Wilton Manors police identified the man as 57-year-old George Manuel Mandes.

According to the report, the incident began Thursday at about 4:19 p.m. when the Amazon delivery driver was making several deliveries at the Manor Grove Apartments in Wilton Manors.

Police said the driver delivered packages to different floors of the apartment complex, including one package that was left at Mandes’ home.

The driver told police he later realized the package had been delivered to the wrong apartment, just a few doors away. He returned to retrieve it and delivered it to the correct address, according to the report.

The report states the driver told police that after he returned to his delivery van, Mandes approached him and accused him of stealing his package.

According to the report, Mandes then pulled a “small black handgun” from his waistband and pointed it at the driver.

Police said Mandes then barricaded himself inside his home, prompting a large law enforcement response at the condominium complex.

Neighbor Paul Baker said he was stunned by what happened.

“I couldn’t believe it. He’s such a nice guy. He’s always been very friendly to me,” he said. “I wonder if I have it on camera.”

Police said they eventually arrested Mandes after he gave them consent to search his apartment, where they recovered a gun.

Jail records show Mandes is facing one count each of aggravated assault with a firearm without intent to kill and improper exhibition of a firearm.

Mandes posted bond and was no longer listed as an inmate in Broward County jail records as of Saturday morning.

The clouds of smoke could be seen billowing over the trees on Friday evening, with Sky 10 capturing the intensity of the flames as they moved through the land.

It’s the latest brush fire to burn across South Florida during a busy wildfire season that has already scorched hundreds of thousands of acres.

The flames also moved close to Krome Avenue, keeping first responders on alert.

Police shut down the southbound lanes of Krome Avenue Friday evening as crews worked to contain the blaze.

Authorities said the smoke and haze could make it difficult for drivers to see, adding to the reason for the road closure.

The latest fire has burned only a couple hundred acres so far, but it’s still having a major impact.

As of Friday evening, the Radio Tower Fire is currently 188 acres and 50% contained, and the Trail Fire is 25 acres and 80% contained.

At approximately 8:26 p.m., BSO dispatchers received a report of a hit-and-run near Southwest First Terrace and Third Court, according to investigators.

Authorities said deputies and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene and found a man suffering from injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle.

They said paramedics transported the man to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. No other details about his age or identity were immediately released.

According to investigators, the driver of the vehicle fled the scene without rendering aid.

Authorities said BSO’s Traffic Homicide Unit detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

PSG announced the signing in a statement without giving financial details. Sports Daily L'Equipe said the club was paying the Spanish champion 50 million euros ($58 million) for Torres. The French team said he will wear the No. 9 jersey.

The 26-year-old Torres scored Spain's winning goal during extra time of the World Cup final against a robust and physical Argentina side. Brought on as a second-half substitute, he pounced on a bouncing ball and drove a left-foot shot under the crossbar.

It was his only goal of the competition and he said it was “scored by 47 million people,” referring to Spain’s population.

The transfer to PSG is his second big move. Barcelona signed Torres from Manchester City during the January 2022 transfer window for a reported fee of 55 million euros. Before joining City in 2020, he played for Valencia.

More of a roaming forward than a prolific scorer he netted 65 goals in 207 games for Barcelona, including a career-high 21 in all competitions last season. But his contract was set to expire next year and Barcelona reportedly had to pay a fee to City if he was to extend it.

Torres had played briefly alongside PSG forward Ousmane Dembélé when the France star was at Barça.

The move reunites Torres with Spanish coach Luis Enrique, who gave the player his international debut in 2020 when he was in charge of Spain. Luis Enrique took over at PSG in 2023 and has led the team to back-to-back Champions League titles as well as the French league title in each of his three seasons in charge.

PSG boasts attacking options

Luis Enrique has multiple options in attack, with Ballon d'Or winner Dembélé, Désiré Doué, Bradley Barcola — who has been linked with a summer move to Liverpool — Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and new signing Maghnes Akliouche.

Dembélé set up Doué for PSG's winner against Aston Villa in the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday after Kvaratskhelia had given PSG the lead in a 2-1 victory.

It’s the first of a possible six trophies this season for PSG, which became the first team to win back-to-back Super Cup titles since Real Madrid (2016 and ’17).

PSG faces French Cup winner Lens on Sunday in the Trophée des Champions, which is a match between last season’s league and cup winners.

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See AP’s full soccer coverage here

A top United Nations official, however, warned of a grave human rights crisis in the country where girls above the age of 12 are denied an education.

The Taliban seized power on Aug. 15, 2021, as the U.S. and other NATO troops withdrew following a costly two-decade war. The U.S. withdrawal led to chaos at Kabul airport as crowds of people tried to flee the country in desperation.

Soon after taking power, the Taliban administration imposed a ban on girls’ education beyond the sixth grade and later also banned higher education for women, despite having pledged before the takeover that women would be allowed access to education, employment and public participation.

Women have also been banned from public spaces such as gyms and parks, from taking part in sports and traveling to distant locations without a male guardian.

Taliban hails ‘liberation’ from American forces

At the Loya Jirga, high-ranking officials were joined by some foreign representatives and thousands of ordinary citizens for speeches marking what they said was Afghanistan's liberation from American forces.

“We pray to Almighty God to forever protect our homeland from occupation, aggression, wars, and insecurity, and to enable our people to enjoy peace, tranquility, and prosperity under the auspices of the Sharia-based government,” the Taliban government’s deputy spokesman, Hamdullah Fitrat, said during the ceremony.

There were no women present.

Five years on, the Taliban government remains isolated internationally, with Russia being the only country to have recognized it formally.

Top Taliban official calls for more international engagement

Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that countries that have engaged with the administration have gained from doing so and called on others that have not established contacts to reconsider their approach.

“Those that engaged and interacted with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan benefited,” he said. “As for the countries that have not engaged with the Islamic Emirate, let them state what they have gained or what benefit they have derived.”

“They should move towards a policy of engagement and mutual interaction,” he said.

Celebrations held under tight security

In Kabul, men took to the squares carrying Taliban flags and chanting slogans in support of the government. Convoys of vehicles wound their way through the city, causing traffic jams.

Security was tight, with heavy Taliban security force presence and several check points on a main road leading to the Loya Jirga.

Celebrations were also held in provinces across Afghanistan, where Taliban flags and posters emblazoned with slogans in praise of the Taliban’s return to power were displayed along major roads and marketplaces.

In a video message, Richard Bennett, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, said the country was undergoing a deep human rights crisis.

UN says human rights situation has ‘dramatically’ deteriorated

“While the era of war has ended, it’s questionable whether there’s real peace, and the human rights situation has steadily deteriorated, most dramatically for women and girls,” Bennett said. “My mandate has concluded that this system amounts to the crime against humanity of gender persecution.”

“The crisis extends well beyond gender discrimination, even beyond gender apartheid,” he continued. “Across Afghanistan we continue to document arbitrary arrests, torture and ill treatment, extrajudicial killings, corporal punishment, enforced disappearances, restrictions on freedom of expression, attacks on journalists and human rights defenders, persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, discrimination against LGBT plus persons, and the reduction of civic space.”

Bennett warned the international community against “normalizing” the Taliban’s policies, saying it would legitimize the discrimination and tell “victims their suffering is negotiable.”

In an interview with The Associated Press earlier this week, Molvi Hayatullah Mahajar Farahi, deputy minister in the Taliban government for broadcasting at the Ministry of Information and Culture, said despite “challenges and difficulties” the administration has in the past five years delivered security, infrastructure and created jobs.

2.4 million girls excluded from secondary education

Farahi, when asked, did not address the issue of the education of girls and women but said “the level of investment made in universities surpasses anything seen in the past."

The U.N. agency on education and culture, UNESCO, estimates that some 2.4 million girls have been excluded from secondary education. The U.N. World Food Program said child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen due to funding shortfalls.

The world body’s agency on women’s rights, U.N. Women, said this week that women and girls are facing the harshest restriction in the world and that the bans are damaging Afghanistan’s future, with the lack of teachers, doctors, nurses and midwives threatening the country’s social and economic foundations.

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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey.

Driver and Navarette were among the new cast members announced Friday night at Disney's D23 convention by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, along with Driver's “Girls” castmate Christopher Abbott as Professor Charles Xavier and Maya Boyd as Storm. The film is slated for release in May 2028.

The announcements were the biggest news to emerge from Disney Entertainment's D23 presentation that also brought updates on its forthcoming “Star Wars” titles and a song-and-dance that went sideways from the stars of “Frozen 3.”

Driver's name was often rumored and often dismissed as an “X-Men” possibility. Many thought he'd be playing the antihero Magneto. The rest of the cast appeared on stage at the Honda Center arena in Anaheim, California, while Driver appeared on a big screen.

“Kevin and I had been talking for years about my joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I think we finally found the perfect film,” Driver told the crowd of 12,000 via video. “So I’m very excited to be playing the role of Maaagneto!” he said before pausing, taking it back and saying, “even better, Nathaniel Millbury,” an alias for Mister Sinister.

Also on stage were previously announced cast members Samara Weaving, who is playing Emma Frost; Kit Connor, who is playing Scott “Cyclops” Summers; and Sadie Sink, whose role as Jean Grey was revealed by her appearance in this summer’s Marvel megahit “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.”

The castmates were as new to each other as they were to the fans.

“They’ve just met backstage for the very first time,” Feige said.

Navarette had also been heavily rumored to have a role after fast becoming one of Hollywood's most sought-after actors for her striking performance as a spellbound girlfriend in the indie horror hit “Obsessed” earlier this year.

The “X-Men” joining the MCU became possible with Disney's 2019 acquisition of Fox's film studio.

Director Jake Schreier is heading the reboot. and two writers from prestige TV — “Beef” creator Lee Sung Jin and “The Bear” co-showrunner Joanna Calo — are working on the script.

Gosling cosplays as Kade Auberon in 'Star Wars' presentation.

Ryan Gosling and director Shawn Levy headlined the “Star Wars” part of the night with a presentation on their film “Star Wars: Starfighter,” which is getting a May, 2027 release.

Gosling's appearance on stage was preceded by clips of him as a child cast member of “The Mickey Mouse Club.”

“I owe a lot to Disney," Gosling said. "Had they not looked far and wide and come to my hometown I would not be here today. Now, 30 years later, I'm back and it's changing my life again.”

Shawn Levy put on Gosling a leather jacket with his “Star Wars” character Kade Auberon's skull-and-bones symbol.

Gosling described Auberon as “a guy from the wrong side of the galaxy, whose fate is intertwined with the fastest starfighter ever built,” before showing clips from the film.

Disney announced earlier this summer at its San Diego Comic-Con presentation that Gosling will play the character Ghost Rider in the MCU, first in a “Black Panther” sequel, then in a “Ghost Rider” film that Levy will also direct. Both are set for release in 2028.

“Star Wars: Ahsoka” star Rosario Dawson also appeared to promote the Season 2 return of her Disney+ series, as did Hayden Christensen, who will return as a force-ghost version of her mentor Anakin Skywalker.

More Marvel with classic stars Downey, Evans, Atwell and Bettany

Marvel veterans also took the D23 stage as past and future “Avengers” stars Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr. and Hayley Atwell introduced a new trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday,” to be released Dec. 18.

The footage shows Downey, now playing Dr. Doom having shed his Iron Man suit, beating back Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and his hammer, and shows Evans, who is returning as Captain America, holding a baby. And it shows Ian McKellan as a long-haired, haggard, struggling version of Magneto.

Hugh Jackman appeared on the big screen to tell Feige he's willing to appear in “Doomsday” as Wolverine. Whether he'll be in the movie has led to heated fan speculation. His answer wasn't definitive, but most bets are now switching to yes.

Fans also got a glimpse of the soon-to-drop Disney+ series “Visionquest.” Paul Bettany, who returns to his Marvel role as Vision, and James Spader, who returns to playing Ultron, showed a trailer with oddly human and ordinary versions of their cybernetic characters. Bettany said it’s been a pleasure to play multiple versions of Vision, who has “rather inconveniently died several times.” But, he said, “I'm told in the Marvel Universe that no one is ever really dead.”

“Frozen 3” stars serenade fans, sort of

Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel sang an eerie new arrangement of “Frozen Heart” from their first film playing princess sisters Elsa and Anna as they introduced the forthcoming “Frozen 3.”

Or they tried to, anyway. The segment was plagued with malfunctioning audio, video, and a set of doors that failed to open.

They ad-libbed their way through it like pros.

“Should we go back and try it again?” Menzel asked at the song's end.

Bell described for the crowd everything that was supposed to happen and said, “You guys were gonna freak out.”

They found their way back to the script.

“Doesn't it kind of feel like the world of Frozen is a bit different?” Bell said. Menzel added, “Maybe a little bit more mysterious?”

“Yes, OK, we're back on track,” Bell said, to big laughs.

Their castmate Josh Gad followed with a rendition of “Oooh, Samantha,” a love song his snowman character Olaf will sing in “Frozen 3.”

The night's other big musical set pieces included songs and dance from the cast of “The Greatest Showman,” the stage musical adaptation of the 2017 Jackman film that is premiering on London's West End next year.

In Southern Lebanon, nine people were killed in Israeli airstrikes, some of the deadliest since a shaky truce between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on June 20.

Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.

A vessel is attacked in the Strait of Hormuz

A tanker owned by Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil and gas company ADNOC was attacked while transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, Emirati state-run WAM news agency said Saturday.

The attack happened Friday evening, and there were no injuries, the agency reported. This is the third such attack on vessels operated by ADNOC in the critical waterway in the last week.

In a statement Saturday the United Arab Emirates blamed Iran for the attack and called on it to stop the unprovoked strikes.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said that a bulk carrier was struck by an unknown projectile that hit the hull on Friday. It was not immediately clear if it was the same vessel.

Shipping has been disrupted and the strait has been virtually closed since the Iran war started on Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. About one-fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas passed through the waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf before the war.

The attacks in the Strait have continued as Iran seeks to control the key waterway as a form of leverage. Talks between the U.S. and Iran have stalled while Iran is in discussions with Oman about how to manage the passageway.

Israeli strikes kill 9 in southern Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least nine people Saturday, in some of the deadliest attacks since a precarious truce between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on June 20.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry and state news agency said one of the airstrikes that targeted a home on the edge of the village of Ansar killed seven people, including three children, and wounded two. The second, on the village of Deir al-Zahrani, killed two and wounded nine.

The death toll from the airstrikes makes it one of the deadliest days since the Lebanese government and Israel announced a “framework agreement” in June laying out a plan for Israeli forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon in exchange for the disarmament of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.

Hezbollah refused direct talks and was not part of the agreement.

Israel said it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon in response to actions taken by the group against Israeli soldiers operating in the security zone.

Houthis in Yemen attack Red Sea port, killing at least 1

Yemen's military said Saturday the Iranian-backed Houthis attacked a crucial Red Sea port under the control of the internationally recognized government, killing at least one security guard.

Col. Majed al-Nazili, the spokesman for the military, said in a statement that the Houthis fired six ballistic missiles Friday evening on the Mokha port, in a “new terrorist aggression that targeted a vital civilian facility.” He said the attack wounded eight people and left two marines missing.

The attack was the latest by the Houthis on government-held areas and on Saudi Arabia and part of an escalation threatening to plunge Yemen into a full-fledged conflict. A 2022 ceasefire stopped heavy fighting during the country’s civil war.

Analysts say the Houthi escalation reflects how Iran is scaling up pressure on the United States and its regional allies.

Lebanon's Health Ministry and state news agency said one of the airstrikes that targeted a home on the edge of the village of Ansar killed seven people, including three children, and wounded two. The second, on the village of Deir al-Zahrani, killed two and wounded nine.

Israel and the Lebanese government announced a “framework agreement” on June 26, laying out a plan for Israeli forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon, in exchange for the disarmament of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. It also envisions steps toward an eventual peace agreement between the two countries — which technically remain in a state of war nearly 80 years after Israel’s establishment.

Hezbollah has refused direct talks and wasn’t party to the deal.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam criticized Israel's airstrikes on southern Lebanon, saying they intimidate “residents in their homes" and undermine efforts to stabilize the situation in the south.

“The seven martyrs of the Israeli airstrike on the town of Ansar are not military infrastructure and the children and women killed were not military targets,” Salam said in comments posted on X. He added that it is the job of the Lebanese state to deal with any military infrastructure in the country.

“Israel must halt this escalation,” Salam said. He added that the security of the Lebanese people and their right to life on their land “are not subject to negotiation or bargaining.”

Intense Israeli airstrikes early Saturday also hit the strategic Ali Taher hill, which overlooks parts of the southern city of Nabatiyeh and main roads leading to it, NNA reported. Despite the truce, Israel’s military has continued its almost daily attacks on the area, which is north of the Litani River and has been a de facto boundary in Lebanon, with large areas to the south under Israeli military control.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the areas of Ali Taher and Ansar in response to an action against Israeli soldiers in the area. The military added that it will not allow the Hezbollah to harm Israeli civilians or soldiers “and will continue to operate to remove threats.”

A Hezbollah official did not immediately respond when asked for comment on whether they carried out any attacks on Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.

Earlier this month, two Israeli soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Lebanon, the first Israeli deaths since the shaky truce. Hezbollah did not comment on the blast.

Lebanon and Israel have held seven rounds of talks; the most recent took place in Rome earlier this month.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah has refused to disarm and accuses the Lebanese government of making too many concessions without guaranteeing an Israeli withdrawal.

The latest Israel-Hezbollah war erupted on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets across the border two days after the U.S. and Israel launched their attacks on Iran. More than 4,000 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon since then, including hundreds of civilians. About 40 soldiers and three civilians — including a military contractor — have been killed on the Israeli side.

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Associated Press writer Sam Mednick contributed to this report from Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement comes as the Rohingya refugee crisis enters its ninth year, with hundreds of thousands of refugees still living in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing Myanmar in August 2017 when the military launched a crackdown following attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on guard posts in Rakhine.

The operation drove more than 700,000 Rohingya across the border into Bangladesh, joining hundreds of thousands of others already living there for decades in the wake of waves of previous violence perpetrated by Myanmar’s military.

The scale, organization and ferocity of the operation led to accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide from the international community, including the U.N.

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, does not recognize the Rohingya as one of the country’s 135 lawful ethnic minorities, instead referring to them as Bengalis to imply they are natives from Bangladesh and are illegally settled in Myanmar.

Myanmar said it had verified 426,545 of the 828,824 refugees on a list provided by Bangladesh as of the end of July, and determined that 308,797 of those verified were former residents of Rakhine.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said 113,507 people could not be verified and that 4,241 people were found to have been involved in what it called terrorist activities.

The statement said it will continue working with Bangladesh to receive verified former residents when the security situation in Rakhine becomes more stable.

The ministry also rejected claims that more than 1 million people were displaced from Rakhine, saying that more than 540,000 people crossed into Bangladesh after the violence in 2017 while more than 200,000 remained in northern Rakhine.

Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed to a two-year repatriation process in 2018. However, security in Myanmar worsened following an army takeover in 2021 that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, triggering widespread armed resistance. Plans to repatriate the refugees have not succeeded.

The renewed chaos brought about by fighting between the Rakhine-based ethnic Arakan Army group and the military over control of the region in 2023 forced more refugees to flee toward Bangladesh and elsewhere in a desperate move to save their lives. The Arakan Army controls much of Rakhine after capturing territory from the military in recent years.

In recent years, poor conditions in refugee camps, steep cuts to foreign aid and the lack of safe prospects for returning to Myanmar have led to an increasing number of Rohingya refugees attempting to make the dangerous ocean crossing to Malaysia and Indonesia on rickety boats.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said in late July that Myanmar had agreed to take back 5,000 Rohingya refugees currently living in Malaysia as part of a repatriation program.

However, an official from Myanmar's foreign ministry, Han Win Aung, told The Associated Press at the time that the repatriation program was focused solely on verified Myanmar nationals currently held in detention centers in Malaysia and rejected reports that the government would accept Rohingya.

In a stunning turn, Mangione pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to a pair of stalking charges and admitted that he targeted and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as the executive walked to his company’s investor conference at a Manhattan hotel in 2024.

Neither Mangione nor his lawyers said why he pleaded guilty now, but they gave some clues.

Immediately after his plea, Mangione’s lawyers filed paperwork seeking to have the state case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds. That trial is scheduled to begin next month, but could be pushed back or canceled altogether depending on what the judge decides.

If it succeeds, Mangione’s defense team could concentrate on trying to convince the judge in his federal case, Margaret Garnett, to spare him from the life sentence that prosecutors say they intend to seek when he’s sentenced on Dec. 18.

Mangione was facing back-to-back trials and a pile of evidence

In their double jeopardy filing Friday, Mangione’s lawyers described him as a “pawn in parallel prosecutions," and defense lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo accused state and federal prosecutors of “trying to punish him twice for the exact conduct.”

Indeed, Mangione remains scheduled to go to trial on state murder charges beginning Sept. 8. His federal trial — now moot because of his guilty plea — was set for January.

Complicating matters, anything said in federal court — including Mangione's statements Friday admitting to killing Thompson — potentially could be used against him in state court, or vice versa.

But that's not all. Prosecutors say they have a trove of evidence that proves Mangione’s guilt, including: Video of him shooting Thompson and tailing him the day before; Mangione’s DNA and fingerprints on items at or near the crime scene; testimony from shooting witnesses; a 3D-printed 9mm pistol that police found in his backpack when he was arrested that authorities said matched the gun used to kill Thompson; and a notebook found with Mangione at the time of his arrest in which he expressed a willingness to kill a healthcare executive.

The defense previously argued all the items in Mangione's backpack were obtained in an unconstitutional search, but judges in both the federal and state cases disagreed.

Guilty plea allows defense to argue double jeopardy

Mangione's guilty plea, just three weeks before jury selection in his state murder trial, appeared to be part of a larger defense strategy to swiftly resolve both cases, minimize his legal consequences and, perhaps, give him a chance to live some of his life outside a prison cell. Earlier plea talks broke down in June.

Within minutes of his plea, Mangione’s lawyers petitioned the judge in the state case, Gregory Carro, to throw out those charges on double jeopardy grounds. Instead of two trials — and two potential sentences that could run back-to-back — they are fighting for just one and are sure to argue he deserves a far lesser sentence than life in prison.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which is prosecuting the state case, will have a chance to respond to the defense's double jeopardy motion before Carro rules. In a statement, the office said it would fight efforts to terminate the state case, in part because Mangione's sentence in the federal case isn't yet known. Thompson's family members, in a statement, suggested they are also looking forward to the state case going to trial. Mangione has pleaded not guilty in the state case.

Compared with federal law and that of other states, New York has uncommonly strong protections for defendants facing multiple prosecutions — though they are not guaranteed.

Bragg's office contends that the state charges, including murder and firearms offenses, involve different legal elements and criminal conduct than federal charges, which alleged Mangione traveled across state lines to stalk and kill Thompson.

However Carro rules, his decision will be subject to appeal, meaning a final answer on whether Mangione faces a state trial could take a while.

An opportunity to argue for less than a life sentence

Mangione’s lawyers previously fended off the government’s attempts to seek the death penalty. Now they're fighting for a sentence that's less than the life term U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said federal prosecutors intend to seek. Life is also the maximum punishment in Mangione's state case.

Unlike other defendants, Mangione doesn't have a plea deal with prosecutors. There were “no accommodations or concessions, and we are free to seek the maximum penalty under the law," McDonald said.

Still, Garnett noted in court that the government’s calculation of federal sentencing guidelines would call for a sentence of 24 to 30 years in prison. Mangione's lawyers can submit their own calculation and both sides can argue for greater or lesser punishment in submissions to the judge. Such filings typically chronicle the impact of a defendant's crimes, as well as his history, upbringing and other aggravating or mitigating factors.

Mangione will also be interviewed by probation officers, Garnett said, adding that the report they produce will factor heavily in her sentencing decision. Judges are free to ignore sentencing guidelines, which are intended to reduce disparities in punishments levied for the same crimes.

Garnett told Mangione she is obliged to determine what she thinks is the correct guideline range and “more importantly what I think the appropriate sentence is in your case.”

“No one, not your lawyers, not the government’s lawyers, no one can give you any assurance of what your sentence will be since I am the one who will decide your sentence,” the judge said, “and I’m not going to do that today.”

It also may require fewer parkas for the winters in Iowa, which is out of the top spot of the proposed calendar, and learning to pronounce Nevada the way the locals do (it's Ne-VAD-ah).

The Democratic National Committee is scheduled to approve the calendar Saturday at a meeting in Texas.

South Carolina’s primary would be first on Jan. 22, followed by Nevada on Feb. 1. New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan and Virginia would round out the early states, throughout February.

“It shouldn’t surprise anyone as a result of it being the largest and most diverse committee that we got the most diverse calendar in our party’s history,” DNC Chairman Ken Martin, who has championed the calendar, told a gathering of the party’s Black Caucus this week.

Democrats' 2028 presidential primary is expected to draw a large group of candidates. Already, some potential candidates have been making stops in states expected to vote early, such as South Carolina. Party leaders have widely praised the plan as giving its candidates the best shot at replacing President Donald Trump.

“They have to show that they can go to the South and talk to Black voters and rural voters, as well as out west, talking ranching and mining issues, to a border state, to union members,” said party strategist Karen Finney, who has worked on multiple winning and losing presidential campaigns. “Whoever survives will be battle tested.”

Former presidential candidate Howard Dean recalled his time as national party chairman, when Democrats solidified Nevada and South Carolina as early states behind Iowa and New Hampshire. The latest change is even better, he said.

“These states look more like the country,” as a whole, he said, “whereas Iowa and New Hampshire don’t.”

Nonwhite voters claim top billing

As the first-in-the-South primary, South Carolina was more decisive than Iowa and New Hampshire for nominees Barack Obama in 2008, Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. All three dominated among South Carolina’s large Black population, which can yield more than half the state’s Democratic primary electorate.

With Nevada and New Mexico following, that will likely require that candidates also court more Latino voters long before voting starts.

Shifting from Iowa and New Hampshire does not mean little-known candidates can't catch fire like Pete Buttigieg did in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2020, when he was a 37-year-old former mayor. They just won’t be able to do it with an almost entirely white audience.

“If you can’t go to every part of this country and make your case, you should not be running for president,” Finney said.

The progressive vs. establishment dynamics may shift

There’s disagreement over how Democrats’ split between progressives and mainstream liberals may — or may not — surface in the calendar.

“I think our primary voters up north are probably a little different than primary voters in South Carolina,” said Boyd Brown, a former DNC member from South Carolina. “It’s not the woke ideologies that we just can’t get away from” in other places.

Nina Smith, a former Buttigieg adviser who now works closely with progressive causes, disagreed. Smith agreed that Black South Carolinians, especially, have gravitated to more moderate candidates — twice rejecting Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in favor of Clinton and Biden.

But, she said, “Southern Black voters are more progressive than they’re given credit for” on policy but also “realists” about what’s possible.

“Living through Jim Crow and other oppressive structures will force you to take that approach,” she said.

Smith said that South Carolina leading off — with many Southern states following on Super Tuesday soon after the early slate concludes — means that progressives will have to take the time to listen and then tailor their messages.

“A lot of Black voters don’t necessarily see themselves in the ideas and arguments that progressives put forward,” she said.

Unions get a spotlight

The slate covers three major organized labor buckets.

Nevada has the service industry unions because of Las Vegas; Michigan has the auto industry and associated manufacturing support industries; Virginia is home to more federal workers than any other state.

“Labor is still so important,” Dean said.

Beyond seeking members' votes, campaigns and the party look to organized labor for help in spreading Democrats' message to voters and getting people to the polls.

More scheduling efficiency for candidates

Campaigns struggle to balance many demands: meeting voters on the ground, raising money and travel logistics. As a result, some places, such as Nevada, have gotten short shrift in the past because candidates, most from the eastern half of the country, have concluded the time investment isn’t worth it.

An expanded calendar offers more clustering opportunities.

A Western swing could hit two early states — Nevada and New Mexico — plus a fundraising stop in California, which is rich with Democratic donors. A South Carolina trip could mean fundraisers and public appearances in Atlanta, Charlotte and Raleigh. Virginia offers proximity to donors and national TV studios in Washington; the same options are available by adding a New York City stop on the way to New Hampshire.

Bre Maxwell is a DNC member from South Carolina who said the state’s smaller size and lower media costs are a financial equalizer, allowing not only the best-funded candidates to have an impact.

“They can campaign from the top to the bottom in a day,” Maxwell said.

It’s about primaries — with a clear look to November

Of the six states, all but South Carolina are competitive general election states. That means that even before Super Tuesday, Democrats — including the eventual nominee — will have spent significant time and resources in battlegrounds worth a combined 43 Electoral College votes. That’s not insignificant on the way to the 270 needed to win.

TV ads and news coverage can spill over, as well. Markets targeting parts of South Carolina also reach portions of North Carolina and Georgia.

After all, Brown said, the point is to put a Democrat in the White House.

“This is not a social or a debate club. It is a political party,” he said.

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Barrow reported from Atlanta. Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, also contributed.

The Israeli military, which over the past three years has displayed staggering military and intelligence capabilities from Beirut to Tehran, has yet to fully remove the settlers from the area of the village, about an hour's drive from Tel Aviv.

The United States, which provides billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, has issued a scathing rebuke, perhaps because one of the homeowners is a Palestinian American living in Ohio.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee referred to the settlers as “terrorists.” Israel's defense minister dismissed them as radical misfits — “boys on the hills.”

In reality, they are the tip of the spear for a much larger movement, supported by successive Israeli governments and supercharged under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that is aimed at cementing Israeli rule over the territory and preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Settlements built over decades now house over 500,000

Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war, territories the Palestinians want for a future state.

Since then, the Israeli government has built nearly 150 settlements that are home to well over 500,000 Jewish settlers. Many of the settlements resemble fully developed suburbs, with apartment blocks, shopping malls, parks and industrial zones.

Radical settlers have established hundreds of additional outposts without government authorization, while still enjoying protection from the Israeli military and often other public services.

Netanyahu's government, the most nationalist and religious in Israel's history, has boasted of establishing over 100 new settlements. On Thursday, as the army deployed in Qusra, members of his Cabinet celebrated the rebuilding of a settlement that had been dismantled in 2005 as part of the Gaza withdrawal.

Israel's current government and much of its political class view the West Bank as the biblical and historical homeland of the Jewish people and see the settlements as key to maintaining security.

Most of the international community views all settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace.

Separate laws for settlers and Palestinians

The roughly 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under Israeli military rule, with the Palestinian Authority exercising limited autonomy in population centers. Israel's military operates in all parts of the territory, and Palestinians suspected of militancy can be held without charge for months or years under what's known as administrative detention.

The settlers are Israeli citizens, with law enforcement typically handled by Israeli police and civilian courts.

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz said in 2024 that Israelis would no longer be subject to administrative detention, which has also been used against settlers accused of violence. On Friday, he announced plans to fully transfer law enforcement among settlers to the Israeli police.

The military's role “is to fight Palestinian terrorism” and “focus on protecting the borders and settlements against threats,” he said in a statement. “Not chase after boys on the hills.”

That would cement the status quo of what are already largely separate legal systems for Jews and Palestinians in the West Bank, which major human rights groups say amounts to apartheid, something Israel denies.

Israel's police and military have been reluctant to confront the settlers

The Israeli police are overseen by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, himself a hard-line settler who has been convicted eight times for offenses that include supporting a terrorist organization. He was a defense attorney for Jewish extremists before entering politics.

The Israeli military says the settlers' actions in Qusra are “illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable,” and that it tries to maintain law and order in the West Bank. It says it dismantled two outposts in the area of Qusra and detained one Israeli.

But rights groups say the military frequently turns a blind eye to settler violence, and that when it intervenes it often focuses on protecting the settlers. Yesh Din, an Israeli rights group, says around 94% of investigations into settler violence since 2005 have ended without an indictment, with just 3% leading to full or partial convictions.

US pressure has had little impact, and has eased under Trump

Settler violence intensified after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, triggered the war in Gaza. The following year, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on settlers and Israeli organizations accused of violence.

Other Western nations have announced sanctions against Ben Gvir and another hard-line Israeli Cabinet minister, Bezalel Smotrich, accusing them of “inciting extremist violence” toward Palestinians.

The sanctions had little impact, as the settler community rallied around those targeted.

President Donald Trump rescinded the U.S. sanctions at the start of his second term and appointed Huckabee, a staunch supporter of Israeli settlements, as his ambassador.

During his first term, Trump had upended decades of U.S. policy by moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem and supporting Israel's claims to other territories seized in war.

Netanyahu's opponents criticize the violence but support settlement growth

Netanyahu will need the backing of Ben Gvir, Smotrich and other settler supporters if he hopes to keep his job after October elections. He will also need to maintain good relations with the Trump administration.

His opponents have criticized what they characterize as the growing chaos in the West Bank. But most of Israel's political leaders — even critics of Netanyahu — support the growth of existing settlements and are opposed to Palestinian statehood.

Gadi Eisenkot, a former top general seen as Netanyahu's main opponent, criticized the government's handling of the events in Qusra, accusing it of undermining military commanders “in the face of anarchy and violent lawbreaking by an extremist minority.” He has also come out against plans to annex the West Bank.

But he has also told Israeli media that he has “never spoken about a Palestinian state,” and that he supports settlements that are “in line with Israel’s interests.”

Naftali Bennett, a staunch settlement supporter and another leading rival of Netanyahu, has condemned the violence, saying it amounts to “terrorism” by a minority.

“Precisely as someone who believes in our right to the land and in the settlement enterprise, we need to denounce this and eradicate the violence from within our own ranks — not wait for the Americans to tell us to do it,” he said in a recent interview with Israeli media.

When Bennett was prime minister, during the only brief period in the last 17 years that Netanyahu was out of office, his national unity government approved thousands of additional settler homes.

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Associated Press writers Erin Cunningham in Jerusalem and Koral Saeed in Abu Snan, Israel, contributed.

Caitlin Clark had 29 points and 10 assists in an entertaining duel with fellow No. 1 overall pick Paige Bueckers, and the Fever beat the Dallas Wings 98-87 on Friday night in a rare game that wasn't marred by on-court or off-court controversies.

“We love each other in that locker room and we know there are a lot of people out there that are trying to tear it apart,” White said, three days Indiana's coach denounced the “divisiveness” around the WNBA in a 2 1/2-minute pregame rant. “When we say we’re a family, we mean that. It doesn’t always mean we get along, It doesn’t mean we always agree. But at the end of the day, it means we circle are wagons and we have each other’s back.”

White had drawn the wrath of Fever fans — and even Indiana Lt. Gov Micah Beckwith — after what some saw as her downplaying a flagrant foul by Chicago's DiJonai Carrington on Indiana's Sophie Cunningham.

After White called the foul on Cunningham “egregious” during her table-pounding pregame speech on Tuesday and said she always backed her players, the Fever went out and beat the New York Liberty 106-92 as Clark and her teammates rallied around their coach.

All appeared to be forgiven on Friday as the Fever picked up their third straight win.

“I think our fans, you know the true Indiana Fever fans, are amazing. They’ve been incredible to me for a long time,” White said. “But more than anything, I’m thankful for this group of women and the men on our staff, and I’m thankful we can all lift each other up when need to be and they’ve been lifting me up. I’m happy about that.”

All-Star guard Kelsey Mitchell continued scoring at a high clip, finishing with 23 points. All-Star center Aliyah Boston scored 10 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter, and even Indiana’s oft-criticized defense played well through the first half and in the closing minutes.

Friday’s game and next week’s game in Dallas could be a playoff preview.

Indiana has won eight of 10 and finished the night as the league's fourth-place team, a half-game ahead of the Atlanta Dream — its opponent on Sunday. The Wings have lost seven of 10 to fall into a tie for seventh with Washington.

Bueckers matched Clark with 29 points, but it wasn't enough for Dallas.

“Obviously, she is an incredible player, makes it really hard on us defensively,” Clark said. “We tried to throw a lot of different things at her. She’s so good in the mid-range. I felt like we had a few miscommunications, especially in that third-quarter spurt where she was completely wide open. That’s on our group to figure it out.”

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Miami won the coin toss and elected to receive, but the opening drive began at the Dolphins 7-yard line after running back Jaylen Wright fumbled the kickoff and linebacker Tyrel Dodson was called for holding.

Quarterback Malik Willis settled in quickly, finding receiver Malik Washington for two catches, including one that went for a first down on the Dolphins’ opening possession. Running back De’Von Achane also broke loose for a first down behind a strong block from center Aaron Brewer.

The Dolphins capped their first drive with a highlight-reel catch and a touchdown.

Caleb Douglas, Miami’s third-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, made a spectacular one-handed, left-handed grab for 28 yards from Willis with a defender draped over him.

Later in the drive, Willis scrambled for a first down and drew a facemask penalty. Achane then powered into the end zone from 1 yard out to cap a 14-play, 93-yard drive and give Miami a 7-0 lead.

It was an encouraging opening for a Dolphins team looking for signs of progress heading into the regular season.

Miami’s starting defense also showed some fight on its first possession.

Dodson delivered a big hit on Commanders backup quarterback Marcus Mariota after a completion for a first down. Mariota left the game one play later after taking the hit.

Shortly after, Dolphins cornerback Marco Wilson recorded the game’s first turnover for Miami when a pass from third-string quarterback Sam Hartman sailed over the head of receiver Dyami Brown and into Wilson’s hands.

Washington responded with points after Miami quarterback Quinn Ewers threw an interception on a pass that sailed over his receiver and into the hands of Commanders safety Quan Martin. The Commanders turned the takeaway into a field goal.

Rookie linebacker Jacob Rodriguez had a productive night for Miami, making several tackles in traffic and batting down a pass from Hartman.

Defensive ends Max Llewellyn and David Ojabo combined for a sack of Hartman, while defensive tackle Jordan Phillips consistently clogged the middle. EDGE Cameron Goode added a sack of Athan Kaliakmanis, and undrafted rookie defensive end Mason Reiger also brought down Kaliakmanis in the fourth quarter.

However, Washington began to find success on the ground after Miami’s starters left the game. Running back Robert Henry Jr. broke free for a 22-yard touchdown on a misdirection run after Goode and Wilson were pinned, giving the Commanders a 10-7 lead.

Ewers struggled to find a rhythm behind Miami’s second-team offensive line. He finished 1 of 8 for 27 yards and an interception.

The Commanders extended their lead before halftime when running back Kaytron Allen powered in from 1 yard out and a successful extra point made it 17-7. Hartman connected several times with receiver Jaylin Lane, who finished the half with three catches for 31 yards, while Allen provided a spark on the ground.

Miami’s defense continued to produce some positive moments. Defensive back Major Burns made a strong open-field tackle on a Hartman scramble, and rookie inside linebacker Trey Moore helped force a three-and-out with pressure. Rookie tight end Seydou Traore also made a tackle on the punt-return unit, while cornerback Miles Battle helped the Dolphins get a stop on third and 13.

The Dolphins’ run defense, however, struggled once the starters were out of the game. Henry finished with 10 carries for 66 yards and a touchdown.

Miami’s offense continued to struggle in the second half. Quarterback Cam Miller threw an interception when Commanders linebacker Ale Kaho stepped in front of a pass intended for receiver Tahj Washington. The Commanders turned the turnover into three more points on a 41-yard field goal by rookie Drew Stevens.

Miller later connected with AJ Henning on third and 16 for a 24-yard gain after Henning found a hole in the zone.

But Miller’s struggles continued as he threw his second interception of the game, the last one of the game to safety Malik Spencer.

The good

Willis finished his first appearance as a Dolphin 4 of 5 for 43 yards and added a 9-yard rushing attempt. Achane finished with seven carries for 39 yards and a touchdown.

Miami’s first-team offensive line provided another positive takeaway. First-round pick OL Kadyn Proctor generated good push alongside Patrick Paul, Brewer and Jonah Savaiinaea, who also opened running lanes at right guard.

Douglas’ spectacular catch was another highlight for the Dolphins. The 2026 third-round pick had flashed throughout training camp and delivered one of the game’s most memorable plays with his contested 28-yard grab.

The bad

Overall, the Dolphins’ starters looked sharp, but the team’s backups struggled for much of the night as Washington pulled away.

Ewers and Miller combined to go 4 of 19 for 66 yards, no touchdowns and three interceptions.

The Dolphins’ run defense also allowed more than 170 rushing yards on 41 carries.

Up next

Miami (0-1) will host the New York Giants (0-0) on Aug. 22 at Hard Rock Stadium.

One person was arrested and others were given trespass warnings during the recent police operation at a shopping center in the 2400 block of North Federal Highway.

But while the parking lot is now cleared, the underlying problem remains.

Where are people subject to Florida’s strict sex offender residency restrictions supposed to go when they have nowhere else they can legally stay?

That question is at the center of a complicated conflict between local police and property owners and the state supervision system.

Local 10 first investigated the parking lot in June after discovering registered sex offenders and sexual predators who had been released from prison and were under supervision staying there. The location had been approved by the Florida Department of Corrections as a place where some of those individuals could stay when they had no other approved housing option.

During the recent police sweep, an officer told one man sitting in a vehicle, “If you are not patronizing a business you cannot be on this property.”

In another encounter, an officer said police had observed a man sitting in his vehicle for an extended period and determined that he was a registered transient sexual predator. The man was issued a trespass warning.

In another encounter, officers ordered a man out of a vehicle and discovered he had an outstanding warrant. He was arrested.

The parking lot was cleared.

But the property owner did not want the men staying there, and Fort Lauderdale police did not want them on the property.

At the same time, the Florida Department of Corrections had approved the location for people under its supervision.

That conflict illustrates the larger problem.

Florida law restricts certain people convicted of specified sex offenses involving victims younger than 16 from living within 1,000 feet of schools, child care facilities, parks and playgrounds. A new state law also adds public swimming pools and public bathing places to the list for certain offenders and circumstances.

The new swimming pool restrictions took effect July 1, 2026, and apply according to the offense and supervision circumstances outlined in the law. The restrictions prohibit certain people from living within 1,000 feet of a public swimming pool, further reducing the number of locations that may qualify as legal residences.

Local governments can impose additional restrictions. In South Florida, those restrictions can include areas around school bus stops and, in some cases, bus benches.

For people with serious residency restrictions, finding an address that satisfies every requirement can become extremely difficult.

That is how a parking lot can become a place to stay.

Jeff Feldman, a former federal probation supervisory officer who now works as a consultant, has seen the problem from the supervision side.

“It’s the norm for transient sex offenders,” Feldman said. “They have nowhere to live and we have nowhere to put them.”

Feldman said the problem has been developing for decades.

“This has been going on since 1997,” he said. “It’s evolved into all of these legislative changes that restrict residency.”

Feldman said people who have been released from prison can find themselves with few legal housing options.

“They say, ‘Well, I can’t go home. Where can I go?’ Well, your options are limited,” he said.

That creates a difficult question for probation officers and the communities where these individuals end up.

Vanessa Fernandez, a licensed mental health counselor who treats people convicted of sex offenses, is vice president and clinical director of the Clinical and Forensic Institute.

Fernandez said unstable housing can interfere with treatment intended to reduce the risk of reoffending.

“Instead we’re working on basic life things, like where are you going to shower? How are you going to eat? Where can you keep food?” Fernandez said.

She said the constant struggle to find somewhere to sleep can take attention away from treatment.

“Unfortunately what it really does is that it doesn’t keep anybody safer,” Fernandez said. “The community’s not safer.”

Feldman made a similar argument from the perspective of supervision.

“As a probation officer, I would rather them live where I know they’re living, where I can come check on them, as opposed to go sleep in the parking lot and I have no idea where you are,” he said.

That is the central paradox exposed by the parking lot.

Local police can remove people from private property when they are not wanted there. Property owners can object to people staying on their property. But removing people from one location does not eliminate the residency restrictions that helped create the housing problem in the first place.

And Feldman said the problem is not limited to Fort Lauderdale.

“In Miami Dade, it’s just as bad,” he said.

The Florida Action Committee, an advocacy organization that supports changes to Florida’s sex offender laws, has been pushing the issue for years. Teresa Bond of the organization said officials have long been aware of the housing problem.

“They’ve known about it,” Bond said.

The organization also argues that the restrictions do not necessarily improve public safety.

“We have actually tried to even provide empirical data telling them that this is not public safety,” a Florida Action Committee representative said.

The group has now taken its argument to federal court.

In a lawsuit filed this week, the Florida Action Committee challenges Florida’s sex offender residency and other restrictions, arguing that the laws are unconstitutional and can contribute to homelessness and transient living.

The lawsuit cites state data that the group says shows as many as 34 percent of registered sex offenders in Miami Dade and Broward counties are homeless or transient.

That figure is an allegation and claim contained in the lawsuit, rather than an independent Local 10 analysis of the underlying data.

Local 10 News repeatedly contacted the governor’s office and the Florida Department of Corrections for comment and asked what the state intends to do about the housing problem and the conflict over approved locations.

Neither provided a response.

The people Local 10 found staying in the North Federal Highway parking lot are no longer there.

But that does not necessarily mean they have found permanent housing.

Fernandez said moving people from one location does not necessarily solve the underlying problem.

“That doesn’t mean they’re just in a different area doing the very same thing,” she said.

There is no simple answer.

Feldman believes one possible starting point would be changing some of the restrictions that have progressively narrowed the places where people under supervision can live.

“The solution is to roll back some of this restrictive legislation,” he said.

Fernandez also said changes to state laws and statutes would ultimately be necessary.

But changing those laws is politically difficult because the people affected are registered sex offenders and sexual predators.

“No one wants to look soft on these types of issues or inconsiderate of the severity of these actions,” Fernandez said.

That leaves local police with a problem they can address one parking lot at a time, while the larger housing problem remains.

The parking lot Local 10 investigated has been cleared.

The people who were staying there have been moved.

But the residency restrictions remain, the state has not offered an answer about where people with no other legal housing options are supposed to go, and there is no easy solution to the conflict between public safety, local property rights and the state’s system of supervising people who have been released from prison.

One of the men Local 10 spoke with, Ivan Jones, described what he believed his options had become.

“Sleep outside,” Jones said. “Make the best of it. That’s what they told me.”

At another point, he said, “I might as well go back to prison because I’m not going to do this.”

“I’m not going to stay out here,” he said.

Keyeon White, from North Carolina, was among the many visitors staying at the building.

“I’m celebrating my boy’s birthday,” White said.

He said the price was a big reason for choosing the property.

“The prices is really the price. It’s mad cheap,” White said.

Those deals are enticing out-of-towners to book short-term rentals at the condominium building. They’re also the target of a letter sent by the city manager’s office.

The letter, obtained by Local 10, states that the condominium association was under investigation following numerous complaints.

“It’s been absolutely awful. I’ve been a resident since 2008. Things got really bad with short-term rentals around the pandemic,” said homeowner Christina Lardon, who owns two units at the building.

“It’s an invasion. It’s literally a home invasion,” Lardon said.

According to the city letter, the property was approved in 2011 for 30 units to be used as short-term rentals.

However, a city investigation found there appeared to be more than 300 vacation rentals available among the building’s 643 units.

“They are crowding guests into rooms that are fit for three to four occupants. The whole point is the more guests you fit into a property, the more you can charge,” the letter states.

Assistant City Manager Barbie Hernandez wrote that the building is violating city codes with the excess of short-term rentals.

The letter orders the rentals to cease immediately and warns the property could face revocation of certificates and tax receipts, as well as possible legal action.

Oakley was handcuffed and arrested after an altercation with security while sitting near owner James Dolan during a game against the Los Angeles Clippers. Oakley initially brought a number of claims against MSG that were dismissed in February 2020. After appeal, Oakley's assault-and-battery claim remained.

But Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the Southern District of New York ruled that Oakley “has produced no evidence to support his claim that he was assaulted by MSG security guards.”

MSG had pointed to video evidence and previous testimony that Oakley was not assaulted.

“For more than nine years, Mr. Oakley’s lawyers have pursued claims they knew were false. Those claims have now been dismissed by the Court in their entirety — for the third time,” MSG said in a statement. “We are pursuing legal action against Douglas Wigdor, and his unscrupulous law firm, to hold them accountable for years of frivolous litigation and their blatant abuse of the judicial system.”

Oakley was a beloved Knicks forward in the 1990s, and he remains one of the few former players who has remained absent from MSG during the team's recent playoff runs, culminating with this year's NBA championship.

His removal from the game was a jarring scene, but Sullivan ruled that Oakley hadn't proven it was done with excessive force.

“Ample evidence — including videos from multiple angles and the unanimous testimony of every witness (even, to some extent, Oakley himself) — shows that Oakley had a reasonable opportunity to depart the Garden, that he instead resorted to physical violence, and that he was never pushed to the ground,” Sullivan wrote.

The judge added that “no rational jury could conclude that Oakley reasonably feared himself at risk of wrongful physical contact — let alone that MSG intended to stir such an apprehension.”

Wigdor still hopes a jury will get a chance to rule.

“We are disappointed with the Court’s rulings,” he wrote in an email. “We believe there are conflicting accounts and only a jury can decide what exactly happened. We are hopeful that the Second Circuit will agree for a third time and remand the case for an immediate jury trial.”

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El Ministerio de Comunicación e Información venezolano señaló en sus redes sociales que las excarcelaciones “fueron acordadas por los tribunales de la república, a petición del Ministerio Público”, luego de que el gubernamental Programa para la Paz y la Convivencia Democrática, creado por la mandataria en funciones Delcy Rodríguez, solicitó una evaluación de los casos.

El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, destacó en X que la reciente liberación de más de 130 presos políticos en Venezuela representa “un paso crucial para el proceso de reconciliación del país. Desde el 3 de enero, 1.046 venezolanos han sido liberados”.

“A medida que seguimos avanzando en el plan de tres fases, Estados Unidos continúa supervisando de cerca el proceso de conversaciones presenciales con las autoridades interinas, liderado por Venezuela”, señaló Rubio.

Washington repetidamente ha dicho que mantiene el compromiso de apoyar un plan de tres fases del presidente Donald Trump para lograr la estabilización en Venezuela luego de la captura del entonces mandatario Nicolás Maduro a inicios de año, mediante las vías de la recuperación económica, la reconciliación política y una transición pacífica en el país.

Una ley de amnistía fue sancionada el 19 de febrero, apenas 20 días después de que la presidenta encargada Rodríguez la presentara en un intento de lograr la convivencia nacional. Rodríguez fue juramentada como presidenta en funciones el 5 de enero, dos días después de una audaz operación militar estadounidense que depuso y capturó a Maduro en Caracas y lo trasladó a Nueva York para que enfrentara cargos por narcotráfico.

Las liberaciones se producen en el marco de la Ley de Amnistía impulsada para la excarcelación masiva de dirigentes opositores, sindicalistas, periodistas, estudiantes, manifestantes y activistas de derechos humanos presos por motivos políticos. El gobierno niega que existan “presos políticos” y acusa a los detenidos de conspirar para desestabilizar a los gobiernos del ahora fallecido presidente Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) y su sucesor y heredero político, Maduro (2013-2026).

De acuerdo con Foro Penal, una prestigiosa organización civil que vigila los derechos de los privados de libertad en Venezuela, hasta el 10 de agosto 391 personas permanecían detenidas por motivaciones políticas.

Clark also had 10 assists while Boston had 12 rebounds. Kelsey Mitchell added 23 points, and Tyasha Harris — who hadn't made a field goal in the previous six games — was 5-of-5 shooting, all 3-pointers, to finish with 15 points.

Clark had her 20th career game with at least 20 points and 10 assists, the most in league history.

Mitchell scored at least 20 points for the 18th consecutive game to extend her WNBA single-season record, the second-longest streak in WNBA history (A’ja Wilson, 20 games).

The Fever won for the eighth time in 10 games and now hold a half-game lead over the Atlanta Dream for the No. 4 spot in the eight-team postseason field.

Paige Bueckers had 29 points, six rebounds and six assists to lead the Wings, who have lost seven of 10. Arike Ogunbowale added 20 points.

The Wings slipped into a tie for seventh with the Washington Mystics and will meet the Fever for the final time this season Thursday in Dallas.

And for a change, the only drama Friday happened on the court.

Bueckers and Clark traded baskets throughout a classic third quarter in which neither team could pull away.

Indiana opened the fourth on a 15-2 run, capped by Clark's second 3 of the game to turn a three-point deficit into a 78-68 lead. Dallas closed the deficit to 78-73, but Indiana scored four straight to retake an 82-73 lead with 4:37 left and Dallas never recovered as Harris' late 3s sealed the victory.

Up next

Wings: Host Golden State on Monday.

Fever: Visit Atlanta on Sunday.

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In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel him to appear before a Senate subcommittee, after a contentious July 29 hearing, would be to "impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.”

During the July hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 100 times, prompting the Aug. 6 contempt vote and setting up a referral to the Justice Department for potential investigation over whether he had properly exercised his constitutional rights.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the committee chairman who pressed for the contempt finding, said the constitutional protection did not apply because Democratic President Joe Biden had issued a preemptive pardon to Fauci, and he did not need to be concerned about potential prosecution.

Paul has long accused Fauci of misleading the public during the pandemic and the July hearing was the latest episode in his highly publicized confrontations with him. Paul has repeatedly called for Fauci to be prosecuted and imprisoned.

Johnson, chairman of the subcommittee on investigations, had sought to open a parallel avenue of congressional investigation about Fauci's role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.

His family was planning to attend his wedding to his fiancée, Natalia Patiño, the mother of his two-year-old son, on Sunday in Bogotá.

On Friday, crews found the body of Giraldo, 24, a salesman of eyewear frames and glasses on a work trip, in the rubble of the hotel, Noticias Caracol reported. Relatives confirmed his death on social media.

“Forever and always in my heart,” Patiño wrote on Instagram after the news. “You were the most complete love I ever had. I love you forever.”

The groom-to-be’s father, Hernan Giraldo, traveled from Bogotá to Pereira to help search for him on Monday night. He told Reuters that his son was “exemplary” and he hoped for a miracle and a wedding.

Instead, there was grief.

Colombian officials reported on Friday that there were at least 287 dead, 3,975 injured, 378 people who had vanished, 354 had been rescued from the rubble, and 135,179 were affected.

Officials also reported that the earthquake caused damage in more than 400 cities, and most of the destruction was in Cali, Pereira, Manizales, Quibdó, and Buenaventura.

On Friday, Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella returned to Chocó, where the earthquake’s epicenter was. The area was in need of temporary housing, food, and healthcare.

“My heart, my strength, and my spirit are with all the victims and with all these territories that have been forgotten and now devastated by nature,” De La Espriella said. “We must rebuild them. There is a great task ahead, and I am committed to it.”

The World Bank reported disbursing $200 million on Thursday and launching assistance to provide an early assessment ​of damages and economic losses.

The U.S. committed $15 million in emergency aid, a $1 billion security package, search-and-rescue teams, damage assessment, and other resources.

The United Arab Emirates pledged $10 million. The European Union pledged $2.4 million. China pledged $1 million, and Sweden pledged about half a million.

El Salvador sent two planes full of aid and deployed search-and-rescue teams. Other countries sending aid and crews include Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and Israel.

Colombia’s first lady, Ana Lucía Pineda, deployed the “One Heart” campaign to collect emergency aid, and she was working on partnerships with the private sector to help with reconstruction.

Interview with Hernan Giraldo on Thursday in Spanish (Reuters)

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His daughter, Amy Rydell, told The Hollywood Reporter that her father died Thursday of natural causes at a retirement community for the entertainment industry in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.

“Hard to put into words how much I loved my dad,” she posted Friday on her Instagram account. "He was truly one of a kind. Funniest and most talented person I’ve ever known.”

‘On Golden Pond’ earned 10 Oscar nominations

“On Golden Pond,” which teamed Fonda with Hepburn and his daughter, Jane Fonda, was nominated for 10 Oscars. Henry Fonda and Hepburn won leading acting honors and the film won for screenplay, which Ernest Thompson adapted from his play of the same name. Rydell was nominated for directing but lost to Warren Beatty for “Reds.”

It earned over $119 million at the box office, making it the second-highest grossing film of 1981 behind “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

“On Golden Pond” was Henry Fonda’s final movie role. He starred as Norman Thayer, an emotionally brittle and distant father who becomes more accessible at the end of his life after his teenage grandson spends the summer with him and his wife, Ethel (played by Hepburn), at their cottage in New England. The film’s story resembled Fonda’s real-life relationship with daughter Jane, who said working on the movie together helped resolve some of their issues. The elder Fonda died at age 77 months after winning his only Oscar.

Rydell’s other Oscar-nominated films were “The Fox” in 1967, “The Reivers” with McQueen in 1969, “Cinderella Liberty” with James Caan and Marsha Mason in 1973, “The Rose” with Bette Midler in 1979, and “The River” with Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek in 1984.

Born Mortimer Harold Rydell on March 23, 1929, in New York City, he studied with jazz pianist Teddy Wilson at the Julliard School of Music. During a stint in the Army, he spent two years in Japan developing entertainment for military personnel. He majored in English and philosophy at New York University.

Early acting career opposite Steiger, Cassavetes, Mineo

He turned to acting when he won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Among his early roles were on the CBS soap operas “The Edge of Night” and “As the World Turns.”

Rydell made his Broadway debut in “Seagulls Over Sorrento” with Rod Steiger. In 1956, he made his movie acting debut opposite John Cassavetes and Sal Mineo in Don Siegel’s “Crime In The Streets.”

Among his film acting credits were Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” in 1973 and Woody Allen’s “Hollywood Ending” in 2002.

Rydell moved into directing television, helming episodes of “Mr. Novak,” “Ben Casey," “I Spy,” “The Wild Wild West,” “The Long, Hot Summer,” “The Fugitive” and “Gunsmoke.”

He made his feature-film directorial debut with 1967’s “The Fox” starring Sandy Dennis, and it was a hit.

Two years later, Rydell directed McQueen in the comedy-drama “The Reivers.”

Teaming with Sydney Pollack

Rydell and Sydney Pollack, who became friends during their acting days, formed Sanford Productions in 1971. Among their efforts were the films “Jeremiah Johnson” starring Robert Redford and “Scarecrow” with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman, which won the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor, the Palme d’Or.

Rydell directed Wayne in 1972’s “The Cowboys.” He reunited with Caan for the 1976 flop “Harry and Walter Go to New York.”

He scored a major hit with 1979’s “The Rose,” with Midler in her Oscar-nominated role as a self-destructive rock star loosely based on Janis Joplin.

Rydell re-teamed with Caan and Midler in “For the Boys” in 1991, but it wasn’t successful.

“He was an actor of note before he became a director, and I was so lucky to have met him when I did; he taught me so much on The Rose and later on For The Boys,” Midler posted on Instagram. “Two Oscars nominations both because of him. He was the actor’s whisperer; just a few words was all it took to understand what was needed. Devoted to Meisner. So many happy memories.”

TV movies and series among his credits

Rydell directed the pilot of the hit ABC drama “Family” in 1976.

Among his TV movie directing credits were “McBride and Groom,” “Crime of the Century” with Isabella Rossellini and Stephen Rea, and “James Dean,” which earned actor James Franco a Golden Globe award. Rydell also appeared in the movie as Warner Bros. chief Jack Warner.

He directed the movies “Intersection” in 1994 and “Even Money” in 2006.

In 2009, Rydell, Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau and screenwriter Lyle Kessler taught a film workshop at UCLA. Rydell and Landau were co-artistic directors of The Actors Studio West, teaching and coaching actors, writers and directors.

“All great art rests on telling the truth,” Rydell told UCLA’s student newspaper The Daily Bruin. “The real pursuit of an artist is to tell the truth.”

Besides his daughter, he is survived by son Christopher. The siblings who went into acting were from his first marriage to actor Joanne Linville. He had another son, Alexander, from his second marriage to producer Esther Rydell.

This is why psychologists are volunteering their time with survivors of the 7.2 and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that struck on June 24 in northern Venezuela.

Some children experience nightmares and panic attacks. The experience has been difficult for 12-year-old Sofia Aldara and 11-year-old Miguel Ramos, who both deal with fear.

“I felt like the buildings near us were going to collapse,” Miguel said in Spanish.

Juan Manuel Maestre, a psychologist who is volunteering in La Guaira, said many of the children are grieving loved ones and have also lost their schools.

Daniel Rocha, a volunteer, said mental health is usually not a priority.

“A lot of times, they say, ‘This is the first time we are talking about what happened because since the earthquake, we are actually trying to survive.’ We are trying to help our brothers, our sisters,” Rocha said.

Andres Muskus, a psychologist who is volunteering, said breaking the ice is part of the process.

“We start playing with them, we start creating a confident and secure place, and in the middle of the play, we can start talking about how they feel,” Muskus said.

Daniel Rocha said mental health treatment is powerful when it comes to hope.

“They really need people with the skills to make them feel they can do better, they can work, they can have a future,” Rocha said.

Officials reported that the death toll of the earthquakes in Venezuela surpassed 5,300. There were about 16,740 injured, and the property damage was estimated at more than $19.6 billion.

“Really just a dream start,” Scheffler said. “Probably one of the best starts I’ve had on tour, to be honest with you. I couldn’t tell you a time where I’ve been lower early in the round.”

The top-ranked Scheffler had 11 birdies and two bogeys in 100-degree heat at TPC Southwind in the playoff opener. He had an 11-under 129 total.

“The tournament is halfway over,” Scheffler said. “I had two good rounds to start and hopefully continue that over the weekend.”

Scheffler tied the tournament course record.

“I wouldn’t say golf’s ever easy,” Scheffler. “I did some good things out there. I hit some iron shots in there close and was able to hole a few putts as well.”

He has played the TPC Southwind more times (seven) without winning than any other course on the PGA Tour.

Viktor Hovland and Sungjae Im were tied for second at 8 under. Hovland had a 64, and Im shot his second 66.

“It was really nice, really solid,” Hovland said. “Hit a lot of fairways, and I think that’s a big deal for my game, but also especially at this golf course. I think it’s really difficult to score if you’re missing fairways.”

Ludvig Aberg was 7 under after a 65.

Jordan Spieth shot 69 to get to 6 under. He was part of a four-way tie for the first-round lead. Spieth is outside the top 50 in the FedEx Cup who advance to the BMW Championship next week.

Scheffler entered the week with a 794-point lead over Matt Fitzpatrick in the FedExCup standings. Fitzpatrick was 3 under after a 67.

So much emphasis is on getting into the top 50 because that locks up all the $20 million signature events for next season.

Rory McIlroy played alongside Scheffler the first two days. He followed an opening 74 with a 70, leaving him tied for 60th at 4 over.

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He co-founded The San Isidro Movement in Havana, and he helped lead the courageous group of artists, writers, and academics to protest Decree 349, a law that required state approval for all artistic expression.

The performance artist used the Cuban flag and was arrested on July 11, 2021. Cuban prosecutors filed charges of public disorder, contempt, and insulting national symbols. In 2022, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.

“I went on more than five hunger strikes ... I am not going to offer a justification because I have nothing to justify,” the 38-year-old exiled dissident said on Friday in downtown Miami.

The Cuban government freed him from the maximum-security Guanajay prison on July 7. He was ordered to leave the island and arrived at Miami International Airport on July 18 on a humanitarian parole.

He was forced to leave his son behind on the island.

“It’s literally like being in a coma and then waking up,” he said.

Some of the art that he created while in prison in Cuba was framed and on display on Friday at the Freedom Tower. His installation was at the Freedom Hall. The exhibit, he said, was the reward.

“They are the impression of a suffering, of a state of mind,” he said about his artwork.

He said he hopes the communist regime will fall and Cubans will learn what it’s like to be free.

The Museum of Art and Design, or MOAD, at Miami Dade College presented “Luis Manuel Otero Alcántra: nos encontramos,” the exhibit.

“His journey of resilience and determination echoes in the halls of the Freedom Tower’s history,” Amy Galpin, MOAD’s executive director and chief curator, said in a statement.

Ernesto Fundora, the director of the “Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: Estamos conectados,” a documentary, was at the opening from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday at 600 Biscayne Boulevard.

Manager Blake Butera said Friday that Abrams has begun working out at second. He said the transition will be more “multiday than multiweek” and that Abrams will swap spots with second baseman Nasim Nuñez.

“Just thought this was the best thing for our team going forward,” Butera said. “We think with those two up the middle and Nasim playing more shortstop gives us the best chance.”

Butera said Abrams was amenable to the move while noting that shortstops take pride in playing the position — something Abrams also acknowledged.

“That’s just where I’ve been playing my whole life,” said Abrams, who led off and played shortstop Friday night against the New York Mets. “I believe I can be a great shortstop.”

Abrams, an NL All-Star starter, is having a career year offensively, with 28 homers, a major league-best 91 RBIs, a .284 average and an .898 OPS.

Abrams also leads NL shortstops with 19 errors, just three shy of his career high from 2023 and 2025. His .958 fielding percentage would also be a career worst.

“He said that a few times — like, look, the competitor in me wants to say I can do this at shortstop but also understand we have to do what’s best for the team and the organization going forward,” Butera said.

Nuñez has nine errors and a .965 fielding percentage at second base. He leads the majors in range factor at the position.

The Nationals also used first-round picks on shortstops Seaver King and Eli Willits in 2024 and 2025. Willits, selected first overall, is Washington’s no. 1 prospect, per MLB.com, while King ranks fourth.

“We’re thinking about all those things,” Butera said. “But ultimately, right now, what we’re trying to do is do what’s best for this team and this organization to win as many games as possible the rest of the year and also set ourselves up for next year.”

Abrams hasn’t played second base since his rookie season in 2022, when he made 13 appearances at the position for the San Diego Padres.

“It’s not too big of a change,” he said.

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Officers responded just before noon to reports of a shooting at a home in Missaukee County, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) northwest of Detroit, and found three people dead and another in critical condition, Michigan State Police said in a statement. The wounded person was taken to a hospital.

Suspect Chad Hickman, 39, fled before they arrived at the home, according to police. As officers conducted a large-scale search for him, they found a fourth person dead at another home.

In a post on the social platform X, police warned that Hickman was armed and dangerous and told community members not to approach him.

Hickman's vehicle was later found in a wooded area near Whitlock Lake, and that led authorities to his body as well as that of another dead person.

“This situation is heartbreaking for the community and challenging for the investigators involved,” Lt. Ashley Miller said in a statement.

She added that investigators would work through the night to process each scene.

Police asked people to avoid the areas where the shootings took place.

The names and ages of the people killed were not immediately released, pending family notification.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she was briefed on the shooting and monitoring the situation.

“My thoughts are with the victims, their families, and the Missaukee community,” she said.

The Maryland Tax Court said the tax violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act as well as the First Amendment and the commerce and due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

The legal fight has been watched by other states that are considering taxes for online ads. Maryland estimated the tax, approved in 2021, could raise about $250 million a year to help pay for a sweeping K-12 education measure.

In Friday's decision, the tax court ordered the state to repay the tax money already collected by Apple, Google and Peacock TV.

The law taxed revenue that large companies make on digital advertisements shown in Maryland. Companies making more than $100 million in global annual gross revenues were taxed at a 2.5% rate. The rate increased for companies with larger revenues, topping out at a 10% rate for companies making $15 billion or more in global gross annual revenues.

Supporters of the law contended that Maryland needed to overhaul its tax methods in response to significant changes in how businesses advertise. But attorneys representing Big Tech companies including Meta and Amazon challenged the law in multiple legal venues, arguing in part that they were unfairly targeted.

Last year, 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled part of the law violated the Constitution because it blocked Big Tech companies from telling customers about the tax. That, Judge Julius Richardson said, violated the right to free speech.

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson and House Speaker Joseline Pena-Melnyk, both Democrats, issued a statement saying they “respectfully disagree” with the tax court ruling and expect the legal process to continue.

They said the tax was enacted to keep the state's tax system in pace with a changing economy.

“We remain committed to ensuring that Maryland’s tax system is fair, sustainable, and reflects today’s economy,” they said. “We will continue working with the Attorney General and Comptroller as this matter proceeds through the courts.”

The tax court said Congress — not the state legislature — is tasked with regulating interstate commerce, and that the tax law was inappropriately based on global revenue rather than revenue from in-state advertising.

The federal Internet Tax Freedom Act bars the taxation of e-commerce if similar services are not taxed. At least for now, the tax court found, there isn't much of a difference between digital advertising and print or billboard ads, which means the bar on taxation applies.

However, she did not mention her country’s wartime past in Asia or show remorse over it in her address.

The Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates over 2.4 million people who died in wars, became controversial after including 14 convicted World War II Japanese war criminals. China and South Korea say visits by Japanese officials to the shrine show a lack of remorse over Japan's wartime atrocities.

Takaichi mourned the victims of major devastation in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa, as well as those who perished in overseas battlefronts, and thanked them for their sacrifice as the “foundation of Japan's peace and prosperity today.”

“Japan, since the end of the war, has consistently contributed to global peace and prosperity. We will never let the tragedy of the war be repeated,” she said in her address at Budokan Hall, a walking distance from Yasukuni.

Takaichi said Japan can play a key role in addressing global challenges as “a dependable nation” in the region.

China and South Korea protest shrine visits

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, three other Cabinet ministers and three executives from Takaichi’s governing party showed up at the shrine earlier Saturday. A nonpartisan group of dozens of lawmakers also prayed there.

China’s Foreign Ministry protested to Japan over the visits, saying that Japanese politicians’ true intentions were to “change the verdict on the war criminals, cover up Japan’s war crimes, distort the historical facts and pave the way for accelerating militarization.” It urged Japan to do “serious soul searching” on history and make a clean break with militarism.

Tensions between Japan and China escalated in November when Takaichi said a Chinese attack on Taiwan could constitute “a survival-threatening situation” for Japan requiring the use of force. The comments enraged Beijing.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, in his speech Saturday marking the 81st anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, said that his administration used “pragmatic diplomacy centered on national interests” and will broaden cooperation in shared interests to resolve common challenges. “Korea-Japan cooperation is now more important than ever."

“The new bilateral relationship we are building must warmly illuminate those who are still suffering from pain in the shadows of history,” he said.

Attention this week was on whether Takaichi, who has repeatedly said she would pray at the shrine on Aug. 15 despite the controversy, would keep her pledge and show up at Yasukuni.

Defense minister prays at Yasukuni

Koizumi has regularly visited the controversial shrine on Aug. 15 and other occasions. But as a defense minister pushing to increase Japan’s military capability and weapons sales under Takaichi’s hawkish government, his visit is seen as more contentious.

The previous shrine visit by a defense minister was in 2024 by Minoru Kihara, the current chief secretary and top government spokesperson for Takaichi’s government.

Japan’s Defense Ministry prohibits group visits by service members of the Self-Defense Forces, on grounds of constitutional separation of religion and state. Koizumi said in October it is natural for anyone in any country to pay respect for those who sacrificed their lives for their nation.

Hours after his Yasukuni visit, Koizumi said on X he paid respects to the war dead for their sacrifice for the country. “I renewed my war-renouncing resolve and will continue to fulfill Japan’s postwar responsibility as a peace-loving nation.”

He is the son of popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, whose 2006 Yasukuni visit as a serving leader outraged China.

Party executives make up for Takaichi’s absence from the shrine

The three executives from Takaichi’s governing Liberal Democratic Party prayed together Saturday at the shrine and brought offerings in a rare joint visit on the prime minister’s behalf, seen as a move to make up for Takaichi’s absence and appeal to her right-wing supporters.

Party secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki told reporters he prayed while keeping in mind the prime minister's thoughts for “the spirits of the war dead” and that he brought Takaichi’s cash offerings in her capacity as party leader.

For Takaichi, appealing to right-wing voters is key at a time when her support is seen as falling rapidly, presumably over delayed economic measures to address rising prices, as well as scandals including alleged negative election-campaign videos and unpopular revisions to Japan's imperial family succession rules.

Takaichi has not visited the shrine since taking office but has sent offerings twice for the shrine’s biannual festivals. On Saturday she prayed remotely toward Yasukuni from the Budokan parking lot before the ceremony, NHK television reported.

Japanese emperors have shunned the shrine

Japanese emperors have shunned Yasukuni since its 1978 inclusion of the war criminals as “martyrs,” and have expressed regrets over Japan’s wartime past, though in a nuanced way.

Emperor Naruhito, in his address Saturday at the ceremony, said he hopes the ravages of war will never be repeated while “reflecting on our past and bearing in mind the feelings of deep remorse.”

“It is my sincere hope that we shall continue to pass down the memories of the sufferings endured during and after the war.”

Pushback against remembering Japan's wartime history

Takaichi has resisted acknowledging Japan's wartime aggression and atrocities, and denied that coercion was used against Korean laborers and women held as sex slaves for Japanese troops. She was previously part of a campaign to remove references to wartime sexual slavery, known as “comfort women,” from school textbooks.

She has said she is from a postwar generation that bears no responsibility for Japan's past actions and has no intention of apologizing.

The country has faced revisionist pushbacks since the 2010s under nationalistic former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who pushed to correct a “self-deprecating view” of Japan’s wartime history and regain national pride. Takaichi considers Abe a mentor.

Since 2013, Japanese prime ministers have stopped apologizing to Asian victims for wartime atrocities, under a precedent set by Abe.

Last year, however, former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed “remorse” over the war and called it a mistake, though he fell short of mentioning Japan's aggression across Asia or apologizing.

People at Yasukuni remember relatives lost in the war

At Yasukuni, some of those queuing up early Saturday were descendants of the war-dead, and for them Yasukuni is a place to remember their relatives.

As a child, Mariko Shinoda, 56, whose grandfather died as a Kamikaze pilot, came to Yasukuni with her mother every year on Aug. 15. Kamikaze pilots departed on their one-way missions saying, “Let’s meet at Yasukuni,” her mother told her.

“To me, Yasukuni is where every spirit gathers, and that’s where you get to see them on Aug. 15,” Shinoda said.

Masashi Ichimura, 48, whose grandfather went to war, often heard from his father about harsh wartime living conditions, including starvation.

“There is nothing good about the war, win or lose,“ he said. “But those who died in the war only fought for our country, and I just want to thank them for the sacrifice.”

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Authorities issued a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents to move to higher ground, but later lifted the warning when Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said monitoring showed no significant sea-level changes that would pose a threat to coastal communities.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit Indonesia's Flores region with a depth of 10 kilometers (six miles) at 5:58 a.m. local time. Its epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ende in East Nusa Tenggara province. The initial quake was followed by several aftershocks.

The head of the National Disaster Management Agency, Suharyanto, said rescuers have recovered at least 38 bodies, mostly in the three devastated regencies of Sikka, Manggarai and East Manggarai, including 16 bodies that were pulled from a landslide in the village of Reok in Manggarai. At least 13 people were rushed to nearby hospitals, including two with serious injuries.

Suharyanto, who like many Indonesians uses a single name, said three helicopters and a rescue vessel were deployed to assist with logistics and support emergency response operations, including possible evacuations if needed, given East Nusa Tenggara’s geography, which consists of numerous islands and presents significant transportation and access challenges.

He said about 2,000 villagers in Nagekeo regency fled their homes to temporary shelters.

East Nusa Tenggara Police Chief Rudi Darmoko said the earthquake caused severe damage and collapsed buildings. He said power outages in cities and villages have hampered the flow of information and complicated search and rescue efforts.

“We are continuing to collect reports of damage and casualties, but there are communication disruptions,” Darmoko said. He said that landslides in Ende regency triggered by the earthquake also cut off the Trans-Flores highway, a roughly 700-kilometer (435-mile) paved mountain road spanning Flores Island, from Labuan Bajo to Larantuka.

Footage on local television showed patients at several hospitals being evacuated from buildings as a precaution following the quake. Hospital staff moved equipment outdoors, including beds, IV stands and oxygen cylinders, and set up temporary treatment areas to adapt to emergency conditions.

Quake felt on Flores island and other areas

The quake was felt across much of Flores island with initial reports indicating heavy damage.

Yohanna Embu, a resident of Sikka regency, said a number of buildings were damaged by the strong shaking and panicked people ran to higher ground.

“Many buildings here were damaged ... I saw that the waiting room at the port terminal in Maumere had collapsed,” she said.

Students at St. Peter Major Seminary in Sikka who were attending morning Mass fled in panic when the roof of an assembly hall collapsed, said the Rev. Guidelbertus Tanga, rector of the seminary, which is known locally as Ritapiret Seminary on the predominantly Catholic island of Flores.

“Our students and nuns ran out in panic beneath a collapsing roof,” Tanga said. “At least one priest suffered a broken leg after jumping from the second floor of a building during the quake.”

The quake also reportedly caused panic in Labuan Bajo, a gateway town to eastern Indonesia’s Komodo National Park, one of the country’s best-known attractions. Damage was also reported in Bima, a city in neighboring West Nusa Tenggara province, and in some parts of southern Sulawesi island.

Indonesian authorities initially issued a tsunami warning for parts of East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, South Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi provinces, and urged residents to stay away from beaches and riverbanks. The agency located the shallow undersea quake near Flores island.

Indonesia prone to earthquakes

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

A powerful earthquake caused a tsunami in 1992 that killed about 2,500 people on Flores, part of a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.

In 2018, a magnitude 7.5 quake spawned a large localized tsunami that wiped out coastal areas, while liquefaction caused by the shaking turned entire neighborhoods into rivers of sludge in the eastern Indonesian city of Palu, on the Palu-Koro Fault. The disaster killed more than 4,400 people.

In 2010, a 10-foot (three-meter) wave struck the Mentawai Islands, off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, just minutes after a massive offshore earthquake. More than 400 people were killed and hundreds of homes were destroyed.

In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

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Habló con Local 10 News un día después de que la Fiscalía Estatal de Miami-Dade retirara todos los cargos en su contra.

La madre de 29 años fue acusada de abuso sexual y de publicar en internet videos lascivos de su hijo de 4 años.

Ella dice: No es cierto.

“Siento que estoy soñando”, dijo Viana. “Como una pesadilla. En mi mente, nunca hice nada malo”.

Los registros policiales muestran que el gigante de las redes sociales TikTok señaló un video de su cuenta como “material de abuso sexual infantil”, en el que presuntamente aparecía el niño usando solo una camiseta y Viana tocándolo.

El 5 de agosto, la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade llegó a su casa en el suroeste de Miami-Dade.

“Yo dije: eso tiene que ser una broma”, dijo su primo, Raúl Salazar. “Nosotros dijimos: Ese no es el tipo de persona que ella es. Eso no es algo que ella haría”.

Los agentes dijeron que Viana accedió a que revisaran su teléfono.

Fue entonces cuando encontraron otro video de ella besando a su hijo. Viana sostiene que eran besos normales e inocentes entre una madre y su hijo.

En un memorando de cierre, los fiscales dicen que el estado “no puede proceder con cargos penales” y que “no hay evidencia de intención sexual” en ninguno de los dos videos.

Viana dice que ahora lo único que quiere es estar con su familia.

Su primo tiene este mensaje para las plataformas de redes sociales:

“Tienen que ser muy cuidadosos con las acusaciones que hacen antes de arruinar una reputación”, dijo Salazar.

The cats are being rescued from the former Luján Zoo, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) northwest of Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires, after years of uncertainty over their fate. Four Paws, the international animal-welfare organization overseeing the transfer, described it as one of the largest relocations of captive big cats in the world.

“We are putting everything into making this go as smoothly as possible so we can celebrate that 30 lives have improved because of this effort,” said Luciana D’Abramo, program director for Four Paws.

Once loaded into their crates and placed aboard cargo and passenger jets, nine tigers and six lions will be flown to Lionsrock, a Four Paws sanctuary in South Africa that houses more than 80 big cats across natural enclosures sprawling 60 hectares (148 acres). The remaining eight tigers and seven lions will travel to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, a vast refuge on the grasslands northeast of Denver where rescued lions, tigers and other animals roam expansive habitats.

But getting there is no easy feat: The big cats bound for Colorado will fly through Chile, while the others will travel to Johannesburg via Frankfurt or Amsterdam before a four-hour drive to Lionsrock.

The Four Paws handlers trained many of the lions and tigers to enter the crates voluntarily. But some of the big cats required sedation, including two tigers that veterinarians hoisted in canvas slings Friday and carried by hand to their transport crates.

Argentine authorities shut down the Lujan Zoo — famous for letting visitors handle and pose for pictures with tigers and lions — over safety and animal welfare concerns in 2020. D’Abramo said about 200 big cats were living there when it closed. Only 112 remained when Four Paws first arrived in 2023 seeking a solution.

By the time the organization was allowed to take over the site two years later, that number had fallen to 62. Some of the captive animals can barely walk because of obesity, muscle loss or poor nutrition. Others suffer from dental and kidney disease, complications from declawing and injuries that never healed properly.

“That alone shows the level of overcrowding and the conditions in which these animals have endured,” D’Abramo said.

The organization retrained longtime zoo employees in modern animal-welfare practices and began improving the cats’ diets and medical care. This transfer leaves more than 20 lions and tigers at Luján while Four Paws searches for their long-term homes.

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She spoke with Local 10 News a day after the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office dropped all charges against her.

The 29-year-old mom was accused of molestation and posting lewd videos of her 4-year-old son online.

She says: Not true.

“I feel like I’m dreaming,” Viana said. “Like a bad dream. In my mind, I never (did) anything wrong.”

Police records show it was social media giant TikTok that flagged one video from her account as “child sexual abuse material,” allegedly showing the boy only with a shirt on, naked otherwise, and Viana touching him.

On Aug. 5, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office would arrive at her house in southwest Miami-Dade.

“I was like, that has to be a joke,” her cousin, Raúl Salazar said. “We’re like, That’s not the kind of person she is. That’s not something that she would do.”

Deputies said Viana consented to having her phone searched.

That’s when they found another video of her kissing her son. Viana maintains they were normal, innocent pecks between mom and child.

In a closeout memo, prosecutors say the state “is unable to proceed with criminal charges” and that “there is no evidence of sexual intent” in either video.

Viana says all she wants now is to be with family.

Her cousin with this message for social media platforms

“They’ve got to be really mindful of the accusations they make before ruining a reputation,” Salazar said.

Dentro de ese contenedor especial al que ingresó el viernes, el enorme felino emprenderá un largo viaje hasta un santuario de Sudáfrica. El animal forma parte de un contingente de 30 tigres y leones rescatados del ex zoológico argentino que partirá el lunes hacia sus nuevos hogares; 15 irán a tierras africanas y el resto será enviado a otro santuario similar en Estados Unidos.

Esta treintena de tigres y leones dejará para siempre los pequeños recintos de hormigón en los que estuvieron confinados en ese establecimiento situado a unos 70 kilómetros al noroeste de Buenos Aires. El predio fue cerrado por las autoridades argentinas en 2020 debido a sus deficientes condiciones para el bienestar animal.

Gran rescate

En una ambiciosa iniciativa a nivel mundial, la organización internacional Four Paws inició el viernes los preparativos para este gran traslado de animales.

Luciana D’Abramo, directora de programas de Four Paws, resaltó a The Associated Press que este es "uno de los operativos más grandes” de reubicación de felinos a nivel mundial. “Estamos poniéndolo todo para que salga lo mejor posible y que podamos celebrar que 30 vidas han mejorado gracias a todo el esfuerzo”.

Tras recibir la autorización veterinaria definitiva, los animales serán trasladados en aviones de carga y en las bodegas de aviones de pasajeros. Nueve tigres y seis leones irán al santuario de Lionsrock, en Sudáfrica, que es gestionado por Four Paws. Esta organización se ha asociado a su vez con The Wild Animal Sanctuary, en Colorado, Estados Unidos, para reubicar a los otros ocho tigres y siete leones.

Previamente los felinos fueron sometidos a evaluaciones veterinarias en noviembre de 2025 que sentaron las bases para la misión de rescate.

El zoológico de Luján, que era privado, se hizo famoso por permitir el contacto cercano entre los visitantes y los grandes felinos. Desde que fue cerrado, los animales permanecieron en el recinto durante años en un entorno que estaba muy lejos de satisfacer sus necesidades básicas.

En 2025, Four Paws firmó un acuerdo con el gobierno argentino para poner fin a la tenencia privada y al comercio de grandes felinos en el país, así como para encontrar una solución a largo plazo para animales del ex zoológico.

“En 2020, cuando se cerró este lugar había alrededor de 200 grandes felinos. Cuando vinimos por primera vez en 2023 a tratar de buscar una solución, quedaban 112. Y cuando finalmente volvimos a ofrecer ayuda y se nos dejó tomar este espacio quedaban 62, así que eso ya demuestra el nivel de hacinamiento y las condiciones en las que estos animales han vivido”, relató D'Abramo.

Comenzó una tarea para mejorar las condiciones de animales con enfermedades o que no caminaban adecuadamente por sobrepeso, falta de músculo o mala alimentación. Y los cuidadores que habían trabajado durante años allí fueron entrenados con otros códigos de bienestar animal.

En febrero pasado, dos osos y una tigresa fueron llevados a santuarios de Bulgaria y Holanda, respectivamente, abriendo paso al actual proyecto de reubicación de los grandes felinos.

Jaulas especiales; vuelos con escalas

Los animales saldrán desde el aeropuerto internacional de las afueras de Buenos Aires. Los que se dirigen a Estados Unidos lo harán a través de Chile; en tanto, nueve de los tigres que van a Sudáfrica harán escala en Frankfurt y los otros seis viajarán vía Ámsterdam. Desde Johannesburgo, donde confluirán, les quedarán cuatro horas de transporte terrestre en camiones hasta llegar al santuario Lionsrock. Viajarán despiertos en sus cajas y con estrictas medidas de seguridad.

Muchos de los tigres y leones fueron entrenados para ingresar en las cajas voluntariamente. “Es el escenario ideal porque no hay necesidad de anestesiarlos; entran, ya conocen el espacio, están cómodos”, apuntó D'Abramo. En otros casos los felinos reciben una sedación de corta duración para ser instalados en esos recintos.

Ese fue el caso de dos tigres de algo más de diez años de edad que nacieron en el antiguo zoológico y el viernes fueron acomodados en sus jaulas de transporte. Su destino es Lionrock.

Santuarios; el nuevo hogar

En ese enorme predio africano, los espacios para los grandes felinos se extienden a lo largo de 60 hectáreas. Actualmente, 80 animales los habitan.

Entre los tigres y leones que serán reubicados en ambos santuarios hay grupos familiares y compañeros de toda la vida que permanecerán juntos. En sus nuevos alojamientos recibirán cuidados para enfermedades dentales y renales, complicaciones asociadas a la extirpación de las garras y lesiones mal curadas.

D'Abramo explicó que en los santuarios no hay reproducción de animales —están castrados— y no existe ningún contacto entre visitantes o cuidadores con los grandes felinos. Por otro lado, aunque los animales siguen en cautiverio, los grandes espacios que habitan les permiten elegir estar visibles o esconderse.

La organización apuesta a reubicar a los más de veinte felinos que quedarán en Luján.

Para hacerlo, Four Paws necesita tiempo y "encontrar la solución que sea la mejor para cada uno”, dijo D'Abramo. Una posibilidad, acotó, es encontrar un espacio en Argentina “que pueda volverse un ejemplo" de bienestar animal.

A labor union and two female prison guards sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces employment anti-discrimination laws, for indefinitely suspending proceedings in their case as part of a wider effort to halt all federal-sector class claims pending before the agency's administrative judges.

The lawsuit cited an administrative judge’s order dated Dec. 10, 2025, stating that the sexual harassment case had been paused and that the “notification applies to all class cases in the federal sector.”

But in a court document filed Thursday evening, EEOC Chief Operating Officer Sharon Rose said the judge in the case issued the notification “in error” and that it was an “isolated incident.” Rose also told the court that the EEOC has transferred the case to another administrative judge, who on Monday issued an order scheduling further proceedings.

The court document also included a letter sent by Justice Department attorney James Harlow to the plaintiffs on Monday, offering the same explanation and asking them to drop their motion for a preliminary injunction.

“In short, Defendants agree that processing of federal-sector class complaints should not be suspended,” Harlow wrote in the letter.

Joseph Sellers, co-chair of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll’s civil rights and employment practice and one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, said Friday that the evidence belies the government's claim that the suspension was an erroneous isolated incident.

Sellers and other attorneys involved in the lawsuit say they are representing federal workers in at least five other class complaints that have been stalled for months, including cases against the FBI and the Department of Defense.

In two of those cases, administrative judges also issued scheduling orders Monday, according to the letter sent by Harlow, the Justice Department attorney. Harlow asked the attorneys to send him the name and number of any other federal-sector class complaints that may have been suspended “so we can investigate.”

Sellers said the fact that the EEOC judges only ordered the scheduling orders this week, after the lawsuit was filed, suggests that the suspension was not an error.

“The timing speaks for itself. We have evidence of a number of cases that were stayed. It is not an isolated incident as the EEOC seems to claim," Sellers said.

Sellers said the plaintiffs are willing to engage in discussion with the Justice Department to resolve the issue outside the court.

The lawsuit against the EEOC was filed by the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union representing federal workers, and two women who are correctional officers at Louisiana’s Federal Correctional Complex at Pollock.

The women are part of a pending class complaint claiming that management at Pollock failed to stop inmates from subjecting female workers to sexual harassment.

Under President Donald Trump, the EEOC has drastically overhauled its civil rights enforcement priorities, including prioritizing cases aimed at stamping out diversity and inclusion policies, dropping cases on behalf of transgender workers and abandoning longstanding tools for investigating systemic discrimination.

The changes have prompted several lawsuits against EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas, who says she is pursuing an “even-handed” and “colorblind” vision of workplace civil rights.

Rose, the EEOC chief operating officer, said in her court statement that neither the commission nor Lucas had issued “a written or verbal directive to EEOC administrative judges” to indefinitely suspend class cases.

The EEOC referred questions Friday to the Justice Department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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In a room Friday, mostly preaching to the choir, supporters were rallying the people who run your cities to make sure their residents know the costs of voting away property taxes.

“I think there has to be an education,” Crestview Councilman Sylvester Echols said. “The people have to understand exactly what Amendment 3 is.”

An advertisement projected onto a screen at the convention previewed their messaging: “Follow the math, not the magic trick.”

The measure would raise the homestead exemption to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.

State analysts say local governments would lose in upwards of $12 billion annually.

Exactly what Amendment 3 is will now be detailed on the November ballot in a rewrite a Leon County judge ordered from the attorney general.

The original ballot language, “Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes,” he called “clear and conclusively defective” — more like a sales pitch.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has said, “I think people will be able to see this is a major additional protection for their homestead property.”

The governor is promoting it, but back at the League of Cities, leaders said the rewrite still does not address their concerns.

“This still doesn’t address the issues with the bill, but the ballot language makes it a little more honest,” Sebastian Councilman Chris Nunn said.

Most are scrambling to plan for police and fire salaries and pensions, water services, garbage pickup, roads, libraries and more.

“There are ways to lower property taxes and there’s ways to do it the wrong way,” Steve Vancore, with the “No on 3” campaign, said. “This is telling government ‘You need to lose 10 pounds and we’re going to cut your leg off.’”

“I mean, I am pro-lowering taxes, property taxes,” Sunny Isles Beach Commissioner Alex Lama said. “But there’s got to be a better way of going about it.”

One survey found that if Amendment 3 were on the ballot today, it would edge past the 60% required threshold. But once informed about the effects and consequences, only 45% supported the measure.

That survey showed it’s mostly favored by Republicans and conservatives. That does not, however, include the well-known conservative Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who recently called the measure a “train wreck.”

En una sala el viernes, en su mayoría predicando a los convencidos, partidarios estaban movilizando a las personas que administran sus ciudades para asegurarse de que sus residentes conozcan los costos de votar para eliminar los impuestos a la propiedad.

“Creo que tiene que haber educación”, dijo el concejal de Crestview Sylvester Echols. “La gente tiene que entender exactamente qué es la Enmienda 3”.

Un anuncio proyectado en una pantalla durante la convención anticipó su mensaje: “Sigan las matemáticas, no el truco de magia”.

La medida elevaría la exención de vivienda principal a $150,000 USD en 2027 y $250,000 USD en 2028.

Analistas estatales dicen que los gobiernos locales perderían más de $12,000 millones USD anualmente.

Ahora, exactamente qué es la Enmienda 3 será detallado en la boleta electoral de noviembre, en una redacción ordenada por un juez del condado Leon por parte de la fiscal general.

El texto original de la boleta, “Salvemos nuestros hogares de los impuestos excesivos a la propiedad”, lo calificó de “clara y concluyentemente defectuoso”, más parecido a un argumento de venta.

El gobernador Ron DeSantis ha dicho: “Creo que la gente podrá ver que esta es una importante protección adicional para su propiedad de vivienda principal”.

El gobernador la está promoviendo, pero de regreso en la Liga de Ciudades, líderes dijeron que la nueva redacción aún no aborda sus preocupaciones.

“Esto todavía no aborda los problemas con el proyecto de ley, pero el texto de la boleta lo hace un poco más honesto”, dijo el concejal de Sebastian Chris Nunn.

La mayoría se apresura a planificar los salarios y las pensiones de policías y bomberos, los servicios de agua, la recolección de basura, las carreteras, las bibliotecas y más.

“Hay maneras de reducir los impuestos a la propiedad y hay maneras de hacerlo de la manera equivocada”, dijo Steve Vancore, de la campaña “No a la 3”. “Esto le está diciendo al gobierno: ‘Necesitas perder 10 libras y vamos a cortarte una pierna’”.

“Quiero decir, estoy a favor de reducir los impuestos, los impuestos a la propiedad”, dijo el comisionado de Sunny Isles Beach Alex Lama. “Pero tiene que haber una mejor manera de hacerlo”.

Una encuesta encontró que si la Enmienda 3 estuviera en la boleta hoy, superaría por poco el umbral requerido del 60%. Pero una vez informados sobre los efectos y las consecuencias, solo el 45% apoyó la medida.

Esa encuesta mostró que la medida cuenta principalmente con el respaldo de republicanos y conservadores. Eso, sin embargo, no incluye al conocido sheriff conservador del condado Polk, Grady Judd, quien recientemente calificó la medida como un “desastre”.

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The images give us a glimpse of encounters between ICE agents, immigrants and residents.

People recorded ICE agents as they conducted operations in Homestead, Fort Lauderdale and West Park.

Border Patrol agents were seen outside Harris Field Park in southwest Miami-Dade.

One mother was disturbed, telling us she was dropping off her child at Head Start, an early childhood education and family support facility, and was unsure who the agents were looking for.

Outside a manufacturing company in Broward, a member of the staff questioned an agent who was on the premises.

The agent responded that there was an individual inside who was an illegal resident of the United States and was facing deportation.

“Well, we don’t know anything about that. Just serve a warrant at the front desk,” the staff member said.

A Local 10 News viewer inside the business was concerned the agents were after his co-worker.

He showed what he claimed was a valid work permit and driver’s license.

He added that he was in the process of applying for asylum.

In another encounter, neighbors said a Haitian man was riding his bike on his way to work when federal agents tried to question him.

Residents also tried questioning the agents.

“Put this on the Ring camera. Put this on TikTok. Put this on Facebook,” one resident said. “You didn’t even get his ID Did you run his ID?”

The man was eventually taken into custody. His belongings were left behind.

Local 10 News is still working to learn more specifics in these cases.

In the meantime, the Department of Homeland Security has maintained that agents have been doing their job, enforcing immigration laws and ultimately fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promises on immigration.

Las imágenes nos dan un vistazo a los encuentros entre agentes del ICE, inmigrantes y residentes.

Personas grabaron a agentes del ICE mientras realizaban operaciones en Homestead, Fort Lauderdale y West Park.

Se vio a agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza afuera de Harris Field Park, en el suroeste de Miami-Dade.

Una madre estaba preocupada y nos contó que estaba dejando a su hijo en Head Start, un centro de educación para la primera infancia y apoyo familiar, y no estaba segura de a quién buscaban los agentes.

Afuera de una empresa manufacturera en Broward, un miembro del personal cuestionó a un agente que se encontraba en las instalaciones.

El agente respondió que había una persona dentro que era residente ilegal de Estados Unidos y enfrentaba una deportación.

“Bueno, no sabemos nada al respecto. Solo entregue una orden judicial en la recepción”, dijo el miembro del personal.

Un espectador de Local 10 News que se encontraba dentro del negocio estaba preocupado de que los agentes fueran tras su compañero de trabajo.

Mostró lo que afirmó era un permiso de trabajo válido y una licencia de conducir.

Agregó que estaba en proceso de solicitar asilo.

En otro encuentro, vecinos dijeron que un hombre haitiano iba en bicicleta rumbo al trabajo cuando agentes federales intentaron interrogarlo.

Los residentes también intentaron cuestionar a los agentes.

“Graben esto con la cámara Ring. Pónganlo en TikTok. Pónganlo en Facebook”, dijo un residente. “Ni siquiera obtuvieron su identificación. ¿Verificaron su identificación?”

El hombre finalmente fue detenido. Sus pertenencias quedaron atrás.

Local 10 News continúa trabajando para conocer más detalles sobre estos casos.

Mientras tanto, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional ha mantenido que los agentes están haciendo su trabajo, haciendo cumplir las leyes de inmigración y, en última instancia, cumpliendo las promesas de campaña del presidente Donald Trump sobre inmigración.

La Policía de Hollywood dijo que Gracie Jai Tellez, de 20 años, y Robert Lee Ingram, de 22, fueron arrestados poco después de las 2 p.m. del viernes pasado en Jacksonville, Florida, con la asistencia del Servicio de Alguaciles de Estados Unidos y la Oficina del Sheriff de Jacksonville.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que ambos enfrentan cargos de homicidio involuntario agravado de un menor y negligencia infantil que causó lesiones corporales graves, discapacidad permanente o desfiguración permanente.

Los cargos se derivan de la muerte de su hija de 7 semanas, quien fue encontrada inconsciente en la casa de la familia, ubicada en la cuadra 2200 de Farragut Street en Hollywood, el 14 de octubre de 2025, dijeron los investigadores.

Según una declaración jurada de arresto, Tellez llamó al 911 alrededor de las 11:54 a.m. después de que la niña pareciera “no responder, pálida y fría al tacto”. Los agentes dijeron que llegaron y realizaron RCP a la niña hasta que los paramédicos de Hollywood Fire Rescue se hicieron cargo.

La Policía dijo que la niña fue trasladada como alerta de trauma al Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, donde finalmente fue conectada a soporte vital.

Dijeron que los padres inicialmente les dijeron a los investigadores que habían alimentado a la niña con un biberón, que se había quedado dormida y que la habían colocado en un moisés. Las autoridades dijeron que los padres afirmaron que revisaron a la niña poco después y la encontraron fría e inconsciente.

La declaración jurada señala que la niña había sido considerada saludable antes del incidente. Los registros médicos revisados por los detectives no mostraron lesiones previas ni problemas de salud importantes, y había sido atendida por un pediatra el 8 de octubre de 2025, donde, según se informó, gozaba de buena salud.

Pero las pruebas médicas pronto revelaron lesiones graves.

Según la declaración jurada, los médicos encontraron una lesión cerebral anóxica difusa, sangrado en ambos ojos, desprendimientos de retina y fracturas en la parte posterior del cráneo.

La declaración jurada señala que los médicos dijeron a los investigadores que las lesiones eran compatibles con un “trauma craneal no accidental”, incluido un trauma contundente y fuerzas de aceleración y desaceleración aplicadas a la cabeza y el cuerpo de la niña, lo que la declaración jurada describió como “sacudidas violentas”.

Un médico forense del condado Broward determinó posteriormente que la causa de muerte de la niña fueron “complicaciones de un trauma contundente en la cabeza” y clasificó la manera de muerte como homicidio, según la declaración jurada.

La niña fue declarada con muerte cerebral el 18 de octubre de 2025. Permaneció conectada a un ventilador hasta que sus órganos pudieron ser obtenidos para trasplante el 22 de octubre de 2025.

La investigación continuó durante meses.

Los detectives dijeron que obtuvieron órdenes de registro para los teléfonos celulares de los padres y revisaron las descargas forenses de los dispositivos. La declaración jurada señala que ambos padres habían dicho a los investigadores que a veces usaban FaceTime entre sus teléfonos como un monitor improvisado para bebés mientras la niña dormía.

Sin embargo, los investigadores dijeron que los registros telefónicos no respaldaban esa versión.

En cambio, los detectives dijeron que encontraron que los teléfonos fueron utilizados ampliamente para jugar Call of Duty y ver YouTube durante las horas de la madrugada y la mañana antes de que la niña fuera encontrada inconsciente.

Según la declaración jurada, el teléfono de Ingram fue utilizado para jugar Call of Duty aproximadamente desde las 5:12 a.m. hasta las 8:39 a.m. y nuevamente desde las 10:33 a.m. hasta las 11:49 a.m., justo antes de que la bebé fuera encontrada inconsciente.

El teléfono de Tellez también mostró períodos prolongados de uso de Call of Duty, incluido desde aproximadamente las 10:38 a.m. hasta las 11:52 a.m. La llamada al 911 se realizó desde su teléfono alrededor de las 11:53 a.m.

“Estas descargas forenses muestran que la información proporcionada por Gracie Tellez y Robert Ingram no era veraz”, señala la declaración jurada.

Los investigadores también señalaron que Ingram dio a los detectives múltiples versiones diferentes de las horas previas a las lesiones de la niña. Dijeron que sus descripciones diferían respecto a cuándo fue alimentada la bebé, cuándo durmió y cuántas veces fue sacada del moisés y colocada nuevamente en él.

Los investigadores dijeron que durante una recreación posterior en la casa, Ingram volvió a proporcionar una cronología diferente.

La declaración jurada señala que ninguno de los padres pudo proporcionar una explicación de cómo la niña sufrió sus lesiones mortales.

La Policía dijo que la investigación del médico forense también encontró fracturas de cráneo en ambos lados de la parte posterior de la cabeza de la niña, además de hemorragias a lo largo de su columna vertebral.

Según la declaración jurada, la Oficina del Médico Forense del Condado Broward determinó posteriormente que la niña estaba bien desarrollada y bien nutrida para su edad y no mostraba signos de desnutrición.

Los investigadores concluyeron finalmente que había causa probable para creer que ambos padres no habían proporcionado el cuidado y la supervisión necesarios para su hija y que su “negligencia culpable” contribuyó a su muerte.

La declaración jurada señala que la niña estaba bajo el cuidado de ambos padres cuando ocurrieron sus lesiones y que los investigadores consideraron poco probable que no hubieran visto o escuchado el hecho que causó las lesiones, dada la dimensión y distribución de la residencia.

La portavoz de la Policía de Hollywood, Deanna Bettineschi, dijo que la investigación de la agencia condujo a las órdenes de arresto contra ambos padres.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Tellez permanecía detenida sin derecho a fianza en la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, North Broward Bureau, mientras que Ingram permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en la cárcel principal del condado Broward.

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Hallandale Beach police said the crash happened shortly before midnight July 18 in the 600 block of West Hallandale Beach Boulevard.

In the video, a person can be seen walking across the street as a white car approaches. The driver, who police identified as Francesca Yesbick, struck the pedestrian, then continued driving away from the scene, according to investigators.

Police say the victim suffered serious injuries but survived.

The surveillance footage became a key part of the investigation. Detectives reviewed city cameras and used license plate reader technology to track down the vehicle and identify the driver.

Police said Yesbick, 37, later called 911 and reported seeing “a man get hit by a car in Hallandale.” During that call, she allegedly described the vehicle as a green Honda but couldn’t confirm the address of where the incident occurred.

But the surveillance video told a different story, showing a white vehicle involved in the crash.

After nearly a month of investigation, police say Yesbick turned herself in to the Hallandale Beach Police Department.

Jail records show she was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

But it was the surveillance video that helped investigators piece together what happened — capturing the crash, the vehicle and the moment the driver allegedly fled.

Deputy Jasmaine McKinney, who has been with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office for about four years, received a call about the fraud case last month.

“You can definitely tell he felt like a victim. You can tell it was just written all over him,” McKinney said.

McKinney said the 93-year-old was told by scammers that they were with the Federal Trade Commission and that his bank account had been compromised.

They told him that, to secure his funds, he needed to withdraw the money and purchase $600,000 worth of gold.

The victim, who declined an interview, contacted a legitimate business to purchase the gold and wrote the company a $600,000 check.

The plan was to have the gold delivered to his home, where the scammers would pick it up.

But the victim became suspicious and went to his bank. The bank then contacted the sheriff’s office.

“That was all his life savings. Like, that’s what he had,” McKinney said.

McKinney responded and got the gold company on the phone. She explained that the 93-year-old had been scammed and needed a refund.

“Let’s get it done, because, again, this guy is out of a lot of money and he’s not a millionaire or anything like that. He’s just a regular guy,” McKinney said.

A few weeks later, the entire $600,000 was returned to the victim’s account.

McKinney said she called to make sure the money was actually back in his account.

“He said, no, it’s back in there. I seen it. I say, you know what? I’m happy for you. I just kept saying that. I’m happy for you. I’m happy for you,” McKinney said.

The victim told her he was happy the sheriff’s office got involved.

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were responding to another call at a local bank when they stopped an elderly man from falling victim to another gold bar scam, saving him $98,000.

The sheriff’s office is reminding people never to give out personal information over the phone and to call police directly if they believe they may be getting scammed.

La policía de Hallandale Beach informó que el accidente ocurrió poco antes de la medianoche del 18 de julio en la cuadra 600 de West Hallandale Beach Boulevard.

En el video, se puede ver a una persona cruzando la calle mientras se acerca un automóvil blanco. La conductora, identificada por la policía como Francesca Yesbick, atropelló al peatón y luego continuó conduciendo para alejarse de la escena, según los investigadores.

La policía informó que la víctima sufrió lesiones graves, pero sobrevivió.

Las imágenes de vigilancia se convirtieron en una parte clave de la investigación. Los detectives revisaron las cámaras de la ciudad y utilizaron tecnología de lectores de matrículas para rastrear el vehículo e identificar a la conductora.

La policía indicó que Yesbick, de 37 años, llamó posteriormente al 911 y reportó haber visto “a un hombre ser atropellado por un automóvil en Hallandale”. Durante esa llamada, presuntamente describió el vehículo como un Honda verde, pero no pudo confirmar la dirección donde ocurrió el incidente.

Pero el video de vigilancia mostró una historia diferente, al mostrar un vehículo blanco involucrado en el accidente.

Después de casi un mes de investigación, la policía informó que Yesbick se entregó al Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que fue arrestada por un cargo de abandonar la escena de un accidente.

Pero fue el video de vigilancia el que ayudó a los investigadores a reconstruir lo ocurrido, al capturar el accidente, el vehículo y el momento en que la conductora presuntamente huyó.

A spotty shower or storm is not completely out of the question Friday evening. Otherwise, scattered clouds, subtle southeast winds and very warm conditions will define the night for Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Temperatures are expected to drop to the low 80s overnight.

There could be a spotty shower or two in the area early Saturday. Thereafter, the day will feature sunshine, scattered clouds, a hint of haze and southeast to east-southeast winds sustained at 5 to 10 mph. Afternoon storms will tend to favor the Everglades or western areas of South Florida. Temperatures are forecast to reach the low to mid-90s, with heat indices peaking at 105 F or higher.

Sunday will offer hazy sunshine and hardly a drop of rain. Temperatures will make a run for the mid-90s, while humidity will make it feel like triple digits.

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A hurricane warning is in effect for Hawaii County and the Big Island in anticipation of hurricane conditions (winds of 74 mph or higher), while Maui County – including the islands of Maui, Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi, Kahoʻolawe – is under a tropical storm watch for the possibility of tropical storm winds (winds of 39 mph or higher) as Lala passes to the south.

A rare direct hurricane threat for the Big Island

While the 50^th state is no stranger to brushes from tropical storms and hurricanes, only 2 hurricanes on record (since 1949) – Category 4 Iniki in 1992 and Category 1 Dot in 1959 – have passed directly over any of the main Hawaiian Islands (both struck Kauaʻi in the north).

Only three other tropical storms on record have passed directly over the state – Iselle in 2014 and Darby in 2016 (both striking the Big Island) and Olivia in 2018, the only named storm on record to pass directly over Maui and Lanai.

If Lala’s center crosses the Big Island as a hurricane, it would be the first hurricane on record to cross the island.

Even tropical storms and hurricanes that haven’t struck Hawai’i square on have caused major problems over the years, especially from terrain-enhanced rainfall caused by strong winds forced up the archipelago’s dramatic mountain slopes.

Hurricane Lane in August 2018, whose center passed 150 miles west of the Big Island, dropped an astounding 58 inches of rainfall over eastern parts of the Big Island northwest of Hilo. This is the second-highest rainfall total ever observed from a tropical cyclone in the United States, only eclipsed by Hurricane Harvey the previous August and September (2017), which dumped over 60 inches of rain in the Houston-Beaumont region of southeastern Texas.

What’s in store for Hawai’i from Lala

The most serious inland hazard from Lala will be heavy rainfall, which could top two feet across the Big Island, leading to life-threatening flooding and mudslides, particularly in areas of steep terrain.

While up to 8 inches of rain are possible across the other main islands this weekend, the Big Island and Maui will see the lion’s share of the heavy rainfall, with widespread 8- to 12-inch totals and isolated totals exceeding 20 inches on their wetter windward sides where steep slopes face east toward the prevailing winds.

Meanwhile, hurricane conditions (winds of 74 mph or stronger) are expected by early Saturday across the Big Island, with tropical storm conditions (winds of 39-73 mph) spreading into Maui County – including Maui, Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi, Kahoʻolawe – by later Saturday local time. Winds at the top of east-facing mountain slopes could be up to 30% stronger than what’s reflected by the National Hurricane’s Center forecast, which estimates only surface winds (for example 75 mph winds at the surface could be as high as 100 mph at elevation).

Additionally, treacherous surf and marine conditions, with large and breaking waves reaching 15 feet or larger, are forecast through the weekend along east-facing shores in Hawai’i.

Seas will stay elevated into early next week, but conditions will generally improve across the island archipelago by Monday as Lala pull away.

Lukewarm Atlantic walks it back

Forecast models continue to walk back their initial interest in two systems we’ve been tracking over the deep tropical Atlantic designated Invest 92L and Invest 94L.

Invest 92L – the westernmost disturbance now located only about 350 miles east of the easternmost Caribbean islands – which had an 80% chance of development only yesterday and was on the brink of becoming the Atlantic’s next named storm faltered on Thursday as it ran into a staunch wall of El-Niño-induced wind shear. NHC quickly peeled back its development odds from 80% Thursday morning to a paltry 20% by Friday morning.

Though it could bring periods of heavy rain and squally weather as it passes through the islands this weekend, 92L’s development odds look to be kaput beyond today as it heads directly into the teeth of the highest ribbon of wind shear ahead.

The disturbance to 92L’s east – designated Invest 94L – was similarly struggling early Friday. A dry and stable environment is limiting thunderstorm organization and this still has some work to do before it clears the formation hurdle.

As we discussed in previous newsletters, this one will outlast 92L but it’s left to be seen if it can muster up enough organization to become a tropical depression or named storm by this weekend or early next week.

In general, models have continued to trend away from development with 94L and our two better-performing modeling systems – the Euro and Google’s DeepMind – have pared back their odds considerably.

We’ll monitor the trends for the northeastern islands of the Caribbean for later next week as 94L or what forms from it will track near or north of the islands. For now, however, our guidance doesn’t suggest a significant threat for the islands next week.

The National Hurricane Center said Lala should be at hurricane strength by the time it approaches the Big Island Saturday.

If it makes landfall there, it would be the first to hit the island since 1871. Back then, according to a University of Hawaii atmospheric scientist's research of newspaper accounts, a Category 3 hurricane hit the northeast corner of the island, said Vanessa Almanza, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu.

“First time since satellites,” Almanza said. “The latest forecast has it very close to the southern tip of the Big Island.”

A hurricane warning was issued for the Big Island, and a tropical storm warning was in effect for Maui County, which includes the islands of Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe.

Officials and residents braced for Lala regardless of whether Hawaii takes a direct hit. Shelters were scheduled to open, and various events were canceled.

“It doesn’t take landfall to create destruction,” Almanza said. “A lot of the impacts are felt outside of the hurricane.”

The National Hurricane Center predicted 8 to 12 inches (20.3 to 30.5 centimeters) of rainfall totals across Maui and the Big Island, with maximum totals as high as 25 inches (63.5 centimeters) in some spots on the Big Island. Four to 6 inches (10.2 to 15.2 centimeters) were expected across the island chain.

The center also warned that the storm could cause “life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in areas of steep terrain,” along with a dangerous storm surge and ocean swells “likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.”

“Suffice it to say, this is an enormous storm,” Gov. Josh Green said.

Officials urge taking the storm seriously

State Rep. Jeanné Kapela, who represents communities that are in the storm's possible track, traveled to the Big Island from Honolulu on Friday morning and called for people to be on alert.

The southern end of the island is remote and rural but growing in population because of its affordability. Kapela said she was especially worried about people who live off the grid in unpermitted structures. The area's agriculture includes coffee and cattle.

“We're encouraging residents to take this storm seriously, remain vigilant, and get somewhere safe before conditions deteriorate,” she said in a text message to The Associated Press as her flight took off. “We're hopeful the storm moves through quickly, but we're preparing for whatever comes.”

Green urged residents to be ready: “If you feel now that your house doesn’t have a great roof or might not be able to withstand hurricane force winds, then first things first you go to a family or friend's house and you kind of hunker down there."

Kapela also noted that many parts of the state are still reeling from devastating flooding in March, saying, “We know how quickly heavy rain and flooding can impact our rural communities.”

Brian Miyamoto, executive director of the Hawaii Farm Bureau, said growers are always concerned when there is a threat of a lot of water in a short amount time. But those still recovering from the spring floods, including on Oahu’s North Shore, were worried about suffering more damage.

Coffee farmer Bruce Corker said it was “sunny and beautiful” Friday in Holualoa, on the west side of the Big Island, and the island's only Costco seemed normal a day earlier. Still, he said, the prospect of “streams overflowing and high winds” was worrisome.

Wildfire risks increase during windy weather

As winds ramped up across the islands, there were no red flag warnings in place but Almanza said the dry and breezy conditions would still elevate fire concerns.

In 2023 the Maui town of Lahaina burned during extreme winds amid a hurricane passing far to the south of Hawaii.

“Since the fire, everybody is way more aware of weather in general and our environment and things that are happening,” said Archie Kalepa of Lahaina, who is well known in the area for his surfing, paddling and other ocean skills and has been watching the storm closely.

As of Friday afternoon, Tropical Storm Lala was located about 275 miles (440 kilometers) east-southeast of South Point, Hawaii, according to the National Hurricane Center. It had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) and was moving toward the west-northwest at 14 mph (22 kph).

The wind speed threshold for a Category 1 hurricane is 74 mph (46 kph).

“I wouldn’t be afraid of what’s to come, just be prepared,” said Steven Businger, the University of Hawaii professor whose research found information about the hurricane that hit the Big Island 155 years ago.

Lala has the potential to make landfall with damaging winds, he said, but its path was trending south with every forecast.

“The Big Island is furthest south and furthest east, so it has the greatest probability of having a hurricane hit,” he said. “However, historically Kauai has seen the most landfalls.”

Kauai, which is several islands northwest up the archipelago from the Big Island, saw Hurricane Iniki make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in 1992. That, like this year, was an El Nino year. Pacific hurricane activity increases during El Nino, a warming of the Pacific near the equator that affects weather patterns across the globe.

Iniki, the last hurricane to make landfall in Hawaii, was following a southern trajectory before it turned up and hit Kauai, the governor said.

“It did $3 billion worth of damage. It destroyed thousands of homes, and it did kill six people,” he said. “So we just can never know if a storm is going to turn.”

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The event, organized by the Florida Youth Justice Coalition and Gen-Z For Change, had been scheduled for Friday night at The Venue Fort Lauderdale, which is located in Wilton Manors.

It featured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, a Palestinian American, who on her campaign website describes herself as a “proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America.”

“I heard whispers that Rashida Tlaib was coming,” said Democratic State Rep. Michael Gottlieb, a lawyer who represents District 102, “then I saw that flyer.”

A reference to the group’s “Chomp the Oligarchy: Get out the Vote Rally” promotional flyer, he said.

Taking to social media, Gottlieb expressed his dismay that The Venue would be hosting a gathering of what he describes as a “coalition of candidates and organizations who are on the strongly pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel left, several of whom have been involved in disputes over where anti-Zionism crosses into antisemitism.”

Gottlieb told Local 10 News he believes his post “struck a nerve because this community, which has a high population of Jews and many of which have been to The Venue were also offended, as well as the non-Jews who are sympathetic to and understand what the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) movement is about.”

After the public outcry, The Venue canceled. In a public statement on social media, it said that the event “would not proceed” due in part to “increased security concerns.”

“The Venue Fort Lauderdale is a Jewish-owned and operated and our values and commitment to the Jewish community are deeply important to us,” it states.

The post goes on to say that they are reviewing their vetting procedures while adding they want to be “unequivocally clear that the acceptance of a venue booking should never be interpreted as an endorsement of the political views, organizations, speakers, messaging, or causes associated with an event.”

“I think what’s important to understand what happened here is my client accepted this booking and it was not disclosed to my client the full extent of who’s gonna be appearing at the booking,” Russell Cormican, the attorney representing The Venue, said. “Particularly Congresswoman Tlaib. It was never disclosed that she was going to be there.”

Cormican said that The Venue became aware of Tlaib’s presence thanks to social media posts less than 24 hours before the scheduled event. He said police showed up at the venue and addressed security concerns.

“And because it was so close to the time that this event was going to happen, they did not have time to put in place adequate security measures in response to the presence of a very controversial person at this event,” he said.

Cormican said his client’s statement was “not a political statement in any way” and said it had nothing to do with the business being Jewish-owned.

“This is the result of a organizer who booked the venue and didn’t disclose all of the people who were gonna be there,” Cormican said. “And one of those people then became a security concern for my client.”

He said his client is “in the business of allowing people to have events” and “not checking people’s political affiliation when they walk in the door.”

“They’re not asking if you’re a Republican or a Democrat or whether you back Israel or Palestine. They’re open to everyone,” he said. “But if you’re gonna have an event there and you’re gonna invite somebody to that event that is a controversial person that’s going to cause a need for added security, then you have to tell them that in advance. You’ve got give them enough time to get ready for that.”

Gottlieb said, “I don’t see race or religion in my job in any way, shape or form, nor do I in my personal life. I want to make that clear. I don’t care that Rashida Tlaib is Palestinian. I care that she’s antisemitic and I understand that some people are going to say she’s not antisemitic.”

One of the candidates Congresswoman Tlaib is in town to support is the DSA-endorsed Oliver Larkin, a digital marketing consultant looking to beat establishment Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Florida, who is now running in Florida’s newly redrawn Congressional District 25.

“This is not a hate rally. This is a rally to motivate young voters against the billionaire class and the corporate interests that are increasingly in control of both political parties,” said Larkin, who described the public outcry and original venue cancellation as “very unfortunate,” adding that they are “moving forward regardless.”

He said they are planning to stage the event at a new “private” location that will only be sent to RSVPs in light of what he feels is “a very hate-fueled public pressure campaign to try to intimidate.”

“So if they wanted to get the youth vote out, number one, then you do a ‘Democrat Youth to the Polls’ event, OK?,” said Gottlieb. “You don’t invite Rashida Tlaib who is the head of the DSA movement essentially in terms of figureheads, right? It was a fundraiser for DSA candidates. They handpicked who they wanted because as I said, they’re pivoting to the left.”

Fighting for ‘the soul of the Democratic Party’?

The incident playing out in Broward may be a microcosm of the partisan in-fighting happening in primary races nationwide as some of the Democratic Party’s more progressive members seek to unseat establishment candidates.

“Representative Rashida Tlaib has represented our country in the United States Congress and we’re very proud to have her coming to to visit our state,” said Larkin. “I think this is case in point of why the Florida Democratic Party has failed to really stand up to Donald Trump and the Republican Party because they seem to be more concerned with quashing any kind of youth participation or progressive momentum to organize in our state.”

“I think it’s hurting the Democratic Party,” said Gottlieb. “I think you’re going to see that if the DSA candidates get elected, you are not going to see a cohesive party platform anymore. I think if you look at some of the commentators in my post, many of them come from socialist or communist countries, or their families do, whether it was in Europe or in South and Latin America, and they said, ‘No, no, no, we don’t want this.’ That’s not what Broward stands for. Broward is blue-collar, Blue Dog Democrats.”

El evento, organizado por Florida Youth Justice Coalition y Gen-Z For Change, estaba programado para la noche del viernes en The Venue Fort Lauderdale, ubicado en Wilton Manors.

El evento contaría con la participación de la congresista federal Rashida Tlaib, demócrata de Michigan, una estadounidense de origen palestino que en su sitio web de campaña se describe como una “orgullosa integrante de Democratic Socialists of America”.

“Escuché rumores de que Rashida Tlaib venía”, dijo el representante estatal demócrata Michael Gottlieb, abogado que representa al Distrito 102, “y luego vi ese volante”.

Se refería al volante promocional del grupo para su “Chomp the Oligarchy: Get out the Vote Rally”, dijo.

En redes sociales, Gottlieb expresó su consternación por el hecho de que The Venue fuera a organizar una reunión de lo que él describe como una “coalición de candidatos y organizaciones que son de izquierda fuertemente propalestina/antiisraelí, varios de los cuales han estado involucrados en disputas sobre dónde el antisionismo cruza la línea hacia el antisemitismo”.

Gottlieb dijo a Local 10 News que cree que su publicación “tocó un nervio porque esta comunidad, que tiene una gran población judía y muchos de cuyos integrantes han estado en The Venue, también se sintió ofendida, al igual que los no judíos que simpatizan con el movimiento de DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) y entienden de qué se trata”.

Tras la indignación pública, The Venue canceló el evento. En un comunicado público en redes sociales, dijo que el evento “no se llevaría a cabo” debido, en parte, a “mayores preocupaciones de seguridad”.

“The Venue Fort Lauderdale es propiedad de judíos y es operado por judíos, y nuestros valores y compromiso con la comunidad judía son profundamente importantes para nosotros”, señala el comunicado.

La publicación continúa diciendo que están revisando sus procedimientos de evaluación, al tiempo que agregan que quieren dejar “inequívocamente claro que la aceptación de una reserva del lugar nunca debe interpretarse como un respaldo a las opiniones políticas, organizaciones, oradores, mensajes o causas asociadas con un evento”.

“Creo que lo importante es entender lo que ocurrió aquí: mi cliente aceptó esta reserva y no se le informó a mi cliente sobre el alcance total de quiénes iban a aparecer en la reserva”, dijo Russell Cormican, el abogado que representa a The Venue. “En particular, la congresista Tlaib. Nunca se informó que ella estaría allí”.

Cormican dijo que The Venue se enteró de la presencia de Tlaib gracias a publicaciones en redes sociales menos de 24 horas antes del evento programado. Dijo que la policía acudió al lugar y abordó las preocupaciones de seguridad.

“Y debido a que faltaba tan poco tiempo para que ocurriera este evento, no tuvieron tiempo de implementar medidas de seguridad adecuadas en respuesta a la presencia de una persona muy controversial en este evento”, dijo.

Cormican dijo que el comunicado de su cliente “no fue de ninguna manera una declaración política” y afirmó que no tuvo nada que ver con el hecho de que el negocio sea propiedad de judíos.

“Esto es el resultado de un organizador que reservó el lugar y no informó sobre todas las personas que iban a estar allí”, dijo Cormican. “Y una de esas personas se convirtió en una preocupación de seguridad para mi cliente”.

Dijo que su cliente “se dedica a permitir que las personas realicen eventos” y “no a verificar la afiliación política de las personas cuando entran por la puerta”.

“No les preguntan si son republicanos o demócratas, ni si apoyan a Israel o Palestina. Están abiertos a todos”, dijo. “Pero si vas a realizar un evento allí y vas a invitar a alguien a ese evento que es una persona controversial que va a generar la necesidad de mayor seguridad, entonces tienes que informarles con anticipación. Tienes que darles suficiente tiempo para prepararse para eso”.

Gottlieb dijo: “No veo la raza ni la religión en mi trabajo de ninguna manera, forma o modo, ni tampoco en mi vida personal. Quiero dejar eso claro. No me importa que Rashida Tlaib sea palestina. Me importa que sea antisemita y entiendo que algunas personas van a decir que no es antisemita”.

Uno de los candidatos que la congresista Tlaib está en la ciudad para apoyar es el candidato respaldado por DSA Oliver Larkin, un consultor de marketing digital que busca derrotar al representante de la cúpula del partido Jared Moskowitz, demócrata de Florida, quien ahora se postula en el recién redibujado Distrito 25 del Congreso de Florida.

“Esta no es una manifestación de odio. Esta es una manifestación para motivar a los votantes jóvenes contra la clase multimillonaria y los intereses corporativos que tienen cada vez más control de ambos partidos políticos”, dijo Larkin, quien describió la indignación pública y la cancelación del lugar original como “muy desafortunadas”, y agregó que están “siguiendo adelante de todos modos”.

Dijo que planean realizar el evento en una nueva ubicación “privada” que solo será enviada a quienes confirmen su asistencia, ante lo que considera “una campaña pública de presión impulsada por el odio para tratar de intimidar”.

“Entonces, si querían movilizar el voto joven, número uno, haces un evento de ‘Democrat Youth to the Polls’, ¿de acuerdo?”, dijo Gottlieb. “No invitas a Rashida Tlaib, quien es esencialmente la cabeza del movimiento DSA en términos de figuras representativas, ¿cierto? Era una recaudación de fondos para candidatos de DSA. Eligieron cuidadosamente a quién querían porque, como dije, están girando hacia la izquierda”.

¿Luchando por “el alma del Partido Demócrata”?

El incidente que ocurre en Broward puede ser un microcosmos de las disputas partidistas que se desarrollan en las contiendas de primarias en todo el país, mientras algunos de los miembros más progresistas del Partido Demócrata buscan derrotar a candidatos de la cúpula del partido.

“La representante Rashida Tlaib ha representado a nuestro país en el Congreso de Estados Unidos y estamos muy orgullosos de que venga a visitar nuestro estado”, dijo Larkin. “Creo que este es un ejemplo de por qué el Partido Demócrata de Florida ha fracasado realmente en enfrentarse a Donald Trump y al Partido Republicano, porque parecen estar más preocupados por sofocar cualquier tipo de participación juvenil o impulso progresista para organizarse en nuestro estado”.

“Creo que está perjudicando al Partido Demócrata”, dijo Gottlieb. “Creo que van a ver que, si los candidatos de DSA son elegidos, ya no habrá una plataforma partidista cohesiva. Creo que si observan a algunos de los comentaristas en mi publicación, muchos de ellos provienen de países socialistas o comunistas, o sus familias lo hacen, ya sea de Europa o de Sudamérica y Latinoamérica, y dijeron: ‘No, no, no, no queremos esto’. Eso no es lo que representa Broward. Broward es de clase trabajadora, demócratas Blue Dog”.

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The shooting, which happened at around 3 p.m. at the chain’s location at 33501 South Dixie Highway, began with an altercation, according to police. Investigators said Nathaniel Baez was killed and a 72-year-old man was shot in the foot.

Baez was shopping at the store when an altercation occurred involving him, a Walmart employee and members of the group he was with, according to investigators and the family’s attorney.

The family alleges Walmart failed to take appropriate action to prevent the confrontation and should be held responsible for Baez’s death.

Betsabe Santos, Baez’s mother, recalled the moment she learned her son had been killed.

“You can’t describe it,” she said. “The doctor was very straight forward. Your son got shot. He’s dead.”

Santos said the news devastated her family.

“Your world shatters, your heart shatters,” she said.

Investigators said the incident involved then-Walmart employee Roberto Acevedo, who told police he felt threatened by Baez and the group of friends he was with.

Todd Michaels, an attorney representing Baez’s family, said Acevedo should have contacted a manager rather than calling armed friends to the store.

“He got it in his head that these people are going to jump me and instead of doing the one thing he was required to do which is call your manager, he decided to call his armed friends to find out what this guy said or why he looked at him.,” Michaels said.

The confrontation escalated, and shots were fired. The shooting was captured on surveillance video, according to the family’s attorney.

Steve Lestin, 28, the accused gunman who was 25 years old at the time of the shooting, was arrested and is facing a second-degree murder charge, according to jail records.

The Baez family’s lawsuit argues that Walmart bears responsibility because Acevedo was working for the company at the time of the incident.

“It was their employee who they put on the floor,” Michaels said.

Michaels also described the Walmart employee as being responsible for watching for unusual activity in the store.

“He was there as that front line defense when they see anything out of the ordinary,” Michaels added.

Baez’s parents said their son had plans for his future, including starting a business and working in landscaping.

“He used to call me and say ‘Dad, I want to go into business. I want to do landscaping,”' his father, Samuel Baez, said.

For his mother, the lawsuit is about more than accountability. She said she hopes it will prevent another family from experiencing the same loss.

“You destroyed a family,” Santos said.

Police said another shopper was also hit by gunfire during the shooting. He survived his injuries.

Local 10 News has reached out to Walmart for a response to the lawsuit. The company had not yet responded.

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Hollywood police said Gracie Jai Tellez, 20, and Robert Lee Ingram, 22, were arrested shortly after 2 p.m. last Friday in Jacksonville, Florida, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Jail records show they are both facing charges of aggravated manslaughter of a child and neglect of a child causing great bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement.

The charges stem from the death of their 7-week-old daughter, who was found unresponsive at the family’s home in the 2200 block of Farragut Street in Hollywood on Oct. 14, 2025, investigators said.

According to an arrest affidavit, Tellez called 911 at about 11:54 a.m. after the girl appeared “non-responsive, pale and cold to the touch.” Officers said they arrived and performed CPR on the girl until Hollywood Fire Rescue medics took over.

Police said the girl was transported as a trauma alert to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, where she was eventually placed on life support.

They said the parents initially told investigators the girl had been fed a bottle, fallen asleep and been placed in a bassinet. Authorities said the parents claimed they checked on the girl shortly afterward and found her cold and unresponsive.

The affidavit states that the girl had been considered healthy before the incident. Medical records reviewed by detectives showed no previous injuries or significant health concerns, and she had been seen by a pediatrician on Oct. 8, 2025, where she was reportedly in good health.

But medical testing soon revealed severe injuries.

According to the affidavit, doctors found a diffuse anoxic brain injury, bleeding in both eyes, retinal detachments and fractures to the back of the skull.

The affidavit states that doctors told investigators the injuries were consistent with “non-accidental head trauma,” including blunt-force trauma and acceleration/deceleration forces applied to the girl’s head and body, which the affidavit described as “violent shaking.”

A Broward County medical examiner later determined the girl’s cause of death was “complications of blunt head trauma” and classified the manner of death as homicide, according to the affidavit.

The girl was declared brain dead on Oct. 18, 2025. She remained on a ventilator until her organs could be procured for transplant on Oct. 22, 2025.

The investigation continued for months.

Detectives said obtained search warrants for the parents’ cellphones and reviewed forensic downloads of the devices. The affidavit says both parents had told investigators they sometimes used FaceTime between their phones as a makeshift baby monitor while the girl slept.

However, investigators said the phone records did not support that account.

Instead, detectives said they found the phones were used extensively to play Call of Duty and watch YouTube during the overnight hours and the morning before the girl was found unresponsive.

According to the affidavit, Ingram’s phone was used to play Call of Duty from about 5:12 a.m. to 8:39 a.m. and again from 10:33 a.m. to 11:49 a.m. — just before the baby was found unresponsive.

Tellez’s phone also showed extended periods of Call of Duty use, including from about 10:38 a.m. until 11:52 a.m. The 911 call was made from her phone at about 11:53 a.m.

“These forensic downloads show the information provided by Gracie Tellez and Robert Ingram was not truthful,” the affidavit states.

Investigators also noted that Ingram gave detectives multiple different accounts of the hours leading up to the girl’s injuries. They said his descriptions differed regarding when the baby was fed, when she slept and how many times she was taken in and out of the bassinet.

Investigators said during a later reenactment at the home, Ingram again provided a different timeline.

The affidavit states that neither parent could provide an explanation for how the girl suffered her fatal injuries.

Police said the medical examiner’s investigation also found skull fractures in both sides of the back of the girl’s skull, along with hemorrhages along her spine.

According to the affidavit, the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office later determined that the girl was well-developed and well-nourished for her age and did not show signs of malnutrition.

Investigators ultimately concluded there was probable cause to believe both parents had failed to provide the care and supervision necessary for their daughter and that their “culpable negligence” contributed to her death.

The affidavit states that the girl was in the care of both parents when her injuries occurred and that investigators found it unlikely they would not have seen or heard the event that caused the injuries given the size and layout of the residence.

Hollywood police spokeswoman Deanna Bettineschi said the agency’s investigation led to the arrest warrants for both parents.

As of Friday, Tellez was being held without bond at the Broward Sheriff’s Office North Broward Bureau, while Ingram was being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., denied the Tohono O’odham Nation's request for a court-ordered halt to border wall construction on its 2.8-million-acre reservation. Leon ruled the tribe hasn't established that a border wall will change its reservation boundaries without congressional authority.

The judge also rejected the tribe's claim that the planned border wall would illegally trespass on its reservation.

“And in any event, I find that the Government’s interests in securing the border, enforcing immigration laws, and ensuring public safety outweigh any surviving irreparable harms at this juncture,” Leon wrote.

The tribe released a statement late Friday strongly disagreeing with the decision.

"Too many critical issues were not adequately addressed, such as inevitable impacts construction will have on the Nation’s land and the permanent destruction of sacred sites," Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Verlon M. Jose said. “The Nation will consider all possible options for moving forward, as this issue is simply too important to the O’odham.”

The O’odham reservation in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona abuts 62 miles of the Mexico border. The tribe has over 37,000 members, including thousands who live in Mexico.

Building the border wall would led to “significant devastation” on the reservation, including the destruction of mountain peaks that are sacred to the O’odham, tribe attorneys said.

“It would fray the ties between O’odham communities and families on opposite sides of the border, interfere significantly with O’odham religious rituals and practices, and destroy plant and animal resources sacred to the O’odham,” the lawyers wrote.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation reserving a 60-foot strip of public land along the U.S.-Mexico border for a buffer zone called the “Roosevelt Reservation,” which was formed a decade before the reservation's establishment.

Tribe attorneys say it is “fanciful at best” to suggest that border wall construction can be confined to a 60-foot-wide corridor.

During a July 22 hearing, Leon appeared to be skeptical that U.S. laws tip in favor of the tribe’s bid for a preliminary injunction, calling it an “extraordinary” request. Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, said he couldn’t find a previous court ruling under comparable circumstances.

“This is a novel case with novel issues,” the judge said.

La balacera, que ocurrió alrededor de las 3 p.m. en la tienda de la cadena ubicada en 33501 South Dixie Highway, comenzó con un altercado, según la Policía. Los investigadores dijeron que Nathaniel Baez murió y que un hombre de 72 años recibió un disparo en el pie.

Baez estaba de compras en la tienda cuando ocurrió un altercado en el que estuvieron involucrados él, un empleado de Walmart y miembros del grupo con el que estaba, según los investigadores y el abogado de la familia.

La familia alega que Walmart no tomó las medidas apropiadas para evitar la confrontación y que debe ser considerado responsable por la muerte de Baez.

Betsabe Santos, la madre de Baez, recordó el momento en que se enteró de que su hijo había muerto.

“No puedes describirlo”, dijo. “El doctor fue muy directo. A tu hijo le dispararon. Está muerto”.

Santos dijo que la noticia devastó a su familia.

“Tu mundo se hace pedazos, tu corazón se hace pedazos”, dijo.

Los investigadores dijeron que el incidente involucró al entonces empleado de Walmart Roberto Acevedo, quien dijo a la Policía que se sintió amenazado por Baez y el grupo de amigos con el que estaba.

Todd Michaels, un abogado que representa a la familia de Baez, dijo que Acevedo debió haber contactado a un gerente en lugar de llamar a amigos armados a la tienda.

“Se metió en la cabeza que estas personas me van a atacar y, en lugar de hacer lo único que estaba obligado a hacer, que era llamar a su gerente, decidió llamar a sus amigos armados para averiguar qué había dicho este hombre o por qué lo miraba”, dijo Michaels.

La confrontación escaló y se produjeron disparos. La balacera fue captada por las cámaras de vigilancia, según el abogado de la familia.

Steve Lestin, de 28 años, el presunto tirador que tenía 25 años en el momento de la balacera, fue arrestado y enfrenta un cargo de asesinato en segundo grado, según los registros de la cárcel.

La demanda de la familia Baez sostiene que Walmart tiene responsabilidad porque Acevedo trabajaba para la compañía en el momento del incidente.

“Era su empleado, a quien ellos pusieron en el área de ventas”, dijo Michaels.

Michaels también describió al empleado de Walmart como responsable de vigilar cualquier actividad inusual en la tienda.

“Él estaba allí como esa primera línea de defensa cuando veían algo fuera de lo común”, agregó Michaels.

Los padres de Baez dijeron que su hijo tenía planes para su futuro, incluyendo comenzar un negocio y trabajar en jardinería.

“Él solía llamarme y decirme: ‘Papá, quiero iniciar un negocio. Quiero dedicarme a la jardinería’”, dijo su padre, Samuel Baez.

Para su madre, la demanda es más que una cuestión de responsabilidad. Dijo que espera que evite que otra familia experimente la misma pérdida.

“Destruyeron una familia”, dijo Santos.

La Policía dijo que otro cliente también fue alcanzado por disparos durante la balacera. Sobrevivió a sus heridas.

Local 10 News se comunicó con Walmart para obtener una respuesta a la demanda. La compañía aún no había respondido.

Macdonald made it clear he was not ducking inquiries about Arnold, who is facing eight felony charges stemming from allegations he orchestrated the abduction and beating of three men in February. The 23-year-old became a free agent in June, when the Detroit Lions released him a few days after the kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy charges were levied.

“I understand the situation,” Macdonald said Friday. “So, I’m glad that we had the opportunity to talk about it.”

Macdonald explained why the reigning Super Bowl champions felt compelled to add Arnold, who prosecutors in Florida said arranged for men to be pistol-whipped after he wrongly suspected them of stealing $100,000 in cash and luxury goods from him.

Police called Arnold the “primary conspirator” in the Feb. 4 attack, and a judge set his bail at $1 million.

Defense attorney R. Timothy Jansen said in Hillsborough County court earlier this summer that Arnold is “absolutely denying these allegations.” Denise White, the CEO of EAG Sports Management, an agency that represents Arnold, said there’s “no credible evidence” against him, only accounts from others who may have an incentive to get a lighter sentence.

“We also understand that it’s a serious situation with a legal matter,” Macdonald said. “There’s a process behind it, so we respect that. And, that’s how we’ll operate, too, is just letting that process play out. And, let the league decide if and when his return to play is. And we’ll just kind of understand that that’s at play.”

Macdonald said the timetable for the NFL ruling on Arnold’s eligibility for the 2026 season is still being worked out. To Macdonald’s understanding, Arnold visited at least eight teams, and it is unclear when he will join the Seahawks.

“We have an agreement with him, and we’ll see,” Macdonald said. “But I just really don’t know how we’re going to do it.”

Should Arnold be permitted to play for the Seahawks this season, he could bolster what was arguably the NFL’s best defense last season. No team allowed fewer points per game (17.2), and Seattle finished in the top seven in the league in sacks and interceptions.

Arnold should add depth to a secondary that lost cornerback Riq Woolen to free agency and has been without second-year safety Nick Emannwori, who had offseason ankle surgery, during training camp.

Arnold has played in 25 NFL games, including playoffs, since the Lions took him with the 24th pick of the 2024 draft out of Alabama.

“We think his skill set fits in our secondary,” Macdonald said. “He plays with a lot of energy, physicality. ... And then, personality-wise, I think there’s an opportunity there if he’s the best version of himself that he could be a fit for us.”

A number of Seahawks players have already spent plenty of time around Arnold.

Backup quarterback Jalen Milroe and fullback Robbie Ouzts were college teammates of Arnold for three seasons at Alabama. Cornerback Josh Jobe overlapped with Arnold for one season with the Crimson Tide.

Macdonald also said the Seahawks' decision-makers held informal, one-on-one conversations with some team leaders. He also spoke highly of his discussion with Arnold during his visit on Sunday.

Macdonald did not get into specifics, but said the Seahawks leaned on people who could vouch for Arnold’s character before deciding to offer him a deal.

“It’s overwhelmingly positive. It really is,” Macdonald said. “And, again, it’s a serious situation, that there’s allegations there that are serious. But, if you separate that from the person that they talk about on a daily basis and their history with him, it’s been really overwhelmingly positive.”

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Experts note that national violent crime rates have been declining since 2022, and pinpointing an exact reason is difficult. They say multiple factors contribute to decreases in crime rates seen in the FBI report, which is based on data reported voluntarily by many but not all law enforcement agencies across the country.

“The homicide drop is historic and crystal clear. But right now, what’s driving it is about as clear as a glass of milk,” said Adam Gelb, president and CEO of the Council on Criminal Justice, a think tank based in Washington.

“Rates are falling in cities with very different public safety strategies, economic conditions, and political leadership," Gelb said. "The consistency across the map should make us cautious about handing credit to any one leader, party, policy, or program before the evidence catches up.”

President Donald Trump announced the decreases in the annual crime numbers during a visit to a New York police academy Friday.

Trump proclaimed his role in lowering violent crime rates, taking a swing at his predecessor and at so-called sanctuary cities, while touting what he said was his overwhelming support of law enforcement and his tough-on-crime moves such as deploying the National Guard in Washington and elsewhere.

“We ended the war on police, and we declared a very strong war on crime,” Trump said during the Long Island appearance.

Regardless of the contributing factors, criminologists who have been tracking violent crime and property crime in a few dozen cities had been predicting that the homicide rate might drop to 4 per 100,000 residents, which would have dropped the rate to the lowest since 1900, when those rates began to be tracked.

The rate came close when the numbers from thousands of departments were calculated, reaching 4.1 homicides per 100,000 people. That rate is tied with 1955 and 1956, according to Friday's report, as the lowest rate since 1900.

The report showed murder and nonnegligent manslaughter decreased 18.1% between 2024 and 2025, while overall property crime declined by 12.4% during the same period.

Motor vehicle theft, which had spiked in 2022 and 2023 following a social media challenge that helped people exploit a manufacturing issue in some models of Kia and Hyundai vehicles, dropped by almost 23% to the lowest levels in more than 20 years.

In an unusual move just a few months before the midterm elections as many Republicans continue to tout the drop in crime, the FBI report also noted that violent and other crime has continued to drop during the first six months of 2026. The federal agency normally waits until all of the yearly data is reported to suggest a drop in crime.

Groups like the Council on Criminal Justice have also said 2026 could see an even larger decline than 2025, with homicides dropping 18% in those cities during the first six months of this year, compared with the same timeframe in 2025.

Crime surged during the coronavirus pandemic, with homicides increasing nearly 30% in 2020 over the previous year, the largest one-year jump since the FBI began keeping records. Violent crime across the U.S. dipped to near pre-pandemic levels around 2022.

The FBI collects standardized crime data from law enforcement agencies across the country through its Uniform Crime Reporting Program, though not all agencies participate. The 2025 report includes data from more than 17,000 agencies, or more than 87% of the agencies in the FBI's program, serving communities including almost 329 million Americans.

Audio of the incident shortly after midnight Friday shows how he found a solution to ensure the planes that were both called American 2482 maintained proper separation as one plane arrived from Chicago shortly after the other had taken off in Phoenix.

“I’ve been working air traffic for 25 years. I’ve never seen two aircraft pretty much merge with the same call sign. That’s pretty incredible,” the controller said after the departing plane had safely cleared the area.

If both pilots thought the controller was telling them to fly at the same altitude as they headed toward each other, they might have collided, so it was crucial they knew which plane he was directing.

Quick thinking ensured the controller’s instructions were clear

The audio posted by ATC.com shows how the controller quickly started referring to “American 2482 on the arrival” and “American 2482 on the departure” to keep the two planes straight.

The controller kept the arriving plane safely above the departing plane even as their flight paths converged and made sure that the pilots of both airlines saw each other when they were still miles apart. He also directed the departing plane not to climb too high, so a gap would remain between the planes.

The arriving pilot complimented the controller for his “nice work” once the two planes had passed each other safely.

“It could have been disastrous, but I’m glad it worked out,” the controller replied.

Expert says airline must have missed that the flights would overlap

Aviation safety expert Steve Arroyo said it’s likely that someone inside the airline’s dispatch center failed to catch that both planes would be in the air at the same time with identical flight numbers when both the dispatcher and the pilots signed off on the flight plan.

“You can drop the ball and that shouldn’t happen, but it’s nice to see that the system is resilient and we have all the safeguards,” said Arroyo, who has only seen this type of issue a couple times in his four decades with United Airlines. Arroyo started his career as a dispatcher before becoming a pilot.

Flight 2482 is a round-trip route that often flies back and forth between Chicago and Phoenix. Typically the same plane goes back and forth, but the flight out of Chicago was delayed by weather, so American found a second plane in Phoenix and that flight left on time. The result was that both planes briefly shared the same airspace before the arriving flight landed.

The government and airline will determine how this occurred

The Federal Aviation Administration and American Airlines will investigate how this happened, and they both emphasized how glad they were that everyone remained safe.

“The diligence and professionalism of air traffic controllers and our pilots ensured required separation was always maintained and the issue was identified and addressed. Both flights continued safely and without incident,” American Airlines said in a statement.

A jury deadlocked in June over whether to convict Jonathan Rinderknecht of intentionally sparking the fire that killed 12 people as it incinerated much of the Pacific Palisades and other neighborhoods in Malibu. Ten out of 12 jurors wanted to acquit him on all three felony charges, leading the judge to declare a mistrial. Federal prosecutors vowed to try again, and a second trial is set to start in the fall.

In a new indictment filed Thursday, prosecutors reduced their case against Rinderknecht to two charges and narrowed their scope.

Prosecutors allege that Rinderknecht used a barbecue lighter on Jan. 1, 2025, to spark a fire that burned undetected deep in root systems before flaring back up Jan. 7 to become the Palisades fire, which destroyed more than 6,800 buildings.

All three charges in the first trial blamed Rinderknecht for setting both the Jan. 1 fire and the Palisades Fire. In the new indictment, only one charge references both fires. The other only focuses on the destruction caused by the first fire.

Rinderknecht’s attorney and a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment on the new indictment. U.S. District Judge Anne Hwang is holding a status conference for an arraignment on Wednesday.

Throughout the first trial, prosecutors argued that Rinderknecht was the only person in the area when the Jan. 1 fire began and presented a digital trail seeking to show he was motivated by a desire to take revenge on society over rampant economic inequality. They also presented hours of recorded interviews with Rinderknecht in which he offered inconsistent recollections about his movements that night.

Rinderknecht's attorneys argued that prosecutors lacked direct evidence showing that he started the fire and that they failed to consider fireworks as a potential cause of the first fire.

The Justice Department announced last year that it had issued more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics that provide gender-affirming care as part of an effort to investigate healthcare fraud. Federal judges have quashed many of the subpoenas as illegitimate efforts to intimidate providers into ending care.

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the efficacy and long-term risks of the treatments are "uncertain," and the president has the power to align the Justice Department's enforcement priorities with his broader policy goals.

“Every President has law enforcement priorities, just as every President has signature policies (often, the former are components of the latter)," Judge Carlos Bea wrote.

Bea, a nominee of Republican President George W. Bush, was joined in the opinion by Daniel Bress, a Trump nominee. They reversed a ruling that quashed the subpoena against telemedicine provider QueerDoc, sending the case back to the district court to consider other arguments.

The subpoena seeks QueerDoc's personnel files, billing documents, communications with drug manufacturers and records of patients who were prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy, among other information, according to the 9th Circuit decision.

American Civil Liberties Union attorney Adrien Leavitt, who represented Washington state-based QueerDoc, said the ACLU would continue fighting the subpoena in district court. QueerDoc has also argued the subpoena is overbroad and burdensome. The Justice Department has said it has reason to believe the company may be misleading people about puberty blockers and hormones.

"We’re ready to continue defending one of the most fundamental principles of healthcare: every patient’s right to confidential medical care,” Leavitt said in a statement.

He said the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit was the first appeals court to weigh in on the subpoenas.

Trump has signed one executive order defining sex as only male or female — and as unchangeable — and another that seeks to end federal funding of gender-affirming care for patients under 19. The latter order also directs the Justice Department to “prioritize investigations” into violations of a drug safety law by “any entity that may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation.”

Gender-affirming care includes a range of medical and mental health services to support a person’s gender identity, including when it’s different from the sex they were assigned at birth. It encompasses counseling, medications that block puberty and hormone therapy to produce physical changes as well as surgeries to transform chests and genitals, though those are rare for minors.

Most major medical groups say access to the treatment is important for those with gender dysphoria and see gender as existing along a spectrum.

The 9th Circuit majority called discussion around gender-affirming care "an unsettled scientific debate," and said the Trump administration could also justify its opposition to the treatment on ethical or philosophical grounds.

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill made the ruling Thursday, writing that Idaho's “Defense of Life Act" and “Fetal Heartbeat Act” — which together create a near-total ban on abortion — violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. Physicians who violate the laws can lose their license and face up to five years in prison.

Both laws include narrow exceptions, including abortions done to prevent the death of a pregnant woman or in some cases of rape or incest where the pregnant person has filed a police report.

The case isn't about bodily autonomy or reproductive choice, Winmill wrote in the 81-page decision, but rather the “limit of the state's power to make a woman suffer for the sake of an unborn child.”

The state can't pick and choose which life-threatening conditions justify abortion, he wrote.

“A pregnant woman’s health is not a state resource to be allocated at the legislature’s whim,” Winmill wrote.

Idaho's attorney general plans to appeal

Dr. Stacy Seyb, a Boise maternal-fetal medicine specialist who sued over the law in 2024, said the ruling will allow him to practice medicine without fear of prosecution, and to offer patients with serious medical conditions the option of ending a pregnancy without having to leave the state.

Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador said he would appeal, and is “confident this decision will be overturned.”

“The Supreme Court made clear that abortion policy belongs to the people and their elected representatives, not a single federal judge," Labrador wrote in a statement.

A doctor says the ban forced patients out of state

In the lawsuit, Seyb said he wanted to provide abortions to patients facing serious health risks, including those at high risk of self-harm from mental illnesses. He also said he should be able to provide abortions when the fetus has been diagnosed with a fatal or grave condition, when a miscarriage is inevitable, or in multi-fetal pregnancies where reducing the number of fetuses would increase the likelihood that the others would survive.

Attorneys for county prosecutors and the Idaho Attorney General argued that Seyb misunderstood the state's abortion ban, and that the ban already allows most health-preserving abortions. But Winmill said there is a gap between life-saving abortions and abortions performed to prevent non-lethal harm, and noted that Seyb said he has to refer patients in that gap to other states for care — including several with grave pregnancy complications who had to be flown to Utah for treatment.

Judge: Idaho can't force women to bear permanent damage for a fetus

Winmill said just like the state can't force a mother to donate a kidney to her toddler, it can't force a pregnant woman to suffer serious harm for a fetus.

The judge also said there is no reason to treat mental illness differently than other health conditions. Barring a pregnant woman from life-saving care for mental illness threats is “an affront to human dignity,” Winmill wrote.

Seyb noted suicide and overdose are among the leading causes of death for pregnant and post-partum people in the U.S., and that between 2018 and 2021 mental health conditions were the most common underlying cause of maternal death in Idaho according to the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee.

In cases where there is no elevated health risk for the mother — including situations where the fetus will die shortly after birth or in multi-gestation pregnancies where aborting one fetus will help the others survive — there is no fundamental right at stake, Winmill found.

That's because in these cases, the law is rationally related to the state's interest in preventing abortions based on mistaken fetal diagnoses and affirming the dignity of people with profound disabilities, Winmill wrote.

And physicians could still face civil penalties for performing abortions under another state law, which allows extended family members of an aborted fetus to sue the provider for at least $20,000.

Abortion is on the ballot this fall in Idaho and other states

Idaho voters will decide this fall whether to roll back the state's abortion ban. If approved, the voter-led initiative would allow abortion until fetal viability, which is generally considered to be after 21 weeks.

Voters in Virginia and Nevada, where abortion is legal through at least 24 weeks, will consider state constitutional amendments creating a right to abortion. In Missouri, voters are being asked to override a constitutional amendment passed in 2024 in order to bring back an abortion ban.

La policía de Key West dijo que Jonathon David Mathews, de 41 años, de Indianápolis, hizo la amenaza después de que se le negara la entrada a la base alrededor de las 6:30 p.m.

Mientras salía, le dijo a un guardia: “Tengo C-4 y podría hacer explotar la base si quisiera”, según la policía. El C-4 es un tipo de explosivo.

Las autoridades dijeron que la Marina transmitió la amenaza a la policía de Key West, que vio su vehículo unos 30 minutos después en un centro comercial y poco después le ordenó detenerse.

“El vehículo y la habitación de hotel de Mathews fueron registrados. Los agentes encontraron un cuchillo de buceo; no se encontraron explosivos ni armas adicionales”, señala un comunicado de prensa del Departamento de Policía de Key West. “Mathews reconoció haber hecho la declaración sobre C4 y explosivos e indicó que estaba poniendo a prueba la respuesta de la seguridad de la base ante amenazas”.

Las autoridades dijeron que fue arrestado por un cargo de amenaza de detonar un artefacto destructivo.

En su comunicado, el KWPD emitió una advertencia “de que las amenazas hechas contra instalaciones militares, sean serias o no, serán tratadas como creíbles y resultarán en una respuesta completa de las fuerzas del orden”.

Los registros de la cárcel de Florida Keys no indican una fianza para Mathews hasta la tarde del viernes. Está previsto que comparezca ante un juez el 4 de septiembre.

El jurado emitió el veredicto el viernes, tras un juicio en el que se presentaron testimonios de excolegas de Sheryl Williams Stapleton, investigadores y expertos fiscales. La exlegisladora, que se negó a declarar, podría enfrentar 20 años en una prisión federal cuando se dicte sentencia. Su abogado indicó que se estaban considerando todas las opciones, incluida una apelación.

“Obviamente, estamos muy decepcionados con respecto al veredicto emitido por el jurado”, dijo el abogado defensor Ahmad Assed en un mensaje de texto enviado a The Associated Press. “Con base en las pruebas que presentamos, esperábamos un resultado diferente”.

Un jurado investigador imputó a Williams Stapleton, de 69 años, en marzo de 2024 por más de tres docenas de cargos que incluían soborno, fraude postal, lavado de dinero y conspiración para defraudar al gobierno federal.

Esos cargos se sumaron a acusaciones de lavado de dinero, crimen organizado y otros delitos, presentadas en 2021 por fiscales estatales. El juicio en ese caso está programado para octubre.

Exlíder de la mayoría en la Cámara de Representantes estatal y administradora del mayor distrito escolar público del estado, en Albuquerque, Williams Stapleton fue elegida por primera vez en 1994. Renunció a la Cámara dos días después de que se ejecutaran órdenes de registro en su casa durante el verano de 2021, y las Escuelas Públicas de Albuquerque la despidieron.

Los fiscales señalaron que el distrito pagó más de 3 millones de dólares a Robotics Management Learning Systems LLC, una empresa con sede en Washington, D.C., que está en el centro de los casos estatal y federal. La mayor parte de ese dinero provenía de fondos federales destinados a programas de educación vocacional.

Como directora de educación profesional y técnica del distrito escolar, Williams Stapleton se aseguró de que el dinero para esos programas fuera a Robotics, que era propiedad de su amigo y coacusado Joseph Johnson, afirmaron los fiscales.

Se acusó a Williams Stapleton de facilitar el avance de las facturas de la empresa a través del proceso de adquisiciones. Johnson fue acusado de proporcionar cheques en blanco a Williams Stapleton, quien a su vez emitió unos 230 cheques por un total de 1.152.506 dólares “para su propio beneficio”, según la acusación formal.

Johnson declaró el martes que no sabía que Williams Stapleton retiró más de 1 millón de dólares de las cuentas corrientes de su empresa entre 2013 y 2020. Sostuvo que dejó de centrarse en el negocio después de que su hijo muriera en un accidente automovilístico en 2016.

Johnson dijo al jurado que dependía de su gerente de oficina y que fue ella quien envió por correo los cheques en blanco a la exlegisladora. Johnson fue declarado culpable de cargos similares a los de Williams Stapleton, incluidos soborno y lavado de dinero.

El abogado de Williams Stapleton, Ryan Villa, dijo al jurado que su clienta robó dinero de la empresa de Johnson, pero que no robó a los contribuyentes estatales y federales, como alegaron los fiscales.

La fiscalía también presentó pruebas de que Williams Stapleton y Johnson omitieron declarar miles de dólares en pagos de Robotics en sus declaraciones federales de impuestos sobre la renta.

El fiscal federal adjunto Fred Federici dijo al inicio del juicio que cerca del 73% de los más de 3 millones de dólares que la empresa recibió del distrito escolar y de fondos federales de capacitación vocacional fue ganancia. Indicó que los coacusados se repartieron ese dinero para su propio beneficio.

Los investigadores hallaron que la mayor parte del dinero en la cuenta corriente de Robotics provenía de fondos federales de educación que la empresa obtuvo mediante contratos con el distrito escolar. Los fiscales presentaron un video de vigilancia del apartado postal de la empresa en Albuquerque que mostraba a Williams Stapleton revisando el correo de la compañía.

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Según la Fiscalía, Lyle, de 20 años, fue detenido acusado de huida y evasión a alta velocidad, así como de conducción temeraria.

Fue puesto en libertad el mismo día de su detención tras pagar una fianza de 55 000 dólares, según informaron los fiscales.

Un portavoz de la Universidad de Miami declaró a Local 10 News en un correo electrónico: «Estamos al corriente de un incidente en el que se ha visto involucrado el estudiante-deportista Jordan Lyle. Mientras el proceso legal sigue su curso, no haremos más comentarios por el momento».

Este jugador, natural de Fort Lauderdale, fue titular como running back en la victoria inaugural de la temporada 2025 contra Notre Dame, pero no pudo completar el partido tras sufrir una lesión en la pierna que acabó dejándolo fuera de juego durante la mayor parte de la temporada.

En los seis partidos que disputó, Lyle corrió con el balón 35 veces para un total de 108 yardas y anotó su único touchdown de la temporada contra Stanford.

A pesar de la lesión y de formar parte de una plantilla de corredores muy concurrida en la que también figuran Mark Fletcher Jr., Marty Brown y Girard Pringle Jr., Lyle decidió volver a los Hurricanes y competir por su puesto.

No se han dado a conocer de inmediato más detalles sobre su detención.

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Colombian officials reported on Friday that there were at least 287 dead, 3,975 injured, 378 people who had vanished, 354 had been rescued from the rubble, and 135,179 were affected.

In Broward, the new aid drop-off locations, which will have collection bins, are in Miramar, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Lauderhill, Cooper City, Sunrise, and Hollywood.

The county is asking the public for donations of non-perishable food, shovels, face masks with respirators, hygiene products, pet food, pet crates, sleeping bags, air mattresses, first-aid kits, backpacks, tarps, flashlights, and batteries.

The county will not be accepting donations of clothes or linens. Here is the list of locations and hours of operation:

MIRAMAR

• Miramar Branch Library and Education Center, at 2050 Civic Center Place, opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Saturday.

COCONUT CREEK

• North Regional/Broward College Library, at 1100 Coconut Creek Boulevard, opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.
• Tradewinds Park & Stables, at 3600 West Sample Road, opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

CORAL SPRINGS

• Northwest Regional Library, at 3151 North University Drive, opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.

PEMBROKE PINES

• South Regional/Broward County Library at 7300 Pines Boulevard, opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.
• Southwest Regional Library, at 16835 Sheridan St., opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.

PLANTATION

• West Regional Library at 8601 West Broward Boulevard, from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.

COOPER CITY

• Brian Piccolo Park, at 9501 Sheridan St., opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

LAUDERHILL

• Central Broward Park & Broward County Stadium at 3700 NW 11 Place, opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

SUNRISE

• Markham Park at 16001 West State Road 84, opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

HOLLYWOOD

• T.Y. Park, at 3300 North Park Road, opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

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They say that landed Lianne Quintero, 30, behind bars on two felony charges on Thursday.

As authorities crack down on fake permits, authorities said they uncovered evidence that Quintero had provided the note and paid $250 for a placard at the Kendall Auto Tag agency, located at 13710 SW 56th St., on May 21, 2025.

But the doctor who supposedly signed the note saying that Quintero had a “permanent disability that limits or impairs her ability to walk 200 feet without stopping to rest” had died on May 5, they said, “prior to the completion of fraudulent form.”

“The uncovered documents proved that the physician could not have completed the application for the defendants disabled person permit,” a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report states.

Additionally, deputies said the doctor’s purported signature on the parking placard application did not match the one on his driver’s license.

Authorities said went they went to Quintero’s home in the county’s rural Redland area, they told her they were there because of her placard, to which she replied, “I have a placard but do not use it.”

They said she then “voluntarily” gave up the placard and later admitted to the scheme, acknowledging that she is not disabled.

Deputies arrested Quintero on charges of providing a false statement on a handicapped permit application and uttering forged instruments.

As of Friday afternoon, records show she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.

Dijeron que eso llevó a Lianne Quintero, de 30 años, a la cárcel el jueves por dos cargos graves.

Mientras las autoridades intensifican las medidas contra los permisos falsos, dijeron que descubrieron evidencia de que Quintero había entregado la nota y pagado $250 USD por un permiso en la agencia Kendall Auto Tag, ubicada en 13710 SW 56th St., el 21 de mayo de 2025.

Pero el médico que supuestamente firmó la nota indicando que Quintero tenía una “discapacidad permanente que limita o afecta su capacidad para caminar 200 pies sin detenerse a descansar” había muerto el 5 de mayo, dijeron, “antes de que se completara el formulario fraudulento”.

“Los documentos descubiertos demostraron que el médico no pudo haber completado la solicitud del permiso para personas con discapacidad del acusado”, señala un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

Además, los agentes dijeron que la supuesta firma del médico en la solicitud del permiso de estacionamiento no coincidía con la que aparecía en su licencia de conducir.

Las autoridades dijeron que cuando acudieron a la vivienda de Quintero, en la zona rural de Redland del condado, le dijeron que estaban allí por su permiso, a lo que ella respondió: “Tengo un permiso, pero no lo uso”.

Dijeron que entonces entregó el permiso “voluntariamente” y posteriormente admitió haber participado en el esquema, reconociendo que no tiene una discapacidad.

Los agentes arrestaron a Quintero bajo cargos de proporcionar una declaración falsa en una solicitud de permiso para personas con discapacidad y presentar instrumentos falsificados.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, los registros muestran que permanecía detenida en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una fianza de $2,500 USD.

Pearce was arrested in February following a domestic dispute with his ex-girlfriend, WNBA player Rickea Jackson. The incident took place in Doral, Florida.

Pearce's charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, fleeing police and resisting arrest, and misdemeanor stalking could be dropped if he cooperates in a pretrial intervention program requiring random drug tests, distance from Jackson and staying out of legal trouble for one year.

Pearce will be available to participate in preseason games and all team activities until the suspension takes effect on Aug. 30.

The second-year defensive end can be reinstated on Nov. 2, following Atlanta's Week 8 game at Tampa Bay. The Falcons will travel to Madrid to play the Cincinnati Bengals the following week.

The Falcons' pass rush has taken a hit recently following Jalon Walker's season-ending ACL tear. The group is left with Christian Harris, JD Bertrand, Samson Ebukam, Kendal Daniels and Bralen Trice. The Falcons also added Cameron Sample after Walker's injury.

Atlanta traded back to the No. 26 pick in the first round of the 2025 draft to select Pearce. The former Tennessee Volunteer has played a substantial role in transforming the Falcons' pass rush, leading the team with 10 1/2 sacks during his rookie season.

Other suspensions

Pearce was one players suspended on Friday.

The NFL also suspended Washington Commanders edge rusher Dorance Armstrong, Tennessee Titans safety Nazeeh Johnson and Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Phidarian Mathis.

Armstrong was suspended one game for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy. He will miss the Commanders' season opener against Philadelphia on Sept. 13.

Armstrong opened training camp on the physically unable to perform list, but has since been activated. He was limited to playing seven games last season before tearing a knee ligament.

He’s entering his ninth NFL season and third with Washington.

Johnson was suspended six games for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancers. Mathis was issued a three-game suspension for violating the league’s substances of abuse policy.

Under league rules, the players are allowed to practice and play with their respective teams through Aug. 30, when NFL teams are required to set their 53-man rosters.

Johnson is eligible to return for the Titans’ home game against Cleveland on Oct. 25. Mathis can return for Buffalo’s home game against New England on Oct. 4.

Johnson has three previous seasons of NFL experience, all with the Kansas City Chiefs, and signed with the Titans on July 27, just before the opening of training camp.

The 28-year-old had six starts in 29 NFL games with the Chiefs since being selected by Kansas City in the seventh round of the 2022 draft. A shoulder injury limited Johnson to two games last season. He also missed the entire 2023 season with a torn ACL in his right knee.

The 28-year-old Mathis appeared in six games with the Bills last season. He spent his first three NFL seasons appearing in 23 games with Washington.

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Key West police said Jonathon David Mathews, 41, of Indianapolis, made the threat after being denied entry into the base at around 6:30 p.m.

While exiting, he told a guard, “I have C-4 and I could blow up the base if I wanted to,” police said. C-4 is a type of explosive.

Authorities said the Navy relayed the threat to Key West police, who saw his vehicle about 30 minutes later at a shopping center and pulled him over soon after.

“Mathews’ vehicle and hotel room were searched. Officers located a dive knife; no explosives or additional weapons were found,” a news release from the Key West Police Department states. “Mathews acknowledged making the statement about C4 and explosives and indicated he was testing base security’s response to threats.”

Authorities said he was arrested on one count of threatening to discharge a destructive device.

In its release, KWPD issued a warning “that threats made against military installations, whether serious or not, will be treated as credible and will result in a full law enforcement response.”

Florida Keys jail records don’t list a bond for Mathews as of Friday afternoon. He’s set to be arraigned on Sept. 4.

Los lugares, que contarán con contenedores para recolectar donaciones, están en Miramar, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Lauderhill, Cooper City, Sunrise y Hollywood.

El condado está solicitando al público donaciones de alimentos no perecederos, palas, mascarillas con respiradores, productos de higiene, comida para mascotas, jaulas para mascotas, sacos de dormir, colchones inflables, botiquines de primeros auxilios, mochilas, lonas, linternas y baterías.

El condado no aceptará donaciones de ropa ni ropa de cama. Esta es la lista de lugares y horarios de operación:

MIRAMAR

• Miramar Branch Library and Education Center, en 2050 Civic Center Place, abre de 10 a.m. a 8 p.m. de lunes a miércoles y de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m. de jueves a sábado.

COCONUT CREEK

• North Regional/Broward College Library, en 1100 Coconut Creek Boulevard, abre de 10 a.m. a 8 p.m. de lunes a miércoles y de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m. de jueves a domingo.
• Tradewinds Park & Stables, en 3600 West Sample Road, abre de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m. todos los días.

CORAL SPRINGS

• Northwest Regional Library, en 3151 North University Drive, abre de 10 a.m. a 8 p.m. de lunes a miércoles y de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m. de jueves a domingo.

PEMBROKE PINES

• South Regional/Broward County Library, en 7300 Pines Boulevard, abre de 10 a.m. a 8 p.m. de lunes a miércoles y de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m. de jueves a domingo.
• Southwest Regional Library, en 16835 Sheridan St., abre de 10 a.m. a 8 p.m. de lunes a miércoles y de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m. de jueves a domingo.

PLANTATION

• West Regional Library, en 8601 West Broward Boulevard, de lunes a miércoles y de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m. de jueves a domingo.

COOPER CITY

• Brian Piccolo Park, en 9501 Sheridan St., abre de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m. todos los días.

LAUDERHILL

• Central Broward Park & Broward County Stadium, en 3700 NW 11 Place, abre de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m. todos los días.

SUNRISE

• Markham Park, en 16001 West State Road 84, abre de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m. todos los días.

HOLLYWOOD

• T.Y. Park, en 3300 North Park Road, abre de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m. todos los días.

El folleto del Condado

The four whales, named Caspian, Peekachu, Rain and Secord, were the second group of belugas sent to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium from Marineland, in Ontario near Niagara Falls, after an initial four arrived in July.

They are among a total of 30 whales and four dolphins that will be transported from Marineland after the Canadian government approved of the rescue plan, which might have saved them from mass euthanasia.

Marineland announced in early 2023 that it was for sale and closed to the public in late summer 2024. Twenty whales — 19 belugas and one killer whale — have died at Marineland since 2019, according to provincial government data obtained through freedom-of-information laws and official statements.

As part of the rescue efforts, the whales have been making their international trips in custom-built slings and temperature-controlled transport containers. A team of experts flew to Canada to meet the whales’ previous caretakers months prior and pored over years of their health records in preparation for the trip.

“This is a very complex and unprecedented rescue effort. This has never been done before,” said Charlie Jacobsma, the director of animal behavior and training at the Shedd Aquarium.

The new arrivals first interacted with other whales already at the aquarium through gates to find the best aquatic roommates, he said. The whales for now live in the same space as three other belugas, and they trade “signs of affiliation” and sounds with each other.

“Belugas are very social animals,” he said. “It was really special to be able to see some of our animals pairing up with these new animals.”

Dr. Karisa Tang, Shedd’s lead veterinarian, said all the belugas are taking the adjustment to their new home “day by day.”

Tang said the whales are monitored “hour by hour, minute by minute,” including their food intake, interactions with other animals and signs of their mood, like “relaxed swimming.” Caretakers look for signs of soreness or bruises on their bodies.

Belugas have “great personalities” and expressive faces, she said.

“Every single day it is an absolute joy to work with belugas,” she added. “There’s something about them that seems magical.”

Under the plan, the belugas and dolphins are being relocated to five marine parks: Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, SeaWorld locations in San Antonio and San Diego, and Oceanografic Valencia.

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According to the SAO, Lyle, 20, was arrested on charges of fleeing and eluding at a high speed and reckless driving.

He was released the same day as his arrest after posting a $55,000 bond, prosecutors said.

A spokesperson for the University of Miami told Local 10 News in an email, “We are aware of an incident involving student-athlete Jordan Lyle. As due legal process runs its course, we will have no further comment at this time.”

The Fort Lauderdale native got the start at running back in the 2025 season opening win against Notre Dame, but he wouldn’t make it through the entire game after suffering a leg injury that eventually sidelined him for most of the season.

In the six games he played, Lyle carried the ball 35 times for 108 yards and scored his lone touchdown of the season against Stanford.

Despite the injury and being part of a crowded running back room with Mark Fletcher Jr., Marty Brown and Girard Pringle Jr., Lyle decided to return to the Hurricanes and compete for his spot.

No other details about his arrest were immediately released.

La policía de Wilton Manors dijo que los agentes fueron llamados a Manor Grove Apartments por un robo a mano armada.

La situación se intensificó cuando la persona de interés se negó a salir de su unidad.

Vecinos dijeron que observaron mientras agentes de la policía de Wilton Manors y Fort Lauderdale rodeaban el edificio.

“He vivido aquí unos 8 años. Fue bastante angustiante verlo, sin duda”, dijo un vecino.

Alex Dorsey, un vecino, dijo que un trabajador de Amazon había llegado para entregar un paquete y tomarle una foto antes de recoger nuevamente el paquete.

“El trabajador de Amazon vino a entregar un paquete”, dijo Dorsey. “Tomó una foto del paquete y luego procedió a recogerlo inmediatamente después. Al vecino no le gustó, esto es Florida, salió con un arma, ya sabes”.

Otro vecino, Paul Baker, compartió un video de un hombre que dijo era su vecino. En un clip, se puede ver a un hombre caminando afuera con un arma de fuego en la mano. Más tarde, se puede escuchar a la policía diciéndole que se rindiera pacíficamente.

Baker dijo que estaba sorprendido por lo ocurrido.

“No podía creerlo. Es un tipo muy amable. Siempre ha sido muy amigable conmigo”, dijo Baker.

La policía arrestó al hombre y lo acusó de agresión agravada con un arma de fuego.

“Me alegra que todo se haya resuelto”, dijo Yarden Ben-David, productor ejecutivo de WPLG.

The Swiss star, who was given a spot in the final after falling in the semifinal a day earlier, finished in 1 minute, 54.81 seconds at Alexander Stadium.

Hodgkinson closed the gap down the stretch but Werro willed herself across the line for gold ahead of her British rival. Dutch star Femke Broeders-Bol took bronze.

“I was coming for the gold medal. It truly means a lot. I’m so happy with the finish of the race,” said Werro, who did her trademark lion's roar after winning.

Werro, sporting a small bandage on her right hip, took the lead in the first lap and never let up. Werro in late June ran the third-fastest women’s time ever: 1:53.80.

In one of Thursday's semifinal heats, Anais Bourgoin’s left hand made contact with Werro’s right foot and Werro tumbled on the last bend.

“It was not the best scenario to qualify like that,” Werro said. “It was just a little bit hard for me at this point as that fall was very dramatic in the semis. But I tried to convince myself that I have the second chance and I have to take it and do something great. I’m glad I had a second chance and I just took it.”

Hodgkinson had won the past two 800 titles at the European championships.

“Going into that last 100m I really thought I could catch her but sometimes you just don’t have enough and that was the case today,” Hodgkinson said. “Of course, I am very disappointed but it was a fantastic race.”

Werro broke the European championships record of 1:55.41 set in 1982 by Olga Mineyeva, European Athletics said.

Gold for Italians and Warholm

It’s back-to-back doubles for Italy’s Nadia Battocletti, who defended her 10,000-meter title three nights after retaining her 5,000-meter crown.

Battocletti, the silver medalist in the 10,000 at the Paris Olympics, made her move with 200 meters remaining and Maureen Koster of the Netherlands and Belgium’s Jana van Lent couldn’t keep up.

Battocletti crossed the line in 31 minutes, 41.17 seconds. Koster took silver, and Van Lent won bronze.

In the high jump, Gianmarco Tamberi won his fourth European championships title — and third in a row — after clearing 2.32 meters.

The charismatic Tamberi, who famously shared gold with his good friend Mutaz Barshim at the 2020 Tokyo Games, pulled off his jersey and thumped his bare chest in celebration Friday.

Ukraine's Oleh Doroshchuk (2.30) took silver, and Tamberi teammate Matteo Sioli (2.27) won bronze.

Norway star Karsten Warholm lowered his own European championships record in the 400-meter hurdles by winning in 46.63 seconds for his fourth consecutive title in the discipline.

“It’s not as easy as it looks out there, I don’t take any medal for granted but today was extra special for me as nobody has ever won four in a row,” the 30-year-old Warholm said. “I was so locked in today.”

Germany's Emil Agyekum took bronze, and Ismail Nezir of Turkey was third.

Married man ‘Mondo’ Duplantis into pole vault final

Swedish pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis is hoping to break the world record — as a married man.

Duplantis, who tied the knot with Desiré Inglander in June, needed just one successful attempt at 5.60 meters to qualify for Sunday night’s final.

The world record is 6.31, which the Louisiana-born Duplantis vaulted in March. That was his 15th world record. He first broke it in 2020 and has eclipsed his mark by 1 centimeter every time since.

The two-time reigning Olympic champion looked fully recovered from a thigh issue that forced him to stop competing at the London Diamond League meet one month ago.

“I’ve worked really hard the past few weeks to try and make sure I am ready for this competition, so I feel good out there. I feel hopeful and confident for Sunday,” he said. "The jump was clean, good. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Now it’s just about going up there and doing what I normally do in the final on Sunday."

The world record holder signed autographs and shook hands with fans. Organizers sold special ‘Mondo’ children’s tickets priced at 6.31 pounds — the figure representing his latest world record height — for Friday morning’s session.

Duplantis also revealed on Friday he usually keeps his wedding band “in between my laces (of) my spikes” while he competes.

He said his marriage proposal and wedding day were more nerve-wracking than vaulting himself into rarefied air going for a world record.

“When I attempt a world record, it's just like the cherry on top," he said. "I don’t really even get that nervous, it's more like I won the competition and whatever happens after that is really nice.”

Duplantis competes for his mother’s native Sweden and has won the past three European championship titles.

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The female joey was born to first-time parents Gordon, an 8.5-year-old male from the Los Angeles Zoo, and Adelaid, a 9.5-year-old female from Brookfield Zoo. She is estimated to have been born Jan. 19, according to Zoo Miami ambassador Ron Magill.

Magill said southern hairy-nosed wombats are the smallest of the three wombat species and are native to Australia. They typically weigh between 45 and 65 pounds and are known for their powerful claws, which they use to dig extensive underground burrows.

He said like other marsupials, wombats raise their young in a pouch. A wombat’s pouch opens toward the rear, which helps keep dirt out while the mother digs.

The joey has recently started emerging from her mother’s pouch, giving visitors their first glimpses of Zoo Miami’s historic new arrival.

La cría hembra es hija de Gordon, un macho de 8,5 años procedente del zoológico de Los Ángeles, y de Adelaid, una hembra de 9,5 años procedente del zoológico de Brookfield, ambos padres primerizos. Se estima que nació el 19 de enero, según Ron Magill, embajador del Zoo Miami.

Magill explicó que los wombats de nariz peluda del sur son la más pequeña de las tres especies de wombats y son originarios de Australia. Suelen pesar entre 45 y 65 libras y son conocidos por sus poderosas garras, que utilizan para excavar extensas madrigueras subterráneas.

Comentó que, al igual que otros marsupiales, los wombats crían a sus crías en una bolsa. La bolsa de un wombat se abre hacia atrás, lo que ayuda a mantener la suciedad fuera mientras la madre excava.

La cría ha empezado recientemente a asomar la cabeza fuera de la bolsa de su madre, lo que ha permitido a los visitantes echar un primer vistazo a la histórica nueva llegada al Zoo de Miami.

House Majority PAC’s move is expected to raise the group’s campaign advertising in the Cleveland area to roughly $7 million, the group announced in an email obtained by The Associated Press.

Miller’s decision to press on even after calls from within his own party to step aside also prompted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats’ main campaign arm, this week to move Democratic challenger Brian Poindexter on to the group’s list of priority candidates.

The House Ethics Committee said last week it had opened an investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Miller. The embattled Ohio congressman also last week spoke with Trump, who did not suggest he exit the race but suggested it would be difficult.

President Donald Trump won Ohio’s 7th District in 2024 by 11 percentage points, though Democrats see the swath of suburban Cleveland and rural northeast Ohio as within reach in light of the renewed accusations from Moreno, the daughter of Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno.

Miller, whose deadline to drop from the race passed Monday, has denied the abuse claims and said he would inject $1 million of his own into his campaign.

Officials with the National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP's House campaign arm, said Friday they would support Miller's reelection campaign.

The Cuban government has realized that efforts to attract investment from U.S. and Cuban-American businesses have largely failed because of the many sanctions imposed by the United States and the fact that the risks still outweigh the opportunities.

However, the Cuban government is trying very hard to attract companies from around the world to take over many operations and businesses in Cuba. With many European hoteliers and other companies having recently left Cuba, it will still be a challenge to attract new investors.

One thing these companies should keep in mind before starting operations in Cuba is that they could be operating in properties that were confiscated by the Cuban government in the early 1960s. They could potentially face legal challenges in the future as a result.

For American companies alone, there are 5,913 businesses and properties that were confiscated and registered with the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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Aug. 13: Fidel Castro’s 100th birthday prompts reflection on his legacy in Cuba

Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro, a man whose narcissistic personality took control of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista on Jan. 1, 1959. He made promises to the Cuban people that he later betrayed for his own selfish ambitions and thirst for power.

At his trial on Oct. 16, 1953, following the failed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, he famously said, “History will absolve me.”

In the end, history will judge him as a ruthless dictator who destroyed Cuba, impoverished its people and inflicted tremendous suffering on an entire nation.

Aug. 12: Cuba poses a tough foreign policy challenge for Rubio

“Who is on first, what is on second, I don’t know is on third.”

The famous comedy routine by Abbott and Costello can be compared to the Trump administration’s foreign policy strategies these days. Diplomatic negotiations are complex and complicated, especially when dealing with countries, governments, and individuals with whom the United States has not had good relationships.

Reliable sources tell me there are tremendous differences between the staffs at the White House and the Department of State over how to handle negotiations involving Ukraine, Russia, Israel-Gaza, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. It does not help when those negotiating on behalf of the United States have limited to no diplomatic experience.

For now, let’s stay within the area of expertise: Cuba. While President Trump thinks Cuba can be resolved in two months, Secretary of State Marco Rubio knows very well, as does his senior staff, that negotiating with Cuba is not easy.

The Cuban government is willing to continue introducing cosmetic changes to its moribund economy without relinquishing political control. The United States can continue to sanction everyone on the island, and the Cuban government could not care less. All the while, the people of Cuba continue to suffer tremendous hardships. Yet the people are unlikely to turn against the government. The consequence of doing so can mean spending years in jail.

Meanwhile, in Miami, the guessing game continues over who will replace Raúl Castro when he dies, along with preparations for possible transition plans for Cuba. A transition to a democratic system of government in Cuba will take time. A civil society cannot be built overnight. It is also important to remember that Cuba did not have a democratic government before 1959.

For Rubio, expectations from the Cuban American community are high. Yet most in the community understand that it will not be easy to get the Cuban government to make political changes short of a U.S. military invasion. However, Rubio needs a win, especially if he is considering another presidential run. The failures of the Trump administration’s foreign policies around the world could affect Rubio’s future presidential campaign.

So, what will be Rubio’s next step on Cuba? The clock is ticking.

Aug. 10: Will the cat catch the mouse this time?

While U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues to put pressure on the Cuban government to change, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel went on Cuban television this past weekend and announced to the Cuban people that the government was making major “transformational changes” to the economy.

Díaz-Canel also told the Cuban people that it would take time and patience -- two things the Cuban people do not have anymore. Díaz-Canel went on to say that the benefits of these changes will begin to show by 2029.

Sources in Washington, D.C. have told me that the Trump administration is looking to see if there is someone in the Cuban government, like Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela, to hand over Raul Castro or even take over the current government and be willing to negotiate with the U.S.

The Miami Herald reported this weekend that General Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas, currently the Cuban Minister of the Interior, may be acceptable to the U.S. General Casas is considered a hardliner and therefore unlikely to break with the Cuban leadership.

As I have said before, the case of Venezuela is quite different than Cuba. While Raul Castro is alive, I believe the Cuban government will continue in power and make promises to the Cuban people they cannot keep.

Aug. 8: Cuban opposition leader says Cuba’s transformation must include those on the island

According to Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, any plans to transform Cuba must include Cubans on the island.

But do Cubans on the island have the capacity and capabilities to participate in such a process? After living for almost 68 years under a totalitarian system that has shaped the population’s personal values and attitudes, it could take time not only to change it but, more importantly, to sustain those changes.

Democracies are not built in one day. It will take time and patience. Let’s also remember that before the Cuban Revolution, Cuba had a dictatorship under Batista.

Aug 6: US announces new set of economic sanctions against Cuba; 2 of Cuba’s top generals also sanctioned

The U.S. State Department announced a new set of economic sanctions against Cuba on Thursday. At the same time, two of Cuba’s top generals were also sanctioned, Alvaro Lopez Miera, Minister of Defense; and General Roberto Sotolongo, head of the armed forces.

Aug. 5: CIA Task Force on Cuba created, per report

The New York Times has reported the creation of a CIA Task Force on Cuba with the purpose of putting additional pressure on the Cuban government to make political and economic changes to their system.

This news will probably be received by Cuba as an additional threat by the U.S.

Aug. 5: Cuban president confirms ongoing conservations between Havana, US

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed today that there are ongoing conversations between Havana and DC for the purpose of avoiding a military confrontation and trying to find solutions to the issues between both nations.

The Cuban government understands that they are running out of options and most likely will need to reach an agreement with the U.S. Will it include regime change?

Aug. 3 update: Rubio speaks about Cuba’s ongoing espionage activities in the US

This past weekend, in an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio spoke about Cuba’s ongoing espionage activities in the U.S.

Rubio went on to say that Cuban spies continue to infiltrate the U.S. government, financial institutions, organizations, and academic institutions. Rubio claimed that Cuba continues to be a national security threat to the U.S.

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

El gobierno cubano se ha dado cuenta de que los esfuerzos para atraer inversiones de empresas estadounidenses y de cubano-estadounidenses han fracasado en gran medida debido a las numerosas sanciones impuestas por Estados Unidos y al hecho de que los riesgos aún superan las oportunidades.

Sin embargo, el gobierno cubano está tratando con mucho empeño de atraer empresas de todo el mundo para que se hagan cargo de muchas operaciones y negocios en Cuba. Con muchos hoteleros europeos y otras empresas que recientemente han abandonado Cuba, seguirá siendo un desafío atraer nuevos inversionistas.

Una cosa que estas empresas deberían tener en cuenta antes de comenzar operaciones en Cuba es que podrían estar operando en propiedades que fueron confiscadas por el gobierno cubano a principios de la década de 1960. Como resultado, podrían enfrentar posibles desafíos legales en el futuro.

Solo para las empresas estadounidenses, hay 5,913 negocios y propiedades que fueron confiscados y registrados ante el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos.

13 de agosto: El centenario del nacimiento de Fidel Castro genera reflexión sobre su legado en Cuba

El jueves se cumple el centenario del nacimiento de Fidel Castro, un hombre cuya personalidad narcisista tomó el control de Cuba después de derrocar a Fulgencio Batista el 1 de enero de 1959. Hizo promesas al pueblo cubano que posteriormente traicionó por sus propias ambiciones egoístas y sed de poder.

En su juicio del 16 de octubre de 1953, tras el fallido ataque contra los cuarteles militares de Moncada en Santiago de Cuba, dijo la famosa frase: “La historia me absolverá”.

Al final, la historia lo juzgará como un dictador despiadado que destruyó Cuba, empobreció a su pueblo e infligió un sufrimiento tremendo a toda una nación.

12 de agosto: Cuba representa un difícil desafío de política exterior para Rubio

“Quién va primero, quién va segundo, No Sé va tercero”.

La famosa rutina cómica de Abbott y Costello puede compararse con las estrategias de política exterior de la administración Trump en estos días. Las negociaciones diplomáticas son complejas y complicadas, especialmente cuando se trata de países, gobiernos e individuos con los que Estados Unidos no ha tenido buenas relaciones.

Fuentes confiables me dicen que existen enormes diferencias entre los equipos de la Casa Blanca y el Departamento de Estado sobre cómo manejar las negociaciones relacionadas con Ucrania, Rusia, Israel-Gaza, Irán, Venezuela y Cuba. No ayuda que quienes negocian en nombre de Estados Unidos tengan poca o ninguna experiencia diplomática.

Por ahora, mantengámonos dentro del área de experiencia: Cuba. Mientras el presidente Trump piensa que Cuba puede resolverse en dos meses, el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio sabe muy bien, al igual que su equipo de alto nivel, que negociar con Cuba no es fácil.

El gobierno cubano está dispuesto a continuar introduciendo cambios cosméticos en su moribunda economía sin renunciar al control político. Estados Unidos puede continuar sancionando a todos en la isla, y al gobierno cubano no podría importarle menos. Mientras tanto, el pueblo de Cuba continúa sufriendo enormes dificultades. Sin embargo, es poco probable que el pueblo se vuelva contra el gobierno. La consecuencia de hacerlo puede significar pasar años en prisión.

Mientras tanto, en Miami, continúa el juego de adivinanzas sobre quién reemplazará a Raúl Castro cuando muera, junto con los preparativos para posibles planes de transición para Cuba. Una transición hacia un sistema democrático de gobierno en Cuba tomará tiempo. Una sociedad civil no puede construirse de la noche a la mañana. También es importante recordar que Cuba no tenía un gobierno democrático antes de 1959.

Para Rubio, las expectativas de la comunidad cubanoamericana son altas. Sin embargo, la mayoría de la comunidad entiende que no será fácil lograr que el gobierno cubano realice cambios políticos, salvo mediante una invasión militar estadounidense. Sin embargo, Rubio necesita una victoria, especialmente si está considerando otra candidatura presidencial. Los fracasos de las políticas exteriores de la administración Trump en todo el mundo podrían afectar la futura campaña presidencial de Rubio.

Entonces, ¿cuál será el próximo paso de Rubio sobre Cuba? El reloj está corriendo.

10 de agosto: ¿Atrapará el gato al ratón esta vez?

Mientras el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, continúa presionando al gobierno cubano para que cambie, el presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel apareció en la televisión cubana este pasado fin de semana y anunció al pueblo cubano que el gobierno estaba realizando importantes “cambios transformadores” en la economía.

Díaz-Canel también dijo al pueblo cubano que se necesitarían tiempo y paciencia, dos cosas que el pueblo cubano ya no tiene. Díaz-Canel continuó diciendo que los beneficios de estos cambios comenzarán a verse para 2029.

Fuentes en Washington, D.C., me han dicho que la administración del presidente Trump está buscando determinar si hay alguien en el gobierno cubano, como Delcy Rodríguez en Venezuela, que entregue a Raúl Castro o incluso asuma el control del actual gobierno y esté dispuesto a negociar con Estados Unidos.

El Miami Herald reportó este fin de semana que el general Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, actual ministro del Interior de Cuba, podría ser aceptable para Estados Unidos. El general Casas es considerado de línea dura y, por lo tanto, es poco probable que rompa con el liderazgo cubano.

Como he dicho antes, el caso de Venezuela es bastante diferente al de Cuba. Mientras Raúl Castro esté vivo, creo que el gobierno cubano continuará en el poder y hará promesas al pueblo cubano que no puede cumplir.

8 de agosto: Líder opositor cubano dice que la transformación de Cuba debe incluir a quienes están en la isla

Según el líder opositor cubano José Daniel Ferrer, cualquier plan para transformar Cuba debe incluir a los cubanos que están en la isla.

Pero, ¿tienen los cubanos en la isla la capacidad y las herramientas para participar en un proceso de este tipo? Después de vivir durante casi 68 años bajo un sistema totalitario que ha moldeado los valores y las actitudes personales de la población, podría tomar tiempo no solo cambiarlo sino, más importante aún, mantener esos cambios.

Las democracias no se construyen en un día. Se necesitará tiempo y paciencia. Recordemos también que antes de la Revolución Cubana, Cuba tuvo una dictadura bajo Batista.

6 de agosto: Estados Unidos anuncia un nuevo paquete de sanciones económicas contra Cuba; también sanciona a dos de los principales generales cubanos

El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos anunció el jueves un nuevo paquete de sanciones económicas contra Cuba. Al mismo tiempo, también fueron sancionados dos de los principales generales de Cuba: Álvaro López Miera, ministro de Defensa, y el general Roberto Sotolongo, jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas.

5 de agosto: Según informe, la CIA crea grupo de trabajo sobre Cuba

The New York Times informó sobre la creación de un grupo de trabajo de la CIA sobre Cuba con el propósito de ejercer mayor presión sobre el gobierno cubano para que implemente cambios políticos y económicos en su sistema.

Esta noticia probablemente será recibida por Cuba como una amenaza adicional por parte de Estados Unidos.

5 de agosto: Presidente cubano confirma conversaciones en curso entre La Habana y Estados Unidos

El presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, confirmó hoy que existen conversaciones en curso entre La Habana y Washington con el propósito de evitar una confrontación militar y tratar de encontrar soluciones a los problemas entre ambas naciones.

El gobierno cubano entiende que se está quedando sin opciones y que, muy probablemente, necesitará llegar a un acuerdo con Estados Unidos. ¿Incluirá un cambio de régimen?

Actualización del 3 de agosto: Rubio habla sobre las actividades de espionaje de Cuba en Estados Unidos

El pasado fin de semana, en una entrevista con Fox News, el secretario de Estado y asesor de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, habló sobre las actividades de espionaje que Cuba continúa realizando en Estados Unidos.

Rubio afirmó que espías cubanos continúan infiltrándose en el gobierno de Estados Unidos, instituciones financieras, organizaciones e instituciones académicas. También sostuvo que Cuba sigue representando una amenaza para la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos.

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

While discussions between Iran and Oman, as well as between Iran and Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar, persist at an uneven and unpredictable pace, the U.S. administration quietly has expanded its outreach to include perhaps unlikely interlocutors in Europe.

Just this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met in person in Washington with the foreign minister of Austria on Tuesday and held a call with the foreign minister of Greece on Wednesday.

Those interactions were not notable beyond the normal course of relations between the U.S. and two close European allies. The official State Department readouts of the discussions were bland and vague and did not mention Iran by name as a topic of conversation.

But it then emerged that both foreign ministers — almost immediately after their talks with Rubio — spoke Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

The apparent new tack to break the negotiation logjam comes as the U.S. and Iran are both pushing for control of the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial oil shipping corridor. President Donald Trump faces little wiggle room in his next steps as the economic fallout from the war and dwindling stockpiles of key weapons pose political problems for Republicans ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections.

A desperate push is on to break the diplomatic logjam between the US and Iran

The entry by Austria and Greece is likely less of a formal mediation attempt, analysts say, and more reflective of a desperate push to halt the conflict because of the impact it has on an increasing number of countries, beyond those in the Middle East.

“Everyone is just urging both sides to stop this reckless game of chicken,” said Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group.

It also shows how much Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced countries, which otherwise were neutral bystanders to the larger conflict, to exercise any diplomatic sway they may have on their Iranian and American counterparts to kick-start a lasting resolution.

Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, warned that any efforts by Greece, Austria or any other non-mediating country could prove to be futile.

“While the calls to both sides may entail encouraging both Iran and the U.S. back to the negotiating table, such efforts fall short of mediation, which is a very complex endeavor and requires trust to be built by the mediator with both sides," Yacoubian said.

She added that it’s not something that any country can “just jump into.”

Rubio discussed Iran with his Austrian and Greek counterparts

The State Department said Friday that it could not comment on the timing of calls by other countries' foreign ministers and maintained that Rubio had made no requests of either to get in touch with Iran or pass messages to Araghchi.

One European diplomat, who was briefed on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity to detail sensitive diplomatic conversations, said the timing of the calls was not an accident.

The State Department did allow, however, that Iran had been a topic of conversation in Rubio's discussions, which occurred as Trump is facing serious political headwinds over a war for which he has offered shifting objectives.

No longer purely about making Iran incapable of producing a nuclear weapon, the immediate goal has become reopening the Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world's oil usually passes through and which was open before the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran on Feb. 28.

“That’s goal number one: keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country,” Vice President JD Vance said in an interview Thursday on Fox News Channel. But he did not say anything about the strait being open and toll-free for transiting ships, as he had in the past.

The second goal, Vance said, is to ensure that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.

The two European countries have key connections to the war's fallout

Austria and Greece may not be obvious choices to assist on the Iran portfolio, but Vienna is home to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which will play a key role in any resolution to the Iran’s nuclear program, and hosted the final negotiations that resulted in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Greece is a major maritime nation in the Mediterranean and has significant shipping interests in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.

In statements from the Austrian, Greek and Iranian foreign ministries, it was clear that Iran had been a top topic in all of the conversations this week.

The Greek foreign ministry said Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis had been briefed by Araghchi on “regional developments, and in particular on the ongoing talks regarding the Strait of Hormuz.” It said Gerapetritis “underlined the importance of freedom of navigation and maritime security.”

The Austrian foreign ministry offered Austria’s services as a venue for further potential talks with Iran and said Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger had stressed to Araghchi “the urgency of restoring stability in the region through serious diplomatic efforts.”

“There can be no military solution,” it said. “A diplomatic solution remains possible. Our priority is to safeguard freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.”

Iran’s foreign ministry, expectedly, took a different tack in explaining the calls.

It said Friday that in Araghchi’s calls with his European counterparts they discussed “mechanisms for the future management of the Strait of Hormuz,” which he said had been disrupted by the “unlawful aggression by the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran.”

In both calls, he accused the U.S. of violating the interim deal signed by both sides in June to end the immediate hostilities and begin broader talks to end the war.

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Amiri reported from New York. Associated Press writers Derek Gatopolous in Athens and Claudia Ciobanu in Warsaw, Poland, contributed to this report.

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The solution came through a collaboration between Local 10 investigative reporter Jeff Weinsier and Community Relations Director Mayte Padron as part of Local 10’s Good News South Florida initiative.

For Angine Moss, founder and CEO of Hosanna 4 Youth, the act of kindness was another example of something good emerging from a difficult situation.

“Do you believe that even a wrong done to you would work out for good?” Moss said. “That’s the story of my life.”

Moss, a sexual abuse survivor, founded Hosanna 4 Youth nearly two decades ago after deciding to use her own experiences to help others overcome trauma.

“In the midst of all of that, there was that voice that said, ‘You can’t be the only one,’” she said.

The organization’s name comes from the Hebrew word “Hosanna,” meaning “save us.”

“Hosanna 4 Youth is a platform for those who have been impacted by incest, molestation, rape, human trafficking and domestic violence,” Moss said.

The nonprofit in West Park develops individualized plans for survivors based on their circumstances and needs. More than 2,000 families have walked through its doors seeking assistance over the years.

But in March, one of those doors was badly damaged.

Video captured a man repeatedly throwing a brick at the building’s impact-glass door. The man told police he was trying to get a fire extinguisher to help people involved in a nearby car crash.

Weinsier previously reported on the incident and questioned how someone standing outside the building would have known a fire extinguisher was inside.

Following an investigation, police determined there was no criminal intent, leaving Hosanna 4 Youth responsible for the damage.

“I am so frustrated that I was told nothing can be done,” Moss said.

The nonprofit was then faced with an estimated $2,500 repair bill — money Moss worried would have to come at the expense of the people her organization serves.

“How is Hosanna going to pay for this $2,500 door without taking it from our clients or our service to our clients?” she said.

That’s when Weinsier reached out to Padron to see whether Good News South Florida could help.

Padron contacted Tat Granata, owner and president of Safeguard Impact, who immediately agreed to step in.

“Something bad happened, but I think she’s going to be really happy with how everything turns out,” Granata said.

Crews replaced the shattered door with a new solid door, complete with a new lockset, relieving the nonprofit of the expense.

“My heart is full right now,” Moss said after seeing the finished work.

For Moss, the gesture transformed what had been a source of frustration into another chapter in the organization’s mission of helping people move forward after difficult experiences.

“I can’t thank Jeff enough. I can’t thank you enough,” she said. “This is ‘Good News.’”

Those interested in learning more about Hosanna 4 Youth can visit hosanna4youth.org.

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La solución llegó a través de una colaboración entre el reportero de investigación de Local 10 Jeff Weinsier y la directora de Relaciones Comunitarias Mayte Padron como parte de la iniciativa Good News South Florida de Local 10.

Para Angine Moss, fundadora y directora ejecutiva de Hosanna 4 Youth, el acto de bondad fue otro ejemplo de cómo algo bueno puede surgir de una situación difícil.

“¿Crees que incluso algo malo que te hagan puede terminar resultando para bien?”, dijo Moss. “Esa es la historia de mi vida”.

Moss, sobreviviente de abuso sexual, fundó Hosanna 4 Youth hace casi dos décadas después de decidir utilizar sus propias experiencias para ayudar a otros a superar el trauma.

“En medio de todo eso, hubo una voz que dijo: ‘No puedes ser la única’”, dijo.

El nombre de la organización proviene de la palabra hebrea “Hosanna”, que significa “sálvanos”.

“Hosanna 4 Youth es una plataforma para quienes han sido afectados por incesto, abuso sexual, violación, trata de personas y violencia doméstica”, dijo Moss.

La organización sin fines de lucro en West Park desarrolla planes individualizados para sobrevivientes según sus circunstancias y necesidades. Más de 2,000 familias han atravesado sus puertas en busca de ayuda a lo largo de los años.

Pero en marzo, una de esas puertas quedó gravemente dañada.

Un video captó a un hombre arrojando repetidamente un ladrillo contra la puerta de vidrio resistente a impactos del edificio. El hombre dijo a la policía que intentaba conseguir un extintor para ayudar a las personas involucradas en un accidente automovilístico ocurrido cerca.

Weinsier informó anteriormente sobre el incidente y cuestionó cómo alguien que estaba afuera del edificio habría sabido que había un extintor en el interior.

Tras una investigación, la policía determinó que no hubo intención criminal, dejando a Hosanna 4 Youth responsable de los daños.

“Estoy muy frustrada porque me dijeron que no se puede hacer nada”, dijo Moss.

La organización sin fines de lucro entonces tuvo que enfrentar una factura de reparación estimada en $2,500 USD, dinero que a Moss le preocupaba que tuviera que salir de los recursos destinados a las personas a las que sirve su organización.

“¿Cómo va Hosanna a pagar esta puerta de $2,500 USD sin quitarle ese dinero a nuestros clientes o a nuestro servicio para nuestros clientes?”, dijo.

Fue entonces cuando Weinsier se comunicó con Padron para ver si Good News South Florida podía ayudar.

Padron se puso en contacto con Tat Granata, propietario y presidente de Safeguard Impact, quien aceptó de inmediato intervenir.

“Algo malo ocurrió, pero creo que ella estará muy feliz con cómo resultará todo”, dijo Granata.

Los trabajadores reemplazaron la puerta destrozada por una nueva puerta sólida, completa con un nuevo juego de cerradura, liberando a la organización sin fines de lucro del gasto.

“Mi corazón está lleno en este momento”, dijo Moss después de ver el trabajo terminado.

Para Moss, el gesto transformó lo que había sido una fuente de frustración en otro capítulo de la misión de la organización de ayudar a las personas a seguir adelante después de experiencias difíciles.

“No puedo agradecerle lo suficiente a Jeff. No puedo agradecerles lo suficiente”, dijo. “Esto es ‘Good News’”.

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In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment’s length and even said that the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.”

"That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it’s being replaced with another very similar ship,” Trump said when asked about the lengthy deployment. The acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, said the Lincoln “will return home soon” in a social media post on Friday.

Trump strode into office for a second term vowing to avoid lengthy and expensive military entanglements. And after launching the Iran war, alongside Israel, Trump and his advisers said the conflict would last a matter of weeks. The war is now more than five months old.

But on Friday, during his crime address in Garden City, New York, he acknowledged that he's used the U.S. military “a little bit more than I wanted to," while asserting anew that the U.S. operation against Iran is going well. He even said, seemingly in jest, that “pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.”

“I’ll never apologize," Trump added about the war and its impact on oil prices. “I did the right thing.”

Democrats demand Pentagon briefing on USS Lincoln

Extended deployments of carriers during the Iran conflict have raised concerns about the impact on service members who are away from home for long periods as well as the increasing strain on the ships and their equipment.

Several Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Ruben Gallego of Arizona, are pressing for accountability from the Pentagon over conditions aboard the Lincoln, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said were “completely misrepresented.”

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment before being elected, took to social media to criticize Trump’s comments, saying on X that “President Trump does not care about our servicemembers or their families."

Top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have requested a classified briefing on the ship’s food inventory, sanitation issues and healthcare availability, as well as an assessment of how much longer it would be deployed before relief arrives.

Republicans have been less outspoken about the situation on the Lincoln. The GOP chairmen of the House and Senate armed services committees did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

While hostilities between the U.S. and Iran have calmed in recent weeks, the Navy has reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports in the crucial Strait of Hormuz, and the Trump administration has offered no clarity on how it intends to wind down the war. Hegseth said the U.S. military can maintain the blockage of Iranian ports “indefinitely.”

Another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, left port in Da Nang, Vietnam, last week, and is expected to replace the USS Lincoln, one of two aircraft carriers currently deployed in the Middle East.

After reports emerged that sailors on the Lincoln are struggling with mental health concerns, the Navy said it has “not observed an increase in suicidal ideations or attempts aboard the ship,” though officials have declined to provide data, citing operational security and patient privacy concerns.

A Navy official said a sailor aboard the Lincoln went overboard in early August but the person was quickly recovered, treated by the ship’s medical department and transferred off ship for follow-on care. The official would not say whether it was being considered a suicide attempt.

U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, has also pushed back on reports about poor conditions.

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AP writers Collin Binkley in Garden City, New York, and Michelle L. Price and Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.

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This story has been corrected to show that the USS Abraham Lincoln has spent more than 240 days of uninterrupted time at sea and its overall deployment has exceeded 260 days.

Those two massive sociological forces had already joined up, Voltron-style, early in the 20th century with the development of the drive-in restaurant – that classic scene evocative of “Happy Days” where customers sat in their cars while servers (ideally on skates) brought out food that was consumed on site from window trays.

But the real innovation dates to the late 1940s and is the brainchild of either (depending on which source you trust) an In-N-Out Burger in California in 1948 or Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri in 1947. (In comparison, the first reported drive-thru in Europe didn’t open until 1985 in Dublin.)

By the mid 1960s, this had mushroomed into a robust American market, spawning imitators and innovators. Jack in the Box pioneered the drive-thru exclusive restaurant with no indoor seats and no parking — and a talking mechanical clown to take your order. In Western states, residents of a certain age will recall the Wienershnitzel chain with its distinctive A-frame structures specially built with a tunnel down the middle for cars.

The innovation sparked unexpected knock-on developments. Restaurant menus shifted heavily toward sandwiches, fries, chicken strips and other portables that could be consumed on the go. The cars themselves adjusted over the years to accommodate larger and larger drink holders. What sociological (and nutritional) impact this has all had on the actual consumers would be the subject of a much longer essay.

The innovation hasn’t stopped. Modern drive-thrus have evolved into tightly coordinated multi-lane affairs. At Chick-fil-As around the country, actual humans with electronic tablets now stand – breathing in exhaust fumes all day – to ensure a seamless ordering process with no mechanical speaker garbles.

The drive-thru, with its distinctly American creative spelling, has become woven into the fabric of the culture. It has been enshrined in the Smithsonian Museum of American History and has played a memorable role in recent and successful Presidential campaigns.

As one historian put it, somewhat pointedly: “The drive-in was less a pure novelty than an expression of great American passions that go hand in hand: speed, efficiency and, sometimes, laziness.”

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The settlement, which still needs a judge's approval, came after the family filed a lawsuit against the city.

Police have said that Jazmir Tucker was carrying a loaded weapon when he was shot in November 2024. They said two officers heard gunshots, later spotted Tucker and ran after him before one fired multiple times.

Akron Mayor Shammas Malik said Officer Davon Fields was fired for multiple policy violations, including failing to properly provide medical aid and violating the department’s policy for body-worn cameras. The mayor also cited other issues related to a separate criminal allegation involving Fields.

“The loss of life and the circumstances in this case were absolutely tragic, with enormous human and financial costs,” Malik said in a statement. "We have a responsibility to make policy changes that reduce the likelihood of cases like this happening in the future.”

The head of Akron's police union called the firing unjust and said the officer was being used as a “political scapegoat.” The union plans to fight the firing, said Brian Lucey, president of the local Fraternal Order of Police.

A grand jury decided against indicting the officer nearly a year ago.

Weeks after the shooting, Akron's mayor said the bodycam video of the shooting raised questions, including why officers didn’t immediately turn on their cameras and why it took so long to provide first aid.

In the video, the shooting officer’s arms and long gun block his camera’s view, obscuring Tucker in the moments before he was shot. Another officer’s camera recorded police unzipping the jacket pocket of the wounded teenager and pulling out a handgun.

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Jose Divine Fernandes Correeia, 52, of Pembroke Pines, and Ruth Cristaldo, 53, were taken into custody while working their night shift at the UPS facility at 13350 NW 17th St. in Doral, according to an arrest report.

Jail records show both suspects are facing one count each of organized fraud of $50,000 or more and second-degree grand theft between $20,000 and $100,000.

Authorities said an investigation began after UPS security, who was working with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, received reports of missing electronics, including Apple and Samsung phones, tablets and laptops.

They said Cristaldo worked as an “Overgoods clerk” at the facility, while Fernandes Correeia was a “package handler.” Both worked the night reload shift.

According to an arrest report, investigators reviewed surveillance video and saw Fernandes Correeia targeting packages containing electronics, removing their original shipping labels and taking the items out of their boxes.

Deputies said Cristaldo would then place the items in new boxes and create new UPS shipping labels for them.

They said the newly packaged items were then placed in an unload area, where they would be processed and sent out for delivery the next morning.

On Tuesday, UPS security reviewed surveillance video and watched Fernandes Correeia selecting packages and removing their shipping labels before taking the items to Cristaldo, according to the report.

Investigators said they later found one of the packages and opened it, discovering 10 Apple MacBook laptops and three Bose headphones valued at about $10,000.

They said the package was addressed to Barnes & Noble and was scheduled for delivery on Wednesday. Investigators said that package was delivered.

The following day, investigators said they again watched the pair allegedly repackage electronics.

This time, they found a package containing 40 Apple iPhones, models 16 and 17, along with two Samsung Galaxy phones. The items were valued at about $45,000, according to the report.

That package was addressed to an Amazon-related business on Northwest 33rd Street and was scheduled for delivery on Thursday, the report states.

Authorities said UPS security intercepted that package from the driver before it was delivered.

Investigators said they reviewed internal records and determined Cristaldo had created more than 198 UPS shipping labels using her Overgoods login credentials since April 2025, according to the report.

They said the labels were allegedly used on packages sent to two addresses on Northwest 33rd Street in Miami. The report states they used several company names, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon, JC Electronics and JC Auto Parts.

UPS security also found at least 10 additional packages stashed around the Overgoods area that had not yet been labeled, according to the report.

Investigators said the two employees were involved in an ongoing scheme in which electronics were removed from their original shipping boxes, placed into new boxes and shipped using fraudulent labels.

The report states UPS security believes the total losses connected to the alleged scheme exceed $100,000.

Authorities said MDSO’s Organized Retail Crimes Squad arrested the two suspects Thursday while they were working at the Doral facility.

Local 10 has reached out to UPS for a statement on the arrests.

As of Friday afternoon, Fernandes Correeia and Cristaldo were being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where their bonds were listed as “to be set.”

Jose Divine Fernandes Correeia, de 52 años, de Pembroke Pines, y Ruth Cristaldo, de 53 años, fueron detenidos mientras trabajaban en su turno nocturno en la instalación de UPS ubicada en 13350 NW 17th St. en Doral, según un informe de arresto.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que ambos sospechosos enfrentan un cargo cada uno de fraude organizado de $50,000 USD o más y hurto mayor en segundo grado de entre $20,000 USD y $100,000 USD.

Las autoridades indicaron que una investigación comenzó después de que la seguridad de UPS, que trabajaba con la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, recibiera reportes de dispositivos electrónicos desaparecidos, incluidos teléfonos Apple y Samsung, tabletas y computadoras portátiles.

Dijeron que Cristaldo trabajaba como empleada de “Overgoods” en la instalación, mientras que Fernandes Correeia era “package handler”. Ambos trabajaban en el turno nocturno de recarga.

Según un informe de arresto, los investigadores revisaron videos de vigilancia y vieron a Fernandes Correeia seleccionar paquetes que contenían dispositivos electrónicos, retirar sus etiquetas de envío originales y sacar los artículos de sus cajas.

Los agentes dijeron que Cristaldo luego colocaba los artículos en cajas nuevas y creaba nuevas etiquetas de envío de UPS para ellos.

Dijeron que los artículos recién empacados eran colocados en un área de descarga, donde eran procesados y enviados para su entrega a la mañana siguiente.

El martes, la seguridad de UPS revisó videos de vigilancia y observó a Fernandes Correeia seleccionando paquetes y retirando sus etiquetas de envío antes de llevar los artículos a Cristaldo, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que posteriormente encontraron uno de los paquetes y lo abrieron, descubriendo 10 computadoras portátiles Apple MacBook y tres audífonos Bose valorados en aproximadamente $10,000 USD.

Dijeron que el paquete estaba dirigido a Barnes & Noble y tenía programada su entrega para el miércoles. Los investigadores dijeron que el paquete fue entregado.

Al día siguiente, los investigadores dijeron que nuevamente observaron a la pareja presuntamente volver a empacar dispositivos electrónicos.

Esta vez, encontraron un paquete que contenía 40 iPhones de Apple, modelos 16 y 17, junto con dos teléfonos Samsung Galaxy. Los artículos estaban valorados en aproximadamente $45,000 USD, según el informe.

El paquete estaba dirigido a una empresa relacionada con Amazon en Northwest 33rd Street y tenía programada su entrega para el jueves, señala el informe.

Las autoridades indicaron que la seguridad de UPS interceptó el paquete del conductor antes de que fuera entregado.

Los investigadores dijeron que revisaron registros internos y determinaron que Cristaldo había creado más de 198 etiquetas de envío de UPS utilizando sus credenciales de acceso de Overgoods desde abril de 2025, según el informe.

Dijeron que las etiquetas presuntamente fueron utilizadas en paquetes enviados a dos direcciones en Northwest 33rd Street en Miami. El informe señala que utilizaron varios nombres de empresas, incluidos Barnes & Noble, Amazon, JC Electronics y JC Auto Parts.

La seguridad de UPS también encontró al menos 10 paquetes adicionales escondidos alrededor del área de Overgoods que aún no habían sido etiquetados, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que los dos empleados estaban involucrados en un esquema en curso en el que los dispositivos electrónicos eran retirados de sus cajas de envío originales, colocados en cajas nuevas y enviados utilizando etiquetas fraudulentas.

El informe señala que la seguridad de UPS cree que las pérdidas totales relacionadas con el presunto esquema superan los $100,000 USD.

Las autoridades indicaron que la Unidad de Delitos de Venta Minorista Organizados de MDSO arrestó a los dos sospechosos el jueves mientras trabajaban en la instalación de Doral.

Local 10 se comunicó con UPS para solicitar una declaración sobre los arrestos.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Fernandes Correeia y Cristaldo permanecían detenidos en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, donde sus fianzas figuraban como “por determinar”.

DeLind immediately recognized the stolen “Torero” print, one of 30 known to exist signed by Picasso.

“I was overwhelmed,” DeLind said Friday. “I was at a loss for words. It was an overwhelming moment for me.”

The sticker from his DeLind Fine Art Appraisals was still on the back of the framed print, just as it had been placed there in 2018.

“It was indeed mine,” DeLind said. “It came back full circle.”

Milwaukee landlord Tim Dertz told WISN-TV that he found the print while cleaning out an apartment of someone who had been evicted.

“It was kind of in a weird spot hanging on a wall,” Tim Dertz told the station. “It looked like it had been there for a long, long time because it had tons of dust across the top of it.”

Dertz said he showed it to an antique dealer friend who recognized it as a Picasso and said it appeared to be the one DeLind reported stolen in 2018. Dertz handed it over to police, who then contacted DeLind.

“When they called me, I was in disbelief,” DeLind said.

The Milwaukee Police Department said in an email Friday that the statute of limitations for theft and property crimes is generally six years but the case remains under investigation. Caroline Clancy, a spokesperson for the FBI in Milwaukee, declined to comment.

The year it was stolen the piece was appraised at between $35,000 and $50,000, DeLind said. He guessed that the value hasn't changed much since then, but now given its story it may be worth closer to $50,000.

The artwork remains in possession of Milwaukee police while the client who had commissioned it for sale with his art gallery works it out with his insurance company, DeLind said.

DeLind said his former business partner, who died in February, was distraught over the theft in 2018 and called police every year on the anniversary of the crime asking that they publicize it again in the hope the Picasso could be found.

“He would have been over the moon about this,” DeLind said. “It was special to him.”

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En julio, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump impuso aranceles a cientos de exportaciones brasileñas, algunos de hasta el 37,5%. El gobierno de Trump ha acusado a Brasil de prácticas comerciales desleales. Brasil niega las acusaciones e insiste en que tienen motivaciones políticas de cara a las elecciones de octubre.

Lula busca la reelección frente al senador Flávio Bolsonaro, un aliado de Trump que se reunió con funcionarios norteamericanos, incluido Trump, en Washington semanas antes de que el gobierno propusiera los aranceles a los productos brasileños.

“Ayer, invocamos la ley de reciprocidad para mostrar que no se nos puede tomar a la ligera", declaró Lula en una entrevista con podcasters brasileños. "Nos respetamos a nosotros mismos. Estoy muy tranquilo sabiendo lo que podría pasar, y estoy preparado para debatir la defensa de Brasil en cualquier parte del mundo”.

El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Brasil señaló en un comunicado a última hora del jueves que está solicitando consultas diplomáticas con sus homólogos de Estados Unidos sobre el asunto, como señal del objetivo de Lula de “privilegiar el diálogo y la negociación en sus relaciones internacionales”.

El inicio de los procedimientos no significa necesariamente que Brasil vaya a tomar represalias contra los aranceles de Estados Unidos.

“No quiero ninguna pelea con Estados Unidos", indicó Lula. "Lamentablemente, ellos están difundiendo falsedades”.

A principios de este mes, el Departamento de Estado revocó la visa de la embajadora de Brasil en Washington en represalia por la negativa del país sudamericano a otorgar visas a dos diplomáticos estadounidenses que buscaban visitar el país antes de las elecciones de octubre.

El gobierno de Estados Unidos también ha acusado a Brasil de retrasar la aprobación del candidato de Trump para embajador en Brasilia, mientras que funcionarios brasileños sostienen que Washington debió haber solicitado primero la aprobación del gobierno antes de presentar la nominación al Congreso, como exige el protocolo diplomático.

Dado que el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio revocó la visa de la embajadora brasileña en respuesta a las acciones de Lula, pero no ordenó su expulsión, funcionarios estadounidenses han dicho que el gobierno de Trump no quiere agravar la disputa.

Estos funcionarios, que hablaron bajo condición de anonimato para abordar deliberaciones internas del gobierno, han señalado en múltiples ocasiones que la respuesta limitada de Rubio fue diseñada intencionalmente para darle a Lula tiempo y margen para dar marcha atrás.

Al mismo tiempo, han indicado que Estados Unidos responderá con rapidez si el gobierno de Lula decide escalar el asunto, y que declarar a la embajadora brasileña “persona non grata” y expulsarla de Estados Unidos sería un siguiente paso lógico.

Lula dijo una vez más que Trump lo ha tratado bien, pero advirtió que cualquier gobierno extranjero “que venga aquí a entrometerse en las elecciones, perderá”.

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El corresponsal Matthew Lee contribuyó desde Washington.

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Surveillance video shows Anthony Governale and his neighbor arguing at Ten Museum Park at 1040 Biscayne Boulevard, and both walking out of the elevator on the 12th floor, according to the police report.

Governale was out on a felony bond after he was accused of resisting arrest, public intoxication, and screaming racial slurs in December at the Palm Tree Club in North Bay Village, records show.

On Thursday, Governale and his neighbor took their argument from the elevator and into the hallway, according to police.

The victim ”told [Governale] that if they couldn’t resolve the issue, they could physically fight,” a police officer wrote, according to the report.

The victim reported that Governale went into his unit, returned with the rifle, and pointed it at him, according to the police report.

Governale said “he never pointed his PCC rifle at the victim,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Police officers arrested Governale shortly after 8 p.m. on Thursday at Ten Museum Park, and corrections booked him shortly before midnight at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records show.

Governale faced a charge of attempted aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His bond was $2,500.

Related report: Man accused of yelling racial slurs at Palm Tree Club in North Bay Village, assaulting police

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

Anthony Governale y su vecino discutían el jueves en un ascensor de Ten Museum Park, un edificio de gran altura con 200 unidades ubicado en 1040 Biscayne Boulevard, según un informe policial.

El video de vigilancia muestra a Governale y su vecino discutiendo en el ascensor y a ambos saliendo en el piso 12, donde la discusión continuó en el pasillo, según el informe policial.

“El luego dijo que le indicó a [Governale] que si no podían resolver el problema, podían pelear físicamente”, escribió un agente de policía, según el informe.

La víctima reportó que Governale entró a su unidad, regresó con el rifle y se lo apuntó, según el informe policial.

Governale dijo “que nunca apuntó su rifle PCC hacia la víctima”, escribió un agente de policía, según el informe de arresto.

Governale había quedado en libertad bajo fianza por un delito grave después de ser acusado de resistirse al arresto y gritar insultos raciales en diciembre en el Palm Tree Club en North Bay Village, muestran los registros.

Los agentes de policía arrestaron a Governale poco después de las 8 p.m. del jueves en Ten Museum Park, y los funcionarios penitenciarios lo ingresaron poco antes de la medianoche en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, muestran los registros.

Governale enfrentó un cargo de intento de agresión agravada con un arma mortal. Su fianza fue de $2,500 USD.

Informe relacionado: Hombre acusado de gritar insultos raciales en Palm Tree Club en North Bay Village y agredir a policías

In July, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on hundreds of Brazilian exports, with duties reaching up to 37.5% in some products. The Trump administration has accused Brazil of unfair trade practices, but Lula has denied the accusations, insisting they are politically motivated ahead of the October election.

Lula is seeking reelection against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a Trump ally who met with U.S. officials, including Trump, in Washington weeks before the administration proposed higher tariffs on Brazilian goods.

“Yesterday, we invoked the reciprocity law to show that we are not to be taken lightly," Lula said in an interview with Brazilian podcasters. “We respect ourselves. I am very calm knowing what could happen, and I am prepared to debate the defense of Brazil anywhere in the world.”

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Thursday it is requesting diplomatic consultations with its U.S. counterparts on the issue, as a sign of Lula's aim “to privilege dialogue and negotiation in its international relations.”

The beginning of the proceedings does not necessarily mean Brazil will retaliate against U.S. tariffs.

“I don’t want any fight with the United States," Lula said Friday. “Unfortunately, they are spreading falsehoods."

Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to Washington in retaliation for Brazil’s denial of visas last month for two American diplomats who sought to visit ahead of the October election.

The U.S. government also has accused Brazil of stalling approval of Trump’s nominee for ambassador in Brasilia, while Brazilian officials say the U.S. should have first sought the government’s approval before submitting the nomination to Congress, as diplomatic protocol requires.

Since U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked the Brazilian ambassador’s visa in response to Lula’s actions but did not order her expelled, U.S. officials have said the Trump administration does not want the dispute to escalate.

These officials, who have spoken on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations, have said on multiple occasions that Rubio’s limited response was intentionally designed to give Lula time and space to back down.

At the same time, they have said that the U.S. will respond quickly should Lula's government choose to escalate the matter and that declaring the Brazilian ambassador “persona non grata” and expelling her from the U.S. would be a logical next step.

Lula said once again Trump has treated him well, but warned any foreign governments “who come here to meddle in the election, will lose.”

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The rookie quarterback, however, is already well-versed in how his head coach's mind works. Yes, McCarthy was pleased after watching Allar throw for a pair of scores and run for another.

Yet the final product on a given play is only a piece of the puzzle. McCarthy is just as fixated on the process it takes to get there, which is why the 22-year-old Allar couldn't help but grin when asked about how his fundamentals are coming along, perhaps knowing the feedback he was going to receive in the aftermath.

“I’ll probably get a minus grade on some of my footwork,” Allar said. “It was kind of a crazy reverse out under center exchange. Other than that, I felt pretty good.”

Just as importantly, he looked pretty good while leading three long scoring drives. The third-round pick was accurate while completing 10 of 13 passes. He frequently made the right decision on where to go with the ball and showcased his athleticism while diving over for a 3-yard touchdown run.

Not bad for his first game action since last fall, when his final year at Penn State ended prematurely with a left ankle injury.

“I feel like the first rushing touchdown I had was the first hit I’ve had in, I don’t know how long, but since mid-October,” Allar said. “I feel like that kind of got the physical part out of the way. I feel like going against our defense every day in practice really helped me mentally prepare for the game.”

Allar wasn't the only student of McCarthy's “quarterback school” who aced their first test. Will Howard, playing for the first time since leading Ohio State to the College Football Playoff championship in early 2025, had no issues running the two-minute offense. He connected with tight end Robert Tonyan frequently and didn't panic during a fourth down call near midfield that required him to roll to his left, where he flipped the ball to wide receiver Ben Skowronek for a first down.

The result was great, sure. So was the jolt of confidence felt when Howard heard the play call.

“You’re, like, man, ‘Coach is throwing the ball on fourth-and-1, and he’s putting the ball in my hands,’” he said. “That feels great. I knew they were going to really trigger on that run. I think Aaron (Rodgers) had a little input on getting that play out there, and I appreciate him for that.”

Rodgers, watching from the sideline with a headset on, promised to crack some dad jokes to keep the mood light. The reality is he spent most of the night serving as an experienced resource for Allar, Howard, and Mason Rudolph, as no clear front-runner to win the quarterback derby to serve as Rodgers' backup emerged.

McCarthy appears to be in no hurry to make any sort of decision. Rudolph got the start and settled in after some shaky play by the first-team offensive line early. He consistently found rookie wide receiver Germie Bernard and did his best to keep plays alive to give the young playmakers around him time to get open.

“Not to be a broken record, I’ve been talking about it pretty much since the spring ... I really like the room,” McCarthy said. “I think it’s a really good quarterback room, and I thought they played that way tonight.”

The guys behind center weren't the only ones who stood out. Tonyan, who caught 11 touchdown passes from Rodgers when both were in Green Bay in 2020, finished with four receptions for 61 yards. Bernard caught four passes for 51 yards, and rookie Kaden Wetjen showed his elusiveness on a 74-yard catch-and-run and later pulled in a touchdown pass from Allar.

Sure, it was just an exhibition game, and both sides were more focused on getting through it healthy than on coming up with some elaborate game plan. The scheming will come later.

The preseason opener was mostly just a progress report. Plenty of work remains, but for a first-year coaching staff trying to lay a foundation and for three quarterbacks trying to prove their worth, it was a promising start.

“We have a lot to clean up, but the passing game ... I know the numbers were pretty good,” McCarthy said. “I liked the way our quarterbacks ran the offense, and that’s a big thing.”

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The nonpartisan race pits an incumbent touting academic gains against a former educator focused on equity, teacher pay and school safety.

Zeman is seeking to hold onto the seat he won in a runoff four years ago. He says the district has made significant academic progress during his first term.

“A year into my first four years we became an ‘A’ district. We’ve become an ‘A’ district for three years in a row,” Zeman said.

He also points to the number of students who have improved their academic performance.

“We’ve lifted over 25,000 students to above or at grade level that were below grade level before,” Zeman added.

Azim is running against Zeman. She is a former special education teacher and director who spent 14 years in education and previously served as dean of Renaissance Charter School.

Azim says Broward schools face inequities in everything from facilities and academic programs to discipline.

“We have an equitability crisis on Broward Schools where our students don’t all have the same access or equitability to the same facility, upkeep and maintenance, academic programs, and the way that the discipline is measured out is inequitable,” Azim said.

Teacher pay is another issue where the candidates say they want to see change.

Zeman has repeatedly called for higher salaries for teachers and says he would continue pushing for raises if reelected.

“We cannot underestimate the contribution that teachers make to the well-being of our community and to the economic vitality of Broward County,” Zeman said.

Azim also says she would fight for higher teacher pay. She is making school safety another key part of her campaign.

“And we need to have a comprehensive safety training program so that everybody, every employee in Broward Schools is prepared for the next critical day,” Azim said.

The School Board District 8 race is nonpartisan, so voters do not have to be registered with a political party to participate.

Election Day is Tuesday, Aug. 18.

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Fry finished third in a special primary held Tuesday, when Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman advanced to the Aug. 25 runoff. His backing follows that of other powerful Republicans who have supported Graham, including Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Trump, whose early endorsement helped propel his own congressional career.

“President Trump needs fighters and allies in the Senate who will show up every day and get results,” Fry said in a news release. “I believe Darline Graham will be exactly that.”

Graham's brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, died suddenly last month. Darline Graham, was appointed to serve out the remainder of his current term, then opted to run for the seat, winning the biggest share of votes but not the majority needed to avoid a runoff.

The special primary, which took place just a month after Lindsey Graham's death, meant a compressed and sometimes chaotic campaign for the 10 candidates who ran to replace him.

Much of the most heated rhetoric volleyed back and forth between Fry and a political action committee supporting Darline Graham, which ran ads pointing out that Trump — who initially said Fry would be an “outstanding” pick for the seat — passed him over to back Graham instead.

Graham's brother was a top Senate ally for Trump, to whom she has also closely tied herself in her campaign. Both Fry and Graham have often mentioned their humble origins as a touchpoint for understanding kitchen table issues, something Fry noted he had in common with Graham.

“Darline knows what it means to struggle, persevere, and keep fighting when life deals you a difficult hand," Fry said of the 62-year-old Graham, who had a hardscrabble upbringing and was ultimately adopted by her older brother after their parents died when she was young. “Those experiences shaped her, and I believe they give her a real understanding of the challenges families across South Carolina face.”

Trump had stumped for Fry in his first House campaign in 2022, when the state lawmaker ousted a five-term GOP congressman who had voted to impeach Trump a year earlier.

Matt Gorman, a GOP strategist and former senior adviser to Scott, suggested that Fry's endorsement of Graham was a political calculation for the 41-year-old, two-term congressman, who has seen the ramifications for some Republicans who have crossed Trump.

“Russell is a smart guy with a long career ahead of him," Gorman said. "It makes zero sense to get crosswise with either President Trump or Tim Scott. If he wants to, Fry will get another shot at the seat because Graham or Norman won’t be there multiple decades.”

The GOP runoff’s winner will face Democratic nominee Dr. Annie Andrews in November’s general election. No Democrat has won a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina in decades.

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Christaan Johnson, a convicted felon, was “holding a black handgun and a knife” when he showed up outside of his ex-girlfriend’s home, where his two children live, according to MDSO deputies.

It was 4:50 a.m. on Saturday, and Johnson, also known as Chris and Christian, confronted her “regarding issues involving his new relationship,” according to a MDSO deputy’s arrest report.

Johnson stabbed his ex-girlfriend in the back — which punctured her lung — and stabbed her buttocks and legs, according to deputies.

Johnson also struck his ex-girlfriend’s friend in the face with a gun after she came to her defense, according to the deputy’s report.

Court records show Johnson has convictions that include deriving support from prostitution and possession of a weapon by a felon.

Johnson also has a long arrest record in Miami-Dade, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in 2024, cocaine possession in 2004, and aggravated battery of a pregnant woman in 2000.

Deputies detained Johnson at about 1:10 p.m. on Thursday at the Northwest 20 Avenue and 76 Street in the Gladeview neighborhood, according to deputies.

Deputies arrested Johnson shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Doral, according to the arrest report.

Corrections booked Johnson at 3:40 p.m. on Thursday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

Johnson faced five charges in two new domestic violence cases, according to court records. A bond court judge ordered his pre-trial detention.

In one case, Johnson faced charges of attempted murder, which had no bond, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, which had a $7,500 bond.

In the second case, Johnson faced charges of armed burglary with assault or battery, armed aggravated battery with great bodily harm, and strong-arm robbery. The first two charges had no bond. His bond on the third charge was $7,500.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura Stuzin is set to preside over the cases.

Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.

Christaan Johnson, un delincuente convicto, estaba “sosteniendo una pistola negra y un cuchillo” cuando apareció afuera de la casa de su ex novia, donde viven sus dos hijos, según agentes de la MDSO.

Eran las 4:50 a.m. del sábado, y Johnson, también conocido como Chris y Christian, la confrontó “por problemas relacionados con su nueva relación”, según el informe de arresto de un agente de la MDSO.

Johnson apuñaló a su ex novia en la espalda, lo que le perforó un pulmón, y la apuñaló en los glúteos y las piernas, según los agentes.

Johnson también golpeó en la cara con un arma a una amiga de su ex novia después de que ella acudiera en su defensa, según el informe del agente.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Johnson tiene condenas que incluyen obtener sustento de la prostitución y posesión de un arma por parte de un delincuente.

Johnson también tiene un largo historial de arrestos en Miami-Dade, incluidos agresión agravada con un arma mortal en 2024, posesión de cocaína en 2004 y agresión agravada contra una mujer embarazada en 2000.

Los agentes detuvieron a Johnson alrededor de la 1:10 p.m. del jueves en Northwest 20 Avenue y 76 Street, en el vecindario de Gladeview, según los agentes.

Los agentes arrestaron a Johnson poco antes de la 1:30 p.m. del jueves en la sede de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade en Doral, según el informe de arresto.

El personal de correcciones ingresó a Johnson a las 3:40 p.m. del jueves en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, cerca de Doral, según los registros de reclusos.

Johnson enfrentó cinco cargos en dos nuevos casos de violencia doméstica, según los registros judiciales. Un juez de fianzas ordenó que permaneciera detenido antes del juicio.

En un caso, Johnson enfrentó cargos de intento de asesinato, sin derecho a fianza, y agresión agravada con un arma mortal, con una fianza de $7,500 USD.

En el segundo caso, Johnson enfrentó cargos de allanamiento armado con agresión o golpes, agresión agravada armada con lesiones corporales graves y robo con violencia. Los dos primeros cargos no tenían derecho a fianza. Su fianza por el tercer cargo era de $7,500 USD.

La jueza de circuito del condado de Miami-Dade Laura Stuzin presidirá los casos.

Club owner Fenway Sports Group (FSG) said in a statement it entered into a “definitive agreement” for the sale to 1892 Holdings.

The investor group is led by Amit Bhatia, who is married to a daughter of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, and has taken a stake of more than 30% in the 20-time English champion, according to Sky News. The deal reportedly values Liverpool at around $6 billion.

Boston-based FSG paid 300 million pounds ($400 million) to take over Liverpool in 2010 and also owns the Boston Red Sox. FSG said in July that it had been approached by the Bhatia-led consortium regarding a “strategic minority investment” in the club.

“As we considered this opportunity, it became clear that Amit and the consortium shared our long-term philosophy and appreciation for what makes Liverpool special,” FSG president Mike Gordon said in the statement.

It marks the first foray into soccer by Bezos, who, according to Forbes, is the fourth richest person in the world with a net worth of around $280 billion. He founded Amazon in 1994 and has been executive chairman since 2021.

Saverin is a Brazilian businessman worth around $36 billion, according to Forbes.

Bhatia, a British-Indian entrepreneur, was the co-owner of second-tier English team Queens Park Rangers for 18 years before stepping down recently.

“We are making this investment because we believe deeply in Liverpool and its leadership, and we look forward to supporting the club’s continued success for years to come,” Bhatia said in the statement.

Under the leadership of FSG and its principal owner John Henry, Liverpool ended a 30-year wait to be English champion in 2020 and added another Premier League title last year. That tied Manchester United on 20 English top-flight league championships.

The club was European champion for a sixth time — a record for an English team — in 2019.

The Premier League is one of the biggest competitions in sports, with its teams now largely owned by oil-rich gulf states or private equity.

Can Liverpool now start spending heavily?

Liverpool now has three of the richest people in the world as minority owners.

That doesn’t mean, however, that the club can simply start spending recklessly in the transfer market on new players.

That’s because the Premier League has financial rules in place to protect the competitive balance of the competition and ensure the financial sustainability of clubs.

In broad terms, a club’s on-pitch spending is related to 85% of its “football-related revenue and net profit/loss from player sales,” the Premier League says.

Instead, the difference will come in how Liverpool — already one of the top teams in world soccer — is marketed more around the world under Bezos and Saverin, especially.

The deal is likely to bring more commercial revenue into the club, thereby improving its profits.

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Vergara, que lleva 20 años tomando fotografías para la AP, hizo una pausa en su trabajo esta semana para reflexionar sobre cómo desempeñó su labor en medio de peligros físicos y emocionales —y sobre cómo abordó el equilibrio que exige narrar una tragedia. Vergara habló el jueves cuando fotografiaba la actividad en un centro de acopio de ayuda en Bogotá para las víctimas del reciente terremoto en Pereira.

Comparó la destrucción allí con lo que presenció tras los sismos que sacudieron Venezuela a finales de junio. Vergara señaló que el impacto en Venezuela fue mayor, con el derrumbe de edificios de apartamentos más altos y un mayor número de muertos.

Imágenes de La Guaira, Venezuela, muestran edificios colapsados, equipos de rescate buscando entre los escombros y familiares llorando a sus seres queridos. Vergara recuerda haber caminado por calles llenas de polvo y con olor a descomposición al tiempo que los rescatistas trabajaban en condiciones difíciles.

En Pereira, Colombia, Vergara documentó los esfuerzos de rescate tras el sismo del 10 de agosto, incluido el momento en que la sobreviviente Daniela Largos Sanchez fue sacada de entre los escombros al día siguiente. Vergara afirma que gran parte de los daños afectó a edificios más bajos, de uno a tres niveles.

Para Vergara, algunos de los momentos más poderosos llegan cuando los rescatistas encuentran a alguien con vida. Afirma que son los instantes que más espera captar con su cámara.

Estas son algunas de sus reflexiones desde la zona del sismo —y algunas de sus imágenes recientes.

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Comparando los dos sismos

“Ahora que estuve en Pereira (Colombia), las casas que se dañaron eran de un piso, dos pisos, tres pisos; a comparación de Venezuela, que eran edificios mucho más altos. Mucha gente vivía en edificios de vivienda pública y la cantidad de muertos fue mucho mayor que en Colombia”.

Cómo fue estar en el lugar

“Hace menos de dos meses estuve en el terremoto de Venezuela. Al caminar por esas calles de La Guaira, el olor a descomposición era una cosa fuertísima. El polvo en el aire, el calor, hicieron mucho más dramático el rescate de los seres que se encontraban bajo los escombros”.

Cómo respetar a los afectados

“¿Qué fotografía busco yo como reportero durante un terremoto o una situación de semejante calamidad? Mostrar con mucha sensibilidad la situación que está ocurriendo en ese momento".

Documentar momentos de alegría en medio de las lágrimas

“El mensaje más importante es un rescate con vida. Ver a alguien con vida durante un terremoto le produce una alegría inmensa a la gente. Cuando un grupo de rescate, bomberos, Defensa Civil o incluso voluntarios rescatan a una persona con vida, todo el mundo se abraza de alegría. Y esa es la felicidad que yo busco con una fotografía cubriendo un terremoto”.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the theft occurred July 31 at the American Airlines baggage claim area.

Deputies said surveillance video shows James Dickson Silk, of Miami, walking to Carousel 26 and standing near the end of the carousel belt.

When the same bag came around, Silk grabbed it and then walked to the men’s restroom on the third floor, where he remained for a while, the report stated.

According to the report, Silk eventually exited the bathroom and left the terminal via the MIA Mover.

Deputies said Silk was spotted loitering in the same baggage claim area on Thursday and was taken into custody.

They said he was still in possession of the luggage he had stolen and provided a full confession to the theft, claiming that he had lost his lease, had been living inside the airport and stole the luggage to make himself appear more like a passenger.

According to the arrest report, Silk claimed that he didn’t remove any property from the bag but would have done so if he needed clothing.

Silk was arrested on a third-degree grand theft charge.

Records show he was previously arrested on May 31 on the same charge for allegedly stealing a backpack from a guest at the Element Brickell hotel.

About $4,000 worth of items were inside the backpack, authorities said.

As of Friday afternoon, Silk was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He is not allowed to post bond at this time as online jail records show he was out on felony bond at the time of his arrest.