It is unclear what will follow after an American attempt to end Iran’s stranglehold on the strait by creating an “enhanced security area." A prominent Iranian official accused the U.S. of undermining regional security with the effort and warned that Iran will respond.

The U.S. military said two American-flagged merchant ships successfully transited the strait on Monday, and that it fired on Iranian forces, sinking six small boats that were targeting vessels. It remained to be seen if any more ships would cross on Tuesday.

Ship tracking data showed a Panamanian-flagged crude oil tanker heading toward the center of the strait Tuesday morning after leaving an anchorage in the Persian Gulf, though it was unclear if it would try to pass through. The tanker had a stated destination of Singapore, according to the MarineTraffic ship tracking site.

Iran’s effective closure of the strait, through which about a fifth of the world’s trade in oil and natural gas typically passes, along with fertilizer and other petroleum-derived products, has sent fuel prices skyrocketing, rattled the global economy, and proved a major strategic advantage in negotiations to end the war. Breaking that chokehold would ease global economic concerns and deny Tehran a major source of leverage.

But such efforts also risk reigniting the full-scale fighting that erupted when the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran on Feb. 28, prompting it to close the strait.

Iran accuses US of ceasefire violation

Iran has said the new U.S. effort is a violation of the fragile ceasefire that has held for more than three weeks.

In a post on X Tuesday, Iran’s powerful parliamentary speaker and chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, accused Washington of undermining shipping security in the Strait of Hormuz.

Qalibaf warned that a “new equation” in the strait is taking shape. He signaled that Tehran has yet to fully respond to the U.S. attempt to reopen the waterway, saying: “We know full well that the continuation of the status quo is intolerable for America; while we have not even begun yet.”

Trump vows to reopen the strait

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday warned that Iranian efforts to halt passage through the strait “will, unfortunately, have to be dealt with forcefully.” He said the U.S. effort to reopen the strait, dubbed “Project Freedom,” was intended to aid stranded seafarers on hundreds of ships stuck in the Persian Gulf since the war began.

The U.S.-led Joint Maritime Information Center advised ships on Monday to cross the strait in Oman’s waters, saying it had set up an “enhanced security area.”

The UAE bore the brunt of Iran’s retaliation

The United Arab Emirates' Defense Ministry said its air defenses had engaged 15 missiles and four drones fired by Iran. Authorities in the eastern emirate of Fujairah said one drone sparked a fire at a key oil facility, wounding three Indian nationals. The British military reported two cargo vessels ablaze off the UAE.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condemned the attacks, saying the targeting of civilians and infrastructure was “unacceptable.” In a statement on X, Modi said India stands in “firm solidarity” with the UAE, and stressed the need for safe and uninterrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, saying it “is vital for enduring regional peace, stability and global energy security.”

Tehran did not confirm or deny the attacks but early on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X that both the U.S. and the UAE “should be wary of being dragged back into quagmire.”

Pakistan, which has been mediating between the U.S. and Iran, and Saudi Arabia both condemned the strikes against the UAE.

Saudi's condemnation, in a statement from its foreign ministry, came despite increasingly strained relations between Saudi and the UAE.

Strait of Hormuz closure has far-reaching consequences

The disruption of the waterway has squeezed countries in Europe and Asia that depend on Persian Gulf oil and gas, raising prices far beyond the region.

The U.S. has meanwhile enforced a naval blockade on Iranian ports since April 13, telling at least 49 commercial ships to turn back, according to Central Command. It's also warned shipping companies they could face sanctions if they pay Iran for transit of the strait.

The blockade has deprived Tehran of oil revenue it needs to shore up its ailing economy. U.S. officials have expressed hope the blockade will force Iran to make concessions in talks on its disputed nuclear program and other longstanding issues.

Negotiations make little progress

Iran’s latest proposal for ending the war calls for the U.S. to lift sanctions, end the blockade, withdraw forces from the region, and cease all hostilities including Israel’s operations in Lebanon, according to the semiofficial Nour News and Tasnim agencies, which have close ties to Iran’s security apparatus.

Iranian officials said they were reviewing the U.S. response. Tehran has claimed its proposal does not include its nuclear program and enriched uranium, long a driving force in tensions with the U.S. and Israel.

Iran wants other issues resolved within 30 days and aims to end the war rather than extend the ceasefire. Trump expressed doubt over the weekend that the proposal would lead to a deal.

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Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece. Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut, Lebanon and Sheikh Saaliq in New Delhi contributed to this report.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rebuked Moscow for what he said was its “utter cynicism” in launching the attacks after Russia announced a unilateral truce over two days later this week while it marks the 81st anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

“Russia could cease fire at any moment, and this would stop the war and our responses,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X. “Peace is needed, and real steps are needed to achieve it. Ukraine will act in kind.”

The truce proposal follows a familiar pattern of Russia declaring short unilateral ceasefires during the war timed to various holidays — most recently Orthodox Easter — that don't produce any tangible results amid deep mistrust between Moscow and Kyiv more than four years after Russia launched an all-out invasion of its neighbor.

The Russian Defense Ministry declared a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine for Friday and Saturday, but said that it would strike back at the country if it tries to disrupt the festivities on Victory Day, which Russia marks annually on May 9.

Zelenskyy replied that Ukraine would observe a truce beginning at 12 a.m. on Wednesday and would respond in kind to Russia’s actions from that moment on. He didn't put an end date on the truce.

Russian forces fired 11 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 164 strike drones at Ukraine overnight from Monday to Tuesday, including a jet-powered Shahed drone variant, the Ukrainian Air Force said.

Air defense units stopped 149 drones and one missile, but others got through, it said. Two ballistic missiles failed to reach their targets, the air force said without elaborating.

Russia has repeatedly hammered Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during the war, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. It hit natural gas production facilities in Ukraine’s central Poltava and northeastern Kharkiv regions, state energy company Naftogaz Group said.

Since the start of the year, Naftogaz facilities have come under attack 107 times, the company said.

Zelenskyy said that the Poltava attack was “especially vile,” because Russia launched a second missile at the same target when emergency rescuers were working at the scene.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that Russia’s main targets were energy facilities, oil and gas infrastructure, railways and industrial sites, although the attacks also damaged homes, businesses and the transportation network.

Russia’s ceasefire proposals “remain only statements,” Svyrydenko said.

Ukraine also kept up the pace of its long-range attacks on Russian rear areas, apparently aiming at more oil facilities.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that its forces destroyed 289 Ukrainian drones overnight in 18 Russian regions. Drones were also intercepted over the occupied Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and over the Azov Sea, it said.

A Ukrainian drone attack wounded three people in the city of Cheboksary, located east of Moscow and more than 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the Ukrainian border, the regional health ministry said.

Ukrainian drones also attacked the Kirishi oil refinery in the Leningrad region close to St. Petersburg, sparking a blaze in the town’s industrial zone, local Gov. Alexander Drozdenko said.

Drozdenko said on social media that 29 Ukrainian drones had been shot down during the attack. No casualties were reported.

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“It’s … BIG,” the Olympic skater finally said with a grin.

But what Liu, dressed in a blood-red custom Louis Vuitton gown with a full skirt and huge ruffles, couldn’t quite get was how big SHE had become. Even at a party full of very, very famous people, everyone wanted to greet her.

Some Met Gala guests have been famous for many years. Others have achieved fame with dizzying speed. For Liu, all it took was a gold-medal performance that charmed the whole world.

“Everybody recognizes me!” she said, with genuine surprise, of the crowd packed into the airy Charles Engelhard Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It’s crazy. Imagine that overnight, suddenly everyone knows who you are!”

And then America’s skating sweetheart was off, soon to be spotted laughing with Connor Storrie of “Heated Rivalry,” another star of the night who also arrived from an ice rink.

Some more scenes from inside the Met Gala:

Under a full moon, the strains of harp music

After guests made their way up the carpeted steps to the museum, they entered into the Great Hall, which had been transformed into “a Northern Italian garden,” in the museum’s words. There was a huge moon hanging and swaying from the ceiling, and below it a floral centerpiece surrounded by cypress branches.

A half dozen harpists serenaded the guests, who waited to shake the hands of the gala co-chairs — Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, Vogue’s Anna Wintour, and honorary chair Lauren Sánchez Bezos — but not, for now, the late-arriving Beyoncé.

The receiving line was a long wait, reported Sarah Paulson.

“I waited 45 minutes,” the actor said, explaining why she hadn’t made it yet to the Conde M. Nast Galleries to see the fashion exhibit, “Costume Art,” which examines the dressed body through centuries of art history. Her feet hurt. “You could cut my legs off at the ankle,” she said.

Lobster crostini and tomato-mozzarella pillows

As the Engelhard court gradually filled, guests milled about snacking on lobster crostini or tomato and mozzarella “pillows.”

Zoë Kravitz, who headed the host committee, greeted Storrie — did we mention he was a top attraction? — and complimented him on his work. Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid sat quietly chatting on the sidelines, hand in hand.

Near them, Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster did the same. Jackman stood up when skier Lindsey Vonn came by, giving her a hug. Vonn, who suffered a traumatic leg injury at the Winter Olympics, used only a cane and sparkled in a Thom Browne gown.

Billionaires, he’s seen ‘em before

Ever since Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos had been announced as honorary chairs, there had been anti-billionaire backlash in liberal New York City. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would not come. A group called Everyone Hates Elon — a reference to Musk — had plastered posters at bus stops, like one on the East Side saying “Dress code: Willful ignorance,” and on subways.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, though, had a different take. He'd attended a few Met Galas, and said billionaires were nothing new.

“There have always been billionaires here,” Sharpton said. “I may not agree with everything Bezos does, but do I abandon Beyoncé and Venus Williams?” He also praised Wintour for paying attention to diversity. “I opted to come.”

He said the gala “brings a cultured meeting space” for people who haven't yet met.

A date night for Jon Batiste

At previous galas, Jon Batiste has performed, sometimes leading a musical band with his melodica to get crowds to head to dinner. This time around, he had no gala responsibilities — and he was happy.

After all, he said, “it’s date night” with his wife, Suleika Jaouad. “A night in the museum,” he quipped. The couple were dinner guests of Wintour herself.

Batiste wore a look by Eli Russell Linnetz that he said echoed the work of late Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks — a long white coat and white ensemble underneath. Hendricks often juxtaposed Black skin with white clothes, Batiste noted. Jaouad wore a sumptuous Christian Siriano gown.

Progress in the fight for diversity

Sinéad Burke, the Irish disability activist, said that when she was first approached to be on the host committee, “I said no.”

Unless, she says she told organizers, they made the gala fully accessible.

They did, Burke says, arranging for a step-free entrance for guests who need it, south of the main entrance.

Burke ended up working closely with the museum for 18 months before the gala. She made sure there was room for disabled press to cover the gala carpet. She and her organization, Tilting the Lens, also helped train guides who will assist the public when they view “Costume Art,” which has a large section on the disabled body.

And Burke herself, who was born with dwarfism, agreed to pose for a custom mannequin; two outfits are displayed on mannequins created in her image.

“I’m proud of the small moments,” she said.

But a step backward, elsewhere

Model Lauren Wasser, also on the host committee, attended in a custom Prabal Gurung ensemble all in gold, including her trademark gold prosthetic legs.

She said she was glad the museum was shining a light on diversity in body types. But she cautioned that in the outside world, things are looking bleaker. (Research has found that designers are starting to turn away from using plus-size models, for example.)

“I want to see it in real life, too,” Wasser said of such diversity. “We had a moment. But we’ve taken a step back.”

Wearing silver, feeling golden

The songwriter who won an Oscar for “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” was wearing, well, silver. But she said she was feeling golden.

In fact, EJAE, part of the team that won best original song for the impossibly catchy tune, said she was trying to channel a specific lyric with her gown, a Swarovski number dripping with crystals.

“I’m done hidin’, now I’m shinin’ like I’m born to be,” the song goes.

“I wanted to literally be shining,” EJAE said. Mission accomplished.

Sarah Paulson has the Met’s secrets — remember?

This wasn’t the first rodeo for Paulson. In fact in was her sixth Met Gala, she said.

But Paulson has more after-hours experience at the Met. She shot the movie “Ocean’s 8” there, a film about a heist during … the Met Gala.

“I spent a lot of time here — I know the secrets,” Paulson said. “They should watch out!”

Asked if six Met Galas got a little tiresome, Paulson said they did not.

“You can’t really believe the people here and the oxygen you’re sharing,” the actor said. “People from all the great talents of the world.”

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are Heidi Klum fans

Dinner was under way. Beyoncé had arrived, with Jay-Z and Blue Ivy.

But the assembled media on the carpet and various staffers in the museum lobby weren’t breaking for the night. There was one more big arrival to come. Yes, Rihanna.

When she and partner A$AP Rocky arrived in the Great Hall, they stopped for photos quickly and then headed toward the Temple of Dendur for dinner. But then they ran into Heidi Klum, who knows her way around a costume, virtually unrecognizable as a marble statue.

The couple spent 10 minutes or so laughing with Klum and complimenting her.

“This is the coolest outfit tonight, ain’t gonna lie,” A$AP Rocky noted.

“Oh my god, I can’t stand you!” Rihanna said admiringly.

“How much did they pay you to just stand here for the rest of the night?” the singer asked the statue. They all laughed.

“I think it’d be a nice little tip of the cap to John and what he meant — so much to this franchise and this fan base. I think it would be pretty cool,” Judge said after the Yankees routed Baltimore 12-1 on Monday night to complete a four-game sweep on the day of their famous broadcaster's death.

Following the final out, Sterling's familiar call that punctuated Yankees wins was played over the ballpark’s public-address system.

After a pregame tribute to Sterling, who died at age 87, Judge put New York ahead in the first inning with his major league-leading 14th homer and added a two-run single in the eighth for a four-RBI night.

Sterling called games on radio broadcasts from 1989 to 2024. As Judge circled the bases after his two-run drive off Shane Baz, he thought of the home run call Sterling coined for him: “A Judgian blast! All rise! Here comes the Judge!”

“Definitely seeing that tribute hit home because he loved the Yankees,” Judge said. “He loved this team. He loved this franchise. He loved the fans. He loved everybody he talked to on a nightly basis. So to do that there in the first, just kind of was chuckling around the bases thinking what he was probably saying.”

Yankees manager Aaron Boone revealed before the game he's been paying tribute to Sterling in the dugout for a couple of years by yelling “Ballgame over! Yankees win! Theee Yankees win!” before starting handshakes.

This time, fans also bellowed along as the PA system sounded Sterling's baritone at raised decibels.

“It drowned me out a little bit, happily,” Boone said.

Like Judge, he hopes Sterling's voice at the end becomes routine.

”Yeah, I'd love it," the manager said. “Right on into Frank.”

Judge leads the majors with six first-inning homers this year and has 91 in his career, trailing only Babe Ruth’s 126 and Mickey Mantle’s 103 among Yankees. The home run was Judge’s 53rd in 124 games against the Orioles.

“It’s a pretty good advantage to have that guy coming up in the first inning for you,” Boone said.

Judge, who was tied for the major league home run lead by Munetaka Murakami of the Chicago White Sox later Monday, is batting .272 with 27 RBIs.

Coming off his first batting title last season, when his average was .427 through April, Judge slumped early this year and was hitting .212 with three homers and seven RBIs after his first 14 games. Since then, the three-time AL MVP is batting .329 with 11 homers and 20 RBIs in 21 games.

“Even if I’m hitting .400 in April, I’m tinkering with something new every single day. It could be something subtle with hands or feet, the sights, approach," Judge said. “When you stink, you’re trying to get better. When you’re doing well, you're also trying to get better.”

Like all Yankees, Judge had a cap with Sterling's “JS” initials stitched onto the back. At the behest of the Yankees front office, a Bronx vendor quickly sewed the tribute.

“I thought it was a nice little touch for John,” Judge said.

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The EU-Armenia summit in Yerevan follows the eighth gathering of the European Political Community, or EPC, which brought dozens of European leaders to the Armenian capital on Monday to address European defense issues and the Iran war.

Meanwhile, Tuesday's bilateral meeting saw Armenia and the EU sign a connectivity partnership to strengthen economic ties and deepen security cooperation.

The two events underscore how Armenia is seeking to turn westward and shed Russia's influence. Armenia’s relations with Moscow, its longtime sponsor and ally, have grown increasingly strained since 2023, when neighboring Azerbaijan fully reclaimed the Karabakh region and ended the decadeslong rule by ethnic Armenian separatists.

Armenian authorities accused Russian peacekeepers who were deployed to the region of failing to stop Azerbaijan’s onslaught. Moscow, busy with the war in Ukraine, rejected the accusations, arguing that its troops didn’t have a mandate to intervene.

The war was “a belated demonstration that Russia is dangerously unreliable as a partner,” Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Center in Yerevan, told The Associated Press.

Pursuing ties with Europe

Since then, the government of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has pursued closer ties with the West, a move welcomed by the 27-nation EU.

The opening ceremony of the EU-Armenia summit on Tuesday saw European Council President António Costa walk the red carpet side by side with Pashinyan and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, while a military band played in front of Armenian and EU flags.

In her opening statement, von der Leyen said that Europe was ready to aid Armenia in becoming a regional hub for global trade routes, including the building of physical infrastructure.

“We’re ready to invest in the local energy production and the energy links across the Black Sea, and we are ready to connect your booming digital scene to Europe’s digital market and turn Armenia’s position at the heart of this region into a motor of growth,” she said.

The new EU-Armenia connectivity partnership will focus on strengthening transportation, energy and digital links. Meanwhile, EU investments in Armenia are expected to reach 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion) under its global gateway infrastructure program, both sides said in a joint statement.

“Today’s EU-Armenia summit sends a clear signal of the EU’s firm commitment to deepen our relations with Armenia, and to strengthen cooperation across many new areas,” Costa said. “Bringing Armenia and its people closer to the European Union.”

Symbolic moves

The EU, rather than the United States, has stepped into the vacuum left by Russia, Giragosian said.

“EU engagement is much more prudent and much more productive than the U.S. becoming involved, simply because European engagement is less provocative to Russia over the longer term,” he said.

In 2025, Armenia's parliament passed a law formally declaring the country’s intention to seek EU membership.

However, Giragosian described Tuesday’s summit as “a focus on deepening the preexisting relationship” rather than a step toward candidacy, referencing the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement that has governed EU-Armenia ties since fully taking effect in 2021.

“The symbolic significance is much greater as a message to Russia,” he said.

Armenia has also taken other symbolic steps. It joined the International Criminal Court in 2023, a move that Moscow condemned as an “unfriendly step.” The court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine.

Armenia also froze its participation in the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2024.

However, Armenia remains a member of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union, or EEU, a single market allowing the free movement of goods, capital and labor. The organization also includes Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — and Putin has made the trade-offs plain.

Speaking at talks with Pashinyan in Moscow earlier this year, Putin warned that Armenia couldn't simultaneously belong to both the EEU and the EU, noting that Yerevan currently receives Russian natural gas at prices far below European market rates. Pashinyan acknowledged the incompatibility, but said that Armenia could, for now, combine EEU membership with deepening EU cooperation.

Pashinyan, who has been in office since 2018 and faces a parliamentary election in June, stands to benefit politically from the international profile of the European meetings. Giragosian said that Pashinyan's government is likely to be reelected largely by default, with the opposition unable to offer a credible alternative program.

But Giragosian warned against framing Armenia’s foreign policy as purely a pivot from Russia to the West.

“Armenia is also pivoting beyond the black and white zero-sum game paradigm,” he said, pointing to significant diplomatic investment in Asia, including with Japan, South Korea and China. “This is not about replacing Russia with the West. This is much more innovative, much more sophisticated.”

Heightened tensions

The summit also comes at a moment of diplomatic strains between Azerbaijan and the EU. Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the EU ambassador last week to protest a European Parliament resolution demanding the release of Armenian prisoners of war and criticizing the treatment of Armenians in Karabakh. Lawmakers in Azerbaijan subsequently voted to suspend all cooperation with the European Parliament.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who addressed the EPC conference via video link, accused the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe, or PACE, of “double standards” for placing sanctions on Azerbaijan's delegation.

There were also protests outside the EPC summit venue, which was surrounded by tight security. Demonstrators held photos of Armenian prisoners being held in Azerbaijan.

Opposition leader Aram Sargsyan, head of the Democratic Party of Armenia, told the Armenian Press Agency that the European officials were voicing support for Pashinyan before the election and have “forgotten about the Armenians in prison in Azerbaijan.”

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Elise Morton reported from London. Avet Demourian in Yerevan, and Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed to this report.

The teams notified the league on the injury reports they turned in on Monday.

Doncic was injured in Oklahoma City about a month ago and hasn’t played since. The league scoring champion averaged 33.5 points, 7.7 rebounds and 8.3 assists in the regular season.

Lakers coach JJ Redick hadn't said if or when Doncic could return from an injury that sometimes requires two months of recovery. Doncic shot 3-pointers with his teammates Monday while they wrapped up a workout before their flight to Oklahoma City.

Williams, a 2025 All-Star, missed the last two games of the first-round series against Phoenix with a left hamstring injury. Thunder coach Mark Daigneault did not declare him ready for a return, saying Monday only that Williams is progressing.

Williams averaged 17.1 points, 4.6 rebounds and 5.5 assists in an injury-plagued regular season. He averaged 20.5 points on 61.5% shooting from the field through Oklahoma City's first two playoff games before the injury during the third quarter of Game 2. Ajay Mitchell entered the starting lineup and helped the Thunder sweep the series.

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Game 2 in the best-of-seven Western Conference series is Wednesday night in Las Vegas.

Barbashev took advantage after officials did not call icing, which didn't sit well with Ducks coach Joel Quenneville. It was Barbashev's pass from behind the red line to teammate Jack Eichel, who was battling Anaheim's Jackson LaCombe for the puck, that linesman Bevan Mills waved off for icing.

Officials declined to comment to a pool reporter.

“Clearly, I disagreed with the call,” said Quenneville, who said he did not receive an explanation from the officials. “Their guy stopped skating, which really made me annoyed.”

Golden Knights coach John Tortorella said he couldn't see the play from his spot behind the bench. Barbashev kept skating once no call was made as Ducks players appeared to slow up.

“I tried to put the puck deep and I thought I saw Jack on the far side going deep and I thought for a second he (beat LaCombe) and that's why they waved it off,” Barbashev said. “Jack put pressure on him, they turned it over and Pav made a great play.”

Vegas' Brett Howden extended his goal streak to a career-best four games, his fifth during that span. Mitch Marner, who assisted on Howden's goal early in the second period, added a 162-foot empty-net goal with 6 seconds left, and Carter Hart stopped 33 shots for the Golden Knights.

Mikael Granlund scored for Anaheim, and Lukas Dostal made 19 saves.

The Golden Knights prevailed despite being outshot 34-22.

“They were the better team tonight,” Tortorella said. “I thought as the game went on, we started finding our game, but we couldn't find it completely. ... It's a find-a-way league. We found a way to win, and I'm certainly not going to apologize for the win.”

Vegas’ penalty kill continued to shine, extending its stretch to 14 straight without giving up a goal by keeping the Ducks off the scoreboard on four chances. Anaheim converted 8 of 16 power plays in the first round against Edmonton. The Golden Knights are 19 of 20 on penalty kills.

Golden Knights center William Karlsson, out since sustaining a lower-body injury Nov. 8 against the Ducks, returned to the lineup. The crowd roared when Karlsson was shown on the video board after taking the ice less than three minutes into the game.

The Ducks dominated the early action, outshooting Vegas 11-6 in the first period and then controlling the puck to open the second. But the Golden Knights scored first with their first shot on goal in the second when Marner made a pinpoint pass from the right circle to Howden, who scored easily from the left side of the net.

It didn’t appear the lead would last long when Ducks top-line center Leo Carlsson made a dazzling spin move to set up LaCombe with an an open net. LaCombe, however, inexplicably passed up the shot for a pass, and the Golden Knights avoided what appeared would be a sure Ducks goal.

Just as time was starting to run out on the Ducks in the third, they didn’t waste their next opportunity. LaCombe made up for his previous gaffe by walking in on Hart before delivering a pass to Granlund, who was open in the right circle and scored at 13:57.

The tie didn’t last long, with Dorofeyev passing to Barbashev to put the Golden Knights ahead 2-1 just 65 seconds later.

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Edwards was expected to miss at least the first two games of the series after suffering a bone bruise and hyperextending his left knee on April 25 during Game 4 of Minnesota’s opening-round series against Denver. But he had 11 points in the fourth quarter as Minnesota held on to hand San Antonio only its second loss in its last 17 series openers at home.

“Nobody expected him to play,” Timberwolves veteran Mike Conley said. “It was just his level of commitment to the game. Not just to the game, but to his teammates. It showed a lot.”

Wembanyama had 11 points and 15 rebounds and set an NBA postseason record with 12 blocks. He's the third player to get a triple-double in the playoffs including blocks since the league began tracking blocks in 1973-74.

San Antonio cut the deficit to 104-102 on a steal by Devin Vassell and layup by Dylan Harper with 31 seconds remaining. Following a miss by Minnesota's Julius Randle, Julian Champagnie couldn't connect on a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

“We have to be better,” Wembanyama said. “It shows up on the stat sheet. We need to figure out before 48 hours what we can do better and I’ve got no doubt that we will. I trust us.”

Randle finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Harper scored 18 points and Champagnie and Stephon Castle had 17 each for the Spurs.

Edwards worked diligently to return for Minnesota with guards Donte DiVincenzo (torn right Achilles tendon) and Ayo Dosunmu (right calf soreness) out with injuries.

“I know for a fact, just me being out there, it calms everybody down," Edwards said. “Not saying there’s any pressure on any of my teammates, but it takes pressure off of everybody just knowing that I’m out there, I’m available to play, yeah. And just doing what I do best, just trying to put the ball in the hoop.”

After draining a stepback 3-pointer early in the game, Edwards looked toward the Spurs bench and screamed: “I’m back! I’m back!”

He definitely was.

Edwards did not start, entering the game with 6:53 remaining in the first quarter and the Timberwolves trailing 11-8. He finished 8 for 13 in 25 minutes.

Game 2 is Wednesday in San Antonio.

Wembanyama had seven blocks in the first half. The NBA Defensive Player of the Year opened the game by blocking a pair of driving layups from Terrence Shannon Jr. on consecutive possessions. Two minutes later, he blocked Gobert’s driving layup just under the rim.

Wembanyama finished 5 for 17 from the field.

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The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 188 people in total. Other strikes have taken place in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Despite the Iran war, the series of strikes have ramped up again in recent weeks, showing that the administration’s aggressive measures to stop what it calls “narcoterrorism” in the Western Hemisphere are not letting up. The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.

The attacks began as the U.S. built up its largest military presence in the region in generations and came months ahead of the raid in January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He was brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty.

In the latest attack Monday, U.S. Southern Command repeated previous statements by saying it had targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. It posted a video on X showing a boat moving along the water before a massive explosion engulfs the vessel in flames.

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and fatal overdoses claiming American lives. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing “narcoterrorists.”

Critics, meanwhile, have questioned the overall legality of the boat strikes.

Oil prices fell back after rising earlier on escalating tensions in the war between the U.S. and Iran.

U.S. futures edged more than 0.2% higher.

In early European trading, Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.8% to 10,280.87. France's CAC 40 was up 0.6% to 8,026.89, while Germany's DAX gained 1% to 24,232.45.

Asian regional trading was thin, with markets in Japan, South Korea and mainland China closed for holidays.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.8% to 25,898.61, while Taiwan’s Taiex gained 0.2%.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.2% to 8,680.50 after the central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to 4.35%, saying conflict in the Middle East had sharply increased fuel and commodity prices that were already adding to inflation. The cash rate hike on Tuesday was the Reserve Bank of Australia’s third quarter percentage point rise this year.

The bank said Australia’s inflation for the year through March was 4.6%. The bank manipulates interest rates to steer inflation toward a target band of 2% to 3%.

India's Sensex lost 0.4%.

The fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was tested Monday after the U.S. military said it had sank six Iranian small boats targeting civilian ships, while two U.S.-flagged ships successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz.

The key waterway for oil and gas tranport remains largely closed despite repeated demands from the U.S. for Iran to reopen the strait and as the United States imposed a sea blockade on Iranian ports. U.S. President Donald Trump's “Project Freedom” plan under which the United States would help guide stranded ships through the Strait of Hormuz began on Monday.

Brent crude, the international standard, fell $2.30 to $112.14 per barrel. It surged above $114 a barrel on Monday, gaining nearly 6%. Before the war began in late February, it was trading near $70.

Benchmark U.S. crude slipped $3.08 to $103.34 per barrel.

Talks on a permanent end to war have stalled. Tensions escalated when the United Arab Emirates, a U.S. ally, said it came under attack from Iran for the first time since the ceasefire last month.

“We are seeing the first signs of the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran breaking down amid a re-escalation in the Persian Gulf,” ING Bank analysts Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey wrote in a note Tuesday.

“Continuation of 'Project Freedom' risks further escalation,” they wrote. “Any relief from stranded vessels making their way through the Strait will be temporary, with very few inbound vessels moving into the Persian Gulf.”

On Monday, Wall Street closed lower with the benchmark S&P 500 slipping 0.4% from its latest record heights to 7,200.75. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.1% to 48,941.90, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite dropped 0.2% to 25,067.80.

Shares of GameStop sank 10.1% after it said it wants to acquire eBay, which has a market value that’s roughly four times of GameStop’s.

The U.S. dollar rose to 157.46 Japanese yen from 157.25 yen. The euro was trading at $1.1686, down from $1.1689.

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Associated Press writer Rod McGuirk contributed.

In neighboring Ohio, primaries for U.S. Senate and governor will lock in the candidates for two major races with national implications.

And in Michigan, voters in a bellwether district will fill a vacancy in the state Senate, a race with implications for the balance of power in a battleground state.

Here's what to watch for.

How strong is Trump's grip on the Republican Party?

Trump is taking aim at seven Republican state senators in Indiana who opposed his plan to redraw congressional district boundaries to help the party gain seats in the U.S. House.

Groups allied with the president have spent millions on advertising, an extraordinary flood of cash and attention into races that are typically low profile.

The races are a test of Trump's enduring grip over his party as Republicans grow increasingly anxious about the midterm elections in November.

The results will signal to Republicans everywhere about how big a price they'll pay with their voters if they distance themselves from Trump even as his popularity fades. And it will show the president whether he can still credibly threaten consequences for Republicans who cross him.

The Trump-targeted state senators all represent districts he carried in 2024, mostly by 20 percentage points or more.

The key races to watch are districts 1, 11, 19, 21, 23, 38 and 41.

Ohio races get started in earnest

The state's primary is the wind up to the big show. Although Ohio has become increasingly conservative, Democrats believe their path back to a U.S. Senate majority runs through the state.

They're putting their hopes behind former Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost Ohio's other Senate seat to Bernie Moreno in 2024.

He's expected to face off with Republican Sen. Jon Husted, who was appointed last year to fill the vacancy created when JD Vance became vice president.

The race is a special election to fill the last two years of Vance's term.

In the campaign for governor, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy has parlayed his national name recognition, tech industry connections and alliance with Trump into a record fundraising haul. He's largely ignoring Republican rival Casey Putsch, focusing his rallies and television ads on the general election.

An engineer and vehicle designer who calls himself “The Car Guy,” Putsch has attracted fans with provocative YouTube videos that troll Ramaswamy and criticize national Republicans over their handling of the Epstein files, positions on energy-guzzling data centers and support for Israel.

Amy Acton, Ohio's former public health director, is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. She played a key role in the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Will Democrats sweep another special election?

The special election for a state Senate seat in central Michigan carries outsized importance.

It's another test of enthusiasm in a series of special elections that have swung almost universally toward Democrats since Trump returned to the White House. It also could affect the balance of power in the Michigan State Capitol. A Democratic victory would give the party a firm majority in the state Senate, while a Republican win would deadlock the chamber in a 19-19 tie.

The district is closely matched. Democrat Kamala Harris beat Trump there by less than 1 point in the 2024 presidential election.

The seat has been vacant for more than a year, since Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet resigned to take a seat in Congress.

Democrats are showing surprising strength in special elections and off-year contests across the country, winning races in unexpected places and significantly narrowing the gap, even when they fall short.

There's no guarantee the trend will continue through the midterms, when turnout will be much higher, but it has nonetheless energized Democrats and spooked Republicans worried about keeping their congressional majorities.

She is among a number of Mexican American business owners who've become more vocal about also honoring Mexican history and the significance of the holiday, as a way to combat anti-immigrant sentiments amid heightened immigration enforcement efforts that have targeted Latino communities.

Mendoza, owner of Cuernavaca’s Grill in Los Angeles, said she prefers a celebration that reflects “everything that as a community we’re enduring today.” So, Mendoza will host Cinco de Mayo festivities at her restaurant that, along with traditional mariachi and Mexican cuisine, will include a nod to Mexican perseverance over the French in the Battle of Puebla over 160 years ago.

“Just looking at how much they did with very little resources,” she said. “It just showed resilience. So, on Cinco de Mayo we always make it a testament of our resilience.”

Restaurants owners aren't the first Latino community leaders to reclaim Cinco de Mayo in the U.S. — moving away from a flattening of Mexican culture toward highlighting history and community. This year, the celebrations are noticeably embracing traditional Mexican culture and focused on preservation, said Sehila Mota Casper, director of Latinos in Heritage Conservation.

“These are just incredible moments of educating and knowledge sharing,” Mota Casper said. “The more we educate, the more knowledge we share, the better a community and people we become.”

Restaurants emphasize authenticity over tequila shots

Hispanic-owned firms accounted for 8.4% of 5.9 million U.S. employers in 2024, according to the Census Bureau's annual survey of businesses. They also were approximately 18% of all restaurant businesses in the United States last month, according to the National Restaurant Association, which uses census data.

U.S. revelers hoping to crowd restaurants and toss back shots of tequila may find more wholesome and intentionally planned offerings, said Raul Luis, who owns the Birrieria Chalio Mexican Restaurant, with locations in Los Angeles and Fort Worth, Texas. On Cinco de Mayo, he wants his customers to eat and drink the types of “guisados” — traditional Mexican braises or stews served as taco filling — that one would eat when invited into a Mexican family's home.

Well-made, traditional cooking will keep customers coming back, even if they aren’t Hispanic, Luis said.

“It’s the ultimate opportunity for restaurants to take advantage of that moment and bring them in and entice them to authentic Mexican food,” Luis said.

What Cinco de Mayo celebrates

Cinco de Mayo marks the anniversary of the 1862 victory by Mexican troops over invading French forces at the Battle of Puebla. The triumph over much larger French troops who were better-equipped was an enormous emotional boost for Mexican soldiers led by Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza.

In Mexico, historical reenactments are held annually in the central city of Puebla to commemorate the victory. Participants dress as Mexican and French troops and as Zacapoaxtlas — the Indigenous and farmer contingent that helped Mexican troops win.

In the U.S., May 5 is seen as a day to celebrate Mexican American culture, stretching back to the 1800s in California. Festivities typically include parades, street food, block parties, mariachi competitions and baile.

Folklórico, or folkloric ballet, features whirling dancers in bright, ruffled dresses and their hair tied with shiny ribbons.

The day often is mistaken for Mexican Independence Day, which is on Sept. 16.

Latino activists and scholars say that disconnect in the U.S. is bolstered by the hazy history of Cinco de Mayo and marketing that plays on stereotypes that include fake, droopy mustaches and gigantic, colorful sombreros.

A testament to Mexican resilience

Since returning to the White House in 2025, President Donald Trump has continued to label Mexican immigrants as criminals and gang members, and Latino communities have been a target of his hard-line immigration tactics. Memes shared from official White House social media accounts perpetuate negative stereotypes about Latinos, while a federally led English-only initiative and ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs all seem to target communities of color.

All together, it's generated a great deal of fear in Latino communities.

Mendoza, the Los Angeles restaurant owner, said it’s also been a hard time for the restaurant industry because of rising costs. But in spite of it all, Cuernavaca’s Grill will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

As part of the restaurant's Cinco de Mayo festivities, she'll invite customers to contribute to a food and toy drive meant to support those who are struggling in the current climate.

“This is a testament of our resilience,” Mendoza said. “It’s a testament of our hard work. It is pride to our community and everything that we’ve accomplished.”

Twenty-one Republican senators voted against redistricting in December, including eight running for reelection this year. Trump has endorsed primary challengers against seven, and the president's allies have spent millions of dollars on races that rarely get much attention from Washington.

It's become a costly and unprecedented intraparty battle that has exacerbated tensions among Republicans ahead of the November midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith said the primary is about how far the party will go to get an edge over Democrats — a contest between “the Republicans who tend to want to avoid the fight and the Republicans who feel like we need to fight."

“So the only question is, ‘Will you fight or will you get trampled by the other side?’” said Beckwith, who is supporting the Trump-backed challengers.

Indiana rejected Trump on redistricting

Trump began leaning on Republican-led states last year to redraw their congressional maps to make it easier for his party to hold its thin majority in the U.S. House. Although redistricting is normally done once a decade, after a new census, Trump wanted to abandon tradition to gain a political edge.

Texas was the first to follow through, and the White House pressured Indiana to go along too. Vice President JD Vance met with state politicians in Washington and Indianapolis, and Trump weighed in by conference call.

However, Indiana senators rebuffed the effort, one of the president's first significant political defeats of his second term.

The redistricting fight divided Republicans in Indiana, a state Trump won three times by no less than 16 points. Republican Gov. Mike Braun, U.S. Sen. Jim Banks and organizations such as Turning Point Action have worked alongside Trump to unseat the incumbents.

Jim Bopp, a prominent Indiana attorney who leads a political action committee aligned with Braun, predicted that Trump’s support will carry the day for the challengers.

“Republican voters overwhelmingly support Trump, and when they find out Trump has endorsed a particular Senate candidate, they swing their support behind them,” he said.

Indiana opposition came from constituents, former governor

Opposition to the effort came from anti-Trump Republicans and those wary of the president reaching so deeply into state decision-making. Former Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, who had stepped away from politics after leaving the governorship in 2015, reemerged to help raise money for targeted incumbents.

The senators who broke with Trump said they were listening to constituents who were overwhelmingly against his redistricting plan. Some said they didn’t like Trump's aggressive tone in pushing the plan.

“We hate to be told what to do,” said Mike Murphy, a former Republican state representative. “We’re very independent-thinking people. So when Donald Trump and his goons come in and try to tell us that we need to redistrict to help his political future, that’s the worst thing you can do.”

He said Trump and those spending big money to take out the incumbents don’t understand Indiana politics.

“There’s just so many misjudgments on people’s part because they tend to fly at the 50,000-foot level, and they don’t go to the barbecues and the church fish fries and the things that make Indiana politics,” Murphy said.

Bopp, who supports the Trump-backed challengers, said the primary is a chance for Indiana Republicans to express how important it is to redraw the congressional lines there.

“It’s not a matter of Trump’s power,” Bopp said. “It’s about Republican primary voters who support his agenda and don’t want a Democratic House that will be hugely destructive to the Trump presidency and the country.”

Vance, who is seen as one of the GOP’s strongest potential candidates for president in 2028, is making the trip to campaign on behalf of Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, who faces a competitive race to keep his Des Moines-area seat in the November midterms.

But the visit offers Vance an opportunity to test his reception before Iowa’s voters, whose leadoff caucuses give them an outsized role in determining the next presidential nominee. Campaigning for a local congressman in his role as the sitting vice president gives him an opening chance to make an impression on Iowa Republicans, seasoned evaluators of those who seek the nation’s highest office before the campaign begins in earnest.

Vance’s appearance comes days after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who is also considered a possible 2028 candidate, spoke to a group of evangelical Christians who are influential in Iowa’s GOP contest.

Des Moines-based Jimmy Centers, a Republican political consultant, said the 2028 contest is “light-years away,” but said the Republicans who hear Vance speak on Tuesday will be evaluating how he might measure up in an election for the White House.

“I certainly think, as of right now, Vice President Vance would probably be a straw-poll winner of Iowa Republicans for 2028. But I don’t think anyone is saying, ‘We won’t consider anybody else,’” Centers said.

Vance visit comes as higher prices for gas, fertilizer hit Iowans

Vance, who has not said whether he will run for the presidency in 2028, is scheduled to appear with Nunn at a manufacturing facility in Des Moines. His office did not comment on the trip's impact on Vance's political future.

The vice president’s visit follows a trip President Donald Trump made in January to tout the administration’s tax cuts, part of a string of stops they’re making this year on economic issues ahead of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

But Vance’s visit comes at a time when his own political prospects — and the message he’s expected to deliver on the economy — have been complicated by the war in Iran.

The vice president, who has long been skeptical of foreign military interventions, has seemed a reluctant defender of the nine-week-old war for which Trump has struggled to find an off-ramp. Iowans, like much of the rest of the country, are grappling with higher gas prices because of the conflict. But the state’s farmers are also feeling the pinch of high fertilizer costs from the war and have been hurt by the tariffs Trump has imposed.

While Iowa’s farmers have steadfastly supported the president, they have been looking to the White House for assurances that the current troubles won’t last.

Vance’s visit to Iowa was originally scheduled for last week, but the timing shifted because the House moved to pass a sweeping farm bill that Nunn was due to vote on.

The vice president also had been slated to appear last week at an Iowa State University event with Turning Point USA, but the organization said it was not able to reschedule the event with the university until sometime in the fall.

It's ‘awfully, awfully early’ in the road to 2028

Kim Schmett, a longtime Iowa GOP activist, said the presidential cycle starts “deceptively slow.”

Republican figures testing the waters often drop by the Westside Conservative Club, which Schmett hosts, but he said it's still too far out from the caucuses, which are typically held in January of the presidential election year.

He said Trump’s Make America Great Again political movement “is very alive and going here” in Iowa, which would benefit Vance — as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also thought to be another potential candidate.

“I think there’s going to be a lot of MAGA support,” he said. “And Vice President Vance and Marco Rubio seem to be the recipients of where that is going at the moment.”

But Schmett cautioned, “it’s awfully, awfully early in the process.”

On the Democratic side, at least half a dozen presidential prospects have been making visits to the states with the earliest presidential primary contests, including recent visits to Iowa by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin.

Meanwhile, potential Republican presidential candidates “are treading very lightly,” said GOP strategist Alex Conant, who worked on Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“I think Republicans are going to be very reluctant to get in Trump’s way until Trump gives the green light for the campaign to start,” Conant said.

That means much of the groundwork to meet with donors or activists or recruit political staffers might happen slowly and subtly – for now.

After the midterms? Conant said: “It’ll be irresistible.”

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Price reported from Washington.

Industrial-leaning synth-pop strains might seem incongruous with such a vista, but it was the alternative rock band's homage to Route 66 that seduced David J. Schwartz. With camera in hand he has made 42 trips over two decades along the celebrated highway, qualifying himself for the job of creating postage stamps commemorating the Mother Road's centennial.

The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday is releasing eight stamps marking significant parts of the road in each of the states it traverses, passing by vintage diners, gas stations and motels — many since preserved or restored — along with breathtaking vistas and wide horizons of the open road.

Route 66 is paved with history, from its early days as an escape from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, through serving as a vital supply route during World War II, to its mid-century role as an antidote for wanderlust. A symbol of freedom and mobility, it has evolved into a time capsule of Americana, steeped in nostalgia and neon.

‘Road trips, big cars, neon signs’

As teenagers in 1988, Schwartz and his best friend had planned a road trip after girlfriends introduced them to Depeche Mode, where they discovered a cover of Bobby Troup's 1946 pop standard, “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66.” Schwartz's mother nixed his participation, delaying his first taste of the open road until 2004.

To Schwartz, the road — stretching 2,448 miles (3,940 kilometers) — represents a significant piece of a newly mobile 20th century America, from its debut in 1926 to its decommissioning in 1985: “Road trips, big cars, neon signs.” Though retired from the federal highway system, vast stretches of the route are still in use and a favorite of road warriors and tourists to this day.

“So much to explore. You start here in Illinois on 66 and you’re cruising through prairie land,” Schwartz said during a recent interview in Springfield. “By the time you get out west, you're in the desert or you’re in mountains through hairpin turns. It’s just an incredible journey and you just get such a beautiful slice of America going through it.”

Tired of retail management, Schwartz went back to school to study photography and had the idea of Route 66 stamps as early as a decade ago. He was tapped for the project in 2023. He recalls thinking, “Here is my moment to bring Route 66 to the masses.”

Greg Breeding, a USPS art director for stamp design, was working on a graphic showing a map of the road when he discovered Schwartz’s photos. They were beautifully photographed, not commercial and slick.

“They’re as if you were there,” he said, “which makes them especially useful for stamps.”

The USPS plate contains 16 stamps, two of each one representing Route 66 host states. A ninth photo serves as selvage, or the image surrounding the block. It's the scene of that empty Arizona highway, shot in 2023 near Seligman, Arizona, when Schwartz and his high school friend finally took that trip 35 years in the making.

‘Feel the land as you’re traveling'

But a road is a road, isn't it? Why can't a traveler get the same view standing on one of the interstate highways that ultimately bypassed Route 66?

“You'd probably get run over,” Schwartz said dryly.

“Interstates are designed to move traffic quickly. They cut through the sides of mountains, they do not follow the contour of the land ...,” he added. “On Route 66, you’re actually part of the landscape as you move through it. You feel the land as you’re traveling.”

Breeding and Schwartz steered clear of the fabled highway’s most popular spots, not only because those are tougher to get permission to use, but also because they wanted to give people a “fresh look,” Breeding said. The stamps are devoid of people, he said, in part to create a sense of allure rather tourist trap vibes.

To that end, the blocks capture both the continuing commerce and the roadside relics that hint at their former vibrancy. Take for example the Conoco Tower Station and U-Drop Inn in Shamrock, Texas, a neon-adorned Art Deco beauty whose luminous lights come alive at dusk.

In Yucca, Arizona, Schwartz photographed the dilapidated “Motel” sign in the relentless noonday sun, revealing desert desolation but also “the enduring pulse of the open road.”

Among his favorites is the Illinois entry, a friend's 1929 Model A Ford rumbling down the only remaining section of Route 66 composed of hand-laid brick in Auburn, just south of Springfield. The goal? Create an image that would make viewers feel as if they were there for the birth of Route 66.

“We wanted to show it to be colorful. We wanted to show the quirkiness. We wanted to show the age,” Breeding said. “It’s like a sort of show, the idea that Route 66 is a living history of the United States, from the past to the present.”

Schwartz said he's amazed that the stamps boasting his work will “travel all over the United States and end up in people's mailboxes.”

He added: “I hope they really inspire people to get out there and travel the road and support the Mom and Pop businesses and keep Route 66 alive for another 100 years.”

Friday’s ruling from a federal appeals court restricted mail access to mifepristone prescriptions, one of the most common abortion methods around the country, in the biggest shift to federal abortion policy since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision allowing states to enforce abortion bans.

The Supreme Court then temporarily restored broad access to the drug on Monday while it further considers the case, setting the stage for a potential decision that could have wide-ranging consequences for patients and providers.

It’s too early to say whether the latest rulings will affect the outcome of races this year, when issues around affordability are expected to take top billing for voters. But advocates on both sides of the issue are hoping it will sway voters their way.

Some abortion rights groups already are strategizing ways to reach voters they think may be more motivated to turn out for Democrats because of the possibility of further restrictions. Meanwhile, abortion opponents who say the GOP-led federal government hasn’t done enough to ban the pills are warning their typically loyal Republican voters could sit out future elections, with a leading anti-abortion advocate calling it “a five-alarm crisis” for the GOP.

Democrats say the abortion issue presents an opportunity

After the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, several states voted to enshrine abortion rights into their own constitutions, driving historic turnout that sometimes contributed to Democratic wins elsewhere on the ballot.

But Democratic pollster Celinda Lake believes the issue had lost some of its potency among voters, not because Democrats don’t care, but because they have a sense that the “damage has been done.”

Though Friday’s ruling has been temporarily halted, it reminded voters that their access to abortion medication through telehealth isn’t guaranteed, even in states where abortion rights are, Lake said. That created a tremendous but “horrific” opportunity to tell voters what could be at stake in this year’s midterms, she said.

Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of the abortion rights group Reproductive Freedom for All, said outreach to voters about the volatility of abortion access will be part of her group’s strategy in the midterms. That includes contacting voters who supported Trump but also abortion rights in their state elections in 2024.

“The only way for us to really stop this back and forth is to have abortion access be legal in all 50 states,” she said. “The only way we do that is through federal legislation, which makes the midterm elections even more urgent.”

Republicans face fracturing over abortion politics

The Republican coalition, meanwhile, is contending with an increasingly agitated right flank of abortion opponents who expected Trump to fulfill his promise to be the “most pro-life president in history” but say they haven’t seen it yet.

Most urgently at issue is a Food and Drug Administration safety review of mifepristone that anti-abortion groups hope will result in further restrictions, including blocking its prescribing via telehealth platforms. Anti-abortion groups have urged FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary to complete the review sooner, while the administration says it “is taking care to do this study properly and in the right way.”

On Monday, the anti-abortion group SBA Pro-Life America further ratcheted up its messaging, calling for Makary's firing over the issue.

“This is a five-alarm crisis for the pro-life movement and for the GOP,” the group's president Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. “The GOP cannot win without its base and simply will not get the enthusiasm that drives turnout without leadership from the top.”

Trump, whose first-term nominations set the stage for the Supreme Court that voted to overturn Roe, has taken some steps that abortion opponents have cheered, including an effort to withhold funds from Planned Parenthood and launching investigations into states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion.

But he has also often sought to steer clear of the abortion issue, saying he thinks it should be left to the states. The president publicly supported abortion rights until he entered politics in 2015, and his wife, Melania Trump, announced her broad support for abortion rights in 2024.

Abortion opponents say they have no plans to let Trump avoid the issue for the remainder of his term. Marc Wheat, general counsel at former Vice President Mike Pence’s political advocacy group Advancing American Freedom, said his group will increase pressure on the administration. That will include urging the FDA to speedily release documents about mifepristone that it owes the group through a lawsuit.

“President Trump thinks that pro-life is a loser,” Wheat said. “He might see that the pro-lifers may not turn out in the numbers that he needs.”

Americans largely oppose a nationwide ban on mifepristone

Even as Trump and the Republican-led Congress face mounting pressure from the right to restrict access to medication abortion, Republicans around the country are far from united in taking that position.

About two-thirds of Americans opposed nationwide bans on mifepristone, according to a KFF poll conducted late last year. Most Democrats and independents objected to such bans, while Republicans were more split.

Americans’ overall opinions on abortion remain complex, with about two-thirds of U.S. adults saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to AP-NORC polling. Relatively few think abortion should be illegal in all cases.

At least one abortion opponent, Americans United for Life CEO John Mize, said he is focused on incremental victories over the sweeping changes that some of his allies are calling for. While he wishes the FDA would move faster on its safety review, he recognizes that not all Americans are in the same place that he is.

“I think there is advancement being made in a positive direction,” he said. “While it might not meet the pace that many in the pro-life movement want to see, I think it meets the acceptable place of where we're at culturally."

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Associated Press writer Linley Sanders in Washington contributed to this report.

International Youth Service, the agency that matched us up 40 years ago, has long since folded, but other pen pal programs have survived — or even began during — the internet age. And even though New Zealand's postal system has reduced home delivery days, Denmark has stopped delivering letters altogether and Canada is moving in that direction, some see signs of a letter-writing resurgence.

“The hunger is there,” said Rachel Syme, a writer for The New Yorker magazine who created a pen pal program during the COVID-19 pandemic and later published a book encouraging others to take up handwritten correspondence.

More than 15,000 people signed up for Syme’s Penpalooza project in 2020, and she still gets hundreds of takers when she coordinates a new round of matchmaking every few months. She also gets requests for pen pals at book signings for “Syme’s Letter Writer – A Guide to Modern Correspondence,” and the stationery stores she frequents in New York City are always crowded with customers.

“People are very interested in physical, analog things right now,” she said. “I think it really has an appeal especially to a younger generation who grew up with a phone glued to their hand, to do something that’s more tactile, slower, more intentional, more mindful, but also just disconnected from the internet in every way.”

“Yours (hopefully)”

I was still 10 years away from connecting to the internet when I opened my first aerogramme from New Zealand, a sheet of pale blue paper that served as both writing surface and envelope adorned with a 45-cent stamp. That missive ended with a formal “Yours (hopefully) Molly Nunns,” but within a year, she was signing off with “Lots and lots of love” or “Your friend forever.”

In letter after letter, Molly drew little hearts on the tails of y’s in both of our first names, asked for updates on my middle school crushes and shared stories about her classmates and family. I could clearly picture her life, though it was hard in snowy New Hampshire to imagine celebrating Christmas during the summer.

“I am thinking of you heaps and I wonder what you are doing because you’re a SUPER pen friend and I hope that we never stop writing to each other and that one day we will get to meet each other,” she wrote in early 1986.

Julie Delbridge, 65, fostered similar friendships after joining International Pen Friends as a teenager in 1979. Writing to pen pals in more than a dozen countries from her home in Australia was such a positive experience that she began working for the organization as an adult and took over as its president in 2001. While she loved sharing photos, postcards and treats with her pen friends, it also was a therapeutic experience at a time when her parents were going through a bitter divorce.

“It was a pastime that I totally immersed myself into in a positive way and gained a lot of enjoyment from,” she said. “There was an abundance of non-judgmental friendship, fun and different perspectives.”

Over its 59-year history, IPF has provided pen pals to more than 2 million people ages 8 to 80+, she said. Membership peaked in the late 1990s but surged again during the pandemic, and this year, there’s been an increase in people ages 21-26 joining.

Pen pals in the classroom

In 2021, the U.S. Postal Service sent cards and envelopes to 25,000 elementary school classrooms for a pen pal project, but older students also are putting pen to paper.

In Texas, a group of medical students created an anonymous pen pal program to promote peer support and personal reflection. At Villanova University, professor Kamran Javadizadeh requires students to send letters to each other as part of a literature class called “Letters, Texts, Twitter” that examines different forms of epistolary communication in literature.

“I make them put pieces of paper in envelopes and take them to the post office and send them to each other even though they could just as easily hand it to the person in class,” he said. “Something is lost when you have instantaneous communication. So I’m interested in the relationship between synchronous kinds of intimacy and asynchronous forms of intimacy.”

Gordon Alley-Young, dean of communications at New York’s Kingsborough Community College, believes letters are like vinyl records — they’re coming back into fashion as young people explore a tangible medium from the past. He has both studied the history of letter writing and used it to teach students empathy.

In an interpersonal communication class, he noticed that students analyzing case studies about relationship problems offered matter-of-fact, almost insensitive diagnoses. But when he re-wrote the case studies in the form of letters from friends and had students respond in kind, they began sharing their own feelings and offering more open-ended advice.

“We really want students to connect to what they’re looking at,” he said. “And letter writing encourages that.”

Pen pals in the digital age

An app called Slowly seeks to combine modern technology with the old-fashioned anticipation inherent to the pen pal relationship. Users send messages digitally, but delivery is delayed from an hour to several days to mimic snail mail.

“This delay naturally encourages longer, more thoughtful messages because you wouldn’t just say ‘hi’ if you know you have to wait days for a reply,” said cofounder JoJo Chan.

Since 2017, the app has gained 10 million users in more than 160 countries, most in their 20s and 30s. One user said he was curious about pen pals after hearing about them from his grandparents, Chan said.

“Slowly offers a convenient way and a modern way for them to try that experience,” she said.

Syme, however, is all about the tangible aspects of letter writing. Her book includes advice on paper and pens plus all kinds of goodies that can be tucked into envelopes.

“There is joy to be had once you fully embrace the medium’s outdated extravagance,” she writes.

But letter writing, she said in an interview, is like a swimming pool, both shiny and deep. The frippery and embellishments don’t matter in comparison to what you actually put on the page.

“That’s where I think it can get very real, very quickly,” she said.

A special connection

Molly and I had been writing for 15 years by the time we met in person, spending a day together in New York when she toured the U.S. in May 2000. We crossed paths in London a few years later, and in 2018, she and her family visited New Hampshire.

“Who would have thought when we started writing in 1985 that one day you’d be sitting here? It’s quite amazing,” she said during my recent visit. “We’ll always have a special connection, I’m sure.”

In addition to the sunglasses, I also gave Molly a bound book of 200 pages of her letters that I scanned and printed. At age 13, I never could have imagined that someday I’d have searchable PDFs of our teenage scribblings that could be summarized in 10 seconds by artificial intelligence. But what amazes me more is the depth of the connection I felt during our tearful airport goodbye.

We will for sure meet again. Until then, lots and lots of love, Holly.

The latest state to jump on the redistricting bandwagon is Tennessee, where a special legislative session is to begin Tuesday, a day after a similar session kicked off in Alabama. In Louisiana, lawmakers are making plans for new U.S. House districts after the Supreme Court last week struck down the state's current map.

The high court’s ruling said Louisiana relied too heavily on race when creating a second Black-majority House district as it attempted to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The ruling significantly altered a decades-old understanding of the law and provided grounds for Republicans in various states to try to eliminate majority-Black districts that have elected Democrats.

Its impact on congressional representation, specifically for Black Americans, is threatening to undo decades of progress to ensure minority voting rights.

President Donald Trump has been encouraging more states to join in redistricting as Republicans seek to hold on to their narrow House majority in this year’s elections.

Alabama special session draws protests

Several hundred people protested on Monday shortly before Alabama's special session began, including some carrying signs declaring “No new map” and “We fight back! Black Voters Matter.”

Opponents of the redistricting session gathered across the street from the historic Alabama Capitol, where the Confederacy was formed in 1861 and where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a crowd of thousands after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.

“Much blood, sweat and tears was shed in an effort for us to gain the right to vote,” said Sheyann Webb-Christburg, who as a child participated in the 1965 Bloody Sunday voting rights march in Selma. “In 2026, there are still people who are still not exercising that right to vote, and we are still fighting today, even in an effort to keep our right to vote.”

Republican Gov. Kay Ivey called legislators into a special session to consider contingency plans for special primary elections in hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will let Alabama switch congressional maps ahead of the November midterms.

A three-judge federal panel previously ordered Alabama to use a court-selected map — with a second district that has a substantial number of Black voters — until a new map is drafted after the 2030 Census. Alabama appealed that decision and has asked the court, in light of the Louisiana ruling, to let it revert to a 2023 map drawn by Republican state lawmakers. That map could give Republicans a better chance of winning at least one of the two seats currently held by Black Democratic lawmakers.

“This is the voice of the people,” Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter said while promoting the Republican plan. “We had three judges determine how five million people were supposed to vote, and I don’t think that’s the way.”

At a town hall held by a pro-Democratic group, Doug Jones, a former U.S. senator who is running for governor as a Democrat, said Alabama was “ground zero for voting rights, and we are going to be ground zero to make sure we retain those voting rights.”

Tennessee plan targets Memphis district

Republican Gov. Bill Lee called Tennessee lawmakers into a special session to consider a plan that could break up the state’s lone Democratic-held U.S. House district, centered on the majority-Black city of Memphis. The move comes after pressure from Trump.

The candidate qualifying period in Tennessee ended in March, and the primary election is scheduled for Aug. 6. Lee had said.

Clergy members concerned about plans to split Memphis’ congressional district came together Monday to denounce the move.

“This latest attempt at redistricting is not just about lines on a map. It is about misrepresentation,” said the Rev. Earle Fisher, a pastor at the Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church and the founder of Up the Vote 901, referring to the Memphis area code. “It’s about whether the voices of Black people in this state will be heard or hidden.”

Advocates urge Louisiana voters to cast ballots

After last week’s Supreme Court decision, Louisiana moved quickly to delay its May 16 congressional primary to allow time for lawmakers to approve new U.S. House districts.

Louisiana state Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter, a Republican who chairs a Senate committee tasked with redistricting, told The Associated Press that his committee plans to hold a public hearing Friday on congressional redistricting. Kleinpeter said lawmakers are still weighing their options, including bills that would eliminate one or both of the state’s two majority-Black Congressional districts

Democrats and civil rights groups have filed several lawsuits challenging the suspension of the state's congressional primary, including another filed Monday in federal court. They are encouraging people in Louisiana — where early voting already is underway — to go ahead and cast votes in the congressional primaries in case courts later allow them to be counted.

A national redistricting battle expands

Legislative voting districts typically are redrawn only once a decade, after a census, to account for population changes. But Trump urged Texas Republicans last year to redraw U.S. House districts to give the party an advantage. Democrats in California responded by doing the same, and then other states joined in.

Florida became the eighth state to enact new House districts ahead of the midterm elections when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Monday he had signed a redrawn map passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature. It could help Republicans win as many as four additional House seats. The new map was immediately challenged in court as a partisan gerrymander that violates a Florida constitutional provision against drawing districts that favor one political party over another.

All told, Republicans think they could gain as many as 13 seats from new congressional districts in five states, while Democrats think they could pick up as many as 10 seats from new districts adopted in three states. The newly proposed redistricting in Southern states could add to the Republicans’ tally.

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Chandler reported from Montgomery, Alabama, and Lieb from Jefferson City, Missouri. Associated Press writers Jack Brook in New Orleans and Nicholas Riccardi in Denver contributed to this report.

La mayoría de los periodistas indicaron que pudieron entrar a la Casa Rosada por primera vez desde el 23 de abril. Pero las autoridades negaron el ingreso a dos canales de televisión acreditados sin dar explicaciones, e introdujeron nuevas restricciones al movimiento físico de los reporteros dentro de la residencia de gobierno, al cerrar pasillos e instalar vidrios esmerilados en las ventanas.

El cierre el mes pasado de la sala de prensa, utilizada durante décadas por reporteros acreditados para cubrir las actividades del presidente, se sumó a una lista de ataques y represalias contra organizaciones de noticias por parte de Milei, cuya hostilidad hacia la prensa refleja el enfoque agresivo de su aliado y poderoso partidario, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump.

Los periodistas y sus defensores reprocharon la medida por considerarla un ataque a la libertad de prensa en Argentina. Las condenas llegaron desde cámaras empresariales, la Iglesia católica y políticos de diversas tendencias.

El gobierno de Milei se defiende

El jefe de Gabinete de Milei, Manuel Adorni, respondió a los críticos en una inusual conferencia de prensa el lunes.

En declaraciones a los reporteros, dijo que el gobierno está totalmente a favor de la libertad de expresión, pero no va a permitir que se cometan actos que pongan en riesgo la seguridad nacional a espaldas del mismo.

Las autoridades justificaron las restricciones para los aproximadamente 60 integrantes del cuerpo de prensa de la Casa Rosada como una medida de seguridad necesaria, luego de acusar de espionaje a un canal local de televisión por usar gafas inteligentes para videograbar partes de la sede sin autorización.

El canal, Todo Noticias, sostiene que recibió permiso oficial para captar las imágenes, y que las tomas de pasillos y espacios de reunión emitidas en el segmento televisivo han estado accesibles al público desde hace tiempo.

Al ser consultado sobre por qué a colegas de Todo Noticias y de Canal 13, otra cadena líder, se les seguía impidiendo ingresar a la Casa Rosada el lunes, Adorni respondió que no estaba al tanto del tema y que no debería haber ninguna limitación.

Sobre las nuevas restricciones —que incluyeron controles de seguridad exhaustivos en la entrada, barreras levantadas apresuradamente que bloqueaban escaleras y pasillos, vidrios esmerilados que impedían ver el balcón, y la exigencia de que los periodistas entreguen sus credenciales de prensa a las autoridades al salir del edificio—, Adorni señaló que el gobierno simplemente está haciendo cumplir las normas.

Los periodistas en Argentina enfrentan hostilidad del gobierno

Durante los últimos dos años, la posición de Argentina se ha desplomado en un índice de libertad de prensa elaborado por Reporteros Sin Fronteras, informó la organización no gubernamental la semana pasada. Cayó del puesto 66 al 98, entre los mayores descensos de cualquier país de Sudamérica.

En un informe publicado la semana pasada, el grupo indicó que había registrado un “aumento de la hostilidad del gobierno hacia la prensa y de la presión sobre ella” por parte de los más fervientes partidarios latinoamericanos de Trump: Milei y el presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.

“Los insultos, la difamación y las amenazas desde el gobierno de Javier Milei hacia periodistas y medios críticos de su gobierno se han vuelto habituales desde que asumió el cargo”, añadió.

En conflicto con la prensa en un grado no visto desde el restablecimiento de la democracia argentina en 1983, Milei ha intensificado sus ataques contra los medios en las últimas semanas, mientras flaquean sus emblemáticas campañas contra la corrupción y la inflación.

El lunes por la noche recurrió a las redes sociales para fustigar a quienes acusan al gobierno de censura y de violaciones a la libertad de expresión.

En “un mercado verdaderamente libre”, manifestó el mandatario, “sería la propia sociedad la que se encargaría de limpiar el sistema mandando a la quiebra a aquellos medios que publican falsedades, operaciones e injurias de manera constante”.

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On Monday, the Homestead Police Department announced the arrest of Michael Alvarez, a teacher at First United Methodist Christian School located at 622 N. Krome Avenue.

According to authorities, officers responded to the school Monday after receiving reports of a battery.

Officers met with the parents of a student who said their child’s mouth had been taped shut by a teacher following a disagreement, authorities said.

Following an investigation by Homestead police detectives, Alvarez was arrested and is facing a charge of simple battery.

He was taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained as of Monday night on a $1,000 bond.

The Knicks became the first team in NBA history to win three straight postseason games by at least 25 points, continuing a wave that began midway through the first round against Atlanta by shooting 63% from the field and leading by 40 points.

“We’re playing well, but it doesn’t mean anything if we can’t find a way to get three more wins,” Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns said. “So, we've just got to stick to the task at hand.”

OG Anunoby added 18 points on 7-for-8 shooting, while Towns and Mikal Bridges both had 17, with Towns adding six rebounds and six assists in just 20 minutes.

After trailing 2-1 against Atlanta, the Knicks have won four straight games by a total of 135 points. They are the first team since detailed play-by-play began in 1996-97 to lead three straight playoff games by at least 30 points, according to Sportradar.

Brunson said the Knicks' focus and attention to detail have been better since they fell behind.

“Yes, it’s turned into obviously big wins, but those attention to detail things are going to help us in the close ones as well,” Brunson said.

Game 2 is Wednesday night before the series shifts to Philadelphia — with Joel Embiid already pleading with 76ers fans not to sell their tickets to Knicks fans when it does.

But the 76ers didn't exactly give their fans much reason to want to keep them Monday.

Paul George scored 17 points for Philadelphia. Embiid shot just 3 for 11 for his 14 points and Tyrese Maxey had just 13, not making his first basket until five minutes into the second quarter.

The 76ers had just one full day off after winning in Boston on Saturday night to complete the NBA's 14th comeback from a 3-1 deficit. But they looked more like the team that lost twice by 32 points in the first four games to fall into that deficit.

The Knicks had a much easier first round — and finished it with one of the easiest games in NBA playoff history. They crushed Atlanta 140-89 on Thursday in Game 6, setting a postseason record by building a 47-point halftime lead.

There were long stretches Monday that looked similar.

“They were obviously picking us apart, moving a lot better than we were,” 76ers coach Nick Nurse said.

The Knicks scored eight straight points midway through the second quarter to extend a 10-point lead to 57-39, and Brunson scored their final 11 points, capped by a 3-pointer with 0.3 seconds remaining, to make it 74-51 at halftime.

Towns' 3-pointer made it 90-60 about five minutes into the second half and it was mostly reserves from there. Brunson played only 31 minutes, perhaps the only reason he didn't reach 40 points for a fourth straight playoff game against the 76ers.

He averaged 35.5 points in a first-round series against the 76ers in 2024 and closed it with three straight 40-point games, including a franchise playoff-record 47 in Game 4.

The 76ers still haven't figured out a way to stop him.

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They were also among the dozens who put on their Spirit Airlines uniforms to march outside of the company headquarters on Monday in Dania Beach.

“It wasn’t until midnight on Friday night that we learned,” De León said. “When we see the board with no flights for the next day — that we were done for that day.”

Related link: Association of Flight Attendants offers help

There had been hope of a government bailout. On April 23, at the White House, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if his administration had plans to buy “a stake” in Spirit Airlines. Trump said it was under consideration.

“We have 18,000 people that live in this country that are great people and great employees,” Trump said. “We are thinking about doing it ... I’d love to be able to save those jobs. I’d love to be able to save an airline.”

Related document: Airlines For America plan

The $500 million government bailout proposal failed. Dave Davis, the Spirit Airlines chief executive officer, told The Wall Street Journal that the Iran war’s surging energy prices caused the plan to fail.

“We didn’t intentionally sell any tickets thinking we weren’t going to be here,” Davis told The WSJ. “We thought we were going to get the liquidity we needed.”

Spirit Airlines flights were grounded by 3 a.m. on Saturday.

American Airlines and JetBlue Airways were working to help Spirit Airlines pilots and flight attendants who may have been stranded during the shutdown.

De León said she and other employees weren’t expecting any of it.

“We started asking via e-mail, via text, phone calls, and they kept on saying, ‘There’s nothing wrong. Pay no mind. It’s just rumors. We’re fine. We’re going to be fine.’ And so, you know, you trust what management tells you,” De León said.

Related link: Spirit Airlines launches restructuring page

Soon after, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy held a news conference at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

“There’s a demand for aviation workers. So, even American and United have drafted or crafted microsites for Spirit employees to potentially jump the line, jump the queue, and get preferential treatment in the application process for the many airlines that are now hiring, whether it’s pilots, flight attendants, baggage workers or even those who have worked in the call centers. You can go to the individual websites to see what’s offered by each of the individual airlines,” Duffy said.

Trump and Duffy criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking the $3.8 billion sale of Spirit Airlines to JetBlue in 2024.

Related story: Spirit Airlines asks guests not to go to the airport, or expect rebookings

As the industry faces the fuel crunch from the war in Iran, Roman said anguish prevailed.

“There’s a lot of people that are going to struggle, and there’s no way around that,” Roman said. “There’s just not enough jobs in this industry for the type of work that we do.”

Spirit Airlines employees’ health insurance was cut off on Saturday.

“This is not like any other industry. You do not take your work experience with you. You start right back at the bottom, so if you’ve been here 30 years, it means nothing,” Roman said. “Myself: 10 and a half years, it means nothing. You start right back at the bottom with the lowest pay, lowest seniority.”

Dahlia Fountain spent the last decade flying the skies with Spirit.

“It never felt like work, not once, even when we had delays upon delays, it just felt exciting,” said Fountain.

She says she and other flight attendants learned Spirit was shutting down just like everyone else.

“Then we saw on the news, that before 3 a.m. Spirit will shut down, and we’re like, really?” she said.

Resources

• American Airlines launches “Supporting Spirit” career page
• United Airlines launches program to prioritize former Spirit Airlines employees when hiring. Here is the career page >
• Southwest Airlines was recruiting on this page.
• JetBlue announced an extension of the “jumpseat agreement for the next two weeks, subject to space availability and limited to cabin seating” for those who were stranded while working for Spirit Airlines, and also announced “preferential employment interviews.”
• For more information about help from the Association of Flight Attendants, call 1-800-385-3920
• To file an unemployment benefits claim in Florida, call 1-800-204-2418 or visit this page.
• Find your local food bank, on this Feeding America page

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That finding comes after a confrontation captured on video inside a public park, which is now raising broader questions about how law enforcement authority is exercised in public without a clear requirement for identification.

The video, which has drawn national attention, shows Local 10 News investigator Jeff Weinsier attempting to question Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava during a public event when a man in plain clothes steps in, orders him back and makes physical contact.

Weinsier was trying to question the mayor about millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on electric transit buses that were later taken out of service. Local 10 News reached out to Levine Cava multiple times requesting an interview, but her communications staff declined.

“Don’t push me… don’t push me,” Weinsier is heard saying in the video.

The man, who was not visibly identified as law enforcement, responds, “You need to back away,” and later asked, “You want to go to jail?”

The encounter prompted Local 10 News to ask the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office what policies or procedures require a plainclothes deputy to identify themselves before issuing commands or using force.

The Sheriff’s Office confirmed it does not have a specific policy, procedure or standard operating protocol that governs that situation.

The deputy involved was later identified as Lester Aguilar, who is part of the mayor’s security detail in a specialized Sergeant-at-Arms role. In a written response, the Sheriff’s Office said the deputy was “operating in a specialized protective capacity” and that those assigned to that role “must often operate in a low-profile manner that does not prominently identify him as law enforcement.” The agency said that approach “is intentional and necessary” in dynamic public settings.

Despite that explanation, the deputy is still a sworn law enforcement officer with the authority to detain or arrest. The Sheriff’s Office did not point to any written policy outlining when or how that authority must be clearly identified to the public.

Local 10 News shared the video and findings with Andrew Scott, a doctor of criminal justice, former police chief and national consultant on police practices.

“The officer should have immediately identified himself,” Scott said.

Scott said the lack of identification can quickly create unnecessary conflict.

“It doesn’t make sense that this unnecessary conflict occurred… particularly when the officer doesn’t identify himself,” he said.

He warned that situations like this can escalate.

“You could wind up being pushed down… placed in handcuffs or worse,” he said.

Scott said the issue is not only what happened in this case but the absence of clear rules governing it.

“If those actions… were not predicated by a written policy… that does create a problem,” he said.

He said he was surprised such guidance does not already exist.

“I’m surprised… it’s not specifically delineated in policy,” he said. “Law enforcement officers are required to identify themselves… particularly if they’re not in obvious police garb.”

Scott also said he saw nothing inappropriate in Weinsier’s conduct.

“The only thing you did was ask her questions,” he said. “I didn’t see anything on your part that created an issue or a threat.”

He added that the deputy was not operating in a covert or undercover capacity.

“He was not in deep undercover,” Scott said. “He was just working in security detail and should have been identified.”

Scott said the situation highlights a gap that could be addressed with clear written guidance.

“This whole thing could have been avoided if there were appropriate protocols,” he said. “I see it as an easy fix… you just augment the policy.”

He added, “It makes sense to clarify things in writing and to train its members.”

He also said expectations should be clearly defined for how security details interact with the media.

“There needs to be something clear… to understand what the actions are and what’s appropriate,” he said.

Following the original report, another journalist told Local 10 News she experienced a similar situation involving a plainclothes officer, raising broader concerns about how members of the public are expected to know when someone giving orders is law enforcement.

Local 10 News requested an interview with Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz to discuss whether clearer policies should be implemented. The request was declined. The Sheriff’s Office said the sheriff was not available and added it continues to review its practices and remains open to considering enhancements where appropriate.

Local 10 News also contacted the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association, which represents deputies. The union declined to participate.

The Boater Safety and Bay Education Taskforce wrapped up a lengthy look at some of the issues that contribute to fatal boating accidents in the county.

“We need safety education, rules and regulation regarding our waterways,” said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. “And the goal of this taskforce has been to not see so many tragedies that we’ve seen just in the last couple of years.”

Lucy Fernandez was a victim in one of those incidents on Labor Day weekend in 2022.

Her father, Andy Fernandez, now chairs the taskforce along with a number of other county leaders.

The group highlighted a need for increased boater education, better legislation and waterway management to focus on.

“What we’re trying to do is expand boater education requirements, to see how we could expand it here at the local level where more boat operators are required to obtain more boater education requirements,” said Fernandez. “We want to help obtain more funding for law enforcement.”

A final report stated “a persistent and alarming trend is the lack of formal training among vessel operators.”

As a result, the taskforce is now pushing mandatory training for operators and passengers and increased accountability through law enforcement efforts to deter unsafe and impaired boating.

In addition, new legislation to closes regulatory gaps for long term improvements and a sharp improvement in waterway management to shore up navigational guides and traffic patterns.

“Some of those signs are old, they’re faded,” said DERM Director Loren Parra. “We can’t ask people to follow the rules if they can’t see them, so we want to make sure we’re doing that, of course working with all of our different municipalities to strengthen all of our marine patrol.”

The information has officially been submitted to the county, and the next steps will be for county leaders to work to implement the recommendations as policy.

Hall took a short feed from Sean Walker and carried the puck in on the left side before being knocked to his knees near the top of the crease. But Hall hopped up as Jackson Blake battled for the loose puck, corralled it and beat Vladar to cap a night that saw the Hurricanes fall behind 2-0 quickly for their first deficit of the postseason.

Afterward, Hall said he didn't even realize he had fallen down until he watched a replay afterward.

“When you score in overtime, it seems like parts of your memory kind of go,” Hall said, adding later: “I was in another time zone there for a second.”

The series shifts to Philadelphia for Thursday’s Game 3.

Seth Jarvis had the third-period goal that forced overtime for Carolina, while Nikolaj Ehlers also scored. Frederik Andersen finished with 34 saves to help the Hurricanes improve to 6-0 in the postseason.

Still, this one was anything but easy compared to the smothering first-period that paved the way to a 3-0 win in Monday's Game 1. Flyers coach Rick Tocchet had talked about the need for his players to react quicker against Carolina's aggression and speed, and carry the puck more into the tough areas of the ice.

The Flyers did that early, with Jamie Drysdale and Sean Couturier scoring in a 39-second span of the first period for the Flyers. And they outshot Carolina 15-8 in the overtime in a much more assertive showing, but the Flyers couldn't beat Andersen again after that flurry in the first 5 minutes.

Vladar had 40 saves, including twice stopping Carolina's Eric Robinson on second-period breakaways. He also got a timely bit of help in that period from Travis Sanheim, who cleared a loose puck that had slipped behind Vladar in the crease to deny Carolina a tying score.

Tocchet felt more energy from his Flyers — in their first postseason since 2020 — in the aftermath of the Game 1 loss.

“I thought the young guys competed,” he said. “I'm really proud of these guys. They just made the play at the end, that's it.”

Ehlers' one-timer on the power play got Carolina on the board in the first. Then Ehlers fed a trailing Jarvis to beat Vladar from the right side midway through the third period, ultimately forcing OT.

It was a penalty-filled night with the teams combining to go 2 for 13 with the man advantage, which derailed either team from getting in much of a 5-on-5 rhythm and leaving Vladar and Andersen to come up with big stops the entire night.

“Goaltending was not the issue tonight for any team,” Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said.

Philadelphia played a second straight game without regular-season goals leader Owen Tippett due to an undisclosed injury, while Carolina defenseman Alexander Nikishin took warmups but didn't play as he continues his recovery from a concussion suffered in the clinching game of the first-round sweep of Ottawa.

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The costars turned courtroom adversaries settled the civil case two weeks before they were to go to trial in New York on Lively’s claims that Baldoni conspired with publicists to preemptively destroy her reputation after she privately accused him of sexually harassing her on the movie set.

“Raising awareness, and making a meaningful impact in the lives of domestic violence survivors — and all survivors — is a goal that we stand behind," Lively and Baldoni said in a joint statement issued through their lawyers.

“It is our sincere hope that this brings closure and allows all involved to move forward constructively and in peace, including a respectful environment online.”

The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Lively, 38, sued Baldoni, 42, and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, at the end of 2024. Weeks later, Baldoni sued Lively, accusing her, her husband — “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds — and their publicist of defamation and extortion.

Baldoni, who directed the dark romantic drama and starred in it with Lively, had denied harassing her or orchestrating a smear campaign. He’d claimed the complaints about his behavior were made up by Lively as part of an effort to seize creative control of the movie.

Monday’s settlement came after a federal judge in Manhattan tossed some of each actors’ claims.

Last June, Judge Lewis J. Liman dismissed Baldoni’s defamation and extortion lawsuit. In April, he threw out Lively’s sexual harassment claims, ruling that she couldn’t pursue them under federal law because she was an independent contractor rather than an employee on the movie set.

In their joint statement, the parties said they recognize that Lively’s concerns “deserved to be heard” and that they ”remain firmly committed to workplaces free of improprieties and unproductive environments."

The trial, now no longer necessary, had been scheduled to begin with jury selection on May 18.

“It Ends With Us,” an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel about a relationship devolving into domestic violence, was released in August 2024 and exceeded box office expectations despite criticism that it glorified abuse. Lively and Baldoni’s fractious falling out took attention away from the film, overshadowing its message and success.

“The end product — the movie ‘It Ends With Us’ — is a source of pride to all of us who worked to bring it to life,” Lively and Baldoni said in their statement.

Lively said in her lawsuit that during filming, Baldoni made inappropriate comments about her appearance, violated physical boundaries while filming a love scene, and pushed for nudity — against Lively’s wishes — during a scene in which her character was giving birth.

Baldoni denied doing anything outside the realm of the normal creative process of making a movie.

The judge, in the decision tossing out the sexual harassment claims, acknowledged the complexity of the matter, noting that creative artists “must have some amount of space to experiment within the bounds of an agreed script without fear of being held liable for sexual harassment.”

The trial was to focus on Lively’s claim that Baldoni and the studio retaliated against her sexual harassment complaints by hiring publicists to turn the public against her. Her lawyers said that campaign including hiring a “digital army” to post bogus negative content about Lively on social media platforms, and feeding “manufactured content to unwitting reporters.”

The lawsuit said the purpose was to “retaliate against Ms. Lively by battering her image, harming her businesses, and causing her family severe emotional harm.”

Baldoni’s lawyers have claimed it was Lively who was strategically manipulating Baldoni’s public image, partly by leveraging help from her famous friends.

Lively appeared in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and the TV series “Gossip Girl” from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including “The Town” and “The Shallows.”

Baldoni starred in the TV comedy “Jane the Virgin,” directed the 2019 film “Five Feet Apart” and wrote “Man Enough,” a book challenging traditional notions of masculinity.

Miami Fire Rescue personnel declared Jaheim Pierre, 23, dead at an apartment on Saturday afternoon, at 5329 NW 17 Ave., records show.

After the shooting, Antwan Carter turned to a police officer and said, “I am the one; I have the firearm,” according to a police report.

Carter surrendered a 9mm, Glock 43, firearm from his right pocket, according to the police report.

A woman with her feet and clothing ”covered in blood” approached a police officer and said the shooter was her boyfriend of four years, and the two shot were her brothers, according to a police report.

The woman said her brothers had been concerned about her being the victim of domestic violence, showed up at her apartment, and there was an argument and a fight, according to police.

Carter said he left the apartment, returned, and shot both brothers, according to police. Fire rescue personnel found Gianni Pierre, 28, bleeding next to a couch, and Jaheim Pierre, 23, bleeding in the closet

Fire rescue personnel rushed Gianni Pierre, 28, to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where a doctor pronounced him dead.

Carter faced two counts of first-degree murder.

The blast occurred at a fireworks plant in the city of Changsha in Hunan province on Monday afternoon, China’s official news agency Xinhua said.

State media China Daily said that the plant was operated by the Huasheng Fireworks Manufacturing and Display Co. in the Changsha-administered, county-level city of Liuyang, a prominent fireworks powerhouse in the country.

Changsha mayor Chen Bozhang said at a media briefing that a search and rescue operation at the scene largely has been completed, but verification of the casualties and identification of the victims was still underway.

Chen said that the local government expressed condolences for the victims and apologized to society, including the families and injured people.

“We feel extremely pained and deeply remorseful,” he said.

Ding Weiming, the Changsha Emergency Management Bureau's party secretary, said that the site had a large amount of products or semifinished products catching fire, causing continuous, sporadic blasts.

Large quantities of gunpowder stored in the warehouse area also threatened the safety of rescue teams, while the collapse of walls, columns and the roof in the factory area created ruins, with people trapped and routes blocked, he said.

All fireworks and firecracker manufacturers in Liuyang have been ordered to halt production, local media reported said.

Aerial footage from state broadcaster CCTV on Tuesday showed white smoke billowing in certain areas of the site, with facilities collapsed or damaged.

Hundreds of rescuers were deployed to the scene and residents in danger zones were evacuated by authorities, citing high risks from two black powder warehouses near the explosion site, the Xinhua report said.

Authorities were investigating the cause of the blast and police have detained the person in charge of the company, Xinhua said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged “all-out efforts” to search for people who are still unaccounted for and to save the injured. He called on authorities to investigate the cause swiftly and pursue serious accountability, the report said. Xi also ordered effective risk screening and hazard control in key industries and the strengthening of public safety management.

To prevent other accidents during the operation, rescuers adopted measures such as spraying and humidification to eliminate potential hazards.

They also deployed several robots to help with the search and rescue operation.

Liuyang has a long history of fireworks production. The Guinness World Records organization said that the first accurately documented firework, the Chinese firecracker, was attributed to Li Tian, a monk who lived near Liuyang during China’s Tang dynasty dating to around 618 to 907 C.E.

Li discovered that putting gunpowder in enclosed hollow bamboo stems created loud explosions and bound crackers together to create the traditional new year firecrackers to drive out evil spirits, Guinness said.

In February, China reported two deadly explosions at fireworks shops around the Lunar New Year period.

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Leung reported from Hong Kong. Olivia Zhang contributed to this report.

John Andrew Spillman is accused of indecent exposure.

At the time of his arrest, Spillman was an employee of the U.S. Secret Service based in Washington, D.C.

Officials said he was immediately placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the criminal case and internal review.

Secret Service Chief of Police Richard MacAuley released a statement to Local 10 News which read:

“We are aware of the arrest of an off-duty Secret Service officer by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. The alleged conduct is unacceptable and stands in stark contrast to the professionalism and integrity that I demand of our personnel. This agency takes these matters with the utmost seriousness; consequently, the individual has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of this criminal matter and a complete and thorough internal investigation.”

Spillman was in the Miami District as part of a detail that provided exterior security screening for an event, according to authorities.

His assignment had concluded the day prior and he was off-duty at the time of his arrest, officials said.

Hernandez said she joined the airline when she was 19 years old. A few years ago, she suffered a traumatic brain injury during a car crash, and she credits the company for helping her to recover.

“We have become like family. I am going to miss it so much,” Hernandez said. “I am really sad about it.”

After a $500 million government bailout proposal failed, Spirit Airlines flights were grounded by 3 a.m. on Saturday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the airline’s shutdown hours later.

“We are looking for help,” Bryce said. “I really love the job, and I enjoy doing it ... We went to work one day, and then we were out of work the next.”

CareerSource Broward offers services such as job placement and career coaching at three centers at 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard, and 7550 Davie Road Extension in Hollywood.

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Without much warning, Spirit Airlines employees’ health insurance was cut off on Saturday. A few dozen employees marched on Monday morning outside of the airline’s headquarters in Dania Beach.

There had been hope of a government bailout. On April 23, at the White House, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if his administration had plans to buy “a stake” in Spirit Airlines. Trump said it was under consideration.

“We have 18,000 people that live in this country that are great people and great employees,” Trump said. “We are thinking about doing it ... I’d love to be able to save those jobs. I’d love to be able to save an airline.”

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Dave Davis, the Spirit Airlines chief executive officer, told The Wall Street Journal that the Iran war’s surging energy prices caused the plan to fail.

“We didn’t intentionally sell any tickets thinking we weren’t going to be here,” Davis told The WSJ. “We thought we were going to get the liquidity we needed.”

American Airlines and JetBlue Airways were working to help Spirit Airlines pilots and flight attendants who may have been stranded during the shutdown.

Related link: Spirit Airlines launches restructuring page

“There’s a demand for aviation workers. So, even American and United have drafted or crafted microsites for Spirit employees to potentially jump the line, jump the queue, and get preferential treatment in the application process for the many airlines that are now hiring, whether it’s pilots, flight attendants, baggage workers or even those who have worked in the call centers. You can go to the individual websites to see what’s offered by each of the individual airlines,” Duffy said.

Trump and Duffy criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration for blocking the $3.8 billion sale of Spirit Airlines to JetBlue in 2024, which they say could have prevented the failure.

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• Southwest Airlines was recruiting on this page.
• JetBlue announced an extension of the “jumpseat agreement for the next two weeks, subject to space availability and limited to cabin seating” for those who were stranded while working for Spirit Airlines, and also announced “preferential employment interviews.”
• For more information about help from the Association of Flight Attendants, call 1-800-385-3920
• Career Source Broward runs three career centers with services to help job seekers. The centers also use the Employ Florida resources.
• To file an unemployment benefits claim in Florida, call 1-800-204-2418 or visit this page.
• Find your local food bank, on this Feeding America page

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Instead, the struggling discount carrier — that has twice filed for bankruptcy — announced that they will “automatically process refunds” for flights purchased through Spirit with a credit or debit card.

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A few travelers were still having to adapt on Monday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. And so was JetBlue.

On Monday, JetBlue announced 11 new destinations out of FLL, including Barranquilla and Cali, Colombia^; Baltimore; and Charlotte, North Carolina.

“We’re stepping up for Fort Lauderdale to ensure the availability of air service in this market,” Marty St. George, JetBlue’s president, said in a statement.

JetBlue was also offering Spirit Airlines Free Spirit Silver and Gold members a TrueBlue Mosaic program status match.

On Monday, at FLL, Howard Musgrove said he was in Mississippi and looking forward to his cruise adventure out of South Florida when he learned that his flight was canceled.

Musgrove said Spirit Airlines refunded him directly.

“I had to start scrambling to find another ride,” Musgrove said.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Spirit Airlines had ceased operations at 3 a.m. on Saturday, during a news conference at Newark Liberty International Airport.

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“Spirit does not have airplanes in the air flying as of this morning. Also, their call centers are closed, and they don’t have staff at ticket counters,” Duff said. “So, if you have a flight scheduled with Spirit Airlines, don’t show up at the airport. There will be no one here to assist you.”

Duff said United Airlines, Delta, and JetBlue were capping ticket prices for Spirit Airlines customers.

“You have to go to their websites to take advantage of these special offers,” Duff said.

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Golden State Wind was a floating offshore wind project proposed off California’s central coast. The California Energy Commission said Monday it issued an administrative subpoena to Golden State Wind.

The commission said it is seeking documents and information about the company's recent agreement with the Department of Interior to accept a payout in exchange for voluntarily abandoning its offshore wind lease.

“The Trump administration is recklessly spending billions of taxpayer dollars on backroom deals that would turn back the clock on innovation,” CEC Chair David Hochschild said in a statement. “Californians deserve immediate answers about the nature of this payout. Taxpayer dollars should be used to build a sustainable energy future, not to pay to make projects disappear.”

The Trump administration is spending nearly $2 billion to get energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said companies were sold a product that was only viable when propped up by massive taxpayer subsidies when they bid for these offshore wind leases in 2022, under former President Joe Biden.

The Republican administration adopted this strategy after federal courts thwarted President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop offshore wind development through executive action. Three agreements have been announced.

Under the first deal, made public in March, French company TotalEnergies is getting $1 billion — essentially a refund of its leases for offshore wind projects off North Carolina and New York — if it invests the money in fossil fuel projects instead. In the latest deals announced last week, the administration said Golden State Wind and Bluepoint Wind agreed to end their leases in exchange for reimbursements totaling nearly $900 million, provided they invest equally in fossil fuels.

Both Golden State and Bluepoint are co-owned by Ocean Winds, a joint venture of EDP Renewables and French energy giant Engie. Bluepoint Wind was an offshore wind project in the early stages of development off the coasts of New Jersey and New York.

When asked about the subpoena Monday, Ocean Winds said it does not comment on open or potential litigation.

This investigation sets the stage for legal action from California to safeguard renewable energy, as well as the thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of investment the state was counting on, said Eddie Ahn, executive director of Brightline Defense, an environmental justice nonprofit working to advance offshore wind in California.

A letter from California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office to Golden State Wind says the state anticipates potential litigation involving the federal government and parties to lease buyouts impacting California’s energy needs and offshore wind programs. California has invested about $100 million to support offshore wind development in order to accelerate the state's transition to clean energy and address climate change.

Democrats in Congress are investigating, too. U.S. Reps. Jared Huffman of California, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, and Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, are demanding information about TotalEnergies agreement.

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Funcionarios del gobierno, incluido el presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel, se reunieron el fin de semana frente a las viviendas asignadas a dos madres solteras: una había pasado más de una docena de años viviendo en un albergue y la otra residía en una sola habitación con dos hijos adolescentes, según medios estatales.

Los medios informaron que cuadrillas construyeron las viviendas en un mes con material excedente de proyectos de inversión turística, tecnologías desarrolladas por las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba y contenedores utilizados previamente para importar desde China piezas para parques de paneles solares.

Funcionarios indicaron el sábado que Cuba tiene un déficit habitacional de más de 800.000 viviendas. En La Habana es donde la necesidad es más apremiante.

Incapaz de escapar de una vivienda que se derrumba

Yurieska Artunet Martí, una esteticista de 29 años que vive en la parte histórica de La Habana, se vio obligada a mudarse de su último apartamento porque se desintegró. Sigue viviendo en el mismo piso y en el mismo edificio, pero en la parte trasera, que todavía está en pie.

“Aquí todo el mundo de La Habana vive con miedo”, comentó mientras miraba hacia su techo podrido y las paredes que se desmoronan. Allí se refugian Artunet Martí, que tiene cuatro meses de embarazo, y sus tres hijos, de 7 meses, 1 año y 5 años.

El yeso de la pared cae sobre su cama mientras duermen, contó.

Artunet Martí no puede permitirse vivir en otro lugar. Hace dos meses se vio obligada a cerrar el negocio de belleza que llevaba desde su casa, donde los clientes tenían que subir escalones erosionados, esquivar madera astillada y evitar un enorme hueco donde alguna vez operó un ascensor.

“La gente por la condición del edificio no venía”, expresó.

Se sabe que las viviendas de La Habana Vieja, ampliamente admiradas y que abarcan estilos desde el colonial español hasta el barroco cubano, a veces se vienen abajo, especialmente después de lluvias intensas, y en ocasiones los ocupantes mueren.

Según datos gubernamentales de 2020, la isla, con casi 10 millones de habitantes, tenía 3,9 millones de viviendas, de las cuales casi el 40% se encontraba en condiciones regulares o malas. La falta de mantenimiento, una profunda crisis económica y las inclemencias del tiempo son las principales causas.

Ya nadie vive en los pisos superiores del edificio de Artunet Martí; todos fueron evacuados y trasladados a albergues por su seguridad.

“¿Qué vamos a hacer?”, expresó. “Sabemos que estamos en peligro, pero bueno, tenemos que aceptar la realidad”.

El miedo se apodera de los residentes de La Habana

En otra zona de La Habana histórica, Carlos Sablón, de 60 años, recordó cómo una parte del tercer piso de su edificio se derrumbó por la noche. Sablón estaba viendo televisión en ese momento, pero supo lo que había ocurrido.

“Está bastante dañada por el tiempo”, dijo sobre la infraestructura del edificio mientras miraba desde la ventana de su segundo piso hacia un patio diminuto y en ruinas.

No había nadie en el tercer piso cuando ocurrió el derrumbe, pero los bomberos evacuaron a todos los demás. Sin poder permitirse vivir en otro lugar, Sablón, ingeniero de profesión, regresó a su apartamento. No estaba dañado, así que conectó la electricidad y el agua para él y un puñado de otros residentes que se quedaron.

“Siempre va a haber temor”, reconoció, y lamentó que nadie garantice la seguridad de las viviendas en La Habana.

“Este es al que más le tengo miedo”, expresó Sablón sobre su edificio de apartamentos, que cree que seguirá desplomándose. “Ojalá que no sea cuando esté pasando una persona”.

A varias cuadras de Sablón vive Magalys Caro, de 63 años. Está confinada a una sola habitación, una cocina improvisada y un baño en la parte delantera de su edificio. Antes albergaba a una empresa que le permitió mudarse allí cuando su vivienda de al lado se desintegró durante un huracán.

Pero el edificio donde ahora vive representa una amenaza.

“Para atrás se ha caído”, señaló Caro mientras apuntaba a una amplia zona al aire libre detrás de ella.

“Llevo como 10 años viviendo aquí en estas malas condiciones”, agregó. “No se resuelve nada. (El organismo responsable de la) vivienda no hace nada”.

Un impulso para que haya más viviendas modulares

En el acto del sábado para presentar las dos primeras viviendas modulares de La Habana, el primer ministro cubano, Manuel Marrero Cruz, reconoció que el programa de convertir contenedores de envío en viviendas podría ir más rápido de lo que lo hace.

“No va a la velocidad que se quiere”, admitió.

Delilah Díaz Fernández, directora general de Vivienda del Ministerio de la Construcción, indicó que se han aprobado más de 2.000 contenedores destinados a convertirse en viviendas, y que unos 700 están siendo transformados actualmente.

“El programa… es toda una potencialidad y llegó para quedarse”, señaló, y agregó que, a medida que lleguen nuevos contenedores, se tomarán en cuenta para su eventual uso habitacional.

Díaz Fernández dijo que los principales beneficiarios del programa incluirán a personas que perdieron sus viviendas por fenómenos meteorológicos extremos o por derrumbes estructurales.

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The Timberwolves guard made an unexpected return 10 days after hyperextending his left knee, leading Minnesota to a 104-102 victory Monday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.

After hitting his first 3-pointer with 1:27 remaining in the first quarter, Edwards turned to the Spurs bench and screamed: “I’m back! I’m back!”

They were already fully aware.

The four-time All-Star had 18 points, including 11 in the final quarter as the Timberwolves held on to hand the Spurs just the second loss in their past 17 series openers at home.

“That’s kind of who he is,” San Antonio guard Dylan Harper said. “Superstar in this league. He’s going to come back and have games like that even though he hasn’t played for a little bit.”

Edwards, who averaged 36.7 points, 4.0 assists and 3.0 rebounds in three games against the Spurs this season, has stated previously that he enjoys competing against San Antonio star Victor Wembanyama.

They had another duel in Game 1.

Wembanyama had 11 points, 15 rebounds and set an NBA postseason record with 12 blocked shots.

“I don’t think me coming back was because of nothing they got going on,” Edwards said. “It was more so I want to be out there with my brothers. Yeah, just that simple.”

Edwards was expected to miss at least the first two games of the series in San Antonio, but the 6-foot-4 guard expedited his rehabilitation to play in the opener. He was cleared to play 90 minutes before the scheduled tipoff Monday night when Minnesota coach Chris Finch simply said: “He's in.”

“He loves to play the game,” Finch said. “We dodged a bullet when it happened. He’s done an incredible job. Our medical staff has done an unbelievable job of getting him to this point. And he was super motivated by the fact that we were able to get that first series. I think that was kind of a little bit of an inspiration for him, too, just gave him something to work towards.”

Edwards suffered a bone bruise, in addition to hyperextending his left knee, on April 25 during Game 4 of Minnesota’s opening-round series against Denver.

“I think I got the best physical therapist in the world with David Hines," Edwards said of the Timberwolves' vice president of medical operations and performance. "So, just trusting him and working through all the pain that I felt throughout the first two days, three days, and just getting in the pool, running on it. Band work. Just a lot of resistance. So, yeah, he got me right.”

Edwards did not start, but played 25 minutes off the bench, including 9:52 in the final quarter.

“Everybody in the arena is against us,” Edwards said. “Yeah, I think that’s the best thing about it. You start on the road, everybody got on pink, blue, and whatever color shirts there is, chanting ‘Go Spurs Go,’ and doing all that. I’m with Minnesota. I got Minnesota back at all times.

“I’m out there with my brothers and we’re going to war.”

It was uncertain if Edwards will start Game 2 on Wednesday or if his minutes restriction will be lifted, but he is ready regardless.

“I felt great,” Edwards said. “I don’t think I’m limited at all. And just whatever coach needs from me.”

Edwards averaged 28.8 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 61 games during the regular season. He averaged 36.7 points, 4.0 assists, 3.0 rebounds in three games against San Antonio this season.

“We figured he would want to play,” Spurs forward Julian Champagnie said. “So, we went over him as if he was playing. There was no difference in the strategy. There was no difference in what we were trying to do. This is what he wants to do. This is what we’re going to do to counter it. May the best man win. That’s just what it was. We’ll just go back to the drawing board.”

The Timberwolves were 2-1 against the Spurs during the regular season.

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The NCAA Baseball Rules Committee on Monday approved the Southeastern Conference's request to implement a challenge system for balls and strikes for each game of the 2026 SEC Tournament. It will be similar to the system used in Major League Baseball.

Teams can challenge an umpire’s strike or ball call via an automated ball tracking system that monitors the exact location of each pitch, relative to the specific batter’s zone.

“The introduction of this challenge system at the SEC Tournament reflects our continued commitment to innovation,” Commissioner Greg Sankey said. “This addition represents a continued step forward for our game, aligns more closely with the professional level and supports the development of our student-athletes as they prepare for success at the next level.”

Each team will have three challenges to start the game. If a challenge is successful, the team will retain the challenge. If the original call is confirmed, the team will lose the challenge.

Upon a challenge, the pitch location will be compared against the electronic strike zone. The result will then be displayed on the stadium videoboard and broadcast.

The SEC baseball tournament will be played May 19-24 in Hoover, Alabama.

The Automatic Ball-Strike system would be allowed for other conference tournaments if a conference wanted to use it and followed the same protocols as the SEC.

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Legislative voting districts typically are redrawn based on census data after the start of each decade. But an unusual spate of mid-decade redistricting broke out after President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans last year to reshape U.S. House districts to give the party an edge in the midterm elections. Democrats in California countered with their own political gerrymandering. More states followed.

Eight states have already adopted new House maps, and several more are considering it. So far, Republicans believe they could win up to 13 additional seats from new districts in Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. Democrats, meanwhile, think they could gain up to 10 seats from new districts in California, Utah and Virginia.

But those tallies presume past voting patterns hold in November. Historically, the president’s party tends to lose seats in the midterms. Democrats need to gain just a few seats in November to wrest control of the House from Republicans, which would give them greater power to oppose Trump.

Where new House districts are proposed

Lawmakers in at least three states are meeting to consider plans for new U.S. House maps.

Louisiana

Current map: two Democrats, four Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has postponed the May 16 congressional primary to allow lawmakers to revise U.S. House districts in response to an April 29 Supreme Court ruling striking down a majority Black congressional district.

Challenges: Several lawsuits have been filed in federal and state court asserting that Landry lacked authority to suspend the primary elections.

Alabama

Current map: two Democrats, five Republicans

New map: Republican state officials hope to revert to a U.S. House map passed in 2023 — but not previously used — that could help Republicans win an additional seat.

Challenges: The current map was imposed under a court order and is supposed to be used until after the 2030 census. State officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to set aside that order in light of its ruling in the Louisiana redistricting case.

Tennessee

Current map: one Democrat, eight Republicans

New Map: Republican Gov. Bill Lee has called lawmakers into special session to consider a new U.S. House map that could carve up a Black-majority district in Memphis and improve Republican chances of winning an additional seat.

Challenges: The candidate qualifying period already has ended for the primaries, which are scheduled for Aug. 6.

Where new House districts were approved

New U.S. House districts have passed in eight states since last summer. Six took up redistricting voluntarily, one was required to by its state constitution and another did so under court order.

Texas

Current map: 13 Democrats, 25 Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a revised House map into law last August that could help Republicans win five additional seats.

Challenges: The U.S. Supreme Court in December cleared the way for the new districts to be used in this year’s elections. It has since overturned a lower-court ruling that blocked the new map because it was “racially gerrymandered.”

California

Current map: 43 Democrats, nine Republicans

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

Challenges: The U.S. Supreme Court in February allowed the new districts to be used in this year’s elections. It denied an appeal from Republicans and the Department of Justice, which claimed the districts impermissibly favor Hispanic voters.

Missouri

Current map: two Democrats, six Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a revised House map into law last September that could help Republicans win an additional seat.

Challenges: A Cole County judge ruled the new map is in effect as election officials work to determine whether a referendum petition seeking a statewide vote complies with constitutional criteria and contains enough valid petition signatures. The Missouri Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit claiming mid-decade redistricting is illegal. It’s scheduled to hear arguments in May on claims the new districts violate compactness requirements and should be placed on hold pending the potential referendum.

North Carolina

Current map: four Democrats, 10 Republicans

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

Challenges: A federal court panel in November denied a request to block the revised districts from being used in the midterm elections.

Ohio

Current map: five Democrats, 10 Republicans

New map: A bipartisan panel composed primarily of Republicans voted in October to approve revised House districts that improve Republicans’ chances of winning two additional seats.

Challenges: None. The state constitution required new districts before the 2026 election, because Republicans had approved the prior map without sufficient Democratic support after the last census.

Utah

Current map: no Democrats, four Republicans

New map: A judge in November imposed revised House districts that could help Democrats win a seat. The court ruled that lawmakers had circumvented anti-gerrymandering standards passed by voters when adopting the prior map.

Challenges: A federal court panel and the state Supreme Court, in February, each rejected Republican challenges to the judicial map selection.

Virginia

Current map: six Democrats, five Republicans

New map: Voters approved a constitutional amendment on April 21 authorizing new U.S. House districts backed by Democrats that could help the party win up to four additional seats.

Challenges: The state Supreme Court allowed the referendum to proceed, but it has yet to rule whether the effort is legal. The court is considering an appeal of a Tazewell County judge’s ruling that the amendment is invalid because lawmakers violated procedural requirements.

Florida

Current map: eight Democrats, 20 Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on May 4 that he had signed revised U.S. House districts that improve the GOP’s chances of winning four additional seats.

Challenges: A court challenge contends the new map violates a state constitution provision prohibiting districts from being drawn with intent to favor or disfavor a political party.

On Thursday, a property manager at Bijou Bay Harbor, at 9521 East Bay Harbor Drive, reported finding “a safe that had been forced,” according to a police report.

It belonged to a property owner who lived outside of the U.S., according to police.

On Friday, a detective found surveillance video showing Daniel Lopez getting off the elevator on the same floor of the apartment on Tuesday, according to police.

Lopez told the detective that he was working the front desk overnight when someone called for help, so he “signed out the unit keys from the building’s secured key box,” according to police.

Lopez “was not able to explain what he saw or did when entering ... could not advise who this caller was or provide a phone number ... did not notify his supervisors or anyone else,” according to the police report.

Police officers arrested Lopez on Friday at the Bay Harbor Islands Police Department, and corrections booked him at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral. He faced a second-degree felony charge of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling.

Fire rescue personnel responded to the crash along the northbound lanes on South Pine Island Road, near 51st Street.

Police officers temporarily closed South Pine Island Road in both directions.

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

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En un comunicado que apareció como portada del periódico el domingo, la junta directiva indicó que los miembros afectados se enteraron por primera vez de que les habían retirado sus visas para ingresar a Estados Unidos a través de reportes en medios partidarios del gobierno.

Desde hace tiempo, La Nación ha sido una piedra en el zapato del presidente saliente de Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, de tendencia conservadora y estrecho aliado del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, que ha aceptado recibir hasta 100 deportados de terceros países al mes como parte de los empeños del gobierno de Trump por intensificar las deportaciones.

El periódico, al que Chaves ha fustigado desde que publicó denuncias de que cometió acoso sexual durante su campaña presidencial de 2022, señaló que Washington no dio ninguna razón para las revocaciones de visas.

El Departamento de Estado estadounidense no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios.

El periódico expresó su respeto a la decisión de Estados Unidos para regular la inmigración.

“Sin embargo, resulta inédito en la historia reciente de Costa Rica que se revoque la visa a miembros de la Junta Directiva de un periódico generalista e independiente. Hasta el momento, ninguno de nuestros miembros ha recibido explicación oficial alguna sobre los fundamentos de estas decisiones”, declaró en un comunicado.

La medida pareció marcar el caso más reciente en que el gobierno de Trump recurre a restricciones migratorias para castigar a sus adversarios políticos. Fue recibida con duras críticas por parte de la oposición política y de organizaciones de defensa de la libertad de prensa en Costa Rica, que exigieron que las autoridades costarricenses y estadounidenses den una explicación de lo ocurrido.

“Si esta decisión se basa en su posición crítica frente a este gobierno sería una señal preocupante más para nuestro sistema democrático", expresaron las organizaciones en un comunicado, y añadieron que el no proporcionar información transparente "constituiría una forma de complicidad inaceptable”.

Mauricio Herrera, periodista y exministro de Comunicación de Costa Rica de 2015 a 2018, fue más allá. En declaraciones a The Associated Press, sostuvo que “no hay duda de que la cancelación de las visas a su junta directiva es en respuesta a una petición del gobierno costarricense".

“La sanción intenta intimidar a quienes se atreven a disentir y ejercer su libertad de expresión”, agregó.

En Costa Rica se han cancelado las visas de una serie de figuras de alto perfil, en medio de acusaciones al gobierno de Chaves —de estilo agresivo— de erosionar las normas democráticas.

El año pasado, Estados Unidos revocó la visa del expresidente costarricense Óscar Arias, ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz y crítico abierto de Trump, así como la de su hermano, Rodrigo Arias, entonces presidente legislativo, quien dijo que creía que la decisión de Estados Unidos se tomó a solicitud de Chaves.

En meses recientes, legisladores de oposición —tales como Francisco Nicolás, del centrista Partido Liberación Nacional, y la independiente Cynthia Córdoba, ambos duros críticos de Chaves— también sufrieron la cancelación de sus visas para ingresar a Estados Unidos, al igual que Fernando Cruz, magistrado de la Sala Constitucional y defensor de los derechos de los migrantes, quien el mes pasado no pudo viajar a territorio estadounidense para recibir un premio de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Northwestern.

Chaves, que ha cooperado ampliamente con el gobierno de Trump para recibir deportados de otros países y extraditar a presuntos narcotraficantes a Estados Unidos, dejará el cargo el viernes y entregará el poder a su sucesora, la presidenta electa Laura Fernández.

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La periodista de The Associated Press Isabel Debre contribuyó a este despacho desde Buenos Aires.

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

Esta decisión "ratifica la apertura del gobierno de avanzar hacia mecanismos de cooperación bilateral en materia de seguridad”, indicó el gobierno en un comunicado. Añadió que con ello se promueve “una mayor articulación entre ambos países y fortaleciendo el desarrollo de la zona fronteriza”. La disposición entrará en vigencia desde el 1 de junio.

The Associated Press pidió a la Cancillería y a la Presidencia más detalles de los motivos para esta decisión, pero no obtuvo una respuesta de inmediato.

Desde hace cuatro días Ecuador elevó al 100% el arancel a los productos colombianos en medio de una guerra comercial binacional desde inicios de año, cuando el gobierno de Noboa impuso aranceles del 30% que luego subió al 50% a las importaciones colombianas.

Las autoridades de Ecuador acusan a sus pares de Colombia de no custodiar la zona limítrofe, de provocar una balanza comercial negativa en cerca de 1.000 millones y de vender a precio excesivo la energía eléctrica. En respuesta, Colombia impuso tasas escalonadas, hasta de un 75%, a los bienes ecuatorianos.

Pero la tensión rebasó el ámbito comercial y se acrecentó en el plano político con roces entre Noboa y su homólogo Gustavo Petro, lo que causó además el llamado a consultas de los respectivos embajadores.

Noboa, un conservador millonario, y Petro — primer presidente de izquierda en Colombia — han lanzado mutuas acusaciones.

El jefe de estado ecuatoriano señaló a Petro, sin exponer pruebas, de tener presuntos nexos con grupos políticos relacionados al líder narcotraficante alias “Fito”, extraditado a Estados Unidos, lo cual fue negado por el gobernante colombiano que acusó a Ecuador de estar pasando al fascismo por supuestos casos de tortura.

La tensión en la relación bilateral también se agudizó luego de que Petro ha insistido en llamar “preso político” al exvicepresidente ecuatoriano Jorge Glas, quien cumple prisión por casos de corrupción y al que concedió nacionalidad colombiana. Noboa rechazó el calificativo que, dijo, atenta contra la soberanía del país.

They came by bus to Loxahatchee’s Big Dog Ranch Rescue to start a new journey with a new purpose.

“In total, over 1,500 dogs have been rescued, and they’re all finding themselves to new rescues and shelters,” said Big Dog Ranch Rescue VP of Development Evan Nader.

In a violent clash in Wisconsin earlier this spring, animal welfare activists from across the country made their way to Ridglan Farms.

The beagle breeding and research facility was facing charges of felony animal mistreatment and gave up its state breeding license to avoid prosecution.

Local 10 News spoke to one activist from Miami in April who traveled to Wisconsin with the mission of saving the dogs.

“We looked at it as doing what needed to be done to save dogs that are criminally abused,” said Ella Magers.

Since March, protesters were tear gassed, pepper sprayed and arrested by Wisconsin law enforcement while trying to get the dogs out.

Big Dog Ranch Rescue and the Center for a Humane Economy negotiated a confidential agreement to buy the 1,500 dogs from Ridglan Farms.

“Every day at Big Dog Ranch Rescue, we conduct life-saving work,” said Nader. “We are America’s largest cage-free, no-kill rescue. But I think this rescue mission is probably one of our most special, one of the biggest in American history as well.”

The first 200 dogs were taken from the facility last Friday and more are scheduled to come to Big Dog Ranch Rescue and to other rescues soon.

“If you’re interested in adopting, you can go to our website, BDRR.org,” said Nader. “They’re about two to three weeks before they’re available for adoption.”

“When I walked into the locker room afterward with the coaches, you are just shaking your head, thinking five more seconds, you couldn’t keep it in for five more seconds,” Auriemma said in his first news conference since then.

“You just feel dumb for the way that it played out,” he added. “We are all human and we all do dumb (stuff).”

Auriemma sparked a firestorm of criticism after he went over to Staley in the final seconds of South Carolina’s 62-48 victory at the Final Four in Phoenix and appeared to chastise her.

Coaches from both teams had to separate them. When the game finally ended, Auriemma walked off the court to the locker room without going back to shake hands with anyone from South Carolina.

Auriemma said the exchange was about the lack of a traditional pregame handshake between the coaches. He later apologized with a written statement.

“I didn’t see a lot of it, but that is to be expected,” Auriemma said of the backlash. “I think maybe some of it was warranted and some of it was people have been lying in the weeds waiting for that moment. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done for the game; it is what you just did.

"Unfortunately, that is the world that we live in today and it usually is one-sided. The people who understood what it was all about in a different light, they are not going to go on the air and say it. They are not going to write about it because now they are going against a major internet or media frenzy; they are not going to do that. I brought the criticism on myself. I didn’t bring the (stuff) that came after it on myself.”

Auriemma compared the backlash to what might have happened if social media had been around in 1998, when he arranged for an injured Nykesha Sales to make a basket so she could set the program’s career scoring record.

“Immediately, it was the worst thing to ever happen to the game of basketball and to sports in general,” Auriemma said.

“These things that happen, you take them all with a grain of salt, understand them. I did what I did, I apologized for it and I moved on.”

His focus now is on the 2026-27 season. Despite the loss of two starters, including WNBA No. 1 overall pick Azzi Fudd, the Huskies figure to be one of the top title contenders again.

Transfers Serah Williams and Kayleigh Heckel played pivotal roles for the 38-1 UConn team in the 2025-26 season. He opted not to add any transfers and rely on the returning players, led by national player of the year Sarah Strong and two incoming freshmen.

“People have to get better,” Auriemma said. “You want your players to get better and improve from one year to the next. Blanca (Quinonez) going from playing 17 minutes a night to playing 27-30 minutes a night, I think changes the dynamic of the team. Sarah (Strong) probably getting more touches, probably playing 30 minutes per game.

Auriemma said that Strong has declined opportunities to play for USA Basketball this offseason to recover from inflammation in her leg that kept her out of most practices during the postseason.

“The new kids that are coming in are going to give us a little bit of a different look than we had. We have really good guards on our team but none of them are exactly what Jovana (Popovic) is; our big kids are going to get better. Olivia (Vukosa) is a little different than what we have right now. We will look a little different, but the core of the team is back.”

UConn also brings back Morgan Cheli, who played at least 15 minutes nine times as a freshman before missing all of last season with an ankle injury.

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Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature announced the redistricting map had passed on Wednesday. DeSantis announced he had signed it on X:

“Signed, sealed, and delivered,” one sign with his signature read. The next said, “Promise made, promise kept.”

A lawsuit against it quickly followed. Politico reported that Equal Ground Education Fund, a civil rights group, and 19 Florida voters asked a state judge to block the new map.

Related document: The 71-page complaint

“The 2026 plan is, by traditional measures of partisan gerrymandering, one of the most extreme gerrymanders in American history,” the attorneys wrote in the 71-page lawsuit. “Statistics like this do not occur by accident. They are the product of deliberate choices, made by professionals with sophisticated tools and a clear partisan goal: to pack and crack Democratic voters with surgical precision and deprive Florida voters of a fair map guaranteed to them by the Florida Constitution.”

The new map changed five key districts for Democrats, including U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents the 25th congressional district.

President Donald Trump pushed for redistricting before the midterms.

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The revelation, if true, could have a big impact on an upcoming retrial.

Veteran Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Detective Juan Segovia was the lead investigator probing the 2006 murder of Bryan Pata, 22, and was a star witness for prosecutors in the trial of Rashaun Jones, who was arrested 15 years after the killing.

Jurors deadlocked ― leading to a mistrial ― and Jones, 40, is now set for a May 18 retrial.

Attorneys for Jones said they discovered that Segovia was behind an anonymous Instagram account ― using the handle “balanceof_justice” ― and was using it to post comments about the case, mainly on videos posted by Local 10 News.

A court filing states that comments posted on Local 10 clips included one that said a witness was “lying” and another that said, “I’ve watched a lot of the trial, he’s guilty as sin.”

Defense attorneys presented evidence from an “open-source intelligence investigation” conducted by an outside firm suggesting the account, which made prejudicial comments about Jones and a witness, could be traced to Segovia through his phone number, email and IP address.

They said the account also follows Segovia’s spouse and longtime police partner, as well as many others in the South Florida law enforcement and legal community.

Attorneys allege that the comments show that Segovia was violating a court order declaring “that witnesses are prevented from tailoring their testimony to match or contradict other witness testimony” and that it proves that Segovia “was watching the trial proceedings and witness testimony.”

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Judge Cristina Miranda granted a motion Monday that prevents him from deleting the account or any comments.

Local 10 News has not been able to independently view or verify the report.

There are now a number of questions surrounding Segovia and the upcoming retrial, including whether the longtime lawman will be held in contempt, what will become of the case itself and whether jurors in the next trial will hear about his alleged social media comments ― including whether they will be used to impeach him.

Defense attorneys could use the comment to deeply discredit the believability of a major state witness.

Local 10 News contacted Segovia, who is also a member of the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees, seeking comment. We were still waiting to hear back as of Monday afternoon.

Besides commenting on the trial, Jones’ defense attorneys included an Instagram comment in their filing that they said was of Segovia hyping up his own appointment to the MDC board.

On an MDSO post announcing Segovia’s swearing-in, they said “balanceof_justice” posted a comment calling MDSO “impressive.”

Officials with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said in an email that it would be inappropriate for them to comment on the ongoing case and prosecution.

Fisher died on Saturday surrounded by her family, a Gap spokesperson confirmed on Monday. The San Francisco-based company did not specify a cause of death.

The couple co-founded The Gap after a frustrating shopping experience when Don Fisher couldn’t find a pair of jeans that fit, according to the retailer. The Fishers opened one small store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco. Initially men’s Levi’s jeans and record tapes were the only items for sale. But the brand became the foundation for a global retail empire and reshaped American fashion with a focus on simple casual looks from khakis and jeans to T-shirts and sweater sets.

The chain eventually expanded to other nameplates — Banana Republic and Old Navy — and now generates more than $15 billion in sales globally.

Fisher was the company’s fashion merchandiser for nearly four decades, while her husband focused on the business side. The company said that she came up with the company’s name, specifically to bridge the “generation gap” between parents and children. Don Fisher died in 2009.

“There is simply no equal to Doris Fisher,” Gap's CEO and President Richard Dickson said in a statement issued Monday. “In Gap-speak, she was a true original. Doris was a full partner in Gap Inc.’s founding and a path-breaking entrepreneur at a time when that was highly unusual for women. She understood firsthand the value of self-expression, diversity, and inclusion.”

Dickson, who has been spearheading a turnaround after several years of a sales malaise, also said that Doris Fisher “worked tirelessly to ensure that Gap Inc. always did more than sell clothes.” Gap hired Dickson in July 2023.

Gap noted that Doris Fisher’s influence extended beyond merchandising and store design. She helped shape the cultural tone of Gap advertising and product development, while maintaining a “steadfast” presence in the company’s expansion and pushing the company to focus on the customer's needs. Gap went public in 1976.

The Fishers also were involved in philanthropic endeavors. The couple amassed one of the largest private collections of modern and contemporary art in the country, Gap said. In 2009, the family pledged more than 1,100 works to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, one of the largest gifts of its kind.

Doris Fisher was also an advocate of educational opportunities for disadvantaged students. She served on the board of Knowledge Is Power Program, known as KIPP, a network of high-performing charter schools aimed at creating opportunity for underserved students.

Born in San Francisco in 1931, Doris Feigenbaum grew up in a family “steeped in values of enterprise, culture, and community service,” according to Gap. She graduated from Stanford University in 1953, where she studied economics.

She is survived by her three sons — Robert, William, and John — all of whom have carried forward the family’s business and philanthropic commitments with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, KIPP, Stanford University, The Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco, the San Francisco Symphony, and The Gap Foundation.

She is also survived by 10 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren, the company said.

Torre's show — which has three episodes each week — has reported on several major stories since its debut in 2023. Topics include Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to Harvard, Madison Square Garden’s use of facial recognition software at games and team collusion in the NFL.

“We are honored to have been named the winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting!” the podcast’s official X account posted.

Last September, a report by Torre alleged that the Clippers violated NBA salary cap rules involving a $28 million endorsement contract between Leonard and the now-bankrupt California-based sustainability services company called Aspiration Fund Adviser LLC. The report led to an ongoing NBA investigation.

The Pulitzer judges called the project a “pioneering and entertaining form of live podcast journalism.”

Leonard has denied any wrongdoing, saying he didn’t receive all of the money he was owed from the company.

The Clippers have strongly denied that any rules were broken and said they welcomed the league’s investigation, which is being run by an outside firm.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer made a $50 million investment in Aspiration, and the company and the team announced a $300 million partnership in September 2021. That was about a month after Leonard signed a four-year, $176 million extension with the Clippers.

The team ended its relationship with Aspiration after two years, saying the contract was in default. Aspiration’s co-founder, Joseph Sanberg, agreed to plead guilty in August after facing federal charges of wire fraud. Prosecutors said he defrauded investors and lenders out of $248 million, adding that “Aspiration’s financial statements were inaccurate and reflected much higher revenue than the company in fact received.”

Torre's podcast is produced by Meadowlark Media and licensed by The Athletic, which is owned by The New York Times Company. The 40-year-old Torre also has worked for Sports Illustrated and ESPN.

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Tuesday will bring a mix of sun and clouds with the chance for a few showers or a spotty thunderstorm. Temperatures are forecast to reach the mid-80s - that is seasonable.

When it comes to humans, kids and adults go crazy watching the jets and the military formations, but it’s our pets that are driven crazy by the extra loud and scary sounds.

One of those pets is 6-year-old Bentley.

“He’s just the sweetest thing,” said owner Genine Blue. “He’s always been a really good dog, very personable, loves people.”

But the 70-pound goldendoodle does not like loud noises.

“Thunder, lightning, anything loud, car backfires, fireworks, any of that, he started like getting scared, shaking, you know hiding,” said Blue.

The Blue family lives in a high-rise on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale.

The whole family loves time outside on the balcony, which has a stunning view.

“Last year we ended up going away for the weekend and taking him with us because we didn’t want to have to deal with all the planes from the air show,” said Blue.

Dr. Sagen Woolery, the medical director at Blue Pearl Pet Hospital in Fort Lauderdale has seen a huge increase in pet medical issues due to fireworks and sonic booms.

“The issue is not necessarily the sound itself, it’s the fear and the panic that the sound puts into animals, both pets and wildlife,” she said. “The most common things that were seeing here in the emergency room are things like animals that have been hit by a car because they panicked and they ran into traffic, were seeing animals that have some cardiac problems, were seeing animals go into seizures.”

And if the air show is loud for you, imagine how your dog feels.

A pup’s hearing is four times more sensitive than a human’s, and let’s not forget, there are usually a few days of the pilot’s practicing and then a few more days of the show event itself.

Pet anxiety can go as high as those planes.

“That stress is cumulative, so a one-time firework is going to be stressful for an animal, but five days of fireworks or sonic booms is exceedingly stressful, particularly in geriatric animals too,” said Woolery.

Some helpful tips to help keep your furry friends safe in these situations is to give your pet added comfort by swaddling them in a tight sweater or a t-shirt, that gives added security. Soft music always helps too.

And when those noises get way too loud, your best bet is to put your pets in a dark, quiet, windowless room, and if all else fails, call your vet for a prescription.

“While this is really fun for all of us to see and witness and we all enjoy celebrating, it’s not fun for animals,” said Woolery. “They don’t understand and it’s not an enjoyable experience for them.”

Details regarding the value and length of the extension were not released by the Pistons when they announced the deal on Monday.

The Pistons have gone 104-60 in regular-season games under Bickerstaff and made two playoff appearances since he took over for Monty Williams at the start of the 2024-25 season.

Detroit lost in the first round a year ago. This season, the Pistons had the best record in the Eastern Conference at 60-22 and on Sunday defeated Orlando 116-94 to close out a playoff series victory for the first time since 2008.

In the fall of 2024, Bickerstaff took over a Pistons franchise that had posted the NBA's worst record in each of the previous two seasons, including a 14-68 record in 2023-24.

Before Bickerstaff arrived, Detroit finished with the worst record in the NBA in consecutive seasons.

Detroit opens a second-round playoff series at home on Tuesday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers — a team Bickerstaff coached from the end of the 2019-2020 season through the 2023-24 campaign.

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It will take place on Saturday and Sunday along the coast in Fort Lauderdale Beach.

The headliners are the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

They arrived on Monday ahead of the annual spectacular show in the sky.

Local 10’s Jason Carter caught up with the Thunderbirds and his report can be seen at the top of this page.

Brockman, who also said he did not personally invest any money in OpenAI, was testifying Monday in the trial that centers on the company's 2015 founding as a nonprofit startup primarily funded by Elon Musk before evolving into a capitalistic venture now valued at $852 billion.

Brockman's disclosure would put him on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, with wealth comparable to Melinda French Gates.

The civil lawsuit accuses Altman and Brockman of double-crossing Musk by straying from the San Francisco company’s founding mission to be an altruistic steward of a revolutionary technology. The lawsuit alleges they shifted into a moneymaking mode behind Musk's back.

Late Sunday, OpenAI lawyers tried to admit as evidence a text message Musk sent to Brockman two days before the trial began. According to a court filing — which did not include the actual text exchange — Musk sent a message to Brockman to gauge interest in settlement.

When Brockman replied that both sides should drop their respective claims, Musk shot back, according to the filing, “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be."

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is overseeing the trial, did not admit the text exchange as evidence.

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According to police, it happened at approximately 6:20 p.m. Sunday in the area of Northwest 187th Street and 44th Avenue.

Police said the victim was meeting with a teen to sell a watch, but the teen pulled out a gun and tried to take the item instead.

According to police, the victim then pushed the suspect and fired one shot, striking the teen in the hand.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the scene and airlifted the suspect to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital in stable condition.

Police said it’s unclear who owns the gun that was fired.

The suspect’s identity has not yet been released, however police confirmed Monday that he will transferred to jail once he is released from the hospital.

The Pulitzer board recognized AP journalists Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau and Aniruddha Ghosal, along with contributor and independent journalist Yael Grauer, for what it called “an astonishing global investigation into state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance” that also included a story about the expansion of license plate surveillance of drivers in United States by the U.S. Border Patrol.

AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Julie Pace said “this complex and difficult reporting, done by journalists across several continents, embodies the true spirit of the AP: leveraging our global footprint and deep expertise to tell important, impactful stories. It comes at a critical time when the immense and growing power of U.S. tech companies — and their increasingly complex relationship with governments — is in the spotlight and of immense public interest.”

The AP's investigation spanned three years, thousands of pages of documents and numerous interviews. It found that the foundations of the system used by the Chinese government to monitor and police its citizens over recent decades was laid down with the help of American companies. Some of the companies went so far as to use their tech's surveillance capabilities as a selling point.

“This was sweeping and deeply impactful reporting, the kind of work that highlights the unique strengths of AP’s global, multiformat newsroom,” Pace said in an email to staffers. She is among the Pulitzer Board’s new members.

Other stories included a look at how across presidential administrations, the U.S. government allowed tech companies and China to skirt regulations intended to bar that country from access to certain materials like advanced computer chips.

A piece looking at surveillance in the United States found that the Border Patrol was secretively using an intelligence program that used license plate information to track drivers' travel patterns, and not just for border crossings. Drivers whose patterns were deemed suspicious by an algorithm could then find themselves stopped and even arrested.

The AP highlighted the difficulty of undertaking the project, and said in its statement that journalists dealt with harassment and off-the-record pushes to keep the project from publishing.

The visually compelling project included multiple photographic and video elements, with notable contributions from AP photographer David Goldman and visual journalists Marshall Ritzel and Serginho Roosblad.

Other contributors included Michael Biesecker and Sam Mednick on a story that focused on how U.S. tech giants quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services. And it fueled fears that these tools contributed to the deaths of innocent people.

Global investigations editors Mary Rajkumar and Jeannie Ohm led and edited the “Made in America, Watched Worldwide” project. Investigative editor Tom Berman also contributed.

While an agreement was announced Saturday, it still must be approved by the board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, then ratified by a member vote. If both those things happen — as they're expected to — the industry will avoid a repeat of the 2023 actor and writer strikes that seriously shook the entertainment industry. This year's negotiations were drama-free, and more strikes never really appeared to be in the cards.

The tentative deal was announced in a joint statement from SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents a coalition of Hollywood's major studios, streamers and production companies.

The statement said no details would be made public until the union's board has had a chance to review them.

A person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that the agreement was for a four-year contract instead of the long-standard three. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The union's main priorities going into talks included bolstering protections against the use of artificial intelligence creating synthetic performers or recreating likenesses of real actors. Also on the actors' agenda was securing improved long-term payments for re-aired shows, known in the industry as residuals.

In an interview with the AP shortly before talks began, actor and SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin said the union had to fight to protect the gains made in the strike.

“There is no going back,” he said.

Astin said the studios were “sending signals of wanting stability, of wanting to work as partners.”

The studios also appeared cautiously optimistic that a fair deal would be reached.

It took about six weeks of talks for the two sides to reach the agreement. The negotiations began Feb. 9 but were interrupted while studios took a break from the actors' talks to negotiate with writers, who also reached a four-year agreement instead of their usual three-year deal.

The current SAG-AFTRA contract is set to expire June 30. Even in years without strikes, negotiations often come up to the brink or even go past the deadline.

With the actor talks completed, AMPTP negotiators are free to begin contract talks with the Directors Guild, the first under new president Christopher Nolan. Those are set to begin May 11.

The incident happened on Thursday at St. Malachy Catholic School, located at 7595 NW 61st St., according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities said CCTV footage showed Yakine Jones, 26, jumping the fences as “several students ran away from (him).”

Deputies said the students were “clearly in fear” of Jones.

According to a BSO arrest report, the video showed Jones trying to conceal himself behind a wall. Then, deputies said a 7-year-old girl came up to him and the “two appeared to have a conversation.”

In the report, BSO Deputy Steven Lees described a disturbing interaction caught on camera.

“As Jones was speaking with the (girl), he lifted his shirt slightly and touched (his) upper pubic area,” the deputy wrote. “The outline of Jones’ penis was visible through the material of his green basketball shorts and he had a visible erection.”

Authorities said a staff member then confronted him and he ran away.

The girl “was too frightened to recall what Jones said to her on the playground,” the report states.

Deputies said they were able to identify him through the footage and his license plate and on Friday, they arrested Jones on charges of child enticement, burglary, criminal mischief and disturbing a school function.

They noted in their report that Jones, then living in Plantation, had been arrested by that city’s police force “for soliciting sex with a minor” in 2022.

Broward court records show the case was later dropped, however.

As of Monday afternoon, records show he was being held at the BSO Main Jail on a $36,000 bond.

“The good news is I'm responding really well to meds and treatments and I'm improving every day,” the 80-year-old country superstar said in a short video posted to her official Instagram account. “Now the bad news is, it's going to take me a little while before I'm up to stage-performance level because some of the meds and treatments make me a lit bit swimmy headed, as my grandma used to say.”

“And of course, I can’t be dizzy carrying around banjos, guitars, and such on five-inch heels — and you know that I’m going to be wearing them,” she joked. “Not to mention, all those heavy rhinestone outfits, the big hair, my big … uh, personality. Lord, those — that would make anybody swimmy headed!”

She didn’t share too many details about her health but clarified that she’s always “had problems with my kidney stones,” and that her immune system and digestive system “got all out of whack over the past couple three years and they’re working real hard on rebuilding and strengthening those.”

She also clarified that her doctors have assured her “that everything I have is treatable, so I'm going with that.”

She said that she is still working on opening her museum and hotel in Nashville as well as her forthcoming Broadway musical, “Dolly: A True Original Musical,” opening in New York later this year.

Parton's previous health challenges

In September, Parton announced her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years was going to be postponed due to “health challenges.” She was scheduled to perform six shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace for “Dolly: Live in Las Vegas” in December, overlapping with the National Finals Rodeo. Her dates were moved to this September, before being canceled on Monday.

“Don’t worry about me quittin’ the business because God hasn’t said anything about stopping yet,” she said at the time of the postponement. “But I believe he is telling me to slow down right now so I can be ready for more big adventures with all of you.”

Last September, Parton also was unable to attend the announcement of a new ride at her Tennessee theme park Dollywood due to health issues. “I had a kidney stone that was causing me a lot of problems, turned out it’d given me an infection, and the doctor said, ‘You don’t need to be traveling right this minute, so you need a few days to get better,’” Parton said in a video announcement at the time.

The following month, Parton posted a video to social media joking that she “ain’t dead yet,” following public speculation about her health.

“There are just a lot of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard it from me, you’d know that I was OK,” she said in a two-minute video posted on Instagram. “I’m not ready to die yet. I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.”

Parton performs on occasion but hasn’t toured since her “Pure & Simple Tour” ended in 2016.

A representative directed The Associated Press' back to Parton's video message when asked for comment.

Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn said plainclothes agents spotted the man around 3:30 p.m. in the area near the White House complex and saw the imprint of the weapon on him. The agents followed him briefly and contacted the uniformed officers.

The unidentified man attempted to flee when uniformed officers with the Secret Service approached him. Quinn said the man fired at the officers, who returned fire.

The alleged gunman was transported to a local hospital. Quinn said he had no information on the suspect's condition.

Quinn said emergency personnel also transported a minor who was shot but not seriously injured. Quinn said he could not say definitively that the bystander, who also was taken to a hospital, was struck by shots from the suspect's gun. “We’ll let the doctors figure that out,” he said, though he noted that “investigators believe he was struck by the suspect.”

Quinn said the Washington, D.C., police would investigate the officer-involved shooting.

The Secret Service encouraged people to avoid the area as emergency crews responded to the shooting not far from the White House, where President Donald Trump was holding a small business event.

The White House was briefly locked down as authorities investigated the incident. The Secret Service ushered journalists who were outside into the briefing room, and Trump continued his event without interruption.

The incident drew a large police presence, coming just over a week after a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives. Cole Tomas Allen has been charged in that incident, in which a Secret Service officer was shot, although he was wearing body armor and was not seriously injured.

Quinn said it was not known yet whether the Monday incident was related to Trump. “I’m not going to guess on that,” Quinn said. “Whether or not it was directed to the president or not, I don’t know, but we will find out.”

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents tracked the cocaine from Colombia to “high-end fishing vessels” that had been traveling from the Dominican Republic to Miami, records show.

The case also included a search warrant that netted 536 kilos of that cocaine, $3.1 million in cash, and 14 weapons at an apartment in Miami’s Midtown neighborhood, records show.

Daniel “Mickey” Hernandez, Frank Gonzalez, Alexander “Al Biggs” Walker, Jose “Lil Cuz” Diaz, and Humberto “Kiki” Moreno each faced a charge of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.

Hernandez, 38, who Investigators identified as a key distributor, and Diaz, also known as “Pri,” 33, also face charges over distribution offenses.

Walker, 50, and Gonzalez, 45, also faced charges for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of firearms and ammunition as convicted felons.

According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Walker was last released from prison on Nov. 20, 2022. He had been sentenced to 7 years in prison in 2018 for cocaine trafficking in 2012 and 2016.

El secretario de Seguridad, Omar García Harfuch, dijo que Rocha no la pidió, pero que se tomó la decisión después de hacer una evaluación de su situación. Indicó que no había "ningún indicio, ni ningún dato de que pueda ser atacado o siquiera de que tenga alguna amenaza”. No ofreció más detalles sobre la medida.

“Hasta donde tengo entendido sigue aquí en Sinaloa”, agregó desde la capital del estado, Culiacán, adonde viajó con los secretarios de Defensa y Marina para reunirse con la recién nombrada gobernadora interina, la también oficialista Yeraldine Bonilla, y garantizar la coordinación con ella.

La acusación estadounidense desató un terremoto en México porque Rocha, de 76 años, es un político del mismo partido de Sheinbaum, muy cercano al expresidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, pero también por la delicada situación en la que quedó la mandataria entre apoyar a su partido o satisfacer las demandas de la administración de Donald Trump, cada vez más ansiosa por intervenir militarmente contra los cárteles.

Además, la acusación llegó en medio de la polémica por la muerte de dos agentes de la CIA en el norte del país que participaban en un operativo antidroga sin el consentimiento del gobierno federal, un tema sobre el que la fiscalía federal anunció el lunes que fueron citadas cerca de 50 personas que participaron en la acción.

En el caso de Sinaloa, el gobierno mexicano insiste en que no hay pruebas suficientes ni “urgencia” para detener provisionalmente con fines de extradición ni a Rocha y a los otros acusados, tal y como pidió Estados Unidos. México argumenta que no les han presentado evidencias que lo justifiquen.

Los fiscales de Nueva York acusan a Rocha y a otros nueve funcionarios y ex funcionarios de ayudar al Cártel de Sinaloa a introducir fentanilo, heroína, cocaína y metanfetamina desde México a Estados Unidos. Además señalaron que el gobernador con licencia recibió apoyo de los hijos de Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán para ganar las elecciones que le llevaron al poder en 2021. Rocha negó todos los cargos.

“Nosotros no cubrimos a nadie pero, por favor, pruebas”, dijo Sheinbaum el lunes durante su conferencia matutina. “La presidenta no agacha la cabeza... va a defender la soberanía por encima de todo y que también vamos a actuar con justicia”, afirmó.

Desde que Sheinbaum llegó al poder se han incrementado las detenciones de importantes líderes criminales así como los decomisos de droga sobre todo en Sinaloa y, según García Harfuch, “nunca hemos tenido una obstrucción por parte de algún funcionario del gobierno del estado” para realizar tales acciones.

Violencia no cesa

Culiacán recibió al gabinete de seguridad federal con controles militares en muchos puntos de la ciudad que detenían a todo tipo de vehículos que se volvieron más visible en los últimos días y en medio de la violencia que azota al estado desde septiembre de 2024 cuando después de la detención de dos líderes del Cártel de Sinaloa la organización criminal inició una sangrienta guerra interna.

En estos momentos hay más de 13.000 militares desplegados por todo el estado, entre ellos más de 2.700 miembros de las fuerzas especiales de distintas corporaciones tanto policiales como del Ejército y la Marina.

El relevo en la gubernatura no cambió nada en la ciudad. Entre el 30 de abril y el 3 de mayo al menos 25 asesinatos fueron reportados en la ciudad, entre los que se cuentan el de un líder sindical y el ataque en un centro comercial de Culiacán.

García Harfuch dijo que no se ha detectado un incremento de la violencia en los últimos días aunque garantizó que el gobierno federal “no se va a retirar” y que seguirá trabajando por la seguridad del estado “reforzando las acciones que haya que reforzar y corrigiendo lo que se tenga que corregir”.

Winners announced Monday include two books rooted in the country's founding. Jill Lepore's “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution” won for history, and Amanda Vaill's “Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution” was the winner for biography. Yiyun Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” her blunt account of the suicides of her two sons, was cited for memoir-autobiography. “There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” by Brian Goldstone, won for general nonfiction.

The poetry prize went to Juliana Spahr's “Ars Poeticas,” and the music award was given to Gabriela Lena Frank for “Picaflor: A Future Myth,” a symphonic work inspired by Andean legend and California wildfires.

The 50-year-old Kraus has had a diverse and prolific career quite unlike the average Pulitzer fiction winner. He has written horror, science fiction, graphic novels and books for kids. He has collaborated with filmmakers George Romero and Guillermo del Toro, whose Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water” was conceived with Kraus' help. He has received numerous prizes over the years, including the Bram Stoker Award for horror, but had never imagined he'd win a Pulitzer. When he began receiving texts Monday — that included such messages as “Wow!” — he worried that he had somehow gotten himself in trouble.

Pulitzer officials praised “Angel Down” as “a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism, and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.” Kraus said that he at first used a conventional narrative but found that abandoning traditional punctuation better suited a story of war that seemingly had no end.

“It's like you have the feeling of being locked into the book forever,” he told The Associated Press during a telephone interview.

Wohl’s memory play collects second-wave feminists from all walks of life as they tackle misogyny, internalized homophobia, domestic abuse and gender roles. The play navigates between past and present, and six of the actors disrobe for the Act 2 opening scene. The win comes a day before the Tony Award nominations, when “Liberation” is expected to be named in the best new play category.

Lepore is a New Yorker staff writer and Harvard University professor whose Pulitzer helps confirm her as one of the country's most prominent historians. Her previous honors include the Bancroft Prize for “The Name of War” and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for “New York Burning.” In 2023, she contributed an introduction to Paul McCartney's book of Beatles photos, “1964: Eyes of the Storm.”

Goldstone is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic and other publications. Spahr is a poet, critic and editor whose prize-winning collection is a statement of poetry's vitality during the darkest times, and Frank is a Grammy-nominated artist known for combining influences ranging from Latin American folklore to Western classical music.

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Associated Press Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy contributed.

A spokesperson for the Secret Service said that Alexis Mario Nordelo, 32, of northwest Miami-Dade, went up to a security screening area, “became disruptive and failed to comply with lawful orders.”

Authorities said he then “made physical contact with a member of the Secret Service,” leading Doral police to arrest him on misdemeanor disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges.

“The President was not on site at the time of the incident,” the Secret Service spokesperson said. “At no point did this situation impact the established security posture for the President’s visit to Trump Doral National Golf Club by (the) Secret Service.”

A Doral Police Department report indicates that officers believed Nordelo was under the influence of alcohol at the time.

Records show he was released from jail the following morning after posting a $1,000 bond.

El personal de Miami Fire Rescue declaró muerto a Jaheim Pierre, de 23 años, en un apartamento el sábado por la tarde, en 5329 NW 17 Ave., según los registros.

Tras el tiroteo, Antwan Carter se dirigió a un oficial de policía y dijo: “Fui yo; tengo el arma”, según un informe policial.

Carter entregó una pistola Glock 43 de 9mm que llevaba en el bolsillo derecho, de acuerdo con el informe.

Una mujer con los pies y la ropa “cubiertos de sangre” se acercó a un oficial y dijo que el tirador era su novio de cuatro años y que los dos heridos eran sus hermanos, según el informe policial.

La mujer dijo que sus hermanos estaban preocupados por ella como posible víctima de violencia doméstica, que se presentaron en su apartamento, y que se produjo una discusión y una pelea, según la policía.

Carter dijo que salió del apartamento, regresó y disparó contra ambos hermanos, según la policía. El personal de rescate encontró a Gianni Pierre, de 28 años, sangrando junto a un sofá, y a Jaheim Pierre, de 23 años, sangrando dentro de un clóset.

El personal de rescate trasladó de urgencia a Gianni Pierre al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde un médico lo declaró muerto.

Carter enfrenta dos cargos de asesinato en primer grado.

In a year when several prize-winning projects zoomed in on the Trump presidency, the Post's coverage illuminated the administration's fast-moving, sometimes opaque drive to reshape the national government and what the cuts and changes meant for individual Americans.

The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown was given a special citation for her reporting, nearly a decade ago, that drew attention to Jeffrey Epstein ’s abuses. The New York Times won three of the coveted prizes, the Post and Reuters each won two, and less widely known outlets ranging from The Connecticut Mirror to the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out” also were recognized in a challenging year for American journalism.

“This is always a day of celebration in our communities, but perhaps never more so than today as we face tremendous political and economic pressures,” prize administrator Marjorie Miller said in a livestream announcement.

In the last few months, the Post cut a third of its staff, CBS News announced it would shutter its nearly century-old radio service, The AP offered buyouts to over 120 journalists and some regional newspapers also publicly struggled. CBS parent Paramount’s acquisition of CNN has raised questions about what’s next for those networks. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump continued to bash, and sometimes sue, outlets whose coverage he finds objectionable.

‘Sweeping and deeply impactful reporting’

Spanning three years, thousands of pages of documents and numerous interviews, the AP project found that American companies help lay the foundations of the Chinese government’s system for monitoring and policing its citizens.

“This was sweeping and deeply impactful reporting, the kind of work that highlights the unique strengths of AP’s global, multiformat newsroom,” executive editor Julie Pace said in an email to staffers. She is among the Pulitzer Board's new members.

Some of The Washington Post's winning work was by reporter Hannah Natanson, whose home was searched and devices were seized in what federal authorities say was an investigation into a Pentagon contractor’s handling of classified documents. The Post says the seizure violated the First Amendment.

Two winning entries focused on Trump's pulverizing approach to norms and constraints. Reuters, which won for national reporting, looked at how Trump has used the federal government and his supporters’ influence to expand presidential authority and target foes, the award judges noted. The Times took the investigative reporting prize for exploring the Republican president’s boundary-pushing approach to the notion of conflicts of interest.

Joseph Kahn, executive editor of the Times, said its reporters have been threatened over their work. “We have not, and will not” bow to the pressure, he said in a statement.

Reuters' reporting on scam ads, AI chatbots and the social media giant Meta — which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — won the beat reporting prize, last given two decades ago.

Reuters' wins spotlighted "fearless, deeply reported, original work that holds powerful institutions to account,” editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni said in a statement.

Visual journalism honors included a graphic novel

The prize for breaking news went to The Minnesota Star Tribune’s coverage of last year’s deadly mass shooting during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school. Judges praised the thoroughness and compassion of the newspaper’s reporting on a scene of carnage in its hometown.

“To me, it’s really a moment to appreciate the power of local journalism,” Kathleen Hennessey, the Star Tribune's editor and senior vice president, said in an interview. One Tribune reporter who lives in the neighborhood heard the gunshots and called 911 before running to the scene, she noted; an editor at the paper has children who attend the school.

“It feels really gratifying to be recognized, but for this newsroom, this is also just still a really painful event,” Hennessey said.

The San Francisco Chronicle received the award for explanatory reporting, which means work that makes a complex topic comprehensible to everyday readers and viewers. The Chronicle's series laid out how insurers, aided by algorithmic tools, undervalued and denied rebuilding claims for fire-destroyed homes, the judges said.

In visual journalism, The Times got a breaking news photography award for depicting devastation and starvation in Gaza resulting from Israel's war in the territory. The Post won the feature photography prize, for a visual essay on a family welcoming a firstborn as the child’s father grappled with terminal cancer. The award for illustrated reporting and commentary — a category that includes editorial cartoons and more — went to Bloomberg for a graphic novel about online scams that threaten “digital arrest.”

In a statement, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait called it "deeply reported public service journalism, published in an inventive format.”

While several prizes reflected the year’s biggest news stories, others highlighted work that wasn’t pushed to everyone’s phones.

One of two local reporting awards went to The Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica for a series on how towing companies profited off Connecticut laws, at the expense of poor car owners; the state soon changed the laws. The Chicago Tribune also was honored for its coverage of the Trump administration’s intense immigration crackdown in the Windy City.

A 'pioneering' live podcast investigation

Texas Monthly won the feature writing award for an editor's first-person story of flooding that killed his toddler nephew and swept his home away. Also in Texas, The Dallas Morning News' architecture critic won the criticism award; judges praised Mark Lamster's wit and expertise. The New York Times' M. Gessen won the opinion writing award for essays on authoritarianism.

The audio award went to “Pablo Torre Finds Out” for probing financial arrangements between Los Angeles Clippers superstar Kawhi Leonard and an environmental startup in which the team owner invested. The judges called the project a “pioneering and entertaining form of live podcast journalism.” It's produced by Meadowlark Media and licensed by the New York Times Co.-owned sports site The Athletic.

The Pulitzer announcement — usually followed by a dinner later in the year — came little more than a week after an armed man rushed a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with Secret Service agents outside another big event for U.S. journalists, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington. The man is now charged with trying to assassinate Trump, who was attending the event for his first time as president.

Separately, Monday’s awards also honored books, music and theater.

The prizes were established in newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer’s will and were first awarded in 1917. Winners receive $15,000, and the public service award carries a gold medal. Decisions are made by the Pulitzer Board, based at Columbia University in New York.

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Associated Press writer Sarah Raza contributed from Canton, Michigan.

State Farm violated the law hundreds of times in a sampling of 220 cases, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said. The maximum penalty amount allowed by law would be around $4 million if State Farm is found to be “willful” in violating state law. Regulators may also temporarily suspend the company's license, effectively prohibiting the state's largest home insurer from writing new policies for a year in California.

The two fires were devastating — they led to the deaths of 31 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures.

State Farm said in a statement it rejected any suggestions it “engaged in a general practice of mishandling or intentionally underpaying wildfire claims" and called the state's insurance market “dysfunctional.” The company said it has paid out more than $5.7 billion on 13,700 auto and home insurance claims related to the fires.

“The threat to suspend State Farm General’s ability to serve customers over primarily administrative and procedural errors is a reckless, politically motivated attack that could ultimately cripple California’s homeowners insurance market," the statement said.

The legal action comes as California struggles with an ongoing insurance crisis, where companies are boosting rates, limiting coverage or pulling out completely from regions susceptible to wildfires and other natural disasters. In 2023, several major insurance companies, including State Farm, either paused or restricted new coverage in the state. They said they can’t truly price the risk on properties as wildfires become more common and destructive due to climate change.

The state now gives insurers more latitude to raise premiums in exchange for issuing more policies in high-risk areas. That includes regulations allowing insurers to consider climate change when setting their prices and allowing them to pass on the costs of reinsurance to California consumers.

Lara last year also approved State Farm's request to raise premiums by 17% for homeowners to help the company avoid a financial crisis after the LA fires. State Farm also agreed to not cancel any new polices this year in an agreement with the department and a consumer group in March.

Lara launched the investigation last June after survivors of the Palisades and Eaton fires said that State Farm was delaying and mishandling claims regarding damage to their homes and possible contamination from smoke.

“Our investigation found that State Farm delayed, underpaid, and buried policyholders in red tape at the worst moment of their lives. That is unacceptable, and we are taking decisive action to hold them accountable,” Lara said in a statement.

The department looked at 220 random claims filed to State Farm and found roughly 400 violations. They included underpayment and slow or inadequate claim processing. State Farm handled about one third of all residential claims filed after the fires, state officials said. The department said thousands of people might be affected by the unlawful behaviors.

In one case, State Farm waited nearly three months before starting to investigate a claim, according to the state. In another, the company delayed paying a customer for months while internally acknowledging the payment should have been approved. The company also caused confusion for a customer after assigning a dozen claim adjusters to the case within four months.

State Farm also illegally denied payments for hygienic testing for toxins in smoke damage claims, the legal filings said.

State Farm is the second insurer to face legal actions from the state over its handling of LA fire claims. The department is also seeking remedies against the FAIR Plan for denying smoke damage claims. The plan is an insurance pool that all the major private insurers pay into, and the plan then issues policies to people who can’t get private insurance because their properties are deemed too risky to insure.

Según la policía, el hecho ocurrió aproximadamente a las 6:20 p.m. del domingo en el área de Northwest 187th Street y 44th Avenue.

La policía indicó que la víctima se había citado con un adolescente para venderle un reloj, pero el joven sacó un arma y trató de arrebatárselo.

Según la policía, la víctima empujó entonces al sospechoso y disparó un tiro, alcanzando al adolescente en la mano.

El personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondió al lugar y trasladó al sospechoso en helicóptero al HCA Florida Aventura Hospital en estado estable.

La identidad del sospechoso aún no ha sido divulgada.

Según el informe de arresto, el incidente ocurrió el martes pasado en el área de Southwest Eighth Street y 87th Avenue.

Los detectives dijeron que Roxana Castaneda, de Miami, siguió el vehículo de la víctima por varias cuadras antes de que ambos se detuvieran en un semáforo.

Castaneda salió entonces de su vehículo, golpeó el capó del auto de la víctima, causando una pequeña abolladura, y luego metió el brazo por la ventana delantera del pasajero y golpeó la mano del conductor, según las autoridades.

Los detectives dijeron que luego huyó del lugar.

Según el informe, la víctima, que no resultó herida, grabó la mayor parte del incidente con su teléfono celular. Su vehículo sufrió daños por aproximadamente $300.

De acuerdo con el informe, Castaneda, quien es técnica de uñas, fue arrestada el viernes en Baby Nail Bar, ubicado en 1305 SW 107th Ave.

El informe indica que mientras era transportada a la Estación Midwest, preguntó de qué se le acusaba y luego dijo: “¿Es porque metí la mano en el carro? Quería agarrar su teléfono. Si no hubiera intentado agarrar su teléfono, ¿habría pasado todo esto?”

Una vez en la estación, invocó su derecho a guardar silencio y se negó a dar una declaración, dijeron los detectives.

Castaneda enfrenta cargos de allanamiento con agresión o batería y daños criminales a la propiedad.

Hasta el lunes por la mañana, Castaneda permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $150.

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According to an arrest report, the incident happened last Tuesday in the area of Southwest Eighth Street and 87^th Avenue.

Deputies said Roxana Castaneda, of Miami, followed the victim’s vehicle for several blocks before they both stopped at a traffic light.

Castaneda then exited her vehicle, struck the hood of the victim’s car, causing a small dent, and then reached into the victim’s vehicle through his front passenger-side window and struck his hand, authorities said.

Deputies said she then fled the scene.

According to the report, the victim, who was not injured, recorded most of the incident with his cellphone.

His vehicle sustained about $300 in damage, authorities said.

According to the report, Castaneda, who is a nail technician, was arrested Friday at the Baby Nail Bar, located at 1305 SW 107^th Ave.

The report states that as she was being transported to the Midwest Station, she asked what she was being charged with and then said, “Is it because I reached into the car? I reached out for his phone. If I would have not reached for his phone, would all of this have happened?”

Once at the station, she invoked her right to remain silent and refused to provide a statement, deputies said.

Castaneda faces charges of burglary with assault or battery and criminal mischief.

As of Monday morning, Castaneda remained held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $150 bond.

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According to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Monday, Davie police responded to the trailer of Buech E Allen Michael Carter, 42, in the 13400 block of Southwest Seventh Court on Thursday after a nearby resident alerted them to the tethered dog.

The neighbor said she hadn’t “seen the dog’s owner for two days,” an arrest report states. According to police, the neighbor said that she had checked on the dog multiple times and never saw food or water.

Police said she told them that the dog had a “small, empty silver bowl within reach that it constantly pawed at” and said she “noticed the dog seemed distressed and was panting since it had no shade from the heat.”

In the report, Davie Police Department Officer Erinn Sarandria wrote that she saw the blue heeler mix outside, tethered with a rope “clipped to a silver choke chain around the dog`s neck.”

“The concrete within the circumference of the dog’s range of motion was covered in urine and feces,” she wrote. “A small silver bowl was within reach but was overturned and empty. I provided the dog a bottle of water, which he finished immediately. From where the dog was tethered, he had no shelter from the elements and was completely exposed.”

Police said they determined that Carter was the tenant of the mobile home and that he “had been previously investigated for a similar animal neglect issue in 2024 involving another dog left tethered in the same manner, also without access to food and water” and received several citations.

Sarandria wrote that as she investigated the situation, Carter came by.

“He said someone was supposed to come by and give the dog ‘Kai’ food and water and put him back inside. He said Kai does not usually stay outside,” she wrote. “However, when I asked him to provide me the contact information for the person who was supposed to be checking on Kai, he refused. I eventually convinced him to provide me her contact information so I could confirm his version of events but the call went straight to voicemail.”

Sarandria wrote that when she asked him about the previous case, “he simply said that dog was not his.”

She concluded that Carter “continues to have no regard for the health and safety of dogs under his care and control” and arrested him on two charges, a felony and a misdemeanor, related to animal cruelty and neglect.

As of Monday, he remained in the Broward Main Jail on a $6,000 bond.

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Inspection records show Iron Sushi had multiple extended closure periods since July 2025, in which the restaurant was shut down and kept closed through repeated failed re-inspections before being allowed to reopen.

Before that, the restaurant logged nine routine inspections marked “follow-up required” dating back to 2023, pointing to a history of ongoing issues.

All the places mentioned were allowed to re-open following an ordered cleanup and re-inspection.

**TIJUANA FLATS

6204 WEST SAMPLE ROAD

CORAL SPRINGS

ORDERED SHUT 4/30

6 VIOLATIONS

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 1 live roach in between wall and three compartment sink in ware washing area in kitchen. Operator removed cleaned and sanitized Observed approximately 5 live roaches behind/on back of fire extinguisher sign on wall in ware washing area in kitchen. Operator removed sign and discarded, cleaned and sanitized. Observed 2 live roaches on corn hole game board locating in dining room. Operator removed from establishment. Observed 1 live roach on base board behind corn hole board located in dining room. Operator removed. Observed 1 live roach on ground under rack holding buckets of chips on cook line in kitchen.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed approximately 20 dead roaches behind/on back of fire extinguisher sign on wall in ware washing area in kitchen. Operator removed and discarded sign, cleaned snd sanitized wall. Observed 1 dead roach on ground outside of walk in cooler in kitchen Observed 1 dead roach on ground behind corn hole board located in dining room.”

**IRON SUSHI

9030 SW 72ND PL.

DADELAND

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 4/28

10 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT FROM 11/17/25-11/24/25(ROACH ISSUE)

ORDERED SHUT 11/4/25 (ROACH ISSUE)

ORDERED SHUT 9/29/25 (ROACH ISSUE)

ORDERED SHUT 7/28/25-8/1/25 (ROACH ISSUE)

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 3 live flies on wall next to cook line in kitchen area. Observed 3 live flies on dry food and dish rack next to reach in cooler on cook line in kitchen area. Observed 2 live flies on wall in dining area. Observed 3 live flies above front counter where miso soup and utensils and plates are held, near air vent. Observed 8 live flies on wall and extension cord at kitchen area entry.”

“Interior of refrigerator or freezer in disrepair/has exposed insulation. Observed at ice machine in kitchen area. Repeat Violation.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed in kitchen and front counter.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw salmon stored above edamame in cooler next to cook line.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. Observed no soap at hand sink in kitchen.” Repeat Violation."

**LA JATO RESTAURANT

3970 WEST 16TH AVE.

HIALEAH

ORDERED SHUT 4/28

20 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed approximately 1 live roach crawling on top of cut red onions inside container and on top of cut tomatoes inside container at reach in cooler next to stove at kitchen area. Also observed approximately 1 live roach on the floor in front of three compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed approximately 1 dead roach under reach in cooler next to stove at kitchen area. Also observed approximately 1 dead roach under three compartment sink at kitchen area. Also observed approximately 1 dead roach on top of metal tray inside three compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment. Observed bottle of roaches pesticide stored inside container next to kitchen back door.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Observed ice machine interior soiled with black mold like substance at front counter.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed can opener blade soiled under preparation table at kitchen area.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed ceiling tiles with water damage at kitchen area. Observed hole on ceiling tile at kitchen entrance. Repeat Violation.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed Minced ginger (65F - Cold Holding); Sliced tomatoes (68F - Cold Holding); Raw beef (68F - Cold Holding); Raw Shrimp (63F - Cold Holding) inside reach in cooler next to stove at kitchen area. As per employee for more than 24 hours. Also observed Boiled egg (45F - Cold Holding); Cut tomatoes (46F - Cold Holding) inside reach in cooler next to three compartment sink at kitchen area. As per employee for more than 24 hours.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed Minced ginger (65F - Cold Holding); Sliced tomatoes (68F - Cold Holding); Raw beef (68F - Cold Holding); Raw Shrimp (63F - Cold Holding) inside reach in cooler next to stove at kitchen area. As per employee for more than 24 hours. Also observed Boiled egg (45F - Cold Holding); Cut tomatoes (46F - Cold Holding) inside reach in cooler next to three compartment sink at kitchen area. As per employee for more than 24 hours.”

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14 VIOLATONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 30 plus flies landing on clean food equipment in the kitchen area and flying around food preparation area in the kitchen.”

“Ceiling not smooth, nonabsorbent and easily cleanable in food preparation, food storage, or ware washing areas. Observed at front counter. Repeat Violation.”

“Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Observed employee was not sanitizing utensils properly. Employee was coached how to sanitize utensils.”

“Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee handled dirty dishes to the 3 compartment area and then handled clean equipment without washing hands.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed a bowl and scrub stored inside the hand wash sink at the front counter. Repeat Violation.”

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Investigators said Axel Jordany Martinez-Morales, 21, had been “involved in a dating relationship on and off” with the girl since December.

According to the Homestead Police Department, the girl had been reported missing on April 19 and officers found her hidden in the laundry room at his home in the 100 block of Northeast Ninth Court.

An HPD report states that the girl told investigators that she met Martinez-Morales “through a classmate” when he was 20 and she was 13 and they began dating after she turned 14.

Police arrested Martinez-Morales on charges of lewd and lascivious molestation and interference with custody on April 24.

Investigators said the teen later had a positive pregnancy test and “tested positive for a sexually transmitted infection.”

Investigators said Martinez-Morales harbored her at his home knowing that she was a runaway but said he denied engaging in sexual activity with her. They said he “admitted to concealing her in the (laundry) room to let her sleep because he didn’t want issues with his family for bringing her into the home.”

Authorities said they took a saliva sample from him and slapped him with additional charges on Friday. Those new charges include 11 additional felonies: 10 counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of impregnating a child.

The Guatemalan national also faces a misdemeanor charge of sheltering an unmarried minor.

As of Monday, Martinez-Morales remained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $90,500 bond.

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They held a news conference Monday outside of FIFA’s host committee headquarters in Coral Gables.

Activists called for a moratorium on immigration enforcement during the games and related events.

“We think it’s a very rational ask,” Thomas Kennedy, with the Florida Immigrant Coalition, said.

The news conference doubled as a travel advisory and warning for visitors coming to Miami for the games. The local advocates say some people may not be safe and could be illegally detained for simply being here trying to enjoy the games or working the event.

Advocates say they’re not calling for panic ― but preparation. They say once the crowds and the cameras arrive for the games, it may be too late for a warning.

Yareliz Mendez, with the American Friends Service Committee, advised attendees to know their rights.

“Like, for example, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, the right to talk with your consulate,” Mendez said. “Those are some of the things that we’re encouraging people to go ahead and do. Connect with your consulate before you come.”

Local 10 went to the FIFA offices seeking comment. Nobody answered when we knocked at the door. A phone call to World Cup organizers also wasn’t returned.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in response said his country would observe a truce beginning at 12 a.m. on Wednesday and respond in kind to Russia's actions from that moment on. He did not put an end date on the truce.

The announcements on Monday come as Russia prepares to celebrate its most important secular holiday with a traditional military parade on Moscow's Red Square pared down due to what officials say are concerns over possible Ukrainian attacks. Ukraine has been launching drone attacks deep inside Russia to counter its more than 4-year-old invasion.

They also follow a familiar pattern of previous attempts to secure ceasefires — most recently around Orthodox Easter — that had little to no impact.

The Defense Ministry said if Ukraine attempts to disrupt Saturday's celebrations, Russia will carry out a “massive missile strike on the center of Kyiv.” It warned the civilian population there and employees of foreign diplomatic missions of "the need to leave the city promptly.”

Zelenskyy responded by saying that while Kyiv has not received any official requests for a truce, in the time left until midnight on Wednesday “it is realistic to ensure” that a ceasefire takes effect. He urged the Kremlin “to take real steps to end their war, especially since Russia’s Defense Ministry believes it cannot hold a parade in Moscow without Ukraine’s goodwill.”

For years, the Kremlin has used the pomp-filled Victory Day parade to showcase its military might and global clout, and it has been a source of patriotic pride.

But this year, the parade in the Russian capital will take place without tanks, missiles and other military equipment for the first time in nearly two decades. Some of the smaller parades that are held elsewhere across the country have also been pared down or even canceled for security reasons.

Speaking at a summit with European leaders in Armenia on Monday, Zelenskyy said that the Russian authorities “fear drones may buzz over Red Square” on May 9. “This is telling. It shows they are not strong now, so we must keep up the pressure through sanctions on them,” he said.

World War II remains a rare point of consensus in Russia's divisive history under Communist rule. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in what it called the Great Patriotic War in 1941-45, an enormous sacrifice that left a deep scar in the national psyche.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia for over 25 years, has turned Victory Day into a key pillar of his tenure and has tried to use it to justify the war in Ukraine.

Last year’s parade on the 80th anniversary drew the most global leaders to Moscow in a decade, including high-profile guests like Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Fico will attend the parade this year, as well.

Putin had declared a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire starting May 7, 2025, and authorities blocked cellphone internet in Moscow for several days to avert Ukrainian drone attacks.

Last week, Putin floated the idea of a ceasefire for Victory Day this year, too, in a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Russian media reported Monday that the country's cellphone operators have begun to warn their customers of cellphone internet restrictions in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the coming days.

Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told reporters that the left-hander felt discomfort in his elbow on Sunday, less than a week after an injury scare against the Atlanta Braves. The 29-year-old — set to become a free agent next offseason — underwent tests that showed the loose bodies. The surgery hadn't yet been scheduled.

There is no immediate timetable for his return, though similar injuries usually require a two-to-three month recovery period. The phrase “loose bodies” often refers to pieces of bone or cartilage that break off and float in the joint space, though the specifics of Skubal's case are unclear.

“From my understanding, you just go take it out,” Skubal told MLB.com. “I think length of the rehab is probably just getting your spring training buildup up again, getting your volume up. But the procedure itself I think is pretty simple as far as what I’ve been explained.”

Skubal pitched for the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic this spring but was careful with his workload, throwing in just one game before returning to spring training with the Tigers. He won a record salary arbitration case in February and is being paid $32 million this season, far exceeding the team's $19 million offer.

Skubal has a 3-2 record with a 2.70 ERA over seven starts this season, striking out 45 over 43 1/3 innings. The Tigers are currently tied for first place in the AL Central with an 18-17 record.

Skubal initially felt pain in his elbow last week against the Braves but stayed in the game. He rubbed his left arm after a 2-2 pitch to Matt Olson, drawing a visit from the trainer and Hinch. Skubal threw one warmup pitch, decided he was OK and struck out the side to end his night.

He allowed five hits, fanned seven and didn’t walk anyone.

The two-time All-Star won the AL Cy Young award in each of the last two seasons. He had an 18-4 record with a 2.39 ERA and 228 strikeouts in 2024 and was 13-6 with a 2.21 ERA and 241 strikeouts last year.

He's also been effective in the postseason with a 2-1 record, 2.04 ERA and 56 strikeouts over six starts.

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“A major catastrophe was avoided by feet,” said safety expert Steve Arroyo, who landed on that same short runway many times during his career at United. “Had it been another five feet lower, eight feet, I mean, no more than 10 feet, that plane would have been all over the New Jersey Turnpike.”

The driver of the bakery delivery truck was treated at a hospital for minor injuries, and the Boeing 767 flying in from Venice, Italy, with 231 people aboard was able to land safely. No one on the plane was hurt. Air traffic control audio suggests the incident may have created a hole in the side of the plane, but the airline and the National Transportation Safety Board haven't confirmed that.

The NTSB said Monday afternoon that it has reclassified the incident as an accident because of the extent of the damage to the plane, but it didn't provide any details.

Planes fly low when landing

Anyone who drives that section of Interstate 95 near the airport is likely used to seeing planes coming in low and crossing over all the lanes of traffic as the planes get ready to land, but never this low.

Dashboard camera video from inside the truck showed the driver singing happily to himself, then glancing out his window with a slight look of concern as the sound of the jet's whining engines begins on the recording.

A moment later, part of the plane zooms into view out the driver's side window. The video also shows the moment of impact. Typically, semitrucks are 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) tall, so the plane was quite low.

Chuck Paterakis, the vice president of the bakery company H&S Family of Bakeries, said the company is “relieved that everyone is safe, as that is our top priority.” The bakery is cooperating with investigators.

The pilots’ damage report wasn’t recorded because the crew opted to call the tower on the phone after landing instead of broadcasting the details over the radio.

But air traffic control audio posted by ATC.com revealed a discussion between an air traffic controller and a ground vehicle more than half an hour after the incident. “They felt something over the threshold and there's a hole in the side of the airplane,” the controller said.

Witnesses were alarmed by the sight

Patrick Oyulu, of Edison, New Jersey, was among those on the turnpike when the plane struck the truck. He posted a short video showing the aftermath of the collision as the huge plane barely cleared the road and landed on the runway.

“The plane seemed to come in almost directly over the highway,” Oyulu recounted in a message to The Associated Press. He said the truck appeared to swerve sharply and smoke could be seen coming from it after the aircraft apparently made contact.

“I never expected a plane that low, and never expected I would see the undercarriage of a plane of that magnitude bearing overhead, with such noise and gust of wind,” Oyulu said.

Investigation will look at variety of factors

NTSB investigators arrived on scene on Monday to interview the flight crew and begin working to figure out how and why this happened. But the NTSB may not offer many details about what happened until it publishes its preliminary report roughly a month from now. The agency does not plan any news conferences on this accident.

Runway 29, where the plane landed, is the shortest runway at the airport at 6,726 feet (2,050 meters), and it is generally only used when there are strong winds like there were on Sunday afternoon. The other two Newark runways are 11,000 feet (3,353 meters) long. An air traffic controller told pilots at the time that the winds were gusting up to 31 mph (50 kph).

Arroyo said that investigators will definitely look at how well the United crew planned for the contingency that they would have to land on Runway 29 and exactly what data they had entered into their flight control system and navigational aids in the cockpit. He said those systems can help keep pilots on track in the glidepath before they have to take the controls and complete the landing visually.

“It’s one of the most challenging approaches in the world,” Arroyo said. “The margin of error is extremely low.”

Jeff Guzzetti, a former crash investigator for the NTSB and the Federal Aviation Administration, said investigators will likely also look at whether fatigue could have been a factor after the long flight from Italy.

The NTSB directed United to preserve the cockpit voice and flight data recorders for investigators to examine. The airline said the pilots have been put on leave while the accident is investigated.

In 1985, Delta Flight 191 was coming in to land at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when a microburst of wind during a thunderstorm sent the plane down into the ground, striking a vehicle. The plane then plowed into airport water tanks. A total of 137 people died in that crash, including the vehicle's driver.

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Los investigadores dijeron que Axel Jordany Martinez-Morales, de 21 años, había tenido “una relación sentimental intermitente” con la menor desde diciembre.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Homestead, la niña había sido reportada como desaparecida el 19 de abril y los oficiales la encontraron escondida en el cuarto de lavandería de su casa en el bloque 100 de Northeast Ninth Court.

Un informe de la policía indica que la menor dijo a los investigadores que conoció a Martinez-Morales “a través de un compañero de clase” cuando él tenía 20 años y ella 13, y que comenzaron a salir después de que ella cumplió 14.

La policía arrestó a Martinez-Morales el 24 de abril por cargos de abuso lascivo y lujurioso e interferencia con la custodia.

Los investigadores dijeron que posteriormente la adolescente dio positivo en una prueba de embarazo y “dio positivo en una infección de transmisión sexual.”

Los investigadores dijeron que Martinez-Morales la albergó en su casa sabiendo que era una menor fugada, pero negó haber tenido actividad sexual con ella. Dijeron que “admitió haberla escondido en el cuarto de lavandería para que durmiera porque no quería problemas con su familia por haberla llevado a la casa.”

Las autoridades tomaron una muestra de saliva y le imputaron cargos adicionales el viernes. Esos nuevos cargos incluyen 11 delitos graves adicionales: 10 cuentas de batería lasciva y lujuriosa y un cargo de embarazar a una menor.

El ciudadano guatemalteco también enfrenta un cargo de delito menor por albergar a una menor soltera.

Hasta el lunes, Martinez-Morales permanecía en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $90,500.

El lunes celebraron una conferencia de prensa frente a la sede del comité anfitrión de la FIFA en Coral Gables.

Los activistas pidieron una moratoria en los operativos migratorios durante los juegos y eventos relacionados.

“Creemos que es una petición muy razonable”, dijo Thomas Kennedy, de la Coalición de Inmigrantes de Florida.

La conferencia de prensa sirvió también como advertencia de viaje para los visitantes que vendrán a Miami para los juegos. Los defensores locales dicen que algunas personas podrían no estar seguras y podrían ser detenidas ilegalmente simplemente por estar aquí disfrutando de los partidos o trabajando en el evento.

Los activistas dicen que no llaman al pánico, sino a la preparación. Señalan que una vez que lleguen las multitudes y las cámaras para los juegos, podría ser demasiado tarde para advertir.

Yareliz Mendez, del Comité de Servicio de los Amigos Americanos, aconsejó a los asistentes conocer sus derechos.

“Como, por ejemplo, el derecho a guardar silencio, el derecho a hablar con un abogado, el derecho a comunicarse con su consulado”, dijo Mendez. “Esas son algunas de las cosas que estamos animando a la gente a hacer. Conéctese con su consulado antes de venir.”

Local 10 fue a las oficinas de la FIFA en busca de comentarios. Nadie respondió cuando tocamos la puerta. Una llamada telefónica a los organizadores del Mundial tampoco fue devuelta.

Según el informe de arresto, el incidente fue reportado poco antes de las 6 p.m. del sábado en Brownsville Transit Village, ubicado en 5185 NW 29th Ave.

Los detectives respondieron al edificio tras recibir una queja de que los objetos en caída casi golpearon a peatones y vehículos estacionados.

Al llegar, los detectives encontraron múltiples objetos del hogar en el suelo, así como una antena de AT&T dañada fijada al exterior del edificio.

Según el informe, los detectives fueron al apartamento de Rafael Jorge Gonzalez-Sintes, quien espontáneamente declaró que había lanzado un objeto desde su balcón.

El detective que realizó el arresto señaló en el informe que un compañero había respondido a un incidente similar con Gonzalez-Sintes aproximadamente dos semanas antes, cuando presuntamente amenazó con lanzar objetos desde el balcón. Tras ese incidente, fue detenido bajo la Ley Baker de Florida.

Las autoridades confirmaron que Gonzalez-Sintes fue arrestado en este último incidente por cargos de lanzar un proyectil peligroso, negligencia culpable, daños criminales a la propiedad y conducta desordenada.

“No fue hasta la medianoche del viernes que nos enteramos”, dijo De León. “Cuando vimos el tablero sin vuelos para el día siguiente, supimos que habíamos terminado.”

Había esperanzas de un rescate gubernamental. El 23 de abril, en la Casa Blanca, un reportero le preguntó al presidente Donald Trump si su administración tenía planes de comprar “una participación” en Spirit Airlines. Trump dijo que lo estaba considerando.

“Tenemos 18,000 personas que viven en este país que son excelentes personas y excelentes empleados”, dijo Trump. “Estamos pensando en hacerlo... Me encantaría poder salvar esos empleos. Me encantaría poder salvar una aerolínea.”

La propuesta de rescate gubernamental de $500 millones fracasó. Dave Davis, director ejecutivo de Spirit Airlines, le dijo al Wall Street Journal que el aumento en los precios de la energía provocado por la guerra con Irán fue la causa del fracaso del plan.

“No vendimos boletos intencionalmente pensando que no íbamos a estar aquí”, le dijo Davis al WSJ. “Pensábamos que íbamos a obtener la liquidez que necesitábamos.”

Los vuelos de Spirit Airlines fueron suspendidos a las 3 a.m. del sábado.

American Airlines y JetBlue Airways trabajaban para ayudar a los pilotos y auxiliares de vuelo de Spirit Airlines que pudieron haber quedado varados durante el cierre.

De León dijo que ella y otros empleados no esperaban nada de esto.

“Empezamos a preguntar por correo electrónico, por mensaje de texto, por llamadas telefónicas, y seguían diciendo: ‘No hay nada malo. No le presten atención. Son solo rumores. Estamos bien. Todo va a estar bien.’ Y uno confía en lo que le dice la gerencia”, dijo De León.

Poco después, el secretario de Transporte Sean Duffy ofreció una conferencia de prensa en el Aeropuerto Internacional Newark Liberty en Nueva Jersey.

“Hay demanda de trabajadores de aviación. American y United han creado micrositios para que los empleados de Spirit puedan adelantarse en la fila y recibir tratamiento preferencial en el proceso de solicitud de empleo en las muchas aerolíneas que están contratando, ya sean pilotos, auxiliares de vuelo, trabajadores de equipaje o incluso quienes trabajaron en los centros de llamadas. Pueden ir a los sitios web individuales para ver lo que ofrece cada aerolínea”, dijo Duffy.

Trump y Duffy criticaron la administración del expresidente Joe Biden por haber bloqueado la venta de Spirit Airlines a JetBlue por $3,800 millones en 2024.

Mientras la industria enfrenta la escasez de combustible por la guerra con Irán, Roman dijo que la angustia predominaba.

“Hay mucha gente que va a tener dificultades, y no hay forma de evitarlo”, dijo Roman. “Simplemente no hay suficientes empleos en esta industria para el tipo de trabajo que hacemos.”

El seguro médico de los empleados de Spirit Airlines fue cancelado el sábado.

“Esto no es como cualquier otra industria. No te llevas tu experiencia laboral contigo. Empiezas desde cero, así que si llevas 30 años aquí, no significa nada”, dijo Roman. “Yo: 10 años y medio, no significa nada. Empiezas desde abajo con el salario más bajo y la antigüedad más baja.”

The blaze, which began in an electrical room, caused “substantial damage” to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, according to New York Fire Department Assistant Chief David Simms. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

“Everyone has been safely removed from the theater,” the theater’s owner, ATG Entertainment, said in a statement. “We will keep all parties abreast of this developing situation.”

It wasn’t immediately clear how long the 1,108-seat theater would be out of operation. A spokesperson for “The Book of Mormon” did not immediately respond to messages. The show’s next scheduled performance is Tuesday.

Simms said the damage was largely confined to the fourth floor area and a backroom containing lighting equipment and dangling chandeliers. There was some water damage as well, he said.

Firefighters initially struggled to knock down the flames due to catwalks and rigging in the theater, but were eventually able to bring it under control, he said. One firefighter suffered minor injuries.

“The Book of Mormon” is among Broadway’s longest running shows, with more than 5,000 performances since opening at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in 2011.

The theater, which opened in 1925, has previously hosted productions of “Sweeney Todd,” a revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and the rock musical “Spring Awakening,” among many other performances.

British author William Golding predicted not good things in his harrowing 1954 classic novel “Lord of the Flies,” and a new powerful, kinetic TV adaptation makes an inspired case that he was probably right.

The Netflix series premiering Monday follows more than two dozen British boys in the mid-1950s stranded on a tropical island after a plane crash as they descend into tyranny and violence, making an indictment about the fragility of democracy and the shallow veneer of civilization.

“We’ve advanced socially or we’ve advanced technologically, but those issues are still there,” says David McKenna, who plays a sensible boy nicknamed Piggy. “I would say put 40 boys on a tropical island today, and the same thing would probably happen, sadly.”

‘It can’t help but be chaos’

The series is adapted by Jack Thorne, the writer behind the stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and the Emmy-winning TV series “Adolescence,” and directed by his longtime collaborator, Marc Munden.

“A lot of the time it was utter chaos and we tried to film some of that chaos as well,” says Munden. “It can’t help but be chaos when you’ve got 36 boys under the age of 12.”

Thorne’s four-part adaptation brings a different character to the forefront in each episode, starting with the rational Piggy, coming to consciousness after the crash and offering a voting-based system that allows everyone a voice. “What we need to do is get a sense of exactly what we know,” he says.

He meets the cheerful and friendly Ralph (played by Winston Sawyers), and they gather the rest of the castaways, including a group of choirboys led by the volatile Jack (Lox Pratt) and the soulful Simon (Ike Talbut). There's also a whole raft of very young boys, dubbed “littluns.”

“I think all of the boys really represent an aspect of the human condition. Jack obviously represents some of the darker aspects,” says Talbut. “Ralph is the charismatic leader, but I think Simon really represents civility and kindness.”

Envy and paranoia bloom

What begins as a plucky, we’re-all-in-this-together spirit — Piggy sings Groucho Marx’s giddy “Hello, I Must Be Going” as he pushes through thick vegetation, still wearing his schoolboy suspenders and tie — soon gets darker as envy and paranoia bloom, rivalries deepen and one of the boys reveals his murderous instincts.

“Playing it nice — it’s boring,” says Jack who comes off here less as a simple narcissist than as an entitled boy with a fragile ego. “An adventure island, what do we do on it? Nothing but boring things. Toilets. Water. Hut building. Boring.”

Munden calls it in many ways a political fable that mirrors current struggles: “One faction led by the dutiful Democrats versus the entitled bully leading another faction.” Talbut sees it as a message about the dangers of groupthink and populism.

Thorne has made a few changes to the text, including flashbacks to the boys’ pre-island past to give viewers an insight into their home lives, and a scene in which the survivors come across suitcases from the crash.

Unpacking the suitcases — one is Simon’s, which contains his diary — and the other contains women's clothes — allows the filmmakers to explore the complex relationship between Jack and Simon as well as chart the increasing unanchored nature of the boys.

One lad slips on a hoop skirt, another pulls a pair of pantyhose over his face, both playing with drag. As the members of the choir smear mud on their faces to be hunters, the look is tribal and quirky. Munden was inspired by the images of Liberian child soldiers in the early 2000s who held Kalashnikovs and edgy costumes to confuse their enemies.

“The idea was that this drag becomes sort of perverted in some sort of way and becomes like another form of armor,” says the director. “I just thought it was a little bit more freaky. I wanted to sort of challenge the audience a little bit more with that.”

Filming in Malaysia

Munden studs the episodes with stark images of animals — winged raptors, ants, caterpillars, hermit crabs — grounding the series in the muddy, lush, insect-heavy tropical world, which in this case was the Malay Archipelago, the largest group of islands in the world.

Filming — which took place over five months from July to December in 2024 — wasn’t easy, with daily speedboat trips to uninhabited islands, dodging monsoons and extreme heat. The older boys were permitted to work only five or six hours a day, while the littlest boys only three. The crew weren’t allowed to shoot at night, so used cinematic trickery to turn sunshine into moonlight.

For the characters on the island, it was harrowing. For the actors, however, it was a bonding experience and, for many, their first professional acting gig.

“The best five months of my life,” Talbut says, adding everyone was “just the loveliest person ever.”

There was a safety net for the cast — including child psychologists, tutors and chaperones — that freed the actors to go deeper.

“You can delve as far as you like into the drama and the horror of it because you know at the end of the day you’re all just going to get in a van, get back to the hotel and jump in the pool.”

The ending actually has a sweetness — not the adaptation, but the filming: It turns out many of the older boys have stayed friends and share a group chat. Sawyers just met up with Pratt, enemies on the island now remade as pals in real life.

“We’re all still really, really close and we still have that connection because we spent those months together in that place doing that thing,” says Sawyers.

The Broadway Cruise — heading roundtrip from Miami to Cozumel and Great Stirrup Cay from April 15-20, 2027 — will also feature Tony nominees Norm Lewis, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Laura Bell Bundy, Micaela Diamond and Kerry Butler.

In addition to performances, the cruise will offer multiple interactive theatrical events, Q&As, workshops, discussions on how to create a show and dance classes.

There will also be full performances of “Mama I’m a Big Girl Now!,” with Winokur, Bundy and Butler, who met starring as Tracy, Penny and Amber in “Hairspray” and reunite to sing Broadway hits and share behind-the-scenes stories.

Tony-winning composer Marc Shaiman — fresh off publishing his memoir “Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner” — will be onboard, as well as three-time Tony-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, behind such shows as “Kinky Boots” and “La Cage aux Folles.”

“This isn’t just a fan experience, it’s Broadway without walls, an all-access experience at sea where fans and legends collide. For five extraordinary nights, the ship becomes the stage, the backstage, and everything in between. Nothing else comes close,” said Jeff Cuellar, CEO at Sixthman, in a statement.

This will be the fourth Broadway Cruise, which borrows the Norwegian Jewel for its themed trips.

Colin Angle unveiled a four-legged prototype of that artificial pet, called the Familiar, on Monday. Imagine a creature the size of a bulldog with doe-like eyes and bear cub ears and paws, extending itself into a greeting stretch that invites you to pat its touch-sensitive fake fur.

“We chose a form factor that’s not a human, not a dog, not a cat, because we wanted to steer away from all of those preconceptions,” said Angle, who leads the startup Familiar Machines & Magic and before that was longtime CEO of Roomba maker iRobot.

This kind of lifelike machine — powered by the latest artificial intelligence technology — would not have been possible when Angle co-founded iRobot in 1990 or launched the first Roomba in 2002.

It's hardly the first effort to build a pet-like household robot. Japanese electronics giant Sony, for one, famously introduced a small plastic robotic dog called Aibo in the late 1990s and rebooted the concept in 2018. But Angle believes the Familiar achieves something that “simply hasn’t existed before.”

“The challenge is to make something that’s not a watch-me toy,” Angle said in an interview with The Associated Press. “This is about having something that you want to hug, you want to pet. When it’s happy, that makes you happy. And it is large enough or mobile enough to follow you to the kitchen or drag you off the couch and take a walk.”

Angle said the robot will make emotive, animal-like sounds but won’t talk. But, mimicking a real pet, it has audio input “ears” and an AI system that can understand and learn from what you say to it. It benefits from the advances in generative AI sparked by chatbots like ChatGPT and can gradually adapt its behavior as it learns from the people around it.

“I couldn’t have done this six months ago,” Angle said.

Angle led iRobot for a quarter century as it turned Roomba into the first widely adopted home robot. Intense competition, especially from China, later threatened its success. Angle stepped down as CEO and chairman in 2024 after Amazon dropped its plan to buy the struggling Massachusetts company.

Familiar Machines was born soon after and remained in “stealth” mode in Woburn, Massachusetts until Monday, when Angle brought one of his Familiar prototypes to New York for The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything conference.

It could take a while before Angle starts selling the machines, but one target demographic is retired people who are past the peak age of pet ownership.

“Not because people suddenly stop enjoying pets, but the fear and obligation of caring for them are such that people are very reluctant to get new pets at older ages,” Angle said.

While most robot engineers take inspiration from science fiction, the idea of a familiar has deep roots in folklore, from a witch's cat and wizard's owl to the animal companions in Philip Pullman's “His Dark Materials” fantasy novels.

“It’s an archaic, ancient word,” Angle said. To his surprise, he could also trademark it.

Angle has pulled together a number of prominent robotics advisers, including Marc Raibert, a pioneer of robot locomotion who founded Boston Dynamics, maker of the four-legged Spot robot; and Cynthia Breazeal, who invented the robot head Kismet and later the tabletop speaker robot Jibo, early attempts at imbuing robots with social expressions.

Many researched together at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and share skepticism for the current fad of sleek humanoid robots that are designed to walk and move around like people but can't yet do much useful physical work.

One of those advisers is Maja Matarić, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California who 25 years ago co-founded the field of socially assistive robotics — with the aim of designing robots that could give people social and emotional support.

When she first saw Angle's prototype, she said she “immediately got down on the ground near it and had to hug it and pet it, then started to play with it to see what it would do.”

That people perceive the robot as adorable and not creepy will be key. Matarić said decades of research into human-robot interactions have shown that a robot that is “cute, personalized and vulnerable is much more appealing and lovable than the alternative.” It could be particularly useful in nursing homes or providing emotional support for mental health, she said.

Matarić said AI advances have also made it easier to broaden the impact to the general population.

“Before generative AI, robots could not readily understand what people were saying,” she said.

According to an arrest report, the incident was reported shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday at the Brownsville Transit Village, located at 5185 NW 29^th Ave.

Deputies said they responded to the apartment building after receiving a complaint that the falling items nearly struck pedestrians and parked vehicles.

When deputies arrived, they found multiple household items on the ground, as well as a damaged AT&T antenna affixed to the exterior of the building.

According to the report, deputies went to Rafael Jorge Gonzalez-Sintes’ apartment unit and he spontaneously stated that he threw an object off his balcony.

The arresting deputy noted in the arrest report that a fellow deputy previously responded to a similar incident involving Gonzalez-Sintes about two weeks prior after he allegedly made threats to throw objects off the balcony. After that incident, he was taken into custody under Florida’s Baker Act.

Authorities confirmed Gonzalez-Sintes was arrested in this latest incident on charges of shooting or throwing a deadly missile, culpable negligence, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.

“He dejado mi chaco (terreno) que no es grande, pero estoy acá para defender mi tierra que me da de comer a mí, mi madre y mis dos hijos”, dijo a The Associated Press Oscar Cardozo, dirigente de los campesinos de Beni. El hombre tenía los pies hinchados y estaba agotado.

Mientras la policía reforzaba las inmediaciones del palacio presidencial, unos 500 manifestantes llegaron a La Paz en una columna que se ha ido reduciendo tras acuerdos que el gobierno cerró con algunos sectores. Exigen la derogación de una ley que permite hipotecar la pequeña propiedad dotada por el Estado.

Como concesión, el gobierno presentó una acción de inconstitucionalidad ante el Tribunal Constitucional pero los indígenas exigen la derogación de la ley y anunciaron que se quedarán hasta que Paz los reciba.

La ley aprobada recientemente permite convertir voluntariamente la pequeña propiedad agrícola en una mediana propiedad y con ello puede ser hipotecada. La Constitución impide las hipotecas de pequeñas propiedades.

Los defensores de la norma dicen que los productores rurales accederán al crédito para potenciar su capacidad productiva. Los detractores afirman que facilita la concentración de tierra a favor de empresarios sobre todo en el oriente, donde se expande la agroindustria y la ganadería.

Otras protestas contra Paz

La protesta se suma a las movilizaciones convocadas por la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) por aumentos salariales y en rechazo a una eventual privatización de empresas públicas. A su vez los transportistas llamaron a un paro el martes "para exigir al gobierno cumplimiento de compromisos” ante la escasez de combustibles y la venta de gasolina de mala calidad, dijo Lucio Gómez, líder de la Confederación del Transporte de Bolivia. También maestros y campesinos advierten de más protestas esta semana.

“Nos dejaron el gobierno quebrado, gobernaciones quebradas, alcaldías quebradas, empresas (públicas) quebradas”, dijo Paz en su discurso del viernes por el Día del Trabajador en el que llamó a los movilizados y a otros órganos del Estado a un “encuentro nacional” para enfrentar la peor crisis económica en cuatro décadas.

El vocero presidencial, José Luis Gálvez, dijo que las marchas tienen “motivaciones políticas”.

Hasta ahora las protestas han logrado frenar reformas liberales con las que el gobierno centroderechista busca revertir la crisis que adjudica a 20 años de gobiernos de izquierda.

El excandidato presidencial Jaime Dunn dijo a radio Panamericana que “la COB busca reposicionarse políticamente en la oposición" después de 20 años de ser aliada de Luis Arce (2020-2025) y Evo Morales (2006-2019).

“Es una situación compleja. El gobierno necesita encarar soluciones económicas urgentes”, opinó el analista económico Gonzalo Chávez.

Al ríspido clima social se suma una escalada de la violencia ligada al crimen organizado, tras el asesinato a tiros el viernes de un magistrado del Tribunal Constitucional, el quinto homicidio en los últimos días. Todos ellos tuvieron lugar en Santa Cruz, la región del oriente más rica donde operan bandas ligadas al narcotráfico, según informes del gobierno y la policía.

“Presumimos, como hipótesis, que el crimen sería por un conflicto de tierras”, dijo el jefe policial de Santa Cruz, David Gómez, sobre el asesinato del magistrado. El gobierno reforzó la seguridad en esa región agroindustrial donde también se ha denunciado tráfico de tierras.

Según el comandante policial, las otras muertes tendrían que ver con una disputa por suceder al presunto narco uruguayo Sebastián Marset, capturado y entregado a Estados Unidos en marzo pasado.

In a statement that ran as the newspaper’s front page on Sunday, the board of directors said that the affected members first learned they had been stripped of their visas to enter the U.S. from reports in pro-government media.

La Nación has long been a thorn in the side of outgoing Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump who has agreed to accept up to 100 third-country deportees a month as part of the Trump administration's efforts to ramp up deportations.

The newspaper, which Chaves has berated since it published allegations of sexual harassment during his 2022 presidential campaign, said that the U.S. gave no reason for the visa revocations.

The U.S. State Department did not respond to a request for comment.

“We fully recognize that the United States, like any sovereign state, has the power to determine the terms of entry into its territory,” La Nación said. “However, it is unprecedented in Costa Rica’s recent history for visas to be revoked from members of the board of a general-interest and independent newspaper.”

The move appeared to mark the latest instance of the Trump administration deploying immigration restrictions to punish its political foes, and prompted sharp criticism from political opposition and press freedom organizations in Costa Rica, which demanded that Costa Rican and U.S. authorities provide an explanation for what happened.

“If this decision is based on their critical stance toward this government, it would be yet another troubling signal for our democratic system," the organizations said in a statement, adding that failing to provide transparent information would “constitute an unacceptable form of complicity.”

Mauricio Herrera, journalist and former Costa Rican communications minister from 2015 to 2018, went a step further, saying “there is no doubt that the cancellation of visas for its board of directors is in response to a request from the Costa Rican government.”

"The sanction seeks to intimidate those who dare to dissent and exercise their freedom of expression,” Herrera told The Associated Press.

A string of high-profile individuals have had their visas canceled in Costa Rica, where the aggressive governing style of conservative President Chaves has drawn criticism for eroding democratic norms.

Last year, the U.S. revoked the visa of Nobel laureate and former Costa Rican President Óscar Arias, an outspoken critic of President Trump, as well as that of his brother, then-legislative president Rodrigo Arias, who said he believed the U.S. decision was made at the request of Chaves.

Opposition lawmakers — like Francisco Nicolás from the centrist National Liberation Party and independent Cynthia Córdoba, both known for their vocal criticism of Chaves — also had their U.S. visas canceled in recent months, as did Constitutional Court Judge Fernando Cruz, an advocate for migrant rights who last month found himself unable to travel to the U.S. to receive an award from Northwestern Law School.

Chaves, who has cooperated extensively with the Trump administration to receive deportees from other countries and extradite suspected drug traffickers to the U.S., will leave office on Friday and hand over power to his successor, President-elect Laura Fernández.

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Associated Press writer Isabel Debre in Buenos Aires, Argentina contributed.

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Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, has pleaded not guilty to starting what became one of the most destructive wildfires in California history. It began Jan. 7, 2025, in hillside neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades and Malibu and killed 12 people. Prosecutors say Rinderknecht started a fire on Jan. 1 that burned undetected deep in root systems before flaring back up a week later.

Rinderknecht’s trial is set to begin June 8. His attorneys say he is being used as a scapegoat for the Los Angeles Fire Department’s failure to fully extinguish the earlier blaze.

An outline of the prosecutors' strategy — with details about the defendant’s alleged state of mind on the night before the first fire began — appears in an April 29 pretrial memo filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Witnesses reported that Rinderknecht had been driving erratically while on Uber routes around the Palisades on New Year's Eve, said prosecutors. His passengers described him as “angry, intense, driving erratically, and ranting about being ‘pissed off at the world,'” the memo said.

According to court filings, Rinderknecht ranted to passengers about accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, capitalism and vigilantism. In an interview with investigators on Jan. 24, when asked why someone might commit arson in the Palisades, Rinderknecht “responded that it would be out of resentment of the rich enjoying their money as ‘we’re basically being enslaved by them,’” and again referenced Mangione’s alleged crime, the documents said.

In addition, prosecutors said Rinderknecht was distraught over a failed relationship and upset about thwarted plans for New Year's Eve.

“My client maintains his innocence as he has from the beginning and we look forward to clearing his name at trial,” Rinderknecht’s attorney Steve Haney said in an email Sunday. “The offered motive that my client started a fire on NYs Eve because he did not have a date speaks for itself.”

Haney held a news conference in March to call for Rinderknecht's release from jail in light of evidence he said shows he is not responsible for the blaze. Haney pointed to a deposition in which a firefighter testified that he noticed the ground was still smoldering from the fire on Jan. 2 and alerted a supervisor that there were hot spots. That testimony was gathered as part of a lawsuit filed by fire victims against the city.

A battalion chief had testified that he walked the perimeter of the burn area four times throughout the day and ensured all hot spots were out.

Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore, who was appointed in October, has said he is concerned about the differences in the firefighters’ testimonies and commissioned an independent report on how the Jan. 1 fire was handled.

Haney has said this evidence was not available to the defense when Rinderknecht was indicted.

The call letters from the fictional radio station featured in a CBS sitcom were adopted by a trio of real “adult hits” stations in time for Monday's morning drive, and co-owner Jeff Ziesmann described listeners as “stoked.”

“Our phones have been mobbed this morning, as I'm sure you can imagine,” Ziesmann said.

Three stations in Cincinnati, northern Kentucky and Dayton, Ohio, simulcast the station's programming and listeners are now hearing them all identified as WKRP. They will continue to follow the format — music from the ‘60s to the ’80s, with an emphasis on the 1970s — they’ve had under “The Oasis” brand.

The owners obtained the call letters by making a donation to a North Carolina nonprofit whose low-power radio station had them since 2014. Ziesmann said a full-power station like his can use the same call letters because WKRP-LP in Raleigh is considered a separate class of station under federal regulations.

He said the nonprofit donation wasn't a direct purchase of the call letters — it was a purchase of the right to apply to the Federal Communications Commission for the call letters with the North Carolina group's cooperation.

The show “WKRP in Cincinnati” ran from 1978 to 1982 and starred Loni Anderson, Howard Hesseman, Tim Reid and Richard Sanders as bumbling newsman Les Nessman.

Sanders provided a very Nessman-like comment by email, with the actor saying: “I have spoken with Les Nessman regarding the resurrection of WKRP in Cincinnati. After the failure of his dream to replace Walter Cronkite on the CBS evening news, he is hopeful that he can resume his duties as the News, Sports, Weather, Traffic, and Farm Report Director at WKRP.”

“I think we can all hope that WKRP will return to the airwaves with more music and Les Nessman," Sanders said, echoing a running joke on the comedy series.

Just about a week before the 79th Cannes begins May 12, organizers unveiled the nine-member jury that will deliberate on the films in competition at the annual French Riviera festival. As already announced, South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is president of the jury.

Along with him, Moore, Zhao and Skarsgård, the jurors are: Irish-Ethiopian actor Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chilean director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Ivorian American actor Isaach De Bankolé and Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty.

Moore and Skarsgård have both in recent years co-starred in films at Cannes that ultimately earned them Oscar nominations. Moore's “The Substance” premiered at the festival in 2024. Last year, “Sentimental Value,” with Skarsgård, launched at Cannes.

The festival runs May 12-23.

It’s called the “Press Act,” and it would create criminal penalties for illegally importing pill presses -- the equipment used to make fake pills that often end up on our streets.

The announcement was made at the Miami Police Department, where Moody, R-Florida, and law enforcement personnel spoke about the dangers of these counterfeit pills, saying many of these pills are sold online or on the street and people have no idea what’s inside.

Moody said the “Press Act” is designed to stop the problem at its source by targeting the machines used to mass produce these drugs, many of them laced with deadly fentanyl.

The goal is to give law enforcement more tools to shut down these operations before the pills reach our community members.

“I urge everyone (to) spread the word -- do not take anything unless it is prescribed to you by a doctor, because these days that choice is most likely to be a deadly choice because these counterfeit pills are laced with dangerous drugs,” Moody said.

“I urge all our residents, all our citizens, do not engage in this behavior,” Miami Police Chief Manny Morales said. “You have no idea what folks are putting in those pills that you are getting ahold of in an illicit manner. The life you could save is your own.”

The undersheriff for the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said anyone profiting from these dangerous drugs will be found and held accountable.

The draw ended a run of three consecutive wins for City and left it five points behind the London club.

City has a game in hand but the loss at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium meant the title was now Arsenal’s to lose. The Gunners have three games to play.

“It’s painful now," Doku said. “There’s a lot of games to go, everything can happen. We lost two points today but we will keep on fighting.

“We know that one point can still be important in the end.”

City has four games left and knew it needed a win to keep the pressure on Mikel Arteta’s side. But although it dominated possession in the first half it struggled to create real chances and it wasn’t until the 42nd minute that Doku found space in a crowded penalty box to curl in a peach of a strike and break the deadlock.

Everton, though, came out a different side in the second half and struck three times in 13 minutes.

City defender Marc Guéhi’s short back pass was intercepted by substitute Thierno Barry, who slipped it past an incredulous Gianluigi Donnarumma.

Five minutes later, the City defense was all at sea again as Jake O’Brien rose at the near post to glance home a corner from James Garner.

Barry made it 3-1 in the 81st when a shot deflected into his path, giving him the simplest of finishes.

But just as City fans were beginning to stream out of the stadium, many returned when Erling Haaland stormed forward and clipped his 25th goal of the season over Jordan Pickford.

City threw everything forward and in the seventh minute of stoppage time Doku curled in a sublime strike with almost the last kick of the match.

It was a killer blow to Everton, which is still hopeful of securing a European place. A win would have lifted it within two points of seventh but instead it was 10th, tied on points with Fulham and Chelsea.

“We let ourselves down, we defended the second goal so poorly and that was the main reason (for the draw)," Everton coach David Moyes said.

“But at halftime we’d have taken this result because we were hugely outplayed in the first half. Getting a point against Manchester City’s not a bad result but when you’re 3-1 up, you’re thinking you’re in with a great chance of winning.”

Forest beats Chelsea

Earlier, Chelsea slumped to a sixth straight Premier League defeat and saw its Champions League qualification hopes virtually disappear after losing to Nottingham Forest 3-1.

Taiwo Awoniyi scored two either side of earning a penalty converted by fellow striker Igor Jesus, inspiring a heavily rotated Forest to the brink of safety. Forest was six points above the relegation zone with three rounds left.

Joao Pedro's overhead kick in second-half stoppage time ended Chelsea's scoreless run in the league stretching back almost two months but proved to be only a consolation.

On a humiliating day for the London club and interim coach Calum McFarlane, Cole Palmer had a penalty saved in a 14-minute period of first-half stoppage time — required after 18-year-old Chelsea winger Jesse Derry, making his first Premier League start, needed lengthy treatment following a clash of heads with Forest’s Zach Abbott at a corner.

Both had to leave the field, Derry on a stretcher as Stamford Bridge fell quiet and his teammates looked concerned.

Reaching the FA Cup final last week has failed to rouse Chelsea's players, who were booed by their own fans at halftime and fulltime, amid their dreadful run of form in the league that has plunged the team to ninth place and out of contention for a top-five finish.

Sixth place could yet earn qualification for the Champions League, but only in the specific scenario of Aston Villa — currently in fifth place — finishing in that position and also winning the Europa League. Chelsea is four points behind sixth-placed Bournemouth.

Villa is 1-0 down to Forest after the first leg of Europa League semifinals. The second leg is at Villa Park on Thursday, prompting Forest manager Vitor Pereira to field virtually a second-choice lineup that still had too much for Chelsea.

In-form playmaker Morgan Gibbs-White was one of Forest's top players starting on the bench. He came on, set up Awoniyi for the third goal in the 52nd minute, and then was forced off with a bandage around his head after a clash of heads with Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez, who also had to be substituted.

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The sleek black whales, which weigh as much as a midsized bulldozer, are critically endangered and their numbers have declined sharply in recent decades. Environmental groups say reducing deaths and injuries caused by people is essential to the species' recovery.

The whales give birth off Florida and Georgia before making a long migration north to feed off New England and Canada. Protected areas of ocean aid them on their journey, but scientists have said they have strayed from those zones in recent years in search of food as the oceans have warmed.

A proposal by U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine, would push back new federal protections for right whales to 2035, and allow time to craft regulations that are less burdensome to the fishing industry. The White House released a memo Friday saying it “strongly supports” the plan and that President Donald Trump’s senior advisors would recommend he sign it into law if it passes Congress.

The proposal comes as the government already paused any new federal rules about right whales until 2028.

According to Golden, Maine's iconic lobster industry would've been crushed by the now-paused regulations, which he said were "based on flawed science and hypothetical scenarios rather than the reality on the water.”

A longer delay would give the government time to “get the science right” about threats to whales, Golden said in a statement Friday.

The U.S. lobster and crab fishing industries are worth hundreds of millions of dollars at the docks.

“This legislation is critical to ensuring the long-term stability of American fisheries for generations to come,” said John Drouin, vice president of the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association.

Environmental groups like California-based In Defense of Animals have pushed back against efforts to weaken whale protections. They cite how the whales’ population fell by about a quarter from 2010 to 2020, and recent years of recovery have been slow.

Some signs about the whale’s population have been encouraging. This year’s birthing season produced 23 mother-calf pairs, the most since 2009, the New England Aquarium said in a statement.

The whale, which has been federally protected for more than 50 years, remains critically endangered, the aquarium said. They were once abundant off the East Coast, but they were decimated during the era of commercial whaling.

Giuliani, 81, remains in critical but stable condition at a Florida hospital and is being monitored as a precautionary measure, spokesperson Ted Goodman said.

Goodman said Giuliani’s condition was exacerbated by restrictive airway disease attributed to his exposure to dust and toxins from the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.

Giuliani’s hospitalization, near Palm Beach, Florida, came after he was heard coughing Friday on his nightly online talk show and hoarsely told viewers that his voice was “a little under the weather.”

“This condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition," Goodman said in a statement.

He described Giuliani as “the ultimate fighter” and said, “he is winning this battle.”

Giuliani’s family and primary medical provider are by his side, Goodman added. He said the former mayor’s family thanked well-wishers for an “outpouring of love and support.”

Among them: President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and two of Giuliani's successors, former Mayor Eric Adams and current Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

“The mayor believes in the power of prayer, and we are feeling that strength today,” Goodman said.

Giuliani’s eight years as mayor of the nation's largest city was punctuated by the 9/11 attack just months before he left office. He was celebrated as “America’s mayor” for his leadership, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

Giuliani, a Republican, later unsuccessfully ran for president and was an adviser to Trump, spearheading his efforts to stay in office after his 2020 election loss.

Last year, Trump said he was awarding Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Giuliani coughed as he began his nightly online show "America’s Mayor Live” on Friday. As he spoke, he sounded more raspy than usual. Before launching into a commentary on the Iran war, he remarked: “My voice is a little under the weather, so I won’t be able to speak as loudly as I usually do, but I’ll get closer to the microphone.”

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Giuliani “a True Warrior, and the Best Mayor in the History of New York City, BY FAR.”

“What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the Radical Left Lunatics, Democrats ALL — AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!" Trump wrote Sunday. "They cheated on the Elections, fabricated hundreds of stories, did anything possible to destroy our Nation, and now, look at Rudy. So sad!”

As Trump’s personal attorney and adviser, Giuliani became a vocal proponent of the president's allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits claiming fraud, and numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error.

Two former Georgia election workers later won a $148 million defamation judgment against Giuliani. As they sought to collect the judgment, the former federal prosecutor was found in contempt of court and faced a trial this winter over the ownership of some of his assets.

Giuliani ultimately struck a deal that let him keep his homes and various belongings, including prized World Series rings, in exchange for unspecified compensation and a promise to stop speaking ill of the ex-election workers.

Giuliani was previously hospitalized last September after suffering a fractured vertebra and other injuries in a car crash in New Hampshire.

A native New Yorker, Giuliani was elected mayor in 1993 after serving as one of the nation’s highest-profile federal prosecutors, taking on mobsters and crooked Wall Street traders.

He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 but abandoned his race against Hillary Rodham Clinton after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

In 2007, Giuliani ran for president. Buoyed by his post-9/11 popularity, he started as the front-runner for the Republican nomination. But that was short-lived. He withdrew from the race after struggling in the primaries amid GOP concerns about his past support for abortion rights, gay rights and gun control, and questions about his personal life and business ties to the Middle East.

He toyed with running for other offices before pivoting to political commentary.

In 2016, Trump leaned on Giuliani’s political acumen and loyalty and put him to work as a surrogate leading attacks on Clinton, his Democratic rival. After Trump won, Giuliani continued as his attack dog, even traveling to Ukraine to seek damaging information about Biden’s son Hunter.

The Council of Melkite Greek Catholic Bishops in Lebanon urged the Lebanese government and the United Nations to protect the property of civilians and religious institutions, citing in particular the village of Yaroun where officials said Israeli troops destroyed a Melkite convent earlier this month among other demolition. The bishops called the destruction of buildings, after residents of the area had evacuated, a “deep wound in the national and human conscience.”

Israel took control of border areas in southern Lebanon in its latest war against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah ahead of a ceasefire on April 17 and has said it aims to root out the militants and their infrastructure in the area. It has asked residents to evacuate villages for their own safety.

The Israeli military said it does not intentionally target religious institutions, but said in a statement on Saturday that while destroying Hezbollah infrastructure in Yaroun, that it had damaged a house without religious signs, and that it had prevented further damage to the building after recognizing it was linked to a church.

The Israeli military said the building in Yaroun was part of a compound that Hezbollah militants had used in the past to fire rockets toward Israel, and it released photographs of an intact building at the site.

Adib Ajaka, a Christian community leader in Yaroun, told The Associated Press that the photos posted in the Israel statement were of another building next to the convent that housed a clinic and archbishopric, and that the Israeli military had bulldozed the convent. He handed over a photograph showing rubble next to the clinic building that he said were the remains of the convent.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond Monday to questions about the convent.

Adib, as well as a municipal official from Yaroun and Gladys Sabbagh, the superior general of the Basilian Salvatorian Sisters who had used the convent, all told The Associated Press that according to news they received, the convent had been bulldozed while residents were evacuated from the area. The municipal official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The French Catholic charity L’Oeuvre d’Orient condemned what it called the “deliberate act of destruction of a place of worship and the systematic destruction of homes in southern Lebanon aimed at preventing the return of civilian populations.”

Also Monday, the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa told reporters that a potential meeting between President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington should not be seen as a concession or a loss for Lebanon.

Trump said last month that he would host a meeting between Aoun and Netanyahu although a date has not been set yet. There has been no official confirmation from Lebanon that Aoun will attend such a meeting with Netanyahu.

Aoun has been harshly criticized at home by Hezbollah and its allies who are opposed to direct talks with Israel.

The latest war between Israel and Hezbollah began March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel, two days after the United States and Israel launched a war on the group's main backer, Iran.

Israel has since carried out hundreds of airstrikes and launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, capturing dozens of towns and villages along the border, while Hezbollah kept targeting Israel — especially northern communities — with missiles and drones.

Israel's military said that two of its soldiers were injured in a “close-quarters encounter with Hezbollah” in southern Lebanon on Monday, the latest clash to threaten a fragile 10-day ceasefire declared in Washington that went into effect on April 17 and was later extended by three weeks.

The Health Ministry in Lebanon said Monday that the latest Israel-Hezbollah war has killed 2,696 and wounded 8,264.

An additional three people were seriously injured in what officials believe was a deliberate rampage, Mayor Burkhard Jung said.

He described it as “a terrible tragedy." An unspecified number of people sustained less serious injuries.

The driver, a 33-year-old German citizen, was detained in the car. Police said he was a German-born resident of the Leipzig area.

Prosecutors said he is under investigation on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. There was no immediate word on a possible motive.

The interior minister of Saxony state, Armin Schuster, said investigators believe the man acted alone. He said that rage and “psychological instability” are often factors in such cases, but added that he wouldn't speculate on whether that was the case here.

Police chief René Demmler said the man drove from the Augustusplatz, a major square, along the Grimmaische Strasse into the city's central pedestrianized shopping area. He stressed that there was no longer any danger.

The driver was arrested in the vehicle and didn't resist arrest, Demmler said.

Saxony state Gov. Michael Kretschmer expressed his condolences to the families of the victims.

“An act like this leaves us speechless — and it makes us determined," he added, according to German news agency dpa. “We will do everything in our power to solve this case quickly and completely.”

Photos from the scene showed a car with a battered front and a shattered windshield after the incident, which happened at about 5 p.m.

Leipzig is located southwest of Berlin and has more than 630,000 inhabitants, making it one of the biggest cities in eastern Germany.

Not in Game 1.

A whopping 14 players scored Sunday night, Colorado goalie Scott Wedgewood gave up a half-dozen goals — one more than he allowed in his team's sweep of the Los Angeles Kings in Round 1 — and yet the Avalanche prevailed 9-6 after Jesper Wallstedt surrendered a career-high eight goals before an empty-netter completed the madness.

“It was a weird one,” said Avalanche star Cale Makar, the only player to score multiple goals in the opener of a series that resumes Tuesday night at Ball Arena with both teams pledging to tighten up their defense.

“Weird game for sure,” Wild defenseman Jake Middleton concurred. “I mean, it’s the playoffs, you can’t be too surprised with what transpires.”

It was downright shocking to see so many goals, Avs center Nazem Kadri said.

“We did not expect that kind of game at all,” Kadri said. “In fact, quite the opposite.”

The Avalanche, who surrendered the fewest goals in the regular season, jumped out to a 3-0 lead over the almost-as-stingy Wild less than seven minutes into the game only to have to sweat it out and forge a comeback themselves after Minnesota scored five of the next six goals.

“It felt like the puck, the puck just had eyes today for them,” Wallstedt said.

There were five goals scored in each of the three periods.

“Yeah, it's nothing either of us wants,” Wedgewood said. “Obviously we want a couple of them back on both sides. But you’ve got to give credit offenses. It’s playoff hockey.”

The Avs, who won the President’s Trophy with the league’s best regular-season record, opened the playoffs with a pair of 2-1 nail-biters over the Kings. And the crowd clearly expected that pucks whacking the nets would be at a premium in this series, too.

“Versatility,” Kadri said. “That’s what we always talk about, whether we’ve got to go high-flying offense or lock-down defense, I certainly feel comfortable in both scenarios and I know this team does as well.”

Kadri looked at the bright side of the 15-goal slugfest, which he figured shouldn’t have been entirely unexpected given the Avalanche’s week off after sweeping LA while the Wild needed six games to dispatch Dallas in a competitive first round.

“You’ve got to win different ways come playoff time,” Kadri said. “I think we were a little loose and a little rusty defensively, but we’ll get that tightened up. I think it’s just being off for a little while and defensively trying to get engaged in the game took a little longer than expected for us.

“But at the end of the day, we found a way to win. On the flip side, the offensive side was going.”

Colorado captain Gabe Landeskog said that although both teams are touted for their defense, “we’ve got some really good shooters on both teams,” and that once it became a slugfest, it was all about surviving the onslaught.

“You have to find ways to win,” he said. “We took the lead and they tied it back up and then they took the lead and we tied it back up, it was just back and forth, you’re just trying to find a way to win the hockey game, you’re trying to find a way to stop the bleeding. And you’re just trying to settle into the game.

“It’s nice to be able to win games like this, not necessarily a coach’s dream or a player’s dream. We don’t want to give up six goals. So, it’s good to win this one, but we’ve got lots of things to clean up.”

Makar opened the third period with an unassisted goal to break a 5-all tie, and his wrist shot with 2:54 remaining — the fifth by an Avs defenseman — made it 8-6. This, after missing 17 minutes of the first period with a lower-body injury.

“That's Cale Makar doing Cale Makar things,” Landeskog said.

“Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to unpack in this one,” Wild coach John Hynes said. “Was a bit of a helter-skelter game. Obviously you can tell by the score. We’ll take a look at some things and take some lessons out of this one. Be ready for Game 2.”

Hynes insisted he never considered pulling his goaltender.

“No, I thought Wally played ... look what the score was,” Hynes said. “And their guy was in for a lot of goals against, too.”

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According to Sgt. Patrick O’Brien, a spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, a driver crashed into a tree at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday in the area of Southeast 15th Avenue and East Broward Boulevard.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel took the man and the woman injured to Broward General Hospital. Their condition was critical, according to O’Brien.

The JMH’s Miami Burn Center is at Ryder Trauma Center.

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

Según documentos judiciales obtenidos por Local 10 News el lunes, la policía de Davie respondió al tráiler de Buech E. Allen Michael Carter, de 42 años, en el bloque 13400 de Southwest Seventh Court el jueves, luego de que una vecina los alertara sobre el perro amarrado.

La vecina dijo que no había “visto al dueño del perro en dos días”, según el informe de arresto. De acuerdo con la policía, la vecina indicó que había revisado al perro varias veces y nunca vio comida ni agua.

La policía dijo que ella les contó que el perro tenía “un pequeño tazón plateado vacío a su alcance que constantemente golpeaba con la pata” y que “notó que el perro parecía angustiado y jadeaba porque no tenía sombra para protegerse del calor.”

En el informe, la oficial Erinn Sarandria, del Departamento de Policía de Davie, escribió que vio al perro mestizo blue heeler afuera, atado con una cuerda “sujeta a una cadena de ahorque plateada alrededor del cuello.”

“El concreto dentro del radio de movimiento del perro estaba cubierto de orina y heces”, escribió. “Un pequeño tazón plateado estaba a su alcance, pero estaba volcado y vacío. Le di al perro una botella de agua, que terminó de inmediato. Desde donde estaba atado, no tenía refugio de los elementos y estaba completamente expuesto.”

La policía determinó que Carter era el inquilino de la casa móvil y que “había sido investigado previamente por un problema similar de negligencia animal en 2024 relacionado con otro perro dejado atado de la misma manera, también sin acceso a comida y agua”, y había recibido varias citaciones.

Sarandria escribió que mientras investigaba la situación, Carter se presentó en el lugar.

“Dijo que alguien debía pasar a darle comida y agua al perro ‘Kai’ y meterlo de nuevo adentro. Dijo que Kai normalmente no se queda afuera”, escribió. “Sin embargo, cuando le pedí que me proporcionara la información de contacto de la persona que supuestamente iba a cuidar a Kai, se negó. Finalmente lo convencí de darme su información para poder confirmar su versión de los hechos, pero la llamada fue directo al buzón de voz.”

Sarandria escribió que cuando le preguntó sobre el caso anterior, “simplemente dijo que ese perro no era suyo.”

Concluyó que Carter “continúa sin tener ningún respeto por la salud y seguridad de los perros bajo su cuidado y control” y lo arrestó por dos cargos, un delito grave y uno menor, relacionados con crueldad y negligencia animal.

Hasta el lunes, permanecía en la Cárcel Principal de Broward con una fianza de $6,000.

Habanero, an adult male, was euthanized Saturday to prevent further suffering at the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens. He had been taken there for rehabilitation along with a dozen other sloths given up by Sloth World, a tourist attraction planned for Orlando's tourism district that never opened, zoo officials said.

Another sloth, Bandit, died last week after being transferred to the zoo.

“When the sloths arrived, all were underweight and are being treated for gastrointestinal (GI) issues, requiring intensive, specialized care,” the zoo said in a statement. “Habanero initially showed encouraging signs of stabilization, including eating and drinking regularly under the close supervision of the zoo’s veterinary and animal care teams. In recent days, however, his condition worsened.”

A criminal investigation into the sloths' treatment under Sloth World's care is underway by state and local authorities.

Inspection reports by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission revealed 31 deaths between December 2024 and February 2025.

The wildlife agency said 21 sloths imported from Guyana died at an Orlando facility called Sanctuary World Imports at the time in December 2024 when temperatures dropped into the 40-to-55 degree Fahrenheit (4.4 to 12.8 degrees Celsius) range. Sloths are unable to regulate their body temperature as well as other mammals and do best in the 68-to-85 degree Fahrenheit (20 to 30 degrees Celsius) range.

The tourist attraction later ordered 10 sloths from Peru, which arrived in February 2025. Two were dead on arrival. The rest appeared emaciated and died of what the report termed “poor health issues," according to the state agency's report.

There was no answer Monday at a phone number listed for the tourist attraction in the wildlife agency's report.

Just 300 miles (500 kilometers) or so across, this mini Pluto is thought to be the solar system's smallest object yet with a clearly detected global atmosphere bound by gravity, said lead researcher Ko Arimatsu of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

“This is an amazing development, but it sorely needs independent verification. The implications are profound if verified,” said Southwest Research Institute's Alan Stern, the lead scientist behind NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond. He was not involved in the study.

The finding offers fresh insight into our solar system’s farthest, coldest objects in a region known as the Kuiper Belt. Researchers used three telescopes in Japan to observe the object in 2024 as it passed in front of a background star, briefly dimming the starlight.

“It changes our view of small worlds in the solar system, not only beyond Neptune,” Arimatsu said in an email. Finding an atmosphere around such a small object was “genuinely surprising," he added, and challenges “the conventional view that atmospheres are limited to large planets, dwarf planets and some large moons.”

This so-called minor planet — formally known as (612533) 2002 XV93 — is considered a plutino, circling the sun twice in the time it takes Neptune to complete three solar orbits. At the time of the study, it was more than 3.4 billion miles (5.5 billion kilometers) away, farther than even Pluto, the only other object in the Kuiper Belt with an observed atmosphere.

This cosmic iceball’s atmosphere is believed to be 5 million to 10 million times thinner than Earth’s protective atmosphere, according to the the study appearing Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.

It’s 50 to 100 times thinner than even Pluto’s tenuous atmosphere. The likeliest atmospheric chemicals are methane, nitrogen or carbon monoxide, any of which could reproduce the observed dimming as the object passed before the star, according to Arimatsu.

Further observations, especially by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope, could verify the makeup of the atmosphere, according to Arimatsu.

“That is why future monitoring is so important," he said. "If the atmosphere fades over the next several years, that would support an impact origin. If it persists, or varies seasonally, that would point more toward ongoing internal gas supply” from ice volcanoes.

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The American-owned team used the Miami Grand Prix, the fourth race of the F1 season, as its homecoming. Its two cars were drenched in a bespoke livery that said “USA,” the merchandise tents were packed with fans trying to purchase Cadillac gear and the mood was festive as Americans finally have a team they can embrace.

The trick now for Cadillac is persuading its new fan base to stick with the team as it makes a slow crawl through the F1 season. The results sheet aren't all that impressive, but the finishing positions aren't too important right now.

Instead, Cadillac is focused on showing progress made from race to race, and even though Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas finished near the bottom of the running order Sunday, it was still a successful day.

Perez was 16th and Bottas was 18th — last of the cars still running in a 22-driver field — but the key statistic was that both cars finished the race for the third consecutive grands prix. Both cars also completed all the laps in the Saturday's sprint race.

“I’m proud of the team this weekend. The pressure of racing for the first time on home soil, with our first significant upgrade package, has been huge, but the team and drivers have performed well," said Dan Towriss, CEO of the team. "We’re showing some real flashes of progress, which just makes us hungry for more.”

The team was just finding some momentum after the Japanese Grand Prix in March when F1 canceled a pair of races in the Middle East because of the Iran war. It led to an unexpected five-week break that allowed Cadillac to make significant upgrades to its two cars ahead of Miami.

But all the teams did the same, so it was really a matter of how much improvement a new program could make versus seasoned organizations that have been racing at motorsports' top level for years.

For team principal Graeme Lowdon, Miami was “a positive step forward” based on both cars finishing on both Saturday and Sunday. He was pleased with the pace shown by Perez and Bottas.

“We also know there are areas we need to refine and improve so there is more to come from us,” Lowdon said. “We’ve increased the amount of data that we have access to by a huge amount and we will look to make another step forward in Montreal.”

Towriss is focused more on progress than results for both the F1 team and reserve driver Colton Herta, who is competing in F2 this season to earn the points he needs for a super license to race in the top series. Herta, in a wet race Sunday morning, moved as high as second in the running order before eventually finishing eighth.

“I don't know that F2 performance, per se, is really going to be a barometer for F1 readiness,” Towriss said. "It's really going to be more what is he like in FP1s and SIM time and things like that. We'll see what his comfort level is. But it's not like, ‘Oh, this race went well, it’s looking good,' or ‘This race didn’t go well.'

“It's not really the barometer we're looking at. There will be a body of work that we'll look at to judge his readiness.”

Towriss likened the Cadillac venture to the journey the NASCAR team he co-owns has been on since he bought into Spire Motorsports. The team last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway celebrated its first victory under Towriss majority ownership when Carson Hocevar scored his first Cup Series win. Hocevar followed it with a Friday night victory at Texas Motor Speedway and won the pole for the Cup race at Texas.

“That upward progression, we talk about it here with Formula 1, you see it at Spire in NASCAR,” Towriss said. "You see it at Andretti (in IndyCar) in terms of the changes that they're making. It’s just doing all those small things better than everyone else, and it’s building culture. It’s bringing in the right people. And that results happens over time.

“Spire didn’t get better overnight. You know, there are charts that show this slow progression over the last four years — four years of building and adding a person, adding that person, changing this, this process and building. And there’s suddenly that breakthrough. But there are a lot of things along the way, it wasn’t flat and then jumped up overnight. It’s really been this slow progression over many years to earn that progress.”

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