gas at double the market price.

Crimea attracted nearly 7 million tourists last year, and it had hoped to top that number this year. The business daily Kommersant reported that nearly 80% of hotel bookings were canceled in late May and early June.

Some hotels offered gasoline as a bonus for new bookings, offers that were quickly snapped up.

Some travelers were unsettled by a Ukrainian drone attack earlier this week on a passenger train traveling from Moscow to Crimea, injuring its driver and killing his assistant. That led to a brief suspension of service, with passengers taken by buses.

An earlier attack on a commuter train in Crimea killed one person and injured three others, forcing authorities to shift schedules to limit service during daytime hours.

Kremlin pledges action

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged the Crimean fuel shortages earlier this week and promised that “measures were being taken” to deal with them.

The Russian Defense Ministry has been silent about the Ukrainian attacks on the land corridor, while some war bloggers have harshly criticized the military for failing to anticipate the strikes and its slow response.

Some suggested military escorts for fuel trucks while others urged stepping up strikes on Ukrainian bridges, fuel storage sites and other infrastructure.

Amid the fuel crisis and the finger-pointing, Ukraine dealt another symbolic blow to Russia, striking a historic Sevastopol building that houses a huge panoramic painting that depicts the defense of the city during the 19th century Crimean War. The painting was effectively destroyed by fire during the attack, according to Mikhail Razvozhayev,, the Kremlin-appointed head of Crimea's largest city.

Given Putin’s focus on Crimea, military blogger Valery Shiryayev said, the attack would certainly anger the Russian leader.

“It’s hard to find another work of art, another part of national heritage, whose destruction would be as painful for Putin,” he said.

She died Thursday evening at a Bangkok hospital where she had been cared for since falling unconscious due to illness three years ago, according to the statement issued Friday.

“This loss is not merely bad news announced to the people, but an immeasurable grief in the hearts of the entire nation,” Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said in a televised speech. He said the princess was “a pride of Thailand,” and that “her commitment to building a society of kindness, justice, and equality, will forever remain as a moral legacy for the nation, a guiding light for generations of Thais.”

A small group of mourners gathered in an atrium at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, where the princess had been treated. Most held framed or laminated photos of her throughout the years.

Pattamaporn Kaewkityakorn said she had arrived Thursday and spent the night there to show her support for the princess, unaware that the announcement of her passing would come the following morning.

“I know she was sick, but I wished there were a miracle,” she said, her voice trembling. “I was saddened and shocked.”

Bajrakitiyabha was active in justice reform efforts and best known for her Kamlangjai, or “Inspire,” project to help rehabilitate incarcerated Thai women ahead of their release.

Bajrakitiyabha was hospitalized in December 2022 after falling unconscious while training dogs for an army exhibition. The palace said she had a mycoplasma infection, a bacterial infection usually associated with pneumonia.

Her father's New Year’s greeting card for 2023 showed King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida garbed in somber black, which many Thais saw as confirmation of the gravity of her condition.

The princess was born on Dec. 7, 1978, to Vajiralongkorn, who was the crown prince at the time, and his then-wife, Princess Soamsawali. Vajiralongkorn has seven children by three of his four successive wives. Bajrakitiyabha was also known by the royal name Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, used in formal state settings.

Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, the youngest of the king’s children, is the presumptive heir because sons take precedence in Thailand's line of succession. But Bajrakitiyabha's experience in public service raised speculation she was set to hold an important role in any future succession, perhaps as regent to a youthful monarch.

Bajrakitiyabha studied law at Thammasat University then went to Cornell University in New York state, where she earned a master’s degree in law in 2002. She earned a doctorate at Cornell in 2005 with a dissertation concerning the protection of the rights of the accused. Scholarships to Cornell Law School and a program for the exchange of legal scholars between Thailand and Cornell were later established in her name.

After working briefly at the Thai Mission to the U.N. in New York City, she returned home and worked as a public prosecutor. She renewed her diplomatic career with an appointment as Thailand’s ambassador to Austria from 2012 to 2014 before returning to her homeland to concentrate on criminal justice issues. In 2017 she was appointed a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.

In addition to working for the rehabilitation of female convicts, she was involved in other projects including a campaign to enhance the living conditions of women prisoners and promoting efforts to stem violence against women as an honorary U.N. goodwill ambassador for women. Her efforts led to the U.N. General Assembly adopting the “Bangkok Rules” on care and conditions for female prisoners.

“Society cannot grow if there is instability and injustice,” Bajrakitiyabha said in a 2013 interview with The Associated Press.

“Without the rule of law, without a good justice system, it’s always chaos,” she said. “I think the rule of law is a very important pillar to development, to economic growth, and of course to human rights.”

Bajrakitiyabha is survived by her parents and siblings.

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Associated Press journalist Anton L. Delgado contributed to this report.

June 11: Coverage of Day 1 of Group A matches

• Mexico gets off to roaring World Cup start with a 2-0 win over South Africa in the opening match
• 3 red cards mar opening World Cup match between Mexico and South Africa
• Get a feel for Mexicans’ local celebrations at bars in Miami’s Wynwood and at a concert in South Beach
• South Korea plays the winner of Czech Republic at 10 p.m. on June 11 in Guadalajara.

June 18: Day 2 of Group A matches

The Czech Republic plays South Africa at Noon on June 18 in Atlanta.

Mexico plays South Korea at 9 p.m. on June 18 in Guadalajara.

June 24: Day 3 of Group A matches

The Czech Republic plays against Mexico at 9 p.m. on June 24 in Mexico City.

South Africa plays against South Korea at 9 p.m. on June 24 in Monterrey.

Track the groups

• Group B
• Group C
• Group D
• Group E
• Group F
• Group G
• Group H
• Group I
• Group J
• Group K
• Group L

On opening day, all eyes were on Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium, which hosted over 80,820 fans. At bars in Miami’s Wynwood, Mexicans and Mexican Americans celebrated a 2-0 victory over South Africa.

Their chant in Spanish: “¡Que viva México!"

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The “Aztec Nation” is proud to be co-hosting the first 48-team World Cup tournament with Canada and the U.S. Julián Quiñones and Raúl Jiménez scored the goals to move ahead with three new points in Group A.

The referee handed defender César Montes one of the game’s three red cards. Javier Aguirre, their coach, played for the national team in 1986 when Mexico hosted the World Cup and reached the quarterfinals, and he felt proud.

“We didn’t play well in the first half, but we could have gone into the break leading 3–0, and no one would have complained. We were far superior,” Aguirre told reporters after the game. “In the second half, it felt like we relaxed a bit, but starting with a win is good.”

Mexican fans ended the night by looking forward to their team’s next challenging match against South Korea at 9 p.m. on June 18. Guadalajara will be the host city.

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DATES AND TIMES

Here is the schedule of World Cup games

June 11: The Group A match, South Korea vs. Czech Republic, is at 11 p.m.

June 12: The Group B match, Canada vs. Bosnia, is at 3 p.m. and the Group D match, U.S. vs. Paraguay, is at 9 p.m.

June 13: There are three matches: The Group B, Qatar vs. Switzerland, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Haiti vs. Scotland, game is at 9 p.m.

June 14: There are five matches: The Group D, Australia vs. Turkey, game is at Midnight. The Group E, Germany vs. Curaçao, game is at 1 p.m. The Group F, The Netherlands vs. Japan, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Sweden vs. Tunisia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 15: There are four matches: The Group H, Spain vs. Cape Verde, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Egypt, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, Iran vs. New Zealand, game is at 9 p.m.

June 16: There are three matches: The Group I, France vs. Senegal, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Iraq vs. Norway, game is at 6 p.m. The Group J, Argentina vs. Algeria, game is at 9 p.m.

June 17: There are five matches: The Group J, Austria vs. Jordan, game is at Midnight. The Group K, Portugal vs. Congo, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Croatia, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Ghana vs. Panama, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Uzbekistan vs. Colombia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 18: There are four matches: The Group A match, The Czech Republic vs. South Africa, is at Noon. The Group B, Switzerland vs. Bosnia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Canada vs. Qatar, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A match, Mexico vs. South Korea, is at 9 p.m.

June 19: There are four matches: The Group D, U.S. vs. Australia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Haiti, game is at 8:30 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. Paraguay, game is at 11 p.m.

June 20: There are three matches: The Group F, Netherlands vs. Sweden, game is at 1 p.m. The Group E, Germany vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Curaçao, game is at 8 p.m.

June 21: There are five matches: The Group F, Tunisia vs. Japan, game is at Midnight. The Group H, Spain vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Iran, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Egypt, game is at 9 p.m.

June 22: There are four matches: The Group J, Argentina vs. Austria, game is at 1 p.m. The Group I, France vs. Iraq, game is at 5 p.m. The Group I, Norway vs. Senegal, game is at 8 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Algeria, game is at 11 p.m.

June 23: There are four matches: The Group K, Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Ghana, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Panama vs. Croatia, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Congo, game is at 10 p.m.

June 24: There are six matches: The Group B, Switzerland vs. Canada, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Bosnia vs. Qatar, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Morocco vs. Haiti, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Brazil, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A, South Africa vs. South Korea, game is at 9 p.m. The Group A, Czech Republic vs. Mexico, game is at 9 p.m.

June 25: There are six matches: The Group E, Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Germany, game is at 4 p.m. The Group F, Tunisia vs. Netherlands, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Japan vs. Sweden, game is at 7 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. U.S., game is at 10 p.m. The Group D, Paraguay vs. Australia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 26: There are six matches: The Group I, Norway vs. France, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Senegal vs. Iraq, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at 8 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Spain, game is at 8 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Belgium, game is at 11 p.m. The Group G, Egypt vs. Iran, game is at 11 p.m.

June 27: There are six matches: The Group L, Panama vs. England, game is at 5 p.m. The Group L, Croatia vs. Ghana, game is at 5 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Portugal, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group K, Congo vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group J, Algeria vs. Austria, game is at 10 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Argentina, game is at 10 p.m.

June 28: There is a match at 3 p.m.

June 29: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

June 30: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

July 1: There are three matches at noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

July 2: There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

July 3: There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

July 4: There are two matches at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

July 5: There are two matches at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 6: There are two matches at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 7: There are two matches at Noon and 4 p.m.

July 9: There is a quarter-final match at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarter-final match at 3 p.m.

July 11: There are two quarter-final matches at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

July 14: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

July 15: There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m.

July 19: The final match is at 3 p.m.

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Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher in a letter to challenger Dan Sullivan said her office had received two complaints regarding his eligibility and determined “that the preponderance of evidence does not support your eligibility for the office of United States Senator.”

She gave him a Thursday deadline to submit “any additional information and evidence" in response.

Sullivan, the challenger, did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment about the letter from Beecher, a registered Republican who in the past has donated to Republican groups and campaigns. Her letter, dated Wednesday and published by the Anchorage Daily News, did not specify the evidence it found to potentially remove him from the primary ballot, and her office did not respond to requests for comment.

Sullivan's candidacy has caused a stir in one of the most prominent U.S. Senate races in the country. It's a seat Democrats have targeted as they try to regain the majority in the chamber in this year's midterm elections.

Sen. Sullivan has accused his namesake challenger of working with Democrats to try to trick voters and boost the chances of his top opponent, former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, a claim both deny. The challenger, who lives in the small fishing community of Petersburg south of Juneau, told The Associated Press earlier this week that the decision to run was “my choice." He said he had no contact with the Peltola campaign — “zero, none, zilch.”

This week, the challenger also pushed back in response to Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom's announcement that she was opening an investigation into his candidacy.

“The law forbids your office from denying me access to the ballot just because Senator Sullivan and the NRSC would prefer I not be allowed to run,” he wrote, referring to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

He called the investigation “an unprecedented affront to my rights as a candidate and the rights of Alaska voters to select their own representation in the U.S. Senate.”

It was not immediately clear whether he had retained an attorney to help him remain on the ballot.

Some attorneys also have raised questions about Dahlstrom's investigation, which among other things demanded that Sullivan explain his party affiliation, how long he had been going by the name Dan Sullivan, his affiliation with a consultant and any interactions he might have had with other candidates in the race or the Democratic Party.

Dahlstrom, who oversees elections, said in her letter to the challenger that the investigation pertained to “credible allegations” that he did not declare his candidacy “with a good faith purpose to seek office but rather with a purpose to confuse voters and have them mistakenly vote for you rather than the incumbent with the same name and same political party affiliation.”

The questions are in line with claims outlined in a letter to her and Beecher earlier this month from an attorney with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

The ACLU of Alaska, in a statement, said it is “unaware of any other instance where the Lieutenant Governor has investigated a specific candidate for reasons other than determining whether a candidate meets federal, state and local eligibility requirements.” The group said it was monitoring the situation.

Jahna Lindemuth, who was an Alaska attorney general under an independent governor, said investigating why someone would run for office “starts infringing on free speech concerns and other protections under the Constitution.” She said Dahlstrom could label the senator as the incumbent on the ballot if she were concerned about voter confusion.

The Constitution requires senators to be at least 30 years old, a U.S. citizen for at least nine years and live in the state they've chosen to represent at the time of election. Sullivan, who will turn 69 this weekend, told the AP he moved to Alaska in 1980 and worked for the U.S. Forest Service before switching careers and becoming a teacher. He's now retired.

The declaration that the elections division requires candidates to fill out asks for their name, the party affiliation they want on the ballot, their address and how they want their name to appear. In signing the declaration, candidates are asked to affirm they meet citizenship, age and residency requirements.

The division previously certified challenger Sullivan's candidacy, noting him on the candidate list as Dan J. Sullivan. The senator is listed as Dan S. Sullivan and as the incumbent.

At least one group running ads in support of the senator, One Nation, has begun referring to him as Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.

The board voted Thursday to seek a stay of U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper's May 29 ruling that said Trump's name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center, according to a person familiar with the move who requested anonymity to discuss a private meeting. The formal request was filed late Thursday.

Cooper ruled that only Congress could institute a change to the Kennedy Center's name and ordered references to Trump be removed by Friday. He also blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations that had been planned to start in July and last for two years.

The board move marks a shift from a June 4 memo to staff from the Kennedy Center’s Office of General Counsel saying email signatures, letterhead and other documents must reflect the name as “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” or “Kennedy Center.”

The Kennedy Center's website has dropped the president's name. And an email earlier this week sent to members offering ticket packages for the June 28 Mark Twain Award for American Humor ceremony came from the Kennedy Center without including Trump's name.

“The Trump administration’s 11th hour gambit after waiting nearly two weeks evinces desperation," Norm Eisen, a board member at Democracy Defenders Action, and Nathaniel Zelinsky, senior counsel at the Washington Litigation Group, said in a statement. "That is what they should be feeling because they don’t have a legal leg to stand on. We will be vigorously contesting this latest ploy as we have throughout the case on behalf of Congresswoman Beatty and the American people.”

They represent Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center's board who filed the lawsuit seeking to remove Trump's name from the institution.

After ignoring the Kennedy Center for much of his first term, Trump has wielded tremendous influence over the venue during his return to office. Just a month into his second term, he ousted the center’s previous leadership and replaced it with a hand-picked board of trustees that named him chairman. He brought in Richard Grenell to serve as president, a position he held until March when Matt Floca assumed the role.

The center’s lineup has included more Trump-friendly programming, serving as the venue for events such as the premiere of first lady Melania Trump’s documentary, “Melania.”

The board also announced it had renamed the facility the Trump Kennedy Center, a change scholars and lawmakers say must be initiated by Congress, and physically added the president’s name to the building’s facade.

The fallout from the arts community was swift and intense. Actor Issa Rae, musician Bela Fleck and author Louise Penny were among the numerous artists who withdrew from appearances, while consultants such as musician Ben Folds and singer Renée Fleming resigned. Earlier this month, the executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, Jean Davidson, left to head the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

In addition to voting on the stay on Thursday, the board backed a resolution recognizing Trump's “commitment to uphold this cherished American institution.”

The 10 Street Beach opened at 2 p.m. to screens near Lummus Park, at 1130 Ocean Drive in South Beach, displaying the FIFA World Cup 2026 opening ceremony at Estadio Azteca, in Mexico City.

Shakira and Afrobeats artist Burna Boy performed “Dai Dai.” The other performers included J Balvin, Maná, and Alejandro Fernández.

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The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., plans to host four watch parties: Doors open at 11 a.m. on June 22 for the 1 p.m. Argentina vs. Austria match. Doors open at 4 p.m. on June 24 for the 6 p.m. Scotland vs. Brazil match. Doors open at 1 p.m. for the 3 p.m. semi-final matches on July 14-15.

The Bandshell also plans to co-host an event with the Consulate General of Uruguay in Miami at 6 p.m. on June 20.

The Sandbowl, behind the Bandshell, plans to host two watch parties: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 18 for the 5 p.m. bronze final. Doors open at 1 p.m. on July 19 for the 3 p.m. final.

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For more information about the city of Miami Beach events and installations, visit this page.

DATES AND TIMES

Here is the schedule of World Cup games

June 11: The Group A match, South Korea vs. Czech Republic, is at 11 p.m.

June 12: The Group B match, Canada vs. Bosnia, is at 3 p.m. and the Group D match, U.S. vs. Paraguay, is at 9 p.m.

June 13: There are three matches: The Group B, Qatar vs. Switzerland, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Haiti vs. Scotland, game is at 9 p.m.

June 14: There are five matches: The Group D, Australia vs. Turkey, game is at Midnight. The Group E, Germany vs. Curaçao, game is at 1 p.m. The Group F, The Netherlands vs. Japan, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Sweden vs. Tunisia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 15: There are four matches: The Group H, Spain vs. Cape Verde, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Egypt, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, Iran vs. New Zealand, game is at 9 p.m.

June 16: There are three matches: The Group I, France vs. Senegal, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Iraq vs. Norway, game is at 6 p.m. The Group J, Argentina vs. Algeria, game is at 9 p.m.

June 17: There are five matches: The Group J, Austria vs. Jordan, game is at Midnight. The Group K, Portugal vs. Congo, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Croatia, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Ghana vs. Panama, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Uzbekistan vs. Colombia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 18: There are four matches: The Group A match, The Czech Republic vs. South Africa, is at Noon. The Group B, Switzerland vs. Bosnia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Canada vs. Qatar, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A match, Mexico vs. South Korea, is at 9 p.m.

June 19: There are four matches: The Group D, U.S. vs. Australia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Haiti, game is at 8:30 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. Paraguay, game is at 11 p.m.

June 20: There are three matches: The Group F, Netherlands vs. Sweden, game is at 1 p.m. The Group E, Germany vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Curaçao, game is at 8 p.m.

June 21: There are five matches: The Group F, Tunisia vs. Japan, game is at Midnight. The Group H, Spain vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Iran, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Egypt, game is at 9 p.m.

June 22: There are four matches: The Group J, Argentina vs. Austria, game is at 1 p.m. The Group I, France vs. Iraq, game is at 5 p.m. The Group I, Norway vs. Senegal, game is at 8 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Algeria, game is at 11 p.m.

June 23: There are four matches: The Group K, Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Ghana, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Panama vs. Croatia, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Congo, game is at 10 p.m.

June 24: There are six matches: The Group B, Switzerland vs. Canada, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Bosnia vs. Qatar, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Morocco vs. Haiti, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Brazil, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A, South Africa vs. South Korea, game is at 9 p.m. The Group A, Czech Republic vs. Mexico, game is at 9 p.m.

June 25: There are six matches: The Group E, Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Germany, game is at 4 p.m. The Group F, Tunisia vs. Netherlands, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Japan vs. Sweden, game is at 7 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. U.S., game is at 10 p.m. The Group D, Paraguay vs. Australia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 26: There are six matches: The Group I, Norway vs. France, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Senegal vs. Iraq, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at 8 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Spain, game is at 8 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Belgium, game is at 11 p.m. The Group G, Egypt vs. Iran, game is at 11 p.m.

June 27: There are six matches: The Group L, Panama vs. England, game is at 5 p.m. The Group L, Croatia vs. Ghana, game is at 5 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Portugal, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group K, Congo vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group J, Algeria vs. Austria, game is at 10 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Argentina, game is at 10 p.m.

June 28: There is a match at 3 p.m.

June 29: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

June 30: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

July 1: There are three matches at noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

July 2: There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

July 3: There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

July 4: There are two matches at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

July 5: There are two matches at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 6: There are two matches at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 7: There are two matches at Noon and 4 p.m.

July 9: There is a quarter-final match at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarter-final match at 3 p.m.

July 11: There are two quarter-final matches at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

July 14: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

July 15: There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m.

July 19: The final match is at 3 p.m.

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Jurors found Alvin Campbell, 45, guilty of 21 out of 22 counts for sex assaults from 2017 to 2019, the Suffolk County district attorney's office said. He was found guilty of charges including aggravated rape, kidnapping and photographing an unsuspecting nude person.

The jury was deadlocked on one of the rape charges.

“We will determine our action, if any, at a future date on that charge,” the district attorney's office said in a statement.

Campbell faces up to life in prison for aggravated rape when he is sentenced on June 29.

Campbell posed as a rideshare driver to target women outside bars or other locations, prosecutors said.

His younger sister became the first woman of color to win statewide office in Massachusetts when she was sworn in as attorney general in 2023. A spokesperson for the attorney general's office didn't immediately return an email from The Associated Press late Thursday seeking comment on the verdict.

Andrea Campbell has spoken previously about her family's troubled history in the criminal justice system, including her brother's rape charges.

“One thing I do frequently is share my story because I think there are so many who carry their story with a sense of shame and don’t want to talk about it, including the criminal aspects of my family,” she said in a previous interview with the AP. “But there is no shame in one sharing their story. There is power in it.”

The attorney general is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer in the state.

After the verdict, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden told reporters he hadn't spoken with the attorney general.

Alvin Campbell “deceivingly and calculatedly” preyed upon women in their most vulnerable moments, Hayden said. “I can't imagine what that horror must have been like for them.”

Campbell's defense attorney didn't immediately respond to a phone message and email from the AP.

Hayden expressed gratitude to the women who testified: “We’re happy that we were able to secure justice and accountability for them and so we thank them.”

The league announced the news Thursday prior to Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Kucherov led all players with 1.71 points a game on 44 goals and 86 assists. With 130 points, he ranked second to only Edmonton’s Connor McDavid, who had 138.

McDavid was a close second by 10 points in voting by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association. Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon was third and San Jose’s Macklin Celebrini fourth.

Kucherov had 42 more points than his next-closest teammate, Jake Guentzel. He was third in Hart Trophy voting a year ago and second in 2023-24.

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Los expertos dijeron que El Niño, un ciclo de calentamiento natural, incrementará aún más la temperatura de un planeta que ya se calienta a consecuencia de la contaminación generada por el uso de combustibles fósiles, y probablemente intensificará enormemente los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos en todo el orbe. Los meteorólogos pronostican que igualará —o superará— el récord de El Niño que comenzó en 1997, el cual contribuyó a causar miles de millones de dólares en daños por olas de calor, inundaciones, sequías, tornados e incendios forestales.

La Oficina Nacional de Administración Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés) confirmó oficialmente la existencia de El Niño, un calentamiento de las aguas del Pacífico cerca del ecuador que afecta los patrones climáticos en todo el mundo. En su anuncio, la NOAA indicó que existe un 63% de probabilidad de que El Niño se intensifique tanto al concluir el otoño y empezar el invierno que “se ubicaría entre los eventos de El Niño más grandes en el registro histórico desde 1950”.

Las aguas cálidas y profundas de El Niño afectan los patrones climáticos al traer “mucho calor adicional a la superficie, lo que alimenta muchos eventos extremos en muchos lugares en el mundo”, explicó la climatóloga Abby Frazier, de la Universidad Clark. Especialmente en el Pacífico, “la situación puede volverse crítica muy rápidamente”, agregó.

António Guterres, el secretario general de Naciones Unidas, describió a El Niño como una “alerta climática urgente”.

“Las condiciones de El Niño echarán más leña al fuego de un planeta en calentamiento”, advirtió Guterres en un mensaje de video.

Los impactos de El Niño generan ganadores y perdedores

Los efectos de este patrón climático varían según la región. A menudo El Niño atenúa —pero no elimina— la actividad de la temporada de huracanes del Atlántico, pero la incrementa en el Pacífico. Así que mientras las costas estadounidenses en el este del país y en el golfo de México podrían tener un respiro, Hawai y otras islas corren un peligro mayor, expuso Frazier.

El Oriente Medio, azotado por la sequía, podría beneficiarse, según los científicos climáticos. Pero otras regiones enfrentan mayores riesgos. Partes del oeste de Sudamérica —donde se detectaron los primeros fenómenos de El Niño hace décadas— suelen sufrir fuertes lluvias e inundaciones, además de un verano inusualmente cálido. India enfrentará olas de calor más intensas, mientras que Australia se verá amenazada por sequía, incendios forestales y calor extremo.

Es probable que el noreste de África experimente cambios climáticos drásticos, desde una sequía intensa hasta lluvias torrenciales peligrosas, refirió Muhammad Azhar Ehsan, climatólogo y experto en El Niño de la Universidad de Columbia.

En Estados Unidos, El Niño puede provocar tormentas más intensas con lluvias más abundantes en el sur, pero también suele beneficiar a la agricultura estadounidense, dijo Jon Gottschalck, jefe de la división de operaciones del Centro de Predicción Climatológica de la NOAA.

Michael Ferrari, meteorólogo y jefe de investigación de la firma de investigación de inversiones Moby, expuso que las condiciones para los granos y las semillas, especialmente la soya, son favorables en 18 estados estadounidenses de gran producción, pero son mixtas en lo que respecta a la industria de los productos lácteos y la ganadería.

Las Montañas Rocosas del norte y el suroeste —donde se registra una escasez de nieve “sin precedentes”—, podrían experimentar fuertes lluvias durante el verano, dijo Gottschalck. El mayor impacto en Estados Unidos suele notarse en invierno, cuando el sur del país experimenta mayores precipitaciones y la región noroccidental un clima más cálido y seco.

En general, las temperaturas elevadas por este patrón meteorológico pueden enfriar el crecimiento económico estadounidense, expuso Marshall Burke, economista climático de Stanford. Varios climatólogos pronostican que 2027 será el año más caluroso jamás registrado debido a los efectos retardados de este El Niño, que se prevé alcance su punto máximo en otoño o invierno.

“Tenemos evidencia bastante clara de que la economía estadounidense crece más lentamente cuando las temperaturas están por encima de lo normal”, manifestó Burke.

Fuertes señales tempranas

Los fenómenos climáticos extremos causados por El Niño también dependen del momento en que se desarrolla.

Normalmente, El Niño se forma en el verano, alcanza su punto máximo a finales del otoño o en los primeros días del invierno, y se disipa en la primavera siguiente, explicaron los científicos.

No obstante, el equipo de Ehsan pronostica que este El Niño alcanzará su punto máximo uno o dos meses antes, con base en las claras señales tempranas de las últimas semanas. Gabriel Vecchi, climatólogo de la Universidad de Princeton, dijo que los fenómenos de El Niño de gran magnitud como este también tienden a durar más.

Los indicios tempranos —incluida la presencia de aguas más cálidas que se desplazan hacia la superficie del Pacífico— han sido tan fuertes y evidentes que todos los meteorólogos han pronosticado el mismo El Niño ultrafuerte, agregó Vecchi, quien también mencionó que los pronósticos de El Niño suelen ser muy dispares en esta época del año.

Los científicos también predicen eventos de El Niño más intensos a medida que el mundo se calienta debido a la quema de carbón, petróleo y gas, expusieron Frazier y otros. No obstante, ella hizo notar que es demasiado pronto para determinar si este El Niño forma parte de ese proceso.

Incluso antes de que oficialmente se formara, este El Niño ya había recibido sobrenombres, incluidos “súper” y “Godzilla”.

“En lugar de que tengan miedo, podemos pedirle a la gente que se prepare”, dijo Ehsan, de la Universidad de Columbia.

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According to an arrest warrant, a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detective reported surveillance videos show Julian Jimenez at the crime scene on Aug. 27, 2019, in Kendale Lakes.

A surveillance video shows Jimenez wearing a mask and gloves and holding a .40 caliber gun, after Alex Vega pulled into his home’s driveway along Southwest 118 Avenue, near Killian Parkway, according to the warrant.

Jimenez, then 23, fired, and deputies found Vega, then 50, suffering from wounds to his back, according to the arrest warrant. Fire rescue personnel took Vega to the Kendall Regional Medical Center, which now operates as HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, records show.

More than 15 years ago, Vega and Rolando Ramirez had a conflict over debt, according to federal prosecutors who worked in a related case.

In 2012, Ramirez, the owner of the Doral Collision Center, took over Vega’s Exclusive Motoring Worldwide in Doral as part of a settlement, according to prosecutors.

Ramirez’s friend Rasheed Ali, a former University of Miami football player, helped to arrange the murder for hire plot in 2018, according to prosecutors.

Ali, also known as “Fresh,” and his friend, Tamrat Mason, better known as reggae artist “Shifta,” recruited Jaime Serrano, a “marijuana distributor” with an outstanding debt, according to prosecutors.

On Aug. 21, 2019, Serrano flew with Jimenez from New York to Miami and rented a 2018 Nissan Rogue from Enterprise Rental Car, according to deputies.

A few minutes after Vega was wounded on Aug. 27, 2019, surveillance video shows Jimenez walking southbound on Southwest 117 Avenue and “towards a bus stop that contained a garbage can where the firearm was later located,” according to the warrant.

Another surveillance video shows the Nissan Rogue, “about five minutes later, at the Bird Road toll plaza on the northbound Florida Turnpike,” according to the warrant, which didn’t mention how much Jimenez was allegedly paid.

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“Law enforcement located a mask and a pair of gloves,” a deputy wrote, according to the warrant.

The FBI started an investigation in 2021. Jimenez, who is from the Bronx, complied with a warrant to provide his DNA to law enforcement on June 26, 2022, and the MDSO Forensic Services Bureau laboratory analyzed it, according to the warrant.

In 2023, a jury in federal court found Serrano guilty after Jimenez pled guilty to the same three federal charges: Interstate stalking, conspiracy to use a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman sentenced Jimenez to 35 years in prison and Serrano to 50 years in prison, federal court records show.

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Miami-Dade County corrections booked Jimenez shortly before 11:40 p.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Jimenez had two warrant cases: One was for attempted murder with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit murder with a deadly weapon, and the other was a hold for another agency, records show.

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

He has to take turns.

Committed to staging a legitimate competition for their starting quarterback position, at least during this less-urgent part of the offseason, the Vikings have divided the time in drills with the first team between Murray and incumbent J.J. McCarthy. That's the way they'll start training camp next month, too.

“You’ve got to put it together in a way that challenges those guys and see who responds, see who handles adversity well, and ultimately see who elevates the offense,” coach Kevin O'Connell said after the last practice of minicamp on Thursday. “It’s an open competition, and I want to see these guys in very unique and in many ways difficult circumstances elevate themselves and their games to help the Minnesota Vikings.”

There's no deadline for the decision, O'Connell said, though for the Vikings to be at their best for the Sept. 13 regular-season opener against the Green Bay Packers they'll likely declare their starter at least a couple of weeks in advance of that. The frequency and quality of repetitions during open-to-the-public practices in training camp will undoubtedly stoke the embers of speculation that fuel the popularity of this sport, but the coaching staff has a plan for putting both quarterbacks in as many meaningful situations as they can once the pads come on in camp.

“I wouldn’t read much into who gets what on which days,” O'Connell said, well aware of the intense scrutiny on this team's quarterback depth chart for a third straight year since McCarthy was drafted 10th overall in 2024. “I know me saying that was the waste of the time that it took to say it, but we’re going to put together a way where we can put them in the different aspects of situational football that they need to get.”

Murray, the first overall pick in the 2019 draft who was cut by the Arizona Cardinals and signed with the Vikings for the veteran minimum salary for this year so he can try to cash in as a free agent for 2027, has been the presumptive favorite for the job even if he’s newer to the system.

“Now having to split reps, me already being behind, not getting the amount of reps you would typically want a guy to get learning an offense, that’s probably the toughest part,” Murray said this week.

Offensive coordinator Wes Phillips said McCarthy's offseason has “been a continuous upward arrow or him.” From O'Connell to wide receiver Justin Jefferson, all of the Vikings who've been publicly asked about McCarthy's progress from his mostly rough 2025 debut have remarked about sharpened skills and fundamentals. But at some point if Murray becomes the team's long-term choice, McCarthy might well find himself playing elsewhere.

“I think I’ve made it very clear I wanted to be here, before I got here. I love this organization. I love the coaching staff. I absolutely love these players to death," McCarthy said. "This is where I want to be. I feel like I can thrive in this system.”

The Vikings clearly still believe that to some degree, at least if patience were not part of the equation.

“It’s probably going to end up being a difficult decision,” O'Connell said, “just based on where I know those guys are going to go.”

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Officials say an unknown problem caused a diver to panic.

That woman went underwater, and when she didn’t resurface, she was pulled back onto the boat unconscious and rushed to shore.

The woman was taken to a local hospital, where she later died.

Foul play is not suspected.

Daniel Lomas was out on the water that day and saw the emergency response from a distance.

“Whether you’re free diving or if you’re scuba, they all come with their pros and cons,” he said. “They all come with different levels of risk for different things.”

As an experienced diver and shark safety guide, Lomas said every dive requires careful planning and an honest assessment of a person’s health.

“As you get deeper and deeper, certain things change about the dive, especially gas laws and how your body is dealing with those gases,” he said. “And that’s when you have to really make sure that that person is physically fit to do that dive.”

He added that equipment must be thoroughly checked before entering the water.

“Assembling the equipment, making sure that your regulators work, making sure that there’s no sticking or corrosion or anything that might be affecting those systems,” said Lomas.

He says, like with any sport, diving carries risks but proper training and safety procedures can reduce them.

“If you do everything by the book, I don’t think there’s anything that can really go wrong, especially when you’re down there with over divers, other educated divers,” said Lomas.

Las autoridades informaron que un problema desconocido provocó que una buceadora entrara en pánico.

La mujer se sumergió bajo el agua y, al no volver a la superficie, fue subida de nuevo a la embarcación inconsciente y trasladada rápidamente a la costa.

La mujer fue llevada a un hospital local, donde posteriormente murió.

No se sospecha de un acto criminal.

Daniel Lomas estaba en el agua ese día y observó la respuesta de emergencia a la distancia.

“Ya sea que practiques apnea o buceo con tanque, ambos tienen sus ventajas y desventajas”, dijo. “Todos implican distintos niveles de riesgo para diferentes situaciones”.

Como buceador experimentado y guía de seguridad ante tiburones, Lomas dijo que cada inmersión requiere una planificación cuidadosa y una evaluación honesta de la salud de la persona.

“A medida que desciendes más y más profundo, ciertas cosas cambian en la inmersión, especialmente las leyes de los gases y la manera en que tu cuerpo maneja esos gases”, dijo. “Ahí es cuando realmente debes asegurarte de que esa persona esté físicamente apta para realizar esa inmersión”.

Añadió que el equipo debe ser revisado minuciosamente antes de entrar al agua.

“Armar el equipo, asegurarse de que los reguladores funcionen, verificar que no haya atascos, corrosión o cualquier otra cosa que pueda afectar esos sistemas”, dijo Lomas.

Señaló que, como ocurre con cualquier deporte, el buceo conlleva riesgos, pero una capacitación adecuada y los procedimientos de seguridad pueden reducirlos.

“Si haces todo siguiendo las normas, no creo que haya nada que realmente pueda salir mal, especialmente cuando estás allí abajo con otros buceadores capacitados y con experiencia”, dijo Lomas.

Organ, brass and choral singing thundered inside a modern Orlando shrine during the service, a centerpiece of the spring assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Just before the liturgy, bishops and other worshippers knelt before relics of the 17th century St. Mary Margaret Alacoque, a French nun whose reports of visions of Jesus led to the modern devotion of the Sacred Heart as embodying the core of Christ’s suffering love. Since then, the devotion has spread worldwide, with many Catholic schools and churches bearing the Sacred Heart name and many homes and businesses displaying images of it.

The service celebrated the nation’s history, alluding to the Declaration of Independence’s proclamation of rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It also included prayers acknowledging national failures, including its “original sins of slavery and racism.” It's necessary to acknowledge the good with the bad, said Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the bishops conference.

“To consecrate ourselves to the Sacred Heart is ultimately to accept Jesus’ invitation to remain in his love and to allow that love to shape every aspect of our lives, public and private,” he said. “If we are honest, we must acknowledge that neither our nation nor the church has always reflected that love."

A Catholic history of Sacred Heart consecrations

It’s the first time such a service has been held in this country, although similar ones have taken place in several other countries since the 19th century. Such services, occasionally in conjunction with civil leaders, have taken on political and sometimes controversial overtones when it has been used in support of Catholic nationalistic movements.

Pope Leo XIII, the most recent namesake of the current pontiff, consecrated the entire world to the Sacred Heart in 1899.

Before the service, bishops heard devotional talks from some of their members, emphasizing Pope Francis’ final encyclical, or teaching document, in which he highlighted the Sacred Heart as an inspiration for service and justice.

The relics of St. Mary Margaret Alacoque were brought over from their permanent location in France and displayed in front of the church for the occasion. While scholars trace the roots of the Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart to ancient times, her reports of visions are credited with fostering the modern images, prayers and piety surrounding it.

Thursday's service took place at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe. The strong afternoon Florida sun shone brightly even through the filters of stained-glass windows beside and above the worshippers.

Rows upon rows of bishops in their purple hats and white robes sat in front of the sanctuary, with other worshippers behind and beside them.

Small revisions made to US Catholic sex abuse policies

Earlier Thursday, in their twice-a-year gathering, the bishops approved minor revisions to their policies on responding to sexual abuse, adding some specifics about due process for accused priests while maintaining the ban on any priests from ministry who had been found to have abused children.

Some bishops called for a delay in adopting the revisions to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in order to gain broader feedback on it, but they were outvoted. The final vote for approval was 176-22.

The revisions began five years ago. It was first approved in 2002 at the peak of the Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis, when reports by the Boston Globe about abuse and coverup in the Archdiocese of Boston ignited an explosion of similar revelations nationwide and beyond. The charter has been revised periodically since then.

The centerpieces of that document remain — including the banishing of priests from ministry for any confirmed episode of sexual abuse.

The revisions are “trying to do two things at the same time,” said Bishop Barry Knestout, who chairs the committee that revised it.

“One is to retain and also reemphasize the commitment of bishops to address the issue of potential for abuse, safeguarding of our children and young people in a way that’s both transparent and accountable,” he said. The other is to “recognize due process and presumption of innocence” of the accused while a case is being investigated.

“We’re trying not to lose any of the commitment to victim survivors yet still recognize that there is in fairness a process that should be undertaken,” he said.

The advocacy group BishopAccountability.org issued a statement calling the approval a “missed opportunity,” saying a delay would have allowed wider input into the document and produced a better and more “trauma-informed” charter. It called for close scrutiny of the revisions at the diocese level.

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Shakira performed “Dai Dai,” the tournament's official song, with Burna Boy. The Colombian star had a hit with “Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)” from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and now seeks to score again.

A good World Cup song, Shakira earlier told The Associated Press, “needs to definitely have rhythm. It has to be rhythmic. It has to make people want to dance. And it has to be an anthem as well. It has to make people want to sing along in unison, sing out loud at the top of their lungs.”

Shakira has performed at previous World Cups, too: 2006 in Germany, 2010 in South Africa, and 2014 in Brazil.

In addition, she will perform at the first halftime show of a World Cup final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey with Madonna and BTS. Mexico, the United States and Canada are co-hosting the 48-team tournament.

A welcome for all

Lila Downs welcomed fans and players in Spanish, English, and the indigenous languages Mixtec and Nahuatl.

“People of the world, welcome to Mexico,” said Downs, who wore a white indigenous huipil with a lilac edge. “Mexico welcomes you with smiles from our heart, we are a nation of diversity, heritage and pride in ancestral lands where movement and ritual spirit endure.”

Downs, who is a singer-songwriter, was born in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca. Her mother is Mixtec, and her father was American of Scottish descent. But her heart is green, white and red when it comes to the ball.

“It’s a great honor for me to represent my beautiful and diverse country,” Downs said in an interview with The AP. “Of course I’m going to root for Mexico’s team, Viva Mexico!”

Maná thrills fans

Maná electrified the stadium with “Oye Mi Amor” surrounded by pre-Hispanic dancers who moved their head plumes to the rhythm of rock while tens of thousands of fans chanted.

The band, founded in 1986, has sold more than 40 million records.

Shortly before their performance, they announced that they will be touring in Latin America, including stops in Bogotá, Lima, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City.

From Iztapalapa to the World Cup

The Mexican cumbia group Los Ángeles Azules performed “Por Ella” with Belinda, one of the most danceable songs of FIFA's official World Cup album.

The band, founded in the mid-70s by the Mejía Avante brothers, is originally from the district of Iztapalapa, a working-class area of Mexico City, so their battle cry is “From Iztapalapa to the world!”

J Balvin had a dynamic performance — he started driving a cardboard car with “Que Calor” and then he was accompanied by Ryan Castro for “Una A La Vez” before ending with “I Like It,” a hit he originally released with Cardi B and Bad Bunny.

The Colombian star has experience on world stages. In 2020, he participated in the Super Bowl halftime as a guest of Shakira and Jennifer Lopez.

Danny Ocean performed “Partidazo” — his collaboration for the FIFA album. Ocean was surrounded by dancers wearing a modern take on the traditional dresses of the Mexican state of Jalisco, modified to have hoodies on top.

Two Labubus could be seen wearing soccer jerseys after the presentation of Los Ángeles Azules and Belinda. One brown Labubu wore a jersey with the number 10 and the legend “The Monsters” and the other wore a shirt with the logo of the 2026 World Cup.

Hollywood power at the ceremony

Actress and producer Salma Hayek, a big soccer fan, gave a brief welcome speech during the first protocol parade of a World Cup in which the 48 flags of the participating countries could be seen.

“Mexicans are very honored that this is where the first match of this wonderful soccer tradition that unites us all begins,” Hayek, who is originally from the Mexican state of Veracruz, said in Spanish. “Long live Mexico and long live soccer!”

Hayek has been appointed an ambassador for the 2026 World Cup.

Opera and K-pop united

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and South Korean star EJAE performed “DNA,” the tournament's official anthem, with French DJ and producer David Guetta at the flag parade.

Bocelli has just performed for more than 130,000 fans in April at Mexico City’s Zócalo. EJAE is famous for being the voice of the character Rumi in the film “KPop Demon Hunters” and for being one of the composers of the Oscar-winning song “Golden” from the animated film.

South Africa and Mexico national anthems

Tyla and Alejandro Fernandez were the designated performers for the national anthems of South Africa and Mexico, respectively, before kickoff.

In 2024, Tyla won the first Grammy for best African music performance and, in doing so, became the youngest African artist to win a Grammy.

Fernández’s life has been dedicated to regional Mexican music. The so-called “Potrillo” is the son of the late star Vicente Fernandez. On FIFA's album” Fernández performs “Mi México Lindo."

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“It was our last dive of the day - it was almost 7 o’clock,” recalled lead diver Blake Baker.

Baker said the captain of the salvage vessel DARE, Drake Nicholas, was the one underwater with a crew. They are part of Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions.

“We were in area with a lot of metal detector hits,” Nicholas said. “This one was deeper.”

After hitting the object with a knife and examining the surface, Nicholas said he saw telltale markings that were consistent with a silver bar.

“I didn’t believe it at the moment,” he said.

The silver bar is covered in more than 400 years of marine encrustations and will be taken to a lab for examination.

Sean Browne, with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions, said the bar is worth an estimated $100,000. It will likely be kept intact as a historical object.

Discovered treasures like the bar are divided among investors and then the Fisher family, Browne said.

The Atocha was a ship packed with treasures and bound for Spain in 1622, but a powerful hurricane that fall sunk it between Key West and the dry Tortugas.

It was never seen again, until more than 300 years later when explorer Mel Fisher started finding its sunken treasure in the 1970s.

European duo Nicole Broch Estrup of Denmark and Gemma Dryburgh of Scotland were the first team to post a 3-under 67 in the tough foursomes format. They were joined by Camille Boyd and Michelle Zhang, and Hira Naveed and Gurleen Kaur.

Juli Inkster, the 66-year-old Hall of Famer, played for the first time this year and teamed with her prodigy, Angel Yin, with a 69.

The alternate-shot format kept no team from being able to separate at Midland Country Club, and most teams stayed close going into the second round of fourballs.

“Legally Blonde” is the team name Korda and Cowan gave themselves in a week that is more about fun coming off a tough test at the Women's Open that Korda won for her second major of the year.

Boyd and Zhang went with the name “Baddies” and they were up to the task. The LPGA rookies had three birdies in their opening seven holes, survived some rocky moments and joined the top of a very crowded leaderboard.

Nine teams were a shot back at 68.

“Going into the event, we were both super excited,” Boyd said. “It’s a fun thing. The crowds were great, so I think we were just having good vibes out there and feeding off that energy for sure.”

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Friday will feature more of the same: sun/cloud mix and gentle, east-southeast winds. Afternoon showers and storms will favor inland areas of South Florida. Temperatures will make a run for 90°F.

Los abogados de Corey Hutterli, de 37 años y residente de Parkland, continuaron argumentando que el caso del estado contra su cliente es puramente circunstancial.

Finalmente, un juez le otorgó a Hutterli una fianza de $150,000 USD.

Está acusado de empujar a Justin Zelin, de 35 años, desde un balcón del piso 25 del condominio Akoya, ubicado en el 6365 de Collins Ave., en Mid-Beach, el 15 de febrero.

Según los investigadores, en una llamada al 911 se escuchó a Zelin decirle a Hutterli que saliera de su apartamento, y luego se pudo escuchar un forcejeo.

Un informe toxicológico reveló que Zelin tenía fentanilo, cocaína y ketamina en su organismo al momento del incidente, algo que el equipo de Hutterli señaló mientras interrogaba a un detective del caso.

La defensa alegó que esas drogas posiblemente colocaron a Zelin en un estado alterado.

La semana pasada, el padre de Zelin testificó sobre la última vez que habló con su hijo.

Hutterli enfrenta cargos de asesinato en segundo grado, allanamiento con agresión o lesiones, posesión de una sustancia controlada y posesión de parafernalia de drogas.

No World Cup match has had that many players ejected since a 2006 game between Portugal and the Netherlands, when four players received red cards — a World Cup record.

The last World Cup in Qatar in 2022 had only four red cards in the entire tournament.

On Thursday at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, Sphephelo Sithole and Themba Zwane were sent off for South Africa while César Montes was shown a red card for the tournament co-host.

It’s the first time three players have been sent off in the opening match of a World Cup – and all three were straight red cards, meaning none of the ejected players were given two yellows.

Mexico won the match 2-0.

Sithole was red-carded after taking down Mexico’s Brian Gutierrez on the edge of the box at the start of the second half.

Things got worse for South Africa when Zwane was sent off following a video review for striking Roberto Alvarado in the face in the 84th minute. Finally, in stoppage time, Montes saw red for bringing down Khuliso Mudau.

The red cards mean the three players will be suspended for at least one more match. South Africa’s next match is against the Czech Republic and Mexico next faces South Korea in Guadalajara.

The match between Portugal and the Netherlands at the 2006 World Cup in Germany stands out with its four red cards – two for each team. That game in Nuremberg also had 16 yellow cards.

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Attorneys for Corey Hutterli, 37, of Parkland, continued with their argument that the state’s case is purely circumstantial against their client.

Ultimately, a judge granted Hutterli a bond of $150,000.

He is accused of pushing Justin Zelin, 35, off a 25th floor balcony at the Akoya Condominium, located at 6365 Collins Ave. on Mid-Beach on Feb. 15.

According to investigators, Zelin was heard on a 911 call telling Hutterli to get out of his apartment, and then a struggle could be heard.

A toxicology report revealed Zelin had fentanyl, cocaine, and ketamine in his system at the time of the incident, something Hutterli’s team pointed to while questioning a detective on the case.

The defense alleged those drugs possibly put Zelin in an altered state.

Last week, Zelin’s father testified about the final time he spoke to his son.

Hutterli is facing charges of second-degree murder, burglary with assault or battery, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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The district covers portions of Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

The mix of Democratic candidates for the deep-blue seat includes veteran, familiar public servants and some political newcomers.

Two prominent, current elected officials, State Sen. Shevrin Jones and Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert recently qualified.

“From my perspective, it’s still the conversation about my record as a mayor (of Miami Gardens), as a county commissioner and my ideas about what we need in this district,” Gilbert told Local 10 News.

Jones said, “I’m the only one in this race that is not afraid and has not been afraid to go toe-to-toe with Ron DeSantis, with Donald Trump.”

Then, on Wednesday, they learned their newest opponent is a 29-year-old who carries the name of a Miami-Dade black political dynasty: Kendrick Meek Jr., a local attorney.

His late grandmother, Carrie Meek, was among the first African-Americans from Florida in Congress and was succeeded there by her son, Kendrick Meek Sr.

Meek Jr. was not available for an interview on Thursday but is set to launch his campaign Friday at the home of his late grandmother.

Other candidates include Rudy Moise, an attorney and doctor; former Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime; attorney Roderick Vereen and business owner Christine Sanon-Jules.

El distrito cubre partes de los condados Miami-Dade y Broward.

La mezcla de candidatos demócratas para este escaño de tendencia profundamente demócrata incluye servidores públicos veteranos y conocidos, así como algunos recién llegados a la política.

Dos destacados funcionarios electos en ejercicio, el senador estatal Shevrin Jones y el comisionado de Miami-Dade Oliver Gilbert, calificaron recientemente.

“Desde mi perspectiva, la conversación sigue siendo sobre mi historial como alcalde (de Miami Gardens), como comisionado del condado y mis ideas sobre lo que necesitamos en este distrito”, dijo Gilbert a Local 10 News.

Jones dijo: “Soy el único en esta contienda que no tiene miedo y que nunca ha tenido miedo de enfrentarse cara a cara con Ron DeSantis y con el presidente Donald Trump”.

Luego, el miércoles, se enteraron de que su nuevo oponente es un hombre de 29 años que lleva el nombre de una dinastía política afroamericana de Miami-Dade: Kendrick Meek Jr., un abogado local.

Su difunta abuela, Carrie Meek, estuvo entre los primeros afroamericanos de Florida en el Congreso y fue sucedida allí por su hijo, Kendrick Meek Sr.

Meek Jr. no estuvo disponible para una entrevista el jueves, pero tiene previsto lanzar su campaña el viernes en la casa de su difunta abuela.

Otros candidatos incluyen a Rudy Moise, abogado y médico; el ex comisionado de Miami-Dade Jean Monestime; el abogado Roderick Vereen y la propietaria de negocio Christine Sanon-Jules.

Pino, de 55 años, enfrenta cargos de homicidio involuntario y homicidio por embarcación por la muerte de Lucy Fernandez, de 17 años.

Los fiscales acusan a Pino, entonces de 52 años, de actuar de manera imprudente cuando perdió el control de una embarcación Robalo de 29 pies durante las primeras horas de la noche del 4 de septiembre de 2022 y chocó contra una baliza de canal cerca de Boca Chita Key, causando la muerte de Fernandez. Otras dos jóvenes resultaron gravemente heridas, incluida Katerina Puig, de 17 años.

Su equipo de defensa sostiene que el accidente fue simplemente un hecho fortuito.

El jueves, los miembros del jurado que visitaron la instalación de la FWC, escoltados por agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, pudieron observar detalladamente la embarcación en cuestión e incluso abordarla para comprender mejor las posiciones que ocupaban las jóvenes el día del accidente y el lugar donde se encontraba Pino.

Los miembros del jurado pudieron ver la ubicación exacta y la magnitud de los daños, lo que les brindó una perspectiva diferente a la obtenida a través de los videos y fotografías presentados en la corte.

La visita duró aproximadamente 40 minutos. Luego regresaron al tribunal después de una pausa para almorzar, con los procedimientos programados para reanudarse más tarde en la tarde.

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Pino, 55, is facing manslaughter and vessel homicide charges in the death of 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez.

Prosecutors accuse Pino, then 52, of being reckless when he lost control of a 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including 17-year-old Katerina Puig.

His defense team counters that the crash was merely an accident.

On Thursday, jurors visiting the FWC facility, escorted by deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, got a detailed look at the boat in question and could even board it to better understand the passenger positions of the girls on the day of the accident and where Pino was standing.

The jury members were able to see the exact location and the extent of the damage, giving them a different perspective from the videos and pictures they had seen in court court.

The field trip took about 40 minutes. They then went back to the courthouse after a lunch break.

There, jurors saw a drone view reenactment video ― produced by FWC and MDSO ― and underwater crash scene footage, among other pieces of evidence.

They also heard testimony from law enforcement officers.

“The vessel was overturned in Cutter Bank,” FWC Lt. Manuel Pomares said. “Cutter Bank is a narrow channel. I describe it best as a funnel.”

He added, “You really have to pay attention when you’re going down or through Cutter Bank.”

Pomares was part of a dive team that documented evidence with a GoPro camera.

“There’s a couple of Yeti type tumbler cups, and a couple of Trulys (hard seltzer) and a Bud Light can,” Pomares testified.

Proceedings wrapped up on Thursday evening and are expected to resume on Friday morning.

Only a handful of prominent players in the past few decades have faced this confluence of talent and timing. They include a selection of generational greats: Zinedine Zidane for France in 1998, Michael Ballack for Germany in 2006, Neymar for Brazil in 2014.

Pulisic's U.S. teammates recognize the extraordinary burden he is carrying while the Americans prepare for their World Cup opener Friday night against Paraguay. From the field to the back row of the stands, everyone is looking to Pulisic for leadership and goals, hoping his full decade of international success with club and country will propel a middling soccer nation to new heights on home soil.

“I can't even imagine the weight that's on his shoulders,” teammate Tyler Adams said. “From such a young age, he was the hope of American soccer.”

Pulisic does not shy from the spotlight that will glare more brightly than ever in the next few weeks. In fact, he repeated Thursday that this challenge is “what I've always wanted.”

Now 27 years old, Pulisic has enough achievement and enough faith in his teammates to focus on how far the Americans can go, not how far they might fall.

“I don’t feel a difference in weight,” Pulisic said at the U.S. training base in Orange County. “I’m not sure. Maybe less. I just feel like there’s so many good players around me. I genuinely don’t feel like I have to do anything on my own. I’m going to give it the best I can. I want to help the team, and they expect a lot out of me, but with the guys I have around me, it makes it a lot easier for me.”

Pulisic was already the center of the U.S. hopes and aspirations when this World Cup was awarded to North America eight years ago, and his status hasn't changed. A nation that had struggled to produce elite players finally created a star in this slick, creative midfielder from Hershey, Pennsylvania, who has gone on to a decade of European club success.

National team progress has been more difficult to come by during Pulisic's first decade, but he is still considered the most consistently dynamic player in the American program — despite his 18-month goal drought in a U.S. shirt that only ended May 31.

“Of course he needs to be an important player for us in the competition,” said coach Mauricio Pochettino, who took over the U.S. team in late 2024. “(But) I think what we’ve learned after a year and a half is that the badge of the national team and the culture with this country is more important than any name, any player or any coach. That is a principal thing that we (believe), and from there, if you have talent and quality, you can perform on that platform.”

Adams, the 27-year-old Bournemouth midfielder, has been right alongside Pulisic for most of this ride.

He watched in awe as the 17-year-old Pulisic made his senior U.S. debut in late 2016. Those Americans failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, but Pulisic quickly became a vital component of the group.

“(Pulisic was) the best player on the field at 17 years old, and the person that they rely on, (and) it’s been since then that they’ve relied on him,” Adams said. “Now, we have weapons around him to kind of relieve that, but he’s a star. Not just for the U.S. national team, but in world football. He’s that good. We rely on him in big moments, but that being said, I hope he doesn’t feel the pressure to carry it all. Just to be himself and grow into each game.”

Pulisic became known across the world when he moved from Dortmund to Chelsea in 2019. He was part of the Blues’ Champions League winners in 2021, becoming only the second American to claim the ultimate club trophy, before moving in 2023 to AC Milan, where he remains a vital player for another major club.

Pulisic finally made his World Cup debut four years ago in Qatar, contributing a big goal and an assist — but the U.S. scored just three goals in its four games before going home in the knockout round.

“It feels similar, but with a bit of that comfort of being in America,” Pulisic said of his World Cup return. “It feels great having the people you love around you. It makes it that much more special.”

Pochettino has strived to build an aggressive, attacking team around Pulisic’s talents, thereby minimizing its reliance on its best player. Prolific Europe-based strikers Folarin Balogun and Ricardo Pepi will make their World Cup debuts this month for the U.S., hopefully spreading out the scoring responsibility.

But with his past World Cup experience in mind, Pulisic knows the Americans must step up quickly at home — and their opening matchup against a solid Paraguay team will put him right in the spotlight again.

“It has that big-game feel, for sure,” Pulisic said. “But in some ways, I feel a little bit more relaxed because I've been there before. We've played in a match like this. I think the experience has calmed me down a little bit.”

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Los precios al consumidor subieron un 2,1% el mes pasado en comparación con abril, informó el organismo estatal de estadísticas INDEC, una tasa que el ministro de Economía, Luis Caputo, celebró como el nivel mensual más bajo en ocho meses.

Pero la inflación anual aumentó levemente hasta alcanzar el 33,2% en mayo porque el índice inflacionario mensual del mismo mes de 2025 llegó al 1,5%, un mínimo de siete años. Desde entonces, los precios han subido y se han mantenido altos, presionando a los hogares y alimentando la frustración pública contra el gobierno de Milei mientras lidia con una serie de escándalos de corrupción y le cuesta responder a una caída de la actividad económica en los sectores del comercio minorista y la fabricación, que requieren grandes cantidades de mano de obra.

El mes pasado, las redes de comunicaciones registraron los mayores aumentos de precios, con un 3,4% por el encarecimiento de las facturas de telefonía e internet, seguidas por los costos de educación. Los precios de los alimentos se aceleraron un 2,5%.

Milei elogió al ministro Caputo, apodado Toto, en redes sociales, al publicar el informe del INDEC con el comentario: “VAAAAAAAAMOOOOOO TOTO”.

Milei y Caputo también celebraron la noticia de que S&P Global, una de las principales agencias de calificación crediticia, había mejorado la calificación soberana de Argentina a última hora del miércoles, de la categoría CCC —considerada la de mayor riesgo de incumplimiento— a B- con perspectiva estable, al citar el éxito del gobierno en el cumplimiento de los pagos de deuda.

Aunque la mejora deja a Argentina varios escalones por debajo del grado de inversión, ese voto de confianza impulsa el objetivo de Milei de devolver a la economía, propensa a las crisis, a los mercados globales de capitales, seis años después de que Argentina cayera en el impago de su deuda externa por novena vez.

Milei llegó al poder a fines de 2023 prometiendo eliminar los altísimos aumentos de precios de Argentina y revertir sus crónicos déficits fiscales.

Más de dos años después, sus amplias medidas de desregulación y austeridad han producido un inusual superávit presupuestario, han seducido a los inversores y han desacelerado la inflación: la tasa anual, ahora en 33%, superaba el 200% cuando asumió el cargo.

Pero la inflación, que hace que el costo de vida en Buenos Aires sea comparable al de capitales europeas, supera a los salarios reales. El desempleo ha aumentado ligeramente a medida que miles de trabajadores son despedidos de industrias nacionales que no pueden competir con una avalancha de importaciones baratas.

Escándalos de corrupción del tipo que Milei prometió erradicar cuando tomó posesión han tocado una fibra sensible en el contexto de sus esfuerzos por recortar fondos a la educación, la atención de la salud y la asistencia social.

Más recientemente, Manuel Adorni, colaborador cercano de Milei y jefe de Gabinete, quedó bajo investigación por presunto enriquecimiento ilícito tras realizar viajes lujosos —incluido un viaje a Aruba pagado íntegramente en efectivo— y compras de bienes raíces pese a su exiguo salario público. El miércoles, admitió haber ocultado 500.000 dólares en ahorros no declarados e inversiones en criptomonedas.

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Organizers said there is enough room for about 30,000 fans to enjoy watch parties at four massive screens at the park at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

“Everyone is welcome, all ages ... they will be able to watch the games for free, while they are enjoying the music, the dancing, the food,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said on Wednesday.

For security, there will be metal detectors, and there is an “only clear bags” policy. Bags larger than 12 inches by 6 inches are not allowed.

Vaping and smoking are also banned. Chairs, blankets, tents, scooters, air horns, laser pointers, and inflatables are all included in the list of prohibited items.

Except for baby food, outside food and beverages are not allowed. Organizers included a long line of food and drink vendors. The festival will open every day until July 5.

The matches start on Thursday when the Group A matches are at 3 p.m., Mexico vs. South Africa, and at 11 p.m., South Korea vs. Czech Republic.

On Friday, the Group B, Canada vs. Bosnia, match is at 3 p.m. and the Group D, U.S. vs. Paraguay, match is at 9 p.m.

Festival and games schedule

June 13: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to midnight. There are three matches: The Group B, Qatar vs. Switzerland, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Haiti vs. Scotland, game is at 9 p.m.

June 14: The fan festival opens from Noon to 10 p.m. There are five matches: The Group D, Australia vs. Turkey, game is at Midnight. The Group E, Germany vs. Curaçao, game is at 1 p.m. The Group F, The Netherlands vs. Japan, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Sweden vs. Tunisia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 15: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. There are four matches: The Group H, Spain vs. Cape Verde, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Egypt, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, Iran vs. New Zealand, game is at 9 p.m.

June 16: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to midnight. There are three matches: The Group I, France vs. Senegal, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Iraq vs. Norway, game is at 6 p.m. The Group J, Argentina vs. Algeria, game is at 9 p.m.

June 17: The fan festival opens from Noon to 10 p.m. There are five matches: The Group J, Austria vs. Jordan, game is at Midnight. The Group K, Portugal vs. Congo, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Croatia, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Ghana vs. Panama, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Uzbekistan vs. Colombia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 18: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. There are four matches: The Group A match, The Czech Republic vs. South Africa, is at Noon. The Group B, Switzerland vs. Bosnia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Canada vs. Qatar, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A match, Mexico vs. South Korea, is at 9 p.m.

June 19: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to midnight. There are four matches: The Group D, U.S. vs. Australia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Haiti, game is at 8:30 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. Paraguay, game is at 11 p.m.

June 20: The fan festival opens from Noon to 11 p.m. There are three matches: The Group F, Netherlands vs. Sweden, game is at 1 p.m. The Group E, Germany vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Curaçao, game is at 8 p.m.

June 21: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. There are five matches: The Group F, Tunisia vs. Japan, game is at Midnight. The Group H, Spain vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Iran, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Egypt, game is at 9 p.m.

June 22: The fan festival opens from Noon to 8 p.m. There are four matches: The Group J, Argentina vs. Austria, game is at 1 p.m. The Group I, France vs. Iraq, game is at 5 p.m. The Group I, Norway vs. Senegal, game is at 8 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Algeria, game is at 11 p.m.

June 23: The fan festival opens from Noon to 1 a.m. There are four matches: The Group K, Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Ghana, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Panama vs. Croatia, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Congo, game is at 10 p.m.

June 24: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. There are six matches: The Group B, Switzerland vs. Canada, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Bosnia vs. Qatar, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Morocco vs. Haiti, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Brazil, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A, South Africa vs. South Korea, game is at 9 p.m. The Group A, Czech Republic vs. Mexico, game is at 9 p.m.

June 25: The fan festival opens from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. There are six matches: The Group E, Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Germany, game is at 4 p.m. The Group F, Tunisia vs. Netherlands, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Japan vs. Sweden, game is at 7 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. U.S., game is at 10 p.m. The Group D, Paraguay vs. Australia, game is at 10 p.m.

June 26: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. There are six matches: The Group I, Norway vs. France, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Senegal vs. Iraq, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at 8 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Spain, game is at 8 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Belgium, game is at 11 p.m. The Group G, Egypt vs. Iran, game is at 11 p.m.

June 27: The fan festival opens from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. There are six matches: The Group L, Panama vs. England, game is at 5 p.m. The Group L, Croatia vs. Ghana, game is at 5 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Portugal, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group K, Congo vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group J, Algeria vs. Austria, game is at 10 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Argentina, game is at 10 p.m.

June 28: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 10 p.m. There is a match at 3 p.m.

June 29: The fan festival opens from Noon to midnight. There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

June 30: The fan festival opens from Noon to midnight. There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

July 1: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. There are three matches at Noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

July 2: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

July 3: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 9 p.m. There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

July 4: The fan festival opens from Noon to midnight. There are two matches at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

July 5: The fan festival opens for the last day from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. There are two matches at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 6: The fan festival is closed. There are two matches at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 7: The fan festival is closed. There are two matches at Noon and 4 p.m.

July 8: The fan festival is closed, and there aren’t any matches.

July 9: The fan festival is closed. There is a quarter-final match at 4 p.m.

July 10: The fan festival is closed. There is a quarter-final match at 3 p.m.

July 11: The fan festival is closed. There are two quarter-final matches at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

July 12-13: The fan festival is closed, and there aren’t any matches.

July 14: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

July 15: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

July 16-17: The fan festival is closed, and there aren’t any matches.

July 18: The fan festival is closed. The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m.

July 19: The fan festival is closed. The final match is at 3 p.m.

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Miami police officers arrested Vasquez, 34, at 10 p.m. along Northwest North River Drive, near Fifth Street, after a National Crime Information Center database “felony vehicle alert,” according to a police report.

Vasquez, also known as Wilmer Vasqueztribuiani, was “sitting inside the vehicle involved” in the fraud that the victim reported on Jan. 29, in Key Biscayne, a police officer wrote, according to an arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Vasquez shortly before 2 a.m. on Thursday at the Turner Guilford Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

“An unknown subject, by means not yet determined and without authorization, accessed her computer and caused a pop-up message, disguised as an Apple support notification, to appear on the screen,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

The victim reported that the notification reported “her identity and personal information had been compromised,” according to the police report.

“The victim contacted the telephone number displayed on the pop-up message and was subsequently transferred to an individual claiming to be a bank security agent,” a police officer wrote. “Through a series of false representations, the victim was induced to withdraw $20,000.”

The victim withdrew the cash, placed it in a box, and gave it to an Uber courier to deliver it to the Mobil gas station on Crandon Boulevard, according to police.

“Surveillance video obtained during the investigation captured [Vasquez] receiving the box containing the victim’s $20,000 from the Uber courier and departing the area with the proceeds,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Vasquez faced four charges: Organized fraud of $20,000 or more, offenses against users of computers, unlawful use of a communications device, and second-degree grand theft of less than $100,000. His bond was

Vasquez had a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold on Thursday afternoon, according to inmate records. He was born in Venezuela and lives in Miami-Dade’s West End area, according to the police officer’s arrest report.

Safety tips

The FBI warns the public to beware of “computer pop-up scams” that start with “a fraudulent alert” that claims your device has a virus and provides a fake support number to call.

• Do not call.
• Do not click on the pop-up.
• Close your browser using Task Manager (Windows: Ctrl + Shift + Esc) or Force Quit (Mac: ⌘ + Option + Esc).
• Never grant remote access
• Fraudsters also tend to demand payments be done via wire transfer, cryptocurrency, and gift cards.

If you have information about a case and want to file a complaint, visit this page and contact the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.

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

Consumer prices rose 2.1% last month compared with April, the government statistics agency INDEC reported — a rate hailed by Economy Minister Luis Caputo as the lowest monthly level in eight months.

But annual inflation rose marginally to 33.2% this May because monthly inflation in May 2025 hit a seven-year low of 1.5%. Since then, prices have climbed and stayed high, squeezing households and fueling public frustration with Milei's government as it grapples with a series of corruption scandals and struggles to respond to a slump in economic activity across the labor-intensive sectors of retail and manufacturing.

Last month, communications networks saw the biggest price increases with 3.4% on higher phone and internet bills, followed by education costs. Food prices accelerated by 2.5%.

Milei praised Minister Caputo, nicknamed Toto, on social media, posting the INDEC report with the comment, "Let’s goooooo Toto!”

Milei and Caputo also celebrated the news that S&P Global, one of the major credit ratings agencies, had upgraded Argentina's sovereign credit rating late Wednesday to a stable B- from the CCC category, which is considered most at risk of defaulting, citing the government’s success in meeting debt repayments.

Although the upgrade leaves Argentina several notches below investment status, the vote of confidence advances Milei's goal of bringing the crisis-prone economy back to global capital markets six years after Argentina defaulted on its foreign debt for the ninth time.

Milei came to office in late 2023 vowing to eliminate Argentina's sky-high price increases and reverse its chronic fiscal deficits.

More than two years later, his sweeping deregulation and austerity measures have produced a rare budget surplus, charmed investors and slowed inflation — the annual rate, now at 33%, topped 200% when he took power.

But the inflation that makes the cost of living here in Buenos Aires comparable to that in European capitals outpaces real wages. Unemployment has ticked up as thousands of workers are laid off from national industries that can't keep up with a flood of cheap imports.

Corruption scandals of the kind Milei vowed to eradicate upon taking office have struck a nerve against the backdrop of his efforts to defund education, health care and social assistance.

Most recently, Milei's close aide and cabinet chief, Manuel Adorni, came under investigation for alleged illicit enrichment over lavish travel — including an all-cash trip to Aruba — and real estate purchases despite his meager public salary. On Wednesday, he admitted to hiding $500,000 in undeclared savings and cryptocurrency investments.

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Trump had threatened major strikes on Iran and to seize control of its oil and gas industries as escalating attacks between the countries pushed the Middle East closer to full-scale war.

The threats to seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal came after the U.S and Iran traded strikes for a second straight day, pushing the Middle East closer to the resumption of a full-scale war. It was the third time this week that back-and-forth strikes have rattled the Middle East.

Here’s the latest:

Trump again threatens federal takeover of DC

The president’s comments came in response to a question about the possibility of Janeese Lewis George winning the District of Columbia’s mayoral primary next week.

“I wouldn’t like it,” Trump said. “And maybe we’d take back Washington, run it on the federal basis. We won’t put up with it. We’re not going to lose our businesses.”

George is one of the front-runners vying to replace Mayor Muriel Bowser and identifies as a democratic socialist.

Trump has claimed the US has essentially reached a deal with Iran before, so why is this different?

“Because they’ve taken a pounding,” Trump explained Thursday when asked why he was confident.

But his answer was vague as he described it as a “very strong memorandum of understanding,” that he described as “a little conceptual.”

He said of Iran, “They want to make the deal a lot more than I do.”

Trump believes Iran Supreme Leader has signed off on emerging deal

“I understand the answer is yes” Trump said when asked if Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has agreed to the deal.

Khamenei was wounded in the opening salvos of the U.S. and Israeli bombardment of Iran and has been in hiding since.

Iran has not yet confirmed that it’s agreed to terms with the U.S. on a settlement to end the war

Trump says Pulte will continue to be acting director of national intelligence

Trump is insisting that Pulte will stay in the temporary role despite the president’s announcement earlier Thursday that he’s chosen Clayton as the permanent nominee.

“He’s only there for a little while,” Trump said of Pulte. Pressed on Pulte’s lack of national security credentials, the president responded “but he’s intelligent, unlike a lot of other people.”

Trump was also vague on whether he’ll take any executive actions to address the potential lapse in surveillance authorities after midnight Friday.

“Congress wants me to do it, and let’s see what happens,” he said.

Trump opens up more protected ocean areas to fishing

Trump opened three marine protected areas in the Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing with a proclamation Thursday that he said will boost the U.S. seafood industry.

Trump has targeted marine protections created in the era of Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush that he said stifle the country’s ability to compete in the global seafood marketplace. He moved to reestablish fishing in Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off New England in February.

Thursday’s move focused on portions of Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and Rose Atoll Marine National Monument. The monuments are protected zones in remote areas of the Pacific.

Environmental groups have criticized Trump’s moves to allow fishing in protected zones, which they said provide vital habitat for rare sea life.

US stocks jump and oil prices ease

U.S. stocks have rallied to their best day in two months and oil prices have fallen after Trump said he had called off new military strikes on Iran.

Trump’s comments raised hopes Thursday for a potential deal to get the global flow of oil going again.

The S&P 500 jumped 1.8%, coming off a back-to-back drop that had yanked it back to where it was in early May.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped 1.9%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 2.5%. Strong gains for chip stocks helped offset a slide for Oracle. Treasury yields eased sharply in the bond market.

Rubio says UFC fights are a great uniter for a polarized America as White House prepares for cage match

“There are only a handful of things that bring people together in one place at one time, united by their interest in one thing. We need more of those,” Rubio said.

He lauded the popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and the diversity of fight audiences as he signed a sports diplomacy agreement with UFC president Dana White.

He said the White House event on Sunday could have been a concert or a “Shakespeare in the Park” production, “but this one will have people watching probably … a billion people over the world will be watching America celebrate its 250th birthday with the White House in the background.”

National Mall vandalism investigated

The U.S. Park Police is investigating after someone marked the numbers “86 47” on the grass of the lawn west of the Washington Monument.

“The cause of the discoloration has not yet been determined. Grass samples have been collected for testing,” Park Police said in an email.

The same numbers got attention after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted in April over a photograph he posted on social media of seashells arranged to say “86 47.” The Justice Department contends the numbers amounted to a threat against Trump, the 47th president. Comey has said he assumed the numbers reflected a political message, not a call to violence.

According to Merriam-Webster, 86 is slang meaning “to throw out,” “to get rid of” or “to refuse service to.”

“The deranged vandalism on our National Mall will not be tolerated,” the Department of Interior said in an email. “Any threat against the President is taken very seriously by the Department.”

Trump claims he’s close to making a deal with Iran aimed at winding down conflict

“We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran,” Trump said at the start of an Oval Office event. “And we’re going to be, subject to finalization of documents, which should get done over the next few days, probably have a signing, maybe in Europe.”

Trump started the day by again threatening to hit Iran “very hard” with new strikes. Hours later, he returned to social media to say that he decided to cancel plans to escalate the fighting because progress had been made in the talks with Iran and suggested anew that a deal is within view.

But Trump on multiple occasions over the last several weeks has claimed that the warring parties have been on a cusp of a deal without anything coming to fruition.

Taiwan’s opposition leader met US lawmakers

The leader of Taiwan’s opposition party met five U.S. lawmakers at a time when Washington is seeking to stabilize ties with Beijing despite their differences over the self-governed island, including U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

Cheng Li-wun, chairperson of Taiwan’s Kuomintang Party, is on a two-week trip to the U.S. to promote her party’s approach to peace in the Taiwan Strait through dialogue and to explain its stance on Taiwan’s defense budget and purchase of U.S. weapons. Her party opposes the formal independence of Taiwan.

Taiwan’s media reported that Cheng on Wednesday met with Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., and Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla. Mast chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Fleischmann’s office confirmed the meeting.

Thune says Senate could move ‘fairly quickly’ to confirm Clayton

“I don’t know what realistic is, but we’re gonna probe the limits of it,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said after Trump announced on social media that he would nominate Jay Clayton for director of national intelligence.

Democrats are holding up the renewal of a key surveillance law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, in protest of Trump’s temporary pick for the job, federal housing regulator Bill Pulte. The law expires Friday at midnight.

Trump has previously said that Pulte will take over from the outgoing director, Tulsi Gabbard, on June 19. It is unclear whether the Senate could move quickly enough to confirm Clayton before that date.

Rubio signs sports diplomacy agreement with UFC ahead of cage fight at the White House

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed a cooperation agreement with the president of the Ultimate Fight Championship that will pair the two institutions in providing fight training, health and diet regimes and promote teamwork and leadership for youths around the world.

Rubio signed the agreement with UFC chief Dana White at the State Department on Thursday, just three days before the UFC will stage a cage match at the White House. Sunday’s match will be held in conjunction with Trump’s 80th birthday and the celebration of America’s 250th independence anniversary.

The partnership will be part of a broader sports diplomacy initiative that has been operating for decades. It has involved golf, tennis, figure skating, American football, soccer and other athletes. Under the program, program, UFC athletes and coaches will serve as U.S. sports ambassadors, leading training clinics for young international athletes.

Trump picks Jay Clayton, ex-SEC head and current US attorney, as director of national intelligence

Trump says he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and current U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, as director of national intelligence.

Trump announced the nomination on social media on Thursday amid pressure from Congress to name Tulsi Gabbard’s permanent replacement. Trump faced intense pushback over his decision to name Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director after Gabbard announced last month that she was stepping down because of her husband’s cancer diagnosis.

The situation led to a standoff in Congress as Democrats said they would refuse to renew a foreign intelligence powers unless Trump pulled Pulte’s nomination and named a permanent nominee.

“Few people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at the level of Jay,” Trump wrote. “I encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible.”

Pentagon ends lockdown over ‘air quality’ issue

The Pentagon has stood down from a lockdown over what officials described as an “air quality issue.”

“Subsequent testing confirmed no hazard exists, and normal operations have resumed,” the Pentagon’s top spokesman, Sean Parnell, said in a social media post.

The lockdown lasted for about two hours and prompted a response from hazmat teams of the Pentagon’s internal police force as well as the team from nearby Arlington, Virginia.

Trump calls off threatened strikes against Iran after indicating progress in talks

Trump says he’s called off new military strikes on Iran hours after threatening to escalate the 3-month-old war.

The president said in a social media post Thursday that he made the move “based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.”

Trump also suggested that progress has been made in talks to extend the fragile ceasefire, writing that “discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail,” approved by United States, Israel, and other regional allies. He did not offer details.

Trump on multiple occasions over the last several weeks has claimed that the warring parties have been on a cusp of a deal without anything coming to fruition.

Targeting Iran’s Kharg Island carries major risks

Kharg Island has emerged as a focus of the war launched by the United States and Israel. The Persian Gulf island is home to a terminal through which Iran exports most of its oil.

Strikes on oil infrastructure on Kharg — or a ground invasion — would severely curb Iran’s oil exports, a key source of revenue for the Islamic Republic.

An assault would also mark a major escalation that could provoke even heavier retaliatory attacks on Gulf infrastructure. That would further drive up oil prices that already threaten the world economy.

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A look at the scene on the White House South Lawn for Sunday’s UFC event

It looks from afar more UFO than UFC.

Maybe it’s the kind of contraption that has carried space aliens to the White House to force a meeting with America’s leader.

But come closer and you’ll see the contours of the eight-sided cage, 30 feet in diameter and shaped like the MMA league’s signature Octagon.

Overhead looms The Claw, a four-sided mass that arcs more than 90 feet into the air and features lights, speakers, thick snakes of wiring and four large screens so fans not seated right next to the Octagon can follow the fighting in the cage below.

And surrounding all that are risers filled with gray folding chairs forming a temporary arena expected to seat 4,000-plus for the seven UFC fights being staged on Sunday to celebrate the 80th birthday of President Donald Trump and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s signing.

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Iran’s parliamentary speaker responds

Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf warned in a social media post Thursday that “wrong strategies and impulsive decisions” would wreak havoc on energy markets and “create an endless quagmire that you will be stuck in for years.”

Iran’s monthslong stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted global energy supplies, driven up fuel prices and made food and other basics more expensive well beyond the region.

Hazardous materials units respond to the Pentagon

The Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s hazardous materials team was responding to an unknown issue and parts of the Pentagon were under a shelter-in-place order while officials investigate.

“The Pentagon has sophisticated systems to ensure the safety of the building and its occupants. Those systems have detected an air quality issue necessitating precautionary measures until we determine its significance,” Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said Thursday. “The Department is executing standard protection protocols, including a shelter-in-place order for the affected area.”

The Arlington County Fire Department also sent units, including its hazardous materials team, according to a posting on its X account. Questions to the media office were referred to the Pentagon.

Iranian student says hope dwindles as attacks escalate

A 25-year-old student in northern Iran says Iranians are fearing “chaos” amid the war with the U.S. and Israel and multiplying crises at home.

The student, who lives in the city of Babol, said many Iranians are struggling to afford groceries in the face of mass job losses and triple-digit food inflation. He spoke on the condition of anonymity out of security fears.

“Everything is going wrong and there is no hope among the people,” the student added.

The student first spoke to The Associated Press before the war when he participated in widespread anti-government protests. He now says his chief concern is that Iran “maintain territorial integrity and deterrence” in the face of attacks by the U.S. and Israel.

— Amir-Hussein Radjy

Tensions persist over Iran’s nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a social media post that the U.S. would extract funds from frozen Iranian accounts to offset the costs of damage to American allies as well as any tolls Iran imposes on ships seeking passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

Beyond the deadlock over the strait, the two sides also remain at odds over Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran insists its nuclear efforts are peaceful. The U.S. and Israel fear Tehran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium could be used to build an atomic weapon. That was a main reason they cited for going to war Feb. 28.

Trump doesn’t back down on Bill Pulte

After bipartisan pushback to Pulte’s temporary appointment as director of national intelligence, Trump said last week that he would not permanently nominate him to the position. But Democrats, and some Republicans, want his appointment pulled immediately and for Trump to nominate a replacement that can be confirmed by the Senate.

On Tuesday, though, Trump announced that Pulte would not only take over as acting director — he’d also start earlier than expected, on June 19.

One of several possible replacements could be Pete Hoekstra, Trump’s ambassador to Canada and a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The White House has reached out to Hoekstra about the job and conversations are ongoing, according to a person familiar with the outreach who requested anonymity to discuss the private conversations.

— Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro and Seung Min Kim

GOP leaders lobbied the White House, to no avail

Congressional Republicans have lobbied Trump all week to quickly nominate a permanent replacement for director of national intelligence. But he said he needs more time to do so.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Republican leaders have “made our views known” to the White House.

Trump has said he’s interviewing five candidates for his pick to lead the agency permanently, after the resignation of Tulsi Gabbard.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the president has made it very clear that Pulte will serve a “very short term — a sort of renovation role” to help the Office of the Director of National Intelligence be “renovated and downsized.”

But Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee led by Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said in a letter to the president that Pulte is a “uniquely poor choice” to serve even in the acting capacity.

House vote to extend FISA spy tool fails and it could lapse as Friday deadline looms

A rare lapse in a law that allows the United States to gather intelligence abroad appears likely after the House failed Thursday to temporarily extend the program, in a protest of President Trump ’s refusal to name a permanent head of the nation’s intelligence agencies.

Trump has doubled down on his temporary pick for director of national intelligence, federal housing finance regulator Bill Pulte, even though Pulte has little experience for the job. Democrats say they won’t support the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, unless the Republican president withdraws Pulte’s appointment and nominates a permanent replacement.

The House vote collapsed in bipartisan fashion, with some Republicans and nearly all Democrats rejecting the temporary measure. The Senate may try its own vote later Thursday, but hopes are dimming to prevent what could be an unprecedented lapse in the surveillance tool. The law expires Friday at midnight.

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Miami police said Victor Rodriguez Polledo was arrested after the incident, which occurred around 5:45 p.m. at a home in the 1900 block of Southwest 17th Street, in the city’s Shenandoah neighborhood.

According to an arrest report, officers responded to a 911 call reporting that a landlord had assaulted a tenant with a machete.

Police said after arriving at the scene, they found the victim bleeding from his right arm and wrist.

The victim told police Rodriguez Polledo had been “arguing with him over some items that needed to be thrown out,” the report states.

During the argument, Rodriguez Polledo told the victim in Spanish, “What the f--- are you looking at? You’ll see what I have for you,” before going back inside his home, returning with a machete, and swinging it at the tenant, according to the report.

Police said the victim reported being struck in the shoulder and arm area with the back of the blade before blocking a second swing with his right hand, suffering a deep laceration to his wrist.

Investigators said the victim then attempted to disarm Rodriguez Polledo, which led to a struggle.

Another person who intervened suffered a minor cut to a hand but declined medical treatment, according to the report.

Authorities said the victim was transported to HCA Florida Mercy Hospital with a deep laceration to his right wrist and other minor injuries.

Police said they recovered a blood-stained machete from the rear of the property and collected it as evidence.

After being advised of his rights in Spanish, Rodriguez Polledo agreed to speak with investigators, however, details of his statement were redacted from the publicly released report.

Jail records show Rodriguez Polledo is facing one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

As of Thursday, he was being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

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The request was the focus of a Broward County budget workshop Thursday.

Sheriff Gregory Tony was absent from the meeting but was watching via livestream.

“I think Sheriff Tony is watching, I think we should pull the plug and drive him crazy,” Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen joked during the workshop.

Undersheriff Steve Robson addressed commissioners about the department’s need for additional funding.

“Of course the elephant is our unresolved issue, money of this current year rolled into next year’s budget,” Robson said.

Robson also highlighted deputy starting salaries, saying they are the lowest among Broward law enforcement agencies and that deputies are leaving in large numbers.

BSO is requesting 50 additional positions, with much of the proposed budget tied to employee costs and staffing.

“Here’s a pie chart showing within the agency the different categories where the funds flow to. Personnel is 80%,” Robson said.

The budget discussion comes amid an ongoing dispute between BSO and Deerfield Beach as the city moves toward operating its own police department.

“October is when October 1 takes over, they have their own force. What happens to the 150 officers? So we plan to absorb them through our transition plan that we’ve given to the city, and the city has refuted the plan that we put forward, so we’re kind of in that position right now,” Robson said. “Before October 1 of ’27, I plan to absorb all of those officers into the BSO.”

Commissioners raised concerns about the size of the budget request, including Commissioner Steven Geller.

“Tony asks us for more money than is available,” Geller said.

Geller said public safety remains a top priority but noted that other county services also require funding.

“It is a top priority, but it is not our only priority,” Geller said.

“Currently, out of our general revenue budget, we’re spending approximately 54% on public safety. But there’s a lot of other things we have to pay for,” he added.

Mayor Bogen agreed that the request may be difficult to accommodate.

“Based on our budget constraints right now, it isn’t realistic,” Bogen said.

The final county budget is scheduled to be approved in September.

BSO declined a request for an interview with the undersheriff and referred questions to remarks made during the meeting.

La solicitud fue el tema central de un taller presupuestario del condado Broward realizado el jueves.

El sheriff Gregory Tony estuvo ausente de la reunión, pero la siguió por transmisión en vivo.

“Creo que el sheriff Tony está viendo esto, creo que deberíamos desconectar la transmisión y volverlo loco”, bromeó el alcalde del condado Broward, Mark Bogen, durante el taller.

El subjefe Steve Robson se dirigió a los comisionados para explicar la necesidad de fondos adicionales para el departamento.

“Por supuesto, el gran problema es nuestro asunto no resuelto: el dinero de este año que se trasladará al presupuesto del próximo año”, dijo Robson.

Robson también destacó los salarios iniciales de los agentes, señalando que son los más bajos entre las agencias policiales de Broward y que muchos agentes están abandonando la institución.

La BSO está solicitando 50 puestos adicionales, y gran parte del presupuesto propuesto está relacionado con costos de personal y contratación.

“Aquí hay un gráfico circular que muestra las diferentes categorías dentro de la agencia a las que se destinan los fondos. El personal representa el 80%”, dijo Robson.

La discusión presupuestaria ocurre en medio de una disputa en curso entre la BSO y Deerfield Beach, mientras la ciudad avanza hacia la creación de su propio departamento de policía.

“Octubre es cuando entra en vigor el 1 de octubre, y ellos tendrán su propia fuerza policial. ¿Qué pasará con los 150 agentes? Planeamos absorberlos mediante nuestro plan de transición que presentamos a la ciudad, y la ciudad ha rechazado el plan que propusimos, así que estamos en esa situación en este momento”, dijo Robson. “Antes del 1 de octubre de 2027, planeo incorporar a todos esos agentes a la BSO”.

Los comisionados expresaron preocupación por el tamaño de la solicitud presupuestaria, incluido el comisionado Steven Geller.

“Tony nos está pidiendo más dinero del que está disponible”, dijo Geller.

Geller afirmó que la seguridad pública sigue siendo una prioridad principal, pero señaló que otros servicios del condado también requieren financiamiento.

“Es una prioridad principal, pero no es nuestra única prioridad”, dijo Geller.

“Actualmente, de nuestro presupuesto de ingresos generales, estamos destinando aproximadamente el 54% a la seguridad pública. Pero hay muchas otras cosas que también tenemos que financiar”, agregó.

El alcalde Bogen coincidió en que la solicitud podría ser difícil de atender.

“Con las limitaciones presupuestarias que tenemos en este momento, no es realista”, dijo Bogen.

Está previsto que el presupuesto final del condado sea aprobado en septiembre.

La BSO rechazó una solicitud de entrevista con el subjefe y remitió las preguntas a los comentarios realizados durante la reunión.

Later, she repeated her assertion that former President Joe Biden’s administration is responsible for the parasite’s return to the U.S. six decades after it was eradicated. Democratic leaders say cuts to the nation’s agriculture agency under President Donald Trump are to blame.

Screwworms are on their way to becoming a billion-dollar international problem, but can be contained if ranchers are vigilant, watch their herds and other wildlife, and quickly treat any infestations, Rollins said. She pointed to the calf where screwworms were found six days earlier in a wound where its umbilical cord had been attached.

“He couldn’t be happier. He’s bouncing around the pasture," Rollins said.

Screwworms are flies that lay their eggs in the wounds of warm-blooded animals and feed on living flesh rather than dead tissues. Scientists say releasing sterile flies to mate with females is the most effective way to control the population, a strategy that has worked for decades. A warming planet is complicating efforts by giving screwworms, which thrive in hot, humid weather, more places to spread.

Billion-dollar response planned to fight screwworms

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing an all-out assault on the screwworm, which had been contained in the narrow isthmus of Panama for decades.

No matter the cause, driving screwworms back south and keeping them out of the U.S. will be expensive. The USDA estimated it would spend over $1 billion on efforts to save cattle herds and other livestock.

About $750 million will go toward building and operating a plant capable of producing up to 300 million sterile flies a week. The technique has been used for decades, as female screwworms mate just once, and if they choose a sterile mate, their eggs don’t hatch, and the fly population dwindles.

The goal is to protect the U.S. cattle industry. Experts think the parasite shouldn't cause an immediate increase in near-record-high beef prices as long as it doesn't turn into an outbreak and large groups of cattle die. Screwworms don't affect food safety.

The parasite has already disrupted the Mexican beef industry. The U.S. closed its southern ports to Mexican livestock last summer.

Mexico has had more than 28,000 cases of screwworms since the flies returned two years ago, mostly confined to its southern states. The Mexican government stopped the importation of almost all live animals from the U.S. after screwworms were discovered here.

Scientists aren’t sure how screwworms emerged again

The U.S. had been almost entirely rid of screwworms for 60 years, with scientists in North and Central America eventually driving it down to the containment zone in Panama. But in 2023, the flies emerged and began heading back north.

Experts say screwworms are here to stay at least for this summer. Seven cases have already been detected in Texas and New Mexico. A 12-mile (20-kilometer) quarantine zone goes up around every place a case is found.

As they work toward a solution, scientists say they aren't sure exactly what led to screwworms leaving the area in Panama where they were boxed in.

“I don't have the answer to that one, and I don’t know if anyone does. It doesn’t help us to speculate,” said Jonathan Cammack, a professor of livestock entomology and parasitology at Oklahoma State University.

The key now is to ramp up the sterile fly program and get international cooperation to get the pests back down to Panama, he said.

Climate change is also helping drive the spread of screwworms, said Lee Haines, an associate research professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame.

"The fly is a creature of warmth as its entire life cycle, from egg to adult, can complete in as little as three weeks under tropical conditions," Haines said.

Even Canada has temporarily stopped importing cattle, horses or other livestock from Texas. The parasites prefer humid areas where temperatures are at least 77 F (25 C), and those days are increasing further north.

Democrats question cuts; Republicans blame immigration

As Rollins moves quickly to implement a billion-dollar response to the screwworm outbreak, she has also blamed the Biden administration, noting that it was in office as the parasite began moving north again.

She said without showing any evidence the flies were with animals that followed immigrants north as well as hitching rides with cattle and other animals being sold by Mexican cartels outside of regular markets.

“People moving north to America, bringing their livestock with them, the Mexican cartels with the illicit cattle traffic, we knew it was coming,” Rollins told the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday.

Nearly a dozen Democratic U.S. senators sent a letter to Rollins this week questioning whether job losses at the USDA have hurt food inspections and livestock safety programs.

Nearly 20% of the counties in the U.S. that started 2025 with at least one employee from the federal Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service ended the year with none, the letter said.

Rollins said she has moved over 100 USDA employees into the screwworm response. She said it has been one of her top priorities since Trump picked her to lead the USDA.

But Democratic U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu of California said blaming Biden is shortsighted and again shows the Trump administration creates problems through reckless spending cuts.

“The life cycle of a screwworm is about 14 to 54 days, depending on temperature and humidity. The Trump administration has been in office for over 500 days,” Lieu said earlier this week. “This is on the Trump administration. They need to own up to it, and they need to apologize.”

Según una orden de arresto, un detective de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade informó que los videos de vigilancia muestran a Julian Jimenez en la escena del crimen y su automóvil de huida después del tiroteo ocurrido el 27 de agosto de 2019 en Kendale Lakes.

Según la orden judicial, un video de vigilancia muestra a Jiménez con una máscara y guantes, y sosteniendo una pistola calibre .40, después de que Alex Vega llegara en su auto al camino de entrada de su casa en Southwest 118 Avenue, cerca de Killian Parkway.

Jiménez, que entonces tenía 23 años, disparó, y los agentes encontraron a Vega, que entonces tenía 50 años, con heridas en la espalda, según la orden de arresto. Los bomberos trasladaron a Vega al Centro Médico Regional de Kendall, que ahora funciona como Hospital HCA Florida Kendall, según consta en los registros.

Hace más de 15 años, Vega y Rolando Ramírez tuvieron un conflicto por deudas, según fiscales federales que trabajaron en un caso relacionado.

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En 2012, según los fiscales, Ramírez, propietario del Doral Collision Center, se hizo cargo de Vega’s Exclusive Motoring Worldwide en Doral como parte de un acuerdo.

Según los fiscales, Rasheed Ali, amigo de Ramírez y exjugador de fútbol americano de la Universidad de Miami, ayudó a organizar el complot para cometer un asesinato por encargo en 2018.

Según los fiscales, Ali, también conocido como “Fresh”, y su amigo Tamrat Mason, más conocido como el artista de reggae “Shifta”, reclutaron a Jaime Serrano, un “distribuidor de marihuana” con una deuda pendiente.

Según los agentes, el 21 de agosto de 2019, Serrano voló con Jiménez de Nueva York a Miami y alquiló un Nissan Rogue de 2018 en Enterprise Rental Car.

Pocos minutos después de que Vega resultara herido el 27 de agosto de 2019, un video de vigilancia muestra a Jiménez caminando hacia el sur por la Avenida 117 Suroeste y “hacia una parada de autobús que contenía un bote de basura donde posteriormente se encontró el arma de fuego”, según la orden judicial.

Otro video de vigilancia muestra el Nissan Rogue, “unos cinco minutos después, en la plaza de peaje de Bird Road en la autopista Florida Turnpike en dirección norte”, según la orden judicial, que no menciona cuánto se le pagó supuestamente a Jiménez.

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“Las fuerzas del orden encontraron una máscara y un par de guantes”, escribió un agente, según la orden judicial.

Jiménez, originario del Bronx, accedió a una orden judicial para proporcionar su ADN a los detectives el 26 de junio de 2022, y el laboratorio de la Oficina de Servicios Forenses del MDSO lo analizó, según consta en la orden.

Según los registros de reclusos, el departamento penitenciario del condado de Miami-Dade ingresó en el centro penitenciario Turner Guilford Knight poco antes de las 23:40 del miércoles.

Jiménez tenía dos órdenes de arresto pendientes: una por intento de asesinato con arma mortal y conspiración para cometer asesinato con arma mortal, y la otra por una orden de detención emitida por otra agencia, según consta en los registros.

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Debbie Cohran, who lives about 500 feet (152 meters) from the aerospace facility in Garden Grove, wasn’t told to evacuate until several hours after the leak started, according to her complaint. Her suit said she experienced nausea and headaches for several days afterward.

Melanie Rose Burciaga of nearby Westminster had just given birth to her first child and had to leave the hospital when the evacuation orders came in, her lawyer said in a lawsuit.

And Juan Diego Orozco was part of a street repair crew working in Garden Grove on the day the overheating started. He said he suffered a headache and went to the hospital due to difficulty breathing and vomiting, his lawyer said.

More than 100 individuals — including some families with pets — as well as local businesses are suing GKN Aerospace, saying the U.K.-based company was negligent in maintaining a safe facility, especially since it’s located in a large population center.

Ten of the cases were filed as class actions in federal court, while 21 are in state court and cover one to 31 plaintiffs. The suits seek compensatory and punitive damages.

A spokesperson for GKN Aerospace told the AP in an email Thursday: “GKN respects the legal process and will respond to these lawsuits in due course.”

Adam Zimmerman, a professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law who is not involved in the litigation, said the federal cases will likely be consolidated and the state cases will likely be moved under one judge, to ensure they are handled efficiently. Some of those state lawsuits may be moved to federal court, he said.

Pressure on the company increased on Wednesday when FBI agents served a search warrant at the facility to collect documents and records related to the “storage, use, or disposal” of methyl methacrylate, the chemical inside the affected tank.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it had joined the FBI to “search for and seize evidence of potential federal environmental crimes." The agency declined to provide more information, saying it doesn't comment on criminal investigations.

GKN Aerospace makes cockpit windows, canopies and windshields. The tank that overheated starting on May 21 contained 6,000 to 7,000 gallons (22,700 to 26,500 liters) of methyl methacrylate, which is highly flammable. The liquid is used in the manufacturing of plastics and coatings, such as Plexiglas.

Health officials said no contamination or fumes were released, and they plan to monitor the air for several months. Exposure to the chemical can cause serious respiratory problems, neurological issues and irritation to the skin, eyes and throat, according to the EPA.

Although the tank did not explode, tens of thousands of residents were evacuated from the area for three to five days until crews were able to stabilize the tank.

Blodgett said that the company was cooperating with federal authorities.

GKN Aerospace senior vice president Steve Carlin spoke at a community meeting Tuesday, saying he was sorry that the event occurred, and that it was especially unsettling because the company has a long history with the community.

Many of the lawsuits say the company had a duty to maintain the tank, cooling system, valves and monitoring systems to keep the community safe.

The complaints say the residents were forced to leave their homes and had to pay for hotels, food and other daily needs, which created a financial burden. They also said they experienced anxiety during the evacuation process and continue to be concerned about exposure to chemicals.

Businesses in the area also suffered. The emergency happened over Memorial Day weekend -– a time when many restaurants and food service companies bring in some of their best revenue of the year.

“Our data shows approximately 3,000 businesses were forced to shut down because of the evacuation, and at least another 3,000 businesses right outside the evacuation zone while not forced to close, but had their revenue dropped considerably because of the tank failure and evacuation,” said lawyer Richard McCune, who has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Big Rob’s Pizzeria and Fruit Caboose Concessions.

Lawyers say the FBI investigation will help their legal cases.

“We trust that the search will uncover important information and materials related to this crisis,” said lawyer Sean Litteral, who represents Jonathan Sanchez, a father of two children, including an infant born just days before the incident.

And they had spent the first four games of the Stanley Cup Final being outplayed in critical second-period sequences.

On Thursday night, it all came together, aligning to bring the Hurricanes within a victory of winning the Cup.

Svechnikov scored twice and Aho added a second-period goal in a breakout offensive game for both, helping the Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 for a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series.

“I liked our effort for sure, and I hope we're getting better,” coach Rod Brind'Amour said. “I think there's certain areas of our game that are starting to look a lot like we need it to look. But I do think there's still another level that we're going to need to get to find that next one.”

Captain Jordan Staal found the net again for the fifth straight game in this series after Vegas had taken a 1-0 first-period lead, while Brandon Bussi finished with 23 saves in his second career postseason start.

Game 6 is Sunday night in Las Vegas, with the Hurricanes playing for the chance to hoist the Stanley Cup for the first time since Brind’Amour captained them to the title in 2006.

Aho's goal in the second period marked his first of the series, coming when Sean Walker found him cutting to the left side after Jordan Martinook — swapped with Seth Jarvis to work alongside Aho and Svechnikov on the top line — won a puck battle behind the net on the forecheck.

Then there was Svechnikov, who entered Thursday with four postseason goals before striking twice on the power play. On the first, he whipped the puck past Carter Hart on the right side for a 2-1 lead in the second period. On the second, he had a short putaway at the post off a sharp feed from Nikolaj Ehlers for a 4-1 lead, one of three assist for Ehlers on the night that included him having two delay-of-game penalties for putting a puck over the glass.

Before those second-period scores, Vegas had outscored Carolina 9-1 in the second period during the series.

And unlike most multi-goal leads in what has been a wild and thrilling series, this one held up with Bussi doing enough to stave off Vegas' late push to climb back in it.

“It required everything we have,” Staal said on the ESPN broadcast.

Pavel Dorofeyev scored twice for Vegas, finding the net for the first time since Game 1 of the Western Conference Final sweep of Presidents’ Trophy winner Colorado.

“I thought we were still doing some good things,” Vegas’ Jack Eichel said. “We had chances.”

Hart entered this one as the first goaltender in Stanley Cup Final history to give up at least four goals in each of the first four games, then did it again to continue a difficult series while finishing with 20 saves.

Asked if he considered swapping to backup Adin Hill, coach John Tortorella responded: “That could be the stupidest question I've heard.”

Vegas had twice before been in a 2-2 series in these playoffs, in the first round against Utah and the second round against Anaheim. Both times, the Golden Knights won Game 5 and closed out the series in Game 6.

This time, they’ll have to win on home ice to force the series back to Carolina for a Game 7 on Wednesday night. And they'll have to take two in a row against a Hurricanes team that hasn't suffered consecutive losses since mid-January.

Not that Tortorella was fazed.

“We'll be back here,” he said confidently, saying he would leave his clothes behind at the team's hotel in expectation of returning to North Carolina.

Vegas played much of the night without center William Karlsson, who was being checked out on the bench for an apparent upper-body injury. Karlsson skated to the tunnel midway through the second period and didn’t return. Tortorella said the center was “not going to be with us, probably" in the coming games.

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According to the Hollywood Police Department, the May 20 crash happened at around 12:25 a.m. on North Ocean Drive near Hollywood Boulevard.

Police said the driver of a BMW, who has since been identified as Artiom Echiusciu, was going more than 100 mph when he crossed over the center median and struck the officer’s vehicle before getting out and running away.

Officer Luis Diaz suffered injuries considered serious but not life-threatening and was hospitalized, but is currently recovering, according to HPD.

Police said Echiusciu ordered a Lyft to help flee the scene, and eventually traveled all the way to Illinois where he was taken into custody on Wednesday by the U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force in Chicago.

Echiusciu, a Russian national who police said was in the country illegally, is facing charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injuries, reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, reckless driving causing property damage, driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage and failure to register a motor vehicle.

He is in the process of being extradited to Broward County, authorities said.

Golf Digest cited multiple sources as saying Mickelson is no longer welcome at The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, where the six-time major champion has played and practiced for decades. The unwanted contact was said to have happened earlier this spring.

Mickelson, the chief recruiter in the launching of LIV Golf, has only played once this year because of a serious family health matter that has not been disclosed. He did not play the Masters and PGA Championship, and is no longer exempt for the U.S. Open.

Golf Digest said it verified the identity of The Farms employee and was withholding her name to protect her privacy. It said she declined to participate in the reporting of the story.

A spokesperson for Mickelson told Golf Digest, “Any misunderstanding has been cleared up. Phil continues to attend to a family health matter and is uncertain when he will be able to return to professional golf.”

Golf Digest cited sources in reporting Mickelson approached the woman in the clubhouse and made nonconsensual and inappropriate physical contact with her. The woman rejected his advances and reported it to her supervisors.

Officials at The Farms reviewed and investigated, Golf Digest reported, and then confronted Mickelson on the course. Mickelson, 55, was told to leave the premises.

The Farms said in a statement to Golf Digest, “Following a staff member report of member misconduct, the club provided immediate and ongoing support to the staff member, conducted a thorough independent investigation of the incident and took decisive action. This individual is no longer a member of The Farms Golf Club.”

“To protect the safety and privacy of our staff and member, we are unable to speak further on the matter.”

Golf Digest cited multiple sources in confirming the member was Mickelson.

The Farms, located about 10 miles from Torrey Pines, is a private club where several top players are members such as Annika Sorenstam and Xander Schauffele, both of whom have primary residences in Florida.

The development adds to what has become a dark chapter for Mickelson, who is married with three children and was once one of the most beloved public figures in golf for his bold and creative game, and for the time he spent after rounds signing autographs.

Mickelson was a relief defendant in an insider trading scheme in 2016 in which he was not criminally charged but agreed to repay nearly $1 million he made in a single trade. Noted gambler Billy Walters was involved in that case and sentenced to five years in prison.

Walters wrote an autobiography in 2023 in which he claims Mickelson has wagered more than $1 billion over the last 30 years, including one day in 2011 in which Mickelson was said to have placed 43 bets on Major League Baseball that resulted in $143,500 in losses.

Mickelson became the oldest major champion in golf history when he won the 2021 PGA Championship. A year later, he was a central figure in helping to launch Saudi-funded LIV Golf. He lost major sponsorships when he was quoted in early 2022 as calling the Saudis “scary mother (expletives)” and that he was only thinking of joining the league to gain leverage over the PGA Tour.

The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia is ending its financial support of LIV after this year.

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La congresista Gloria Arizabaleta, del oficialista Pacto Histórico, firmó un documento que fue conocido la víspera por la prensa en el que reclamó que Petro sea suspendido hasta el 21 de junio, día en que se celebrará la segunda vuelta presidencial entre el oficialista Iván Cepeda y el conservador Abelardo de la Espriella.

El abogado Alejandro Carranza, quien representa a Petro, aseguró a medios de prensa que la congresista “abusó de su autoridad” como presidenta de la Comisión de Investigación y Acusación de la Cámara de Representantes con funciones judiciales y encargada de tratar las denuncias contra el presidente y otros aforados.

La Corte Suprema, donde el abogado presentará la denuncia, es la encargada de investigar penalmente a los congresistas.

Arizabaleta indicó en el documento que se trataba de una medida provisional mientras se adelanta la investigación contra Petro en la Comisión por presunta participación indebida en política, luego de que el presidente hiciera declaraciones sobre los candidatos.

La investigación se refiere especialmente a publicaciones en X en las que Petro hizo referencia a los aspirantes a la presidencia o usa expresiones como “el gato/tigre seguirá cazando ratones”, en lo que parece una alusión a De la Espriella, quien se apoda “El Tigre”.

Petro dijo que la congresista le hace oposición —pese a ser de su mismo partido— y negó haber intervenido en política. Al respecto indicó que sus menciones a De la Espriella fueron para defender su “buen nombre”, porque el candidato quiere acusarlo frente a la justicia estadounidense.

El mandatario continúa en funciones, mientras que Arizabaleta fue suspendida de su cargo por la Procuraduría, encargada de investigar disciplinariamente a los funcionarios públicos, mientras investiga su actuación. El procurador, Gregorio Eljach, dijo a la prensa que recogieron múltiples quejas y actuaron.

La solicitud de la congresista generó una discusión jurídica sobre su alcance y el procedimiento que se debe seguir. Según las normas colombianas, en la Comisión de Investigación y Acusación los congresistas que la integran deben decidir si archivan las causas o si presentan un proyecto de acusación contra el presidente ante el pleno de la Cámara de Representantes, donde de ser aprobada se traslada al Senado, que se encarga de enjuiciarlo.

Carranza tildó la solicitud de Arizabaleta de “inconstitucional”. Aseguró que la tomó como un “mensaje” luego de que presuntamente la congresista ejerciera sobre el gobierno una “presión indebida” para obtener “prebendas” bajo la supuesta amenaza de que la Comisión avance en otra investigación sobre posibles irregularidades en la financiación de la campaña electoral con la que Petro llegó al poder en 2022.

En declaraciones en X cuestionando a la legisladora, el mandatario dijo que es lamentable que "la codicia lleve a los seres humanos a destruir incluso su propia vida”. Afirmó además que “estamos ante un posible prevaricato”, en referencia al delito en el que un servidor público actúa a sabiendas que su decisión es contraria a la ley.

En tanto, la oposición política interpretó la solicitud de la congresista como un truco para “victimizar” al presidente y dar impulso a la campaña de Cepeda, su aliado político.

De la Espriella advirtió en un comunicado, sin enseñar pruebas, que se trata de una maniobra de Petro para “robar las elecciones”.

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said the notice came shortly before the start of the league's executive board meeting to discuss its options in the Sorsby situation.

The temporary injunction issued Monday by a Texas district court prevents the NCAA from enforcing its permanent ban of Sorsby, a decision that sent shock waves across college sports. The transfer QB had been ruled ineligible after he acknowledged years of gambling that included at least 40 bets on his own team while he was a freshman at Indiana. Texas Tech said he has completed a month-long inpatient treatment program and will continue to receive treatment and support while being monitored.

What was the AG's warning to the Big 12?

The letter from the Texas AG's office was addressed to Yormark and Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod, the chairman of the Big 12 board of directors. It specifically references a conference bylaw that, with a supermajority vote, could result in sanctioning a school that has "engaged in any action or a course of conduct materially adverse to the best interests of the conference taken as a whole.”

The AG's office said any sanctions against Texas Tech for “acting consistent" with the district court injunction “would be a per se violation of federal and state antitrust laws — a naked horizontal agreement among competitors to disadvantage Texas Tech by cutting off access to the resources it needs to compete.”

Beyond any antitrust exposure, the letter said, the Big 12 would also face liability for “breach of contract and tortious interference" for any sanction that results in the alteration of Texas Tech's scheduled games.

The letter was signed by Thomas York, chief of the antitrust division, and Kimberly Gdula, chief of the litigation division. The attorney general, Ken Paxton, is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate race in Texas this fall.

Yormark said the conference is taking time with its legal counsel to understand the concerns of the state.

Jeffrey Kessler, the attorney who represents Sorsby in his case against the NCAA, sent a separate and similar letter Thursday to the Big 12, according to multiple reports. That letter reportedly referenced the same Big 12 bylaw and warned the league that it is bound by the court's ruling this week.

The NCAA has said it will appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh District of Texas, seeking an accelerated decision to overturn the injunction and again make Sorsby ineligible.

Big 12 is still considering all options

Since NCAA rules call for a permanent loss of eligibility for any player who wagered on his own team, the judge’s decision brought sharp criticism from college sports leadership, including in Texas Tech’s own league. The executive board met as planned Thursday in preparation for a meeting Monday of the Big 12's full board of directors, which is made up of presidents and chancellors from the league's 16 schools.

“We had a good and informative discussion. Sentiment among the executive board was no different from what we heard from the ADs earlier this week,” Yormark said. "Our discussion with the full board will determine our course of action, and all options remain on the table.”

Big 12 athletic directors in a conference call Tuesday expressed strong opposition to Sorsby playing for the Red Raiders in what will be his final college season. Some of those ADs even suggested maybe not playing Texas Tech if he does.

Sorsby transferred to Texas Tech in January for a reported multimillion-dollar deal after playing the past two seasons at Cincinnati, another Big 12 school. The 22-year-old Texas native first spent two seasons at Indiana.

The warning from a big booster

The threat of legal action came one day after Texas Tech billionaire booster and regents chair Cody Campbell mentioned that possibility during a podcast appearance with Dan Dakich. Campbell was addressing reports of schools talking about boycotting the Red Raiders.

“I love when the Big Ten or the K-State AD comes out and says we’ve all gotten together and we’ve talked about how we’re not going to play Tech, because guess what? That’s collusion,” Campbell said. “That’s an antitrust violation. So have fun with that one, guys. You can’t do that.”

Campbell, a former offensive lineman at the school, has been a key figure in helping Texas Tech land top players over the past two years.

The Red Raiders, with one of college football's most expensive rosters, won their first Big 12 title last season, setting a school record with 12 wins and making the 12-team College Football Playoff. Sorsby was brought in to be the starting QB after hometown favorite Behren Morton exhausted his eligibility.

A message from Texas Tech leadership

The school posted a 21-minute video message Thursday night to Red Raiders fans that included school president Lawrence Schovanec, athletic director Kirby Hocutt and coach Joey McGuire talking about how the university is addressing the situation.

“I believe that every person at this table is looking at the student first. And that student is a football player. And that student is where he, I think, feels the safest and also feels to where he can deal with this the most is in this building at Texas Tech,” McGuire said. “And I think that’s where he should be and I’m glad he’s back. I know his teammates are glad he's back.”

Hocutt spoke about the NCAA twice denying Texas Tech's petition to have Sorsby reinstated. The AD also reiterated that the school wasn't a party in the quarterback's separate legal case and didn't pay any of his legal fees.

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El secretario de Estado Marco Rubio sostuvo que activos clave de la compañía, la Unión Cuba Petróleo (CUPET), fueron “expropiados ilegalmente a propietarios estadounidenses hace años”.

Además acusó al gobierno de Cuba de utilizar la energía como arma.

“Mientras el pueblo cubano ha sufrido escasez de combustible y apagones debido a décadas de falta de inversión en infraestructura crucial, los líderes comunistas de Cuba han desviado recursos energéticos para llenarse los bolsillos”, manifestó Rubio en un comunicado.

Además señaló, sin aportar pruebas, que funcionarios cubanos “revenden incontables barriles de la escasa energía en el mercado secundario, acaparan suministros energéticos para sus fuerzas militares, de inteligencia y represivas, y racionan la energía como herramienta de control social”.

Bruno Rodríguez, el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba , rechazó los comentarios de Rubio en una publicación en la red social X.

“El Secretario de Estado del régimen estadounidense, por ambiciones de conquista, aspiraciones presidenciales y sentimientos vengativos de la claque elitista que impulsó su carrera política, ahora refuerza aún más el cerco económico y energético contra Cuba”, escribió. “Para justificarlo, no acude a excusas preparadas por su Departamento de Estado, sino a mentiras usuales y vulgares, de lo más agresivo, inculto y rabioso entre los enemigos de Cuba”.

La Habana ha dicho anteriormente que las sanciones castigan a todos los cubanos y buscan estrangular la economía para desestabilizar al gobierno y a su pueblo.

Las ventas de combustible de CUPET al público son casi inexistentes y actualmente están racionadas.

William LeoGrande, un experto sobre Cuba en la Universidad Americana en Estados Unidos, dijo que la medida más reciente de Washington parece un intento por bloquear cualquier envío importante de petróleo.

“Parece que están totalmente comprometidos con estrangular la economía cubana”, apuntó. “Su política es una contradicción. Alegan que no quieren crear una crisis humanitaria, aunque eso es exactamente lo que están haciendo”.

“Riesgo de desencadenar una migración masiva”

Ricardo Herrero, un economista cubano radicado en Estados Unidos y director ejecutivo del Cuba Study Group, una organización apartidista con sede en Washington, D.C., dijo que estaba “realmente molesto” por la medida.

“¿Cómo se supone que los importadores privados almacenen diésel y lo introduzcan en los vehículos sin usar las instalaciones de CUPET?”, escribió en X. “Esto socava lo que, hasta esta mañana, había sido una prioridad humanitaria para Estados Unidos. O algo mucho más grande está en marcha, o hemos entrado en la fase de ‘crueldad indiscriminada’ de esta política”.

No está claro si CUPET tiene activos en territorio estadounidense, aunque es improbable, señaló LeoGrande.

Dijo que podía entender la lógica de la medida para descentralizar al gobierno y fortalecer y potenciar al sector privado, al permitirle vender gasolina a empresas del Estado, o forzar a esas compañías a avanzar hacia la privatización para que puedan ser receptoras de crudo.

“Ahora, los cubanos no van a privatizar CUPET con la esperanza de que eso pueda funcionar y que de alguna manera Estados Unidos pueda permitir que el petróleo ingrese de esa forma”, observó LeoGrande.

Señaló que la mayoría de las empresas privadas en Cuba son pequeñas y no tienen la infraestructura para recibir un petrolero, descargar el producto y distribuirlo.

“Ellos están corriendo un enorme riesgo de desencadenar una migración masiva”, advirtió sobre el gobierno de Estados Unidos.

El anuncio del jueves se efectuó casi una semana después de que Washington sancionara al presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel y a otros funcionarios, así como a varias instituciones.

En un comunicado, Rubio indicó que quedan bloqueadas todas las propiedades o participaciones de CUPET ubicadas en Estados Unidos, o en posesión o bajo el control de personas en territorio estadounidense.

“El presidente Trump quiere un nuevo futuro para el pueblo cubano, con mayor libertad y oportunidades económicas y políticas”, escribió Rubio en X. “Hasta entonces, seguiremos atacando la capacidad del régimen comunista de aprovechar su comercio energético para impulsar su agenda corrupta y reprimir violentamente al pueblo cubano”.

Cuba ya enfrenta dificultades bajo un embargo de décadas y la falta de petróleo, mientras que Estados Unidos sigue presionando para que cambie su modelo económico y político.

Los cortes de electricidad —ya habituales dada la crisis económica y energética que afecta a la isla desde hace cinco años— no han hecho más que intensificarse desde que, a finales de enero, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump amenazó con imponer aranceles a cualquier país que venda o suministre petróleo a Cuba.

Ambos países han reconocido que han sostenido conversaciones, pero se desconoce su alcance.

Mientras tanto, Trump ha amenazado con tomar una acción militar contra La Habana desde que el ejército estadounidense invadió Venezuela y arrestó al expresidente Nicolás Maduro.

Trump dijo el jueves pasado que Cuba “se ha derrumbado, más o menos” y afirmó: “vamos a encargarnos de eso en cuanto hayamos terminado” las operaciones militares en Irán.

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Ruggs, a former first-round draft pick and Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver, drove his sports car at speeds up to 156 mph (251 kph) in the city on Nov. 2, 2021, slamming into a vehicle that killed driver Tina Tintor and her dog, Max. Tintor was 23.

Prosecutors at the time said his blood-alcohol level taken within the required two hours after the crash was 0.16%, which is twice the legal limit for drivers in Nevada. Before the crash, he was at TopGolf, a sports entertainment venue in Las Vegas, according to prosecutors.

Ruggs pleaded guilty in May 2023 to felony DUI causing death and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced in August 2023 to a three- to 10-year prison sentence. The earliest he was eligible for parole was August 2026.

Ruggs will go before the parole board again three months before Aug. 24, 2027, his mandatory parole release date, according to Kathi Baker, executive director of the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners.

“Mr. Ruggs, and our office, continue to feel the grief and loss suffered by Ms. Tintor’s family,” Ruggs’ attorneys David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld said in a Thursday statement, adding that they were disappointed by the parole board’s decision to deny parole.

The attorneys said there is “overwhelming evidence” of Ruggs’ accepting responsibility for his conduct and engaging in community outreach efforts related to DUI prevention, including completing educational programs while in custody.

Tintor's family could not be reached for comment.

During the May parole hearing, Ruggs said he took full responsibility for the actions that led to Tintor and her dog's death.

“Not a minute goes by where I don't think of the pain I caused her family, her friends and the Las Vegas community,” he said during the hearing, of which the AP obtained a copy.

He said he used his time in custody to educate young people and others about decision-making and the dangers of drinking and driving. He also said he met with Tintor's family to apologize.

“I know I can never alleviate the pain that I caused, but if released I plan to continue to do my work to educate young people on the dangers of reckless behavior and hopefully avoid future tragedies,” he said.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, officers responded to the scene at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and found the suspect, Alfrada Barbara Garcia, being looked at by paramedics due to several scratches on her face.

Police said Garcia claimed that she was assaulted by the victim after seeing the victim take a package from the mailbox that didn’t belong to her.

Police said Garcia and a witness, who the package belonged to, confronted the victim, but the victim returned the package and said she only had it because it was delivered to the wrong address.

According to the report, video obtained by property management shows Garcia walking on the sidewalk before running over to a small wooden stool chair, picking it up over her head and swinging it several times at the victim in a downward motion.

Police said the victim was able to take the stool away from Garcia and then pulled her to the ground and held her down.

Garcia claimed that the victim had punched her in the back before she picked up the stool, but the witness told police that Garcia was never struck by the victim.

Garcia was arrested on a charge of attempted aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

As of Thursday afternoon, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.

Según un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami, los agentes respondieron a la escena alrededor de la 1:30 p.m. del miércoles y encontraron a la sospechosa, Alfrada Barbara Garcia, siendo atendida por paramédicos debido a varios rasguños en el rostro.

La policía indicó que Garcia afirmó haber sido agredida por la víctima después de verla tomar un paquete del buzón que no le pertenecía.

La policía dijo que Garcia y una testigo, quien era la propietaria del paquete, confrontaron a la víctima, pero la víctima devolvió el paquete y explicó que lo tenía porque había sido entregado en la dirección equivocada.

Según el informe, un video obtenido por la administración de la propiedad muestra a Garcia caminando por la acera antes de correr hacia un pequeño taburete de madera, levantarlo sobre su cabeza y blandirlo varias veces contra la víctima en un movimiento descendente.

La policía indicó que la víctima logró quitarle el taburete a Garcia y luego la derribó al suelo, donde la mantuvo inmovilizada.

Garcia afirmó que la víctima la había golpeado en la espalda antes de que ella tomara el taburete, pero la testigo dijo a la policía que la víctima nunca golpeó a Garcia.

Garcia fue arrestada por un cargo de intento de agresión agravada con un arma mortal.

Hasta la tarde del jueves, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $5,000 USD.

This is a sign that Cuba’s government has not shown any willingness to negotiate with the U.S.  This action further chokes the regime who is running out of options as the socio-economic problems get worse each day that passes.

June 10 update: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visits Guantanamo Bay for operational briefings

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on Wednesday to receive updates and operational briefings on the base’s mission, according to the Pentagon.

According to Reuters, Hegseth flew into the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, marking the latest visit by a senior American official to the communist-led island as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to increase pressure on the Cuban government.

His trip comes less than two weeks after General Francis Donovan, the top U.S. military commander for Latin America, visited Guantanamo Bay and held discussions with a senior Cuban military official near the base’s perimeter.

Hegseth is the third high-ranking U.S. official to visit Cuba in recent months, highlighting Washington’s continued focus on the island amid ongoing tensions between the two countries.

June 8 update: What will be brought up during any future negotiations?

One of the issues that will certainly come up during any future negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba will be the 5,913 American companies, as well as Cuban-American properties, that were confiscated by the Cuban Revolution in the early 1960’s.

According to Mauricio Tamargo, former chairman of the Foreign Claims Office in the U.S. Department of Justice, the estimated values of these properties are in the billions.

June 3 update: Raúl Castro turns 95

Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, turns 95 years old Wednesday under the shadow of a criminal indictment from the U.S. and an uncertain future for Cuba with the legacy of his brother, Fidel Castro, on his shoulders.

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June 1 update: Looking to the future: Should Cuban Americans invest in Cuba?

A few months ago, Cuba’s Vice Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, who is the grand-nephew of Raúl Castro, invited Cuban Americans in exile to invest in Cuba.

In 2019, the Cuban government amended their constitution to allow foreign investment. However, they did not change their laws to protect the investments.

Therefore, the risks to invest in Cuba remain greater than the opportunities.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

The Justice Department highlighted cases against three Guatemalan nationals that they say underscore the dangers of improper vetting of sponsors in a program that seeks to unite kids with relatives or family friends after they enter the U.S. Officials said they are investigating numerous other so-called super-sponsors — those who gained custody of more than three unrelated children — to determine whether the sponsors took the kids in fraudulently.

“We will not accept half measures when it comes to securing the border, protecting American lives and saving children from exploitation,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters.

Taking custody of multiple unrelated migrant children is not a crime. The sponsors may be caring and well-intentioned, but senior administration officials calling them out suggests that authorities harbor suspicion about them and may subject them to deeper scrutiny.

Under the Biden administration, officials tried to release children to eligible adult sponsors within 30 days, reuniting many families quickly. But the approach also yielded errors, with some children being released to adults who forced them to work illegally, or to people who provided clearly false identification and addresses.

Under Trump, the administration tightened rules aimed at preventing traffickers from illegally bringing children into the country and that has also led to a dramatic increase in federal custody times for kids. As of May, children are held in federal custody for an average of 206 days before they’re released, compared with an average of 37 days when Trump took office. At the same time, the number of total children in custody has steadily dropped.

Striking a balance to release children to vetted sponsors and shielding them from danger has proved a contentious partisan disagreement.

Democrats “want to claim that Republicans, because we’re enforcing the laws, it’s inhumane, somehow,” Blanche said after criticizing the vetting procedures under the Biden administration. "What’s inhumane about taking care of our kids?”

The cases announced Thursday include charges against a woman who, authorities say, was living in the U.S. illegally, schemed with others to smuggle kids across the border, then used fake identities to gain custody of them in exchange for money. Her attorney, Michael J. Goldberg, said “the only comment I can make is that the case will be tried in court and not in a press conference.”

In another case, a woman is accused of falsely claiming that she was siblings with a teen who had entered the U.S. illegally in her application to become the teen’s sponsor.

Critics of the Trump administration have raised concerns over wellness checks carried out by immigration officers at elementary schools, immigration officers showing up and detaining sponsors at reunification meetings with children, and newly required documentation that's created a “paperwork barrier” and led to a recent lawsuit.

Shaina Aber, executive director of the Acacia Center for Justice, which provides legal services for unaccompanied migrant children under contract with the government, said the administration has not acknowledged the harm it has caused to kids by “subjecting them to indefinite detention and eroding nearly every avenue for legal relief.”

Aber added: “If the administration is concerned with the well-being of unaccompanied children, the answer can’t be to take them away from loved ones, try to undermine their representation, and detain them in group facilities with well-documented risks of isolation, abuse, and mental health deterioration.”

Even sponsors willing to undergo the new vetting procedures have been forced to wait through unnecessary delays.

A Chicago father who is a U.S. citizen and had a valid birth certificate for his child was kept waiting for five months before the government could schedule a fingerprinting appointment. During the wait, his toddler daughter was sexually abused in federal custody, a lawsuit claimed. The government did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the case.

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Gonzalez reported from McAllen, Texas.

Canadian journalist Lyse Doucet won the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.”

Both prizes come with a 30,000 pound ($40,000) purse and are open to female English-language writers from any country.

Evans wrote fiction for two decades before writing “The Correspondent" during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was released quietly in 2025. A story told through years’ worth of letters from retired lawyer Sybil Van Antwerp to friends, family and famous writers, it gradually climbed bestseller lists and became a book club favorite. A film adaptation starring Jane Fonda is in the works.

Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who chaired the fiction judging panel, said the novel “captured our hearts” by “elevating an ordinary life in the most heartfelt of ways.”

Evans said she “developed a very thick skin for rejection and failure” during the years of writing without getting published.

“Why did I keep going? I didn’t know how not to, I guess,” she told The Associated Press.

“I was writing the book that I wanted to read,” she added. “I guess the book that I was wanting to read was the book a lot of people were wanting to read.”

She said “The Correspondent” is in part a cry against the loss of handwritten letters — “the real tale of history” — in our digital age.

“If you want to know what happened somewhere, you need to read somebody saying to their mom, ‘This is what happened to me today,'" she said. "And so I feel a grief about that. There’s something I probably was reaching for when I was writing the book, which was the preservation of the memory of that.”

Doucet, the BBC’s chief international correspondent, profiles staff and guests of Kabul’s once-glamorous Inter-Continental Hotel — scarred but still standing — to provide a microcosm of Afghanistan’s turbulent recent history.

Labour Party politician Thangam Debbonaire, head of the nonfiction jury, called it “a perfect work of narrative non-fiction” that is “informed by decades of excellent reporting.”

Doucet, who has been visiting Afghanistan as a journalist since the 1980s, said she wrote the book to provide a fuller picture than the “snapshot” of news coverage allows.

“My experience from decades of covering countries and people in the hardest of times is that people still have to get up every day and find an everyday courage to get through the day,” she said. "And even in the darkest of places … people find humor to bring light, they try to live with hope to bring some kind of relief and they try to live with humanity.”

Previous winners of the fiction prize, founded in 1996, include Zadie Smith, Tayari Jones and Barbara Kingsolver.

The sister prize for nonfiction was founded in 2024 to help redress a gender imbalance in publishing. In 2022, only 26.5% of nonfiction books reviewed in Britain’s newspapers were by women, and male writers dominated established nonfiction writing prizes.

Last year’s nonfiction winner was British physician Rachel Clarke’s account of an organ transplant, “The Story of a Heart.”

Trump announced the nomination on social media amid pressure from Congress to name a permanent replacement for Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her resignation last month. Trump faced intense pushback over his decision to name Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director. The job oversees the coordination of 18 intelligence agencies.

The resulting uproar led to a standoff in Congress after Democrats said they would refuse to renew foreign intelligence powers unless Trump pulled Pulte’s nomination and named a permanent nominee.

“Few people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at the level of Jay,” Trump wrote. “I encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible.”

Speaking later Thursday in the Oval Office, Trump said he still plans to keep Pulte in the role “for a little while” after earlier saying he wants Pulte to downsize the office. He called Clayton an “incredible talent” and said, “Nobody has better credentials.”

As the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Clayton oversees the most prestigious of the Justice Department’s prosecution offices, with a vast portfolio ranging from terrorism and espionage cases to security fraud and public corruption.

He took over from interim U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, who resigned in February after refusing to carry out orders from the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. The case was eventually dropped after prosecutors from Washington submitted a request to a judge.

Republicans hope to move quickly on nomination

The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to hold a confirmation hearing for Clayton on Wednesday, according to a person who requested anonymity to discuss it ahead of an official notice.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters that the Senate hopes to receive Clayton’s nomination paperwork from the White House as soon as Thursday. “We will move quickly,” he said.

Democrats are holding up the renewal of a key surveillance law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, in protest of Trump’s decision to temporarily tap Pulte. They say they won’t support an extension of the law, which expires at midnight Friday, until Trump withdraws Pulte’s appointment.

Trump previously said Pulte would take over on June 19. It is unclear whether the Senate could move quickly enough to confirm Clayton before that date.

“I don’t know what realistic is, but we’re gonna probe the limits of it,” Thune said.

Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he has “known and respected” Clayton for decades and that if Trump had named him as the DNI nominee last week, “lots of pain might have been avoided.”

“His intelligence, temperament and deep commitment to public service will make him a terrific DNI,” Himes said.

Asked about Clayton’s nomination, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said, “Pulte has to go.”

“He cannot be in the DNI role,” Schumer said. “It’s too important.”

Trump's pick has led SDNY during a tumultuous period

Clayton navigated his way through a 14-month tenure in the Southern District of New York without clashing with the federal judges in the busiest court in the nation, unlike his counterparts in upstate New York and New Jersey. After his interim term expired after 120 days, the judges of the Southern District appointed him as U.S. attorney.

Clayton was sworn in April 2025 on the same day three prosecutors resigned, saying they felt pressured to admit wrongdoing or regret about prosecuting the case against Adams.

Then, weeks later, the office had to withstand controversy over the Trump administration’s firing of one of its most respected and successful prosecutors, Maurene Comey. She claims she was fired because of Trump’s dislike of her father, former FBI Director James Comey.

Under Clayton, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office facilitated the unsealing of thousands of pages of court records from the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — documents that were made public as part of the Justice Department’s release of records related to the late sex offender and his longtime confidant.

Clayton filed documents with the court explaining the process the government followed in releasing the materials.

Clayton has also overseen the prosecution of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, on drug trafficking charges.

Clayton has overseen cases involving national security threats

Several recent terrorism cases brought by Clayton’s office touch on the global threats and influences that he’ll be navigating if confirmed as director of national intelligence.

They include the May arrest of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, an Iraqi and Iranian citizen accused of plotting 20 attacks in Europe and Canada and planning to attack a Manhattan synagogue and Jewish centers in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Arizona, in retaliation for the U.S. war on Iran.

“There are foreign nations and terrorist organizations that see our success as a threat. A threat that they want eliminated,” Clayton said at a recent press briefing. “That is a stark truth.”

“And don’t take my word for it,” he added. “Take their words and their actions. When your enemies tell you something, and when they act, you should know that they mean it.”

The first Trump administration tried in June 2020 to install Clayton, then the chairman of the SEC, as U.S. attorney in Manhattan, but backed down and instead allowed Deputy U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss to serve in the post. The reversal came after then-U. S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman agreed to step down, following assurances that probes into Trump allies would not be disrupted and that Strauss could lead the office.

At the time, the office was looking into dealings by Rudy Giuliani, who was serving as Trump’s personal attorney, and was also investigating the actions of a state-owned Turkish bank.

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The woman, who may have been exposed to the virus while aboard the Dutch MV Hondius cruise liner in April, had gotten off the ship and then flown to San Francisco before traveling to the isolated British territory of Pitcairn Island through Tahiti, according to two U.S. officials and an internal government document obtained by The Associated Press.

The exact amount of the total evacuation payment is still being assessed because the operation is still underway. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a medical case covered by U.S. privacy laws.

The costly effort to pick up the woman has added to the expense of rapid evacuations for diplomats and private U.S. citizens from the Middle East since the start of the Iran war as well as preparations for possible evacuations from Ebola-stricken countries. All have stressed the State Department budget for unforeseen emergencies, known as the “K Fund,” and brought its balance to the lowest level in seven years.

State Department emergency budget strained by multiple evacuations

Another internal document said the State Department is looking at transferring as much as $50 million into that emergency fund from other accounts — $35 million from the budget for embassy security, construction and maintenance and an additional $15 million from an account that pays for broader diplomatic programming. No decision on the transfers has yet been made.

One of the officials said the State Department has another option, to ask Congress to replenish the fund. However, the official said the department is expected to be able to handle payments for both ongoing and “emerging contingency needs.”

The official would not say what the potential shortfall is but insisted that the department is “well positioned" to support diplomats, other U.S. government employees and private Americans who have been forced to leave the Middle East because of the Iran confict, as well as U.S. citizens who may need assistance due to developments such as the Ebola outbreak in Africa.

How the US is evacuating an American exposed to hantavirus from a remote island

The State Department declined to comment on the specifics of the woman’s case on Pitcairn Island but said that “when an American is at risk abroad and unable to access commercial transportation, the Department of State seeks to provide appropriate assistance to get them home to the United States or to another safe location.”

After the woman departed the cruise liner where the hantavirus outbreak occurred, the ship continued to other destinations in the South Atlantic, with some passengers falling ill and at least three dying. The unidentified American woman was stuck on Pitcairn, an island with only about 50 inhabitants, no airport and infrequent maritime options to depart.

Pitcairn is well-known as the island on which Fletcher Christian and other British mutineers from the HMS Bounty took refuge after the 1789 events that toppled Capt. William Bligh, which have entered into the public lexicon with books and films about the “Mutiny on the Bounty.” Their descendants make up most of the island's current population.

Complicating matters, British authorities had sought urgent American assistance in evacuating the woman from the island, which is their territory, according to the government document about the cost of the evacuation and the second U.S. official.

But initial attempts to send her to Tahiti, a French dependency, about 1,350 miles (2,160 kilometers) — or a 30-hour sea journey — from Pitcairn, were rejected by French Polynesian authorities. They did not want to allow her in because she had not disclosed her exposure when she transited the island on her way to Pitcairn.

The U.S. is transporting the woman, who was not symptomatic, from Pitcairn to Easter Island, another remote location in the Pacific about 1,400 miles (2,253 km) away, which is a territory of Chile and has direct flights to Santiago, so she can return to the United States for any necessary treatment.

All of those factors mean the process of getting her moved from Pitcairn to Easter Island took many weeks to arrange, the officials said.

The government document, which was confirmed as accurate by the two officials, said moving the woman from Pitcairn eventually was arranged via the “Titaina Explorer” trimaran yacht owned by a wealthy Frenchman, who uses it for personal exploration in the South Pacific. Pitcairn has no airport and only limited sea access.

The officials said the woman had no political or celebrity connections and they did not know exactly when she will return to the U.S. Maritime tracking sites show that the Titaina Explorer departed Pitcairn Island on June 5. The voyage to Easter Island can take up to 10 days depending on the speed of the boat and the weather.

The government of populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa also lifted a ban on imports from Jewish settlements and ended an embargo on the export and transit of military weapons and equipment to and from Israel, the official STA news agency reported.

Jansa's government took office earlier this month following a parliamentary election in March. Jansa has said he would seek to improve ties with Israel, in a contrast to the policies of his predecessor, Robert Golob.

Under Golob, Slovenia was one of the most vocal critics of Israel in the European Union. The small Alpine nation recognized a Palestinian state in 2024, before imposing the entry bans in 2025 on National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Netanyahu.

Ben-Gvir was banned also by France last month. He has sparked global outrage after promoting a video of himself taunting the activists from a flotilla to Gaza who were detained by Israeli police.

The new Slovenian government said in its statement that it was scrapping the punitive measures to open political communication, the official STA news agency reported. The Defense Ministry said that weapons trading is already sufficiently regulated by existing national defense laws and the EU arms export criteria, the same report said.

Political dialogue and quiet diplomacy will help “strengthen the role of the Republic of Slovenia in the efforts to achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East,” the government said. It cited “active cooperation” over “actions that limit and close off channels for direct communication.”

Last year, Slovenia linked the entry ban for Netanyahu to an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.

Shortly after taking office, Jansa's government removed a Palestinian flag from the government building, also symbolically marking the policy shift. Slovenia's liberal president, Natasa Pirc Musar, then raised the flag on the presidency building.

Also this month, Israel announced that it would open an embassy in Slovenia. The country's embassy in Austrian capital Vienna has previously covered Israel's diplomatic interests in neighboring Slovenia.

Jansa is serving his fourth term in office. The political veteran is an admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump and was a close ally of former populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who was defeated in a landslide election in April.

The March 22 election was marred by allegations of foreign influence and corruption. The population of around 2 million in the Alpine nation are deeply divided between liberals and conservatives.

“Siempre se había afirmado, presumido, que De la Espriella era financiador o cómplice de la organización paramilitar, pero a raíz de los documentos que hemos venido consultando y reuniendo podría eventualmente esclarecerse si perteneció y actuó como parte de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia” (AUC), aseguró Cepeda en una declaración a la prensa.

Cepeda, del oficialista Pacto Histórico, se medirá con De la Espriella, del movimiento Defensores de la Patria, en una segunda vuelta electoral el 21 de junio.

Cepeda aseguró que las demandas son por los presuntos delitos de concierto para delinquir agravado, financiación del terrorismo y enriquecimiento ilícito “relacionados con crímenes de lesa humanidad cometidos por estructuras paramilitares”.

A su vez pidió a la fiscalía que revise la presunta participación de De la Espriella en un presunto soborno a un exparamilitar que estaba recluido en una cárcel.

En tanto, a la Corte Penal Internacional le solicitó investigar porque considera que Colombia no ha indagado al conservador “debidamente” por crímenes que “son parte del Estatuto de Roma”.

El conservador contraataca

De la Espriella, quien recibió el apoyo político del presidente Donald Trump, respondió en la red social X que la denuncia de Cepeda es una “cortina de humo” para cubrir otra denuncia que él presentó en Estados Unidos sobre lo que llamó “la alianza de Cepeda con los criminales que le pusieron votaciones atípicas en Cauca, Chocó y Nariño”, sugiriendo que grupos armados ilegales habrían presionado a los votantes de esos departamentos colombianos.

“Su reacción: denunciarme por lo único que sale de su boca ‘paraco’ (paramilitar)”, aseguró De la Espriella.

Cepeda, aliado político del presidente Gustavo Petro, argumentó que su denuncia se basa en versiones de exparamilitares, un informe de la Comisión de la Verdad —un órgano extrajudicial que investigó el conflicto armado— y decisiones judiciales.

Señaló que De la Espriella habría creado y liderado una fundación que “múltiples jefes paramilitares indican como organización creada por las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia con fines políticos”.

Las AUC, dedicadas a combatir ilegalmente a las guerrillas izquierdistas, se desmovilizaron entre los años 2003 y 2005 durante el gobierno del expresidente Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) y dejaron las armas a cambio de beneficios judiciales que incluyeron pocos años de cárcel a cambio de someterse a un tribunal especial.

De la Espriella rechazó haber apoyado ilegalmente a los paramilitares y defendió su participación en la fundación en una entrevista en 2008. “Hice parte de la comisión civil acompañante del proceso de paz con las autodefensas”, acotó.

De la Espriella, de 47 años, se hizo un nombre como abogado defendiendo clientes de alto perfil como el expresidente Uribe, y también a polémicos como Alex Saab, un aliado cercano del derrocado presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro que enfrenta problemas con la justicia estadounidense y a quien dejó de representar hace aproximadamente siete años.

En su primera aspiración electoral ha dicho que su campaña se financió con el dinero que ha acumulado en su carrera de abogado y luego como empresario con marcas propias de vino, ron y ropa. Se inscribió por el movimiento Defensores de la Patria tras reunir millones de firmas de ciudadanos que apoyaron su campaña.

Ambos candidatos han protagonizado una polémica en los últimos días por el uso de la camiseta de la selección colombiana de fútbol por parte de De la Espriella. El jueves un juez revocó una medida provisional impuesta por otro juez que le ordenaba abstenerse de usar la prenda en su campaña electoral.

“Intentar prohibirle a un candidato presidencial usar la camiseta de la Selección... no es una acción jurídica seria, es una acción política disfrazada de tutela y la justicia así lo reconoció”, celebró en un comunicado Defensores de la Patria.

Mexico's players understood the intense pressure and high expectations they were facing on Thursday in the opening match of the first 48-team World Cup tournament. But they embraced their role and got off to a winning start by beating South Africa 2-0 in a match that also produced three red cards.

“I made an effort to explain to them what a World Cup and an opening match on home soil meant, but they are young and had to experience it for themselves," said Mexico coach Javier Aguirre, who played for his team the last time Mexico hosted the tournament in 1986. "I can no longer talk about having played in a home World Cup, because they already know what it’s like.”

Julián Quiñones and Raúl Jiménez scored the goals for Mexico, which is co-hosting the 2026 tournament with Canada and the United States.

The Mexicans rebounded from the massive disappointment of being eliminated after the group stage four years ago in Qatar. That followed seven straight trips to the round the 16 — an achievement that became more of a curse for failing to reach the quarterfinals.

But there is hope this year. Mexico has reached the quarterfinals twice in its history, and both times it was the host country — in 1970 and 1986. Aguirre was on that team in 1986.

In front of a capacity crowd of 80,824, Mexico got working fast and took the lead in the ninth minute when Quiñones scored. Jiménez added the second goal on a header in 66th — his 46th for Mexico but first in three World Cup tournaments.

“We didn’t play well in the first half, but we could have gone into the break leading 3–0 and no one would have complained — we were far superior,” Aguirre said. “In the second half, it felt like we relaxed a bit, but starting with a win is good, and we can certainly improve.”

With his goal, Jiménez moved into a tie with Jared Borgetti for second place in scoring for Mexico's national team. He is six goals shy of leader Javier “Chicharito” Hernández.

Jiménez wears a protective headguard because he was seriously injured in November 2020 while playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers in a Premier League match against Arsenal. He fractured his skull and had to have surgery. He was out for eight months and returned in July 2021.

South Africa players Sphephelo Sithole and Themba Zwane were both given red cards, forcing the team to finish the match with only nine players. Mexico defender César Montes was then given a red card in injury time.

It was the first time there were three red cards given in the opening match of a World Cup tournament. And it’s the most in a World Cup game since four were handed out when Portugal played the Netherlands at the 2006 tournament in Germany.

“This level is much higher than whatever level we played before. We played a good team, and we played a good game. I saw a desperate Mexico,” South Africa coach Hugo Broos said. “We must improve in the next days. We’ll get over the disappointment.”

Quiñones, a 29-year-old forward who was born in Colombia, was the top scorer in the Saudi league this season. He was one of six starting players who made their World Cup debut for El Tri.

Mexico now has three points in Group A and will next play South Korea next Thursday in Guadalajara. South Africa will play the Czech Republic on the same day in Atlanta.

“It would be important (to win the group), but right now the only thing we’re thinking about is the match against Korea — being better than them and trying to win,” Aguirre said. “We’re going to take it step by step and see what the future holds.”

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La deforestación en la Amazonía fue 61,4% menor en mayo que en el mismo mes de 2025, según funcionarios del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Espaciales (INPE, por sus siglas en portugués) y del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente.

Aun así, se talaron 370 kilómetros cuadrados (casi 143 millas cuadradas) de selva tropical. La deforestación en el mismo periodo cayó 12% en el Cerrado, una sabana del centro de Brasil que desde hace tiempo está bajo presión del poderoso sector del agronegocio.

El ministro de Medio Ambiente, João Paulo Capobianco, señaló que la cifra es la más baja jamás registrada para mayo, y que Brasil va camino de alcanzar sus niveles anuales más bajos una vez que los datos se consoliden el próximo semestre.

Explicó que el mes suele registrar una mayor deforestación porque marca el inicio de la estación seca en la Amazonía. En los 10 meses de agosto de 2025 a mayo de 2026, la deforestación en la Amazonía ya cayó 37,5% en comparación con el mismo periodo anterior.

El gobierno de Trump propuso aranceles de 25% a las importaciones procedentes de Brasil el 2 de junio, al afirmar que la 10ma economía más grande del mundo incurre en prácticas comerciales “irrazonables” y que “cargan o restringen el comercio de Estados Unidos”. El anuncio se produjo tras una investigación de la Oficina del Representante Comercial de Estados Unidos (USTR, por sus siglas en inglés) que acusó a Brasil de deforestación ilegal y de aplicar aranceles injustos propios, entre otras cosas.

Capobianco afirmó que las cifras de deforestación “desmienten la acusación injusta e infundada de Estados Unidos, que citó la deforestación para justificar la imposición de aranceles”. El presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asintió al tiempo que escuchaba las declaraciones.

Lula sostuvo que el gobierno de Trump mintió cuando impuso por primera vez aranceles adicionales a Brasil el año pasado, al decir que Estados Unidos tenía un déficit comercial.

“Y ahora cuestionaron la deforestación. No entienden el trabajo que estamos haciendo para llevar la deforestación a cero para 2030. Esta no es una decisión de ninguna COP ni de Naciones Unidas. Es una decisión de nuestro gobierno”, expresó el presidente brasileño, usando el acrónimo de las conferencias climáticas de la ONU.

“Es una cuestión de justicia, de la contribución de Brasil al planeta, cumpliendo nuestra obligación de evitar la deforestación tanto como sea posible. Evitar la deforestación beneficia a Brasil, beneficia a la Amazonía y beneficia al mundo”, manifestó.

La deforestación es el principal motor de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de Brasil, que contribuyen al calentamiento global.

La Amazonía, la selva tropical más grande del mundo, también desempeña un papel crucial en la regulación del clima mucho más allá de Sudamérica. Científicos advierten que la pérdida de bosque podría acelerar el calentamiento global y alterar la agricultura tan lejos como la región del centro-norte de Estados Unidos y partes de Europa.

Tras alcanzar niveles récord en las décadas de 1990 y 2000, la deforestación disminuyó hasta el mandato 2019-2022 del entonces presidente Jair Bolsonaro, cuyo gobierno fue ampliamente criticado por debilitar las protecciones ambientales. En el gobierno de Lula, la deforestación volvió a caer, y el año pasado alcanzó su nivel más bajo en una década.

Sin embargo, pese a los avances para mantener el bosque en pie, muchas otras amenazas —desde el cambio climático hasta una posible legislación en el horizonte— están poniendo al bosque en riesgo.

La degradación forestal, impulsada por incendios forestales, tala y sequía, afecta a alrededor de 40% de la Amazonía y en los últimos años ha superado a la tala rasa. Todo esto podría agravarse este año con un fuerte El Niño, un calentamiento cíclico del Pacífico ecuatorial, que provoca temperaturas más altas y un clima más seco en la selva tropical, condiciones que empeoran los incendios forestales.

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El accidente ocurrió cerca de la intersección de Southeast Eighth Avenue y Okeechobee Road.

Según la Policía de Hialeah, un hombre de 37 años que viajaba en bicicleta fue atropellado por el conductor de un vehículo negro de cuatro puertas. La policía indicó que el conductor huyó de la escena después del accidente.

Según los investigadores, el ciclista murió a causa de sus heridas.

La policía no ha divulgado información adicional sobre el vehículo, la víctima ni el conductor involucrado.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso debe comunicarse con el Departamento de Policía de Hialeah al 305-687-2525.

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Sunrise police said officers responded around 12:18 a.m. to reports of gunfire on Sunrise Lakes Boulevard near Pine Island Road and Oakland Park Boulevard.

Police said that when officers arrived, they found 70-year-old Winston Murphy dead at the scene.

Investigators later revealed Murphy was an amputee who used a wheelchair.

Police said the suspect, who they identified on Thursday as Kanhai Wilson, was apprehended in Dania Beach with assistance from the Broward Sheriff’s Office after fleeing the area following the shooting.

Authorities said Wilson is facing one count each of murder with a dangerous, depraved mind without premeditation, fleeing and eluding, and resisting arrest.

On Wednesday morning, a Local 10 News crew observed Sunrise police detaining a man who was allegedly arguing with officers. That man identified himself as the caretaker of the victim, though it was not immediately clear whether he faces charges.

About 13 miles away in Dania Beach, a Local 10 News crew spotted Sunrise police surrounding a purple Chevrolet sedan. Police sources told Local 10 News the vehicle was connected to the shooting as investigators tracked down the Wilson and took him into custody.

Police said the incident appears to be isolated and there is no ongoing threat to the public.

No other details about the shooting were immediately released.

A video shared online showed at least one egg tossed in the direction of the San Antonio Spurs superstar as he entered his hotel, flanked by security, following the team's game 4 loss to the Knicks.

It was not clear who threw the egg. The video showed taunting fans swarming the hotel, a few blocks south of Madison Square Garden.

A few seconds after the egg cracks on a street sign, Wembanyama turns around and confronts a person standing near the hotel's entrance, before continuing inside.

The Spurs did not immediately respond to a request seeking clarity on whether the object struck Wembanyama.

The confrontation followed a historic collapse by the Spurs, who now find themselves on the brink of elimination after blowing a 29-point lead to the Knicks. Wembanyama missed two key free throws in the game's final minutes.

The Knicks victory prompted scenes of bedlam and jubilation across New York City, as ecstatic fans packed the streets, set off fireworks, scaled lampposts and at times clashed with police.

According to the New York Police Department, 56 people were taken into custody for charges that ranged from assault to disorderly conduct.

“Once again, there were large crowds of people who engaged in incredibly reckless and dangerous behavior last night both during and after the game,” the police department said in a statement.

An NYPD spokesperson said they had nothing on file about the egg incident.

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According to North Miami police, officers responded to an area near the 500 block of Northeast 132nd Terrace regarding a reported stabbing involving two men.

Police said after arriving at the scene, they found one of the men suffering from “injuries consistent with a stabbing.”

They said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics transported the victim to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital for treatment.

Sky 10 flew over the scene around 11:45 a.m., where crime scene tape could be seen surrounding the area as North Miami police officers investigated.

Police said the person involved in the incident has been identified, but no arrests have been announced at this time.

They also confirmed that no additional information was immediately available regarding witnesses.

Detectives said the investigation “remains active and ongoing,” and a motive for the stabbing remains unclear at this time.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

Según la Policía de North Miami, los agentes respondieron a un área cercana a la cuadra 500 de Northeast 132nd Terrace por el reporte de un apuñalamiento que involucraba a dos hombres.

La policía informó que, al llegar a la escena, encontraron a uno de los hombres con “lesiones consistentes con un apuñalamiento”.

Indicaron que paramédicos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue trasladaron a la víctima al Hospital HCA Florida Aventura para recibir tratamiento.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena alrededor de las 11:45 a.m., donde se podía observar cinta de la escena del crimen rodeando el área mientras agentes de la Policía de North Miami realizaban la investigación.

La policía dijo que la persona involucrada en el incidente ya fue identificada, pero hasta el momento no se han anunciado arrestos.

También confirmaron que no había información inmediata disponible sobre posibles testigos.

Los detectives dijeron que la investigación “permanece activa y en curso”, y que el motivo del apuñalamiento sigue sin estar claro por ahora.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso debe comunicarse con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

Los registros de la cárcel en línea muestran que Ashley Marie Hosendove, de 32 años, enfrenta un cargo de alteración del orden público/quebrantamiento de la paz.

Según documentos judiciales, una orden de arresto judicial fue emitida el 1 de junio contra Hosendove por un incidente ocurrido el 12 de marzo.

Un informe de arresto indica que Hosendove fue víctima de una agresión presuntamente cometida por su novio ese día.

Pero mientras su novio era puesto bajo custodia por la policía, Hosendove comenzó a “gritar y proferir obscenidades” contra los agentes presentes en la escena y se negó a proporcionar una identificación, señala el informe.

La policía dijo que las acciones de Hosendove, que fueron captadas por cámaras corporales, provocaron que vecinos se reunieran afuera.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), la balacera fue reportada alrededor de las 2 a.m. del miércoles en una vivienda ubicada en Northwest First Court cerca de la calle 16.

Las autoridades dijeron que la niña, identificada por un familiar como Janova Park, sufrió heridas de bala en el estómago y el torso y fue trasladada de emergencia al HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, donde posteriormente murió.

“Sabemos que al momento de la balacera había tres adultos y dos niños: la víctima, que tenía 5 años, y su hermano de 4 años”, dijo el detective de la MDSO Angel Rodriguez el miércoles.

Los detectives confirmaron que Hosendove estaba entre los adultos que se encontraban dentro de la vivienda al momento de la balacera.

Los detectives dijeron que todavía intentan determinar cómo Janova recibió el disparo, incluyendo si pudo haber tenido acceso al arma por sí misma o si otra persona le disparó.

Hannah Yechivi, de Local 10, habló el miércoles con Laticha Ellison, abuela de Janova, quien dijo que la balacera pudo haberse evitado.

“Mi nietecita tiene 5 años”, dijo Ellison entre lágrimas. “Solo tiene 5 años. Me da rabia porque algo así no debería poder ocurrir, especialmente en tu propia casa, por descuido”.

Ellison describió a su nieta como “inteligente y atrevida”.

Los investigadores dijeron que recuperaron un arma dentro de la vivienda y que “no están buscando a ninguna persona que pueda representar una amenaza para la comunidad”.

The anticipation builds as the public address announcer begins to reveal the second starter, a 6-foot-7 forward from Indiana. When he finally reaches the player's name, the fans scream it right along with him.

“O! ... G! ... AN-UN-OBY!!!!”

Early Thursday morning, fans again chanted Anunoby's name, this time in a bar outside the arena as they celebrated one of the most memorable moments in New York Knicks history.

Anunoby's tip-in with 1.2 seconds remaining in Game 4 put the Knicks on the verge of a title and moved him into the discussion for NBA Finals MVP.

Anunoby is not the kind of player who usually wins awards, and he might be the least-known of the Knicks' starters. But his teammates understand Anunoby's value far exceeds his reputation.

“So regardless of what the outside world thinks of him, we know what we have in our locker room, and we have a superstar in that locker room,” guard Jalen Brunson said.

Anunoby is the only player on the Knicks' postseason roster who has won a ring, but he was injured and didn't play for Toronto in the 2019 NBA Finals. But there's no way New York would have a chance at its first championship since 1973 if he wasn't front and center now.

From scoring to stopping, Anunoby might to be asked to do more than any Knicks player. He not only finished with 33 points in Game 4 but also made the biggest defensive play of the game when he chased down De'Aaron Fox to block his shot with 11 seconds left and the Spurs leading 106-105.

Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns said that's what he expects from a player who seems to save his best for the biggest moments.

“Every time I talk to him, I say, I already know what OG Anunoby is going to do in the fourth quarter, and he did exactly what I thought he would do,” Towns said. “He gave us a chance to win, and that’s all you could ask for from the best two-way player in the NBA.”

The Knicks couldn't believe Anunoby was only voted to the All-Defensive second team, certain there aren't five better defenders in the NBA. It was those defensive skills that made him most attractive when the Knicks acquired him from the Raptors in 2023, giving up two of their most promising players on a developing team in RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley.

Anunoby was also known as a reliable 3-point shooter from the corners, and he made one as time expired to give the Raptors a victory over Boston in the 2020 playoffs. He hardly celebrated after the shot went through, just as he was one of the few people inside Madison Square Garden who appeared completely calm after his basket in Game 4.

“Just, the game wasn’t over,” Anunoby explained. “I looked up to see the time. If it would have been 0:00, I would have been more excited, but it was just 1.2 left. So just knowing, get a stop now, just stay with it, staying present, not getting too happy because the game is not over yet.”

Anunoby is averaging 23.8 points in the series, shooting 58% from the field and 55.6% from 3-point range. He finished 10 for 15 in Game 4, including 7 for 9 behind the arc.

When Anunoby limped off the court with a hamstring injury late in the Knicks' victory over Philadelphia in Game 2 of the second round, there was concern this run could be in jeopardy just as it was picking up steam. When Anunoby was hurt at the same time in the 2024 playoffs, the Knicks blew a 2-0 lead against Indiana and ultimately lost the series in Game 7, when Anunoby gamely tried to return after missing four games but it was clear he could hardly move and was yanked after five minutes.

This injury was not as bad. Helped by extended time off when the Knicks swept the 76ers, Anunoby was able to return in time for the start of the Eastern Conference finals.

Having him on the floor now — and soaring through the air in the final seconds of Game 4 — could be what it takes to end a 53-year title drought.

“OG, he’s been amazing since he’s got here,” fellow forward Josh Hart said. “This whole playoff run, he’s been amazing on both ends of the ball. He’s a winning player and he made a winning play.”

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Building on her work helping foster children, Trump said the new federal guidance will give child welfare agencies the ability to act as a guardian for children in foster care for the purposes of opening an account.

The first lady, speaking at a news conference at the Treasury Department, said the move “gives foster children the same chance at asset ownership and long-term wealth as every other child.”

The accounts will be open for contributions on July 4. To qualify for an account, a child must also be a U.S. citizen born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers estimates that a Trump Account balance for a baby born in 2026 will be $5,800 by age 18 and $18,100 by age 28 if no other contributions are made.

The first lady said 23 governors, all Republicans, have pledged to allow state agencies to begin the process of enrolling children in the program. “I urge every governor and business leader to help fund these accounts," she said.

There are roughly 330,000 children in the U.S. foster care system, according to the National Council for Adoption. One in 5 of them is at risk of homelessness after aging out of foster care, and only half gain employment by the time they are 24, the National Foster Youth Institute says.

“Those outcomes are unsettling, but we refuse to accept them as inevitable,” Bessent told the news conference. “We are affirming that the American dream belongs to every child.”

A provision of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation that he signed into law last summer created Trump Accounts. Under them, the Treasury Department gives $1,000 to babies so long as their parents open an account. That money is then invested in the stock market by private firms, and the children can access the money when they turn 18.

Employers and billionaires across the country have pledged to make matching Trump Account contributions for employee benefits. Among them are Michael and Susan Dell, who announced a $6.25 billion donation, and hedge fund founder Ray Dalio and his wife, Barbara, who pledged $75 million for kids under 10 in Connecticut, where the Dalios live.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Hollywood, el accidente ocurrió el 20 de mayo alrededor de las 12:25 a.m. en North Ocean Drive, cerca de Hollywood Boulevard.

La policía informó que el conductor de un BMW, identificado posteriormente como Artiom Echiusciu, circulaba a más de 100 mph cuando cruzó el separador central y chocó contra el vehículo del agente antes de salir del automóvil y huir corriendo.

Según la Policía de Hollywood, el agente Luis Díaz sufrió heridas consideradas graves, pero no mortales, y fue hospitalizado. Actualmente se encuentra en recuperación.

La policía indicó que Echiusciu solicitó un Lyft para ayudarlo a escapar de la escena y finalmente viajó hasta Illinois, donde fue arrestado el miércoles por la Fuerza Regional de Tareas de Fugitivos de los Grandes Lagos del Servicio de Alguaciles de Estados Unidos en Chicago.

Echiusciu, ciudadano ruso que, según la policía, se encontraba ilegalmente en el país, enfrenta cargos por abandonar la escena de un accidente con lesiones corporales graves, conducción temeraria causando lesiones corporales graves, conducción temeraria causando daños a la propiedad, conducir con una licencia suspendida, abandonar la escena de un accidente con daños a la propiedad y no registrar un vehículo de motor.

Las autoridades informaron que actualmente se encuentra en proceso de extradición al condado Broward.

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The fire started in the unit of Tavaras Calvin. Fortunately, neither Calvin, his wife nor their children were home at the time.

“Thankfully we weren’t home,” Calvin said. “Obviously the material things (we’re) not concerned about. Everything can be replaced, but it’s just a disheartening feeling to see what you do call home just go up in flames.”

Calvin said fire marshals believe the battery from his son’s Power Wheels toy car may have sparked the fire.

“The fire inspector said because we don’t have anything else electronic out here -- that was literally the only thing, and it wasn’t even connected to the actual toy,” Calvin said. “But the Power Wheels battery -- they’ve been known to be faulty and just catch fire and trigger something. He said it possibly could have been the heat -- we don’t know.”

According to Calvin, the fire shattered the patio window before spreading quickly through the inside of the two-bedroom unit, burning everything in its path.

“The television shattered,” he added. “It literally got into every room in the house, made it to the front door, the bathrooms, closet, everywhere.”

Calvin, his wife and their four children -- ages 9, 6, 5 and 3 -- recently booked a hotel room so they could reunite as a family after spending the last week living apart to stay close to work.

“I’m just thankful we weren’t home and no one got hurt and we’re all safe,” Calvin said. “That’s the most important thing.”

The American Red Cross’ Broward County chapter has been helping the family. Calvin said the organization has provided financial assistance.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

A GoFundMe page has been created to assist the family during their time of need.

Though her body has never been found, police believe Harmony Montgomery was killed in 2019, nearly two years before she was reported missing. Her father, Adam Montgomery, was sentenced to a minimum of 56 years in prison in 2024 after being convicted of second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, falsifying evidence, witness tampering and assault.

The Supreme Court, however, reversed the most serious charge, agreeing with Montgomery that the lesser assault charge should have been prosecuted separately. It sent the second-degree murder charge back to the lower court while letting the other convictions stand.

In their unanimous ruling, justices said combining the cases jeopardized Montgomery’s right to a fair trial because jurors may have used the stronger evidence about the assault to conclude, based on weaker evidence, that he killed her months later.

“There was a significant risk that the jury would draw the impermissible inference that because the defendant assaulted the victim before by striking her in the head, he must be the one who fatally assaulted her in December by again striking her in the head,” the justices said.

The second-degree murder conviction accounts for 45 years of Montgomery’s 56-years-to-life sentence, which was imposed on top of an earlier 32 ½-year sentence he already was serving on unrelated gun charges.

The attorney general’s office said Thursday it will pursue a retrial on the second-degree murder charge.

“We remain confident in the facts of this case, the evidence presented, and the exceptional work of our prosecutors, investigators, and law enforcement partners,” said spokesperson Michael Garrity. “We will continue our efforts to seek justice for Harmony Montgomery and all those who knew and loved her.”

Montgomery's attorneys did not respond to emails seeking comment.

Last year, the state agreed to pay $2.25 million to Harmony Montgomery's mother to settle a lawsuit accusing social workers of ignoring signs that the girl was being abused by her father after he was awarded custody in early 2019. Crystal Sorey went to police in 2021, and in 2022 authorities announced that they believed Harmony was dead.

Adam Montgomery did not attend his trial in February 2022, and his lawyers called no defense witnesses. His attorneys acknowledged he was guilty of falsifying evidence and abusing a corpse, but they said he did not kill Harmony and instead suggested the girl actually died while alone with her stepmother, Kayla Montgomery.

Kayla Montgomery, who served an 18-month prison sentence for lying to a grand jury about where she was when Harmony was last seen, was the star witness for the prosecution. She testified that her husband killed Harmony on Dec. 7, 2019, while the family lived in their car. Montgomery was driving to a fast-food restaurant when he turned around and repeatedly punched Harmony in the face and head because he was angry that she was having bathroom accidents in the car, she said. He then hid the body in the trunk of a car, in a ceiling vent of a homeless shelter and in the walk-in freezer at his workplace before disposing of it in March 2020, she said.

Kayla Montgomery said she tried to stop her husband from hitting the girl but was scared of him and that he beat her as well as he grew paranoid that she would go to police.

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That’s because they say his older sister ― his guardian ― was forcing him to kneel on rice inside of a shed for hours.

According to the Florida City Police Department, the brother of Nataly Francelia Cruz, 26, went to the neighbor just before 4:45 p.m. and said he had been kneeling on the rice since around 11 a.m., saying “this is not the first time he has been punished this way when he misbehaves.”

“I observed minor injuries on his knees consistent with kneeling for a long time on a surface with rice,” an FCPD officer wrote in the report. “He also reported that while kneeling, he attempted to use the restroom inside the house but his sister refused to let him inside the house.”

Cruz, police said, has been taking care of the boy since their mother was deported.

A statement she made to authorities was redacted from the publicly-released report.

Police arrested Cruz on a child abuse charge and took her to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she was being held on a $2,500 bond as of Thursday morning.

The Honduran national also faces an immigration hold.

Esto se debe a que, según las autoridades, su hermana mayor —quien es su tutora— lo obligaba a arrodillarse sobre arroz dentro de un cobertizo durante horas.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Florida City, el hermano de Nataly Francelia Cruz, de 26 años, acudió al vecino poco antes de las 4:45 p.m. y dijo que había estado arrodillado sobre arroz desde aproximadamente las 11 a.m., agregando que “esta no es la primera vez que lo castigan de esta manera cuando se porta mal”.

“Observé lesiones menores en sus rodillas consistentes con haber permanecido arrodillado durante mucho tiempo sobre una superficie con arroz”, escribió un agente de la FCPD en el informe. “También informó que mientras estaba arrodillado intentó usar el baño dentro de la casa, pero su hermana se negó a permitirle entrar”.

La policía indicó que Cruz ha estado cuidando al menor desde que su madre fue deportada.

Una declaración que Cruz hizo a las autoridades fue censurada en el informe divulgado públicamente.

La policía arrestó a Cruz por un cargo de abuso infantil y la trasladó al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde permanecía detenida con una fianza de $2,500 USD hasta la mañana del jueves.

La ciudadana hondureña también enfrenta una retención migratoria.

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The pioneering forecast team – the first group to issue seasonal hurricane outlooks, starting in 1984 – predicts 11 named storms and 5 hurricanes across the Atlantic in 2026, with 2 hurricanes reaching “major” Category 3, 4, or 5 status.

This is below the 30-year average of 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 Category 3 or stronger hurricanes. Most noticeably, CSU’s predictions for Accumulated Cyclone Energy or ACE, a seasonal scorecard that considers storm intensity and duration, is reduced by about 40% compared to the 30-year average. The team also predicts the odds of a Category 3 or stronger hurricane hitting the U.S. in 2026 to be nearly cut in half from 43% (1880-2020 average) to 23%.

Though the pre-season predictions are heartening after a decade of mostly above-average or hyperactive Atlantic hurricane seasons, devastating hurricanes can strike even during down years. Hurricane Andrew was the only Category 3 or stronger hurricane to form in 1992 – a very inactive season with a meager 7 named storms – but its catastrophic impact on South Florida made it one of the costliest U.S. disasters on record.

El Niño officially arrives

Earlier today, NOAA and the National Weather Service officially declared El Niño conditions present in the eastern tropical Pacific.

The abnormal warmth across the main El Niño monitoring region used by NOAA (termed the Nino 3.4 region) is at record warmth for the time of year and so far the warmup is outpacing other strong El Niños that began in 2023, 2015, 1997, and 1982. El Niño conditions typically peak in the late fall or winter months.

Seasonal forecast models used to predict El Niño continue to suggest a historic and potentially record-setting El Niño in the works.

This rapid transition to El Niño is the primary reason we expect much lower-than-average activity this Atlantic hurricane season. Abnormally warm waters in the tropical eastern Pacific – especially during strong El Niños – increase wind shear (the difference in wind strength and direction with altitude) over the Caribbean and main development region of the Atlantic. Wind shear is a deterrent to organized tropical activity as it works to topple would-be storms.

Not surprisingly, seasonal forecast models are predicting the highest wind shear on record (back to 1981) for the Atlantic main development region this fall due to the strong El Niño conditions.

While El Niño can take on different flavors – such as El Niño Modoki (Japanese for “similar but different), where warming is concentrated in the central Pacific and Atlantic, hurricane activity is less affected like during the busy 2004 hurricane season – the current El Niño is as textbook as it gets and is considered a canonical or classical El Niño, with major impacts expected globally.

Chances for Gulf development remain low

As we’ve covered in this newsletter since last week, the now remnants of once Tropical Storm Cristina in the eastern Pacific are crossing over Central America and expected to merge with a tropical disturbance approaching from the west over the southern reaches of the Gulf and Bay of Campeche on Friday.

Forecast models continue to show only a narrow window for development tomorrow and Saturday before the system moves inland over northeastern Mexico by early Sunday.

It’s worth noting that a small handful of members from Google’s DeepMind machine learning-based hurricane model suggest residual spin could hang off the Texas coast into early next week and develop over the northern Gulf before being deflected eastward by an approaching cold front in about a week.

For now, these are outliers and not shown in the physics-based models. Even DeepMind’s newest 1,000-member hurricane ensemble indicates about a 10% chance of this scenario playing out.

Nevertheless, given DeepMind’s impressive performance last season, we’ll keep an eye on the trends in the days ahead.

El equipo pionero de pronósticos, el primer grupo en emitir previsiones estacionales de huracanes, a partir de 1984, predice 11 tormentas con nombre y 5 huracanes en el Atlántico en 2026, con 2 huracanes que alcanzarán la categoría “importante” de 3, 4 o 5.

Esto está por debajo del promedio de 30 años de 14 tormentas con nombre, 7 huracanes y 3 huracanes de categoría 3 o superior. Lo más destacable es que las predicciones de la CSU para la Energía Ciclónica Acumulada (ACE), un indicador estacional que considera la intensidad y la duración de las tormentas, se reducen en aproximadamente un 40 % en comparación con el promedio de 30 años. El equipo también predice que la probabilidad de que un huracán de categoría 3 o superior azote Estados Unidos en 2026 se reducirá casi a la mitad, del 43 % (promedio de 1880-2020) al 23 %.

Si bien las predicciones previas a la temporada son alentadoras tras una década de temporadas de huracanes en el Atlántico mayormente por encima del promedio o hiperactivas, los huracanes devastadores pueden azotar incluso en años de baja actividad. El huracán Andrew fue el único huracán de categoría 3 o superior que se formó en 1992, una temporada muy inactiva con apenas 7 tormentas con nombre, pero su impacto catastrófico en el sur de Florida lo convirtió en uno de los desastres más costosos registrados en Estados Unidos.

El Niño llega oficialmente

Esta mañana, la NOAA y el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional declararon oficialmente la presencia de condiciones de El Niño en el Pacífico tropical oriental.

El calor anormal en la principal región de monitoreo de El Niño utilizada por la NOAA (denominada región Niño 3.4) está alcanzando niveles récord para esta época del año y, hasta el momento, el calentamiento está superando a otros fuertes fenómenos de El Niño que comenzaron en 2023, 2015, 1997 y 1982. Las condiciones de El Niño suelen alcanzar su punto máximo a finales de otoño o en los meses de invierno.

Los modelos de pronóstico estacional utilizados para predecir El Niño siguen sugiriendo que se avecina un fenómeno de El Niño histórico y potencialmente sin precedentes.

Esta rápida transición a El Niño es la razón principal por la que prevemos una actividad mucho menor a la media durante esta temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico. Las aguas anormalmente cálidas en el Pacífico oriental tropical, especialmente durante los episodios intensos de El Niño, aumentan la cizalladura del viento (la diferencia en la fuerza y ​​dirección del viento con la altitud) sobre el Caribe y la principal región de desarrollo de huracanes en el Atlántico. La cizalladura del viento dificulta la actividad tropical organizada, ya que contribuye a disipar las tormentas potenciales.

Como era de esperar, los modelos de pronóstico estacional predicen la mayor cizalladura del viento registrada hasta la fecha (desde 1981) para la principal región de desarrollo del Atlántico este otoño debido a las fuertes condiciones de El Niño.

Si bien El Niño puede adoptar diferentes características, como El Niño Modoki (que en japonés significa “similar pero diferente”), donde el calentamiento se concentra en el Pacífico y el Atlántico centrales y la actividad de los huracanes se ve menos afectada, como durante la ajetreada temporada de huracanes de 2004, el El Niño actual es un ejemplo típico y se considera un El Niño canónico o clásico, con importantes repercusiones previstas a nivel mundial.

Las probabilidades de desarrollo en el Golfo siguen siendo bajas

Como hemos informado en este boletín desde la semana pasada, los restos de la antigua tormenta tropical Cristina, en el Pacífico oriental, están cruzando Centroamérica y se espera que se fusionen con una perturbación tropical que se aproxima desde el oeste sobre el extremo sur del Golfo y la Bahía de Campeche el viernes.

Los modelos de pronóstico siguen mostrando solo una ventana de tiempo muy estrecha para su desarrollo mañana y el sábado, antes de que el sistema se desplace tierra adentro sobre el noreste de México a primera hora del domingo.

Cabe destacar que un pequeño grupo de miembros del modelo de huracanes basado en aprendizaje automático DeepMind de Google sugiere que el giro residual podría permanecer frente a la costa de Texas hasta principios de la próxima semana y desarrollarse sobre el norte del Golfo antes de ser desviado hacia el este por un frente frío que se aproxima en aproximadamente una semana.

Por ahora, estos son casos atípicos que no se muestran en los modelos basados ​​en la física. Incluso el conjunto de modelos de huracanes más reciente de DeepMind, compuesto por 1000 miembros, indica una probabilidad de aproximadamente el 10 % de que se produzca este escenario.

No obstante, teniendo en cuenta el impresionante desempeño de DeepMind la temporada pasada, estaremos atentos a las tendencias en los próximos días.

In May, Amazon deforestation was 61.4% lower than in the same month in 2025, according to officials from the National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, and the Ministry of Environment.

Still, 370 square kilometers (nearly 143 square miles) of the rainforest were cleared. Deforestation over the same period fell 12% in the Cerrado, a savanna in central Brazil that has long been under pressure from the powerful agribusiness sector.

Environment Minister João Paulo Capobianco said that the figure is the lowest ever recorded for May, and that Brazil is on track to reach its lowest annual levels once the data is consolidated next semester.

He said that the month typically sees higher deforestation, because it marks the start of the Amazon’s dry season. In the 10 months from August 2025 to May 2026, deforestation in the Amazon already fell by 37.5%, compared with the same previous period.

On June 2, the Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, saying that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable” and that “burden or restrict U.S. commerce.” The announcement came after an investigation by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative that accused Brazil of illegal deforestation and unfair tariffs of its own, among other things.

Capobianco said that the deforestation figures “debunk the unfair and unfounded accusation by the United States, which cited deforestation to justify imposing tariffs.” President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nodded as he listened to the remarks.

Lula said that the Trump administration lied when they first imposed additional tariffs on Brazil last year, saying that the U.S. had a trade deficit.

“And now they raised questions about deforestation. They don’t understand the work we are doing to bring deforestation down to zero by 2030. This is not a decision by any COP or by the United Nations. It is a decision of our government,” the Brazilian president said, using the acronym for U.N. climate conferences.

“It’s a matter of justice, of Brazil’s contribution to the planet, fulfilling our obligation to avoid deforestation as much as possible. Preventing deforestation benefits Brazil, benefits the Amazon and benefits the world,” he said.

Deforestation is the leading driver of Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to global warming.

The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, also plays a critical role in regulating the climate far beyond South America. Scientists warn that forest loss could accelerate global warming and disrupt agriculture as far away as the U.S. Midwest and parts of Europe.

After reaching record levels in the 1990s and 2000s, deforestation declined until the 2019-2022 term of then President Jair Bolsonaro, whose government was widely criticized for weakening environmental protections. Under Lula’s administration, deforestation has fallen again, reaching its lowest level in a decade last year.

Despite gains in keeping forest standing, however, many other threats, ranging from climate change to potential legislation on the horizon, are putting the forest at risk.

Forest degradation, driven by wildfires, logging and drought, affects about 40% of the Amazon and has outpaced clear-cutting in recent years. All of this could be exacerbated this year with a strong El Niño, a cyclic warming of the equatorial Pacific, which causes higher temperatures and drier weather in the rainforest, conditions that worsen wildfires.

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The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose to 6.52% from 6.48% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Despite the increase, the average rate remains below 6.84%, where it was a year ago.

Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, often sought by borrowers refinancing a home loan, also rose this week. That average rate climbed to 5.84% from 5.79% last week. A year ago, it was at 5.97%, Freddie Mac said.

When mortgage rates rise they can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, reducing their purchasing power.

Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, from the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy decisions to bond market investors’ expectations for the economy and inflation. They generally follow the trajectory of the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans.

Rates have been mostly trending higher since the conflict between the U.S. and Iran began in late February, disrupting the flow of crude oil from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide. That’s sent oil prices sharply higher, helping drive up inflation.

Expectations of higher oil prices as the war drags on have kept long-term bond yields elevated, causing mortgage rates to mostly trend higher.

The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note was at 4.53% in midday trading Thursday on the bond market, up from 4.47% a week ago. It was just 3.97% in late February, before the war broke out.

As recently as late February, the average rate on a 30-year mortgage had slipped just under 6% for the first time since late 2022. It’s hasn’t fallen below that threshold since. Two weeks ago, it climbed to 6.53%, its highest level since August 28.

While average long-term mortgage rates remain lower than they were at this time last year, their mostly upward trajectory and uncertainty over how much higher they may go has kept many would-be homebuyers on the sideline.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in the first three months of the year compared to a year earlier, extending a nationwide housing slump that dates back to 2022 when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Sales were essentially flat in April, but accelerated in May to their fastest pace since December.

Still, sales of existing U.S. homes continue to hovering close to a 4-million annual pace, far short of the historic norm that is closer to 5.2-million.

The latest mortgage applications data suggest home shoppers who can afford to buy at current rates are not holding out for them to move lower.

After declining in recent weeks, mortgage applications, which include loans to buy a home or refinance an existing mortgage, jumped 10.8% last week from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Applications for both home purchase and refinancing loans rebounded.

The increase in mortgage applications is an encouraging sign for the housing market heading into the second half of the year after a lackluster spring homebuying season.

“However, if inflation continues to outpace wage growth, eroding purchasing power alongside still-elevated mortgage rates, household budgets will come under increasing pressure, posing a meaningful drag on housing demand heading into the summer,” said Jiayi Xu, an economist at Realtor.com.

Maybe it's the kind of contraption that has carried space aliens to the White House to force a meeting with America's leader.

But come closer and you'll see the contours of the eight-sided cage, 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter and shaped, with careful precision, like the MMA league's signature Octagon.

That is, a STOP! sign flipped on its edge, with wire-mesh sides and padded corners fitted with different sponsors' logos: Morgan & Morgan, Bud Light, Dodge Ram, Corona Extra and Polymarket, which identifies itself as the world’s largest prediction market.

Overhead looms The Claw, a four-sided mass that arcs more than 90 feet (27 meters) into the air and features lights, speakers, thick snakes of wiring and four large screens so fans not seated right next to the Octagon can follow the cage fighting below.

Think more of the four-sided, metal grabby thing that tries to grasp stuffed animals at a video arcade rather than what house cats have — hence the extraterrestrial vibes.

And surrounding all that are risers filled with gray folding chairs forming a temporary arena expected to seat 4,000-plus people for the seven UFC fights being staged on Sunday to celebrate the 80th birthday of President Donald Trump and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s signing.

‘Quite attractive to a lot of people’

For non-UFC fans, all of this might be disorienting under any circumstances. But the temporary arena is covering nearly the entirety of the White House's South Lawn, where Marine One usually lands to ferry the president to out-of-town trips and gobs of kids scramble in the grass during the Easter Egg Roll every spring.

More than $60 million and tens of thousands of hours of labor have been poured into building the arena, according to a court filing from the National Park Service, which oversees the South Lawn and is contesting a lawsuit meant to block the event.

The White House says the UFC is covering the costs, though the filing states that seven agencies — including the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Aviation Administration — have “allocated significant resources and manpower.”

Fighters, their entourages and assorted support staffers are expected to take over the driveway and part of the West Wing when they're not fighting. But they'll enter the arena via curtained-off walkways with access to the Octagon.

They, as well as ordinary attendees of Sunday's spectacle, will have picturesque views of the White House's Executive Residence and its storied Truman Balcony on one side and the Washington Monument towering in the distance on the other. All of it will be accentuated by swirling spotlights, and perhaps even sweat and blood pouring off the fighters pummeling each other.

A packed pre-event schedule includes a press conference at the Lincoln Memorial with UFC chief Dana White and the fighters on Friday night.

There's also a ceremonial weigh-in for combatants on Saturday at the Ellipse, a park near the White House where organizers expect 120,000-plus visitors to watch Sunday night's proceedings on large screens after winning free tickets in a lottery.

Stunt athlete Travis Pastrana is also set to do a potentially death-defying backflip on a dirt bike on the White House lawn as part of the preshow extravaganza.

Trump has called the Octagon and its Claw “quite attractive to a lot of people.” He's even suggested that maybe the temporary structure could become permanent, like the Eiffel Tower, which he notes was originally built as part of the 1889 World's Fair but then was never taken back down.

Only the president knows how serious that suggestion really is.

The fights will go on rain or shine — despite a lack of covering

Work on the arena began May 20 and has continued for weeks. During a walk-through for reporters on Thursday, construction noises — particularly sanding and hammering — could be heard. Giant cranes were carrying materials around overhead, though that was for the $400 million ballroom that Trump is building nearby, not the UFC fight.

The remaining grassy lawn around the arena, on the other sides of the White House, has been fitted with supplemental spotlights. But the grass that normally grows between the White House and the start of the risers for the arena is now gone, with nothing but dusty dirt that will need to be resodded when this is all over — unless the president really does decide to leave the arena up permanently.

There's also a large Freedom 250 logo standing between the White House and the arena. Nearby, crews removed the tables and yellow patio umbrellas from Trump’s refurbished Rose Garden and were power-washing that space, as well as the colonnade to the Oval Office, in preparation for the fights.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a cooperation agreement with UFC that will pair the two to provide fight training and health and diet regimens, while promoting teamwork and leadership among youth around the world.

“We are so polarized,” Rubio said. “There are only a handful of things that bring people together in one place at one time, united by their interest in one thing. We need more of those.”

Later Thursday, crews began testing the sound system, unleashing a deep rumbling — and sometimes unsettling bass notes — throughout the West Wing. During a subsequent Oval Office event, the music from the lawn was loud enough that the 1970s hit "Boys are Back in Town” rollicked in the background as Trump spoke.

Sunday's event starts at 8 p.m. ET. As darkness falls, crews will illuminate The Claw in red, white and blue, and the mass of lights will offer projections that make it seem as though the entire structure has been enveloped in a twirling stars and stripes pattern.

The weather forecast calls for hot and muggy conditions with thunderstorms possible. The underside of The Claw's tower features an overhead cover that should keep the fighters reasonably dry should it rain — and Trump is also likely to watch from a protected, covered area.

But everyone else would almost certainly get wet.

White has vowed that even heavy lightning — when The Claw might make a conspicuous target for bolts — wouldn't stop the show.

“I don’t care if it snows," White said.

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According to Miami-Dade Animal Services, Louie arrived at the shelter in February along with several other dogs that had been living together in overcrowded conditions.

Staff members describe the 2 to 3-year-old mixed-breed dog as sweet, affectionate and easygoing around both people and other animals.

Shelter workers say Louie enjoys attention — especially belly and back scratches — and has earned positive reviews for his calm demeanor while waiting for adoption.

Those interested in adopting Louie or another pet can attend the Florida Mega Pet Adoption Event on Saturday at TY Park in Broward County.

Miami-Dade Animal Services, Broward County Animal Care, the Humane Society of Broward County and the Humane Society of Greater Miami will participate in the event, where adoption fees are expected to be waived.

More information about Louie and other adoptable pets is available by clicking here.

Según Servicios de Animales de Miami-Dade, Louie llegó al refugio en febrero junto con varios otros perros que vivían en condiciones de hacinamiento.

Los miembros del personal describen al perro mestizo, de entre 2 y 3 años, como dulce, cariñoso y tranquilo tanto con las personas como con otros animales.

Los trabajadores del refugio dicen que a Louie le encanta recibir atención, especialmente que le rasquen la barriga y la espalda, y que ha recibido comentarios positivos por su comportamiento calmado mientras espera ser adoptado.

Quienes estén interesados en adoptar a Louie o a otra mascota pueden asistir al Evento Mega de Adopción de Mascotas de Florida el sábado en TY Park, en el condado Broward.

Servicios de Animales de Miami-Dade, Broward County Animal Care, la Sociedad Humanitaria del Condado Broward y la Sociedad Humanitaria del Gran Miami participarán en el evento, donde se espera que las tarifas de adopción sean exoneradas.

Más información sobre Louie y otras mascotas disponibles para adopción está disponible haciendo clic aquí.

Los agentes de policía arrestaron a Anthony Gordon después de que detectives, con una orden de registro, encontraran $1.4 millones USD en efectivo y aproximadamente $5 millones USD en narcóticos en su vivienda, según el Departamento de Policía de Miami Gardens.

Correccionales de Miami-Dade registró el ingreso de Gordon, un delincuente convicto en Florida, poco después de las 7 a.m. del miércoles en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según registros de reclusos.

Gordon, también conocido como “Peanut”, fue liberado por última vez de prisión el 2 de diciembre de 2020, después de siete condenas en Miami-Dade y una en Broward, todas relacionadas con tráfico de drogas en 2013 y 2014, según el Departamento de Correcciones de Florida.

Gordon enfrenta 16 cargos: tráfico de propiedad robada, tráfico de cocaína, tráfico de fentanilo, tráfico de anfetaminas, tráfico de oxicodona, tráfico de drogas ilegales mientras estaba armado, 10 cargos de posesión de arma de fuego o municiones por un delincuente convicto y posesión de drogas sin receta médica.

Esta es una noticia en desarrollo.

Los organizadores indicaron que hay espacio suficiente para que unos 30.000 aficionados disfruten de las proyecciones en cuatro pantallas gigantes en el parque ubicado en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

“Todos son bienvenidos, de todas las edades... podrán ver los partidos gratis, mientras disfrutan de la música, el baile y la comida”, dijo el miércoles la alcaldesa de Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava.

Por motivos de seguridad, habrá detectores de metales y solo se permitirán bolsos transparentes. No se permiten bolsos de más de 30 cm x 15 cm.

También está prohibido vapear y fumar. Sillas, mantas, tiendas de campaña, patinetes, bocinas de aire comprimido, punteros láser e hinchables están incluidos en la lista de artículos prohibidos .

Excepto la comida para bebés, no se permite la entrada de alimentos ni bebidas del exterior. Los organizadores instalaron una larga fila de puestos de comida y bebida. El festival estará abierto todos los días hasta el 5 de julio.

Programa del festival

13 de junio : El festival para aficionados abre sus puertas de 14:00 a 24:00. Los partidos del Grupo A se juegan a las 15:00 (México contra Sudáfrica) y a las 23:00 (Corea del Sur contra la República Checa).

14 de junio : El festival de aficionados abre de 12:00 a 22:00. El partido del Grupo B , Canadá vs. Bosnia, es a las 15:00 y el partido del Grupo D , EE. UU. vs. Paraguay, es a las 21:00.

15 de junio: El festival de fans abre de 11:00 a 21:00.

16 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas de 14:00 a 24:00.

17 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas de 12:00 a 22:00.

18 de junio: El festival de fans abre de 11:00 a 21:00.

19 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas de 14:00 a 24:00.

20 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas de 12:00 a 23:00.

21 de junio: El festival de fans abre de 11:00 a 21:00.

22 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas de 12:00 a 20:00.

23 de junio: El festival de fans abre de 12:00 a 13:00.

24 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas de 14:00 a 21:00.

25 de junio: El festival de fans abre de 15:00 a 01:00.

26 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas de 14:00 a 23:00.

27 de junio: El festival de fans abre de 16:00 a 01:00.

28 de junio: El festival de fans abre de 13:00 a 22:00.

29 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche.

30 de junio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche.

1 de julio: El festival de fans abre de 11:00 a 23:00.

2 de julio: El festival de fans abre de 14:00 a 22:00.

3 de julio: El festival de fans abre de 13:00 a 21:00.

4 de julio: El festival de fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche.

5 de julio: El festival de fans abre de 15:00 a 23:00.

Para obtener más información sobre el festival, visite esta página.

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La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Monroe informó que arrestó a Aaron Tipsford, de Marathon, el miércoles.

Según los agentes, tuvieron contacto con Tipsford varias veces la noche del martes “debido a su comportamiento errático”, pero indicaron que no cumplía con los criterios para ser internado bajo la Ley Baker.

Después de que un familiar solicitara posteriormente una verificación de bienestar de Tipsford, los agentes dijeron que lo observaron conduciendo una SUV Honda alrededor de las 5:30 a.m. del miércoles cerca del marcador de milla 30 en Big Pine Key.

Las autoridades dijeron que durante una parada de tráfico, el “patrón de habla era anormal” y que “tenía dificultades para completar oraciones y llevaba una chaqueta pesada y guantes a pesar de las altas temperaturas”.

La temperatura máxima en Big Pine Key la mañana del miércoles fue de 84 grados.

Cuando los agentes le pidieron a Tipsford que mostrara su licencia de conducir, dijeron que huyó y comenzó a rebasar varios vehículos a velocidades de hasta 120 mph en la autopista U.S. 1.

Las autoridades dijeron que utilizaron ponchallantas varias veces contra el vehículo de Tipsford antes de que finalmente girara hacia la calle 39 en Marathon y chocara contra una roca antes de ser puesto bajo custodia.

La oficina del sheriff informó que una agente sufrió una lesión en la mano mientras desplegaba los ponchallantas y fue atendida el miércoles en el Hospital Jackson Memorial de Miami.

Tipsford enfrenta cargos por conducir bajo la influencia causando lesiones corporales graves, huir y evadir a las autoridades, resistirse al arresto, exceso de velocidad peligroso, daños criminales a la propiedad, posesión de marihuana y posesión de parafernalia de drogas.

Hasta la mañana del jueves, permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en la cárcel de Key West de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Monroe.

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The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said they took Aaron Tipsford, of Marathon, into custody on Wednesday.

According to deputies, they made contact with Tipsword several times on Tuesday night “due to his erratic behavior” but said that he did not meet the criteria to be Baker Acted.

After a family member later requested a welfare check on Tipsword, deputies said they observed him driving a Honda SUV around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday near Mile Marker 30 on Big Pine Key.

Authorities said during a traffic stop, Tipsword’s “speech pattern was abnormal” and that “he had difficulty completing sentences and was wearing a heavy jacket and gloves despite warm temperatures.”

The high temperature in Big Pine Key on Wednesday morning was 84 degrees.

When deputies asked Tipsword to provide his driver’s license, they said he took off and proceeded to speed past several vehicles, reaching speeds of 120 mph on U.S. 1.

Authorities said they used tire spikes on Tipsword’s vehicle several times before he eventually turned onto 39th Street in Marathon and struck a boulder before being taken into custody.

The sheriff’s department said that a deputy suffered an injury to her hand while deploying the spikes and was treated on Wednesday at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.

Tipsword is facing charges of DUI causing serious bodily injury, fleeing and eluding, resisting arrest, dangerous/excessive speeding, criminal mischief with property damage, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

As of Thursday morning, he was being held at MCSO’s Key West jail facility on no bond.