Ramiro Perez was arrested by the Homestead Police Department and faces one count of animal cruelty with intent to injure or kill with a deadly weapon, jail records show.

According to police, the shooting happened around 3:45 p.m. on May 14 in an area that was redacted in Perez’s arrest report.

Officers said they responded to a report of an injured cat and met with the owner, who said Perez fired a BB gun at the animal while it was in Perez’s yard.

The owner told investigators he “heard the subject pump the BB gun three times” and then saw him fire toward the cat two to three times, striking it once in the eye, according to the report.

The report states that the cat was taken to a veterinary clinic, where its eye had to be surgically removed. Veterinary costs totaled $848.50.

Police said officers later went to Perez’s home and also visited his residence again on Tuesday before he later came to the HPD station, where he was read his Miranda rights in the presence of investigators.

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

Officers with the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department arrested Apolonia Crumpton on Tuesday at Miami Northwestern Senior High School, located at 1100 NW 71st St. in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood.

An arrest report states that Crumpton, of northwest Miami-Dade, was at the school due to her daughter being involved in a fight.

Based off a statement by Crumpton that was redacted from her arrest form, which described her as an “irate parent,” officers were led to believe she was in possession of a weapon.

After searching her bag, officers said they found a black 9mm firearm and ammunition inside.

Crumpton was charged with one felony count of possession of a firearm on school property.

As of Wednesday afternoon, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set.”

Kinski, now 65, has urged Wenders to reedit the film. Last month, she told the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung: “That was my first film, he was my first director and he didn't protect me.”

Wenders, the acclaimed director behind “Paris, Texas” and “Wings of Desire,” issued a statement apologizing to Kinski.

“I recognize that Nastassja Kinski should have been better protected back then,” Wenders said. “For that, I apologize to you, Nastassja, unreservedly, no ifs and buts.”

“The Wrong Move” marked the film debut of Kinski, the daughter of actor Klaus Kinski. It stars Rüdiger Vogler as an aspiring writer wandering through Germany. His encounters include an apparently mute teen acrobat played by Kinski, who appears topless in a scene.

Wenders said he was “withdrawing it from all current forms of distribution and exhibition,” including streaming services and broadcast television. His nonprofit Wim Wenders Foundation owns “The Wrong Move.”

The film will remain unavailable, Wenders said, until a mutually agreed upon solution can be found. He said he will seek “a broad dialogue” that includes Kinksi, the German Film Academy and other film groups.

“It is necessary for our society to find appropriate ways of dealing with controversial film works from the 20th Century and to face new learning processes and inclusive perspectives regarding cinema,” said Wenders.

Representatives for Kinski did not immediately respond to The Associated Press' request for comment Wednesday.

At the German Film Awards last week, Wenders spoke about his quandary over the film. Speaking to the audience at Germany's equivalent of the Oscars, Wenders said retroactively editing it “sets a precedent that affects you all, and then it becomes possible with all your films later on.”

Kinski would go on to co-star in Wenders' 1984 film “Paris, Texas,” but long maintained misgivings about her introduction to the film business. At the ages of 14 and 17, she also appeared nude in the films “To the Devil a Daughter” and “Stay As You Are.”

“If I had had somebody to protect me or if I had felt more secure about myself, I would not have accepted certain things. Nudity things,” Kinski told W Magazine in 1997. "And inside it was just tearing me apart.”

Trump said on social platform X that he predicts stronger bilateral ties if the conservative defeats progressive Iván Cepeda in the presidential runoff.

Writing on the Truth Social platform the previous day, Trump offered his “complete and total endorsement” for de la Espriella, calling him an “intelligent, strong and tough leader” who will take on a “radical leftist Marxist” in the June 21 runoff election.

“With my head held high and a heart full of patriotic gratitude, I receive your words and your steadfast support," de la Espriella, known as “El Tigre” or “The Tiger,” wrote on X. "Thank you, Mr. President!”

This is not the first time Trump has backed candidates in foreign elections, a practice that has drawn criticism from opponents who say the U.S. should not meddle in other countries’ domestic politics. Last year, Trump endorsed Honduras’ National Party presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura, who went on to win. He also backed libertarian President Javier Milei in Argentina during legislative elections that proved critical to the leader’s political agenda.

Trump’s support in the Colombian presidential campaign underscores the current tension between Washington and Bogota as relations between the countries have grown strained under Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Sharp disagreements have emerged over migration, Israel’s military actions in Gaza and anti-narcotics strategies, particularly regarding the bombing of drug boats in the Caribbean.

Petro rejected Trump’s support for the conservative candidate and urged citizens to vote freely so as to “not become anyone’s slaves or colony.”

“When a country intervenes in the decisions of another country, freedom dies,” Petro wrote on X.

While the U.S. remains Colombia’s largest export market and was long considered Washington’s primary ally in the hemisphere, relations have cooled significantly under the current administration.

De la Espriella, who holds dual Colombian and U.S. citizenship, is a Trump supporter and a member of the Republican Party. With no prior experience in elected office, he secured 43.74% of the vote in the first round of the presidential election, followed by Sen. Cepeda — an ally of Petro — with 40.90%, according to preliminary counts.

The candidate has said his views align with U.S. policies, particularly regarding the fight against narcotics. He has promised to eradicate thousands of hectares of coca leaf crops — the raw material for cocaine — and to halt the trafficking bound for the United States.

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The U.S. Open returns to Shinnecock Hills for the first time since 2018, when Brooks Koepka won during a tough, dry week in which no one finished under par.

Scheffler had never been to the fabled course on New York's Long Island, which held the second edition of the U.S. Open in 1896. This major is bigger than usual for the world's No. 1 player because a victory would make him only the seventh player to complete the career Grand Slam.

“It was kind of what I expected,” Scheffler said. “I had heard some rumors about how difficult the greens were. I was a little surprised at the width of the fairways, but the green complexes there are extremely difficult, and I think that’s where the greatest challenge comes from.”

He also said the rough was thick and penal. That's typical of a U.S. Open. A vintage U.S. Open has firm greens, and that looks to be the case, provided the weather cooperates.

Narrow fairways? Not so much.

“The fairways are very generous,” said McIlroy, who missed the cut with rounds of 80-70 when he first played a U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. "They’re more generous than they were in 2018. But the first cut of rough is 5 inches long. So it’s like the first cut is maybe three paces wide and then it gets into the fescue.

“So if you miss the fairway even by a yard ... but you shouldn’t. The fairways are very, very generous. So if you miss the fairway, I feel like you deserve a bad lie.”

It will be a big week for the USGA to get it right. In 2004, the par-3 seventh green was so dead on Sunday that players couldn't keep the golf ball on the putting surface and USGA officials wound up watering the green between groups.

Then in 2018, some of the greens became so severe that it was thought to be borderline unplayable. Phil Mickelson swatted a moving golf ball on the 13th green out of frustration. Officials softened the course so much for the final day that Tommy Fleetwood shot 63.

The course has a reputation of being tough, and Scheffler felt it lived up to that.

“The rough, also, was a really good penalty for the width,” he said. "Once you start missing fairways out there, you have no chance. But the fairways are generous enough to where it provides you some opportunity, and that way it’s just that the green complexes are extraordinarily difficult.

“They can put the pins wherever they want and make the scores as high as they could possibly want them to be.”

McIlroy said the greens were around 11 on the Stimpmeter when he played on Monday and he doesn't see a need for them to get much faster.

“I think if they can keep them at that green speed, they can get them firm, and they can use the hole locations that they want to use without having some of the struggles that they have had the last couple of U.S. Opens. ... If it’s set up the right way, I think it’s one of the best championship tests in the country. It’s an amazing golf course.”

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Republicans could net about 10 additional U.S. House seats in the November elections if redrawn voting districts perform as they were intended. The question is whether that's enough for the GOP to hold on to a majority in the chamber, where Democrats need to gain only a few seats to take control.

Political trends and historic patterns favor Democrats. President Donald Trump's approval ratings are negative. And the incumbent's party has lost House seats in every midterm election over the past two decades.

This election season already has been unusual. Voting districts typically are redrawn only after a census at the start of each decade. But Trump urged Republicans last summer to redraw congressional districts to their advantage to try to prevent losses in the 2026 midterms.

Since then, Republicans think they could win as many as 16 additional seats from new House maps enacted in eight states — Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama. Democrats, whose counterattack faced several setbacks, think they could win up to six additional seats from new districts in California and Utah.

Nearly 145 million people — about two of every five U.S. residents — live in states with new congressional districts for this election.

Yet the mid-decade redistricting battle didn't go as far as it could have.

Republicans in Kansas and Democrats in Illinois both rebuffed party pushes to take up redistricting. In Republican-led Indiana and South Carolina and Democratic-led Maryland, new congressional districts passed the state House but ultimately died in the state Senate. The Virginia Supreme Court invalidated new voter-approved districts that could have helped Democrats win up to four additional seats. And the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a lower court order that could have helped Democrats gain a congressional seat in New York.

Here's a look at the states with new U.S. House maps:

Texas

Current map: 13 Democrats, 25 Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a revised House map into law last August that could help Republicans win five additional seats. Democrats think they could still win some of those seats.

Missouri

Current map: two Democrats, six Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a revised House map into law last September that could help Republicans win an additional seat by reshaping a Democratic-held district based in Kansas City. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins has until Aug. 4 — the date of Missouri's primaries — to decide whether to reject an initiative petition seeking a statewide vote on the map.

North Carolina

Current map: four Democrats, 10 Republicans

New map: The Republican-led General Assembly gave final approval in October to revised districts that could help Republicans win an additional seat.

Ohio

Current map: five Democrats, 10 Republicans

New map: A bipartisan panel composed primarily of Republicans voted in October to approve revised House districts that improve Republicans’ chances of winning two additional seats. Democrats think they could still win those seats.

California

Current map: 43 Democrats, nine Republicans

New map: Voters in November approved revised House districts drawn by the Democratic-led Legislature that could help Democrats win five additional seats.

Utah

Current map: no Democrats, four Republicans

New map: A judge in November imposed revised House districts that could help Democrats win a seat in the Salt Lake City area.

Florida

Current map: eight Democrats, 20 Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed revised House districts in May that improve the GOP’s chances of winning four additional seats. Legal challenges are pending.

Tennessee

Current map: one Democrat, eight Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed new House districts in May that improve the GOP’s chances of winning an additional seat by carving up the lone Democratic-held seat, a majority-Black district based in Memphis. Legal challenges are pending.

Louisiana

Current map: two Democrats, four Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed off on new House districts in May that improve Republican chances of winning an additional seat by eliminating a majority-Black district held by a Democrat that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as an illegal racial gerrymander.

Alabama

Current map: two Democrats, five Republicans

New map: The U.S. Supreme Court in June allowed the state to use a congressional map approved by Republican state lawmakers that improves the GOP's chances of winning an additional seat by reshaping a Democratic-held district that has a large number of Black voters.

The Swiss soccer federation at the team's training camp in San Diego confirmed why Embolo’s travel approval to the U.S. had been put under review Tuesday. He has a conviction that became binding this year.

Embolo was charged after an altercation in Basel city center in 2018 and his guilty verdict was upheld at appeal last September. The verdict was finalized in April, just weeks before Embolo was due to travel to the U.S. for the third World Cup of his career.

“The embassy’s inquiries focused specifically on whether any physical violence had been involved. This was not the case,” the Swiss soccer body said. “Breel and the team are now awaiting approval so that he can travel to San Diego and join the squad as soon as possible.”

Switzerland starts its World Cup campaign on June 13 against Qatar at the San Francisco 49ers’ stadium in Santa Clara.

The Swiss then play Bosnia-Herzegovina in Inglewood, California and finish Group B against tournament co-host Canada in Vancouver on June 24.

The 29-year-old Embolo is set to be Switzerland’s first-choice striker and has scored 24 goals in 86 internationals.

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Es en parte un club de lectura y en parte un club social, y una prueba de que una historia compartida puede unir a desconocidos.

El fundador Maalik Nelson lanzó el club de lectura Maalik Meets en Instagram, invitando a amigos a leer y discutir libros juntos. Lo inició de manera orgánica, impulsado por su propio amor por la literatura.

“Cuando comenzó, realmente eran mis cinco, seis o siete amigos más cercanos. Empecé a elegir libros cada vez más intencionales que pensaba que la comunidad querría leer”, dijo Nelson. “El grupo pasó de unas 10 personas a 20, luego al mes siguiente pasó de 20 a 30, después de 30 a 50 y continuó creciendo a medida que pasaban los meses”.

Actualmente, el club se reúne mensualmente en Dale’ Zine, en el Design District de Miami, una librería y galería independiente especializada en libros de arte que organiza encuentros y también tiene su propia página de Instagram.

Los miembros leen el mismo libro y luego se reúnen para compartir perspectivas, reacciones e interpretaciones. El formato es intencionalmente simple y los libros reflejan los tiempos actuales.

“Todos leemos un libro. Todos leemos el mismo libro. Tienen cosas que decir. No me necesitan a mí”, dijo Nelson. “Los dejo hablar y hacer lo suyo, y luego, a mitad de la reunión, tenemos una discusión más estructurada”.

La selección de este mes fue “Piranesi”, de Susanna Clarke.

Tanto para los miembros de larga trayectoria como para quienes asistían por primera vez, la discusión reveló una verdad central del club: no hay dos lectores que experimenten una misma historia de la misma manera.

“Podemos leer el mismo libro y cada persona obtendrá algo completamente único de él, y es increíble cada vez porque ven algo que tú nunca habías visto antes”, dijo Andrew Mendez, miembro del club.

No hay un profesor al frente de la sala. No hay panelistas. No hay conferencia. Solo conversación.

Aunque los libros pueden ser la razón por la que las personas asisten cada mes, a menudo no son la razón por la que regresan.

Maalik Meets se ha convertido en mucho más que un simple club de lectura. El grupo organiza parrilladas, paneles de discusión y encuentros sociales diseñados para que las conexiones continúen creciendo más allá de las páginas.

En una época impulsada por los “me gusta”, los seguidores y los algoritmos, los miembros afirman que están construyendo algo más personal. Muchos llegan por los libros, pero se quedan por las personas.

La selección del próximo mes es “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, de James Baldwin.

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It’s part book club, part social club — and proof that a shared story can bring strangers together.

Founder Maalik Nelson launched Maalik Meets book club on Instagram, inviting friends to read and discuss books together. He started it organically, through his own love of literature.

“When it started, it just legitimately was like my closest five, six, seven friends. I started to choose more and more intentional books that I thought the community would want,” said Nelson. “The group went from like 10 to 20, then the next month it went from 20 to 30, then 30 to 50 and it continued to grow as the months went on.”

Currently, the club gathers monthly at Dale’ Zine in Miami’s design district, an independent art bookshop and gallery hosting meetups that also has its own Instagram page.

Members read the same book, then come together to share perspectives, reactions and interpretations. The format is intentionally simple and the books reflect the times.

“We all read a book. We all read the same book. You have stuff to say. You don’t need me,” said Nelson. “I let them talk and let them do their thing and then in the middle we have more of a structured discussion.”

This month’s selection was “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke.

For longtime members and first-time visitors alike, the discussion revealed a central truth of the club: no two readers experience the same story the same way.

“We can read the same book and everybody will get something completely unique out of it and it’s incredible every time cause they will see something that you’ve never seen before,” said club member, Andrew Mendez.

There’s no professor at the front of the room. No panel. No lecture. Just conversation.

While books may be the reason people show up every month, they’re often not the reason people come back.

Maalik Meets has become much more than just a book club. The group hosts cookouts, panel discussions and social gatherings designed to keep connections growing beyond the page.

In an age driven by likes, followers and algorithms — members say they’re building something more personal. Many show up for the books, but stay for the people.

Next month’s selection is “Go Tell It on the Mountain” by James Baldwin.

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Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, turns 95 years old Wednesday under the shadow of a criminal indictment from the U.S. and an uncertain future for Cuba with the legacy of his brother, Fidel Castro, on his shoulders.

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June 1 update: Looking to the future: Should Cuban Americans invest in Cuba?

A few months ago, Cuba’s Vice Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, who is the grand-nephew of Raúl Castro, invited Cuban Americans in exile to invest in Cuba.

In 2019, the Cuban government amended their constitution to allow foreign investment. However, they did not change their laws to protect the investments.

Therefore, the risks to invest in Cuba remain greater than the opportunities.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

Raúl Castro, ex presidente de Cuba, cumple 95 años este miércoles bajo la sombra de una acusación penal de Estados Unidos y un futuro incierto para Cuba, cargando sobre sus hombros el legado de su hermano, Fidel Castro.

Actualización del 1 de junio: Mirando al futuro: ¿Deberían los cubanoamericanos invertir en Cuba?

Hace algunos meses, el viceministro de Cuba, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, sobrino nieto de Raúl Castro, invitó a los cubanoamericanos en el exilio a invertir en Cuba.

En 2019, el gobierno cubano modificó su Constitución para permitir la inversión extranjera. Sin embargo, no cambió sus leyes para proteger esas inversiones.

Por lo tanto, los riesgos de invertir en Cuba siguen siendo mayores que las oportunidades.

El Dr. Andy S. Gómez es el analista sobre Cuba de Local 10. Gómez es considerado uno de los principales expertos sobre Cuba. Trabajó en la educación superior durante 32 años antes de retirarse de la Universidad de Miami en 2012.

El director financiero de Florida y jefe estatal de bomberos, Blaise Ingoglia, ofreció una conferencia de prensa el miércoles en el Centro de Entrenamiento de Búsqueda y Rescate Urbano de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Ingoglia aprovechó el evento para exhortar a los floridanos a abastecerse de inmediato de suministros esenciales, revisar su cobertura de seguro y elaborar un plan antes de que una tormenta amenace al estado.

Los funcionarios también recordaron a los residentes que deben conocer su zona de evacuación, evitar conducir por calles inundadas y estar atentos a posibles estafas después de una tormenta.

“El momento de prepararnos para los huracanes que se dirigen hacia nuestra área es ahora”, dijo Ingoglia. “No es cuando ya estamos dentro del cono, es ahora. No esperemos a que haya una tormenta con nombre, preparémonos desde ahora. Con solo tomar algunas medidas proactivas hoy, podemos marcar una gran diferencia mañana”.

Ingoglia también anunció una nueva iniciativa de preparación que enviará a agentes estatales de seguros a comunidades propensas a huracanes para compartir directamente con los residentes información sobre preparación ante tormentas.

Hasta ahora, dijo, ya han tocado las puertas de más de 6,000 viviendas.

La iniciativa continuará durante el resto de la temporada de huracanes de este año.

La transmisión de la conferencia de prensa puede verse a continuación:

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Florida Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Blaise Ingoglia held a news conference Wednesday at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Urban Search and Rescue Training Facility.

Ingoglia used the event to encourage Floridians to immediately stock up on essential supplies, review their insurance coverage and make a plan before a storm threatens the state.

Officials also reminded residents to know their evacuation zone, to avoid driving through flooded streets, and to be on the lookout for scams after a storm.

“The time to prepare for hurricanes that are headed our direction is now,” said Ingoglia. “It’s not right when we are in the cone, it is now. Let’s not wait for a named storm, let’s prepare now. And by simply taking a few proactive steps today, we can make all the difference in tomorrow.”

Ingoglia also announced a new preparedness initiative that will send state insurance agents into hurricane-prone communities to share storm preparedness information directly with residents.

So far, he said they’ve already knocked on doors at more than 6,000 homes.

The initiative will continue through the rest of this year’s hurricane season.

A stream of the news conference can be seen below:

The case was an early test of how the courts would respond to President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown.

Dugan had been scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday, but U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman postponed the proceedings indefinitely to instead hear arguments about whether to overturn her conviction.

Adelman did not rule from the bench and did not indicate when he might issue a decision. Dugan and attorneys for both sides left the courtroom without commenting to reporters.

Former judge's attorney points to a Virginia case

Dugan’s attorney Steven Biskupic argued that her conviction was invalid and should be overturned. He said that was necessary because a federal appeals court in April overturned a key Virginia immigration case that the judge and prosecutors had cited in the Dugan case.

Biskupic argued that based on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturning that ruling, Dugan was improperly convicted, procedurally, under a certain federal law.

“Our primary argument is this was an invalid theory of conviction," Biskupic said.

In the Virginia case, an immigrant who was in the country illegally was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and later escaped. He was recaptured and indicted on a charge of obstructing a pending immigration proceeding.

The federal appeals court found that the ICE action did not constitute a “pending proceeding,” as is required under the federal obstruction law.

Dugan’s attorneys argue that she should not have been charged because there was no “pending proceeding” against the immigrant in her courtroom being sought by ICE agents, only a warrant filed for his arrest. The filing of a warrant does not constitute a “proceeding” under the law, Biskupic argued.

Prosecutors countered that the facts in the Virginia case are different and don’t apply to Dugan's. They also argued that other cases support Dugan's conviction.

“The court should stick with its ruling,” said Richard Frohling, acting U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin.

In response to a question from the judge, he contended that the appeals court was wrong to overturn the Virginia case. The judge also quizzed Frohling on what constitutes a proceeding under the law and how long it lasts.

“It could be a couple minutes, it could be a couple years," Frohling said. "It all depends on the context.”

Dugan's sentencing was postponed so the court can hear new arguments

Dugan, 67, faces up to five years in prison after a jury convicted her on Dec. 19. But it is unlikely that Dugan would be sentenced to prison. Federal sentencing guidelines generally call for probation for defendants like her who have no criminal history and are convicted of a nonviolent crime.

She resigned from her position as a Milwaukee County circuit judge two weeks after her conviction amid threats of impeachment from Republican state lawmakers. She had been a judge for nine years.

Dugan was present for Wednesday's arguments but did not speak.

The Trump administration brought the case against Dugan as the president pressed ahead with his sweeping immigration crackdown. Trump’s administration and his allies branded Dugan as an activist judge, while Dugan’s attorneys said she was being unfairly targeted and argued, unsuccessfully, that she was immune from being charged because she was a judge.

Dugan’s case marked the first time that a state judge in Wisconsin went to trial on charges of obstructing immigration agents. She was acquitted of concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor.

Dugan helped an immigrant wanted by ICE agents

On April 18, 2025, immigration officers went to the Milwaukee County courthouse after learning Eduardo Flores-Ruiz had reentered the country illegally and was scheduled to appear before Dugan for a hearing in a state battery case.

Dugan confronted agents outside her courtroom and directed them to the chief judge’s office because she told them their administrative warrant wasn’t sufficient grounds to arrest Flores-Ruiz.

After the agents left, she led Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a private jury door. Agents spotted Flores-Ruiz in the corridor, followed him outside and arrested him after a foot chase. A week later, FBI agents arrested Dugan in the courthouse, leading her outside in handcuffs.

Flores-Ruiz was deported in November.

El hecho ocurrió alrededor de las 10:30 p.m. del domingo a bordo del vuelo 3345 de Frontier, que viajaba de Puerto Rico a Chicago cuando se vio obligado a realizar un aterrizaje de emergencia en MIA, según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

Según el informe, Juan Gabriel Reyes, de Pahokee, Florida, se tornó conflictivo durante el vuelo, lo que llevó a miembros de la tripulación y pasajeros a intervenir.

Los investigadores dijeron que testigos les informaron que Reyes primero intentó abrir una puerta de salida mientras el avión estaba en vuelo y les dijo a otras personas que quería abandonar la aeronave.

El informe indica que las azafatas lo detuvieron y le ordenaron regresar a su asiento.

Los agentes dijeron que Reyes presuntamente ignoró esas instrucciones y caminó hacia la parte delantera del avión, donde intentó acceder a la cabina de mando al “poner la mano en la manija de la puerta y empujar agresivamente con el hombro la puerta del piloto”.

Según el informe, una azafata le impidió el acceso.

Los investigadores dijeron que, después de que se le permitió usar el baño, Reyes intentó orinar en el piso del sanitario antes de que le indicaran que tomara asiento en otra parte del avión.

Indicaron que una azafata de Frontier fuera de servicio se ofreció voluntariamente para sentarse en la misma fila que Reyes después de que este fue reubicado.

El informe señala que la azafata fuera de servicio posteriormente confrontó a Reyes después de ser alertada de que estaba manipulando sus pertenencias. Cuando la azafata intentó tomar su bolso, Reyes presuntamente la agarró por la cabeza y comenzó a estrangularla, dijeron los agentes.

Según las autoridades, varios pasajeros intervinieron para ayudar a la víctima y apartar a Reyes. Posteriormente, azafatas y pasajeros trabajaron juntos para inmovilizarlo mientras este se resistía, indica el informe.

El vuelo fue desviado a MIA, donde agentes de la MDSO abordaron el avión y tomaron a Reyes bajo custodia.

Agentes del FBI acudieros al lugar y asumieron la investigación federal, según el informe. Las autoridades dijeron que Reyes fue informado de sus derechos Miranda, pero decidió ejercerlos y no ofreció ninguna declaración.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Reyes enfrenta un cargo de agresión.

Hasta el miércoles, permanecía detenido con una fianza de $20,000 USD en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Según la MDSO, la policía de Doral respondió a una vivienda en la comunidad cerrada Doral Isles en el área de Northwest 111th Court y 72nd Terrace poco después de las 7:30 p.m. tras recibir una llamada para verificar el bienestar de las personas que viven en la casa.

Las autoridades dijeron que los agentes ingresaron a la vivienda y encontraron a un hombre, una mujer y dos niñas que no respondían.

El personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue también respondió a la vivienda y declaró a los cuatro muertos en la escena.

Detectives de la Oficina de Homicidios de la MDSO han asumido la investigación de las muertes.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles.

Around it, everything else is brand new.

The racetrack that straddles the border of Queens and Long Island is smack in the middle of a massive $550 million reconstruction project that included knocking down the gargantuan brick grandstand and rebuilding a smaller, modern facility suited for horse racing in the 21st century. A year from now, the Belmont Stakes will return to its traditional home at Belmont Park after a three-year hiatus upstate at Saratoga Race Course to allow for the work to get done.

“It’s hugely important to get it back to Belmont,” Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher said. “The opening of a new facility is something that can really give the industry a shot in the arm.”

Belmont Park 2.0

Aqueduct Racetrack will close to consolidate racing in New York to two locations after shiny new Belmont Park reopens on a limited basis Sept. 18. It is scheduled to be fully complete by next spring, ahead of the 159th Belmont Stakes and then the Breeders' Cup World Championships in the fall of 2027.

“Once you’re in the paddock and you get towards the building, you start to really see how it’s going to feel on a big day here,” said New York Racing Association president and CEO David O’Rourke, who has been with the organization since 2008.

“This consolidation was always discussed from Day 1. It was always on paper. To finally get to that point, we’re really excited."

The Associated Press took a hard hat tour of the construction site last month, where tarps and ladders are everywhere and tools strewn about the building, which is significantly smaller than the structure that reopened in 1968 after the last demolition and rebuild and held 100,000 people.

Roughly 300 construction workers plus 100 more support staff have put in more than 2 million hours, installing 1,728 tons of structural steel and pouring 40,000 cubic yards of concrete.

Building for horses and people

All the perks are there, including 31 suites — the old Belmont Park had none — along with a sports bar, a giant infield video screen and all the amenities of a stadium or arena. Lone Star Park in Texas was the last new racetrack to open in the U.S., back in 1997.

“This is a modern facility,” O'Rourke said. “It’s state of the art.”

That includes the racing surfaces because unlike stadiums and arenas for all-human sports, a ton of effort goes into making sure conditions are as good as possible for the horses. While the building is still a work in progress, the surfaces are done and ready: the dirt track known as “Big Sandy," two turf courses with grass that look straight out of European racing, and a synthetic track designed to race through the winter.

Updated technology allowed NYRA executive VP of operations and capital projects Glen Kozak and his team to install new drainage systems, along with track mats and bases designed to make the surfaces as safe as possible. Each marker pole has a robotic camera, and a 15-million gallon pond in the infield should hold enough water to irrigate without needing outside hydration.

“We’ve been given the opportunity here to start from the ground up and put all best practices in place,” Kozak said. “The quality of the irrigation, the health of the grass — all those components that go into better racing and better for the horse and rider, we were able to implement here.”

Back to Belmont

While the Belmont has been up at Saratoga, the third leg of the Triple Crown was shortened to 1 1/4 miles from the “test of the champion” 1 1/2-mile distance that was its hallmark. O'Rourke confirmed the plan is to go back to normal next year.

“The Belmont being a mile and a half with their big racetrack, I really kind of think that’s a unique opportunity as a lot of these horses won’t ever have to do that again in their career,” Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Cherie DeVaux said.

When American Pharoah ended the sport's 37-year Triple Crown drought in 2015 and Justify swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont in 2018, each won the final race at 1 1/2 miles in front of a huge crowd. Pletcher wondered if it would have been the same the past three years at Saratoga and is glad the future includes the traditional distance.

“It’s such a unique race, and you don’t get the opportunity to run that far very often,” Pletcher said. “And to do it at a facility like Belmont, where it’s a once around mile and a half oval that's, to me, the ultimate race, especially when there’s a Triple Crown on the line.”

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Those killed have since been identified by authorities as Ryan Charles Whiten, 42; Melanie Lauren Hyer, 46; Savannah Whiten, 11; and Sienna Whiten, 8.

According to MDSO, Doral police responded to a home in the gated Doral Isles community in the area of Northwest 111^th Court and 72^nd Terrace just after 7:30 p.m. after receiving a call to check on the welfare of the people who live there.

Authorities said officers entered the house and found four people who had stab wounds and were unresponsive.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel also responded to the home and pronounced all four dead at the scene.

Detectives said they believe the four were killed in a murder-suicide, but they have not identified which person they believe was the killer.

A representative for Downtown Doral Charter Schools confirmed that both girls were students there.

“Our community is mourning the loss of two of our beloved students. Our heartfelt sympathies are with their families, friends, faculty and staff at our schools. These students will be deeply missed,” the representative said in a statement. “To support our students and staff, the school has arranged to have grief counselors on campus and will continue to provide support as needed. We encourage parents to talk openly with their children and closely monitor their well-being. Parents with any concerns or in need of additional support should contact the school.”

Doral Mayor Christi Fraga released a statement on social media, saying the loss hits especially close to home as she personally knew Hyer.

“Our Doral community is heartbroken by the unimaginable tragedy that has impacted a local family and taken the lives of a mother and her two young daughters,” Fraga said in part. “As a mother, and as someone who personally knew and admired the loving and dedicated mother at the center of this tragedy, this loss feels especially close to home. My heart aches for their loved ones, classmates, teachers, friends, neighbors, and everyone grieving during this incredibly painful time.”

Fraga added, “This tragedy is also a painful reminder that we must continue having honest conversations about mental health, domestic violence, emotional wellness, and the importance of speaking up when something feels wrong.”

She also shared the following resources for those experiencing domestic violence or mental health struggles:

• Miami-Dade Domestic Violence Hotline: 305-285-5900

• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-SAFE (7233)

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988

MDSO Homicide Bureau detectives have taken over the investigation into the deaths.

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It happened around 10:30 p.m. Sunday aboard Frontier Flight 3345, which was traveling from Puerto Rico to Chicago when it was forced to make an emergency landing at MIA, according to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

According to the report, Juan Gabriel Reyes, of Chicago, Illinois, became disruptive during the flight, prompting crew members and passengers to intervene.

Investigators said witnesses told them that Reyes first attempted to open an exit door while the plane was in flight and told others he wanted to leave the plane.

The report states flight attendants stopped him and instructed him to return to his seat.

Deputies said Reyes allegedly ignored those instructions and walked toward the front of the plane, where he attempted to access the cockpit by “placing his hand on the door handle and shoving his shoulder aggressively on the pilot’s door.”

A flight attendant prevented him from gaining access, according to the report.

Investigators said after being allowed to use the restroom, Reyes attempted to urinate on the lavatory floor before being directed to take a seat elsewhere on the plane.

They said an off-duty Frontier flight attendant volunteered to sit in the same row as Reyes after he was relocated.

The report states the off-duty flight attendant later confronted Reyes after being alerted that Reyes was handling his belongings. As the flight attendant reached for his bag, Reyes allegedly grabbed him by the head and began choking him, deputies said.

According to authorities, several passengers stepped in to help the victim and remove Reyes. Flight attendants and passengers then worked together to restrain him as he resisted, the report states.

The flight was then diverted to MIA, where MDSO deputies boarded the plane and took Reyes into custody.

FBI agents responded to the scene and assumed the federal investigation, according to the report. Authorities said Reyes was advised of his Miranda rights, but invoked them and did not provide a statement.

According to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, the case is being prosecuted at the federal level due to jurisdictional considerations.

Jail records show Reyes is facing one state charge of battery along with federal charges that include interference with flight crew members and attendants, and assault within maritime and territorial jurisdiction.

Authoritiries said a federal criminal complaint has already been filed, and authorities placed a federal hold on Reyes at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He is expected to be transferred to the Federal Detention Center in Miami to face the federal proceedings.

If convicted on all charges, he could face up to 20 years in prison. Records show his bond is currently set at $20,000.

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According to investigators, Georchel Cephas was last seen on Saturday wearing a multicolored dress near the 3200 block of West Oakland Park Boulevard in Lauderdale Lakes.

Deputies said she is approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs about 110 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on her whereaboutsis urged to contact BSO Missing Persons Detective Chris Blankenship at 954-321-4268 or the BSO non-emergency number at 954-764-4357.

Detectives de la Unidad de Personas Desaparecidas de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward solicitaron la ayuda del público el miércoles para localizar a una adolescente de 14 años que, según indican, desapareció durante el fin de semana.

Según los investigadores, Georchel Cephas fue vista por última vez el sábado vistiendo un vestido multicolor cerca de la cuadra 3200 de West Oakland Park Boulevard, en Lauderdale Lakes.

Los agentes informaron que mide aproximadamente 5 pies y 6 pulgadas de estatura, pesa alrededor de 110 libras y tiene cabello negro y ojos marrones.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero debe comunicarse con el detective de personas desaparecidas de BSO, Chris Blankenship, al 954-321-4268 o con la línea de no emergencias de BSO al 954-764-4357.

Altarac was 18 when she left her native Sarajevo with her husband and traveled to Italy, France, Algeria, and Canada. She eventually moved to the U.S. in 1966.

Altarac, who has three daughters, seven grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and 17 great-great-grandchildren, was a guest of honor on Wednesday.

“It brings me such joy to see all of our efforts help these survivors reach 100 with dignity, with family, and surrounded by celebration,” said Masha Pearl, the executive director of The Blue Card Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps survivors.

Altarac and Leon Schagrin — the author of “The Horse Adjutant: A Boy’s Life during the Nazi Holocaust” — were among the nearly 130 honored guests at an early celebration on Wednesday of Holocaust Survivor Day at Temple Beth Emet in Cooper City.

The global celebration to honor the resilience of the survivors of the state-sponsored genocide of six million Jewish people between 1933 and 1945 has been observed annually on June 4 since 2021.

Schagrin, who was born in Grybów, Poland, turned 99 on Oct. 30. His memoir describes how he was forced to spend his childhood in ghettos and concentration camps, including Tarnów, Szebnia, and Auschwitz III.

The Blue Card Fund and Goodman Jewish Family Services of Broward County, a social services organization based in Davie, organized a busy itinerary to honor them and their contributions at the temple at 4807 South Flamingo Road.

The itinerary included a Medal of Honor ceremony, an induction to the Centenarian Club with birthday cake, a performance by a student choir, and time for intergenerational dancing.

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“Those were Froot Loops,” Spielberg says, smiling. “My favorite.”

Spielberg’s latest, like some of his earliest and most beloved films, again concerns what might fall from above. “Disclosure Day,” which Universal Pictures releases June 11, returns Hollywood’s preeminent big-screen craftsman to one of his most abiding questions: Are we alone?

Coming nearly half a century after “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Disclosure Day” is a grand bookend for one of the most cosmically-minded moviemakers of our time, whose dreams of extraterrestrial life have shaped all of ours. It’s a distant answer to the final notes of “Close Encounters.” But while Spielberg grants his 1977 film was “speculative,” “Disclosure Day,” he insists, is the real deal.

“It’s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction,” Spielberg said in a recent interview. “It’s much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak.”

Spielberg, at 79, is trying to revive and reconsider the alien wonder that’s long lingered in his mind, from “E.T.” to “War of the Worlds.” “Disclosure Day,” Spielberg’s first summer movie in a decade, is already being hailed as one of his best in years. But this time, Spielberg is testing whether he can conjure some of his trademark movie magic less with imagination than with conviction.

“I’ve been a believer since I made ‘Close Encounters’ 50 years ago,” Spielberg says. “But I would always say: Until I’ve seen a UAP or a UFO with my own eyes, I’m not going to categorically state that life from out there has come here.

“But I’ve changed that,” he adds. “I’m now willing to change my mind because of the circumstantial evidence which is overwhelming.”

Aliens again, but different

“Disclosure Day” stars Josh O’Connor as a cybersecurity whistleblower with government evidence, long suppressed, chronicling a history of alien encounters. Guiding him in his escape from a corporate executive (Colin Firth) trying to keep it all under wraps is the disclosure movement’s leader (Colman Domingo). Meanwhile, a meteorologist named Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) begins having a mysterious epiphany.

When he first began thinking about the movie, Spielberg called up the screenwriter David Koepp, a longtime collaborator who wrote “Jurassic Park” and “War of the Worlds.”

“I said, ‘Sure, what’s it about?’” recalls Koepp. “And he said, ‘Oh, you know, aliens again. But different this time.’”

Spielberg was coming off an unusually long break by his breakneck standards. His 2022 film “The Fabelmans” pulled from his own childhood, dramatizing his parents’ painful divorce and his own origins as a filmmaker. Spielberg’s first gut-wrenchingly autobiographical movie left him unsure of what was next.

“It was the hardest question I ever had to ask myself because there was such completion in resolving so many personal issues that I had never aired in public before ‘The Fabelmans,’” Spielberg says.

“I didn’t care whether people thought ‘The Fabelmans’ was just a tale, a yarn, or if they cared that it was all true. I didn’t care about that. It was something I did for myself. I always used to say it was $40 million of therapy that I didn’t have to pay for. Universal did,” he says, laughing.

But Spielberg, having long followed reports of alleged alien encounters, was inspired by the 2023 House Subcommittee on National Security hearing on UAPs: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. Among the witnesses was whistleblower and former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch, who testified that the government concealed a program investigating UAPs.

The Pentagon then denied it. Yet in April, President Donald Trump said the Pentagon is preparing to release some “very interesting” UFO files.

Those 2023 testimonies and others so fueled Spielberg that he produced a 50-page treatment on what would become “Disclosure Day." During the writing process with Koepp, he texted him more notes, he says, “than I’ve ever sent to anyone in my life.”

“There was a period in there where I believe he re-read the script every single day for a year,” Koepp says. “We’d be in different time zones and I would wake up to 30 or 35 texts from his most current reading of the script. When the leader of the project has that level of commitment, it tends to bring along everyone. You up your game.”

Extraterrestrial empathy

Spielberg has long considered his filmography split in two, between the filmmaker who made “Jaws” and “E.T.” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and the one who, after 1985’s “The Color Purple,” was increasingly drawn to darker and more serious material with films like “Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan” and “Munich.”

“Disclosure Day” is a kind of bridge between both modes of Spielberg — a thrilling chase movie filled with wonderment that’s nevertheless grounded in reality and recent history. And its most ardent message is quite earthbound. Blunt’s character’s clarity comes from looking people in the eye. As much as it’s about aliens, “Disclosure Day” is about empathy.

“I think every movie should have a great emphasis on empathy because empathy sometimes feels like it’s in short supply,” Spielberg says. “We have it, sometimes we can’t use it. Sometimes it’s not allowed to be used if you want to stay aligned with your friends and your belief systems. But I think empathy is there for all of us.”

“Disclosure Day” opens in a much different movie world than Spielberg's earlier alien adventures. It's one of few big, original studio movies this summer — a moviegoing season that the “Jaws” filmmaker pioneered. But neither franchise domination, AI nor streaming make Spielberg fret for the future of movies.

“The audience gives me faith in the movies," says Spielberg. "Even though the numbers are still not pre-COVID level numbers for any films being released now, it’s more robust than it has been for many years. The audience gives me belief that people still want to congregate in a dark space in the company of strangers to share an experience of a film made by storytellers. And that gives me faith to continue making films.”

Spielberg will turn 80 this December. Around the same age, Martin Scorsese began to frankly ponder how many movies he had left. Spielberg doesn’t think the same way.

“I never think about how many more I have,” he says. “I’m just hopeful that I will be inspired when something comes along, as I was with ‘Disclosure Day,’ as I was with ‘Fabelmans,’ as I was with ‘West Side Story.’”

More inspiration is already on the way. Spielberg hopes that his next movie will be a Western. Despite his deep fondness for the genre and an indelible encounter with John Ford, it’s one genre that’s eluded him.

“I always feel like parts of the ‘Raiders’ adventure movies are like Westerns,” he says. “Whenever Harrison (Ford) was on a horse, it made me wistful for wanting to direct a full Western, a real Western.”

Margaret Fairchild in “Disclosure Day” has some echoes with another Spielberg protagonist: Richard Dreyfuss’ Roy Neary in “Close Encounters.” Both are compelled by a strange force beyond their control. It’s a character type that Spielberg, a compulsive movie maker, grants he connects with. “Disclosure Day” is his 35th feature film.

“I identify with characters who aren’t afraid of mysterious things happening to them,” Spielberg says, “and who are fighting for their survival by trying to discover what they don’t know.”

According to Congolese authorities, 344 cases including 60 deaths have been confirmed of the rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola since the outbreak was announced in mid-May in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu. The number of suspected cases is down from 906 to 116.

Neighboring Uganda has 15 confirmed cases including one death, its health ministry said Tuesday.

The WHO chief avoided a question about a U.S. quarantine center in Kenya that has drawn protests, saying that “I think based on their risk assessment … they can do whatever they think is right for them.”

Experts have said the virus spread for weeks in one of the world's most vulnerable regions before lab testing confirmed it. Resources, including protective gear, have been rushed to the outbreak for a type of Ebola with no approved medicine or vaccine.

At least five people have recovered from the virus, rare signs of hope.

“The true extent of the outbreak remains difficult to assess. Extremely limited testing capacity and difficulties accessing certain areas necessitate interpreting these figures with caution,” Doctors Without Borders, said Monday of case numbers.

Getting a potential vaccine to the region could take months.

“It’s difficult to have an effective vaccine that adheres to the scientific protocol available quickly," Dr. Aruna Abedi, a Congolese epidemiologist who has managed previous outbreaks in the country, told The Associated Press.

While laboratory and diagnostic resources improve for the outbreak, Tedros said the tracing of people who had contact with infected people in Congo is still behind.

"Only about 45% of contacts have been followed up, and to get ahead of the outbreak we need to get that number up to above 90%,” he said. “Insecurity, displacement and mobile populations make contact tracing especially difficult.”

Armed groups active in the region include the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that seized key cities Goma and Bukavu over a year ago, and an Islamic State-allied group called the Allied Democratic Forces that operates in the border region between Congo and Uganda. Insecurity over the years has created a huge and vulnerable displaced population.

Wary residents have attacked health centers in the outbreak, at times demanding the bodies of loved ones. Health workers also have been battling mistaken beliefs among some residents that Ebola isn't real, which has kept some from seeking care.

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The leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee held the hearing as they push legislation unveiled last week that supporters hope can break the congressional gridlock over how to regulate college athletics.

The bill, introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., would regulate payments to athletes, limit them to one “free” transfer during their careers and create a “Lane Kiffin Rule” restricting coaches from leaving programs during the season. Cruz touted the proposal as “the last, best hope we have to save college sports.”

“If you had the biggest, baddest Ferrari that you could ever have and it was going 150 miles an hour toward the Grand Canyon, somebody needs to tap the brakes. And I think that’s what we all need to do here,” Saban said in his opening remarks.

Notably absent from the the witness list, which included Notre Dame’s athletic director and the commissioner of the PAC-12 conference, was any representative from the Southeastern Conference, where Saban won seven national championships between Alabama and Louisiana State University

The SEC and the Big Ten, the two most powerful conferences in college sports, oppose the bill, arguing it “leaves critical issues unresolved.”

Cantwell said the legislation is intended to restore competition to college athletics by ensuring success is determined by how universities “build a team, and not because they have a billionaire in their back pocket.”

She also addressed the conferences’ opposition directly, suggesting they fear “that somebody’s going to come in and rearrange the deck chairs of those conferences, steal the eyeball schools, and then basically leave everybody with everything else.”

Amanda se encontraba a unos 2.375 kilómetros (1.475 millas) al oeste-suroeste del extremo sur de la península de Baja California, en México, según el centro meteorológico con sede en Miami. Con el centro de la tormenta en el mar, el ciclón no representaba una amenaza inmediata para tierra.

Amanda tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 65 kph (40 mph), dijeron los meteorólogos. Se pronosticó que la tormenta se fortalecería durante los próximos días y luego se debilitaría durante el fin de semana.

La temporada de huracanes del Pacífico comenzó el 15 de mayo. La temporada de huracanes del Atlántico comenzó el lunes, y aún no se han formado ciclones en esa cuenca este año.

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It's the Knicks' ninth time in the title series, and the eighth time they've played Game 1 on the road. It's the Spurs' seventh time in the title series, and the sixth time they've played Game 1 at home.

Granted, a good amount of time has passed for both teams since they've been on this stage: The Knicks haven't played in the finals since losing to the Spurs in 1999, and the Spurs haven't been there since beating the Miami Heat in 2014.

“I think we’re just locked in and focused on the task at hand,” Knicks forward Josh Hart said. “Then we can look back when everything is all said and done and really embrace this process and this run. It’s an honor, but can’t focus too much on the outside world and the run so far.”

The run the Knicks are on coming into this series is without compare: 11 straight wins by a total of 262 points, the most lopsided 11-game run — regular season or playoffs — in NBA history.

The Spurs have a different kind of streak going into Wednesday night. They've never lost Game 1 of the NBA Finals, going 6-0 in openers when they make the title round.

Most players on both teams are making their finals debuts in this series. Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox said it's still going to be important for his team to remember how they got to the finals in the first place.

“This is a hard thing to do. It’s hard to get back to these places,” Fox said. “Don’t change anything that we’re doing. There’s a reason that we’re in the finals. There’s a reason that we won (62) games. There’s a reason we didn’t lose three games in a row the whole year. So, we don’t want to get to this place and then start changing the way we play.”

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A court in the town of Naivasha ruled that the girls will be remanded at a children’s home to allow investigators to complete their inquiries and determine whether to bring charges.

The fire on May 28 ripped through the Utumishi Girls School dormitory that houses 202 students. Investigators said the school matron failed to open an emergency door, forcing all students to scamper through a single doorway.

The accused girls have been in police custody for six days, during which interrogations revealed the fire was started by lighting a mattress at the dormitory’s exit using a matchstick and paraffin. No motive has been revealed so far.

Police arrested nine girls after questioning students and reviewing CCTV footage that investigators say shows some students setting a fire inside the dormitory.

Hezron Mogire, a lawyer representing the nine girls, told the court there were “no compelling reasons” to detain the girls for 30 days, as requested by investigators.

“Nonetheless, the court has taken a different view. We have already briefed our clients, and they are well informed,” he said.

Mbogo Macharia, the lawyer representing the families of the 16 girls who died in the fire, called for a thorough investigation within 21 days.

“During that time, it is expected by the courts, by the nation, and also by us as the victims that the investigations will have concluded, we will have gotten the answers that we very much want to hear, and we will have found a way forward in respect to finding justice for the victims,” he said.

The results of DNA tests to determine the identities of some of the bodies that were charred beyond recognition are expected later Wednesday.

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Grier, 56, spent 10 seasons as Miami’s general manager before he was dismissed during the 2025 season on Halloween after the Dolphins opened the year 2-7.

His departure marked the end of a 25-year tenure with the organization, where he worked his way up through the scouting department before taking over as general manager.

Prior to joining Miami, Grier worked as a scout for New England.

During his time leading the Dolphins’ football operations, Grier hired head coaches Brian Flores in 2019 and Mike McDaniel in 2022.

Flores was fired in 2022 and now serves as defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings. McDaniel was fired in January and has since joined the Los Angeles Chargers as offensive coordinator.

While in Miami, Grier oversaw several first-round draft selections, including tackle Laremy Tunsil, defensive end Charles Harris, safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, wide receiver Jaylen Waddle, EDGE Chop Robinson and defensive tackle Kenneth Grant.

He also used first-round draft capital to acquire veteran players wide receiver Tyreek Hill and linebacker Bradley Chubb through trades. Of the players selected or acquired with those first-round assets, only Robinson and Grant remain on Miami’s roster.

Grier will now work under Lions general manager Brad Holmes, who is entering his sixth season leading Detroit’s front office, and reunite with head coach Dan Campbell, who served as the Dolphins’ interim head coach in 2015.

Grier, de 56 años, pasó 10 temporadas como gerente general de Miami antes de ser despedido durante la temporada 2025 en Halloween, después de que los Dolphins comenzaran el año con marca de 2-7.

Su salida marcó el final de una trayectoria de 25 años con la organización, donde ascendió a través del departamento de cazatalentos antes de asumir el cargo de gerente general.

Antes de unirse a Miami, Grier trabajó como cazatalentos para New England.

Durante su tiempo al frente de las operaciones de fútbol americano de los Dolphins, Grier contrató a los entrenadores en jefe Brian Flores en 2019 y Mike McDaniel en 2022.

Flores fue despedido en 2022 y actualmente se desempeña como coordinador defensivo de los Minnesota Vikings. McDaniel fue despedido en enero y desde entonces se unió a Los Angeles Chargers como coordinador ofensivo.

Mientras estuvo en Miami, Grier supervisó varias selecciones de primera ronda del draft, incluidos el tackle Laremy Tunsil, el ala defensiva Charles Harris, el profundo Minkah Fitzpatrick, el tackle defensivo Christian Wilkins, el mariscal de campo Tua Tagovailoa, el receptor abierto Jaylen Waddle, el EDGE Chop Robinson y el tackle defensivo Kenneth Grant.

También utilizó selecciones de primera ronda para adquirir mediante canjes a jugadores veteranos como el receptor abierto Tyreek Hill y el apoyador Bradley Chubb. De los jugadores seleccionados o adquiridos con esos activos de primera ronda, solo Robinson y Grant permanecen en la plantilla de Miami.

Ahora, Grier trabajará bajo las órdenes del gerente general de los Lions, Brad Holmes, quien entra en su sexta temporada al frente de la oficina principal de Detroit, y se reunirá nuevamente con el entrenador en jefe Dan Campbell, quien se desempeñó como entrenador interino de los Dolphins en 2015.

No se puede decir lo mismo del Pacífico oriental, donde la temporada de huracanes comenzó oficialmente el 15 de mayo, ¹⁵ días antes que la del Atlántico. En el Pacífico oriental, los huracanes suelen empezar a formarse en junio, a diferencia del Atlántico, donde no son frecuentes hasta agosto.

Este año, en particular, se espera una temporada de huracanes muy activa en el Pacífico oriental, con la NOAA pronosticando una actividad muy superior a la media , principalmente por las mismas razones por las que pronostican una menor actividad tropical en el Atlántico. No solo las temperaturas del agua son mucho más cálidas que el promedio en la región cercana al ecuador, donde se buscan las condiciones de El Niño, sino que también alcanzan temperaturas récord o casi récord para esta época del año al norte del ecuador, en el Pacífico oriental y cerca de México, donde las tormentas tienden a formarse.

Por lo tanto, no es de extrañar que ya tengamos nuestra primera depresión tropical y la próxima tormenta que recibirá nombre en la temporada de huracanes del Pacífico oriental, con otras dos áreas a vigilar frente a las costas del Pacífico de México y Centroamérica.

Si bien se espera que Amanda, que pronto se convertirá en tormenta tropical, permanezca sobre el Pacífico abierto, las dos perturbaciones más cercanas a tierra podrían amenazar la costa del Pacífico como Boris y/o Cristina a mediados de la próxima semana.

Primera semana tranquila para el Atlántico.

El Atlántico permanecerá inactivo durante la primera semana de la temporada de huracanes.

Como detallamos en el boletín de ayer, estaremos atentos al Caribe occidental y al sur del Golfo a partir de finales de la próxima semana y hasta mediados de junio, a medida que la parte tormentosa de la Oscilación Madden-Julian (OMJ) se adentre en la cuenca. Observamos algunas señales en los modelos a largo plazo (más allá de los 10 días) de que el Giro Centroamericano podría intensificarse a mediados de mes, pero por ahora las señales siguen siendo débiles e inconsistentes.

Así que, por el momento, disfrutaremos del tranquilo comienzo de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico.

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The same can’t be said on the eastern Pacific side where the hurricane season officially started May 15^th – 15 days before the Atlantic hurricane season. The eastern Pacific typically begins churning out hurricanes by June, unlike in the Atlantic where hurricanes aren’t a common sight until August.

This year especially, the eastern Pacific is expected to have a lively hurricane season, with NOAA predicting well above average activity, primarily for the very same reasons they’re predicting lower overall tropical activity in the Atlantic. Not only are water temperatures much warmer than average in the region around the equator where we look for El Niño conditions, but they’re at record or near-record warmth for the time of year north of the equator in the eastern Pacific and near Mexico where storms prefer to form.

So it’s no surprise we already have our first tropical depression and soon-to-be named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season, with two other areas to watch off the Pacific coasts of Mexico and Central America.

While soon-to-be Amanda is expected to stay over the open Pacific, the two disturbances closer to land could threaten the Pacific coastline as Boris and/or Cristina by the middle part of next week.

Quiet first week for the Atlantic

The Atlantic will stay dormant through the first week of the hurricane season.

As we detailed in yesterday’s newsletter, we’ll keep an eye to the western Caribbean and southern Gulf starting late next week and into mid-June as the stormy side of the MJO makes its way into the basin. We’re seeing some signals in the long-range models (beyond 10 days) that the Central American Gyre may crank up come mid-month, but for now the signals remain weak and inconsistent.

So for the time being we’ll enjoy the quiet start to the Atlantic hurricane season.

Amanda was located about 1,475 miles (2,375 kilometers) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, according to the Miami-based weather center. With the center of the storm at sea, the cyclone posed no immediate threat to land.

Amanda had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), meteorologists said. The storm was forecast to strengthen over the next few days and then weaken over the weekend.

The Pacific hurricane season started May 15. The Atlantic hurricane season began Monday, and no cyclones have formed in that basin yet this year.

Worker bees perform a myriad of jobs to keep up the hive, including collecting food, nurturing young bees and caring for the queen, who lays all the eggs. New research reveals that the honeybees responsible for crafting the queen's home effectively run a fever to help melt and blend special chemicals into the wax.

“No one had ever thought that there might be a specialized group of workers that were building these queen cells,” said bee researcher Julia Bowsher with North Dakota State University, who had no role in the study.

These newly identified bees were younger and also had patterns of expression in their genes that made them uniquely suited to the task. The resulting peanut-shaped home was also distinct in its makeup, as it was made of softer wax with a higher melting point than the kind used to build worker bees' homes.

Queens are raised eating royal jelly secreted from the glands of worker bees and scientists have long believed diet was the main key to making a monarch. The new findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, suggest that the queen's environment might also play a role.

To test that theory, researchers raised baby queens in cups capped with either queen or worker wax. Despite eating royal jelly, the queens raised in worker wax were smaller and didn’t survive as well.

“For centuries, we believed ‘you are what you eat’ was the only rule for making a queen bee. Our study rewrites that rule to say ‘you are where you live, too,'" Kai Wang, a study co-author with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said in an email.

The findings offer a rare look inside the hive, but questions remain.

Honeybees pollinate and ensure the survival of crops such as blueberries, squash, watermelon and almonds. Further research is needed to learn more about the secret lives of queen cell-building bees and the exact combination of factors that produce the hive's head honcho.

“I would really like to know more about the specific chemical composition of this wax and which active ingredients are directly affecting the growth of the queens,” Bowsher said.

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Según las autoridades, una residente de Coconut Creek de 85 años recibió una llamada telefónica en la que le decían que había ganado un premio.

“Se suponía que iba a recibir $7 millones y un auto”, dijo la víctima a los agentes.

La policía dijo que familiares de la víctima los contactaron después de que ella enviara dos cheques, uno por $2,500 USD y otro por $1,000 USD, a presuntos estafadores en el estado de Washington.

Luego, el viernes, los agentes tuvieron que intervenir cuando la mujer estaba a punto de enviar más dinero a los presuntos estafadores. La encontraron en una clase de cerámica y la detuvieron antes de que pudiera enviarlo.

“En este caso en particular, la residente de la tercera edad ya había completado una serie de transacciones financieras cuando su familia descubrió que se estaba preparando para enviar más dinero”, dijo el detective del Departamento de Policía de Coconut Creek, Clint Corey.

Corey dio consejos para los residentes que sean contactados por estafadores.

“Simplemente no conteste el teléfono, obligue a quien llama a dejar un mensaje”, dijo. “Y luego usted puede decidir cómo quiere responder, y puede quedarse con más dinero en su bolsillo al final del día”.

The hostages were found unharmed inside the downtown Bakersfield building that houses a bank and a school district office, the Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement.

The suspect was killed in “an officer-involved shooting" involving FBI personnel around 4:20 a.m., the department said.

The standoff began around 1 p.m. Tuesday when officers responded to a call of a bomb threat at the Chase Bank building, a four-story office building with dark-tinted glass windows all around. Police said the man had barricaded himself inside with several people.

The department’s crisis negotiation team talked with the suspect by telephone and eventually two hostages were released Tuesday night, police said.

Nearby buildings, including City Hall and the police headquarters that are just a block away, were evacuated and some roads were temporarily closed during the hostage situation. Bakersfield, a city of about 380,000 residents, is the seat of largely rural Kern County and is about 100 miles (160 kms) northeast of Los Angeles.

A spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase said the bank branch is on the ground floor.

Officers established a perimeter around the area and warned the public to stay away.

“We have every single resource at our disposal out here to bring this to the safest resolution possible,” Bakersfield police Sgt. Eric Celedon said Tuesday.

Jacob Davidson, a livestreamer known as Dad’s Gone Live, was a block from the bank at his family’s tattoo shop when he started getting calls about the bomb threat.

“I went into the bank’s parking garage and watched the cops enter the back of the bank. This is the biggest police presence I’ve ever seen in this town,” Davidson said.

His livestream captured through a window in the building a woman rocking back and forth Tuesday night before crouching below the window. Later, two hands could be seen waving.

Según la resolución, estas medidas incluyen la contratación de “abogados externos” y la presentación de una demanda contra la BSO.

Los funcionarios municipales han estado trabajando para establecer sus propios departamentos de policía y bomberos antes de septiembre de 2027, fecha en que la BSO dejará de prestar servicios a la ciudad.

La ciudad ha estado reduciendo su dependencia de la BSO, tras más de tres décadas de servicio.

La ciudad planea transmitir la reunión de la comisión a las 7 p.m. por YouTube.

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The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a decade of observations.

Launched in 2013 to study the red planet’s atmosphere from orbit, Maven mysteriously fell silent in early December after passing behind Mars. Data indicated the spacecraft went into a fast spin, which disrupted its orbit and drained the onboard batteries.

A review board convened by NASA earlier this year concluded that the spacecraft is useless and unable to be recovered. An investigation continues into what caused the problem.

Besides studying Martian weather and observing a stray interstellar comet last year, Maven helped relay information from NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on the surface.

Maven's lead scientist, Shannon Curry of the University of Colorado Boulder, said the spacecraft made a number of “amazing discoveries.”

Maven “has truly advanced our understanding of the Martian atmosphere and evolution,” she said in a statement.

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“Con la frente en alto y el corazón palpitante de gratitud patriótica, recibo sus palabras y su firme apoyo. ¡Gracias, señor presidente!”, publicó De la Espriella en la red social X.

Trump manifestó la víspera desde Truth Social su “completo y total respaldo” a De la Espriella, a quien calificó como un “líder Inteligente, fuerte y duro” que se enfrentará a un “marxista de izquierda radical” en la segunda vuelta del 21 de junio.

“Como presidente, Abelardo tendría un éxito tremendo liderando a Colombia”, indicó Trump, anticipando que haría crecer la economía, promovería el comercio, combatiría el crimen y las drogas y detendría la “inmigración ilegal”.

El respaldo de Trump realza en la campaña presidencial la relación entre Colombia y Estados Unidos, que se ha tensado con el gobierno de Gustavo Petro por discrepancias sobre la lucha contra el narcotráfico —especialmente los bombardeos a lanchas en el Caribe—, la migración y las acciones bélicas de Israel en la Franja de Gaza.

“Los resultados de esta elección son muy importantes para el futuro de Colombia y su relación con Estados Unidos”, recalcó Trump, quien anticipó una “plena normalización” de las relaciones bilaterales.

Esta no es la primera vez que Trump expresa su apoyo a candidatos en Latinoamérica y de otras regiones, lo que le ha valido críticas de sus oponentes por romper con la tradición estadounidense de evitar la injerencia directa en la política interna de otros países. El año pasado, respaldó al conservador Nasry “Tito” Asfura, del Partido Nacional, quien resultó ganador en las elecciones de Honduras. También apoyó a Javier Milei en Argentina durante las elecciones legislativas de 2025, cruciales para su proyecto político.

Petro rechazó el apoyo de Trump al candidato conservador e instó a la ciudadanía a votar con libertad para “no volvernos ni esclavos ni colonia de nadie”.

“Cuando un país interviene en las decisiones de otro país muere la libertad”, aseguró Petro en X la víspera.

Estados Unidos es el mayor mercado de exportación de Colombia y, antes de las tensiones con Petro, solía resaltar a ese país sudamericano como su principal aliado en el hemisferio.

Las asperezas entre Petro y Trump se limaron tras una reunión en la Casa Blanca. Sin embargo, el Departamento del Tesoro estadounidense no ha retirado las sanciones impuestas a Petro por acusaciones de participar en el tráfico global de drogas, de las que no ha mostrado pruebas.

De la Espriella, con doble nacionalidad colombiana y estadounidense, es simpatizante de Trump y miembro del Partido Republicano. Sin experiencia en cargos de elección popular, obtuvo 43,74 % de los votos en la primera vuelta presidencial seguido del senador Cepeda —aliado de Petro— con 40,90 %, según el conteo preliminar.

El candidato ha dicho que está alineado con las políticas estadounidenses, especialmente en la lucha antinarcóticos, prometiendo erradicar miles de hectáreas de cultivos de hoja de coca —materia prima de la cocaína— y detener el tráfico que va hacia Estados Unidos.

“Yo adhiero a la política de lucha antidrogas, que es la nueva doctrina del presidente Trump”, dijo De la Espriella en una reciente entrevista con The Associated Press. También aseguró que apoya los bombardeos a lanchas presuntamente cargadas de droga: “voy a dar la orden de que las hundan con la gente que vaya adentro”.

El choque ocurrió alrededor de las 3:15 p.m. en Angels of Paradise Mortuary, ubicada en el 2796 de la calle 46 del noroeste, en el área no incorporada de Brownsville, en el condado.

Video de Sky 10 mostró la motocicleta todoterreno marrón destrozada en el suelo, mientras que la ventana del lado del conductor del carro fúnebre Cadillac quedó hecha añicos.

Paramédicos trasladaron al motociclista a Jackson Memorial Hospital en condición crítica.

Funcionarios de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade confirmaron la mañana del miércoles que el hombre murió posteriormente. Las autoridades aún no han revelado públicamente su identidad.

Indicaron que investigan si la velocidad fue un factor en el choque.

Video de Sky 10 muestra que el motociclista se estrelló contra una carroza fúnebre aparentemente estacionada en Angels of Paradise Mortuary, ubicada en 2796 NW 46th St. en el área no incorporada de Brownsville.

Los registros de despacho mostraron que el choque ocurrió alrededor de las 3:15 p.m.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, una investigación preliminar mostró que el motociclista perdió el control de su moto y chocó contra el Cadillac.

Las autoridades indicaron que los médicos lo trasladaron al Hospital Jackson Memorial en estado crítico.

Agentes de la MDSO permanecieron en la escena el martes por la tarde investigando el accidente.

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The teacher, Michael Enriquez, 53, was not in court Wednesday, but his attorney and prosecutors came to an agreement for him to be released on house arrest.

As part of the conditions of his release, he will not be permitted to leave his home except to meet with his attorney and he must stay away from the victim, American Senior High School, and all minors.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Enriquez had a “sexual relationship” with the victim, who is a student at American Senior High, that began in May 2025 when she was 17 years old.

Deputies said Enriquez and the student went out after school twice last year -- once in May and once in June – at which time they engaged in sex acts together.

“He’s disgusting,” a student at the school told Local 10 News on Tuesday. “The girl knew what she was doing, but he is a grown man. He knew what he was doing 20 times more -- he’s been there, done that -- it’s all wrong.”

According to authorities, Enriquez and the victim did not communicate over summer break, but when the new school year began in August 2025, the two resumed their “sexual relationship.”

Authorities said their final encounter occurred on May 14, 2026, which was the only time they had sexual intercourse.

The victim was 18 at the time of their final sexual encounter, according to Enriquez’s arrest report.

Authorities did not disclose how they were alerted to the alleged crimes or how they discovered the dates and details.

“It’s scary that someone who deals with so many students could be talking to a girl maybe my age or maybe a little older, because we usually trust teachers, we talk to them a lot. We don’t know if the girl was going through something, if she thought that was the only way,” Samira Gonzalez, who is a freshman at the school, said.

“Definitely as an adult, you should know where to draw the line,” a student named Christopher told Local 10. “You have these young ladies -- they’re probably fearing right now.”

A spokesperson for Miami-Dade County Public Schools confirmed that Enriquez will be fired.

“Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is aware of the arrest of an employee from American Senior High School. Upon learning of the suspected behavior, the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department initiated an investigation, which resulted in his removal from the school site and his subsequent arrest by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. The type of behavior this individual is accused of will not be tolerated, as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees. The District has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with the District. At M-DCPS, the safety and well-being of all students remains our top priority.”

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El profesor, Michael Enriquez, de 53 años, no estuvo presente en el tribunal el miércoles, pero su abogado y los fiscales llegaron a un acuerdo para que fuera puesto bajo arresto domiciliario.

Como parte de las condiciones de su liberación, no se le permitirá salir de su casa excepto para reunirse con su abogado y deberá mantenerse alejado de la víctima, de la escuela secundaria American Senior High School y de todos los menores de edad.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, Enriquez mantuvo una “relación sexual” con la víctima, estudiante de American Senior High, que comenzó en mayo de 2025 cuando ella tenía 17 años.

Según los agentes, Enriquez y el estudiante salieron después de clase dos veces el año pasado, una en mayo y otra en junio, y en ambas ocasiones mantuvieron relaciones sexuales.

“Es repugnante”, dijo un estudiante de la escuela a Local 10 News el martes. “La chica sabía lo que hacía, pero él es un hombre adulto. Sabía perfectamente lo que hacía; ya ha pasado por eso, está completamente mal”.

Según las autoridades, Enriquez y la víctima no se comunicaron durante las vacaciones de verano, pero cuando comenzó el nuevo año escolar en agosto de 2025, ambos reanudaron su “relación sexual”.

Las autoridades indicaron que su último encuentro tuvo lugar el 14 de mayo de 2026, y que fue la única vez que mantuvieron relaciones sexuales.

Según el informe de detención de Enriquez, la víctima tenía 18 años en el momento de su último encuentro sexual.

Las autoridades no revelaron cómo fueron alertadas de los presuntos delitos ni cómo descubrieron las fechas y los detalles.

“Da miedo que alguien que trata con tantos estudiantes pueda estar hablando con una chica de mi edad o un poco mayor, porque solemos confiar en los profesores, hablamos mucho con ellos. No sabemos si la chica estaba pasando por un mal momento, si pensaba que esa era la única salida”, dijo Samira González, estudiante de primer año en la escuela.

“Sin duda, como adulto, uno debe saber dónde poner el límite”, dijo un estudiante llamado Christopher a Local 10. “Estas jovencitas probablemente estén teniendo miedo ahora mismo”.

Un portavoz de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Miami-Dade confirmó que Enriquez será despedido.

“Las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Miami-Dade (M-DCPS) están al tanto del arresto de un empleado de American Senior High School. Al tener conocimiento de la presunta conducta, el Departamento de Policía Escolar de Miami-Dade inició una investigación, que resultó en su retiro del plantel escolar y su posterior arresto por parte de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade. El tipo de conducta del que se acusa a este individuo no será tolerado, ya que va en contra de la conducta profesional que esperamos de todos los empleados. El Distrito ha iniciado los procedimientos para poner fin a su empleo y garantizará que el individuo quede impedido de buscar empleo en el futuro con el Distrito. En M-DCPS, la seguridad y el bienestar de todos los estudiantes siguen siendo nuestra máxima prioridad”.

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The crash happened at around 3:15 p.m. at Angels of Paradise Mortuary, located at 2796 NW 46th St. in the county’s unincorporated Brownsville area.

Video from Sky 10 showed the crumpled brown dirt bike on the ground with the driver’s side window of the Cadillac hearse shattered.

Medics rushed the dirt bike rider to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition.

Officials with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday morning that the man later died. Authorities have not yet publicly identified him.

They said they are looking into whether speed was a factor in the crash.

Reagor, 26, joins Miami after spending time with the Los Angeles Chargers organization last season.

He was promoted from the Chargers’ practice squad late in the 2024 campaign but moved on and off the practice squad after being waived during training camp. He has been a free agent since October.

A former first-round draft pick, Reagor was selected 21st overall by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2020 NFL Draft.

He has appeared in 64 regular-season games and made 27 starts during his NFL career, with most of those starts coming during his first two seasons in Philadelphia.

Reagor’s most productive season came in 2021, when he recorded a career-high 33 receptions. He was traded to the Minnesota Vikings before the 2022 season and has also spent time with the New England Patriots and Chargers.

Over five NFL seasons, Reagor has totaled 86 receptions for 1,037 yards and four touchdowns while contributing on special teams as a returner.

The move adds more veteran depth to Miami’s receiving corps, which was bolstered this offseason by the additions of Tutu Atwell and Jalen Tolbert as the Dolphins continue preparing their roster for the 2026 season.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Patricia Barberena, 62, picked the boy up Tuesday morning from his daycare and then headed toward his school to drop him off.

But deputies said the boy fell asleep on the bus and didn’t get off once they arrived at his school.

According to the report, Barberena then drove the bus to her home and parked along the county swale.

Deputies said the boy woke up after Barberena had already entered her home and exited the bus.

A passerby found him a short time later walking along Southwest 298^th Terrace and 157^th Avenue and called MDSO, authorities said.

According to the report, the boy’s school called Barberena to inform her that the boy never arrived and she then went outside to look for him.

Instead, she was greeted by deputies who transported her to the South District Station in Cutler Bay for questioning, authorities said.

According to the report, Barberena admitted to not inspecting the bus to see if any students were still on it before she drove home.

She was arrested on a charge of child neglect without great bodily harm.

The name of the school the boy attends was not disclosed in the arrest report.

As of Wednesday morning, Barberena was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed her bond as “to be set.”

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), Patricia Barberena, de 62 años, recogió al niño el martes por la mañana en su guardería y luego se dirigió a su escuela para dejarlo.

Sin embargo, los agentes dijeron que el niño se quedó dormido en el autobús y no se bajó cuando llegaron a la escuela.

Según el informe, Barberena condujo el autobús hasta su casa y lo estacionó junto a una franja de terreno del condado.

Los agentes dijeron que el niño despertó después de que Barberena ya había entrado a su vivienda y salió del autobús.

Poco después, un transeúnte lo encontró caminando por Southwest 298th Terrace y la avenida 157 y llamó a la MDSO, informaron las autoridades.

Según el informe, la escuela del niño llamó a Barberena para informarle que el menor nunca llegó y ella salió a buscarlo.

En cambio, fue recibida por agentes que la trasladaron a la estación del Distrito Sur en Cutler Bay para ser interrogada, informaron las autoridades.

Según el informe, Barberena admitió que no inspeccionó el autobús para verificar si todavía había estudiantes a bordo antes de conducir hasta su casa.

Fue arrestada por un cargo de negligencia infantil sin causar lesiones corporales graves.

El nombre de la escuela a la que asiste el niño no fue revelado en el informe de arresto.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, Barberena permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Los registros carcelarios en línea indicaban que su fianza estaba “pendiente de ser fijada”.

Answer: Your situation is pretty common. Most couples I know develop a division of labor over time, where one person is in charge of financial matters and the other person is less involved. That’s definitely the case for my husband and me. He’s in charge of paying all the monthly bills and preparing our tax returns, but the financial planning and investment decisions are up to me. This type of arrangement might work well for a long time, but can become less sustainable with age, particularly if the “finance person” in the relationship dies or develops a major health issue.

Online tools and mind maps

Illustrating your financial situation with charts and graphs is a great idea that might help your spouse become a little more involved. Morningstar’s  Portfolio X-Ray  tool includes a variety of images that help illustrate your financial situation. Websites for most major brokerage firms also include some visual tools. Schwab, for example, offers a Portfolio Checkup and a bar graph illustrating your account’s monthly income from dividends and interest income. Vanguard has a Portfolio Watch tool and a variety of performance illustrations, tools, and calculators.

A  mind map, which we used with clients when I worked for a financial advisory firm, can be another way to picture your entire financial situation on one page. There are various  softwaretemplates  for drawing a mind map, or you can simply sketch it out with a large sheet of paper and a pencil. Start with your names at the center of the page. Then draw spokes connecting to various categories, such as names of other family members; investment accounts; real estate and other assets, insurance policies, estate plans, key goals and values, and contact information for accountants, estate planners, and other professionals. It can be helpful to go through the mind map together and make any updates needed at least once a year.

Other ways to communicate about money

A few other ideas—though not related to charts and graphs—might also be useful.

I like the idea of putting together a  net worth statement  that itemizes cash, taxable accounts, real estate, retirement accounts, and debt for each member of the couple as well as items owned jointly. It’s a good idea to update this document at least once a year and  discuss it as a couple. If you set up the document as a spreadsheet, you can include columns with additional information such as account numbers, what each account is used for, which accounts are subject to required minimum distributions, or tax issues like potential capital gains.

Many couples also put together a  binder  (sometimes humorously called a “Doomsday Book”) that contains information about where to find important paperwork, insurance policies, how bills are paid, what each account is for, steps the surviving spouse will need to take, final wishes, and any other critical information.

A well-qualified financial adviser can bridge the information gap

Finally, you could consider working with a good  financial adviser,  who can help involve your spouse in financial matters while you’re still living and step in to fully manage investments and personal finance decisions if you pass away before your spouse. Make sure the adviser holds the Certified Financial Planner designation and charges fees that are reasonable. Although a 1% fee is still the industry standard for accounts of $1 million or less, it’s possible to find advisers who charge significantly less, including a few who price their services based on hours worked instead of a percentage of assets under management.

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This article was provided to The Associated Press by Morningstar. For more personal finance content, go to https://www.morningstar.com/personal-finance.

Amy C. Arnott, CFA, is a portfolio strategist for Morningstar and co-host of The Long View podcast.

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The 27-nation bloc unveiled a “tech sovereignty” package on Wednesday with measures to promote homegrown European alternatives to Big Tech services and hardware.

The efforts by Brussels have gained urgency as leaders worry about dependence on technologies from foreign providers, which they say could be “weaponized” against Europeans. Those fears crystallized after the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor was sanctioned by the Trump administration, which led to Microsoft canceling his email account, sparking fears of a “kill switch” hidden in U.S. tech services.

“Europe wants to be in the position to make its own choices, avoiding risky dependencies on single dominant suppliers, one company or one third country,” European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees tech sovereignty, told reporters in Brussels.

“Because we live in a world where geopolitics and technology go hand in hand. Those who champion technological innovation will shape the future, and we must ensure that Europe plays a leading role in this.”

A cornerstone of the package is a sequel to the EU's 2023 Chips Act to further boost local production of semiconductors by cutting red tape for chip fabs and fostering a European chipmaking ecosystem.

Europe's vulnerability to the global chip supply chain centered in East Asia was highlighted last year in a power struggle at the Chinese-owned, Netherlands-based chipmaker Nexperia.

Another key part of the package is supporting local cloud and AI development, with plans to triple Europe's data center capacity by over the next five to seven years. The EU is pushing to expand data centers to keep up with the AI boom, which is driving demand for cloud computing services.

The proposals from the EU's executive arm still need to be debated by the EU's two other main institutions, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.

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The dismissal comes a day after Pelley slammed the show’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, during a staff meeting Monday, accusing her of trying to “kill” “60 minutes.”

The show’s new executive producer Nick Bilton sent a note to Pelley on Tuesday saying he was terminated for cause, effective immediately.

Pelley reportedly took aim at Weiss after the network fired the program’s veteran executive producer and replaced her with Bilton.

The New York Times reports that it obtained audio of the meeting, saying Pelley accused Weiss of having no qualifications for her job and called Bilton’s qualifications “slender.”

Bilton is a documentarian and former tech reporter for the New York Times and Vanity Fair.

Sources say Pelley’s comments received mixed responses from staff members.

A CBS news spokesperson declined to comment, and Pelley did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

El despido se produce un día después de que Pelley criticara a la editora en jefe del programa, Bari Weiss, durante una reunión de personal el lunes, acusándola de intentar “matar” a “60 Minutes”.

El nuevo productor ejecutivo del programa, Nick Bilton, envió una nota a Pelley el martes informándole que había sido despedido con causa, con efecto inmediato.

Según informes, Pelley arremetió contra Weiss después de que la cadena despidiera a la veterana productora ejecutiva del programa y la reemplazara por Bilton.

The New York Times informa que obtuvo audio de la reunión y señala que Pelley acusó a Weiss de no tener ninguna calificación para su cargo y calificó las credenciales de Bilton como “limitadas”.

Bilton es documentalista y ex reportero de tecnología de The New York Times y Vanity Fair.

Fuentes afirman que los comentarios de Pelley recibieron respuestas mixtas entre los miembros del personal.

Un portavoz de CBS News se negó a comentar y Pelley no respondió de inmediato a una solicitud de comentarios.

Last year, global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, more than all but 10 countries of the world, said the report issued Wednesday. That electricity use produced about 208 million tons (189 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide, about the same amount as Argentina, and producing that much energy consumed about 1.2 trillion gallons (4.5 trillion liters) of water, according to the report on the environmental consequences of AI's energy use.

By 2030, data centers will account for nearly 3% of the world's projected electricity use, with 935 trillion watt-hours. If data centers were a country, the country would be projected to rank sixth-highest in power use in 2030. That would produce nearly 440 million tons (399 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide, the report said. The study focused on energy use and didn’t examine the massive amount of water used to cool data centers.

“If you look at these numbers, we're seeing scales comparable to nations,” said study co-author Kaveh Madani, a water scientist and director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Canada. “The demand is enormous.”

Much of the growth of data centers is being driven by AI. About 20% of data centers’ energy is currently due to AI, but that should grow to 40% by 2030, the report said.

First global look at ecological impact

The report is significant because of the credibility and authority of the U.N., not just because of any one set of eye-popping numbers, said Fengqi You, a Cornell University energy engineering professor who directs the college’s AI sustainability issues.

“Its value is that a U.N. institution is putting carbon, water, land, life-cycle impacts and environmental justice into one frame” for an issue that is often shrouded in secrecy and partial disclosures, said You, who was not part of the report.

“The general public should be concerned, but not panicked,” he added.

Jean Su, director of the Energy Justice Program at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the report is important because it is the first U.N., or even global, report “that shines a light on the environmental harms of AI.”

National Artificial Intelligence Association President Caleb Max emphasized how his industry is becoming more efficient and how it benefits the public: “AI is rapidly becoming part of our everyday lives and adding benefits that improve safety, live longer, work more efficiently, enhance food production, and reduce poverty. The evidence is growing daily that the energy return on investment of AI development is transformative for our world and therefore more than worth it.”

Josh Levi, president the Data Center Coalition, said the industry takes its environmental impact seriously.

“We remain committed to working with policymakers, local communities, and industry partners to ensure that as data centers grow, they do so responsibly, transparently, and in ways that reflect the best available practices,” he said in a statement.

How much energy your query uses and how to trim it

Madani, also the winner of the most recent of the Stockholm Water Prize, said the numbers show the environmental cost of AI, which may seem cleaner at first glance than other mechanical devices, such as cars and furnaces, that have visible pollution.

"AI is not just a virtual thing. We’re talking about something that has physics, something that has real impacts. There is infrastructure there. There is energy that is being used,” Madani said. “A lot of hardware is behind all these operations that to us seem very, very clean because we don’t see smoke out of our devices. On our cellphone, there is no visible smoke or out of our computer or something. But somewhere else someone is suffering.”

People can reduce AI’s massive energy appetite by being less polite and more concise in their queries, Madani said. The report found that cutting word use in requests by 30% can reduce energy used by AI by 25%. That would save about the same amount of electricity as what about 700,000 people in Africa use in a year, the report said.

“If you’re too polite, then that extra ‘please’ you put there can make a huge difference,” Madani said. “You’ve got to be very precise and be short.”

A typical ChatGPT-style query is about 200 times more energy-intensive than the type of basic text classification used in an email spam filter, for example. AI-generated images or video require much more energy.

And the more complicated the AI, the more energy it takes to train or learn. The report said GPT-3 used about 1.3 billion watt-hours to train, but the next version used 50 to 70 billion watt-hours.

But it's not training that really feasts on power, said study co-author Miriam Aczel, a United National University environmental policy researcher. About 90% of the power use of AI comes from operational requests, she said. GPT alone accounts for 2.5 billion prompts a day, she said.

Efficiency still means more power use

Even though tech advocates can argue that their machines are becoming more efficient, there's a common paradox that finds when things get more efficient, they are used more often and total energy use soars even if individual uses are more efficient, Madani said. While some companies tout the use of renewable energy for data centers, Madani said that means the supply of clean electricity is depleted and thus dirtier energy is used elsewhere.

One of the problems in conducting this study is that many companies and places are not transparent about what data centers and AI are consuming or even where and how big they are, Aczel and Madani said.

“We cannot manage what companies do not disclose,” Cornell's You said.

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Andrew Gillman is the general manager of the Echo Brickell Residences, located at 15th Street and Brickell Avenue.

“I was shocked that it came so close to hitting those girls,” he said of the latest incident.

Gillman said close calls like Saturday’s crash have been alarmingly common.

“This is the seventh or eighth time in the last four years,” he said.

Past incidents include an SUV rolling down the sidewalk in the middle of the night and another car careening and crashing into a palm tree.

Gillman says a scooter driver also lost control and was killed there several years ago.

“I don’t feel safe where I’m standing right now,” he said.

Neighbors are urging city leaders to evaluate the intersection and install barriers to protect pedestrians and the building.

“We want to resolve this and not have anybody lose a life over this because it hasn’t been addressed,” said resident Michelle Pasko.

Darrin Gurksy is an attorney for the Brickell Condominium Association.

“We’ve offered to pay for bollards. We think that would resolve a lot of the issues based upon how this drive comes through over here, and that’s our hope,” he said. “We’ve reached out to the city before, previously, because we’ve had vehicles that have actually driven up our stairs before.”

Added Pasko: “We have cafes on both corners of our building. There’s mothers with baby carriages and people walking their pets.”

Miami Commissioner Damian Pardo provided Local 10 News the following statement:

“Public safety is always our top priority. We received our first direct communication on this matter over the weekend and responded immediately. At this time, we are coordinating a meeting with the residents who reached out so we can better understand their concerns and discuss potential solutions.

“Any incident that puts pedestrians at risk is concerning, and we are grateful that no one was seriously injured in this crash. We take resident concerns seriously and will continue working with the appropriate city departments, law enforcement, and community stakeholders to evaluate conditions and identify any measures that may improve safety.”

Andrew Gillman es el gerente general de Echo Brickell Residences, ubicado en la calle 15 y Brickell Avenue.

“Me sorprendió que estuviera tan cerca de atropellar a esas muchachas”, dijo sobre el incidente más reciente.

Gillman afirmó que situaciones como el choque del sábado han sido alarmantemente comunes.

“Esta es la séptima u octava vez en los últimos cuatro años”, dijo.

Incidentes anteriores incluyen un SUV que se subió a la acera en medio de la noche y otro automóvil que se desvió y se estrelló contra una palmera.

Gillman dijo que un conductor de scooter también perdió el control y murió allí hace varios años.

“No me siento seguro donde estoy parado en este momento”, dijo.

Los vecinos están instando a los líderes de la ciudad a evaluar la intersección e instalar barreras para proteger a los peatones y al edificio.

“Queremos resolver esto y evitar que alguien pierda la vida por esta situación porque no ha sido atendida”, dijo la residente Michelle Pasko.

Darrin Gurksy es abogado de la Asociación de Condominios de Brickell.

“Nos hemos ofrecido a pagar por bolardos. Creemos que eso resolvería muchos de los problemas debido a la forma en que el tránsito pasa por aquí, y esa es nuestra esperanza”, dijo. “Nos hemos comunicado con la ciudad anteriormente porque ya hemos tenido vehículos que incluso han subido nuestras escaleras”.

Pasko agregó: “Tenemos cafés en ambas esquinas de nuestro edificio. Hay madres con cochecitos de bebé y personas paseando a sus mascotas”.

El comisionado de Miami, Damian Pardo, proporcionó a Local 10 News la siguiente declaración:

“La seguridad pública siempre es nuestra máxima prioridad. Recibimos nuestra primera comunicación directa sobre este asunto durante el fin de semana y respondimos de inmediato. En este momento, estamos coordinando una reunión con los residentes que se comunicaron con nosotros para comprender mejor sus preocupaciones y discutir posibles soluciones.

“Cualquier incidente que ponga en riesgo a los peatones es preocupante, y agradecemos que nadie haya resultado gravemente herido en este choque. Tomamos en serio las preocupaciones de los residentes y continuaremos trabajando con los departamentos correspondientes de la ciudad, las fuerzas del orden y las partes interesadas de la comunidad para evaluar las condiciones e identificar cualquier medida que pueda mejorar la seguridad”.

Los legisladores de Florida aceleraron el plan del gobernador Ron DeSantis para poner recortes de impuestos a la propiedad en la boleta de noviembre, con la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado aprobándolo a primera hora de la tarde del martes.

El plan elevaría las exenciones de vivienda principal del estado de $50,000 USD a $250,000 USD.

El gobernador no está obteniendo todo lo que quería a medida que el proyecto llega a su despacho: el cambio más importante es que el financiamiento escolar está protegido, lo que significa que los impuestos a la propiedad no desaparecerán por completo.

Los cambios también incluyen la eliminación de un fondo fiduciario para condados pequeños con dificultades, el cual no tenía una fuente de financiamiento, y la retirada de dinero destinado para que el estado promueva el plan ante los votantes.

DeSantis enfrentó escrutinio en 2024 por usar fondos de los contribuyentes para hacer campaña contra medidas en la boleta que legalizaban la marihuana y protegían los derechos al aborto.

“Los votantes merecen saber sobre qué están votando sin sesgos”, dijo el martes la senadora estatal Lori Berman, demócrata de Boca Ratón.

Y el elefante en la habitación: ¿Por qué esto? ¿Por qué ahora, con tantos detalles aún sin definir?

“¿Por qué la prisa? ¿Por qué tres días? ¿Por qué no pedir cifras reales?”, preguntó la representante estatal Robin Bartleman, demócrata de Weston.

El representante estatal Toby Overdorf, republicano del condado de Martin, respondió: “Hemos estado trabajando en este tema por más de un año y medio. Nos hemos reunido con personas desde Pensacola hasta Cayo Hueso. Sin embargo, actualmente tenemos una propuesta del gobernador, y eso es lo que estamos escuchando durante esta sesión especial”.

Los escépticos han expresado preocupación por posibles déficits en servicios gubernamentales esenciales.

Pero los republicanos han criticado cómo los gobiernos locales gastan los fondos de los contribuyentes.

Como ocurre con cualquier enmienda a la constitución estatal, necesitaría el 60% de los votos para aprobarse en noviembre.

El arrestado en el incidente es Jose Zamora, quien enfrenta una serie de cargos, incluido intento de secuestro con arma de fuego.

La policía de Port St. Lucie dijo que ocurrió el domingo por la mañana afuera de la iglesia First United Methodist en SW Prima Vista Boulevard.

La policía dijo que Zamora quería hablar con la víctima e intentó obligarla a subir a su auto a punta de pistola.

“Varios testigos presenciaron lo que estaba ocurriendo e intervinieron”, dijo el jefe de la policía de Port St. Lucie, Leo Niemzyck. “El valor que demostraron ayudó a desactivar una situación muy peligrosa en escalada. El sospechoso sacó un arma de fuego y la colocó al lado de la víctima e intentó obligarla a subir al vehículo”.

Luego, dijeron que Zamora huyó y condujo hasta Hialeah.

La víctima sintió algo de dolor pero no tenía marcas visibles ni moretones, dijo la policía.

Según las autoridades, la víctima vivía con Zamora en Hollywood antes de mudarse juntos a Fort Pierce, y para diciembre pasado ella quería que él saliera de la casa porque se volvió agresivo con ella.

“Ellos tuvieron una relación romántica previa que había terminado, y supuestamente terminó debido a algunas infidelidades”, dijo Niemzyck. “Pero él tiene un historial criminal violento significativo que incluye un intento de secuestro previo”.

La policía dijo que la víctima obtuvo una orden de protección contra Zamora en marzo después de que fue arrestado por una violación de armas.

“Niemzyck dijo que esos detalles les dieron motivos para creer que él habría dañado a la víctima”.

“Es un delincuente convicto”, dijo. “Tiene un pasado peligroso. Así que la familia de él creía que era un peligro tanto para sí mismo como para ella. De hecho, fue considerado un posible sospechoso de suicidio por policía”.

Los investigadores dijeron que usaron lectores de placas para rastrear a Zamora.

Actualmente está recluido en la cárcel del condado St. Lucie en Fort Pierce con una fianza de $750,000 USD.

There is uncertainty with how many thunderstorms will develop this afternoon. What is more certain is any developing thunderstorms will move very slowly. In some cases, completely stationary. This brings us a higher threat for flooding today with a lower threat for damaging wind gusts compared to yesterday. More showers and thunderstorms are expected tomorrow, but fewer of them on Friday and the weekend.

According to Hollywood police, officers responded to the school, located at 1901 N Federal Highway, following a “security concern.”

Police later confirmed that a student had been detained and all students and staff members were safe.

According to a couple of seniors at the school who spoke with Local 10, a fellow student was going through security but didn’t want to be patted down so he ran into the school.

They said the campus was placed on lockdown as officers searched for the student.

“I was just coming here to pick up my cap and gown because I’m a senior and all and there was police everywhere and I was like, ‘What’s going on everybody?’” Jada Harris said. “I’m standing right there and then the kid -- he jumped over that gate exactly, trying to walk it off all cool, but they got him. They made sure they got him.”

Police said the lockdown has since been lifted and the school day resumed as normal.

They confirmed the student was arrested on a charge of disruption of a school function.

BCPS released the following statement after the incident:

“This morning, a student ran through the school’s metal detector screening area. In response, staff immediately activated their panic button, which initiated a lockdown. The District’s safety protocols worked as designed, and law enforcement responded promptly to assist. We appreciate the quick actions of our staff and the support of our law enforcement partners in helping ensure the safety and security of our students and employees."

In Florida, the average price for regular gas is $4.47. With summer travel on the horizon, Local 10 and Tropical Financial Credit Union are teaming up to bring drivers some relief.

“Right now, a lot of people across South Florida are feeling the pressure of everyday expenses, and even something as routine as filling up the gas tank can create real stress,” said Richard Shaw, Tropical Financial Credit Union President & CEO. “We wanted to do something simple but meaningful to help lighten the load, which is why we partnered with Local 10 on this gas card giveaway.”

All you have to do to sign up is complete the contest form below to be eligible to win a $100 fuel gift card. The deadline to enter is Sunday, May 31, at 11:59 p.m.

From June 1 through June 5, we will give away $2,500 in fuel gift cards to 25 Local 10 viewers. The winners will be chosen at random and five will be announced each day during our 6 a.m. newscast.

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The narrow upset Tuesday revealed cracks in Trump's coalition in the deep-red state, encouraging Democrats who are hopeful they can flip control of the governor's office this year. It also marked a potential breakthrough moment for the Make America Healthy Again movement, which has clashed with the Trump administration over its embrace of pesticides and backed Lahn's message in favor of regenerative farming and against large agricultural corporations.

“I will take on the big ag cartels. I will break up their monopolies, and I will get Iowa farmers a fair deal," Lahn said in his victory speech late Tuesday.

Members of the MAHA movement, a diverse coalition of supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with priorities ranging from ending vaccine mandates to promoting healthy soil and organic food, cheered the win as a sign their political message was resonating with voters.

“This election is a signal that pro-pesticide does not mean pro-farmer,” said Tony Lyons, the president of the Kennedy-aligned MAHA PAC, which endorsed Lahn. “Zach Lahn made transitioning away from toxic chemicals the cornerstone of his campaign and won this election decisively with strong farmer support.”

Lahn, little known before his run, carved out a MAHA fandom

Lahn, a farmer and former conservative political director, was relatively unknown in Iowa until he launched his campaign in November. During his campaign, he championed policies that appealed to Iowa's conservative grassroots supporters, like a total ban on abortion and keeping liberal ideology out of school classrooms.

Lahn, who owns an investment company and lives on a farm in eastern Iowa that had been in his family for a century, capitalized on activists’ skepticism toward Feenstra, criticizing him for not showing up to debate his primary opponents and spending limited time on the campaign trail.

But Lahn also carved out a niche in the MAHA movement, vocally rebuking the consolidation of farmland in the hands of corporate owners and acknowledging health concerns involving farms and poor water quality.

Iowa, an agricultural stronghold, has a powerful farm lobby that has opposed mandatory rules about curbing chemicals in water. But dangerously polluted drinking water has become an increasingly urgent issue as runoff from farmland has caused surging nitrate levels that have required expensive filtration in Des Moines, the state's capital city.

Lahn said in a debate in May that water treatment system upgrades were a “Band-Aid.” He said his goal as governor would be to “decrease the nitrate load in the water in the future so we have less stress on that system.”

In recent months, activists in the MAHA movement loudly backed Lahn as they grew increasingly impatient with the Trump administration and its Environmental Protection Agency for actions they view as antithetical to making America healthier.

Earlier this year, they revolted after Trump issued an executive order aimed at boosting the production of a controversial herbicide ingredient known as glyphosate. They also organized a protest at the Supreme Court in April to protest glyphosate producer Monsanto's Trump-backed effort to shield itself from lawsuits.

Lahn has opposed liability shields for pesticide companies. He leaned into campaign points tied to those issues during his primary victory speech Tuesday night.

“Iowa has the fastest growing cancer rate in the world,” Lahn said. “We all know something is terribly wrong. But too many politicians from Washington, D.C., to Des Moines have had their heads stuck in the sand while big ag and big pharma printed money. This will not go on when I’m governor.”

Those positions helped Lahn gain endorsements from MAHA PAC and the late Charlie Kirk's conservative political organization Turning Point Action. Figures from both groups reacted to Lahn's victory by celebrating it as their own.

“MAHA has done its job proving it’s politically radioactive to stand with chemicals over children,” Turning Point USA podcaster Alex Clark said on social media. “Iowa knows pesticides are causing cancer which is exploding in their state. Tonight they opted for change.”

Kelly Ryerson, a Florida-based activist whose social media account Glyphosate Girl focuses on nontoxic food systems, said she wants midterm candidates in other states to take note.

“Decreasing pesticides and improving food quality are common ground issues that drive votes,” she said.

A setback for Trump after repeated victories

Trump had stayed quiet on Iowa's gubernatorial race until last week, when he praised Feenstra as “MAGA all the way” and said he would “fight tirelessly” for the state on issues including the economy, border security and support of law enforcement.

The power of the president's endorsement had been proven earlier in the primary season, when it helped defeat two senators — John Cornyn of Texas and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

Some political observers had viewed Massie's loss as a stumbling block for the MAHA movement. The Republican congressman had helped lead a bipartisan effort to get liability protections for chemical companies out of a recent farm bill, in line with activists' concerns.

But Feenstra's loss marked a win for MAHA and a setback for the president. It also creates an opening Democrats are sure to try to seize.

State Auditor Rob Sand, the lone Democrat currently holding statewide office, is the party’s nominee for governor. Unopposed in the primary, Sand has been able to hone his moderate message, remind voters of his rural upbringing and amass an $18 million campaign fund.

The Republican National Committee denied the Iowa results signaled a weakening of Trump's influence with voters.

“President Trump’s endorsement is the most valuable force in politics and worth its weight in gold," RNC spokesman Zach Kraft said in an emailed statement. "The record speaks for itself.”

Feenstra conceded his race to Lahn on Tuesday, signaling he was open to joining forces for the good of the party. He said he called Lahn to tell him to “carry the torch.” Lahn, looking ahead to November in his victory speech, indicated he'd campaign against Sand with a traditional conservative talking point.

“Rob Sand wants you to believe he’s a moderate,” he said. "We’ve seen this movie before.”

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Swenson reported from New York.

Hardest hit would be Asian economies that depend on crude oil, fuel and natural gas from the Persian Gulf, supplies that have been largely choked off by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the risk of Iranian attack. And poorer countries where people spend more of their incomes on fuel and food would also be severely affected, the OECD said.

But the consequences of sharply higher energy prices and inflation would be felt around the world. Global growth would slump to levels not seen except for major setbacks like the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis and recession of the late 2000s. Under the OECD's prolonged disruption scenario, global growth slows from 3.4% last year to 2.1% this year and 1.8% in 2027, potentially pushing some economies into or close to recession.

Under a different OECD scenario for a time-limited disruption, in which energy production and shipments from the Gulf start to return to pre-war levels in the middle of this year, growth would slow to 2.8% this year and rebound to 3.1% next year.

“The global economy entered 2026 with robust momentum, but the outlook has weakened significantly since the start of the conflict in the Middle East, with effects likely to be felt for some time," OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said. “The longer the disruptions last, the larger the economic and social costs become.”

Cormann warned that government spending aimed at relieving energy costs needed to be aimed at those most in need and temporary, to avoid running up excess government debt and preserving incentives to save energy.

Despite repeated outbreaks of violence, a declared ceasefire in the war between the US and Iran remains officially in place. The ongoing risk to shipping however means that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled to a trickle, down more than 90% compared to before the war. That has disrupted about a fifth of the world's supplies of crude oil and fuel products as well as of natural gas.

The OECD report follows a UN study warning that higher energy prices will impact almost billion people in poorer countries and small island states that depend on imported fuel, forcing tradeoffs between covering energy bills and investing in essential public services. More than 30% of people in those countries already live below the extreme poverty line, defined as living on $3 or less a day.

The OECD is an international intergovernmental organization and policy forum of 38 democracies with market-based economies, headquartered in Paris.

The Trump administration is sticking with a deal to permanently drop tax claims against Trump, an extraordinary flex of executive power that could help shield the president from further examination of his finances and legal conduct, even as it scraps a $1.8 billion fund to compensate the Republican president's allies amid a fierce political backlash.

Trump's endorsements helped end the political careers of two senators and a congressman deemed insufficiently loyal, but he couldn't lift Rep. Randy Feenstra to victory in Iowa’s Republican primary, setting up a Democratic opportunity to pick up a governorship. See other AP coverage of Tuesday's primary results here.

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Rubio says Trump still wants to be part of NATO, but alliance needs significant reform

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration has no intention of abandoning NATO but won’t back down on demanding significant reforms.

Rubio told lawmakers Wednesday that the president plans to attend the annual NATO leaders’ summit in Turkey next month, at which he will make the U.S. case for changes and again call for allies to increase their defense spending. The summit is to be held in Ankara on July 7-8.

“The president himself will be attending the next NATO, a meeting of heads of state where all of these points will be made clear. We’re still in NATO, but NATO needs significant changes, and the president has made that clear,” Rubio said.

Trump has been particularly irked by some NATO countries, mainly Spain, denying the use of airbases for the war against Iran.

Senate GOP officially strips $1 billion in White House security funding from immigration spending bill

After weeks of discussions, the Senate has officially dropped a $1 billion proposal for White House security and Trump’s ballroom project.

The Senate is set to begin voting on legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies on Wednesday afternoon, and the bill’s final text, released just hours before the vote, does not include the security funding.

Republicans had already indicated they would drop the security proposal after backlash from within their own caucus and criticism from Democrats.

Rubio says Greenland is part of Denmark ‘for now’

Rubio made the “for now” statement when Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware asked Rubio about Trump’s calls for the U.S. to own the semiautonomous territory of Denmark to better defend the U.S.

Rubio said talks about the use of Greenland for collective defense are “in a good place,” though he declined to publicly discuss the details.

McBride had asked Rubio if he shares Trump’s belief that the U.S. needs to own land within NATO to defend it.

“The president’s view is that it’s a lot easier to defend it when you have control and complete control of it,” Rubio said. “We are obviously having conversations with both Denmark and Greenland. They are ongoing on a monthly basis now. I think we’ll have pretty good news.”

Abelardo de la Espriella thanks Trump for endorsement, predicts stronger US-Colombia ties

Colombian lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella, who pulled ahead in the first round of Colombia’s presidential race, on Wednesday thanked Trump for endorsing his campaign, saying he predicts stronger bilateral ties if the conservative defeats progressive Iván Cepeda in the presidential runoff.

Writing on the Truth Social platform the previous day, Trump offered his “complete and total endorsement” for de la Espriella, calling him an “intelligent, strong, and tough leader” who will take on a “radical leftist Marxist” in the June 21 runoff election.

“With my head held high and my heart throbbing with patriotic gratitude, I receive your words and your steadfast support,” de la Espriella, known as “El Tigre” or “The Tiger,” wrote on the social platform X. “Thank you, Mr. President!”

Tillis asks Bessent about his fisticuffs with Pulte

During the Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sen. Thom Tillis asked Bessent about his past reported conflicts with Bill Pulte, the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Trump picked Pulte for director of national intelligence.

“Did you actually tell Bill Pulte you were going to punch him in the face?” the North Carolina Republican asked Bessent.

“I actually said I was gonna kick his ass,” Bessent said. “That was last summer, the summer of ’25.”

Tillis has stated he doesn’t support Pulte for the intelligence role.

Rubio says Venezuela transition progressing well, but needs more time

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Venezuela’s transition to democracy is progressing but needs more time to consolidate and advance the reforms it has made since the U.S. ouster of former President Nicolas Maduro in early January.

In response to questions from lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Rubio stressed that it had only been five months since Maduro had been deposed and that conditions for free and fair elections – including the creation of independent media and political parties – are still works in progress. Rubio did say that Venezuela’s oil revenue had increased significantly under U.S. supervision since January.

“It’s not where it needs to be, but it is a long ways from where it was five months ago and poses not nearly the threat it once posed to America’s national security. We’re not satisfied with where it is, but we’ve come a long way,” Rubio said.

House Speaker says Trump wants US allies to help reopen Hormuz

Speaker Mike Johnson said he spent three hours at the White House with the president, Vance and Rubio, as Trump is working on “that final piece” to reopen commerce.

“I am, all of us, are calling on our allied nations and friends — the Arab states in the region, and NATO partners and everyone else,” the Republican told reporters at the Capitol about the Monday meeting. “The entire world has an interest in the Strait of Hormuz being reopened for commerce. That’s what he’s working on.”

Johnson also defended the president for suggesting the war’s unpopularity and the resulting high gas prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections aren’t impacting his decision-making. The speaker said Trump, who fielded phone calls from reporters during the lengthy meeting, is “laser focused” on domestic issues.

Trump compares White House UFC cage to the Eiffel Tower, says ‘maybe we’ll never ever take it down’

In a video posted to his TikTok account, the president offered a history lesson on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, noting that it was built to be a temporary structure for the 1889 World’s Fair.

“They said, you know we sort of like it, let’s leave it up a little bit longer,” he said. “And then they said, let’s leave it up longer and longer and longer. Well, they never took it down.”

Trump drew a parallel with the UFC octagon being built on the White House’s South Lawn for a June 14 bout celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.

“You know, we’re building something in front of the White House that’s quite attractive to a lot of people,” Trump said in a video posted on Tuesday. “It’s going to have the big UFC fight on June 14. And I’m looking at it, and maybe we’ll never ever take it down.”

Bessent talks freezing Iranian government funds

He was asked what Treasury is doing to address sanctions evasion as the Trump administration pressures Iran into accepting a deal to end the war.

“We have seized a substantial amount of crypto assets,” Bessent told lawmakers. “We have sanctioned ships, and in fact, the Navy has seized some of these ships, and we are tracking mostly the IRGC funds, and we are freezing those for the day that they can be given back to the Iranian people.”

Mullin says ‘primary’ border wall will be done in a year

Detailing progress on the wall the Trump administration is building separating the U.S. and Mexico, Mullin said the first layer — referred to as the “primary wall” — will be finished by “this time next year.”

On some stretches of the border, Customs and Border Protection is building a secondary wall so that people trying to cross the border would have to go through two layers. That “secondary wall” will be finished by the summer of 2028, he said.

Homeland Security received $46 billion last summer from Congress to finish the wall along the border from San Diego to the Gulf of Mexico. Most of that will be protected by a physical wall, but CBP says 535 miles (860 kilometers) of remote, rugged border terrain will solely rely on detection technology.

Turmoil deepens at ’60 Minutes’ with firing of longtime correspondent Scott Pelley

CBS News fired Pelley a day after he reportedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison of casting aside the show’s reputation “apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.”

Pelley criticized management Monday during a fiery staff meeting with Nick Bilton, the program’s new executive producer installed by Weiss last week, according to a detailed report on the Status website. In a termination notice obtained Tuesday night by The Associated Press, Bilton, a technology journalist and filmmaker with no traditional broadcast news experience, accused Pelley of carrying out an “ambush” in a “performative display of hostility.”

Pelley said in a statement that “60 Minutes” has lost its DNA and that the new management had asked him to “inject falsehoods and bias” into his work.

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The California drama drags on

About 60 names were on the ballot to succeed Democrat Gavin Newsom as governor. Under California’s primary system, all candidates appear on a single ballot and the top two finishers advance to the November general election, regardless of party.

Republican Steve Hilton campaigned with Trump’s endorsement, and in the final days of the campaign, Democratic attention focused on Xavier Becerra, a former congressman and state attorney general who was health secretary under President Joe Biden, and Tom Steyer, a billionaire known for his climate activism.

The three have been leading in early returns after polls closed. If Becerra were to advance to one of the two slots on the fall ballot, he presents a natural choice for voters more comfortable with a traditional candidate. Steyer and Hilton have both presented themselves as advocating significant changes.

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Rubio says Iran retains drone capabilities, but they’re not as robust

Democratic Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada pushed Rubio to explain Iran’s military capabilities. Trump and others claim American forces have decimated the Islamic Republic’s military, and yet ships are still being attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, she said.

“So is the war still on or is the war off?” Titus asked.

Rubio acknowledged that Iran still has small boats with machine guns as well as some drone capabilities. But he said Iran lacks the ability to attack targets with swarms of drones as it once did.

Titus noted that the U.S. military has been using expensive weapons systems to take down the drones. Rubio said “that needs to change.”

Democrat shows Rubio videos of Trump with his eyes closed, says ‘something is wrong’

California Rep. Ted Lieu displayed several clips of what he described as Trump sleeping while Rubio spoke during Cabinet meetings, saying they reflect concerns about the president’s health. The short clips show Trump with his eyes closed on several instances during meetings from the last few months.

“I’m going to ask you to come clean with the American people and the White House as well: There’s something wrong with Donald Trump’s health or cognitive abilities,” Lieu said.

In response, Rubio said, “I don’t even know how to respond to that other than to tell you that it’s absurd and ridiculous.”

Mullin doesn’t back down from threats to pull CBP officers from airports

Mullin was asked about his threat to remove Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in cities that don’t typically cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

Mullin said he isn’t “punishing” places dubbed sanctuary cities by the Trump administration.

But he blamed those cities for “refusing to allow local and state enforcement officers to respond when we called” and said he needs to protect his staff. “If that means I gotta pull them out of Customs and Border Protection from processing international flights, I will,” Mullin said.

Mullin did not say when he might implement his threat, which has sparked criticism from the travel industry for its potential to cause chaos just ahead of the World Cup.

GOP congressman tells DHS secretary to use more discretion in ICE arrests

In a rare example of a Republican criticizing the Trump administration’s deportation program, Rep. Carlos Gimenez urged Mullin to put more emphasis on apprehending violent criminals.

“I think you need to use your discretion a little bit more as to who is being deported, who’s being arrested, etc. Let’s go after the worst of the worst,” said Gimenez, whose South Florida district has a large heavy Cuban population.

Referring to a comment from Democratic Rep. Lou Correa, Gimenez said it’s unacceptable that ICE recently failed to take six criminal suspects into custody in Orange County, California.

Mullin said ICE only has 48 hours after defendants are booked into local jails to take them into custody, a difficult deadline if not immediately informed of arrests.

“There’s no excuse for it, but we just don’t have the resources to get there like we need to,” Mullin said.

‘MAHA’ movement flexes its power in Iowa, overcoming Trump’s choice

The power of Trump’s endorsement helped end the political careers of Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky. But even though Trump jumped into Iowa’s Republican primary by backing Rep. Randy Feenstra for governor, GOP voters nominated Zach Lahn instead.

Democrats nominated Rob Sand, whose rural roots are rare among Democrats. Sand also is a proven winner in a Republican-leaning state, having been elected twice as auditor.

Lahn was not well known in Iowa politics when he launched his campaign in November, but he built support among conservatives by championing a total ban on abortion, keeping liberal ideology out of public school classrooms and developing a following with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, which opposes the Trump administration’s embrace of pesticides.

Iowa Democrats rally behind former Paralympian in marquee Senate race

Democrats stunned by how Trump has remade American politics have spent the past decade debating which type of candidate is best positioned to energize voters and win elections, not moral victories.

Iowa marked the latest stop in this sometimes agonizing conversation.

The party’s establishment supported Josh Turek, a state representative who presented a compelling personal biography that included competing for the United States in four Paralympics. State Sen. Zach Wahls had offered himself as a more disruptive figure, refusing to back Chuck Schumer of New York as the Senate Democratic leader if he were elected.

Democratic voters united behind Turek, who will face Republican Ashley Hinson in November.

Oil rises toward $100 as U.S.-Iran ceasefire wobbles

Oil prices are rising Wednesday following the latest flare-up in fighting to threaten the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, and U.S. stocks are stalling near their records.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% from its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 339 points, or 0.7%, as of 10:15 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% lower.

Weighing on the market was a climb of 1.1% for the price of a barrel of Brent crude to $97.07. It rose after the U.S. military said Iran fired missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain. The United States said it then struck an Iranian military ground control station on an island in the Strait of Hormuz. Hope seems to be remaining on Wall Street that the United States and Iran will ultimately reopen the strait.

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Trump talks up pairing of Vance and Rubio as a team in 2028 election

Trump praised the possibility of Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio running as a ticket in the 2028 presidential election.

"They’re both very talented,” Trump said on the “Pod Force One” podcast. “I like them together. You know, it’d be great. I don’t know how you beat them if they’re together. That would be a great team.”

The president has previously talked up this combination. How Vance and Rubio feel about it is unclear. “They’d have to agree to it, right?” Trump said.

There is still “a long time left” before the 2028 presidential election, Trump cautioned. But he said he observes how his aides and Cabinet officials interact and called the relationship between Vance and Rubio “good.”

Markwayne Mullin says DHS ready for ‘complicated’ World Cup security operations

The Homeland Security secretary said his agency is ready to help protect security at World Cup games across the U.S., but still has “a lot of work to do” ahead of the first game June 12 in Los Angeles.

“I feel very comfortable where we’re at, and we feel like we have a zero-fail mission. But it’s going to be complicated,” Mullin told the House Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday.

Millions of fans will be coming to the U.S., for the equivalent of “78 Super Bowls in 38 days,” he said, and “we have some very complicated countries that are going to be playing each other that have a tremendous amount of dislike against each other.”

He credited state and local officials at host sites for their cooperation with federal agencies, and said “I hope when FIFA is over, we can show that we can work together and continue to keep our cities and our streets safe.”

He's been known in the United States for centuries as the English ruler who lost the American colonies. You might remember him as the maniacal monarch from the Broadway musical or the subject of the 1990s play and film, “ The Madness of King George.” Americans of a certain age would recall him as the tyrant who taxed them without consent in the song, “ No More Kings."

Except the runup to the Revolutionary War didn't happen quite that way — a point worth noting in this age of disinformation, misinformation and “alternative facts.” In George's time, Parliament approved laws and taxes, as it does now. And that list of 27 complaints against the king in the Declaration of Independence? Mostly “wartime propaganda,” according to British historian Andrew Roberts, who says all but two crumble under scrutiny.

Historians now generally agree: George was not mentally ill during the Revolution.

“Truth became the first casualty of the American War of Independence, as it is in most wars," Roberts wrote in his 2021 biography, “The Last King of America.” “The American Revolution is a testament not to George III's tyranny, which was fictitious, but to Americans' yearning for autonomy.”

America's backstory, as told by the Founders, is up for review

The American origin story is rooted in the notion that George III was its vanquished villain, an irrational tyrant who oppressed the American colonists. Scholars began pushing back against that narrative before the United States' bicentennial, with the Prince of Wales writing a spicy rebuttal in 1972.

“If the average schoolchild remembers anything about history after leaving school, he will remember that George III was mad,” that prince, now King Charles III, wrote in the foreword to a biography on his five-times great grandfather. “If he is American as well then madness is often given as a reason for the 'irrational' behavior of the King toward the Colonists, making it necessary for them to declare independence."

Perhaps, he closed, "Americans will soon come to see the true George III without bias and traditionally held opinions."

George inherited the throne from his grandfather in 1760, at age 22, and with it an empire that stretched from England into North America and to Asia. He saw himself not merely as England's ruler but the father of his subjects — duty-bound to be their role model. In family and British life, he emphasized order, integrity and an Enlightenment-era curiosity about art, books and the natural world.

George was, like every British king since, a constitutional monarch — meaning that he had influence and selected the prime minister, but Cabinet members and the House of Commons passed laws and budgets. George's job was to assent to the policies passed by Parliament. So it can be argued that he went along with what the colonists saw as Britain's oppressive and coercive policies, such as the Stamp Act of 1765, the first direct tax on the colonies.

The future founders condemned the move and popularized the war cry, “No taxation without representation.” As Britain saw it, the members of Parliament represented the colonies. The colonists argued that they were represented by their elected colonial assemblies, which already taxed them. After they imposed damaging boycotts on British goods, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 — but followed that same day with an act saying the British Parliament could legislate for the colonies.

In the decade that followed, relations soured. Not helping was Parliament's passage of the Tea Act in 1773, to which revolutionaries responded by dumping tea into Boston Harbor. That shocked George, who the next year approved Parliament's acts designed to rein in Massachusetts' ability to govern itself.

The Continental Congress met and petitioned the king, as “your majesty’s faithful subjects,” for relief. George stood with Parliament.

In April 1775, the “shot heard ’round the world” rang out from a clash between militiamen and British troops in Lexington and Concord, launching what Brits widely call the American War of Independence — the Revolutionary War.

George III’s archives went public in 2015 — and fueled a shift on “the king’s malady”

Queen Elizabeth II released the uncatalogued Georgian Papers, 280,000 from the period held at Windsor Castle, and later put them online as part of a five-year project to digitize the records. What emerged was a detailed reappraisal of a monarch who kept charts, lists, letters, speeches and notes — including dates and the time of his writings — tracking a long list of administrivia: crop yields, botany, land management, household stores and expenses and closely tracked the politics in Parliament.

But the 2015 archives released something else: more detail on medical notes, including doctors orders, treatment reports, observations by others of George's behavior during his illnesses. Those raised questions on the cause of what historians had called “the king's malady.”

The long-accepted theory that George suffered from porphyria, a physiological metabolic disorder, was wrong, Roberts wrote in 2021. His analysis of 100,000 Georgian documents and 21st-century medical research pointed to bipolar affective disorder Type 1 — defined in part by at least one severe manic episode. George had been known to suffer extended bouts of mania after 1788.

As America turns 250, George's story is told differently — even in America

Dig into the American Revolution in 2026 and you won't find much, if any, suggestion that George was "mad" during the war years. If anything, the story during the semiquincentennial casts George as more of a whole person than the tyrant depicted in the ad hominem complaints peppered throughout the Declaration of Independence.

The Library of Congress' exhibit is titled, “The Two Georges,” the king and George Washington, “Parallel lives in an age of Revolution.”

And the first gallery in the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is begins 15 years before the Revolution, when Americans had great affection for George III and showed it by posting royal symbols on items ranging from drinking vessels to fire backs and a royal coat of arms that probably hung in the city's courthouse.

“We make the point that he was literally called ‘the king of liberty’ in popular culture, said R. Scott Stephenson, the museum's president and CEO. "This was not a despot in anyone's minds.”

Charles name-drops George III during his speech to Congress

On April 29, Elizabeth's son, King Charles III, twice name-dropped George III from the rostrum at the heart of American democracy. First, he endorsed the “Tale of Two Georges” theme, noting that George III was his five-times great grandfather.

“King George never set foot in America,” he said lightheartedly, “and, please rest assured, I am not here as part of some cunning rear-guard action.”

None of the modern-day patriots in his audience — elected members of Congress whose forebears rejected the rule of George III — batted an eye or booed.

That night, Charles invoked his ancestry by name again at a White House state dinner in a further celebration of America's 250th birthday. “As the direct descendant of King George III,” Charles said, “I know this is a nation that never gives up.”

That's true of some Americans and the narratives they prefer, according to Roberts. Asked whether his findings took hold in the American psyche, he responded by email: “Nothing will dislodge the Americans from their desire to see GIII as an evil dictator.”

Boosting The Never Forget Fund's latest appeal, announced Wednesday, is Mike Bloomberg. The former New York City mayor, who has rallied hundreds of millions of dollars toward the 9/11 Memorial and Museum as its chair, pledged to match the next $25 million in donations through his Bloomberg Philanthropies. Organizers already secured the first $25 million through unspecified initial gifts.

Officials count about 97 million memorial visitors and nearly 28 million museum attendees since they opened in 2014 at the site where hijacked jetliners destroyed the World Trade Center's twin towers in lower Manhattan. But recent years have seen a budget crisis following pandemic closures and interest from the Trump administration in taking control of the site.

Beth Hillman, the organization's president and CEO, says they need a permanent funding source to reach the roughly 100 million Americans born after the attacks. The goal is to frame the aftermath as one that inspired selfless acts of service and provide basic facts through new on-site exhibits and classroom materials.

“The ongoing importance of remembering 9/11 is to remind people that they can come together even in the face of incredible loss,” Hillman told the Associated Press.

The legacy of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people remains hotly contested. Younger generations have only ever known the existence of airport screenings, immigration enforcement officers and other security measures pursued afterwards by the U.S. government. Many engage with the events through popular memes of the photograph showing then-President George W. Bush learning about the developments. Conspiracy theories abound about what government officials knew in their leadup.

Also debated is the notion of unity advanced by the memorial and museum. The Sept. 11 attacks fueled 20 years of war abroad that grew increasingly unpopular as the death toll rose. Young American Muslims growing up under their shadow have faced hostility, mistrust and suspicion.

As the 25th anniversary approaches this September, Hillman sees a “compelling story of service, of hope, of resilience, of coming together” for the people who didn't live through that period. Those stories will be told in an exhibit called “In Their Honor." Celebrity chef Bobby Flay, she noted, was among the many chefs who prepared meals for first responders in the months following the attacks. Theater workers brought their lights to power the blacked-out area around ground zero. Victims' family members started social services organizations such as 9/11 Day to inspire volunteering in memory of their lost relatives. They also want to inform more people of the first responders who developed chronic illnesses and still face barriers to care.

The funds raised by the 9/11 Memorial and Museum will ensure free museum access continues for students, first responders and veterans, according to Hillman, who said “we don't want the price to be a barrier to them.” Standard adult admission currently costs $36. The nonprofit's website notes that it “relies primarily on ticket sales to help fund its operational costs.”

The organization plans to reach more educators with the funds. As teachers enter the workforce without lived experiences of Sept. 11, Hillman said they want to help prepare lesson plans. The nonprofit runs summer teachers' institutes, offers professional development programs and remakes a 30-minute film each year with firsthand stories.

Hillman acknowledged a greater “degree of distraction and confusion” today than in the past when it comes to efforts to memorialize recent historical events. She sees a need to give “simple representations of what happened." The March/April issue of The National Council for the Social Studies' magazine, which was guest edited by 9/11 Memorial and Museum staff, features a timeline of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

"9/11 is heavy and compelling and full of inspiring stories,” Hillman said. "But also, just a trusted set of what happened on that day, of materials that can convey the basics of it — that’s the beginning of people learning and starting to understand, too.”

Alex Edgar, a Gen Z civic leader who is working with a group called Made By Us to amplify youth voices ahead of the United States' 250th birthday, sees value in emphasizing the power of service. His peers, he said, have “never really seen a country that has worked” or one that “really lived up to the promise of America.” He finds that narratives about overcoming division to accomplish shared goals serve as an antidote to the political polarization frequently experienced by young people.

But he emphasized that those narratives must permeate classroom walls and museum doors.

“They invite young people to consider what’s preventing us from using any of the issues of our time as a rallying cry for folks to come together across backgrounds to build the type of country, the communities, that we want to live in,” he said.

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The purpose of the massive release would be to help eradicate disease.

It’s a program called De Bug that would release male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacteria.

When those males mate with wild females, the eggs won’t hatch, so the population of disease vectors declines.

The Florida Keys has already been on the front lines of similar mosquito technology.

This will be the second year using infected mosquitoes in a pilot program.

Mosquito experts and home service companies like Mosquito Joe said using an arsenal of tools is vital.

“Mosquitoes are a public health issue,” said Mosquito Joe co-owner Yoel Gutierrez. “They bring Zika, chikungunya, West Nile virus.”

Officials in Miami-Dade and Broward counties say Google has reached out to them.

A similar program in 2018 was deemed a success in Miami-Dade County, but it was expensive.

Google is trying to get approval from the Environmental Protection Agency, which is accepting public comments on the proposal through Friday.

Sanmu Chen tried to tie the red thread to a street signpost in Causeway Bay, a busy shopping district, close to a park that for decades hosted an annual candlelight vigil on June 4 to mourn the victims of the crackdown that ended student-led protests in Beijing in 1989.

Hong Kong was for decades the only place in China where a large-scale public commemoration of the crackdown was held. But those once-massive annual vigils were banned in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and public acts to mark the Tiananmen Square killings have become increasingly sensitive in the city in recent years.

Chen said his thread was 6.4 meters long, an apparent reference to the June 4 crackdown date.

Police officers stopped and searched Chen's bag before letting him go free. When asked by a reporter about his gesture with the red thread after his release, Chen said it was meant to express condolences to those who died.

“It's abnormal when people monitor you when you are saying or doing something,” he told reporters.

Chen had been detained at least twice on Jun. 3 in recent years. In 2024, he was briefly detained by police after he appeared to write the Chinese characters of “eight nine six four” — a set of numbers referencing the date of the crackdown — with his hand in the air.

Police also detained Chen on the same day in 2023 around the same area, where he chanted “Hong Kongers, do not be afraid. Don’t forget tomorrow is June 4.”

As night fell, another artist, Chan Mei-tung, stood outside a nearby department store holding up a question-mark-shaped balloon. Police officers also stopped her quickly and escorted her back to the subway station.

Under then-leader Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese military was sent to Beijing's Tiananmen Square to end weeks of student-led protests on the night of June 3-4, 1989. Soldiers fired live rounds and hundreds and possibly thousands of people were killed, including dozens of soldiers.

Annual vigils in Hong Kong's Victoria Park used to attract tens of thousands of people each year until the event was banned in 2020 during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.

That was the same year Beijing imposed a national security law in the city following massive anti-government protests in 2019. Since then authorities have increasingly silenced dissent. Many leading activists were arrested and some vocal media outlets shut down. Dozens of civil society groups disbanded, including the one that organized the vigils.

Three former vigil organizers were charged in 2021 with inciting subversion under the national security law. Two of the former organizers went on trial and are waiting a verdict, possibly in July. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Their co-defendant entered a guilty plea, which can typically result in a sentence reduction.

The Hong Kong and Beijing governments said the security law is crucial for the city’s stability. Hong Kong authorities said the law clearly stipulates that human rights shall be respected and protected in safeguarding national security.

After COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, the former vigil site was occupied instead by a carnival organized by pro-China groups. Some people who tried to commemorate the event near the site on Jun. 4, the crackdown’s anniversary, were detained.

The five-day carnival began Wednesday. The muted expressions in Hong Kong underlined the decline in civil liberties promised by Beijing when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

As public commemoration faded in Hong Kong, overseas communities were carrying the torch to keep memories alive by hosting vigils and rallies in places like London and Canada.

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According to authorities, an 85-year-old Coconut Creek resident received a phone call that she had won a prize.

“I was supposed to get $7 million and a car,” the victim told officers.

Police said family members of the victim contacted them after she sent two checks, one for $2,500 and one for $1,000, to alleged scammers in Washington state.

Then, on Friday, officers had to intervene as the woman was about to send more money to suspected scammers. They found her at a pottery class and stopped her before she could send it.

“In this particular case, the elderly resident had already completed a series of financial transactions when her family discovered that she was getting ready to pass more money,” said Coconut Creek Police Department Detective Clint Corey.

Corey had advice for residents who end up being contacted by scammers.

“Just don’t answer the phone -- force the caller to leave a message,” he said. “And then you can decide how you want to respond, and you can keep more money in your pocket at the end of the day.”

On the standard cover, Williams is depicted in a body position similar to his pivotal, scrambling, fourth-and-8 jump pass to Rome Odunze in a stirring comeback victory over Green Bay in a wild card playoff game on Jan. 10.

With his arm cocked to throw and his feet spread, Williams appears to soar above a silhouette of the Chicago skyline that is set against a blue backdrop.

The deluxe edition features a tight shot of Williams with arms crossed over his white game jersey, a dark, night-like background and snow falling around him.

Being featured on the game's cover is “like my childhood dream was coming true,” Williams said. “I grew up playing Madden and imagining what it would be like to be part of the game."

Williams and the 2025 Bears became synonymous with late-game theatrics last season, staging more than a handful of comeback victories to go with some dramatic comeback bids that came up just short — including their season-ending playoff loss to the Los Angeles Rams.

In 17 regular-season games, Williams passed for a franchise-record 3,942 yards with 27 touchdowns and seven interceptions in his second season since being drafted first overall out of Southern California.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Michael Enriquez, 53, had a “sexual relationship” with a student at American Senior High School, which started in May 2025.

Deputies said Enriquez and the student, who was 17 at the time, went out after school twice last year -- once in May and once in June – at which time they engaged in sex acts together.

“He’s disgusting,” a student at the school told Local 10 News. “The girl knew what she was doing, but he is a grown man. He knew what he was doing 20 times more -- he’s been there, done that -- it’s all wrong.”

According to authorities, Enriquez and the victim did not communicate over summer break, but when the new school year began in August 2025, the two resumed their “sexual relationship.”

Authorities said their final encounter occurred on May 14, 2026, which was the only time they had sexual intercourse.

The victim was 18 at the time of their final sexual encounter, according to Enriquez’s arrest report.

Authorities did not disclose how they were alerted to the alleged crimes or how they discovered the dates and details.

“It’s scary that someone who deals with so many students could be talking to a girl maybe my age or maybe a little older, because we usually trust teachers, we talk to them a lot. We don’t know if the girl was going through something, if she thought that was the only way,” Samira Gonzalez, who is a freshman at the school, said.

“Definitely as an adult, you should know where to draw the line,” a student named Christopher told Local 10. “You have these young ladies -- they’re probably fearing right now.”

Enriquez appeared in bond court Tuesday where he was ordered held without bond and ordered to stay away from the victim and from the high school.

A spokesperson for Miami-Dade County Public Schools confirmed that Enriquez will be fired.

“Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is aware of the arrest of an employee from American Senior High School. Upon learning of the suspected behavior, the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department initiated an investigation, which resulted in his removal from the school site and his subsequent arrest by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. The type of behavior this individual is accused of will not be tolerated, as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees. The District has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with the District. At M-DCPS, the safety and well-being of all students remains our top priority.”

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Jose Zamora is facing a slew of charges, including attempted kidnapping with a firearm.

Port St. Lucie police said it happened Sunday morning outside the First United Methodist Church on Southwest Prima Vista Boulevard.

Police said Zamora wanted to talk to the victim and tried to force her into his car at gunpoint.

“Several witnesses witnessed what was going on and intervened,” said Port St. Lucie Police Chief Leo Niemzyck. “The courage that they displayed helped disarm a very dangerous escalating situation. The suspect did remove a firearm and placed it at the victim’s side and tried to force her into the vehicle.”

Then, they say Zamora took off and drove to Hialeah.

The victim felt some pain but did not have any visible marks or bruises, police said.

According to authorities, the victim lived with Zamora in Hollywood before moving to Fort Pierce together, and by last December she wanted him out of the house because he became aggressive towards her.

“They had a prior romantic relationship which had ended, and it ended allegedly due to some infidelities,” said Niemzyck. “But he has a significant violent criminal history to include past attempted kidnapping.”

Police said the victim got a protective injunction against Zamora in March after he was arrested for a weapons violation.

Niemzyck said those details gave them cause to believe he would have harmed the victim.

“He’s a convicted felon prevented from having a firearm,” he said. “He’s got a dangerous past. So, the family of his believed that he was a danger to himself as well as her. Actually, he was considered a potential suicide by cop suspect.”

Investigators said they used license plate readers to track Zamora down.

He’s currently locked up in the St. Lucie County Jail in Fort Pierce on a bond of $750,000.

“Just want to quit tennis right now,” Sabalenka said after wasting a lead of a set and two breaks in a 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 loss to Diana Shnaider in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. “We’ll see in few days. Hopefully I’ll get back on track mentally.”

Sabalenka's wait for a first French Open title continues despite the four-time major winner leading 4-1 in the second set and being two points from victory while serving for the match at 5-4. What followed was a complete collapse as she lost 12 of the last 13 games against a player appearing in her first Grand Slam quarterfinal, looking increasingly frustrated and forlorn in the windy conditions.

Just like her loss to Coco Gauff in last year's final, when she also won the first set before becoming undone with a slew of unforced errors, this one will take some time to get over.

“You know those rooms where you just go in and you smash everything,” Sabalenka said. “Probably I will spend a whole day tomorrow over there destroying stuff. Maybe it will help, maybe not.”

Sabalenka stood still and screamed loudly after losing a point to fall 0-30 down in the sixth game of the decider and, although she saved two match points at 0-40 down, she lost when she sent a shot into the net.

“I just think it’s combination of everything,” Sabalenka lamented. “You overthink, then you make easy mistakes, then you miss opportunities.”

Shnaider next faces Maja Chwalinska, who extended her remarkable Roland Garros run by beating No. 22-seeded Anna Kalinskaya 7-6 (3), 6-3.

But for Sabalenka, her struggles were reminiscent of the match against Gauff, when she remonstrated loudly, shouting to herself and glaring at her team box.

“I just have to sit back and openly think about what’s going on in my head in those tough moments,” Sabalenka said, recalling that match. “Because I’m quite an experienced player. I have been through so many things, and I overcome so many things.”

Sabalenka had already looked agitated when serving for the first set but still looked in control as she served for the match in the second, holding a 30-15 lead.

“Of course I saw some moments of her frustration,” Shnaider said. “I know Aryna, that she’s a very emotional person."

Shnaider, who was already on her best run at a major, broke Sabelenka before taking complete control.

“Well, honestly I am speechless. Super happy,” Shnaider said. “I feel like I was trying to focus point by point. Not thinking about the score. She is the world No. 1, so I just trying to do my best. I just had to fight for every point.”

Sabalenka looked increasingly frustrated as the third set wore on, and when she missed a volley at the net in the fourth game of the decider she crouched and rested her head on her racket.

Another upset

It was another big upset in a tournament where defending champion Gauff (third round) and four-time winner Iga Swiatek (fourth round) already tumbled out.

Defending men’s champion Jannik Sinner served for the match in a second round defeat, and 24-time major winner Novak Djokovic wasted a two-set lead in a third round loss.

That opened things up for lesser-known players. According to Opta, this is the first major without a former champion in either the men’s and women’s semifinals since the French Open in 1977.

From qualifier to contender

The unseeded Chwalinska came through three qualifying rounds to become only the second Polish woman to reach the semifinals at Roland Garros, along with Swiatek.

Chwalinska said British player Emma Raducanu’s run to the 2021 U.S. Open title as an 18-year-old qualifier had inspired her.

“It was such an impressive run, you know,” Chwalinska recalled. “Also, she was so young.”

When Kalinskaya’s big forehand from the back of the court went out, the 24-year-old Chwalinska had her biggest win, having never been beyond the second round at any major before this tournament.

Chwalinska’s total prize money heading into Roland Garros was $864,030 and reaching the last four here earns her 750,000 euros (about $872,000).

Windy conditions

After they traded early breaks of serve amid blustery conditions with the roof open on Court Philippe-Chatrier.

“I don’t know why would they keep the roof open when it was crazy windy,” Sabalenka said. “It was very dirty tennis. I don’t know how people could actually just sit there and watch me play.”

Kalinskaya also struggled.

“I feel like I was fighting against the wind,” she said. “It was cold today, so the ball was going slower. I couldn’t use my speed, my power.”

Men’s matches

In remaining men’s quarterfinals, No. 4 Felix Auger-Aliassime took on No. 10 Flavio Cobolli before unseeded Italians Matteo Berrettini and Matteo Arnaldi faced off.

All of Wednesday’s matches were held on Chatrier.

Second-seeded Alexander Zverev and No. 26 Jakub Mensik won their quarterfinals Tuesday and will meet in the semifinals. ___

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Tesla’s best-selling EV gets a round of updates for 2026 that include revised styling, a smoother ride and a more upscale cabin. But Toyota’s all-electric SUV shouldn’t be counted out. It has been thoroughly overhauled for 2026, and the result is a much more compelling proposition than the outgoing model. Edmunds’ experts put these two electric SUVs head-to-head to find out which one deserves a spot in your driveway.

Range and charging

Formerly known as the bZ4X, Toyota’s first all-electric SUV has been so extensively revised that it now carries a new name. Pleasingly, range has improved considerably. The front-wheel-drive version of the 2026 bZ can go up to 314 miles on a single charge, according to EPA estimates. Edmunds has verified that in its own independent testing, with a test bZ covering 331 miles, an impressive result for a small electric SUV.

As with the bZ, different versions of the Model Y have varying range estimates. The longest comes from the Premium Rear-Wheel Drive, which can go an EPA-estimated 357 miles. Edmunds hasn’t range tested that Model Y version, but other tested Model Ys have matched their EPA estimates.

Edmunds also tested the bZ and Model Y for charging speeds at a public fast-charging station. Both SUVs yielded similar results and could potentially add up to about 100 miles of range in 15 minutes. The Model Y is a bit more convenient to charge at Tesla’s nationwide network of Supercharger stations, however.

Winner: Model Y

Driving experience and interior space

The Tesla Model Y remains one of the more engaging electric SUVs to drive. It accelerates quickly, has a smooth ride, and feels sporty and stable when going around corners. The cabin is well insulated from road and wind noise, and the front seats offer a wide range of adjustments for comfort during longer drives.

While the outgoing bZ4X felt sluggish, the bZ flips the script with brisk acceleration in both single- and dual-motor configurations. The front-wheel-drive bZ actually outpaced the base Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive in Edmunds’ 0-to-60 mph testing, while an all-wheel-drive bZ trailed just behind the Model Y All-Wheel Drive in the same test. The bZ also has a comfortable ride over bumps, but it doesn’t feel as composed as the Model Y when cornering.

Interior space is significantly better in the Model Y. It has more rear legroom, which allows adults to be more comfortable and provides extra space for installing bulky rear-facing child safety seats. The Model Y also has more cargo space and a few more useful spaces to store small items.

Winner: Model Y

Technology

Tesla’s infotainment system remains a highlight, with a clean interface and quick response. Dual wireless chargers add convenience, and Tesla’s advanced driver assistance features help set it apart. The Full Self-Driving (Supervised) feature is particularly notable for allowing for hands-free driving on both highways and city streets. However, the lack of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration may be a sticking point for some buyers.

Toyota counters with a new 14.1-inch touchscreen infotainment system that’s easy to use and supports wireless connectivity Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Dual wireless phone chargers are up front, and a total of four fast-charging USB-C ports are on board. Standard driver assistance features are comprehensive. The bZ also has a hands-free driving feature, but it only works at low speeds on the highway.

Winner: Model Y

Pricing and value

The base Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive starts at $41,630, including destination. However, it’s missing some features you’ll probably want in an EV. The Premium version of the Model Y is what you want because of its added power, slightly greater range and a more upscale interior. A Model Y Premium All-Wheel Drive costs $51,630.

The Toyota bZ starts at $36,495 and comes well equipped for the price, especially when you consider the improved performance and range now on offer. The top-line bZ Limited adds even more features and is comparable to the Model Y Premium. It costs $46,895 in its available all-wheel-drive configuration.

Winner: bZ

Edmunds says

The Toyota bZ’s improvements make it a far more appealing electric SUV than before, and its low starting price strengthens its appeal for value-focused buyers. That said, the Tesla Model Y continues to set the benchmark in this segment with its superior technology, performance and overall refinement. While Toyota has made meaningful progress, the Model Y remains the better choice.

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This story was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds. Bradley Iger is a contributor at Edmunds.

The New York company raised its outlook Wednesday and shares dipped less than 1% in midday trading.

“We're off to a strong start to the year,” said CEO Tony Spring, who is in the third year of an attempted turnaround of the storied retailer. “We're operating with discipline and focusing on what matters most — our customers.”

Comparable sales — sales at established online channels and stores— rose 3% during the first quarter. That was higher than the 1.8% gain during the final quarter of 2025 and it was the strongest first quarter for such sales in four years, the retailer said. Macy's stores posted a comparable sales increase of 1.6%, while the company's Bloomingdale's stores delivered a 10.2% increase, its highest first-quarter sales volume on record. Bluemercury, the cosmetics chain also owned by Macy's had a 6.4% comparable sales gain.

It’s the latest encouraging sign for Macy’s, which had been mired in a yearslong sales slump. Under Spring, who took over the top job in early 2024, Macy’s has closed unprofitable stores and spent millions modernize others. The company has beefed up customer service. It’s also been trying to differentiate its luxury business from its rivals with exclusive merchandise.

Some of the outsized performance at Bloomingdales has been attributed by retail analysts to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Saks Global, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.

Still, Macy’s is contending with the same challenges faced by its the retailer sector as a whole.

U.S. retailers have spent months navigating an uncertain economic environment, from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the impact of soaring gasoline prices due to the Iran war. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline has been above $4 per gallon since March, according to according to AAA. A gallon costs 40% more than than it did before the war. The latest batch of earnings reports from major retailers underscore how shoppers are under increasing financial strain as they try to factor in higher prices for gasoline, groceries, utilities and almost everything else.

Spring told The Associated Press in a phone call Wednesday that the company is closely monitoring events given the uncertainty about the U.S. economy, but there's been no noticeable pullback in customer spending since gas prices started rising.

He reasons that Macy's improved assortment and perceived value are landing with customers. There have been strong sales in prom dresses, men's shoes, dresses and fragrances. Spring, however, noted disappointing furniture sales with shoppers continuing to put off purchases of big ticket items.

“Despite the choiceful consumer, despite all the things that are going on that we read about every day in terms of the geopolitical, macroeconomic environment, fashion and newness and the consumer’s desire to indulge is still happening,” Spring told The AP. “And we’re very pleased that we are taking share.”

Spring said that higher-income shoppers continue to spend freely, boosted by gains in the stock market, while the middle income shopper has remained more selective. He said lower-income customers continue to struggle but are focusing on Macy's designated areas for heavily discounted merchandise.

Macy’s reported net income of $63 million, or 23 cents per share, in the quarter ended May 2. Adjusted earnings per share was 13 cents, a dime better than Wall Street had expected, according to FactSet.

That compares with a $38 million profit, or 13 cents per share, in the year-ago period.

Net sales rose to $4.68 billion from $4.6 billion in the year-ago period. Revenue this quarter also edged out projections on Wall Street.

The company now expects annual net sales of between $21.5 billion and $21.75 billion, up from previous guidance of $21.4 billion to $21.65 billion in March. Macy’s upped its projections for comparable sales, saying on Wednesday that they will likely increase between 0.5% and 1.2%. The company in March predicted a decline of 0.5% to a gain of 0.5%.

It also now anticipates adjusted earnings per share for the year to be in the range of $2 to $2.20, up from its previous guidance of $1.90 to $2.10 per share.

For the full fiscal year, analysts were expecting $2.09 in adjusted earnings per share on revenue of $21.6 billion, according to FactSet analysts.

The rare albino buffalo became a sensation when a farmer noticed that his blond tuft of hair resembled the distinctive locks of the U.S. president. After a video of the pale horned mammal went viral on social media, large numbers of people started showing up at the farm outside Dhaka to see him for themselves.

The animal was originally meant to be slaughtered for the Muslim festival of sacrifice. But citing security concerns, the government ordered him transferred to the zoo in the capital, where large crowds are now braving sweltering heat to see him.

On Tuesday, visitors pressed against the fence of the buffalo's enclosure, filming with their phones as some fathers hoisted small children on their shoulders for a better view.

A zoo worker pampered the animal, brushing his hair to one side and hosing him down with water to keep him cool as fans blew on him.

“There is a resemblance to Donald Trump in its eyes, hairstyle, and skin color,” said Mohammed Nasim, a student in Dhaka. “And just as Donald Trump has a distinctive personality and lifestyle, this buffalo, after going viral, is now living a similar kind of life, enjoying a lot of attention and special treatment.”

Local media reported that the exhibit initially included a sign that said “Donald Trump,” which has since been removed. The zoo curator was fired on Saturday, though no official cause was given for the dismissal.

Some clearly found the naming in poor taste.

“Giving a farm animal the name of one of the world’s most influential leaders was certainly the wrong thing to do," said Dhaka resident Mohammad Joynal Adedin, who visited the zoo to see the buffalo anyway. “It seems disrespectful. I think the farmer who did this made a poor decision.”

The buffalo was sold ahead of Eid al-Adha, the “Feast of Sacrifice.” When Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed ordered police to take it into custody, the authorities refunded the buyer.

"Since before Eid, I had been seeing posts on Facebook saying that ‘Donald Trump’ would be sacrificed. Later, I heard that instead of being sacrificed, it had been placed in a zoo,” said Mohammad Habibur Rahman, a visitor to the zoo from the southwestern Bangladeshi city of Jashore.

“So, I thought I would come to the zoo and see ‘Donald Trump’ for myself," he said.

The Competition and Markets Authority said it was ordering Google to give online publishers the option, in what it called a “world first.”

The watchdog is seeking to loosen the U.S. tech giant’s stranglehold on the U.K’s online search market by using new digital powers to force changes to the company’s business practices.

Under the decision, Google will have to give publishers “effective tools” to prevent their content from being used to power the company's generative artificial intelligence services and its AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode.

Google will also have to properly cite publisher content in AI-generated search resulted by using clear links, and let publishers opt out of having their content used to fine-tune AI models.

The watchdog said the decision will give publishers a stronger hand when negotiating content deals with Google. Publishers are defined as anyone who puts content on the web that's available to people in Britain.

The CMA's ruling was expected, because it had released draft proposals at the start of the year after using its new digital powers to label Google a “ strategic” player in online search advertising.

It previously found that news publishers had suffered a drop in traffic since Google rolled out its AI Overviews - summaries that appear at the top of some search queries - because fewer users are clicking through to the original articles.

The watchdog said its requirements will also apply to big changes that Google unveiled in May, which further embed AI in the company's search services.

Google is “engaging with regulators like the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to ensure website owners have the right tools as user preferences evolve," the company's general manager of search ecosystem, Mrinalini Loew, said in a blog post.

“Today, we’re beginning to test a new control that lets website owners manage how their links and content appear in generative AI Search features.”

CMA Chief Executive Sarah Cardell said the measures will result in “fair treatment, greater transparency and meaningful choice for businesses and consumers” and will help tens of millions of British users “better understand and trust the information presented to them.”

It’s fair to say the appointment of Thomas Tuchel was not universally well received.

“I’m sorry I have a German passport,” the serial-winning former Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Bayern Munich coach quipped at his official unveiling in 2024.

He had woken that morning to some unflattering headlines in the British media.

The Daily Mail described it as a “dark day for England” and said the national team had gambled on a “GERMAN.”

The leader of the right-wing Reform Party Nigel Farage asked on X: “Why can’t we have an English manager?”

Never mind that Tuchel was a Champions League winner who had lifted trophies in three different countries. Or the fact that England has gone down the foreign route before: a Swedish coach in Sven-Goran Eriksson and an Italian in Fabio Capello. And in the days before Tuchel’s appointment, there were rumors that Pep Guardiola was also a leading candidate.

Historic rivals

A point of contention was the fact that Germany has long-been England’s biggest soccer rival. Since winning the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany, England has often struggled against the Germans in major tournaments. Some England fans have brought 20th-century history to the rivalry with provocative chants taunting Germany about World War II.

Debate about Tuchel's nationality, however, dissipated quickly, helped by his easy-going charm when dealing with the media and a perfect winning record during England's World Cup qualifying campaign.

According to professor Jan Rüger, author of the upcoming book “Great Powers: A History of Britain and Germany,” the wider reaction to Tuchel's appointment points to a change in Anglo-German relations after the tensions that prevailed in the decades following two world wars.

“There were questions, but it certainly hasn’t turned into an ongoing saga in the way in which it would have in the 1990s or even around the turn of the century,” Rüger told The Associated Press. "Then it would have been unthinkable to have a German manager.

“Germany really isn’t the bad guy anymore. That’s long since passed. I don’t think it works portraying Germany as the bogeyman.”

England coaches face fierce criticism

Time will tell if Tuchel is portrayed as a hero or villain at the World Cup. If England fails, his nationality might be raised again. But England managers of the past have been the subject of brutal criticism by fans and media, regardless of what it says on their passport.

Tuchel's predecessor Gareth Southgate was widely credited with making England fans fall back in love with the national team during his eight-year spell, yet he faced a torrent of abuse from sections of supporters during the 2024 European Championship, with plastic beer glasses thrown in his direction after one match.

Southgate departed after leading England to back-to-back Euros finals and the World Cup semifinals in 2018.

He goes down as the nation's second most successful manager after Alf Ramsey, who led England to World Cup victory in 1966.

If Tuchel can end England's trophy wait, he would become a national treasure.

“Everyone in the squad, the staff, everyone believes we can win it,” midfielder Kobbie Mainoo said.

Difficult decisions

Tuchel stunned some fans and players with his squad selection for the World Cup, leaving out big names including Phil Foden, Cole Palmer and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

It was evidence that he would not be swayed by public opinion, which has been a criticism of previous coaches.

“Everything I know about international football tells me that tournaments are won by teams, not individuals,” he said. “What we’re trying to achieve in the summer can only be achieved as a team."

Midfielder Jordan Henderson was one of the surprise inclusions at the age of 35.

“I know everybody likes to speak about players that aren’t here, unfortunately that’s the case with every England squad really," Henderson said. “There’s so many good players, so much talent, but for us as a squad here, it’s about being together and we’re here for a reason and it’s about bringing that, being the best version of yourself, being best version individually and collectively, working every day to achieve our dreams.”

A proven winner

Tuchel is the 14th coach tasked with the challenge of ending England's trophy drought, which now stretches to 60 years.

After Southgate's departure the English Football Association said it was looking for a candidate to “win a major tournament”. That might sound obvious, but even coaches who had won big prizes with club teams such as Bobby Robson, Terry Venables, Eriksson and Capello could not emulate that success with England.

Southgate got closer than anyone since Ramsey despite a modest coaching career before being handed the national job.

His success appeared to be grounded in developing a connection both within his squad and with supporters. As a former player who missed a penalty in a semifinal shootout defeat to Germany at Euro 1996, his emotional understanding of what it means to represent England appeared to resonate with a new generation.

As a foreign coach — albeit one who coached in the Premier League with Chelsea — Tuchel cannot bring that same dynamic to the role.

He does, however, fit the description of a winner of major tournaments, having led Chelsea to the Champions League in 2021. He was also Champions League finalist with Paris Saint-Germain.

He won league titles in France with PSG and Germany with Bayern Munich.

In Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice, he has three of the biggest stars in European soccer and enough talent at his disposal that he felt able to leave out the likes of Foden and Palmer.

“I love the difficult decisions and I love the tough decisions because they bring in the end clarity, they bring a certain edge, and it’s what you need to go all the way," Tuchel said. “From day one, we said we will always try to select and build the best group, which is maybe not necessarily just to collect the best talents.”

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James Robson is at https://x.com/jamesalanrobson

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But even as the U.S. president conceded the tensions in an interview released Wednesday, he insisted that his relationship with Netanyahu was solid and that they connected, in part, because they are both “wartime” leaders.

“We’ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him,” Trump told The New York Post’s “Pod Force One.”

In an interview on the American business-news channel CNBC, Netanyahu responded that he and Trump sometimes have “tactical disagreements” but have “common goals” and “agree on the main things.”

“He respects me. I respect him. We always find a way to work out our differences,” the prime minister said.

The president's comments about the Monday call offered a sign of the growing pressure he faces to resolve the Iran war as higher energy prices and economic uncertainty threaten Republican prospects in the midterm elections and hamper global commerce.

Talks have dragged on for weeks as mediators seek to extend a fragile ceasefire into a more enduring truce. The negotiations are further strained by Israel’s broadening war with the Iranian-backed militia group in Lebanon. The conflicts have become increasingly intertwined as Iran insists that any potential truce in the war there must also quell the fighting in Lebanon.

Trump does not commit to timeline for ending Iran war

Trump remained noncommittal about a timeline for settling the Iran conflict, saying the Strait of Hormuz might stay blocked through the Labor Day holiday on Sept. 7. He has insisted that Iran stop any efforts that could lead to a nuclear weapon and that the strait be reopened for shipments of oil and natural gas.

“I don’t know. I mean, I think it could be (closed through Labor Day), but I think it’s unlikely. I think that we’ll have it. I think this will resolve itself fairly quickly,” Trump said.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his late father, is “involved” in peace talks, Trump added.

“They have a lot of respect for him,” the president said in the interview.

Trump said that Khamenei is not doing well due to wounds sustained in an airstrike, but “they say he’s giving approval because that’s the way it has been for a long, long time." Khamenei's father was killed in an airstrike when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February.

Meanwhile in the Persian Gulf region, Kuwait briefly shut its main airport Wednesday after Iranian drones hit a passenger terminal building, killing one person and wounding dozens. It was the latest in the back-and-forth attacks by Tehran and Washington that have tested the ceasefire.

The strike again brought home the risks to residents and travelers in Gulf countries that had considered themselves relative safe havens before the war, now in its fourth month.

Path to a lasting ceasefire in Lebanon is obscured by new strikes

The path toward a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah remained unclear as hostilities continued in Lebanon.

An Israeli strike Wednesday hit a car on a busy highway just south of Beirut, hours before the second day of talks between Lebanon and Israel in Washington were set to take place.

The strike in Khaldeh came without warning, and it was not immediately clear if the person targeted was killed.

Israel and Lebanon on Monday reached a U.S.-brokered agreement in which Israel would not strike Beirut's southern suburbs and Hezbollah would end its attacks on northern Israel.

The agreement was made hours after Israel announced that it was going to launch strikes across the sprawling urban neighborhoods near the Lebanese capital in what would have been the most intense strikes since a nominal ceasefire went into effect on April 17.

The State Department said progress was made during the first day of talks on Tuesday. Lebanon hopes to widen the scope of the ceasefire so it becomes comprehensive across the country. Israel wants to disarm Hezbollah immediately before the Israeli military ends its operations in Lebanon and withdraws its troops from dozens of villages and towns.

Not long after the strike on Khaldeh, the Israeli military said it intercepted what it called a hostile aircraft coming from southern Lebanon, but it did not immediately blame Hezbollah. Hezbollah has not claimed a cross-border attack since the agreement.

Israeli military warning rattles coastal city

Israeli strikes over southern Lebanon continued, especially in and around the battered cities of Tyre and Nabatiyeh. Two overnight strikes near Tyre, a coastal city, killed four Syrians and two Palestinians.

Israel warned the Christian neighborhoods in Tyre that Hezbollah members were among them. Many Lebanese Shiite Muslims fled to those areas in recent days because they were spared from the aerial bombardment along the Mediterranean coast.

After the warning, the Lebanese army deployed to the Christian district of Tyre in an effort to prevent Israeli attacks there and to show that Hezbollah has no armed presence in the area.

Israel launched an invasion of southern Lebanon days after the latest war was sparked on March 2, when Iran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets toward northern Israel in solidarity with Iran. Israeli troops have pushed deeper into Lebanon over the past week, as Hezbollah continues to claim rocket and drone attacks.

The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has killed 3,468 people in Lebanon and displaced 1.2 million people. According to Netanyahu’s office, at least 27 Israeli soldiers and a defense contractor have been killed in or near southern Lebanon. Two civilians have also been killed in northern Israel.

Strike on village kills most of a family

Many residents of southern Lebanon remained in villages near the hostilities or returned to areas where strikes occurred after evacuation warnings.

The Al-Abdallah family returned to their home in Marwanieyh, which they left because they thought the village was unsafe following earlier strikes. A day later, two rockets hit the home, bringing down the three-story building and killing six family members, said the brother of Hassan Al-Abdallah, who was killed.

Ahmed Al-Abdallah, 13, was thrown away from the building by the force of the blasts and was the only member of his family to survive. His uncle, Eissa Al-Abdallah, said the boy has two broken legs and shrapnel wounds all over his body.

“What good is talking now? They are gone, and nothing will bring them back,” the uncle told The Associated Press in a phone call Tuesday. “This land costs blood.”

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Boak reported from Washington.

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This version has been updated to correct that the Iran war began at the end of February, not March.

Trump announced he'd now be the headlining act of the Great American State Fair.

That put to rest any possible scenario where a president who has built his personal and political persona on seizing the spotlight might cede the stage to avoid overshadowing a national celebration bigger than himself. It also offered a peek into how the president is likely to approach hosting the upcoming World Cup.

From his reality shows before becoming a politician, to hours spent entertaining at events in ways planned and impromptu, to proudly showing off his various properties and efforts to overhaul the White House, the president relishes hosting. Last year he even jokingly mused about leaving the presidency to do it again full time on TV.

Trump can be a gracious, personable and highly watchable master of ceremonies — but he's also one who tends to make every event about himself.

“The president has an outsized personality,” said Timothy Naftali, former director of Richard Nixon’s presidential library and professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “There’s a predictability to the way in which the president frames his actions — or any actions around any event associated with him — and that’s just part of who he is, and his makeup and his professional background.”

Exhibit A is the fair, which begins June 25 and was supposed to feature concerts but now will be kicked off by a Trump rally. That will follow a UFC bout at the White House on June 14. Trump is a longtime cage match fan and the event marks his 80th birthday, but the president has sought to bill it as part of the anniversary festivities.

Many presidents relished hosting — but not like this

Andrew Jackson threw open the White House for an 1829 Inauguration Day bash so unruly that staff eventually dispersed the crowd by moving tubs of whiskey and ice cream to the lawn. Franklin D. Roosevelt mixed pre-dinner cocktails for friends and aides at White House gatherings he playfully dubbed “The Children’s Hour.” Audrey Hepburn was among the luminaries Ronald Reagan hosted at the White House.

Trump frequently had first-term dinners with business leaders but has more fully embraced the role since returning to the White House. He built a patio area similar to one at his Mar-a-Lago estate and frequently travels to Florida and his properties in Bedminster, New Jersey, and Sterling, Virginia, to headline fundraisers and other swanky gatherings.

Asked if Trump might overshadow events meant to bring the country and the world together, White House spokesman Davis Ingle pointed to the president's efforts to lead extensive renovations at the White House and around Washington. He said in a statement that the “historic beautification" gives the city "the glory it deserves during our nation’s historic semiquincentennial celebration — something everyone should celebrate."

Still, Trump has found unprecedented ways to inject himself into the anniversary.

The State Department is issuing passports with the president's picture and officials have designed a new $250 bill with his likeness. The Trump Organization, being run by Trump's children while he's president, applied to trademark “Trump 250" logos and other merchandise.

The U.S. Mint is also producing a 24-karat gold commemorative coin with Trump’s face, though that recalls a half-dollar silver coin bearing the likeness of President Calvin Coolidge to help mark America's 150th anniversary in 1926.

Past presidents had starring anniversary roles

Ulysses S. Grant opened a Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia to mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1876. Richard Nixon, in 1971, inaugurated a five-year “Bicentennial Era” ahead of the 200-year mark, though he resigned before the big day arrived.

Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, then in the midst of an ultimately unsuccessful reelection campaign, began the week of July 4, 1976, by inaugurating the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and attending a Kennedy Center event featuring Bob Hope, O.J. Simpson and others reading patriotic texts.

On Independence Day, Ford spoke at historic Valley Forge, then traveled to Philadelphia's Independence Hall, declaring, “Liberty is a living flame to be fed, not dead ashes to be revered.“ He also went to New York Harbor for a tall ship parade, presided over naturalization ceremonies at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate and hosted a state dinner for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.

Still, “while Ford certainly hoped to use the bicentennial to promote his reelection campaign, he didn’t do it in such a self-aggrandizing, self-centered, narcissistic way,” said Marc Stein, a history professor at San Francisco State University and author of “Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s.”

Ford, added Naftali, “knew when to step out of the limelight and make sure the focus was on what mattered, which was the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence."

Trump, by contrast, “generally has contempt for norms” and rarely mentions “the great sweep of history,” Naftali said.

Dueling anniversary planners as Trump pushes to revise history

Congress charged a national organization, America250, with planning commemorative events. Ahead of the 2024 election, the group drafted a memo asking whomever the incoming president was to mobilize federal agencies and welcoming presidential involvement in events and initiatives.

Asked about Trump, America250 Chair Rosie Rios said the group “has had a very supportive and collaborative relationship with the organizations planning initiatives on behalf of the president.”

But Rios' organization is separate from Freedom 250, a mix of public and private partnerships which the Trump administration established to fund and prepare anniversary events — which has caused confusion.

America250 aims to "inspire our fellow Americans to reflect on our past, strengthen our love of country, and renew our commitment to the ideals of democracy through programs that educate, engage, and unite us as a nation."

That might seem a departure from the “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order Trump signed last year. It sought to beat back a “revisionist movement” responsible for “replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

Stein, now serving a one-year term as president of the Organization of American Historians, is helping organize “We Want More History,” a push to coordinate local events celebrating the public's love for the subject in fact-based ways.

He said Trump's version of history is "closer to propaganda, and it’s closer to cheerleading.”

World Cup gives Trump another platform to play host

The president has similarly taken his exceeding-normal-limits approach to the soccer tournament the U.S. is co-hosting with Mexico and Canada.

He created a federal World Cup task force, and leads it. He collected a peace prize from soccer's governing body, FIFA, and said he'd be on stage to present the tournament's golden trophy to the winning team.

Trump even oversaw the tournament's draw at the Kennedy Center, which he's sought to rename for himself, sparking legal challenges.

He returned to the same building to headline December's Kennedy Center Honors, noting, “We never had a president hosting the awards before." He later posted on social media, "Would you like me to leave the Presidency in order to make ‘hosting’ a full time job?”

Naftali noted, “Whatever filters there were in the first term — and there weren’t many — are gone."

“It’s undiluted Donald Trump."

Police were pelted with chairs, cans, rocks and flares on Tuesday by some of the hundreds of people who attended a protest in the English southern coastal city of Southampton, where Henry Nowak was killed in December. Two people were arrested and 11 officers and a police dog were injured, police said.

Nowak's death has triggered debates about policing and knife crime and has spurred claims by far-right activists and politicians that there is bias against white people in the justice system.

Nowak’s killer, Vickrum Digwa, who is Sikh, falsely claimed he was the victim of a racist assault by 18-year-old Nowak, who was white. When police officers arrived, they initially treated the wounded man as a suspect before noticing his injury and trying to resuscitate him.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that the case had left “serious questions to answer, including how accusations of racism informed police thinking." But he called the street violence “disgraceful and completely unacceptable.”

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Nowak's family had "made a powerful call to us all yesterday to not let Henry’s death be used to create further division, hatred or tension.

“There can be no justification for hijacking this tragedy to stir up violence and disorder. Those responsible can expect to face the full force of the law,” she said.

Digwa, 23, was convicted of murder and sentenced Monday to life in prison with a minimum term of 21 years. The judge said he didn’t believe Nowak had said anything racist to his attacker.

After the sentencing, police released video showing officers dismissing Nowak when he told them he had been stabbed and repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct, which investigates allegations of police wrongdoing, is probing the actions of the officers from the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. The National Police Chiefs’ Council said it will review its anti-racism guidance in the wake of the killing.

After the sentencing hearing, the victim’s father, Mark Nowak, said the case was not about racism or religion, and that he wanted his son’s death to lead to safer streets and not to be used to create “further division, hatred or tension.”

But Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration Reform UK party, said on Tuesday that it was an example of so-called two-tier policing — a popular far-right talking point that claims ethnic minorities are better treated than white people.

Farage urged people to respond to the incident with “pure cold rage,” and said, “white lives matter just as much as Black lives.” X owner Elon Musk and British far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, have also expressed outrage at the crime.

Starmer said Farage's “appeal for rage” was “unforgivable.”

“I don’t believe there’s two-tier policing in this country," he said Wednesday in the House of Commons. “I’m really shocked that he pretends to have respect for Henry’s family and then acts in this way.”

In the wake of the killing, some politicians have called for Sikhs to be banned from carrying ceremonial knives, known as kirpans. The judge said Digwa had a small kirpan but also had an 8-inch (21-centimeter) sheathed Sikh dagger that was used as the weapon to kill Nowak.

Hampshire Police chief constable Alexis Boon said he understood the “desire for answers and accountability.”

“But that must be done in the right way and not used as an excuse to threaten and intimidate my officers and bring violence to our streets, causing fear and harm to those living and working in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight,” he said.

The drones flew more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to hit the terminal in Russia’s second-largest city, Zelenskyy said on social media, a day after Moscow launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.

Russian authorities said only that the Ukrainian drone strike targeted St. Petersburg’s infrastructure, without providing details. The city's airport briefly suspended flights overnight because of the attack. Authorities cut off mobile internet services.

With the front line barely moving as swarms of drones hinder advances, both sides have sought an edge by launching long-range strikes. The war that followed Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor is more than four years old, with no end in sight.

Ukraine's drone successes embarrass Putin

The latest strikes are another embarrassment for Putin, weeks after he pruned back an annual Victory Day parade in Moscow because of fears of Ukrainian drone attacks.

Putin is set to speak on Friday at the economic forum in St. Petersburg that the Kremlin views as a prestige event. The gathering is sometimes called Russia’s Davos, likening it to the World Economic Forum held in Switzerland.

Major Western investors and officials have stayed away since Russia launched its all-out war against Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Saudi Arabia is a special guest this year and is due to send a large business delegation.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine aimed only at “legitimate targets” related to Russia's war effort and indicated that Kyiv plans to escalate its long-range drone attacks. "It is only a matter of time when we will be able to increase the scale of our own mass strikes,” he told reporters.

The strikes on St. Petersburg came a day after Russia's attack on Ukraine killed 23 civilians and wounded 151 other people, as Moscow followed through with its threat of escalating its barrages.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Russia’s deep strikes have already taken on a “systematic” character.

Ukraine needs more air defense help

Ukraine’s own long-range attacks are aimed at diminishing Russia’s oil production, which is a key source of funding for Moscow, and disrupting weapon production. Kyiv has repeatedly targeted oil facilities in St. Petersburg and nearby ports.

But Ukraine is short of American-made Patriot air defense missiles, in part because of U.S. stocks being depleted by the Iran war, leaving it vulnerable to Russia's ballistic missiles.

Zelenskyy on Wednesday expressed frustration with his own government's officials, saying there's an agreement “at the highest political level” for the purchase of Patriot systems, but implementation is being held up by financial, legal and technical considerations.

“The wait has taken too long,” he said on social media, demanding that officials unblock the purchase or there will be “serious personnel decisions.”

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, visiting Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with Ukrainian officials, said the flow of interceptor missiles from the U.S. to Ukraine continues. The U.S. is “doing what it can” to keep supplying them although it is limited by the production rate, he told a news conference.

Rutte also said young Russians and their families “are being sold a raw deal” by Moscow, as incorporation in the Russian military dooms soldiers to poor training and equipment and low chances of surviving battlefield wounds.

Ukraine also strikes a Russian naval base

Other Ukrainian drone attacks overnight set fire to the Russian guided-missile corvette Boikiy, which was in dry dock at the Kronstadt naval base, according to Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces. Kronstadt is an old base for Russia’s Baltic Fleet located west of St. Petersburg.

Drones also hit a Russian manufacturing plant involved in weapon production in the Tambov region, 600 kilometers (370 miles) from Ukraine, Zelenskyy said.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 354 Ukrainian drones overnight.

In the Russia-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, a Ukrainian strike hit a bus that was traveling from Moscow to the Crimean Peninsula, killing seven people and wounding 11 others, according to the Kremlin-appointed head of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin.

In the Smolensk region, two firefighters were killed by a Ukrainian drone attack, according to the regional governor, Vasily Anokhin. He said that two other firefighters and a local resident were wounded.

Meanwhile, Russia fired 198 long-range drones at Ukraine last night, according to Ukraine’s air force, with air defenses neutralizing 189.

Authorities in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region said that over the previous 24 hours, one civilian was killed and 15 more were wounded, including three children, by Russian strikes.

In the southern Kherson, Russian overnight shelling and drone strikes killed an 86-year-old woman and wounded five other people, according to regional authorities.

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Uncle Robbie Thorpe, 68, turned to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Victoria state after two lower courts rejected his bid to launch a private prosecution against the king in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court. Indigenous Australians use the titles uncle and aunt as marks of respect for community elders.

His case alleges the monarch, who is also Australia’s head of state, the Australian government and its institutions were perpetuating a genocide of Indigenous people by maintaining systemic disadvantages on multiple socioeconomic levels, making them the most underprivileged minority in the country.

Indigenous Australians account for 4% of the population. They die younger than other Australians, suffer worse health problems, and are more likely to be imprisoned and unemployed than other groups, according to official statistics.

Thorpe told The Associated Press if he exhausts his legal options in Australia, he would take the offense under the Genocide Convention to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands.

“It’s clear that they’re unwilling, unable, reluctant to deal with these international legal issues like genocide,” Thorpe told the AP before the hearing, referring to the Australian judiciary.

He later told the judges Indigenous people were dying because their disadvantage in Australia was compounding.

“The Crown is responsible for all this mess,” Thorpe said. “Australia’s got away with genocide of Aboriginal people since they arrived here."

The British colonized Australia in 1788 and violently seized Indigenous people’s land without a treaty.

“They totally failed to prevent (genocide). That’s the crime here. They failed to prevent genocide knowingly and they failed to punish anyone for it,” he added.

The British punished Indigenous people for speaking their language and for practicing their cultures in a bid to make them Christian and Western. Generations of children were taken from Indigenous families in now-discredited assimilation policies.

Thorpe wore a traditional possum-skin coat in court and carried a feather from an Australian wedge-tailed eagle, an Indigenous totem.

He requested to be addressed in court as Uncle Robbie or by his tribal name Djuran Bunjileenee.

Justice Karin Emerton, the court’s presiding judge, referred to him as Uncle Robbie.

The king was identified in court documents as Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor.

Thorpe is attempting to charge the king under Indigenous law that has existed for more than 65,000 years, state common law and federal criminal law, court documents show.

In dismissing Thorpe’s appeal last year, a judge ruled that a magistrate was not allowed to consider Indigenous law and genocide was not an offense under common law.

The federal attorney-general would have to sign off on any genocide prosecution under federal law, the judge ruled.

Following a two-hour hearing on Wednesday, Emerton said the three judges would deliver their verdict at a later date.

If Thorpe loses, his final option would be Australia’s High Court before attempting to have the king prosecuted in The Hague.

About 65% of U.S. adults believe same-sex marriage should be legal, down slightly from 71% in 2022 and 2023.

Most of the change is due to dropping acceptance among Republicans. In the new survey, which was conducted in May, only 37% of Republicans say same-sex marriage should be legally valid, while 35% say gay and lesbian relations are “morally acceptable.”

The views of Democrats and independents are largely stable in the findings released Wednesday, with most in both groups saying same-sex marriage should be legal and that gay or lesbian relations are moral.

The widening partisan divide is also reflected in policy around LGBTQ+ issues across the U.S., particularly regarding transgender people, and a rising push in some states to ban same-sex marriage.

Recent shifts have been subtle and partisan

The downtick in support for same-sex marriage, while slight, is still striking because of how dramatically American views on the issue have shifted over the past few decades.

According to Gallup’s trend data, only 27% of U.S. adults supported legal same-sex marriage in 1996. Since then, support for same-sex marriage rose steadily until a few years ago, when it peaked with around 7 in 10 U.S. adults saying same-sex marriage should be legal.

Opinion about the morality of same-sex relationships followed the same pattern. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults said same-sex relations were morally acceptable in 2001. That increased nearly 30 percentage points over the next two decades.

Over the past few years, Gallup's data has shown signs of a shift in the other direction. In addition to the slight decline on same-sex marriage, the new poll also found that 62% of U.S. adults view gay and lesbian relations as morally acceptable, down from 71% in 2022.

Same-sex marriage remains recognized nationwide

Same-sex marriage has been recognized nationally since a 2015 Supreme Court ruling. That case capped a 12-year run in which court rulings and state laws recognized it in most states.

By last year, there were more than 800,000 married same-sex couples, according to data compiled by the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law.

The pushback has never stopped, though. A call to overturn the 2015 reached the Supreme Court last year, invoking the words of Justice Clarence Thomas, who has called for undoing it. The court turned away the appeal without comment.

Last year, the Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly called for reversing the ruling that led to nationwide marriage recognition and imposing a ban.

Lawmakers in at least 11 states introduced legislation for their current or most recent sessions calling on a ban on same-sex marriage, according to an Associated Press analysis of bills compiled by the legislation tracking service Plural. Most didn't pick up momentum. But the Tennessee House passed a measure to allow private citizens and organizations not to recognize the unions; Idaho's House passed a resolution calling on the Supreme Court to undo the 2015 decision.

A similar number of states have had measures aimed at protecting same-sex marriage introduced recently.

Acceptance of transgender people is also down

In a sign that views of LGBTQ+ issues may be shifting more broadly, the new Gallup poll found that about 4 in 10 Americans view changing one’s gender as morally acceptable, down from nearly half in 2021.

The rights of transgender people have been a hot-button political issue this decade.

Most Republican-controlled states have adopted laws in the last five years to bar gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, restrict which school bathrooms transgender people may use and bar transgender girls and women from some sports competitions.

Trump has signed executive orders seeking some of the same policies on a federal level.

This week, one of those policies suffered a blow when a court ruled that the military illegally banned transgender troops.

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The Gallup poll, conducted May 1-17, was based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,001 U.S. adults. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

His name and face became synonymous with the 1959 revolution led by his brother, Fidel Castro. Decades after the triumphant revolution, Fidel Castro stepped down, and Raúl Castro served as Cuba's president for 12 years.

He formally retired from politics in April 2021 but still serves as general of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, has a seat in the National Assembly and is considered to play a central role in rising tensions with the U.S., which recently indicted him.

Here’s a look at the life of a man known as the “hero of the Republic of Cuba.”

Raúl Castro became involved in politics early

Castro was born on June 3, 1931, in the village of Birán in eastern Cuba. He was the fourth of seven children; his mother was Cuban and his father Spanish.

As a child, he attended school in Santiago de Cuba but later moved to Havana, where he began studying law at the university and became deeply involved in student politics, opposing the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

By 1953, he was part of a group that attacked military barracks in Santiago de Cuba as part of a failed effort to overthrow Batista. He was charged, jailed and later released, fleeing to Mexico, where he joined the guerrilla group that would soon unseat Batista.

After a victorious revolution in 1959, Castro was appointed minister of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces and oversaw battles in Africa and Latin America that rankled some U.S. Republicans.

Many Cubans, including María Cristina Barrio Ramos, a 62-year-old teacher who lives in Havana, praised him for his actions.

“He gave us everything so that we could be free,” she said. “We owe our freedom and dignity to him.”

In October 1965, Raúl Castro became the second secretary of the Central Committee of Cuba's Communist Party. At the time, Fidel Castro lauded him in a speech.

“It is a privilege for me that, in addition to being an extraordinary revolutionary figure, he is a brother,” Castro said as his sibling stood up and smiled as the crowd around him applauded.

Fidel Castro was known for praising his brother: “Everyone who gets to know him and become close to him realizes his humanism, his great character, and his feelings; they are surprised by the image of Raúl as belligerent, aggressive and harsh, when they see the feelings of friendship, affection, and love he is capable of having for people. And he has been a great mentor and a great educator.”

Castro rises to power after brother’s health worsens

In 2006, Fidel Castro’s health began to decline, and Raúl Castro was temporarily handed power in late July of that year until Cuba’s National Assembly elected him as president in February 2008.

In the years that followed, Castro proved himself to be more liberal than his brother, allowing private enterprises to operate in Cuba while former U.S. President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on remittances and family travel, and allowed U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba under certain conditions.

By 2015, the U.S. and Cuba restored diplomatic relations and reopened embassies. A year later, Obama traveled to Cuba to meet with Castro. That same year, commercial flights between the two countries restarted.

During a historic 2016 press conference in Havana, Castro famously tried to raise Obama's left arm, whose hand went limp in an image that went viral.

Under Castro, Cuba also entered negotiations with Russia’s government in June 2014 that led to the cancellation of 90% of a multibillion-dollar debt dating from the time of the Soviet Union.

In 2018, Raúl Castro left the presidency in the hands of Miguel Díaz-Canel, marking the first time in decades that a person without “Castro” as their last name took control of the government.

In April 2021, Castro announced he would not seek another political position. Since then, he has made only sporadic public appearances.

Castro retires but remains a high-profile figure

Ever since officially retiring from politics, Raúl Castro has appeared in public only sporadically, but he is believed to still wield power behind the scenes even as he leads a discreet life.

His grandson and bodyguard, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of a Caribbean summit earlier this year. Since then, Cuban and U.S. officials have confirmed talks, but tensions between the two countries remain high.

Raúl Castro was last seen at a May 1 rally that drew tens of thousands of Cubans. He was dressed, as usual, in olive green military garb and stood at the side of Díaz-Canel. Behind him was Castro's grandson.

Almost three weeks later, the U.S. government indicted Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles over Cuban waters. He faces charges including murder and destruction of an airplane.

While the government and its supporters have condemned the indictment, Raúl Castro has remained mum.

As his birthday approached, social media was flooded with the hashtag #RaúlesRaúl, a political figure who has long been adverse to birthdays, monuments and statues, just like his brother.

The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. noted on X: “Not many people have the privilege, the health, the stoicism — and if you like, you can also add: that quintessentially Cuban stubbornness — to reach the age of 95.”

Meanwhile, Cuba's Communist Party posted several videos Tuesday on X of Cubans praising Castro.

“To talk about Cuba, you have to talk about Raúl,” said Digna Guerra, director of the island’s national choir. “He represents Cuban identity, he represents the Cuban people, he represents the revolution, which for us has immense significance. … Thank you for existing.”

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The program delivered on a campaign promise of President Prabowo Subianto and aimed to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 million children and pregnant women. But it has come under steep criticism due to high costs and cases of food poisoning among schoolchildren who consumed the meals.

Prabowo fired Dadan Hindayana on Tuesday and replaced him with the agency's deputy chief. Investigators searched the agency’s offices early Wednesday.

Before Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office made Wednesday’s arrest announcement, Hindaya could be seen being led out in handcuffs, wearing a detainee red vest and a black shirt, and escorted into a green prison van.

Prosecutors also arrested two other suspects, Sony Sonjaya, the Deputy Head of the Nutrition Provision Division and Lodewyk Pusung, the Deputy Head of the Organizational Development and Institutional Relations Division. Both were fired on Tuesday. Prosecutors only published their initials, but the Minister of the State Secretariat, Prasetyo Hadi, shared their names with reporters.

Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, AGO’s Director of Investigation, told reporters that based on the “examination ... and two pieces of sufficient evidence,” the three were named as suspects “in the criminal investigation of corruption related to the management of the Free Nutritious Meal program at the National Nutrition Agency for the 2025–2026 period.”

The Free Nutritious Meal program is implemented through foundations operating in schools. Investigators allege these foundations were used to facilitate criminal activities and were linked to agency officials and employees. Despite failing to meet the eligibility requirements to become program partners, they were allegedly approved by manipulating the agency’s partner verification system, with the suspects' help, Nahdi said.

“These foundations receive incentives worth billions of rupiah every day,” he said, adding that investigators are still calculating the damage to state coffers.

Hadi said Tuesday the three suspects were dismissed for failing to adhere to "standard operating procedure ... implementing governance, including maintaining food quality."

Hadi stressed the government's continuing commitment to the free meals program. “Services to the public must not be disrupted in any way,” he told reporters.

The meals program is expected to cost $28 billion through 2029.

One of Prabowo's goals was to fight malnutrition and help farmers by purchasing their harvests, but critics had questioned whether the program was affordable and logistically possible in a vast archipelago of more than 282 million people.

The building in the Malviya Nagar neighborhood in the southern part of the city had a restaurant on the ground floor and a hotel above. The predominantly residential area is densely populated and is popular with students and young professionals.

The blaze was extinguished with the help of eight fire engines, and more than 40 people were rescued and taken to nearby hospitals, Delhi police said in a statement.

The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.

Images from the scene showed firefighters trying to douse the blaze as thick smoke billowed from the building. Some people trapped inside were seen hanging from windows and shouting for help as flames and smoke swept through parts of the building.

Local residents also joined rescue efforts, helping evacuate people trapped inside and carrying some of the injured to safety.

Some of the victims were foreign nationals who had traveled to India for medical treatment, local media reported. Many foreign patients travel to New Delhi for medical treatment and often stay in nearby hotels or residential accommodation during their visits.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences over the deaths, his office said in a post on X. It also said that the families of those killed would receive 200,000 rupees ($2,088) each in financial assistance.

Fires are common in India, where building laws and safety norms are often flouted by builders and residents.

The strike reinforced the risks to residents and travelers in Gulf countries that had considered themselves relative havens before the war, now in its fourth month.

Talks have dragged on for weeks as mediators seek a more enduring truce in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. They are increasingly strained by Israel’s broadening war with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

A regional official said Iran wanted a separate ceasefire in Lebanon enforced before returning to talks. U.S. President Donald Trump said negotiations continue.

The fighting in Lebanon has also exposed a rift between Israel and the U.S., which is pushing its ally for restraint. In a measure of the friction, Trump acknowledged that he'd called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “crazy” during a phone call earlier this week. Nonetheless, both men say their rapport is solid.

Iran maintains its hold on the Strait of Hormuz — a crucial waterway for the world’s oil and natural gas and related products like fertilizer — and the U.S. continues its blockade of Iranian ports. Global fuel prices remain high, and the effects of the conflict are felt well beyond the region.

An Indian national is killed at Kuwait's main airport

A spokesperson for Kuwait's Defense Ministry, Brig. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, said “a number of hostile drones” targeted a passenger building at Kuwait International Airport. It had opened only Monday after a months-long closure because of the war, which began Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

India’s embassy said the person killed was an Indian national. Authorities said 63 were wounded, including passengers and workers, and some suffered serious injuries.

Kuwait's Defense Ministry said it destroyed over a dozen missiles and a similar number of drones from Iran.

The airport partially reopened later, with Kuwait Airways flights resuming at a different terminal, according to civil aviation authorities. No other flights were operating.

The Foreign Ministry said Kuwait will “neither accept nor tolerate” the attacks and was kicking out two Iranian diplomats. Such expulsions are an established means of communicating international ire.

US and Iran say they are retaliating for earlier attacks

The U.S. military said two Iranian missiles fell apart en route to Kuwait and that it “downed multiple drones” targeting American forces in the country.

The military also said U.S. and Bahraini forces intercepted missiles aimed at the Gulf kingdom, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th fleet. Bahrain’s Defense Ministry said its military intercepted and destroyed three missiles and a number of drones fired by Iran.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard acknowledged that it targeted the headquarters of the 5th Fleet and U.S. military facilities in another country, but did not name Kuwait.

Both the U.S. and Iran said they were retaliating for earlier attacks or attempted ones.

The U.S. military also said it launched strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned the U.S. strikes on the island, where it said a telecommunications tower was struck, and other previous strikes. It called them “acts of aggression” that it said violated the ceasefire.

Writing on X, a senior Emirati diplomat, Anwar Gargash, called for “a firm, unified, and cohesive Gulf position” against Iran following the attacks.

Trump calls reports of cessation in talks ‘false’

Iran’s Fars and Tasnim news agencies, both believed to be close to the Guard, on Tuesday reported that Iran’s negotiators have stopped communicating with ceasefire mediators as tensions flare in Lebanon.

A regional official involved in the mediation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the talks, told The Associated Press that Iran had not communicated on Tuesday after saying a ceasefire needed to be enforced in Lebanon for negotiations to continue.

Trump called reports of a cessation in talks “false and erroneous.”

The war is increasingly tied to Israel’s war in Lebanon

Israeli forces have moved deeper into Lebanon than at any time in over a quarter-century, while Hezbollah has launched rocket and drone attacks. The declared ceasefire in Lebanon is officially in place and no side has formally withdrawn or declared it over even as attacks continue.

Iran insists that any larger potential truce must quell the fighting in Lebanon. Netanyahu wants to keep the issues separate and is under domestic pressure to strike Hezbollah as he prepares for elections this fall.

In a podcast interview released Wednesday, Trump confirmed a report that he had called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “crazy” Monday in a phone call peppered with an expletive. Trump told The New York Post’s “Pod Force One” that he was “a little bit perturbed” that Israel’s fight with Hezbollah was holding back talks with Iran.

Still, Trump said his relationship with Netanyahu was good, and “we’ve worked very well together.”

Netanyahu responded that he and Trump sometimes have “tactical disagreements” but have “common goals” and “agree on the main things.”

“He respects me. I respect him. We always find a way to work out our differences,” the prime minister said in an interview on the American business-news channel CNBC.

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Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros in Athens, Greece, Sheikh Saaliq in New Delhi, Sam Mednick in Jerusalem, and Aamer Madhani and Konstantin Toropin in Washington contributed to this report.

The league debuted a new spot — “History is Calling” — promoting the finals early Wednesday, hours before the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks begin this year's title series.

Britell — the composer known for “Succession,” “Moonlight” and “Andor” — envisioned a piece that the league said, “draws inspiration from the emotional progression of basketball, from anticipation and momentum shifts to the defining moments that shape outcomes.”

Nas provides the voice, with nods to the 80-year history of the league and what it takes to get to the NBA Finals. Nas worked closely with Britell on the music itself, collaborating to shape the final sound of the project.

“Thirty teams start this journey, but only two are left standing,” Nas begins. “The math is simple. The quest, anything but. This isn't just a series. This is legacy. Everything's on the line, because history is calling. This is the NBA Finals.”

The NBA said Britell's score “marks the first expression of the league’s new signature audio identity,” and that Britell and Nas will have an expanded partnership with the league going forward.

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New York's Jordan Clarkson and San Antonio's Dylan Harper — who'll face off in the Finals that start Wednesday — were both born in the U.S., but both have links to the Philippines through their mothers. And Clarkson raved about Harper, whose rookie year has been nothing but impressive.

“He’s been really good throughout the whole year,” Clarkson said. “I’ve been watching him, keeping up with him, as well. Him being so young and having so much poise throughout this whole playoffs, it’s a great sight to see a young star coming in this league and doing what he’s doing.”

The significance of this isn't lost on Harper either.

“I think me and him get to do something really special, representing our country, where we’re from, represent everything on the biggest stage in basketball,” Harper said. “I feel like over there in the Philippines, basketball is probably the biggest thing. I think we’re very excited for that and we’re just very blessed and grateful to be in this position.”

Not a lot of Finals history

Only six players on the Knicks and the Spurs have appeared in previous NBA Finals games.

San Antonio’s Harrison Barnes played in 13 for Golden State, Luke Kornet played in six for Boston and Kelly Olynyk played in five for Miami.

For New York, Mikal Bridges played in six for Phoenix, Dillon Jones played in three for Oklahoma City and Jordan Clarkson played in two for Cleveland. Another member of the Knicks — OG Anunoby — was with Toronto for its run to the 2019 NBA title, but did not play in any of those six games.

Combined, those six players with past Finals experience have scored 265 points in the title round.

Don't expect overtime. Or a lot of close games.

The last 44 NBA Finals games have all ended in regulation, the longest run without overtime in the title series in league history. There was a 34-game stretch without an overtime game from 1984 through 1990.

Of course, it's tough to have a shot at going to overtime when games aren't close down the stretch. Out of the last 81 Finals games, 50 have been decided by double figures.

The division champion stat

An annual reminder: Division championships mean nothing anymore ... until the NBA Finals.

If San Antonio wins the NBA title, it will mark the 14th time in the last 15 seasons that a division champion has wound up winning.

The only exception in that span was Golden State in 2022. Before that, the last team to not win their division but win the NBA title was Dallas in 2011.

The Knicks were second in the Atlantic Division behind Boston this year, so they're trying to buck this trend.

Welcome back, Mike Brown

It's been 19 years, but Mike Brown is back in the NBA Finals as a head coach. The New York coach took Cleveland to the title round in 2007 — getting swept by San Antonio that year.

Just by getting here this year, Brown joins an exclusive club of coaches to take multiple franchises to the NBA Finals.

Pat Riley (Los Angeles Lakers, New York, Miami) and Alex Hannum (St. Louis, Philadelphia, San Francisco) took three franchises to the Finals. Brown joins Rick Carlisle, Phil Jackson, Larry Brown, KC Jones, Bill Fitch, Gene Shue, Bill Sharman and Red Auerbach on the list of those to take two different franchises to the title round.

Wemby's amazing year

San Antonio star Victor Wembanyama has had a postseason like no one in league history, and his totals are only going to get more impressive.

So far in these playoffs, Wembanyama has 394 points, 183 rebounds, 100 made free throws, 60 blocked shots and 30 3-pointers.

That's just the playoffs. Only 19 players — him included, of course — had those totals over the entirety of this regular season. (No Spurs player has ever had a regular season with all those numbers, except Wembanyama.)

And since 3-pointers came into play, nobody in NBA history has ever done all that in the same postseason, until now.

If this goes 7 games ...

If this NBA Finals goes the seven-game distance, Spurs players Keldon Johnson and Julian Champagnie might tie an NBA record.

Or break it, depending on how you count.

Johnson and Champagnie both enter these NBA Finals with 100 games played so far this season. That's seven shy of the NBA record for games played in a season — shared by Charles Oakley and Tayshaun Prince.

They both played 107. But Johnson and Champagnie also played in the NBA Cup title game, which means they would have technically played in 108 games this season — though the league doesn't recognize the Cup final in any statistics.

Money matters

The Spurs and Knicks are playing for $5,157,417 in bonus money. That's the difference between winning and losing the NBA Finals out of the league's playoff pool, which topped $35 million this season.

The Spurs have already secured $6,594,508 out of that pool this season. The Knicks have clinched $6,438,024.

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This time, he was on the wrong end of a play to forget.

Adell misplayed a flyball into a bizarre home run off his head Tuesday, a fielding blunder reminiscent of José Canseco's embarrassing gaffe 33 years ago with the Texas Rangers.

Adell reached up to catch TJ Rumfield's deep fly for the Colorado Rockies in the fourth inning, but the ball grazed the outside of his glove before bouncing off his head and over the wall for a solo homer.

“I was toward the line and I felt like I had a little bit longer way to go than I normally do on a route like that and just missed it,” Adell told MLB.com. “It hit off my hat. I don’t know if I overran it and took a step over. But it was kind of the icing on the cake because I was (bad) all the way around the whole day today.”

There was brief confusion on the field when the ball caromed off a digital scoreboard above the fence and back into the outfield. Rumfield stopped at second base, initially unsure of the ruling, before proceeding around the bases to give Colorado an 8-0 lead on the way to an 8-2 victory.

“It’s one of those things where how it happened looks crazy,” said Adell, who also went 0 for 4 at the plate with two strikeouts. “It looks like I’ve never played in the field before, which is disappointing, because it’s beyond the truth. But it is what it is. I’m the only one that really knows what happened. I was out there, and it happened to me, so it is what it is. I’ve got to just keep going, and as a team, we’ve got to keep going.”

It was similar to an infamous play on May 26, 1993, when Canseco lost track of a long drive hit by Cleveland's Carlos Martínez. The ball bounced off Canseco's head and over the right-field wall for a home run.

Rumfield's gift homer ended the night for Angels starter Grayson Rodriguez, who gave up three homers and eight runs in 3 2/3 innings.

The play also stood in stark contrast to some of Adell's fielding exploits this season, including that April game in which he stole three would-be homers from the Mariners — including one in the ninth inning — to preserve a 1-0 victory for the Angels.

After that one, former Gold Glove outfielder Torii Hunter, now a special assistant to the general manager for the Angels, said Adell had “probably the greatest defensive game I’ve ever seen.”

“He robbed three homers in one night this year, so it’s baseball, and it’s a crazy game,” Rodriguez said. “Things happen. Obviously, he didn’t do that on purpose. All you can do is really just move on.”

Adell struggled at times with fielding early in his major league career, including a play during the 2020 season when a deep drive by Rangers outfielder Nick Solak bounced out of Adell's glove for what was ruled a rare four-base error. But Adell has had far more fielding highlights than lowlights since, and he was a Gold Glove finalist in 2024.

“Jo’s made great strides defensively from when I played with him,” Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. “And obviously, he had the night he robbed three home runs. So I look back at the strides that he’s made defensively. It was a tough play tonight, but at the same time, the strides that he’s made defensively have been great.”

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Matt Olson marked his 844th consecutive game with a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning, giving the Braves a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Olson's towering shot — his 17th homer of the season — got a big assist from a strong breeze blowing toward the right-field corner. The slugging first baseman thought he got under the ball, but it kept drifting and drifting — until it barely cleared the tall brick wall.

“I did not" think it was a homer, Olson said. “Luckily, we had some wind blowing out that way.”

Appropriately, Olson took a starring role on a day that Major League Baseball marked the 85th anniversary of Gehrig's untimely death from ALS at age 37 — a disease that is forever linked to the Iron Horse and cut short his then-record streak of 2,130 consecutive games.

Olson, who also doubled and came around to score a run that gave Atlanta a 3-2 lead in the third, has played in every game going back to May 2, 2021 — the longest active run in the big leagues.

“We've talked about the streak,” he said. “It's not something I'm hanging up on a pedestal. But to be able to show up and play while I'm able to, I want to.”

Braves manager Walt Weiss praised Olson's durability and couldn't think of higher praise than being compared to Gehrig.

“Lou Gehrig was one of my all-time heroes,” Weiss said. “I made all four of my sons do their fifth-grade book report on Lou Gehrig. That was mandatory in our house. What a legacy he left behind. And you've got our iron man hitting the game-winning homer on Lou Gehrig Day, so very appropriate."

Olson was acquired in a blockbuster deal with the Athletics ahead of the 2022 season after the Braves couldn't agree on a new contract with longtime first baseman Freddie Freeman.

It was huge shoes to fill, but Olson has been highly productive since joining the Braves. He hit a franchise-record 54 homers in 2023, and is on pace for another big season for the team with baseball's best record at 41-20.

“He's rock-solid in every way," Weiss said. “He's so reliable.”

Olson said there's a simple reason that he prefers playing every day, eschewing even the occasional day off.

“I just don't like sitting,” the 32-year-old said with a smile. “I've had days off in the past and, man, it sucks sitting there and watching everybody else play. Sure, you're tired sometimes. But I just think you have a commitment to your teammates and the fans and yourself and the organization. If you can go, you should go.”

His playing streak is the longest in the big leagues since Miguel Tejada had 1,152 consecutive games from 2000-07. Of course, Gehrig's record was broken by Cal Ripken Jr., who played in 2,632 consecutive games during his Hall of Fame career with the Baltimore Orioles.

Like Weiss, Olson appreciates what Gehrig meant to the national pastime and especially how he brought more attention to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurological disease that has no known cure.

“I know people from my area who've been affected by it," Olson said. “A brutal disease. Every time we get a chance to bring some awareness to it and do something to help people who are really affected by it, we're all for it.”

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Under the proposal released in Washington late Tuesday, 16 economies — including Canada, Mexico, the European Union, Taiwan and the United Kingdom — would face 10% levies for allegedly failing to enforce bans on forced labor. Dozens of others — including China, Japan, India, South Korea and Switzerland — would be hit with 12.5% import taxes.

The tariffs are part of President Donald Trump's effort to replace revenue lost when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down sweeping global tariffs he'd imposed last year. This latest barrage is likely to unsettle key trading partners that have been hit been hit with waves of tariffs since Trump returned to the White House early last year.

“The failure of our most important trading partners to address the importation of goods made with forced labor is unacceptable," U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement. "This creates a dynamic where American workers are forced to compete globally on an unlevel playing field.''

He added that "each of our trading partners must do more to ensure that trade does not perversely encourage and entrench forced labor globally.”

Greer's office said failure to prevent such imports is "unreasonable and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce."

Trump's tariffs are paid by U.S. importers who usually try to pass along those higher costs to customers.

The administration, mindful that Americans are growing increasingly unsettled by high prices with midterm elections just for months away, said that it would limit the impact by exempting from the latest proposed tariffs a long list of products, including aircraft parts, food products (from coffee to beef) and rare earth minerals crucial in the production of smartphones and cars.

The new tariffs would not take effect immediately. They are subject to public comment and review. Public hearings on the proposed duties are due to begin on July 7.

The plan drew immediate pushback. A Chinese government spokesperson denied the forced labor allegation and called for resolving economic issues through dialogue, saying a trade war doesn’t serve anyone’s interests.

“There is no such thing as forced labor in China, and we oppose using it as an excuse to engage in political manipulation,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said in Beijing.

The new maneuver shows how determined the Trump administration is about building a wall of tariffs around the American economy, the world’s largest, despite repeated setbacks in court.

In February, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump had overstepped his authority by invoking the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose double-digit tariffs on almost every country on Earth last year. The justices struck down the tariffs and set the stage for companies who paid them to seek refunds.

After the loss in court, Trump turned to another law to impose temporary 10% tariffs globally. But those stopgap levies expire July 24. And a specialized trade court ruled last month that they, too, were illegal – though the government can continue collecting them while that case works its way through the courts.

Trump’s tariffs have provided tens of billions of dollars in revenue for a federal government that persistently spends more than it collects in taxes. He had been counting on the IEEPA tariffs to make up for some of the revenue lost to his massive 2025 tax cuts.

But tariff collections have begun to fall since the legal defeats. They peaked at more than $31 billion last October but were down to $22 billion in both March and April of this year, according to the Treasury Department.

Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have vowed to replace the lost revenue. And they’ve turned to a legal authority that has withstood legal challenges in the past: Section 301 of Trade Act of 1974, which authorizes tariffs and other sanctions against countries found to engage in “unjustifiable,” “unreasonable” or “discriminatory” trade practices. Trump used Section 301 to impose big tariffs on China in his first term.

"What's somewhat brilliant about this way of approaching 301 is that politically it's very hard to argue that you shouldn't go after forced labor and force countries to enforce forced labor laws on the books,'' said trade lawyer Ryan Majerus, a partner at King & Spalding and a former U.S. trade official.

And Majerus expects to the new tariffs to be ready by the time the temporary ones expire next month. “The USTR is under enormous pressure to make sure there's no gap (in tariff revenue), probably from the White House,'' he said. ”I'm confident, based on the schedule they're on now, that they will have these done and ready to implement.'' He noted that the investigation on forced labor is "working at about two times the normal speed'' of typical 301 cases.

The administration is also pursuing a Section 301 case into whether 16 U.S. trading partners (accounting for 70% of U.S. imports) — including China, the EU and Japan — are overproducing goods, driving down prices and putting U.S. manufacturers at a disadvantage.

And on Monday the administration proposed 25% Section 301 tariffs on Brazil, charging that the world's 10th-biggest economy with "unreasonable'' trade practices including lax anti-corruption enforcement and unfair tariffs of its own.

Tuesday's report defined forced labor as “work or service exacted from a person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily.”

It cited an estimate by the UN’s International Labor Organization that as of 2021, 27.6 million people were engaged in forced labor.

Rice imported from Myanmar, tobacco from Malawi, beef from Brazil, and cotton and polysilicon from China were among the many products it said are prone to involving forced labor.

The U.S. has long said imports of goods that include material from China’s far-western Xinjiang are at risk of using forced labor. Beijing denies allegations of forced labor in the Muslim majority region.

In its nearly 100-page report on forced labor, the USTR said that even if a country enforces a ban on forced labor domestically, importing goods made with forced labor violates the rules of fair trade.

But critics saw the proposed tariffs as a pretext to reinstate global tariffs that hadn't passed legal muster. “Accusing EU of not doing enough against forced labour is absurd,'' Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament's trade committee, posted on social media. "The EU has adopted the world’s most stringent rules against products made with forced labour. This looks very much like trying to make the facts fit a legal justification for tariffs that has already been decided.''

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The pact struck in 2022 with the Solomons’ then-Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare created fears in the United States and among allies including Australia that it would allow the Chinese navy to build a base in the South Pacific.

Before Wale became prime minister in a parliamentary vote May 15, he had called for the detail of the treaty to be made public.

Wale said Wednesday he had only been provided with a copy a few days ago and after he had “removed certain people from key positions.” He didn’t identify those people.

“I haven’t had a good look at it. I’ve had a look at it,” Wale told reporters in the Australian capital Canberra.

“I’ve been praying and fasting about it. … There is a nondisclosure clause in it, so I couldn’t show it to you right away. But we are going to be reviewing (the treaty), as we are reviewing other security agreements that we have with many other countries,” he added.

In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said China was “ready to work with the new government of Solomon Islands to expand pragmatic cooperation in various fields so as to better benefit the two peoples.”

Wale was visiting Australia in his first overseas trip since he became leader of his nation of 700,000 people, 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) northeast of Australia.

Wale and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese announced their governments would negotiate a comprehensive strategic treaty that would elevate the bilateral relationship and cover security and economic issues.

Wale’s predecessor, Jeremiah Manele, had resisted Australia’s efforts to forge closer ties, but Wale said the two governments had decided to “reset” the bilateral relationship.

“We acknowledge that there’s been some problems in the past few years,” Wale said.

Albanese said Australia should be the Solomons’ primary security partner, rather than China.

“We have said very clearly we want Australia to be the security partner of choice in our region and we want the Pacific family to look after our security in this region,” Albanese said.

Wale said the regional looking after its own security was "the direction we want to take.”

China has provided police instructors to the Solomons as part of their bilateral deal. The Solomons doesn’t have a military, so police there have a larger security role than in countries with defense forces.

The Solomons provided China with a diplomatic coup in 2019 when Sogavare’s government switched official recognition to Beijing from Taiwan, the self-governed island democracy China claims as part of its territory.

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Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed to this report.

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Ultimately, commissioners unanimously approved the resolution allowing the city to take action against BSO to help begin the transition, including bringing in “outside legal counsel” and possibly “filing litigation against” the sheriff’s office.

The city said it was necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the city.

The move came as Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony sent out a storm of social media videos and a flyer, warning Deerfield Beach residents about the split.

“When this starts and these men and women are removed from those areas, there’s no coming back,” Tony said in a video posted to social media. “When I pull 50 (deputies) out, they will be reassigned.”

City officials have been working on starting the city’s own police and fire rescue departments before September 2027, when BSO stops working for the city.

Deerfield Beach Mayor Todd Drosky said it’s essential for the city to be legally protected over the city’s fears that Tony will pull deputies out of the city early.

“Any implication by the sheriff otherwise, to not provide services at any date before then, is a breach of our contract,” said Drosky.

The city has been transitioning away from BSO, after relying on the agency for more than three decades.

The city has named both a transitional fire chief and a transitional police chief, both of whom spoke at Tuesday’s meeting.

The city streamed the commission meeting on YouTube.

Related document: The commission meeting’s agenda

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La Ley fue aprobada con los votos de 147 de los 160 diputados que integran el Congreso y entrará en vigor tres meses después de su publicación.

La nueva medida tiene como objetivo brindarle al sistema financiero guatemalteco más herramientas de control y prevención del lavado de dinero proveniente de delitos como el narcotráfico, el terrorismo de pandillas y la corrupción.

La iniciativa fue aprobada después de varios meses de debate y de una disputa interna de la oposición entre el partido VAMOS del expresidente Alejandro Giammattei y el partido VALOR que buscaba debilitar la propuesta.

El diputado Allan Rodríguez, de VAMOS, cabildeo para evitar la aprobación de esta ley. Fue sancionado por el Departamento del Tesoro estadounidense en 2022 por utilizar “su autoridad como presidente del Congreso para otorgar subvenciones para la construcción a cambio de sobornos”.

El GAFI, un organismo intergubernamental creado por el G7 encargado de establecer los estándares internacionales y promover políticas para combatir el lavado de activos, la financiación del terrorismo y la proliferación de armas de destrucción masiva, ya había advertido que el país podría quedar aislado si no endurecía sus leyes para hacer frente a estos delitos.

Samuel Pérez, diputado ligado al oficialismo, dijo a The Associated Press que la aprobación de la ley le otorga herramientas al Estado guatemalteco para investigar y detectar este tipo de delitos.

“Pero sobre todo, evita que estos crímenes sigan ocurriendo, también evita que se afecte las remesas si hubieran bloqueos a bancos que no combatan estos delitos con estándares internacionales”, dijo Pérez.

Sobre los obstáculos a la aprobación de la ley, Pérez dijo que se debían a que "hay varios diputados que se dedican a lavar dinero por diferentes motivos, como dinero proveniente de delitos de pandillas, del narcotráfico o de actos de corrupción cometidos por alcaldes o de fondos de obras públicas, como ha ocurrido en el pasado.

Pérez aseguró que la delincuencia encuentra nuevas vías y formas para burlar a las autoridades, por lo que el Estado también debe modernizarse.

La Oficina del Departamento de Estado de Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental de Estados Unidos señaló la semana pasada en la red social X que el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump apoya a los países del hemisferio que realizan esfuerzos para fortalecer sus leyes contra el lavado de dinero.

“Una de las mayores amenazas para la seguridad en nuestro hemisferio es el lavado de dinero, que resulta esencial para que los carteles y los narcoterroristas conviertan el tráfico de drogas, la trata de personas y otras actividades ilícitas en los fondos que necesitan para financiar la violencia que ejercen contra nuestras sociedades”, indicó la agencia.

The Southeastern and Big Ten conferences said the “bill leaves critical issues unresolved,” including not “meaningfully” preempting state laws with a federal one, which has long been considered a key element for a measure to get support from the NCAA and the conferences.

In an interview last week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who drafted the bill with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., told The Associated Press “the bill is drafted to preempt state laws that conflict with the provisions in this bill.”

The SEC-Big Ten statement came out less than 24 hours before a scheduled hearing about the bill in front of the Senate Commerce Committee. Cruz chairs the panel and Cantwell is the ranking Democrat.

The legislation has received support from the Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conferences, but the Big Ten and SEC, as the two richest leagues that also have decision-making power over the future of the College Football Playoff, hold the biggest cards.

One of the bill's key provisions would give conferences an option to pool their media rights — an idea the Big Ten and SEC have long claimed would not result in a financial windfall that proponents suggest. The leagues' statement did not speak to that issue.

A spokesperson for the Commerce Committee that Cruz chairs acknowledged the Big Ten-SEC position.

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The move deepened the turmoil at the nation's most influential TV news program, days after a leadership overhaul.

Pelley, 68, criticized management Monday during a fiery staff meeting with Nick Bilton, the program's new executive producer installed by Weiss last week, according to a detailed report on the Status website.

In a termination notice obtained Tuesday night by The Associated Press, Bilton, a technology journalist and filmmaker with no traditional broadcast news experience, accused Pelley of carrying out an “ambush” against him.

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” the letter states.

Pelley said in a statement that “60 Minutes” has lost its DNA under new management. He accused them of asking him to “inject falsehoods and bias” into his work, without sharing specific details.

Pelley is accused of a ‘performative display of hostility’

Status, which said it had a recording of the Monday meeting, reported that Pelley had said Weiss was brought in to kill the news outlet, “and she’s doing exactly that.” Weiss was not present for the meeting.

Pelley reportedly grilled Bilton about the firings last week of Bilton’s predecessor, Tanya Simon, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.

Alfonsi had criticized Weiss last year for postponing a segment about deportees sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Pelley said in his statement that those colleagues “stood for fairness against the forces of political bias.” He also accused CEO David Ellison of casting aside the show's reputation “apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.” Ellison, an ally of the Republican president, has owned CBS since 2025, when its parent company, Paramount, merged with Skydance Media.

In the dismissal letter Tuesday, Bilton said Pelley’s “performative display of hostility” demonstrated that he has “no interest in contributing to the future success of the show.”

An uneasy stretch for CBS News

Since Weiss took over the network's news operation last October, it has traveled a bumpy road.

Pelley's termination came just five days after Weiss, who has become a polarizing figure in the media world since taking the reins, told staff in a memo that it was time for a “new approach” at the top-rated newsmagazine.

In the memo, Weiss and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski said their goal for “60 Minutes” was “building a show that thrives in the 21st century.” That could include extending the show beyond a 60-minute broadcast, they said.

“60 Minutes” first aired in 1968 and is the longest-running prime-time show in TV history. Its investigative journalism and probing interviews, sometimes with unwilling subjects, have given it the reputation of uncompromising journalism — precisely the trait that Pelley said he feared was under assault.

Pelley started working for CBS in 1989. He was its chief White House Correspondent from 1997 to 1999, during Bill Clinton's presidency, and anchored “CBS Evening News” from 2011 to 2017. He has won 51 Emmy Awards, according to his CBS bio.

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Video from Sky 10 shows that the biker crashed into an apparently-parked hearse at Angels of Paradise Mortuary, located at 2796 NW 46th St. in the unincorporated Brownsville area.

The property is owned by the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Brownsville.

Dispatch records showed the wreck happened at around 3:15 p.m.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, a preliminary investigation showed that the motorcyclist lost control of his bike and crashed into the Cadillac.

Authorities said that medics took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition.

MDSO deputies remained at the scene Tuesday afternoon investigating the crash.

Las fuertes lluvias paralizaron el tráfico en las calles de la ciudad y provocaron la cancelación de cientos de vuelos, mientras que los servicios de trenes fueron suspendidos o sufrieron retrasos. Más de 5.000 viviendas se quedaron sin electricidad, según Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, que presta servicio a la región de la capital.

En el centro de Tokio, se recomendó a los residentes cerca del río Zenpukuji que se refugiaran. Imágenes de televisión mostraban el agua turbia crecida a punto de desbordarse.

La Agencia Meteorológica de Japón informó que la tormenta tropical Jangmi se encontraba al este de la ciudad de Shima y avanzaba hacia el noreste a media mañana, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 90 km/h (55 mph).

La agencia emitió la advertencia de inundación de nivel más alto en varias zonas del centro y el este de Japón, e instó a las personas que viven a lo largo de ríos y en áreas vulnerables a trasladarse a terrenos más elevados por seguridad.

La tormenta dejó 50 centímetros (20 pulgadas) de lluvia en las últimas 24 horas en la zona de Owase, en el centro de Japón. La AMJ indicó que se esperaban hasta 20 centímetros (8 pulgadas) hasta la mañana del jueves en algunas áreas, incluida Tokio.

Jangmi tocó tierra en la prefectura de Wakayama con fuerza de tifón, con vientos de 126 km/h (78 mph), antes de internarse en tierra y debilitarse de forma significativa. Se pronosticó que mantendría fuerza de tormenta tropical durante gran parte del día.

El tifón había golpeado antes la isla meridional de Okinawa y dejó a 15 personas con heridas leves. ___

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In a wide-ranging interview with “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg to promote her White House memoir, the former first lady said Tuesday that she had put life in perspective after her husband, former President Joe Biden, was diagnosed with prostate cancer that spread to his bones.

She said she is no longer angry about the way Democrats pressured her husband to end his reelection bid after performing disastrously in a 2024 debate against Republican Donald Trump.

“No, I’m not angry. I mean, what’s the purpose of anger now?” Jill Biden said at the first event for her book, held at the 92nd Street Y in New York following publication earlier Tuesday.

‘I think we were partly in denial’

Jill Biden wrote in the memoir, “View from the East Wing,” that addiction wasn’t something she and her husband talked about. “I think we were partly in denial,” she acknowledged, adding that she wondered why someone who had a family that loved him, a good education and a lucrative career would turn to drugs.

“It’s hard for me to say this, but Hunter was a drug addict,” she said Tuesday.

She said Hunter's spiral into addiction was “a really hard time for our family to go through.” Hunter Biden started abusing alcohol and drugs after his older brother, Beau Biden, died in 2015 of an aggressive form of brain cancer. Hunter has now been sober for several years, she said.

“I'm sorry that I didn't talk about it a little bit more,” she said on stage.

Jill Biden spoke about how proud she is of Hunter for turning his life around, becoming an artist and helping other recovering addicts.

“And I hope that by talking about it more as I go forward I hope that it offers other people hope,” she said. “It is such a tough, tough thing to deal with.”

Hunter Biden wrote about his addiction to drugs and alcohol in a memoir of his own, published in 2021.

His addiction led to federal charges that he lied about his drug use on forms he used to buy a gun. He was convicted after a trial and faced prison time but ultimately received a pardon from his father, who had repeatedly insisted that he wouldn’t use the powers of the presidency to spare his son — until he changed his mind just before turning the office over to Trump, who had talked about exacting “retribution” against those he perceived to be his political enemies.

Fighting cancer has been tough, too

Jill Biden has said she was angry over how the Democratic Party treated her husband after the debate — but has since put that aside after Joe Biden was diagnosed a year ago with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that spread to his bones.

“I think Joe's cancer diagnosis, it really puts life into perspective and you really do appreciate each and every day and a lot of anger that you have, you think, 'What's the point?' You know, ‘What is the point?’ she said. ”And I think that's why Joe and I try to, you know, just take each day that comes and try to find the joys."

The former president, 83, was in the audience for the event, along with many other Biden family members, and received a couple of standing ovations from the packed house.

She said when the doctor told them that her husband of nearly 50 years had a problem, “I never ever thought it was going to be prostate cancer.” She said that type of cancer is one thing, but it becomes “a whole different ballgame” after it attacks the bone.

She didn't go into the details, but suggested the former president's cancer treatment is taking a toll on him.

“Joe's here tonight. You see him. He looks handsome as ever,” she said. "But, you know, cancer drugs, cancer treatments have their consequences and I think those consequences are pretty tough.”

Living in a ‘fishbowl’

Biden, who turns 75 on Wednesday, described some of her favorite memories of life in the White House, including weekends at Camp David and working with military families.

She said the hardest part of the role of first lady, in her experience, is the loss of privacy.

“You really do live in a fishbowl,” she said. “Everybody knows everywhere you are. It's the truth. I couldn't even walk downstairs to my office."

She mimicked how U.S. Secret Service officers would speak into their devices as she walked through the White House, using their code name for her.

“'Capri on elevator. Capri walking down hallway. Capri walking up steps. Capri walking outside,'” Jill Biden said, as the audience laughed. She also cited the scrutiny of her clothes, including one time she was photographed in Washington with her hair pulled into a ponytail by a scrunchie.

’I wore a scrunchie and they wrote about it," she said. "Who cares?”