Journalists and civil liberties groups say the vaguely worded law fails to clearly define what information it prohibits and lacks adequate safeguards for the media, warning it could potentially discourage critical reporting about government officials, politicians and large businesses.

The law allows courts to award damages of up to five times the proven losses against news organizations and large social media channels, including YouTube creators, that circulate illegal, false or manipulated information to cause harm or generate profit.

In addition, those who distribute information more than twice after a court has confirmed it to be false or manipulated could be fined up to 1 billion won ($656,000) by the country’s media regulator. Internet companies operating large social media platforms with more than 1 million daily users are required to take measures such as removing content or suspending user accounts when they receive reports of false or fabricated information.

The law was backed by President Lee Jae Myung’s liberal Democratic Party and passed by the National Assembly in December over a boycott by the conservative opposition. The liberals, who unsuccessfully sought to pass similar legislation under previous governments, say the law is necessary to combat fake news and disinformation, which they argue is posing a growing threat to democracy by fueling division and hate speech.

The Journalists Association of Korea said the mere prospect of news organizations repeatedly facing massive damage claims or legal disputes could have an “unavoidable chilling effect.”

“Even if a law’s objective is legitimate, it could erode the foundations of democracy if it’s enforced in a way that discourages the media and ordinary citizens from freely criticizing and scrutinizing those in power,” the group said in a statement.

The Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club also expressed concern about the potential impact on the work of the media and the free flow of information.

Concerns about murky online discourse

The push for the law came as Lee expressed concern about South Korea’s online discourse and information environment after then-President Yoon Suk Yeol briefly imposed martial law in 2024. He was later impeached and removed from office. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for rebellion, a ruling that he appealed in February.

Yoon, who faces other criminal cases as well, has promoted unsubstantiated election fraud claims circulated on YouTube to defend his botched power grab and rally conservative supporters against the Democrats. Critics say Yoon’s campaign further polarized the country by injecting falsehoods into already bitter political disputes and making compromise increasingly difficult.

The Korea Media and Communications Commission has downplayed concerns that the law could be used as a tool for state censorship. It would be private operators of online platforms, not the government, deciding whether reported content qualifies as false or manipulated information, and the law exempts reporting conducted in the public interest from damages claims, the commission said last week.

But Kim Hong-yeol, a professor at Seoul’s Duksung Women’s University, said the law could encourage widespread self-censorship and discourage reporting or discussions on sensitive issues. Internet companies could end up acting as online censors, adopting overly aggressive moderation policies to avoid liability and removing legitimate content in the process, Kim wrote in an article for the news website Medius.

While major South Korean internet companies like Naver and Kakao have reportedly been updating their systems for reporting and handling false information in line with guidelines from the Korea Internet Self-Governance Organization, it’s unclear how major foreign platforms, like Google’s YouTube, would comply. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

After the law was passed in December, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers criticized it in a post on X, writing that the revised law endangers tech cooperation and that “it’s better to give victims civil remedies than give regulators invasive license for viewpoint-based censorship.”

The verdict will be delivered from 1:30 p.m. and could take several hours to read. It could reshape the 2027 contest to replace President Emmanuel Macron if it forces the popular Le Pen out of the picture. The constitution prevents Macron from seeking a third consecutive term.

Le Pen, 57, is appealing a March 2025 conviction that found her and other members of her National Rally party guilty of misusing European Parliament funds by paying party staff with money intended for EU parliamentary assistants between 2004 and 2016.

The lower court sentenced her to prison time, suspended pending appeal, and imposed a five-year ban on holding elected office.

Le Pen has denied any wrongdoing and still hopes to mount a fourth bid for the presidency. But a verdict that upholds a lengthy ban could make that impossible and suspend her career that has transformed the National Rally into a major political force.

Such a verdict could also reverberate on the European Union, by sidelining a fierce critic of the 27-nation bloc.

If she is barred, her protege Jordan Bardella would replace her. Bardella, 30, is the current president of the anti-immigration, EU-skeptic National Rally.

Other outcomes also are possible. The appeals court could still find Le Pen guilty but reduce the ban on holding elected office to two years or less — or impose no ban at all.

A ban of two years or less would expire before the first round of the French presidential election, scheduled in April 2027.

But that does not automatically mean Le Pen would run. She has said that if the court imposes other constraints that make campaigning difficult, she might decide not to run. That could include any prison sentence, electronic monitoring or other judicial restrictions.

“If I’m allowed to be a candidate but am effectively prevented from campaigning freely, then you understand that wouldn’t be possible,” Le Pen said in an interview last week.

Prosecutors asked the appeals court to sentence Le Pen to four years in prison, including three suspended, in addition to a ban on holding elected office for five years.

They accused Le Pen of being at the head of a “system” meant to “siphon off” EU public funds to the benefit of her party.

Although prosecutors did not ask for it, the appeals court is free to order the ban on holding elected office to take immediate effect, like the lower court did.

Le Pen could still appeal to the Court of Cassation, France's highest court, but it’s unclear whether judges would suspend the sentence pending a final ruling.

The Court of Cassation has previously said that, if asked to review the case, it would seek to issue a ruling before the 2027 presidential election.

The yacht owners and public transit riders who shared this road epitomized the social integration that the government set out to accomplish. Many of them enjoying a holiday or resting at home on June 24 met the same fate when the ground shook so violently that their homes flattened in seconds.

Now, about 17,000 who survived also share the uncommon status of being homeless in Venezuela. As the official death toll climbs above 3,500, many must rely on a government that has been excoriated for its response to the tragedy and that has politicized housing in the past to figure out where they will live — if they will have a new home at all.

Housing is still a constant even in times of crisis

Housing has generally been the first aspiration for Venezuelan adults since the second half of the 20th century, when an oil bonanza allowed the government to fund housing complexes, the poor to build brick and cement shacks locally known as “ranchos,” and the rich to buy second and third homes.

Even when the country’s economy came undone in 2013, most Venezuelans still had a roof over their heads, be it by getting one handed out by the country’s self-described socialist government, buying one at a deep discount from people desperate for cash to migrate, building ranchos on top of each other, and even invading abandoned homes.

Those in housing built by the ruling party of 27 years — currently helmed by acting President Delcy Rodríguez — do not hold the deeds to the property, but the homes allowed them to save and keep entire families off the streets.

“It was their home, their house. It was an immense joy when they were assigned these houses here,” Carlos Ortega said of the 12 apartments in Caraballeda that his relatives were assigned to more than a decade ago following years of financial struggles after a mudslide.

“Imagine, they were given a home after losing everything, but now they’ve lost everything, even their lives.”

Only one of Ortega’s siblings survived the collapse of the public housing towers, while his son, who lived in a ninth-floor apartment but was working at a convenience store when the earthquakes struck, is still missing more than a week after the disaster. Ortega hoped he might find him at a hospital, a shelter or one of the tent camps that have taken over public spaces and private parking lots.

Not far from where he took a break from removing the rubble that buried his family, people were assessing flattened homes adjacent to a yacht club and some towed Jet Skis. There, rescuers were being handed cookies and other food on a plastic tray while standing on the rubble where the wife of a military general hoped he and their children would be found.

Government efforts to integrate different socioeconomic classes

Ronal Rodríguez, a researcher at the Venezuela Observatory at Colombia's Universidad del Rosario, explained that Venezuelan governments, even before the arrival of the fiery Hugo Chávez to the presidency in 1999, had tried to prevent socioeconomic segregation by building housing projects in or near areas that were considered exclusive. The strategy, he said, also gave them a political edge by diversifying the voter base in wealthier neighborhoods that tend to vote for the opposition.

But the homes built under Chávez’s “Grand Housing Mission,” which his successor, Nicolás Maduro, continued until the U.S. military deposed him in January, came with a caveat: People never received a deed.

“What Chavismo tries to do is maintain political dependence,” Rodríguez said of Chávez’s political movement. “That is, if at any point you turn against me and stop supporting me, then I’ll take away the roof I’ve given you.”

This makes these residents vulnerable to the whims of the government once again, particularly when survivors have been vocal about the lack of government support in search and rescue efforts.

The government of Rodríguez, whose dismal response to the catastrophe has been decried by residents across the board, has not yet given any timelines for long-term housing recovery efforts.

The extent of damage is still unclear, but at least 10,000 structures, or about one-third, were damaged in Catia La Mar, a city west of Caraballeda also in La Guaira state, based on satellite imagery analyzed by Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab. Older buildings, substandard construction and geography left many neighborhoods in Venezuela vulnerable to strong earthquakes.

Picking up the pieces

Benito Mantilla, 68, now lives in a tent set up in a pharmacy parking lot in Catia La Mar after his privately owned home was damaged. His wife left for the Dominican Republic last week, but he decided to stay and try to find a job about 40 minutes away in the capital, Caracas, as the earthquakes also damaged his and his brother's car repair shop.

Another woman also living in the parking lot was still hoping that the government would give her a home soon. Her daughter, she said, is part of the local organizers for the ruling party.

Meanwhile, Caryudedi González, who bought her own home when she was 21, was hoping that her working-class home, half of which went down a ravine, could somehow be repaired.

“In many countries, it’s very difficult to own a home, and here, we work so hard to have what’s ours,” González, 44, said.

At an event dubbed the “big reveal,” several leaders are due to announce new deals with defense companies, plenty of them in the United States. Trump has branded NATO a “paper tiger” that would cease to function without American arms and leadership.

“We will announce tens of billions in new contracts that will provide the crucial kit we need to deter and defend,” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told reporters on the eve of the military alliance’s two-day summit in Turkey.

The defense industry splash comes a few weeks after Rutte tried to ease U.S. concerns about military spending at NATO with a new pitch using a chart labeled the “The Trump Trillion” — showing $1.2 trillion in spending by European allies and Canada since 2017.

Far from being impressed, Trump appeared unmoved, saying he was still disappointed at some NATO allies’ refusal to join the Iran war, which he had launched alongside Israel without consulting them.

“We don’t need their money — we don’t need anything,” Trump said. “I just want loyalty.”

NATO surveillance planes up for renewal

Among the contracts to be unveiled, many of them drawn up and some signed long before the summit, is expected to be one to replace NATO’s aging fleet of surveillance planes.

NATO as an organization does not own any weaponry — these are the property of the 32 member countries — but it does have a fleet of AWACs aircraft that are about 50 years old and some newer surveillance drones.

Some of the other projects will notably be paid for with funds from a system of cheap loans for defense purposes set up by the European Union, comprising up to $170 billion raised on capital markets.

“We need to ensure that we are translating our economic might into military capabilities, putting the cash to work from defense plans to drones, from money to missiles and interceptors,” Rutte said.

The summit is being held in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s sprawling palace compound in Ankara and Trump has suggested he would come bearing gifts for the Turkish leader.

Netanyahu opposes jet sales to Turkey

But speaking Monday on the morning show “Fox & Friends,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the U.S. not to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, saying that Erdogan “calls openly for the annihilation of Israel.” Turkey and Israel have acrimonious relations. Erdogan frequently accuses Israel of committing genocide in its war in Gaza, triggered by the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.

Turkey was barred from the F-35 program in 2019, after it purchased Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems. However, Trump, who has warm relations with Erdogan, has hinted ahead of his planned visit to Ankara for the NATO summit that the sales could soon resume.

Netanyahu said selling Turkey F-35s would “upset the power balance in the Middle East, which is ultimately guaranteed by Israeli air superiority and also, I think, by America’s posture in the Middle East.”

Israel’s Air Force depends on hundreds of U.S. fighter jets, including F-35s, F-16s and F-15s.

Seeking a stronger Europe for a stronger NATO

The focus of the summit is a stronger Europe for a stronger NATO. The Trump administration has warned the allies that they must handle Europe’s security alone as the United States focuses on China and the Indo-Pacific region.

The Pentagon wants a reboot and is promoting what it calls “NATO 3.0,” a vision of the alliance in which Europe assumes greater responsibility for its own defense, freeing the U.S. to concentrate on other priorities.

But hiking defense spending means increasing taxes or diverting resources from other priorities. U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey unexpectedly quit last month, saying the government was not willing to spend at a time of rising threats.

Concern is mounting among some northern and central eastern countries that Russia might be preparing a hybrid attack — a combination of conventional warfare with tactics like cyberattacks — on the continent as Russian President Vladimir Putin struggles to secure victory in Ukraine.

Keir Starmer’s office said the British leader will be “focused on building a stronger and more European NATO” on what is likely to be his last foreign trip as prime minister.

Starmer, who announced his resignation June 22, has faced criticism from military leaders, opposition politicians and some in his center-left party for the slow rate of increase in U.K. military spending.

His government has committed to reach the NATO budget target of spending 3.5% of gross domestic product on defense by 2035 but does not have a concrete plan to get there. Its current spending plan will see that spending hit 2.7% of GDP by 2029.

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Associated Press writer Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.

Oil prices rose and U.S. futures were mixed.

In Seoul, the Kospi dropped as much as 8% but recovered some losses to close 4.9% lower at 7,656.31. Shares in computer chipmaker Samsung Electronics slumped 7.7% even after it announced its operating income surged 19-fold to 89.4 trillion won ($58.7 billion) in the last quarter while its revenue more than doubled. SK Hynix lost 6.7%.

Kim Seok-hwan, an analyst at South Korean securities firm Mirae Asset, attributed drop for Samsung to foreign investors locking in recent gains and rebalancing their portfolios.

AI stocks have been gyrating on fears their prices have shot too high, raising questions about whether all the dollars flowing into AI chips and data centers can possibly create enough gains in productivity and profits to make back all the investments.

“The first proper AI stress test may not have arrived with weak demand, a capex warning, or some sudden crack in the data center story. It may have arrived with Samsung posting an extraordinary quarter and the stock falling anyway,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary.

SK Hynix will further test investors' appetite for AI this week, aiming to raise $28 billion by selling shares of stock that will trade in the United States on the Nasdaq. That would make it one of the biggest U.S. offerings ever, behind SpaceX’s IPO from last month, which raised $75 billion.

The company's stock in Seoul has more than tripled so far this year because of the AI boom, despite sharp losses in recent weeks.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 declined 2.1% to 68,256.96. Computer chipmaker Tokyo Electron lost 3.9% and chipmaker Kioxia Holdings shed 11.3%.

The Hang Seng in Hong Kong declined 0.7% to 23,444.20, while the Shanghai Composite index gave up 1.3% to 3,990.25. Taiwan's Taiex lost 2.3%.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.3% to 8,803.90 and India's Sensex rose 0.5%.

On Monday, the S&P 500 rose 0.7% to 7,537.54, pulling to within 1% of its all-time high, even though the majority of stocks within the index fell.

The strength for companies in the artificial-intelligence technology industry sent the Nasdaq composite 1.1% higher, to 26,121.16. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3%, to 53,055.91, a record.

Broadcom was one of the strongest forces lifting the S&P 500. It rose 3.7% after announcing long-term agreements to provide silicon products to Apple. It was coming off two straight losses of more than 2% on Wednesday and Thursday at the end of last week, before Friday’s holiday in advance of the Fourth of July.

SpaceX erased an early gain to fall 1% in the last day of trading before it’s scheduled to join the Nasdaq 100 index of the largest non-financial stocks on the Nasdaq. That inclusion will force funds like the QQQ exchange-traded fund, which mimic the index, to buy SpaceX themselves.

Elsewhere in AI, TeraWulf climbed 4.9% after it said Anthropic agreed to a 20-year deal to use its data center in Kentucky. TeraWulf expects the deal to bring in roughly $19 billion in revenue. TeraWulf is in the midst of transitioning its business away from mining bitcoin and into high-performance computing.

In the oil market, the price of a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, rose 84 cents to $72.83 a barrel. That’s close to where it was before the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February, sending prices spiking.

The stability of supplies remains uncertain. A tanker traveling off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz caught on fire early Tuesday morning after being struck by a projectile, the British military said.

The attack was the latest targeting a vessel moving through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded once passed in peacetime. Iranian state television said the liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings but did not directly claim the assault.

U.S. benchmark crude added 73 cents to $69.28 a barrel.

In currency trading, the U.S. dollar fell to 162.01 Japanese yen from 162.09 yen. The euro slipped to $1.1431 from $1.1442.

It was Kepler’s first home run since returning from an 80-game suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. Kepler was activated by the Diamondbacks on June 25.

The Padres are in freefall, losing nine of their past 10 games and 28 of their last 43.

The teams came into the game with identical 44-45 records. The win moved the Diamondbacks into second place in the NL West, while the Padres dropped to third place.

Diamondbacks starter Brando Pfaadt (2-1) worked five innings, allowing four hits and striking out six.

San Diego starter Walker Buehler (5-5) — whose 18th start of the season is tied for the most on the Padres — got hit hard in his second consecutive loss. He gave up seven runs and seven hits in five innings. In his previous start on July 1 at Wrigley Field versus the Cubs, Buehler allowed nine runs in four innings.

Buehler is the first major league pitcher this season to give up 16 earned runs over two consecutive outings.

With the Diamondbacks leading 3-0 in the third inning, Kepler hit a three-run homer to right field. He drove in a run in his previous at-bat with a single in the first.

Arizona tacked on two more runs on solo homers. Geraldo Perdomo homered in the fourth off Buehler and Nolan Arenado in the sixth off Padres’ reliever Alek Jacob for an 8-0 Diamondbacks lead.

Ryan Thompson pitched two innings of scoreless relief for the Diamondbacks.

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Diamondbacks RHP Zac Gallen (3-8, 6.36) takes the mound in the second game of the four-game set on Tuesday night. The Padres have not announced their starter.

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A judge in London’s High Court will rule on the Duke of Sussex's privacy invasion lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail, ending a trio of lawsuits that accused the news media of unlawfully snooping on his life.

Harry and six others are seeking substantial damages in the celebrity-studded lawsuit where the legal costs for the 11-week trial have been estimated at about 40 million pounds ($53.5 million).

Harry, singer Elton John and actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost are among those who accused Associated Newspapers Ltd. of tapping their phones, intercepting voicemails and obtaining personal information through deception.

The newspapers denied the allegations as “preposterous,” insisting the roughly 50 articles at issue were based on lawful sources including friends, royal aides and publicists who offered information to reporters.

The verdict coincides with Harry’s visit home to the U.K., but the court case has been overshadowed by the question of whether he will bring his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, for a rare visit to their grandfather, King Charles III.

Harry has long criticized the news business

Harry’s self-proclaimed mission to reform the press for creating what he called a toxic environment is much deeper than headlines that documented his party boy youth and romantic ups and downs. His emotional testimony in February drove that point home.

The prince has blamed the press for the death of his mother, Princess Diana, who was killed in a car crash in 1997 while being pursued by paparazzi in Paris, and for attacks on his wife that led the couple to leave royal life and move to the United States in 2020.

“They continue to come after me, they have made my wife’s life an absolute misery,” he said as he choked back tears in the witness box.

The phone hacking scandal that began in the 1990s and continued for more than a decade gave Harry the opportunity to break with royal family tradition and take his case to court. Three years ago, he became the first senior royal to testify in court in over a century.

Harry won a judgment in 2023 that condemned the publishers of the Daily Mirror for “widespread and habitual” phone hacking. Last year, Rupert Murdoch’s flagship U.K. tabloid, The Sun, made an unprecedented apology for intruding on his life for years, and agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit.

The case against the Daily Mail

Attorney David Sherborne said the Daily Mail and its sister publication, Mail on Sunday, used its journalists, freelance reporters and private eyes for “clear, systematic and sustained use of unlawful information gathering” to snoop on his clients.

He connected payments to detectives with dates of articles in question to try to show, for example, how journalists tracked down information about Harry's then-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, and her travel plans.

Harry testified at the start of the trial in January that press intrusions left him “paranoid beyond belief,” strained his relationships and took a toll on his mental health.

Hurley accused the Mail of putting microphones outside her windows and stealing her medical records among “other monstrous, staggering things.”

“It is like there is someone peeping into your life and into your home,” the model and actor testified. “My private life had been violated by violent intruders — that there had been sinister thieves in my home all along and that I had been living with them completely unaware.”

Other claimants in the case are anti‑racism activist Doreen Lawrence, former politician Simon Hughes and John’s husband, David Furnish.

Journalists were ‘lining up’ to testify in defense

Defense lawyer Antony White said the case relied on conjecture and inferences when the more likely source of information was “ordinary, legitimate journalism.”

White said Harry was “inclined to see unlawful evidence gathering, in particular voicemail interception, everywhere,” despite a lack of evidence.

The Mail trial has played out differently than the Mirror case, with White saying that journalists were “lining up” to defend their work in court. Some reporters pointed to official mouthpieces, such as a palace spokesperson, and others named their sources to dispute Harry’s assertion that his “social circles were not leaky.”

“They were not all tight-lipped,” Katie Nicholl, a former Mail on Sunday editor, said about Harry’s associates. “I had very good sources in the inner circle.”

Detective’s testimony could make or break case

One issue at the trial is whether the claimants should have been allowed to bring allegations dating to the 1990s, long after a six-year limit expired.

They avoided the deadline by saying they were unaware of the phone hacking until private investigator Gavin Burrows came forward in 2021 to “do the right thing” and help those he had targeted.

But Burrows, who once apologized to Harry in a BBC documentary for ruthlessly targeting him for tabloids in his teen years, testified at trial that he never worked for the Mail. He said a statement attributed to him was fabricated by the claimants’ legal team and his signature was forged.

Justice Matthew Nicklin repeatedly asked Sherborne what would happen to the case if he rejected Burrows’ original statement.

Sherborne said a wealth of other evidence implicated the newspapers, but White said the case collapsed with Burrows' testimony contradicting the witness statement he disavowed.

Burrows denied switching sides to get revenge after a disagreement with Harry's legal team.

Possible reunion with royal family overshadows the case

The judgment, which will be issued remotely without a hearing, comes as Harry is in London for charity events.

Harry had been expected to bring his children to visit Charles, who is being treated for an undisclosed type of cancer, for the first time in years. Harry has been trying to repair a rift since he moved to America and aired family grievances in the scorching 2023 memoir, “Spare,” and a Netflix series.

But a family reunion is up in the air as Harry haggles over security arrangements and accommodations. A government committee refused to authorize taxpayer-funded security, which was the source of disputes — including litigation — that Harry has repeatedly lost.

The court proceedings began Monday and so far have produced no major revelations but marked the most significant presentation of evidence to date in the case against defendant Tyler Robinson, 23, who is charged with aggravated murder in the assassination of Kirk, an ally of President Donald Trump.

Former Utah Valley University Officer Christopher Bagley testified that he witnessed the shooting while the conservative activist was speaking to a campus crowd of thousands on Sept. 10. Soon after, Bagley went to a nearby gravel rooftop, where it appeared someone had been lying prone with a clear sightline to Kirk’s location, he said.

“It looks like a sniper pad,” Bagley told the court.

Robinson has not yet entered a plea, and his attorneys have not commented on his guilt or innocence. They have, however, sought to get the death penalty taken off the table, so far unsuccessfully.

Court will hear statement from defendant's roommate

If prosecutors follow the order of an exhibit list they submitted earlier this year, they will present a video from the Washington County sheriff’s office from Sept. 11 — the day Robinson turned himself in — and recorded testimony from Robinson’s roommate.

Prosecutors allege Robinson confessed in a note left for his roommate, who was also his romantic partner, that read: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”

Robinson also reportedly texted his roommate that he targeted Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred,” prosecutors have said.

Prosecutors have also said they plan to present DNA evidence linking Robinson to the suspected murder weapon, autopsy findings, witness statements and video of Kirk’s killing. In addition, they are expected to argue the shooting endangered others at Kirk’s campus event — an aggravating circumstance that could make the crime punishable by death under Utah law.

Kirk's family briefly left the courtroom

Monday marked the first time Kirk’s parents, Kathryn and Robert, and widow, Erika, were in the courtroom since the case began.

Robinson’s parents also were present, sitting a few rows behind the Kirks. Robinson sat quietly between his attorneys throughout the hearing, looking at the prosecution’s exhibits on a monitor and occasionally taking notes. His wrists were shackled to a chain around his waist.

Prosecutors showed several graphic videos of Kirk's shooting, including of the moment he was shot and security administering first aid, as they made their case to state District Judge Tony Graf.

Kirk's family briefly walked out of the courtroom twice — when Bagley started testifying about Charlie Kirk’s arrival on campus and again when prosecutors introduced the videos. Each time, they returned.

Prosecutors have a low bar

The proceeding resembles a minitrial, but prosecutors need only demonstrate that there are reasonable grounds to believe Robinson killed Kirk and should stand trial. The standard is lower than for a trial, where prosecutors must prove guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Prosecutors, as a result, should have little trouble advancing their case, said Mark Kouris, a former prosecutor and state judge in Salt Lake City.

“This standard is extremely low and the chances of them not getting through it are, quite frankly, almost nothing," said Kouris, now an adjunct professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Defense attorney Kathryn Nester repeatedly objected to evidence introduced by prosecutors. She was mostly overruled by the judge.

When she asked Bagley about finding an empty pistol holster on the ground after the crowd fled, he acknowledged he never took custody of the holster and didn’t know whether it had been fingerprinted.

Utah is an open carry state, meaning people can carry guns openly or conceal them without a permit.

Graf sided with the defense to block the introduction of a compilation of surveillance videos from Utah Valley University because some had been altered to zoom in or had circles drawn around individuals. Prosecutors said they would try again Tuesday to introduce that video with the alterations removed.

Erika Kirk says court proceedings are a 'painful reminder'

Before his death, Kirk and the organization he co-founded, Turning Point USA, galvanized the conservative youth vote to help Trump win a second term.

The Republican president has said he hopes Robinson receives the death penalty.

Erika Kirk said during her husband's memorial service that she forgives Robinson.

Ahead of Monday's hearing, she thanked supporters in a statement for their kindness and prayers.

“Every court proceeding serves as a painful reminder of his death,” she wrote, “and the loss that has irrevocably impacted our lives and the lives of his children.”

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Brown reported from Billings, Montana.

One traveler breezes through a priority security lane and heads straight to an invite-only lounge for craft cocktails and a chef-prepared meal before boarding early. A flight attendant offering a glass of champagne and a warm hand towel welcomes the passenger to a spacious seat at the front of the plane.

The other traveler stands in a line at every step — security screening, a café selling $16 sandwiches, a crowded gate — then boards with one of the final groups, hoping there’s still room for a carry-on in the overhead bin before folding into a cramped middle seat. After the cabin lights dim, sleep comes in fragments, and a travel pillow does little to ease a stiff neck.

The contrasting journeys are no accident. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest U.S. airlines have pulled out all the stops to court premium passengers who are willing to pay for comfort, convenience and exclusivity. Budget-conscious travelers may notice a widening gap between the back of the plane and up front as the carriers increasingly build their businesses around selling first-class, business-class and premium-economy seats.

“We can’t win by trying to provide the cheapest. We have to be able to win by providing the best," Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said in a recent Fortune podcast interview.

The strategy embraced by Delta and rivals American Airlines and United Airlines marks a notable evolution for an industry that spent decades making air travel more accessible. Now, the nation's largest carriers are reconfiguring aircraft to expand premium seating, designing new fleets with larger premium cabins and investing billions in amenities that extend the top-tier travel treatment beyond their jetliners.

But United CEO Scott Kirby has pushed back on the idea that the industry has become solely focused on chasing big spenders. He said United’s premium investments are part of a broader strategy to boost the experience of every traveler, pointing to initiatives such as seatback entertainment and improvements to the airline’s mobile app.

“We’re investing nose to tail for all customers,” Kirby said last month on financial firm Morgan Stanley’s Exceptional Leaders podcast.

Premium cabins have become airlines’ most valuable real estate

The premium playbook didn’t emerge overnight.

Airlines used to fill empty first-class seats mainly by giving their most loyal frequent flyers free upgrades. Delta rewrote the rules in the early 2010s by using sophisticated pricing tools to offer more of those seats to coach passengers who were willing to pay a little more, said Henry Harteveldt, president of travel advisory firm Atmosphere Research Group.

The strategy unlocked demand airlines hadn’t fully recognized, encouraging more travelers to trade up and laying the groundwork for today’s broader premium push.

“Travelers could and would pay for noticeably more comfort, noticeably better service, noticeably more amenities, if the price was right,” Harteveldt said.

Then came the pandemic. When business travel collapsed and Zoom replaced many corporate trips, airline analysts wondered whether carriers would once again have to lure travelers with cheap fares. Instead, eager leisure travelers proved willing to splurge on premium seats and perks, convincing airlines that demand extended well beyond the traditional business road warrior, Harteveldt said.

That confidence has only grown. Premium demand is now a fixture of quarterly earnings calls, with airline executives regularly touting premium revenue as they compete for higher-spending travelers.

“When you think about what’s different and what’s changed over the last 10 or 15 years, the premium products used to be loss leaders, and now they’re the highest-margin products," former Delta President Glen Hauenstein said last summer. “That’s really the headline.”

Analysts say premium cabins — a category that expanded with the introduction of premium economy seats featuring more legroom and amenities at a fraction of the cost — now generate a disproportionate share of airline revenue compared with the space they take up on commercial aircraft.

On heavily trafficked transatlantic routes, business-class tickets can bring in nearly as much revenue as fares and fees paid by passengers in the much larger economy cabin, according to an analysis by consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

Airlines are competing with chef-designed menus and high-end skin care

The premiumization of air travel has become impossible to miss, even for travelers who only get a glimpse through an airport lounge door or while walking down an airplane aisle.

Delta’s new first-class lounges resemble upscale restaurants, with open kitchens plating dishes such as hamachi crudo, cocktail bars serving made-to-order drinks, soundproof relaxation pods and outdoor decks overlooking the tarmac.

American has refreshed its premium cabin menus with “globally inspired dishes,” like crispy maitake mushroom and fried chicken bao topped with yuzu aioli, in partnership with the James Beard Foundation. The airline also redesigned its newest Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners for long-haul international flights around individual business-class compartments with sliding privacy doors, lie-flat seats longer than a standard twin mattress and amenity kits that might include a celebrity facialist's brand of sheet masks and under-eye patches.

United’s newest business-class cubicles add oversized 27-inch entertainment screens, caviar service, luxury skincare products and multi-course dining on long-haul international services. The airline said its revamped menus “feature flavors and dishes” inspired by cities across its network.

“Marie Antoinette would feel very comfortable on any of the big three airlines these days,” said William J. McGee, senior fellow for aviation at the American Economic Liberties Project. “But instead of saying, ‘Let them eat cake’ in the back of the plane, she would say, ‘Let them eat Biscoffs.’”

Air travel is getting more stratified as fuel costs increase fares

The airlines' pursuit of higher-paying passengers shows no loss of momentum. On board Delta's next-generation Airbus A350-1000 aircraft arriving in 2027, nearly half the cabin will be devoted to premium seating. American has said it plans to expand premium cabins by 50% by the end of the decade.

Yet the new era of luxury in the skies is unfolding alongside a very different reality for other U.S. travelers as broader inflationary pressures have added to the strain on household budgets.

New York-based travel advisor Mary Auteri said more of her clients are “experiencing sticker shock” as fares and add-on fees have gotten more expensive since the Iran war broke out and pushed up the price of jet fuel, one of the largest operating costs for airlines.

A group of friends in their 20s recently asked Auteri to price out flights to the sugar-white sand beaches of Punta Cana, a resort town in the Dominican Republic. After she sent them an itinerary, they said they had found what looked like the same flights on Google Flights for more than $100 less.

But the cheaper fares were basic economy tickets that excluded seat assignments, checked bags and flexibility to change plans. Once those costs were added back in, the trip no longer fit their budget.

Checked-bag fees, seat-selection charges and other add-on costs fall heaviest on economy travelers, McGee said. For wealthier travelers, those fees may amount to little more than an inconvenience. For budget-conscious travelers, they can determine whether a trip happens at all.

“The idea that we’re all created equal? Not in the airlines’ eyes," McGee said. “Not by any means.”

The incident occurred around 4:28 p.m. Monday in the area of U.S. 1 and Sombrero Beach Road in Marathon.

According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the scene after receiving reports of a woman with a knife harassing a man.

Upon arrival, deputies said the suspect, identified as Jennifer Lynn Secrest, 35, “pulled out the knife and began waiving it around while threatening them,” according to MCSO.

Deputies said they were eventually able to separate Secrest from the knife and took her into custody.

She is facing two felony charges of aggravated assault with a weapon and a felony charge of resisting arrest in addition to three misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest as well as a charge of disorderly intoxication.

No injuries were reported in the incident.

The U.S. played Belgium on Monday in Seattle, with the winner reaching the World Cup quarterfinals.

For the U.S., it would have meant just the second trip to the Round of 8 ever.

Local 10’s Jason Carter was at a big World Cup watch party at Mickey Byrne’s Irish Pub in Hollywood, and his full report can be seen at the top of this page.

The 25-year-old striker, who had three goals in this World Cup, was shown a red card during the U.S. victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina, but FIFA lifted his suspension for Monday's match after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened on Balogun's behalf.

FIFA's decision prompted soccer leaders to question the integrity of the World Cup, with European soccer body UEFA saying FIFA “crossed a red line” and Belgium's soccer federation contesting Balogun's eligibility.

“I accepted the decision when I was given the red card, and I accepted the decision when I was told I was allowed to play,” Balogun said. “I didn't have any involvement in the process, and that's not something that has anything to do with me personally.”

Balogun did not score on Monday. He helped set up Malik Tillman's goal in the 31st minute when he was fouled by Belgium defender Brandon Mechele roughly 25 yards outside the Red Devils’ goal.

Tillman scored on the ensuing free kick. Just before the goal, Balogun waved his arms and pumped up the American fans.

The U.S. tried to set up Balogun multiple times. He made use of his speed on several runs but could not get past Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. His best chance came in the 82nd minute, when Courtois got in front of a left-footed attempt. Balogun was replaced by Haji Wright in the 92nd minute.

To a suggestion that Balogun wasn’t a major presence on the field, U.S. midfielder Tyler Adams responded: “Was anyone a major presence on the field today?”

“We were happy that we had the opportunity for him to play,” Adams said. “He tried today to be a presence and a nuisance, and at times he was — getting the ball in behind and doing what he does. Just didn’t have too many opportunities.”

Balogun said it was difficult to understand why the U.S. didn't play with the intensity the team brought to its earlier games.

“Today we didn't give the crowd a lot to cheer for,” he said. “That's the most disappointing thing, and that's the part that hurts the most for me personally.”

Last Wednesday during the Americans’ 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina, Balogun was shown a red card by Brazilian referee Raphael Claus for stepping on an opponent’s ankle, triggering an automatic one-game suspension.

After Trump spoke by phone to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s disciplinary committee suspended the discipline for a year on Sunday.

Infantino said he did not play a role in the decision by the disciplinary committee, which also fined Balogun $40,000, a penalty that can be paid by the U.S. Soccer Federation.

The FIFA president was in attendance for the match, watching from a suite with Pascale Van Damme, chair of the Belgian Football Association, and Cindy Parlow Cone, president of the USSF. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was seated nearby.

Belgium fans chanted “FIFA Mafia!” during their pregame march to Lumen Field.

Balogun's three goals matched Landon Donovan in 2010 for the second most by an American in a World Cup. Bert Patenaude holds the U.S. record with four in the initial tournament in 1930.

Balogun, who was playing in his first World Cup for the Americans, became the first U.S. player to score two goals in a match in the tournament since 1930. But he failed to lead the U.S. to what would have been its first consecutive knockout-stage wins. The best performance by the Americans since 1930 remains their run to the quarterfinals in 2002.

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A spokesperson for the Miramar Police Department said Brianna Johnson, known online as influencer DreamDoll Bri, was killed in the shooting, which happened at around 5:30 a.m. in the 2700 block of Sunshine Boulevard.

Two other victims, both men, were critically wounded when a shooter or shooters opened fire on the fluorescent green Lamborghini SUV they were driving in through the neighborhood; the driver subsequently crashed after being shot.

Police said they did not immediately have information on the conditions of the two other victims Monday morning.

Authorities believe the shooting was targeted and said afterward that they had “limited suspect information” to go off of.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Miramar Police Department or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Loved ones created a GoFundMe page to help with expenses.

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel and BSO deputies responded after 2 p.m. to Southwest 56th Avenue and Allen Road, according to BSO.

Fire rescue personnel took the child to Memorial Regional Hospital, according to BSFR Battalion Chief Michael B. Kane.

“Sadly, he was pronounced deceased,” Carey Codd, a BSO spokesman, wrote in a statement, adding that BSO’s traffic homicide unit detectives were investigating the case.

Deputies said the driver remained at the scene after the boy was struck in a driveway.

Family members identified the child as 2-year-old Wilson Alexander, adding that he was called Junior.

They have created a GoFundMe page to help with expenses.

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

Franklin Davis and the woman had recently ended a 42-year-old relationship when they got into an argument on Friday in Oakland Park, according to Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies.

Davis was under the influence of alcohol when he poured a flammable liquid and set the fire in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at 3100 NW 9th Ave., according to BSO deputies.

The woman suffered third-degree burns to her left leg, and Davis suffered burns to his hands and face, according to BSO deputies.

Davis, who used a wheelchair in court, faced three charges: Premeditated attempted murder; arson causing bodily harm; and criminal attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy to commit a capital felony.

A judge denied Davis bond. Corrections held him at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale.

The 2-year-old child was under the care of a babysitter when police officers responded to a parked car on Sunday at Northwest Seventh Avenue and Ninth Court, according to the Hallandale Beach Police Department.

Fire rescue personnel and police officers responded shortly after 1:35 p.m., and the child was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to police.

More than 50% of pediatric vehicular heatstroke deaths happen after a caregiver accidentally forgets a child in the back seat, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Children are at a higher risk of heatstroke than adults since their body temperature rises three to five times faster.

Safety tips

Never leave a child unattended in a vehicle.

If you see a child alone in a locked car, act immediately and call 911.

A child in distress due to heat should be removed from the vehicle as quickly as possible and rapidly cooled.

Store car keys and fobs out of a child’s reach and teach children that a vehicle is not a play area.

Remember that rolling the vehicle’s windows down or parking in the shade does little to change the interior temperature of the vehicle.

Write a note or place a stuffed animal in the passenger’s seat to remind you that a child is in the back seat.

Source: NHTSA

The attack was the latest targeting a vessel moving through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded once passed in peacetime. Iranian state television said the liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings but did not directly claim the assault.

Tehran has repeatedly declared that only its approved route through the strait is safe and is suspected of attacking other ships that have used another route close to the Omani shore.

The U.S. is eager to press ahead with negotiations with Iran aimed at fully reopening the strait, rolling back Tehran’s disputed nuclear program and reaching a permanent end to the war launched Feb. 28. But previous attacks in the strait have sparked retaliatory strikes by the U.S., which then saw Iran attack Gulf Arab states — raising the risk of an escalation.

Talks between Iran and the U.S., meanwhile, appear to be on hold until after the burial of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the beginning of the war. Signs have been increasing that mourners at his funeral were calling for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Authorities flew Khamenei's body to the Shiite seminary city of Qom overnight, where mourners honored him Tuesday.

Tanker struck in latest attack in strait

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said the tanker had been hit near Limah, Oman, in the strait. The UKMTO said the projectile hit the port side of the vessel while trying to traveling south out of the strait toward the Gulf of Oman.

It said there was no environmental impact from the strike and that authorities were investigating.

Iranian state TV, quoting anonymous sources, implied Tehran carried out the assault on a tanker it said was carrying natural gas from Qatar. However, there’s been no official claim from the Islamic Republic for the attack.

Iran’s joint military command warned last Thursday that all oil tankers moving through the strait must use its approved routes. It also said that interference by U.S. forces in the strait “will be met with a rapid and decisive reaction.”

But the Joint Maritime Information Center, a multinational body overseen by the U.S. Navy, told shippers on Monday that the route around Oman “has been expanded and remains available for all traffic.”

Trump on Monday at the White House also warned Iran that they'd need to “make a deal or we're going to finish the job.”

"I'd rather make a deal, because I don’t want to affect 91 million people," Trump said. “We can knock down their bridges in one hour. We can knock out their energy supply.”

Iran and the United States agreed as part of an interim deal to allow ships to pass without paying charges for 60 days. But Tehran insisted it must control the routes of the vessels and later charge fees for passage, upending decades of practice in the waterway.

The U.S. and many Gulf Arab states say they won’t agree to Iran charging for passage through the strait. An effort by Oman and a United Nations agency to launch a new route near Oman’s shore earlier sparked attacks across the Mideast, highlighting the tensions.

The data firm Kpler reported that over last weekend at least 108 ships crossed through the strait using various routes.

Mourners gather in Qom for Khamenei's funeral

Iranian state television early Tuesday aired live images from a helicopter of hundreds of thousands of people walking toward Jamkaran Mosque, just south of Qom, for a funeral service for Khamenei. The mosque is believed by Shiites to have once hosted the Muhammad al-Mahdi, the 12th and last Shiite imam, who disappeared in the 9th century and will one day reappear to bring justice to the world.

Images of Khamenei and his son, Iran's new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, were displayed on banners and posters held by mourners. Mojtaba Khamenei has yet to make an appearance in the funeral ceremonies, which are unfolding over several days. He is believed to be in hiding after reportedly being wounded in the airstrike that killed his father.

At the height of the war, before an April ceasefire, Israel targeted top Iranian leaders, in at least one case likely using their public appearances to fix their position. It has also threatened to kill the younger Khamenei.

Authorities have shut down streets, airspace and daily life for the mourning, which began Saturday and will end Thursday as Khamenei is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace. Khamenei was 86.

En una presentación ante la prensa de ambos, donde no se admitieron preguntas, Velarde, de 74 años, indicó que, “si en otras circunstancias no hubiera tal vez aceptado, quisiera hacerlo con mucho gusto y pienso dedicarme lo más rápido posible a cumplir con la tarea que me está encargando”.

Fujimori, de 51 años, comentó que le alegraba “muchísimo” la decisión de Velarde. “Es una gran noticia para el Perú”, dijo la dirigente conservadora, que iniciará su gestión el 28 de julio. Velarde había indicado en 2025 que no tenía intenciones de continuar en el cargo, pero su decisión final había permanecido en suspenso.

Según la ley peruana, tras la propuesta del Ejecutivo, el Parlamento bicameral deberá ratificar al presidente del Banco Central y a los otros seis miembros de su directorio. Del total cuatro son propuestos por el Ejecutivo y tres por el Senado.

El Banco Central tiene una función clave que implica mantener una inflación baja y estable.

Los expertos explican que una inflación baja ayuda a que las familias y empresas planifiquen el futuro con mayor seguridad. En cambio, cuando los precios suben rápidamente, se dispara la incertidumbre y es más difícil calcular cuánto costarán los insumos, salarios o servicios. Este escenario provoca que las empresas posterguen inversiones o nuevos proyectos, lo cual afecta el crecimiento de la economía.

Los bancos de inversión y agencias calificadoras de riesgo han sugerido que un factor clave para la confianza de los mercados y la estabilidad macroeconómica implica preservar la autonomía del Banco Central, así como la continuidad de Velarde, un economista que preside le entidad desde 2006.

Perú ha mantenido la inflación dentro o muy cerca de su meta anual de entre 1% y 3% durante la mayor parte de los últimos años, según el Banco Central. Esto ha contribuido a preservar el poder adquisitivo y la confianza en la moneda peruana, que es una de las más estables de América Latina frente al dólar.

The three-time NBA MVP spoke to reporters after helping Serbia to a win over Bosnia-Herzegovina during a FIBA World Cup qualifying game in Belgrade, Serbia. Jokic finished with 20 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds. He then reaffirmed his desire to remain in the Mile High City.

By waiting until next summer, Jokic can sign a five-year supermax contract that would be worth around $350 million.

The 31-year-old Jokic is coming off a season in which he made All-NBA for an eighth time. He averaged 27.7 points, a league-best 12.9 rebounds and a league-best 10.7 assists as he finished runner-up in the MVP voting to Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

Jokic and the Nuggets were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by Minnesota. After another early round exit, Jokic said: “I still want to be (with the) Nuggets forever.”

It's been a quiet offseason so far for the Nuggets. A big decision facing the team is what to do about Peyton Watson, the high-flying guard/forward who will command a lucrative contract to remain in town.

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Dos personas quedaron atrapadas brevemente entre los escombros en el BJ’s Wholesale Club de Ocean Township, pero lograron salir, y no se reportaron heridos, según la policía del condado de Monmouth.

Se reportaron lluvias con inundaciones en partes de la ciudad de Nueva York, Filadelfia y Nueva Jersey, mientras varias rondas de tormentas atravesaban la zona el lunes, poniendo fin a una ola de calor que afectó a gran parte del área la semana pasada.

El alcalde de la ciudad de Nueva York, Zohran Mamdani, advirtió el domingo sobre el golpe de calor y compartió ubicaciones de piscinas y centros de enfriamiento. Pero para el lunes, instaba a la gente a abandonar de inmediato los apartamentos en sótanos si veían que el agua subía en sus viviendas.

Las fuertes lluvias dejaron autos varados en caminos inundados en todo el norte de Nueva Jersey, y el agua se metió en negocios y al menos un hospital.

“No es nada demasiado serio”, comentó el capitán de la policía de Lakewood, Leroy Marshall.

La lluvia y las tormentas rompieron el domo de calor que se instaló sobre gran parte del noreste de Estados Unidos la semana pasada.

El aeropuerto LaGuardia, en Nueva York, estableció el jueves un récord de 40 grados Celsius (104 grados Fahrenheit). Las temperaturas mínimas en muchos lugares apenas bajaron de 27 °C (80 °F), lo que impidió que la gente se refrescara incluso por la noche.

La temperatura en LaGuardia se mantuvo el lunes con la lluvia apenas por debajo de 21 °C (70 °F).

Las autoridades de Nueva Jersey investigaban al menos 29 muertes la semana pasada que posiblemente estuvieron relacionadas con el calor. Las personas fueron halladas muertas en la calle o en viviendas sin aire acondicionado. Tenían entre 30 y 80 y tantos años, indicó el comisionado del Departamento de Salud de Nueva Jersey, Raynard Washington.

Se necesitarán autopsias y otras investigaciones antes de que las muertes se atribuyan oficialmente al calor, señaló Washington.

Otros estados no han anunciado posibles muertes por el calor.

También tormentas severas se desplazaron desde Michigan hasta la costa este mientras la ola de calor cedía durante el fin de semana.

En Michigan, dos niños, de 8 y 12 años, fueron encontrados muertos el sábado en un garaje después de que, al parecer, se intoxicaran con los gases de escape de un generador durante un corte de energía relacionado con una tormenta, informó la policía de Sumpter Township.

Alrededor de 370.000 personas seguían sin electricidad en todo el país, en su mayoría por los daños de las tormentas, según poweroutage.com.

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Seven students say they were targeted and disciplined after wearing anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement t-shirts to a school event.

The students say the university is forcing them to record a video about a policy they violated in order to register for classes.

The shirts in question read “ICE OFF FIU.”

“We felt very betrayed by this action,” said student Reinier Luna.

For more than a year, those students said they have expressed concerns to the administration that they say fell on deaf ears.

“The most notable one for the past year and a half was the increasing occupancy of ICE on our campus,” said student and protest organizer Carlton Daley.

In order to get the message across, the students assembled during an event on campus that FIU President Jeanette Nunez was hosting with former MLB baseball star Alex Rodriguez back in March.

At one point, they say, they stood up and revealed their shirts.

“After about a minute or so facing the audience, we then turned around to face the stage where Nunez and A-Rod were having their conversation,” said student Andrew Caro. “Shortly after that, about a minute of just standing, we then peacefully, silently, not disruptively all left together.”

Added student Kaitlyn Daley: “I was shocked by how little she reacted because she did not flinch, she kept going.”

The students said nothing happened after they left the event, but then they received an email a month later saying they were responsible for violating Regulation 110 of the FIU Student Conduct and Honor Code, which states: “Failure to comply with a request or directive of a university official.”

“Even the whole time we were standing, there was never a FIU official, officer, absolutely no one came up to any one of us saying that we were causing a disruption,” said Luna.

Last month, a hearing was held and the students were reprimanded.

“All their testimonies kind of went against the evidence that was provided,” said student Caleb Dean.

The students were told they had to record videos about FIU policies they allegedly violated or be forced to have a hold on their accounts, where they won’t be able to sign up for classes or receive a diploma.

“When we are going to make these video, we are going to express how unconstitutional it is, how it violates our first amendment,” said Caro.

FIU released a statement to Local 10 News regarding the incident, which read:

Federal law prohibits the university from disclosing details of students’ academic or disciplinary records. All student conduct cases at FIU are administered, reviewed, and adjudicated in accordance with federal and state laws and university policy and regulation. https://dasa.fiu.edu/all-departments/student-conduct-and-academic-integrity/. Case law and Florida statutes allow public universities like FIU to establish and enforce limitations on the time, place and manner of expressive activities. FIU applies its rules consistently, regardless of viewpoint, to ensure that classes, research, and academic spaces can function without interference or disruption.

Maydel Santana - FIU Associate Vice President, Communications and Media Relations

Plan for another day with morning showers to start and inland showers and storms by the afternoon. Some storms could bring heavy rain, gusty winds and a lot of lightning. Look for highs in the lower 90s with feels like about 100 degrees.Saharan dust is on the move. It will be prominent throughout the region on Wednesday and Thursday.

Saharan dust coupled with a ridge of high pressure will limit rainfall by the middle of the week. It will remain hot. Feels like temperatures will soar above 100 degrees.

Trump’s unprecedented dismissal of Jocelyn Samuels and another Democrat from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cleared the way for his shake-up of civil rights enforcement, which has prioritized rooting out diversity and inclusion practices, weakening protections for transgender workers and championing discrimination claims against white workers and U.S.-born workers.

The EEOC moved forward with aspects of that plan Monday, releasing a regulatory agenda that includes proposals to end its annual collection of workplace demographic data and rescind longstanding guidance warning it may be discriminatory to require workers to exclusively use English on the job, among other changes.

One of Trump's first acts as president was demolishing the Democratic majority on the normally five-member EEOC, sweeping away what would have been a major obstacle to his civil rights agenda. His dismissal of Samuels and Charlotte Burrows before the end of their five-year terms was unprecedented in the history of the EEOC, which was created by Congress through the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The EEOC commission now consists of two Republicans and one Democrat. Trump has yet to nominate candidates to fill two open seats on the commission.

In her lawsuit, Samuels had argued that Congress established that the EEOC commissioners, who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, would serve staggered terms to ensure “continuity, stability and insulation from political pressure.”

But in a statement Monday, Samuels said she was dismissing her lawsuit because the Supreme Court's ruling in a separate case “leaves me without a viable path forward to continue contesting my termination.”

Last week, the Supreme Court upheld Trump's firing of the heads of independent agencies, with the exception of the Federal Reserve, jettisoning a 91-year-old decision that had limited when presidents can fire board members of independent agencies.

EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas applauded the Supreme Court's ruling in a LinkedIn post last week, saying that it reinforced that the “EEOC is an executive branch agency.”

In a statement Monday about the new regulatory agenda, an EEOC spokesperson said the agency is “committed to implementing President Trump’s landmark civil rights agenda, dedicated to evenhanded enforcement of federal civil rights laws.”

The EEOC’s sole Democratic commissioner, Kalpana Kotagal, voted against the agenda, saying in a statement that “the proposed changes weaken civil rights protections for workers and undermine the agency’s investigative and enforcement efforts.”

The regulatory agenda includes a proposal to end a 40-year requirement for companies with 100 or more employees, or federal contractors with at least 50 workers, to submit workforce demographic data to the EEOC.

Lucas has publicly warned companies not to use such demographic data to justify what she describes as potentially discriminatory practices to bolster the diversity for their workforce. In its proposed rescission, the EEOC said requirements impose “significant financial and administrative burdens on the nation’s employers.” The rescission will almost certainly be approved by the EEOC commission but it will then be subject to a public commentary period before final passage.

Conservative critics have said demographic data encourages the EEOC to assume that discrimination is behind any gender or racial imbalance in a company's workforce. Supporters say the EEOC has used the annual surveys to help identify discriminatory patterns, guide its priorities and help track how women and minorities have fared since the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

"The EEOC has collected this data from employers for six decades. It’s difficult to understand why the agency would kneecap its ability to investigate discrimination, particularly at a time when the EEOC is chronically understaffed and underfunded,” Kotagal said.

The EEOC also announced its intent to rescind 1980 guidelines defining national origin-based discrimination, which warns employers that any requirement for workers to exclusively speak English may “create an atmosphere of inferiority, isolation and intimidation based on national origin which could result in a discriminatory working environment.” The EEOC argued that the guidelines are outdated and incorrectly established a “presumption that English-only rules violate Title VII in some circumstances.”

Last week, the EEOC voted to toss out longstanding guidelines on what sort of voluntary affirmative action employers can take to improve job opportunities for women and minorities without violating Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employers from making employment decisions based on race, color, national origin, sex and religion. The EEOC reversed its stance that employers could pursue some programs, such as training for women and minorities or steps to expand recruitment pools, without running afoul of Title VII.

Also on the EEOC's agenda is revising regulations for enforcing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a law that entitles women to seek workplace accommodations for pregnancy and related medical conditions. Lucas opposed the Biden-era regulations for including abortion as a circumstance allowing accommodations, such as time off for medical appointments.

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During a Round of 32 match, Balogun stepped on the ankle of Bosnian defender Tarik Muharemovic. After a slow-motion review, Brazilian referee Raphael Claus handed him a red card

President Donald Trump said he asked FIFA President Gianni Infantino to review the call. A FIFA committee decided to suspend the one-game ban and rejected the Belgian soccer federation’s appeal.

“I am really excited. Hopefully, we can get a result. We need some revenge for 2014 here. It’s great to have him back,“ said Sam Goldfarb, a Mickey Byrne’s Irish Pub patron.

The winner of the Round of 16 direct-knockout match between the U.S. and Belgium will play against Spain at 3 p.m. on July 10 during the FIFA World Cup 2026 quarterfinals.

“They should have just let the game be the game and not interfere,“ said Francisco Alarco, a Mickey Byrne’s Irish Pub patron.

Related story: Historic World Cup furor at ‘incomprehensible’ FIFA decision to let U.S. forward Balogun play

The last two Round of 16 matches are on Tuesday: Argentina vs. Egypt at noon in Atlanta, and Colombia vs. Switzerland at 4 p.m. in Vancouver.

The winners of the two matches will advance to the quarterfinal match at 9 p.m. on July 11.

The Round of 16‘s eight single-elimination knockout matches started on Saturday. Portugal, Canada, Paraguay, Mexico, and Brazil were eliminated.

Morocco and France advanced to a quarterfinal match scheduled at 4 p.m. on July 9th.

Norway and England advanced to a quarterfinal match scheduled at 5 p.m. on July 11.

The tournament, held every four years, started with 48 teams on June 11.

After matches within 12 groups of four, 16 teams were eliminated. The Round of 32 matches eliminated 16 more from June 28 to Friday.

Related link: View the knockout bracket

TOURNAMENT’S SCHEDULE

Quarterfinals

July 9: Morocco vs. France at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarterfinal match at 3 p.m.

July 11: Norway vs. England is at 5 p.m. There is a quarterfinal match at 9 p.m.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 5 p.m. on July 11. Parking is free.

Semifinals

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

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 14 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

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

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 15 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

Finals

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m. at the Miami Stadium, better known as the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 18 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 5 p.m. bronze final.

Sunrise ride to stadium: The Amerant Bank Arena has free parking for FIFA World Cup ticket holders who ride Broward County’s free Express bus transportation to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens.

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

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 1 p.m. on July 19 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 3 p.m. final.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders for the final on July 19. Parking is free.

The president has faced public backlash over inflation rising during his watch, as prices climbed initially in the aftermath of his tariffs and later with the start of the Iran war in late February. Trump described a recent bipartisan measure to trim housing costs as "a yawn” and tried to blame the Democrats for inflation staying elevated.

Going into the November midterm elections for control of Congress, Trump has sought to deride Democrats as communists who would have the government interfere with private companies. But in his social media post about Walmart, he said the business had trimmed prices at the specific request of his administration.

“I have just been informed that one of the biggest, best, and smartest Retailers in America, Walmart, will be lowering prices, by a lot, at my Administration’s request to celebrate our great Country’s 250th birthday,” Trump said. “Walmart will, in particular, be dropping the price for a pound of ground beef by almost 15%, among many other products.”

Walmart has benefited in part from higher inflation under Trump, as consumers have turned to its stores and website in search of lower prices, according to its quarterly earnings released in May.

The company, in a statement issued Monday after the president's post, said its price rollbacks at Walmart and Sam's Club “are designed to help customers and members make the most” of the summer season. There was no mention of any interaction with the administration and the company did not publicly comment on Trump's claims.

The statement noted price cuts for ground beef, corn, red cherries, ice cream, potato chips and Coca-Cola and Pepsi products.

Inflation for consumer prices has climbed 4.2% over the past 12 months, meaningfully higher than the 3% rate Trump inherited, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some inflationary pressures may ease as the interim ceasefire deal with Iran has led to lower oil prices as more tankers can travel through the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump has famously used Walmart as a barometer of the American consumer, telling the company in May 2025 that it needed to “eat” the cost of tariffs that he had unilaterally imposed.

“Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain,” Trump posted a little over a year ago. “Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, ‘EAT THE TARIFFS,’ and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!”

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Volunteers at the Global Empowerment Mission in Doral unpacked trucks, buses and vans filled with donations of critical supplies for those in need.

Earlier on Monday, groups like ProKel Mobility and Latinos in Transit were in Kendall loading up one of those buses to send to GEM.

“So, our connection is to at least give them some peace that their families are receiving the essentials so they can do what they do best, which is move people, move goods so that the building of the country starts up,” Lina Aragon, with Latinos in Transit, said.

Cristhian Mancera Mejia, with the Miami-Dade Community Council, said, “I was really touched by the whole situation. Just understanding how that feeling of those members of our community, some of them who have TPS or have some immigration situation pending, they’re going through that stress here locally and then they have to worry about a family member who either died or is trying to survive because they made it out of these buildings that collapsed.”

Meanwhile, in Miami, city and county officials teamed up with the Miami Marlins to collect supplies at loanDepot Park.

Miami relief drive:

The drive will run for at least a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Fans are even encouraged to contribute items on game days.

“In addition to the drop off here until 5 p.m., we will also be accepting donation at the gates at Marlins games this week and we welcome the community to come out in support in Venezuela,” said Marlins President of Business Caroline O’Connor.

“We will get them to the right people,” Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins said. “We all know there is a regime in Venezuela that we cannot trust, but we are working with our Department of State to make sure that the supplies get to where they need to go.”

Miami-Dade Commissioner Vicki Lopez said that it’s “critically important that everyone turn out for the Venezuelan people.”

“There is nothing more important than being there for your brothers and your sisters, and since we have so many of them living in Miami-Dade, it only makes sense for the entire community to please whatever you can do, because a lot of people are asking me, ‘What can I do?’ Well, here’s your chance to act,” she said. “Bring whatever supplies are on the list.”

Local 10 News has a list of needed supplies and other resources to help Venezuela.

Christian Pulisic sprawled on the field in agony after hurting an ankle.

Matt Freese holding his hands on his head after his gaffe gifted a goal.

Chris Richards crumpling to the ground, his face pressed on the grass.

Mauricio Pochettino kicking a rack in front of the American bench, sending four water bottles flying.

American hopes for a deep World Cup run at home ended when Charles De Ketelaere scored twice and assisted on another goal, helping Belgium expose the U.S. defensive liabilities in a 4-1 win Monday night that earned a quarterfinal berth.

“It stinks,” Tyler Adams said. “This was a moment to have an opportunity to advance and really try and do something special. We fell short.”

While the U.S. was boosted by the presence of star forward Folarin Balogun, whose one-game red-card suspension was controversially lifted by FIFA, American defenders were at fault in a pair of first-half goals and Freese’s howler gave the Red Devils a third early in the second half.

Second-half substitute Romelu Lukaku added Belgium’s final goal in the third minute of stoppage time after Richards’ giveaway. The U.S. hadn’t allowed that many goals in a World Cup game since a 5-1 loss to Czechoslovakia in the Americans’ 1990 opener, when they returned to soccer’s biggest stage after a 40-year absence.

“A very bad day,” said Pochettino, the U.S. coach. “It’s not like you are in a rocket and you improve and you grow. ... It’s not linear.”

This loss was a painful reckoning for a team that hoped to boost the sport but instead failed to shake a quarter-century of stagnation since 20-year-old Landon Donovan led the Americans to the 2002 quarterfinals. Since then, the U.S. has lost four times in the round of 16.

“Everyone had nerves, right, because we knew how much this meant for the whole country, not just our team,” said 21-year-old defender Alex Freeman, the youngest U.S. player.

Belgium knocked out the U.S. in the round of 16 for the second time in 12 years and extended its unbeaten streak to 18 games. The Red Devils play 2010 champion Spain on Friday at Inglewood, California, for a semifinal berth against France or Morocco.

“We showed that we’re ready and we want to perform,” captain Youri Tielemans said.

All six CONCACAF nations have been eliminated, with the three co-hosts falling in the round of 16.

Malik Tillman tied the score 1-1 midway through the first half when he became the first player since France's Bernard Genghini in 1982 to have two free kick goals in a World Cup, but the Americans conceded less than a minute after the ensuing kickoff.

American star Christian Pulisic could only watch the end from the bench after injuring his right ankle when he hit Tielemans' boot on a 52nd-minute shot attempt. Pulisic was replaced seven minutes later, finishing the tournament with no goals.

“I didn’t quite have the moments I was hoping to and to try to help us to really push and get over this next step of beating a really good team,” he said. “I’m disappointed with myself, of course, but I’m going to try and stay positive. I did a lot of good things and the team did, as well.”

After winning three World Cup games for the first time in this expanded 48-nation tournament, the U.S. lost its seventh straight match to Belgium. The Americans have dropped 11 of their last 12 games against European opponents, winning only their round of 32 match against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

A heralded generation led by Pulisic, Adams and Weston McKennie only partially accomplished their mission of lifting soccer’s stature closer to that of the NFL, MLB and the NBA.

“A goal was obviously to inspire people that the sport was growing in the U.S., which I think we saw. The support was unbelievable,” Adams said. “In this moment we let them down.”

De Ketelaere put Belgium ahead in the eighth minute and Tillman’s goal in the 31st energized a largely red-white-and-blue crowd of 66,925 at Lumen Field. De Ketelaere damped that and assisted on Hans Vanaken’s 57th-minute goal after Freese lost control of the ball in front of his net.

“Obviously disappointed for my involvement and error in judgment on the third goal,” Freese said.

Belgium, which didn't start stars Jérémy Doku as and Kevin De Bruyne, pressed from the start and exposed a defense regarded as the Americans’ weak spot.

Dodi Lukébakio made a long diagonal pass to the opposite corner, leading to the opening goal. Leandro Troussard controlled the ball and his cross was blocked by Freeman and popped into the air. Freeman headed the ball into the penalty area and Timothy Castagne charged after it and hooked a centering pass around Richards. De Ketelaere split Antonee Robinson and Tim Ream, at 38 the oldest American ever in a World Cup, then with his right foot redirected the ball into an open net.

Pochettino held out his arms, as if to ask: What was going on?

Tillman scored after Brandon Mechele knocked down Balogun about 25 yards from goal. Tillman’s kick deflected off Vanaken’s head and deflected to the left of goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who had dived right.

Troussard got around Sergiño Dest for a cross and De Ketelaere outjumped Ream and headed the ball past Freese in the 33rd minute for his eighth international goal.

Belgium built a two-goal lead when Mechele lofted a long ball that Freese chested after two hops. Freese hesitated with a touch, then scrambled and kicked the ball off De Ketelaere. Vanaken one-timed a shot from 35 yards that deflected in off Ream.

Lukaku entered in the 67th minute and scored his 93rd international goal.

Pochettino replaced Gregg Berhalter after first-round elimination at the 2024 Copa America. His contract expires this summer and he hasn't decided whether to stay through the 2030 World Cup.

Instead of focusing on Spain, Pochettino has a different near-term agenda.

“To rest a little bit, to think, to have conversation,” he said, “and then see what the decision is from the federation and from us.”

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AP Sports Writer Andrew Destin and Associated Press writer Eugene Johnson contributed to this report.

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El Niño events – the abnormal warming of waters around the equator in the eastern Pacific – typically peak from November to January, but this one – only officially declared last month by NOAA – is warming at a clip not previously observed.

Forecast models are in near-unanimous agreement that we’ll observe one of the strongest El Niños on record – if not the strongest – by this winter.

As we’ve detailed in previous newsletters, El Niño events – particularly strong ones – are notorious for dampening hurricane activity in the Atlantic, largely due to changing wind patterns that increase hostile, storm-busting wind shear across the basin. But strong El Niños can also shift around the distribution of seasonal storm activity across the Gulf, Caribbean and wider Atlantic, condensing activity and often leading to an earlier-than-usual end to the season.

In the chart above, you can see how seasonal activity during the peak months of August, September and October gets “pinched” in strong El Niño years relative to all years of the satellite era (since 1966). This means when activity ramps up, it may come a little later in August and feel a little steeper, but peaking around the same time in early September, then tailing off more quickly in October into early November.

Interestingly, Atlantic hurricane seasons in strong El Niño years also tend to see relatively busier Junes and quieter Julys compared to what we might expect in a typical season.

The quieting of late season (October-November) hurricane activity is well documented in previous research and makes sense physically, with wind shear ramping up deeper into the season as El Niño strengthens into the fall and winter months.

Of course, every hurricane season is unique and none ever follows the seasonal activity charts exactly as we might expect (see the mid-season lulls of 2024 and 2025), but given the backloaded seasons of recent years, none of us would complain if 2026 packs it up early.

For now, the Atlantic is following the El Niño script nicely, with tropical tumbleweeds blowing through the basin at least for the next week or two. Even deeper into July, long-range models continue to show very little to speak of, so enjoy the quiet stretch ahead.

The Fort Lauderdale institution located right on the water is receiving a massive makeover to welcome tourists and residents alike.

Animal activists are furious about animals being taken from the ocean to fill the tank while Fort Lauderdale leaders claim it’s a done deal.

The bulldozers are on the property and phase one of construction is underway, expected to be finished this summer.

There are a total of four phases coming to the $220 million dollar expansion project for the new Fort Lauderdale water district.

Renderings feature a new aquatic center, a waterfront promenade, a restaurant, a museum and the state-of-the-art marine aquarium.

Ana Campos is an animal activist who took part in the 2019 lawsuit against the city when Seaquest was attempting to build an aquarium at the Galleria Mall.

“It’s shocking to learn after the city of Fort Lauderdale was actually sued over an aquarium that they went ahead and they approved an aquarium in a worse location,” she said. “As if the Miami Seaquarium issue wasn’t enough to scare cities away from animal captivity and touch tanks and any types of tanks with animals.”

As the city moves forward with its approved plans from 2023, many are just hearing about the proposed aquarium three years later.

“We have thousands of members in the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida and we never heard about it,” said James Wildman with the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida.

Playing catchup included watching previous Fort Lauderdale commission meetings.

Rich Waltzer, the Fort Lauderdale Aquarium Founder and CEO, spoke at an April 21 commission meeting.

“The aquarium was a dream of mine and it’s actually finally come true,” he said. “I really want to thank Commissioner Herbst for really helping me make this happen.”

Local 10 News reached out to Waltzer to be interviewed for this story, but he refused. Local 10 also reached out to Commissioner John Herbst, a huge proponent to bring the aquarium to life, but he also declined our requests three different times over email.

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis agreed to sit down for an interview.

“It sounds really exciting and the commission agreed and that’s why we voted for it,” he said. “We have had exhibits like that already in our science museum, we’ve had it for many, many years, so this is just basically an expansion of that experience, and its now going to be done at the aquatic center.”

When looking at the plans, bringing the ocean experience like corals and animals to human hands is a big part of this aquarium.

“Touch tanks are a very visceral way of getting information across to people,” aquarium developer John Whitehead said during the April 21 commission meeting. “If I give you a sea star and put it in your hand, you can tell how it moves across the bottom of the ocean.”

Aquarium supporters claim they are building an educational experience, while activists are concerned the animals will be unethically trafficked from our oceans.

“What you’re teaching a child by confining an animal in captivity is that it’s acceptable for humans to do what we like to animals simply for entertainment purposes,” said Wildman.

Added Campos: “Building this is a death sentence, period.”

In the meeting with the developers, examples of corals, crabs and fish were displayed, along with pictures of what appeared to be an endangered bonnethead shark and an endangered spotted eagle ray.

The aquarium is near, or actually in a zone that is a mandatory evacuation zone; the mayor said generators will be ready.

Backup power failed at an aquarium in Hurricane Katrina and thousands of marine animals died as a result.

“You know it’s not an easy life being in the open ocean and a lot of the wildlife get eaten by bigger wildlife, so we’re saving their lives too, let’s keep that in mind,” said Trantalis.

The city owns the property and the operators will be leasing with the expectation to open the new facility in 2028, but the fight is far from over.

“There’s nothing preventing the commission from caring about the welfare of the animals, regardless if it’s a done deal and were too late, it’s never too late as far as I’m concerned to care about animals,” said Campos.

Added Wildman: “I think with enough pressure, with enough people speaking out, things will change, and so that’s what we’re going to continue to do.”

“Sad — it’s normal after being eliminated like this,” said Ronaldo, who briefly shielded his eyes with his right hand after the match.

The sixth and final World Cup for the 41-year-old superstar ended with a 1-0 loss to border rival Spain in a round of 16 game on Monday.

“I’ve given everything, I’ve given my best, and I leave with a clear conscience,” he said. “This is soccer, this is life for a soccer player. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.”

Ronaldo, the only player to score goals in six World Cups in a row and the career leader in international goals with 146, said the day before that he hoped it wouldn't be his final match in this run and wanted to enjoy it to the fullest.

But he reiterated then — and again after the loss to Spain — that this was his last time in the tournament that's played every four years. The deepest he ever went in the World Cup was the semifinals in his 2006 debut.

As for his other future plans, he wasn't ready to say.

“Yes, it was my last World Cup, but everything else I’ll have time to think about, to be with my family, and not make any decision hot-headed and move on with life,” he said.

Ronaldo was denied a goal in the first half against Spain when record-setting goalkeeper Unai Simón made an impressive leaping stop. That was one of his three shots.

Two of those were on target, including the one on which Simón was still in midair when he reached back to grab the ball with both hands. Ronaldo got off a backward kick with his right foot after a header by teammate João Félix bounced off Simón’s shoulder.

“He is an example, a role model to follow. This is somebody that we need to celebrate. We’re talking about a football icon,” Portugal coach Roberto Martínez said in translated remarks. “There aren’t too many Cristiano Ronaldos out there. I think we need to thank him. His dream was to win the World Cup and he did this as an amazing example in the locker room.”

Portugal had never won a major international tournament before Ronaldo. The first was the 2016 European Championship, before adding Nations League titles in 2019 and 2025.

Ronaldo's finale on soccer’s biggest stage came eight years after he recorded a World Cup hat trick at age 33. That made him the oldest to have one, and that stood until then-38-year-old Lionel Messi scored three goals for Argentina in a 3-0 win over Algeria on June 16.

The hat trick for Ronaldo came in a 3-3 draw with Spain in a group stage opener that's considered one of the tournament's best matches, although both powers didn’t reach the knockout stage.

He scored three goals in this World Cup, and his 11 overall are tied for ninth on the career list.

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La fiscalía de La Paz acusó en una audiencia a Salazar de los delitos de terrorismo, atentado a los servicios e instigación pública a delinquir. El acusado cumplirá prisión preventiva por seis meses y asumirá su defensa desde la principal cárcel de La Paz, informó la fiscalía.

El abogado del acusado, René Salazar, declaró a los medios de prensa que “no hay pruebas documentales, sino publicaciones de redes sociales” en contra de su defendido, máximo dirigente de la Federación Sindical de Campesinos Túpac Katari de La Paz. Indicó que apelará la medida.

Sectores empresariales y organizaciones cívicas anunciaron demandas penales en contra de los tres líderes de las protestas que cesaron el 23 de junio dejando 22 fallecidos, 19 de ellos afectados por los bloqueos carreteros y tres pertenecientes a los sectores movilizados, según un informe divulgado el lunes por la Defensoría del Pueblo. Empresarios señalan que las pérdidas superaron los 2.500 millones de dólares.

Los otros demandados son el expresidente Evo Morales (2006-2019) y el líder de la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) Mario Argollo. Ninguno ha sido detenido.

Los movilizados exigían la renuncia de Paz, a quien culparon de la falta de respuesta a la peor crisis en 40 años que afronta Bolivia, la escasez de combustible y el desabastecimiento de alimentos.

El mandatario, quien asumió hace ocho meses, denunció que las protestas fueron impulsadas y financiadas por grupos “narcoterroristas” con el objetivo de desestabilizar a su gobierno. Paz dijo que los cocaleros afines a Morales buscaron impunidad para el exmandatario, que desde la región del Chapare se resiste a una investigación judicial acusado por el presunto abuso de una menor cuando era gobernante.

Los movilizados alegaron que sus protestas eran para impedir medidas de ajuste liberal y la presunta privatización de empresas públicas. La policía denunció por su lado el decomiso de grandes cantidades de dinero que supuestamente financiaron las movilizaciones.

El gobierno acordó con la COB revisar los procesos legales en contra de casi un centenar de detenidos. Las autoridades no aclararon si beneficiará a Argollo.

Las protestas han debilitado más a los sindicatos y a la izquierda, que resultó derrotada en las urnas en noviembre del año pasado marcando un viraje político para el país tras casi 20 años de gobierno del Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) de Morales y Luis Arce (2020-2025). Arce está en la cárcel acusado de supuesta corrupción.

The prosecutors said Monday in a sentencing memorandum to a New York federal judge that international gold trader Reza Zarrab provided substantial help to the U.S. when he revealed paying millions of dollars in bribes to government and banking officials in Turkey and provided key testimony at the December 2017 trial.

His testimony preceded the conviction of Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla and a sentence of over two years in prison for the banker. After the trial, Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the verdict “scandalous.”

In a presentence memorandum, prosecutors wrote that Zarrab's October 2017 guilty plea to conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering charges and the cooperation that followed had been “truthful, complete and reliable” and significant, useful and timely. They also noted that he had suffered “danger or risk” as a result of his help.

During a week on the witness stand at the 2017 trial, Zarrab said he was attacked in prison by a knife-wielding fellow inmate who claimed he was told to kill him for cooperating with U.S. authorities.

In their memorandum Monday, prosecutors referenced the threat, which resulted in Zarrab being moved from prison and into FBI custody.

According to prosecutors, the inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn who threatened Zarrab told him that he would be killed because he was cooperating against “big people in Turkey.”

Prosecutors also said that the government of Turkey imposed broad freezes and seizures of Zarrab's assets after he began cooperating.

The lengthy delay for Zarrab's sentencing is not uncommon in a complex prosecution that carried the potential for multiple trials in which Zarrab's testimony might be necessary.

Last month, Judge Richard M. Berman in Manhattan approved the dismissal of a criminal case the U.S. government had brought against Halkbank, a state-owned bank in Turkey. The U.S. government's request to drop the charges came amid warm ties between Erdogan and President Donald Trump.

After meeting with Trump last year at the NATO summit in The Hague, Erdogan told reporters that the U.S. president is quick to return his calls, an anecdote that signaled their close ties.

“With my friend Trump, we are opening the door to a new era in Turkish‑American relations,” said Erdogan, who has been president of Turkey for 13 years.

Evaniel Johnson said he is waiting to see if video footage supports the police narrative that his 20-year-old grandson, Tyrin Johnson, turned toward U.S. guard members with a gun while running from them early Sunday. Memphis police say the guard members were responding to a report of gunfire.

The National Guard members had been assigned to a crime-fighting patrol in Memphis created last year by President Donald Trump, who has sent troops and federal agents to Democratic-run cities he described as crime-ridden.

“Show me the video,” Evaniel Johnson told The Associated Press. “Please show me that — and then I’m OK. Until you show me that, I’m gonna fight and advocate for my grandson until there’s no breath in me.”

Johnson, a former correctional officer with the Davidson County Sheriff's Office in Nashville, disputes that his grandson would have tried to fire a gun at U.S. guard members and that deadly force would be needed if he was running away. His grandson, he said, was “no hoodlum.”

According to his grandfather, Tyrin Johnson carried a gun for protection after being “jumped” recently in Nashville and was likely wary about being attacked again over a murky social media feud.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says it is reviewing the shooting and that two guard members fired their weapons. Johnson’s family says they were told by the TBI that he was shot twice in the chest. The Memphis Police Department declined to comment on what footage existed and when it would be released.

The National Guard did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether the two members involved in the shooting had been placed on leave.

Democrats call for a transparent investigation

Tennessee Senate Democratic Leader Raumesh Akbari and Chairwoman London Lamar, both of Memphis, issued joint statement expressing their sympathy and emphasizing the need for transparency during the investigation. They asked the TBI to release any available video as soon as it is possible to do so without jeopardizing the investigation.

“Transparency serves everyone — the Johnson family, the members of the National Guard involved, and a community that deserves confidence in the outcome, whatever the facts ultimately show,” they wrote.

State Rep. Justin Pearson, a Democrat running for the U.S. House, echoed the call for a transparent investigation and demanded the disbanding of the federal task force.

“Memphis does not need armed soldiers in our streets terrifying our people,” he said in a statement.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee also called for the task force to be shut down. “We demand a transparent investigation, not a closed-door ruse that leaves our community in the dark,” the ACLU said in a statement.

Trump's decision to send Tennessee National Guard troops to Memphis to combat crime was met with a mixed response from residents and was the subject of a lawsuit. However, it was never the subject of widespread protests.

TBI data shows that at least three people have died in four shootings by officers tied to the federal task force.

Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee embraced federal intervention, while Democratic Memphis Mayor Paul Young took a pragmatic approach. Young said he never asked for National Guard troops but recognized they were coming regardless of his opinion.

Evaniel Johnson wishes his grandson stayed home that weekend

Tyrin Johnson did not appear to have a criminal history besides a handful of traffic violations, according to a review of online federal and state court records and Memphis and Nashville courts. In May, he was arrested for failing to appear at a 2025 hearing for driving without a license in Wilson County, just outside Nashville. He bonded out, records show.

He was enrolled in Tennessee State University from August 2023 to May 2024, according to university spokesperson Angel Higgins.

Evaniel Johnson said he had hoped his grandson would return to university and he was training him to take on a bigger role in the family's real estate development business, including lining up a project for him in Nashville to oversee in the coming weeks.

On the Fourth of July, Evaniel Johnson said his family had gathered on his back porch in Nashville to play cards. He wished his grandson had stayed with them. Instead, Tyrin Johnson ended up in Memphis.

“He was down there like all the rest of the people trying to enjoy the Fourth of July,” Johnson said. “His future was buying homes, living life, taking care of his little baby. He had a future. It’s gone now.”

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Brook reported from New Orleans.

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

Two of the matches are on Monday: Spain vs. Portugal at 3 p.m. in Dallas. The U.S. vs. Belgium at 8 p.m. in Seattle. The winners will advance to the quarterfinal match at 3 p.m. on July 10.

The FIFA Fan Festival Miami was scheduled to end on Sunday at Bayfront Park, but organizers extended it from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Monday. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump caused controversy.

“All I did was ask for a review,” Trump said about FIFA’s decision to allow U.S. star Folarin Balogun to play despite his red card ban. “I didn’t say, ‘You have to do this!’”

Related story: Historic World Cup furor at ‘incomprehensible’ FIFA decision to let U.S. forward Balogun play

The last two Round of 16 matches are on Tuesday: Argentina vs. Egypt at noon in Atlanta, and Colombia vs. Switzerland at 4 p.m. in Vancouver. The winners will advance to the quarterfinal match at 9 p.m. on July 11.

The Round of 16‘s eight single-elimination knockout matches started on Saturday. In two days, Canada, Paraguay, Mexico, and Brazil were eliminated.

Morocco and France advanced to a quarterfinal match scheduled at 4 p.m. on July 9th.

Norway and England advanced to a quarterfinal match scheduled at 5 p.m. on July 11.

The tournament, held every four years, started with 48 teams on June 11.

After matches within 12 groups of four, 16 teams were eliminated. The Round of 32 matches eliminated 16 more from June 28 to Friday.

Related link: View the knockout bracket

TOURNAMENT’S SCHEDULE

Quarterfinals

July 9: Morocco vs. France at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarterfinal match at 3 p.m.

July 11: Norway vs. England is at 5 p.m. There is a quarterfinal match at 9 p.m.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 5 p.m. on July 11. Parking is free.

Semifinals

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

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 14 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

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

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 15 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

Finals

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m. at the Miami Stadium, better known as the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 18 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 5 p.m. bronze final.

Sunrise ride to stadium: The Amerant Bank Arena has free parking for FIFA World Cup ticket holders who ride Broward County’s free Express bus transportation to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens.

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

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 1 p.m. on July 19 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 3 p.m. final.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders for the final on July 19. Parking is free.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali refused to dismiss the case against Brian J. Cole Jr., concluding that Trump's blanket pardons for Jan. 6 rioters explicitly applied only to people who were convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack. Cole hadn't been charged, let alone convicted, when Trump issued the pardons, Ali noted in his three-page order.

On the first day of his second term in the White House, Trump erased the largest criminal investigation in Justice Department history when he pardoned, commuted the prison sentences and ordered the dismissal of cases for all 1,500-plus people charged in the Jan. 6 attack.

Cole was arrested nearly a year after Trump's sweeping act of clemency. He is accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on the night before the riot. The devices didn’t detonate before law enforcement officers discovered them on Jan. 6.

Prosecutors have said that Cole gave a confession after his arrest, telling FBI agents that he felt “bewildered” by conspiracy theories related to the 2020 presidential election and “something just snapped." Investigators also used phone records and other evidence to identify him as a suspect.

Cole's attorneys argued that he qualifies for a pardon because his alleged actions are “inextricably and demonstrably tethered” to the events near the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“By the government’s own telling, this is exactly the kind of case that President Trump’s January 20, 2025 Presidential Pardon was invoked to reach,” defense lawyers wrote.

Prosecutors countered that Trump's pardons have no bearing on Cole's case since the president's proclamation applies only to people who been convicted of or had a pending indictment for Capitol riot-related crimes.

“And even if the proclamation somehow could apply to this case, the Department of Justice’s contrary position is entitled to deference as a reasonable interpretation taken by the Executive Branch agency expressly charged with administering the proclamation,” they wrote.

Ali was nominated to the bench by President Joe Biden, a Democrat.

Trump, a Republican, spread baseless conspiracy theories that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from him. Supporters who attended Trump's “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House on Jan. 6 joined a mob's attack on the Capitol, disrupting the joint session of Congress for certifying Biden's electoral victory.

Cole is due back in court on Wednesday for a status hearing in his case. A trial date for his case hasn't been scheduled yet.

But ending his career with regrets seemed equally frightening to the two-time NBA MVP.

As his trade to the Miami Heat was finalized on Monday, Antetokounmpo posted a video on YouTube in which he discussed his mixed emotions with former Bucks broadcaster Jim Paschke. He posted a shorter video on social media bidding farewell to Milwaukee.

“I’m scared that the grass is not always greener. … People love me here,” Antetokounmpo said in the interview with Paschke, which lasted nearly 37 minutes. “People respect me here. People allow me to be myself here in the city. And I’m scared that I might never find that ever again.”

But the same unwavering drive that helped him deliver the Bucks their first title in half a century caused him to decide five years later that it was time to move on.

The Bucks haven’t advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs since their 2021 championship and last won a postseason series in 2022. Antetokounmpo, who will turn 32 in December, said he’d wake up each day wondering if he needed a change of scenery to have a better shot at winning another championship.

“I’m scared that maybe if I don’t take that decision, that when I’m going to be 37, 38 years old, hopefully and I’m retiring, I’m going to say: ‘Why? Why didn’t you take that risk?’" Antetokounmpo said.

He made a home in Milwaukee

Antetokounmpo is one of the most beloved sports figures in the history of Wisconsin. After the Bucks selected him with the 15th pick in the 2013 draft, fans watched the skinny 18-year-old mature into the “Greek Freak,” a two-time MVP who became the most impactful player in franchise history.

He established roots here. Antetokounmpo, who had grown up in poverty, brought his whole family with him for a new beginning. He’d eventually start a family of his own here as well.

“The city of Milwaukee will always be in my heart,” Antetokounmpo said. “This is my home.”

During the interview, Paschke asked Antetokounmpo what advice his father might have offered about this move. Antetokounmpo's father, Charles, died in 2017 and is buried in Milwaukee.

“My father would tell me go to an uncomfortable situation that can allow you to grow and chase your dream, no matter what," Antetokounmpo replied.

Antetokounmpo leaves Milwaukee as the Bucks’ career leader in virtually every statistical category, including points, rebounds, assists, blocks, games and minutes played.

He showcased his tenacity while leading the Bucks to their 2021 title.

Antetokounmpo hyperextended his knee during Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals but missed only two games before returning to earn NBA Finals MVP honors. He scored 50 points in Milwaukee’s title-clinching Game 6 victory over the Phoenix Suns.

During the interview with Paschke, Antetokounmpo spoke about how grateful he felt for providing that championship to the city of Milwaukee. Fans loved him for his willingness to sign multiple contract extensions to stay here.

“You don’t understand it,” Antetokounmpo said. “Until you take a break, take a pause and walk out on the street and people approach you and talk to you about it,” Antetokounmpo said. “That’s when you start realizing, ‘Man, man, man, man.’ It’s bigger than basketball. You made people feel something.”

His impact was immeasurable

Paschke, who broadcast Bucks games for 35 years before retiring at the end of the 2020-21 season, emphasized how much Antetokounmpo meant to the city.

“I think I need you to know that you’ve had such an impact on everyone,” Paschke told him. “I don’t even know if you realize the impact you’ve had.”

Bucks general manager Jon Horst noted that in a statement announcing the trade, in which Milwaukee acquired Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez, Kasparas Jakucionis, the draft rights to rookie Nate Ament and multiple other draft picks.

Horst said it was the right move for both Antetokounmpo and the Bucks, but he added that “there are few players in the history of professional sports who have elevated a franchise, a city and a fan base the way Giannis Antetokounmpo has for Milwaukee and the Bucks."

“He became an ambassador for our city around the world and a source of pride for our entire state,” Horst said. “Through his generosity, authenticity and commitment to helping others, he touched lives throughout our community and inspired people across generations.”

Part of the disappointment about Antetokounmpo’s exit stems from Milwaukee fans never really getting to say goodbye to him.

Antetokounmpo landed awkwardly on a dunk in a March 15 victory over Indiana and didn’t play again, missing the Bucks’ final 15 games. He said late in the season that he was healthy and wanted to play, while the Bucks said he had a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise. That kept Bucks fans from getting one last chance to show their appreciation.

Of course, there’s always the possibility this isn’t a final farewell.

When Paschke noted that Antetokounmpo would always be welcome in Milwaukee, the 10-time All-Star replied that it “would be awesome if I could go and play and maybe come back.” Antetokounmpo even noted that Kevin Garnett did that by starting and finishing his career in Minnesota.

“I saw this clip of him walking into the arena, and they gave him a standing ovation, and people to this day love him,” Antetokounmpo recalled.

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The Arsenal forward made all that fretting moot.

Merino scored in the first minute of second-half stoppage time, and Spain beat Portugal 1-0 on Monday to end the World Cup career of superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

Merino had just been knocked down, and a foul was called. While Portugal's Bernardo Silva argued, Merino played the ball back in, ran toward the goal and easily beat goalkeeper Diogo Costa after a series of passes capped by Ferran Torres' nifty ball through the middle.

“He's one of the best in his position worldwide, and he has given us a fantastic result and a fantastic goal,” de la Fuente said through a translator. “I want to express the importance of substitutes that came in later in the game. Not just today, but the contribution in other games has been enormous.”

Spain, which has a 35-game unbeaten streak, advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time since winning its only World Cup title in 2010. La Roja will play Belgium, a 4-1 winner over the United States, on Friday in Inglewood, California.

Ronaldo was trying to get Portugal to the quarterfinals in a second consecutive tournament for the first time. Instead, the career on soccer's biggest stage is over for the all-time leader in international goals (146) and appearances (233).

Merino didn't enter until the 85th minute, and his heads-up play showed some of the versatility that helped Arsenal win its first Premier League title in more than 20 years this spring.

The World Cup was in doubt for Merino, who turned 30 during the tournament, after right foot surgery cut short his Arsenal season.

In the biggest moment of the year for Spain, there he was with fresh legs, finishing with his left foot into the left corner of the net. After emerging from a group hug with his teammates, Merino made a circle around the flag in a corner before letting out a guttural scream while clenching both fists.

That's how his father, Miguel Merino, celebrated more than three decades ago during his club career in Spain. And his son first emulated it after a late goal to beat host Germany to send Spain to the semifinals of the European championship two years ago.

This was Mikel Merino's first World Cup goal, and 11th for the national team.

“What better way to celebrate,” Merino said. “You remember all the good and the bad, and there have been difficult moments for me this year.”

The latest meeting of Iberian Peninsula rivals that first played in a friendly in Madrid 105 years ago was quite the contrast to their most recent World Cup match.

It was eight years ago that Ronaldo had his only World Cup hat trick in a 3-3 draw with Spain in a group stage opener that is considered one of the tournament's best games.

The 41-year-old superstar scored three times in this tournament, but didn't have many chances against Spain's Unai Simón, who extended his World Cup record to 609 minutes without conceding a goal. Spain became the first team to record six straight shutouts at the World Cup.

The best chance was Ronaldo's nifty backward kick in the 37th minute when Joao Felix’s header deflected off Simón’s left shoulder and popped in the air to Ronaldo. He flicked the ball with his right foot, but it was soft enough to give Simón time to recover and make a leaping grab.

“I’ll wake up tomorrow like I woke up today, with a clear conscience,” said Ronaldo, who a day earlier had repeated his previous declaration that his sixth World Cup would be his last. “I gave my best. I won three titles with Portugal. Before Cristiano, Portugal hadn’t won any title. So, I’m happy. The biggest title that I won with the national team was in 2016 (European Championship), which for me had the same dimension as a World Cup, honestly.”

Portugal desperately pushed for an equalizer in the final eight minutes of stoppage time. Silva had a header that went just over the top of the net.

The defensive struggle came just two days shy of a year since Portugal beat Spain in a riveting UEFA Nations League final that went to penalty kicks following a 2-2 draw.

The other World Cup meeting was Spain's 1-0 victory — also in the round of 16 — when La Roja won the title in South Africa.

“It was a great match. Two superb teams,” de la Fuente said. “As we had said it, it was like an anticipated final. As it was expected, we had to suffer until the very end.”

Until Spain didn't have to suffer anymore — thanks to its super sub.

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He grew up only five minutes away from the All England Club.

On Monday, the tables were turned when Federer was in attendance watching Fery on the sport's most famous court as he became the first British wild card to reach the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam in the professional era (since 1968).

Fery beat fellow wild Grigor Dimitrov — a former top-five player — 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7).

When it was over Fery, dropped his racket to the grass and held his hands up in disbelief.

“We’ve got probably the greatest of all time watching in the front row over there,” Fery said, nodding in Federer’s direction. “And now playing here in front of all you guys, having the support and winning, it’s unbelievable.”

Fery’s quarterfinal opponent will be Flavio Cobolli, who beat Alex de Minaur.

Fery beat Cobolli in straight sets in the first round of this year’s Australian Open after coming through qualifying.

“(In) Australia I was sick,” Cobolli said. “Of course, Arthur is amazing player, but that match I couldn’t play.”

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The island’s government-run electric company announced a “total disconnection of the national electric power system” of which the cause is under investigation.

The blackout in the country of 10 million comes as fuel has been running out since January.

Cuba has experienced several nationwide blackouts over the past few years as an aging infrastructure has struggled to meet demand.

The Trump administration threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba, but questions remain about whether the mounting pressure from the U.S. will force the regime to allow foreign investment or make any type of deal with the U.S.

Power outages have been a part of life for years on the communist island, where the electric system, composed mainly of aging soviet-era plants, is in shambles.

The regime has been imposing harsh power cuts across the country, sometimes for more than a day at a time in Havana.

There has been no word yet on a fix for the current blackout.

Will this be the final act of his illustrious career?

“I don't know,” he said. “We'll see.”

The NHL's career leader in goals didn't formally commit to returning in 2026-27 until last week, so it was perhaps no surprise that Ovechkin remained noncommittal on whether this is going to be his swan song in Washington. Ovechkin said his wife suggested he play “one more year, or maybe two years, I don't know" — so if anyone was expecting him to announce a retirement tour for this season, that did not happen.

Instead, Ovechkin is focused on showing he can still be effective — he'll be 41 — and help the team win. The organization he's returning to has been one of the most active in the league this offseason, adding Jordan Kyrou, Alex Tuch and Boone Jenner — among others — via the trade and free agent markets.

Those three have all reached 30 goals at some point in their careers, and Ovechkin did that even last season at his advanced age. The Capitals missed the playoffs, but they had the same number of points (95) as Vegas did before the Golden Knights made a run to the Stanley Cup Final. Washington also finished tied for third in the NHL in even-strength goal differential.

“When you look at our roster, it's a Stanley Cup contender,” Ovechkin said. “I know I still can play, and bring energy to the locker room, energy on the ice.”

The Capitals have mostly remained competitive even though almost everyone from their 2018 Stanley Cup-winning team is gone. Ovechkin and Tom Wilson are still around, but Nicklas Backstrom, T.J. Oshie, Braden Holtby and Evgeny Kuznetsov exited at various points since then. Veteran defenseman John Carlson, who was in his 17th year in Washington, was traded last season.

Now it's a team led by Ovechkin, Wilson, Dylan Strome, Jakob Chychrun, Pierre-Luc Dubois and goalie Logan Thompson — plus new additions.

“We came in looking to add skill to our top six,” president of hockey operations Brian MacLellan said. “We wanted to get a physical, long defenseman that had a net-front presence. We were looking at veteran leadership.”

Ovechkin said it took "maybe 10 minutes” to finalize a deal after telling the team he'd return. He'll make a $1 million salary with bonuses worth an additional $8 million — including $4.75 million if he plays 10 games. The contract counts just $4.25 million against the cap after Washington made plenty of use of its substantial salary cap space.

“Alex, thank you very, very much for the way you handled this," owner Ted Leonsis said.

Ovechkin appeared on a video conference while vacationing in Turkey. Leonsis, MacLellan and general manager Chris Patrick were on the call. Coach Spencer Carbery, who will be tasked with arranging all the new talent on the ice, wasn't.

Ovechkin scored 32 goals last season and 44 in 2024-25, when he broke Wayne Gretzky's career record of 894. He's still a threat in the offensive zone, although oddly, he managed only five power-play goals on 86 shots last season. The power play was a big problem for Washington in general.

The role Ovechkin will play going forward remains to be seen.

“I think we have a pretty balanced team,” Patrick said. “Like a lot of our players, he can move up and down the lineup as how Carbs sees fit, and how he wants to use the lines and deploy the lines on a given night. And obviously the power-play piece as well, where Alex has proven time and again he's an effective player.”

Ovechkin's news conference came shortly before the start of Monday's Portugal-Spain match in the World Cup. Ovechkin spoke glowingly about how Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina's Lionel Messi continue to perform against younger opposition.

“If you look at Messi and Ronaldo, those players show example that if you're able to continue show the level what you have, the skill, it's tremendous,” he said. “You can see how they play. It's tremendous. I'm really impressed.”

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Prosecutors opened the case against Christopher Veit after Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies found the girl in a dryer at his home on June 21 in Key Largo, records show.

The 16-year-old girl told deputies that she was 14 years old when she first connected with Veit on the “Seeking” site and he agreed to be her “sugar daddy,” according to a deputy’s report.

The list of charges Veit faced in Monroe County included possession of obscene material, cruelty toward a child, sexual assault, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.

Veit first faced charges of kidnapping or false imprisonment, interference with child custody, and unlawful sexual activity with a minor.

Veit was also under investigation in Orange and Osceola counties.

Personal de Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue y agentes de BSO respondieron después de las 2 p.m. a la intersección de Southwest 56th Avenue y Allen Road, según BSO.

El personal de bomberos y rescate trasladó al menor al Memorial Regional Hospital, según el jefe de batallón de BSFR, Michael B. Kane.

“Lamentablemente, fue declarado fallecido”, escribió Carey Codd, portavoz de BSO, en un comunicado, y añadió que detectives de la unidad de homicidios de tránsito de BSO investigan el caso.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Carson Merlo, contribuyó a este reporte.

Two Gilbert police officers saw possible signs of life multiple times, but the child was still taken to the hospital's “cold room" after being treated by staff, according to the documents.

“Please do your thing and let me do my thing,” Dr. Aryan Toosi told an officer at one point, according to the report. “I went to medical school for a reason.”

First responders were dispatched to the home at about 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 8 in response to a reported drowning. They performed life-saving measures on the child before taking him to a hospital where the boy was pronounced dead about an hour later.

About five hours later, police were notified that the child was indeed breathing, and he was flown to another hospital. The boy ultimately survived and has been released.

Boy survived but his parents are scrutiny

Gilbert police are recommending negligence charges against the parents. Investigators said there was a strong odor of marijuana at the home and open doors that could have allowed unsupervised access to the pool. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said it was reviewing the case and declined further comment Monday.

In 911 calls, two relatives frantically reported that the child had been pulled from the pool as people at the scene could be heard shrieking. One caller reported the toddler was unconscious.

No one answered at the home where the near-drowning occurred when an Associated Press photographer knocked there Monday.

Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, where the 18-month-old was taken, said in a statement that the hospital conducted “a thorough review of all aspects of the care provided to learn what happened and to make meaningful changes to strengthen our care.”

The hospital called it “a heartbreaking situation” and declined to release further details.

When a team from the local medical examiner's office arrived in the so-called cold room, they found the boy breathing and rushed him to another hospital, police said.

Doctor's lawyer says there's more to know

Scott Holden, an attorney for Toosi, told the AP that he wouldn't make a full statement on behalf of the doctor “other than to assure you that there is much more to this case, both factually and medically, than has been reported thus far.”

A GoFundMe page, which was created in February to help the boy's family with medical bills, said the toddler would need extensive therapy.

“Thank you for your prayers, your kindness, and your support for baby Vincent — our miracle fighter,” the page says.

An ABC affiliate in Phoenix, KNXV-TV, was the first to report the story.

There have been other cases of people discovered alive after being declared dead. In Southfield, Michigan, Timesha Beauchamp, a 20-year-old with cerebral palsy, was declared dead by a doctor over the phone in 2020. City paramedics had responded to a 911 call at her family’s home.

Later that day, a funeral home opened the body bag and found Beauchamp gasping for air. She was swiftly taken to a hospital but never recovered and died two months later. Southfield settled a negligence lawsuit filed by the family for $3.25 million.

Mistaken death declarations are rare but do happen

Cases in which someone is mistakenly declared dead and later found to be alive are rare, but they do happen, said Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist in San Francisco who is not associated with the case. “It tends to be much more common in elderly people than in children or toddlers,” she said.

“The criteria of death require no heartbeat, no breathing, and no brain activity or neurologic activity,” Melinek said. There were times when people were breathing very shallowly or intermittently, so medical practitioners had to wait a few minutes before the declaration, she added.

According to Melinek, determining death depends on a doctor’s skill and training, and policies may differ from hospital to hospital. “It’s either someone inexperienced got involved or a policy failure,” she said. “Because people, once they’re dead, they don’t come back to life — that doesn’t happen.” ___ Associated Press reporters Ed White in Detroit and Wufei Yu in Phoenix contributed to this story.

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Platner denied the allegation, but said he would be considering next steps for his campaign.

“Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we’re taking the time to reflect on the best path forward,” he said in a video released on social media.

Jenny Racicot, who lives in Maine, told Politico that Platner entered her home in 2021 while drunk and assaulted her. Racicot said she had been in an on-and-off relationship with Platner, but she cut off contact with him after that night and told him the incident wasn’t consensual. A voicemail left at a number listed for Racicot seeking comment did not receive an immediate response, but she said in a CNN interview on Monday evening that she opted not to fight back for fear of Platner, a former Marine, becoming more violent.

“He violated multiple layers of consent that night,” Racicot said.

Platner's campaign did not immediately respond to an email and phone message from The Associated Press seeking comment.

“Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false,” Platner said in his video.

Uproar in the Democratic Party

Platner won the Democratic nomination last month, setting himself up to face Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who has beaten back previous attempts to dislodge her from the seat that she's held for nearly three decades.

Although Platner has long been controversial, the sexual allegation sparked a flight away from the candidate, who canceled a handful of town hall events. The main campaign arm of Senate Democrats called on Platner to drop out and said it would spend no money on the race, which is considered critical to control of the chamber, if he is the nominee.

“Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw as the Democratic nominee for Senate and allow Maine Democrats the opportunity to choose a new candidate who can defeat Susan Collins,” Kirsten Gillibrand, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, said in a joint statement.

The Democratic National Committee sent out an email soliciting money for Senate races hours after the Politico report posted, but Maine was not one of them. Ken Martin, the party chair, said, “Maine Democrats should select a new nominee.”

Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who stood by Platner even as the candidate faced previous controversies, said Monday's allegation was enough. “I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line,” Khanna said. “These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.”

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced they were pulling their endorsements and called on Platner to drop out. The Democratic leaders of Maine's legislature and top officials at the state Democratic Party did the same.

“This Senate race comes at a pivotal moment in the struggle against a government, supported by Senator Collins, that serves the interests of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of ordinary Maine people. It is essential that we refocus this campaign on that struggle,” party chair Charlie Dingman, vice chair Imke Schessler and executive director Devon Murphy-Anderson said in a joint statement.

Collins issued only a brief statement.

“These allegations are appalling," she said. "Nevertheless, it is not up to me to choose the Democratic nominee for Senate.”

State law allows Platner to be replaced on the ballot if he withdraws by July 13. The replacement candidate must be named by July 27.

The Associated Press generally does not name victims of sexual assault, but in this case Racicot spoke in an interview with Politico.

A succession of campaign controversies

Platner had never before held elected office, and Democratic leaders in Washington preferred Gov. Janet Mills in the primary. However, Mills, 78, dropped out as Platner, 41, consolidated support with help from progressive leaders at a time when Democratic voters have grown disenchanted with the party establishment.

While some Democrats came around to support him after his commanding primary win, Platner's controversial history had already left others openly despairing of their chances of winning the race. A veteran who also worked for a private security contractor, Platner has a chest tattoo recognized as a Nazi symbol, reportedly sexted with other women shortly after getting married and had a history of inflammatory comments on social media.

In 2013, Platner posted on Reddit that people shouldn’t get so drunk “they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to” and that sexual assault victims should “just take some responsibility for themselves.” He's since apologized for the post and says he no longer holds those beliefs.

The New York Times also reported that Platner had volatile relationships with previous girlfriends, one of whom said an argument became physical. Platner denied the allegation.

Hasan Piker, a leftist commentator and streamer who backed Platner, seemed to reverse himself Monday following the Politico report.

“If new evidence presents itself, I’m going to change my perspective — it’s that simple,” Piker said during a livestream on Twitch, adding: “This is a clear-cut instance of verifiable sexual assault allegations. It’s completely irredeemable.”

Our Revolution, a progressive organization founded by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, said Platner should withdraw because the allegations “are too serious to treat as a distraction from the campaign or the issues.”

It also hinted at the potential battle over who would replace Platner.

“Whoever leads this movement forward must be someone who has actually lived the fight Graham Platner ran on: a record with working people, with unions, against corporate money, already tested and trusted by the same base that delivered this result,” said a statement from Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution.

Platner had pitched himself as a blue-collar oysterman and veteran who could reach disaffected voters. But as controversies mounted, some state Democrats had heartburn, embodied by Mills’ refusal to endorse Platner after she dropped out of the primary. Chatter circulated about possible replacements, including former state senator and logger Troy Jackson and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.

“I’ve known this has been coming,” said Marie Follayttar, a Democrat and community organizer in Maine, talking the growing whispers inside the state's small population that had been bracing for yet another revelation surrounding Platner. “I’ve been scared and I’ve been sick waiting.”

Mike Connelly, a business owner and Democrat in Brunswick, Maine, said in an interview that he wants Platner to drop out after the latest allegations. But Connelly said he'd vote for him if he stays in.

“I would vote for a comatose Democrat before I would vote for Susan Collins,” Connelly said.

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Jesse Bedayn contributed from Austin, Texas, Meg Kinnard contributed from Columbia, S.C., and Ali Swenson contributed from New York.

Trump's intervention in the lifting of U.S. forward Folarin Balogun's one-match suspension has shone the spotlight on his close ties with Infantino. It has led to furor from Belgium — the U.S. team's opponent in the round of 16 match on Monday — as European soccer's governing body, UEFA, accused FIFA of crossing a “red line.”

The highly contentious call comes on the back of Infantino's campaign to strengthen relations with Trump, the leader of the co-host of the biggest World Cup ever.

Ties have grown during Trump’s second term

On Monday, in response to the fallout over the Balogun decision, Infantino said he had been in regular discussions with Trump about the World Cup.

Trump’s own interest in soccer grew after the U.S. won the right to co-host the tournament back in 2018, during the Republican's first term, and he hosted Infantino at the White House. The FIFA president, who took office in 2016, made an impression by handing Trump red and yellow cards, joking they could be used on the press.

Since then, the pair's relationship has only grown. In 2020, they had dinner together at the global economic summit in Davos, where Infantino called Trump “my great friend.” That same year, Trump invited Infantino to the White House for the signing event for the Abraham Accords, which sought to normalize diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab countries, as Infantino was shoring up FIFA's own ties with Saudi Arabia.

Infantino's ties to Joe Biden, who defeated Trump in 2020, were far more low-key. Biden and Infantino met briefly at a Group of 20 summit in 2022 and the FIFA president visited the White House at least once, in 2024.

Infantino publicly congratulated Trump the day after he won the 2024 presidential election and visited Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s South Florida club, during the presidential transition. He then attended Trump’s inauguration, saying they “share a great friendship.”

Infantino attended Trump’s Board of Peace meeting in Washington earlier this year where nine governments pledged $7 billion toward a Gaza relief package. Infantino pledged a new stadium, FIFA academy and various soccer fields to the war-torn region.

In December, human rights advocacy group Fair Square filed a complaint with FIFA’s ethics committee, accusing Infantino of repeated breaches of the governing body’s code regarding political neutrality, citing examples of his public support for the “actions and policies of the US President, Donald Trump.”

Trophies, trophies, trophies

The most tangible product of the close ties between Infantino and Trump came in the form of FIFA's inaugural peace prize, which was created in November — not long after Trump complained he had been snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. The FIFA prize did indeed go to the U.S. president, whom Infantino praised for his “unwavering commitment to advancing peace and unity throughout the world.” During the 2026 World Cup draw in December, Infantino awarded Trump a golden trophy with his name on it, as well as a medal to hang around his neck.

“This is truly one of the great honors of my life,” Trump said at the ceremony, adding that “most important, I just want to thank everybody. The world is a safer place now.”

Trump has also been given other trophies of a sporting kind.

Ahead of the newly expanded Club World Cup tournament being held in the U.S. last year, the giant Tiffany-crafted trophy, with a 24-karat gold-plated finish, had sat in the Oval Office. In an interview with broadcaster DAZN, Trump said he asked FIFA when it would pick up the trophy. He said he was told: “You can have it forever in the Oval Office. We’re making a new one.”

Trump was also gifted a gold replica World Cup trophy, with Infantino saying it was “for winners only.”

Trump and Infantino's mutual respect

Trump has described Infantino as “probably the most respected man in sports.” They were together in a luxury box at MetLife Stadium for the Club World Cup final in July last year. There, they began planning to stage the showpiece World Cup draw later that year in Washington, when it was widely thought it would have been hosted in Las Vegas.

Infantino has embraced close relationships with previous host countries, even collecting the Russian Order of Friendship from Vladimir Putin after the 2018 World Cup and, ahead of the 2022 World Cup, relocating to Qatar. While Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney were also in attendance at December's draw, it was Trump who was given special treatment, alone receiving the FIFA peace prize.

“You can always count on my support,” Infantino told Trump at the glitzy event, which was closed out by the Village People performing “Y.M.C.A.”

Trump confirmed Monday that he had called Infantino last week asking for a review of Balogun's suspension, which was subsequently lifted, clearing the striker to play against Belgium.

“I didn’t tell him what to do. I can’t tell him what to do,” Trump said Monday.

Infantino said FIFA's judicial bodies are independent and autonomous and that was “essential to the credibility and integrity of football.”

Trump has yet to attend a World Cup match, though Infantino has taken in matches with members of the Trump administration, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and FBI Director Kash Patel. Trump is planning to join Infantino for the World Cup final and award the trophy to the winning team, Infantino said in a “Fox and Friends” interview last month.

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They will be part of the team's three-car full-season lineup that also includes Pato O’Ward.

And Ryan Hunter-Reay, the 2014 Indy 500 winner, will be in the driver’s seat again in its fourth entry in the 111th running of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” the team also announced Monday.

That means three former winners and one of the most competitive oval racers in the series will make up Arrow McLaren’s Indy 500 lineup next May. The team is seeking its first Indy 500 victory since Johnny Rutherford's 1976 win.

“Our IndyCar team has shown fantastic momentum, and this lineup of Pato, Scott, Felix and Ryan will strengthen every aspect of our program," McLaren CEO Zak Brown said in a news release. "We’ve got our eyes firmly set on the Championship as well as winning the Indianapolis 500 to secure the Triple Crown in the Papaya era. These four drivers bring a wealth of experience as well as great chemistry and will no doubt have a positive impact across our entire team.”

The 45-year-old Dixon won IndyCar championships in 2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2020 and is second all-time in series victories with 59. He won the 2008 Indianapolis 500.

Chip Ganassi Racing announced Thursday that Dixon had informed the team he would not return in 2027.

Dixon called joining Arrow McLaren an “exciting next step in my career.”

“It was a big decision for myself, for my family, and I’m looking forward to contributing to what the team, Zak and Tony are building there,” Dixon said in the news release. "As a New Zealander, being part of Bruce McLaren’s legacy will be special; his spirit and grit are still very much rooted in that team, and I’m excited to carry that on.”

Rosenqvist announced last month he was leaving Meyer Shank Racing at the end of the IndyCar season.

The 34-year-old from Sweden has been with the team for the past three seasons, earning his biggest win when he drove the No. 60 car past David Malukas to win the Indy 500 in the closest finish in the race’s century-plus history.

Rosenqvist returns to Arrow McLaren, where raced from 2021 through 2023. He won the Indy 500 pole in 2023 for McLaren.

“There are a lot of familiar faces, and we’ve got an incredible lineup with Scott joining and Ryan returning for the 500,” Rosenqvist said. "I think our collective experience will be a huge benefit.”

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Justice Samuel Alito, in a pair of one-sentence orders, denied petitions by plaintiffs who claim that the Texas App Store Accountability Act violates users' constitutional rights to free speech.

Last month, a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law can take effect. The panel suspended a district court's ruling last December that the law is unconstitutional.

The plaintiffs suing to block the law include the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a defendant in both cases.

Plaintiffs' lawyers argued that the law impermissibly seeks to limit access to content protected by the First Amendment, including news and educational material.

“Equity and the public interest support relief because protecting First Amendment rights — and parents’ rights to supervise their children as they see fit, not as the government tells them they should — is always in the public interest,” wrote attorneys for Students Engaged in Advancing Texas.

Attorneys from Paxton's office argued that the law protects children from “dangerous modern products.”

“A child with access to an app store and a mobile device (such as a tablet or smartphone) can potentially download any number of software applications, potentially agreeing to invasions of the child’s privacy and sale of the child’s data and be exposed to any conceivable content without parental consent or even parental knowledge,” they wrote.

It happened Saturday evening near the intersection of Dania Beach Boulevard and Southeast Second Avenue in Dania Beach.

On Sunday, deputies arrested Vladimir Mushenko, 38, in connection to the crash.

Video obtained by Local 10 News showed a white BMW convertible going east on Dania Beach Boulevard before losing control near Second Avenue.

The vehicle traveled over the median and struck a Mercedes-Benz that was traveling westbound.

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue said one person died as a result of the crash and six others were injured, including four adults and two minors.

One of the injured persons has since been pronounced deceased.

Authorities have not publicly identified any of the victims.

Mushenko is facing a bevy of charges that includes two counts of DUI causing death, two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of DUI with damage to a person or property.

Of course, when it comes to Mick Jagger and company, time seems almost irrelevant.

“No matter who you are or where you’re from or how old you are, you know who the Rolling Stones are,” Zilisch said.

Zilisch joined fellow drivers Carson Hocevar and Jesse Love for a music video as part of a collaboration between NASCAR and the Stones ahead of the band's 25th studio album, “Foreign Tongues,” which comes out on Friday.

A custom NASCAR show car served as a listening lounge for the Stones' new music during events at Chicago's Navy Pier and Plaza of the Americas in the run-up to the stock car series returning to Chicagoland Speedway over the weekend.

The partnership also includes a merchandise collection featuring the band's tongue and lips logo, along with two NASCAR-themed vinyl editions of “Foreign Tongues.”

Megan Malayter, vice president of licensing and consumer products for NASCAR, said the organization was approached by representatives of the band about working together.

“The Rolling Stones, they’re iconic, they’ve been around since 1962, and so they appeal to that generation that was there, but they have just such history, folklore, and nostalgia around them that they appeal to the younger audiences of today," Malayter said. "So there really is amazing crossover."

NASCAR walks a tricky line when it comes to satisfying older racing fans while appealing to its younger supporters and expanding its audience. While its older fans are likely more familiar with the Stones, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, Zilisch, Hocevar and Love are three of its younger drivers. Garrett Mitchell, a popular YouTube automotive influencer known as “Cleetus McFarland,” also was part of the video.

“I think when you look at all of those drivers, they have great personalities, very rebellious spirits and they kind of have a rock and roll nature about them, just kind of at heart,” Malayter said.

Set to “In The Stars,” the first single off “Foreign Tongues,” the music video envisions the drivers as a touring rock band.

Zilisch, 19, Love, 21, and Hocevar, 23, clown around during a photo shoot before jumping on a tour bus driven by Mitchell. The drivers play cards before stopping at a bar. Back on the bus, Hocevar, who drives the No. 77 Chevrolet for Spire Motorsports in the Cup Series, writes 77 on the face of a sleeping Zilisch in black marker.

The video ends with the drivers at the track in their fire suits, signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans.

“It was cool. It was fun,” Hocevar said. “Yeah, just nice to kind of let loose, I guess, on a video.”

Hocevar said he likes to see NASCAR try new ways to interact with potential fans.

“Yeah, they have to,” he said. “I feel like they just got to keep throwing stuff at the dartboard and hopefully something sticks here.”

Zilisch described himself as a huge music fan. He grew up listening to Foo Fighters, Linkin Park and the Red Hot Chili Peppers with his father in the car. He said he has paid more attention to the Stones' music since he became part of NASCAR's partnership with the band.

Filming the video, Zilisch said, was a memorable experience.

“They made us dress up like we were in the 90s and wear leather and have all this jewelry on,” he said. “It definitely was a little bit unique and outside of what I would normally be wearing but regardless it was just a cool shoot. We got to go inside this old tour bus and, you know, just kind of feel like I was back in the day even though I’ve never lived in that era of time.”

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De la ​Espriella, who is due to take office on Aug. 7, announced in a statement that he had tasked Jorge Eduardo Mora López with gaining control of “every corner of the country.”

Mora López, who was born in Cúcuta, released a public statement to De la Espriella accepting the appointment to lead the defense sector.

“We are going to recover every inch of our territory so that security becomes the bridge to social progress,” Mora López wrote, according to the statement.

The Colombian Congress does not have to approve the president’s cabinet ministers.

Mora López’s experience includes serving as the special forces commander and as the director of the Joint Intelligence and Counterintelligence Department of the Military Forces and the Joint Strategic Department against Transnational Threats.

De la Espriella’s appointments also include Miguel Gómez Martínez, as minister of finance; Rodrigo Lara, as minister of the interior; and Fabio Arjona, as minister of environment and sustainable development.

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The data, posted in late June by the Trump administration and first reported on by The Associated Press, reveals how changes in each state’s insured population led to around 2.6 million fewer Americans having Obamacare plans in February compared with the same time last year.

It captures not only how many people signed up for or were automatically reenrolled in plans in 2026, but how many paid their first monthly premiums to keep coverage, according to Cynthia Cox, a vice president and director of the ACA program at the healthcare research nonprofit KFF, who reviewed the dataset. She said it accounts for people who were retroactively removed from coverage after a nonpayment grace period ended.

“This is the first time we’ve seen state-level data that shows how much ACA marketplace enrollment truly fell,” Cox said. “It’s in line with our expectations, but it does show a very steep drop in the number of people with ACA coverage.”

Healthcare affordability is a central issue to voters

Health analysts have kept a close eye on changes in ACA enrollment since the expiration of so-called enhanced premium tax credits caused many Americans’ monthly health insurance fees to double or triple, forcing some to forgo coverage entirely. The subsidies had been at the center of a bitter fight in Congress last fall, with Democrats and some Republicans calling for their renewal.

Health insurance costs have been rising across ACA and other health insurance programs at a time when voters in the approaching November elections say affordability is among their top concerns.

In a report released last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suggested the significant drop in enrollment this year could be attributed to a federal crackdown on fraudulent or “phantom” enrollment. But analysts have said it was more likely related to the Jan. 1 expiration of federal subsidies, and other changes, including tightened requirements on which immigrants could access subsidized plans.

Mike Rhoads, deputy commissioner of life and health at the Oklahoma Insurance Department, cited a crackdown on fraudulent enrollments as one reason ACA enrollments dropped. But he said in his state, the biggest factor was money.

“It's all about affordability at this point in time,” he said in an interview, adding that he expects the problem to continue with insurers forecast to raise rates again next year.

Ohio, Oklahoma and Arizona saw the most significant drop-offs

An AP analysis of the data finds that Ohio and Oklahoma each saw a more than 32% decline in ACA enrollment over the past year. They lost larger shares of their covered populations than any other state.

Following closely behind, and losing more than a fourth of their enrollees, were Arizona, South Carolina, Minnesota, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri.

Florida, a state that relies highly on ACA insurance in part because it did not expand Medicaid and is home to many gig workers and entrepreneurs, still has more residents in the marketplace than any other state, at nearly 4 million. But it also saw the highest number of enrollees drop coverage this year — around 443,000.

The data doesn’t show whether people who dropped ACA health insurance this year found coverage elsewhere, and chances are some of them became insured through employer plans or other options. But Cox said most people who left the marketplace are likely going without insurance, because it is typically a “place of last resort” to get health coverage for people who aren’t eligible elsewhere.

Some of the states that saw the largest enrollment declines were the same ones that saw the biggest enrollment gains after the federal government introduced enhanced subsidies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cox said that isn’t surprising, because those states likely had large numbers of people who enrolled only because the enhanced subsidies made coverage much more affordable.

Only one state saw an increase in its covered population. New Mexico gained some 14% more enrollees in the government health insurance program compared with the same time last year. It was the only state in the nation that fully replaced the lost federal subsidies using its own funds.

Federal marketplace states saw biggest enrollment losses

About three in five states use the federal marketplace Healthcare.gov, while the rest operate their own state-based marketplaces for ACA insurance.

The new data shows that federal marketplace states overall lost larger shares of enrollees than states with state-based exchanges.

One reason for that could be that many states with their own marketplaces took steps to offset costs for their residents when the enhanced subsidies expired in January.

New Mexico, which saw double-digit enrollment gains, is the most extreme example of that. In a special legislative session last fall, lawmakers in the state approved a plan to use state funds to make up for the missing subsidies through mid-2026. In March, the state’s governor signed a bill to continue making up the difference through mid-2027.

Tim Fowler, public relations coordinator for the New Mexico Health Care Authority, said the state's rise in enrollment was due to its healthcare affordability fund that replaced the subsidies.

“In New Mexico, we believe health insurance should protect people against medical debt, not cause it,” he said.

Monica Latesha Peterson, de 33 años y residente de Miami Gardens, fue arrestada tras una investigación de los detectives sobre el robo reportado en el resort frente al mar, ubicado en 18001 Collins Ave.

Según un informe de arresto, la víctima le dijo a la policía que dejó una riñonera negra con aproximadamente $6,500 en billetes de $100 sobre una cómoda dentro de su habitación de hotel antes de salir a un partido de fútbol el viernes. Ese día, Argentina venció a Cabo Verde en un partido del Mundial en Miami Gardens.

Cuando el huésped revisó la bolsa al día siguiente, descubrió que faltaba el dinero y reportó el robo a la policía.

Los detectives revisaron los videos de vigilancia del hotel y los registros de acceso con tarjeta electrónica de los empleados durante la investigación. Según el informe de arresto, los registros mostraron que Peterson usó su tarjeta electrónica asignada para entrar a la habitación de la víctima aproximadamente a las 6:11 p.m. del viernes, mientras el huésped no se encontraba dentro.

Los investigadores también determinaron que Peterson no tenía asignada la limpieza ni ningún otro servicio de esa habitación como parte de sus funciones laborales, indica el informe.

La policía detuvo a Peterson y la trasladó al Departamento de Policía de Sunny Isles Beach para interrogarla.

Según el informe de arresto, Peterson renunció a sus derechos Miranda y participó en una entrevista grabada, durante la cual hizo algún tipo de admisión, aunque su declaración exacta fue omitida del informe divulgado públicamente. El informe no confirma si parte del dinero robado fue recuperado.

Después de la entrevista, Peterson fue ingresada al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Peterson enfrenta un cargo de robo agravado.

Ya no aparecía en la base de datos carcelaria en línea la tarde del lunes.

A federal grand jury in West Virginia indicted Kriisa last month, and the case was unsealed Monday following his arrest by federal agents on Saturday in Kentucky. A 6-foot-3 guard from Estonia, Kriisa began his college career in 2020 at Arizona, where he became a fan favorite for his feistiness and long-range shooting.

Kriisa, 25, is expected to appear in federal court in West Virginia this week on five counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Matthew Harvey said.

“Financial fraud schemes erode trust and cause real harm to victims who believed they were helping someone in need,” Harvey said in a news release.

Kriisa led the Pac-12 in assists during his two full seasons at Arizona before transferring to West Virginia. Kriisa was suspended the first nine games of his lone season at West Virginia after admitting he received impermissible benefits while at Arizona.

Kriisa transferred to Kentucky in 2024, but was limited to nine games due to a foot injury. He transferred to Cincinnati for his final year of eligibility and started 12 games before suffering a separated shoulder in February.

From 2022 through June 2 of this year, he posed as other people, including his own mother, and falsely claimed that he and his family urgently needed money to deal with an emergency, the indictment says.

The indictment alleges that, in August 2022, Kriisa falsely told one victim that he had gotten a loan to repay her and then a few months falsely told her he planned to sell his organs to get money to repay her. Between 2022 and 2024, he contacted the same victim, posing as his own mother, and asked for money to pay for cancer treatments for his mother and to save the family's farm, the indictment says.

In April 2025, he signed a written agreement falsely promising to repay that victim $100,000 by February 2026.

From November 2025 through early February of this year, Kriisa repeatedly asked a second victim for money, sometimes posing as a made-up person named “Irene.”

Monica Latesha Peterson, 33, of Miami Gardens, was arrested after detectives investigated the reported theft at the oceanfront resort, located at 18001 Collins Ave.

According to an arrest report, the victim told police he left a black fanny pack containing approximately $6,500 in $100 bills on a dresser inside his hotel room before leaving for a soccer game on Friday. Argentina defeated Cape Verde in the World Cup in Miami Gardens that day.

When the guest checked the bag the following day, he discovered the cash was missing and reported the theft to police.

Detectives reviewed hotel surveillance video and employee keycard access logs during the investigation. According to the arrest report, the records showed Peterson used her assigned employee keycard to enter the victim’s room at approximately 6:11 p.m. Friday while the guest was not inside.

Investigators also determined Peterson was not assigned to clean or otherwise service the room as part of her job duties, the report states.

Police took Peterson into custody and transported her to the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department for questioning.

According to the arrest report, Peterson waived her Miranda rights and participated in a recorded interview, during which she provided some kind of admission, although her exact statement was redacted from the publicly released report. The report does not confirm whether any of the stolen money was recovered.

After the interview, Peterson was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Court records show Peterson is facing a grand theft charge.

She was no longer appearing in the online jail database on Monday afternoon.

McConnell was admitted to the hospital on June 14, according to a statement from his office that only said he was “receiving excellent care.” A statement a week later said that he would not be voting that week. And on Thursday, a new statement said that he “continues to improve” and ”appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital.”

His office has not released any updates since then, and a spokeswoman did not return a request for comment on Monday.

The senator’s unspecified health issues come after several hospitalizations in recent years, and as Senate Republicans are already navigating a narrow majority in the final months before the midterm elections. McConnell, 84, was the longest serving Senate leader in history before stepping aside from that role. He is serving out his final term, which ends in January.

While he was still Republican leader, McConnell was hospitalized with a concussion in March 2023 and missed several weeks of work after falling in a Washington hotel. After he returned, he twice froze up during news conferences that summer, staring vacantly ahead before colleagues and staff came to his assistance. A year later, he fell and sprained his wrist while walking out of a GOP luncheon.

McConnell had polio in his early childhood and he has long acknowledged some difficulty as an adult in walking and climbing stairs. He also tripped and fell in 2019 at his home in Kentucky and underwent surgery for a fractured shoulder.

McConnell was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and was the Republican leader from 2007 until last year, serving as both majority and minority leader during that period. He has remained active as a rank-and-file senator, showing up for work when the chamber is in session, often using a wheelchair to get around.

According to Miramar Fire Rescue officials, the car fire was reported at about 1 p.m. in the 6600 block of Dahlia Drive.

MFR officials said crews arrived at the scene and found a car fully engulfed in flames.

Officials then determined that a natural gas line was leaking in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle.

MFR officials said the vehicle was unoccupied and no injuries were reported.

The gas company is enroute to the area as MFR crews and a hazmat unit remain at the scene.

A man reported on Sunday in Allapattah that Raeyana Hamilton was a passenger in his car when she used a Taser to shoot him in the neck, according to police.

“The victim stated that he was startled and temporarily overwhelmed by the electrical shock, but maintained control of the vehicle,” a police officer wrote, according to an arrest report.

The man said he stopped the car, confronted Hamilton, and “located a Taser on the ground” that police officers later took into evidence, according to the police report.

Hamilton walked away from the car, and Miami police officers later found her at the Shell gas station at 2698 NW 36 St., according to the police report.

Hamilton “stated she never Tased the victim,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Hamilton on Sunday night at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she remained on Monday.

Hamilton faced a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Her bond was $1,000.

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

Sky 10 was above the 200 block of South State Road 7 just after 11:30 a.m. as Plantation police officers and Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies were at the scene.

A tractor-trailer was stopped in the roadway nearby.

According to Plantation police, an air unit and K-9s were assisting in the search for the suspect.

Police confirmed around 2 p.m. that units were unable to locate the suspect, but detectives continue to work the case.

Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

On Monday, on the first day, he tried to give it something else to look at.

Three days after Swift married NFL star Travis Kelce at New York’s Madison Square Garden, with both dressed by Dior, Anderson returned to the runway with a sculptural, heavily pleated haute couture collection inspired by American artist Lynda Benglis.

The commission was a coup for the LVMH-owned house and for Anderson, the 41-year-old Northern Irish designer appointed a year ago to overhaul all of Dior’s fashion lines.

For months, industry watchers had bet on American names, such as Ralph Lauren, or on Vivienne Westwood, whom Swift wears often.

The one dress the world wanted to see was the one Anderson would not show.

So on Monday he changed the subject — to art.

Poured, not sewn

The collection tried to move the conversation from Swift’s hidden gown to the work of Benglis, known since the late 1960s for pouring latex onto gallery floors and letting metal fold and sag into shape.

Dior workrooms were treated as a version of her studio — a place where flat fabric is pressed, knotted and bent into three dimensions.

Benglis bends flat material into shape; so, in the end, does couture.

The clothes followed that idea. A skirt of silver-foiled petals moved with each step.

A strapless silver lamé gown was cinched with an oversized bow. Trousers and blouses were finished in tight hand-pressed pleats.

Dior’s signature Bar jacket, the nipped-waist shape the house has built on since 1947, was remade several ways: in fern-green tweed with a frayed fringe, in gray houndstooth folded into a giant bow, and once with loose chiffon threads left hanging at the hem.

Other looks were built entirely from embroidered silk flowers.

A wide fan of blue tulle was splayed across the front of one dress.

Handbags came in metallic pleats — four of them designed with Benglis herself.

Fans out, stars in

France was in another heat wave, with temperatures above 30 Celsius (86 F).

Dior had sent fans with its invitations, and guests used them through the show in the gardens of the Rodin Museum.

The front row mixed pop stars with artists.

Singer Sabrina Carpenter and actor Josh O’Connor sat among guests including Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas, Naomi Watts, Rebecca Ferguson and Alexa Chung.

Despite the razzmatazz, Anderson's wager is plain: that the world’s most storied fashion house can afford to be strange.

He is often compared to Matthieu Blazy, the new designer at rival Chanel, who made the wedding dress for singer Dua Lipa this month.

The season now carries a peculiar distinction: Its two biggest stories are dresses no one is allowed to see.

The bride you can’t see

As couture tradition dictates, the show closed with a bride.

Anderson sent out a pale, strapless column gown under a long veil of hand-pleated chiffon, trimmed with feathered dandelions and embroidered cactus flowers.

It was the second wedding dress Anderson showcased this week — and the only one anyone could photograph.

Confirmation of the project came as construction crews had already begun working on the helipad on the South Lawn, where the president had UFC build a temporary arena for a cage fight celebrating his 80th birthday. He said the project would be privately funded and estimated its cost at up to $6 million.

“It’s got the seal of the White House on it in granite, in carved granite,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "It’s really a beautiful thing.”

The Republican president did not offer details on how long the work would take. It is the latest major construction project he has overseen in an effort to increasingly mold the White House in his own image.

The helipad will be able to handle new choppers, Trump says

Some of Trump's major White House construction projects have relied on public money, even when the president initially suggested otherwise. Still, Trump said Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin, would be paying for the helipad.

Asked about the cost of the project and a timeline for its completion, Lockheed Martin responded with a statement reading in part: “This specific contribution was made to the National Park Service” and “conducted in full accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.”

In 2024, Sikorsky completed a new fleet of helicopters for use as Marine One, and President Joe Biden took the first flight aboard a modern VH-92A Patriot helicopter on his way to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago — the same day the military announced Sikorsky delivered the last of the 23 new aircraft.

A Sikorsky spokesperson said Monday that the new helicopters deliver “increased performance and reduced maintenance costs and time.”

But Trump said the newer aircraft were more powerful than Vietnam War-era choppers that long had been used as Marine One, and the modern ones were too potent to land on the White House lawn without damaging the grass.

"It’s not that the grass gets discolored — it gets ripped out,” the president said.

Indeed, the new helicopters have seen limited service because their exhaust vents aim heat downward, scorching the White House South Lawn.

The Marines and Sikorsky have spent years trying to find a solution to the problem, which has meant that the new helicopters haven't been used at the White House. Trump recalled telling a group of gathered military generals that a White House helipad would solve those problems.

The president said Sikorsky was building the helipad and paying the "full cost” because they “felt a little bit guilty” that the new fleet of helicopters was too powerful to land at the White House.

Trump also said he told builders to “do a beauty” and suggested using granite rather than simply laying concrete and painting it white.

“You’re landing on granite, which is the strongest stone,” the president said, noting that the completed landing pad could also be used for other events, like outdoor White House news conferences. He added that the helipad will allow officials to “finally retire 45-year-old helicopters” that had been used as Marine One.

Trump's other projects to remake the White House include tearing up part of the Rose Garden for a patio space reminiscent of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and affixing partisan plaques to the wall of the colonnade for a Presidential Walk of Fame.

Trump also had crews redo the bathroom attached to the Lincoln Bedroom and renovate the Palm Room, place new flagpoles on the north and south lawns and demolish the entire East Wing for a sprawling ballroom.

Efforts to improve presidential helicopters go back decades

While the term “Marine One” is applied to a variety of helicopter models that transport presidents, the most iconic and longest serving helicopter to take on the mission is the specially modified VH-3D Sea King helicopter that first entered service in 1978.

In the early 2000s, President George W. Bush, a Republican, began an effort to modernize the helicopter fleet, but the program ran into cost overruns, leading it to be scrapped by President Barack Obama's administration.

Obama, a Democrat, restarted the program, but new technical issues emerged, and it wasn’t until May 2014 that the military finally awarded Sikorsky a contract to build the next presidential helicopter -- the VH-92A Patriot, which were the aircraft delivered in 2024.

A Marine Corps spokesman, Capt. Jacob M. Sugg, declined to comment on matters pertaining to the White House property. But he said the Marine One squadron currently consists of nine Sikorsky VH-3D Sea Kings that were first deployed in the 1970s, as well as six Sikorsky VH-60Ns deployed in the late 1980s and 10 of the newer VH-92A Patriots.

Trump says ‘a lot of love is being put into the White House’

Later Monday, Trump addressed a lunch in the Rose Garden patio space and detailed yet another White House construction project, this one to revamp the columns on the building's north side.

Crews have erected scaffolding and Trump said, “We’ve taken about 150 years of paint off of the columns," noting, “If you don’t strip the paint off, it gets worse and worse and worse.”

“A lot of love is being put into the White House,” Trump said.

He didn't say who would be covering the cost of the column work.

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Investigators said Devian Blount, 21, of Graham, North Carolina, shot and killed Jaydon Williams, also 21, while the latter was on FaceTime with his girlfriend, still in the Tar Heel State.

Authorities said it happened just after 12:50 a.m. at a home at 1923 Funston St., which the “group of friends” had rented through Airbnb.

Police said Williams’ girlfriend called 911 after the FaceTime call “abruptly ended” following the shooting.

According to an arrest warrant, officers responded and heard a person call out for help, went inside and found Williams lying face down on a bed, having suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Still alive, police said he told them he didn’t know who shot him. He died at Memorial Regional Hospital less than an hour and a half later.

Blount had left the crime scene, police said.

Police said several other people from the group came back to the Airbnb after learning of the shooting and told investigators that earlier that day, they had been among a group of 30 to 40 participating in a “relaxed” yacht party off Miami. Investigators noted that “none of the witnesses observed Williams involved in any arguments, altercations or conflicts.”

The warrant states that Williams’ girlfriend later told police she heard an unknown man accuse Williams of stealing property while on the boat trip. Police said she heard him reply, “Yo, chill, you’re drunk,” immediately before hearing multiple gunshots.

Investigators said that they learned that Blount and Williams had stayed behind while the rest of the group went to LIV Nightclub in Miami Beach.

One of the group members told police that Blount had been “acting strangely throughout the trip” but that they never saw the two get into any arguments.

Police said at around 5:30 that morning, they received a call from someone who found a gun on the sidewalk near South Federal Highway and Fletcher Street, consistent with a gun Blount was known to carry.

Just after 7 a.m., police said Blount, identifying himself only as “Suave,” showed up at the crime scene and asked officers, unprompted, “Where everybody at?”

“We weren’t supposed to leave until tomorrow,” Blount said, according to the warrant.

But Blount now likely won’t be leaving South Florida anytime soon. Police said a witness identified Blount as the only person known to be in the Airbnb at the time and officers took him into custody on a first-degree murder charge.

As of Monday afternoon, he was being held without bond at the Broward Main Jail.

Los oficiales respondieron al reporte alrededor de la 1:35 p.m. del domingo.

El menor fue trasladado a un hospital cercano, donde posteriormente murió.

La policía indicó que la investigación sigue activa. No se han divulgado más detalles.

“Esta es una pérdida desgarradora, y nuestros pensamientos están con la familia del menor y con todos los afectados por esta tragedia”, dijo el departamento en un comunicado.

La policía también recordó a padres, tutores y cuidadores que siempre revisen el asiento trasero antes de cerrar el vehículo con seguro y alejarse.

“Las temperaturas dentro de un auto estacionado pueden alcanzar niveles peligrosos en cuestión de minutos, incluso en días que no se sienten particularmente calurosos”, indicó el departamento. “Un último vistazo antes de cerrar la puerta puede salvar la vida de un niño”.

Los investigadores dijeron que Devian Blount, de 21 años y residente de Graham, Carolina del Norte, disparó y mató a Jaydon Williams, también de 21 años, mientras este último hablaba por FaceTime con su novia, quien permanecía en ese estado.

Las autoridades dijeron que el hecho ocurrió poco después de las 12:50 a.m. en una vivienda ubicada en 1923 Funston St., que el “grupo de amigos” había alquilado a través de Airbnb.

La policía dijo que la novia de Williams llamó al 911 después de que la llamada de FaceTime “terminara abruptamente” tras el tiroteo.

Según una orden de arresto, los oficiales respondieron, escucharon a una persona pedir ayuda, entraron y encontraron a Williams boca abajo sobre una cama, con múltiples heridas de bala. Todavía con vida, la policía dijo que les indicó que no sabía quién le había disparado. Murió en el Memorial Regional Hospital menos de una hora y media después.

Blount había abandonado la escena del crimen, dijo la policía.

La policía dijo que varias otras personas del grupo regresaron al Airbnb al enterarse del tiroteo y les contaron a los investigadores que, más temprano ese día, habían formado parte de un grupo de 30 a 40 personas en una “relajada” fiesta en yate frente a Miami. Los investigadores señalaron que “ninguno de los testigos observó a Williams involucrado en discusiones, altercados o conflictos”.

La orden de arresto indica que la novia de Williams le dijo posteriormente a la policía que escuchó a un hombre desconocido acusar a Williams de robar una pertenencia durante el paseo en bote. La policía dijo que ella lo escuchó responder: “Oye, tranquilo, estás borracho”, justo antes de escuchar varios disparos.

Los investigadores dijeron que supieron que Blount y Williams se habían quedado atrás mientras el resto del grupo fue al club nocturno LIV en Miami Beach.

Uno de los integrantes del grupo le dijo a la policía que Blount había estado “actuando de forma extraña durante todo el viaje”, pero que nunca los vieron discutir.

La policía dijo que, alrededor de las 5:30 de esa mañana, recibieron una llamada de alguien que encontró un arma en la acera cerca de South Federal Highway y Fletcher Street, consistente con un arma que se sabía que Blount solía portar.

Poco después de las 7 a.m., la policía dijo que Blount, identificándose solo como “Suave”, se presentó en la escena del crimen y les preguntó a los oficiales, sin que se lo pidieran, “¿Dónde está todo el mundo?”.

“Se suponía que no nos íbamos hasta mañana”, dijo Blount, según la orden de arresto.

Pero es probable que Blount no salga del sur de Florida pronto. La policía dijo que un testigo identificó a Blount como la única persona que se sabía estaba en el Airbnb en ese momento, y los oficiales lo detuvieron bajo un cargo de asesinato en primer grado.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, permanecía detenido sin fianza en el Broward Main Jail.

Two people were briefly trapped in debris at the BJ’s Wholesale Club in Ocean Township but managed to escape, and no injuries were reported, according to the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office.

Flooding rains were reported in parts of New York City, Philadelphia and New Jersey as rounds of storms moved through the area Monday, breaking a heat wave that gripped much of the area last week.

On Sunday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani warned about heatstroke and shared locations of pools and cooling centers. By Monday, he was urging people to leave basement apartments immediately if they saw water rising in their homes.

Heavy rain stranded cars on flooded highways across northern New Jersey and sloshed water into businesses and at least one hospital.

“Nothing too serious. They have us running from call to call,” said Lakewood Police Capt. Leroy Marshall.

The rain and storms broke the heat dome that settled over much of the Northeast last week.

LaGuardia Airport in New York set a record high Thursday of 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). Low temperatures in many places barely made it below 80 degrees F (26.7 C), preventing people from cooling off even at night.

The temperature at LaGuardia hovered just below 70 degrees F (21.1 C) Monday with the rain.

Officials in New Jersey were investigating at least 29 deaths last week that were possibly heat-related. The people were found dead on the street or in homes without air conditioning. They ranged in ages from their 30s to their 80s, New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Raynard Washington said.

Autopsies and other investigations will be needed before the deaths are officially blamed on the heat, Washington said.

Other states have not announced possible deaths from the heat.

Severe storms moved from Michigan to the East Coast as the heat wave broke over the weekend.

In Michigan, two children, ages 8 and 12, were found dead Saturday in a garage after they were apparently overcome by exhaust from a generator during a storm-related power outage, Sumpter Township police said.

About 370,000 people remained without power across the country, most from the storm damage, according to poweroutage.com.

Antetokounmpo's time with the Bucks officially ended Monday, when the trade sending him and Bobby Portis to the Heat for Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel'el Ware, Kasparas Jakucionis and draft capital was approved by the NBA.

Antetokounmpo plans to arrive in Miami in a few days to start his Heat era — and said in a video message posted Monday on social media that he will forever think of Milwaukee, the place where he spent 13 seasons, as his city.

“I want you to hear from my mouth, the city of Milwaukee will always be in my heart,” Antetokounmpo, a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player and 10-time All-Star, said in the video. "This is my home, and this is a place that I had my kids. ... It made me the man that I am today. That will never ever change. No matter where I am, Milwaukee will always be my city, my team, my family.”

His run in Milwaukee ended with 21,531 points — by far the most in franchise history, more than 7,000 ahead of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s total during his tenure with the Bucks. Antetokounmpo is also Milwaukee’s all-time leader in rebounds and assists, plus he ranks second on the team’s career list in steals.

And now, he plays in Miami — a team desperate to get back into title contention, one that paid a ransom to make it happen.

“The announcement of today’s trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis Jr. is one of the great trades in Heat history,” Miami President Pat Riley said. “In my opinion, Giannis is one of the top five players in the league and Bobby is one of the best power forwards. The difficult part is trading Tyler, Kasparas, Jaime and Kel’el, who have given so much to this organization. We wish them nothing but the best."

Bucks general manager Jon Horst released a statement saying the trade was in the best interest of everyone involved.

He also lauded Antetokounmpo, as would be expected.

“Since we drafted him in 2013, Giannis has transformed the Milwaukee Bucks in every way — on the court, in our locker room and throughout the community,” Horst said. “Over 13 seasons, he became an extraordinary leader, teammate and representative of this city, and one of the defining players of his generation. The standard he set will continue here.”

The highlight of Antetokounmpo's 13 seasons in Milwaukee, of course, was the 2021 NBA title. He had 50 points in the Bucks' title-clinching Game 6 victory over Phoenix, earning NBA Finals MVP honors in a landslide.

Antetokounmpo said then, and reiterated Monday, that Bucks fans deserved that moment.

“I believe the city of Milwaukee is blue collar,” he said in the video. "It’s people that work extremely hard every single day. They give all their hard-earned money just to come watch the Milwaukee Bucks, to come and feel something, to come, to be a part of us.

“I hope that I was able to represent them the best that I could. And I was like them. I showed up to work, did everything. I was willing to do all the dirty work, just like them. I hope that bringing a trophy to this city meant something to them, because it meant so much to me.”

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AP Sports Writer Steve Megargee in Milwaukee contributed to this report.

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Voluntarios en la organización Global Empowerment Mission, en Doral, descargaron camiones, autobuses y camionetas llenos de donativos con suministros esenciales para quienes lo necesitan.

Más temprano el lunes, grupos como ProKel Mobility y Latinos in Transit se encontraban en Kendall cargando uno de esos autobuses para enviarlo a GEM.

“Nuestra conexión es, al menos, darles algo de tranquilidad de que sus familias están recibiendo lo esencial para que puedan hacer lo que mejor saben hacer, que es mover personas, mover bienes, para que arranque la reconstrucción del país”, dijo Lina Aragón, de Latinos in Transit.

Cristhian Mancera Mejía, del Miami-Dade Community Council, dijo: “Me conmovió mucho toda la situación. Entender ese sentimiento de los miembros de nuestra comunidad, algunos de los cuales tienen TPS o algún trámite migratorio pendiente, que están pasando por ese estrés aquí localmente y además tienen que preocuparse por un familiar que murió o que está tratando de sobrevivir porque logró salir de estos edificios que colapsaron”.

Mientras tanto, en Miami, autoridades de la ciudad y del condado se unieron a los Miami Marlins para recolectar suministros en loanDepot Park.

La jornada de recolección se extenderá al menos una semana, de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m.

Incluso se anima a los aficionados a aportar artículos los días de partido.

“Los haremos llegar a las personas correctas”, dijo la alcaldesa de Miami, Eileen Higgins. “Todos sabemos que hay un régimen en Venezuela en el que no podemos confiar, pero estamos trabajando con nuestro Departamento de Estado para asegurarnos de que los suministros lleguen a donde deben llegar”.

La comisionada de Miami-Dade, Vicki Lopez, dijo que es “de vital importancia que todos se presenten por el pueblo venezolano”.

“No hay nada más importante que estar ahí para tus hermanos y hermanas, y como tenemos tantos de ellos viviendo en Miami-Dade, tiene sentido que toda la comunidad haga lo que pueda, porque mucha gente me pregunta: ‘¿Qué puedo hacer?’. Bueno, esta es su oportunidad de actuar”, dijo. “Traigan los suministros que estén en la lista”.

Local 10 News cuenta con una lista de los suministros necesarios y otros recursos para ayudar a Venezuela.

Márquez and his father, who also survived, spoke through layers of concrete, hearing Leonel suffer, shout for help and inhale suffocating smoke as he waited for a crane to remove the columns crushing him. But it never came. After several hours, Leonel's cries gave way to silence, Márquez said.

But even that, terrible as it was, was not what disturbed him the most. The worst, Márquez said, was trying to recover his families' tangled remains with little more than his bare hands and a saw. He sliced off limbs to free the corpses of Leonel and his mother but was forced to abandon his sister, who was eight-months' pregnant, grandmother and other relatives beneath the ruins — and with their bodies, the hope that if he couldn't save them, he could at least give them proper burials.

“It’s unfair. It’s inhumane, everything that is happening,” 26-year-old Márquez said from the overflowing makeshift morgue at La Guaira port. "We couldn’t get my brother out because we didn’t get a response from the state ... and after 11 days, we are still requesting a crane.”

Márquez is one of countless Venezuelans who, after days of torment, has been left alone to search, if not for signs of life, then for loved ones’ remains — and for some semblance of closure.

International rescue teams, quietly acknowledging the possibility that no more victims would be found alive after 12 days under the rubble, are preparing to depart. Local authorities are turning their focus to finding shelter for thousands of displaced people. But the recovery of the dead has become a pressing, and horrifying, duty for Venezuelans still missing their loved ones.

“I found her hand, but her torso is crushed," said Norely Rodríguez, trying to get her 5-year-old daughter out of the ruins in the hardest-hit state of La Guaira. “I want to see if I can get her out whole."

Residents say they are alone in the search for their dead

Many say that just as they were left without government help to rescue survivors in the immediate aftermath of the quakes, so too are they now under-equipped to unearth their dead nearly two weeks later.

The more time passes, the more gruesome the recovery process becomes, said William Gomez, a firefighter in La Guaira. “It has been difficult because the bodies are already in an advanced state of decomposition, decomposed to such an extent that many times when we try to remove them, they fall apart.”

Authorities announced that the death toll rose on Monday to 3,535, with another 16,740 people injured. Beyond that is an untold toll: those whose bodies have yet to be found. There are no official statistics on how many people are buried under the rubble, but more than 30,000 reports of missing people have been sent to a website set up by the Venezuelan opposition.

Over the weekend in La Guaira, no government civil defense crews or security forces could be seen helping families dig. The vast majority of those working their way through the wreckage were civilians using their bare hands or rudimentary tools like pickaxes and shovels, occasionally accompanied by firefighters and Mexican rescuers who remain in the country.

There are 1.2 million tons of debris in the most affected parts of La Guaira, according to the United Nations Development Program.

“We are the ones helping ourselves: our family. Nobody else helps us except for a few volunteers,” said Yeikhary Urbina, who found the bodies of her mother and brother on Saturday suspended under piles of concrete, seemingly locked in an embrace.

In several WhatsApp chats on Monday, neighbors who could no longer wait for authorities to help them recover their dead discussed pooling their own money to rent a crane — for the price of $11,500, in one case.

Search teams from Italy, Argentina, Spain and other countries have already returned home. The Venezuelan government has not yet called off the search for survivors. But officials have pivoted from promoting heroic rescue stories on social media to announcing reconstruction plans under a program called Venezuela Reborn.

“Venezuela is entering a process of infrastructure recovery, of housing recovery,” acting President Delcy Rodríguez told state TV on Saturday. She has fiercely rejected widespread criticism that her government reacted too slowly to the disaster and accused media outlets of spreading misinformation.

Anger over recovery effort mounts

Families with missing loved ones face fresh horrors as they scour the rubble. Some have searched for days to find corpses of loved ones so decomposed, they cannot tell them apart.

Others have dug and dug only to find nothing at all. “She kept asking, ‘Why did God play this trick on me?’" Geraldine Perdomo said of her sister, who was feverishly clawing at the ruins of her home for anything that would confirm the death of her two daughters.

And some, like Márquez, have agonized for days to extract their loved ones' bodies only to lose them again in the chaos of the impromptu morgue beneath grain silos at the La Guaira port, where a near-constant stream of bodies has been arriving since the June 24 quakes.

Márquez said that on Sunday, a week after delivering their corpses, he heard authorities had located his mother and grandfather. But Leonel, he said, "is still missing because of the negligence here.”

He and many other residents of the country’s public housing blocks — built years ago for low-income families by former socialist leader Hugo Chávez — say their complaints of negligence long predate this disaster. High-rise buildings housing hundreds of apartments pancaked in the earthquakes, reviving questions about substandard construction.

Alexander, a 42-year-old police officer who lived in one of the towers, was trembling with fury at the government on Sunday — for not addressing what he said were long-running resident concerns that his concrete housing complex was shoddily constructed, for not sending rescue teams in time to save his wife and three daughters, and now, for not delivering heavy machinery to help him recover their bodies.

"Not a single person from the government was here," he said, requesting to be identified only by his first name because, as a government employee, he feared retaliation for criticizing authorities.

After 11 days of searching, he reached the last missing member of his family — his 12-year-old daughter, her corpse decomposed but intact.

“She was waiting for me to pull her out,” he said, cradling the black plastic body bag in his arms.

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DeBre reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Un portavoz del Departamento de Policía de Miramar dijo que Brianna Johnson, conocida en redes sociales como la influencer DreamDoll Bri, murió en el tiroteo, ocurrido alrededor de las 5:30 a.m. en la cuadra 2700 de Sunshine Boulevard.

Otras dos víctimas, ambos hombres, resultaron gravemente heridas cuando uno o varios tiradores abrieron fuego contra la camioneta Lamborghini SUV verde fluorescente en la que circulaban por el vecindario; el conductor se estrelló posteriormente tras recibir los disparos.

La policía dijo que no contaba de inmediato con información sobre las condiciones de las otras dos víctimas la mañana del lunes.

Las autoridades creen que el tiroteo fue dirigido y señalaron que, hasta el momento, cuentan con “información limitada sobre el sospechoso”.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el tiroteo puede llamar al Departamento de Policía de Miramar o a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

La estatal Unión Eléctrica (UNE) informó que la causa de la caída en el Sistema Energético Nacional (SEN) que se produjo en el mediodía aún no ha sido determinada.

En su cuenta de X, el Ministerio de Energía y Minas indicó que comenzaron a activarse los “protocolos de recuperación”, lo que significa que se irán armando pequeñas “islas” de corriente para dar energía a áreas priorizadas como hospitales.

Cuba atraviesa desde comienzos de esta década una fuerte crisis económica y social que se agudizó tras el cerco energético impuesto por el presidente Donald Trump en enero y que impide la llegada del crudo que la isla necesita para mover toda su economía y sobre todo la generación de electricidad. Cuba apenas produce el 40% del combustible que consume.

Trump y su secretario Marco Rubio dijeron que buscan cambios económicos y políticos en la isla. Cuba denunció que la asfixia es un “castigo colectivo”.

En los últimos meses los cubanos han sufrido apagones de más de 20 horas diarias que derivaron en la paralización del transporte, la reducción de las jornadas laborales, la cancelación de vuelos y el deterioro de casi todas las áreas.

Por la tarde, el titular del Ministerio de Energía y Minas, Vicente de la O Levy, aseguró que había microsistemas funcionando y medios de prensa locales indicaron que al menos en la provincia de Villa Clara —al este de la capital— se estaba entregando corriente a los hospitales.

Igualmente se reportaron conexiones parciales o “microislas” de servicio eléctricos en las provincias de Holguín, Granma, Matanzas y La Habana. No se ofreció un tiempo estimado para el restablecimiento del SEN.

En las calles la preocupación por el tiempo que podría pasar sin fluido eléctrico crecía.

“Es incierto...Lo que toca es esperar a ver qué pasa”, dijo a The Associated Press Richard Valdés, de 40 años. “No es la primera vez. Ahora esto es sin agua, sin gas, sin nada hasta que lo restablezcan".

Por su parte, el presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel señaló la responsabilidad de la política de Trump.

“Mientras EE.UU trata de inducir un estallido social por asfixia, al bloquear los accesos de combustible a #Cuba, la UNE se moviliza para revertir la caída del SEN”, expresó el mandatario en su cuenta de X. “ Es heroico lo que hacen los trabajadores eléctricos en medio de un bloqueo energético genocida”.

Una caída nacional del sistema como la el lunes ocurrió en marzo, pero desconexiones regionales han estado golpeando a la población. En las últimas semanas los apagones rondaron el 70% del territorio nacional en la hora pico y la situación se ha agravado por las altas temperaturas del verano.

En las últimas semanas se reportaron además problemas en la central termoeléctrica Antonio Guiteras –la más importante del país— por falta de mantenimiento asociado a la falta de presupuesto para conseguir piezas en el extranjero, lo que obligó a sacarla de la línea.

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La corresponsal Milexsy Durán contribuyó con este reporte.

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Siga a Andrea Rodríguez en X: https://x.com/ARodriguezAP

Según los primeros en responder, bomberos de Hollywood acudieron al incendio residencial aproximadamente a las 6:08 a.m. en la cuadra 2800 de Pierce Street.

Sin embargo, tres oficiales de la policía de Hollywood llegaron primero e ingresaron de inmediato a la vivienda para buscar a las víctimas atrapadas.

Los bomberos, que llegaron y encontraron abundante humo saliendo del apartamento, arribaron poco después y también comenzaron de inmediato a buscar a los ocupantes de la vivienda.

Según la portavoz de Hollywood Fire Rescue, Chai Kauffman, los bomberos rescataron a una madre y sus dos hijos pequeños del segundo piso del apartamento.

El abuelo de los niños, un hombre de unos 70 años, escapó al romper una ventana del segundo piso antes de salir trepando.

“Supimos que un hombre de unos 70 años había roto una ventana del segundo piso y logró escapar, pero sufrió una lesión grave en la cabeza”, dijo Kauffman.

El abuelo y los niños fueron trasladados a un hospital, y los tres oficiales de la policía de Hollywood también fueron hospitalizados.

Las autoridades indicaron que los oficiales fueron tratados por inhalación de humo. No se han divulgado las condiciones del hombre y sus dos nietos.

La causa del incendio permanece bajo investigación.

The video shows a white BMW convertible traveling along East Dania Beach Boulevard before losing control near Southeast Second Avenue.

The car spiraled through the median, ripped through a sign and crashed head-on into a Mercedes-Benz traveling in the opposite direction.

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials said one person died. Deputies have not identified the victim or released their age.

Six other people were injured in the crash, including two minors and four adults. All were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital. Their conditions are unknown.

One witness described hearing the crash.

“We were in the car, then we got to the house, then we got upstairs. When we got upstairs, we just heard a ‘boom.’ Then we get to the pool, we seen it was that BMW,” Maya said.

Según el teniente Eddie Rodriguez, el incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 8:30 a.m. del sábado en la cuadra 1100 de West 50th Place.

Rodriguez dijo que un trabajador llegó a una casa de la zona y un perro salió corriendo por la puerta principal antes de atacar a un perro más pequeño que su dueño paseaba cerca de allí.

Según Rodriguez, el dueño del perro más grande salió, separó a los animales y regresó a su perro a la casa.

Pero Rodriguez dijo que el perro escapó de nuevo momentos después y corrió de vuelta hacia el perro pequeño, al que en ese momento ayudaba un vecino.

“Mientras el vecino intentaba huir con el perro pequeño para evitar otro ataque, se cayó y sufrió lesiones”, dijo Rodriguez en un correo electrónico enviado a Local 10 News.

Un familiar del dueño del perro pequeño le dijo a Local 10 News que el animal murió en el ataque.

Rodriguez confirmó que la policía de Hialeah se comunicó con Miami-Dade Animal Services, que asumió la investigación.

“A city upon a hill.” “All men are created equal.” “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Presidents splitting rails and telling the truth about chopping down cherry trees. A statesman out in a storm with a kite. And the biggest story of all, the “American Dream,” echoing across states and oceans.

The United States became the country that produced the most powerful storytelling engines in human history — the American frontier, Hollywood and Madison Avenue. And it sat at the epicenter of the rise of the internet and social media — platforms that confused and jumbled information even as they empowered previously muzzled groups to join the fray with different takes on the American experience.

Saturday marked 250 years of the Great Experiment. And even in these fragmented days, the American story means authority and influence. It means power over hearts and minds in a place where the national tale — and the question of who gets to tell it — has long prevailed. And, as is clear these days, it is the victors who write — and control — the history.

Some years ago, frontier historian Richard Slotkin put it bluntly. “There’s nothing organic about the United States. It’s an invented country,” he told The Associated Press. “And if we stop telling the American story, we’re just a bunch of folks. … You have to keep adding new chapters to the story and making the story make sense.”

And in politics and show business, in schools and in the history exhibited at tourist attractions, Americans do that, at a frenetic pace — sometimes, perhaps, too frantically or intensely for their own good.

From the very beginning, story has ruled

The United States today is home to countless stories; together they illustrate what America has been, is and could be. But when it comes to telling the American story in the 2020s, the field of play is crowded, contentious and brimming with misinformation and disinformation. From schools to political arenas, from news to entertainment to history books, the battle rages.

Is it “This Land Is Your Land,” “God Bless America” or “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue”? Is it Sean Penn or James Woods? Tucker Carlson or Jimmy Kimmel? A bald eagle or a pride flag on your T-shirt? A pickup truck or an EV? The choices help define what kind of American you are and aspire to be.

Do you buy flag trinkets at Walmart or do you express your patriotism in a different way? Do you sing along with the National Anthem at ballgames? Do you share memes about how great America is — or how awful? Do you watch old World War II movies with reverence? Each time you do any of those, you're helping to propel the American story.

Are you singer-songwriter Jesse Welles, progressive and openly patriotic in the tradition of Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen, using flag imagery and pointedly critical lyrics at his concerts to show that he and those who believe as he does refuse to be excluded from the American story? “Good morning, America. Good evening, America. I love ya,” he likes to sing.

Or are you Donald Trump, a master of brand-building narrative. who is vigorously reframing the story America tells about itself. Adore him or despise him, it's hard to deny that the American narrative at home and abroad has his indelible stamp. He knows his power over the tale.

"The left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies," Trump said shortly before losing the 2020 election.

The president's version of the story, though, often focuses not so much on the nation as on Donald Trump himself.

With an avalanche of superlatives and self-regard, he has made his own story front and center — both metaphorically and literally. He wants to be on Mount Rushmore. His face might end up on currency while he's still alive. It will be on this year's anniversary edition of the U.S. passport. His face is all over Washington, D.C., as are the stamps of his presence — from the triumph arch to the controversial redo of the reflecting pool to the equally contentious $400 million ballroom he is adding to the White House. Whatever else these are, they are efforts to commandeer pieces of the American story.

It's a pattern he has repeated throughout his life — casting himself as the embodiment of American success. Even this month's celebration itself featured a competition of what story to tell, and Trump's thumb on the scale.

There was America250, a bipartisan effort, created by Congress. And there was Freedom 250, a Trump administration-backed version of the celebration far more aligned with the MAGA version of American history. They are, in effect, a wrestling match over which America is amplified. That was underscored by the musical acts that withdrew from Freedom 250 concerts, saying they'd become too political.

The story changed.

The flag is a useful case study for American storytelling

The American flag sits at the center of the national story, a piece of fabric that contains multitudes ("gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there."). Always has, ever since the tale of Betsy Ross.

Its glorification — everywhere from ballparks to solemn military events to the aisles of Target — summons people to contemplate country and purpose. Its desecration under the principle of free speech — also an important part of the tale — is used by some to make passionate points and denounced by others as ugly and treasonous.

Not surprising, since the flag is a physical embodiment of the American story — as Jesse Welles demonstrates at his shows.

“It’s an extraordinarily potent symbol for anybody — left, right or center,” Ken Burns, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker, said. “It’s interesting when we have this assault on traditional democratic institutions that the people who are out in the streets protesting have sort of reclaimed — and they never should have relinquished — the American flag.”

But the story of the flag, and how it's used, varies based on who you are. Republicans and older white Americans? More likely to fly it, wear it as clothing or, in Pete Hegseth's case, wear it as a pocket square. Democrats and Black Americans? Not so much. So concluded an AP-NORC poll last month.

John Baick, a historian at Western New England University, sees less flag imagery in Trump's second term than in his first; the intense focus on Trump himself may have crowded it out. Baick suggests that the use of storytelling in the political arena today impacts, as always, the larger sense of what the United States is. He sees it fragmenting — as evidenced by the use of the flag.

“I think it’s just become a muddled mess,” Baick says. "I think it’s just going to be almost the breakdown of a national system and states will figure it out, cities will figure it out, individuals will figure it out. They’ll put out their flags, but ... they'll tell their own stories.”

This national story is not close to complete. As Fox News business journalist Maria Bartiromo told her family's story recently, she referred to “this young nation.” Places like China and Russia have millennia of tales to build upon. The United States has less than 400 even if you go back to its very beginnings.

And so the American story continues. Where will it go next? And who will tell it most persuasively?

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Ted Anthony has been writing about American culture since 1990.

According to arrest reports obtained Monday by Local 10 News, the first burglary occurred just before 2 a.m., when Noah Alec Dutzer, 26, of Miami, allegedly entered a woman’s apartment while she was out.

Police said later in the morning, the woman was alerted by a neighbor who said that he heard footsteps coming from her apartment and believed someone had broken into it.

The victim then checked her in-home security cameras and saw that Dutzer had been inside her apartment for hours, touching his genitals on her couch and filling a glass cup he had with him with her Fireball whiskey, authorities said.

According to the arrest report, Dutzer rummaged through the victim’s sofa, went in and out of her bedroom and walked in and out of her apartment multiple times before sleeping on her couch.

Police said he woke up just before 7:30 a.m. and left the apartment once again before coming back.

Shortly after 8:30 a.m., Dutzer noticed the victim’s in-home security camera and turned it away from the living room, authorities said.

Police said Dutzer was taken into custody as he was leaving the building after the victim called 911.

According to a separate arrest report, Dutzer had also entered another apartment unit in the building at about 2:30 a.m.

In that incident, the victim was sleeping inside and was awakened by a pantless Dutzer turning on his phone’s flashlight at the victim’s bathroom door, inside his bedroom, authorities said.

Police said the victim, who had never seen Dutzer before, told him to leave and Dutzer responded, “My fault, my fault,” and left.

According to the report, the victim checked his apartment after Dutzer left and confirmed to police that nothing had been rummaged through or was missing.

According to the reports, Dutzer told detectives that he had been drinking for several hours at a bar on Giralda Avenue with some friends and only recalled arriving to the area with an unknown woman.

The reports state that he said he recalled moments of being inside the first apartment, but had moments of “blacking out.” He said he didn’t recall entering the man’s apartment, authorities said.

The address to the victims’ apartment building was redacted from the publicly released reports.

Dutzer was arrested on charges of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling and burglary of an occupied dwelling.

As of Monday afternoon, Dutzer was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $10,000 bond. Miami-Dade County Judge Mindy Glazer also ordered that he stay away from both victims.

Food insecurity is defined as the lack of access, at times, to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy lifestyle. Children who experience hunger are more likely to struggle in school and have health complications. In adults, studies reveal that food insecurity reduces worker productivity and drives up healthcare costs.

It’s why since 2020, Local 10 and Publix have teamed up for Food for Thought to address food insecurity in our communities.

Food for Thought raises awareness about the plight of hunger and comes alongside local nonprofits to support their efforts to get nutritious meals into the hands of those who need them most.

In the past five years, we’ve stocked school food pantries from the elementary to college levels, provided weekend backpack meals to underserved children, sponsored food drives, and planted vegetable gardens.

One of the organizations we’ve collaborated with is The Cupboard of Goodman JFS in Davie. Last year, Director of Operations Ross Adel told us the pantry was serving 600 families per month, which translated to 1,100 individuals.

“Every can of food that comes in here, every dollar that comes in here is just one more individual that we can feed,” said Adel.

In September, during Hunger Action Month, we will be working with more organizations to make healthy food accessible to vulnerable populations across South Florida.

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Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, according to the document. His March 14 death at a Dallas hospital was ruled to be an accident.

Paktiawal’s sudden death in ICE custody has drawn outrage because he had risked his life fighting as an ally of U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan for a decade.

Out of more than 50 ICE detention deaths during President Donald Trump’s second term, Paktiawal’s is the first to be ruled an accident, according to tracking by The Associated Press. Most of the others have been blamed on natural causes or suicide.

An advocacy group, AfghanEvac, and two members of Congress on Monday called on Texas authorities to release his autopsy report, which they have sought to withhold by arguing its disclosure would interfere with a pending criminal investigation.

“This family has a right to know what happened,” said Shawn VanDiver, president of AfghanEvac. He asked authorities to explain what substance triggered the allergic reaction, how it got into his system and why the date of the injury on the death certificate was listed as the day before Paktiawal was taken into custody.

“What’s happening here smacks of a cover-up,” added Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who said he would ask the Department of Homeland Security to release the autopsy.

Paktiawal was evacuated with thousands of others from Afghanistan when U.S. troops pulled out in 2021. He entered the U.S. through a legal process and requested asylum to stay. That claim was pending when ICE arrested him at his home in Richardson, Texas, on March 13 as he was getting some of his six children ready for school.

ICE has defended its decision to target Paktiawal for deportation, noting he had been arrested on food stamp fraud and theft charges. He had not been convicted in either case.

ICE did not respond to questions Monday, referring to its previously released report on Paktiawal's death, which said he was screened at its Dallas field office and denied any medical conditions or allergies. Hours later, he began experiencing shortness of breath and chest pain in a holding room and was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital.

The next morning, hospital staff noted swelling of his tongue while he was eating breakfast and gave him epinephrine, a drug that treats allergic reactions. He was pronounced dead about 40 minutes later after life-saving measures were unsuccessful.

The certificate lists the cause of death as “anaphylaxis complicating acute asthma exacerbation.” Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction typically triggered by food, drugs or insect venom. The document lists the toxic effects of methamphetamine, heart disease and cigarette smoking as contributing factors.

Relatives said they did not know Paktiawal to use meth, and a second autopsy performed for the family could not confirm whether he had meth in his system because no blood remained for testing, VanDiver said. His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody.

"What accident are they talking about?" Paktiawal's younger brother, Naseer Paktiawal, asked Monday. “We just want the truth.”

Naseer remembered his brother as a special forces soldier who fought in the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan. After settling in the U.S., Paktiawal became a truck driver and worked at a market and bakery, laboring long hours to support his family, his brother said.

The cause and manner of death were established by the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office after an autopsy.

County authorities have refused to release the report, citing statements from ICE officials that doing so would interfere with a federal investigation into the death. They have asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office for permission to withhold the record under a “law enforcement exception” to the state’s open records law.

In response to the AP's request for the report, Dallas County official Jennifer Rose wrote that “its release would interfere with the detection, investigation, and prosecution of a crime."

Paxton’s office hasn’t ruled on the matter, but previously granted a similar request from another Texas county to withhold the autopsy report of a Vietnamese man who died in ICE custody in July 2025, records show.

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According to first responders, Hollywood firefighters responded to the residential fire at approximately 6:08 a.m. in the 2800 block of Pierce Street.

Three Hollywood police officers, however, arrived first and immediately went inside the home to search for the trapped victims.

Firefighters, who arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the apartment, arrived a short time later and also immediately began searching for the apartment’s occupants.

According to Hollywood Fire Rescue spokeswoman Chai Kauffman, firefighters rescued a mother and her two young children from the second floor of the apartment.

The children’s grandfather, a man in his 70s, escaped by breaking a second-floor window before climbing out.

“We learned that a male in his 70s had broke a window from the second floor and was able to escape, but he sustained a major head injury,” Kauffman said.

The grandfather and children were taken to a hospital, and the three Hollywood police officers were also hospitalized.

Officials said the officers were treated for smoke inhalation. The conditions of the man and his two grandchildren have not been released.

“We saw them take the gentleman, and then we saw them pull out stretchers,” neighbor Victor Portillo said. “There was a young lady who lives there with some kids, and she seemed fine. She walked out carrying one of the kids, and the other kid was sitting up on a stretcher.”

Firefighters say the origin of the fire was traced to the kitchen area. The cause is believed to be electrical, combined with storage materials that had been left on the stove, however the official cause of the blaze will be determined by the State Fire Marshal’s Office.

The blackout in the country of nearly 10 million people was reported by the state-run Electric Union, which said on X that the cause is under investigation. The Ministry of Energy and Mines wrote on X that it has activated protocols to restore electricity.

Fuel has been running out across Cuba since January, when U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to the island, deepening the island’s ongoing economic and financial crisis. Public transportation has largely been halted, and officials have canceled tens of thousands of surgeries.

Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy said microsystems were already operating throughout Cuba a couple of hours after the outage: “Vital services continue to be protected, amidst this complex situation exacerbated by the energy blockade we face.”

Meanwhile, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel accused the U.S. of trying to “incite social unrest by strangling Cuba’s fuel supply.”

“The actions of electrical workers in the midst of a genocidal energy blockade are heroic,” he wrote on X.

The outage sparked concern across Havana, with 36-year-old Lina May wondering when the power would come back on so she could cook some rice.

“I just told my dad that we have to buy charcoal because otherwise we won’t eat and we’ll starve,” she said.

Richard Valdés, 40, said the outage is just the latest hit of many. “We're without power again,” he said. “Now we have no water, no gas, nothing until they restore it.”

Cuba produces only 40% of the fuel it needs, while the 730,000 barrels of oil delivered by a Russian tanker in late March ran out by the end of April.

The government also has been rationing power with intentional outages that can stretch to more than 24 consecutive hours.

A blackout in mid-May affected the island’s eastern provinces, while a blackout in mid-March struck the entire island.

Like many Cubans, Mario Pedroso, a 33-year-old Havana resident, was resigned about Monday's total blackout.

“Oil hasn’t come in here for a while, and we have no way to solve the problem,” he said. "We have to resist, as we Cubans say. That’s all.”

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Associated Press writer Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico contributed.

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According to Lt. Eddie Rodriguez, the incident happened at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of West 50^th Place.

Rodriguez said a worker arrived at a home in the area and a dog ran out the front door before attacking a smaller dog that was being walked nearby by its owner.

According to Rodriguez, the owner of the larger dog went outside, separated the dogs and took his dog back inside his home.

But Rodriguez said the dog escaped again just moments later and ran back toward the smaller dog, which was being helped by a neighbor.

“As the neighbor tried to run away with the smaller dog to prevent another attack, he fell and sustained injuries,” Rodriguez said in an email to Local 10 News.

The smaller dog is now being treated for serious injuries and the attack left the pup unable to walk.

Rodriguez confirmed that Hialeah police contacted Miami-Dade Animal Services, which has taken over the investigation.

“El presidente de Colombia no reconoce la legitimidad del gobierno entrante. Abelardo no ganó las elecciones”, aseguró Petro en la red social X.

Petro dijo el día del balotaje que reconocería los resultados del escrutinio, el cual realizan jueces y luego avala la autoridad electoral. Sin embargo, no lo hizo expresamente y lo que siguieron fueron declaraciones sujetas a interpretación, como un comunicado en el que dijo que haría la “transición democrática del gobierno” y acataría “las decisiones de los jueces”. Sin embargo, el lunes fue explícito en no reconocer la legitimidad de De la Espriella.

El mandatario insistió en que se gestó un presunto fraude electoral porque los software utilizados en el escrutinio “utilizaron algoritmos que variaron la votación sustancialmente a favor de Abelardo”, manipulando por ejemplo el censo electoral de los que “nunca votan para ser reemplazados por votantes que podían hacerlo varias veces”.

Anteriormente Petro no había aceptado el conteo preliminar que realizó el día de la votación la Registraduría, encargada de la logística electoral.

El procurador general, Gregorio Eljach, ha dicho a la prensa que los cuestionamientos del mandatario sobre los resultados de la elección no tienen incidencia jurídica, por lo que De la Espriella tomará posesión del cargo el 7 de agosto.

Una misión de observadores de la Unión Europea subrayó tras el balotaje la transparencia y eficiencia del proceso de recuento de votos. El Centro Carter indicó que el sistema de gestión de resultados fue “confiable, transparente y plenamente trazable”.

Por su lado, el progresista Cepeda reconoció la victoria de De la Espriella tras el balotaje y el mismo día en el que culminó el escrutinio. Pero al mismo tiempo advirtió que no guardaría silencio frente a la presunta “masiva operación de compra de votos” por parte de la campaña de De la Espriella y las estrategias de “manipulación” con inteligencia artificial.

El senador también instó a De la Espriella a renunciar a su doble nacionalidad estadounidense y a aclarar su posible relación con agencias de inteligencia de ese país. De lo contrario, advirtió que iniciará una “desobediencia civil pacífica”.

Un exmilitar en la cartera de Defensa

Entre tanto, De la Espriella continuó armando su gabinete y designó el lunes como su futuro ministro de Defensa al exgeneral del ejército Jorge Eduardo Mora, quien tendrá bajo su mando una de las carteras clave del gobierno que promete mano dura contra los grupos armados ilegales y los narcotraficantes.

De la Espriella describió en X la designación como un “homenaje a los héroes de la patria” en referencia a los uniformados a los que Mora comandará.

Mora sirvió en el ejército más de tres décadas, en las que fue comandante de las fuerzas especiales y de la brigada contra el narcotráfico, así como director de inteligencia y contrainteligencia de las fuerzas militares. Además, acumuló estudios en seguridad y defensa, alta gerencia internacional y derecho internacional aplicable a conflictos armados.

El ministro designado lidiará con los grupos armados ilegales que se disputan el control de territorios estratégicos para el narcotráfico y la minería ilegal, incluidas las disidencias de la antigua guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) que no se acogieron al acuerdo de paz firmado con el Estado hace una década.

De la Espriella prometió un “renacer de la moral combativa, de las capacidades críticas, la despolitización” para los militares y policías, luego de que en campaña dijera que tenían baja moral por las políticas de Petro, que incluyeron negociaciones de paz con múltiples grupos armados ilegales.

Su gobierno supondrá un giro total en la política de seguridad y defensa en el país ya que ha prometido que incrementará las operaciones militares y acabará con las negociaciones de paz.

De la Espriella dijo la víspera que firmará los “decretos necesarios” para que la fiscalía reactive las órdenes de captura que fueron suspendidas por el gobierno de Petro en aras de que algunos ilegales participaran en las negociaciones de paz.

Mora reemplazará en la cartera a Pedro Sánchez, un exmilitar que asumió en 2025.

Hours before kickoff Monday, FIFA dismissed Belgium's challenge to the most-debated political intervention in a World Cup in decades. U.S. forward Folarin Balogun had faced a mandatory ban from the match after receiving a red card last week, but FIFA lifted his suspension on Sunday following a call Trump made to the global soccer organization’s president, Gianni Infantino.

Despite Balogun's start in Seattle, the U.S. lost 4-1 to Belgium.

Here’s a deeper look at the controversy.

Why Balogun and the red card mattered

Born in New York to Nigerian parents, raised in London, and playing in the French league, Balogun's birthright citizenship made him eligible for the U.S.

Securing his commitment to play on the American team was a coup and it had paid off; the 25-year-old led the team's World Cup scoring with three goals.

All was well until Wednesday when he stepped on opponent Tarik Muharemović's ankle in a 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the round of 32.

The decision to send off Balogun was disputed — his movement seemed clumsy but not malicious. But once a referee decides to issue a red card, the punishment is usually straightforward: The player is excluded from the rest of the game and — until now, at least — a suspension for the next game is automatic.

If the ban had stayed in place, replacing Balogun in the lineup posed a big challenge for coach Mauricio Pochettino.

The U.S. had plenty of attacking players in wider or deeper roles, but few with the combination of physical power and goal-scoring ability for the center-forward role that the rest of the offense focuses around. Likely replacement Ricardo Pepi hadn't scored in four World Cup games.

FIFA's explanation and what it didn't say

There is typically no appeals process against the automatic one-game ban, only for longer sanctions usually applied to the most serious fouls like violent conduct or racism.

In its decision to let Balogun play against Belgium, FIFA cited article 27 of its disciplinary code, which says a “judicial body” can “fully or partially suspend the implementation of a disciplinary measure.” Balogun could yet get that one-game suspension on top of any future punishment if he commits a similar offense again in the next year.

In a statement Monday, FIFA's disciplinary committee gave more details on its decision. It said it found Balogun guilty of two breaches of its disciplinary code: one related to the red card and another for celebrating with his teammates on the field after the Bosnia match despite having been ejected. It imposed a fine of $40,000 but suspended the automatic one-match ban for a probationary period of one year.

“The sanction remains dormant during the probationary period and will only be activated if he commits another infringement of a similar nature and gravity during that one-year period,” the committee said.

Infantino insisted in a social media post that FIFA’s disciplinary committee acted with independence and judged cases such as Balogun’s on “applicable regulations and the specific facts.” Article 27 doesn't lay out any requirements for which cases are eligible under the rarely used rule.

Last year, FIFA suspended two games of a three-game ban for one of soccer's biggest-ever stars, Cristiano Ronaldo. That left him free to play in the opening games of the World Cup for Portugal. He did serve the remaining one game ban in a qualifier.

Balogun's case seems to be the first since 1962 in which a sending-off during a World Cup match didn’t result in a suspension. On that occasion, the president of host nation Chile argued for Brazilian midfielder Garrincha to be allowed to play the final after he had kicked a Chilean opponent.

How Trump got involved in ‘great injustice’

“Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!” Trump said Sunday on social media after Balogun's suspension was lifted. On Monday, Trump defended his outreach to Infantino, saying he merely pointed out that the referee's call against Balogun seemed like a bad one and warranted a closer look.

Infantino and Trump have developed a well-known relationship. The Swiss soccer official became a regular visitor to the Oval Office as the U.S. prepared to host the World Cup. He gave Trump a FIFA peace prize at the World Cup draw in December, an award the organization hasn't presented to anyone else before or since.

FIFA’s statutes prohibit governments from intervening in the independence of soccer bodies managing their own affairs. FIFA regularly suspends member federations where governments have interfered in decision-making.

Pochettino, the U.S. coach, applauded FIFA’s move Sunday and said the initial on-field ruling against Balogun was “completely unfair.”

Backlash from Belgium over FIFA decision

The Belgian soccer federation said it was “astonished” when the news of FIFA's intervention broke. Coach Rudi Garcia likened the decision to April Fools' Day.

On Monday afternoon, a FIFA appeals judge dismissed Belgium’s legal challenge fewer than eight hours before kickoff. The Belgian soccer body “is not a party to the proceedings and, as such, has no standing to appeal the decision,” FIFA said in a statement.

FIFA’s disciplinary code says suspensions of two games or less typically can’t be appealed — though that would generally apply to teams wanting a suspension lifted, not reimposed.

As Europe woke to the news Monday, the Instagram account of Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever's cat, Maximus — a social media celebrity in his own right — weighed in with a picture captioned: “Red card? I'm still going to play!”

Other prominent soccer voices weigh in

European soccer body UEFA criticized FIFA for an “incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision” and warned “the integrity of the game is at stake.”

In an apparent response to UEFA’s criticism, FIFA’s disciplinary committee said “reviewing the legal consequences of red cards in football is nothing new in the modern game.”

Norway coach Ståle Solbakken weighed in after his team stunned Brazil on Sunday to reach the quarterfinals.

“What about the next red card? What happens then?” he said. “Is there going to be some committee somewhere that is going to take that card away?”

Former England great Wayne Rooney said on the BBC: “Infantino, he should be ashamed of this because I think the sportsmanship of this game is in question here.”

Ex-Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimović was a prominent voice welcoming the decision.

“First of all, he should not get a red card and then they should have come quicker, this call,” Ibrahimovic said on Fox Sports. “I’m happy for the U.S. team because the U.S. team has been amazing but Balo has been super-amazing.”

England coach Thomas Tuchel predicted this could set off a flood of complaints and appeals over other on-field decisions affecting key players at the World Cup.

“Where to draw the line is the question that I ask,” he said after England beat Mexico 3-2 for a quarterfinal spot.

“Our yellow card from the first minute against Declan Rice, we can now debate endlessly. I think it's not a yellow card. Do we get this back?”

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AP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report.

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See more of AP’s World Cup coverage here

An afternoon storm chance will continue into Tuesday before Saharan dust arrives midweek. This dust will not only lower rain chances starting Wednesday but will also bring a slight haze to the sky through Friday. With a lower rain chance, temperatures will climb into the middle 90s by the weekend with even higher heat index values.

“All I did was ask for a review,” Trump said when asked about it during an unrelated Oval Office event. “I didn’t say, ‘You have to do this.’”

Trump confirmed that he called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked for a second look at the punishment against Balogun in the United States’ 2-0 win against Bosnia-Herzegovina last week in Santa Clara, California, near San Francisco. But he said FIFA made the final call to lift Balogun’s mandatory one-game ban for a foul tackle, allowing him to play in Monday’s round of 16 match with Belgium in Seattle.

FIFA’s decision to suspend the one-game ban was celebrated by many in the United States but brought condemnation in the international sports world, where some called it an outrageous intrusion. The Belgian soccer federation challenged Balogun's eligibility for Monday's match, and the UEFA soccer body in Europe called FIFA's move “incomprehensible and unjustifiable.”

Belgium ended up winning 4-1, eliminating the U.S. team from the tournament.

Trump criticizes the referee's red card call

In remarks Monday, Trump called the referee's decision a “horrible” call. He said it would have been a stain on the tournament if Balogun, the U.S.' leading scorer at this year's World Cup with three goals, was held out against Belgium and the U.S. lost. He praised FIFA for suspending the punishment.

“I didn’t think it was a foul,” Trump said. “I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled.”

The Republican president, who said he understands sports “really well,” acknowledged that he did not initially know what a red card is or the consequences it brings. When he learned it would lead to a one-game suspension for Balogun, he said, he decided to step in. He also took issue with the use of video review to issue the red card, arguing that slowed-down reviews can make plays look more aggressive.

“Belgium has got a great team,” Trump said. “We have to have our best players, and they have to have their best. And if we win or we lose, it’s fair.”

FIFA president defends the decision process

Soon after Trump addressed the controversy, Infantino issued a statement detailing his call with Trump and defending the independence of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee.

“During our conversation, I explained that there was an ongoing legal process involving FIFA’s independent judicial bodies and that the case would be decided in due course by the competent bodies,” Infantino said in a statement on X. “That is how FIFA’s system works, and it is a principle that I will always uphold."

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who joined Trump at the White House event, credited the president for taking action. "On behalf of all Americans, thank you for getting rid of that ridiculous red card,” Cruz said during his remarks. “It was spectacular.”

Separately, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it was the right decision to lift the punishment for Balogun.

In rare comments during a photo op ahead of his meeting with Chile’s foreign minister, Rubio questioned why Belgium would want to win a match “if everyone will argue you didn’t really win it because their best, or their leading, scorer was not on the pitch.”

He joked that it was becoming an “international incident” ahead of a NATO summit in Turkey this week.

Trump also blamed the referee. Brazil's soccer federation defended him

Trump took a swipe at the official who made the call, describing Brazilian referee Raphael Claus as “a little bit suspect if you check his past.” He did not elaborate.

Claus has been considered one of Brazil’s best referees in the last few years, often picked to officiate the nation’s most important matches, including the final of the 2024 Copa America.

During a match-fixing investigation by Brazil’s Senate in 2024, lawmakers scrutinized referee assignment practices but did not accuse Claus of wrongdoing.

On Monday, the Brazilian soccer federation defended Claus as one of the world’s leading active referees, praising his technical expertise and ethics. “There is nothing in his record that calls his integrity into question or supports any suspicion of wrongdoing,” the federation said in a statement.

The Sao Paulo Football Federation in a statement expressed “its unwavering support” for Claus in the face of “regrettable insinuations that attempt, without any basis, to cast doubt on his integrity and professional career.”

How did Balogun get the red card?

The foul against Balogun was called after he planted his cleated foot on the ankle of Bosnian defender Tarik Muharemovic during their round of 32 match. The referee didn’t initially signal a card, but a slow-motion review resulted in the red card.

Balogun later said he thought a yellow card, a formal warning, would have been fair.

FIFA's decision drew quick rebuke Sunday from Belgium coach Rudi Garcia, who said it sounded like an April Fools' Day joke. Meanwhile U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino applauded FIFA’s move, saying his team was punished enough by losing Balogun for the remainder of last week's game.

As the drama played out on the pitch last week, it was immediately clear from the perspective of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, White House FIFA Task Force leader Andrew Giuliani and Trump administration officials that the process used to issue the red card to Balogun was improper.

Discussions over the red card and what to do about it dominated the flight from Santa Clara back to Washington. The consensus of the group, according to a senior U.S. official with knowledge of the talks, was simply: that the slow-motion replay was improper, so shouldn’t the red card be nullified?

The next day, Trump officials continued to dig into the rules, consult lawyers and speak with U.S. Soccer about the matter, according to the official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Trump was also briefed on updates as he prepared to speak with Infantino, whom the U.S. president has talked with multiple times a week since the World Cup, which is being hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, began June 11.

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Kim reported from Ankara, Turkey. Associated Press photographer Manny Ceneta contributed from Washington. Associated Press writer Eléonore Hughes contributed from Rio de Janeiro and writer Tales Azzoni contributed from Madrid.

Los agentes indicaron que el hecho ocurrió la noche del jueves en la vivienda del sospechoso Michael Jason Knight, en el área no incorporada de Princeton, al suroeste de Miami-Dade.

Según el MDSO, los agentes acudieron a la vivienda, ubicada en la cuadra 26300 de Southwest 135th Avenue, alrededor de las 10:35 p.m. tras recibir un reporte de un hombre que “sangraba y parecía estar muerto”.

Un informe de arresto indica que los agentes llegaron y encontraron a la víctima “sangrando profusamente”.

Los agentes lo trasladaron al Jackson South Medical Center, donde fue tratado, según el MDSO.

El hombre les dijo a los agentes que Knight le había pedido dinero, y que cuando él dijo “no”, Knight lo apuñaló en el brazo izquierdo. Los agentes indicaron que otra persona en la vivienda le quitó el cuchillo a Knight y llamó al 911.

Según el informe de arresto, Knight le dijo a un agente en la escena, refiriéndose a él y a la víctima: “Nos estábamos besando”.

Las autoridades dijeron que, tras ser llevado a una estación del MDSO, Knight “comenzó a orinar sobre la mesa y el piso” y “se volvió poco cooperativo”.

Hasta la mañana del lunes, Knight, nacido en Georgia, permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, según los registros.

David Streever, who is a U.S. citizen, was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his Rochester home in June and presented his wife with a warning notice informing him that the email he sent months earlier was considered a threat, his attorneys said. Streever sent the email in January to Todd Lyons, then the acting director of ICE, after an immigration officer fatally shot Minneapolis resident Renee Good during an anti-ICE demonstration.

In the email, Streever called Lyons “a monstrous human being” who “will never know peace.” He said the agency violated his First Amendment rights in a lawsuit filed Monday in Washington D.C.

Streever is one of at least two residents of upstate New York who was served with a federal warning in June in the wake of criticizing ICE online. The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is representing Streever, and said it filed the lawsuit because Streever's right to free expression was violated.

“This is very clearly within the protection of the First Amendment,” said Adam Steinbaugh, an attorney with the foundation. “It was in the context of political speech.”

Representatives for ICE previously declined to comment on the warning to Streever, citing an ongoing investigation, and the agency did not immediately comment Monday. The suit also names Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, whose office released a statement that said “Any allegation DHS and its components are attempting to ‘squash’ free speech is categorically FALSE.”

“Anyone who assaults or threatens our law enforcement officers will face the consequences," the statement said.

The entirety of the three-paragraph email, which carried the subject line “What's next,” and referenced a leader in Nazi Germany: “You are a monstrous human being and will go down in history as America’s Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher.

“The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.

“You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth.”

Federal agents also attempted to confront Streever at a hotel in New York City when he returned from Finland, but they were turned away by hotel staff, Steinbaugh said.

Federal officials went to Streever's house the same week that officials visited Paigelynne Gonyea, a poll worker, at a voting location during New York’s primaries to confront her about a social media post.

Gonyea believes the warning stemmed from writing “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted,” in a post with a picture of Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who shot and killed Good. She posted it in January, after Ross had already been identified by the news media.

Lauren Bis, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, shared an image of a different social media post from Gonyea in which she said Gonyea shared Ross’ address. Part of that post was redacted.

Bis said in a statement in June that Gonyea “committed a federal crime by posting the address of an ICE law enforcement officer online” and “if you doxx our officers, we will investigate you, and you will be brought to justice.”

A representative for the New York Attorney General's Office has said the office is aware of the two residents' contact with federal agents. The representative has said the office has been reviewing the interaction between Gonyea and federal agents that took place at the polls.

Según informes de arresto obtenidos el lunes por Local 10 News, el primer robo ocurrió poco antes de las 2 a.m., cuando Noah Alec Dutzer, de 26 años y residente de Miami, presuntamente entró al apartamento de una mujer mientras ella no estaba.

La policía dijo que más tarde esa mañana, la mujer fue alertada por un vecino que le dijo haber escuchado pasos provenientes de su apartamento y creía que alguien había entrado por la fuerza.

La víctima entonces revisó las cámaras de seguridad de su vivienda y vio que Dutzer había estado dentro de su apartamento durante horas, tocándose los genitales en su sofá y llenando un vaso de vidrio que llevaba consigo con su whisky Fireball, según las autoridades.

Según el informe de arresto, Dutzer registró el sofá de la víctima, entró y salió de su habitación, y entró y salió del apartamento varias veces antes de quedarse dormido en el sofá.

La policía dijo que se despertó poco antes de las 7:30 a.m. y salió del apartamento nuevamente antes de regresar.

Poco después de las 8:30 a.m., Dutzer notó la cámara de seguridad de la vivienda y la giró para que no apuntara hacia la sala, según las autoridades.

La policía dijo que Dutzer fue detenido cuando salía del edificio, después de que la víctima llamara al 911.

Según un informe de arresto por separado, Dutzer también había entrado a otra unidad del edificio alrededor de las 2:30 a.m.

En ese incidente, la víctima dormía dentro de su apartamento y fue despertado por Dutzer, sin pantalones, quien encendió la linterna de su teléfono frente a la puerta del baño de la víctima, dentro de su habitación, según las autoridades.

La policía dijo que la víctima, quien nunca antes había visto a Dutzer, le dijo que se fuera, y Dutzer respondió: “Mi culpa, mi culpa”, y se marchó.

Según el informe, la víctima revisó su apartamento después de que Dutzer se fuera y confirmó a la policía que nada había sido revuelto ni faltaba.

Según los informes, Dutzer les dijo a los detectives que había estado bebiendo durante varias horas en un bar de Giralda Avenue con algunos amigos y que solo recordaba haber llegado a la zona con una mujer desconocida.

Los informes indican que dijo recordar momentos dentro del primer apartamento, pero que tuvo lapsos de “pérdida de memoria”. Dijo que no recordaba haber entrado al apartamento del hombre, según las autoridades.

La dirección del edificio de apartamentos de las víctimas fue omitida de los informes divulgados públicamente.

Dutzer fue arrestado bajo cargos de allanamiento de vivienda desocupada y allanamiento de vivienda ocupada.

Hasta la mañana del lunes, Dutzer permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Los registros carcelarios en línea indicaban su fianza como “por determinar”.

Martinez, who turns 30 on Wednesday, was driving his gray Honda Odyssey when he crashed in the Liberty City neighborhood, threatened two victims, and “displayed a silver handgun that was tucked in his waistband,” according to the police report.

While demanding cash, Martinez, of Allapattah, grabbed the gun and pointed it at the victim’s rib cage before also using the firearm to strike him “across the face,” according to the police report.

One of the victims escaped, and the other was injured during the armed robbery shortly after 4:10 a.m. on June 28 at Northwest Seventh Avenue and 52 Street, according to the police report.

“I obtained CCTV footage that captured the entirety of the robbery,” a Miami detective wrote, according to the police report.

Surveillance video shows Martinez at the Shell gas station at 5343 NW 7th Ave., before the armed robbery on June 28, and license plate readers show him “traveling northbound through the intersection of Northwest Second Avenue and 54 Street at 4:15 a.m., according to police.

Martinez’s face “can be clearly seen in this video,” a police officer wrote about the surveillance at the gas station, according to the police report.

Miami police officers arrested Martinez at 7 p.m. on July 2 at Northwest Sixth Avenue and 69 Street, and found a firearm in the car, according to the police report.

Corrections booked Martinez, also known as Christian Martinezguerra, shortly before 10:05 p.m. on July 2 at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Martinez-Guerra faced two felony charges in Miami-Dade County: Armed robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. A judge placed a pre-trial detention hold.

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

Los eventos de El Niño —el calentamiento anómalo de las aguas alrededor del ecuador en el Pacífico oriental— suelen alcanzar su punto máximo entre noviembre y enero, pero este, declarado oficialmente el mes pasado por la NOAA, se está calentando a un ritmo nunca antes observado.

Los modelos de pronóstico coinciden casi unánimemente en que observaremos uno de los El Niño más fuertes registrados —si no el más fuerte— para este invierno.

Como hemos detallado en boletines anteriores, los eventos de El Niño —particularmente los fuertes— son conocidos por reducir la actividad de huracanes en el Atlántico, en gran parte debido a los cambios en los patrones de viento que aumentan la cizalladura hostil que desbarata tormentas en toda la cuenca. Pero los El Niño fuertes también pueden redistribuir la actividad estacional de tormentas en el Golfo, el Caribe y el Atlántico en general, concentrando la actividad y a menudo provocando un final de temporada más temprano de lo habitual.

En la gráfica de arriba, se puede ver cómo la actividad estacional durante los meses pico de agosto, septiembre y octubre se “comprime” en los años de El Niño fuerte en comparación con todos los años de la era satelital (desde 1966). Esto significa que cuando la actividad se intensifica, podría llegar un poco más tarde en agosto y sentirse un poco más abrupta, alcanzando su punto máximo alrededor de la misma fecha a principios de septiembre, para luego disminuir más rápidamente en octubre y principios de noviembre.

Curiosamente, las temporadas de huracanes en el Atlántico durante años de El Niño fuerte también tienden a mostrar junios relativamente más activos y julios más tranquilos en comparación con lo que se esperaría en una temporada típica.

La disminución de la actividad de huracanes a finales de temporada (octubre-noviembre) está bien documentada en investigaciones previas y tiene sentido físicamente, ya que la cizalladura del viento aumenta más adelante en la temporada a medida que El Niño se fortalece hacia el otoño e invierno.

Por supuesto, cada temporada de huracanes es única y ninguna sigue exactamente las gráficas de actividad estacional como se podría esperar (véase la calma de mitad de temporada de 2024 y 2025), pero dado el patrón de temporadas cargadas hacia el final en años recientes, a nadie le molestaría que la de 2026 termine antes.

Por ahora, el Atlántico sigue el guion de El Niño fielmente, con una calma tropical soplando por la cuenca al menos durante la próxima semana o dos. Incluso más adentro de julio, los modelos de largo plazo siguen mostrando muy poca actividad, así que a disfrutar de este tramo tranquilo.

Martinez, quien cumple 30 años el miércoles, conducía su Honda Odyssey gris cuando chocó en el vecindario de Liberty City, amenazó a dos víctimas y “mostró una pistola plateada que llevaba metida en la cintura”, según el reporte policial.

Mientras exigía dinero en efectivo, Martinez, residente de Allapattah, tomó el arma y la apuntó contra las costillas de la víctima antes de también usar la pistola para golpearlo “en el rostro”, según el reporte policial.

Una de las víctimas logró escapar, y la otra resultó herida durante el robo a mano armada poco después de las 4:10 a.m. del 28 de junio en Northwest Seventh Avenue y la calle 52, según el reporte policial.

“Obtuve imágenes de circuito cerrado que captaron todo el robo”, escribió un detective de Miami, según el reporte policial.

Las imágenes de vigilancia muestran a Martinez en la gasolinera Shell ubicada en 5343 NW 7th Ave. antes del robo a mano armada del 28 de junio, y los lectores de placas lo muestran “circulando hacia el norte por la intersección de Northwest Second Avenue y la calle 54 a las 4:15 a.m.”, según la policía.

El rostro de Martinez “se puede ver claramente en este video”, escribió un oficial de policía sobre las imágenes de la gasolinera, según el reporte policial.

Oficiales de la policía de Miami arrestaron a Martinez a las 7 p.m. del 2 de julio en Northwest Sixth Avenue y la calle 69, y encontraron un arma de fuego en el auto, según el reporte policial.

El Departamento de Correccionales ingresó a Martinez, también conocido como Christian Martinezguerra, poco antes de las 10:05 p.m. del 2 de julio en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Martinez-Guerra enfrenta dos cargos graves en el Condado Miami-Dade: robo a mano armada con arma mortal y agresión agravada con arma mortal. Un juez ordenó su detención preventiva sin derecho a fianza.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este reporte.

Deputies said it happened Thursday night at the home of suspect Michael Jason Knight in the unincorporated Princeton area of southwest Miami-Dade.

According to MDSO, deputies responded to the home, in the 26300 block of Southwest 135th Avenue, at around 10:35 p.m. after receiving a report of a man who “was bleeding and appeared dead.”

An arrest report states that deputies arrived to find the victim “bleeding profusely.”

Deputies took him to Jackson South Medical Center where he was treated, according to MDSO.

He told deputies that Knight had asked him for money, and when he said “no,” Knight stabbed him in the left arm. Deputies said another person in the home took the knife from Knight and called 911.

According to the arrest report, Knight told a deputy at the scene, regarding himself and the victim, “We were just kissing.”

Authorities said after being taken to an MDSO station, Knight “began urinating on the table and floor” and “became uncooperative.”

As of Monday morning, the Georgia-born Knight remained held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records show.

Tras un par de días en España, la carrera entró en Francia con una etapa hacia la localidad pirenaica de Les Angles, a unos 60 kilómetros (37 millas) de un incendio que ha quemado casi 1.821 hectáreas (4.500 acres) de terreno.

Los organizadores del Tour de Francia indicaron que el gran incendio forestal que actualmente afecta a los Pirineos Orientales requería una amplia movilización de recursos de extinción, fuerzas de seguridad y otros organismos gubernamentales.

“La máxima prioridad sigue siendo la protección de las personas, los bienes y las zonas naturales, así como lograr controlar el incendio”, declararon las autoridades.

Como resultado, los organizadores decidieron que, una vez que el pelotón llegue a Francia para los últimos 40 kilómetros (25 millas), la caravana publicitaria —una procesión de 10 kilómetros (6 millas) de vehículos de patrocinadores que precede a la carrera— no podría operar.

Solo se permitiría en el recorrido a los ciclistas y a los vehículos esenciales para la carrera, y se pidió a los espectadores que no se congregaran al borde de la carretera ni en la zona de meta.

La tercera etapa comenzó en la localidad española de Granollers, donde las temperaturas alcanzaron alrededor de 35 grados Celsius (95 Fahrenheit), informaron los organizadores de la carrera, citando a la Agencia Estatal de Meteorología.

Casi 700 bomberos combatían el incendio, que llevó a las autoridades a ordenar el domingo por la noche la evacuación de más de dos docenas de pueblos.

Europa es el continente que más rápido se calienta en el mundo, con temperaturas que aumentan al doble de la velocidad del promedio global desde la década de 1980, según el Servicio de Cambio Climático Copernicus de la Unión Europea.

A nivel mundial, 2025 fue el tercer año más caluroso registrado, lo que trajo severas olas de calor en toda Europa.

Decenas de incendios forestales en Grecia

En Grecia, se habían declarado 96 incendios forestales en las últimas 48 horas, manifestó el lunes el portavoz del gobierno, Pavlos Marinakis. La gran mayoría se controló rápidamente antes de que pudiera propagarse, añadió.

Los científicos advierten que el cambio climático está agravando la frecuencia e intensidad del calor y la sequedad, especialmente en el sureste de Europa, lo que hace a la región más vulnerable a impactos de salud e incendios forestales.

El incendio más importante se declaró el domingo por la tarde en la zona de Mandra, al oeste de la capital, Atenas. Las autoridades desplegaron 29 aeronaves y más de 200 bomberos en una carrera por dominar las llamas antes del anochecer, cuando los aviones de extinción ya no pueden operar. Para el lunes, el incendio había remitido, aunque no se había extinguido por completo.

Varias partes del país figuraban el lunes con riesgo alto o muy alto de incendios forestales debido a los fuertes vientos. Un incendio forestal en la isla meridional de Creta motivó órdenes de evacuación para un pueblo cercano a la localidad de Ierapetra. El fuego, que avanzaba principalmente por terrenos agrícolas, estaba siendo avivado por fuertes vientos, informó el cuerpo de bomberos.

Ola de calor en España y Portugal

En la península ibérica, otro repunte de calor se extendió por España y Portugal, donde cientos de bomberos también trabajaban para contener incendios forestales.

La agencia meteorológica de España, AEMET, advirtió que una ola de calor que comenzó el domingo se prolongaría al menos hasta el jueves, con temperaturas elevadas tanto de día como de noche. En gran parte de España, incluida la capital, Madrid, se esperaba que las máximas diurnas oscilaran entre 37 C y 42 C (99 F y 108 F) el lunes y el martes.

También se pronosticaban noches incómodamente calurosas, con temperaturas que superarían con facilidad los 20 C (68 F), lo que los científicos denominan “noches tropicales”. Esto significa que las personas podrían no recuperarse adecuadamente del calor diurno durante las horas nocturnas.

En Portugal, las zonas del interior registraron un fuerte aumento de temperaturas el lunes, mientras que la costera Lisboa también soportó temperaturas que alcanzaron los 33 C (91 F). Se esperaba que las temperaturas bajaran más adelante en la semana.

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Contribuyeron a esta nota los corresponsales John Leicester en París y Elena Becatoros en Atenas

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

The layoffs included 1,600 Xbox workers, with more to come this year in a broader reorganization designed to “reset” Xbox as it faces heightened competition, the company said Monday.

“Our business today is not healthy,” said a memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who took over the gaming division earlier this year. “We are operating at margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses.”

Sharma said the industry, in which Xbox competes with Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Switch, is facing a severe “hardware crisis” as costs soar for console components.

Beyond the layoffs announced Monday, Sharma said Xbox expects another 1,600 job cuts over the course of the fiscal year that began last week. The company is also spinning off four video game development studios previously acquired by Microsoft.

Nearly three years ago, Microsoft closed a $69 billion deal to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard, maker of “Call of Duty” and other blockbuster franchises. The company said at the time it wanted to broaden its game development portfolio and offer a Netflix-like streaming subscription service, but the strategy doesn't appear to have been enough to get ahead of the competition.

“While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected,” Sharma said.

The Xbox cuts are in addition to broader Microsoft layoffs that the software giant's chief people officer Amy Coleman tied to unspecified changes in customer needs.

“I also want to be direct that the roles eliminated today are not being replaced by AI,” Coleman wrote in a blog post.

The layoffs followed voluntary buyouts that Microsoft began offering to about 8,750 people in May. More than 30% of eligible workers accepted those voluntary retirement offers, Coleman said Monday.

Reuters reported earlier this morning that Raul Castro’s grandson Raulito, known as “El Cangrejo,” announced that Cuba is willing to negotiate with the U.S. The question we need to ask ourselves is whether Raulito is negotiating on behalf of the Castro family or the Cuban government?

We know that Cuba has been selling some of their assets, including some belonging to the military economic conglomerate GAESA in the last couple of weeks. Cuba’s attempt to invite foreign investment has not attracted many takers for the fear of losing their money.

July 2 update: Cuba’s culture of fear complicates a Democratic transition

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When we talk about Cuba, we usually concentrate on their centralized political and economic system. However, we fail to recognize that individuals that have lived under totalitarian regimes have had to survive under a culture of fear. Such system of government creates a psychological set of attitudes and values that help define the daily behavior in order to align the people’s wants and needs to the restrictions imposed by the government.

To break such behaviors could take years of psychological training and change. Therefore, transitioning a totalitarian state to support a transition to some form of a Democratic government could take time.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez’s June updates can be viewed by clicking here.

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.

Una de las víctimas fue considerada paciente de trauma.

Según la MCSO, la embarcación chocó contra el Harris Gap Channel Bridge, el puente por donde pasa la U.S. 1 a través de Sugarloaf Key.

La Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de la Florida investiga el choque.

Rutte spoke in the Turkish capital ahead of the two-day summit starting on Tuesday at a crucial time for the alliance, with the United States scaling down its security role in Europe. Washington has been pressing allies to shoulder more of the spending burden.

The 32 nations agreed last year to invest 5% of their gross domestic product on defense — 3.5% on their defense budgets and 1.5% on roads, bridges and ports so troops and equipment can move faster in times of conflict.

Spain endorsed the goal but said it could fulfill NATO’s security requirements without spending so much. Some countries are still struggling to meet the alliance’s old target of 2% of GDP.

Asked what would happen to members that don't have a clear plan, Rutte said: “If one or two of them still have to be convinced, we have ways to do that.” He did not elaborate.

Trump has called for ‘loyalty’ from NATO allies

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker suggested last week that the U.S. has something in store for those who do not step up, but declined to say more.

“President (Donald) Trump fully expects that all allies will step up immediately and get on the path to 5% and do it with urgency,” Whitaker said.

On spending among European allies and Canada, Rutte said that “the evidence we see so far is impressive.” He said NATO estimates that they will invest a combined $258 billion more in defense in 2025 and this year than they have in previous years.

But the numbers might not be enough to satisfy the Trump administration. Trump has repeatedly lashed U.S. allies over defense spending, and in the past threatened not to come to the defense of any member not doing enough — challenging NATO’s key reason for existence.

Trump also has called for “loyalty” from NATO allies, after some of them declined to allow the use of their military bases in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. As well as airing grievances about how much the U.S. spends on defense compared with other countries, Trump has sparred with allies over the war, his comments about annexing Greenland and other tiffs.

The Trump administration is promoting what it calls “NATO 3.0,” a vision in which Europe assumes greater responsibility for its own defense, freeing the U.S. to concentrate on other priorities. The approach was laid out earlier this year by Elbridge Colby, a U.S. undersecretary of defense, during a meeting of NATO defense ministers.

“We need our allies in NATO to step up and assume leadership roles, and I mean that not only in sort of loud cheerleading but also the moral authority and the moral compass of the alliance,” Whitaker said last week.

European allies warn about a possible Russia attack

Some European governments have warned that Russia might be preparing a hybrid attack somewhere on the continent as Russian President Vladimir Putin struggles to secure victory in Ukraine.

NATO on Tuesday is due to make announcements showcasing the military equipment being bought with billions of dollars more being spent on defense and security. The event has been dubbed the “big reveal.”

Among the projects, many of them prepared and signed long before the summit, is one to replace NATO’s aging fleet of surveillance planes.

NATO as an organization does not own any weaponry — these are the property of member countries — but it has a fleet of AWACS aircraft that are about 50 years old and some surveillance drones.

In a report released on Monday, the European Stability Mechanism — a financial institution set up to help countries using the euro currency in severe financial distress — said NATO’s defense spending target is achievable but must be handled carefully.

It warned that Europe’s defense buildup, which largely will use debt financing in the short term, is turning into “one of the central fiscal policy questions of this decade.”

NATO governments are struggling to hike their defense spending, which requires increasing taxes or reshuffling resources from other priorities.

U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey unexpectedly quit last month because he said the government was not willing to spend at a time of rising threats.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Miramar, el hecho ocurrió alrededor de las 5:30 a.m. mientras las víctimas circulaban en una camioneta Lamborghini SUV de color verde fluorescente por la cuadra 2700 de Sunshine Boulevard.

El trío se estrelló aproximadamente una cuadra después, según el MPD. En el lugar se observaron numerosos marcadores de evidencia.

Las tres víctimas fueron trasladadas al hospital en estado crítico, informó el jefe del MPD, Delrish Moss, a medios locales en la escena la mañana del domingo.

La policía indicó que los detectives trabajan para determinar si las víctimas fueron seguidas hasta el vecindario o si alguien desde el propio vecindario disparó la ráfaga de balas contra el vehículo.

“Les digo, esta no es forma de despertar un domingo por la mañana. Es una escena caótica; escuchar múltiples disparos en medio de la noche, o en las primeras horas de la madrugada, siempre resulta perturbador”, dijo Moss. “Por ahora, no creemos que exista un panorama más amplio en cuanto a que el vecindario esté en peligro, pero sin duda alguien apuntó a este auto en particular por alguna razón. Estamos tratando de averiguar por qué”.

Moss dijo que una alerta de ShotSpotter llevó a los oficiales hasta la escena y que hubo disparos rápidos y sucesivos.

La policía informó que los investigadores cuentan con “información limitada sobre el sospechoso”.

“Yo y mi familia escuchamos lo que sonaba como disparos alrededor de las 5 o 6 de la mañana”, dijo el vecino Carlos Regueiro.

“Definitivamente da miedo, sobre todo porque todos los vecinos aquí hemos sido los mismos durante los últimos 10 años. Así que quienquiera que haya estado involucrado, es posible que lo conozcamos”.

Los agentes indicaron que buscan a un sospechoso que huyó de la escena.

Las autoridades dijeron que el hecho ocurrió poco después de las 3:30 a.m. en la cuadra 7600 de Northwest 25th Street, justo al este de la Palmetto Expressway.

Agentes del MDSO y la policía de Doral respondieron al lugar, y paramédicos trasladaron a las tres víctimas a un hospital cercano, indicaron los agentes.

“El vehículo del sospechoso se describe como una camioneta pickup negra con daños en la parte delantera. El conductor huyó de la escena y sigue prófugo”, indica un comunicado del MDSO".

“Los detectives investigan activamente las circunstancias de este incidente y piden a cualquier persona que haya presenciado el choque o tenga información sobre el vehículo sospechoso que se comunique”.

Cualquier persona con información puede llamar a Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

El hecho ocurrió alrededor de las 10 a.m. detrás de la casa de la menor, en la cuadra 500 de Northwest 107th Avenue, dentro de la urbanización Westport.

La policía de Plantation dijo que el padre de la niña la encontró boca abajo en el lago, comenzó de inmediato maniobras de RCP y llamó al 911.

Paramédicos trasladaron a la niña al Broward Health Medical Center, donde los médicos certificaron su muerte.

“Con base en la información recabada hasta el momento, los investigadores creen que se trata de un trágico ahogamiento accidental”, indicó la policía de Plantation sobre su investigación.

Hasta la tarde del domingo, la policía no había divulgado el nombre de la menor.

**MR. LEE’S CHINESE RESTAURANT

VISTA SHOPPING CENTER

6560 NW 186TH ST.

COUNTRY CLUB OF MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 6/30

18 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed one live roach crawling on the wall underneath of preparation table located in front of the cook line.”

“Roach excrement and/or droppings present. Observed 8 roach droppings underneath of shelves kitchen next to empty cans, also observed 20+ roach droppings underneath of preparation table located across the cook line.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 10 dead roaches underneath of kitchen shelves.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Tofu expired on June 10 2026.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed tofu soup (51F - Cold Holding); ham (49F - Cold Holding) for more than 4 hours as per operator.”

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

“Equipment and utensils not washed, rinsed and sanitized in the correct order in three-compartment sink. Do not use dishes/equipment not properly sanitized.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris.”

“Employee eating in a food preparation or other restricted area. Observed employee eating next to preparation area.”

Hamas did not say whether it planned to take the crucial step of disarming or handing over security to an international force, but described its decision as evidence of its commitment to Gaza’s reconstruction after years of war.

It was unclear if the move, announced by a lower-level official, would lead to any meaningful change on the ground.

The Board of Peace, the new entity led by President Donald Trump with the mandate of governing and rebuilding Gaza, said it was aware of the Hamas announcement but would assess the impact based on “actions, not promises.” The board stressed in a statement on X that the technocratic committee must control all weapons in Gaza, as laid out in the ceasefire agreement.

At a news conference Monday, Ismail al-Thawabta, general director of the Hamas-run Government Media Office, said “only technical and professional staff” would remain in their positions to run the Palestinian enclave’s day-to-day affairs.

“All employees working in service provision are ‘state employees’ and are fully prepared to work under the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza,” al-Thawabta said during a news conference in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem called it “a positive step forward on the path to implement the ceasefire deal.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar dismissed the move, saying it was designed to avoid disarmament. “As long as Hamas retains its weapons, any civilian government will of course operate as Hamas dictates,” he wrote on X.

The committee of technocrats, which is based in Cairo, is chaired by Ali Shaath, a Gaza-born engineer and former official with the Palestinian Authority. It has a mandate to restore essential services and oversee civilian affairs under the supervision of the U.N. and the Board of Peace.

In a statement on X, Shaath acknowledged the Hamas announcement Monday and said that in order for the committee to function effectively, there must be “a single governing authority operating under one legal framework” and “a unified security apparatus accountable to that authority.”

Nine months after the ceasefire was signed, negotiations between Israel and Hamas remain largely deadlocked over the implementation of its second phase, including the disarmament of Hamas and the reconstruction of Gaza.

Hamas has insisted on implementing the first phase before moving to discuss its weapons.

The Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led militants that sparked the war killed some 1,200 people in Israel and saw 251 others taken hostage. Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed 73,098 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, is staffed by medical professionals and maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants but says women and children make up around half of all fatalities.

Israeli strikes have lessened considerably since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 10, but they continue almost daily. Israel’s military says it targets Hamas and other militants, often asserting they were planning attacks. The strikes have also killed many civilians.

On Monday, Israeli strikes killed at least five people in Gaza, including three in Khan Younis in the south and two in an apartment in Gaza City, health officials said.

The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas operative in the Gaza City strike and a militant from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group in the attacks in Khan Younis.

Militants have carried out shooting attacks against Israeli troops in Gaza, and five Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ceasefire. ___

Associated Press writer Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.