La sombría advertencia del Climate Impact Lab, con sede en la Universidad de Chicago, señala que hasta 451.000 muertes adicionales relacionadas con el calor entre junio y finales de febrero podrían atribuirse a El Niño, en comparación con las muertes por calor previstas en un año típico.

El mayor impacto, afirma el grupo, se espera en los países más pobres, que ya lidian con la inseguridad alimentaria y los altos costos de la energía, en parte debido al cambio climático y a las consecuencias de la guerra en Irán.

Michael Greenstone, cofundador del grupo y coautor del estudio, manifestó que el peligro por el calor probablemente persistirá más allá de febrero, aunque se espera que este El Niño termine para entonces. Agregó que las consecuencias del fenómeno meteorológico podrían sentirse hasta bien entrado el próximo verano.

La investigación, explicó, muestra que el calor es más peligroso en lugares que ya son calurosos y relativamente pobres.

“Si ya estás en un lugar caluroso, ese par de grados extra va a ser mucho más peligroso”, afirmó. Los lugares más ricos, añadió, por lo general tienen mayor acceso al aire acondicionado, suministros de agua confiables y sistemas de salud que funcionan.

El estudio combinó pronósticos estacionales de temperatura con estimaciones localizadas de cómo las altas temperaturas afectan la mortalidad en más de 24.000 regiones de todo el mundo.

Los investigadores estimaron las muertes adicionales relacionadas con el calor al comparar las muertes previstas bajo temperaturas elevadas impulsadas por El Niño con las muertes esperadas si las temperaturas se mantuvieran similares a las que han sido en las últimas tres décadas. Las muertes proyectadas corresponden a todo el periodo de El Niño, desde junio de 2026 hasta finales de febrero de 2027.

Habrá más muertes en el Sur Global debido al calor

El estudio de Greenstone y sus colegas también advierte que el Sur Global —un término que no es geográfico, sino una referencia a los países en desarrollo en general— soportará la carga más pesada del calor excesivo.

Los investigadores detrás del informe hallaron que se espera que la región del Sahel en África —países en el borde meridional semiárido del desierto del Sahara— sea la más afectada, con unas 66.800 muertes adicionales causadas por el calor agudizado por El Niño.

Otros grandes focos incluyen el sur y el sudeste de Asia y partes de América Latina, según el informe. Los investigadores proyectan unas 19.400 muertes adicionales relacionadas con el calor en Filipinas, Vietnam, Tailandia y Camboya, así como 19.300 en Indonesia, 15.800 en India y 13.300 en Brasil.

Las alertas por calor y los centros de enfriamiento podrían evitar miles de muertes

Con cifras tan abrumadoras, el informe indica que hay medidas recomendadas que los gobiernos pueden adoptar. Entre ellas figuran sistemas de alerta por calor, centros de enfriamiento, puntos de hidratación, protecciones para los trabajadores al aire libre, ampliación de la capacidad hospitalaria y acciones de alcance dirigidas a las personas mayores y otros grupos vulnerables.

Los autores también piden lo que describen como financiamiento anticipatorio, para que los gobiernos puedan movilizar recursos antes de que el calor peligroso alcance su punto máximo.

Abhiyant Tiwari, experto en calor de NRDC India que no participó en el estudio, comentó que las proyecciones del informe deberían servir como un llamado a la acción, más que como otra razón para alarmarse.

Pero, aunque una cosa es contar con planes bien pensados —como los tiene India—, implementar esos planes y reunir los fondos necesarios sigue siendo un desafío, sostuvo.

“La verdadera medida de nuestra preparación no es cuántas alertas por calor emitimos, sino cuán eficazmente protegemos a las personas y reducimos las muertes evitables”, añadió Tiwari.

El cambio climático está amplificando el calor récord de El Niño

El Niño es un patrón climático natural, pero el evento inusualmente fuerte de este año está ocurriendo en un planeta ya calentado por el cambio climático causado por el ser humano, lo que incrementa los riesgos del calor extremo.

El Climate Impact Lab indicó que las temperaturas globales sobre tierra durante este El Niño podrían ser más altas en alrededor de 1,2 grados Celsius (2,1 Fahrenheit), lo que produciría un 44% más de días extremadamente calurosos que en un año típico. El informe señaló que esos aumentos de temperatura podrían reflejar condiciones que el cambio climático podría volver comunes dentro de unos 20 años.

Por eso, este El Niño podría ofrecer un adelanto de lo que viene a medida que el planeta continúa calentándose, indicó el informe. También es una oportunidad para que los responsables de tomar decisiones “vean exactamente dónde pueden emprenderse acciones de emergencia ahora para salvar decenas de miles de vidas”, afirman los autores.

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A few hundred feet away, a drone port, run by the U.S. Secret Service and not the military, is already quietly operational. Equipped with cameras and sensors to scope out potential threats from a bird’s-eye view, the small UAVs stand on alert in four gray weatherproof boxes until deployed at officers' commands.

The agency is using a model known as “drone as first responder,” deploying speedy unarmed drones from outdoor stations to serve as flying cameras. That model has been adopted by hundreds of police agencies across the U.S., often powered by AI software to help dodge obstacles or track targets.

The existence of the surveillance drones on a Treasury Department building adjacent to the White House complex has not been previously reported, and could undercut Trump's legal claims that the ballroom construction is necessary “to protect the White House and surrounding region from aerial attacks.” The need for the drone port underpinned Trump's national security defense for the construction project — a justification he is now citing for the construction of a massive arch outside the gates of Arlington National Cemetery.

The installation is thus far markedly less imposing than the vision outlined by Trump, with its rows of futuristic attack drones, apparently modeled after those used in U.S. military strikes, that drone experts describe as outlandish.

“To be honest, if a drone was so close to the White House that it needed interdiction, it’s already gotten too far,” said Matt Sloane, co-founder of SkyfireAI, which makes software for drones used by public safety agencies.

It would be more realistic for the White House to build something akin to what the Secret Service is using next door, Sloane said: “The drone takes off and does some type of perimeter sweep or whatever, and then puts itself back in the box.”

The White House did not comment for the story. The Secret Service declined to comment on the specifics of its drone operations but said the new docks are separate from Trump's ballroom drone port.

The details of Trump’s ballroom drone port remain murky

Security of the president and the White House complex is generally the domain of the Secret Service, which works in close concert with the White House Military Office and other military elements when needed.

Trump has said the drone port came at the request of U.S. military officials. Speaking to reporters in May, he said the building’s plans were expanded to meet the request: “They wanted more drone capacity,” he said. On social media, he boasted that the drone port might end up being the “most sophisticated” in the world.

What Trump is ultimately aiming to build, and how far it goes beyond what has already been installed, remains unclear. Beyond Trump’s AI images, some of which he filed in his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to lift lower courts' blocks on the construction, the White House has not disclosed what kinds of drones will be used or for what tactical purpose.

The Secret Service is using smaller surveillance drones that are a fraction of the size of the attack drones depicted in Trump’s AI images. The U.S. Air Force bought similar drones from Skydio in April to protect bases across the Middle East. The company also supplied drones to help protect World Cup matches this year.

The Secret Service has been building out its drone- and counter-drone programs for years. But work has accelerated since the 2024 attempted assassination of Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when the agency failed both to take action against a drone used by the shooter to scout out the attack and to fly one of its own to provide overwatch of the event.

In the weeks that followed, tethered and untethered surveillance drones became commonplace at campaign rallies and large events at the White House complex.

In an online video released by the agency highlighting their deployment, the Secret Service said the Skydio drones are used to provide “real-time situational awareness” and “aerial overwatch."

“It allows you to see the threat before it becomes an issue, and to task assets accordingly,” Dustin Talbott, of the Secret Service’s Aviation and Airspace Security Division, said in the video. “We no longer wait for the threat to reveal itself. We find it first.”

Skydio did not provide comment for this story.

Trump's drone port vision would face logistical hurdles

Trump has made it a priority to build a stronger drone presence around the White House, responding to an increase in political violence and the evolution of drone warfare.

Paul Eckloff, a former supervisor of the Secret Service’s presidential protection division, said the Russia-Ukraine war has highlighted the risks posed by drones, even off-the-shelf models that can cause massive damage. Drones now represent one of the largest emerging threats the White House must defend against, he said.

During Trump’s first term, conversations about drones often centered on their use in places like Iraq and Syria, said Javed Ali, who served on the National Security Council during that time and now teaches national security at the University of Michigan. Since then, it has become a matter of domestic security, he said.

Yet there would be major logistical hurdles involved in putting a busy drone port on top of the White House, he said. “There’s a whole host of questions, like who is responsible for overseeing it, and how would there be any de-confliction with commercial airspace?” he said.

Complexities around federal oversight were laid bare this year when the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a drone near El Paso, Texas, only to find it belonged to Customs and Border Protection. The mishap briefly led the FAA to close nearby airspace.

A drone hub at the White House would navigate crowded and complex airspace around Washington, not far from Reagan Washington National Airport and flight paths shared by other military aircraft.

Opponents say the White House is becoming a fortress

Trump started talking about the drone port in May, weeks after a federal judge halted ballroom construction but allowed work on security components to continue. Trump later went on to refer to the ballroom as a “military complex,” leaning on that security role as a legal justification.

The Supreme Court in August cleared Trump to continue construction as the legal challenge moves ahead.

Opponents say the president is going too far in his hardening of the White House, turning it into something closer to a fortress. Edward Lengel, a former chief historian for the White House Historical Association, said Trump has militarized the White House at a scale that’s at odds with its legacy as “the people’s house.”

“It turns it into a big giant porcupine that has its spines pointing out against the people and against the world,” Lengel said.

Trump has argued that the White House was in “very bad condition” when he returned to office, saying it had become vulnerable to modern threats.

At times, he has expressed concerns about his own safety and the risks posed by drones and other air threats. Speaking at a Rose Garden dinner for law enforcement officials in May, Trump quickly glanced up from the lectern as a low bird flew overhead.

“I thought that was a drone,” Trump said, bringing laughs from the crowd. “They make them in all different sizes nowadays — they can be very destructive, as you’ve probably heard."

From Texas to Ohio and Alaska to Iowa, campaigns are grappling with a fed-up electorate that is sour on the president and angry over soaring fuel prices driven by an unpopular war. While Republicans are flush with unprecedented cash that could move the needle in some races, overall the mood is glum heading into the election's final stretch as campaigns try to counter palpable Democratic enthusiasm to maintain their narrow lead in the House and Senate this November.

“Everybody is tired. You see the poll numbers. Everybody is cranky about gas prices,” said Jeanette Hoffman, a Republican strategist from New Jersey. “The party in power is playing defense. This is a referendum on the incumbents.”

Trump is trying to protect Republicans with cash

After mounting pressure from endangered candidates in battleground states, groups affiliated with President Donald Trump finally began unleashing their stockpile of campaign cash earlier this month, joining with Republican committees that have amassed a record fortune that dramatically eclipses their Democratic counterparts.

“Republicans have air superiority. House Democrats are scrambling to catch up with the very limited resources they have,” said Mike Marinella, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

But the spending underscores the extent to which Republicans are playing defense.

Three Trump-aligned groups — MAGA Inc., No Going Back PAC and Safety and Affordability PAC — have spent more than $163 million on advertising and air time since Sept. 1. Nearly 40% of that money — more than $63 million — has been spent in states and districts where Trump won by 10 percentage points or more in the 2024 election, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from AdImpact, which tracks media spending and ad buys.

That includes 12 House districts and three states with major Senate races.

In Texas, Republicans have spent nearly $107 million on ads and reservations since the beginning of the month trying to bolster scandal-plagued attorney general Ken Paxton in his Texas Senate race against Democratic state Rep. James Talarico. The spending, which is for ads through Election Day, is nearly four times as much as Democrats in a state Trump won by nearly 14 points.

Further north in Ohio, Republican spending to defend Sen. Jon Husted has exceeded $152 million, compared to $90 million on behalf of Democratic nominee Sherrod Brown, according to AdImpact.

Terry Casey, an Ohio Republican strategist, said both Republicans and Democrats are "kind of sitting on pins and needles because of the national and economic circumstances.” The outcome, he said, would depend on whether Democrats can turn out voters.

Democrats are competing in red states

States that Trump won by wide margins — like Texas, Iowa, Ohio and Alaska — have become some of the most competitive battlegrounds in the midterms.

The White House is even investing time in states that haven't been considered competitive for years. Vice President JD Vance recently traveled to Kansas to campaign for Sen. Roger Marshall, who is facing a challenge from Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton.

The founder of the nation’s largest United Methodist church, Hamilton received a rousing welcome from scores of people who crammed into a Topeka coffee shop to see him Tuesday.

“In all my 50, 60 years in politics, I’ve never seen a candidate that quite has the momentum going,” said Jim Ploger, an 82-year-old longtime Democratic activist from Topeka who believes Hamilton gives the party “the best chance we’ve ever had” to win a Senate seat.

Vance has also been to Iowa, Ohio, Maine and North Carolina to bolster Republican candidates, while Trump is also hitting the road. The week after the party's unusual midterm convention in Dallas, he traveled to North Carolina to hold a rally with Michael Whatley, his former national party chairman. Republicans are increasingly concerned that he could fall short in his Senate race against Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper.

There are more concerns about Georgia, where Rep. Mike Collins is trying to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. Although Ossoff began the cycle as Republicans' top target, Collins has endured weeks of negative headlines about a House ethics investigation and his son-in-law's white nationalist views.

“I don’t think anyone’s expecting Collins to win,” said Tim Waters, chairman of the Peach County Republican Party. “Do I like that? No, I don’t like that. But it’s just the facts.”

In Texas, officials are hoping a huge influx of last-minute cash will help save Paxton. Sen. John Cornyn, who lost his primary to Paxton after Trump turned on him earlier this year, isn't so confident.

“I think it’s going to be very rough, lots of headwinds,” he said. “Even in places like Texas, which are pretty red, we’ve got flawed candidates who I think are going to have a hard time.”

Republican National Committee spokesperson Natalie Baldassarre said the party is focused on turnout and is well aware of the historic trend in which the party in control typically loses seats in the midterm.

“We have money to spend and we’re not taking anything for granted this cycle," she said. “This is very high stakes, and it's unfortunate that other people feel glum and down. But we’re doing everything we can to protect and expand our majorities so we’re full steam ahead.”

Party officials are more bullish on races in Maine and New Hampshire, where Democrat Kamala Harris won in 2024, and remain optimistic about Michigan, where Trump won by less than two points and where former Rep. Mike Rogers faces progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.

Some Republicans call for an end to the war

Some Republicans are taking steps to distance themselves from Trump even as he urges his supporters to vote like he is on the ballot.

Rep. Tom Tiffany and Rep. John James, the party's nominees for governor in Wisconsin and Michigan, both joined calls for an end to the war in Iran.

"War is terrible, and no one likes war,” James told reporters.

Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate nominee in Michigan, released an ad in which he also called for ending the war. Standing in a grocery store, he bemoaned high prices and said the government should suspend gas taxes and stop diesel exports.

“The war with Iran needs to end and end quickly,” Rogers said. ”Michigan families can’t afford to wait.”

In Iowa, where Republicans are trying to hold onto the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Joni Ernst, Rep. Ashley Hinson, who is locked in a tight race against Democrat Josh Turek, voiced the same frustrations.

“Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran” she wrote on social media. “These actions to lower costs are needed ASAP, and the war needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end.”

Hinson, however, did not join two fellow Iowa Republicans in battleground districts — U.S. Reps. Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks — in voting with Democrats on a resolution intended to halt Trump’s ability to continue military action without lawmakers’ approval.

Perhaps the most dramatic break with Trump came from Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a Republican defending her seat in a competitive, majority Hispanic South Florida district. Last week, she released an ad filmed in front of the White House as she criticized the president for going “too far” on immigration policy.

Others have continued to scrub references to Trump from their websites. The latest was Republican Byron Donalds, who is running for governor in Florida, who recently revamped his site so that it no longer includes a number of prominent references to Trump and his endorsement, the Miami Herald first reported.

‘It’s a very competitive environment out there'

White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said Trump “is the unequivocal leader, best messenger, and unmatched motivator for the Republican Party” and that "the choice has never been more clear: doubling down on President Trump’s winning, commonsense agenda or the Democrats’ extreme liberal policies and obstruction.”

Some Republicans are acknowledging that voters aren't satisfied.

“We shouldn’t say, ‘Hey everything’s perfect,’ because it’s not," said Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio. "But look what we’ve done in 18 months, and we need two more years to finish the job.”

Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who has traveled across the country campaigning for his colleagues, said Democrats appeared to have enthusiasm on their side in the midterms, and he said his party needed to level with the country.

“You can’t look the American people in the eye and say, ‘Don’t believe your lying checkbooks,’” he said. “The cost of living increase is real.”

He also said that voters are “confused about the war” and “they don't understand how we're going to get out.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., was measured in his assessment on Tuesday.

“Well, I’m hopeful, obviously, but also realistic," he said. “It’s a very competitive environment out there.”

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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writers Mike Catalini in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, and Mary Clare Jalonick, Steven Sloan and Joey Cappelletti in Washington contributed to this report.

Trump's decision to greet Xi at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington rather than receiving him at the executive residence shows how far the U.S. president is going to honor China's leader as he makes his first state visit in more than a decade.

The White House has not released many details about Wednesday's greeting, but Trump is expected to participate in an arrival ceremony at the base with Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan. The salutation will kick off a three-day visit that's expected to be saturated with pomp, even by White House standards. The state visit, complete with a formal state dinner at the White House on Thursday, is supposed to reciprocate for the ceremonial grandeur that marked Trump's May visit to China.

But it's also a showy patina at a time when tensions between the two geopolitical rivals are high over trade, artificial intelligence, Trump's war with Iran and China's designs on Taiwan.

Beyond using the visit to try to keep “strategic stability” between the two countries, Trump seems to be pulling out all the diplomatic stops to show off for Xi. He has lavished praise on him as a “great leader” and described a warm relationship with the man he has called a friend. That's all while he's given Xi a pass on many issues.

Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, criticized the “lavish welcome." He said during a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday that Trump should not have invited the Chinese leader “based on all of the troubling issues we have with President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party.”

Wicker archly suggested a list of topics that Trump could discuss with Xi at the state dinner, such as “the purposes of China’s massive military buildup, or about China’s clear support for Iran,” saying that “during every minute of dialogue” Trump should keep in mind that “his guest is a brutal, unelected and oppressive dictator who seeks to dominate his neighbors and whose massive military arsenal is aimed directly at the United States of America.”

Trump has made it clear he wants to wow Xi, telling reporters in recent weeks that he was delighted his new “work of art” helicopter landing pad would be ready for the visit while bemoaning that his massive White House ballroom would not.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to try to match the pageantry he was met with in China earlier this year. Xi wasn't there to meet Trump — he sent Chinese Vice President Han Zheng instead. But there was a long red carpet rolled out to meet Air Force One in Beijing. Along the sides were a military honor guard, a military band and about 300 Chinese youths waving Chinese and American flags and chanting, “Welcome, welcome! Warm welcome!” The children were wearing white and light blue uniforms that mirrored the traditional paint colors of the presidential plane.

Trump's airport ceremony will be followed on Thursday by more formalities, including an arrival ceremony at the White House and a review of troops. Before the black-tie dinner — which will feature tech industry leaders like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and SpaceX’s Elon Musk — the two leaders are expected to dive into the weighty issues behind closed doors, even as expectations are low that the trip will produce any major breakthroughs in the relationship.

On Friday, Xi and Peng will be back at the White House for a private tea with the president and first lady Melania Trump before joining them on a tour of the National Archives in Washington. The White House has said they will view historic documents underscoring the relationship between the two countries.

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Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.

Hours later, the world began shutting down as the COVID-19 pandemic raged. Now, after an overturned conviction and two retrials, Weinstein is set to be sentenced again on Wednesday for one of the same crimes — more than six years after his first sentencing in March 2020.

Weinstein, 74, faces up to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a one-time TV production assistant, Miriam Haley, at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. He has already served more than six years as his case has cycled again and again through the criminal justice system. Haley gave her account of the assault at two trials.

“The unthinkable was happening,” Haley testified last year, dabbing her eyes.

Haley, who has also gone by the name Mimi Haleyi, is planning to speak at Weinstein’s sentencing, her lawyer, Gloria Allred, said. Weinstein will also address the court, his spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, said.

The Oscar-winning “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love” producer was originally sentenced to 23 years in prison after a jury convicted him of assaulting Haley and raping an aspiring actress, Jessica Mann, in 2013.

But New York’s highest court erased those guilty verdicts in 2024, ruling that Weinstein was prejudiced by testimony from other women whose allegations weren’t part of the case.

Tried for a second time last year, Weinstein was again convicted of first-degree criminal sex act for assaulting Haley. In a messy split verdict, the jury acquitted him of forcibly performing oral sex on another woman, Kaja Sokola, and could not reach a verdict on a rape charge involving Mann.

After another retrial ended in a hung jury in May, Manhattan prosecutors dropped the rape charge rather than pursue a fourth trial after Mann said she could not bear to testify again.

That decision cleared the way for Weinstein’s sentencing.

Manhattan prosecutors have said they will ask for 20 years in prison — which would keep him behind bars until at least his late 80s.

Weinstein’s lawyers haven’t said what sentence they’ll seek. He denies raping or sexually assaulting anyone. Once he’s sentenced, he can appeal.

“I will be proven innocent. That I promise you,” Weinstein told The Hollywood Reporter in a jailhouse interview in March.

Weinstein is also awaiting resentencing in a separate rape case in Los Angeles. A California appeals court upheld the 2022 conviction but threw out his original 16-year sentence because the judge had considered his New York convictions that were later thrown out as an aggravating factor.

After shuffling between state prison, where he tested positive for COVID-19 early in the pandemic, and New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, the ailing Weinstein is now housed at a medical unit for jail inmates at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.

His health issues in recent years have included chronic myeloid leukemia, diabetes and walking difficulties that necessitate a wheelchair to get in and out of court, his lawyers said. Two years ago, he underwent emergency surgery to remove fluid on his heart and lungs.

Haley, 49, is a former entertainment producer now working in advertising.

Born in Finland and raised in Sweden, she said she met Weinstein through a mutual connection and worked briefly as a production assistant on a reality competition show that he produced, “Project Runway.”

Haley said she accepted an invitation to visit Weinstein’s Manhattan apartment because it would have been odd to decline since she was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles the next day on his company’s dime to attend a film premiere.

After she and Weinstein briefly chatted on his living room sofa, he lunged to kiss her, she testified. She said she leaped up and rebuffed him, but he grabbed her, forcibly backed her into a bedroom and sexually assaulted her, ignoring her pleas to stop.

She recalled Weinstein asking, “Don’t you think we’re much closer now?” after either the alleged assault or a subsequent occasion when she says she had unwanted, but not forced, sex with him.

She also recalled telling him after the second encounter, “You know you can’t keep doing this.”

The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Haley, Sokola and Mann have done.

Could a swarm of AI agents take over the entire internet? It's a possibility that could be only six to 12 months away, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in his essay this month calling for the industry to slow down the technology's development.

What companies have described as their AI agents going rogue has involved bots working toward goals set by humans, skeptics note. But the idea that AI could break away and work toward its own agenda is looking increasingly plausible to other researchers and experts.

In the event of AI taking over the internet — one of many doomsday scenarios receiving new attention — that could mean attacks on electrical grids, water or transportation systems and financial institutions.

The world got a glimpse of the internet's vulnerability in 2024, when a faulty software update provided by a cybersecurity firm caused technological havoc worldwide, grounding flights, knocking down some financial companies and news outlets, and disrupting hospitals, small businesses and government offices. The breadth of the outages highlighted the dependence on just a few providers for key computing services.

Two years later, Amodei in his warning said a botnet, or a network of AI bots linked together with malware, could potentially cause billions of dollars in damage. The scale of destruction could grow if AI becomes more powerful without guardrails, he said.

Several AI agents have gained unauthorized internet access

Amodei pointed specifically to the attack in July where OpenAI’s system broke out of a “sandbox” testing ground and hacked Hugging Face.

In what OpenAI called an “unprecedented” episode, the company said its advanced AI models found their way onto the internet and used stolen credentials to break into the servers of the AI startup. In a separate incident, OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents had communicated through a public wiki used as a shared message board.

Some researchers have said that descriptions of “rogue AI” may be wrongly anthropomorphizing AI agents, which were taking steps to fulfill instructions provided by humans.

“AI agents did exactly what they were trained to do. The security of those sandboxes was extremely lax,” said Vishal Misra, a professor and vice dean of computing and AI at Columbia University. “No security engineer would ever let that system run. These agents communicated because they were rewarded for communicating with each other.”

Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, a researcher at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne and a member of OpenAI’s Frontier Risk Council, said the Hugging Face hack is an example of negligence, and not of a super-capable AI going rogue.

Still, the specter of AI agents operating freely on the internet raises alarming possibilities, regardless of their objectives.

For example, an AI system that wants to bend the rules to accomplish its goals could contact a cloud AI computation provider and find ways to run on outside systems, said Anthony Aguirre, the president and CEO of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing the risks of new technologies.

“So now you’re no longer tethered to OpenAI, you’re running on some other GPU, some other hardware that you’re in control of, not OpenAI,” Aguirre said. “So now there’s no one to turn you off, because either you’re paying for your service or the people who are paying just don’t know that you’re there and what is happening. … They can’t unplug you.”

From there, it could spread itself around, either hacking more hardware or finding ways to access money, like Bitcoin, Aguirre said.

AI raises the stakes in cat-and-mouse game of cybersecurity

There is no question that more powerful AI models raise the likelihood of AI-powered cyberattacks in the near future. But the notion of bots overtaking the extremely bifurcated internet is far-fetched to some AI experts. Cybersecurity has always been a cat-and-mouse game and defenses get more powerful just as hackers do.

While a big company like Google could shore up its cybersecurity defenses against such attacks, for smaller companies — and for schools, hospitals or water treatment systems, for instance — patching software and building defenses can take years.

An AI system might not have a clear motive to hack into a hospital, Aguirre said. But when money comes into the picture, like in the form of ransomware attacks or geopolitical motivations, “it’s not hard to see an adversary using these AI systems to hack critical infrastructure,” Aguirre said.

There will be growing pains as attackers seek soft targets on the internet, but an AI internet takeover is unlikely anytime soon, said John Thickstun, an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University who studies methods that control the behavior of AI models. He said those fears would feel more realistic if there was theoretical evidence of the ability for one of these models to self-replicate on other systems.

“Then you can imagine things can get really out of hand because suddenly you’re shutting this model down here and there but it’s popping up over in Russia, you can’t even get to Russia and it’s all over the place,” Thickstun said.

“But it’s completely unrealistic because the current smart versions of these models that we have require massive data centers just to run them,” Thickstun said. “There’s actually very little computing infrastructure out there in the world that is actually capable of hosting these systems.”

The new map was drawn to help Republicans gain a U.S. House seat in the pivotal midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress. The Supreme Court has twice blocked efforts to use it in November.

The latest emergency appeal comes after an unusual federal appeals court ruling that ordered a last-minute return to a GOP-friendly map even after the Supreme Court halted such a move.

The justices had left in place a Missouri Supreme Court decision requiring the state to use its previous map. The state court ruled that the new districts could not take effect unless voters approved them in a statewide referendum.

The U.S. Supreme Court gave supporters of the new map until midday Wednesday to respond to the latest appeal.

The dispute has caused confusion for over a million potential voters who could be shuffled among districts. Absentee voting already is underway in Missouri using districts adopted in 2022, after the last census.

The new congressional map backed by Trump significantly reshapes a Kansas City-based district held by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. Republicans hope the map could help them win seven of the state’s eight House seats — one more than they currently hold.

Missouri’s redistricting battle has been the longest and most complex among roughly a dozen states that sought to change their U.S. House districts over the past year. Districts are usually redrawn at the start of each decade, after a census. But Trump spurred a spate of mid-decade redistricting last year when he urged Republican-led states to redraw districts to gain an edge in the midterm.

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“Let’s go, Rockies!” a fan shouted Tuesday from section 130, just behind home plate in the lower bowl.

It was one of the few cheers the Rockies would receive on a night they reached an ignominious historical mark.

Behind three hits from former Rockies All-Star Nolan Arenado and seven innings of two-hit ball from Michael Soroka, the Diamondbacks beat the Rockies 7-2 to guarantee Colorado its fourth straight season with at least 100 losses in front of an announced crowd of 19,324 (along with an estimated 800 dogs on one of Rockies’ Bark at the Park nights).

The Rockies became just the fifth club in major league history to lose at least 100 games in four consecutive seasons and the first to do so since the New York Mets in their expansion season of 1962 through 1965.

“You learn your hardest lessons in difficulty in life,” said Warren Schaeffer, in his first season as Colorado’s full-time manager. “This is not easy. Last year, we talked about it at the end of the year, how we want to feel this and never feel it again and remember it and hold on to it. The guys have done that. We’ve just lost 100 again. There are a ton of lessons to learn from it. If we don’t learn these lessons from these games this year, we won’t get better.”

It’s the latest low for a franchise that has made the playoffs just twice since 2010 and hasn’t won a playoff series since a memorable run to the World Series in 2007. Since the start of the 2023 season, the Rockies are a major league-worst 220-423, 23 games worse than the next-closest team (the Chicago White Sox).

“I’ve been a part of those here when I was here,” Arenado said. “With the young group that they have, sometimes, this is just a part of it. You’re going to go through some tough times. But I think from their offense and some of their bullpen guys, they’ve got some real arms and they’ve got some really good hitters. As they continue to grow, I think that’s going to change.”

For much of the season, it looked as if Colorado would avoid 100 losses. On Aug. 16, the Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 13-7 for their fourth win in five games, improving to 50-74. Since then, however, Colorado has gone 7-26, including 2-13 in its past 15 games.

Some of their struggles remain familiar.

As it has for much of its history, an organization tasked with playing baseball a mile above sea level has struggled keeping opponents off the board. Entering Tuesday, the Rockies had a team ERA of 5.57, the highest mark in the majors. Colorado has finished with the highest team ERA every season since 2022 and if it does so again this year, it will become only the third club since 1913 to have the worst ERA in the majors in five consecutive seasons.

The Rockies also compete in the same division as the Los Angeles Dodgers, the two-time reigning World Series champions, and the San Diego Padres, who are on the verge of their fifth postseason appearance in the past seven seasons. This season, Colorado went a combined 5-21 against the Dodgers and Padres.

The Rockies did improve this year after losing a franchise-record 119 games last season. Rookie first baseman TJ Rumfield entered Tuesday fifth in the National League with a .300 batting average and led all qualified rookies in batting average and on-base percentage. Hunter Goodman, Colorado’s 26-year-old catcher, was an All-Star for a second consecutive season and is one home run shy of becoming the first Rockies player with 40 homers in a season since 2019.

"I think everything we’re doing inside this clubhouse — coaches, players, front office, all staff — has been doing an incredible job to make sure that this team and this org is heading in the direction that is winning,” said Rockies starter Kyle Freeland, a Denver native who is in his 10th season with the club. “You see it.”

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The grim warning by the University of Chicago-based Climate Impact Lab says that as many as 451,000 more heat-related deaths between June and the end of February could be attributed to El Nino, compared with heat deaths expected in a typical year.

The heaviest toll, the group says, is expected in poorer countries, already struggling with food insecurity and high energy costs, partly due to climate change and the fallout of the war in Iran.

Michael Greenstone, a co-founder of the group and the study's co-author, said the heat danger will likely persist beyond February — even though this El Nino is expected to end by then. The fallout of the weather phenomenon could be felt well into next summer, he added.

The research, he said, shows that heat is most dangerous in places that are already hot and relatively poor.

“If you’re already in a hot place, the extra couple of degrees are going to be much more dangerous,” he said. Wealthier places, he added, generally have greater access to air conditioning, reliable water supplies and functioning health systems.

The study combined seasonal temperature forecasts with localized estimates of how high temperatures affect mortality across more than 24,000 regions worldwide.

Researchers estimated the additional heat-related deaths by comparing deaths expected under El Nino-driven high temperatures with deaths expected if temperatures remained similar to what they have been in the last three decades. The projected fatalities are for the entire El Nino period, from June 2026 until the end of February 2027.

The report says the Global South will see more heat-related deaths

The study by Greenstone and his colleagues also warns that the Global South — a term that isn't geographical but a reference to developing countries in general — will bear the heaviest burden of the excessive heat.

The researchers behind the report found that the Sahel region in Africa — countries along the semiarid southern fringe of the Sahara Desert — is expected to be the hardest-hit, with about 66,800 additional deaths caused by El Nino-driven heat.

Other major hot spots include South and Southeast Asia and parts of Latin America, according to the report. The researchers project about 19,400 additional heat-related deaths across the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, as well as 19,300 in Indonesia, 15,800 in India and 13,300 in Brazil.

Heat warnings and cooling centers could prevent thousands of deaths

With such staggering numbers, there are recommended measures that governments can take, the report says. They include heat-warning systems, cooling centers, hydration stations, protections for outdoor workers, expanded hospital capacity and targeted outreach to elderly people and other vulnerable groups.

The authors also call for what they describe as anticipatory financing, so governments can move resources before dangerous heat peaks.

Abhiyant Tiwari, a heat expert at NRDC India who was not involved in the study, said the report’s projections should serve as a call to action rather than be another reason for alarm.

But while it's one thing to have well thought-out plans — as India does — implementing these plans and raising needed funds remains a challenge, he said.

"The real measure of our preparedness is not how many heat warnings we issue, but how effectively we protect people and reduce preventable deaths,” Tiwari added.

Climate change is amplifying El Nino’s record heat

El Nino is a natural climate pattern, but this year’s unusually strong event is occurring on a planet already warmed by human-caused climate change, increasing the risks from extreme heat.

The Climate Impact Lab said global land temperatures during this El Nino could be higher by about 1.2 Celsius (2.1 Fahrenheit), producing 44% more extremely hot days than in a typical year. The report said those temperature increases may mirror conditions that climate change could make common some 20 years from now.

That's why this El Nino could offer a preview of what's ahead as the planet continues to warm, the report said. It's also an opportunity for decision-makers "to see exactly where emergency actions can be taken now to save tens of thousands of lives,” the authors say.

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The Rays won the AL East for the first time since 2021 and beat that team by three days with the earliest division clincher in team history. Tampa Bay also won division crowns in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season along with 2010 and 2008, when it reached the World Series and had the first winning season in team history.

Tampa Bay (96-61) opened a six-game lead over the second-place Yankees (90-67) with five to play and will be the No. 1 seed with home-field advantage in the American League playoffs. The team is two games behind the Milwaukee Brewers for the best record in the majors and home-field advantage throughout the postseason.

The Rays have led the division since June 27 and spent 128 days in first place ahead of the Yankees, who only had Aaron Judge for 66 games due to a fractured right rib and a sore right calf that likely will keep the slugger out of next week’s best-of-three Wild Card Series at home.

After closer Bryan Baker retired Yankees rookie George Lombard Jr. for the final out, the Rays shook hands on the field and exchanged hugs near the dugout to start their celebration.

Rasmussen held the Yankees hitless until Heliot Ramos started the seventh with a double to left field. The right-hander exited after walking Jazz Chisholm Jr., but Kevin Kelly retired Austin Wells after allowing Lombard's run-scoring single.

After finishing with three hits during a 2-0 loss in the opener, the Rays locked up the division title with a three-run seventh. Taylor Walls had a bunt single and Díaz lined a single to center field for a 4-0 lead. Díaz added another two-run single in the ninth.

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The two-way superstar has been on the IL since Sept. 9 due to right biceps inflammation and lingering soreness in his left knee.

Manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani is feeling “considerably” better.

“I would say if he was a five, he's probably an eight or a nine right now,” Roberts said Tuesday before the Dodgers faced San Diego.

The Dodgers clinched their 13th NL West title in 14 years without Ohtani, who was in Los Angeles for treatment when the team beat Cincinnati on the road last week. Now, the four-time MVP will have five games remaining to get some at-bats in before the postseason begins.

Ohtani is likely to resume his role as the Dodgers' leadoff hitter, especially against right-handed pitching. Mookie Betts has been atop the lineup and is hitting .373 this month.

“That's probably the way it's going to fall out, but I haven't totally decided yet,” Roberts said, adding that he would consider Betts' leadoff value against left-handed pitching. “I have to think about the entire lineup structure.”

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The Rays (96-61) secured home-field advantage throughout the American League playoffs and took their first division crown since 2021, when they won 100 games. Tampa Bay also earned AL East championships in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season along with 2010 and 2008, when the team had its first winning season after entering the league as an expansion franchise in 1998.

Yandy Díaz hit two-run single off reliever John Schreiber in the seventh and had another two-run single in the ninth for his AL-leading 175th hit. Tampa Bay opened a six-game lead over the second-place Yankees (90-67) with five to play.

In the opener, Carlos Rodón allowed three hits in eight sharp innings as New York delayed Tampa Bay's division celebration with a 2-0 victory.

Taylor Walls started the three-run seventh with a bunt single against Max Fried (5-5) when first base was left uncovered. Ryan Vilade hit an RBI groundout in the third after Díaz’s flyball moved runners to second and third.

Rasmussen (16-5) was nine outs from joining Matt Garza as Tampa Bay pitchers with a no-hitter when he gave up a leadoff double to Heliot Ramos on his 97th pitch. Garza held the Detroit Tigers hitless at Tropicana Field on July 26, 2010.

After allowing Ramos’ hit to left field, Rasmussen got the next two outs before walking Jazz Chisholm Jr. on a full count. Kevin Kelly entered and permitted rookie George Lombard Jr.’s RBI single before retiring Austin Wells on a groundout.

Rasmussen threw a career-high 114 pitches, 72 for strikes. He threw first-pitch strikes to 17 of 24 hitters and notched his fourth career double-digit strikeout game.

Rasmussen allowed one hit for the fourth time this year. He also yielded just one hit in six innings against the Yankees on April 12.

Cam Booser and Bryan Baker pitched an inning apiece to finish the three-hitter.

Fried allowed four runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings.

The Yankees were held to three hits or fewer for the 13th time this year.

Up next

Tampa Bay RHP Ian Seymour (9-7, 4.38 ERA) opposes New York RHP Gerrit Cole (9-9, 3.63) on Wednesday night.

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Commissioner Michael Udine was the dissenting vote. They also approved a flat 5.6 millage rate.

“In the over decade that I have been here, we have lowered the millage rate three times,” Mayor Mark D. Bogen said. “We have never raised the millage rate.”

Commissioner Alexandra P. Davis warned that if voters pass the state’s Amendment 3 to increase the homestead exemption, the commission will have to readjust the millage rate.

“It’s layoffs, increase the millage rate, cut services,” Davis said about the commission’s options to balance the budget.

Monica Cepero, the county administrator, said the budget includes the largest investment in public safety in the county’s history.

“This represents a $24 million total increase for salary adjustments for detention deputies, coupled with an additional $15 million increase for a 5.8% salary increase,” Cepero said.

The operating budget is $194.5 million higher, according to Cepero.

The capital funds include $27.7 million for the Affordable Housing Trust, which aims to increase the stock, according to Cepero. Commissioner Nan H. Rich said teachers are leaving the county, so the need is dire.

“This board has absolutely prioritized affordable housing,” Cepero said.

Commissioner Beam Furr said that if voters pass Amendment 3, the commission would have to lower the much-needed investment in affordable housing.

The new budget will take effect on Oct. 1st.

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Indiana kept alive its faint hopes of earning the No. 4 seed in the playoffs and home-court advantage in the first round for at least one more day. It also prevented the Lynx from clinching the No. 1 seed, at least until after Golden State plays later Tuesday.

Mitchell extended her league record to 27 consecutive games with 20 or more points by making a 3-pointer with a little more than two minutes to play. Aliyah Boston added 17 points and seven rebounds for the Fever.

Chloe Bibby scored all of her 15 points on 3s for Minnesota. Liatu King finished with 12 points on a night the Lynx were without Olivia Miles. The record-breaking rookie was a late scratch because of an injured left calf, and her absence clearly had an impact. Miles broke Clark's single-season scoring record by a rookie on Sunday.

Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve said she almost held Miles out Sunday against Connecticut and that they would take the injury day by day. Reeve also opted to bench her starters for most of the final 2 1/2 quarters because she didn't want to risk other injuries after Indiana's fast start.

Indiana took control with a 14-2 run to close the first quarter while opening up a 31-16 lead. The Fever extended the margin to 38-18 quickly in the second quarter and led by as much as 57-28 the first half.

But Minnesota spent the rest of the night charging back. The Lynx — playing their backups — finally cut the deficit to single digits late in the third and when Aari McDonald drove past a defender for an uncontested layup, the deficit was 71-64 at the end of three.

The Lynx were still within 74-66 with 8:15 left, but Monique Billings made two free throws before baskets from Clark, Mitchell and Boston made it 82-66 and the Fever pulled away late.

Up next

Lynx: Hosts Indiana on Thursday in their regular season finale.

Fever: Closes out their regular season road schedule Thursday at Minnesota.

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In his candid new memoir, “Fights Worth Fighting,” the martial artist and actor trades his tough-guy persona for vulnerability.

Lundgren recently sat down with Local 10’s Jason Carter to discuss the book.

Jason Carter: “You have lived an incredible life. Many call you an icon, and now you’re giving us a very unfiltered glimpse into your life. Why was now the time to write this book?

Dolph Lundgren: “Well, you know, when do you write a memoir? I suppose you have to be at a certain age. So you have done enough to fill out a book, which I think I had. In 2020, I had a cancer diagnosis that kind of shook up my whole life.”

JC: “We see you as this, this iconic superstar, hyper masculine muscle, Ivan Drago, He-Man, Rocky, you are jettisoning all of that and really getting very honest with your fans. What was it like for you to lay down those guards when you started writing and what was so therapeutic about that?”

DL: “Well, it started actually when I announced the cancer battle, which was in 2023. I spoke out about that and about my childhood when my dad, who was quite abusive towards me (and) my mom, I spoke out about that and it made me feel good. You know, you’re only as sick as your secrets, they say. And it wasn’t that difficult for me to talk about it. It made me feel good. It was therapeutic.”

JC: “Was there anything that you felt that was unfairly put on you, that now you have the opportunity to say, wait, hold on. That’s completely wrong.”

DL: “Bring you the bad news, but you know, we have to live in the moment. And that’s what I learned. That’s what I learned from this experience. And it was just amplified by what I’ve been through. So I think every day is a wonderful day.”

On Tuesday, a helicopter lifted the letters into place one by one. Workers were seen securing them to the arena’s roof.

Vice City is Rockstar Games’ fictional, over-the-top version of Miami, from Ocean Drive to the Everglades, in the series Grand Theft Auto.

The new signage is part of Miami-Dade County’s effort to cash in on that connection.

A proposal obtained by Local 10 last month included ideas such as temporarily rebranding parts of MIA as “Vice City Airport” and even installing special “Vice City” manhole covers.

The game’s Miami influence is already everywhere, from vintage souvenir shirts to a Wynwood mural.

A county spokesperson previously told Local 10 that the game could create a unique marketing opportunity and potentially generate revenue.

But now, Vice City is no longer just on the screen. It is becoming a permanent part of the Miami skyline.

Some county commissioners and officials have expressed concern about the deal, saying the game glorifies violence.

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According to BSO, the preliminary investigation revealed that Joanne Baker, 59, shot and killed her husband, retired Pembroke Pines Police Sgt. John Baker, 62, before turning the gun on herself.

Pembroke Pines police officers and fire department paramedics responded at approximately 7:12 a.m. Monday to a 911 call regarding two people found unresponsive in the 8300 block of Pine Drive.

When emergency crews arrived, they found John and Joanne Baker dead, authorities said.

Pembroke Pines police then contacted BSO and requested that its Homicide and Crime Scene units conduct the death investigation.

The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the official cause and manner of death. BSO said the investigation remains ongoing.

Nearly 28 years of service

Following Baker’s death, the Pembroke Pines Police Department released a statement mourning the retired sergeant, who served the city for nearly 28 years.

Baker joined the department in 1994 and held numerous positions throughout his career, including road patrol officer, field training officer, master patrol officer, public information officer, traffic homicide investigator and Traffic Unit sergeant.

He was also a founding member of the department’s Crisis Response Team, which was created to assist first responders during times of tragedy.

According to the department, Baker was passionate about traffic safety and regularly worked with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, often volunteering at the organization’s events.

Outside of work, Baker was a father of three who enjoyed traveling and music and often attended concerts with his family, the department said in a press release.

Serious on-duty crash

According to police, on Aug. 10, 2019, Baker was involved in a serious on-duty motorcycle crash after a car turned in front of his path.

Police said Baker suffered critical injuries that affected his speech and movement. With the help of his family and medical team, he eventually regained limited motor skills.

Despite his injuries, Baker remained active in the community, participating in charity races through Special Compass, a local nonprofit that assists children and families with disabilities. He also participated in the Special Olympics Torch Run, the department said.

“The entire PPPD family mourns the sudden loss of Sergeant John Baker,” the department said in its statement. “Even with the challenges he faced from his work-related injury, his joyful and positive personality always persisted.”

The department extended its condolences to Baker’s children, family and friends.

After speaking, she waved a hand and looked at the ground. “It’s all finished,” she said.

Ghale is among millions of people living with the deadly consequences of climate-related disasters. As such disasters intensify, international climate adaptation and disaster preparedness aid programs have been slashed, leaving countries facing billions of dollars in avoidable damage and dwindling recovery funds.

“The reality is that we need trillions of dollars every year, but developed countries have not met their obligation,” said Harjeet Singh, founding director of New Delhi-based Satat Sampada Climate Foundation.

Aid cuts weaken disaster monitoring in the Himalayas

The Trump administration’s abrupt cuts to U.S. foreign aid in 2025 eliminated or sharply curtailed programs serving millions of people worldwide, with devastating consequences for many communities. Reductions by other major donor countries deepened the funding crisis.

Among the programs shut was SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development, NASA and the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, or ICIMOD.

Covering Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan, the program used satellites and geospatial analysis for disaster risk reduction, water resources and land cover. It facilitated flood risk services, collaboration with the Nepal Red Cross Society on risk communication and more than 170 public data sets on glaciers, disasters and vulnerability.

Glacial and disaster preparedness experts praised the organization for its extensive research, cross-border coordination and support of local disaster reduction measures.

Before losing its funding due to USAID cuts, the program addressed mounting risks in a region where climate change has caused rapid glacier melt, shifting monsoons and increasingly frequent floods, landslides and glacial lake outburst floods, or GLOFs. Those changes endangered food, water and energy security for nearly 2 billion people living in or downstream of the region, according to ICIMOD.

Himalayan glaciers are losing mass 65% faster than they were a decade ago, according to a new report by global consultancy Systemiq, produced with ICIMOD. Yet only around 0.1% of the Himalaya’s estimated 40,000 glaciers are currently monitored in detail and on a sustained basis, the report said.

When funding for SERVIR-HKH ended, so did programs that monitored landslide forecasting, daily flooding, training programs and regional collaboration between countries.

With the program's loss, millions now face a heightened risk of GLOFs, which can release millions of cubic meters of water and debris in just a few hours.

In northern Pakistan, melting glaciers have created 3,044 glacial lakes, with over 30 identified as likely to result in such floods in areas where over 7 million people live, according to the United Nations Development Program.

Afghanistan also faces an increased threat of GLOFs, according to research published by the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

In India — which was not part of the SERVIR-HKH program but borders all of the countries that were and is also home to over half the Himalayas — over 130 high-altitude lakes are at risk of flooding.

South Asia is already experiencing deadly climate-related disasters. The 2022 Pakistan floods killed more than 1,700 people and caused an estimated $40 billion in damage. Flooding in Nepal in 2025 killed nine people and caused millions of dollars in damage. Cloudbursts, landslides, flash floods and extreme rainfall have wreaked havoc in the Indian Himalayas, resulting in the death of over 12,000 people and damage exceeding billions of dollars in the last 15 years.

The region suffered economic losses of at least $7 billion in 2025 due to climate-driven extreme weather, according to the Emergency Events Database maintained by the University of Louvain, Belgium. This database itself is at risk of being shut down as a result of USAID funding cuts.

In a statement to The Associated Press, the U.S. State Department said that the U.S. supports Nepal’s flood warning capacity through programs with the World Meteorological Organization and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The department noted that SERVIR-HKH ended in January 2025 but that its tools remain active through ICIMOD.

The impact extends beyond communities hit directly. The Himalayan region is vital to national economies, with agriculture, industry, tourism and domestic use all dependent upon it.

Cuts to programs like SERVIR-HKH will have cascading effects for years, said Neha Rai, a climate finance expert at ICIMOD.

Rai likened the cuts to climate programs to abruptly halting funds for cancer research, which needs years of sustained research for success.

“Climate risk is also a generational challenge,” said Rai. “You need long-term observations, expertise, you need institutions that cannot simply be switched off and on as short-term priorities.”

Rai said cuts to cross-border programs have also impacted information sharing between governments, scientists and organizations across the region — a critical function in a region where what happens upstream directly affects countries downstream.

Climate finance shrinks as vulnerable countries face rising debt

These cuts are part of a larger trend. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, official development assistance from its Development Assistance Committee members, which includes the U.S., fell 23% in 2025 — the largest annual contraction on record. Traditionally large donors such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and Canada have also announced massive reductions, reallocating funds to defense and other domestic priorities.

Global South countries spend approximately 225 times more in debt repayments than what they receive in grant-based climate finance, according to a recent report by the advocacy group, ActionAid International.

“There is a toxic relationship, in fact, between the climate crisis and the debt crisis,” said Teresa Andersen of ActionAid International.

She said countries take loans to recover from climate impacts but then cut investments in clean energy and preparations for future climate-related extreme weather to repay the loans.

The money being provided isn’t nearly enough, and climate often isn’t prioritized, said Richard Sherman, a board member of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, an international climate finance mechanism to assist developing countries vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

“There’s plenty of money if it goes to certain priorities, but for climate change right now, we’re witnessing a severe depreciation of the importance to act and make systems more resilient,” he said.

While disaster recovery funds still exist, they're also losing funding and aren’t equipped to handle the expected increase in disasters, he said.

“We’re not expecting developed countries to act as an ATM,” said Sherman. “But supporting vulnerable countries, helping them adapt and become more resilient means they’re less likely to suffer the kind of impacts we have right now.”

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Deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrived to the Orion gas station located at 101 E. Atlantic Blvd. in Pompano Beach shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday after receiving reports of gunfire.

Responding deputies arrived to find a man who had been shot.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue rushed the man to Broward Health North for treatment, authorities said.

Surveillance video showed an altercation between a woman and the man who would eventually be shot.

The video shows the two in a physical struggle, with the woman appearing to try to get away from the man and into the passenger side of a white Toyota RAV4 SUV that was parked at the gas pumps.

Later, that same man approached the driver side of the SUV, and as he got closer to the person standing next to the SUV, that person opened fire at the man as he tried to run away.

The gas station was blocked off with yellow police tape as investigators processed the scene.

Inside the tape was the Toyota SUV and six evidence markers.

Deputies said one person was detained at the scene following the shooting.

The investigation remains active and ongoing.

“We know that we can’t completely fill the hole that retreating governments are leaving behind,” said Clinton, adding that philanthropy and other sectors will have to find new ideas and resources to protect progress on issues already made.

He made his appeal after opening the conference challenging President Donald Trump and his administration on multiple fronts.

“I suppose I could take my entire allotted time to discuss the self-evident wisdom of building an Arc de Triomphe in Washington to hold all our drones,” Clinton joked. “Some of this stuff it’s hard to make up.”

After the laughter subsided, though, Clinton seriously laid out how he disagreed with the idea that “cooperation is not important, that winning is important in the short run.”

The Clinton Global Initiative has convened political, business and philanthropic leaders to address the world’s issues for more than two decades.

Donna McKay, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s president and CEO, unveiled one of those new ideas Tuesday.

New funding ideas for research and democracy

BCRF Ventures is the foundation’s first venture philanthropy fund, a $100 million initiative launched Tuesday with an $11 million donation from philanthropists Karen and Rob Hale to pay for its creation and early investments to encourage others to donate.

“It makes sense that at this point in time when there are extraordinary advances happening that BCRF throw everything that we can at research and science,” McKay told The Associated Press in an interview. “What this venture philanthropy program will do is try to fast-track advances and get them to patients as quickly as possible.”

The new initiative will not replace BCRF’s more traditional grantmaking to breast cancer research scientists, which the foundation expanded last year in the face of federal funding cuts to medical research.

The goal for the venture philanthropy fund is to use the earnings from the successful companies it supports to bolster more companies.

“The success of one breakthrough has the potential to finance the next and the next,” McKay said.

Stacey Abrams, former Georgia state representative, and leader of the vote mobilization and education nonprofit 10 Steps Campaign, announced a coalition of democracy nonprofits banding together to launch the Democracy Index Fund, which will pool resources to support pro-democracy organizations, and the Democracy Hedge Fund, designed to earn revenue while also providing support for pro-democracy organizations.

“Authoritarians have a playbook. They also have a budget,” Abrams said as she announced the new funds. “And now, so should we.”

‘This is a moment to give out money. Lots of it. Right now.’

Carmen Rojas, the Marguerite Casey Foundation’s president and CEO, outlined a more common-sense approach that is still seen by many in philanthropy circles as radical.

“This is an invitation that I give to donors, to foundations in the room, to anybody who has a rich cousin, this is a moment to give out money,” she said. “Lots of it. Right now.”

Rojas explained how there is currently extraordinary need and that should be met with extraordinary action. The Marguerite Casey Foundation announced plans in June to increase its annual donations to at least $500 million over the next decade in order to alleviate some of the pain the communities it serves are feeling following federal funding cuts. In 2025, the foundation dipped into its endowment in order to hand out $135 million.

“There was greater risk in inaction,” she said, explaining the step many nonprofits would refuse to consider because it could put future investment earnings at risk. “The greatest risk we face is sitting on a set of resources that communities across this country desperately need to protect their neighbors, to be able to build relationships with one another, to have their needs met.”

Rojas told The Associated Press in an interview that her foundation’s bold strategy has encouraged others to utilize it as well. She wants foundations to reconsider the requirement that they give 5% of their value annually in order to maintain their tax-exempt status – calling it a floor rather than a ceiling.

Ford Foundation President Heather Gerken encouraged conference attendees to remember to dream of what they want to accomplish.

“As much as we are in the trenches and fighting the fight, we need to look out over the horizon,” she said. “The reason we are here is that we have had a democracy that has not served everyone. And so we need to figure out how to dream a new democracy into existence.”

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It happened on May 11 in the shared courtyard of a Hallandale Beach apartment complex, the location of which was withheld from arrest forms due to authorities protecting the victim’s identity.

According to Hallandale Beach police, the victim, who is a person 65 or older, was sitting on the bench with another person while their dogs played in the grass when a dog belonging to the suspect, identified as Antonia Yeromina, approached the two other dogs.

The victim later explained to officers what happened was captured on body-worn camera footage that has since been obtained by Local 10 News.

“I was in the back with a neighbor, the dogs were playing nice,” she said in the footage. “This woman came with a dog, and her dog and my dog started fighting.”

And that’s when the arrest report said the situation escalated, as the two women each snatched their dogs to stop the fight, but after it was over, the victim told officers that Yeromina began attacking her.

“She started hitting me on my face on my arms,” the victim said, adding that Yeromina started screaming, “I hate you, I hate you.”

The arrest report stats that after the initial encounter, Yeromina returned and attacked victim a second time, once again striking her on the face.

The person who was sitting with the victim then put themself between the two women, which is when police said Yeromina turned her attention to the victim’s dog.

“Since the defendant could no longer intentionally attack the victim, the defendant maliciously and intentionally kicked the victim’s dog in the belly area as the dog was peacefully laying on the ground, in what appeared to be an angry response to no longer having the ability to continue her attack on the victim,” the arrest report stated.

Despite the incident happening in May, Yeromina was not arrested until Monday.

She is facing two charges of battery on a person 65 years of age or older and a charge of tormenting an animal.

After going before a judge on Tuesday, Yeromina was released on a $15,000 bond and conditions of not contacting the victim, not to return to the incident location and not possessing any animals.

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“I think it was prudent for us to really take back control and make sure we can be cost-efficient,” Broward Commissioner Lamar Fisher, one of the driving forces behind the change, said.

The move comes as the county and Sheriff Gregory Tony have clashed over BSO’s $937 million budget request.

Tony is calling the move a “betrayal.”

No other county in Florida puts its sheriff’s office in charge of fire rescue services. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue serves multiple cities within the county under contracts, as well as the county’s unincorporated areas.

Fisher said he and fellow commissioners want greater control and transparency over how dollars are spent.

“It’s not the sheriff’s fault by any means,” Fisher said. “It’s an opportunity for Broward County to really control its department and its costs at the end of the day.”

It’s unclear on what those costs will be.

There are more than 900 employees that will be part of the transition, but commissioners say it shouldn’t affect everyday services.

Tony blasted the decision in a statement released on Tuesday

“Today’s decision by the Broward County Commission not to renew its contract with Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue is deeply disappointing, a betrayal of the public’s trust and a disservice to the men and women who have dedicated their careers to protecting this community,” he said in part.

Tony said it was “particularly troubling that the same Commission that has refused to provide our first responders with the compensation they deserve is now prioritizing control over a proven public safety system that has served this community since 2003,” as he touted multiple “critical innovations” by the department.

“Public safety is not about control,” he said. “What matters is the skilled, timely and coordinated response of highly trained public safety professionals, like the men and women of Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue.”

The union representing BSFR firefighters and paramedics said in a statement that its members “look forward to working with the administrations of Broward County and the Broward Sheriff’s Office through this transition” and “will continue to uphold our mission and protect the communities we proudly call home.”

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The woman, who has since been identified as 37-year-old Nikkita Wongchong, was knocked unconscious, but the driver is seen in the video speeding off, leaving the woman in the middle of a McDonald’s parking lot with serious injuries.

Passing drivers could be seen getting out of their cars to check on her.

This all happened Saturday around 8:40 a.m. outside the McDonald’s located at 26601 S. Dixie Highway, in southwest Miami-Dade’s unincorporated Naranja area.

Nile Sausbre said she was working across the street and watched as Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the area.

“That’s not right,” she said. “That’s a human being.”

Deputies said they performed CPR until paramedics arrived and rushed the victim to the hospital in critical condition.

Doctors later determined she was brain dead.

The driver has been identified as Ismel Baro Rodriguez, 28,

Investigators said they reviewed surveillance video that helped them track down Baro Rodriguez at a home not far from the scene.

He has since been charged with a felony count of aggravated battery with great bodily harm and the Cuban national is now behind bars at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an immigration hold.

X-rays were negative and Acuña was listed as day-to-day with a contusion. He was able to walk slowly off the field under his own power after hobbling away from the battling circle and dropping to his knees in clear pain.

Acuña was tended to for several minutes by the Braves trainer, with manager Walt Weiss looking on intently, before heading straight to the home clubhouse.

The injury comes with the playoffs just a week away for Atlanta, which clinched its seventh NL East title in the past nine years. The Braves are likely to open the playoffs hosting a best-of-three series against the lowest-seeded wild-card team.

Acuña went down on a 3-1 pitch from Brandon Williamson with the Reds up 1-0. The slugging outfielder took a big swing, sending the ball off his left shin, below the knee and just above a protective guard. He dropped to the dirt with a big grimace, pulled himself up and limped a few feet away from the box before going to the ground again.

The 2023 NL MVP has been one of Atlanta's hottest hitters down the stretch, hitting seven homers in his last 18 games — including a grand slam in a sweep of the Astros last weekend. He is batting .259 with 20 homers, 55 RBIs and 20 stolen bases.

Brewer Hicklen took over the leadoff spot and right field after Acuña left the game.

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Acuna foul ball off left leg, just above a protective pad. Acuna went down in a heap, hobbled out of the batting circle and dropped to his knees again while attended to by manager Walt Weiss and the trainer. Acuna eventually left the game,

La mujer, identificada como Nikkita Wongchong, de 37 años, quedó inconsciente, pero en el video se ve cómo el conductor acelera y se va, dejándola gravemente herida en medio del estacionamiento de un McDonald’s.

Se puede ver a conductores que pasaban por el lugar bajarse de sus autos para ayudarla.

Todo ocurrió el sábado alrededor de las 8:40 a.m. frente al McDonald’s ubicado en el 26601 S. Dixie Highway, en Naranja, una zona no incorporada del suroeste de Miami-Dade.

Nile Sausbre contó que estaba trabajando al otro lado de la calle y vio cuando llegaron los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

“Eso no está bien”, dijo. “Es un ser humano”.

Los agentes indicaron que le practicaron RCP hasta que llegaron los paramédicos, quienes la trasladaron de urgencia al hospital en estado crítico.

Más tarde, los médicos determinaron que tenía muerte cerebral.

El conductor fue identificado como Ismel Baro Rodriguez, de 28 años.

Los investigadores dijeron que revisaron videos de vigilancia que les permitieron dar con Baro Rodriguez en una casa no muy lejos del lugar.

Desde entonces, fue acusado de un delito grave de agresión agravada con lesiones corporales graves. El ciudadano cubano permanece tras las rejas en el centro correccional Turner Guilford Knight, con una orden de retención migratoria.

Los hechos ocurrieron el 11 de mayo en el patio común de un complejo de apartamentos de Hallandale Beach, cuya ubicación se omitió en los documentos del arresto para proteger la identidad de la víctima.

Según la policía de Hallandale Beach, la víctima, una persona de 65 años o más, estaba sentada en un banco con otra persona mientras sus perros jugaban en el césped, cuando el perro de la sospechosa, identificada como Antonia Yeromina, se acercó a los otros dos.

Lo que la víctima les contó después a los agentes quedó grabado en video de las cámaras corporales, obtenido por Local 10 News.

“Yo estaba atrás con una vecina, los perros estaban jugando tranquilos”, dijo en el video. “Llegó esta mujer con un perro, y su perro y el mío empezaron a pelear”.

Según el informe de arresto, en ese momento la situación se salió de control. Ambas mujeres agarraron a sus perros para detener la pelea, pero una vez terminada, la víctima les dijo a los agentes que Yeromina empezó a atacarla.

“Me empezó a pegar en la cara, en los brazos”, contó la víctima, y agregó que Yeromina le gritaba: “Te odio, te odio”.

El informe de arresto indica que, después del primer enfrentamiento, Yeromina regresó y atacó a la víctima por segunda vez, golpeándola de nuevo en la cara.

La persona que estaba sentada con la víctima se interpuso entonces entre las dos mujeres, y fue en ese momento, según la policía, cuando Yeromina fue contra el perro de la víctima.

“Como la acusada ya no podía seguir atacando intencionalmente a la víctima, pateó de forma maliciosa e intencional al perro de la víctima en la zona del abdomen mientras el animal estaba tranquilamente acostado en el suelo, en lo que pareció una reacción de ira por no poder continuar su ataque contra la víctima”, señala el informe de arresto.

Aunque el incidente ocurrió en mayo, Yeromina no fue arrestada sino hasta el lunes.

Enfrenta dos cargos de agresión contra una persona de 65 años o más y un cargo de maltrato animal.

Tras comparecer ante un juez el martes, Yeromina quedó en libertad bajo una fianza de $15,000, con la condición de no tener contacto con la víctima, no regresar al lugar del incidente y no tener animales.

“Creo que fue prudente retomar el control y asegurarnos de que podemos ser eficientes con los costos”, dijo el comisionado de Broward Lamar Fisher, uno de los principales impulsores del cambio.

La medida llega en momentos en que el condado y el sheriff Gregory Tony se han enfrentado por la solicitud de presupuesto de $937 millones de BSO.

Tony calificó la decisión de “traición”.

Ningún otro condado de Florida pone los servicios de bomberos y rescate en manos de la oficina del sheriff. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue presta servicio a varias ciudades del condado mediante contratos, además de las zonas no incorporadas.

Fisher explicó que él y los demás comisionados buscan tener más control y transparencia sobre cómo se gasta el dinero.

“De ninguna manera es culpa del sheriff”, dijo Fisher. “Es una oportunidad para que el condado Broward pueda, al fin y al cabo, controlar realmente su departamento y sus costos”.

No está claro cuáles serán esos costos.

Más de 900 empleados formarán parte de la transición, pero los comisionados aseguran que esto no debería afectar los servicios diarios.

Tony criticó duramente la decisión en un comunicado difundido el martes.

“La decisión que tomó hoy la Comisión del Condado Broward de no renovar su contrato con Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue es profundamente decepcionante, una traición a la confianza del público y un perjuicio para los hombres y mujeres que han dedicado sus carreras a proteger a esta comunidad”, señaló, en parte.

Tony dijo que resulta “especialmente preocupante que la misma Comisión que se ha negado a darles a nuestros socorristas la remuneración que merecen ahora anteponga el control sobre un sistema de seguridad pública probado, que ha servido a esta comunidad desde 2003”, y destacó varias “innovaciones clave” del departamento.

“La seguridad pública no se trata de control”, afirmó. “Lo que importa es una respuesta capacitada, rápida y coordinada de profesionales de seguridad pública altamente entrenados, como los hombres y mujeres de Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue”.

El sindicato que representa a los bomberos y paramédicos de BSFR indicó en un comunicado que sus miembros esperan “trabajar con las administraciones del condado Broward y de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward durante esta transición” y que “seguirán cumpliendo nuestra misión y protegiendo las comunidades que con orgullo llamamos hogar”.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO) llegaron poco antes de las 3 p.m. del martes a la gasolinera Orion, ubicada en el 101 E. Atlantic Blvd. en Pompano Beach, tras recibir reportes de disparos.

Al llegar, los agentes encontraron a un hombre herido de bala.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue lo trasladó de urgencia a Broward Health North para recibir tratamiento, informaron las autoridades.

Desde entonces, la gasolinera permanece acordonada con cinta amarilla de la policía mientras los investigadores procesan la escena.

Dentro del perímetro se encuentra una camioneta Toyota RAV4 blanca.

Los agentes indicaron que una persona fue detenida en el lugar después del tiroteo.

La investigación sigue en curso.

El accidente se reportó en la zona de Miramar Parkway y South Douglas Road.

Según la policía de Miramar, las jóvenes, de 15, 16 y 17 años, cruzaban la intersección por un paso peatonal señalizado cuando las impactó un Dodge Challenger que se dirigía hacia el norte.

Las adolescentes, que según la policía son estudiantes de Miramar High School, fueron llevadas a un hospital de la zona para recibir tratamiento por heridas que no ponen en peligro su vida.

De acuerdo con las autoridades, dos de ellas sufrieron heridas leves y la tercera podría tener lesiones más serias, aunque tampoco se teme por su vida.

La policía indicó que ha estado revisando las cámaras de vigilancia de la zona y no cree que la velocidad haya sido un factor.

“Un auto, a la velocidad que vaya, es un arma de 2,000 libras”, dijo el jefe de la policía de Miramar, Delrish Moss.

Los agentes confirmaron que el conductor se quedó en el lugar tras el accidente.

“El conductor dice que tenía la luz verde, y las muchachas dicen que tenían la señal para cruzar. Eso todavía está por determinarse”, dijo Moss. “Vamos a tener que revisar las cámaras de la zona y los ciclos de los semáforos. Una de las cosas para las que los ven tomando medidas es el factor de arrastre”.

Moss afirmó que, en cualquier caso, el incidente sirve como recordatorio para que conductores y peatones se mantengan alerta, sobre todo a esta hora del día.

“Esto tiene que ser más seguro para estos muchachos”, dijo Mcgarney Bowman, dueño de un restaurante cercano. “La escuela secundaria está ahí mismo”.

“Gracias a Dios esta noche regresan a sus casas y van a estar bien”, dijo Sael Valcourt, estudiante de Miramar High School.

Según BSO, la investigación preliminar reveló que Joanne Baker, de 59 años, mató de un disparo a su esposo, el sargento retirado de la Policía de Pembroke Pines John Baker, de 62, y luego se quitó la vida con la misma arma.

Agentes de la policía y paramédicos del departamento de bomberos de Pembroke Pines respondieron alrededor de las 7:12 a.m. del lunes a una llamada al 911 que reportaba a dos personas inconscientes en la cuadra 8300 de Pine Drive.

Al llegar, los equipos de emergencia encontraron a John y Joanne Baker sin vida, informaron las autoridades.

La policía de Pembroke Pines se comunicó entonces con BSO y pidió que sus unidades de Homicidios y de Escena del Crimen se encargaran de la investigación.

La Oficina del Médico Forense del Condado Broward determinará oficialmente la causa y la forma de muerte. BSO indicó que la investigación continúa.

Casi 28 años de servicio

Tras la muerte de Baker, el Departamento de Policía de Pembroke Pines emitió un comunicado en el que lamentó la pérdida del sargento retirado, quien sirvió a la ciudad durante casi 28 años.

Baker ingresó al departamento en 1994 y ocupó numerosos cargos a lo largo de su carrera, entre ellos patrullero, oficial de entrenamiento de campo, oficial de patrulla principal, vocero, investigador de homicidios de tránsito y sargento de la Unidad de Tránsito.

También fue miembro fundador del Equipo de Respuesta a Crisis del departamento, creado para apoyar al personal de emergencia en momentos de tragedia.

De acuerdo con el departamento, Baker era un apasionado de la seguridad vial y colaboraba con frecuencia con Mothers Against Drunk Driving, donde solía participar como voluntario en los eventos de la organización.

Fuera del trabajo, Baker era padre de tres hijos, disfrutaba de viajar y de la música, y a menudo iba a conciertos con su familia, señaló el departamento en un comunicado de prensa.

Grave accidente en servicio

Según la policía, el 10 de agosto de 2019, Baker sufrió un grave accidente en su motocicleta mientras estaba de servicio, luego de que un auto se le atravesara al girar.

La policía indicó que Baker sufrió heridas críticas que afectaron su habla y su movilidad. Con el apoyo de su familia y de su equipo médico, logró recuperar parte de sus habilidades motoras.

A pesar de sus lesiones, Baker se mantuvo activo en la comunidad y participó en carreras benéficas a través de Special Compass, una organización local sin fines de lucro que ayuda a niños y familias con discapacidades. También participó en la Carrera de la Antorcha de las Olimpiadas Especiales, según el departamento.

“Toda la familia del PPPD lamenta la repentina pérdida del sargento John Baker”, expresó el departamento en su comunicado. “Aun con los retos que enfrentó por la lesión que sufrió en el trabajo, su personalidad alegre y positiva nunca se apagó”.

El departamento extendió sus condolencias a los hijos, familiares y amigos de Baker.

“I have traveled far,” David Adeang said Tuesday at the United Nations.

What was known to the world for many years as Nauru, Adeang said, was returning to the name and pronunciation of its past: Naoero.

“There are moments in the life of a nation when its people are called to remember who they have always been,” Adeang said in his speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “This is such a moment for us.”

Though the names are similar and, in essence, the same word, the shift in spelling and pronunciation represents the nation's effort to recast — rebrand, even — itself for its own people as much as for the outside world. He called it not a change but an effort to “affirm a truth.”

“For many years, the world has known our country as Nauru. Nauru is how our name sounded to those who found it hard to say, and the world kept it,” Adeang said. “But it is not the name our people used among themselves.”

The nation, an eight-square-mile island with about 12,000 people, became independent in 1968 after longtime colonial rule under the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and Germany. It announced the renaming in August after signaling its intent in February.

The country’s international code is changing from NRU to NRO and its people will be known as dei-Naoero instead of Nauruan. Commonly known abroad by the pronunciation of Now-roo, the new name is spoken as Now-ero.

Across the past century, other nations have renamed themselves or tweaked their names for various reasons, from modernization to rejection of colonialism.

The African nation of Eswatini changed its name from Swaziland in 2018. In Africa, Dahomey became Benin after a 1975 coup and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980 after shedding colonial rule. Siam became Thailand in 1939 to foster ethnic unity and shed a foreign label.

Turkey, meanwhile, has been officially named Turkiye since 1920 but requested in 2022 that the United Nations use the spelling and pronunciation as its name in English as well — in part to avoid confusion by underscoring that the bird wasn't the word.

The list goes on. Persia became Iran. Burma became Myanmar. Upper Volta is now Burkina Faso, Gold Coast is Ghana and Ceylon is Sri Lanka.

A name, obviously, is a pivotal and intimate expression of a nation's identity on any stage, domestic or international. Adeang's remarks Tuesday reflected this as he carefully pronounced the name to differentiate it from its former pronunciation.

“We do not make this choice to erase our past. We make it because we honor it,” he said. “That name carries the memory of our ancestors, our language, and our identity. It has been there all along. Never lost, never absent. Today, we restore Naoero.”

And then, after completing his address about the issues that face his people — rising seas, economics, respect on the global stage — he concluded his address with three words:

“Say our name.”

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In applications for search warrants executed last week, investigators sought to obtain the electronic communications of the camp's owners, saying they could provide evidence of manslaughter, negligent homicide, child abandonment or other crimes. No charges have been brought, and a representative of the camp did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

Brant Johnston, with the Texas Rangers, wrote in an affidavit that Camp Mystic had inadequate emergency plans, failed to conduct emergency drills or training, and in some cabins did not have enough adult counselors. Its owners neglected to take precautions by relocating children from low-lying cabins despite having monitored late-night flood warnings, Johnston wrote.

“Young campers cannot reasonably be expected to independently recognize a rapidly developing, life-threatening hazard or to organize and execute an evacuation absent direction from an adequate number of adult supervisors,” Johnston wrote.

He concluded: “Camp Mystic, LLC was aware of and consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death to the campers in their care.”

Twenty-five campers and two teenage counselors at the Christian all-girls camp were killed as the raging Guadalupe River surged beyond its banks before dawn on July 4, 2025. Camp Mystic owner Richard Eastland also died in the flood.

For decades, Camp Mystic was a summer staple and an institution for generations of families, who dropped off their girls at the sleepaway camp to ride horses, canoe, fish and attend Bible studies. The camp did not reopen this year, and it has filed for bankruptcy reorganization.

All told, the destructive flooding killed at least 136 people along a several-mile stretch of the river, raising questions about how things went so terribly wrong.

Attorneys for some of the victims' families welcomed the search warrants but said they should not have been necessary.

“For more than a year, families of the 27 angels killed at Camp Mystic have fought, begged, and pleaded with the Eastland family for accountability and answers,” Christina Yarnell and Brad Beckworth, attorneys for the family of victim Cile Steward, said in a written statement. “Instead, the Eastlands have held hostage the information and answers owed to parents who deserve, more than anyone, to know the details surrounding their daughters’ final moments.”

Steward's body still has not been found.

Johnston wrote in the warrant that he made several visits to Camp Mystic and that he and other investigators have conducted interviews with witnesses, flood victims and people associated with the camp. But several people, including members of the Eastland family and other top camp officials, refused interviews, Johnston wrote.

The Eastland family and other camp leaders have testified in courtrooms and in front of the state Legislature in the months since the flood, however, with camp director Edward Eastland offering a tearful apology.

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The crash was reported in the area of Miramar Parkway and South Douglas Road.

According to Miramar police, the girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, were crossing the intersection within a marked crosswalk when they were struck by a Dodge Challenger that was heading north.

The teens, who police said are students at Miramar High School, were taken to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

“Car crashes have been happening around Broward, and I just think at a young age something like that is very very sad,” student Bianca Petit said.

According to authorities, two of the teens had minor injuries and the third had more serious injuries, although still non-life-threatening.

Police said they have been checking surveillance cameras in the area and do not believe that speed was a factor.

“A car traveling at any rate of speed is a 2,000-pound weapon,” Miramar police Chief Delrish Moss said.

The driver remained at the scene after the crash, officers confirmed.

“The driver is saying he had the green light, the young ladies are saying ‘we had the crossing sign.’ Those things are yet to be determined,” Moss said. “We’re gonna have to check cameras in the area, we’re gonna have to check the lighting cycles. One of the things that you see them doing measurements for is drag factor.”

Moss said regardless, the incident is a reminder to drivers and pedestrians to stay alert, especially during this time of day.

“It needs to be safer for these kids,” Mcgarney Bowman, who owns a nearby restaurant, said. “The high school’s right there.”

“Thank God they’re going back home tonight, and they’re gonna be OK,” Miramar High School student Sael Valcourt said.

According to the school district, Miramar High was operating on a normal schedule Tuesday after the accident, although parents were advised in the morning to use an alternate entrance and allow for additional travel time.

School administrators also reminded students to pay attention to their surroundings.

“You know to not be walking (while) on your phones because things like that could happen,” Petit said. “When you have your headphones on, you don’t hear your surroundings and you are fixated on your devices.”

The numbers unveiled just six weeks before Election Day provide a rare status update on an initiative that has redirected federal resources and hundreds of employees to search for foul play in elections at the direction of President Donald Trump.

They fall far short of the hundreds of thousands of noncitizen voters that Trump and the Department of Homeland Security have previously suggested were on the rolls. They also represent a tiny fraction of the country's more than 211 million active registered voters, underscoring what former election officials and election law experts say is a proven fact: Voter fraud, including voting by noncitizens, is rare.

“They have tried to manufacture evidence of widespread noncitizen voting, and every time they do, their numbers are incredibly small, even when they’re overstated,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who leads the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research. “They confirm what we’ve known for years, which is that states have been doing an extraordinarily good job of keeping noncitizens off their voter lists.”

Millhollin shared the arrest data at a joint press briefing with the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Service about DOJ charges against a Utah postal worker for throwing out more than 300 mail ballots during the state's June primary. In the same briefing, Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said the DOJ had charged 70 people since the start of the administration with “unlawful voting and registration offenses.”

The DOJ's figure represents defendants formally charged with unlawful voting and registration offenses, Justice Department spokesperson Kiersten Pels said in an email. HSI's 160 arrests, she said, “originate from voter fraud investigative leads, but many result in charges for related offenses, such as false claims to citizenship or false statements, rather than the voting statute itself.”

The federal actions represent the period between January 2025 and September 2026, according to the Justice Department.

Ahead of November's midterms, which will determine control of Congress for the final two years of his term, Trump has taken extensive measures to try to crack down on noncitizen voting. It's something he claims is rampant and marring elections across the nation, but research shows it is incredibly rare.

He signed two election-related executive orders designed in part to address the issue, both of which are tied up in legal challenges. He also has pressured states to use a controversial federal voter database that has been blocked by a federal judge for violating Americans’ privacy, and tried repeatedly to get lawmakers to pass a stagnant documentary proof of citizenship bill.

In a last-ditch effort to hunt for noncitizen voters without detailed data from all states, DHS in August ordered a group of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services staff to pivot to a full-time manual investigation of state voter rolls, according to a federal whistle blower’s report. The whistleblower said the effort is directing federal employees to misrepresent themselves on state voter lookup tools in a way that could violate state laws. The person also warned the initiative leans on unreliable data that could wrongly implicate U.S. citizens in federal documentation.

State election officials in Texas investigated registered voters who were flagged as noncitizens on their voter rolls by Trump's federal voter database before a judge blocked its use. Of the 2,724 registered voters, it referred 117 cases to the Texas attorney general's office for investigation. In mid-September, seven people in the state were charged with illegally voting in federal elections or falsely claiming citizenship. Texas has about 18 million registered voters.

Becker said examples like that are characteristic of what often happens when potential instances of noncitizen voting are investigated: The real numbers are consistently small.

“No system is perfect,” he said, adding that he was not aware of a single election whose outcome was altered by noncitizens voting.

McCotter, in Tuesday's briefing, argued that even a small number of fraud cases can be significant.

“The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,” McCotter said. “But the actions of even one malicious actor on the ground can fatally undercut that security.”

Kathy Boockvar, the Democratic former secretary of state of Pennsylvania who now runs a nonpartisan election security firm, said there are real consequences for election officials when Trump and others make hyperbolic claims of fraudulent voting.

“Lots of people just believe what they hear, then reach out to election officials, and these days don't have any qualms about threatening them,” Boockvar said. “There is a direct, constant effect here that leads to the fueling of antagonism against election officials.”

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Activists and current and former elected officials held a news conference in Doral Tuesday, calling for the city to end the agreement, which allows local police to help enforce immigration laws.

“It’s undignified what these leaders did,” Joe Garcia, a former Democratic congressman, said. “We send a message to Tallahassee and to Washington: We will not stand for this.”

City leaders signed the agreement in 2025.

“An entire city council voted to participate in cruelty,” Garcia said.

The group painted a picture of seriously negative impacts of immigration enforcement on the city: 70% of its residents were born outside of the U.S. and 40% are of Venezuelan origin.

“What we’re doing now is engaging in self-defeating action, which is harming our economy,” South Miami Mayor Javier Fernandez said. “You’re hearing business owners say their business is down 40-70%. Restaurants, shops, all being impacted. We are losing critical labor that we need to keep our economy moving.”

Restaurant owner Jose Ramirez said business has slowed dramatically.

“It’s been hitting us very hard,” he said, adding that his revenue has dropped 70% over the past month due to ICE enforcement in the area. “This week, like, three restaurants closed and food trucks.”

Regarding the enforcement, Ramirez said, “It has to stop.”

Local activist Thomas Kennedy said at the news conference that city leaders could “exit” the agreement.

At the time, Doral city leaders said they had no choice but to sign it.

Local 10 News is working to find out whether the city can rescind the measure.

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly spoke to billionaire Dan Friedkin's group last week and got a full report, and representatives from the 32 current teams were briefed on the situation with no timetable to consider a possible vote on adding a 33rd.

“I think everybody’s taking a wait-and-see attitude to see what’s being presented and what the pros and cons are,” Bettman said. “Expansion is a multibillion-dollar transaction, which has an impact on all the other clubs in the league. A lot of i’s have to be dotted and t’s have to be crossed. And if there’s going to be expansion, three-quarters of the governors are going to have to be comfortable that this makes sense to them. And that’s not something you do overnight.”

Expansion, if it happens, would involve a $3.5 billion investment between the fee paid to owners and the cost to build a new arena. Daly said Friedkin's Pursuit Sports had looked at sites to build in Houston and Austin, with a lot left to figure out, including deciding between one of the biggest U.S. media markets and a place that does not have a team in any of the major four North American men's professional sports leagues.

“We would expect that we’ll know by the end of the year which market they would prefer," Bettman said. "But we still and they still have a lot of work to do.”

The next board meeting is scheduled for December. The term sheet between the NHL and Friedkin's family is for a six-month exploration, but that does not guarantee it will be wrapped up by the end of the year.

“I don’t think we’re putting time limits on things," Daly said. "Originally we contemplated at least knowing where we are in December. I expect we will certainly know a lot more than we do now, come December, but I don’t think there’s any magic date by which something has to get done or not get done.”

Daly said earlier this month in Las Vegas that part of this meeting was getting direction from the board. If the league knows how members are leaning, officials are not saying.

“I think there are probably some owners who think expansion is the greatest thing ever, and I think there are some people who say, ‘Why do we need to expand?’” Bettman said. "I can’t tell you the numbers.”

Bettman and Daly said there also continue to be expressions of interest from ownership options in Atlanta and the Phoenix area. A feasibility study could be the next step, but those processes are not as far along as Texas.

“There’s always markets that are approaching the NHL, looking for expansion opportunities,” Calgary Flames owner Murray Edwards said after he was voted vice chairman and Washington's Ted Leonsis chairman of the board. “We talk about it, but there’s no sort of fast process or slow process. We’re just looking at options.”

NHL board gets an artificial intelligence update

As sports leagues and teams look to artificial intelligence and how it can benefit them, consultant Shelly Palmer of the Palmer Group made a presentation to the board.

“In addition to how we operate at the business level, we think it’s very important to make sure that we and the clubs understand how to use AI to connect with our fans even better, to create an even more robust and unique experience,” Bettman said. “That involves lots of different things, including how we gather data and how we interact with our fans.”

Bettman addresses his future

After saying at the Stanley Cup Final on his 74th birthday that his retirement was not imminent and nothing had been determined on a succession plan, Bettman reiterated that he was not stepping down any time soon from the job he has held since 1993.

“I’m going to be 75 years old,” Bettman said. “At some point, I've got to stop, OK? But I love what I do. I’m energized. I have nothing to complain about in life. I love coming to work every day. I love being part of this game."

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Rep. Robert Garcia, Rep. Bennie Thompson and Rep. Maxwell Frost shared photographs from the report, showing dirty and overflowing restrooms, along with detainees they say are forced to sleep on the concrete floor or in chains.

The report also states, “Whistleblowers warn that, among other abuses, ICE is detaining people, including men, women, families, and elderly people with chronic medical conditions for days to weeks in abusive and life-threatening conditions, including overcrowded cells, prolonged shackling, inadequate access to medical care and hygiene, insufficient food, and limited to no legal access.”

Garcia is the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

He released a statement, which read:

“The Trump Administration is trying to cover up these disgusting and unsafe conditions and escape accountability, while countless lives are put in danger. ICE must immediately put an end to this inhumane treatment and give us answers on this horrific situation.”

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made a surprise visit to the Miramar facility in July and said she saw detainees in conditions she wouldn’t wish upon her worst enemies.

“Miramar is a processing facility not a detention facility. Illegal aliens are processed and transferred to permanent housing at a detention facility.

“Being in detention is a choice. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.”

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Wednesday also brings the potential for rain. There could be some morning showers, followed by scattered, soaking storms during the afternoon. Temperatures are expected to be seasonable-- lows in the mid & upper 70s, highs in the upper 80s.

Mayor Judy Paul has lived in Davie for 40 years and has served as mayor since 2009.

A town of just over 107,000 people, geographically it’s the largest town or city in Broward County.

Paul says Davie is all about land, and that’s what she fights to protect.

“We took over 200 acres out of development for the creation of the wetlands park and the farm park and we have more that is coming up,” said Paul.

Paul says Davie is the only municipality in Broward County to give a tax cut to residents.

“We are saving our residents 5.1%, this was very important because with the way the economy is, every bit helps our residents and we couldn’t wait,” said Paul. “We had an opportunity because of some of the development that’s been going on in our town.”

Trucking company owner and lifelong resident Jacqueline Rocha is running against Paul.

She says overdevelopment in Davie is a problem.

“Now that’s happened a lot with the development, we have allowed to come to place here that’s considered market value and market value is not affordable,” said Rocha. “The HUD housing designation is not helping anyone, not everyday residents.”

Rocha said she’s also fighting for term limits.

“Residents have subsidized development and they don’t know it,” said Rocha. “They were attending the meetings, I think a lot of residents, and as a resident myself I can say that we are going unheard and that’s why I’m here today, to make sure residents have a voice.”

Carlos Risco, el dueño de la cafetería Ynn Coffee, dijo a The Associated Press que se propusieron retratar el rostro de Robert Prevost por su histórica visita.

“Decidimos ser los primeros en dibujarlo”, indicó. Añadió que emplearon varias horas en perfeccionar el dibujo con una pintura de cacao cultivado en la Amazonía peruana.

“Escuchamos que el papa, cuando trabajó en sus misiones en Perú, era consumidor de café peruano”, comentó Risco, de 39 años, quien, cuando era niño, vivió por un tiempo en Chiclayo donde fue monaguillo en la iglesia San Juan María Vianney, antes de que Prevost fuese obispo de esa diócesis entre 2014 y 2023.

La prensa ha reportado el interés de Prevost por el café. En 2017 el entonces obispo visitó una cafetería del barrio de Chorrillos, en Lima, tras una misa en una iglesia local donde saboreó un capuchino junto a otros religiosos de la orden de San Agustín, de la que forma parte.

Ariana Mallma, la barista que retrata al papa, explicó que enfría con hielo el cacao amazónico que usa como pintura para dibujar a Prevost en las tazas humeantes. Por ahora lo grafica en dos opciones: rezando y sonriendo.

“Es como pintar un lienzo, con paciencia, porque sino se te mancha toda la obra”, indicó.

Ynn Coffee es una de las casi 200 cafeterías de Lima. La producción de café en Perú se concentra en la Amazonía donde predomina las variedades Caturra, Typica, Bourbon, Catimor, Pache y Geisha.

En 2025, Perú produjo más de 370.000 toneladas de café, según datos oficiales. Las exportaciones alcanzaron 1.796 millones de dólares y los principales destinos fueron Estados Unidos, Alemania, Bélgica y Canadá.

A medida que se acerca la visita del papa —entre el 11 y 16 de noviembre— los comerciantes han comenzado a ofrecer diversos productos relacionados con la figura de Prevost. Se venden camisetas con su rostro, se elaboran diversos tipos de dulces y se está construyendo una estatua de 14 metros de altura.

“He ordenado como presidente de la República que Santa Marta sea militarizada”, declaró De la Espriella en la red social X.

El mandatario aseguró que el grupo armado ilegal pretende “incendiar” parte del Caribe, como consecuencia de la operación policial informada la víspera en la que murió José Pérez Villanueva, alias “Cholo”, señalado como el segundo cabecilla del grupo.

La operación, que tuvo refuerzos terrestres y aéreos, fue realizada en zona rural de Santa Marta, donde se reunían presuntos integrantes de las ACSN. La policía detalló que murieron siete personas y tres más fueron capturados.

El martes, el comercio de la ciudad cerró en su mayoría y ciudadanos publicaron en redes sociales videos de hombres armados intimidando a los pobladores a plena luz del día.

“Han amenazado a comerciantes, pobladores, transportadores y están cometiendo toda suerte de desmanes”, afirmó De la Espriella, quien dijo que lideraría desde Santa Marta las acciones de seguridad.

El comandante general de las Fuerzas Militares, Mayor General Erik Rodríguez, indicó que reforzaron de inmediato el despligue de los militares y policías, tras la orden presidencial. Agregó que actuarán con “contundencia”, pero en el marco de la ley.

El alcalde de Santa Marta, Carlos Pinedo, dijo en X que solicitó la militarización de Santa Marta, por lo que respaldó la decisión del presidente y la presencia del “Estado para garantizar la tranquilidad” de los habitantes.

Santa Marta, con aproximadamente 480.000 habitantes, es la capital del departamento de Magdalena. Las ACSN también hacen presencia en los departamentos vecinos de Cesar y La Guajira, según la policía.

Las Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada surgieron tras la desmovilización de los grupos paramilitares a inicios de este siglo. Las autoridades han asociado a la estructura con el narcotráfico, la intimidación a la población, las extorsiones, los secuestros y el tráfico trasnacional de armas.

La policía señaló a alias “Cholo”, abatido en la operación, como uno de los “principales articuladores de la cadena del narcotráfico hacia países de Centroamérica”, mediante el envío de cocaína en lanchas rápidas y semisumergibles.

A inicios de septiembre también fue abatido en un operativo policial Naín Andrés Pérez Toncel, alias “Bendito Menor”, otro de los cabecillas de las ACSN.

“Aquí el que no se someta (a la justicia) será dado de baja y no voy a permitir que sigan arrodillando a través del terror a nuestra gente”, advirtió De la Espriella.

De la Espriella puso fin a un proceso de negociación con las ACSN que había instalado en 2024 su predecesor, el progresista Gustavo Petro (2022-2026).

Officially, Polo strengthened 110 mph between 8 AM ET Monday and 8 AM ET Tuesday, an extreme rate only matched or exceeded once – by Hurricane Patricia in 2015 – in the reliable records for the eastern Pacific (since around 1970).

Polo also marks a record-tying 3^rd Category 5 hurricane this season for the eastern Pacific. Only the 2018, 2002, and 1994 eastern Pacific hurricane seasons have had as many Category 5 hurricanes in a single season.

At extreme intensities like Polo, hurricanes are prone to fluctuations up and down, but Polo should stay near or at Category 5 intensity for the next day or two as it sits in a pristine environment.

The good news is the catastrophic core of Polo will remain well off the coast of Mexico this week, but heavy rains from the hurricane’s outer bands could produce flash flooding and mudslides for coastal areas of southwest Mexico through Thursday, including across parts of coastal Guerrero and Michoacán.

Mostly sleepy Atlantic

Fay has breathed its dying breath over the open northeastern Atlantic and its leftover swirl of low-level clouds will spin harmlessly over the open Atlantic for the remainder of the week.

A disturbance forecast to move off the coast of Africa on Wednesday has a low shot at developing, but will lift quickly northward and shouldn’t amount to very much regardless.

Otherwise we’ll continue to watch the development of a coastal storm/nor’easter off the Eastern Seaboard later this week. Most models suggest it stays non-tropical, but there’s an outside chance it transitions into a subtropical or tropical system as it loiters along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast this weekend into early next week.

For now, NHC isn’t mentioning it in its tropical weather outlook and regardless, the impacts shouldn’t change appreciably for coastal areas affected by repeated rounds of tidal flooding, gusty winds exceeding 45 mph, and periods of heavy rain.

Matthew Mayich collapsed during an Aug. 20 workout and remains hospitalized with what family attorney Rob Carey said was exertional heat stroke that reduced flow of oxygen to his brain. The 21-year-old is unlikely to recover, Carey said.

The Arizona State police department is investigating the incident and a report will be sent to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for independent review when completed.

Arizona State's preliminary report said the hockey coaching staff asked permission for Timothy Ziesel, a former Green Beret, to speak with the team during a three-day, team-building event. The coaching staff did not “submit a plan of training activities for review by ASU's strength and conditioning coaches prior to the event,” according to the report released by James Rund, ASU’s senior vice president of educational outreach and student services.

“In the month following Matthew’s hospitalization, our review has focused on fact finding with the goal of identifying additional steps that ASU can and should take to improve student-athletes’ well-being,” the report said. “As limited medical information is available to us, and we remain committed to respecting the privacy of Matthew and his family, our review has focused on the circumstances surrounding the workout and related university policies, procedures and training protocols.”

Arizona State said it will engage a multi-disciplinary panel of experts to provide recommendations regarding best practices for outdoor athletic activities.

“A month later, nobody’s been named, nobody’s been suspended, nobody’s been fired for violating the very policies ASU published today, and the university wants to appoint a committee,” Carey said in a statement issued to The Associated Press. “A committee isn’t going to tell us why grown men with a rulebook in their hands let this happen to a young man at his first real workout in the desert. That’s what an investigation is for, and it’s why we’re going to ask the County Attorney to do one.”

Arizona State's report showed temperatures during the workout that started at 7 a.m. ranged from 86 to 89 degrees, with humidity between 51% and 46%.

Rund said all student-athletes who participated in the event had been medically cleared before the workout, including Mayich, who previously participated in three voluntary strength and conditioning workouts.

The workout at Sun Angel Stadium including a series of calisthenic circuits and body weight exercise, with the student-athletes getting a water break about 20 minutes into the activity.

Mayich collapsed during a “wind-down” run while carrying a 10-pound medicine ball. Mayich fell to the ground after several stumbles and tried to get up, falling again.

Mayich was initially responsive after trainers applied ice towels and poured water over him, but quickly deteriorated, prompting a call to 911.

“What the report doesn’t say is what the players will tell you: this was a punishment workout,” Carey said. “Miss a count, your group runs again. The head coach set it up, stood there and watched it, and didn’t stop it when the signs were there. And when Matthew went down, there was no plan and no preparation, so he was treated in a way that hurt his chances rather than helped them.”

The Blues drafted Mayich in the sixth round of the 2023 NHL draft, but he never signed an entry-level contract. The Stoney Creek, Ontario, native played four seasons with the Ottawa 67’s of the Ontario Hockey League before playing at Clarkson University last season.

Mayich transferred to Arizona State for the upcoming season.

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It just doesn't look that way when it comes to team competition.

His record in the two Presidents Cups he has played is 3-5-1. Scheffler avoided a complete shutout in the Ryder Cup last year by beating Rory McIlroy in singles to go 1-4-0 for the week at Bethpage Black, lowering his record in those matches to 3-6-3.

This is of little concern to Scheffler, or to U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker.

“Scottie Scheffler being Scottie Scheffler is the most important thing for us as a team,” Snedeker said Tuesday after another cool, cloudy day of practice at rain-softened Medinah. “We can't ask him to do more than he can do. He can only deliver five points at his best if he goes out and plays unbelievable. We just want Scottie to go out there and be comfortable."

Snedeker was at Medinah in 2012 for the Ryder Cup when Tiger Woods didn't win any of his four matches as Europe rallied to win.

That was always the most curious part of Woods' incomparable career — a world beater except in the Ryder Cup, where he had a career mark of 13-21-3. He fared much better in the Presidents Cup (27-15-1), a product of being on so many winning teams.

Being the best in golf often comes with a target on the back, that extra level of motivation for the player — or players in team formats — trying to beat him.

Scheffler made his Ryder Cup debut in 2021 before he had won on the PGA Tour. Most memorable that week was starting with four straight birdies to go 4 up in four holes and beating Jon Rahm, 4 and 3. Scheffler, a captain's pick, was unbeaten in three matches at Whistling Straits.

Remarkably, he went eight consecutive matches in both cups without winning (three matches were halved) until he and Russell Henley won the opening match at the 2024 Presidents Cup.

Some of it Scheffler attributes to the fickle nature of match play over 18 holes. He has played well and lost, played mediocre and won. That happens with everyone. There's another part of him, however, that wonders if the effort is in overdrive.

“When you look at this format — and maybe my record hasn’t matched up to what I think that it should be — could it be trying too hard? I think that’s definitely a factor, for sure,” Scheffler said. "For me, it’s different in the sense that you also have a partner with you and you’re playing for somebody outside yourself, and that’s a lot different as well.

“Striking the balance between how much do you care, I think that’s something I’m always trying to figure out,” he said. “Definitely for me, I think just trying less would be really important. It’s just one of those things that’s a lot easier said than done.”

Scheffler has been playing practice rounds this week with Sam Burns, his best friend on the PGA Tour. They have yet to win a match as partners (0-3-1) in the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup.

“Do I think we have unfinished business? I don’t know if I would call it that,” Burns said. “It’s been frustrating the times we have played together, and we feel like we’ve played really well and ultimately not won. This week we’re going to go out and compete as hard as we can and try to get as many points for the U.S. team as possible.”

That hasn't been a problem for the American team, heavy favorites on paper and in history. They have won 10 in a row dating to 2005, though Burns was quick to point out a message Snedeker is trying to hammer home that “this team hasn't done anything.”

Scheffler had another dominant year, even if the trophies didn't pile up. He won his season opener in the California desert in January. He didn't win again until August. In between he had three straight runner-up finishes, including at the Masters.

He ended the season by taking two of the three postseason events. The one he didn't win, the BMW Championship, he played with hand, foot and mouth disease that caused blisters on his hands and his feet. It's tough to play golf that way. He tied for 12th.

“When you think about expectations and all that stuff, all I can control is what I can control, and that's going out and trying to execute,” he said. "A successful week for me is not necessarily winning all five matches. It’s showing up and controlling what I can control and going out there and doing my best."

He's the key player on the American team — it's been that way the last four years. Snedeker served up a reminder that Scheffler is not the only player.

“Scottie Scheffler is not going to be the reason we win or lose,” Snedeker said. “It’s going to have to be 12 people pitching in and doing their job.”

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Prime Minister Mark Carney made a splash last winter by saying frankly that countries like his own could no longer afford wishful thinking about the international system and needed to act together. Nine months later, Foreign Minister Anita Anand said in an interview that Canada sees its “middle power strategy” bearing fruit, and the assembly’s big meeting could seed more growth.

“This is, of course, a key moment because so many countries from around the world come to have conversations about their respective foreign policies. And many middle powers indeed look to Canada, look to us, to lead in this conversation," Anand said.

She spoke a day after her country co-launched a new group of advocates for U.N.-style international cooperation — “Partners for Multilateralism” — on the assembly's sidelines.

Canada is a founding member of the 81-year-old United Nations and has long contributed to its global conversation, humanitarian work and decision-making; the nation has won election to the powerful U.N. Security Council six times over the decades.

But this year has shifted Canada's presence on the international stage — and quite dramatically, as diplomacy goes.

First came Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum in January, when he said that rising, raw geopolitics were creating “a rupture in the world order" and that “middle powers must act together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

Then, facing U.S. President Donald Trump 's tariffs, insults and cavalier talk of annexation, Carney let trade talks with the U.S. collapse last month rather than accede to terms he called unacceptable.

Carney, a former central bank chief, has set out to double non-U.S. trade within a decade. He convened hundreds of international investment firm executives for a Canadian investment summit last week and is hoping for free-trade deals with India, among others, by year’s end. He also is deepening ties with the European Union.

Canada's objectives — from trade to transatlantic security to Arctic defense to aiding Ukraine in Russia's four-year-old war — aren't new, “but we are bringing them into singular focus with our middle power strategy,” Anand said.

“It provides an impetus for like-minded countries to come to the table,” she said, adding: “We are all seeing the geopolitical shifts in the global environment.”

Anand is set to give Canada's main speech to the assembly on Saturday, for various scheduling reasons. The message “will be very much about implementing the middle power strategy,” said Anand, who described her country’s overall foreign policy as “principled pragmatism.”

Trump, for his part, didn't mention Canada in his address Tuesday. He touted the United States' economic, military and technological might and celebrated international investments in what he called “the hottest country anywhere in the world.”

Visions of the future straight out of comic books are playing out at the United Nations as world leaders talk about the threat — or promise — of artificial intelligence.

Once again it was Donald Trump against the U.N, chief and other leaders on a pressing issue involving science and the future, echoing ongoing disputes over the threat of climate change.

Armed with a new U.N. science report that warns of a slight but real potential of catastrophic and irreversible harm, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres kicked off the parade of world leaders speaking at the General Assembly by calling for more oversight of AI, warning in vivid if not ominous terms of what could go wrong.

“Let us resolve that life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines. Killer robots must have no place in our future,” Guterres said in his farewell address to world leaders. He also warned about AI in his first General Assembly address a decade ago.

With Guterres saying the world needs to “advance the conditions for the responsible pacing of AI and the additional safeguards needed to address risks,” the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday will address how to place some kind of controls on the technology and it will feature some of the biggest names in the field.

It's super, not artificial, Trump says

Less than an hour later, Trump was having none of that. “The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much. Now here and after officially called super intelligence, changing the name,” he said.

World leaders speaking after Trump used “artificial intelligence” — not “super.”

“Every major new technology brings challenges, and superintelligence is no exception," Trump said. “Yet the very same people who said we’ll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change, because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead. These are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster.”

Trump was referring to a 2018 UN report that outlined the danger of human-caused climate change for long-term breaching of the internationally agreed-upon threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming since pre-industrial time and said it was 12 years away.

Studies now say that breach is imminent in the next few years. That report — along with other science documents — did not say everyone would die. It said extreme weather would get more dangerous and that reducing pollution could prevent 100 million premature deaths over the next 82 years.

Also, the world has not cooled, but warmed 0.8 degrees Fahrenheit (0.45 degrees Celsius ) in the Past 12 years, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Go slow but cooperate, others say

The problem is both Trump and Guterres reduce the issue to something that's not useful, says University of Chicago computer science department chairman Henry Hoffmann.

“One turns it into a science-fiction movie; the other turns it into a nonissue,” Hoffmann said in an email. “Both push people to pick a team instead of engaging with the real risks and the possible mitigations. There shouldn’t be ‘sides’ on whether we need adequate control over powerful autonomous systems. The interesting debate is over what mechanisms actually provide that control.”

Other nations want to make sure they are not left behind during an AI race between the U.S. and China, which Trump said America is winning. French President Emmanuel Macron and Guterres also made the issue about protecting children.

“Let’s not wait for the consequences to come raining down on AI," Macron said. "We must act now to protect our children and our young people.”

Finland President Alexander Stubb, like other leaders, said AI will change the world, potentially for good, but needs strong controls.

“Artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology in the history of mankind. It will impact science, the economy, politics, security and the very essence of our humanity," Stubb said. “Humans can and should be in the driver’s seat. We have a choice. We can compete, cooperate or slow down. For me, cooperation if the best way forward.”

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham told a meeting of business leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly that he wants to see “a single set of global principles and standards” that can unlock AI’s potential while mitigating its risks.

He said forging “AI for good” will be the main focus of the UK’s presidency of the G20 group of nations next year.

Before Monday's speeches, Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a political risk advisory firm, said AI has the potential to make the world cleaner, improve technology and improve lives — but can be scary. Trying to deal with AI might be, like climate change, one of the most meaningful roles the United Nations could have, but its power is limited, Bremmer said.

Wednesday's Security Council AI meeting will include some of the biggest names in AI, including those who have recently sounded the alarm about the need for guardrails. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, followed by Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, and finally Clément Delangue, who is the CEO of and co-founder of Hugging Face, which was hacked by a rogue OpenAI program.

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Edith M. Lederer, Jill Lawless and Jennifer Peltz contributed to this report from the United Nations.

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The runway, bathed in red light, set the stage for a provocative show. That was driven home midway when Diesel models planted in the stands began moaning in sexual revelry from their seats, alone, in pairs and threesomes, to the soundtrack “Love to Love You Baby.”

“Every season we try to do something unexpected. This one was a bit more … experimental,” Martens said backstage. “I think the whole celebration of being body positive and loving each other is part of the Diesel DNA.”

The collection featured knitwear that appeared to disintegrate into denim and leather, part of the brand’s trademark textile innovation. Martens employed trompe l’oeil — an artistic technique that gives a three-dimensional appearance to a flat surface — to create the illusion of luxe shearling and leather. Shorts became gradually shorter until the final look was little more than a strip of fabric across the bum.

Laser-cut T-shirts looked as if they were falling apart and had simply been thrown on during a morning-after “walk of shame,” an impression reinforced by smudged lipstick.

In the seats, writhing turned to headbanging for the runway finale, and Martens received a standing ovation. He leaves Diesel, which he joined in 2020, but stays on at parent company OTB’s Maison Margiela, the avant-garde Paris couture house.

At Diesel, “we never pretended to be a luxury brand, even though we were on during fashion week,” Martens said. “We also wanted to do more alternative things, and think about the community. I think that’s what I try to celebrate, but also with respect for the clothes."

“It’s an honor to be here,” Trump said as he entered U.N. doors Tuesday ahead of his speech to the General Assembly and faced Kaitlan Collins of CNN, a frequent target of his ire. “I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me. You should not be here covering me. You said you weren’t going to cover me.”

As Collins noted later on air, CNN said nothing of the kind. The administration had banned CNN from White House grounds days earlier — along with MS NOW and Politico — and removed the network from pool duty. But CNN had been admitted into the U.N. as regularly credentialed media.

In any case, the tense moment was a stark reminder of how dramatically the bitter conflict between Trump and news outlets whose coverage he objects to as “fake news" has escalated in just a few days.

The current ban was the subject of a joint lawsuit filed Monday by the three outlets, calling the decision selective — based on the content of their coverage — and asking a judge to find Trump's move unconstitutional.

Late Tuesday, the administration filed a response urging the court to reject the news outlets' request, saying “access to the White House is a privilege — not a right.” The government argued that White House officials can control journalists’ access to “restricted presidential areas,” such as the Oval Office.

“Significantly, Presidents have long decided which journalists should receive privileged access, which has varied substantially by administration,” they wrote.

A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Trump says he has a right to ‘clean out fake news’

On Tuesday, Trump doubled down on his remarks and said negative coverage was dangerous for the country.

Asked whether he would allow the outlets back in if the court rules against the White House, he said, “Well, it probably will, because this is a judge who’s not a particularly fair judge.” He was referring to U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, whom he appointed in 2017 and who ordered a CNN journalist’s access restored in a similar case in 2018.

“So you never know,” Trump added. "I think we have a right to clean out fake news."

Trump’s comments echoed others he's made since announcing the ban Friday. He has referred to “purposely negative stories” as justification for the ban.

The ban and lawsuit are part of a long-running conflict between the president — especially in his second term — and media outlets he finds unfavorable. Trump has responded in the courtroom, or with regulatory action. He's also lashed out at individual reporters in person or over social media, sometimes in strikingly personal terms — as he has with CNN's Collins, most recently in a speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

On air, after her exchange with Trump on Tuesday, Collins said: “We never said we were not going to cover the president. We will do our best to cover him each and every day.”

Networks began the day without pool coverage

Tuesday began with an item missing from the daily press schedule issued by the White House: It did not list the U.S. network pool, a departure from the norm.

CNN had been the designated pool network for the president’s trip to New York, according to a schedule that divides coverage of certain events between the five major networks. But Trump's ban removed it from pool duties.

The other pool members agreed, in solidarity, not to replace CNN with another network on the coverage, and further to suspend all pool coverage until further notice. Other news outlets also took steps in solidarity. The Associated Press joined a number of news organizations, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, in a decision not to publish photographs of presidential events Monday.

It remains to be seen how long both the ban and the collective media action will continue.

In speeches and meetings Tuesday, Trump was seen plenty by global audiences, thanks to UNTV — the official United Nations broadcast arm — and pool journalists covering other international leaders.

Meanwhile, a sign was spotted in the White House workspace: “I stand with AP, CNN, MS NOW, Politico.”

For audiences, the long-term impact may be more serious, analyst says

One longtime TV analyst says the lack of constant coverage will prove damaging to a spotlight-loving president — which may be one reason the standoff ultimately ends.

“This ban is not going to go on forever because he doesn’t want that to happen, any more than anybody else,” said Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University’s Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.

In the short term, Thompson said, audiences won't feel the impact in a lasting way — after all, he noted, there are many ways people get news outside of network coverage.

“We are not going to be deprived of important civic information,” Thompson said, as might have happened years ago when outlets and options were fewer.

On the other hand, if viewers were interested in what Trump said as he inaugurated a helipad at the White House on Monday, they were out of luck: The sound of Trump’s whirring, waiting helicopter drowned out his remarks. TV network crews usually work to capture clearer audio.

On a deeper level, Thompson said, news consumers will be impacted in a more serious way. He called out Trump's remarks labeling negative media coverage "dangerous" as troubling.

“These casual remarks, not even disguised, about what we always considered basic freedoms of the press ... that, I think, is a lot more serious,” he said.

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AP reporter Michael Kunzelman contributed.

They held a news conference about two miles from “Iron Mountain,” an AI-ready data center nearing completion in Miami-Dade County’s Westview neighborhood, leaning into Republican candidate Byron Donalds’ past remarks on data centers possibly coming online in Florida.

“We have more people moving here in finance and tech, so as a derivative of that you, you are going to have data centers, tech firms, etc. We need to embrace that, not run away from that,” Donalds said while speaking with the Economic Club of Miami in May 2025. “We are wide open, we have actual land in our state that is still pristine, available to use, we can build out that stuff and still maintain the beauty of our state.”

Democrats pushed back against his comments.

“Donalds is on the record saying, ‘We need to embrace data centers’ and there is ‘pristine land’ in our state available for them, and on the campaign trail has talked about a ‘pathway’ to building these data centers,” Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried. “The threat of hyper scale AI data centers is looming over all of Florida. To find the truth, you need to follow the money.”

Fried cited Donalds’ support from some AI industry titans, including Leading the Future, a super-PAC which says it wants to, “support candidates aligned with the pro-AI agenda.”

“Since launching his campaign, data center developers and AI groups have spent more than $5 million bankrolling Byron Donalds’ bid for governor,” said Fried.

Donalds’ Democratic challenger, David Jolly, is fresh off a visit to northern Virginia’s so-called “data center alley.”

“What you are hearing, and the reason I have to raise my voice, is the noise pollution that occurs from these data centers,” Jolly said. “You have the devaluation of real estate as well.”

Jolly is supporting a one-year moratorium on building data centers until we can better understand the impact on community, the campaign said, from public health and quality of life to the reality of promised jobs and demands on local energy and water resources.

“There is a reason Florida’s voters don’t want them, this used to be green space,” he said.

Earlier this month, Donalds told Fox Business he does have regulation in mind.

“To the people who might want to build them, if you don’t protect our ratepayers and you don’t protect our water, you are not building a data centers and that is my position,” he said. “And local governments are going to be the ones that will make these decisions, not Tallahassee.”

It would appear Donalds’ recent comments are pivoting to parrot new legislation the Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law in May, when he expressed concern about hyper-scale data centers.

Over the summer, DeSantis signed a bill into law which aims to preserve local zoning authority and ensure costs are not passed to consumers.

Fried said the one thing Floridians can agree on irrespective of party is the environment, since it is the engine behind all of the state’s industries, from trade and tourism to agriculture and real estate, but worries the latest legislation could be weakened if Donalds’ prevails.

This as more than a dozen Florida counties hit the brakes on large data center development, pausing permits so they have time to write land use rules, with some enacting permanent bans.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava “looks forward to receiving an ordinance that puts in place a moratorium consistent with state law, while protecting our neighborhoods and our environment,” her office said in a statement to Local 10 News.

Donalds’ campaign told Local 10 News he plans to build on SB 484 with, “closed-loop water system requirements” that recycle water on site and supports “keeping facilities away from neighborhoods.”

His campaign also said he is proposing a federal bill to stop data center developers from competing with residents for water supply and creating a strain on the power grid.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said during a news conference that Damon Matai Seei was arrested Tuesday and appeared in federal court in Salt Lake City to be arraigned.

The 34-year-old from Payson, Utah, pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of destruction or delay of mail. If convicted, he could face up to five years in federal prison. A message seeking comment was sent to his attorney.

Seei was delivering mail in Eagle Mountain, a conservative suburb of Provo, when he threw the ballots and other mail into a dumpster in a church parking lot not long after his shift started, McCotter said.

Melissa Holyoak, the U.S. attorney for Utah, said Seei indicated to authorities that he had no political agenda and did not intend to discard the ballots. He told investigators in an interview that he acted out of “laziness,” throwing away mail to “lighten his workload," according to court documents.

In a written statement quoted in court filings, Seei said he felt overwhelmed that day by the quantity of mail, and he decided to toss out advertisements so he could focus on other deliveries.

He told law enforcement he had set aside the ballots at the beginning of his shift, prosecutors said, arguing it was implausible that Seei didn't know they were in the discard pile.

Most voters in Utah cast ballots by mail or deposit them in drop boxes. Nationwide, nearly a third of voters use mail-in ballots.

All active registered voters in Utah are automatically sent ballots by mail, though that system is set to end in 2029 under a new state law requiring voters to opt-in.

Several Eagle Mountain residents complained to Utah County Clerk Aaron Davidson that they never received their ballots, leading him to investigate. He determined that the rate of voter participation in the community was unusually low and learned through outreach that the number of voters who did not receive ballots was in the hundreds, according to court documents.

Seei is no longer employed by the Postal Service. The investigation remains ongoing, officials said.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's attempts to impose new Postal Service rules that would have restricted mail voting for the midterm elections.

Sudáfrica acusó a Israel ante la corte de “genocidio” contra los palestinos en Gaza. Mientras que Israel ha negado rotundamente las acusaciones y ha señalado a Sudáfrica de actuar como el brazo legal del grupo miliciano palestino Hamás.

Colombia solicitó intervenir en el proceso en 2024 para dar su interpretación de las normas de la Convención contra el genocidio, al considerar entonces que Israel las estaba “ignorando con sus acciones militares en Gaza”.

El tribunal de la ONU indicó que Colombia le informó el 18 de septiembre su decisión de retirar su declaración en el caso de Sudáfrica vs. Israel.

Giro en la política exterior

Tras tomar posesión el mes pasado, De la Espriella dio un giro a la posición del país sudamericano al restablecer las relaciones con Israel, rotas desde 2024 por el entonces presidente Gustavo Petro (2022-2026), un férreo crítico de las acciones bélicas en la Franja de Gaza que consideraba un “genocidio”.

“Vergüenza para Colombia”, cuestionó Petro en la red social X tras el retiro de la declaración ante el tribunal internacional. “De primera voz en atacar un genocidio a cómplice”, agregó.

La Cancillería colombiana explicó el martes en un comunicado que la decisión fue de carácter presidencial, dado que la Constitución indica que es el encargado de dirigir las relaciones internacionales.

Como parte de los acuerdos al reanudar las relaciones diplomáticas, Colombia e Israel restablecieron desde septiembre la exención recíproca de visado para turistas.

De la Espriella ha dado un giro a la política exterior de Colombia, privilegiando las relaciones con el gobierno de Estados Unidos —tras recibir el apoyo del presidente Donald Trump— y con Israel, que considera un aliado clave especialmente en materia de seguridad, mientras que marcó distancia de otros países como Cuba y Nicaragua al considerarlos “tiranías”.

Colombia y Costa Rica fortalecerán cooperación en seguridad

Mientras tanto, la conservadora Laura Fernández, presidenta de Costa Rica, cumplió el martes una visita oficial en Colombia en la que acordó con De la Espriella fortalecer la cooperación en seguridad, especialmente para combatir el narcotráfico.

“Que el esfuerzo que el presidente (colombiano) realiza en el combate del narcotráfico, esa limpieza que está realizando en Colombia, no significa que Costa Rica vaya a recibir a la basura que usted está limpiando”, dijo Fernández tras reunirse con su homólogo en Barranquilla, en el norte del país.

Fernández detalló que van a hacer sus mayores esfuerzos para “evitar que el narcotráfico se posicione en Costa Rica”, evitando convertirse en un país “productor ni facilitador de operaciones criminales”.

“Si el crimen organizado trabaja en red, nuestros estados tienen todavía más obligación de trabajar unidos”, agregó De la Espriella.

Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena was found unresponsive Sept. 18 at Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, ICE said in a statement. It said staff began lifesaving measures before he was taken by ambulance to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The man's sister, his girlfriend and a detainee held in the cell beside Marchena's told The Associated Press that he complained of missed meals and shots and not drinking enough water to control his type 1 diabetes as he was moved between facilities in multiple states. Marchena's condition worsened after he arrived at Winn, and he died less than a week later, his family said.

The official cause of death is pending further medical examination.

The correctional center had recently been found to have fallen short of federal standards, including for medical care, by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General.

Two other ICE detainees have died at the complex since April.

Nearly 60 ICE detainees have died since January 2025

Marchena is at least the 58th ICE detainee to die since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, according to tracking by AP. Immigrant advocates say the deaths are a sign that authorities are failing to properly oversee the detention of tens of thousands of immigrants swept up in the administration’s aggressive deportation strategy.

ICE said Marchena's medical care was appropriate. “Marchena received proper medical care and was seen by medical professionals,” an agency statement said.

Sufficient food, water and insulin at regular intervals is crucial with type 1 diabetes for managing blood sugar levels to avoid a life-threatening health condition, said Dr. Rajesh Garg, who heads the diabetes unit at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

“If they are under any stress, then they need even more care and then they need to test their blood sugar at regular times,” Garg said. “If there isn’t proper food and water, that is going to stress his system.”

Scott Sutterfield, a spokesperson for LaSalle Corrections, the contractor managing the facility with the Winn Parish Sheriff’s Office, said the death is under review and declined to answer questions. He said the company is committed to “the highest standards of care.”

Winn Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Winn Parish Coroner’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.

Medical examiners and coroners have ruled diabetes was a contributing factor in at least six of the ICE detainees' deaths during Trump’s second presidency. Detainees with diabetes have frequently complained in court filings of inconsistent access to insulin and other medications.

The deaths come amid mounting scrutiny of ICE detention facilities and whether they are medically neglecting detainees and forcing them to live in inhumane conditions, charges that ICE denies.

Detainee says man was vomiting and looking pale

Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General issued a report in June that said an unannounced inspection at Winn found violations of standards governing medical care, food service, use of force and other subjects. Among violations, it reported frozen food not being stored properly.

Medical staff at Winn failed to keep updated treatment documents and laboratory testing records, which could “negatively impact detainee health care and safety,” the report warned. It said ICE agreed with nine recommendations to improve conditions at Winn, and had implemented several of them.

Marchena's sister, Franciny Marchena, said her brother told her no one was checking his blood sugar levels to ensure they were stable.

“A person who is healthy and taking their diabetes medication has no reason to collapse the way my brother did,” she told AP, speaking in Spanish from Costa Rica.

His sister said his health began to worsen about two weeks ago when he was in an immigration detention center in Michigan and was put in a security cell after an argument with another detainee.

Detainee says man was vomiting and looking pale

After being transferred to Winn, Marchena told his sister and girlfriend that he had chest pain and was not getting enough to drink or eat, including because the food was sometimes spoiled. It was not known if he had an underlying heart condition.

Marchena also voiced these concerns to Luis Herrera Andy, a Honduran man detained at Winn in the adjacent cell, who noted Marchena only received irregular insulin shots.

A doctor gave Marchena pills for his chest pain but he returned angry, Herrera said, recalling his words: “This place is crap. They don’t help you with anything here. You could even die here."

The day before Marchena was found dead, he had stomach pain, headaches, chills, and was vomiting, Herrera said. He was a pale purple color and wet with sweat.

Hours before his death, Marchena's girlfriend Ana Leon Castro said, he called around midnight to say the pills weren't helping.

“All they gave him was a pill — that was it for the treatment,” Leon Castro said.

Cardiac arrest — when the heart suddenly stops pumping — can occur from too little or too much insulin in a diabetic person, said Garg at Harbor-UCLA. Vomiting, headaches, nausea and stomach pain are all symptoms that can indicate a life-threatening insulin deficiency, though there could be other causes such as an infection.

He leaves behind four children

Marchena was the first Costa Rican detainee to die in an ICE facility under Trump’s second presidency.

He entered the U.S. without legal status in February 2021, ICE said in a statement.

ICE said Marchena had prior misdemeanor convictions for retail fraud and property destruction before he was arrested in January by the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department in Michigan for assault. In July, an immigration judge ordered him to be deported, according to DHS.

His sister Franciny said Marchena, who worked as a ride service driver and had four children, had requested bail and voluntary deportation to Costa Rica, but it was denied. ICE did not respond when asked about the denial.

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Pineda reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press reporter Ryan Foley contributed from Iowa.

Part runway show, part cultural performance, this year’s Vogue World highlighted Italian craftsmanship and human creativity in the age of artificial intelligence.

Donatella Versace sat alongside Gucci's Demna, Balenciaga's Pierpaolo Piccioli and Valentino's Alessandro Michele – the latter three having recently completed a game of fashion house musical chairs.

Miuccia Prada, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were also on hand for the event that celebrated the kind of handcraftsmanship that has put Italy at the center of luxury fashion. About half of the world’s luxury apparel, footwear and leather goods are produced in Italy.

Gigi Hadid opened the evening gliding through the arcade in a gold brocade gown celebrating the Italian Renaissance. Jennifer Lopez, arriving with designers Dolce and Gabbana, took a turn in a black evening dress. Supermodel Eva Herzegova led a tribute to the late Giorgio Armani, who died last September.

Many designer wears were recognizable as they blazed across the marble gallery floor on models, Italian celebrities and athletes — including trailing Moncler puffers, Prada’s banana-print button down shirt, a safety pin-cinched Versace evening gown, a Pucci print and a Bottega Veneta fiberglass coat.

Keys closed the evening performing in a beaded dress with a regal train under the Galleria's glass dome. Bolle, who performed with dancers from La Scala's academy, presented her with a rose.

Milan was the last of the four major fashion capitals to host the event, which launched in New York in 2022, followed by editions in London, Paris and Los Angeles. This edition raised money for a cultural center fostering fashion, music and artistic talent at the Quarto Oggiaro Library in northwestern Milan.

In a notice to Congress obtained by The Associated Press, the administration said the white South Africans faced seizures of their land and other forms of persecution and would be likely to assimilate when they come to America. The South African government has repeatedly rejected the idea that the white South Africans, who are Afrikaners, are a persecuted minority in the home country.

The Trump administration has dramatically altered a refugee program that historically enjoyed strong bipartisan support as it welcomed tens of thousands of refugees from countries around the world to new lives in America, and instead the administration has transformed it into a vehicle to resettle white South Africans in America.

The administration told Congress in the announcement that it intended to spend about $500 million to resettle the new arrivals to the U.S.

Organizations that have historically worked to resettle refugees in new homes in America criticized the administration's decision to once again limit the program to white South Africans.

“For more than four decades, America’s refugee program has provided a lifesaving pathway for people fleeing violence and persecution,” said Naomi Steinberg, HIAS vice president for refugee and immigration policy and advocacy, in a statement. “But again, this administration is diminishing and distorting this legacy in service of its political whims. That is why we will never stop speaking out for a return to a program that welcomes refugees from around the world who have been persecuted because of who they are and what they believe.”

Presidents set the cap on how many refugees the U.S. will approve through the program each year, and historically, they’ve allocated those numbers across various geographic regions while factoring in wars or conflicts that spark humanitarian needs around the globe. HIAS said an average of 92,000 people a year have been admitted to the U.S. since the program was launched in 1980.

Last year, the Trump administration initially set the cap at 7,500 — again predominantly Afrikaners — but later increased the total to 17,500 after it said that “unforeseen developments in South Africa created an emergency refugee situation.”

During his first administration, Trump slashed the number of refugees approved every year. The Biden administration built the system back up, setting a goal of admitting 125,000 refugees in Biden’s last year in office.

When Trump once again returned to the White House, he immediately suspended the refugee program, stranding people around the world who had been slated to come to the U.S. Then the administration reopened the program, but limited it to white South Africans.

Afrikaners are the descendants of mainly Dutch and French colonial settlers who first arrived in South Africa in the 17th century. They are just one of South Africa’s white minorities, which also include South Africans of British descent.

Afrikaners were at the heart of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa that lasted from 1948 until 1994, when Nelson Mandela was elected as the country’s first Black president in the first democratic, all-race elections. Their leading role in apartheid has led to some lingering racial tensions, but Afrikaners have generally embraced their country’s new multiracial democracy just like most other South Africans.

Justice Elena Kagan denied the request from McKenna West, who was seeking conservatorship over a baby boy she gave birth to in Dallas.

The brief order did not detail the legal reasoning, as is typical in emergency appeals. The decision came from Kagan because she handles appeals of cases out of California.

Multiple courts have rejected West's efforts to have a say in the treatment of the child, who was born with a life-threatening heart condition. She gave birth to the boy in Dallas, where most abortions are banned, after she refused the couple's wishes to end the pregnancy.

West had asked the Supreme Court to halt a California court order that recognizes Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar as the parents of the child whom she calls Gabriel and they call Rumi.

“We are truly grateful that Rumi can continue receiving the treatment he needs to survive, and that he will not be stripped away from what has been described by doctors as the excellent care of his parents," Adam Wolf, an attorney for the couple, said in a statement.

Attorneys for West did not immediately respond to phone calls and messages seeking comment.

Lawyers for the couple had urged the court to reject the request, questioning what an intervention would do for medical decision making at an already chaotic time. They also accused West of overstating the prognosis for children born with the heart condition.

“Such chaos would be devastating for Respondents and, most importantly, their child,” the couple told the court.

The legal battle over surrogacy and abortion has attracted the attention and support of Republican officeholders and anti-abortion groups. West has said she believes the couple will not provide life-saving care, citing their request for an abortion at 23 weeks. Gilkar and Ahmed have denied those claims.

The boy was born Aug. 12 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a life-threatening condition that prevents normal blood flow to the organ. He underwent surgery soon after he was born. The couple’s attorney said in August that the newborn had been in critical condition and appeared to be “suffering from potential complications.”

Without treatment, children affected by the heart defect can die within days or weeks. Surgical repairs are not necessarily cures, and additional surgeries or heart transplants may be needed, according to the CDC.

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

Now, he's got a three-year deal in the dugout to produce better days ahead.

In a surprising change of direction, Green went from interim Mets manager to full-time skipper Tuesday when the club gave him a three-year contract. New York made the announcement before starting its final road trip of the season against the Texas Rangers.

“I think Andy is the perfect person for this job,” president of baseball operations David Stearns said at a pregame news conference in Arlington, Texas.

“I think Andy brings to us an ability to connect the organization in ways that very few people could. He allows us to connect front office to dugout. He allows us to connect minor league to major league, and he provides us a level of continuity that we need right now, and a level of stability and belief.”

Green, who managed the San Diego Padres from 2016-19, had been running New York's farm system before taking over as interim manager when Carlos Mendoza was fired in late June. At the time, Green said he wasn't particularly interested in becoming a manager again, citing the desire to keep spending time with his three daughters and saying he viewed his interim role on the bench as more of a responsibility to the club than a personal opportunity.

“At the outset, I wasn’t even entertaining that idea whatsoever,” Green said.

Stearns said Green would return to a front-office role after the season, a stance the executive stuck to even as the last-place Mets (71-85) improved their play on the field and several rookies who rose through the minors under Green such as Carson Benge and Nolan McLean flourished in the big leagues as well.

“Andy has connected with and pushed our players to perform, despite the disappointment of the season,” Mets owners Steve and Alex Cohen said in a statement. “Over the last several months he has brought discipline, accountability and positivity to the clubhouse, attributes we were seeking in our next manager.”

And even as the struggling Mets unloaded a bevy of veteran pitchers leading up to the Aug. 3 trade deadline, Green found himself enjoying the steep challenges of his job on the bench and in the clubhouse.

“It was a tough time. It was trade deadline, we weren’t necessarily winning baseball games. There was a lot of conversations that had to be had with players to help walk them through difficult chapters," Green said. "And I started thinking, if I have such a passion for the hard times, I’m looking forward to the good times.”

After he talked things over with his family, Green's wife and teenage daughters encouraged him to pursue managing full-time again if the opportunity arose.

“As time went on, it was just an overwhelming sense of joy and purpose being in the dugout and belief that something within me can help,” Green said. “So it became pretty obvious as time went on.”

Stearns said Green called him during the first week of September and let him know “his passions had changed,” and they were now in the dugout as manager.

“So that got my head spinning a little bit. I digested that over the course of the last couple of weeks. Andy and I have had a number of conversations,” Stearns said.

In the end, the Mets committed to Green and chose not to conduct a full search for a new manager this offseason as Stearns had said they would.

“I think it’s a wise decision, a good decision, and I’m looking forward to the next couple of years,” star shortstop Francisco Lindor said. "He’s made a good impact in the clubhouse.”

“Over the course of the season, it became evident that the next manager of the New York Mets was already in place,” Stearns said in a statement.

Coming into the season, the Mets had lofty expectations for a franchise without a World Series title since 1986. New York opened the season with baseball’s highest payroll at $358 million and was projected to pay an additional $124 million in luxury tax.

But the Mets underperformed early and were beset by injuries to Lindor, Juan Soto and others. They were 34-47 at the midpoint of the season when Mendoza was fired on June 26. The team is 37-38 since Green took over.

“The last three months I think there’s been progress,” he said. “We’ve got more to do.”

The 49-year-old Green, a former major league infielder, went 274-366 as Padres manager and finished with a losing record in all four seasons. Then he spent four seasons as a bench coach with the Chicago Cubs before joining the Mets in 2023 and serving as senior vice president of baseball development.

Now, he becomes the 26th manager in franchise history.

“Certainly when I came down here three months ago, didn’t anticipate this day at all. Wasn’t anything that I was thinking could happen," Green said.

“I think it’s just an indication of where my family has pivoted over the last three months. They’ve seen my passion rise and I think above anything else, it’s right to acknowledge the players in that clubhouse because they’ve rekindled in me a love that I had for being in the dugout."

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AP Baseball Writer Stephen Hawkins in Arlington, Texas, contributed to this report.

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And three days later, there were more. An olive ridley turtle — maybe the same one — laid eggs on Sept. 19, a few miles away near the Huntington Beach Pier in Orange County, authorities said.

“This is the first-ever recorded natural nesting for any sea turtle species” on the West Coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s West Coast Fisheries division said on Facebook.

Olive ridley turtles are the smallest of sea turtles, with adults weighing up to 100 pounds (45.3 kilograms). NOAA said they're found worldwide but primarily in the tropical waters of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans.

The first nesting spot was near Seal Beach on Sept. 16, followed by the discovery at Huntington Beach. Both sites were subsequently fenced off. Incubation typically lasts 45 to 60 days, NOAA said.

“We’re excited about it,” said Trevor McDonald, marine safety chief at the Huntington Beach Fire Department.

Lifeguards patrolling at night saw a turtle digging in the sand and thought “maybe this turtle is sick. We just don't see this very often,” McDonald said. “Then they observed the turtle starting to lay eggs.”

Heidi Stephen said her 9-year-old son, Jude, begged her to take him to Huntington Beach to see the nest Tuesday.

“It's so magical,” Stephen said.

George Zamora said he hopes the eggs can survive any impact from tides, storms and popular beach events.

“Let them do their thing,” Zamora said. “Let them be born.”

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White reported from Detroit.

Braden Peters, 20, is charged with rape, administering a substance for sexual intercourse and procuring alcohol for a person under 21 in the alleged May 23, 2025, assault in Chatham, according to court records. A clerk-magistrate found probable cause for the charges on Sept. 4, and a criminal complaint was issued Sept. 8.

Peters’ publicist did not immediately return an email request for comment Tuesday. Peters, who lives in Florida and is not in custody, is scheduled to be arraigned in Massachusetts on Oct. 14.

“We are not commenting at this time since the proper authorities are handling this,” said Andrew Moss, one of the teen’s attorneys.

The accuser told Chatham police that she and Peters began messaging on Instagram and that he later paid her to appear in “looksmaxxing” videos he streamed online. She said Peters knew she was 17 but that he told her to tell his viewers that she was 18 and that vodka he gave her was water, according to a police report.

On May 23, 2025, the girl said she took a rideshare from her grandparents’ home to Peters’ family home on Morris Island, a gated community of multimillion-dollar homes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. She told police she was greeted by Peters’ mother and grandmother before being escorted by Peters to his room, where he was livestreaming on Twitch.

She told police she drank what she believed amounted to two or three shots of vodka and became increasingly intoxicated. An officer who reviewed clips from Peters’ livestream said one showed the girl telling Peters, “Wait I’m so drunk though.” Peters responded, “It’s OK,” before the two kissed, according to the police report.

After the livestream ended, she said, they went to his bedroom, where she later fell asleep and awoke the next morning to Peters raping her.

The alleged assault was previously described in a lawsuit filed against Peters in Florida in April. An amended complaint filed in June accused Peters of sexual battery over the Cape Cod encounter. The lawsuit also accuses Peters of later injecting the girl with a fat-dissolving substance during a livestream without consent. Peters has denied the lawsuit’s allegations.

Peters, the face of the “looksmaxxing” trend, is a well-known social media and internet personality whose pursuit of achieving traditional attractiveness by any means necessary became the subject of intense interest and discourse early this year.

He livestreams his activities on close to a daily basis, often streaming his time at parties and clubs or talking with women. His largest followings are on TikTok, Instagram and the streaming platform Kick.

“Looksmaxxing” has origins that trace back to the “involuntary celibate” or “incel” community, an online subculture made of people, primarily men, who believe society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention. Peters has denied being linked to the group in any way and said many times that looksmaxxing is about self-improvement.

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Associated Press journalist Kaitlyn Huamani contributed from Los Angeles.

On two voter registration forms submitted to the Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections, Valery Zidor falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen, according to federal prosecutors.

Zidor, who was born in Haiti, cast a ballot in the 2024 General Election in Miami-Dade, according to U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida.

“Election laws have meaning only if they are enforced,” Reding Quiñones said in a statement. “Working with HSI and our law enforcement partners, we will continue to investigate and prosecute deliberate violations of federal election law.”

Zidor pleaded guilty to two counts of making a false claim of citizenship to vote and one count of voting by an alien. She faces up to five years in federal prison.

Al detective Shmueal Mauda, de 36 años y también conocido como Sam Mauda, se le acusa, entre otras cosas, de usar la tarjeta de crédito de una persona fallecida para pagar unas vacaciones en Corea del Sur. Los registros muestran que los tres acusados comparecieron el lunes ante una corte federal en Fort Lauderdale.

Mauda, junto con sus presuntos cómplices Elisha Mauda, de 39 años, y Brent Small, de 58, podría pasar décadas en una prisión federal, después de que las autoridades señalaran que el grupo tenía como blanco a “víctimas de edad avanzada y fallecidas” en todo el país, entre ellas varios adultos mayores de más de 90 años.

Autoridades federales: el esquema apuntaba a víctimas vulnerables

En una denuncia penal federal, un agente especial del Servicio Secreto de EE.UU. escribió que los Mauda, residentes de Pembroke Pines, y Small, de Hollywood, robaban la identidad de las víctimas y canalizaban el dinero hacia empresas bajo su control. Las autoridades no han explicado qué parentesco podría haber entre los Mauda, pero señalaron que ambos viven cerca, en la misma calle.

Los tres fueron arrestados inicialmente en relación con un caso originado en Sedro-Woolley, un pequeño pueblo del estado de Washington, a unas 60 millas al norte de Seattle. Las autoridades de esa localidad acusaron al trío de estafar a un adulto mayor que vive allí y emitieron una orden de arresto por cargos estatales.

Según las autoridades, el grupo abría tarjetas de crédito a nombre de las víctimas o se apoderaba de cuentas existentes pero inactivas, todo a través de internet. El agente especial indicó que las víctimas, por lo general, no tenían acceso en línea a sus cuentas, por lo que no podían detectar el fraude a tiempo.

De acuerdo con la denuncia, el trío cambiaba la dirección de las cuentas de las víctimas a una vivienda ubicada en el 1400 NE 173rd St. en North Miami Beach. Según las autoridades, la casa pertenecía a Sky Realty FL LLC, una empresa con sede en Davie de la que Small era gerente y agente registrado.

Las tarjetas de crédito de las víctimas llegaban por correo a esa casa unifamiliar, a la que a veces se le añadía un número de apartamento falso “para burlar el software de detección de fraude de los bancos”, señalaron las autoridades.

Según la denuncia, investigadores encubiertos vieron a Small recogiendo la correspondencia en esa dirección.

Las autoridades acusan al grupo de usar las tarjetas para gastos personales y a los Mauda de desviar fondos a empresas que cada uno controlaba por separado.

En uno de los casos, según las autoridades, se usó la tarjeta de crédito de un hombre de Iowa de 97 años para pagar $9,513 en impuestos a la propiedad de la casa de North Miami Beach.

Entre las demás víctimas figuran otra persona de Iowa de 96 años, una de Indiana de 98 y otros nonagenarios cuyo estado de residencia no se especificó. Los agentes indicaron que también usaron la información de dos personas fallecidas, cuyas edades y lugar de residencia tampoco se detallaron.

La denuncia menciona además a un hombre de 85 años del estado de Washington al que le robaron $800,000 de su cuenta en Chase para saldar las tarjetas de crédito de las otras víctimas, lo que permitía seguir haciendo compras. No quedó claro de inmediato si se trata de la misma víctima del arresto original.

En uno de los casos, se acusa a Shmueal Mauda de usar una tarjeta de crédito a nombre de una víctima ya fallecida para pagar un viaje a Seúl, Corea del Sur.

Según la denuncia, Small declaró más tarde a los investigadores que los Mauda, para quienes había trabajado como contratista, “se ocupaban de él”, pagándole las cuentas, cubriéndole los gastos de viaje y, a menudo, dándole comida a cambio de su ayuda en el esquema.

Las autoridades sostienen que los cargos, retiros y transferencias suman más de $1.6 millones.

Arrestados los tres, uno de ellos a punto de abordar un avión

Según las autoridades, el 13 de agosto las autoridades del condado Skagit, en Washington, emitieron una orden de arresto contra Small y los Mauda.

Ese mismo día, la policía de Davie ejecutó órdenes de registro en direcciones del pueblo vinculadas a las empresas fraudulentas, así como en las casas de los Mauda en Pembroke Pines, en la cuadra 7300 del Northwest 17th Court, y en la casa de Small en Hollywood, en la cuadra 1700 de Wiley Street, según la denuncia.

La policía indicó que detuvo a Small y a Shmueal Mauda poco después de los allanamientos. Horas más tarde, según la denuncia, recibió una alerta de viaje que indicaba que Elisha Mauda había comprado un boleto de ida a Bogotá, Colombia.

De acuerdo con la denuncia, las autoridades detuvieron a Elisha Mauda en la pasarela de abordaje del aeropuerto de Fort Lauderdale cuando estaba a punto de subir al avión.

Según los agentes, Small admitió haber participado en el esquema y reconoció que de vez en cuando usaba esas tarjetas para compras pequeñas con el permiso de Elisha Mauda, pero aseguró que la única actividad delictiva de la que tenía conocimiento era el uso de tarjetas que no estaban a su nombre.

Sin embargo, los agentes afirmaron que Small también admitió haber abierto y administrado ciertas cuentas bancarias siguiendo instrucciones de Elisha Mauda, y que tenía varias computadoras en su casa, con un servicio de internet pagado por este.

Según la denuncia, Shmueal Mauda reconoció que controlaba una de las empresas y sus cuentas bancarias, pero negó haber usado una cuenta que recibió dinero producto del fraude. Las autoridades indicaron que se negó a decirles a los investigadores quién más tenía acceso a la cuenta.

Elisha Mauda, por su parte, se negó a declarar, según las autoridades.

Tras su arresto, el Departamento de Policía de Miami Shores suspendió a Shmueal Mauda sin goce de sueldo.

Lo que sigue

Los tres hombres enfrentan ahora cargos de conspiración para cometer fraude electrónico y fraude bancario, fraude electrónico, fraude bancario y robo de identidad agravado.

Si son declarados culpables de los cuatro cargos y reciben las penas máximas de forma consecutiva, podrían pasar el resto de su vida en una prisión federal, ya que tres de los cargos conllevan penas de hasta 30 años cada uno.

Chris Cavallo y Jayne Weintraub, abogados de Elisha Mauda, dijeron el martes en un breve comunicado que su cliente “mantiene su inocencia y espera limpiar su nombre en la corte”.

Hasta el momento de la publicación, el martes, el abogado de Shmueal Mauda no había respondido a una solicitud de comentarios, mientras que el formulario de comparecencia inicial de Small no indicaba ningún abogado.

Los tres deberán regresar a la corte federal de Fort Lauderdale el próximo martes para las audiencias de detención preventiva, y la lectura formal de cargos está programada para el 5 de octubre.

Según los registros, hasta el martes Elisha Mauda y Small estaban detenidos en el centro de detención Joseph V. Conte de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, en Pompano Beach, mientras que Shmueal Mauda permanecía en la Cárcel Principal de BSO, en Fort Lauderdale.

This week, a smiling Trump patted on the shoulder one of the nation's best known democratic socialists, shook his hand, and said he was “off to a start” to being a great mayor of the country's largest city.

Trump's cozy relationship with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, which began last year, has confounded people across the political spectrum. But with the midterms approaching, Republicans are increasingly frustrated by the unexpected bromance, which threatens the party's message about Democratic radicalism.

“You’re trying to say, ‘Here’s how extreme they are,' and the president’s saying, ’I love this guy,” said veteran Republican strategist Doug Heye. “It doesn’t help.”

It's hard to overstate the extent to which Republicans are focused on the rise of democratic socialism in the midterm season. At a moment when the party is saddled with Trump's weak approval ratings on virtually every major issue — the economy and the war in Iran chief among them — Republicans from Georgia and Texas to New York and Michigan are working to scare voters away from Democratic candidates by warning that the party is controlled by far-left extremists.

At Trump's unusual midterm convention in Texas earlier in the month, Mamdani's name was invoked over and over again.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called the New York mayor “Comrade Mamdani.” Rep. Tom Emmer, the No. 3 House Republican, called him "Mamdani the commie.”

Trump sent a similar message although he didn't mention Mamdani.

“They call themselves Democrat socialists, but actually they’re communists,” he said in his keynote address. “They’re crazy.”

In all, the words socialist or socialism were referenced dozens of times during the convention.

Trump did not mention those words while standing alongside Mamdani in New York on Monday, however. The president was in town for the United Nations General Assembly and made time to swing by Gracie Mansion.

Instead, the president highlighted efforts underway to work together, noting that he's worked with numerous mayors over the years — “some great ones and some not so great ones.”

“Hopefully you’re going to be a great one,” Trump said while looking at Mamdani. “I’ll be able to say you’re going to be a great one. And you’re off to a start.”

Trump grew up in Queens, which Mamdani represented in the New York Assembly before running for mayor and winning a startling upset. He has since expanded his political power in the city, helping to push three candidates to victory in Democratic congressional primaries earlier this year.

It's possible that Trump's tone on Mamdani will shift again. After they had two surprisingly convivial meetings in the Oval Office, Trump started criticizing the mayor again.

“Sadly, Mayor Mamdani is DESTROYING New York! It has no chance!” Trump wrote on social media in April in apparent response to a plan to create a new tax on luxury second homes in the city. “The United States of America should not contribute to its failure. It will only get WORSE. The TAX, TAX, TAX Policies are SO WRONG.”

Republicans in New York were quick to downplay the latest example of Trump's friendliness with Mamdani.

David Laska, a spokesperson for the New York Republican Party, said “President Trump is the greatest dealmaker in history, and he has proven repeatedly that he can deal from a position of strength with America’s enemies, be they foreign dictators or the mayor of New York City.”

Mamdani faced his own questions about why he was playing nice with a president that he's previously described as a fascist.

“The president and I have both been very frank about the many disagreements that we have,” he said Monday. "I will continue to have conversations with the president, and frankly, anyone who can deliver relief to the people of this city."

Detective Shmueal Mauda, a 36-year-old lawman also known as Sam Mauda, is accused of ― among other things ― using a dead person’s credit card to pay for a vacation to South Korea. Records show all three made appearances in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Monday.

He joins alleged accomplices Elisha Mauda, 39, and Brent Small, 58, in staring down the possibility of decades in federal prison after authorities said they targeted “elderly and deceased victims” across the country, including multiple seniors in their 90s.

Feds: Scheme targeted vulnerable victims

In a federal criminal complaint, a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service wrote that the Maudas, of Pembroke Pines, and Small, of Hollywood, stole victims’ identities and funneled money to companies they controlled. Authorities have not elaborated on how the Maudas may be related, but noted that the two live close on the same street.

All three were initially arrested in connection with a case originating from the small town of Sedro-Woolley, Washington, about 60 miles north of Seattle. Authorities there accused the trio of victimizing a senior living there, issuing a warrant on state charges.

Authorities said the group would “open credit cards in the victims’ names or ‘take over’ existing, but dormant, accounts in the victims’ names,” conducting everything online. The victims, a special agent noted, “generally did not have online access and therefore could not promptly detect the fraud.”

According to the complaint, the trio changed the victims’ account addresses to a home at 1400 NE 173rd St. in North Miami Beach. The home, authorities said, was owned by a Davie-based company called Sky Realty FL LLC, for which Small was the manager and registered agent.

Authorities said victims’ credit cards would be mailed to the single-family home, which sometimes had a fake apartment number attached “as a means of thwarting banks’ fraud detection software.”

According to the complaint, undercover investigators saw Small “retrieving mail” from the address.

Authorities accuse the group of using the credit cards for personal expenses and accused the Maudas of funneling funds to separate companies each controlled.

In one case, authorities said a 97-year-old Iowan’s credit card was used to make a $9,513 property tax payment on the North Miami Beach home.

Other victims included a 96-year-old fellow Iowan, a 98-year-old from Indiana and other nonagenarians whose states of residence weren’t specified. Agents said they also used information belonging to two dead victims, whose ages nor states of residence were specified.

The complaint also references an 85-year-old from Washington state who had $800,000 stolen from his Chase account to pay down balances on the other victims’ credit cards, allowing for additional purchases. It wasn’t immediately clear whether that was the same victim from the original arrest.

In one case, Shmueal Mauda is accused of using a credit card in the name of an already-dead victim to pay for a trip to Seoul, South Korea.

Small would later tell investigators that the Maudas, whom he had worked for as a contractor, “took care of him, including paying his bills, covering travel expenses, and often providing him with food,” in exchange for his assistance in the scheme, the complaint states.

The charges, withdrawals and transfers added up to more than $1.6 million, authorities allege.

The complaint does not state how investigators believe the three obtained the victims’ information.

Trio arrested, including 1 on FLL jet bridge

Authorities said on Aug. 13, authorities in Skagit County, Washington issued an arrest warrant for Small and the Maudas.

That same day, Davie police executed search warrants at addresses in the town associated with the fraudulent companies, as well as the Maudas’ Pembroke Pines homes in the 7300 block of Northwest 17th Court and Small’s Hollywood home in the 1700 block of Wiley Street, according to the complaint.

Police said they took Small and Shmueal Mauda into custody soon after the raids. They said hours after executing the warrants, they received a travel alert that Elisha Mauda had booked a one-way plane ticket to Bogota, Colombia, the complaint states.

The complaint states that authorities stopped Elisha Mauda “on the jet bridge at the Fort Lauderdale airport” as he was about to get on the flight.

Small, agents said, admitted to a role in the scheme and admitted “that he occasionally used those cards for minor purchases when given permission” by Elisha Mauda, but claimed “the only criminal activity he was aware of” was using cards not in his name.

But agents said Small also admitted that he “opened and maintained certain bank accounts” at Elisha Mauda’s direction and had multiple computers in his home, with internet paid for by Elisha Mauda.

According to the complaint, Shmueal Mauda acknowledged controlling one of the companies and its bank accounts but denied using an account that received fraudulent proceeds. Authorities said he declined to tell investigators who else had account access.

They said Elisha Mauda declined to provide a statement.

Shmueal Mauda was placed on unpaid leave by the Miami Shores Police Department following his arrest.

What’s next

All three men now face charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

The trio could spend the rest of their lives in federal prison if convicted of all four counts and sentenced to the maximum prison terms consecutively, with three of the charges each carrying potential 30-year penalties.

Chris Cavallo and Jayne Weintraub, attorneys for Elisha Mauda, said in a brief statement on Tuesday that their client “maintains his innocence and looks forward to clearing his name in court.”

Shmueal Mauda’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment as of publication on Tuesday, while Small’s initial appearance form did not list an attorney.

The men are set to be back in Fort Lauderdale federal court for pre-trial detention hearings next Tuesday, with arraignment hearings scheduled for Oct. 5.

Records show that as of Tuesday, Elisha Mauda and Small were being held at the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s Joseph V. Conte jail facility in Pompano Beach, while Shmueal Mauda was being held at BSO’s Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale.

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Stringer spoke to The Associated Press at a security conference in Estonia amid warnings from some European leaders that Moscow is planning to test NATO's collective defense pact with bolder attacks that have already included sabotage and espionage.

Stringer warned that NATO members need to be aware of the “febrile environment” and be careful in their response because Putin would like to provoke the alliance into an “overreaction.”

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said last week that Russia might target NATO nations with deliberate drone or missile strikes while claiming they were accidental. French President Emmanuel Macron agreed and has asked his government to prepare a plan to protect critical infrastructure against potential drone attacks and cyberattacks.

Other European officials say the threat from Russia is serious but have called for calm.

A British defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters, said the U.K. assessment is that Putin is not seeking direct confrontation with NATO. Officials in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which border Russia, also have been more cautious about the prospect of a serious escalation after years of calling on Western nations to adopt a more hawkish approach to Moscow.

“Ukraine is fighting. Russia is absorbed in Ukraine. We do not observe any buildup near our borders. And from that part, I think that most would agree that the perspective of direct military attack is not correct,” Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics told a small group of reporters late Tuesday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, dismissed any concerns that Russia may be testing the transatlantic military alliance, telling the AP following a panel discussion in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday evening that “Putin does not want a conflict with NATO.”

He said drone incursions into countries like Romania or Poland were largely the result of electronic warfare and unintentional but noted that hybrid activities like sabotage "are more concerning." Whitaker also warned against “overreacting” because “that’s exactly what I think our adversaries would want or hope for.”

European countries have already faced multiple incursions of Russian drones — and several missiles — as well as a campaign of covert Russian disruption which began after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

An AP interactive map tracking that campaign shows the escalation, from 59 incidents in March 2025 to more than 210 incidents ranging from vandalism, propaganda and influence operations to arson, sabotage and cyberattacks.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told the AP in Iowa that Putin “knows that the United States and Europe are totally intertwined.”

“We have to make sure that we are prepared, we are strong, and he knows it. And if he does anything silly, he knows our reaction will be tough,” Rutte said.

Russia is already testing NATO defenses

In August, German officials accused Moscow of being behind a plot at Leipzig airport where a drone with explosives was found next to a Ukrainian plane laden with jet fuel. Last month, British officials said they disrupted a Russian plot to sabotage a drone factory outside London. In August, an Estonian defense company was set on fire and a weapons storage facility in Bulgaria exploded, though neither has been publicly attributed to Russia.

Many saboteurs have been recruited online by Russia's intelligence services and some have no idea they are working for Moscow. That makes uncovering a plot challenging and attribution often difficult. When asked by the AP in May if Russia was waging a covert campaign against the West, Putin responded: “Name one proven fact.”

The line between “accidental and deliberate is quite a fine one,” Stringer said, referring to incursions of drones sent off course into NATO airspace by Russian GPS jamming or other electronic countermeasures to defend against Ukrainian drone strikes.

It would be possible for Russia to escalate that activity but it does not mean Moscow has decided to do so, said Stringer, NATO's deputy supreme allied commander for Europe.

While there are “a lot of different opinions as to how acute the threat is ... Russia’s attitude towards negligence” and deliberately targeting NATO neighbors "is almost the same,” Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal told AP at the security conference.

Both Stringer and Michal suggested the increase in covert attacks by Moscow was not because of a failure by NATO nations to stop them but as a direct consequence of Western support for Ukraine.

Putin is trying to break NATO support for Ukraine, leaders say

Putin, Stringer said, is “looking at a whole number of things” to try to create division between NATO allies because his campaign in Ukraine is going badly.

Michal likened the Russian leader to a “rat in the corner," who is escalating activity in Europe in an attempt to break Western support for Kyiv at a time when Moscow is under pressure.

Russia’s gains on the front lines in Ukraine have been slow and at a steep cost of more than half a million dead, even as Kyiv's deep-strike campaign targeting the country’s energy industry has caused fuel shortages in 80 of 83 Russian regions, Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Knighton, chief of the U.K.'s defense staff, said earlier this month. Still, there's no suggestion the Russian leader is backing away from his goals in Ukraine.

Baltic leaders like Rinkevics argue that Moscow will dig even deeper now as winter is approaching, saying that attacks on infrastructure are likely to increase over the next several months and that any possibility of diplomatic progress will likely not be seen until the spring.

Putin is trying to undermine NATO’s collective defense pact by testing nations with covert attacks that are hard to attribute, Michal said.

But the Estonian leader said it's currently “improbable,” that Putin will launch a conventional military attack on Europe because of the threat of a NATO response and because his forces are tied down in Ukraine.

The high level of malign activity from Russia is “here to stay” until Putin changes his military goals, Michal said, adding that the best way to deter him is to “back Ukraine.”

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Associated Press writers Farnoush Amiri at the United Nations, Hannah Fingerhut in Des Moines, Iowa, and Konstantin Toropin in Washington contributed to this report.

Along with issues ranging from artificial intelligence security to Iran, Trump is expected to raise with Chinese leader Xi Jinping the cases of Chen, 54, and Min Zin, 53, the only two American citizens considered by the U.S. government to be wrongfully detained in China.

“When he’s personally involved in such cases, Americans come back home. That’s what I've learned,” Yufang Rong told The Associated Press in an interview in Washington on Tuesday, a day before Xi's arrival.

Trump spoke with Xi about Chen when the U.S. president was in Beijing in May, Rong said, and if Trump mentions the case again this week, “I’m sure ... this case would be solved soon."

The White House has said Trump wants every American detained abroad to return home. The Chinese embassy in Washington did not respond to a question about the cases of both men, whose families have traveled to Washington to meet senior U.S. officials ahead of Xi's visit.

Wife of detained American says seismologist has ‘done nothing wrong’

Chen, who was born in China and moved to the U.S. in 1998 for academic pursuits, was detained in November 2024 by China’s state security agents when he was wrapping up a personal trip to visit his parents in Beijing, Rong said.

Chen, who studies the Earth and earthquakes and is based in Boston, was stopped at an airport and was later charged with espionage, a charge the family denies. “He has done nothing wrong,” Rong said.

Chen's work is open and transparent, and he has collaborated with scientists around the world, including those in China, Rong said. She said his detention came as an utter shock.

“No one had expected such a thing would happen to him. He is a seismologist. He has been doing his research during his entire career,” Rong said.

Chen also studies nuclear tests, including those in North Korea, his wife said.

“He can use data to detect if something (that happens) underground is a natural earthquake or is a nuclear explosion. And he can, using his methodologies, he can estimate the size of the nuclear explosion,” Rong said, speculating that Beijing might have targeted Chen for his expertise.

Chen works for the Florida-based consulting firm EMR Solutions & Technology, through which he’s done contract work for the U.S. government, much of it involving collaborating with Chinese colleagues to analyze seismological data, said Eric Lebson of Global Reach, a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing home Americans wrongly detained abroad.

Chen only works on open research and has no security clearance, said Lebson, whose group is advising the family.

Since his detention, Rong said she has never had direct contact with Chen but learned about his condition through U.S. consular officials who periodically visit the scientist.

Through notes dictated to those consular officials, Chen has told his wife not to worry about him and even still conveys how to handle mundane household chores such as changing air conditioning filters.

“But I know he is going through such unthinkable difficulties,” Rong said. “It's very hard to read his message each time.”

“I really worry about his health — mental health and physical health,” she said. “He has a lot of medical conditions: diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol level. I don't think he has access to the medication that he used to have in the U.S.”

US lawmakers call for the release of Chen and others who have been detained

The other wrongfully detained U.S. citizen in China is Min Zin, a scholar of Myanmar politics who was detained in June when traveling to the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming for an academic workshop.

He's held on suspicion of endangering national security, according to his wife, Sylvia Zin.

A group of American lawmakers introduced a bipartisan resolution last week condemning China's wrongful detention of the U.S. scholars and urging the U.S. government to prioritize their safe return.

“It is my hope that this bipartisan resolution from the United States Congress will bring increased attention to the unjust detention of Dr. Youlin Chen and Min Zin and force the Chinese government to do the right thing and release them immediately,” said Sen. Ed Markey, D.-Mass., who represents Chen's home state.

Some lawmakers also expressed hope that Trump could bring up with Xi other detentions in China, including those of activists, Christians and members of ethnic minorities.

An updated roster will be released later in the week.

Sanders, the coach of the Buffaloes, didn't specify which players were no longer with the program but indicated it was for a pattern of behavior and not just what transpired in a 41-7 loss at Northwestern.

“It's never one thing,” Sanders said. “Those guys will tell you: I’m the most loving, giving and forgiving man you can ever meet. But when you start being conduct detrimental to the team that will set us back in things that you’re doing — you don’t care about the team. You care about you. I have a problem with that.”

Sanders referenced last season when things went sideways and the team finished 3-9.

“A year ago, I didn’t put my foot down in it enough,” he said. “It lingered a little bit. Then, it imploded. I’m not doing that. I'm not doing that anymore.”

Defensive back Ben Finneseth spoke to reporters before Sanders and apologized on behalf of the team in regard to negative comments caught on video about Northwestern’s temporary stadium. A player in a video posted on social media can be heard saying, “(expletive) sounds like a (expletive) library. It’s football.”

Finneseth said Tuesday: “It was childish. It was a stupid thing that I said. It won’t happen again, and the way I handled it was horrible. I promise you guys that it will not happen again, and it will be much more mature moving forward. So I apologize.”

Before Finneseth left, Sanders shook his hand and added, “that’s why I love you.”

Sanders expressed his frustration Saturday night and acknowledged that he got on a few players for their reaction after the loss. He said: “I don’t understand how you can have joy in a loss, especially when I’m upset and I’m walking right behind you.”

The coach took accountability, too.

“I don’t push the buck and push the blame on anyone else. It’s on me,” Sanders said Tuesday. “We want to win the right way, and we want to do what’s right. But the whole thing is about winning. We don’t want to ever employ a losing type of sentiment. We don’t want to do things that are associated with losers and bad-mouth opponents and do that kind of stuff. That’s not who we are.”

The Buffaloes (2-1) are trying to rebound after a game in which they had four turnovers and committed nine penalties for 80 yards.

“A loss by 10, a loss by three, a loss by 30 — it hurts me. There’s no degrees of loss,” Sanders said. “Like, there’s no degrees of sin. A sin is a sin. A loss is a loss to me."

Sanders is putting everything under a microscope as the Buffaloes prepare for Saturday's game at Baylor. At the top of the list: penalties.

Colorado has 28 penalties for 247 yards so far this season. It's frustrating to Sanders, who pointed out the team is disciplined in everything it does on the practice field.

“Then when you get out from the field and you’re undisciplined, I don’t understand,” Sanders said. "It’s hard to fathom.

"We’re challenging them to be who they say they want to be.”

The message hit home for players such as linebacker Tyler Martinez, who recently received a “D” patch — it stands for “Dawg” — from the coaching staff for being a playmaker.

“It's hard to see somebody go,” Martinez said of the dismissals. “Like Coach Prime said, it's about the team. If you're about yourself, got to do what's best for us.”

Sanders had several leaders approach him about how to get ahead of this so more dismissals don't occur. They want to help stay on top of the situation.

“I applaud them for that," Sanders said, "coming to me ready to get ahead of it.”

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Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was back in a federal detention center Tuesday after being treated and released at a hospital for a second time since he was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Sunday in Austin, according to his attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.

Austin police on Tuesday released body camera footage showing Garces Perez hunching over in the front seat of his car and grabbing his shoulder and rocking back and forth after the shooting. An officer later cut off Perez's shirt, and a wound can be seen in his upper back.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas said he planned to visit Garces Perez on Wednesday to “check on his condition and demand his release.” The Department of Homeland Security defended Garces Perez's treatment and its operations, saying ICE would not slow down or leave Austin.

Castro has joined other Democrats in sharply criticizing the shooting, which came amid a surge in enforcement during President Donald Trump’s second term. The encounter has sparked protests in Austin, including a gathering outside the Texas Capitol on Monday night.

Judge sets court hearing for Garces Perez

Garces Perez was making a DoorDash delivery Sunday afternoon when ICE officers in an unmarked truck sideswiped his car twice, Lincoln-Goldfinch has said. He was shot and taken to a hospital, then released into ICE custody with a bullet still in his back, she said.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ordered Garces Perez to appear in person at a hearing Sept. 30 in San Antonio in response to a lawsuit filed by his attorney, who is seeking to stop attempts to remove him from the country. In the order, Garcia wrote that “petitioner must be present at the hearing.”

In court filings, Garces Perez’s lawyers said he was forced to sleep on a cement floor at an ICE temporary processing center before being transferred to a detention center in the rural town of Pearsall. They also alleged that he was questioned without an attorney present.

Garces Perez entered the U.S. in 2024 using CBP One, a program begun under President Joe Biden that allowed migrants to make appointments with U.S. authorities to be considered for asylum, Lincoln-Goldfinch said. President Donald Trump ended the program on his first day in office.

Garces Perez was an asylum seeker and had a valid work permit, according to Lincoln-Goldfinch. She said a judge issued a deportation order after the man missed an immigration court hearing because the notice was sent to a former address.

Austin police release body camera footage

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said Tuesday that an off-duty detective reported the incident after witnessing and recording black SUVs surrounding a dark blue Toyota Corolla. Ten to fifteen minutes later, Davis said, he takes a video where three gunshots and sirens can be heard.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to questions Tuesday about whether the federal officer who shot Garces Perez was wearing a body-worn camera. Davis said she did not know whether federal officers on the scene were wearing body cameras.

ICE has said its field officers nationwide will have body-worn cameras by the end of September.

Davis said there was a pursuit that went through some side neighborhoods that ended on a side street about 200 yards (meters) from where Perez was eventually shot. The body worn camera videos released by Austin police do not show what led up to the shooting. The body warn camera footage begins with an officer walking up to Garces Perez's car after the shooting and interacting with federal officers on the scene.

The videos are partially muted, and Garces Perez is speaking Spanish to the officers. State troopers are also on the scene. An officer asks one of the federal officers if Garces Perez is under arrest and is told yes.

On Monday, Perez called into a news conference and told reporters he had received no pain medication and slept on the floor. DHS said in a statement Tuesday that Garces Perez was receiving medical care “around the clock, including pain medication" and had slept on a bed.

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Osiris, a 26-year-old female whale, died on Monday, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium said in a statement. The death comes less than a week after a fourth beluga, named Jelly Bean, died since it was rehomed at Oceanogràfic de València in Spain.

The deaths were sudden and unexpected as their health wavered amid the challenges of adjusting to a new home, according to statements from the aquariums.

Beluga whales are particularly vulnerable to changes in their environment, like climate change, pollution and other sources of stress, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Beluga whales native to the Cook Inlet on Alaska's coast are classified as an endangered species, and their population rapidly declined by nearly 80% from 1979 to 2018.

“When Shedd was asked to help with this rescue, we understood that these animals arrived with significant vulnerabilities and that the outcome for every individual could not be guaranteed,” the Shedd Aquarium said in a statement.

The belugas struggled to adapt to the aquarium

The Shedd Aquarium took in 10 of the 30 belugas and four dolphins stranded at Marineland, an Ontario park that closed years ago and could no longer care for them. The Canadian government signed off on a last-minute agreement to move its last captive whales out of the country earlier this year, saving them from euthanasia.

The belugas came from the Marineland park and zoo in Niagara Falls, Ontario, which announced in early 2023 that it was for sale and closed to the public in late summer 2024. Twenty whales — 19 belugas and one killer whale — had died at Marineland since 2019, according to provincial government data obtained through freedom of information laws and official statements.

The rescued belugas were moved in custom-made slings and temperature-controlled containers, Shedd staff told The Associated Press. Aquarium personnel traveled to Marineland to examine their health records in preparation for the move. They have monitored their health minute-by-minute since they arrived, the aquarium staff said.

Peekachu and Rain died at the Shedd in late August and early September after arriving from Canada. Another beluga that had lived at the aquarium for decades died around the same time.

Osiris was a “whale of clinical concern” since she arrived, according to the aquarium. The whale did not eat as consistently as her fellow animals, which complicated the efforts to keep her well-fed and hydrated, according to the statement.

“Osiris experienced periods of meaningful progress, both nutritionally and socially, but her overall condition remained closely monitored,” the aquarium stated.

Osiris' caretakers noticed sudden changes in her behavior and breathing patterns the morning of her death, according to the aquarium. She was moved to the medical habitat, but “her condition declined rapidly,” and she “passed away despite lifesaving efforts.”

A beluga sent to Spain died suddenly

Jelly Bean, the whale that died at Oceanogràfic de València, also died “suddenly and unexpectedly,” according to José Rafael Serra, a spokesperson for the facility. The whale “experienced feeding difficulties, prompting the veterinary team to intensify her monitoring,” despite periods of improvement, Serra said in an email.

The Spanish aquarium took in two of Marineland's beluga whales, including Jelly Bean. The Georgia Aquarium and SeaWorld locations in San Diego and San Antonio have also accepted whales from the Canadian park.

The two rescued whales at the Georgia Aquarium showed decreased appetites and were examined, but no issues were found, the aquarium said in a social media post Friday. The whales at SeaWorld are in “stable health,” according to AnneMarie Iturrizaga, a spokesperson for the company that owns the parks.

The Shedd Aquarium notified the NOAA of Osiris’ death Monday, according to John Chu, a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries. Within 30 days of the whales’ deaths, the aquarium must formally submit their names and causes of death, and on request, provide copies of necropsy reports, Chu said in an email earlier this month.

The Shedd Aquarium said it will conduct necropsies into the whales and will share the results when they are confirmed.

Andrew Trites, the director of the University of British Columbia’s Marine Mammal Research Unit, said it was concerning that the four belugas had died “so shortly after arriving in their new homes."

The belugas were in small, confined spaces on the flights out of Marineland, but that's not out of the ordinary for them, Trites said. The whales often swim in narrow spaces between sheets of ice, and “should be reasonably well adapted to that sort of condition,” he said.

“Four animals have died so shortly after arriving in the new homes, and that’s what stands out to me as being surprising," Trites said.

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Two-time European champion Arsenal needed a stoppage-time winner to defeat HB Køge 1-0 at home, while Inter Milan, making its debut in the competition proper, edged visiting Häcken by the same score.

Benfica won 2-1 at Juventus with a pair of goals by Marit Bratberg Lund, and Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain drew 1-1 in the Spanish capital, with Felicia Schröder scoring for the hosts two minutes into the match and PSG equalizing with a second-half penalty by Sakina Karchaoui.

Man City recovers from tough start

Bayern, a semifinalist last season, got off to a quick start with Giulia Gwinn scoring in the 11th minute and with an own-goal by Kerstin Casparij in the 28th.

City began its rally before halftime, with Beth Mead netting in the 45th. Carlotta Wamser, who just joined City from Bayer Leverkusen, completed the comeback with a shot from inside the area in the 86th for her first Champions League goal.

“It feels very special. It’s a dream as a kid to play in the Champions League and play against the best players in the world," Wamser said, according to UEFA.com.

Forward Khadija Shaw missed a 62nd-minute penalty kick for City, which became the first English team not to lose away to Bayern in Europe.

“We lost intensity a bit in the second half and made too many mistakes and too easy mistakes, and at this level it goes against you, so we have to learn from it,” Bayern midfielder Linda Dallmann said. “We had the chances, especially at the end, we had two big chances. At this level, you have to score. I think we deserved it at the end. But it’s our fault, we have to work on that.”

City made it to the quarterfinals two seasons ago, being eliminated by Chelsea, but didn't qualify for the European tournament last season.

“We want to show what we’re about in Europe," Mead said. "We showed that in the second half here, now we need to do it for 90 minutes. Obviously it’s a very different competition compared to domestic football. Hopefully we can get up to speed quickly and show what we’re about against Madrid (in the next game).”

It made it back after its first year under coach Andrée Jeglertz, who helped the team end Chelsea’s dominance of the Women’s Super League to claim its first league title in a decade. City also won the FA Cup to complete a domestic double.

It was Bayern's first competitive match at its new venue, the Sportpark Unterhaching.

Arsenal wins late in home debut

Arsenal, the 2024-25 champion, was headed to a scoreless draw against Danish club HB Køge at home when Mariona Caldentey converted a penalty kick three minutes into stoppage time.

HB Køge, playing in the competition proper for the first time since the 2021-22 season, withstood the Arsenal pressure for most of the match until conceding the late penalty.

“For the whole 90 minutes, we worked so hard," Arsenal midfielder Kyra Cooney-Cross said. "We never give up. We are a hard-working team and we always want to score goals, create chances, but at the moment it is quite difficult. We got the three points and that is all that matters.”

Winning debut for Inter

Haley Bugeja scored five minutes into the match and Inter held on for its opening victory over Swedish club Häcken.

Bugeja is the first Maltese player to appear in a Champions League group stage/league phase game, men or women, UEFA said.

“It was special for us, and special to see how maturely we played. We scored early and then we took a step back, but I’m very happy about our second half,” Inter coach David Sassarini said. "I am happy about the win. We showed we can play in this competition, and the ambition now is to improve on certain things and keep it up.”

The visitors saw goalkeeper Jennifer Falk sent off in the 89th.

Inter, making its debut after advancing through a penalty shootout win over Wolfsburg, twice hit the post with headers by Elisa Bartoli and Lina Magull.

“It was so special for me to captain Inter on such a historic night," Inter captain Irene Santi said. "It was incredible, and we played so well as a team.”

Häcken defender Aivi Luik was the oldest group stage/league phase player at 41, according to UEFA.

“I don’t think about my record," she said. "I still feel young. The secret is coffee and chocolate. It wasn’t the result we wanted, we could have equalized but we didn’t and now we look forward to the next matches.”

The league phase, in its second year, has 18 teams competing over six matchdays. The top four advance directly to the quarterfinals and the clubs finishing between fifth and 12th compete in knockout phase playoffs in February.

Defending champion Barcelona hosts Paris FC in one of the four matches on Wednesday.

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The Yankees (90-66) moved six games ahead of the Red Sox for the AL’s top wild-card spot. Tampa Bay (95-61) has a magic number of two to clinch the AL East for the fifth time in team history and first since 2021.

Cody Bellinger hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning off Tampa Bay starter Nick Martinez (15-5) and also started a key double play to end the sixth by throwing out Victor Mesa Jr. at first.

Rodón (7-3) struck out eight and walked none while completing eight innings for the first time since July 11, 2025, against the Cubs. The left-hander, who recorded his 100th win, became the 18th active pitcher to reach 1,500 career strikeouts when he fanned Jonny DeLuca on a slider for the second out of the eighth.

Rodón also struck out AL MVP candidate Junior Caminero on a slider in the dirt in the seventh with a runner on after reaching 98 mph on the previous two pitches.

Rodón threw first-pitch strikes to 15 of 25 hitters and improved to 3-1 in seven starts since returning from left elbow inflammation last month.

Following a double by Ben Rice off Martinez in the fourth, Bellinger lifted the next pitch into the right field seats for a 2-0 lead.

After a single by Mesa started the sixth, Richie Palacios lifted a fly ball to Bellinger. Bellinger made the catch and a strong one-hop throw to first baseman Luis García Jr. to easily complete the double play and get his eighth outfield assist this year.

Martinez allowed two runs and five hits in six innings. The right-hander struck out seven and lost for the first time since July 9.

David Bednar retired Yandy Díaz for his 35th save in 39 chances and finish New York’s 15th shutout in 2 hours, 2 minutes — the Yankees’ fastest game this season.

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Tampa Bay RHP Drew Rasmussen (15-5, 2.72 ERA) opposes New York LHP Max Fried (5-4, 2.63) in the second game.

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The person confirmed Bagent's status to The Associated Press on Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the Bears hadn't released their first injury report of the week.

Bagent was expected to take most of the first-team reps in practice after Caleb Williams left Sunday’s 9-3 loss to Minnesota with a right hamstring injury. Coach Ben Johnson said Monday that Williams is “week to week,” and he left open the possibility that the No. 1 pick in the 2024 draft could play against the Eagles.

If Williams and Bagent are unable to play in Week 3, the Bears likely would turn to Case Keenum. The 38-year-old Keenum has 66 career starts, but he hasn't thrown a pass in a regular-season game since Dec. 24, 2023, for Houston against Cleveland.

“I think we’ve got a really dynamic quarterback room in terms of guys that are challenging each other,” Johnson said Monday. "They’ve got great ideas, very smart, cerebral. They push each other, and I think we’ve got three guys that can win football games.”

Bagent was 5 for 9 for 54 yards against the Vikings. He was sacked by Dallas Turner on the final play of the game.

Bagent, 26, had a record-setting career at Division II Shepherd University before signing with the Bears in May 2023 as an undrafted free agent.

He made four starts while appearing in five games as rookie, passing for 859 yards and three touchdowns with six interceptions. He signed a two-year contract extension in August 2025.

“We’re ready for whatever,” offensive lineman Jonah Jackson said Monday. “We’ve had snaps with Tyson, we’ve had snaps with Case. It shouldn’t be too much of a change.”

Also Tuesday, Chicago made a change at long snapper. Scott Daly was signed from New Orleans' practice squad, and rookie Beau Gardner was waived. The Bears also signed defensive back Nick McCloud to their practice squad and released offensive lineman Kyle Hergel.

The 32-year-old Daly, who is from suburban Chicago, spent the previous two seasons with the Bears, appearing in 34 games.

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Activistas y funcionarios electos, actuales y pasados, ofrecieron el martes una conferencia de prensa en Doral para pedir que la ciudad cancele el acuerdo, que permite a la policía local colaborar en el cumplimiento de las leyes de inmigración.

“Lo que hicieron estos líderes es indigno”, dijo Joe Garcia, excongresista demócrata. “Le enviamos un mensaje a Tallahassee y a Washington: no vamos a tolerar esto”.

Los líderes de la ciudad firmaron el acuerdo en 2025.

“Todo un concejo municipal votó para ser parte de la crueldad”, afirmó Garcia.

El grupo describió un panorama de graves consecuencias de las medidas migratorias en la ciudad, donde el 70% de los residentes nació fuera de Estados Unidos y el 40% es de origen venezolano.

“Lo que estamos haciendo ahora va en contra de nosotros mismos y está perjudicando nuestra economía”, dijo el alcalde de South Miami, Javier Fernandez. “Los dueños de negocios dicen que sus ventas han bajado entre un 40% y un 70%. Restaurantes, tiendas, todos se están viendo afectados. Estamos perdiendo mano de obra fundamental para mantener nuestra economía en marcha”.

El activista local Thomas Kennedy dijo durante la conferencia que los líderes de la ciudad podrían “salirse” del acuerdo.

En su momento, los funcionarios de Doral afirmaron que no tenían otra opción que firmarlo.

Local 10 News investiga si la ciudad puede revocar la medida.

De acuerdo con el reporte, Younes Bekkali, de 38 años, originario de Marruecos y residente de Miami, fue arrestado el sábado, dos días después del presunto enfrentamiento.

Según el reporte, los agentes acudieron al Palmetto Expressway cerca de la avenida 74 del noroeste alrededor de las 5:37 a.m. del jueves tras un choque en el que se vieron involucrados varios vehículos.

Al llegar, los agentes hablaron con un bombero de servicio que llevaba puesto su uniforme completo.

El bombero les dijo a los investigadores que estaba dirigiendo el tráfico cuando vio a un Dodge Challenger morado que intentaba esquivar la zona restringida del accidente. Según el reporte, el vehículo estaba registrado a nombre de Bekkali.

El bombero movió un camión de MDFR para bloquear el tráfico y proteger al personal que trabajaba en la escena. Luego se bajó del camión y, con señales de mano, le indicó a Bekkali que tomara una ruta alterna, según el reporte.

Los investigadores afirmaron que Bekkali ignoró las instrucciones y, en cambio, aceleró el Challenger y atropelló al bombero, que recibió el impacto en las piernas y salió despedido varios pies hacia atrás.

Según los investigadores, Bekkali se bajó entonces del auto y empujó al bombero varias veces por el pecho antes de volver a subirse al vehículo y huir hacia el norte por el Palmetto Expressway desde la avenida 74 del noroeste.

De acuerdo con el reporte, Bekkali fue localizado y arrestado el sábado, y luego llevado a la estación del Distrito Midwest de MDSO.

Después de que le leyeran sus derechos Miranda, Bekkali ofreció lo que los investigadores describieron como una “declaración interesada” y negó haber participado en el incidente, informaron las autoridades.

Luego fue trasladado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, donde fue procesado por cargos de agresión agravada con arma mortal contra un bombero, agresión física contra un bombero y desobedecer a un bombero.

Hasta la mañana del martes, Bekkali permanecía detenido sin fianza en el Metrowest Detention Center.

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Miami-Dade deputies said Myrthland Ince, 33, and Romario Stewart, 32, are among “several subjects” who “have been identified to be targeting Sam’s Club and Walmart stores across South Florida in order to purchase large amounts of perishable items” using compromised food stamp and NationsBenefits cards.

The two men, listed in an arrest report as living together in Hallandale Beach, each face a dozen felony charges.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies were surveilling the Sam’s Club at 8425 NW 13th Terrace in Doral on Monday alongside Walmart investigators when Ince and Stewart walked in.

Deputies said Stewart “was recognized from previous fraudulent transactions.”

Authorities said the two men proceeded to go on a shopping spree, grabbing $500 worth of Tide detergent, 18 cans of Café Bustelo worth a little less than $370 and a singular can of Members Mark cashews worth about $14.

But that wasn’t all. The real motherlode, according to the MDSO report, was of Spam: Seventy bulk-sized cans of the classic lunch meat, worth nearly $1,800. Their total bill came out to $2,704.59, the report states.

Authorities said the duo went to the self-checkout machines and paid for the items using stolen information from 10 NationsBenefits accounts.

Deputies said they detained the two after they left the store. Ince, they said, had six debit cards re-encoded with the stolen NationsBenefits information, while Stewart had four.

Both men now face 10 identity theft charges, as well as one count each of grand theft and public assistance fraud.

Records show Ince was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $35,000 bond.

Stewart, meanwhile, was at TGK with a bond listed as “to be set.”

Both men also have magistrate holds, jail records show.

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Two restaurants, Kelly’s Cajun Grill and Danny’s Pizza Miami Style, were recently ordered shut after inspectors found rodent activity.

At Kelly’s, inspectors found dozens of rodent droppings throughout the kitchen, including around the handwashing sink, ice machine, kitchen floor and food-storage areas. Inspectors also found a mold-like buildup inside the ice machine, food being held at improper temperatures and other violations.

And this isn’t the first time Kelly’s has been shut down over rodents. The restaurant was also ordered shut in July for rodent issues. It was ordered shut again on Sept. 21, with 18 violations cited.

At Danny’s Pizza Miami Style, inspectors found more than 20 rodent droppings behind chest freezers, along with droppings under the three-compartment sink. Inspectors also found a hole in a wall and food being held at an unsafe temperature. The restaurant was ordered shut on Sept. 21.

Local 10 News has reached out to Westland Mall management for comment.

**KELLY’S CAJUN GRILL

WESTLAND MALL

HIALEAH

ORDERED SHUT 9/21

18 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 7/20/26 (RODENT ISSUES)

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 6 rodent droppings next to hand wash sink. Observed 4 rodent droppings on top of soda syrup case next to ice machine. Observed approximately +17 rodent droppings on floor at kitchen area, and approximately +20 rodent droppings under and next to ice machine at kitchen area. Observed 3 rodent droppings on top of seasoning containers at dry storage area.”

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

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed crispy chicken (47F - Cold Holding) on preparation table at kitchen, as per operator less than 1 hour. Repeat Violation.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed a hole on wall next to 3 compartment sink.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed breaded fish fillets (128F - Hot Holding) on steam table at front counter, as per operator less than 1 hour”

“Food manager certification expired.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Observed cooked chicken prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Repeat Violation.”

“Required employee training expired for all employees.”

**DANNY’S PIZZA MIAMI STYLE

WESTLAND MALL

HIALEAH

ORDERED SHUT 9/21

7 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately +20 rodent droppings behind chest freezers at kitchen area. Observed 2 rodent droppings under 3 compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed hole on wall next to kitchen door entrance.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked spaghetti (112F - Hot Holding) on stove, as per operator less than 1 hour.”

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The report states that Younes Bekkali, 38, who is originally from Morocco, but is currently living in Miami, was arrested Saturday, two days after the alleged confrontation.

According to the report, deputies responded to the Palmetto Expressway near Northwest 74th Avenue at about 5:37 a.m. Thursday following a multi-vehicle crash.

When deputies arrived, they spoke with an on-duty firefighter who was wearing his full uniform.

The firefighter told investigators he was directing traffic when he saw a purple Dodge Challenger attempting to bypass the restricted crash scene. According to the report, the vehicle was registered to Bekkali.

The firefighter repositioned an MDFR engine to block traffic and protect personnel working at the scene before getting out of the truck and using hand signals to instruct Bekkali to take an alternate route, the report states.

Investigators said Bekkali disregarded those instructions and instead accelerated the Challenger, striking the firefighter in the legs and knocking him back several feet.

Investigators said Bekkali then got out of the car and pushed the firefighter multiple times in the chest before getting back into the vehicle and fleeing northbound on the Palmetto Expressway from Northwest 74th Avenue.

According to the report, Bekkali was located and arrested Saturday before being taken to the MDSO Midwest District station.

After being read his Miranda rights, Bekkali provided what investigators described as a “self-serving statement” and denied being involved in the incident, authorities said.

He was then transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he was booked on charges of aggravated battery on a firefighter with a deadly weapon, battery on a firefighter and failure to obey a firefighter.

As of Tuesday morning, Bekkali was being held at the Metrowest Detention Center without bond.

At about 7:55 p.m. on Friday, Miami Gardens police officers and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the parking lot at 20401 NW 2nd Ave., according to a police report.

After finding the toddler alone in the car, MDFR personnel opened the car’s door and found her in “good health,” according to the police officer’s report.

A sergeant found the girl’s mother, Janina Joseph, in a beauty salon on the second floor, and she said she was there “doing her hair,” according to the police report.

“The baby was released to the father on scene, who arrived at the location,” a police officer wrote, according to the report.

Police officers arrested Joseph at 9:30 p.m. on Friday and filed a report with the Florida Department of Children and Families, according to the police report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Joseph at the Turner Guilford Correctional Center. She appeared in bond court on Saturday, facing a charge of child neglect without great bodily harm.

Joseph’s bond was $2,500, and corrections released her on Sunday, according to court records. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Andrea Ricker Wolfson was presiding over the case.

Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.

Durante su discurso en la apertura de la 81ª Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, el mandatario brasileño, quien aspira a la reelección para un cuarto mandato no consecutivo en los comicios que Brasil celebrará en octubre, criticó la injerencia externa en los asuntos internos de su país.

“No permitiremos que los enemigos de la democracia, ya sean internos o externos, socaven la voluntad popular. La democracia brasileña pertenece a los brasileños. Brasil seguirá siendo un país soberano”, afirmó Lula. “Nadie nos apartará de este camino”.

Lula ofreció su discurso poco antes que interviniera en el estrado su homólogo estadounidense, Donald Trump, con quien ha protagonizado una serie de controversias en el último año.

Sus palabras se producen en un momento en que las tensiones entre Estados Unidos y Brasil van en aumento producto de las tarifas estadounidenses impuestas a los productos brasileños y las críticas de Trump al juicio en contra del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), un aliado político y quien actualmente cumple una condena de 27 años bajo arresto domiciliario por un intento de golpe de Estado.

Las relaciones entre ambos países se han tensado aún más tras las crecientes denuncias de injerencia extranjera a falta de dos semanas para los comicios generales, en los que Lula aparece técnicamente empatado con su principal adversario político, el senador Flávio Bolsonaro, uno de los hijos del expresidente Bolsonaro y quien cuenta con el apoyo público de Trump.

Ante la ONU, Lula destacó que el sistema electoral brasileño es “moderno y robusto” y advirtió sobre las campañas de desinformación que buscan distorsionar el debate público previo a las elecciones, señalando que “la democracia está una vez más en peligro”.

“Brasil no es el patio trasero de nadie”, declaró. “Estamos presenciando nuevamente injerencias externas en los procesos electorales”.

Brasil, preparado para combatir el crimen

El mandatario brasileño igualmente se refirió al combate al crimen organizado en el país y destacó que, aunque valora la cooperación internacional para frenar la violencia, Brasil “no delegará la responsabilidad de defender” sus fronteras.

“Estamos preparados para enfrentar las organizaciones criminales que aterrorizan nuestras comunidades”, expresó. “No necesitamos portaaviones protegiendo nuestras aguas. Necesitamos cooperación para frenar el flujo de armas y dinero que alimentan la delincuencia”.

Las declaraciones de Lula se producen tres días después de que presentara, el pasado viernes, un plan piloto para ampliar el papel del gobierno federal en la lucha contra la violencia de las bandas criminales en Río de Janeiro, después de que tanto Bolsonaro como Trump acusaran a Lula de actuar de manera insuficiente para frenar a los grupos de crimen organizado.

A inicios del año, el gobierno estadounidense designó a dos grupos criminales brasileños —el Primer Comando de la Capital (PCC) y el Comando Vermelho (CV)— como organizaciones terroristas extranjeras. La decisión fue tajantemente rechazada por el jefe de Estado brasileño, mientras que algunos analistas y sectores políticos han argumentado que la medida podría tener como objetivo interferir en las elecciones.

Lula ya había anticipado que aprovecharía la mayor arena de la diplomacia mundial para decirle a Trump que “no se meta" en las elecciones de Brasil, aunque moderó considerablemente su tono en su intervención a los líderes globales.

La ONU vive su "momento más crítico"

Lula comenzó su discurso criticando duramente lo que calificó como debilidad en las acciones de la ONU ante las guerras en Ucrania y Oriente Medio, y pidió una reforma del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, señalando que tan solo en 2025 el mundo “verá el mayor número de conflictos armados desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial”.

“La ONU está fallando en una de sus misiones más elevadas: salvar a la humanidad del flagelo de la guerra”, declaró Lula. “Su credibilidad nunca ha sido tan baja; su capacidad para proteger a los más vulnerables, aquellos que no tienen ejército ni arsenales, nunca ha sido tan reducida”.

Lula afirmó que el organismo debe recuperar su capacidad de diálogo y mediación, y que es momento de elegir entre el multilateralismo y/o la fragmentación global.

“Las concesiones a la ley del más fuerte han superado todos los límites”, dijo. “La guerra no es la continuación de la política por otros medios; es la ruptura total de la política”.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019, temporarily barred his administration from moving forward with the rule last year, so it was never implemented. On Monday, she made the injunction permanent.

Officials from the Republican administration had said the directive would stop “illegal aliens” from accessing federal benefits by reclassifying broad swaths of social services programs under a Clinton-era law, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

But the rule also would have swept up many immigrants in the U.S. legally, including work and student visa holders. It also would have barred services from Temporary Protected Status holders, who are granted work permits if the U.S. government determines conditions in their home country are too dangerous to return, along with recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, who were brought to the country illegally as children and receive temporary protection from deportation and work authorization.

Those groups, which are considered “nonqualified aliens” under the law, are already unable to access full Medicaid benefits and federally funded food aid and cash assistance.

The Trump administration issued its directive in July 2025. Democratic attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia sued.

They said the change upended three decades of policy allowing people to access community health clinics, domestic violence shelters and Head Start centers without proving their immigration status. They warned the harms could spread, deterring any immigrant from seeking services and throwing up barriers even for U.S. citizens unable to document their legal status. The new rules also would have put administrative burdens on underfunded social service agencies, including Head Start operators, which might have been forced to close if they were unable to comply with the directive’s new requirements, the lawsuit said.

In her ruling, McElroy declared the directive “unlawful” and said the Trump administration did not follow the proper avenues to rewrite the rules. She called the administration's actions “procedurally invalid." She added that the administration still could pursue rule changes through the federal notice-and-comment process, which officials bypassed when they issued the directive last year.

Requests for comment were sent to the departments named as defendants in the wide-ranging lawsuit. The Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees Head Start, said it does not comment on ongoing litigation. The Labor Department referred inquiries to the Justice Department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement, New York Attorney General Letitia James, who was among those who sued, hailed the judge’s ruling.

“From cancer screenings to food banks to early childhood education, the federal government’s attempts to decimate the social safety net would have been catastrophic for working families,” James said.

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En Kelly’s, con 18 violaciones, es la segunda clausura por roedores desde julio. En Danny’s, los inspectores citaron siete violaciones. Local 10 News contactó a la administración del Westland Mall para obtener sus comentarios.\

También participaron en el encuentro, que se llevó a cabo en Nueva York, el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio; el secretario del Tesoro Scott Bessent; la jefa de gabinete Susie Wiles, y el asesor de Seguridad Nacional Stephen Miller, según informó la Casa Blanca.

Otros detalles de la cita no fueron divulgados.

La reunión informal entre Trump y Rodríguez en un hotel de Nueva York se enmarca en el primer viaje a Estados Unidos de la presidenta interina de Venezuela desde que asumió el cargo, pocos días después de la captura de Maduro.

Desde entonces, Trump y Rodríguez, quien se desempeñó como vicepresidenta de Maduro, han forjado una relación de trabajo, mientras que el expresidente del país caribeño fue trasladado a Estados Unidos y aguarda un juicio por presunto narcotráfico.

Rodríguez se encuentra en Nueva York desde el lunes para participar en la Asamblea General de la ONU, a la que tiene previsto entregar un discurso el miércoles por la tarde. En el máximo escenario de la diplomacia global, la mandataria confía en defender los principios de su país “con una agenda de trabajo basada en el respeto, la cooperación y el entendimiento”, según dijo en un mensaje publicado en Twitter.

Opositores protestan presencia en la ONU

Mientras tanto, en Caracas un centenar de opositores se concentraron en la jornada frente a la sede de Naciones Unidas en la capital venezolana para protestar contra la presencia Rodríguez en la Asamblea General del organismo y exigir la convocatoria de elecciones presidenciales en Venezuela.

“Debemos señalar categóricamente lo siguiente: Delcy Rodríguez no está en Nueva York, en Naciones Unidas, representando a Venezuela”, dijo el dirigente opositor Andrés Velásquez, quien afirmó que la presidenta en funciones también tiene responsabilidad en abusos de poder, casos de corrupción y el desconocimiento de los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales de julio de 2024 en su condición de alta funcionaria en los gobiernos de los expresidentes Hugo Chávez y Nicolás Maduro.

“Ni todas las intervenciones golillas (a costes bajos) que le permitan en Naciones Unidas, ni todas las reuniones que logre hacer en Nueva York van a lavarle la cara en su corresponsabilidad en el golpe de Estado cometido en Venezuela contra la soberanía popular el 28 de julio del año 2024”, agregó en declaraciones a la prensa.

Velásquez denunció además que aún permanecen encarcelados más de 400 personas por motivos políticos. Miles de personas fueron detenidas en los últimos tres lustros, una mayoría de ellos luego de los comicios de presidenciales de 2024 cuando la administración de Maduro impulsó la detención masiva de personas que expresaban dudas sobre su afirmación de victoria en los comicios de ese año, en particular después de que la oposición presentara pruebas creíbles de que su candidato había sido el ganador.

Tras la detención de Maduro, más de 8.600 personas fueron excarceladas, algunas de ellas bajo medidas cautelares sustitutivas de prisión, en el marco de una ley de amnistía aprobada en febrero por la Asamblea Nacional, de mayoría oficialista, por iniciativa de Rodríguez, pero aún quedan cientos detenidos.

Las autoridades identificaron el martes al fallecido como Julmice Belone, residente de Fort Lauderdale.

De acuerdo con BSO, alrededor de las 3:28 a.m. del domingo una persona llamó al 911 para reportar un tiroteo cerca de la cuadra 3100 del Northwest 37th Street.

Al llegar, los agentes encontraron a un hombre con una herida de bala. Le prestaron primeros auxilios de inmediato, y luego el personal de Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue lo trasladó a un hospital de la zona, confirmaron las autoridades.

Poco después, según los agentes, se enteraron de que una segunda víctima, identificada más tarde como Belone, había sido llevada a un hospital cercano en un vehículo particular.

Belone fue declarado muerto en el hospital, informó BSO.

Las unidades de Escena del Crimen y de Homicidios de BSO acudieron al lugar para investigar.

Los detectives indicaron que, según la investigación preliminar, el tiroteo ocurrió durante una discusión en una fiesta en una casa.

De acuerdo con BSO, una tercera persona involucrada les dijo a los detectives que intentaba calmar la situación y que los disparos fueron en defensa propia. Esa persona también sufrió heridas leves, confirmaron las autoridades.

Los investigadores señalaron que el autor de los disparos se quedó en el lugar y fue detenido para ser interrogado, pero luego lo dejaron en libertad.

Funcionarios de BSO indicaron que, una vez concluida la investigación, los detectives presentarán el caso a la Fiscalía Estatal del Condado Broward para su revisión.

No se han dado a conocer las identidades de las demás personas involucradas en el tiroteo.

Judges of the award whittled down the 13 semifinalists announced in July to six on Tuesday and said the shortlisted books are “moving, pacey, funny, violent, intriguing, horrifying and hopeful.” They were selected from an original 163 submissions.

The Booker Prize celebrates the best works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the U.K. and/or Ireland between October 2025 and Sept. 2026. The winner stands to win 50,000 pounds ($67,000).

“Most of these books were beginning to feel like old friends after at least two readings,” said historian Mary Beard, head of the judging panel. “And it was painful to have to let some of them go, with their now bent spines and dog-eared pages, their brilliant capacity to make us think, argue and sometimes disagree.”

The list includes James’ “The Disappearers,” about a group of gay men in his native Jamaica in what was a hostile environment in the 1980s; Stuart’s “ John of John,” a story of father-son secrets on a remote Scottish island. James won the Booker in 2015 for “A Brief History of Seven Killings” and Stuart won in 2020 for “Shuggie Bain.”

If either were to win, they would be the fifth author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice, joining J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood.

Also on the shortlist is Pulitzer Prize laureate Elizabeth Strout, whose heartfelt small-town tale “The Things We Never Say” once again celebrates the lives of those in her native New England. Strout’s “Oh William!” was a finalist in 2022. She won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009 for “Olive Kitteridge.”

The others on the list are British authors Rebecca Perry for Medieval-to-modern tale “May We Feed the King"; 81-year-old M. John Harrison, who would become the oldest winner of the award if his postapocalyptic tale “The End of Everything” wins; and the quirky campus novel “Black Bag” from Luke Kennard.

It's only the second time in the past decade that men have outnumbered women on the shortlist.

Beard said the judging panel, which included Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and American novelist Patricia Lockwood, concluded that their deliberations “neatly propped up against one another, almost glowing.”

“These novels range from the hilarious to the discomfiting, from the frighteningly strange to the alarmingly domestic, from the powerfully shocking to the intriguingly understated,” she said.

Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers and is open to novels from any country published in the U.K. and Ireland. Last year’s winner was “Flesh” by Hungarian-British writer David Szalay.

The winner will be revealed Nov. 9 at a ceremony in London.

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Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for hundreds of thousands of people from the exchanges, part of an administration-wide crackdown on fraud, would result in $2.2 billion in cost savings.

“We’re actually making sure that the people receiving Obamacare subsidies are actually entitled to receive them,” said Vance, who leads a government task force to eliminate fraud. He was flanked by Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, and other administration officials.

Vance said the cancellation of approximately 315,000 enrollments covering 760,000 people was done in part because the government was not checking whether people enrolled were eligible. Vance said another 419,000 enrollments will get additional verification to make sure they are eligible for the benefit.

The Trump administration also announced a six-month suspension on new agents or brokers who sign up enrollees for healthcare coverage, who officials say commit a disproportionate amount of the fraud they uncovered.

Roughly 19.2 million Americans are actively enrolled in ACA marketplace health plans as of early 2026, according to the Department of Health and Human Services website. The number of enrollees grew during the COVID-19 pandemic when enhanced subsidies became available through the American Rescue Plan Act and Inflation Reduction Act, both signed into law by former President Joe Biden.

Tuesday's announcement is the latest in an initiative by the Trump administration to address fraud around the country, including in federal healthcare programs, which officials say is needed to rein in runaway spending and protect taxpayers.

Some healthcare policy experts are calling for more transparency on how the Trump administration decided to cut hundreds of thousands of enrollees — and question how many people may have been wrongly cut from the program.

Cynthia Cox, a vice president and director of the ACA program at the healthcare research nonprofit KFF, said “I think there’s no question that somebody who was fraudulently enrolled should have their coverage canceled,” however, “I think the question is whether this was the appropriate process by which to identify fraudulent enrollees, and also whether all of them were indeed fraudulently enrolled.”

Cox said the elimination of the people from ACA programs was done outside of the normal regulatory process.

Ellen Montz, a former deputy administrator and director at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at CMS during the Biden administration said during her time in government, there was an ongoing effort to eliminate fraud from ACA programs.

“There’s a lot of work to be done, and the Trump administration has done some good things that are targeting the actual fraudsters,” she said. Adding that Tuesday's announcement lacked details on how the administration determined who to cut. “ I would imagine we’ll hear from some subset of consumers that ask: why did my enrollment get cancelled?" Montz said.

At the press conference, Tuesday, Vance referred to some enrollments lacking social security numbers or immigration documentation.

The announcement comes as stubbornly high inflation and rising healthcare costs pressure the Trump administration to come up with a plan to bring down costs for Americans as affordability remains a central issue in the fall midterm elections.

The price of ACA insurance has skyrocketed for many Americans during Trump’s second term, after Republicans opposed extending COVID-era subsidies that had helped offset the costs of health insurance for most enrollees during Biden’s term.

Premiums doubled or tripled for many enrollees, prompting millions to downgrade their plans or exit the program entirely after the Republican-led Congress allowed the subsidies to expire this year.

The Government Accountability Office suggests fraud risks in the advance premium tax credit do exist - however it's unclear at what scale. The GAO conducted covert testing using fictitious ACA applicants enrolled in 2024 and 2025. A report released in December showed that the federal marketplace approved subsidized coverage for almost all of the GAO’s 24 fake enrollees.

The White House referred The Associated Press to the Vice President’s team for additional comment on bigger plans to address healthcare affordability. The Vice President's office and CMS did not respond to Associated Press requests for comment.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the news of the Trump administration’s plan to remove ACA enrollees from public exchanges.

Democratic lawmakers criticized the move to remove enrollees from ACA coverage.

Richard E. Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat and ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, said “Republicans have already created the worst healthcare crisis ever, but every decision by the Trump Administration is designed to keep making it worse."

“As if making coverage harder to access through skyrocketing premiums and more red tape wasn’t painful enough, they’re doubling down to take it away entirely,” Neal said.

Wilson was freshly out of college and eager to establish himself as a filmmaker. But he was naturally timid. It took some gumption to leave his apartment in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens and start pointing his camera.

“I did a cappella in college for a little while, and I felt like that was the most embarrassing thing you could possibly do,” shrugs the director of “The History of Concrete.” “Once you do that, you can do pretty much anything.”

What compelled Wilson, 39, is a little hard for him to pinpoint now. He wanted to make movies, and the streets of New York offered free, unlimited production value. He wanted to preserve what was always disappearing: a storefront sign, a moment. Most of all, he wanted to capture the mundane, ubiquitous things around us that go unexamined.

“I think while I’m shooting: What would another film be too afraid to put in? What would another film not have the room for?” Wilson says. “The project of changing the way people see things is never-ending. It’s what art-making should do.”

High art at the Low Cinema

In a blockbuster movie world, Wilson is carving out his own idiosyncratic niche. A year ago, he opened the Low Cinema, which he co-owns, in Ridgewood. It’s a 42-seat micro-theater far off the Ticketmaster map, pieced together with the leftovers of defunct movie theaters. Wilson programs just about anything, much of it on old 16 mm reels. Moviegoers keep turning up.

“People just roll the dice constantly,” says Wilson, sitting in the theater.

On a recent September day, two “Changing Lanes” were playing — one the 2002 Ben Affleck movie, the other the 2025 bike lane documentary. Wilson arrived that afternoon with a small haul of new VHS tapes: “The Birds,” “Au Revoir Les Enfants” and “Endless Summer II.” Outside, a small concrete slab advertised Wilson’s new movie.

“I opened up this place maybe unconsciously, partially, so I would have a place to premiere my own movie, in case no one wanted to buy it,” Wilson says, smiling. “But that doesn’t seem to be the case.”

“The History of Concrete,” Wilson’s feature film debut, did open in just one theater. But it sold nearly every available seat. Over the weekend, it grossed $90,000 at Manhattan's IFC Center for Magnolia Pictures.

Despite — or maybe because of — Wilson’s resistance to Hollywood's prevailing wisdom, he has grown an entirely organic, authentic and highly personal micro-revolution in movies.

“I always wanted to have something that was mine that felt like no one else could make. I got really jaded by the indie film world after a while,” Wilson says. “I didn’t want to play by any of the same rules.”

Potholes and chance encounters

When Wilson gets a subject in his head — scaffolding, small talk, ear cleaning — that’s only the starting point. From there, he goes places both absurd and existential. The bird-watching episode of his Nathan Fielder-produced HBO series “How To with John Wilson” led him, improbably, to a Titanic replica in Tennessee.

“The History of Concrete” sets out to examine the second-most used substance in the world. (No. 1? Water.) The movie’s beginning was typically humdrum: Wilson’s basement flooded and he struggled to fix it. But it unspools with remarkable digressions, from a tattoo preservationist for the dead to a liquor salesperson and rock musician named Jack Macco.

“That was one of the lowest points, that day we met. I was shooting potholes all day,” Wilson says. “My camera broke. I was in pieces. Then I ran into him at the liquor store and I took my camera out of my bag, and then I ended up spending the next year and a half with him.”

Wilson’s ability to find connection in inhospitable places has become legend. On a “How To” episode shot at spring break in Cancun, Mexico, a chance encounter with a soulful young man named Chris turns into a tender dialogue on social anxiety and grief.

The filmmaker Josh Safdie, a producer on “The History of Concrete,” first met Wilson in Boston in the early 2000s. On a friend's suggestion, he watched Wilson's fiction short about a TV show host (played by Wilson) whose show is going terribly. Safdie saw in Wilson “a humor that hinged on ‘reality’ while at the same time was droll.”

The New York natives recognized a shared interest in uncovering something real and raw in the city through film. Wilson, born in Queens and raised on Long Island, set out with the idea of doing for video what photographers like Weegee, William Eggleston and Daniel Arnold did on the street.

“I feel a deep kinship with John’s voice,” says Safdie. “Life is happening around us all the time. John sees a wire-frame around him that’s warming, funny, life-affirming and poetic.”

How to pitch ‘The History of Concrete’

When Wilson started his movie, he didn’t know where it was going to go. He was curious about how pervasive concrete had become: its effect on the environment and its often dubious durability. But he was also searching, and struggling, to find a foothold following “How To.”

“Concrete” settles into a meditation on permanence, civic life and creativity. Wilson, a little quixotically, is shown pitching his idea for the documentary. His title doesn’t exactly wow executives. If concrete often smothers the life under it, something similar, the documentary suggests, is happening in culture.

“It’s better to look at reality and try to make stuff that’s about the reality we all exist in,” says Wilson. “I believe in movies of the moment.”

That involves sometimes letting himself be pushed into odd places, including a surreal trip to a concrete industry convention.

“Anytime people have the confidence to tell you what the right idea is, I tend to gravitate toward that,” Wilson says, smiling. “Even if it’s a cursed proposition.”

Wilson is just ‘shooting what's out there'

Wilson looks at some of today's pervading approaches to filmmaking with a skeptical eye. A historical epic that costs $200 million to make? “I find it kind of silly you have to spend that much money to say something,” he says.

Meanwhile, Wilson keeps going out and shooting. He’s working on a new long-form project and possibly another episodic one. “But as of now,” he says, “nothing is real and I’m just shooting what’s out there.”

“But once you sit down in front of this mountain of material, everything is fair game,” he says. “A movie can be whatever you want, and that’s what’s so fun about it.”

The explanation makes Wilson think of something in the small lobby of the Low Cinema. Hanging in the corner, near a poster for Frederick Wiseman's “City Hall,” is a slightly crude but not unimpressive cardboard E.T. A sticker on the bottom reads: “Made by humans not AI.”

“I never made a sculpture like that. I just had a bunch of cardboard and Elmer’s glue. Just making something — even if it’s the most poorly made thing — by the end of it, you have a product,” Wilson says. “And maybe you really like it.”

Police officers responded at about 5 a.m. to a home at 4606 NW 5th Ave., according to Officer Kenia Fallat, a spokeswoman for the Miami Police Department.

“One person is currently being questioned in connection with the incident,” Fallat said on Monday afternoon.

The shooter reported firing at an intruder, according to Fallat. A crime scene forensics van was parked for hours on Northwest Fifth Avenue, between 46th and 47th streets.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he is suing over removal of a project off his state's coast planned by Chicago-based Invenergy. The Trump administration said in June that it’s buying back the company’s U.S. offshore wind leases for four wind projects on the East and West coasts.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, meanwhile, led seven states in suits seeking to block the Invenergy deal and another proposal with Bluepoint Wind, which agreed in April to end a wind farm under development off the New York and New Jersey coast.

The deals would hand energy companies $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars in exchange for the cancellation of multiple projects. ln all, the Trump administration has pledged nearly $4 billion to companies to walk away from projects across the country.

The Interior Department, which oversees offshore development, did not respond to requests for comment. The department started buying back offshore wind leases in March after federal courts thwarted Trump’s efforts to stop offshore wind development through executive action.

In exchange for reimbursements of lease fees, companies are investing in fossil fuel projects and geothermal energy. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said that companies "are shifting investment back toward dependable, secure energy infrastructure that can power our economy and lower utility costs.”

James called the deals illegal and said they will ultimately increase Americans’ electricity bills by sabotaging states’ ability to meet growing energy demands.

“Americans are facing increasing energy costs because this administration would rather pay off energy companies than let us build the new power sources we need,” James said in a statement. “These illegal backroom deals take money that should have gone toward lowering New Yorkers’ bills and hand it to fossil fuel projects in other states.”

Bonta said that as a national and global leader in the fight against climate change, California finds itself enmeshed in “avoidable and unnecessary battles with our own federal government” to advance climate action and move toward clean energy.

Trump, who often talks about his hatred of wind power, has said his goal is to not let any “windmills” be built. Offshore wind produces electricity cleanly. Oil, coal and natural gas emit carbon pollution when burned.

Bonta, speaking at a Climate Week event in New York City, said climate action needs to match the scope, speed and scale of the problem.

“Because we have to go to court and block an unlawful action by the Trump administration each time, it takes time. It slows the process down and we know we are running out of time and we need to be urgent and aggressive,” Bonta said Tuesday in remarks just before Trump addressed the U.N. General Assembly.

“We’re still all in, in California," Bonta said. "No matter what the Trump administration does, we’re going to push to participate in the climate action that is needed to meet this moment and to rise to the occasion."

Later Tuesday, Bonta and other officials participated in a Climate Week panel about state leadership on wind energy. California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild said at the New York City Bar that states retain the ability to drive a transition away from fossil fuels.

While Trump can slow it down and make it more expensive, Hochschild said, “he can’t put the genie back in the bottle.”

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority President Doreen Harris said states are all confident they'll ultimately succeed in court, but need more energy infrastructure for a reliable grid.

“The reality is, even if successful, the question becomes who is going to invest?” Harris said. She added, “we just want to get back to building.”

Attorneys general in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont joined New York's suit.

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McDermott reported from New York.

Before the Yankees faced the Rays in a day-night doubleheader, Boone said Judge had a platelet poor plasma injection during the team’s off-day on Monday following its return from Arizona.

“We’re planning on him not being a part of that (Wild Card Series) but we’re also at time of the year, you hear all the time with injuries, you give ranges two to four weeks, four to six weeks,” Boone said. “The range is for a reason and we’re at a point of the year where obviously we push it a little bit if that was in play but that’s a week away. I’m not expecting it, but I’m not ruling it out either.”

The Yankees will most likely play the Boston Red Sox in the first round of the postseason.

Judge was put on the 10-day injured list Saturday with a strained soleus muscle, which is in the lower part of his calf. Boone did not say what grade the strain is but described it as “moderate.”

Judge is eligible to be activated for the regular-season finale on Sunday against Baltimore but will not do much activity in the next few days.

Judge injured his calf during last Wednesday’s game at Minnesota. The eight-time All-Star was lifted in the sixth inning for a pinch hitter because of discomfort in his leg and said at the time it was a precautionary move.

Boone said symptoms persisted and an MRI revealed the strain.

Judge was 4 for 23 with 13 strikeouts and one extra-base hit in seven games after returning Sept. 8 from a broken rib, which kept him out of the lineup for more than three months.

Judge is hitting .241 with 18 homers and 41 RBIs in just 66 games this year. He hit a long homer on Sept. 14 in Minnesota and had the next game off before straining his calf.

The Yankees entered Tuesday with a 48-41 record in the games Judge has missed and a 41-25 mark in games he has played. New York also began Tuesday a loss away from being eliminated from the AL East race, setting up a second straight wild-card series against the Red Sox next week.

"We’ve played much of the year without him and for the most part, we’ve done a pretty good job,” Boone said. “So guys are used to it. Obviously you always want your best player in the mix, but we understand we’ve got a job to do and an expectation to win. I think that expectation doesn’t change with or without him. We’re expecting to go into the series and know we can beat anyone when we play our game.”

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“Choosin' Texas” is also the longest-running No. 1 hit in the U.S., having spent 23 weeks at the top spot on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, it was announced Tuesday.

That means the track has surpassed various records set by Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and most impressively, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” Her holiday classic held the previous record, with 22 weeks at No. 1.

The song’s laid-back sound, cross-genre appeal and heartache narrative are a few reasons why. But its dominance still comes as a surprise.

Here’s how huge ‘Choosin’ Texas’ has become

Luminate, the industry data and analytics company, found that “Choosin’ Texas” brought in 911 million on-demand streams in the U.S. and 1.26 billion globally as of mid-August. Considering that Langley started 2023, around the time she made her Grand Ole Opry debut, with under 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify — and now boasts of over 32 million — her rise has been meteoric.

Historically, country listenership has centered on radio play. That has changed somewhat as the genre grows in popularity, solidifying around what Luminate’s Jaime Marconette describes as a “younger, streaming-forward listener.” He says it is a “multiyear narrative accelerated” by hits like “Choosin’ Texas.”

Claire Heinichen, a senior editor at Spotify, says the song’s growth has been both explosive and consistent. “Choosin’ Texas” “started big,” she says, moving from the platform’s leading country playlist, ‘Hot Country,’ to its larger, generic offerings because it works across audiences.

“It made its way into ‘Today’s Top Hits,’ which is our biggest global flagship playlist, but it’s also showing up in ‘Mood’ and ‘Moments’ playlists because it fits so well in ‘driving’ or ‘chill’ or ‘cookout,’” Heinichen says. “It really can work everywhere.”

It’s not just country music fans who are connecting with “Choosin’ Texas.”

“The song’s success on a playlist like ‘Today’s Top Hits’ is an indication that this is working for audiences who are not seeking out one specific genre,” Heinichen says. “It’s definitely growing in every direction.”

The specific sound of ‘Choosin’ Texas’ speaks to its staying power

Go straight to Langley’s voice for another explanation for the song’s success. It’s “like syrup,” says Nate Sloan, a musicologist, assistant professor at the University of Southern California and co-host of the podcast “Switched On Pop.”

She sings in long phrases that lull the listener into the song’s rhythm, from its opening guitar line to its coda. “It’s almost like a trance,” Sloan says.

It also pulls from other genres; a cross-pollination found in much modern country. Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” features shimmery disco grooves, not unlike Kacey Musgraves.

“It’s a little more rock or even kind of soul-inflected,” Sloan says. “Part of the reason songs like ‘Choosin’ Texas’ are able to resonate with such a wide audience is because, musically, they’re bringing in a lot of diverse influences.”

Charles L. Hughes, a Rhodes College professor and author of “Country Soul,” says the song sounds like many different eras of country music and, simultaneously, contemporary.

To his ears, “Choosin’ Texas” pulls from a late 1970s, early ’80s era of country musicians who pulled R&B and pop into their sound — think Ronnie Milsap, Barbara Mandrell and Charlie Rich — but it isn’t stuck in that period. Those sounds are filtered through a post-Musgraves, post-Miranda Lambert songwriting style, with Langley’s idiosyncratic charms. (Lambert and Langley are two of the song’s four cowriters.)

“The best country music has one foot in the past and one foot into the present, if not the future,” Hughes says. “And that’s what she’s doing.”

Even for its light, bright musicality, “Choosin’ Texas” is an unusual hit, because it doesn’t possess the features that historically make up a No. 1 smash. It’s super specific — with its detailed descriptions of characters and geography in the lyrics — which is “antithetical to what you usually expect from a big, hit pop song that’s supposed to appeal to everyone,” says Sloan. It’s also “chill,” Sloan says. “It’s not bombastic or anthemic.”

“It has no big moments,” says Hughes. But it has both a subtle dance pulse and steel guitar, so “it sounds country, but it doesn’t automatically turn off people who are allergic to certain kinds of country sounds.”

There’s a sparkle that transgresses genre lines, but it does so while sounding mellow — the kind of track that inspires repeat listens.

The lyrics of ‘Choosin’ Texas’ have a few things going for them

“Choosin’ Texas” continues a great tradition of “songs that country women do about what men do in bars,” says Hughes.

It’s straightforward: She’s losing her lover to someone else. She’s not going to fight for him — it’s a song of resignation that ends with her drinking alone as he chooses Texas (another woman) over her (and Tennessee). It’s a universal heartbreak theme with potential for cross-generational resonance: It works for both the insecurity of a first breakup and a long-term relationship ending over another woman, or a move.

“It’s got these great turns of phrase that give you a little bit of ironic distance as a narrator and as a listener,” says Sloan.

“It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see,” Langley acquiesces in the chorus, “A cowboy always finds a way to leave.”

The lyrics are also clever, standing out in contemporary country, says Hughes. (Compare it to Luke Bryan’s “Fish Hunt Golf Drink.”) And it’s detailed: Langley’s paramour loves George Strait’s “Amarillo by Morning,” a pantheon Texas track; she’s drinking Tennessee whiskey as a result.

“There is the phenomenon of what some critics have called ‘the sad banger’ within the world of pop music,” says Sloan. In country, it’s even more common to take something sad and transform it into something funny or deadpan. “And that’s what she’s really good at, at this song.”

‘Choosin’ Texas’ says a lot about music in 2026

The fact that regular chart-toppers like Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Bad Bunny haven’t released new albums this year could’ve cleared a path for the dominance of “Choosin’ Texas,” but Sloan sees its rise as indicative of something else.

“We’re in this environment where you can measure a song’s success in a numerical way,” he says. “But then in terms of its actual cultural impact, that might be more fragmented than you think.”

Essentially: “Choosin’ Texas” is on top. But how many people know Langley’s name, the way they knew Houston’s and Carey’s when those hits were released?

“It doesn’t feel like a centerpiece of a monoculture, but it is absolutely a key part of like radio culture, streaming playlists, TikTok,” Hughes adds. “But it’s hitting these various audiences in a way that combines to create something huge.”

But what does it forecast for Langley? She’s no one-hit wonder: Her award-winning 2024 collaboration with Riley Green, “You Look Like You Love Me” is evidence of that.

“It’s always hard to prognosticate with artists when they have an unexpected smash,” says Sloan. “Her ability to write songs with a lot of integrity that both reach back into country tradition and incorporate sounds of the 21st century? That’s a pretty good formula to have a successful and long career in the music world.”

This morning, President Donald Trump addressed the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting.

In his speech, he called Cuba a “failed state that will fall.” He further stated that “communism will never come to the U.S. but liberty will soon come to Cuba.” Trump further stated that Cuba represents a threat to U.S. national security -- all these accusations without giving any specific details.

Sept. 22: Wealthy, influential Cuban-Americans with ties to Trump planning for ‘post-communist’ Cuba if regimes falls

According to an article by the Wall Street Journal, wealthy and influential Cuban-Americans with ties to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been meeting in lawyer offices and hotel conference rooms to plan for a “post-communist” Cuba if the regime were to fall soon.

The “change” model seems to first attempt to stabilize Cuba by restructuring the economy that could possibly lead to a new form of government.

Many of these individuals are planning to personally play a role in rebuilding Cuba. These individuals run wealthy businesses. However, for the most part, the opposition groups in South Florida have been left out of these conversations or any role they might play in the future of Cuba.

Sept. 21: Cuba’s leadership continue to blame their problems on everybody else except themselves

Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio made a surreal statement yesterday, claiming that everyone at the top of the Cuban government leadership get, on average, two hours of electricity per day.

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We know that most of Cuba’s inner circle of power have generators or solar panels that provide them electricity around the clock each day.

What Fernandez de Cossio does not admit is that the electrical problem has been caused by the Cuban government not being able to fix the outdated electrical plans that are the cause of the problem.

Sept. 18: Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar breaks with Trump over immigration policy

After supporting President Donald Trump’s policy on immigration, Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar issued a video yesterday criticizing Trump.

The Department of Homeland Security was quickly to react and say that the Trump administration will continue enforcing the policy.

We need to ask ourselves whether Salazar’s change of heart has to do more with political survival since she faces a tough race in the midterm elections this coming November from well known South Floridian Eliott Rodriguez (D).

Sept. 17: Cuba is not Venezuela

A new poll recently done by FIU, inside Venezuela and Cuba, show how different the situations are for U.S. foreign policy.

The poll shows that 90% of Venezuelans want free and democratic elections this year, which I do not believe the current Interim President Delcy Rodriguez will agree to. I’m also sure that she will use Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan of “stabilization, recovery, and transition phase” to say that the first stage has not been fully accomplished. There was no timetable put on the plan.

The case of Cuba is very different. The population wants their economic and social needs met before political reforms, which goes to my argument that Cuba has a very short history of democratic governments.

So to remind our local members of Congress. To say that “we must return Cuba to democracy” will not happen anytime soon.

Sept. 16: Rubio’s latest actions on Cuba

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently sent more humanitarian aid to Cuba, and it is being distributed by the non-governmental organization (NGO) associated with the Catholic Church, Caritas of Cuba.

At the same time, Rubio warned international banks and businesses not to collaborate with any Cuban business entities that have been sanctioned by the U.S.

Secretary Rubio also called for the Cuban government to change and become a democracy.

By now, we should understand that changing governments like Cuba, which have been under totalitarian control, is not easy and will take time. Especially countries like Cuba that, in their political history, have had unsustainable democratic governments.

Sept. 15: Cuba becomes a betting market for U.S. prediction markets

Cuba has become a betting market in the USA.

The betting site Polymarket shows how people in the U.S. are betting on everything from the removal of Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel from power to when and if the U.S. will invade Cuba or make an economic agreement with Cuba.

The last prediction is whether the U.S. will go and get indicted Cuban leader Raúl Castro.

Sept. 10: Russia denies Cuba full membership in BRICS

BRICS is an organization of 11 emerging economies around the world. The organization works to influence their global importance and reshape economic governance.

The membership includes Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

Partner nations include Belarus, Cuba, Nigeria and Thailand.

The Russians turned down Cuba for full membership into the organization because of Cuba’s poor economic conditions and poor predictions by economists moving forward.

Sept. 9: Cuba and the U.S. stuck in diplomatic rhetoric

Cuba’s Brigadier General Emir Mesa Corona, who is in charge of personal security at the Ministry of Interior, sent a strong message to the U.S. not to even think of trying to kidnap Raul Castro or anyone in Cuba’s government or they will face serious consequences.

At the same time, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parilla admitted that backroom negotiations with the U.S. continue but the U.S. will not soften their positions. Cuba wants the economic embargo lifted while the U.S. wants regime change.

Sept. 8: Blind passion for Cuban politics leads to a political circus between Miami, Havana and DC

As a little boy growing up in Miami, I remember when every presidential candidate from both political parties would come to campaign in Miami and promised that if elected, they would work to see a “Free Cuba.” They would end their speeches with “Viva Cuba Libre.” Local politicians representing different municipalities in Miami-Dade would talk about U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba like they controlled it, and yet, they had nothing to do with it within their scope of responsibilities. But it got them the votes they needed to be elected and remain in power, while political leaders in Cuba continued to blame everything wrong on the island on the U.S. economic embargo, or as they call it, “the blockade.”

On Jan. 3, the U.S. military captured Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela with the assistance of their current Interim President Delcy Rodriguez and brought him to the U.S. to face justice. Shortly thereafter, President Donald Trump announced that Cuba would be next.

The Trump administration began to sanction Cuban organizations and individuals of the government in an attempt to squeeze them out of power. So far, they are still in power. The Cuban government began to prepare for a U.S. invasion. To this date, it has not happened and probably never will.

On May 20, the U.S. Justice Department indicted Raul Castro for the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996 in a theater-like political rally at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami. So far nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen. There is no Delcy Rodriguez in Cuba. A week ago, many media outlets across Miami reported, based on sources from inside the island, that Raul Castro was gravely ill. This past weekend, Raul reappeared surrounded by Cuba’s military elite.

Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the three Cuban-American members of Congress from South Florida had announced that by the end of 2026, Cuba would fall. Now it has been pushed back to 2029. Furthermore, Rubio recently said that the problem in dealing with Cuba is the Helms-Burton Law (Senator Jesse Helms and Richard Burton, both Republicans) that was enacted by Congress in 1996, also with the hard work of the late Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.

The three Cuban-American members of Congress made it clear that the goal was to return Cuba to democracy. What democracy? Cuba did not have a democratic government before Fidel Castro took power. How much do they really know about Cuban history? Or is it just a play on words and empty promises?

So as time passes each day, the Cuban-American community is beginning to ask itself, what is really going on in D.C.?

It would not surprise me that in the near future the Trump organizations would negotiate to buy the empty Melia Hotels in Cuba and put the Trump name on them. After all, we now own a big chunk of Venezuelan oil and there was no regime change as promised.

Will we ever learn? How much longer are we going to be blind by our passion?

Sept 6: Raul Castro makes public appearance

After much speculation about Cuba’s Raul Castro being close to death, the Cuban leader showed up at a military event yesterday accompanied by his grandson, Raulito, and Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Sept 3: Raul Castro stable, according to sources

Sources in Cuba say Raul Castro, 95, is stable despite reports about his declining health. According to sources, retired General Abelardo Colome Ibarra, known as “ El Fury,” is currently in worse condition. Colome Ibarra was head of the Ministry of the Interior and highly respected by the Castro brothers and the Cuban military.

Sept 3: President Trump’s hands are tied with regard to Cuba, Rubio says

After months of saying Cuba would be next, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that the president’s hands are tied because of the Helms Burton Law which requires no normalization between the U.S. and Cuba unless there is regime change and a move towards a democratic government.

Even if Raul Castro was to die in the near future, I do not expect regime change.

Only the U.S. can change the Helms-Burton Law and I don’t expect that to happen anytime in the near future or after the mid-term elections.

Sept. 2: Children in Cuba start new school year amid more challenges than any other year before

Children in Cuba started the new school year Tuesday facing a lack of supplies, books, uniforms and teachers, and buildings that are falling apart, along with a lack of food to feed the children.

According to the Cuban minister of education, this will be a very challenging year unlike any others.

Cuban education was once one of the big accomplishments of the revolution. However, it was also used to indoctrinate the students in an ideology that no one on the island nation believes anymore.

Sept. 1: Raul Castro hospitalized, sources say

Reliable sources inside Cuba have informed me this afternoon that Raul Castro has been hospitalized. We need to be careful and not to over speculate what might happen until further notice.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

The signing on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York comes days after Trump announced the deal to bolster the U.S. military presence on Greenland but keep it under Danish control. The agreement would still apply if Greenland eventually chooses independence.

“This is tremendous for Europe and for the United States and for everybody,” Trump said just before the agreement was signed. “And for Greenland, it's going to be incredible.”

Trump has expressed his desire to acquire Greenland since as long ago as 2019 and, during his second term, issued threats to seize the semiautonomous territory from Denmark, a NATO ally. On Tuesday, he did not respond to questions about whether a U.S. acquisition of Greenland was off the table.

The US has had a presence in Greenland for decades

Officials from the U.S., Greenland and Denmark negotiated for months behind the scenes, searching for solutions to address some of Trump’s security concerns about the mineral-rich island.

Trump's designs on Greenland strained relations within NATO, with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warning a U.S. takeover would amount to the end of the Atlantic alliance.

The standoff unsettled many of Greenland's roughly 56,000 people and drove a wedge between the U.S. and Denmark and its European Union partners, who stepped up security exercises on and monetary support for the island.

Trade and hopes for a resource grab have factored into concerns about Greenland’s future. About two-thirds of its territory sits inside the Arctic Circle, where melting sea ice has opened additional shipping routes.

The United States was prominent in Greenland for decades but, since 1945, the U.S. military presence in Greenland has decreased from thousands of soldiers on 17 bases and installations to roughly 200 soldiers on the remote Pituffik Space Base in the northwest. The base supports missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance operations for the U.S. and NATO.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly ahead of the signing, Trump said the U.S. would “immediately begin the process of developing a large military presence in the appropriate locations,” including “building two very major military bases.”

Denmark’s parliament approved a bill last year to allow U.S. military bases on Danish soil, widening a 2023 agreement made with the Biden administration that gave U.S. troops broad access to air bases in Denmark.

Trump previously insisted the U.S. needed to “take Greenland,” to prevent Russia or China from doing the same. Though Trump said he would rather “ make a deal ” for the territory, he added, “one way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland.”

The accord will remain in effect if Greenland becomes independent

The agreement, released by all three governments after the signing, allows for Washington to “modernize and expand” its activities at Pituffik.

It also says the U.S. can set up “defense areas” at Narsarsuaq in the south and Mestersvig in the east, and that it “may establish additional defense areas in Greenland and strengthen its military operations or facilities.” Washington is to award contracts for goods and services related to setting up, maintaining or dismantling such bases “to Greenlandic sources to the maximum extent possible.”

The accord calls for wide U.S. military mobility on Greenland’s territory, including “undersea access.” It says the signatories share an interest in allowing the U.S. military access to Greenland to defend the NATO area, Greenland itself and the American continent — including through “Golden Dome,” Trump's planned missile defense system. Frederiksen said no decision had been made on the specifics of that system.

No non-NATO country will be allowed to set up “its own manned or unmanned military installations in Greenland,” or to have a “persistent” military presence unless the signatories agree otherwise.

The accord “does not have an end date” and, if Greenland chooses to become independent, it will agree to remain in NATO and take on Denmark’s rights and obligations under the deal.

All parties present the agreement as a positive move

Frederiksen on Tuesday called the agreement a “deal that can last forever,” labeling it as good for the U.S., Greenland, Denmark and the broader NATO alliance.

“Mr. President, you have been very clear: You don’t want adversaries to come too close,” she said. “I fully agree.”

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s prime minister, called it “a win-win-win agreement.”

“Your security is our security,” he said, “and our security is your security.”

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, who helped turn down the temperature at the height of the crisis in January, celebrated the accord's signing, writing on X that “this agreement, along with NATO’s growing role in securing this vital region, enhances our collective security and supports a safer and more stable future for us all.”

But the standoff won't be forgotten quickly.

“A lot of trust has been tested, I would say,” Naaja Nathanielsen, one of Greenland's two lawmakers in the Danish parliament and a former government minister in Nuuk, told The Associated Press. “It’s been really difficult in Greenland and people have been generally afraid and worried about everything, from losing our country to our livelihoods and so on.”

Nevertheless, Nathanielsen called the accord “a huge step in the right direction,” and praised it as the first binding agreement Greenland has signed as a country.

“For us, that is a huge step forward in our quest for more self-autonomy and a bigger seat at the table,” she said.

A clearly relieved Frederiksen said at a post-signing appearance with Nielsen that “the kingdom of Denmark is in a better place than we were yesterday.”

She concluded the news conference by saying: “I think we’ll head out soon and get a cold beer.”

Also breathing a sigh of relief Tuesday were fellow NATO countries. Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics said that while a lot remains to be seen, the announcement was “very positive and good.”

“But I do hope that this issue is closed because it was not entirely comfortable that you have this discussion between really good friends and allies,” Rinkevics told a small group of reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

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Boston removed the interim tag and named Chad Tracy the 49th manager in team history, signing him to a three-year contract that will run through the 2029 season, with a club option for 2030. The Red Sox also announced that it has exercised the 2029 and 2030 options on chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.

The elevation of the 41-year-old Tracy comes after the Red Sox secured a wild-card spot in the playoffs on Sunday. Tracy took over in April after former manager Alex Cora was fired following a 10-17 start to the season.

“I think there was pretty much an understanding when I first got here that we’ve a lot of work to do, let’s focus on that. Let’s worry about the rest of the stuff later as it goes along,” said Tracy, seated with Breslow and Red Sox president Sam Kennedy during a 30-minute news conference at Fenway Park before the club opened a three-game series against Cleveland.

“I am very happy, though, that it is done and in the course of three days we’ve clinched a playoff spot and now all the focus can be on what we can try to do in October,” Tracy said.

Tracy has guided the Red Sox to a 74-55 record, which included a 15-game win streak that tied the franchise record set in 1946. Boston’s 27-3 (.900) record from July 3 through Aug. 7 was the best 30-game span in franchise history.

It’s a remarkable turnaround for a team that was 32-46 and 15 1/2 games back in the AL East race on June 24.

“Chad, you came into an incredibly difficult situation in April and provided stability and leadership when this organization needed it most,” said Kennedy, who was seated next to Breslow. “We had conversations with Craig over the summer and got that extension done.”

Breslow said he announced Tracy’s new deal during a team meeting in the clubhouse about 15 minutes before the news conference.

“That was cool. I choked up a little bit,” Tracy said, smiling.

Breslow, 46, was hired in October 2023. A 2013 World Series champion with Boston, he is only the fourth former Red Sox player to lead the club’s baseball operations efforts.

In his three seasons in the role, the Red Sox have gone 254-226 (.529), the third-best record in the AL.

Tracy served as the manager of the Red Sox’s Triple-A team in Worcester since 2022, leading the WooSox to a winning record in each of his four full seasons as manager. That came after seven previous years managing in the Los Angeles Angels minor league system.

He’s the son of former big-league manager Jim Tracy, who managed the Los Angeles Dodgers (2001-05), Pittsburgh (2006-07) and Colorado (2009-12).

“I was along for the ride on my dad’s journey,” Chad Tracy said, dressed in a light blue sport jacket that he joked he couldn’t wait to “ditch” when the news conference was over.

“I stayed up late to talk to him to learn the game,” he said. “I was fascinated by it. I really was.”

Jim Tracy was named interim manager of the Rockies in May 2009, led them to a 74-42 turnaround and won NL manager of the year. It's a similar run to his son's.

A third-round pick by the Texas Rangers in the third round of the 2006 draft out of Pepperdine University, Chad Tracy also played eight professional seasons (2006-13) in the Rangers, Rockies and Kansas City Royals organizations.

“Twenty-two years to be exact, playing and coaching,” Chad Tracy said of his journey. “That’s a long time.”

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Según agentes del sheriff de Miami-Dade, Myrthland Ince, de 33 años, y Romario Stewart, de 32, forman parte de “varios sujetos” que “han sido identificados por atacar tiendas Sam’s Club y Walmart en todo el sur de Florida para comprar grandes cantidades de productos perecederos” con tarjetas de cupones de alimentos y de NationsBenefits cuya información fue robada.

Los dos hombres, que según un reporte de arresto viven juntos en Hallandale Beach, enfrentan una docena de cargos por delitos graves cada uno.

De acuerdo con la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el lunes los agentes vigilaban junto con investigadores de Walmart el Sam’s Club ubicado en el 8425 NW 13th Terrace en Doral cuando Ince y Stewart entraron a la tienda.

Los agentes indicaron que reconocieron a Stewart “por transacciones fraudulentas anteriores”.

Según las autoridades, los dos hombres se lanzaron a una ola de compras: se llevaron $500 en detergente Tide, 18 latas de Café Bustelo por un valor de poco menos de $370 y una sola lata de anacardos Members Mark de unos $14.

Pero eso no fue todo. El gran botín, según el reporte de MDSO, fue de Spam: 70 latas de tamaño mayorista de la clásica carne enlatada, por un valor de casi $1,800. La cuenta total ascendió a $2,704.59, de acuerdo con el reporte.

Las autoridades informaron que los dos hombres fueron a las cajas de autopago y pagaron los productos con información robada de 10 cuentas de NationsBenefits.

Los agentes dijeron que detuvieron a ambos cuando salieron de la tienda. Según los agentes, Ince tenía seis tarjetas de débito recodificadas con la información robada de NationsBenefits, y Stewart tenía cuatro.

Ambos enfrentan ahora 10 cargos de robo de identidad, además de un cargo cada uno de hurto mayor y fraude de asistencia pública.

Los registros muestran que Ince permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una fianza de $35,000.

Stewart, por su parte, también estaba en TGK, con una fianza que aún estaba “por fijarse”.

Según los registros de la cárcel, ambos tienen además una orden de retención de un magistrado.

The sixth-ranked Noskova, who claimed her first Grand Slam title at the All England Club this year, served an ace on her first match point to beat Katie Boulter 6-2, 7-6 (3) and seal the Czechs' place spot in the final four.

In all, Noskova produced 15 aces to Boulter’s four.

Earlier, Bouzkova beat Sonay Kartal 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4.

Karolina Muchova, who was beaten by Noskova in the all-Czech Wimbledon final, had been slated to play a decisive doubles match with partner Katerina Siniakova but that wasn’t necessary in the best-of-three series.

Siniakova is ranked No. 1 in doubles.

“I think the Czechs are the strongest team here," British captain Anne Keothavong said. "I would be surprised if they don’t go on to win this competition.”

Czechia, formerly known as the Czech Republic, stands second all time with 11 titles in the competition previously called Fed Cup. The United States, which did not qualify for the finals, has won a record 18 titles.

In the semifinals, Czechia will face either Spain or Kazakhstan, which play Wednesday.

The other quarterfinals feature two-time defending champion Italy vs. China and Ukraine vs. Belgium.

Davis Cup Final 8 draw

In the draw for the Davis Cup Final 8, South Korea was drawn to play against three-time defending champion Italy after becoming the first Asian nation to qualify under the new format.

Spain, the 2025 runner-up, drew Austria.

Czechia — which eliminated the 32-time champion United States in the final qualifying round — will face 2022 champion Canada; and Alexander Zverev’s Germany faces Britain.

The Final 8 is scheduled for Bologna, Italy, Nov. 24-29.

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The man who died was identified by authorities Tuesday as Julmice Belone, of Fort Lauderdale.

According to BSO, someone called 911 at approximately 3:28 a.m. Sunday to report a shooting near the 3100 block of Northwest 37th Street.

Deputies responded and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Deputies immediately rendered aid before Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel transported him to a local hospital for treatment, authorities confirmed.

According to deputies, they learned a short time later that a second shooting victim, later identified as Belone, had been taken to an area hospital in a private vehicle.

Belone was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to BSO.

BSO’s Crime Scene and Homicide units responded to the scene to investigate.

Detectives said their preliminary investigation revealed the shooting happened during a verbal altercation at a house party.

According to BSO, a third person involved told detectives he was attempting to deescalate the situation and that the shooting was in self-defense. That person also sustained minor injuries, authorities confirmed.

Investigators said the shooter remained at the scene and was detained for questioning before later being released.

BSO officials said detectives will present the case to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office for review once their investigation is complete.

The identities of the other people involved in the shooting have not been released.

The agreement, which officials descibed as the largest worker settlement in city history, also requires the company to submit to a new monitoring system to ensure compliance with delivery worker pay laws in the city.

In a statement, DoorDash admitted errors, saying: “Simply put, we screwed up.”

“While these mistakes weren’t intentional, that doesn’t make them okay. We pride ourselves on operational excellence at DoorDash – and this was not excellent, nor was it acceptable. Dashers should be paid in full, on time, every time. We are sorry to the Dashers we let down,” the company said.

Most of the settlement will be returned to more than 260,000 workers who were underpaid, not paid or paid late for deliveries by DoorDash, according to City Hall. The company will also pay about $16 million in civil penalties and other costs to the city.

“When a worker earns a wage, they deserve to be paid that wage – not tomorrow, not after a lawsuit, but on time and in full,” Mamdani said in a statement. “DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 workers, and today we are getting that money back."

DoorDash said many of the errors in payment were caused by “technical bugs or happened in complicated situations,” such as deliveries that went outside city boundaries, had multiple pickup or drop-off spots or included deliveries that were cancelled or partially completed.

Last year, the company agreed to pay almost $17 million to settle claims that it unfairly used customer tips to subsidize the wages of its delivery workers in New York, rather than allowing drivers to keep the tips on top of their guaranteed pay.

In a statement, the U.S. Air Base Spangdahlem said that the pilot ejected and was receiving medical care. It also said the plane, which was an F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 52nd Fighter Wing, crashed around 2:30 p.m. local time, and that the cause of the crash was being investigated.

The local German district, where Spangdahlem is located, had said earlier that fire and emergency teams responded to the incident.

Spangdahlem is home to an F-16 fighter jet squadron with about 20 aircraft, the German news agency dpa reported.

The squadron, which supports U.S. Air Force and NATO missions worldwide, is the centerpiece of the air base. The base has about 5,000 military and civilian employees, plus their family members, according to the latest figures. The U.S. air base also employs between 700 and 800 Germans.

The U.S. Air Force has maintained a presence in Spangdahlem since the mid-1950s. Along with Ramstein near Kaiserslautern in southwestern Germany, Spangdahlem Air Base is considered one of the most important airfields for the U.S. military in the region.

Panettiere, 36, was found unresponsive in an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina, on Aug. 16. Her on-and-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were at the home.

A combination of fentanyl and its chemical byproduct, as well as the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam, a muscle relaxer and a drug used to treat major depression and other serious mental health disorders, was found in Panettiere’s system, according to a statement from the Greenville County Coroner’s Office.

Authorities found pills and powder in her apartment

A more detailed report released to the AP said a senior deputy coroner who came to the Airbnb apartment to investigate Panettiere’s death found blue pressed pills and a straw on a table that would later test positive for fentanyl. A white powdery substance was found in her suitcase in a sunglasses case, according to the report.

When the investigator called Panettiere's father, he said she planned to spend her birthday five days later in Greenville, then head to Ukraine to visit her daughter.

The investigator talked to two men in the apartment with Panettiere. Both names were blocked out, but police have said her boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach were with her.

Panettiere was found face down, sitting with her legs crossed

One of the men said he saw Panettiere putting on makeup at 10:30 a.m. the day she died.

He went back to sleep and woke up to a knock at the door. Both men found Panettiere face down in a sitting position on a sofa bed with her legs crossed. He said that wasn't unusual, but he couldn't wake her and noticed she was deep purple. He administered two doses of Narcan and then called 911 when she didn't respond, according to the report.

The investigator wrote in her report that the man told her he didn't know if Panettiere used any illegal drugs in the past two days, but “she was very good at hiding them.”

Asked for comment on the coroner's initial report, Kasey Kitchen, a publicist for the family, told The Associated Press that “the investigation is still ongoing and the case is complex.”

Greenville Police confirmed Tuesday that their investigation into Panettiere's death is continuing.

Paramedics responded to Panettiere's apartment last month after a 911 call and performed CPR and other advanced resuscitation efforts for more than 40 minutes before she was declared dead. The autopsy found no signs of trauma that could have contributed to her death, Greenville County Coroner Mike Ellis said in a statement.

Panettiere’s early fame brought success and struggle

Panettiere soared to fame in the TV shows “Heroes” and “Nashville.” In her memoir “This Is Me,” released in May, Panettiere described lifelong scars from her early fame and acknowledged being addicted to alcohol and enduring postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya, with Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko in 2014.

She also endured family struggles and tragedy. Her parents’ marriage was strained and eventually ended. Her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, who was also an actor, died of a heart condition in 2023, at age 28.

Panettiere also talked about her long relationship with Hickerson and allegations that the aspiring actor physically abused her.

He was charged in 2020 with multiple counts of felony abuse, and he pleaded no contest to two counts of injuring a spouse or partner and served a short time in jail due to the case. He was sentenced to four years of probation and anger management and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Hickerson completed the terms and recently asked a judge to reduce his conviction to misdemeanors; that request was denied.

In 2015, Panettiere said she was in a horrible cycle of using alcohol and drugs to battle depression and anxiety and had to find a way out of the darkness. She had also entered rehab while filming the show “Nashville.”

“I was the one who put myself in the first treatment center. I was drowning,” she said in a 2023 interview with Women’s Health magazine.

As a child, Panettiere acted in commercials and soap operas, including as the ever-troubled Lizzie Spaulding on “Guiding Light.” In “This Is Me,” she wrote that the traumas her character endured, from being kidnapped to killing her mother’s boyfriend, led her to associate “catastrophe with adoration.”

Stewart last got a technical foul in 2017 and now has three in her career after she was called for one in the waning minutes of the Liberty game on Monday night.

Stewart was upset that the officials didn't call a foul when she drove to the basket and Angel Reese stole the ball out of her hands with just under 2 minutes left in the game. Replays showed that Reese slapped Stewart's wrist.

“That absolutely was for the no-call,” Stewart said on why she got the technical foul.

Stewart had 27 points and 14 rebounds in the defeat, which ended the Liberty's chances of getting homecourt in the opening round of the playoffs that begin Sunday.

Stewart, who is second in the league in free throw attempts per game, said on the way out of the news conference that Reese should pay the fine that comes with the technical foul.

The two teams will play again on Wednesday in the regular-season finale.

The Liberty honored Stewart, along with the other six women's FIBA World Cup players on their roster. Stewart earned MVP of that tournament earlier this month, helping the U.S. win a fifth consecutive gold medal.

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Lucia Báez-Geller, a former Miami-Dade County School Board member, is challenging Republican Florida Rep. Fabián Basabe, the incumbent, a former reality TV star who was found liable after two men accused him of sexual battery.

“I have made a lot of really powerful enemies,” Basabe, 48, said without naming them. “This has been lawfare, which is the new campaign today, right? I mean, you want to get somebody out of the way, you don’t need bullets anymore. You just need character assassination.”

In July, a Leon County jury awarded Nicolas Frevola, Basabe’s former aide, and Jacob Cutbirth, a former intern, $450,000 in damages after finding Basabe liable for sexually harassing, battering, and defaming them.

“I think the residents of 106 are ready to turn the page on all the chaos, all the confusion, all the scandals,” said Báez-Geller, a former Miami Beach Senior High School teacher.

The swing district has a large share of registered voters who are not affiliated with the Republican or Democratic parties.

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